OCC Report
24/10/2010 - Record Breaking Kings Of Leon Reign Again *biggest first week album of year so far * biggest first week digital album of all time*
US rockers Kings Of Leon scorch to number one in the Official Albums Chart, with fifth album Come Around Sundown selling over
183,000 copies in its first week alone, the biggest first week album sales of the year so far, the Official Charts Company reports.
Come Around Sundown has also broken the all-time sales barrier for biggest first week digital album sales with over
49,000 album downloads.
Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot said: “This is a fantastic achievement for Kings Of Leon and it shows just how quickly the digital album is evolving.”
Come Around Sundown follows Kings Of Leon’s previous album the multi-platinum and Grammy Award winning Only By The Night which itself once held the record for biggest first week digital album sales with
27,000 album downloads in 2008.
Only By The Night was a worldwide hit, spent four (non-consecutive) weeks at number one in the Official Albums Chart, forty weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 and has never been out of the Official Albums Chart Top 75 since it was released in October 2008.
Only By The Night is currently at number twenty-three in the Official Albums Chart, up from last week’s number thirty-seven. The album also produced the number one single Sex On Fire (Sept 2008) which has sold over a million copies to date and number two single Use Somebody (Dec 2008).
Kings Of Leon’s first scored a number one album with Because Of The Times (2007). Their first two albums both reached number three, Youth & Young Manhood (2003) and Aha Shake Heartbreak (2004).
There are two other new entries in this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 10, both from the Beatles whose newly re-mastered compilation albums 1967-1970 (sometimes known as The Blue Album) and 1962-1966 (known as The Red Album) are straight in at number four and number six respectively. The albums were originally released in 1973.
The Official Albums Chart Top 10 also sees three re-entries this week as Katy Perry’s former number one (in September, 2010) Teenage Dream is at number five up from last week’s thirteen, while a new edition of Michael Buble’s five times platinum former number one (in December, 2009) Crazy Love is at number seven up from last week’s forty-one and a new edition of Pixie Lott’s Turn It Up which peaked at number six on its release in 2009, is at number nine up from last week’s twenty nine.
In the Official Singles Chart, Bruno Mars is back at number one with Just The Way You Are (Amazing), having been covered on the X Factor. The single debuted at the top spot on its release four weeks ago. It spent the intervening weeks at positions 2, 4 and 2 and this week records its biggest week so far with sales of over
116,000.
The Official Singles Chart Top 10 sees four new entries, all straight in; boy band The Wanted follow their number one All Time Low (July, 2010) with Heart Vacancy at number two, Katy Perry’s Firework is at number five, Jay Sean’s 2012 (It Ain’t The End) feat Nicki Minaj is at number nine and N-Dubz Best Behaviour is at number ten.
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Singles
The X Factor continues to have a major effect on the singles chart. It is arguably responsible for Bruno Mars’ return to number one with Just The Way You Are (Amazing), which really took off again in the immediate aftermath of Matt Cardle’s performance of it on the show nine days ago, and makes handsome gains again this week, to return to number one after an absence of three weeks.
The track sold 116,684 copies last week – the highest tally for a number one for 17 weeks – raising its overall sales to 415,365, and eclipsing Mars’ two previous hits, Nothin’ On You (B.o.B. feat Bruno Mars) and Billionaire (Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars), which have sold 351,743 and 363,740 copies, respectively.
Cardle’s own version of Just The Way You Are (Amazing) is, of course, also available from iTunes, and could even have outsold Mars’ version – though that’s something we may never know, given the blackout on sales information of X Factor finalists’ recordings until the competition is over. Mars’ track fell as far as number four before starting its climb back to the top. The last single to depart the top three and reclaim the number one slot in the same chart run was Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds’ Three Lions, in 1996.
While Bruno Mars’ song was most wanted last week, The Wanted were slightly less wanted, with their second single, Heart Vacancy, the week’s top debut, at number two (66,394 sales). Their debut single All Time Low, debuted at number one on sales of 84,174 12 weeks ago.
Other highlights in brief: Duck Sauce’s Barbra Streisand holds at number three (64,456 sales); Cee Lo Green’s Forget You dips to number four (59,328 sales) after two weeks at number one; Katy Perry’s Firework (another X Factor beneficiary) explodes to a number five debut (48,978 sales), becoming her seventh Top 10 hit, and third from current album Teenage Dream; Mike Posner’s debut hit Cooler Than Me continues to impress, vaulting 9-6 (48,287 sales); Jay Sean’s current US hit, 2012 (It Ain’t The End) debuts at number nine (35,644 sales); and N-Dubz are on their Best Behaviour, and are rewarded with their fourth Top 10 hit (number 10, 34,925 sales).
Even revisiting her old stomping ground can’t bring X Factor star Diane Vickers’ My Wicked Heart more than a number 13 debut (20,516), while reigning champ Joe McElderry’s Ambitions are crushed by a 6-21 dip (16,541 sales).
There are Top 40 debuts for Nelly’s Just A Dream (number 11, 27,893 sales), Taylor Swift’s Mine (number 30, 11,301 sales) and Cross My Heart by Skepta feat. Preeya Kalidas (number 31, 11,102 sales)
Overall singles sales improve 4.00% week-on-week to 2,680,931 – 4.30% below same week 2009 sales of 2,801,284.
