Furtado scores career best on US charts

Source: Music Week

 

Nelly Furtado has clearly the best week of her career in America, where her third album Loose debuts at number one on the Top 200 simultaneous with its introductory single Promiscuous’ arrival at the top of the Hot 100, writes Alan Jones.

 

The 28 year old Canadian has not topped either chart before, and had not even managed to make the Top 20 of the album chart, peaking at number 24 with debut album Whoa, Nelly and at number 38 with follow-up Folklore. But the enormous popularity of Promiscuous - a collaboration with Timbaland, which has sold 646,000 copies on download since being made available four weeks ago and is getting massive airplay support - drove the album to first week sales of 219,000, and an easy victory on the album chart, where no other album managed even half that figure.

 

Nearest challengers, Christian rock band Underoath debut at number two with Define The Great Line on sales of 98,000.

 

Meanwhile, Keane fly the flag for Britain, debuting at number four with second album Under The Iron Sea, which sold more than 75,000 copies last week. The band’s debut album, Hopes And Fears, never climbed higher than number 45, although it has so far sold more than 875,000 copies. Is It Any Wonder, the first single from Under The Iron Sea, also makes its mark, debuting at number 81 on the Hot 100.

 

There’s more UK interest in the Top 20 of the album chart with Leeds lass Corinne Bailey Rae securing a number 17 entry with her self-titled debut set, which sold 40,000 copies last week. Bailey Rae made a number of TV appearances to support the album’s release, while first single Put Your Records On moves 17-12 on the Hot Contemporary Jazz Songs chart, while debuting at number 40 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Songs chart and at number nine on the Bubbling Under chart, which monitors rising hits which have yet to break into the Hot 100.

 

Other albums by UK acts in the top half of the album chart are all in decline: James Blunt’s Back To Bedlam slips 25-27, KT Tunstall’s Eye To The Telescope dips 37-39, Mark Knopfler (and Emmylou Harris) slides 44-66 with All The Roadrunning, Natasha Bedingfield retreats 67-73 with Unwritten and Snow Patrol inch 86-87 with Eyes Open.

 

All the ones down are only down slightly then! :D