Summer holidays fuel climbers. (The Market).

On the singles and albums front, the two most popular artists at retail last week were Beyonce and Daniel Bedingfield. On the singles chart, Beyonce's Crazy In Love, number one for three weeks, is replaced by Bedingfield's new single, Never Gonna Leave Your Side. On the albums chart, Beyonce continues at number one for the fifth week in a row with her debut solo album Dangerously In Love selling a further 45,000 copies. It is now the longest running number one album of 2003, number 12 for the year-to-date with 365,000 sales and the longest-running number one album by a female solo artist since Dido's No Angel spent six weeks at the summit in February/March 2000. But Bedingfield is shaping up as a challenger here, too, with his Gotta Get Thru This album surging 13-2, with sales up 69% week-on-week to more than 29,000. Originally issued 11 months ago, the album previously peaked at number two in January, has spent a total of 39 weeks in the Top 75, and contains all five of Bedingfield's hits to date, with the current single having been added when it was repackaged in March.

With the school holidays now well and truly under way, the singles market recovered a ...