Singles
With massive pre-release radio, TV and club support, Pass Out makes a perfect start, debuting at number one for 21-year-old Londoner Tinie Tempah – real name Patrick Okogwu.
He becomes the first Parlophone recording act to open his career with a number one debut since 1999, when film director Baz Luhrmann’s Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) debuted in pole position. Tempah is only the fifth Parlophone act to have a number one single in the 21st century, following Kylie Minogue, George Harrison, Coldplay and Gorillaz. Minogue has had three, all the rest one.
With Tempah debuting at number one (92,002 sales), Relentless/Virgin act Naughty Boy presents Wiley feat. Emeli debuting at number eight with Never Be Your Woman (32,808 sales) and Positiva/Virgin’s Gramophonedzie arriving at number 12 with Why Don’t You (26,058 sales), EMI acts secure three debuts in the Top 15 for the first time in the 21st century.
In other Top 10 news, Rihanna’s Rude Boy climbs 3-2, with sales increasing 19% to 62,476; Jason DeRulo’s In My Head fades 1-3 (55,846 sales); and Boyzone’s Gave It All Away enters at number nine (32,004 sales).
It is the sixth week in a row that Rude Boy has climbed, and it is the sixth number two of Rihanna’s short career, following 2005 debut Pon De Replay, S.O.S., Unfaithful (both 2006), Live Your Life with T.I. (2008) and Russian Roulette (2009).
Boyzone’s run of 17 straight Top 10 hits came to a halt when last single Better peaked at number 22 in December 2008. The band returns to the Top 10 this week, with Gave It All Away, their first single since the tragic death of Stephen Gateley, whose vocals are featured on the track alongside his bandmates.
The song was written by Mika, and is faring much better than Mika’s own recent releases. We Are Golden – the first single from his second album, The Boy Who Knew Too Much – peaked at number four, but both subsequent singles, Rain and Blame It On The Girls, have peaked at number 72. Lack of exposure isn’t the problem either – Rain reached number 18 on the radio airplay chart, Blame It On The Girls one place lower.
Parachute becomes the third Top 10 hit from Cheryl Cole’s debut solo album 3 Words this week, moving 11-10 on sales of 30,332 copies. The album climbs for the fourth week in a row. Since dipping to number 45 in January it has climbed 38-32-27-20. Sales last week of 9,264 copies lift its 19-week tally to 696,466.
Overall singles sales climb 1.18% week-on-week to 2,920,221 – 10.33% above same week 2009 sales of 2,646,774.
1 Tinnie Tempah 92002
2 Rihanna 62476
3 Jason Derulo 55846
4 Ellie Goulding 45579
8 Naughty Boy/Wiley/Emeli Sande 32808
9 Boyzone 32,004
10 Cheryl Cole 30332
12 Gramphonedzie 26058
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Albums
Female solo artists are enjoying their best ever spell on the albums chart, supplying 10 of the last 16 number ones. That tally rises to 11 out of 17 this week, as Ellie Goulding storms to the summit with her debut set Lights on sales of 36,854 copies.
Goulding is the winner of the BBC’s Sound Of 2010 poll, and the Critics’ Choice award at The Brits. Her album includes her debut Top 40 hit Starry Eyed, which remains at number four on sales of 45,579 copies.
With Lady GaGa’s The Fame easing 1-2 (35,073 sales), Alicia Keys’ The Element Of Freedom holding at number three (31,811 sales) and Florence + The Machine’s Lungs descending 4-5 (29,635 sales) female solo artists also have a lock on the top five broken only by the Glee Cast’s Glee: The Music – Season One – Volume 1, which dips 2-4 (30,843 sales).
Having dethroned Susan Boyle and denied Sade top billing, Mumford & Son’s Sigh No More is number one in Australia for the third straight week – and the London folk/rock quartet’s album continues to prosper here too. Since debuting at number 11 last October, the album has spent 22 consecutive weeks on the chart.
It rose as high as number seven some eight weeks ago, and returned to that position five weeks ago. It tests the water for the third time this week, moving 10-7 with sales of 20,546 lifting its career tally to 294,285.
A week after topping the singles chart with In My Head, Jason DeRulo makes his album chart debut, with his eponymous first album entering at number eight (16,362 sales).
John Barrowman also goes the self-titled route, with his latest album, a collection of covers from musical theatre presentations. It is a winning formula for Barrowman, debuting at number 11 (15,261 sales) to provide his highest chart placing to date. His 2007 album, Another Side, reached number 22, and 2008 follow-up Music, Music, Music reached number 35.
Barrowman isn’t the only 42-year-old Glaswegian to chart with a 13-track album of familiar songs from stage and screen this week – Sharleen Spiteri does likewise, debuting at number 13 on 13,832 sales of her self-explanatory set The Movie Songbook. It is Texas member Spiteri’s second solo album, following 2008’s Melody, which reached number three and has thus far sold 209,894 copies.
One of the more unusual albums to enter the chart this week is American singer/songwriter/harpist Joanna Newsom’s Have One On Me.
The 28-year-old Californian has developed quite a cult following here, selling 34,551 copies of debut set The Milk-Eyed Minder since its 2004 release, though it has never made the Top 200. 2006 follow-up, Ys, reached number 41, and has sold 45,762 copies.
Have One On Me comprises 18 songs – 14 of them more than six minutes long – and a playing time of more than two hours. The album sold 8,481 copies last week, and debuts at number 28. It is physically available as a triple CD and also as a triple vinyl set. Although the former accounted for 82.97% of sales – and digital for a further 9.37% – the LP sold 649 copies, making it the runaway number one on the vinyl sales chart, with And The We Saw Land by Tuning a distant number two with 115 sales.
Following the return to the chart of the dearly departed Johnny Cash, Gracie Fields and Ali Farka Touré last week, two more artists singularly ill-equipped to promote their new albums return to old haunts this week.
The new Dean Martin compilation That’s Amore debuts at number 27 (8,526 sales), while Matt Monro’s The Greatest enters at number 40 (5,929 sales). It is the 14th chart album for Martin, who died in 1995, and last charted in 2004 with Dino: The Essential Platinum Collection. Monro died in 1985, and has charted seven albums, most recently making the list in 2007 with the Valentine’s Day aimed From Matt With Love.
The new Monro and Martin compilations should experience a significant uplift next week from Mother’s Day gift-buying, as should Simply Red’s Songs Of Love – a Tesco exclusive with an in-store price of £6.95 - which debuts higher than either of them (number 25, 8,740 sales).
Despite a good slate of releases, sales increased by just 0.07% week-on-week to 1,927,096, and are down 1.55% on same week 2009 sales of 1,957,433. It brings to an end a sequence of eight consecutive weeks in which sales have been above those a year prior.
1 Ellie Goulding 36854
2 Lady GaGa 35073
3 Alicia Keys 31811
4 Glee Cast 30843
5 Florence + The Machine 29635
7 Mumford & Sons 20546 (To Date: 294,285)
8 Jason Derulo 16362
11 Jon Barrowman 15261
13 Sharleen Spiteri 13832
25 Simply Red 8740
27 Dean Martin 8526
28 Joanna Newsom 8481
40 Matt Monro 5929
To Date Albums
Sharleen Spiteri - Melody 209,894
Joanna Newsom - Ys 45,762
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Minder 34,551
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