From the OCC:
Rihanna and Calvin Harris sell
over 100,000 this week as We Found Love stays at Number 1 for the second time.
"The Bajan singer scored a second Sunday at number one after posting a week-on-week sales increase of
20% to break the 100,000"
Gym Class Heroes are our highest new entry at Number 3 and reigning X Factor champion Matt Cardle enters at Number 6 today.
Lots of big climbers on the chart due to the hype of X Factor for Charlene Soraia, Ed Sheeran and Nicki Minaj.
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Singles:
UK Singles Chart Analysis: Rihanna and Calvin Harris sell another 106k
08:56 | Monday October 17, 2011
By Alan Jones
After changing hands for 11 weeks in a row, leadership of the singles chart remains with We Found Love by Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris. The track – the first song to survive more than seven days at the summit since The Wanted’s Glad You Came in July – sold 106,553 copies last week, stretching its advantage at the top.
Its runner-up, as last week, is Moves Like Jagger, the Maroon 5/Christina Aguilera collaboration which has now occupied the number two slot for seven straight weeks – a run unmatched since All-4-One’s I Swear was second to Wet Wet Wet’s Love Is All Around for a similar stretch in 1994. Perhaps more impressively, Moves Like Jagger – which spent two weeks at number three before upping its game - has sold upwards of 50,000 copies in each and every one of the nine weeks that have elapsed since its release, including 79,899 last week. It is a sequence unmatched since Steps’ Heartbeat/Tragedy topped the tally for 11 weeks in a row in 1998/9, with sales of 66,567, 68,945, 69,387, 58,671, 60,382, 99,645, 104,780, 98,080, 65,340, 66,617 and 54,071, before dipping (just) below the mark with a sale of 49,604 on its 12th week on the list.
Hurtling into platinum territory, with sales to date of 652,072, Moves Like Jagger isn’t the only song in the top three with a vocal by Adam Levine – the Maroon 5 leader moonlights with Gym Class Heroes on Stereo Hearts, which is this week’s highest debuting single. Entering the chart at number three (68,287 sales) it thus equals Gym Class Heroes’ highest chart placing, as secured by their 2007 debut hit Cupid’s Chokehold. Another ‘heart’ song beating stronger is Christina Perri’s Jar Of Hearts, which leaps 12-4 (63,832 sales) following Craig Colton’s X Factor cover, to achieve its highest chart placing since its original number four peak of eight weeks ago. Completing the top five, LMFAO’s Sexy And I Know It improves 7-5 (44,318 sales).
Meanwhile, last year’s X Factor winner Matt Cardle debuts at number six (39,663 sales) with second single Run For Your Life, the follow-up to When We Collide, which topped the chart for three weeks last December/January.
With continuing exposure on the Twinings Tea TV advert Charlene Soraia’s Wherever You Will Go jumps 20-7 (38,724 sales), dragging The Calling’s 2003 original 57-25 (13,363 sales) in its wake.
Lego House sprints 71-30 (9,426 sales) to become the third Top 40 hit from Ed Sheeran’s debut album +. It passes the set’s second hit, You Need Me, I Don’t Need You (32-39, 8,303 sales) on the way down – but is still some way short of the album’s first single, The A Team, which revives 13-9 (35,989 sales) on its 18th appearance in the chart helped, no doubt, by Frankie Cocozza’s interpretation of it on The X Factor nine days ago.
Also new to the Top 40: Pass At Me (number 40, 8,179 sales) is the first single from Timbaland’s upcoming album Shock Value III, and also features Pitbull, for whom it is the fifth Top 40 hit of the year.
Rebounding 127-65 (4,901 sales), Love The Way You Lie achieves its highest chart placing for 19 weeks for Eminem feat. Rihanna. More importantly its leap – aided by The Estrelles’ version of it in the Judge’s Houses episode of The X Factor, and its temporary reduction to 59p on iTunes – was enough to secure the track its millionth UK sale. The 107th million selling single of all-time, it’s the third 2010s release to reach the mark, following Adele’s Someone Like You (1,159,623) and Bruno Mars’ Just The Way You Are (1,032,733). It’s the first million seller for Eminem and Rihanna, though the latter’s Only Girl In the World is likely to pass the milestone before the end of the year, with current sales of 980,239 being added to at the rate of about 2,000 a week.
Overall singles sales are up 1.27% week-on-week at 3,195,035 – 23.95% above same week 2010 sales of 2,577,705.
1 Rihanna/Calvin Harris 106,553
2 Maroon 5/Christina 79,899
3 Gym Class Heroes/Adam Levine 68,287
4 Christina Perri 63,832
5 LMFAO 44,318
6 Matt Cardle 39,663
7 Charlene Soraia 38,724
9 Ed Sheeran [TAT] 35,989
25 The Calling 13,363
30 Ed Sheeran [Lego House] 9,426
39 Ed Sheeran [YNMIDNY] 8,303
40 Timbaland/Pitbull 8,179
65 Eminem/Rihanna 4,901
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Albums:
UK Album Chart Analysis: Steps Ultimate Collection sells 32k
08:50 | Monday October 17, 2011
Disbanded in 2001, Steps stride triumphantly back to centre stage with new compilation, The Ultimate Collection, which includes a new version of Abba’s Dancing Queen and debuts at the top of the album chart. It is the third number one for the band, who have announced that they will tour next year, following a successful Sky Living documentary series charting their recent reunion.
