How many copies were sold of LSOT'70s CD? 25,000!
Wesley
12 March 2007 - 11:22:32
From MusicWeek http://www.musicweek.co.uk
Sales slipped marginally last week, with singles declining 3.3% to 1,502,460
and albums down 1.9% to 2,357,183.
Take That and the Kaiser Chiefs continue atop the singles and albums charts,
respectively, with Shine and Yours Truly, Angry Mob, although both barely
survived challenges Shine sold 1,045 copies more than new runner-up The
Sweet Escape by Gwen Stefani and Akon, while the Kaiser Chiefs defeated an
even more determined challenge from Arcade Fire's Neon Bible by just 525
sales.
The Arcade Fire album was the star performer, but the artist albums chart
was unseasonably busy, with a year's best tally of 17 new entries to the Top
75. Of these, six ended up in the Top 10, the others being albums of covers
by Russell Watson, Bryan Ferry and Donny Osmond, a Dolly Parton hits set and
dance act Cascada's first album.
New albums by Russell Watson generally end up topping the classical chart
but his latest set, That's Life, is not eligible, being a selection of MOR
standards, many of which are associated with Frank Sinatra, including the
title track. Abandoning his classical roots seems to have done Watson no
harm, however, as the album provides him with his highest placing for a
regular release, debuting at number four on sales of 41,000.
Meanwhile, Bryan Ferry, who opened his solo chart career in 1973, with a Top
10 cover of Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall, finally goes the whole
hog, with an entire album of Dylan covers. Dylanesque sold 29,000 copies
last week, to debut at number five one notch higher than his last album,
2002's Frantic.
Like Ferry, Donny Osmond came to prominence in the Seventies and makes a
nostalgic return to the decade with his Love Songs Of The 70s set,
which helped by numerous TV and radio appearances from the genial
49-year-old sold nearly 25,000 copies to debut at number seven, a position
he has not bettered since he was a 16-year-old in 1973, although he has
released a trio of Top 30 albums already this decade.
After securing three Top 10 hit singles, Anglo-German dance trio Cascada
debut at number six with their introductory album, Everytime We Touch. It is
the first Top 10 album for All Around The World. Although the
Blackburn-based label has racked up 23 Top 10 singles, and is a force in the
compilation world, its previous best album chart placing was 99 for
N-Trance's 1995 release Electronic Pleasure.
Summary
Singles
27000 Take That (1045 ahead)
26000 Gwen Stefani
10000 Biffy Clyro (13)
8500 Robbie Williams (16)
6500 Madness (23)
Albums
66200 Kaiser Chiefs (525 ahead)
65700 Arcade Fire
51000 Take That
41000 Russell Watson
29000 Bryan Ferry
25000 Donny Osmond (7)
23000 Dolly Parton (9)
12000 Air (22)
10500 Grinderman (23)
10000 Idlewild (24)
9500 Marty Wilde (27)
8000 Willy Mason (33)
7000 Horrors (37)
7000 Tracey Thorn (38)
6500 Ry Cooder (41)
6500 Andrea Ross (42)
3500 Mr Hudson & The Library (69) [36 ahead]
3500 Jack Savoretti (70)
700 Robbie Williams (276)