Singles:
No change at the sharp end of the singles chart this week, with Roll Deep remaining at number one, closely followed by Usher feat. will.i.am.
The former’s Good Times sold 52,376 copies last week, the latter’s OMG 48,218. Plan B’s She Said completes a solid, frozen top three, selling a further 37,764 copies.
Australian drum & bass act Pendulum are in the chart for the ninth time, and land their highest charting hit to date with Watercolour, which debuts at number four (37,502 sales). The introductory track from the group’s third album, Immersion, is only their second Top 10 single, following Propane Nightmares (number nine, 2008).
Brazilian born Londoner Aggro Santos has been getting a lot of radio support for his debut hit Candy, on which his rap is sweetened by the vocals of former Pussycat Doll Kimberley Wyatt. The track debuts at number five (29,172 sales).
Fyfe Dangerfield debuted at number 99 last week with She’s Always A Woman, two days after it was released.
In its first full week, the track – which is used as the bed for the £6m TV advertising campaign of the department store John Lewis – catapults to number 14 (19,407 sales), instantly beating the number 20 peak of Dangerfield’s highest charting hit as a member of The Guillemots, 2008’s Get Over It. It also kills the surge of Billy Joel’s original 1976 recording of the song, which made its Top 40 debut last week at number 29 and now slips to number 45 (5,474 sales).
It’s an excellent week for Jason DeRulo, whose debut hit In My Head tops the 300,000 sales mark, while follow-up Ridin’ Solo makes the Top 20 for the first time.
In My Head debuted at number one in March and falls 23-34 on its 11th week on the list with sales of 7,810 lifting its career tally to 304,587. Ridin’ Solo first made the Top 75 the following week but with airplay and promotion now in place it scampers 38-12 (21,012 sales).
Its success arrests the decline in the fortunes of DeRulo’s self-titled debut album which holds at number 58, with sales improving 9.9% week-on-week to 3,409. The album, which debuted and peaked at number eight, has sold 64,356 copies to date.
The Glee Cast up their tally of Top 200 songs this year to 60, with five being added to the list this week. Their take on Christina Aguilera’s Beautiful provides their only Top 75 new entry, debuting at number 64 (3,707 sales).
After rising for three frames in a row, singles sales are down 1.65% week-on-week to 2,609,961 – 2.74% above same week 2009 sales of 2,540,396.
1 Roll Deep 52376
2 Usher/Will.I.Am 48218
3 Plan B 37763
4 Pendulum 37502
5 Aggro Santos/Kimberley Wyatt 29172
12 Jason Derulo 21012
14 Fyfe Dangerfield 19407
21 Lady Antebellum 11402
25 Sophie Ellis-Bextor 9491
27 Florence + The Machine 8708
30 Rihanna 8171
34 Jason Derulo 7810 (To Date: 304,587)
37 Kevin Rudolf 7440
38 Cheryl Cole [Parachute] 7417
42 Faithless 6243
43 TV Rock 6101
45 Billy Joel 5474
50 Toni Braxton 4784
64 Glee 3707
70 Cheryl Cole [FFTL] 3167
146 Cheryl Cole [3 Words] 1445
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Albums:
Two weeks after her single Once topped the singles chart, Diana Vickers enters the albums chart at number one with Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree.
The album, 18-year-old Vickers’ first, sold 35,951 copies last week and is the 10th by an X Factor discovery to reach number one in five years, following albums by G4, Steve Brookstein, Journey South, Shayne Ward, Ray Quinn, Leona Lewis (two), Alexandra Burke and JLS.
All were released on Simon Cowell’s Syco label, aside from G4, JLS and Vickers, who were not picked up by Cowell and went to other Sony Music labels Sony, Epic and RCA, respectively.
Vickers joined RCA in April 2009, but delayed work on her album to star in the title role of the West End hit Little Voice, subsequently co-writing all but three songs on the album, working with Nerina Pallot, Elli Goulding and Lightspeed Champion to produce an album somewhat different from those released by most X Factor graduates.
