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Music Week Report (excerpt)
Alternative rock band Foals secures first no.1
Monday, October 28, 2019
by Alan Jones, London
 
Their five previous releases have all reached the Top 10 but Foals finally secure their first No.1 album with Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 2 debuting atop the chart on consumption of 20,505 units (including 2,890 from sales-equivalent streams and 6,429 on vinyl). Despite its chart-topping position, the record had the second lowest,

first week sale for any album by the Oxford alternative rock band: their 2008 debut Antidotes sold 25,292 copies to debut at No.3; 2010 follow-up debuted at No.8 on sales of 15,163; 2013’s Holy Fire sold 38,162 copies opening at No.2; 2015’s What Went Down was No.3 on 30,335 sales; and, just seven months ago, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 1 – which re-enters the chart this week at No.75 (1,330 sales) - was No.2 on 26,111 sales, losing a photo finish with Dave’s first full-length release, Psychodrama, which achieved 279 more sales to beat it to pole position. It wasn’t exactly a canter for Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost – Part 2. It managed to maintain a small but growing advantage all week over 2012 X-Factor champion James Arthur’s third album, You, which debuts at No.2 on sales of 18,324 copies. Arthur’s last album, Back From The Edge, debuted at No.1 three years ago next week on sales of 40,906 copies. Florida rock band Alter Bridge’s sixth

studio set, Walk The Sky, debuts at No.4 (10,410 sales). Their fourth Top 10 album, it charts higher than the rest, apart from immediate predecessor The Last Hero, three years ago to the week after it opened at No.3 (13,733 sales). Yorkshire singer/songwriter Dominic Harrison’s eclectic work as Yungblud contains element of pop, rock and hip-hop, and his new EP, the six song, 18 minute-long The Underrated Youth earns him his first Top 75 entry with some ease, debuting at No.6 (9,475 sales). 1,022 of those sales were on cassette, in which format it is the week’s biggest seller. Yungblud’s only full-length album, 21st Century Liability, peaked at No.142 in July 2018, and has thus far achieved consumption of 30,746 units. The fifth and final new entry to the Top 10 is Halfway To Paradise, the latest release from Daniel O’Donnell. Debuting at No.8 (8,973 sales), it comes less than eight months after his last compilation The Gold Collection – like Halfway To Paradise, a 60 song, 3 CD set – reached No.23. Halfway To Paradise is the 57 year-old Irish country/MOR crooner 17th Top 10 album, 39th Top 40 album and 43rd Top 75 album in a career which has seen him chart at least one new title for an unprecedented 32 years in a row since his 1988 debut. The rest of the Top 10: No.6 Collaborations Project (2-3, 11,638 sales) by Ed Sheeran, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (3-5, 9,810 sales) by Lewis Capaldi, Hollywood’s Bleeding (4-7, 9,245 sales) by Post Malone, PTSD (5-9, 6,302 sales) by D-Block Europe and Bohemian Rhapsody (7-10, 5,341 sales) by Queen. Overall album sales are down 5.26% week-on-week at 1,662,914, 0.97% below same week 2018 sales of 1,679,123. Sales-equivalent streams accounted for 1,147,491 sales, 69.00% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are down 0.81% week-on-week at 515,423, 23.37% below same week 2018 sales of 672,653. Two historic runs come to an end this week, with Tones And I’s Dance Monkey suffering a downturn in sales after 13 gains in a row, and Dermot Kennedy’s Outnumbered ending a record run of 16 weeks in which it had improved its chart position. On its fourth week at No.1, consumption of Dance Monkey – the introductory hit for 19 year-old Toni Watson, from Melbourne – falls by 3.99% to 81,198 units (including 71,624 from sales-equivalent streams). However, its lead over Kosovan DJ Regard’s debut smash Ride It – which is No.2 for the second week in a row, and third time in four weeks (43,799 sales) – increases from 77.13% to 85.39%. Two titles reach the Top 10 for the first time. Manchester rapper Aitch scores his third Top 10 hit only two months after his first with Buss Down (ft. Top 10 newbie Ziezie) climbing 11-8 (25,775 sales), while Maroon 5 register their 11th Top 10 hit with Memories advancing 19-10 (3,216 sales). Ed Sheeran scores his 18th Top 5 hit in total, and his fifth from current album No.6 Collaborations Project, with Camila Cabello and Cardi B collaboration, South Of The Border (7-4, 30,025 sales), which also delivers Cabello’s third top five hit and Cardi B’s second. There are also new peaks for Circles (4-3, 32,437 sales) by Post Malone, and Lewis Capaldi’s reactivated 2017 single Bruises (9-6, 27,594 sales). The rest of the Top 10: Highest In The Room (5-5, 29,505 sales) by Travis Scott, Outnumbered (6-7, 27,592 sales) by Dermot Kennedy and Be Honest (8-9, 25,041 sales) by Jorja Smith feat. Burna Boy. Overall singles sales are down 5.28% week-on-week at 18,184,878, 13.49% above same week 2018 sales of 16,022,768. Paid-for sales are down 6.60% week-on-week at 557,749 – 31.92% below same week 2018 sales of 819,225. It is their lowest level since chart week 10, 2005 (Music Week publication date March 19, 2005) – 763 weeks ago, and before downloads were counted – when they were 523,223. They are below same week, previous year sales for the 325th week in a row.