USA
Billboard Report (Excerpt)
'Recovery' reaches 5th week at No.1, Rick Ross comes in second
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
by Keith Caulfield, L.A. & Silvio Pietroluongo, N.Y.

Eminem makes it five weeks in a row at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as "Recovery" sells another 187,000 (down just 4%), according to Nielsen SoundScan. Rick Ross' "Teflon Don" arrives in the runner-

up spot with 176,000. Ross' last three studio albums all debuted at No. 1, with his last set, 2009's "Deeper Than Rap," arriving with 158,000. The opener for "Teflon" is Ross' best sales week since 2008's "Trilla" arrived with 198,000. A week ago industry observers had initially projected that Ross had a good shot at a No. 1 debut. However, "Recovery" held on strong with a small weekly sales decline. Chalk that up in part to its sale pricing at Target and Best Buy and the continued popularity of its single "Love the Way You Lie." The Billboard 200's second-highest debut is Sheryl Crow's "100 Miles From Memphis," which starts at No. 3 with 55,000. It's the singer's eighth top 10 album. All of her releases—save for one live set from 1999—have reached the top 10. The singer/songwriter's last effort, "Detours," debuted and peaked at No. 2 with 92,000 in 2008. It was her fourth set to peak at No. 2; she has yet to claim a No. 1 album. The "Kidz Bop Kids" series continues its profitable run on the Billboard 200 as "Kidz Bop 18" bounces in at No. 5 with 43,000. It's the 26th permutation of the "Kidz Bop" franchise to chart on the Billboard 200, including brand offshoots like "Kidz Bop Christmas" and "Kidz Bop Sings the Beatles." The new set is the 11th "Kidz Bop" title to reach the top 10. The Jonas Brothers' soundtrack to their Disney Channel TV series "Jonas L.A." surfs in at No. 7 with 32,000. The album is the eighth charting set for the brother trio. The act has so far released four studio sets, its "3D Concert Experience" soundtrack, two live EPs and the new "Jonas L.A." offering. As for the rest of the top 10, Drake's "Thank Me Later" falls one spot to No. 4 (47,000; down 6%), Justin Bieber's "My World 2.0" also drops one to No. 6 (39,000; down 5%), the "Now 34" compilation climbs four rungs to No. 8 (27,000; down less than 1%), Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now" rises two slots to No. 9 (25,000; down 8%), and Lady Gaga's "The Fame" hops forward three positions to No. 10 (24,000; down 9%). Overall album sales in this past chart week (ending July 25) totaled 5.3 million units, up 2% compared with the sum last week (5.2 million) and down 15% compared with the comparable sales week of 2009 (6.3 million). Year-to-date album sales stand at 169.7 million, down 12% compared with the same total at this point last year (193.2 million).
"Love The Way You Lie," Em's smash collabo with Rihanna, tops Hot Digital Songs for the fifth straight week. It sold 332,000 copies this week, bringing its five-week total to 1,620,000. It's only the third song in digital history to top 300.000 in weekly sales four times. It follows Flo Rida's "Right Round" and "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg. "California Gurls" by Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg tops the 3 million mark in paid downloads this week. It took just 11 weeks to reach this milestone, which ties Flo Rida's "Right Round" as the fastest that any song has reached 3 million in digital sales. This is Perry's third song to reach 3 million, following "I Kissed A Girl"  (3,833,000) and "Hot N Cold" (4,450,000). Here's the rest of the top 10 on Hot Digital Songs. Taio Cruz's "Dynamite" holds at No. 2 for the second week (223.000), Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg's "California Gurls" holds at No. 3 for the second week (190.000), Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull's "I Like It" jumps from No. 5 to No. 4 (183.000), B.o.B featuring Hayley Williams' "Airplanes" dips from No. 4 to No. 5 (153.000), Mike Posner's "Cooler Than Me" holds at No. 6 for the second week (137.000), Travie McCoy featuring Bruno Mars' "Billionaire" holds at No. 7 for the second week (137.000), Jason Derulo's "Ridin' Solo" holds at No. 8 for the sixth week (132.000), Eminem's "Not Afraid" hold at No. 9 for the fourth week (123.000) and Usher featuring will.i.am's "OMG" holds at No. 10 for the third week (96.000). Digital track sales this past week totaled 21 million downloads, up less than 1% compared with last week (20.9 million) and down 1% stacked next to the comparable week of 2009 (21.4 million). Year-to-date track sales are at 660.1 million, down 1% compared with the same total at this point last year (663.9 million).  COMPLETE CHARTS