Vickers’ high-flying debut pushes last week’s chart-topper Plan B down into second place with his album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks (33,010 sales), while AC/DC’s Iron Man 2 soundtrack holds at number three (29,009 sales) and Usher’s Raymond V. Raymond falls 2-4 (19,804 sales). Completing the Top 5, Lady GaGa’s The Fame bounces 7-5, on sales of 19,201.
While current single Dog Days Are Over dips 24-27 (8,708 sales) on its 18th week on the Top 75, Florence & The Machine’s Lungs bounces 11-6 on sales of 17,253 copies.
The album, which reeled off five straight weeks at number two at the start of its career 44 weeks ago, eventually reached number one in January and has remained in the Top 40 throughout.
It became the 165th album to sell a million copies in the 21st century last Tuesday (4th), and ends the week with career sales of 1,012,153.
It is only the third million seller on the Island label in that period, emulating Keane’s Hopes And Fears and Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black. It’s the 36th album by a female solo artist to sell more than a million this century, compared to 38 by male soloists. The reminder of the total is made up of 77 albums by groups, 10 albums from the Now! That’s What I Call Music franchise and four multi-artist soundtracks.
While their introductory hit single Need You Now improves modestly (28-21, 11,402 sales), Lady Antebellum’s album of the same name is off to a good start, debuting at number eight (13,740 sales).
The album has sold 2m copies in America since its release there 15 weeks ago, and is easily the biggest-selling album of 2010. Perhaps surprisingly, it’s the 46th country album to make the Top 20 of the artist album chart since 2000 in a mixed bag which also includes multiple entries from Shania Twain and Daniel O’Donnell, and sets by Ryan Adams, KD Lang and even Van Morrison – but it’s only the fourth by a group, following The Eagles’ chart-topping Long Road Out Of Eden, The Dixie Chicks’ Taking The Long Way and The Mavericks’ Trampoline (both number 10).
Five other albums gather enough sales to make Top 50 debuts this week: The Deftones land their sixth chart album with Diamond Eyes (number 26, 7,716 sales).
With the title track picking up plenty of radio and TV play, American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert’s debut album For Your Entertainment finally breaks into the Top 75, debuting at number 36 some 23 weeks after it reached its previous peak of 87.
The album has sold 18,507 copies, including 5,884 last week. New York band The Hold Steady won rave reviews for their fourth album, Stay Positive, which duly gave them their UK breakthrough in 2008, peaking at number 15. Follow-up Heaven Is Whenever makes a more muted number 45 debut (4,854 sales).
Meanwhile, Nobody’s Daughter arrives at number 46 for Hole (4,775 sales). It’s the first release for Courtney Love and her bandmates since 1998, when Celebrity Skin reached number 11.
Decca continue to reach into the past to secure chart entries. The label, which has enjoyed great success with ancient recordings from Vera Lynn and Gracie Fields, lands its latest chart entry with The Magic Of Mantovani, a compilation of 40 tracks culled from the 50 or so albums the Italian born, UK-based conductor recorded for them prior to his death in 1980. His MOR/classical style, typified by ‘cascading strings” earned him a dozen earlier album chart entries, the first in 1959, the last in 1985. The Magic Of Mantovani debuts at number 23 (8,170 sales), becoming his highest charting set since 1979.
Album sales fall 5.38% week-on-week to 1,724,309 – 2.04% above same week 2009 sales of 1,689,782.
1 Diana Vickers 35951
2 Plan B 33010
3 AC/DC 29008
4 Usher 19804
5 Lady GaGa 19105
6 Florence + The Machine 17253 (To Date: 1,012,153)
8 Lady Antebellum 13740
20 Madonna 9488
21 Cheryl Cole 8939
23 Mantovani 8170
26 Deftones 7716
31 Chipmunk 6241
36 Adam Lambert 5884
45 Hold Steady 4854
46 Hole 4775
58 Jason Derulo 3409 (To Date: 64.356)
177 Madonna [S&S] 911
To Date Albums
Lady GaGa - The Fame 1,947,164
Celine Dion - Taking Chances 390,022
Keane - Perfect Symmetry 351,272
Foals - Antidotes 94,909
Dead Weather - Horebound 45,393
Toni Braxton - Libra 4,147