Professor Green and Coldplay land Number 1s with top flight sales

UK rapper Professor Green and rock stalwarts Coldplay snap up the Number 1 spots in this week’sOfficial Singles and Albums Charts to land the second biggest week one totals of the year so far.

Professor Green’s single Read All About It ft. Emile Sandé notched up just over 153,000 sales last week, less than 1% sales (958 copies) behind the year’s biggest week one single so far, boyband One Direction’s massive debut What Makes You Beautiful (Sept 2011). Read All About It has also landed 27-year-old Professor Green with his first Official Singles Chart Number 1 following previous hit singles I Need You Tonight ft. Ed Drewitt (Number 3, February 2011) and Just Be Good To Green ft. Lily Allen (Number 5, August 2010) and last year’s debut album Alive Til I’m Dead (Number 2, 2010).  Professor Green releases second album At Your Inconvenience tomorrow (October 31).

In a week for strong rap singles, Labrinth’s Earthquake ft. Tinie Tempah also smashes the 100,000 barrier, finishing on a first week total of over 115,000, to land the next highest new entry, straight in at Number 2.  The collaborative team of Labrinth and Tempah have now scored two Official Singles Top 3 hits (their first being last year’s Frisky, also Number 2), while Labrinth produced Tinie Tempah’s Number 1 Pass Out.

There is just one other new entry in this week’s Official Singles Top 10; Brighton duo Rizzle Kicks are straight in at Number 8 with When I Was A Youngster, matching their previous best Official Charts performance when Down With The Trumpets peaked at Number 8 in the summer although they did feature on the Olly Murs Number 1 Heart Skips A Beat.

In the Official Albums Charts, Coldplay score a phenomenal fifth Number 1 out of five studio albums as  Mylo Xyloto storms to the top spot with first week sales of over 208,000 outselling the rest of the Top 5 combined and giving them the second biggest first week album sales of 2011 so far behind Lady Gaga’s Born This Way which scored week one sales of over 215,000 in May this year.

The Official Albums Top 10 sees another three new entries this week; Michael Bublé's festive offeringChristmas is straight in at Number 3 giving the Canadian crooner his sixth Official Albums Charts Top 10 hit, US singer Kelly Clarkson scores her fourth Official Albums Top 10 hit with Stronger, straight in at Number 5, and the legendary Tom Waits pays just his second visit to the Official Albums Top 10with Bad As Me, straight in at Number 10, following Mule Variations which peaked at Number 9 in 1999.

You can see the Top 100 Official Singles Chart here and the Top 100 Official Album Chart here.