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United Kingdom
Music Week Report (excerpt)
The Specials atop the album tally for the first time
Monday, February 11, 2019
by Alan Jones, London
 
Thirty-nine years to the week after Too Much Too Young became the first of their two No.1 singles, The Specials top the album chart for the very first time with Encore. In early sales flashes, new albums from Ian Brown and Busted led the way, but after a week of in-store signings and a social media campaign, Encore prevailed, albeit on

sales of 18,199 copies (including 417 from sales-equivalent streams) – the lowest for a No.1 since Ed Sheeran’s Divide topped 76 weeks ago with 13,975. The eighth studio album to bear The Specials’ name, Encore marks the 40th anniversary of their debut, is the first to feature principal original members Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter since 1980 and is their first charted album of new recordings since 1984, when In The Studio peaked at No.34. It marks their first chart appearance since April 2008 CD/DVD compilation The Best Of The Specials debuted and peaked at No.28. It is the first Specials album to feature lead vocalist Hall since their second album, More Specials, which reached No.5 in 1980, and the first studio album to bear The Specials’ name since 2001 covers set Conquering Ruler, a spectacular flop which, to this day, has amassed a mere 148 sales. Busted’s eponymous 2002 debut and 2003 follow-up A Present For Everyone, both peaked

at No.2 and sold upwards of 1m copies, but the chartscape had changed considerably when the pop/punk trio – Charlie Simpson, Matt Willis and James Bourne – reconvened for third studio album, Night Driver, which reached No.13 in 2016. Their fourth album, Half Way There, far surpasses that this week, debuting at No.2 (17,136 sales) ahead of their March tour of the same name as first single Radio is the week’s ninth most-played song on Radio 2, where it was aired 14 times in the latest frame. Stone Roses’ lead singer Ian Brown’s first solo album in more than nine years and seventh solo album in all, Ripples consists of two reggae covers and eight new original songs, and opens at No.4 (12,138 sales), surpassing the No.8 debut/peak of his last release, 2009’s My Way. It is No.1 on the vinyl and cassette charts, with sales of 3,476 in the former format, and 1,440 in the latter format. A week short of a year since his Tables Turn debuted and peaked at No.5 on sales of 8,094 copies, London hip-hop/grime MC Fredo hops back onto the chart, equaling that position and surpassing those sales with Third Avenue (No.5, 9,634 sales). The fifth and final new entry to debut inside the Top 10 – the highest tally for 11 weeks – is My Wildest Dreams, the introductory solo album of 41-year-old Steps member Claire Richards. It debuts at No.9 (6,104 sales) – a decent result, considering that none of five singles/preview tracks released thus far has dented the OCC Top 100, although the latest of these, Shame On You, has surpassed the rest on the radio airplay chart, where it improves 60-48 this week. Richards has charted five studio albums as a member of Steps. She also released the album Another You, Another Me with Steps’ colleague Ian Watkins – as H & Claire – but it reached only No.58 on release in 2002, during Steps’ 12 year hiatus. Sandwiched by four new entries, the Motion Picture Cast Recording of The Greatest Showman is the only album from last week’s Top 5 to still be there, although it falls 2-3 (17,057 sales). The rest of this week’s Top 10: Bohemian Rhapsody (3-6, 8,049 sales) by Queen, Staying At Tamara’s (4-7, 7,268 sales) by George Ezra, A Star Is Born (6-8, 7,055 sales) by Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper and Amo (1-10, 6,003 sales) by Bring Me The Horizon. Overall album sales are down 0.29% week-on-week at 1,706,117, 0.91% below same week 2018 sales of 1,721,781. Sales-equivalent streams accounted for [b]1,094,408 sales, 64.15% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are down 0.73% week-on-week at 611,709, 22.53% below same week 2018 sales of 789,571. There is no change in the top three again this week, with Ariana Grande’s 7 Rings completing a hat trick of chart victories on sales of 71,909 copies (including 65,551 from sales-equivalent streams), while Ava Max’s Sweet But Psycho and Sam Smith & Normani’s Dancing With A Stranger are stationary at No.2 (55,018 Sales) and No.3 (51,591 sales), respectively. While her debut album Don’t Smile At Me prospers anew, Billie Eilish has released Bury A Friend, the slightly ghoulish third single from her second album, When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go, which drops next month. With six of her songs to date amassing cumulative consumption figures in excess of 100,000 units, the 17 year old singer/songwriter has a fast growing following, so it’s no surprise to find Bury A Friend – which she co-wrote with brother / producer Finneas - instantly becoming her biggest hit, debuting at No.7 (38,281 sales). None of her other singles has ventured higher than No.21. The single’s success also helped Don’t Smile At Me - an August 2017 release – to increase consumption 24.23% week-on-week to 4,917 sales – as it climbs 19-12, achieving a new peak a year and a half after release. Don’t Call Me Up advances 7-5 (42,508 sales) for Mabel. Her first top five hit, it thus surpasses the peak position of the biggest hits of her half-brother Marlon Roudette (When The Beat Drops Out, No.7, 2015) and her uncle Eagle Eye-Cherry (Save Tonight, No.6, 1998) – but mum Neneh Cherry had three bigger hits, including 1995 chart-topper Love Can Build A Bridge, alongside Cher, Chrissie Hynde and Erc Clapton. Someone You Loved climbs for the fourth straight week since its chart debut for Lewis Capaldi – but barely, advancing 10-9, despite sales increasing 29.33% week-on-week to 34,556. The rest of the Top 10: Giant (4-4, 47,706 sales) by Calvin Harris & Rag’N’Bone Man, Wow (5-6, 42,303 sales) by Post Malone, Nothing Breaks Like A Heart (6-8, 36,707 sales) by Mark Ronson feat. Miley Cyrus and Sunflower (8-10, 31,159 sales) by Post Malone feat. Swae Lee. Overall singles sales are up 0.74% week-on-week at 17,328,250, 9.51% above same week 2018 sales of 15,823,320. Paid-for sales are down 0.08% week-on-week at 792,029, and are 25.59% below same week 2018 sales of 1,064,446. They are below same-week, previous-year sales for the 288th week in a row.  COMPLETE CHARTS