Singles
Tinie Tempah played a first half blinder and went into the break well ahead with Frisky but the winning goal in the battle for chart honours this week goes to Shout For England feat. Dizzee Rascal and James Corden, whose Shout wasn’t released until Wednesday but dribbled expertly round the opposition to score a spectacular victory in the first chart of World Cup 2010.
Topping the league just two weeks after Dizzee’s fourth number one, Dirtee Disco, Shout racked up sales of 113,246 copies in four days.
Based largely on Tears For Fears’ hit of the same name, and more minor elements of Blackstreet’s hit No Diggity, Shout’s TV premier came on the final of Britain’s Got Talent on ITV eight days ago.
With royalties going to Great Ormond Street Hospital, the track was the brainchild of Simon Cowell, and is the 12th number one on his Syco imprint.
Its success denies Tinie Tempah his second straight number one. Tinie’s Frisky sold 87,209 copies to debut at number two – the highest tally for a record NOT at number one for 22 weeks but 5.21% below the 92,002 copies that Tinie’s first hit, Pass Out, sold when debuting at number one in March.
Although Shout took the lion’s share of sales in the absence of an official FA sanctioned song for England fans to rally behind their team’s World Cup bid, the chart is peppered with football-related hits.
Canadian/Somalian rapper K’Naan’s Wavin’ Flag – Coca Cola’s official World Cup anthem – leads the rest of the contenders, climbing 16-3 (52,390 sales), followed by the official England European championships song for 1996, 3 Lions by Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds (53-10, 24,590 sales), Englandneworder’s 1990 official World Cup theme, World In Motion (46-22, 15,392 sales), 67-year-old football coach Terry Venables’ remake of Elvis Presley’s hit If I Can Dream (132-23, 14,455 sales), The Squad’s 2010 remake of Three Lions (39-28, 11,386 sales), Vindaloo, the unofficial 1998 World Cup anthem by Fat Les (114-32, 10,085 sales), the official FIFA song for the 2010 tournament, Waka Waka by Shakira feat. Freshlyground (126-38, 7,390 sales) and Madcon’s Beggin’ as used in James Corden’s football show trailers (58-61, 4,028 sales).
On a personal note, as an English-born resident of Scotland, I am not too surprised by the lower level of sales of the England-specific songs north of the border – in this week’s Scottish singles chart, Shout is number six, Baddiel and Co’s 3 Lions is number 43, World In Motion is number 59, and Vindaloo is number 95.
Britain’s Got Talent appearances also helped to generate sales last week for OMG by Usher feat. will.i.am and Pixie Lott’s Turn It Up.
Number one eight weeks ago, OMG rebounds 11-6, with sales up 49.8% at 34,087, while Usher’s Raymond V Raymond album recovers, climbing 34-19 (8,302 sales).
Pixie Lott also gets a double bounce, with single Turn It Up improving 25-11 (24,232 sales), and the album of the same name climbing 17-10 (12,094 sales), and achieving its highest chart placing for 19 weeks.
Meanwhile, Britain’s 100th million-selling single, Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling recovers 52-49, with sales of 5,118 lifting its career tally to 1,011,849 – of which 996,318 are digital sales. It should become the first digital track to sell a million copies later this week. BEP’s career tally of 3.3m digital sales is inferior only to Lady GaGa, whose songs have sold a combined 4,087,071 copies digitally.
Singles sales improve 2.48% week-on-week to 2,790,756 – 13.87% above same week 2009 sales of 2,450,911.
1 Dizzee Rascal/James Corden 113246
2 Tinie Tempah/Labrinth 87209
3 K'naan 52390
6 Usher 34087
10 Baddiel & Skinner/Lightning Seeds 24590
11 Pixie Lott24232
22 England/New Order 15392
23 Terry Venables 14455
28 The Squad 11386
32 Fat Les 10185
38 Shakira 7390
49 BEPs [IGF] 5118 (To Date 1,011,849)
61 Madcon 4028
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Albums
Introductory single Not Myself Tonight didn’t distinguish itself, falling short of the Top 10 but Christina Aguilera has the second number one album of her career with Bionic debuting at the summit on sales of 24,301 copies.
That’s the lowest tally for a number one album since The Last Broadcast by The Doves topped the list on sales of 22,437 in May 2002.
Aguilera also reached number one with her last studio album Back To Basics, which sold 84,279 copies to top the list in 2006. Reaching number one is only part of the story, however – Back To Basics has sold 522,825 copies to date, little more than a quarter of the 1,944,405 copies its 2002 predecessor Stripped has sold, despite the latter album’s number two peak.
With rave reviews the norm for their self-titled debut album, New York guitar band The Drums debut at number 16 on sales of 9,413 copies. That’s an excellent achievement given that two singles released prior to the album – Best Friend and Forever And Ever Amen peaked at number 110 and number 182 respectively, despite being released physically.
While the lack of a hit single was no obstacle to success for The Drums album, having two top three singles doesn’t seem to have helped Iyaz, whose introductory long player Replay – which houses his number one hit of the same name and number three follow-up Solo – makes a comparatively low debut at number 26 (5,933 sales).
1960s acts Steve Winwood, The Who and Jimi Hendrix are returned to the chart by new compilations.
Incorporating material from his days as a member of The Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith as well as solo material, Revolutions – The Very Best Of Steve Winwood debuts at number 18 (9,219 sales) , becoming the 62-year-old’s highest charting album since Roll With It reached number four in 1988.
The Who’s new Greatest Hits & More compilation is likely to generate controversy among fans, as, for example, it omits the number nine hit Join Together, while accommodating the non hit Behind Blue Eyes and a plethora of live cuts. It provides their 29th chart album in a chart career than dates back to 1965, debuting at number 27 (5,581 sales).
The late Jimi Hendrix reached number 21 earlier this year with Valleys Of Neptune, a selection of newly uncovered recordings. Fire: The Collection explores more familiar material, and debuts at number 29 (5,543 sales). It’s the 31st Hendrix album to chart. The first six came in the last three years of his life, the other 25 posthumously. Only Elvis Presley has had more chart albums in death.
The soundtrack to the fantasy film The Twilight Saga: New Moon sold 25,559 copies to debut atop the compilation chart last October, thanks to its own cult status and a selection of excellent new songs from the likes of The Killers, Thom Yorke and Death Cab For Cutie. Its sales have since swollen to 155,546.
Follow-up The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is due in the cinema imminently, and its soundtrack dethrones R&B Clubland atop the compilation chart this week. Including Muse’s recent hit Neutron Star Collision and exclusive new recordings from Florence + The Machine, The Bravery, Vampire Weekend and a collaboration between Beck and Bat For Lashes, it sold
23,540 copies last week – only
761 fewer than Christina Aguilera’s artist album chart number one.
Returning to football, exactly four years ago, England – The Album 2006 was number one compilation on sales of 33,921 copies, and six of the Top 20 were soccer-themed. This week, England – The Album 2010 improves 12-5 (
13,268 sales), topping just four footie sets in the Top 20.
Album sales dip 3.91% week-on-week to 1,652,459 – 12.05% below same week 2009 sales of 1,878,939.
1 Christina Aguilera 24301
10 Pixie Lott 12094
16 Drums 9413
18 Steve Winwood 9219
19 Usher 8302
26 Iyaz 5983
27 The Who 5581
29 Jimi Hendrix Experience 5543
To Date Albums
Christina Aguilera - Stripped 1,944,405
Christina Aguilera - Back To Basics 522,825
Did they at least released the music video over there?
come on, go top 10 next week! Iyaz down 10 
Tinie at #31 after 15 weeks 
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