30/01/2011 - Adele comes of age with 21 at number one
Adele scorches to the top of the Official Albums Chart today as 21, her second album, achieves record sales of over
208,000 in just its first week of release, the Official Charts Company confirms today.
This makes 21 the biggest January album for five years since Arctic Monkeys sold some 363,000 copies of their debut album Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not in January 2006.
But 21 has also racked up more sales in one week than several of last year’s biggest releases managed to do at any time of year. Albums from Eminem, Kings Of Leon and Cheryl Cole all failed to break the 200,000 sales barrier in 2010. In fact, the feat was only achieved by Take That with their original line-up reunion album Progress, released last November, which has seen weekly sales of over 200,000 on no less than five occasions, including first week sales of over half a million.
Meanwhile Adele’s debut album, the double platinum, Mercury-nominated 19, which first entered the Official Albums Chart at number one back in February 2008, is this week’s number four giving the twenty-two-year-old Londoner two Official Albums Chart Top 5 hits simultaneously. The last time an act could boast a number one album and a second album in the Official Albums Chart Top 5 at the same time was almost twelve years ago when The Corrs were number one with Talk On Corners and number two with Forgiven Not Forgotten in April 1999. Michael Jackson’s Off The Wall and Thriller were both in Official Albums Chart Top 5 in July 2009 after the singer’s death the previous month but at chart positions number three and number four respectively.
Adele has also enjoyed a number of Official Singles Chart hits including her debut Chasing Pavements (number two, 2008), Make You Feel My Love (number four, 2008) and current single Rolling In The Deep which entered the Official Singles Chart last week at number two and is this week’s number three.
There are just two new entries in this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 10; Irish vocalist Imelda May scores her highest UK chart position to date with second major label album Mayhem at number seven (up from last week’s 15) and Lancashire born opera star Alfie Boe also scores a personal best with Bring Him Home at number nine (up from last week’s 20).
In the Official Singles Chart, twenty-two-year-old US phenomenon and Nashville-raised Kesha makes her mark on the UK as We R Who We R, a former US number one, sails straight to pole position with over 90,000 sales. We R Who We R is the first track to be released from Animal + Cannibal, the expanded version of her 2.5 million selling debut album Animal (number eight, 2010). Animal + Cannibal is scheduled for release in the UK on 31st January. Kesha’s previous highest Official Singles Chart hit was Tik Tok (number four, 2009).
The Official Singles Chart Top 10 features two other new entries this week; London production duo Chase & Status’ Blind Faith featuring Liam Bailey, straight in at number five, and Chris Brown’s Yeah 3X straight in at number ten gives the American singer and actor the twelfth Official Singles Chart Top 40 hit of his career.
Source: OCC
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Singles
Previously a number one debut in America (only the 17th in chart history) and Australia, Ke$ha’s We R Who We R debuts atop the singles chart here, on sales of 90,139 copies.
It is the 23-year-old Californian’s first solo number one here, though she was credited for a fairly minor contribution to Flo-Rida’s Right Round. That record didn’t sell as well as her own debut smash Tik Tok, which never climbed higher than number four but has thus far sold 594,164 copies, out of a global sale of 12.5m. We R Who We R is the introductory single from Animal + Cannibal, the expanded edition of her debut album, Animal, which is out here today (Monday).
Despite being displaced by Ke$ha, Bruno Mars’ Grenade continues to sell well, shifting 84,764 copies in its third frame, as it dips to number two, pushing Adele's Rolling In The Deep (63,581 sales) to third place. Diddy Dirty Money hold at number four with Coming Home increasing sales 19.2% week-on-week to 59,572.
Chase & Status score their highest charting single yet, with Blind Faith (feat. Liam Bailey) debuting at number five (52,853 sales). It’s the third single from the drum & bass duo’s second album, No More Idols, which is out today (Monday) and also features their two previous biggest hits, End Credits (number nine, feat. Plan B ) and Let You Go (number 11, feat. Mali).
There are also Top 40 debuts for Chris Brown’s Yeah 3X (number 10, 22,118 sales), Pink’s F**kin’ Perfect (number 21, 13,515 sales), Beady Eye’s The Roller (number 31, 10,785 sales), The Vaccines’ Post Break-Up Sex (number 32, 10,526 sales), The Wombats’ Jump Into The Fog (number 35, 9,681 sales), L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N by Noah & The Whale (number 37, 8,732 sales) and Wonderman by Tinie Tempah feat. Ellie Goulding (number 40, 8,296 sales).
