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Music Week Report (excerpt)
Dave's first full length release storms at no.1
Monday, March 18, 2019
by Alan Jones, London
 
Oxford alternative rock quartet Foals looked to be cantering to their first No.1 when their fifth release, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 1 established an early lead on the album chart this week – but it
fell at the last hurdle, losing a photo finish to Dave’s first full length release, Psychodrama. Psychodrama is Dave’s third album chart

entry, following Six Paths and Game Over, 2016 and 2017 EPs with, respectively six songs and 28 minutes of music, and seven songs and 36 minutes of music. Psychodrama is home to the track Black, which reached No.40 a fortnight ago, and spins off three new Top 20 hits this week – Disaster, Streatham and Location. Psychodrama’s total consumption of 26,390 units includes a contribution of 20,786 (78.76% of its total) from sales-equivalent streams. While its streams are more than double any other title – and the second highest in chart history in percentage terms, trailing only the 81.60% contribution streaming made to Post Malone’s week atop the chart with Beerbongs And Bentleys last May - its paid-for sales of 5,604 are only the 11th highest of the week. Twenty-year-old South Londoner Dave’s No.1 album comes less than five months after he scored his first No.1 single with Fredo collaboration Funky Friday, a stand-alone release, which

has cumulative sales of 558,293 to date, of which paid-for downloads account for 25,179 sales. If Foals’ latest album had secured first week sales near to matching the last two of its four predecessors, they would be comfortably No.1 this week – but Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost: Part 1 lands instead at No.2 on consumption of 26,111 units. That’s just 279 fewer than Dave’s Psychodrama, making it the closest top two since Michael Ball & Alfie Boe’s Together Again trumped Stereophonics’ Scream Above The Sounds 43,795 to 43,760 in the 6 November 2017 chart, 71 weeks ago. Foals are far ahead on paid-for sales, with a total of 22,037, which includes a contribution of 6,421 from vinyl, in which format it is also No.1. Although they have yet to register a Top 20 single, all five of Foals' albums have made the Top 10. Their 2008 debut Antidotes opened at No.3 on sales of 25,292 copies; 2010 follow-up Total Life Forever at No.8, (15,163 sales); 2013’s Holy Fire set their personal best, opening at No.2 (38,162 sales); and most recent release What Went Down – which also topped sales flashes but ended up debuting and peaking at No.2 – sold 30,335 copies at launch in 2015. All four previous Foals albums have sold upwards of 100,000 cumulatively, with Holy Fire (208,764 sales) ahead of What Went Down (173,197 sales), Antidotes (150,090) and Total Life Forever (147,846 sales). David Gray and Dido both started their recording careers in the 1990s but emerged as superstar singer/songwriters at the start of the 20th century, with their most popular albums - his White Ladder and her No Angel – both selling upwards of 3m copies to qualify for the rarely-achieved decuple platinum awards. Both returned to the fray last week after long lay-offs, with Dido, now 47, issuing her fifth studio album, Still On My Mind, almost exactly six years after her fourth; and 50-year-old Gray’s 11th studio album, Gold In A Brass Age, emerging nearly five years after his 10th. Helped by her performance on The Jonathan Ross Show on ITV, Dido makes by far the bigger impact of the two, with Still On My Mind opening at No.3 (19,874 sales), while Gold In A Brass Age opens at No.21 (3,873 sales). Dido’s last album, Girl Who Got Away, sold 32,867 copies debuting at No.5 in 2013, while Gray’s last album, Mutineers, sold 10,516 copies, opening at No.10 in 2014. Her No.1 albums, and their sales: No Angel (3,097,375 