Singles
After exploding out of the box with the second highest sale of the year a week ago, Katy Perry feat. Snoop Dogg’s California Gurls continues to hold sway atop the singles chart, with 93,363 additional sales lifting the track’s overall tally to 216,982.
Six weeks after topping the chart with Nothin’ On You, B.o.B.’s Airplane glides 12-2 (54,845 sales). The track also features rock chick Hayley Williams of Paramore, for whom it is the first Top 10 entry. B.o.B.’s debut album, The Adventures Of Bobby Ray, which reached number 22 last month, rebounds 85-49 (3,860 sales).
I Like It debuts at number four (50,019 sales) for Enrique Iglesias feat. Pitbull. It is Iglesias’ 14th hit, including five collaborations, and Pitbull’s eighth, only two of which are by Pitbull alone. Iglesias reached number 19 in 2003 duetting with Lionel Richie, who cops a writers’ credit for I Like It, as it interpolates his 1983 number two hit All Night Long. Coincidentally, it’s just six weeks since Pitbull reached number four with a different song called All Night Long, with Alexandra Burke.
After slipping 4-6 last week, Kylie Minogue’s All The Lovers rebounds to number three, on a combination of TV promotion and belated physical release.
The 52,455 copies the track sold across the formats aren’t enough to earn Ms. Minogue her eighth number one single overall, but she does top the 7-inch chart (2,240 sales, compared to 861 for Lady GaGa’s Alejandro at number two) and the CD chart where 9,814 sales easily trump the 2,816 copies runner-up Shout For England’s Shout sold.
Skepta scores his third and biggest hit with Rescue Me debuting at number 14 (20,122 sales), instantly trumping debut chart entry Sunglasses At Night (number 64) and follow-up Badboy (number 26).
Justin Bieber didn’t land his first hit until January but his sixth, Somebody To Love, which reached number 47 last month, now jumps 99-33 (8,373 sales).
A major world hit that is getting a lot of play from Radio 1, and in the clubs, the house/novelty song We No Speak Americano is a UK smash in waiting for Aussie act Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup – but according to label AATW’s website, the single’s official release is still a fortnight away (July 18), allowing an opportunistic soundalike cover by Canadian-based Italian Marco Calliari to chart in its stead, despite not receiving any exposure. Calliari’s version climbs 43-26 this week (10,760 sales).
The Yolanda Be Cool track was available for a very short time last week in a concise 2.11m edit from the Clubland 19 album, in a 2m 38s version replete with vuvuzelas from the Holland Wereld Kampioen!! album (both 79p) and in a free 4m 29s version as a St Tropez Beach House podcast, all of which were removed from iTunes as the week progressed.
Singles sales are up 2.42% week-on-week at 2,704,671, 0.59% above same week 2009 sales of 2,688,712.
1 Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg 93363 (216,982)
2 BoB/Hayley Williams 54845
3 Kylie 52455 (138.576)
4 Enrique/Pitbull 50019
14 Skepta 20122
26 Marco Calliari 10760
33 Justin Bieber 8383
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Albums
In a week when the Glastonbury Festival provides major boosts for many albums, something unusual happens at the top of the chart: nothing. Eminem’s fifth straight studio number one, Recovery finds enough second week buyers to remain in situ, denying The Scissor Sisters their third number one in a row.
It ends a run of 12 consecutive weeks in which the leadership of the chart has changed hands – equalling the all-time record, established in 2006.
We should have expected the run to end – all of Eminem’s number one albums have spent more than a week at the apex. Recovery actually suffered a fairly typical 50.5% dip in sales to 68,997 but despite their own Glastonbury performance – on Saturday, in peak time and with Kylie Minogue in tow – and a performance of their new single Fire With Fire on Jonathan Ross’ show, The Scissor Sisters fall short of the mark, with first-week sales of 46,071 for Night Work earning it a number two debut.
The Scissor Sisters’ self-titled debut opened at number 11 in 2004 on sales of 21,395, and reached number one for the first of two occasions 21 weeks later.
