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Topic Started: Dec 13 2010, 02:48 PM (43 Views)
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12/12/2010 - Time Is Right For Black Eyed Peas and Take That

Global supergroup Black Eyed Peas claim the fifth UK number one of their career as latest single The Time (Dirty Bit) climbs to the top of the Official Singles Chart, up from last week’s number six, the Official Charts Company reports today.

The Time (Dirty Bit) follows previous number one singles Boom Boom Pow (2009), I Gotta Feeling (2009), Meet Me Half Way (2009) and Where Is The Love (2003). I Gotta Feeling was the first song in UK chart history to achieve over 1 million download sales.

The Time (Dirty Bit) is the lead single from The Peas’ sixth album The Beginning which made its Official Albums Chart debut last week at number seventeen and moves into the Official Albums Chart Top 10 today at number nine.

Black Eyed Peas now have a career total of twelve Official Singles Chart Top 10 hits (including a collaboration with Sergio Mendes on Mas Que Nada) and four Official Albums Chart Top 10 hits. Their worldwide record sales total some 29 million and they have won six Grammy Awards to date.

The only new entry in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10 comes from ten-year-old singer and actress Willow Smith whose debut single Whip My Hair is straight in at number two. The daughter of actor, rapper and film producer Will Smith and actress Jade Pinkett-Smith, Willow may have lost out on her chart battle with Black Eyed Peas for the number one slot, but she is still one of the youngest artists in chart history to have a Top 10 hit. Willow is signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label.

Take That’s Progress continue to dominate the Official Albums Chart, staying at number one for a fourth week and selling over 200,000 records in just the last seven days, a sales increase of some 15% on the previous week.

Progress has now sold over a million copies since its release and this week also becomes the biggest selling album of the year so far, having leap-frogged Lady Gaga’s The Fame to pole position in the Official Albums Chart of 2010 Year-to-Date.

“Take That have really made the Christmas albums market their own this year,” says Martin Talbot, managing director, Official Charts Company, “and it’s all the more impressive given the competition from Michael Buble’s Crazy Love (at number two) and Olly Murs self-titled Olly Murs (at number three) each selling over 100,000 copies this week alone.”

The only new entry in this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 10 is the afore-mentioned Black Eyed Peas’ The Beginning (climbing to this week’s number nine from last week’s seventeen) while Kings Of Leon’s former number one Come Around Sundown is a re-entry at number seven up from last week’s thirteen.


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SINGLES

Early midweek sales flashes suggested that Willow Smith would debut at number one with her first single, Whip My Hair – but Black Eyed Peas’ performance of The Time (Dirty Bit) on the X Factor results show eight days ago helped the latter track to sprint 6-1 on sales of 74,918. It is Black Eyed Peas’ fifth number one single.

Blondie are the only American group (albeit one with a British member) to have more (six). BEPs’ fourth number one, Meet Me Halfway, was also propelled to the summit by an appearance on The X Factor 13 months ago.

Whip My Hair still makes a fine debut, arriving at number two on sales of 64,743 copies. Willow, was in line to become the youngest female solo artist ever to have a number one single, with 10 years one month and 18 days elapsing from her birth on 31 October 2000 to the notional date of this week’s chart (18 December 2010).

Instead, the record remains in the hands of Helen Shapiro, who was 14 years 10 months and 15 days old when she topped with You Don’t Know in 1961.

Willow may yet rise to number one, and has broken the record for youngest female solo artist to have a Top 40 hit, narrowly beating Demi Holborn, a Welsh child star, who was 10 years and 2 months old when she reached number 27 with I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing in 2002.

Willow’s father Will has topped the chart both as half of DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince and solo, and if Willow reaches number one the pair will be only the third parent and child to top the chart separately, the first being Frank and Nancy Sinatra (who did it together too), the second Julio and Enrique Iglesias.

After two weeks at number one, The X Factor Finalists’ Heroes slumps to number seven (36,800 sales). One of those X Factor Finalists, Matt Cardle, is highly likely to provide next week’s number one after winning the competition yesterday (12th).

Cardle’s recording of Biffy Clyro’s Many Of Horror (When We Collide) – renamed as simply When We Collide – is his coronation single, and was released on iTunes at midnight, with physical release to follow ASAP. Biffy Clyro’s recording of the song peaked at number 20 last January, and has sold 130,940 copies to date.

It seems destined to re-enter the singles chart, with iTunes showing it at number 14 and number 45 on its list of most downloaded songs over the last 24 hours at 1.45am this morning.

Rihanna continues to hold three places in the Top 10, with What’s My Name (feat. Drake) jumping 8-4 (42,287 sales), Only Girl (In The World) rebounding 7-5 (40,103 sales), and Who’s That Chick (David Guetta feat. Rihanna) holding at number nine (29,090 sales).

Michael Jackson’s posthumous single Hold My Hand (feat. Akon) has a fairly muted reception, debuting at number 11 (26,534 sales).

Kylie Minogue’s latest single, Better Than Today, switches direction for the fourth week in a row. The track, the third single from Minogue’s Aphrodite set, was released physically last week and has thus far progressed 67-114-40-63-32.

Singles sales declined 4.80% week-on-week to 2,792,866 – 10.04% above same week 2009 sales of 2,537,942.

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1 Black Eyed Peas 74918
2 Willow 64743

4 Rihanna 42287
5 Rihanna 40103
7 X Factor 36800
9 David Guetta 29090
11 Michael Jackson 26534
16 Alexandra Burke 17993
68 Joe McElderry 3870


To Date Singles
Biffy Clyro - Many of Horror 130,940


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ALBUMS

Remaining on track to notch their third Christmas at number one on the album chart in the last five, Take That continue to dominate proceedings with Progress.

