Brit winners reap rewards but The Feeling claim UK's pole position.

Perhaps surprisingly for a Brits week, album sales dipped 18.1% week-on- week to 2,095,563, with artist albums off 14.9% and compilations diving 28.4%. The love compilations which dominated the latter chart a week ago found the post-Valentine's Day climate a great deal more challenging too: none more than Real Love, which freefalls 1-27 with sales off 89.6% at 2,874. Its successor at the top of the compilation chart is the Ministry Of Sound's The Very Best Of Euphoric Dance, which debuts with a fine first-week sale of 26,630.

In the wake of her Brits performances and recent Grammy wins, no album sold more copies last week than Amy Winehouse's Back To Black. Unfortunately for Winehouse, the album's sales were split between the regular and deluxe editions, allowing the way clear for Winehouse's Island labelmates The Feeling to steal chart honours with their second album Join With Us taking pole position on first-week sales of 41,676.

The Feeling's debut album Twelve Stops & Home spun off five hit singles but never quite made it to number one, debuting and peaking at number two in June 2006 in an all-new top five, in which it was trumped by Sandi Thom's Smile, It Confuses People. Thom's album sold 51,128 copies that week, while Twelve Stops & Home sold 43,304 - more, surprisingly, than Join With Us' debut total.

Overall sales of Back To Black last week totalled 44,650, of which the two-CD deluxe edition - up 14-3 - accounted for 30,363, while the single-disc edition's 14,287 sales were enough for it to climb 16-12, despite representing a ...