Owl City Notches Up Another Number One

24/01/2010

American synth-pop act Owl City, aka twenty-year-old Adam Young from Minnesota, has the UK’s new number one on the Official Singles Chart this week with Fireflies, a track which has already dominated charts around the world, the Official Charts Company confirms today.
Fireflies is taken off Owl City’s third album and major label debut Ocean Eyes.  The track, which is Owl City’s first ever UK hit, entered the Official Singles Chart three weeks ago at number fifty and by last week at climbed to number two before clinching the top spot today.
Fireflies, which reached Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 and went platinum in America last year, has also topped the charts in Australia, Denmark, Holland and Ireland and been Top 20 in nine other territories. 

 
There are two new entries into this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10: Example’s Won’t Go Quietly is new in at number six and JLS’s One Shot is new at number ten having climbed from number thirty two.
In the Official Albums Chart, Florence And The Machine’s debut album Lungs is number one for a second consecutive week.
There are two new entries in the Official Albums Chart Top 10.  Welsh rock sextet Lostprophets are straight in at number three with their fourth studio album The Betrayed. And fifteen-year-old Canadian soul-singing protégé Justin Bieber is straight in at number four with his debut album My World.

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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