Elton John rockets up albums list.

The albums market recovered marginally from its 41-week low last week, with overall sales of 2,129,675 being 0.9% up on the previous frame.

Despite this, sales at the top of the chart were subdued, with Take That's Beautiful World securing its second consecutive week at number one on sales of just 32,102. The same album had its sixth and last week at number one in its first spell at the summit 12 weeks ago, on sales of only 29,638.

Aside from Beautiful World, the last album to top the chart with sales below 32,000 was Dido's Life For Rent, which was number one in the last two weeks of January 2004 on sales of 30,711 and 30,638.

Although Beautiful World was the biggest seller for the week as a whole, it was outsold last Friday and Saturday by Elton John's new compilation Rocket Man - The Definitive Hits, which benefited from the publicity surrounding the veteran singer-songwriter's 60th birthday and ITV's Happy Birthday Elton.

All of Elton's recordings were simultaneously made available for download for the first time and five of them sold sufficient copies to make the Top 200. Rocket Man was the most popular, with sales of a little over 1,600 earning it a number 62 placing on the chart, nearly 35 years after it peaked at number two. Also in the Top 200: Your Song at number 77 (1,400 sales); I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues at number 117 (900 sales); I'm Still Standing at number 124 (800 sales); and Tiny Dancer at number 136 (750 sales).

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