This Week’s New Records & Stats – w-e 20/07/19

Artist – Title – Cat No, Position (Chart weeks: Top 10/40/75)/Hit Singles represented (Position, Weeks on top 75)

7″ Singles:

Andrew Ridgeley – Shake – AJR1, #58 (0/0/3)/ Parent Album: Son Of Albert (failed to chart).

CD Singles:

Nick Heywood – He Doesn’t Love You Like I Do – 659728 2, #58 (0/0/2)/ Parent Album: From Monday To Sunday (failed to chart)

R.E.M. – Near Wild Heaven – W0055CDX, #27 (0/2/4)/ Parent Album: Out Of Time (#1, 137wks) – In Collection.

CD Albums:

Jeff Buckley – Grace – 475928 2, #31 (0/1/12)/ Singles: Last Goodbye (#54, 4 weeks), Hallelujah (#2, 22 weeks)

Lana Del Rey – Born To Die – 2787091, #1 (15/76/125)/Singles: Video Games (#9, 28 weeks), Born To Die (#9, 15 weeks), Blue Jeans (#32, 5 weeks)

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Sugar Tax – CDV2648, #3 (6/22/29)/ Singles: Sailing On The Seven Seas (#3, 13 weeks), Pandora’s Box (#7, 10 weeks), Then You Turn Away (#50, 4 weeks), Call My Name (#50, 2 weeks)

Oui 3 – Oui Love You – MCD10833, #39 (0/2/3)/ Singles: For What It’s Worth (#28, 6 weeks / Reissue: #26, 3 weeks), Arms Of Solitude (#54, 2 weeks), Break From The Old Routine (#17, 6 weeks), Facts Of Life (#38, 2 weeks).

Take That – Wonderland – 572 673-1, #2 (6/13/15)/ Single: Giants (#13, 1 week)

Toni Braxton – More Than A Woman – 74321959362, Failed to chart. Contains hit single Hit The Freeway (#29, 3 weeks)

Andrew Ridgeley: Obviously highly successful as a member of Wham!, but this is his only chart hit as a solo act. 12″ contains extended versions. CD contains 2 different mixes not on any other formats. Neither in collection yet.

Nick Heywood’s 2nd-smallest hit single. His last 5 singles all had just 2 weeks on the chart. This is one of those 5, with only one having a lower peak position. This CD edition contains the tracks available on the other chart eligible formats (7″, Cassette) and an additional 2 acoustic versions of previous hits exclusive to this edition.

R.E.M. – The 3rd of a series of 4 CD Singles containing a live concert when combined together. It is the 2nd in the collection and they are having quite an influx into the collection. 2 Albums (Up and Reveal) and both CD Single versions of Shiny Happy People being recent additions. This single contains exclusive (in terms of chart eligible formats) live recordings. Only the 12″ contains a further track on no other formats. Total tracks in collection is now 77.

Jeff Buckley is a new artist to the collection! This is his debut hit album containing debut hit Last Goodbye, the only physical single from the album. Hallelujah was a challenger for the Christmas #1 in 2007 on digital singles only. It is his biggest hit of any kind. A deluxe reissue with an extra disc hit #44 spending 2 weeks on chart. This edition fell off the chart from it’s highest position – a re-entry of just 1 week from #31 in 2014.

Debut and biggest hit album for Lana Del Rey: 125 of a total 164 top 75 weeks, and counting of course having last been on the singles chart in May. The first physical album in the collection in her own right (previously only represented by a guest appearance on The Weeknd’s album).

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. The first CD album in the collection. Many earlier albums on vinyl yet to be digitised. Contains all their chart weeks achieved 1989-1992 inclusive. All the singles entered and dropped out during 1991 and OMD had no chart weeks at all in 1989 or 1990.

Oui3: Another new artist to the collection, and a very efficient addition! It is their only hit album containing all top 40 hit singles and all but 2 weeks in total. Joy Of Living (#55, 2 weeks) is the only hit single not on this album. In the vein of De La Soul.

Take That album contains their most recent hit single, dropping out of the top 75 with just 1 week at #13. They have had a #1 album since this hit (Odyssey). Wonderland is by some distance, their least successful studio album. As it stands, Odyssey and III (the immediate predecessor and successor to Wonderland respectively) are the 2nd least successful studio albums with 31 weeks on top 75 each, but that is likely leave III alone on this stat as Odyssey is still in the top 100. Total tracks represented in collection is now up to 126.

Toni Braxton – 60th track in the collection.

Overall a more efficient representation by purchases of bigger hits. Almost single-handedly thanks to the Lana Del Rey album, let alone the singles from it. Fewer hits but more chart weeks this week.

Totals (Last week):

Albums: 6 (5 hits) (12)

Albums chart weeks: 184 (134)

Singles: 3 (0)

Singles chart weeks: 9 (0)

Singles represented on albums: 16 (including 1 as re-issue) (11)

Singles weeks represented on albums: 126 (91)

Combined weeks represented: 316 (225)