Tinchy Stryder’s last two singles (Second Chance and Game Over) have both peaked at number 22 but Let it Rain (feat. Melanie Fiona) has moved 38-25-14 in the last fortnight and delivers Stryder’s sixth Top 20 hit.
Taio Cruz, who featured on Stryder’s Second Chance also improves for the second week, with Higher, his collaboration with Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy. The song has climbed 60-37-17.
Martin Solveig & Dragonette’s floor filler Hello has shown consistent growth in recent weeks, improving 73-29-18-16-13, for which it is severely indebted to Radio 1, which has given it huge support. The track was aired 27 times on Radio 1 last week, making it jointly the station’s most-played song, along with Wretch 32’s Traktor. It provided a massive 77.68% of the track’s overall audience of 26.96m, helping it to climb 28-21 on the radio airplay chart.
Cheryl Cole’s The Flood slips 30-43 (7,746 sales) having peaked at number 18 a fortnight ago. The follow-up to the chart-topping Promise This, and the second single from her Messy Little Raindrops album, its failure is a major setback for Cole. Messy Little Raindrops dips 26-29 (5,092 sales) to equal its lowest chart placing to date.
All seven new Glee Cast singles make the Top 200 - but only their cover of The Beatles' I Want To Hold Your Hand makes the Top 75 - and barely, debuting at number 74 (4,012 sales). It's their 52nd Top 75 entry.
Overall singles sales are up 3.55% week-on-week to 3,257,616 – 11.89% above same week 2010 sales of 2,911,391.
1 Ke$ha 90139
2 Bruno Mars 84764 (345,558)
3 Adele 63581
4 Diddy & Dirty Money/Skylar Grey 59572
5 Chase & Status/Liam Bailey 52853
10 Chris Brown 22118
15 Adele [MYFYL] 16574 (501,618)
21 Pink 13515
31 Beady Eye 10785
32 Vaccines 10526
35 Wombats 9681
36 Adele 9168
37 Noah & The Whale 8732
40 Tinie Tempah/Ellie Goulding 8296
43 Cheryl Cole 7746
75 Glee Cast 4012
To Date Singles
Ke$ha - Tik Tok 594,164
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Albums
A week ago, Bruno Mars was keeping female solo artists with mononyms off the top of the singles (Adele) and albums (Rihanna) charts but this week the tables are turned and he is dethroned by Ke$ha on the singles list and Adele on the albums list.
Although introductory single, Rolling In The Deep, failed to unseat Mars from the singles summit last week, Adele’s second album, 21, easily displaces his Doo-Wops & Hooligans set at the album apex.
21 sold 208,090 copies last week; her first album, 19, sold 73,341 copies when it debuted at number one three years ago next week. Rolling In The Deep racked up the second highest January sale of the 21st century, trailing only the 363,735 copies that The Arctic Monkeys’ debut album, Whatever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not, sold when it debuted at number one exactly five years ago. It also surpassed first week sales of any 2010 album, apart from Take That’s Progress.
21 is the first album not issued by one of the four majors (Universal, Sony, Warner Music and EMI) to reach number one since The Arctic Monkeys’ follow-up, Humbug, in September 2009. Amazon sold 21 digitally last week for £3.99, helping it to shift 76,447 downloads, the second highest such sale of any album in any week, trailing only the 79,807 copies that Take That’s Progress sold digitally 11 weeks ago. At 36.74%, it is the third highest percentage digital sale for a number one album, behind Glee – The Music: Season One – Volume 1 (23,759 digital out of 62,451 sales [38.04%], week 7, 2010) and The Script’s eponymous debut (12,371 digital out of 32,978 [37.51%], week 3, 2009)
Adele is the first artist to have a number one album and another album in the top five at the same time this century – the feat was last achieved in April 1999, when The Corrs were number one with Talk On Corners and number two with Forgiven Not Forgotten. The Beatles’ first two albums (Please Please Me and With The Beatles) were in the top five together for 22 weeks in a row in 1963/4, most of them holding down the number one and two slots simultaneously.
While 21 tops this week’s list, 19 is also resurgent. Climbing 8-4 to achieve its highest chart placing for 154 weeks, it sold 25,419 copies last week to lift its career tally to 803,112. Thanks to a combination of discounting, anticipation of 21, and the continuing popularity of single Make You Feel My Love, 19 has been in the Top 10 for the last three weeks, having previously spent only seven weeks there.
