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Chart Listings: UK's Best-Selling Albums By Female Artist
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She is so overrated...
Madonna
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so amazing! the uk are so legal! this could never happen in the US. new albums making it to the top
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so amazing! the uk are so legal! this could never happen in the US. new albums making it to the top
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ye, 21 would need to sell like 21 mil to get anywhere near the top 5-10
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8. Lady Gaga - The Fame / Fame Monster - 2,735,000
24. Pink - Missundaztood - 1,815,000
25. Avril Lavigne - Let Go - 1,765,000
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I always said UK don't exactly stan for great music :/ Anyway loved to see Dido and mariah on the list! Oh and Rih!!
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i saw beyonce there shiting everywhere since 97'
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Two albums in the top 20.
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58. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time - 1,205,000
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AT LEAST SHE APPEARS.. I DON'T LIKE UK
Adele, Rihanna & Madonna
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18. Christina Aguilera - Stripped - 1,950,000
37. Beyonce - I Am Sasha Fierce - 1,395,000
65. Beyonce - Dangerously In Love - 1,135,000
Legend Tina and Queen B!
and gaga
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Singles
The first group to win The X Factor, Little Mix emulate the seven solo artists who have won the competition by topping the chart with their coronation single.
Winners of the TV talent show just eight days ago (11 December), their cover of Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice's Cannonball sold more copies in a week than any single this year. However, it didn't sell as spectacularly as some of its X Factor predecessors, topping the chart on first week sales of 210,129 – less than half the 439,007 copies that Matt Cardle's When We Collide sold on its introductory frame last year.
Rice's own recording of Cannonball responds to Little Mix's cover by entering the Top 40 for the fourth time. The track reached number 32 when first released in 2003, number 19 when reissued in 2004, and number nine after being covered on The X Factor by Welsh teacher John Adams 12 weeks ago. It sold 14,150 copies last week to re-enter the chart at number 19, and has sold 191,696 copies in total – criminally, less than Little Mix’s sold last week alone. And Little Mix's second performance of En Vogue's Don't Let Go (Love) in the final has brought the original 1997 number five hit back into the Top 40 for the second time in a month. It re-charted at number 23 three weeks ago, and now dashes 89-27 (11,875 sales).
Impetus gained from performances in the final weekend of The X Factor also propel Coldplay's Paradise 7-2 (73,063 sales), and earn 2006 X Factor winner Leona Lewis' latest single, a cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt, a number eight debut (27,912 sales). The track was also a number 39 hit for the late Johnny Cash in 2003, when it was issued as a double A-side with his cover of Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus. Cash's version – which even Nine Inch Nails acknowledge as the definitive recording of the song - is resurgent, jumping 164-70 (4,175 sales).
After topping the chart last week with the lowest sale for a number one single in over two years, Olly Murs' Dance With Me Tonight dips to number three (41,726 sales).
Festive recordings decorate the Top 40 again this week thanks to: Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You (12-11, 22,282 sales), Fairytale Of New York by The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl (15-13, 21,203 sales), Wham!'s Last Christmas (26-28, 11,501 sales), Justin Bieber's Mistletoe (23-25, 12,517 sales), Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (28-31, 10,549 sales) and Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody (33-37, 9,337 sales).
Overall singles sales increased by 6.23% week-on-week to 3,258,254 – 8.44% below same week 2010 sales of 3,558,649.
1 Little Mix 210129
2 Coldplay 73063
3 Olly Murs 41726
8 Leona Lewis 27912
11 Mariah Carey 22282
13 The Pogues/Kirsty MacColl 21203
19 Damian Rice 14150 (191,696)
25 Justin Bieber 12517
27 En Vogue 11873
28 Wham! 11501
31 Wizzard 10549
37 Slade 9337
70 Johnny Cash 4175
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Albums
Selling more copies last week than any artist album in any week so far this year, Michael Buble's Christmas powers back to the top of the album chart four weeks after it first topped the list.
