Rihanna Takes The Singles Crown

07/11/2010

Grammy award winning, Barbadian born, US-based Rihanna scores her fourth UK number one as Only Girl (In The World) climbs from last week’s number two to take pole position in the new Official Singles Chart released today, the Official Charts Company reports. 

Last week Only Girl (In the World) recorded the biggest first week sales (126,000) for any number two record this year so far.  This week sees the single posting a sales increase with over 134,000 copies sold in its second week alone.
 
Only Girl (In The World) follows Rihanna’s previous UK number ones Umbrella (2007), Take A Bow (2008) and Run This Town (2009).  In total Rihanna has had fourteen Official Singles Chart Top 10 hits.  In the US, she recently became the first female artist of the decade to score six number ones on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart.  Rihanna has sold 25 million records worldwide.  She releases her fifth studio album Loud on November 15th.

There are just two new entries in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10; Alexis Jordan who reached the semi-finals in the first season of US TV show America’s Got Talent and went on to be signed by Jay-Z’s label Roc Nation, is straight in at number three with debut single Happiness, while The Saturdays’ Higher featuring US rapper Flo Rida climbs to number ten this week up from last week’s 22 giving the British girl group their eighth Official Singles Chart Top 10 hit.

Cheryl Cole scores her second number one in as many weeks as Messy Little Raindrops tops the Official Albums Chart following her Official Singles Chart number one last week, Promise This, which logged the biggest first week sales of a non-charity single this year so far.  Cole’s 2009 first solo album, the triple platinum 3 Words also debuted at number one in the Official Albums Chart and has gone on to sell some 900,000 copies to date.

The Official Albums Chart Top 10 sees a flurry of new entries.  Bon Jovi are new at number two with Greatest Hits, the second greatest hits compilation of their career (following 1994’s number one album Cross Road – The Best Of…) and their thirteenth Top 10 hit in the Official Albums Chart including a total of five number ones; thirty-one-year-old much feted singer-songwriter Rumer (aka Sarah Joyce) is straight in at number three with her debut album Seasons Of My Soul; the perennial Rod Stewart is new at number five with Fly  Me To The  Moon, the fifth release in his American Song Book series which has generated sales of some 2.5 million; Jamiroquai secures his eighth Official Album Chart Top 10 album with Rock Dust Light Star new at number seven; the evergreen Neil Diamond lands his 34th Official Albums Chart Top 40 album with Dreams new at number eight and Peter Andre’s Accelerate is new at number ten.

 

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.
T: 01480 860 530  M. 07768 891 264
E: amy@theofficialcharts.com
W:  www.theofficialcharts.com
The Official Chart Update with Greg James, 3.30pm-4pm, BBC Radio 1
The Chart Show with Reggie Yates, Sunday 4pm-7pm, BBC Radio 1.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/

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