06/02/2011 - Price Tag Suits Jessie J
Twenty-two-year-old Jessie J bags her first Official Singles Chart number one with second single Price Tag featuring US rapper, producer and singer B.o.B, outselling all rivals, the Official Charts Company confirms today.
Price Tag, one of the first wave of new singles to be released under the On Air, On Air initiative, being released to radio and retail on the same day, follows J’s debut single Do It Like A Dude which entered the Official Singles Chart last November at number 25 and went on to peak at number two in January. Do It Like A Dude has spent five week in the Official Singles Chart Top 10 (it’s this week’s number seven) and has sold over 300,000 copies to date. The singer and songwriter has also attracted widespread critical acclaim winning the BBC’s Sound of 2011 poll and being named Critics’ Choice of the Brits 2011.
Price Tag’s success has also given featured artist B.o.B his third Official Singles Chart number one following last year’s Nothin’ On You (May, 2010) and Airplanes (July 2010).
Jessie J’s debut album Who We Are is scheduled for release on 28th February 2011.
There are two other new entries in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10; Enrique Iglesias scores his ninth Official Singles Chart Top 10 hit with Tonight (I’m F**kin’ You) featuring rapper Ludacris straight in at number five while Taio Cruz’s Higher featuring Travie McCoy and Kylie Minogue moves up to this week’s number eight from last week’s number 17.
In the Official Albums Chart, Adele’s 21, one of the biggest albums of recent years, stays at number one and posts impressive second week sales of over 135,000 while her debut album, 19, also holds firm in the Official Albums Chart, staying at number four.
The Official Albums Chart Top 10 features two new entries; production duo Chase & Status score their highest ever Official Albums Chart placing with second album No More Idols debuting at number two while Simply Eva, a posthumous collection from acclaimed US vocalist Eva Cassidy, is straight in at number six.
Rumer’s Seasons Of My Soul, which entered the Official Albums Chart at number three in November last year is a re-entry this week moving up to this week’s number nine from last week’s number 12.
Source: OCC
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Singles:
The new On Air / On Sale initiative launched by Sony and Universal to relieve consumer frustration over lengthy lead-ins – and minimise illegal downloading – is expected to result in more gradual growth and higher sales for singles which currently debut and peak the week that pent-up demand is relieved by their release.
That’s the theory – but one of the first singles to be issued as part of the experiment – Price Tag by Jessie J feat. B.o.B – goes to number one this week, after snaring first-week sales of 84,077.
Its mercurial debut is in contrast to her first hit Do It Like A Dude, which peaked on its eighth week on the chart, gaining vital impetus from J’s success in winning the BBC’s prestigious Sound Of 2011 to complete a rollercoaster 25-30-29-34-21-18-5-2 climb. On its fifth week in the Top 10 it slips a notch to number seven with sales of 37,594 copies, lifting its career tally to 314,235.
Although it is Jessie J’s first number one, Price Tag is the third number one in less than nine months for rapper B.o.B, who topped the list last May with Nothin’ On You (feat. Bruno Mars) and returned to the summit two months later with Airplanes (feat. Hayley Williams).
Mars, of course, was number one a fortnight ago with Grenade, which holds at number two this week (65,671 sales), while Ke$ha’s We R Who We R ebbs 1-3 (51,478 sales).
There’s an outbreak of bad language in the Top 20 this week, the like of which we haven’t seen since 2004, when Eamon’s F**K It (I Don’t Want You Back) was toppled from the top of the chart by Frankie’s answer song F**k U Right Back.
This week’s Tourette’s twosome are connected only by their use of the same expletive. Debuting at number five (44,836 sales), Enrique Iglesias blows his boy next door image with Tonight (I’m F**kin’ You), which also features Ludacris, while Pink’s penchant for profane patter is vented in F***kin’ Perfect, which jumps 21-11 (29,794 sales).
Tonight (I’m F**kin’ You) is Iglesias’ ninth Top 10 hit, and his third in a row – a personal best - following Pitbull collaboration I Like It (number four) and Heartbeat (number eight), with Nicole Scherzinger. F***kin’ Perfect is the second new track lifted from Pink’s Greatest Hits...So Far!!! compilation, following Raise Your Glass, which reached number 13.
It’s only 13 weeks since the first ever Top 40 hit entitled simply Higher peaked at number 10 for The Saturdays feat. Flo-Rida – but this week sees another, completely different song of that title venture even higher for Taio Cruz feat. Kylie Minogue & Travie McCoy.
Taio’s seventh Top 10 hit and Travie’s second, it is Kylie’s 34th. Rising 17-8, the track sold 37,437 copies last week, despite having to battle against more simultaneous covers than any other hit in chart history. Buyers at Amazon and iTunes alone were able to pick from soundalike cash-ins from 29 anonymous acts, namely: #1 Taio Cruz Tribute Band, #1 Taio Cruz & Kylie Minogue Tribute Band, 8 Bit Players, 808 Re-Mix Squad, 2010s Karaoke Band, Arcade Wizards, DJ Ballad, DJ Downtempo, DJ Ex, DJ Gamer, DJ La-La, DJ Tools, Drum And Bass Remixers, Karaoke Essentials, Karaoke Hitts (sic), Master Q, Off The Record, Party Hit Kings, Piano Tribute Kings, Piano Tribute Maestro, Remix Hitmakers, Slow Grind Remixers, Slow It Down, Smash Hit Band, Super Stems Mashups Kit, Taio Cruz For Piano, Tribute Mega Stars, Ultimate Party Jams and Ultimate Piano Players.