In the top five for the eighth week in a row, the album's 2-1 climb is attended by its sixth consecutive double digit increase in percentage sales. Up 42.2% over the previous frame, Christmas sold 269,665 copies last week, beating the previous 2011 best of 215,639 set by Lady GaGa's Born This Way the week of its debut in June. With sales to date of 955,630, Buble's album will receive another big boost from the screening of his 90 minute special Home For Christmas yesterday (18th) and is certain to remain at number one. It will sell its millionth copy by the end of today. Buble's most recent regular album, Crazy Love, remains his biggest seller. Moving 33-23 this week (30,429 sales), it has sold 2,789,831 copies since its release in October 2008.
Buble's return to the summit is at the expense of Amy Winehouse, whose posthumous third album Lioness: Hidden Treasures slips 1-2 (185,851 sales).
Appearances on The Graham Norton Show and The X Factor final paid huge dividends for Coldplay, whose latest album Mylo Xyloto rebounds 8-3 (160,405 sales), raising its cumulative eight week tally to 702,426. Coldplay performed their single Paradise on both shows, and it too makes significant gains jumping to number two (73,063 sales), having previously moved 14-17-20-13-11-12-7.
While X Factor 2011 winners Little Mix debut atop the singles chart, four releases by previous X Factor contestants continue in the Top 20 of the artist album chart. Olly Murs' In Case You Didn't Know tops the 100,000 mark for the third week in a row, holding at number four on sales of 130,393 copies; One Direction's Up All Night moves 9-10 (77,981 sales); Rebecca Ferguson's Heaven eases 3-7 (95,902 sales); and JLS' Jukebox holds at number 12 (56,907 sales).
Susan Boyle's third album, Someone To Watch Over Me, moves 16-15 (43,582 sales), showing there's still a lot of love for the Britain's Got Talent discovery. But not all reality TV graduates are in such high orbit: 2009 X Factor winner Joe McElderry's third album, Classic Christmas, ebbs 25-26 (28,149 sales) on its third chart appearance; Cher Lloyd, who finished fourth in 2010, dips 34-40 (16,407 sales) with her debut album Sticks & Stones on its sixth frame; and 2010 X Factor champion Matt Cardle's Letters remains at number 39 (16,467 sales) on its ninth week of chart action, more or less missing out on the Christmas sales bonanza. 2002 Pop Idol winner Will Young's Echoes eases 27-29 (26,990 sales) - but it has been on the chart for 17 weeks, and has already earned him his sixth platinum album award so can be excused. Bringing up the rear, although he won the fifth season of Britain's Got Talent only a few months ago, Jai McDowall's first album, Believe sold only 11,336 copies last week, and debuts weakly at number 54. He would be in even worse trouble if it wasn't for sales in his native Scotland, where 34.88% of Believe's sales were derived, earning the album a number 19 debut there.
With Christmas gift-buying helping sales to climb 14.10% week-on-week to 5,524,621 – 2.27% below same week 2010 sales of 5,714,505 - only three albums in the artist albums Top 40 sold fewer copies last week than the week before – step backwards Amy Winehouse, Rebecca Ferguson and Cher Lloyd. The top six artist albums sold upwards of 100,000 copies, and 57 sold more than 10,000 copies. (Temporarily) happy days – just wait for the harsh reality of the new year.
Before that, let’s luxuriate in a few additional sales figures. The two albums to sell more than 100,000 not mentioned above are Rihanna’s Talk That Talk (114,042 sales in the week to reach 478,165 in its fourth frane), and Adele’s 21 - 105,585 sales in the week and a spectacular 3,607,201 overall. Westlife’s Greatest Hits rebounds 11-9 (78,377 sales); Jessie J’s Who You Are rallies 20-19 on sales of 36,115, raising its overall sales to 727,722, keeping it comfortably ahead of Ed Sheeran’s + - down 7-8 on sales of 89,548, while raising its overall sales to 642,489 – as the top debut album by a UK act in 2011. Ahead of them both however, Bruna Mars’ Doo-Wops & Hooligans (a 2010 import that got released here in January) dips out of the Top 10 for the seventh time, falling 10-11, while selling a further 64,145 copies, to up its 2011 sales to 1,101,185.
