ALBUMS

Its sales off 62.10% week-on-week, To Be Loved nevertheless continues atop the artist album chart for Michael Buble, attracting a further 46,018 buyers last week.
 
The biggest challenge to Buble's superiority came not from Will.I.Am, as might have been expected, but from Hampshire singer/songwriter Frank Turner, whose fifth album Tape Deck Heart, is off to a strong start, debuting at number two on sales of 21,949 copies.

It is Winchester wonder Turner's top-charting title, beating immediate predecessor England Keep My Bones, which debuted and peaked at number 12 (11,780 sales) in June 2011. Turner's profile was significantly raised by his televised performance at the Olympic Games opening ceremony, and more recently he sold out a six date mini UK tour which concluded at London's Forum last Thursday (25th). Despite his growing album success, Turner performs very modestly in the singles chart, with a highest position of number 40 hitherto - which probably won't be bettered by Tape Deck Heart's first single, Recovery, which has been available for five weeks, and inches up to a new peak this week, climbing 79-75 (3,829 sales).
 
Will.I.Am has had 10 Top 10 singles without his Black Eyed Peas bandmates but his solo albums have performed comparatively weakly - 2001 debut Lost Change and 2003's Must B 21 failed to make the Top 200, and even 2007's Songs About Girls - home to Heartbreaker, the number four hit collaboration with Cheryl Cole - only reached number 68. With three singles currently in the Top 75 - including smash Britney Spears collaboration Scream & Shout, which has sold 731,170 copies -  new album #willpower does better but not great, debuting at number three (20,464 sales).
 
Our Version Of Events falls 3-5 (14,347 sales) for Emeli Sande but has now been in the Top 10 for 63 weeks consecutively - a record for a debut album. The previous record-holders, The Beatles, spent 62 straight weeks in the Top 10 at a stretch with Please Please Me but once it departed from the top tier - which it did by falling 10-11-12-13-14-15 - it never returned. Its decline was doubtless hastened by the fact that the Beatles' second album, With The Beatles, had taken over its mantle at the top of the chart, while a third Beatles album, the A Hard Day's Night soundtrack, was only weeks away.

Sande's album came closest to departing the Top 10 on its 23rd chart week last July, when it was outside the Top 10 in all the midweeks, but eventually fell 7-10 on sales of 7,840, saved by the fast fade of Newton Faulkner's Write It On Your Skin, which dived 1-11 (7,580 sales). Our Version Of Events has sold 1,836,596 copies so far, and its next target is to spend most consecutive weeks in the Top 10 for an album by a female solo artist. To do so, it needs to stay there for a further nine weeks, when it will eclipse Adele's second album, 21, which opened its career with 71 straight Top 10 placings. Even if Sande's album eclipses 21 in that category, it is tracking well behind it on sales - it has sold 1,836,596 copies thus far, 43.60% of same stage sales of 4,212,501 for 21. On its 118th straight week in the Top 75 (with a low of number 55), 21 drifts 45-46 this week, with sales of 2,127 raising its cumulative tally to 4,623,471.
 
French band Phoenix have garnered much critical acclaim but little chart success in the UK hitherto but their fifth album, Bankrupt!, debuts this week at number 14 (6,335 sales) to provide them with their Top 40 debut. Their last album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, was their first Top 75 entry, debuting and peaking at number 54 on sales of 2,819 in 2009.
 
Also new to the Top 40 this week, Rob Zombie's Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor debuts at number 33 (2,816 sales) and Snoop Lion's reggae-flavoured Reincarnated debuts at number 34 (2,741 sales).
 
Albums in the Top 10, not mentioned above: Pink's The Truth About Love holds at number four (15,620 sales), Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience dips 5-6 (11,781 sales), Bruno Mars' Unorthodox Jukebox remains at number seven (9,516 sales), Bastille's Bad Blood drifts 8-9 (8,859 sales) and Fall Out Boy's Save Rock And Roll slumps 2-10 (8,630 sales)
 
After debuting last week at number nine, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Mosquito declines to number 36 (2,694 sales).
 
Now That's What I Call Music! 84 spends its fifth straight week atop the compilation chart, selling a further 32,164 copies. With sales to date of 490,324, it is 1.65% ahead of same stage sales of 482,350 for 2012 equivalent Now! 81.
 
Overall album sales are down 5.56% week-on-week at 1,269,209 - 14.64% below same week 2012 sales of 1,486,846, and their lowest level for 923 weeks. The last time they were lower was in sales week ending 19 August 1995 (chart dated 26 August 1995) when just 1,214,941 albums were sold. The number one artist album that week was Black Grape's It's Great When You're Straight...Yeah with 18,823 sales, while Now! 31 was overall chart champ, selling 55,836 copies.

SINGLES
After storming to a number three debut last week after less than 48 hours on sale, Get Lucky surges to the top of the singles chart. The introductory single from Daft Punk's upcoming album, Random Access Memories, and their first number one, it sold 155,215 copies last week which is not only the highest ever weekly tally for the masked marauders  - beating the 58,827 copies that One More Time sold on its debut at number two in 2000 - but also the highest weekly sale for any single thus far in 2013.
 
Daft Punk joins the small band of French acts who have had a UK number one single. Preceding them: Serge Gainsbourg (1969, Je T'Aime...Moi Non Plus, with British girlfriend Jane Birkin); crooner Charles Aznavour (1974, She), Mr Oizo (1999, Flat Beat), Modjo (2000, Lady [Hear Me Tonight]) and David Guetta in 2009 with When Love Takes Over (feat Kelly Rowland) and Sexy Chick (feat. Akon), 2010 with Gettin' Over You (feat. Chris Willis, Fergie, LMFAO) and Club Can't Handle Me (with Flo Rida), and in 2011 with Titanium (feat. Sia).
 
