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Eighth number one album for XL despite Radiohead's digital gamble.

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After seven weeks at number one, Leona Lewis' debut album Spirit dips to number three, overtaken not only by Radiohead's newly released In Rainbows set but also by Take That's Beautiful World, which combines an eight-week-low sale of 34,375 copies with a 40-week-high chart placing, as it climbs 3-2. Spirit sold more than 100,000 copies on each of its first seven weeks in the chart but suffered a 78.7% hit last week - the highest of any album in the Top 75. Just 24,863 sales increased its to- date tally to 1,574,901.

Although available from the band's website - which is not registered to provide sales information for chart purposes - for three months, Radiohead's In Rainbows still sold 44,602 ...

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