Meanwhile, Now That's What I Call Music! 80 registers its fourth straight week atop the compilation chart, selling a further 186,581 copies. It's a banner week for the Now! series which manages to do something no other franchise has done by occupying all of the top four places in the compilation chart simultaneously. Now That's What I Call Christmas! continues at number two (58,306 sales); Now That's What I Call Disney! holds at number three (51,718 sales), and Now That's What I Call Classical improves 5-4 (42,894 sales).
1 Michael Buble 269665 (955,665)
2 Amy Winehouse 185,851
3 Coldplay 160405
4 Olly Murs 130393
5 Rihanna 114042 (478,165)
6 Adele 105,585 (3,607,201)
7 Rebecca Ferguson 95902
8 Ed Sheeran 89548 (642,489)
9 Westlife 78377
10 One Direction 77981
11 Bruno Mars 64145 (1,101,185)
12 JLS 56,907
15 Susan Boyle 43582
19 Jessie J 36115 (727,722)
23 Michael Buble 30429 (2,789,831)
26 Joe McElderry 28149
29 Will Young 26990
39 Matt Cardle 16467
40 Cher Lloyd 16407
54 Jai MacDowall 11336
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1. Adele - 21 - 3,607,201
2. Madonna - The Immaculate Collection - 3,565,000
3. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (incl. Deluxe Edition) - 3,387,929
4. Shania Twain - Come On Over - 3,360,000
5. Dido - No Angel - 3,062,777
6. Leona Lewis - Spirit - 3,050,000
7. Dido - Life For Rent - 2,866,350
8. Lady Gaga - The Fame / Fame Monster - 2,735,000
9. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - 2,600,000
10. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me - 2,500,000
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Originally posted by Travextina
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[B]1. Adele - 21 - 3,607,201[/I]
2. Madonna - The Immaculate Collection - 3,565,000
3. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (incl. Deluxe Edition) - 3,387,929
4. Shania Twain - Come On Over - 3,360,000
5. Dido - No Angel - 3,062,777
6. Leona Lewis - Spirit - 3,050,000
7. Dido - Life For Rent - 2,866,350
8. Lady Gaga - The Fame / Fame Monster - 2,735,000
9. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - 2,600,000
10. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me - 2,500,000
11. Whitney Houston - Whitney - 2,240,000
12. Duffy - Rockferry - 2,180,000
13. Tina Turner - Simply The Best - 2,130,000
14. Celine Dion - Falling Into You - 2,115,000
15. Kylie Minogue - Kylie: The Album - 2,100,000
16. Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love - 1,995,000
17. Madonna - True Blue - 1,980,000
18. Christina Aguilera - Stripped - 1,950,000
19. Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream - 1,900,000
20. Adele - 19 - 1,890,498
21. Katie Melua - Call Off The Search - 1,865,000
22. Celine Dion - Colour Of My Love - 1,850,000
23. Eva Cassidy - Songbird - 1,840,000
24. Pink - Missundaztood - 1,815,000
25. Avril Lavigne - Let Go - 1,765,000
26. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad - 1,740,000
27. Kylie Minogue - Fever - 1,710,000
28. Madonna - Ray Of Light - 1,710,000
29. Whitney Houston - Greatest Hits - 1,660,000
30. Rihanna - Loud - 1,652,000
31. KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope - 1,645,000
32. Madonna - Like A Virgin - 1,640,000
33. Madonna - Music - 1,625,000
34. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway - 1,545,000
35. Mariah Carey - Music Box - 1,505,000
36. Macy Gray - On How Life Is - 1,410,000
37. Beyonce - I Am Sasha Fierce - 1,395,000
38. Tina Turner - Foreign Affair - 1,380,000
39. Gabrielle - Dreams Can Come True - Greatest Hits - 1,370,000
40. Barbra Streisand - Love Songs - 1,365,000
41. Sade - Diamond Life - 1,350,000
42. Pink - I'm Not Dead - 1,350,000
43. Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor - 1,345,000