It has sold 2,713,923 copies to date, and is the 10th biggest seller of the 21st century (the highest ranked by an American, behind nine home-grown acts). Follow up Ta-Dah reaped the benefit, starting with a massive first week sale of 288,167. It too spent a fortnight at number one, and has thus far sold 1,434,400 copies.
Glorious weather and a star-studded line up made it a memorable Glastonbury for attendees but the same glorious weather – not to mention the counter-attractions of The World Cup and Wimbledon – meant that despite generous airtime, with as many as three performances screened at once by the BBC, fewer watched on TV.
Nevertheless, Pyramid Stage headliners Gorillaz, Muse and Stevie Wonder all saw impressive increases in sales.
Muse enjoyed the biggest Glastonbury effect, with latest album The Resistance back in the Top 20 after a 23 week break, rocketing 62-13, with sales trebling to 10,002. 2006 album Black Holes & Revelations is back in the Top 75 for the first time since last September, surging 143-42, with sales quadrupling to 4,902.
Replacing U2 as overall festival headliners, Friday’s top turn Gorillaz enjoy a 24-12 jump (10,332 sales) with latest album, Plastic Beach. Sunday star Stevie Wonder makes a bigger move with 2002 compilation The Definitive Collection powering 57-16 (8,815 sales). Although Wonder’s album has never reached the Top 10 – it peaked at number 16 in 2002, number 28 in 2004 and number 11 in 2008 – it has sold 862,493 copies to date.
Among other Glastonbury acts, Mumford & Son enjoyed the biggest increase in sales, with their Sigh No More debut, which improves 10-8 with sales up 47.8% week-on-week at 17,304.
On the first midweek sales flashes, the album reached the giddy heights of number six, which would have been its highest chart position yet. In its 39-week chart run, the album – which debuted at number 11 – has risen to seven on three separate occasions, selling 520,273 copies.
Jay-Z wasn’t at Glastonbury this year but his latest album, The Blueprint III continues its rapid recovery, which has seen it improve 103-32-15 in the last fortnight.
Like Black Eyed Peas’ The E.N.D. – which raced 40-3 last week, and now recedes to sixth on sales of 21,844 copies – The Blueprint III is tagged at £2.99 in the current HMV sale. It sold 9,259 copies last week, and is the most successful of Jay-Z’s albums with sales of 347,298 since its release 44 weeks ago – over 60,000 more than his second biggest set, The Black Album.
Aside from The Scissor Sisters’ Night Work, the only new album with enough sales to debut inside the Top 75 this week is the Zero 7 compilation record (number 61, 3,416 sales). It follows four charted albums by the act, the last of which, Yeah Ghost, reached number 39 last autumn.
The dearth of new albums in the artist album chart contrasts with a busy week on the compilation chart, where five newcomers crowd into the Top 20, including all of the top three.
Taking advantage of a clash between Rhino/Sony’s Essential R&B Summer 2010 (number two,
22,607 sales) and Ministry Of Sound/UMTV presentation Anthems R&B (number three.
20,347 sales), the new number one is Clubland 17 – the 20th number one for the AATW/UMTV series since its inception eight years ago, with first week sales of
32,102.
Artist album sales are up 0.3%, compilations by 18.3%. Overall album sales, at 1,903,859, are up 3.28% week-on-week, and down 11.20% on same week 2009 sales of 2,144,043.
1 Eminem 68997 (235,949)
2 Scissor Sisters 46071
6 Black Eyed Peas 21844
8 Mumford & Sons 17304 (520,273)
12 Gorillaz 10332
13 Muse 10002
15 Jay-Z 9259 (347,273)
16 Stevie Wonder 8815 (862,493)
42 Muse [BH&R] 4902
49 BoB 3860
61 Zero 7 3416
To Date Albums
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters 2,713,923
Scissor Sisters - Ta-dah 1,434,400
Kylie - X 463,056
Enrique Iglesias - Insomaniac 273,615
Cherry Ghost - Thirst For Romance 74,226
Mystery Jets - Twenty One 51,996
I Am Kloot I Am Kloot Play Moolah Rouge 3,445
I bet JLS block it from #1 next week 
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Back in the Top 3?
