Sales Analysis By Alan Jones Source: musicweek Singles After moving 75-67-53-33 on streaming alone, 20 year old American Meghan Trainors debut single All About That Bass makes its expected leap to number one after being released digitally. Securing the biggest move to number one within the Top 75 since David Guettas Gettin Over You exploded 41-1 in 2010, All About That Bass sold 143,750 copies last week. That total - which includes 13,646 streaming sales - is the second highest for a number one this year, trailing only the 162,801 copies that Clean Bandits Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne) sold on its debut. The Clean Bandit total restrospectively becomes 167,677 with the belated inclusion of streaming points, by the way. It has been a long wait for UK consumers for Trainors single, which was available in The USA, Canada, Australia and several other territories nearly three months ago. Trainors opening sales tally may have been higher still had soundalike covers not sold 61,713 copies in the interim - although it is possible that some buyers genuinely prefer the covers, and would have purchased them in preference to Trainors original. Either way, the biggest of the covers, by Power Music Workout, dives 13-131 this week, with 2,663 sales raising its cumulative tally to 35,184. In a top three comprising entirely of females - as opposed to the top four of the album chart which is made up entirely of male soloists - Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minajs Bang Bang dips 1-2 (57,666 sales) while Taylor Swifts Shake It Off holds at its peak position of number three (54,652 sales). The Magician - Belgian DJ/Producer Steve Fasano - conjurs up his first hit in the form of dance anthem Sunlight. Number one on the club chart last month, it also featured British trio Years & Years and debuts at number seven (35,986 sales). With a climber and a re-entry into the Top 10 of the singles chart, and his album going to number one for the first time, its a great week for George Ezra. Second hit Blame It On Me climbs 7-6 (38,301 sales) while debut smash Budapest scores its 10th Top 10 week, rallying 12-10 (27,986 sales). Elsewhere in the Top 10: Changing slips 2-4 (50,002 sales) for Sigma feat. Paloma Faith, Blame dips 4-5 (47,526 sales) for Calvin Harris feat. John Newman, Prayer In C declines 5-8 (35,961 sales) for Lilly Wood & Robin Schulz and Im Not The Only One falls 6-9 (32,996 sales) for Sam Smith. It is almost exactly two years since Labrinths last single as primary artist - the Emeli Sande collaboration Beneath Your Beautiful - reached number one. New single Let It Be is the first single from his upcoming second album Take Me To The Truth, and debuts at number 11 (27,510 sales). Two weeks after reaching number one as a writer of Sigmas Changing, Ella Eyre returns to the chart in her own right, debuting at number 12 (27,081 sales) with Comeback. It is her highest charting solo single so far, beating the number 72 peak scaled by Deeper in January, and the number 16 placing gained by If I Go in July, though she previously reached number one as featured vocalist on Rudimentals 2013 hit, Waiting All Night. Other Top 75 entries: Unmissable (number 19, 20,007 sales) by Gorgon City feat. Zak Abel, Say You Love Me (number 22, 18,556 sales) by Jessie Ware, Flashlight (number 47, 8,080 sales) by DJ Fresh feat. Ellie Goulding, Oh Cecilia (Breaking My Heart) (103-63, 5,844 sales) by The Vamps and Animals (113-67, 5,545 sales) by Maroon 5. Wares latest single, incidentally, is her fifth Top 75 hit, and continues her record of charting higher with each entry. She wrote the song, the second single from her new album Tough Love (out today) with Ed Sheeran. Already in the Top 75 and climbing to a new peak is Take Me To Church by Hozier (28-26, 17,776 sales). Overall singles sales are up 4.32% week-on-week at 5,669,420 - a 39 week high, and just below the (revised from 3,953,065 to include streaming) tally of 5,670,358 in the first week of 2014. Streaming accounted for 2,944,624 sales last week – 51.94% of the total. Under previously existing criteria where only paid-for purchases were included, overall singles sales are up 7.14% week-on-week at 2,724,796 – 8.68% below same week 2013 sales of 2,983,841 and the 60th consecutive week in which they have declined versus a year ago. ================= Albums Theyre British, theyre male, theyre solo, theyre singer/songwriters, theyre in their twenties - and theyre dominating the chart. For the first time ever, the 1-2-3-4 at the top of the album chart comprises entirely of artists who meet all of the above criteria. In Tuesdays