01/05/2011 - LMFAO & Adele hold tight to top spots
LMFAO’s Party Rock Anthem featuring Lauren Bennet and GoonRock holds tight to the top spot in the Official Singles Chart for a third week while Adele’s 21 notches up a thirteenth week at number one in Official Albums Chart, the Official Charts Company confirms today.
Party Rock Anthem, a first UK number one for electro hip-hop duo LMFAO, holds a commanding lead of more than 40% sales ahead of its nearest rival, Bruno Mars’ The Lazy Song which climbs from last week’s number 15 to this week’s number two. The Lazy Song follows previous hits for Mars that include this year’s former number one album Doo-Wops & Hooligans (number six in this week’s Official Albums Chart) and number one singles from last year Just The Way You Are (Amazing) and Grenade.
There is just one new entry in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10; UK dance duo Nero’s new single Guilt, is straight in at number eight following their debut single Me & You which peaked at number 15 earlier this year.
Adele continues to dominate the Official Albums Chart with 21 holding the top spot and her debut album 19 returning to number two from last week’s number three. It’s the fifth week this year that 19 (number one when it was released in 2008) has been at number two.
Wombats are the only new entry in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 with second album This Moden Glitch straight in at number three giving the UK indie band their highest Official Albums Chart placing to date. Their debut, A Guide To Love Loss & Desperation, peaked at 11 in 2007.
Meanwhile Radiohead’s King Of Limbs bounces back into the Official Albums Chart Top 10 following the release last week of a limited edition box set of the album which has propelled it back up the chart from last week’s 32 to this week’s number seven. This equals the album’s highest chart placing to date when it debuted at number seven in March.
There is one other re-entry in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 – Chase & Status’ No More Idols climbs to this week’s number 10 from last week’s 16 having previously peaked at number two in February this year.
Source: OCC
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Singles
LMFAO extend their stay atop the singles chart to three weeks with Party Rock Anthem, to become the first American record to spend more than two weeks in a row at number one since Owl City’s Fireflies in January/February 2010.
The collaboration with
Lauren Bennett and GoonRock sold 73,076 copies last week.
Bruno Mars already has two number one hits from his debut solo album Doo-Wops & Hooligans,
and could be in line for a third, as new single The Lazy Song surges 15-2 (49,981 sales). The album is also on the climb, moving 7-6 (13,034 sales).
One of the most successful adjectives in chart history is ‘beautiful’, which has been in the title of nine number ones thus far.
Beautiful People by Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi now seems unlikely to add to that list, improving 5-4 this week, with sales up just 3.60% at 45,564.
Three of the seven new entries to the Top 75 this week are Glee Cast recordings but the highest new entry comes from rising drum & bass duo Nero,
whose Guilt – their second single for Chase & Status’ MTA label – debuts at number eight (31,152 sales) four months after they reached number 15 with Me And You. Two of the Glee Cast entries are originals – their first.
They are Loser Like Me (number 27, 13,417 sales) and Get It Right (number31, 11,152 sales).
Completing their debuts, and raising their tally of Top 75 hits to 81,
their version of Pink’s number 13 hit Raise Your Glass debuts at number 61 (4,505 sales), while Pink’s own version re-enters at number 59 (4,544 sales).
After debuting at number 18 on less than three days sales,
Beyonce’s Run The World (Girls) jumps to number 11 (27,919 sales). Meanwhile, another song issued under the ‘on air/on sale’ initiative –
Lady GaGa’s Judas – suffers a 9-23 slump (14,986 sales). Without the boost it would have been given by pent-up demand, it’s the lowest charting of nine official GaGa singles. It may yet recover, of course, as radio play is still growing,
and the video has only just hit TV.
GaGa’s first ‘on air/on sale’ single, Born This Way, never managed to top its number three debut, though its video premiere helped it to rebound 8-4 on its fourth week on the chart.
It has subsequently become GaGa’s sixth single to top 400,000 sales.
Beyonce’s Destiny’s Child bandmate
Kelly Rowland is also back on the chart this week, debuting at number 58 (4,546 sales) with Gone. The track, creditd to Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland, is the rhyming pair’s belated follow-up to 2002 collaboration Dilemma, which went all the way to number one.
A re-entry at number four last week, thanks to Britain’s Got Talent,
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car reverses to number nine, but sells a further 30,848 copies.
In the 20s for seven weeks,
Birdy’s Skinny Love surfs on a gentle updraft to a new peak at number 19, with sales up 3.2% at 15,828.
Jessie J’s third Top 20 hit of the year,
Nobody’s Perfect jumps 32-18 (16,930 sales).
With over 99% of singles sales nowadays in the form of downloads, the format is less prone than the album market to the vagaries of the weather and bank holidays and actually increased 2.05% week-on-week to 3,011,791 – 13.49% above same week 2010 sales of 2,653,760.
