Blunt slips on Billboard chart

Source: Music Week

 

After only one week atop the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, You're Beautiful by James Blunt dips to number three, writes Alan Jones.

 

It is overtaken by Sean Paul's Temperature which rises 3-2 because of massive gains in airplay, and Ne-Yo's So Sick, which explodes 9-1, after finally being made available for download, and achieving first week sales of 119,765 copies. Ne-Yo's debut album In My Own Words was released simultaneously, and bows at number one on the Top 200 album chart, after selling 301,005 copies on its first week in the shops.

 

With Ne-Yo now making the running, You're Beautiful slips 1-2 on the download chart, though it sold a further 78,018 copies last week to take its cume to 959,900.

Britain's other representative in the Top 10 of the Hot 100, Natasha Bedingfield, also slips, falling 8-10 with Unwritten, which eases 3-5 on the download chart, with 48,488 sales last week taking its total to 554,644.

 

Blunt and Bedingfield's albums reflect their singles decline, with Blunt's Back To Bedlam falling 5-8, with sales off 7% to 66,772, while increasing its total sales to 849,772. Bedingfield's Unwritten album falls 47-61, riding an 18% dip in sales week-on-week to 21,728. It has now sold 336,852 copies.

 

Aside from Ne-Yo, there are major debuts on the album chart for rock band Hawthorne Heights' If Only You Were Lonely at number three (113,817 sales) and county superstar Alan Jackson's Precious Memories at number four (107,218 sales).

 

After debuting last week at number 24, The Arctic Monkeys' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not falls to number 39, with sales down a respectable 29% at 23,786. KT Tunstall's Eye To The Telescope also continues to do well, dipping 52-54 on its fourth week on the list, with sales of 18,038 (-13%).

 

Of 15 new entries to the Top 200, the only one by a British artist is Elvis Costello's jazz-tinged My Flame Burns Blue. Also featuring The Metropole Orkest, it sold 5,722 copies last week to make its chart debut at number 188, while debuting at number two on the Jazz Chart behind Michael Buble's current set, It's Time.

 

 

Shame for Blunt, but I was expecting Ne Yo to rise to Number 1. Sigh. Also a shame that Nat has fallen, I was hoping that she would rise. Sigh again.

I reckon it's a bad thing for them to drop down the charts, but I'm still happy they're doing quite well in the States.

its good that there still doing well

A girl in American Idol sang Unwritten by Natasha last night and was slated because "it's not a song to show vocal range" and was voted out. "Wrong song"