16/01/2011 - Mars blasts off with Grenade
Bruno Mars, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and producer, blasts his way to the top of the Official Singles Chart with new single Grenade selling close to 150,000 copies, the Official Charts Company reports today.
This gives Grenade the biggest first week sales for a single released in January since Babylon Zoo’s Spaceman (383,000) in 1996.
In 2010, only three singles achieved bigger first week sales in the entire year; the Helping Haiti’s charity single Everybody Hurts in February (453,000), X Factor Matt Cardle’s debut When We Collide in December (439,000) and Cheryl Cole’s Promise This in October (157,000).
Grenade follows Mars’ previous number one single, his solo debut Just The Way You Are (Amazing). Mars (aka Peter Hernandez) has also crafted a number of hit records as one part of the production/songwriting trio The Smeezingtons, formed with friends Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine, including Flo Rida’s Right Round (Official Singles Chart number one, 2009) and K’NAAN’s Fifa World Cup song, Wavin’ Flag (Official Singles Chart number two, 2010) and has lent his vocal talents to the international number one B.o.B’s Nothin’ On You (Official Singles Chart number one, May 2010) and Travie McCoy’s summer anthem Billionaire (Official Singles Chart number three, July 2010).
Mars’ debut album Doo Wops & Hooligans is released 17th January 2011. After a one-off album launch show at London’s Cafe De Paris on 24th January, Mars will return to the UK for Doo Wops & Hooligans tour, his first UK headline tour, which kicks off in Manchester on 10th March.
There is just one other new entry in the Official Singles Chart Top 10, the sixth single from JLS, Eyes Wide Shut, which is new at number ten and guests Tinie Tempah.
Adele is a re-entry at number seven (up from last week’s 27) with Make You Feel My Love. The track which first entered the Official Singles Chart Top 40 at number 26 in 2008 enjoyed a resurgence in the charts last year when covered by various X Factor contestants, peaking at number four in October 2010.
In the Official Albums Chart, Rihanna’s Loud holds on the to the top spot for a third week while there are two re-entries in the Official Albums Chart Top 10; Adele’s debut album 19 which first entered the Official Albums Chart at number one in January 2008 is at number six this week (up from last week’s number 20) and Eliza Dolittle’s self-titled Eliza Dolittle which first entered the Official Albums Chart at number three in July 2010 is at number nine this week (up from last week’s number 11).
Source: OCC
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Singles
Already a number one hit in The USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, Bruno Mars’ Grenade explodes here this week.
It is the second single, following Just The Way You Are (Amazing), from the 25 year old Hawaiian’s debut album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, which is released here today (17th).
Grenade sold 149,834 copies last week, the highest tally for a number one debut in January since 1996, when Babylon Zoo’s first hit, Spaceman was launched into orbit with first week sales of 383,071.
Just The Way You Are (Amazing) debuted at number one last September, with first week sales of 82,855. It holds at number 17 on its 17th straight week in the Top 20, with sales of 16,427 raising its career tally to 800,446.
Grenade is the fifth number one thus far co-penned by Mars, following Just The Way You Are (Amazing), Right Round for Flo Rida, Nothin’ On You for B.o.B, and Forget You for Cee Lo Green.
BBC Sound of 2011 winner Jessie J is Mars’ nearest challenger, with sales of Do It Like A Dude increasing 64.2% to 55,643 as it rockets 5-2.
After topping the chart last week, with the lowest sale for a number one in 31 weeks, What’s My Name drifts to number three for Rihanna feat. Drake, securing a further 42,927 sales.
Meanwhile, Adele’s incredibly animated Bob Dylan cover Make You Feel My Love lurches back into the Top 10. It is the first song in chart history to make the Top 10 four times in the same chart run, having moved 78-24-44-76-102-4- 11-20-17-27-19-9-12-9 -21- 31- 26 -33-31-27-7 since re-emerging last August.
Originally a number 26 hit in 2008, its ebbing and flowing has largely been due to TV exposure of four different versions of it on The X Factor – but its latest surge comes courtesy of Kerry Katona. Thankfully the former Atomic Kitten member didn’t attempt to sing it – she danced to it on Dancing On Ice with partner Dan Whiston.
Including the 27,488 sales it racked up in the latest frame, overall sales of Make You Feel My Love now stand at 468,535, easily beating the 341,203 tally of Adele’s highest charting single, the 2008 number two hit Chasing Pavements. Both singles appear on Adele’s debut album, 19, which rockets 20-6 (17,160 sales) to achieve its highest position since its fifth week on the chart, some 150 weeks ago.
Its revival is partly due to the exposure of Make You Feel My Love, partly to its £3.99 price tag at Amazon, Play and Tesco, and partly to traffic generated by publicity ahead of the release of follow-up, 21, next Monday (24th). Rolling In The Deep, the first single from 21, was released yesterday (16th) and should join Make You Feel My Love in the Top 20 a week hence.
David Guetta has had nine Top 10 hits, more than any other French act, and his latest, Who’s That Chick (feat. Rihanna) jumps 10-6 this week (28,628 sales) to eclipse the number nine position in which it debuted and previously peaked six weeks ago.
Another French dance doyen, Martin Solveig, is enjoying his fifth and biggest chart hit to date with Hello, which also features Canadian group Dragonette. The track has moved 73-29-18 thus far, selling 34,465 copies, including 16,341 in the latest frame.