sales flashes, Jamie T was in pole position with his third album Carry On The Grudge set to debut in pole position. It weakened throughout the week, however, and by Friday George Ezra had taken over at the top with his debut album Wanted On Voyage. Sam Smiths In The Lonely Hour and Ed Sheerans X didnt make it to pole position in the week but Smiths album has already spent four weeks at number one, and Sheerans eight. In the top eight continuously since it made its debut 13 weeks ago, Wanted On Voyage finally surpasses the number three position in which it debuted, jumping 4-1 as second hit Blame It On Me reaches a new peak for the sixth week in a row, climbing 7-6. Ezras debut hit, Budapest rallies 12-10 to return to the Top 10 after an absence of five weeks. Ezras album sold 30,061 copies last week - the second best tally of its career - raising its cumulative sales to 213,560. In the top five throughout its 19 week chart run, In The Lonely Hour sold 24,553 copies last week to climb 3-2. It has now sold 511,304 copies, placing it at number two for the year, behind the aforementioned X, which climbs 6-3, with 22,628 sales taking its 15 week to-date tally to 656,726. Unable to sustain his early superiority, Jamie T maintains his record of making the top five with each of his albums to date - although his first week sales are on a downward trajectory. His debut album, Panic Prevention, debuted and peaked at number four on sales of 42,041 in 2007, while 2009 follow-up Kings & Queens debuted at number two - behind The Very Best Of Vera Lynn - on sales of 27,807 copies. His latest, Carry On The Grudge, opens at number four, after selling 19,925 copies with its initial impact likely blunted by the slow progress of introductory single Zombie, which has been in the Top 200 for eight weeks and finally becomes his sixth Top 40 hit this week, jumping 48-36 (11,981 sales). Panic Prevention is a re-entry for him on the album chart at number 41 (2,435 sales) after being reduced to 99p at Google Play (but not matched, for once, by Amazon) last week. It has sold 237,716 copies to date, while Kings & Queens has sold 115,405 copies. With a to-date tally of 4,611,862 sales, Oasis second album, the 1995 smash (Whats The Story) Morning Glory? is the UKs second biggest selling studio album of all-time, trailing only The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, which has sold 5,084,978. Not in the Top 75 since 2010, the Top 40 since 2005 and the Top 10 since 1996, Morning Glory returns to all three this week, re-entering the chart at number seven (12,228 sales) following its release in a range of deluxe, expanded and remastered editions Apparently now a willing slave of Warner Music, with which he had an acrimonious split in 1996, Prince rekindles his relationship with the company by releasing two simultaneous albums, both of which enter the Top 20 this week. Solo album Art Official Age leads the way, debuting at number eight (10,813 sales), while Plectrumelectrum - a collaboration with 3rdeyegirl - debuts at number 11 (7,708 sales). Officially the 33rd and 34th studio albums in the prolific 36 year studio career of the diminutive 56 year old, they secure his first Top 20 placings for new albums since 2006s 3121 debuted and peaked at number nine on sales of 37,130 copies, though compilation Ultimate reached number six in 2007. Including compilations, live discs and pseudonymous efforts, Prince has placed 27 albums in the Top 75, of which 19 have made the Top 10. Two of his albums - 2007s Planet Earth and 2010s 20Ten showed Princes displeasure with major record companies, being released in the UK only as free covermounts with the Mail On Sunday and The Daily Mirror respectively, while other albums have been released only via his website. His renewed relationship with Warner Music is expected to see some of his old and out-of-print albums return in expanded, remastered editions, with the classic Purple Rain soundtrack expected to be released in a 30th anniversary edition before the end of the year. Genesis have placed three previous compilations in the Top 40 but the latest, R-Kive, differs from the rest in that it includes solo and other external work by the Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford. Debuting at number 10 (8,789 sales), it also benefits slightly with last minute downloads following the first screening last Saturday (4th October) of the new 90 minute BBC2 documentary Genesis: Together & Apart and the Top Of The Pops 2 compilation that followed it. Number one last week, Alt-Js This Is All Yours dips to number nine (10,199 sales) on its second week. Rounding out the Top 