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| Mikey | Nov 1 2010, 10:43 AM Post #1 |
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31/10/2010 - Promise delivers as Cheryl Cole and Rihanna score biggest first week non-charity singles of 2010 so far Cheryl Cole’s new single Promise This leaps to number one in the Official Singles Chart and takes the crown for biggest first week single of the year so far (non-charity) with over 157,000 copies sold since its release at start of the week, the Official Charts Company confirms today. But Rihanna’s Only Girl (In The World), straight in at number two, also delivers outstanding first week sales, of over 126,000, giving the Barbadian born, US-based singer the second biggest first week single of the year so far and her fourteenth Official Singles Chart Top 10 hit. No other number two record has sold more in a week this year. Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot said: “To have two such phenomenally strong singles in one week is exceptional – congratulations to Cheryl and Rihanna.” Only Helping Haiti’s Everybody Hurts, in aid of Haiti’s earthquake victims, has had more week one sales this year with a phenomenal 450,000. (See below for Top 5 biggest first week singles of year to date.) Promise This gives Cole the second number one single of her solo career, following her solo debut Fight For This Love which itself had one of the biggest first weeks of 2009 with over 290,000 sales. Cole’s first solo album 3 Words (2009) also debuted at number one in the Official Albums Chart, has achieved triple-platinum status with over 900,000 sales to date and spawned two other hit singles, Parachutes (March 2010) at number five and the album’s title track 3 Words (December 2009) at number four. As one-fifth of Girls Aloud, Cole has notched up no less than twenty Top 20 singles (including four at number one and four at number two), two UK number one albums and four Brit nominations. She releases her second album Messy Little Raindrops on November 1st and is currently in her third season as judge on TV’s X Factor. There is just one other new entry in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10 as US rapper Nelly’s Just A Dream climbs to number eight from last week’s number eleven. Kings Of Leon stay at number one in the Official Albums Chart for a second week with Come Around Sundown. The Official Albums Chart Top 10 features no less than five new entries, all straight in; last year’s X Factor winner Joe McElderry is at number three with his debut album Wide Awake, boy band The Wanted is number four with self-titled debut The Wanted, US country-pop singer Taylor Swift’s second album Speak Now is at number six, Barbara Streisand’s The Ultimate Collection is at number eight giving the iconic American entertainer her 11th Official Albums Chart Top 10 hit, and The Soldiers’s second album Letters Home is at number ten. Biggest First Week Singles Of 2010 to date: Pos. Title: Artist Sales 1 Everybody Hurts Helping Haiti 453,000 2 Promise This Cheryl Cole 157,000 3 Only Girl (In The World) Rihanna 126,000 4 California Gurls Katy Perry feat Snoop Dogg 123,000 5 Written In The Stars Tinie Tempah 115,000 Source: OCC ============================== Singles Cheryl Cole effortlessly sprints to her second number one single as she claims the highest non-charity sales of the year. Promise This is the introductory single from Cole’s second solo album Messy Little Raindrops and her performance of the track on The X Factor results show eight days ago (October 24) helped it to secure first week sales of 157,210 – the best for a single by a female solo artist since her own Fight For This Love opened with sales of 292,846 a year ago last week, and the best for any single any week this year, except for the 453,426 copies that Helping Haiti’s charity cover of Everybody Hurts sold on its first week in the shops some 37 weeks ago. Including her hits as member of Girls Aloud and collaborations, Promise This is Cole’s 27th Top 75 entry, her 20th Top five entry and her sixth number one. More curiously, although there have been 1,147 number ones, only two have had Promise in their titles – Cole’s current hit, and The Promise, the last number one for Cole and her Girls Aloud colleagues, two years ago this week. Cole’s fast start means more frustration for Rihanna, who logs her eighth number two single from 23 hits in little more than five years. She spent four weeks in runners-up position earlier this year, partnering Eminem on Love The Way You Lie, and finds herself second best again, with new single Only Girl (In The World). First-week sales of 126,612 would be enough to make it the number one single in all but one of 42 previous chart weeks in 2010, and are the highest for a number two single since Joe McElderry lost the battle for Christmas number one with Rage Against The Machine last December, despite selling 450,838 copies of The Climb. In 565 weeks in the 21st century, it is the 12th highest sale recorded by a single at number two. Its excellent first week also coincides with the aforementioned Eminem collaboration Love The Way You Life topping the 750,000 sales mark. Comfortably the biggest-selling single of 2010, Love The Way You Lie dips 28-29, with sales of 12,065 lifting its 19-week tally to 755,483. It has eclipsed Rihanna’s previous best-seller, Umbrella (708,750 sales) but is not yet Eminem’s biggest hit, remaining adrift of Stan (794,294 sales). Unable to resist the charge mounted by Cole and Rihanna, Bruno Mars’ Just The Way You Are (Amazing) retreats from number one for the second time, dipping to number three (73,088 sales). Another former number one, Cee Lo Grant’s Forget You, holds at number four (63,981 sales), while Mike Posner’s debut hit moves 6-5 with sales of 50,025. After debuting last week at number 11, Nelly’s Just A Dream is also a grower, climbing to number eight (41,950 sales). It is the rapper’s 21st hit, and the 12th to make the Top 10 since he made his chart debut 10 years ago next