UK Charts: One Direction at #1

These are the top ten singles and albums in the UK for the week of November 24th, 2012:

Top 10 Singles

1. LITTLE THINGS - ONE DIRECTION
2. LOCKED OUT OF HEAVEN - BRUNO MARS
3. DNA - LITTLE MIX
4. BENEATH YOUR BEAUTIFUL - LABRINTH FT EMELI SANDE
5. THE POWER OF LOVE - GABRIELLE APLIN
6. CANDY - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
7. GANGNAM STYLE -PSY
8. HO HEY - LUMINEERS
9. DIAMONDS - RIHANNA
10. LOVE IS EASY - MCFLY

Top 10 Albums

1. TAKE ME HOME - ONE DIRECTION
2. MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY - ROD STEWART
3. GRRR - ROLLING STONES
4. MAGIC OF THE MOVIES - ANDRE RIEU & JOHANN STRAUSS OR
5. TAKE THE CROWN - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
6. STORYTELLER - ALFIE BOE
7. OUR VERSION OF EVENTS - EMELI SANDE
8. BORN TO DIE - LANA DEL REY
9. 18 MONTHS - CALVIN HARRIS
10. DOS - GREEN DAY

From www.theofficialcharts.com

Boy Bands Take Over The UK Charts

That's a very 1999 title but I'm not joking. This week sees two different generation of boy bands top both the singles and albums charts in the UK. On one hand there's the reunited group Take That with the fastest selling-album in the region and on the other the more recently formed group JLS for the singles chart.

From NME.com:

Take That have topped the UK album charts today (November 21) with the highest first-week sales for 13 years.

The reunited man-band’s album 'Progress' has sold almost 520,000 copies in the past week biggest opening numbers since Oasis with 'Be Here Now' in 2005.

They comfortably beat Rihanna's album 'Loud' which enters the charts at number two, while their single 'The Flood' remains at number two.

In a big week for boybands, JLS are a new entry at number one with their Children In Need single 'Love You More.

The top ten UK albums are:

1. Take That – 'Progress'
2. Rihanna – 'Loud'
3. Susan Boyle – 'The Gift'
4. Andre Rieu and Johann Strauss Orchestra – 'Moonlight Serenade'
5. Pink – 'Greatest Hits So Far'
6. Bon Jovi – 'Greatest Hits'
7. Bruce Springsteen – 'The Promise'
8. Cheryl Cole – 'Messy Little Raindrops'
9. Michael Buble – 'Crazy Love'
10. Katy Perry – 'Teenage Dream'

The top ten UK singles are:

1. JLS – 'Love You More'
2. Take That – 'The Flood'
3. Ellie Goulding – 'Your Song'
4. Rihanna – 'Only Girl (In The World)'
5. Katy Perry – 'Firework'
6. Far East Movement – 'Like A G6
'7. Black Eyed Peas – 'The Time (Dirty Bit)'
8. Alexis Jordan – 'Happiness'
9. McFly – 'Shine A Light'
10. Westlife - 'Safe'

Rihanna & Susan Boyle Rule UK Charts

Rihanna keeps the momentum going in the singles chart with her hit Only Girl (In The World) while Susan Boyle dominates the albums chart with her holiday collection The Gift.

From NME.com:

Rihanna has managed to keep Take That off the top of the UK singles chart tonight (November 14).

The singer stays at the summit for the second week with her new single 'Only Girl (In The World)' keeping 'The Flood', the Manchester band's first single for over 15 years with their original line-up, in second place.

Elsewhere, the Royal British Legion's poppy appeal single '2 Minute Silence', which features no audio whatsoever and a video with Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Mark Ronson, is in at Number 20.

My Chemical Romance's comeback single 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)' is also a new entry at 31.

Meanwhile Susan Boyle has knocked Cheryl Cole off the top of the UK albums chart.

The 49-year-old Scottish singer, who shot to prominence in last year's Britain's Got Talent, has scored her second Number One LP with her Christmas covers record 'The Gift', which features Lou Reed's 'Perfect Day' and traditional Christmas carols.

Elsewhere, Cee-Lo Green is straight in at Number 10 with his album 'Lady Killer' and Ray Davies is just two places below with his collaboration LP 'See My Friends', according to the Official Charts Company.

Jay-Z also goes in at 20 with 'The Hits Collection: Vol 1'.

The UK top 10 singles are:

1. Rihanna - 'Only Girl (In The World)'
2. Take That - 'The Flood'
3. Katy Perry - 'Firework'
4. McFly - 'Shine A Light' (Feat Taio Cruz)
5. Alexis Jordan - 'Happiness'
6. Mike Posner - 'Cooler Than Me'
7. Cheryl Cole - 'Promise This'
8. Bruno Mars - 'Just The Way You Are (Amazing)'
9. Adele - 'Make You Feel My Love'
10. Cee Lo Green - 'Forget You'

The UK top 10 albums are:

1. Susan Boyle - 'The Gift'
2. Bon Jovi - 'Greatest Hits'
3. Cheryl Cole - 'Messy Little Raindrops'
4. James Blunt - 'Some Kind Of Trouble'
5. Michael Buble - 'Crazy Love'
6. Kings Of Leon - 'Come Around Sundown'
7. Rumer - 'Seasons Of My Soul'
8. Rod Stewart - 'Fly Me To The Moon'
9. Katy Perry - 'Teenage Dream'
10. Cee Lo Green - 'The Lady Killer'