Singles
Number one in America for the last three weeks, California Gurls now debuts at number one here for Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg.
The track is the 29th with California in its title to chart but the first to reach number one, topping the number two peak of the previous most successful, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2006 single Dani California.
The track sold 123,607 copies last week – the highest tally of the year aside from the 453,426 copies that Helping Haiti’s Everybody Hurts sold when number one 19 weeks ago. The song is written as a west coast response to Empire State Of Mind. By reaching number one, it scores over the latter track – though the original Empire State Of Mind (a number two hit by Jay-Z feat. Alicia Keys) and Empire State Of Mind (Part II) (a number four hit for Alicia Keys alone) sold more than a million between them, a tally that will likely prove beyond the reach of California Gurls.
California Gurls is the seventh hit to date for Katy Perry, and second number one, while it is the 28th hit and first number one for Snoop Dogg. Perry’s first number one and biggest seller is her debut hit I Kissed A Girl (594,384 sales), though follow-up Hot N Cold (553,344) and 3OH3! Collaboration Starstrukk (515,380) have each sold more than half a million copies.
England’s qualification for the last 16 of the World Cup could not prevent Shout For England’s Shout from dipping 1-3 (53,412 sales) but K’Naan’s Coca Cola World Cup anthem Wavin’ Flag remains at number two (70,664 sales). Wavin' Flag is likely to have another good week but England's 4-1 humiliation at the hands of Germany on Sunday ended our World Cup hopes, so expect Shout For England to suffer a big dip a week hence.
Its sales increasing for the 10th week in a row, the 34,576 copies that Alejandro sold last week – lifting its overall tally to 123,611 - make it the seventh Lady GaGa track to top the 100,000 sales mark. The track climbs for the fifth week in a row, moving 10-8.
The Scissor Sisters are back, with Fire With Fire (number 11, 22,578 sales), the introductory single from third album Night Work, which is itself out today (Monday).
Sean Combs has recorded as Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy and his latest hit Hello Good Morning debuts at number 22 this week (12,926 sales) with the credit Diddy – Dirty Money. It is his 28th hit in total.
Overall singles sales improve by 1.6% week-on-week to 2,640,783 – 1.57% below same week 2009 sales of 2,683,008.
1 Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg 123607
2 K'naan 70664
3 Dizzee Rascal/James Corden 53412
7 Eminem/Rihanna 3570
8 Lady GaGa 34576 (To Date: 123,611)
10 Scissor Sisters 22578
22 Diddy & Dirty Money 12926
55 Lisse 4321
Katy Perry Total Sales
I Kissed A Girl 594,384
Hot N' Cold 553,344
Starstrukk 515,380 (with 30H3!)
Eminem Total Sales
Not Afraid 187,760
Jacko Total Sales
Man In The Mirror 271,421
Billie Jean 118,209
Thriller 117,442
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Albums
With first-week sales of 139,438 – easily eclipsing 2010’s previous best of 101,297, as achieved only last week by Oasis’ Time Flies compilation – Recovery delivers Eminem’s sixth number one solo album, his seventh including D12’s D12 World.
Recovery arrives a liittle over a year after his last album Relapse, which had already spun off five Top 75 singles, and raced to first-week sales of 166,952. By contrast, the only single off Recovery to beat it to market is Not Afraid, which has moved 5-6-5-6-5 thus far, selling 187,760 copies. Second single Love The Way You Lie debuts at number seven (35,706 sales). Including D12 releases, it is Eminem’s 34th Top 75 entry, and his 25th Top 10 hit. The track also features Rihanna, for whom it is the 22nd Top 75 hit, and 13th Top 10 entry.
Eminem has also topped the chart solo with The Marshall Mathers LP (2000), The Eminem Show (2002), Encore (2004) and the compilation Curtain Call – The Hits (2005).
Curtain Call and Encore were both Friday releases, which racked up sales of 112,915 and 122,459 on chart debuts fuelled by two days' sales. The Eminem Show provided Eminem’s best first week, selling 228,297 copies, while The Marshall Mathers LP opened with 63,052 sales and 1999’s The Slim Shady LP debuted at number 12 on sales of 10,270. D12’s debut album Devil’s Night (2001) sold 57,967 on its first week to debut at number two, and follow-up D12 World opened at number one with sales of 76,666.