Steps have three million selling albums to their credit: the 1999 chart-topper Steptacular (1,288,794 sales) and 2001 compilation Gold: The Greatest Hits (1,113,435), both of which reached number one; and their 1998 debut Step One, which peaked at number two but is their biggest-seller, with 1,398,605 sales. The Ultimate Collection has a long way to go to measure up to those past glories – it sold 34,200 copies last week, the second lowest tally for a number one album in 41 chart weeks in 2011.
Its nearest challenger is Ed Sheeran’s debut album +, which revives 5-2 with 27,502 sales, while Adele’s 21 drifts 2-3 (27,207 sales).
The biggest rock band from Little Rock, Evanescence seemed to be on target to secure their second UK number one album, with their eponymous third album racing to pole position on midweek sales flashes but it faded as the week progressed, and has to settle for a number four debut on sales of 26,221 copies. The album’s introductory single, What You Want, scaled a modest number 72 peak last month. Evanescence’s introductory album Fallen debuted at number 18 (15,589 sales) in 2003, and eventually reached number one seven weeks later, after introductory hit Bring Me To Life ascended to the singles summit. The 38,570 copies it sold the week it was number one represent only Fallen’s fifth best sales week – its sales peaked in the week before Christmas 2003, when it sold 56,193 copies, although it was only number 28. Follow-up The Open Door had a much bigger debut, selling 94,409 copies on its maiden chart appearance in 2006 to debut and peak at number two, behind The Killers’ Sam’s Town. Even so, Fallen is by far the bigger album, with to-date sales of 1,367,934, nearly four times The Open Door’s 347,406. Bring Me To Life is similarly the band’s biggest hit single, and rebounds 165-53 this week, securing its sixth Top 75 appearance of the year on sales of 6,011 copies, to raise its overall sales since its 2003 release to 511,605.
Alt-country star Ryan Adams scores his highest charting album yet, debuting at number nine (13,464 sales), with Ashes & Fire. Including releases with The Cardinals, it is the prolific singer/songwriter’s 14th album since he made his UK debut in 2000. Adam’s 2007 album Easy Tiger, provided his highest chart placing hitherto (number 18), though his biggest seller by far is 2000’s Gold, which reached number 20, and has sold 200,378 copies.
There are also Top 10 debuts this week for new albums by Katherine Jenkins, Jason Derulo and Cliff Richard. Classical crossover star Jenkins’ new Warner Music set Daydream debuts at number six (15,977 sales), a week after Decca compilation Believe arrived at number 17. Derulo’s eponymous 2010 debut reached number eight, and follow-up Future History debuts at number seven (15,646 sales). Both are fine achievements but pride of place must go to Cliff Richard, whose Soulicious, a collection of collaborations with American R&B legends like Roberta Flack, Deniece Williams and Billy Paul, debuts at number 10 (13,031 sales). Thematically, it’s a million miles away from his last album, Bold As Brass, a selection of swing classics that reached number three a year ago. Richard turned 71 last Friday (14th) and Soulicious is his 64th Top 75 album and 39th Top 10 album – both records for a UK male soloist.
His fellow septuagenarian, Johnny Mathis (76) also returns to the chart, with The Ultimate Collection, which comprises 21 previously released songs plus a brace of songs from a never released collaboration with Chic, while the oldest male chart resident of the moment, 85-year old Tony Bennett’s collaborations set Duets II dips 9-13 (11,738 sales).
In the Top 10 in initial midweek sales flashes, Bjork’s Biophilia debuts at number 21 (9,872 sales) to provide her ninth solo chart entry.
Number one for the last fortnight, James Morrison’s The Awakening falls to number five (21,760 sales), while You Me At Six’s Sinners Never Sleep can’t resist the tide of new entries and slumps 3-30 (6,152 sales). Ben Howard’s Every Kingdom also dives (7-35, 5,157 sales) – but Cee Lo Green’s The Lady Killer benefits from his many recent TV appearances to rebound 18-8 (15,537 sales) – its highest chart placing for 25 weeks.
Overall album sales are down 1.88% week-on-week at 1,618,317 – 6.45% below same week 2010 sales of 1,729,966, 12.84% below 2009 sales of 1,856,767, and 16.40% below 2008 sales of 1,935,766. It is the 17th week in a row that sales have been below 2010 levels.
1 Steps 34,200
2 Ed Sheeran 27,502
3 Adele 27,207
4 Evanescence 26,221
5 James Morrison 21,760
6 Katherine Jenkins 15,977
7 Jason Derulo 15,646
8 Cee Lo Green 15,537
9 Ryan Adams 13,464
10 Cliff Richard 13,031
13 Tony Bennett 11,738
21 Bjork 9,872
30 You Me At Six 6,152
37 Ben Howard 5,157