CHARTS ANALYSIS: Yes men lose out on the top spot.

Alan Jones

No change at the top of the singles or albums charts this week, with Lady GaGa and Ronan Keating continuing their reigns.

Lady GaGa underlines her claim to be the hottest new act of 2009, with Poker Face spending its second week at number one, with sales of a further 57,781 downloads lifting its career tally to 309,344 - enough, a fortnight ahead of physical release, for it to climb into fourth place in the 2009 rankings with its sales trailing only James Morrison & Nelly Furtado's Broken Strings (319,502 sales), The Fear by Lily Allen (360,722) and her own Just Dance (555,720). It helps her debut album, The Fame, to rebound 7-3 with sales of 29,118 copies lifting its 11-week tally to 246,656.

After being overhauled in the midweek sales flashes by the Pet Shop Boys' Yes, Ronan Keating's Songs For My Mother reasserted its authority to secure a second week at the top, on sales of 36,847 copies.

Early expectations that the Pet Shop Boys would secure their second number one album were dashed as sales of Yes, after a bright start, faded throughout the week. The Pet Shop Boys' 10th studio album, Yes has a lot in common with its predecessors. All have made the Top 10, and all have had one word titles. The Pet Shop Boys' 17th charted album (including live sets and compilations) since their 1985 debut Please entered the chart 23 years ago this very week, Yes debuts at number four on sales of 27,639 copies. That tally does not include the 2,557 copies that were sold through iTunes before the album's official release date, where a mix-up saw it available for three days. Yes did not make a premature debut on the chart last week, however, as chart regulation 4.6 states that "sales of digital variants will only be eligible for the chart in the week of the official release date of the corresponding physical variant."

On a brighter note even without those lost sales, Yes - co-produced by the Xenomania team behind recent hits for Alesha Dixon and Girls Aloud - sold more copies on its first week than any Pet Shop Boys album since their sole number one album, Very, in 1993.

Its immediate predecessor Fundamental sold 26,492 copies to debut at number five in 2006, while 2002's Release was a number seven debut on sales of 18,008, 1999's Nightlife was number seven with 17,038 sales, 1996's Bilingual, number four with 23,732 sales and - despite debuting at number two - 1995's Alternative opened with just 16,710 sales.