After sliding 7-19 last week, Make You Feel My Love climbs again this week – possibly because it was performed on American Idol, which draws good audiences for ITV2. At her launch party for 21 last week, Adele sung Make You Feel My Love, and observed that “when this was released in 2008, no-one f***ing cared.” They do now, and its latest surge - to number 15 - was accompanied by sales of 16,574 copies, lifting overall sales to 501,618. It’s the 11th time it has switched direction since it re-entered the chart 18 weeks ago.
Meanwhile, Rolling In The Deep racks up second week sales of 63,581, while slipping 2-3, while Someone Like You - a second song from 21 – debuts at number 36 (9,168 sales) to become Adele’s seventh Top 40 hit.
Back on the album chart, Doo-Wops & Hooligans’ 1-2 slip is accompanied by sales of 64,981, while Rihanna’s Loud is also bumped, falling 2-3 (29,809 sales).
While last week’s number three album – Ritual by White Lies collapses 3-14 (9,340 sales), two albums enter the Top 10 for the first time, after several weeks on release.
Classical tenor Alfie Boe’s breakthrough album Bring Him Home darts 20-9 (12,717 sales), beating the number 15 peak it scaled three weeks ago, while Irish rockabilly revivalist Imelda May’s Mayhem reached a new peak for the second straight week, climbing 15-7 (13,257 sales).
Mayhem debuted and initially peaked at number 19 last October, and is being helped by exposure of current single Inside Out, which climbs 48-29 on the radio airplay chart. It is especially indebted to BBC Radio Two, where it shared most-played honours for the week with Matisyahu’s One Day. Both were played 18 times by the station. Mayhem has thus far sold 70,663 copies, and is poised to overtake May’s debut album, Love Tattoo, which never charted higher than number 58 but has sold 71,078 copies to date.
Adele’s 21 is the only new album to have sufficient firepower to land inside the Top 20 but there’s an unseasonably large intake further down the chart with debuts for Diddy Dirty Money’s Last Train To Paris (number 24, 6,540 sales), The Joy Formidable’s The Big Roar (number 31, 5,022 sales), Iron & Wine’s Kiss Each Other Clean (number 32, 5,013 sales), Funeral Party’s The Golden Age Of Knowhere (number 37, 3,850 sales), T.I.’s No Mercy (number 39, 3,779 sales), Joan As Police Woman’s The Deep Field (number 40, 3,583 sales), Marti Pellow’s Love To Love (number 51, 3,058 sales), Architects’ The Here And Now (number 57, 2,672 sales) and Alexandre Desplat’s soundtrack set, The King’s Speech (number 75, 2,237 sales).
Now That’s What I Call Music! 77 spends its 11th week atop the compilation chart, with sales of 13,013 copies, raising its career tally to 1,269,569. That means it has now superseded Now! 68 to become the biggest selling compilation since Now! 56 in 2003.
After declining for five weeks in a row since Christmas, overall album sales make a modest recovery, increasing by 6.80% to 1,947,080. That’s 1.73% above same week 2010 sales of 1,913,898.
1 Adele 208090
2 Bruno Mars 64981 (151,224)
3 Rihanna 29809
4 Adele [19] 25419 (803,112)
7 Imelda May 13257
9 Alfie Boa 12717
14 White Lies 9340
24 Diddy & Dirty Money 6540
29 Cheryl Cole 5092
31 Joy Formidable 5022
32 Iron & Wine 5013
37 Funeral Party 3850
39 T.I. 3779
40 Joan As Police Woman 3583
51 Marti Pellow 3058
57 Architects 2672
75 Alexandre Michel Desplat 2237
To Date Albums
Imelda May - Tattoo 71,078
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Rihanna - Loud:
2. Rihanna - Loud 91.915 (-)
5. Rihanna - Loud 68,069 (-35%)
4. Rihanna - Loud 66.127 (-3%)
4. Rihanna - Loud 94.774 (+43%)
2. Rihanna - Loud 193.548 (+104%)
2. Rihanna - Loud 248.934 (+29%)
1. Rihanna - Loud 76,237 (-69%)
1. Rihanna - Loud 50,094 (-34,3%)
1. Rihanna - Loud 44,827 (-10,5%)
2. Rihanna - Loud 36.133 (-19.4%)
3. Rihanna - Loud 29,809 (-17,5%)
TOTAL 1,000,467