Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle Rule Charts of 2009

03/01/2010

Lady Gaga’s single Poker Face and Susan Boyle’s album I Dreamed A Dream are crowned the biggest-selling records of 2009, the Official Charts Company announces today.
Lady Gaga’s single Bad Romance also returns to the number one spot in the week’s Official Singles Chart.
Bad Romance, the lead single from her newly re-packaged album The Fame, was first number one two weeks ago and gave the twenty-three-year-old New Yorker her fifth hit single of the year, including the number ones Just Dance and Poker Face.
Lady Gaga burst on to the UK’s music scene in January last year when Just Dance, her debut, leapt straight to number one.  Just Dance is at number three in the Official Singles Chart of 2009.  Her debut album The Fame, which spent no less than thirty four weeks in the UK’s Top 10 Official Albums Chart last year, including four weeks at number one, is number two in both this week’s chart and in the Official Albums Chart of 2009.
2009 was also a bumper year for Black Eyed Peas who have three singles in the Official Singles Chart of 2009 and their album, The End, at number four in the Official Albums Chart of 2009.
X Factor winner Joe McElderry’s debut single The Climb is this week’s number two and is also at number five in the 2009 chart – an astonishing feat after just three weeks’ sales.  Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name, which denied McElderry a Christmas number one, is at number eight in the 2009 singles chart.
Forty-eight-year-old Britain’s Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream broke records as soon as it was released scoring the biggest first week sales for a debut album in chart history.  The pace continued and in just six weeks, I Dreamed A Dream has sold over 1.5 million copies to become the best-selling album of 2009 and deny Lady Gaga a 2009 chart double.

Martin Talbot, Managing Director, Official Charts Company said:
“Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle have captured the public imagination and made the charts their own in less than a year. It’s a phenomenal achievement for them both.”
In the week’s Official Albums Chart, it’s a return to the number one slot for Paolo Nutini’s Sunny Side Up which was first number one in June 2009.  The second album from Scotsman Nutini, Sunny Side Up is also at number eight in the Official Albums Chart of 2009.

Top 10 Official Singles of 2009:
Pos.  Title                   Artist    Weeks On Chart
1.  Poker Face             Lady Gaga    51
2.  I Gotta Feeling        Black Eyed Peas    26
3.  Just Dance             Lady Gaga    53
4.  Fight For This Love  Cheryl Cole    11
5.  The Climb              Joe McElderry      3
6.  In For The Kill         La Roux     42
7.  Boom Boom Pow     Black Eyed Peas    34
8.  Killing In The Name Rage Against The Machine    3
9.  Bad Boys                Alexandra Burke feat. Flo Rida  12
10.  Meet Me Half Way  Black Eyed Peas    10

Top 10 Official Albums of 2009:
Pos.  Title                     Artist    Weeks On Chart
1.  I Dreamed A Dream  Susan Boyle      6
2.  The Fame                Lady Gaga    51
3.  Crazy Love               Michael Buble    11
4.  The End                   Black Eyed Peas    30
5.  Only By The Night      Kings Of Leon    67
6.  JLS                          JLS       8
7.  I Am Sasha Fierce     Beyonce    58
8.  Sunny Side Up          Paolo Nutini     31
9.  It’s Not Me It’s You    Lily Allen    47
10.  Reality Killed The Video Star Robbie Williams     8

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.

For further information contact:
Amy Howard, Official Charts Company.
: 01480 860 530  M. 07768 891 264
E: amy@theofficialcharts.com
         www.theofficialcharts.com

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