Billboard 200, Beck nabs his second-highest charting album ever, as "Morning Phase" starts with a littlemore than 87,000. It's Beck's 10th album to chart and fifth top 10 effort. Kid Cudi's stealth release "Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon" debuts at No. 4 with 87,000. The digital-only set debuted exclusively on iTunes, Google Play and Amazon MP3 on Tuesday (Feb. 25) with little advance warning. And, in its first week, it was only available as a full album purchase — none of its tracks were available a la carte. Next up on the Billboard 200, Romeo Santos achieves the biggest sales week for a Latin album since 2006, as his "Formula: Vol. 2" debuts at No. 5 with 85,000. The last Latin title to shift more in a week was pop group RBD with "Celestial," when it

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Music Week Report (Excerpt)
Bastille remains atop the album chart
Monday, March 3, 2014
by Alan Jones, London

Released exactly a year ago, Bastille's Bad Blood continued its Brits-fuelled revival, topping the chart for the second week in a row, and third time in all, on sales of 16,548 copies. Their Brits mash-up of Pompeii and Waiting All Night, a collaboration with Rudimental and Ella Eyre, retreats 21-25 (12,293 sales), while the original recording of Pompeii declines

20-30 (10,361 sales). Bad Blood's sales were the fourth lowest for a number one album in the 739 weeks that have thus far elapsed in the 21st century, and the lowest since Rihanna's Talk That Talk plumbed the depths, selling just 9,578 copies as it jumped 7-1 some 81 weeks ago. The eclectic genius that is Beck made all the early running in the midweek sales flashes with Morning Phase, his first album for six years. Although unable to hold onto its early lead, the album debuts at number four (13,819 sales) to become the highest charting album of his career. Of seven previous chart albums dating back to 1994, the 43 year old's highest charting was his last, Modern Guilt, which debuted and peaked at number nine on sales of 11,478 copies in 2008. 1996’s Odelay, which reached number 17, is his biggest seller (386,244 sales). Because each copy of his 2006 album The Information had a different sleeve, it was not eligible to chart but would have reached number 17. Kendal indie band Wild Beasts debut at number 10

Overall album sales are down 1.06% week-on-week at 1,334,834 - 18.57% below same week 2013 sales of 1,639,325. It is their lowest tally for 20 weeks. It's another phenomenal week for Pharrell Williams, with Happy returning to the top of the singles chart, while notching its millionth sale. Originally made available for purchase last June, Happy sold only 96 copies the week it was released, and took exactly six months to make the Top 200. By then, it had been featured in the movie Despicable Me 2, and was on its way to being the monster hit it has become. It reached the top of the chart nine weeks ago, dipped to number two, and then spent two more weeks at number one. Its latest surge - helped by Pharrell including it in a three song medley hwe performed with Nile Rodgers at the Brit Awards - means it has now climbed to the top three times in a single chart run, something only two records have done in chart history, and never since the 1950s. The first, I Believe, did so in 1953 for Frankie Laine, and the second, Singing The Blues, for Guy Mitchell in 1957. Selling 83,982 copies last week, Happy increased its cumulative sales to 1,040,606, making it the third hit by Williams to exceed a million sales, following Daft Punk's Get Lucky on which he is the featured vocalist, and Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines, on which he and T.I. are both featured. Williams has now spent 13 weeks at number one in the 2010s, two more than Rihanna, the only other artist to reach double figures. Dutch trance deity Tiesto has charted 13 previous songs in the Top 75 and 27 in the Top 200 - 16 Top 75 and 44 Top 200 if we count his releases as Allure and Vimana and collaborations with Ferry Corsten as Gouryella, but only now makes his Top 10 debut with Red Lights, which opens at number six (40,313 sales). Enjoying her fourth chart hit in little more than a year, Foxes continues to make progress in the right direction, and lands in the Top 10 for the first time. She made her chart debut in February 2013, adding vocals to Russian dance DJ Zedd's debut UK hit Clarity, which reached number 29. A couple of months later, she fronted Rudimental's number 14 hit Right Here, and in November she made her first solo fray into the chart, reaching number 12 with Youth. She tops them all this week, debuting at number seven (34,036 sales) with Let Go For Tonight. Meanwhile, Paloma Faith scores her ninth Top 75 entry and her second Top 10 hit with Can't Rely On You (number 10, 24,053 sales). It is the first single from her third album A Perfect Contradiction, which is released next Monday (10th). Faith co-wrote Can't Rely On You with man of the moment Pharrell Williams. After debuting last week at number one, Sam Smith's Money On My Mind eases to number two (60,317 sales). Clean Bandit's Rather Be (feat. Jess Glynne) remains at number three (59,112 sales). Number one for four weeks, it has now sold 604,058 copies. Glynne could be back at number one this weekend, with her My Love collaboration with Route 94 likely to give Pharrell Williams' Happy a tough test. Another week, another peak for Katy Perry's Dark Horses (feat. Juicy J), which climbs 6-4 (47,902 sales), while parent album Prism revives 27-24 (4,172 sales). After leaping 72-28, John Legend's All Of Me slipped to number 29 last week but now resumes its dynamic growth, spurting to number nine (25,445 sales). Completing this week's Top 10, A Great Big World's Say Something (feat. Christina Aguilera) falls 4-5 (41,885 sales) and Zedd's Stay The Night (feat. Hayley Williams) dips 5-8 (25,806 sales). Overall singles sales are down 2.49% week-on-week at 3,032,571 - 13.68% below same week 2013 sales of 3,513,028.  COMPLETE CHARTS