44. Florence + The Machine - Lungs - 1,340,000
45. Celine Dion - All The Way - A Decade Of Song - 1,325,000
46. Katie Melua - Piece By Piece - 1,305,000
47. Kate Bush - Whole Story - 1,305,000
48. Alison Moyet - Alf - 1,280,000
49. Annie Lennox - Diva - 1,270,000
50. Madonna - Like A Prayer - 1,270,000
51. Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston - 1,255,000
52. Gabrielle - Rise - 1,240,000
53. Tina Turner - Private Dancer - 1,240,000
54. Enya - Watermark - 1,230,000
55. Anastacia - Anastacia - 1,225,000
56. Pink - Funhouse - 1,215,000
57. Gloria Estefan - Cuts Both Ways - 1,210,000
58. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time - 1,205,000
59. Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Anything For You - 1,185,000
60. Cher - Greatest Hits 1965-1992 - 1,180,000
61. Diana Ross - One Woman - Ultimate Collection - 1,170,000
62. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home - 1,165,000
63. Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle - 1,155,000
64. Enya - Shepherd Moons - 1,145,000
64. Barbra Streisand - Guilty - 1,140,000
65. Beyonce - Dangerously In Love - 1,135,000
66. Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor - 1,120,000
67. Lily Allen - Alright Still - 1,100,000
68. Dina Carroll - So Close - 1,085,000
69. Carole King - Tapestry - 1,080,000
70. Nelly Furtado - Loose - 1,075,000
71. Kylie Minogue - Enjoy Yourself - 1,065,000
72. Joss Stone - Soul Sessions - 1,050,000
73. Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby - 1,050,000
74. Madonna - Something To Remember - 1,040,000
75. Anastacia - Not That Kind - 1,035,000
76. Kylie Minogue - Ultimate Kylie - 1,035,000
77. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten - 1,000,000
78. Lauryn Hill - Miseducation Of - 1,000,000
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Lily Allen -- It's Not Me, It's You :: 990,000+
Cheryl Cole -- 3 Words :: 960,000+
Alicia Keys -- Element Of Freedom :: 950,000+
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Let Go @ #25
I can't @ Spirit being in the top 6 though.
Adele
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26. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad - 1,740,000
30. Rihanna - Loud - 1,652,000
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GGGB is over 1,800,000 by now!
and LOUD 1,670,000
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Adeles coming for that top 3 all time placing! 4.7m is very possible. Especially if its re-packaged at some point which Im sure it will be. Cheryl cole is so close to 1mill with her first album..damn.
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2. Madonna - The Immaculate Collection - 3,565,000
17. Madonna - True Blue - 1,980,000
28. Madonna - Ray of Light - 1,710,000
32. Madonna - Like a Virgin - 1,640,000
33. Madonna - Music - 1,625,000
43. Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor - 1,345,000
50. Madonna - Like a Prayer - 1,270,000
74. Madonna - Something To Remember - 1,040,000
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WOW Barbra‘s album is the oldest one,which mean the UK's best-selling Female albums was Her Memories AND
GUILTY long ago
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25. Avril Lavigne - Let Go - 1,765,000
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Originally posted by Travextina
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[B]1. Adele - 21 - 3,607,201[/I]
2. Madonna - The Immaculate Collection - 3,565,000
3. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black (incl. Deluxe Edition) - 3,387,929
4. Shania Twain - Come On Over - 3,360,000
5. Dido - No Angel - 3,062,777
6. Leona Lewis - Spirit - 3,050,000
7. Dido - Life For Rent - 2,866,350
