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Music Week Report (excerpt)
'The Greatest  Showman' reigns a 19th week
Monday, June 18, 2018
by Alan Jones, London
 
Its sales are down again but The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to The Greatest Showman remains far ahead of the pack, topping the chart for the 19th time in 23 weeks, and the fourth week in a row, on consumption of 34,378 units (including 11,030 from sales-equivalent streams). It is the 23rd consecutive week in which it has sold

upwards of 20,000 copies, and raises its cumulative sales to 878,909. 871,888 of those have come in 2018, making it the year’s biggest seller by a margin of more than half a million – Now That’s What I Call Music! 99 is its distant runner-up with sales of 337,223. The Greatest Showman is also close to topping the year-to-date video chart, with sales of 826,736 in four weeks putting it second behind Star Wars: The Last Jedi (867,517 sales). Four new albums debut inside the Top 10, three of them by acts who have previously had No.1s – but The Greatest Showman’s nearest rival is Staying at Tamara’s by George Ezra. The first of four albums that had the temerity to interrupt The Greatest Showman’s reign, when it debuted at the summit 11 weeks ago, Staying At Tamara’s has remained in the top five since release and, with latest single Shotgun itself moving into the top five, the album climbs 3-2, with sales up for the third week in a row at 19,532. 21 last Monday (June

11), Jorja Smith beats many more experienced acts to land the week’s highest new entry with her debut album, Lost & Found, opening its account at No.3 (15,313 sales). A pleasing blend of pop and R&B, the album fulfils the promise that won the Walsall singer/rapper the Critics’ Choice award at this year’s Brits, although she has still to secure a Top 20 single. There are few catalogues more beloved than that of The Beach Boys, and subjecting their iconic songs to symphonic makeovers adding new arrangements from The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – conducted by Steve Sidwell & Sally Herbert under the production of Don Reedman & Nick Patrick – is a bold move, even though it has paid off handsomely for similar projects revitalising the catalogues of Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison. It works for The Beach Boys too, as The Beach Boys With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra debuts at No.4 (14,128 sales). It is their 37thchart album in a chart career spanning almost 53 years. While Kanye West’s Ye tumbles 2-10 (8,069 sales)on its second week on the chart, Kids See Ghosts – the eponymously-titled album for his collaboration with Kid Cudi – debuts at No.7 (9,250 sales). Lily Allen falls short of the top two for the first time but extends her run of Top 10 albums to four, with No Shame debuting at No.8 (8,754 sales). The 33 year-old singer/songwriter’s first album Alright, Still debuted and peaked at No.2 (62,701) in 2006, while follow-up It’s Not Me, It’s You attracted 112,568 sales when it opened at No.1 in 2009. Allen’s most recent album, Sheezus, also topped on debut in 2014, with sales of 35,414, helped by the fact it had already spawned three Top 10 hits, and was priced at 99p at Google Play. Alright, Still is Allen’s biggest seller, with a to-date tally of 1,142,062, with It’s Not Me, It’s You in close attendance on 1,070,340 sales and Sheezus way behind on113,054 sales. The rest of this week’s Top 10: Divide (7-5,10,421 sales) by Ed Sheeran, Beer Bongs & Bentleys (6-6, 10,084 sales) by Post Malone and Wildness (5-9, 8,338 sales) by Snow Patrol. Overall album sales are up 5.28% week-on-week at 1,812,577, 2.62% above same week 2017 sales of 1,766,315. Streaming accounted for 977,457 sales – 53.93% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are up 11.21% week-on-week at 835,120, 19.98% below same week 2017 sales of 1,043,666. After eight straight weeks at No.1, Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa’s One Kiss retreats to No.7 (27,542 sales), the latest victim of ACR, which saw the value of its sales-equivalent streams halved. On a level playing field, it would still be No.1, with sales for the latest week of 46,159. Its enforced abdication created a vacancy for the seventh new No.1 on 2018, and the battle for supremacy pitched two acts who had their first No.1 together, against one another. Rather Be opened at No.1 in February 2014, spending four weeks at the summit for Clean Bandit – who had two more minor hits previously – and Jess Glynne, for whom it was the maiden hit. It remains the biggest hit of both acts’ careers, with a to-date tally of 2,336,387 sales. Both acts have been climbing the chart with their latest hits, and it is Glynne who gets bragging rights, as her 13th hit, I’ll Be There, advances 2-1 (37,959sales, including 25,356 from sales-equivalent streams) to deny Clean Bandit’s 12th hit, Solo (feat. Demi Lovato), which closed the gap consistently throughout the week, and leaps 6-2 (37,061 sales). Another former Clean Bandit collaborator, Anne-Marie, remains at No.3 with 2002 (35,395 Sales). I’ll Be There is Glynne’s third solo No.1 - following 2015 hits Hold My Hand and Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself – and her seventh No.1 in total, a record for a UK female. Glynne joins Tinie Tempah and the outgoing Calvin Harris, who have also had seven, as the artists with most No.1s in the 2010s. However, I’ll Be There’s consumption total is the lowest for a No.1 single since August 2008 – 515 charts and nearly 10 years ago – when Kid Rock’s All Summer Long was No.1 on sales of 37,111 copies, all paid-for. Nine months after it was released, and five months after it first dented the Top 75, Tom Walker’s introductory hit, Leave A Light On, surges 16-8 (25,798 sales) to make its Top 10 debut. The track has benefitted enormously from being featured as the sound bed to the current Sony Bravia OLED TV commercial, from the release of an acoustic version and from 59p pricing at iTunes. 12,853 of its consumption tally comes from paid-for sales, where it is the biggest seller, toppling Jess Glynne’s I’ll Be There. Also new to theTop 10, after six weeks in the teens, is I Like It (13-9, 24,550 sales) by Cardi B, Bad Bunny & J Balvin. It is the first Top 10 hit for Bad Bunny, and the second for Cardi B and J Balvin – both of whom are also approaching the top tier with other collaborations: his Familiar single with Liam Payne jumps18-14 (20,120 sales), while her Maroon 5 pairing Girls Like You moves 28-16(18,668 sales). George Ezra scores his third Top 5 single, with Shotgun up 8-4 (33,583 sales), while Better Now (7-6, 29,153 sales) is at a new high for Post Malone. Completing the Top 10: No Tears Left To Cry (5-5, 30,753 sales) by Ariana Grande and Flames (9-10,24,274 sales) by David Guetta feat. Sia. Overall singles sales are up 0.61% week-on-week at 16,776,536, 28.43% above same week 2017 sales of 13,062,426. Streams accounted for 15,812,459 sales, 94.25% of the total. Paid-for sales are down 1.71% week-on-week at 964,077, and are 26.62% below same week 2017 sales of 1,313,846. They are below same-week, previous-year sales for the 254th week in a row.  COMPLETE CHARTS