Wonderman is the sixth Top 20 single off Tinie Tempah’s debut album Disc-Overy in less than a year. Featuring Ellie Goulding, the track sprints 40-14 (19,025 sales), and follows the number one hits Pass Out and Written In The Stars (feat. Eric Turner), the number two smash Frisky (feat. Labyrinth), the number four Miami 2 Ibiza (Swedish House Mafia Vs. Tinie Tempah) and Invincible, a number 11 hit feat. Kelly Rowland. Disc-Overy itself slips 11-12 (11,187 sales).
10 songs made their Top 40 debut last week but this week there are only five new arrivals – the aforementioned Jessie J and Enrique Iglesias songs; S&M, the spanking new single from Rihanna, which jumps 51-20 (14,482 sales); I Need A Doctor by Dr. Dre feat. Eminem and Skylar Grey (number 21, 14,418 sales); On My Own (number 39, 8,162 sales), the debut solo hit for Yasmin, who sang on Devlin’s number 15 hit, Runaway last year.
Overall singles sales are down 3.04% week-on-week at 3,158,446 – 4.24% above same week 2010 sales of 3,029,919.
1 Jessie J/BoB 84,076
2 Bruno Mars 65,670 (410,228)
3 Ke$ha 51,478 (141,617)
4 Adele 49043
5 Enrique Iglesias/Ludacris/DJ Frank E 44836
7 Jessie J [DILAD] 37594 (314,235)
8 Taio Cruz/Travie/Kylie 37437
11 P!nk 29794
14 Tinie Tempah/Ellie Goulding 19025
20 Rihanna [S&M] 14482
21 Dr. Dre/Eminem/Skylar Grey 14418
23 Adele [MYFML] 12901
39 Yasmin 8162
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Albums:
After selling a massive 208,090 copies on its first week in the shops, Adele’s 21 continues to dominate the album market, selling a further 135,585 copies.
That gives it an advantage of more than two to one over nearest challenger, No More Idols by Chase & Status.
21’s continuing strength comes as first single Rolling In The Deep continues its slow decline, falling 3-4 (49,043 sales), while Someone Like You improves 36-33 (9,314 sales).
Meanwhile, Adele’s debut album, 19, strengthens its hold on the number four slot, increasing sales by 8.80% week-on-week to 27,660, as single Make You Feel My Love switches direction for the 12th time since it re-entered the chart 19 weeks ago, falling 15-23 (12,901 sales).
Chase & Status’ second album, No More Idols is home to three Top 15 hits and sold 52,224 copies last week. Their 2008 debut, That Means Alot (sic) debuted and peaked at number 49 in 2008, with first week sales of 3,234. It has, however, sold steadily ever since, racking up overall sales of 115,336 copies.
Eva Cassidy’s seventh posthumous Top 40 album, Simply Eva, is a collection of previously unreleased, alternate, acoustic versions of some of her most popular songs plus the previously unissued San Francisco Bay Blues. It makes a strong initial showing, debuting at number six (21,778 sales). It brings her cumulative UK sales to 3,459,689.
There are also Top 40 debuts this week for grime star Skepta’s first album, Doin’ It Again (number 19, 8,753 sales); Love Songs (number 20, 8,575 sales), a new Roberta Flack compilation aimed at the Valentine’s Day market; Chapel Club’s introductory release, Palace (number 31, 5,421 sales) and Love To Love by Marti Pellow (51-38, 4,333 sales).
Two albums of very different vintages return to the Top 40 after being issued in new editions: Ke$ha’s debut album Animal, now packaged with Cannibal - a second CD of new songs including We R Who We R - re-enters at number 22 (8,478 sales), having debuted and peaked at number eight exactly a year ago; and George Michael’s 1987 debut solo album Faith is back at number 29 (5,621 sales) after being issued in a new deluxe edition.
Newly crowned as their best-selling album, having racked up sales of 27,408 copies in 18 weeks, Bellowhead’s Hedonism has also re-appeared in the Indie Albums Breakers chart for the first time since last October. The third studio album by the eleven member folk act should have been in the chart throughout, with two weeks at number one, but was excluded due to a technical error at OCC.
No change atop the compilation chart, with Now That’s What I Call Music! 77 holding sway for the 12th week in a row (10,970 sales).
Overall album sales declined by 0.47% week-on-week to 1,937,903 – 4.74% below same week 2010 sales of 2,034,416.
1 Adele 135,585 (343,675)
2 Chase & Status 52,224
3 Bruno Mars 44,493 (195,717)
4 Adele [19] 27660
6 Eva Cassidy 21778
12 Tinie Tempah 11187
19 Skepta 8753
20 Roberta Flack 8575
22 Ke$ha 8478
29 George Michael 5621
31 Chapel Club 5421
38 Marti Pellow 4333