8. Lady Gaga - The Fame / Fame Monster - 2,735,000
9. Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill - 2,600,000
10. Norah Jones - Come Away With Me - 2,500,000
11. Whitney Houston - Whitney - 2,240,000
12. Duffy - Rockferry - 2,180,000
13. Tina Turner - Simply The Best - 2,130,000
14. Celine Dion - Falling Into You - 2,115,000
15. Kylie Minogue - Kylie: The Album - 2,100,000
16. Celine Dion - Let's Talk About Love - 1,995,000
17. Madonna - True Blue - 1,980,000
18. Christina Aguilera - Stripped - 1,950,000
19. Susan Boyle - I Dreamed A Dream - 1,900,000
20. Adele - 19 - 1,890,498
21. Katie Melua - Call Off The Search - 1,865,000
22. Celine Dion - Colour Of My Love - 1,850,000
23. Eva Cassidy - Songbird - 1,840,000
24. Pink - Missundaztood - 1,815,000
25. Avril Lavigne - Let Go - 1,765,000
26. Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad - 1,740,000
27. Kylie Minogue - Fever - 1,710,000
28. Madonna - Ray Of Light - 1,710,000
29. Whitney Houston - Greatest Hits - 1,660,000
30. Rihanna - Loud - 1,652,000
31. KT Tunstall - Eye To The Telescope - 1,645,000
32. Madonna - Like A Virgin - 1,640,000
33. Madonna - Music - 1,625,000
34. Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway - 1,545,000
35. Mariah Carey - Music Box - 1,505,000
36. Macy Gray - On How Life Is - 1,410,000
37. Beyonce - I Am Sasha Fierce - 1,395,000
38. Tina Turner - Foreign Affair - 1,380,000
39. Gabrielle - Dreams Can Come True - Greatest Hits - 1,370,000
40. Barbra Streisand - Love Songs - 1,365,000
41. Sade - Diamond Life - 1,350,000
42. Pink - I'm Not Dead - 1,350,000
43. Madonna - Confessions On A Dancefloor - 1,345,000
44. Florence + The Machine - Lungs - 1,340,000
45. Celine Dion - All The Way - A Decade Of Song - 1,325,000
46. Katie Melua - Piece By Piece - 1,305,000
47. Kate Bush - Whole Story - 1,305,000
48. Alison Moyet - Alf - 1,280,000
49. Annie Lennox - Diva - 1,270,000
50. Madonna - Like A Prayer - 1,270,000
51. Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston - 1,255,000
52. Gabrielle - Rise - 1,240,000
53. Tina Turner - Private Dancer - 1,240,000
54. Enya - Watermark - 1,230,000
55. Anastacia - Anastacia - 1,225,000
56. Pink - Funhouse - 1,215,000
57. Gloria Estefan - Cuts Both Ways - 1,210,000
58. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time - 1,205,000
59. Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Anything For You - 1,185,000
60. Cher - Greatest Hits 1965-1992 - 1,180,000
61. Diana Ross - One Woman - Ultimate Collection - 1,170,000
62. Norah Jones - Feels Like Home - 1,165,000
63. Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle - 1,155,000
64. Enya - Shepherd Moons - 1,145,000
64. Barbra Streisand - Guilty - 1,140,000
65. Beyonce - Dangerously In Love - 1,135,000
66. Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor - 1,120,000
67. Lily Allen - Alright Still - 1,100,000
68. Dina Carroll - So Close - 1,085,000
69. Carole King - Tapestry - 1,080,000
70. Nelly Furtado - Loose - 1,075,000
71. Kylie Minogue - Enjoy Yourself - 1,065,000
72. Joss Stone - Soul Sessions - 1,050,000
73. Gwen Stefani - Love Angel Music Baby - 1,050,000
74. Madonna - Something To Remember - 1,040,000
75. Anastacia - Not That Kind - 1,035,000
76. Kylie Minogue - Ultimate Kylie - 1,035,000
77. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten - 1,000,000
78. Lauryn Hill - Miseducation Of - 1,000,000
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Lily Allen -- It's Not Me, It's You :: 990,000+
Cheryl Cole -- 3 Words :: 960,000+
Alicia Keys -- Element Of Freedom :: 950,000+
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And now, 21 stands at 3,9 million
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Gaga and Leona
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