With four number ones and a number six under their belt from their first five singles, JLS debut at number 10 (22,847 sales) with Eyes Wide Shut, the third single from their second album, Outta This World, which also features Tinie Tempah.
Glee Cast racked up 45 Top 75 hits in six months after making their chart debut at the end of 2009 but haven’t added to that tally since last June – until now. Back on TV and back in the charts, they don’t quite reach their half century - Telephone (number25, 12,959 sales), Empire State Of Mind (number 35, 9,000 sales), Billionaire (number 48, 6,933 sales) and Listen (number 51, 6,470) all make the Top 75 with ease but What I Did For Love (number 96, 3,101 sales) is some distance short.
Not made available until Wednesday, the Kanye West & Jay-Z collaboration H.A.M. nevertheless debuts at number 30 (11,130 sales). It’s West’s 28th Top 75 entry since his 2004 chart debut, and Jay-Z’s 36th since his 1997 debut, making him the hip-hop artist with most hits, ahead of Eminem (35 since 1999, including five as part of D12).
West is joint fourth on the list with Diddy (28 hits since 1997) just behind Snoop Dogg (29 chart entries since 1997). Nelly, meanwhile, racks up his 24th (since 2000), debuting at number 71 (4,515 sales) with Move That Body, on which he is partnered by T-Pain and Akon. Although his tally of hits is a modest 12, T-Pain also has another new entry this week, joining Pitbull on Hey Baby (number 59, 5,608 sales). And Akon – who is R&B, rather than hip-hop - has a second new entry too, thanks to the novelty I Just Had Sex (number 68, 4,972 sales), which also features Lonely Island, Akon is racking up hits at a very rapid rate, with 33 different Top 75 entries since his debut six years ago.
Overall singles sales decline 2.45% week-on-week to 3,210,812 – 2.14% above same week 2010 sales of 3,143,555.
1 Bruno Mars 149834
2 Jesse J 55643
3 Rihanna/Drake 42927
6 David Guetta/Rihanna 28628
7 Adele 27488 (468,535)
10 JLS/Tinie Tempah 22847
13 Ellie Goulding 19,877
17 Bruno Mars 16427 (800,446)
18 Martin Solveig/Dragonette 16341 (34,465)
20 Cee-Lo Green 14,845
25 Glee [Telephone] 12959
30 Kanye West & Jay Z 11130
35 Glee [ESOM] 9000
48 Glee [Billionaire] 6933
51 Glee[Listen] 6470
59 Pitbull/T-Pain 5608
68 Akon 4972
71 Nelly/Akon/T-Pain 4515
96 Glee [WIDFL] 3101
To Date Singles
Adele - Chasing Pavements 341,203
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Albums
What’s My Name has fallen from the top of the singles chart but Rihanna continues atop the album chart with Loud.
Although its sales of 44,827 copies are the lowest for a number one album for 15 weeks, it enjoys a comfortable victory over Plan B’s The Defamation Of Strickland Banks, which continues at number two (32,419 sales).
Improving its chart placing for the fifth week in a row, Cee Lo Green’s The Lady Killer reaches a new peak, climbing 4-3 (19,369 sales) as second single It’s OK advances 24-20 (14,845 sales).
Though latest single Your Song ends an eight week run in the Top 10 by falling 6-13 (19,877 sales), Ellie Goulding’s Lights album continues to rise, improving 8-7 (16,779 sales) to achieve the highest position it has held since debuting at number one last March.
An appearance on Graham Norton’s show on BBC1 proved a tonic for sales of Imedla May’s Mayhem album. Number one in her native Ireland last Autumn, the album jumps 51-20 (9,339 sales) here, to achieve its highest chart placing since it debuted at number 19 some 14 weeks ago.
The first new entries to the album chart this year are Stand Still, the debut set from Sky's Must Be The Music winner Emma’s Imagination (number 14, 11,824 sales); Valhalla Dancehall, the fifth chart album from Brighton band British Sea Power (number 22, 8,297 sales); Somewhere Over The Rainbow, a new compilation featuring Israel Kamakawiwo’ole (number 28, 7,147 sales); and No.5 Collaborations Project by Ed Sheeran (number 46, 4,224 sales).
Featuring eight collaborations with MCs, including Wiley, P. Money and Sway, among others, Sheeran’s album is available only as a download, becoming only the third album to chart purely on the strength of digital deliveries, following Slash’s self-titled 2010 album, which reached number 30, and Lil Wayne’s I Am Not A Human Being (number 72). After physical release, Slash’s album climbed to number 17, and Lil Wayne’s to number 56.
Topping the compilation chart for the ninth week in a row, Now That’s What I Call Music! 77 sold a further 18,884 copies last week. With sales to date of 1,241,748, it is ahead of 19 of the last 20 Now! albums, trailing only Now! 68’s tally of 1,261,585 sales.
Sales continue to slide from their Christmas peak, falling a further 18.61% week-on-week to 1,902,747 – 3.62% below same week 2010 sales of 1,974,131.
1 Rihanna 44827
2 Plan B 32419
3 Cee-Lo Green 19369
6 Adele 17160
7 Ellie Goulding 16770
14 Emma's Imagination 11824
20 Imelda May 9339
22 British Sea Power 8297
28 Israel Kamakawiwo'ole 7147
46 Ed Sheeran 4224
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