week with (Hot S**t) Country Grammar. An appearance on The X Factor results show helped turned around the fortunes of Michael Buble’s Hollywood, which has progressed 17-27-11. Its bounce, on sales of 30,296, make its Buble’s second highest-charting single, behind 2009’s number five hit Haven’t Met You Yet. His newly-expanded album Crazy Love improves again, too, moving 7-2 (42,456 sales), while his entire back catalogue – singles and albums – shows distinct improvement week-on-week. Swedish DJ Tim Berg’s club smash Seek Bromance debuts at number 13 (24,883 sales), a place ahead of Defender, the new hit by Peter Andre (22,106 sales), with Runaway, the second hit by UK rapper Devlin feat. Yasmin, following at number 15 (21,316 sales). For the fourth year in a row, Halloween scares up enough sales for a trio of perennials to chart. Michael Jackson’s Thriller (number 68, 3,118), Bobby Boris Pickett’s Monster Mash (number 73, 2,920 sales) and Ray Parker Jr.’s Ghostbusters (number 75, 2,787 sales) are the records in question. All chart lower than in the last three years – possibly because Halloween itself fell on Sunday, in a different chart week to the days immediately before. And a fine performance of Shakespears Sister’s Stay by Cher in The X Factor’s very-loosely themed Halloween show on Saturday helped the 1992 chart-topper – which has previously sold an average of 334 copies a week in 2010 - to rack up 3,433 sales to re-enter the chart at number 62. Overall singles sales, at 2,898,963, are up 8.13% week-on-week, and 5.69% above same week 2009 sales of 2,742,825. Posted Image 1 Cheryl Cole 157210 2 Rihanna 126612 3 Bruno Mars 73088 (488,453) 4 Cee Lo Green 63981 (306,602) 5 Mike Posner 50025 8 Nelly 41950 11 Michael Buble 30296 13 Tim Berg 24883 14 Peter Andre 22106 15 Devlin 21316 29 Eminem/Rihanna 12065 (755,483) 64 Shakespears Sister 3433 68 Michael Jackson 3118 73 Bobby Boris 2920 75 Ray Parker Jr 2787 YTDs Eminem - Stan 794,294 Rihanna - Umbrella 708,750 ============================== Albums The first album to successfully defend its position at the top of the chart since Eminem’s Recovery in July, Kings Of Leon’s Come Around Sundown does so despite a big intake of new entries, and a 60.4% dip in its own sales week-on-week to 72,611. Number two on early sales flashes, Joe McElderry never looked likely to become the fifth of six X Factor champions to debut at number one with his first album. Steve Brookstein, Shayne Ward, Leona Lewis and Alexandra Burke all managed it, but it was beyond season four champion Leon Jackson, who had to settle for a number four debut/peak. McElderry does better than that, with Wide Awake entering at number three (39,405 sales). First season winner Brookstein’s Heart And Soul (50.989), second season winner Shayne Ward’s self-titled set (201,266), third season winner Leona Lewis’ Spirit (375,872), and fifth season winner Alexandra Burke’s Overcome (132,065) all had higher first week sales than McElderry too – but Jackson’s album sold just 37,197 copies on its first week. After reaching number one with debut hit All Time Low and number two with follow-up Heart Vacancy, new boy band The Wanted snare a number four debut (38,670 sales) with their eponymous first album. Twenty-year-old Taylor Swift is sure to score her third straight number one album in America with Speak Now later this week, with sales projections of up to a 1m. It debuts at number six here (28,223 sales). Barbra Streisand made her album chart debut in 1966, more than 23 years before Swift was born, and scores the 29th chart entry of her career at the age of 68 with new compilation, The Ultimate Collection arriving at number eight (24,736 sales). Streisand is not the only sexagenarian to have a new entry in the Top 10 this week – the team of Elton John (63) and Leon Russell (68) debut in 12th place (14,070 sales) with The Union. Also featuring fellow sixty-somethings Brian Wilson, Neil Young and Booker T, it’s Elton’s 44th chart album, 28 of which have made the Top 10 – but for Russell it is only the second ever chart entry, coming 39 years after the first, Leon Russell & The Shelter People, reached number 29. In a chart which also includes albums by Cliff Richard (70), Bob Dylan (69), Rod Stewart (65), David Gilmour (64), Chris De Burgh (62), Robert Plant (62), Phil Collins (59) and AC/DC (average age: 58), there are new entries for Bryan Ferry (65) and Elvis Costello (56). Ferry’s Olympia debuts at number 19 (9,119 sales), while Costello’s National Ransom enters at number 71 (2,494 sales). Completing a busy week, there are also debuts for The Soldiers’ Letters Home (number 10, 17,324 sales), Charlotte Church’s Back To Scratch (number 23, 7,224 sales), Los Angeles rock band Warpaint’s debut disc, The Fool (number 41, 4,313 sales) and The Harmonies’ Voices Of The WI (number 42, 4,268 sales). Album sales are up 11.22% week-on-week at 2,012,654 – 12.47% below same week 2009 sales of 2,299,291. Posted Image 1 Kings Of Leon 72611 (255,909) 2 Michael Buble 42456 3 Joe McElderry 39405 4 The Wanted 38670 6 Taylor Swift 28223 8 Barbra Streisand 24736 10 The Soldiers 17324 12 Elton John/Leon Russell 14070 19 Bryan Ferry 9119 23 Charlotte Church 7224 41 Warpaint 4313 42 Harmonies 4268 71 Elvis Costello 2494 |
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| HolidayGuy | Nov 1 2010, 08:00 PM Post #2 |
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King of the forum
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Thanks, Mikey. That Barbra Streisand compilation is pointless- but, any way labels can think of to make a few extra bucks... |
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| Some Kind Of Bliss | Nov 1 2010, 08:20 PM Post #3 |
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RIP King of Pop
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It's not pointless because without it we wouldn't have a song called Barbra Streisand in Top 10 AND an album by Barbra Streisand in Top 10 :P |
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