{"id":1510,"date":"2009-10-20T04:14:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:31:10","slug":"editors-have-uk-number-1-album-while-alexandra-burke-had-the-fastest-selling-single-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/editors-have-uk-number-1-album-while-alexandra-burke-had-the-fastest-selling-single-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Editors Have UK Number 1 Album, While Alexandra Burke Had The Fastest Selling Single Of The Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham, England rock band Editors achieved their second consecutive No. 1 debut on the new U.K. album chart yesterday, while pop vocalist Alexandra Burke scored a new singles bestseller.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In This Light and On This Evening&#8221; (Kitchenware), Editors&#8217; third album, entered at the summit, just as &#8220;An End Has A Start&#8221; did in July 2007. U.K. rapper Chipmunk, who had last week&#8217;s No. 1 single with &#8220;Oopsy Daisy&#8221; (Jive\/Sony Music Entertainment), followed up with a No. 2 start for the album &#8220;I Am Chipmunk.&#8221; With Madonna&#8217;s &#8220;Celebration&#8221; (Warner Bros.) down 2-3, there was also a new entry at No. 4 for Shakira&#8217;s &#8220;She Wolf&#8221; (Epic\/Sony Music Entertainment).<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s No. 1, Barbra Streisand&#8217;s &#8220;Love Is The Answer&#8221; (Columbia\/Sony Music Entertainment), fell to No. 7. Female pop band the Saturdays opened at No. 9 with &#8220;Wordshaker&#8221; (Fascination\/Polydor\/Universal), while British R&amp;B star Taio Cruz, recently No. 1 for three weeks in the singles chart with &#8220;Break Your Heart&#8221; (4th &amp; Broadway\/Universal Island), came in at No. 14 with his second album &#8220;Rokstarr.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand Alexandra Burke who had the Christmas No. 1 last year with &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; only days after winning the 2008 series of &#8220;The X Factor&#8221;, made it two chart-toppers from two singles as &#8220;Bad Boys&#8221; (Syco Music\/Sony Music Entertainment), featuring Flo Rida, went straight to the chart peak with sales of 185,000 units, according to the Official Charts Company &#8211; the biggest weekly sale for a single this year. 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