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30TH DECEMBER



The Christmas chart arrives and as per usual sales surge upward and that includes the festive chart topper which this year goes to……Michael Jackson! “Earth Song” sold another 262,000 (a 74% increase week on week) to take the title and now has total sales of 677,000 enabling Jackson to have back to back platinum hits for the first time in his long career. The single should also overtake “One Day In Your Life” next week as his personal best seller, the album “HIStory” also becomes a million seller bang on cue!





Jacko’s nearest challenger was Mike Flowers Pops, some rather harshly refer to the outfit as a joke but over the past few years they’ve made a living turning classics and modern tracks into easy listening songs and have created something of a niche following. As part of Radio 1’s “Hits Of 1995” series Kevin Greening’s show asked the group to cover a recent hit and they decided on Oasis’ “Wonderwall” (which itself is back 10-7, 69,000) and the recording was championed by Chris Evans who made it record of the week. A Christmas campaign was soon underway and it duly arrives at No 2 (186,000) this week despite fading as the week progressed. Still they’d be pleased no doubt.





Meanwhile at the bottom of the top 10 are Eternal who score a sixth top 10 single from 8 releases with “I Am Blessed”. The song has drifted about the top 20 so far with a trajectory of 13-12-13 as it struggled to move in the face of new releases but with a quieter week this time around it finally moves 13-10 (47,000). The album “Power Of A Woman” has also improved over recent weeks 23-17-16-13.



Several other hits have very good weeks at least at retail, Boyzone drift 2-3 (165,000, up 71%) whilst Bjork holds at No 4 (94,000 up 26%) and Everything But The Girl also remain steady (74,000) with total sales almost an amazing 700,000 in total.

Coolio goes back up 7-6 (70,000) as he passes the million mark. The only two records to lose sales are from the Beatles 3-8 (59,000) and Robson & Jerome who dip 8-9 (59,000) but limp over the 1 million mark becoming only the second act after Frankie Goes To Hollywood to sell a million copies of both their first two singles. It’s also worth noting that their album sold a simply astonishing 483,000 copies last week- no album EVER sold as many copies in a week as Robson & Jerome did in the last 7 days rounding off an amazing year for the pair.


1- EARTH SONG- Michael Jackson (261,000)
2- WONDERWALL- Mike Flowers Pops (186,000)
3- FATHER AND SON- Boyzone (165,000)
4- IT’S OH SO QUIET- Bjork (94,000)
5- MISSING- Everything But The Girl (74,000)
6- GANGSTA’S PARADISE- Coolio Ft LV (70,000)
7- WONDERWALL- Oasis (69,000)
8- FREE AS A BIRD- The Beatles (59,000)
9- I BELIEVE/ UP ON THE ROOF- Robson & Jerome (59,000)
10- I AM BLESSED- Eternal (47,000)