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The Kaisers knock Mika off top spot.
After a fortnight at number one simultaneously on both charts, Mika loses his grip on the singles chart summit and the album apex this week.
On the singles chart, his conquerors are the Kaiser Chiefs, whose Ruby takes advantage of Grace Kelly's understandable fatigue - its sales dipped 25.6% to just short of 32,000, bringing the curtain down on its five-week run at number one, a longer stint than 200 of the 21st Century's previous 204 chart toppers.
Futhermore, Mika's Life In Cartoon Motion suffered a 53.5% dip to 38,000 sales, allowing the resurgent Amy Winehouse to reclaim pole position with her second album Back To Black, which registers a 29.7% dip in sales week-on-week, but is still well ahead with sales of 47,000.
With the Valentine's Day effect working its way out of the figures, the fading of the Brits effect and most children returning to school after the half-term break, sales looked a little threadbare. Only four of the Top 40 artist albums increased their sales last week - quite a contrast to the previous week, when only six posted declines.
Overall artist and compilation album sales, at 2,362,944, were down 23.5% ...
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