Its sales increasing 14.90% week-on-week to 203,210, Progress is now the biggest seller of 2010, its tally of 1,107,046 surpassing Lady Gaga’s The Fame, which has sold 996,983 copies so far this year and 2,385,947 copies in all. Taking 23 days to reach seven figures, Progress is the second fastest Take That album to the target, behind The Circus (19 days). It’s also the first album by any group to spend four weeks at number one since The Circus racked up five straight weeks in the winners’ circle in 2008/9.

Michael Buble’s Crazy Love responds to the screening of concert documentary This Is Michael Buble on ITV eight days ago, and discounting of the 2CD Hollywood edition of the album – £5 as Asda and Amazon and £5.99 at Play at the start of last week – by jumping 8-2 (122,182 sales). That’s enough to lift overall sales of the album to 2,098,185. It has spent 33 of its 60 weeks in the chart in the Top 10, the last eight of them consecutively.

The only album in the Top 10 not to enjoy double digit growth in sales week-on-week, Olly Murs’ self-titled debut album slips 2-3, with sales off 2.50% to 105,495.

Elsewhere in the top tier, Rihanna’s Loud holds at number four (94,774 sales), JLS’ Outta This World drifts 3-5 (83,673 sales), Susan Boyle’s The Gift ebbs 5-6 (76,888 sales), The Kings Of Leon’s Carry On Sundown rebounds 13-7 (70,359 sales), Bon Jovi’s Greatest Hits falls 6-8 (66,820 sales), and Andre Rieu’s Moolight Serenade holds at number 10 (62,654 sales). The only new arrival in the Top 10 is The Beginning by Black Eyed Peas.

The album made a disappointing debut last week at number 17 but the band’s appearance on The X Factor – of which more in our singles analysis – helped it to register second week sales of 63,658 as it sprints to number nine.

2008 X Factor winner Alexandra Burke appeared on the results show to sing new single, The Silence, eight days ago. It coincided with the release of a new deluxe edition of her debut album, Overcome, which returns to the chart at number 22 (34,854 sales).

The new version of the album adds several new songs, including The Silence, which debuts on the singles chart at number 16 (17,993 sales). Overcome has sold 708,792 copies since it was released 60 weeks ago, the third highest tally for an album by an X Factor graduate.

Ahead of it lie Spirit by Leona Lewis (3,021,097 sales) and JLS’ self-titled debut (1,259,475 sales). Last year’s X Factor champion, Joe McElderry has a very long way to go, if his debut album, Wide Awake, is to match the multi-platinum status of his contemporaries – the album pulses 92-83 this week, with sales of 6,310 lifting its seven week tally to 80,450 – but third single Someone Wake Me Up is off to a nightmare start, debuting at a lowly number 68 (3,870 sales), though it was issued on CD as well as digitally.

One of the chart’s hardiest perennials makes a massive jump this week. Abba’s Gold: Greatest Gits rockets 138-31 on sales of 27,388.

In catalogue for 18 years, and featuring some songs twice that old, the album’s latest resurgence is due primarily to the release of a new deluxe edition which adds a DVD featuring digitally remastered versions of their hits, and the screening of ITV’s The Nation’s Favourite Abba Song eight days ago.

Drawing ever closer to its five millionth sale - its current tally is 4,834,564 - it strengthens its claim to third place in the all-time sales rankings behind Queen’s Greatest Hits (5,794,486) and The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (5,019,206).

Only four new releases muster enough sales to make the Top 75. Northern Ireland’s Catholic clergymen The Priests debut at number 37 (18,503 sales) with their album of sacred and secular seasonal songs, Noel; Daft Punk’s Disney soundtrack album Tron: Legacy debuts at number 39 (16,166 sales); Canada’s dance denizen Deadmau5 debuts at number 48 (13,467 sales) with his mathematically muddled 4x4=12; and Welsh tenor Bryn Terfel’s Carols & Christmas Songs debuts at number 53 (11,918 sales).

Now That’s What I Call Music! 77 racks up a third week atop the compilation and combined charts, with a further 205,196 sales. In 20 days, it has sold 766,095 copies, putting it 15.18% ahead of same stage sales of 2009 equivalent, Now! 74.

Better weather helped sales to grow for the eighth week in a row, improving 25.52% week-on-week to 5,178,059 – a new 2010 high but 10.78% below same week 2009 sales of 5,803,607.

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1 Take That 203210
2 Michael Buble 122182
3 Olly Murs 105495
4 Rihanna 94774
5 JLS 83673
6 Susan Boyle 76888
7 Kings of Leon 70359
8 Bon Jovi 66820
9 Black Eyed Peas 63658
10 Andre Rieu 62654

22 Alexandra Burke 32854
31 Abba 27388
37 The Priests 18503
39 Daft Punk 16166
48 Deadmau5 13467
53 Bryn Terfel 11918
83 Joe McElderry 6310



To Date Albums
Queen - Greatest Hits 5,794,486
Beatles - Sgt Peppers 5,019,206
ABBA - Gold 4,834,564
Leona Lewis - Spirit 3,021,097
Lady GaGa - The Fame 2,385,947 (996,983 - 2010)
Michael Buble - Crazy Love 2,098,185
JLS - JLS 1,259,475
Take That - Progress 1,107,046
Joe McElderry - Wide Awake 80,450
Alexandra Burke - Overcome 708,792


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Impressive album sales although lower than last year
I predict 200-300k and a #1 debut for 'Michael'
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Thanks as always for posting. Kinda weak album sales for BEP (as in the USA), with a No. 1 single and all.
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