Time Is Right For Black Eyed Peas and Take That

12/12/2010

Global supergroup Black Eyed Peas claim the fifth UK number one of their career as latest single The Time (Dirty Bit) climbs to the top of the Official Singles Chart, up from last week’s number six, the Official Charts Company reports today.

The Time (Dirty Bit) follows previous number one singles Boom Boom Pow (2009), I Gotta Feeling (2009), Meet Me Half Way (2009) and Where Is The Love (2003).  I Gotta Feeling was the first song in UK chart history to achieve over 1 million download sales.

The Time (Dirty Bit) is the lead single from The Peas’ sixth album The Beginning which made its Official Albums Chart debut last week at number seventeen and moves into the Official Albums Chart Top 10 today at number nine.
 
Black Eyed Peas now have a career total of twelve Official Singles Chart Top 10 hits (including a collaboration with Sergio Mendes on Mas Que Nada) and four Official Albums Chart Top 10 hits.  Their worldwide record sales total some 29 million and they have won six Grammy Awards to date.

The only new entry in this week’s Official Singles Chart Top 10 comes from ten-year-old singer and actress Willow Smith whose debut single Whip My Hair is straight in at number two.  The daughter of actor, rapper and film producer Will Smith and actress Jade Pinkett-Smith, Willow may have lost out on her chart battle with Black Eyed Peas for the number one slot, but she is still one of the youngest artists in chart history to have a Top 10 hit.  Willow is signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation label.

Take That’s Progress continue to dominate the Official Albums Chart, staying at number one for a fourth week and selling over 200,000 records in just the last seven days, a sales increase of some 15% on the previous week. 

Progress has now sold over a million copies since its release and this week also becomes the biggest selling album of the year so far, having leap-frogged Lady Gaga’s The Fame to pole position in the Official Albums Chart of 2010 Year-to-Date.

“Take That have really made the Christmas albums market their own this year,” says Martin Talbot, managing director, Official Charts Company, “and it’s all the more impressive given the competition from Michael Buble’s Crazy Love (at number two) and Olly Murs self-titled Olly Murs (at number three) each selling over 100,000 copies this week alone.”
 
The only new entry in this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 10 is the afore-mentioned Black Eyed Peas’ The Beginning (climbing to this week’s number nine from last week’s seventeen) while Kings Of Leon’s former number one Come Around Sundown is a re-entry at number seven up from last week’s thirteen.

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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