sales) and Life For Rent (2,899,808 sales); his No.1 albums, and their sales: White Ladder (3,042,530 sales), A New Day At Midnight (1,213,117 sales) and Life In Slow Motion (759,861 sales). Norwegian singer Sigrid’s second Top 40 hit, Don’t Feel Like Crying, jumps 34-20, while her first album Sucker Punch, debuts at No.4 (18,318 sales). Aside from the 22-year-old’s latest hit, the album includes her 2017 debut chart entry, Don’t Kill That Vibe and 2018 hit Strangers, which peaked at No.62 and No.10, respectively – but not High Five, which reached No.59 last June. Sucker Punch is No.2 on vinyl (1,909 sales) and No.1 on cassette (1,245 sales). Twenty-five weeks after his latest studio album, True Meanings, debuted at No.2, Paul Weller opens at No.10 with Other Aspects (8,454 sales), a concert recording made at The Royal Albert Hall. It is his 36th Top 10 album in all, and his 19th solo. The Greatest Showman soundtrack dips 4-6 (12,995 sales), ending a run of 62 consecutive weeks in the Top 5. The rest of the Top 10: What A Time To Be Alive (1-5, 18,117 sales) by Tom Walker, Bohemian Rhapsody (5-7, 12,761 sales) by Queen, Thank U, Next (3-8, 11,291 sales) by Ariana Grande and Staying At Tamara’s (8-9, 9,530 sales) by George Ezra. Overall album sales are down 0.51% week-on-week at 1,738,288, 5.98% below same week 2018 sales of 1,848,937. Sales-equivalent streams accounted for 1,133,649 sales, 65.22% of the total. Sales of paid-for albums are down 2.36% week-on-week at 604,639, 30.63% below same week 2018 sales of 871,663. In an unchanged top four, Lewis Capaldi’s Someone You Loved spends a third straight week at the summit. After 10 consecutive weeks of growth, its consumption is down 4.42% week-on-week to 62,336 (including 52,919 from sales-equivalent streams) but Someone You Loved maintains a small but significant lead over Giant (2-2, 56,710 sales) by Calvin Harris & Rag’N’Bone Man, while Don’t Call Me Up (3-3, 40,299 sales) by Mabel and Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I’m Bored (4-4, 38,861 sales) by Ariana Grande complete a logjammed leading quartet. All of the top four suffer a decline in consumption with Calvin Harris & Rag’N’Bone Man’s Giant holding up best, with a 3.60% decline week-on-week, leaving it at No.2 for the third week in a row, 9,03% in arrears of Someone You Loved on overall consumption, Giant is nevertheless No.1 on paid-for sales for the fifth time in six weeks, with 14,118 downloads in the week. It has had upwards of 10,000 sales in the format for eight weeks in a row. It’s a great week for London rapper Dave, who tops the album chart with Psychodrama and has three new entries to the singles chart. No.1 with Funky Friday (feat. Fredo) last October and No.6 with Headie One collaboration 18 Hunna in January – his first two Top 10 singles – Dave doubles his tally with Psychodrama album tracks Disaster (feat. J Hus, No.8, 35,474 sales) and Streatham (No.9, 34,769 sales). The third and final track he is allowed to chart under primary artist rules is Location (feat. Burna Boy, No.11, 31,860 sales). Black, which entered the Top 75 a fortnight ago at No.40 for Dave and dipped to No.71 last week, increases consumption by 160% to 19,438 units but it’s starred-out between No.19 and No.20. Dancing With A Stranger rallies 7-5 (36,650 sales) for Sam Smith & Normani. The track, which peaked at No.3, has been out of the Top 5 for the last three weeks. The rest of the Top 10:, 7 Rings (5-6, 36,334 sales) by Ariana Grande, Sucker (6-7, 35,650 sales) by Jonas Brothers and Just You And I (8-10, 34,470 sales) by Tom Walker. Overall singles sales are down 0.86% week-on-week at 17,775,443, 7.95% above same week 2018 sales of 16,466,769. Paid-for sales are down 7.43% week-on-week at 750,911, and are 25.56% below same week 2018 sales of 1,008,708. They are below same-week, previous-year sales for the 293rd week in a row.  COMPLETE CHARTS