10: Barbra Streisands Partners dips 2-5 (19,660 sales) and The Scripts No Sound Without Silence recovers 7-6 (13,444 sales). Departing the Top 10: Leonard Cohens Popular Problems (5-12, 7,417 sales), Aphex Twins Syro (8-22, 4,197 sales), Tony Bennett & Lady Gagas Cheek To Cheek (10-24, 4,081 sales) and Joe Bonamassas Different Shades Of Blue (9-31, 3,497 sales). My Chemical Romance split in 2013, after four Top 20 albums. Singer Gerard Ways first solo album, follows suit, debuting at number 14 (6,198 sales). The eclectic urban/dance sounds of SBTRKTs eponymous 2011 debut failed to make the Top 75 but it sold 55,658 copies, peaked at number 93 and went on to lay the foundation for follow-up Wonder Where We Land, which actually lands at number 16 (5,666 sales) this week. It is only four months since the final of the eighth season of ITV talent show Britains Got Talent, and two of the finalists have already charted albums. Winners Collabros debut album Stars topped the chart in June and moves 17-29 (3,678 sales) on its seventh week on the chart, while 24 year old runner-up Lucy Kay, a classical/crossover singer originally from the East Midlands, debuts at number 18 (4,976 sales) with her first album, Fantasia. The acts are both signed to BGT supremo Simon Cowells Syco label and are expected to tour together next year. Yorkshire band The Marmozets debut album The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets debuts at number 25 (4,061 sales). Nearly 35 years after the fact, Abbas 10 November 1979 concert has been released as Live At Wembley Arena and debuts at number 30 (3,503 sales). The concert took place around the same time that American folk/country singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams released her first album, Ramblin On My Mind. None of her first five studio albums made the Top 75 here but the next five did, with 2007s West providing Williams with her best chart position of number 30. 11th studio album Down Where The Spirit Meets The Bone surpasses that this week, debuting at number 23 (4,101 sales) to become only her second Top 40 album, at the age of 61. Bringing the number of debuts on the Top 75 of the artist album chart this week to 15, there are also new entries for: Greatest Hits (number 32, 3,434 sales) by The Levellers, Europa (number 63, 1,443 sales) by Holly Johnson, Give My Love To London (number 64, 1,436 sales) by Marianne Faithfull and 50 St. Catherines Drive (number 70, 1,301 sales) by the late Robin Gibb. With the concluding episode of ITVs three part Cilla Black docudrama being screened last Monday (29 September), the compilation The Very Best Of Cilla Black received a further 79.40% boost in sales to advance 48-26 (3,870 sales) - a new peak. Number 63 in March, Future Islands Singles re-enters the Top 200, and also reaches a new peak of number 47 (2,109 sales) after the Baltimore band appeared on Later...With Jools Holland. On the compilation chart, Keep Calm And Chillout is number one for the third straight week, on sales of 17,015 copies. Overall album sales are down 1.19% week-on-week at 1,300,913 - 10.23% below same week 2013 sales of 1,449,084. Summary Singles: OVERALL UNITS SALES STREAMING POINTS 1 Megan Trainor 143,750 130,102 13,648 2 Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj 57,666 3 Taylor Swift 54,652 4 Sigma feat. Paloma Faith 50,009 5 Calvin Harris feat. John Newman 47,526 6 George Ezra 38,301 7 The Magician feat. Years & Years 35,986 8 Lilly Wood & Robin Schulz 35,961 9 Sam Smith 32,996 10 George Ezra [Budapest] 27,986 11 Labrinth 27,510 12 Ella Eyre 27,081 19 Gorgon City feat. Zak Abel 20,007 22 Jessie Ware 15,556 26 Hozier 17,776 36 Jaime T 11,198 47 DJ Fresh feat. Ellie Goulding 8,080 63 The Vamps 5,844 67 Maroon 5 5,545 131 Power Music Workout 2,663 (35,184) Albums: 1 George Ezra 30,061 (213,560) 2 Sam Smith 24,553 (511,304) 3 Ed Sheeran 22,628 (656,726) 4 Jamie T 19,925 5 Barbra Striesand 19,660 6 Script 13,444 7 Oasis 12,228 8 Prince [ART OFFICIAL AGE] 10,813 9 Alt-J 10,199 10 Genesis 8,789 11 Prince & 3rdeyegirl [Plectrum Electrum] 7,708 12 Leonard Cohen 7,417 14 Gerard Way 6,198 16 SBTRKT 5,666 18 Lucy Kay 4,976 22 Aphex Twin 4,197 23 Lucinda Williams 4,101 24 Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga 4,081 25 Marmozets 4,061 26 Cilla Black 3,870 29 Collabro 3,678 30 ABBA [Live At Wembley] 3,503 31 Joe Bonamassa 3,497 32 The Levellers 3,434 41 Jamie T [Panic Prevention] ** 2,435 (237,716) 47 Future Islands 2,109 63 Holly Johnson 1,443 64 Marianne Faithful 1,436 70 Robin Gibb 1,301 To Date Albums Jamie T - Kings & Queens 115,405
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