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Albums and dance still bouyant.(The Market)

Music Week

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Artist album sales rebound from a 105 week low to a four week high, improving by 15.2% week-on-week from 1,554,099 to 1,789,904. The Prodigy's chart-topping Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned contributed little more than a quarter of the increase, but there were also debuts in the Top 20 for the Finn Brothers, R. Kelly and Alexander O'Neal in fact, albums by all of these artists checked into the Top 12, making it the biggest intake for that part of the chart for eight weeks.

Aside from the Prodigy, the highest debut is that of the Finn Brothers' second album Everyone Is Here, which enters at number eight, with first week sales of 18,120, a full nine years after the fraternal duo's previous collaboration Finn, opened and peaked at 15 with first week sales of 8,228. At the time of the first album, the duo--made up of New Zealand born former Split Enz and Crowded House stalwarts Tim and Neff Finn--were known simply' is Finn. Won't Give In--The first single from the Finn Brothers' new album--peaked at number 26 a fortnight ago.

Released in 1994, inspirational singer/songwriter Jeff Buckley's only full-length studio album in his short life--which was curtailed by a swimming accident in 1997--was Grace. Critically acclaimed at the time, and since ...

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