Credited to Daft Punk feat. Pharrell Williams, Get Lucky also features Chic's legendary Nile Rodgers as co-writer and guitarist. It is the first number one hit that Rodgers has knowingly composed - though two prior number ones have credited him and late Chic partner Bernard Edwards as co-writers after sampling their songs. The aforementioned Modjo hit utilised Chic's Soup For One, and Fatman Scoop's abysmal 1999 number one Be Faithful pilfered a second-hand Chic Cheer sample from Faith Evans' Love Like This. Rodgers produced but didn't write the number one hits Let's Dance and Frankie for David Bowie and Sister Sledge, respectively.       
     
Audiences are going daft for Daft Punk catalogue too - Around The World (number five, 1997) re-enters at number 86 (3,186 sales), One More Time (number two, 2000) returns at number 141 (1,813 sales) and Harder, Better, Stronger, Faster (number 25, 2001) re-emerges at number 168 (1,567 sales). Although Random Access Memories isn't due to drop until 17 May, they have five albums in the Top 200: Discovery (number two, 2001), which gained a toehold on the Top 75 last week, and now surges 66-23 (4,184 sales); debut album Homework (number eight, 1997), which was a re-entry at number 144, and now jumps to number 87 (1,069 sales); the compilation Musique 1 1993-2005 (number 34, 2006), up 181-119 (790 sales); Alive 2007 (number 86, 2008), a re-entry at number 176 (576 sales); and Human After All (number 10, 2005), a re-entry at number 182 (560 sales).
 
David Guetta has had as many number ones as ALL other French acts combined, and his latest hit, Play Hard (feat. Ne-Yo & Akon), is on the move this week, catapulting 78-21 (15,420 sales). It is Guetta's 24th Top 40 hit, and the 10th (!) from his latest album, Nothing But The Beat, which has been issued in multiple versions.
 
After debuting last week at one and two, the latest hits from Rudimental and Will.I.Am ease down a notch in face of Daft Punk's onslaught. Rudimental's Waiting All Night (feat. Ella Eyre) falls 1-2 (79,615 sales), and Will.I.Am's #thatpower (feat. Justin Bieber) drifts 2-3 (50,148 sales).
 
I Need Your Love (feat. Ellie Goulding) became the record eighth Top 10 hit from Calvin Harris' album 18 Months last week, and now jumps 7-4 (43,971 sales), while the album itself surges 13-8 (9,192 sales), ending a 10 week absence from the Top 10.
 
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis score their second top five hit, with Can't Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton) climbing for the sixth straight week. The track - which first saw UK sales as long ago as September 2011 - has really picked up since becoming the official second single from Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' album The Heist, progressing 187-53-46-38-33-12-5. It sold 43,912 copies last week, to increase its career tally to 111,557.  Macklemore & Lewis' debut hit Thrift Shop - which didn't hit UK shores until 55 weeks after Can't Hold Us - declines 20-23, ending a 12 week stint in the Top 20. The former number one sold 14,284 copies last week, and has sold 597,789 copies in all. It remains the biggest seller of 2013, with 589,196 of those sales this year. The Heist makes the Top 40 of the album chart for the first time this week, jumping 42-31 (3,310 sales).
 
With the current (seventh) season of Britain's Got Talent in full flow, it's almost a year since last year's final, which was won by Pudsey, the dancing dog, and his owner, Ashleigh. Three acts who participated in the final have had Top 75 hits thus far - Irish singer/songwriter Ryan O'Shaughnessy who reached number 31 with No Name last August; boy band The Mend, number 67 with Where Were You last month; and fourth placed Loveable Rogues, whose debut single What A Night enters this week at number nine (26,423 sales). In other Simon Cowell TV talent show news, The X Factor 2011 winners Little Mix score their fifth Top 20 single, as How Ya Doin' (feat Missy Elliott) jumps 23-16 (17,288 sales), while Amelia Lily, who finished third in the same season, scores her third Top 40 hit, with Party Over debuting at number 40 (7,235 sales).
 
Rounding out this week's Top 10: Need U (100%) dips 4-6 (34,847 sales) for Duke Dumont feat. A*M*E, Just Give Me A Reason eases 5-7 (34,209 sales) for Pink feat. Nate Ruess, Hey Porsche reverses 6-8 (29,412 sales) for Nelly and Feel This Moment eases 8-10 (26,104 sales) for Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera.
 
A massive hit already over much of Europe and Australasia, Let Her Go surges into the Top 40 for Brighton singer songwriter Mike Rosenberg - aka Passenger. Available here since March 2012, the track sold upwards of 25,000 copies before hitting the Top 75 last week, and now dashes 44-11, on sales of 24,267. Parent album All The Little Lights entered the Top 75 last week, six months after its release, and now leaps 71-25, with 3,993 sales last week raising its career tally to 20,494.
 
Iggy Azalea's debut hit Work climbs for the fifth straight week. Thus far moving 55-53-36-20-19-17, the track sold 16,821 copies last week. There are also new peaks for AlunaGeorge's Attracting Flies, which stalled last week at number 30, but now climbs to number 19 (15,954 sales); Tonight I'm Getting Over You by Carly Rae Jepsen (55-35, 8,586 sales); Ben Howard's 2011 single, Keep Your Head Up (50-46, 6,181 sales), which reached number 74 at the time and has revived recently with significant airplay on Radio One, lifting its cumulative sales to 115,128.  
 
Two weeks after debuting at number two on sales of 52,605, the original Wizard Of Oz cast recording of Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead sold just 151 copies last week, not even enough to command a place in the Top 1000.
 
Overall singles sales are up 2.09% week-on-week at 3,350,210 - 0.62% above same week 2012 sales of 3,329,685.

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