Chili Peppers grab chart in right place.(The Market)

It came nowhere near matching sales of Robbie Williams' Live At Knebworth, which set a concert record with first-week sales of more than 117,000 last September, but the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first concert disc, Live In Hyde Park, still sold a creditable 63,000 copies last week, and duly debuts atop the albums chart--something Live At Knebworth failed to do.

Coming only eight months after the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Greatest Hits set, Live In Hyde Park is a composite recording featuring songs played at gigs on June 19, 20 and 25--an impressively quick turnaround. The buzz created by the concerts and record company price pruning of their catalogue has brought much of the Red Hot Chili Peppers back catalogue into the charts this year, and Greatest Hits, By The Way and Californication are all in the Top 75 alongside Live In Hyde Park.

Katie Melua's debut album Call Off The Search became the first to sell 1m copies in 2004, reaching the target last Monday (July 26). The album also sold 168,000 copies last .year. It has seen a revival in its fortunes in recent weeks, moving 51-50-35-23-17, even though third single Crawling Up A Hill failed to reach the Top ...