Lucky seven for top ten sales.(The Market)

With a record equalling seven debuts in the Top 10, the singles market improves for the sixth time in seven weeks, to reach a new 2005 high of 427,985. Sales climbed week-on-week by 7.45%, and were 61.4% above the low level they plunged to at the start of January. And, having broken a cycle when the number one single failed to reach the 25,000 mark for four weeks in a row in January, this week sees the top three singles All topping that mark.

Nelly & Tim McGraw's Over And Over registers the year's second highest tally, debuting at number one, with sales of 41,528, while Jennifer Lopez's Get Right--which scored 2005's top total last week--sold a further 29,406 copies to take its overall sales to 79,337, enough for it to move to the top of the year-to-date rankings. Meanwhile, after scoring three number ones and four number twos in the last seven weeks, Elvis Presley has to settle for third place with latest reissue (Marie's The Name) His Latest Flame, despite the fact it sold a respectable 27,441 copies--nearly 7,000 more than sufficed for his One Night/I Got Stung to reach number one in January.

Album sales understandably slipped a little last week. The tally for the previous two weeks was artificially high because of the ...