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Topic Started: Jun 8 2009, 09:56 AM (53 Views)
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Singles


With Dizzee Rascal and Armand Van Helden’s Bonkers continuing its surprisingly rapid fade – it dips 21% to 49,890 this week – Black Eyed Peas’ Boom Boom Pow returns to number one on the singles tally.

Boom Boom Pow’s success comes despite its own sliding sales – it sold 74,461 copies when debuting at number one three weeks ago, 69,178 when dipping to number two a fortnight ago, 57,463 while holding in second place last week, and 55,849 in the latest frame.

It’s fairly commonplace for albums to return to number one – 254 albums have topped the chart so far in the 21st century, with 33 of them returning to the summit at some stage – but singles rarely do so.

Of 252 number one singles since 2000, Boom Boom Pow is only the fifth to reclaim the title, following S Club 7’s Don’t Stop Movin’ (2001), Daniel Bedingfield’s Gotta Get Thru This (2002), Eric Prydz’s Call On Me (2004) and most recently Shakira & Wyclef’s Hips Don’t Lie (2006).

Kasabian’s third album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum is issued today (8th), and introductory single Fire burns to a number three debut (42,966 sales), to become the highest charting of the Leicester band’s eight hit singles to date.

Joining Daniel Merriweather (5-5, Red, 33,690 sales) and The Veronicas (8-9, Untouched, 26,407 sales) in the Top 20 is a third Australian act, Empire Of The Sun.

The duo’s second single, We Are The People, has moved 111-86-52-37-26, and now jumps to number 14 (13,262 sales). Their debut album, Walking On A Dream, debuted at number 21 in February – the same week the title track peaked at number 64 – and is on an even longer winning streak, climbing for the eighth straight week. Up29-19 (7,170 sales), to claim its highest placing yet, it increases its career sales to more than 50.000.

Lady GaGa’s Just Dance is toppled from the year-to-date singles rankings...but spare your sympathy, because the track to overtake it is GaGa’s own follow-up, Poker Face.

Just Dance topped the chart for three weeks in January and has sold 661,627 copies, including 5,381 last week. Poker Face was also number one for three weeks (March/April) and has sold 670,457 copies (17,596 last week).

Both tracks are taken from GaGa’s debut album, The Fame, which topped the 500,000 mark a fortnight ago. Number 10 this week (11,810 sales), it has so far sold 518,111 copies in 21 weeks. Third single, Paparazzi, is just beginning to take off. In the Top 75 for the last six weeks it jumps 64-43 this week – a new high – and has already sold 45,506 copies, including 5,022 in the latest frame.

For the second week in a row, singles sales slip to a new 2009 low. They fell by 1.4% last week to 2,345,219 - though that is still 25.19% above same week 2008 sales of 1,873,334.


Albums


After two weeks at the top of the album charts, Eminem’s Relapse loses its throne to singer/songwriter Paolo Nutini, while 11 other new arrivals in the Top 75 help overall sales to increase slightly.

Britain’s Got Talent brought in the highest TV audiences since 2004, and the guest appearance made on the penultimate night by the show’s first (2007) champion Paul Potts was expected to unleash massive demand for his second album, Passione, sung entirely in Italian by the Bristolian - but the album has to settle for a number five debut on disappointing sales of 17,921 copies.

Potts’ debut album Once Chance sold 128,315 copies to enter at number one nearly two years ago, and spent three weeks at the charts summit.

Potts was never in with a chance with Passione, and was well beaten by someone who is probably more at home with Italian but sings his new album in English – Paolo Nutini, the 22 year old from Paisley whose family is originally from Tuscany.

Nutini’s Sunny Side Up, shone brightly at retail, and debuts at number one on sales of 62,937 copies. It’s Nutini’s second album, following 2006’s These Streets, which debuted at number three on sales of 35,213 and never climbed higher, though it spun off four Top 30 hits and has gone on to sell 1,061,486 copies, including 5,654 last week.

Perhaps surprisingly, although groups and female soloists from north of the border have been regular visitors to the top of the album chart, Nutini is the first Scottish male solo artist ever to reach the summit.

Nutini’s fast start condemns Daniel Merriweather to a number two debut with his introductory album, Love & War (41,807 sales). Australian Merriweather featured on hits by Mark Ronson and Wiley, before chalking up back-to-back Top 10 hits with Change and Red, the first two singles from Love & War, which is the highest charting album yet on The J Records imprint.

Set up by Clive Davis on his return to the Sony BMG camp in 2000, J initially served as a home to his own acts – Alicia Keys and Luther Vandross among them – and its previous highest charting albums were Rod Stewart’s Stardust: The Great American Songbook III and Thanks For The Memory: The Great American Songbook IV, number three in 2004 and 2005, respectively.

Last week’s number one, Relapse by Eminem, dips to number three (31,985 sales).

There are also new arrivals on the album chart this week from Diana Krall, The Eels, Rancid, Patrick Wolf, Talking Back Sunday, The Pretenders, The Dave Matthews Band, Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu and Elvis Costello.

Album sales climbed week-on-week by 2.3% to 1,720,764 but were 16.95% below same week 2008 sales of 2,071,872.



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Singles

1 Black Eyed Peas 55,849 (To Date: 256,951)
2 Dizzee Rascal 49,890 (To Date: 227,196)
3 Kasabian 42,966

5 Daniel Merriweather 33,690
9 Veronicas 26,407
12 Lady GaGa 17,596 (To Date: 670,457)
14 Empire Of The Sun 13,262
21 Pet Shop Boys 10,481
41 Lady GaGa (JD) 5,381 (To Date: 661,627)
43 Lady GaGa (Paparazzi) 5,022 (To Date: 45,506)


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Albums

1 Paolo Nutini 62,937
2 Daniel Merriweather 41,807
3 Eminem 31,985

5 Paul Potts 17,921
10 Lady GaGa 11,810 (To Date: 518,111)
11 Diana Krall 11,434
18 Eels 7,531
19 Empire Of The Sun 7,170
24 Paolo Nutini 5,654 (To Date: 1,061,486)
35 Pretenders 3,935
41 Rancid 3,403
46 Taking Back Sunday 3,180
49 Patrick Wolf 3,120
59 Dave Matthews Band 2,474
70 Geoffrey Gurrumul 2,151
71 Elvis Costello 2,130


To Date Albums

Black Eyed Peas - Monkey Business 1,065,834
Paolo Nutini - These Streets 1,061,486
Kasabian - Empire 646,322
Placebo - Meds 97,305
Courtney Love - America's Sweetheart 22,645
Wiley - See Clear Now 14,140
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped 10,845
Freeland - Now And Than 6,652
Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let The Stars Keep Us Tangled Up 1,629
Dirty Projectors Rise Above 1,086
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