Singles
It was always going to be an intriguing battle for singles chart honours this week but few would have expected Cee-Lo Green’s Forget You – a viral internet sensation under its previous title of F**k You – to hand out such a comprehensive beating to the Robbie Williams/Gary Barlow duet Shame.
Pursuing what would have been Barlow’s 14th number one, and Williams’ 13th, Shame sold 72,695 copies to debut at number two.
Forget You galloped to first-week sales of 106,962, providing Green with his second number one – his first, as 50% of Gnarls Barkley, was Crazy, the biggest selling single of 2006, which spent nine weeks at number one, and has thus far sold 995,548 copies. At its current rate of progress it should reach the million mark before Christmas.
Meantime, the latest song to top the million sales mark is Lady GaGa’s Poker Face. The 102nd million seller, it’s only the 13th by a female solo singer. Sales of 1,418 last week lift Poker Face’s overall tally to 1,003,011.
And the group who notched the 101st million seller, The Kings Of Leon, debut at number seven (35,522 sales) with Radioactive, the first single from their new album Come Around Sundown. It’s only their third Top 10 single, following the chart-topping Sex On Fire, and number two follow-up, Use Somebody. Sex On Fire topped the million mark 13 weeks ago, and has since upped its tally of sales to 1,031,588, while Use Somebody has sold a useful 781,666 copies.
Also new to the Top 40 are Perfect Stranger by Magnetic Man feat Katy B (number 16, 17,122 sales); Cooler Than Me (number 22, 13,049 sales), a recent number six in America, and the introductory hit by Mike Posner; Monster (number 29, 9,380 sales), the third hit by Professor Green; and The Recluse (number 35, 7,924 sales), the fifth Top 40 hit in a year for Plan B.
Singles sales are down 0.26% week-on-week to 2,646,681 – 11.17% above same week 2009 sales of 2,380,771.
1 Cee Lo Green 106962
2 Robbie Williams/Gary Barlow 72695
7 Kings Of Leon 35522
16 Magnetic Man 17122
22 Mike Posner 13049
29 Professor Green/Example 9380
35 Plan B 7924
To Date Singles
Lady GaGa - Poker Face 1,008,011
Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire 1,031,588
KIngs Of Leon - Use Somebody 781,666
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Albums
It is swings and roundabouts for Tinie Tempah this week as he cedes control of the singles chart to Cee-Lo Green but scores a trio of debuts on the same chart, while racking up his first number one album.
Tinie’s Parlophone label debut, Disc-Overy, raced to first week sales of 84,993 copies – the highest tally for a number one artist album since Eminem’s Recovery bowed with sales of 139,438 15 weeks ago.
It certainly makes a bigger splash than Tinie’s debut, and only previous album release, Hood Economics Room 147: The 80 Minute Course, a 2007 release on the DL label described as ‘an audio scrapbook’ and, arguably, a mix album, which netted first week sales of just 30 copies, and has still sold only 7,000 copies.
Disc-Overy is number one on CD and download charts this week, with the latter option including the new lanyard format attracting 26,471 sales. That’s 31.14% of the album’s total – compared to an overall download percentage of 17.60% – and the fifth highest weekly tally of downloads yet, trailing only Eminem’s Recovery (36,001 digital sales, week 25, 2010), Coldplay’s Viva La Vida (30,378, week 24, 2008), Lily Allen’s It’s Not Me, It’s You (28,086, week 7, 2009) and The Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night (27,346, week 39, 2008).
After debuting at number one last week, Tinie’s single Written in The Stars dips to number three (66,249 sales).
Also home to the number one hit Pass Out and number two follow-up Frisky, Disc-Overy spins off its fourth Top 5 single in the form of Miami 2 Ibiza, Tinie’s collaboration with The Swedish House Mafia (number five, 57,954 sales), while other cherry-picking from the album forces early debuts for Wonderman (number 45, 5,060 sales) featuring Ellie Goulding, and Invincible (number 57, 3,540 sales) feat. Kelly Rowland. With Pass Out rallying 57-43 (6,227 sales) and Frisky frolicking 61-50 (4,275 sales), Tinie has six songs in the Top 60.
Tinie’s terrific debut means that The Script’s Science & Faith is knocked off the top of the album chart for the second time, slipping to number two (26,667 sales). With Mark Ronson & The Business International’s Record Collection suffering a bigger decline as it dips 2-7 (11,582 sales), Mumford & Sons’ Sigh No More reaches a new peak, more than a year after its release. The album, which debuted at number 11, and has previously charted as high as number four and as low as number 64, climbs for the third week in a row. Sales of 17,025 copies last week lift it 6-3 and bring its 54 week gross to 706,258 sales.
Bringing a little Sheffield steel to the album chart, Bring Me The Horizon reached number 93 with their 2006 debut Count Your Blessings, and number 47 with 2008 follow-up Suicide Season. An improvement of identical proportions would have landed their new album, There Is A Hell Believe Me I’ve Seen It at number one debut this week. It didn’t make it – but did very well, nevertheless, and debuts at number 13 (8,916 sales). Both of the band’s previous albums have sold 25,000 copies.
Meanwhile, four weeks after providing her second number one in Ireland, Dubliner Imelda May’s Mayhem debuts at number 19 (7,967 sales) here. The rockabilly revivalist’s only previous UK chart entry came in 2008, when Love Tattoo reached number 58. It has sold 50,000 copies to date.
Less than six months after Selena Gomez & The Scene’s first album, Kiss & Tell, debuted and peaked at number 12, follow-up A Year Without Rain arrives at number 14 (8,749 sales).
Two other albums debut inside the Top 40 this week, and both are compilations. Norway’s most popular musical exports, A-Ha, are about to call it a day, and mark their forthcoming demise by releasing 25, a comprehensive singles and more set that debuts at number 10 (10,835 sales. It is their ninth Top 20 album, a tally which includes two previous compilations: 1991’s Headlines And Deadlines, which has sold nearly 500,000 copies, and 2005’s The Definitive Singles Collection (152,000).
Marking what would have been his 70th birthday last Saturday (9th), EMI upgraded eight albums from John Lennon’s catalogue, and released two new compilations, one of which, Power To The People: The Hits debuts at number 15 (8,729 sales). The new, stripped down version of Lennon’s last album, Double Fantasy, just misses the Top 75, debuting at number 80 (2,297 sales).
After 11 weeks at number one on the compilation chart, Now That’s What I Call Music! 76 slips to third place (11,260 sales), as R&B In The Mix 2010 debuts at the top (14,671 sales). Now! 76 has sold 698,144 copies since release, easily eclipsing immediate predecessor Now! 75’s 598,640 sales, even though that album had a 16-week start. Although it started slower, Now! 76 is also ahead of same stage sales of 2009 equivalent Now! 73, which had sold 685,761 by this time in its life, and has now sold 764,397 copies.
Album sales are down 0.17% week-on-week at 1,756,775 – 3.42% below same week 2009 sales of 1,818,996.
1 Tinie Tempah 84993
2 The Script 26667
3 Mumford & Sons 17025 (706,258)
7 Mark Ronson 11582
10 A'Ha 10835
13 Bring Me The Horizon 8916
14 Selena Gomez & The Scene 8749
15 John Lennon 8729
19 Imelda May 7967
To Date Albums
A'Ha - Headlines & Deadlines 500,000
A'Ha - Definitive Singles Collection 152,000
