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Pixie Lott and Example - all about number one!

11/09/2011

Twenty-year-old UK singer, model, actress and fashion designer Pixie Lott scores her third Official Singles Chart number one today as new single All About Tonight flies straight to the summit with over 88,000 sales, the Official Charts Company reports.

All About Tonight follows first single Mama Do which debuted at number one in June 2009 and Boys & Girls which went straight to number one in September 2009.  Pixie’s debut album Turn It Up, which peaked at number six in September 2009, has gone on to sell over a million copies and is now certified triple platinum.

Alongside her singing career, Pixie appeared as a guest judge on last year’s X Factor alongside Cheryl Cole, Simon Cowell and Louis Walsh and has her own clothing line ‘Pixie Lott for Lipsy’. On the social networks, she counts over 1million Facebook friends and 1/2million twitter followers.  Pixie’s second album will be released in November.

The Official Singles Chart Top 10 sees two other new entries this week; girl-group Saturdays land their seventh Top 10 single in four years with All Fired Up  straight in at number three while Leona Lewis and Swedish DJ and remixer Avicii (aka Tim Bergling) see collaboration Collide straight in at number four.

In the Official Albums Chart, UK rapper and singer Example continues his run of form with third album Playing In The Shadows straight in at number one, following his Official Singles Chart number one last week with Stay Awake (this week’s number five). Example will round off his breakthrough year with a 17-date headline tour throughout the UK in November and December.

Two veteran acts provide the other new entries in this week’s Official Albums Chart Top 10.  The re-mastered digipack edition of The Beatles eight-times platinum singles compilation album 1 is straight in at number six while 87-year-old singer and actress Doris Day becomes the oldest artist in chart history to score a UK Top 10 album of previously unreleased material with My Heart straight in at number nine, 66 years since her first ever hit record as vocalist on Sentimental Journey by Les Brown and the Band of Renown, which coincided with the end of World War 2 in Europe in 1945.

Finally, the double Mercury Award winning PJ Harvey sees Let England Shake, last week’s prize winner, jump a phenomenal 151 places from last week 181 to this week’s 24.

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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.
 
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Amy Howard, Official Charts Company.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/
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