Singles:
1 LMFAO/Lauren Bennett/GoonRock 73,076
2 Bruno Mars 49,981
4 Chris Brown/Benny Benassi 45,564
8 Nero 31,152
9 Tracy Chapman 30,848
10 Mann/50 Cent 28,080
11 Beyonce 27,919 (46,006)
18 Jessie J [NP] 16,930
19 Birdy 15,828
23 Lady GaGa [Judas] 14,986 (69,418)
27 Glee Cast [Loser] 13,417
31 Glee Cast [GIR] 11,152
58 Kelly Rowland 4,546
59 Pink 4,544
61 Glee [Raise] 4,505
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Albums
No change at the top of the singles or albums charts this week, as the convergence of two bank holidays and exceptionally good weather conspire to
produce the worst trading climate for some time.
While singles – which are explored in a companion piece elsewhere on the website– actually benefit from bank holidays, as they are driven by downloads, overall album sales have been hit hard.
At their lowest level for 45 weeks a fortnight ago, they took another dive last week with sales falling to a paltry 1,547,983. That’s 15.05% below same week 2010 sales of 1,822,280, and the lowest tally in 591 weeks in the 21st century, replacing week-ending 13 May 2000, when 1,564,412 albums were sold.
Though outdoor activities and watching the royal wedding kept punters out of shops during the day, album downloads are available 24/7 and were considerably less affected by the proceedings
. In fact, their share of the market increased to 25.61% - a new record, beating their previous best of 23.69%, set three weeks ago.
Having sold fewer than 100,000 copies in a week for the first time a fortnight ago,
Adele’s 21 topped the album chart for the 13th time in 14 weeks but saw its sales slide a further 19.60% to 73,771. That’s the lowest sale for a number one album since Rihanna’s Loud led the list with sales of 44,827 some 15 weeks ago.
After three weeks at number three,
Adele’s first album, 19, climbs back to number two, on sales of 27,218 copies. It is the fifth time Adele has had the top two albums thus far this year.
Among new entries, the week’s top title is This Modern Glitch, the second album by Liverpool band The Wombats. Although none of the three singles thus far lifted from the album managed to breach the Top 20 – Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) reached number 23, Jump Into The Fog got to number 35 and Anti-D peaked at number 42 –
the album’s number three debut on sales of 23,357 copies beats the number 11 entry and peak of their 2007 debut, A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation. The latter album sold 19,892 copies the week of its debut, spun off four Top 40 singles, and topped the 300,000 sales mark a fortnight ago.
Jennifer Hudson made several TV and radio appearances to promote her second album,
I Remember Me, which duly debuts at number 20 (5,214 sales). Hudson’s self-titled 2008 debut entered lower (at number 37) and
ultimately reached number 21. It has sold 172,720 copies to date.
Country veteran Emmylou Harris charts for the fifth decade in a row, and has her highest placing album since 1976’s Elite Hotel and 1977’s Luxury Liner – both of which peaked at number 17 – with her critically acclaimed new set,
Hard Bargain, debuting at number 30 (3,770 sales). It’s the 64 year old’s 12th chart entry, and the follow-up to All I Intended To Be, a 2008 release that peaked at number 40, and has sold 27,659 copies. Fellow country/roots singer Steve Earle makes it a week of rare success for the genre, with his latest album,
I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, debuting at number 28 (3,916 sales).
It sets a new benchmark for the 56 year old, who has hitherto charted seven albums in the UK but had a previous top placing of number 32 for 2000 release, Transcendental Blues.
Elsewhere in the Top 50, there are debuts for
Wallingford Parish Church Choir’s The Hymns Album (number 39, 3,271 sales); Norwegian band A-Ha’s live swansong, Ending On A High Note (number 43, 2,966 sales); and Go Now And Live by Essex rockers We Are The Ocean (number 45, 2,896 sales), whose only previous release, Cutting Our Teeth, got to number 143 in February 2010.
The screening of the documentary In Our Own Time and a Top Of The Pops 2 special on Easter Sunday triggered a revival of The Ultimate Bee Gees. The 2009 compilation, which peaked at number 19, re-enters the list at number 35, with 3,360 sales, lifting its career tally to 86,165.
The special edition’ of Radiohead’s The King Of Limbs – which includes an exclusive newspaper, as well as the CD and a 10-inch heavyweight vinyl editions of the album – was belatedly released,
and sold 9,986 copies, to boost the album 32-7 (12,964 sales), equalling its previous chart peak.
With a plethora of wedding themed albums making mercifully little impact, Now That’s What I Call Music! 78 completes a third easy week atop the compilation chart, on sales of 59,627 copies. Kudos to Decca for the fast turnaround for The Royal Wedding – The Official Album, though it didn’t set the chart on fire, debuting at number 13, on sales of just 1,915 copies.
1 Adele 73,771 (2,141,776)
2 Adele [19] 27,218 (1,329,453)
3 Wombats 23,357
6 Bruno Mars 13,034
7 Radiohead 12,964
20 Jennifer Hudson 5,214
28 Steve Earle 3,916
30 Emmylou Harris 3,770
35 Bee Gees 3,360
39 Wallingford Parish Church Choir 3,271
43 A-Ha 2,966
45 We Are The Ocean 2,896
To Date Albums
Emmylou Harris – All I Intended To Be 27,659
Jennifer Hudson – Jennifer Hudson 172,720
Compilations
1 Now 78 59,627
13 The Royal Wedding - The Official Album 1,915