Singles
A new name takes over atop the singles chart this week, while a more familiar presence reasserts itself on the albums chart. Singles chart honours go to Jason Derulo, whose second release, In My Head, sold 68,134 copies to debut at the summit.
The 20-year-old pop/R&B newcomer’s first single Whatcha Say, debuted and peaked at number three last November, with first-week sales of 66,737, which have since swollen to 313,517. Both songs are on Derulo’s eponymous debut album, which drops today (Monday).
Derulo’s coronation is something of a Haiti handover – although born in Florida, the singer was born Jason Desrouleaux to Haitian parents, and his song replaces the Helping Haiti charity single Everybody Hurts, which takes a 1-9 tumble (33,084 sales) – the biggest for a number one single since McFly’s Baby’s Coming Back/Transylvania slumped 1-20 on May 26 2007.
In My Head is the third number one single in just three months to be produced and co-written by South African-born, Canadian raised Israeli Jonathan ‘JR’ Rotem, who performed the selfsame duties on JLS’ Everybody In Love and Iyaz’s Replay.
Derulo’s number one debut was hard-earned – in early midweek flashes the Florence/Dizzee Rascal mash-up You Got The Dirtee Love was ahead but it eventually faded, and remains at number two on sales of 61,788 copies.
Meanwhile, although Sugababes’ line-up has changed entirely since its 2000 debut Overload, the band notionally racks up its 26th hit – all of them Top 40, and 18 of them Top 10 entries – with Wear My Kiss, the third single from upcoming album Sweet 7, debuting at number seven on sales of 38,209 copies.
Three weeks after runner-up Marina & The Diamonds’ Hollywood reached number 10, the winner of the BBC’s Sound Of 2010 poll, Ellie Goulding, fares even better, debuting at number four with Starry Eyed (49,118 sales).
Pixie Lott ‘s Turn It Up album gives up its fourth Top 40 hit, as Gravity climbs 43-35 (9,153 sales).
The first two singles from the album – Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) and Boys & Girls both reached number one -while third single Cry Me Out had to settle for a number 12 peak but the songs performed fairly similarly saleswise, all topping the 200,000 mark but falling short of 300,000.
Mama Do has sold 296,330 copies, followed by Boys & Girls (244,239) and Cry Me Out (224,592) – though the latter track is still selling well and seems certain to become the first single by Lott to spend 20 weeks in the Top 75: it moves 38-49 (6,205 sales) on week 17, one week less than the run of Mama Do and two less than Boys & Girls. Despite Gravity’s advance, the Turn It Up album hits turbulence this week, and dips 14-18, with sales of 11,614 taking its 23 week career sales to 370,912.
Singles sales fell 1% week-on-week to a new 2010 low of 2,886,214 but were still 16.78% above same week 2009 sales of 2,471,450.
1 Jason Derulo 68134
2 Florence + The Machine/Dizzee Rascal 61788
4 Ellie Goulding 49118
7 Sugababes 38209
9 Helping Haiti 33084
14 Leona Lewis 18658
35 Pixie Lott [Gravity] 9153
43 Black Eyed Peas [RTB] 7145
44 Courteeners 7085
49 Pixie Lott [CMO] 6205 (To Date: 224,592]
59 Glee Cast [SW] 4914
99 Glee Cast [TS] 2542
To Date Singles
Pixie Lott - Mama Do 296,330
Pixie Lott - Boys & Girls 244,239
Ellie Goulding - Under The Sheets 42,960
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Albums
44 weeks after completing a four-week stint atop the album chart, Lady GaGa’s debut collection, The Fame, returns to the summit.
With GaGa currently on tour, and a trio of Brits awards under her belt, the album sold 45,358 copies last week, taking its 59-week career sales tally to 1,647,314. It has spent 40 of those weeks in the Top 10. The last regular (not hits) album to return to number one further into its chart career was David Gray’s White Ladder, which improved 2-1 on 25 August 2001, its 68th week on the chart, having made it to the summit for the first time on week 66.
