Well, the Christmas gift card boom is over so sales do drop at this time of year. Plus, WMN has been out for quite some time. Sales should pick up next week as Grenade is a new release.
09/01/2011 - Rihanna does the double and equals Elvis record
Grammy award winning Rihanna scores the fifth UK number one single of her career as What’s My Name featuring Canadian rap artist Drake climbs from last week’s number two to take pole position in the new Official Singles Chart released today, the Official Charts Company reports.
This feat makes Rihanna the first female solo artist in chart history to achieve five number one singles in consecutive years with What’s My Name following Only Girl (In The World) (2010), Run This Town (2009), Take A Bow (2008) and Umbrella (2007). The only other solo artist to equal this achievement was Elvis Presley in the 1950s.
Rihanna’s album Loud also holds on to its number one slot in the Official Albums Chart this week giving the Barbadian born, US based artist the second UK chart double of her career, after her 2007 album Good Girl Gone Bad and single Umbrella topped the Official Albums and Official Singles Charts simultaneously.
Loud beat off stiff competition from Plan B’s The Defamation of Strickland Banks which had been ahead in the race for pole position in last Wednesday’s Official Chart Update. Loud has now spent eight weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 5 (two of those weeks at number one) and sold some 890,000 copies since its release in November last year. Rihanna has sold over 25 million records worldwide.
There are no less than two other records bearing Rihanna’s name in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10; her previous number one Only Girl (In The World) is at number nine and David Guetta’s Who’s That Chick featuring RIhanna is a re-entry at number ten (up from 13 last week) having previously peaked at number nine in December last year.
Elsewhere in the Official Singles Chart Top 10, the BBC’s Sound Of 2011 winner, Jessie J, climbs to number five from last week’s 18 with Do It Like A Dude and Katy B’s Lights On featuring Ms Dynamite is a re-entry at number four up from last week’s number 11 having entered the charts two weeks ago, also at number four.
In the Official Albums Chart Top 10 there are two re-entries: Cee Lo Green’s The Lady Killer climbs to its highest chart position yet at number four (up from last week’s 13) having entered the chart at number ten last November while Rumer’s Seasons Of My Soul climbs to number six (up from last week’s 21) having entered the chart at number three last November.
I can't believe how low its sales are.
