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Artist News
Chart update – w/c 13 Jul 2009
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 13 July 2009
As expected, Michael Jackson’s memorial service last week continued to keep interest in his music at an all-time high. So, Florence & The Machine, who were on track to have the number one album in the early part of the week, end up, like La Roux last week, in the number two position. In fact, interest has remained at such a high level that Jacko has managed to shift 600,000 records for the second week in a row, meaning that since his death he’s sold over 1.5 million singles and albums in the UK alone.
Let’s just concentrate on the top ten albums for now, where Jackson continues to hold the number one spot with ‘The Essential Michael Jackson’. ‘Off The Wall’ is at three, ‘Thriller’ is at four, ‘The Motown Years’ is at five, former number one, ‘Number Ones’, is at seven, and the 25th anniversary edition of ‘Thriller’ is at number nine. So that’s six Jacko albums in the top ten in total. One of them twice.
Florence & The Machine not only knock La Roux off the number two spot, but also steal the record for the highest first week sales of a debut album this year, which the rubbish 80s-influenced duo only managed to keep hold of for a week. La Roux are now at number six, two positions ahead of this week’s second highest new entry, Cascada.
The only other new entries in this week’s album chart are Kings Of Leon with a box set of all three of their albums, The Benny Andersson Band with ‘Story Of A Heart’, and the Neil Hannon-fronted Duckworth Lewis Method with their eponymous debut album.
Over in the singles chart, there’s also a whole lot of Jackson. A few tracks have dropped out of the top 200, but he’s still got 46 singles in there, 11 of which are in the top 40. ‘Man In The Mirror’ remains the highest charting single, slipping from number two to number three this week. The only new Jackson single in the chart this week is, thanks to that memorial service, his version of ‘Smile’.
New entries among the singles come from Chipmunk with ‘Diamond Rings (feat. Emili Sande)’ at six, Arctic Monkeys with ‘Crying Lightning’ at 12, and VV Brown with ‘Shark In The Water’ at 38.
The weekly shuffling of Michael Jackson records is curated by The Official Charts Company.
