Singles
Football songs continue to dominate the singles chart, where Shout For England feat. Dizzee Rascal and James Corden remains at number one, with sales of 84,145, while Coca Cola’s official World Cup anthem, Wavin’ Flag, improves 3-2 for K’Naan (76,330 sales).
As mentioned last week, Shout is Dizzee’s fifth number one. It took Dizzee 707 days from first to fifth number one, a speed surpassed in chart history only by Blondie (651 days), Slade (595), The Rolling Stones (476), The Spice Girls and Take That (both 455), The Beatles (448) and Westlife (343) – though counting hits in their own right and supporting Cliff Richard, The Shadows took 518 days.
Example reached number 19 with debut hit Watch The Sun Come Up, and number six with Won’t Go Quietly. He eclipses them both with third single Kickstarts (number three, 53,757 sales).
Meanwhile, All The Lovers debuts at number four (49,213 sales) to become Kylie Minogue’s 46th Top 75 entry, her 44th Top 40 hit and her 33rd Top 10 entry. Sweden’s Robyn has a more modest haul, securing her 10th Top 75 entry, her ninth Top 40 entry and her fourth Top 10 success with Dancing On My Own (number eight, 30,852 sales), while parent album Body Talk - Part 1 debuts at number 47 (4,600 sales).
Singles sales are down 6.90% week-on-week at 2,598,177 - 5.20% above same week 2009 sales of 2,469,669.
1 Dizzee Rascal/James Corden 84145
2 K'naan 76330
3 Example 53757
4 Kylie Minogue 49213
8 Robyn 30852
30 Glee Cast [OTR] 9943
32 Glee Cast [AWYWI / LTS] 8252
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Albums
In a busy week of album chart action, leadership of the list changes hands for the 11th week in a row, with Oasis’ new singles compilation, Time Flies 1994-2009 taking pole position on first week sales of 101,297 - marginally the highest for any artist album thus far in 2010.
Oasis’ 13th album chart entry, it’s their eighth number one – all seven of their studio albums reached number one, while two previous compilations (The Masterplan and Stop The Clocks) reached number two. Total UK sales of Oasis albums exceeds 14m. OCC claim that Time Flies is the UK’s 900th number one album, though other counts suggest 901 or 902, based on interpretation.
The only groups to have more number one albums than Oasis are The Beatles (15), The Rolling Stones (10) and Abba (nine), while Led Zeppelin have also had eight. Among solo artists, Elvis Presley (11), Madonna (11), Michael Jackson (nine) and David Bowie (eight) are the leaders.
Time Flies 1994-2009 is the fifth of Oasis’ albums to reach number one in the 21st century – a tally matched by Eminem and Madonna, and beaten only by Robbie Williams (six) and Westlife (seven). Ronan Keating has scored with four solo sets and Boyzone’s latest album.
The above acts played the long game but if there’s a 2010 award for striking while the iron’s hot, it would surely go to the cast of Glee. The Fox TV show, aired here on Channel 4/E4, has won big ratings and generated hit singles and albums at an unprecedented rate. The last of the 22 episodes in the first season was aired here last week, and immediately generates the Glee Cast’s fifth top five chart album in 17 weeks. That’s how long it is since Glee: The Music – Season One – Volume 1 topped the chart. Subsequently, Glee: The Music – Season One – Volume 2 reached number two, Glee: The Music – The Power Of Madonna reached number four, Glee: The Music – Volume 3 – Showstoppers reached number three. The six track season finale souvenir Glee: The Music – Journey To Regionals debuts at number two (25,905 sales), lifting the albums’ overall sales tally to more than 700,000. All five of the new songs on the EP enter the Top 75 while Don’t Stop Believin’ jumps 71-33 (8,252 sales), on a combination of sales of the first Glee Cast recording of it, and the new version from Journey To Regionals.
Of 92 Glee Cast tracks issued thus far this year, 89 have made the Top 200 – the only duds were (You’re) Havin’ My Baby, Funny Girl and Don’t Make Me Over – while 45 have made the Top 75. Of the new intake, the highest charting is Over The Rainbow, which debuts at number 30 (9,943 sales). The Harold Arlen/Edgar Harburg composition, written in 1939 for The Wizard Of Oz, and first recorded by Judy Garland, is the only song to chart in five different versions this century, being a hit for Eva Cassidy (number 42, 2001), Cliff Richard (medley with What A Wonderful World, number 11, 2001), Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole (number 46, 2007) and just last month for Danielle Hope (number 29).
Both the Cliff Richard and Glee versions are informed by the late Israel Kamakawiwo’Ole’s recording. The Hawaiian, who died 13 years ago this Saturday (26th), recorded Over The Rainbow both in its own right and – like Cliff Richard – in a medley with What A Wonderful World. Combined sales of Kamakawiwo’Ole’s Rainbow recordings exceed 200,000.
Antipodean veterans Crowded Houses first new album for 14 years, Time On Earth, became their highest charting studio album to date, debuting at number three on sales of 27,799 in 2007. Follow-up Intriguer debuts at number 12 (14,890 sales) this week. Their only number one was the compilation Recurring Dream: The Very Best Of Crowded House in 1996. That album is by far their most successful, with UK sales of 1,345,364.
23-year-old Canadian rapper Drake’s debut album, Thank Me Later, is on schedule to debut at number one in both his homeland and the USA this week and also makes a big impact here, entering at number 15 (14,167 sales).
New Jersey rockers The Gaslight Anthem sold only 5,000 copies of 2007 debut album Sink Or Swim but 2008 follow-up The ’59 Sound has sold more than 60,000, despite peaking at number 55. It’s understandable, therefore, that their new set, American Slang, is off to a brisk start, debuting at number 18 (12,448 sales).
There are also Top 40 debuts for Kasabian gift pack The Albums (number 22, 11,522 sales) and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ Mojo (number 38, 6,595 sales).
After topping the chart last week with the lowest sales for a number one for more than eight years, Christina Aguilera’s Bionic slumps spectacularly to number 29 (9,754 sales). It’s easily the biggest slide from number one in chart history, beating both the 1-16 collapse of Ellie Goulding’s debut set 14 weeks ago, and the 1-18 dive of George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass in 1971, though Harrison’s slump came at the end of an eight week residency at number one, and was partially due to disruption caused by a postal strike.
Doubtless helped by Father’s Day gift buying, the Oasis album boosts the average sales of a number one album this year. In 23 prior chart weeks in 2010, the average sales for a number one album over the same period was just 46,453, with only Boyzone’s Brother managing a six-figure sale, shifting 101,096 copies on its debut in March. To put this in perspective, even Boyzone’s tally is less than the same stage 2006 average of 105,111. The 2010 average to date is 24.20% below same stage 2009 average of 61,282, and 18.15% adrift of the worst same stage figure of the 21st century, logged in 2003 when the average was 56,757.
Overall album sales, at 2,094,371, were up 26.74% week-on-week, but were 9.48% below same-week 2009 sales of 2,313,810.
1 Oasis 101,297
2 Glee Cast 25905
12 Crowded House 14890
15 Drake 14067
18 Gaslight Anthem 12448
22 Kasabian 11522
29 Christina Aguilera 9754
38 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 6595
47 Robyn 4600
