Music

Take That retain album No. 1 after 1m sales

Published Sunday, Dec 12 2010, 19:00 GMT | By Daniel Sperling

Take That have dominated the UK album chart for a fourth week with Progress, which has now become the biggest-selling record of 2010 so far after breaking the one million sales barrier.

The popular boyband's first album as a five-piece for 15 years remained comfortably in pole position after shifting over 200,000 copies - a sales increase of 15% from the previous week - a month after its chart debut.

Commenting on this week's second and third-placed finishers, Martin Talbot of the Official Charts Company said: "Take That have really made the Christmas albums market their own this year and it’s all the more impressive given the competition from Michael Bublé’s Crazy Love and Olly Murs's self-titled [album] each selling over 100,000 copies this week alone."

Elsewhere on this week's chart, former number one album Come Around Sundown by Kings of Leon makes a reappearance in the top ten after advancing six places, while The Black Eyed Peas surge ahead eight spots to take The Beginning to nine.

Also experiencing a Yuletide resurgence in sales is Annie Lennox's Christmas Cornucopia, which rockets 11 places to 18 from last week's 29, and X Factor winner Alexandra Burke, who 58 weeks after the release of her debut album Overcome re-enters the top 40 at 22 with a deluxe version of the record.

However, unable to cash in on the holiday season are last week's high-charting new entries Love Live Life by N-Dubz and Endlessly by Duffy, which both fall out of the top ten after crashing eight and ten places respectively to 15 and 19.

The top ten in full:

1. (1) Take That: 'Progress'
2. (8) Michael Bublé: 'Crazy Love'
3. (2) Olly Murs: 'Olly Murs'
4. (4) Rihanna: 'Loud'
5. (3) JLS: 'Outta This World'
6. (5) Susan Boyle: 'The Gift'
7. (13) Kings of Leon: 'Come Around Sundown'
8. (6) Bon Jovi: 'Greatest Hits'
9. (17) The Black Eyed Peas: 'The Beginning'
10. (10) André Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra: 'Moonlight Serenade'

Source: Official Charts Company

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