Scouting For Girls Score Number 1 Single

04/04/2010

London trio Scouting For Girls score the first number one single of their career with new single This Aint A Love Song leaping straight to the top of the Official Singles Chart, the Official Charts Company announces today.

This Ain’t A Love Song has led all the way since the Official Chart Update was revealed on Wednesday last week.

Scouting For Girls first came to prominence in 2007 when their debut album, also called Scouting For Girls, climbed to number one after eighteen weeks in the Official Albums Chart. 

Scouting For Girls release their second album Everybody Wants To Be On TV next week.  Meanwhile, their debut album, now double platinum, re-enters the Official Albums Chart this week at number thirty-five. 

There are three other new entries in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10: Plan B’s She Said is straight in at number three and the UK rapper’s highest chart position to date.  History Makers by Christian band Delirious? is straight in at number four.  Delirious? split last year but a Facebook campaign to put a Christian song in the charts for Easter led to a surge in sales of the single. OMG by Usher featuring Will I Am is at number eight (up from last week’s number thirteen).

In the Official Albums Chart, Boyzone’s Brother is at number one for a second consecutive week having overtaken Lady Gaga’s The Fame which was in pole position in last Wednesday’s Official Chart Update. 

In total, Brother has spent three weeks at number one to date.  Having debuted at number one on Mother’s Day it dropped to number three for a week before climbing back to the top spot.  Lady Gaga’s The Fame, which has spent a phenomenal forty-seven weeks in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 since its release last year (including six weeks at number one), is at number two.

There is one new entry in the Official Albums Chart Top 10: Free and Bad Company’s compilation The Very Best Of is straight in at number ten.  The first album from the Glee television series, Glee The Music, Season 1, Volume 1 is a re-entry at number seven (up from number eleven).  The album debuted at number one in February 2010.  Glee The Music, Season 1, Volume 2 is also in the Official Albums Chart Top 10 at number four.

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

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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