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Sales!; 15/7
Topic Started: Jun 15 2009, 07:06 AM (57 Views)
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Singles

The hotly-tipped Pixie Lott fulfils expectations this week, debuting at number one with her introductory single Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) on sales of 58,840 downloads.

Her cover of The Kings Of Leon’s hit Use Somebody – available as an iTunes exclusive – also enters the chart, debuting at number 52 on sales of 4,409 downloads.

18-year-old Lott is the youngest British female to launch her career with a number one since Billie Piper topped the chart with Because We Want To in 1998, at the age of 15.

Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) is taken from Lott’s upcoming album Turn It Up, and was written by Lott along with producers Phil Thornalley and Mads Hauge. Norwegian Hauge is a relative newcomer but Thornalley was a member of Johnny Hates Jazz, who first charted 22 years ago, and has since carved out a successful career as a writer and producer.

Mama Do (Uh Oh, Uh Oh) is his first number one – but he did co-write and produce Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn, which peaked at number two in 1997 and has sold 1,037,379 copies to date.

Lott’s sparkling debut apart, there’s not much action at the top of the singles chart. Black Eyed Peas’ Boom Boom Pow slips 1-2 – probably as a consequence of the release of their album The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies), of which more later - but continues to sell strongly, shifting 47,521 copies in the week to bring its five week career sales tally to 304,472.

Release Me by Agnes rebounds 4-3 (41,137 sales), Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden’s Bonkers is down two notches, falling 2-4 on sales of 39,269 copies, while Daniel Merriweather’s Red is unmoved at number five (34,288 sales).

Meanwhile, with Poker Face and Just Dance already established as the year’s two biggest selling singles, Lady GaGa continues to gain ground with third hit Paparazzi surging 43-13 (17,952 sales), Oddly enough, the advance of Paparazzi does nothing to stop the decline of parent album, The Fame, which fell 5-10 last week, and now slips to number 11 (11,752 sales), the second lowest position it has occupied in its 22 week chart residency to date.

Singles sales climb 4.5% from their 2009 low to 2,450,911 – 45.63% above the 1,683,020 singles sold in the same week last year.


Albums

Introductory single Fire scorched to number three last week, blazing the trail for Kasabian’s third album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum to ignite even more effectively, scorching to the top of the album chart with a searing first-week sale of 98,423 copies.

That’s the fourth highest weekly sale for an artist album thus far this year, trailing only Eminem’s Relapse (166,952), U2’s No Line On The Horizon (157,926) and It’s Not Me, It’s You by Lily Allen (112,568).

However, it falls short of the first week tally of 109,397 that earned its 2006 predecessor Empire a number one debut. Kasabian’s self-titled first album debuted and peaked at number four with first week sales of 36,484 in 2004 and has gone on to sell 869,431 copies, whilst Empire has sold 648,611.

The Leicestershire band is only the second act from the county to have a number one album, the other being rock’n’ roll revivalists Showaddywaddy, whose Greatest Hits set topped the list in 1978.

Black Eyed Peas’ The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) arrives at number three (30,917 sales). Their 2003 debut Elephunk debuted at number 69 and peaked at number three, while 2005’s Monkey Business debuted and peaked at number four. Both sold well over a million copies, though solo albums from principal members Fergie (The Dutchess) and Will I Am (Songs About Girls) peaked at 18 and 110 respectively, with sales of 300,000 and 45,000.

There are also Top 20 debuts for albums by Little Boots, Placebo and a new Bruce Springsteen compilation.

Two weeks after single New In Town reached number 13, Little Boots’ first album, Hands, debuts at number five (19,952 sales); Placebo’s sixth studio album, Battle For The Sun, debuts at number eight (16,253 sales).

Bruce Springsteen’s 1995 Greatest Hits album topped the million sales mark just seven weeks ago, and is now superseded by an identically-titled set, which debuts at number seven (17,381 sales). The two albums each have 18 tracks – but only eight in common, with the newest version of Greatest Hits, surprisingly, opting to exclude Springsteen’s highest charting single, Streets Of Philadelphia, a 1994 number two.

Springsteen’s latest studio album, Working On A Dream, debuted at number one just 19 weeks ago, and has thus far sold 162,674 copies. At 59, Springsteen has charted 28 albums in the UK, dating all the way back to 1975’s Born To Run.

Album sales improved by 9.2% week-on-week to 1,878,939 but were nearly a million down on the same week last year, when 2,810,459 albums were sold.

The big discrepancy is partly due to Father’s Day, which fell a week earlier last year, and partly due to the release a year ago of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends, which sold 302,074 copies in just three days to top the chart.


Source: MW by Alan Jones


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Singles


1 Pixie Lott 58,840
2 Black Eyed Peas 47T,521 (To Date: 304,472)
3 Agnes 41,137 (To Date: 127,556)
4 Dizzee Rascal/Armand Van Helden 39,269 (To Date: 266,465)
5 Daniel M 34,288 (To Date: 134.753)
6 Keri Hilson/Kanye West/Ne'Yo 32,803
7 David Guetta / Kelly Rowland 25,440
8 Kasabian 25,283
9 Veronicas 24,435
10 Soulja Boy 23,769

13 Lady GaGa (Paparazzi) 17,952 (To Date: 63,458)
19 Katy Perry 12,075
20 Linkin Park 11,903
21 Jordin 11,850
22 Airl L 11,555
25 Pussycat Dolls (Hush Hush) 9,995
31 Kasabian (Underdog) 7,916
33 Lenka 7,070
38 Saturdays 6,393 (To Date: 10,455)

43 Kelly Clarkson 5,727
48 Take That 4,991
52 Pixie Lott 4,409
56 Jonas Bros 3,791
70 Black Eyed Peas (IGF) 2,829


Year to Date Singles
AR Rahman/Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho! 336,488

To Date Singles
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 1,037,379


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Albums

1 Kasabian 98,423
2 Paolo Nutini 39,624
3 Black Eyed Peas 30,917
4 Daniel M 24,618
5 Little Boots 19,952
6 Eminem 18,947 (To Date: 271.962)
7 Bruce Springsteen 17,381
8 Placebo 16,253
9 Lily Allen 13,081
10 Jim Reeves 12,034

11 Lady GaGa 11,752 (To Date: 529,863)
18 Cat Stevens 9,347
20 Take That 9,113
23 Chickenfoot 7,561
28 Meat loaf 6,521

72 Katy Perry 2,335 (To Date: 391,314)


Year To Date Albums
Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream 162,674

To Date Albums
Kasabian - Kasabian 869,431
Kasabian - Empire 648,611
Blur - Think Tank 244,640
Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies 105,292
Jonas Bros - A Little Bit Longer 90,377
Ali Campbell - Running Free 71,197
Proclaimers - Life With You 54,502
Incubus - Light Grenades 50,636
Ashley Tisdale - Headstrong 13,181
Chris Issak - Best Of 1,643
Edited by Mikey, Jun 15 2009, 11:10 AM.
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Great sales for Pixie.

However, David Guetta is miles above her on iTunes now.
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