Adele chasing first number one single 10:40 | Tuesday January 18, 2011
By Paul Williams Source: MW Singles
While Mars seems assured top billing on the albums chart come the weekend, in the singles market he has his work cut out as XL’s Adele looks for her first chart-topping single. Her brand new offering Rolling In The Deep is presently ahead of Mars’ Grenade, albeit by just 254 sales. Her single is one of four new releases showing up among the top six positions with Ministry of Sound’s Wretch 32 featuring L’s Traktor in fourth place, Interscope’s Coming Home by Diddy – Dirty Money featuring Skylar fifth and the Mercury-issued Like U Like by Aggro Santos and Kimberley Walsh sixth.
Jive/RCA’s Britney Spears’ newly-issued single Hold It Against Me is just a few sales short of a Top 10 place, ranking 11th for the week to date, putting it two places ahead of Fascinatiom/Polydor’s newly-released Mow Or Never by Jodie Connor featuring Wiley. Albums
Bruno Mars’ debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans is heading for number one this week, but he faces a close battle with Adele to stay at the top of the UK singles chart.
The newly-issued Elektra/Atlantic album is more than 2,000 sales ahead of Fiction/Polydor act White Lies’ Ritual, which was also released this week and currently ranks in second place with Def Jam/Mercury signing Rihanna third with Loud.
Parlophone’s Tinie Tempah appears to be benefiting from the publicity of his four Brit nominations last week with sales increasing of his first album Disc-overy by nearly 50% on the week. The album, which was eight on last Sunday's chart, is the sixth biggest seller in the week so far.
Just outside the Top 10 Rough Trade-signed Oregon rock band The Decemberists are heading towards their highest position yet in the UK with new album The King Is Dead ranking 12th at this stage of the week. Two veteran rock acts will also show up in Sunday’s chart with new sets from UDR’s Motorhead and SPV’s Magum currently 19th and 23rd for the week.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ Top 40 Only Singles
1 Adele {254 copies ahead}
2 Bruno Mars
3 Jessie J
4 Wretch 32
5 Diddy & Dirty Money ft. Skylar
Top 10
6 Aggro Santos ft. Kimberley Walsh
9 JLS
Top 15
11 Britney Spears
Ellie Goulding
13 Jodie Connor
Top 40
31 Tinchy Stryder ft. Melanie Fiona
Pitbull ft. T-Pain
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ Albums
1. Bruno Mars {2,000 ahead}
2 White Lies
3 Rihanna
4 Plan B
5 Ellie Goulding
Top 10
Tinie Tempah {+50% week-on-week}
Eliza Doolittle
Top 15
The Decemberists
Top 20
The Script
Motorhead
Olly Murs
Top 30
Magnum
27 Cheryl Cole
Anna Calvi
Top 40
Pearl Jam NO SALES INFO
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles
Rihanna ft. Drake 4+3
David Guetta ft. Rihanna 5+5
Rihanna – OG(ITW) 10+9
Matt Cardle 10+8
Katy Perry 10+11
P!nk 20+6
Cheryl Cole 20+9 Albums
Adele [19] 5+4
Katy Perry 10+4
Lady GaGa 10+5
Kings of Leon 10+8
P!nk 20+2
JLS 20+4
Emma’s Imagination 30+2
Kings of Leon [OBTN] 30+9
1 Adele
2 Bruno Mars
3 Jessie J
4 Wretch 32
5 Diddy & Dirty Money ft. Skylar
Top 10
6 Britney Spears
7 Aggro Santos ft. Kimberley Walsh
Top 15
12 Jodie Connor
Top 40
31 Tinchy Stryder ft. Melanie Fiona
34 Avril Lavigne
37 Glee Cast [Toxic]
Pitbull ft. T-Pain
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ Albums
1.Bruno Mars
2 White Lies
3 Rihanna
4 Plan B
5 Ellie Goulding
Top 10
Tinie Tempah
Top 15
The Decemberists
Top 20
The Script
Olly Murs
Top 30
The Overtones
25 Cheryl Cole
Motorhead
Magnum
Top 40
Anna Calvi
32 Pixie Lott
33 Kings Of Leon [OBTN] NO SALES INFO
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++ ARTIST UPDATES Singles
Rihanna ft. Drake 4+4
JLS 5+5
David Guetta ft. Rihanna 6+5
Ellie Goulding 6+7
Matt Cardle 10+8
Rihanna – OG(ITW) 10+9
Katy Perry 10+12
P!nk 20+5
Cheryl Cole 20+9 Albums
Adele [19] 5+3
Eliza Doolittle 5+5
Katy Perry 10+4
Lady GaGa 10+5
Kings of Leon [CAS] 10+7
P!nk 20+2
JLS 20+4
Emma’s Imagination 30+10
If only they had released it on Sunday and then not deleted it again on Monday, it could be Top 3 by now. This will surely be her biggest single since In The Zone?!