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The Streets make move on top spot.(The Market)
With the Father's Day effect disappearing from the chart this week, the album market is down 1.5% week-on-week, with albums which gained most from the occasion last week now in rapid retreat. With Keane's Hopes And Fears off by 36% week-on-week, it slips 1-3, falling out of the top two for the first time in its seven-week chart career. Paired with the Beastie Boys' second-frame fall of 2-7 on a 54% decline (a fanbase factor rather than a Father's Day one), the top two positions are thus vacated for two fresh faces.
Climbing 5-2 despite the fact its sales are down 11.9% week-on-week, the Scissor Sisters' self-titled debut album home to the hits Comfortably Numb, Take Your Mama and Laura--reaches the highest position of its 21-week chart career: With radio, TV and press support for the band rising with each hit, their album has sold more than 433,000 copies since its February release and is the year's 10th biggest seller.
Meanwhile, having been in very slow decline since it was released--it has fallen 2-3-4-5-7-8--The Streets' album A Grand Don't Come For Free suddenly rockets to number one. It is The Streets'--aka rapper Mike Skinner--second album, and it has already sold 328,000 copies, compared to the 444,000 copies debut album Original Pirate Material (a number 12 hit) has sold since its ...
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