Eminem has provided more than half of all number one rap albums. His seven aside, the Beastie Boys, The Wu-Tang Clan, 50 Cent and Kanye West have all had one each, while The Streets has had two.
In a busy week of album chart action, there are also Top 20 debuts for new albums by Example, Miley Cyrus, Ozzy Osbourne, Kele and Lissie.
Preceded by three hit singles, each bigger than the last, London rapper Example’s second album Won’t Go Quietly debuts at number four (22,913 sales). Housing debut hit Watch The Sun Come Up (number 19), the title track (number six) and current hit Kickstarts (number three) the album’s chart placing marks a major improvement over his 2007 debut What We Made, which reached number 125 and has sold fewer than 10,000 copies.
Three weeks after the title track peaked at number 13, Miley Cyrus’ Can’t Be Tamed debuts at number eight (17.954 sales). It is Cyrus’ highest-charting album to date, beating Breakout, which reached number 10 in 2008.
Illinois singer/songwriter Lissie’s single When I’m Alone has been getting a lot of airplay, especially on Radio 2. It translates into sales of 8,275 for her debut album, Catching A Tiger, which debuts at number 22 this week. The single also came out last week but makes a smaller impression, debuting at number 55 (4,311 sales).
Ozzy Osbourne’s latest, Scream, debuts at number 12 (10,772 sales), while Bloc Party’s singer and guitarist Kele Okereke sheds his bandmates and surname for his first solo set The Boxer, which debuts at number 20 (8,668 Sales), following the number 31 placing of introductory single Tenderoni.
The anniversary of his death last Friday resulted in an increase in sales of albums by the late Michael Jackson. In the Top 200, Number Ones climbs 71-31 (sales up 99% at 6,487), The Essential re-enters at number 70 (229.9%, 2,875 sales), This Is It re-enters at number 122 (160.7%, 1,398 sales), Bad re-enters at number 149 (63.5%, 1,169 sales), Thriller re-emerges at number 176 (87.4%, 962 sales) and HIStory at number 187 (672.3%, 913 sales). Jackson has more than 2.973m albums and 2.012m singles in the UK in the last year. His biggest selling albums in that time: The Essential (640,068), This Is It (517,989) and Bad (298,359. His top singles: Man In The Mirror (271,421), Billie Jean (118,209) and Thriller (117,442).
David Guetta is still alive and well, but his current album One Love improves dramatically, leaping 65-13 (10,622 sales), primarily because it has just been issued in a new 16-track single CD edition. Stocks of previous 4CD, 2 CD and single CD versions of the album now appear to be exhausted. His pals Black Eyed Peas enjoy a huge surge with their album The E.N.D. rocketing 40-3 (24,036 sales) to equal the position in which it debuted and peaked 54 weeks ago. Its sudden surge its starring tole in the latest HMV sale, where it is priced £2.99.
Last week’s number one album, Oasis’ Time Flies compilation descends to number two (39,949 sales), while Christina Aguilera’s Bionic follows its record 1-29 slump by falling to number 45 (4,328 sales).
Overall album sales fall 12% week-on-week to 1,843,353 and are 5.66% below same week 2009 sales of 1,954,037.
1 Eminem 166952
2 Oasis 34949
3 BEPs 24036
4 Example 22913
8 Miley Cyrus 17954
12 Ozzy Osbourne 10772
13 David Guetta 10662
20 Kele 8668
22 Lisse 8275
31 Michael Jackson [#1s] 6487
45 Christina Aguliera 4328
70 Michael Jackson [Essential] 2875 (To Date: 640,068)
122 Michael Jackson [This Is It] 1398 (To Date: 517,989)
149 Michael Jackson [Bad] 1169 (To Date: 298,359)
176 Michael jackson [Thriller] 962
187 Michael Jackson [HIStory] 913