1 Bruno Mars 116684 (415,365)
2 The Wanted 66394
3 Duck Sauce 64456 (130,420)
4 Cee Lo Green 59328 (242,621)
5 Katy Perry 48978
6 Mike Posner 48287
9 Jay Sean/Nicki Minaj 35644
10 N-Dubz 34925
11 Nelly 27893
13 Diana Vickers 20516
18 Travie McCoy/Bruno Mars 18611
30 Taylor Swift 11301
31 Skepta/Preeya Kalidas 11102
51 Pixie Lott/Jason Derulo 4840
96 BoB/Bruno Mars 2196
To Date Singles
BoB/Bruno Mars - Nothin' On You 351,743
Travie McCoy/Bruno Mars - Billionaire 363,740
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Albums
With The Kings Of Leon’s Come Around Sundown racking up the best weekly sale of 2010, leadership of the artist album chart changes for the 12th week in a row, but there’s nothing new about the number one single – Just The Way You Are (Amazing) by Bruno Mars returns to the apex.
In doing so, it becomes only the seventh song to claw its way back to the summit in the 21sr century after being dethroned.
Come Around Sundown sold 183,298 copies last week, beating the 139,438 copies that Eminem’s Recovery sold when debuting at number one 17 weeks ago to set a new 2010 high for artist albums.
Kings Of Leon – brothers Nathan, Caleb and Jared Followill and their cousin Matthew – previously topped the chart with Only By The Night making an emphatic debut at number one, on first week sales of 220,879 in 2008, and Because Of The Times, which sold 70.451 copies when it debuted at number one the previous year.
Only By The Night jumps 37-23 this week (6,724 sales), while Because Of The Times rallies 118-89 (1,886 sales). Only By The Night reeled off 34 straight weeks in the Top 10 at the start of its career, and has been in the Top 75 for 109 weeks in a row, never dipping below number 55.
It has sold 2,521,160 copies to date – making it the 12th biggest selling album of the 21st century. It is the UK’s biggest selling album digitally, with sales to date of 280,078 copies, so it’s no surprise that Come Around Sundown did exceptionally well digitally last week, with sales of 49,157 smashing the previous best weekly sale of 35,001 set by Eminem’s Recovery 17 weeks previously.
Come Around Sundown is the only brand new arrival in the Top 10 this week, though the top tier accommodates four re-entries by albums issued in new variants – The Beatles 1967-1970 and 1962-1966, Michael Buble’s Crazy Love and Pixie Lott’s Turn It Up.
The Beatles’ 1967-1970 (the ‘blue album’) and 1962-1966 (the ‘red album’) re-enter the chart at number four and number six respectively after being released in digitally remastered packages.
The 1967-1970 album reached number two when first released in 1973, and number four on its CD debut in 1993. 1962-1966 was a number three album on both occasions. The 1967-1970 sales tally for last week (18,402) is just 4.10% more than 1962-1966’s 17,677, maintaining the small but consistent advantage it has over its rival.
Both albums have sold nearly 1.5m copies thus far, with 1967-1970 3.3% ahead long-term. In the 21st century, 1967-1970 sold 217,613 copies up to last week, and 1962-1966 sold 210,414 copies – a difference of just 3.4%. Oddly enough, despite 1967-1970’s sales advantage, 1962-1966 has spent longer in the chart – and surfaced briefly in 2007, while its rival hadn’t charted since 1997 until this week. With Robbie Williams’ In And Out Of Consciousness slipping 1-2 (42,654 sales), Tinie Tempah’s Disc-Overy falling 2-3 (25,865 sales) and Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream leaping 13-5 (18,398 sales), EMI have five albums in the top six for the first time ever.
Already his most successful album, with sales of 1,722,193 since its release exactly a year ago, Michael Buble’s former number one album Crazy Love jumps 41-7 (17,563 sales) after being issued in a new double disc edition.
Meanwhile, Pixie Lott’s Turn It Up has grown from 12 to 22 tracks in its new Turn It Up Louder edition, and vaults 29-9 (15,114 sales), while spinning off its eighth chart single, the Jason DeRulo collaboration Coming Home (number 51, 4,840 sales). Although it has never charted higher than number six, and has previously spent just four weeks in the Top 10, Turn It Up has been in the Top 75 for 58 weeks in a row since its debut, and had sold 632,421 copies to date.
New to the Top 40 this week, Great British Songs (number 15, 8,752 sales) is the fourth Top 20 success for Ali Campbell, former lead singer of UB40, following Big Love (number six, 1995), Running Free (number nine, 2007) and Flying High (number 13, 2009); The Witmark Demos 1962-1964 (number 18, 7,526 sales) is the latest release in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series, and his 53rd chart album; Wake Up (number 26, 4,972 sales) pairs R&B crooner John Legend and jazz group The Roots to good effect; Jane McDonald’s Live At The London Palladium (number 31, 4,435 sales) is the Loose Woman’s sixth charted album; and Miley Cyrus is back in her TV role for Hannah Montana Forever (number 38, 4,041 sales).
Overall album sales are up 4.61% week-on-week to 1,809,662 – but are 9.52% below same week 2009 sales of 2,000,095.
1 Kings Of Leon 183298
2 Robbie Williams 42654 (164,343)
3 Tinie Tempah 25856 (146,658)
4 Beatles [Blue] 18402
5 Katy Perry 18398
6 Beatles [Red] 17677
7 Michael Buble 17563 (1,722,193)
9 Pixie Lott 15114 (632,421)
15 Ali Campbell 8752
18 Bob Dylan 7526
23 Kings Of Leon [OBTN] 6724 (2,521,160)
26 John Legend & The Roots 4972
31 Jane MacDonald 4435
38 Hannah Montana 4041
89 Kings Of Leon [BOTT] 1886
Why this happened?
