Sales
Elsewhere in the Top 10, Little Mix's Shout Out To My Ex holds at No.3 (52,469 sales), James Arthur's Say You Won't Let Go falls 2-4 (50,569 sales), Bruno Mars' 24K Magic rallies 7-6 (42,201), Neiked's Sexual droops 6-7 (41,785 sales), The Weeknd's Starboy (feat. Daft Punk) falls 5-8 (41,360 sales), The Chainsmokers' Closer (feat. Halsey) remains at No.9 (38,748 sales) and Hailee Steinfeld & Grey's Starving (feat. Zedd) repeats at No.10 (34,405 sales).
Touch (No.63, 9,323 sales) leads an influx of tracks from Little Mix's chart-topping Glory Days into the Top 200 but is the only one to dent the Top 75 this week. Also in the Top 200 are: Oops (feat. Charlie Puth, No.86, 6,628 sales), Power (No.116, 5,289 sales), You Gotta Not (No.121, 4,984 sales), F.U. (No.133, 4,604 sales), Down & Dirty (No.159, 4,015 sales), No More Sad Songs (No.168, 3,763 sales), Your Love (No.180, 3,574 sales) and Nobody Like You (No.185, 3,504 sales).
Almost five years after they became the first and so far only group to win The X Factor and topped the chart with coronation single Cannonball. Little Mix have their first No.1 album with the appropriately titled Glory Days.
Raising their game to fight off the challenge of America's Metallica and Bruno Mars - both of whom topped the chart last time out and occupy the other medal positions in an all-new top three - Little Mix scorched to the summit with Glory Days securing first week sales of 96,205 copies (including 4,475 from streams), the highest since David Bowie's Blackstar opened 45 weeks ago with sales of 146,168 in the wake of his death. It surpasses both the highest first week sale for a Little Mix album - the previous record being set by Get Weird, which sold 60,053 copies on debut last November - and the highest sale in any week by a Little Mix album, eclipsing the same album's top tally of 70,525 in the week before Christmas last year.
It is an impressive start for the album on which the girls co-wrote three of the tracks, including the No.1 smash Shout Out To My Ex. The album also includes the song Nobody Like You, which was partly written by Steve Robson, who thus achieves the rare feat of having songs on three consecutive No.1 albums, as he was also involved with the Robbie Williams and Olly Murs albums, which have topped for the last two weeks.
Get Weird built on its impressive start to become the biggest selling of Little Mix's three albums to date. Although it never again matched the No.2 position in which it debuted, it has remained on the chart for 55 weeks, 20 of them in the Top 10, reaching a low of No.50 just seven weeks ago. Moving 31-29 in the latest chart, it sold 5,506 copies last week, raising its overall sales to 639,200. Little Mix's 2012 debut DNA, which debuted and peaked at No.3 (53,314 sales) has so far sold 403,116 copies, while follow-up Salute, which sold 35,281 copies when debuting and peaking at No.4 in 2013, has sold 337,722 copies.
Although Little Mix's first No.1 album, Glory Days is the third by an X Factor act to top the chart in four weeks - following James Arthur and Olly Murs latest album - making it the most concentrated hat trick of No.1 albums for graduates from the ITV show ever. It is the 24th No.1 album by an X Factor act; with Little Mix being the 16th such act (17th if we count Zayn solo as well as with One Direction) to have a No.1. With Little Mix's coronation, seven of the 12 winners of X Factor have had No.1 albums - Steve Brookstein, Shayne Ward, Leona Lewis, Alexandra Burke, James Arthur and Sam Bailey being the others - with No.2 peaks for Joe McElderry and Matt Cardle, a No.4 peak for Leon Jackson, and a No.10 peak for Ben Haenow. With the 2016 winner set to be crowned in three weeks, latest winner Louisa Johnson will become the first winner not to release an album when reigning champion, with her debut album pushed to 2017 after the comparative failure of her coronation single Forever Young (No.9) and follow-up So Good, which reached a high of No.13 last week but now dips to No.14 (24,907 sales). She has also been guest vocalist on Clean Bandit's No.5 hit Tears, although it is not clear whether or not that will feature on her first album.
Singles
1 Clean Bandit feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie 74,545 31,482 43,063
2 Rae Sremmurd feat. Gucci Mane 62,674
3 Little Mix 52,469
4 James Arthur 50,569
5 Maroon 5 feat. Kendrick Lamar 42,986
6 Bruno Mars 42,201
7 Neiked feat. Dyo 41,785
8 Weekend feat. Daft Punk 41,360
9 The Chainsmokers feat. Halsey 38,748
10 Hailee Steinfeld & Grey feat. Zedd 34,405
Albums
1 Little Mix 96,205 91,730 4,475
2 Metallica 57,769
3 Bruno Mars 52,334
4 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe 45,690
5 Elvis Presley 32,261
6 Olly Murs 28,599
7 Robbie Williams 20,812
8 Michael Buble 20,606
9 Emeli Sandé 20,193
10 Michael Buble [Christmas] 16,625
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