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小 發表於 2009-3-26 19:37 只看該作者
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Music Week Report (Excerpt)
Saint Patrick's Day & Mothers' Day boost album sales
Monday, March 23, 2009
by Alan Jones, London
Lady GaGa becomes the first artist to have two number one singles in 2009 – and breaks a string of 27 number one hits, each by different artists – with Poker Face jumping 4-1 to top the chart 10 weeks
| after Just Dance reached the summit. Poker Face makes it to the summit at the 10th attempt, having moved 30-26-28-24-22-15-3-3-4-1. Its success comes a full three weeks before it is granted a physical release, on sales of 53,699 copies, lifting its career tally to 251,563. Poker Face has spent longer in the Top 40 before hitting number one than any other song since Celine Dion’s Think Twice established the all-time record of 13 weeks to reach the summit in 1994/5. The record for the Top 75, however, is still held by Dead Or Alive’s You Spin Me Right Round (Like A Record), which reached number one on its 15th week in the Top 75 – but only its fifth week in the Top 40 – in 1985. Ironically, the success of Poker Face prevents Flo-Rida’s Right Round – based extensively on You Spin Me Right Round – from becoming the first song to climb back to number one since Shakira & Wyclef Jean’s Hips Don’t Lie bounced back in August 2006, after three weeks off the top. Right Round sold 53,478 copies last week – just 221 fewer than Poker Face - and remains at number two. With the Comic Relief effect fading, the two charity singles recorded for the event are in decline, with the Jenkins / West / Jones / Gibb cover of Islands In The Stream falling 1-3 (40,478 sales) and The Saturdays’ Just Can’t Enough down 3-4 (34,633 sales). Beyoncé secures the third Top 10 single in a row from her I Am...Sasha Fierce album, as Halo jumps 20-9 on sales of 25,122 downloads. Singles sales last week, at 2,491,164, were 9.8% down on the 2,763,168 sold the previous week but 21.47% up on same week 2008 sales of 2,050,837.
With Saint Patrick’s Day and Mothers’ Day both falling in the last week, it is appropriate that the new number one album is Ireland’s own Ronan Keating with a collection of songs recorded in memory of his late mother, who died in 1998. Titled simply Songs For My Mother, the album – which includes covers of familiar favourites like Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper) and Vincent (Don McLean) and was recorded in just two days last December – sold 87,030 copies last week, and provides 32-year-old Keating with the eighth number one album of his career, a total split evenly between albums with Boyzone, and solo. Keating’s album replaces U2’s two-week topper, No Line On The Horizon (1-6, 30,199 sales), thus providing the first instance of one Irish act replacing another at number one since 2000 when Keating was again the executioner, replacing The Corrs’ In Blue with his debut solo album, Ronan. That album remains Keating’s biggest selling set, generating 1,336,862 of his 3,034,614 solo album sales prior to last week. Like Father’s Day, Easter, Christmas and Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day seems to have less effect on sales with every year that passes – a worrying trend. In the week prior to Mother’s Day in 2007, when it fell on 18 March, 2,939,079 albums were sold. In 2008 (3 March), that figure dipped to 2,747,167, and last week it was 2,422,144. Compared to the same calendar week last year, when the release of a new Now! album and Easter boosted sales to 2,701,134, sales last week were down 10.33%. The only cheer is week-on-week, with sales last week improving 25.9% over previous week sales of 1,923,227. COMPLETE CHARTS
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