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Keane and The National battle for albums chart supremacy
11:03 | Tuesday May 11, 2010
Source: MW
By Paul Williams
Singles
By contrast, the singles market is looking a lot more stable. Relentless/Virgin’s Roll Deep with Good Times and the RCA-issued OMG by Usher featuring will.i.am, which filled last Sunday’s top two places, continue in the main positions, although Aggro Santos featuring Kimberly Wyatt with Candy and Warner Bros’s Jason Derulo with Ridin’ Solo are closing in on them.
Santos’ Future Records/Mercury single was a new entry at five last weekend but is now placed third at this stage of the week with a 68% week-on-week sales increase, while Derulo’s sales are up 135% on the week to place it fourth.
Two other singles are enjoying big enough sales increases that could move them up into the Top 10. Fyfe Dangerfield’s cover of Billy Joel’s She’s Always A Woman, currently soundtracking a John Lewis TV campaign, has the Geffen signing ranked in sixth place so far this week having been at number 14 on last Sunday’s chart. Meanwhile, Alexandra Burke’s Syco single All Night Long has nearly doubled its sales on the week to currently place it ninth.
There are no new releases at this point figuring in the Top 10 positions, but lower down the Top 40 entries are lining up from UMTV’s Vika Jigulina, RCA’s Christina Aguilera, Epic’s Glee Cast with their version of the Bonnie Tyler hit Total Eclipse Of The Heart and Hard2Beat’s Fugative.
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Albums
Night Train could give Keane four number ones out of four album releases, after taking an early sales lead in this week’s artist albums market.
However, the band’s Island-issued eight-track EP faces stiff competition from 4AD’s The National, who are little more than 3,000 sales behind with their newly-issued fifth album High Violet, according to OCC data. It will easily become the highest-charting album yet for the Brooklyn band, who have not previously broken into the Top 40.
Keane and The National albums could be joined in this Sunday’s Top 10 by three other newly-issued albums, with Foals’ Warner Bros album Total Life Forever currently the week’s fourth best seller and Interscope/Polydor’s Lady GaGa placed fifth just a few hundred sales behind with The Remix. Slash’s self-titled Road Runner set is placed seventh.
The high number of new entries will likely result in a big fall for Diana Vickers’ RCA debut Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree which followed its introductory single Once by last Sunday entering at number one.
In a busy week for new releases, the chart lower down will welcome new entries from Warner Bros’s Dead Weather, Surrender All’s Unkle, J/RCA’s Alicia Keys with a first retrospective, Atlantic’s Toni Braxton and Ash on the Atomic Heart label.
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Top 40 Update
Singles
1 Roll Deep
2 Usher/Will.I.Am
3 Aggro Santos/Kimberley Wyatt
4 Jason Derulo
5 Plan B
Top 10
Fye Dangerfield
9 Alexandra Burke/Pitbull
Top 15
12 Edward Maya/Vika Jigulina
15 Christina Aguilera
Top 20
19 Rihanna [TA]
Train
Top 30
Alicia Keys [TSWABH]
22 Glee Cast [TEOTH]
Fugative
28 Adam Lambert
Top 40
Alicia Keys [ESOM]
Ash
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Albums
1 Keane
2 National (3k behind)
3 Plan B
4 Foals
5 Lady GaGa [Remix]
Top 10
Slash
Top 15
Mumford & Sons
Top 20
Dead Weather
Top 30
Unkle
Alicia Keys [TPC]
27 Toni Braxton
Top 40
Michael Buble
NO SALES INFO
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ARTISTS UPDATE
Singles
Pendulum 4+3
Kelis 10+3
Diana Vickers 7+7
Lady GaGa 10+8
Lady Antebellum 20+6
Rihanna [RB] 10+10+10
Cheryl Cole Non Mover
Marina & The Diamonds 20+20
Albums
Diana Vickers 3+3
Lady GaGa [Fame] 3+3+3
Florence 50+5
Usher 5+6
Mumford & Sons 6+6
BEPs 10+3
Rihanna 10+8
Alicia Keys [EOF] 10+9
Chery Cole 11+11
Madonna 17+17
Mikey @ Buzzjack
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