There were two more new Glee Cast releases this week – Sweet Caroline and The Thong Song. The former makes the Top 75 debuting at numbers 59 (4,914 sales) but the latter falls well short, entering at number 99 (2,542). Their album Glee: The Music – Season One, Volume 1 slips to number two (40,740 sales), having jumped 68-1 last week.
While first hit single Hollywood rallying 22-13, Sound Of 2010 runner-up Marina & The Diamonds makes a strong introductory showing on the album list, earning a number five debut on sales of 27,618 copies.
Manchester indie rockers The Courteeners returned to the singles chart for the first time since 2008, with You Overdid It Doll debuting at number 28 last week. That song now slides to number 44 (7,085 sales) but the group’s second album, Falcon, fares better, snaring a number six debut (23,667 sales).
The group’s debut album, St Jude, started the week just 233 short of its 100,000th sale, and makes it with ease, selling a further 990 copies. That album debuted and peaked at number four, securing first week sales of 22,202 in 2008.
Also out of Manchester, veteran harmony vocal group The Hollies return to the chart, with their latest compilation, Midas Touch: The Very Best Of debuting at number 23 (10,345 sales). It’s the 15th chart entry for the band, whose debut album Stay With The Hollies reached number two exactly 46 years ago. They last charted in 2003, when their Greatest Hits reached number 21. It has so far sold 101,999 copies.
Johnny Cash, Gracie Fields and Ali Farka Touré are all dead – but all three return to the chart this week. Cash would have been 78 last Friday (February 26) and his new album American VI: Ain’t No Grave is his 24th chart entry, debuting at number nine (16,362 sales).
The songs are taken from the same sessions as Cash’s first posthumous album, American 5 – A Hundred Highways, which got to number nine in 2006, and sold 127,405 copies. Four previous volumes of American – produced, like the posthumous ones, by Rick Rubin - appeared between 1994 and 2002 but didn’t chart initially, though the last of them, American 4: The Man Comes Around, did reach number 40 in 2004, after Cash's death, and has sold 291,941 copies to date.
Ali Farka Touré died in 2006, and returns to the chart via Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté, an eponymous collection of recordings he made with fellow Malian Diabaté in 2005. Debuting at number 49 (3,981 sales), it’s Touré’s second posthumous chart entry, following Savane (number 34, 2006) and Diabaté’s debut.
Following the unexpectedly enormous success of its Vera Lynn compilation We’ll Meet Again: The Very Best Of, which reached number one and has sold 358,447 copies, Decca has now issued a compilation of vintage recordings by fellow World War II forces sweetheart Gracie Fields.
Under the title Our Gracie: The Best Of, the set debuts at number 29 (8,396 sales), easily eclipsing the number 50 peak of Fields’ only previous chart entry, The Golden Years, which reached number 48 in 1975, four years before her death.
With the Brit effect waning, album sales were off 5.2% week-on-week at 1,925,786 - 0.85% above same week 2009 sales of 1,909,629.
1 Lady GaGa 45358 (To Date 1,647.314)
2 Glee Cast 40740
5 Marina & The Diamonds 27618
6 Courteeners 23667
9 Johnny Cash 16362
23 Hollies 10345
29 Gracie Fields 8396
49 Toure & Diabate 3981
To Date Albums
Dame Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again - The Very Best Of 358,447
Sharleen Spiteri - Melody 209,773
Natalie Imbruglia - Counting Down The Days 206,735
Alphabeat - This Is Alphabeat 166,510
Johnny Cash - American 5 127,405
The Hollies - Greatest Hits 101,999
Joanna Newsom - Ys 45,564
Foreigner - Mr Moonlight 9,550
Archie Bronson Outfit - Derdang Derdang 9,111
Mikey @ Buzzjack
I love UK 
The British sure do love this, free bitch. 
Little Boots was in the same poisiton last year, and she never lived up to it, so I think it is fair to say that people like Ellie Goulding, hence she is having success thus far. There's not really anyone else like her right now.