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CHARITY DOMINATES OFFICIAL SINGLES CHART & BRIT AWARDS MAKE IMPACT ON SINGLES AND ALBUMS

21/02/2010

Charity records dominate the top of the Official Singles Chart this week, with Help For Haiti pipping the Brits release by Dizzee Rascal and Florence & The Machine to number one.

The Official Charts Company confirms today that the Helping Haiti single Everybody Hurts (which is raising money for those suffering from last month's earthquake) has topped the Official Singles Chart for a second week. In turn. Dizzee & Florence's You Got The Dirtee Love - which is raising money for the Brits Trust - arrives at number two.

Everybody Hurts - which was originally written and recorded by American rock band REM - was re-recorded by Helping Haiti, a star-studded line-up including Alexandra Burke, Cheryl Cole, James Morrison, JLS, Kylie Minogue, Leona Lewis, Michael Buble, Mika, Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart, Susan Boyle and Take That.

You Got The Dirtee Love by Dizzee/Florence went on sale following their performance of the same song at the Brit Awards on Tuesday night. It is the first time in Brits history that audience members and viewers watching live on ITV1 have had the chance to download a souvenir of the show. A donation is being made to the Brit Trust from every sale of the single until 18 March 2010.

Official Charts Company managing director Martin Talbot says, "For so many charity records to be sold in such a short space of time shows just how generous the British public are - it adds up to 600,000 charity singles in the past two weeks across these two releases."

The big news in the Official Albums Chart is the arrival of Glee: The Music Volume 1 at number 1, after a month in which numerous tracks from the E4/Channel 4 series have dominated the Official Singles Chart too. This week, Don't Stop Believin' by Glee Cast is at number 7 in the Official Singles Chart, with Halo/Walking On Sunshine at 9, It's My Life/Confessions Part II at 20, Keep Holding On at 47, No Air at 52 and Somebody To Love at 56.

It is also a big week for the Brits, with Lady Gaga's The Fame and Florence & The Machine's Lungs following their Brit wins last Tuesday night to rise into the Top 3 (from 5 to 2 and 9 to 3 respectively) with sales of both albums increasing by 53%.

Among the other biggest beneficiaries of the Brits show, which attracted 5.8m viewers last Tuesday (according to overnight figures from last week), were:

>> Robbie Williams' Reality Killed The Video Star - 21 to 8 - sales up 22%

>> Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3 - 22 to 10 - sales up 25%
>> Lily Allen's It's Not Me It's You - 28 to 19 - sales up 13%
>> Kasabian's West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum - 63 to 20 - sales up 179%
>> Dizzee Rascal's Tongue N' Cheek - 73 to 33 - sales up 75%
>> Robbie Williams' Greatest Hits - 101 to 38 - sales up 140%.

In turn, the Brit Awards Album tops the Official Compilations Chart this week.

 

Talbot adds, "Again the Brits shows that not only can it attract a huge television audience, but it can also sell records in large numbers too."

The Brit Trust is the UK music industry charity which benefits from proceeds from The BRIT Awards. It is most renowned for its contributions to The BRIT School and Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy with its mission 'to support young people in music and education'. This year it will also encompass the BRITs nominated charities, which include War Child and the Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

Notes to Editors:

1. Chart information quoted from this release must be credited to The Official Charts Company

2. The Official Charts Company (OCC) is a joint venture between record labels’ body the BPI and ERA, the Entertainment Retailers Association. The OCC is responsible for the commissioning, marketing, distribution and management of the UK’s industry standard music and video charts and is endorsed by the BVA (British Video Association).

3. The Official Charts Company compiles its charts from sales information gathered across all key distribution (or entertainment) channels including all major high street retail chains, independent stores, supermarkets, mail order internet retailers and digital music service providers. This market research sample equates to 99% of the total UK Singles market; 98% of the total UK Albums market and 90% of the total UK DVD market.

4. The Official Singles Chart is unveiled by BBC Radio One every Sunday on The Chart Show with Reggie Yates, which runs from 4pm to 7pm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/

For further information contact: Martin Talbot, Official Charts Company.
M: 07802 277528 E: martin@theofficialcharts.com

 

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