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DATAFILE EXPOSURE: 05.07.08.

Music Week

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Californian singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles' debut single Love Song falls 4-6 on sales this week, ending seven straight weeks of growth, but it continues to improve its airplay profile, albeit marginally. Radio's top choice for the third week in a row, it earned an extra 19 plays and improved its audience by around a third of a million last week - but with Duffy's Warwick Avenue falling 2-3, Bareilles opened up a big 31.25% lead over new runner-up Gabriella Cilmi's Sweet About Me.

Love Song's audience of 70.12m was derived from 2,290 plays, with top tallies of 54 from 95.8 Capital FM, 52 from Power FM, and 47 from BRMB. It slips 3-15 on Radio One's most-played list, but improves 10-2 on Radio Two, earning 16 plays from each station.

While Weezer's Pork & Beans moves 40-33 on the OCC sales chart, it jumps 39-22 on the airplay chart. Only 10 of the 138 stations on Music Control's panel aired Pork & Beans at all last week, and the song's 211 plays included top contributions of 41 plays from Virgin, 36 from Xfm Scotland, and 26 apiece by the network's Wales and Manchester operations. However, 25 plays ...

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