United Kingdom
Music Week Report (Excerpt)
'We No Speak Americano' ... but Britain loves you ...
Monday, July 26, 2010
by Alan Jones, London

After climbing 5-2 last week, Australian act Yolanda Be Cool Vs. D Cup’s debut single We No Speak Americano surges to the summit, on sales of 89,107 copies. The track, which has already been no.1

in Denmark, The Netherlands, Sweden and Flanders, samples the late Renato Carosone’s 1956 recording Tu Vuò Fà L'Americano, and is sung predominantly in Italian, though it lapses into English for “I love you” and “whiskey soda”. Of 1,135 previous UK number ones since the chart’s 1952 inception, the only other number ones sung wholly or predominantly in a foreign tongue are: Oh Mein Papa by Eddie Calvert (1954, only lyric is the title, German), Je T’Aime...Moi Non Plus by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg (1967, French), Rock Me Amadeus by Falco (1986, mostly German, sporadic  English), La Bamba by Los Lobos (1987, Spanish), Sadness Part 1 by Enigma (1991, background vocals: Latin, foreground: French), and The Ketchup Song (Asereje) by Las Ketchup (2002, Spanish).
Doop’s self-titled 1994 chart-topper has its title repeated many times but although the group is Dutch and doop means baptism in Dutch, it is used in the track simply as a vocal ‘tic’ and not as a word. There are no new entries to the Top 10 this week, just a reshuffling of the pack. Last week’s number one, Airplanes, dips to number three (63,283 sales), while Love The Way You Lie, by Eminem feat. Rihanna, rebounds 3-2 (64,082 sales). Aside from Yolanda Be Cool, the only song in the Top 10 to increase sales week-on-week is Eliza Doolittle’s Pack Up, which rises 8-5 with sales up 20% at 45,279. The week’s highest debut is DJ Got Us Falling In Love (number 20, 14,484 sales) by Usher feat. Pitbull. In pursuit of his fourth top three hit in less than a year, Jason DeRulo’s What If climbs 40-19 (14,847 sales). Diana Vickers also makes a big move, with The Boy Who Murdered Love – follow-up to her chart-topping debut Once – jumping 57-36 (5,289 sales). DeRulo’s self-titled debut surprisingly retreats 24-25 (6,464 sales), while Vickers’ Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree catapults 42-13 (8,703 sales), achieving its best placing for 10 weeks. Singles sales are down 3.3% week-on-week at 2,726,637 – 8.75% above same week 2009 sales of 2,507,294.
The number one artist album, for the fourth time in five weeks, is Eminem’s latest, Recovery.  The album sold a further 41,593 copies last week, lifting its 34-day tally to 351,028, enough for it to rank ninth in the year-to-date chart. We suggested last week that Eminem had spent 15 weeks at the top of the album chart in the 21st century, a total inferior only to Robbie Williams (23 weeks) and Dido (17). In fact, with The Marshall Mathers LP, Encore and Relapse all spending two weeks at number one, The Eminem Show and Curtain Call – The Hits reigning for five weeks each and Recovery’s current run, Eminem has spent 20 weeks at number one, and that total rises to 21 if we also include the week that his group D12 spent at number one with their 2004 album D12 World. Kylie Minogue’s Aphrodite and Eliza Doolittle’s self-titled debut occupied second and third places last week, and now fall two notches each on sales of 21,504 and 21,231 respectively, pushed down by Professor Green, whose introductory album, Alive Till I’m Dead, debuts at number two (27,409 sales), and the 4-3 rise of Plan B’s The Defamation Of Strickland Banks (23,811 sales). With Eminem at one and Green at two, hip hop scores its second double – the only previous occasion in chart history when rap albums were at one and two was in week ending September 22 2007, when Kanye West was number one with Graduation, and 50 Cent was second with Curtis. Plan B’s R&B/hip-hop hybrid makes it an all-urban top three. While Mumford & Sons’ Sigh No More subsides 6-7 (14,865 sales) it is joined in the Top 20 by fellow folk/rock crossover act Seth Lakeman, whose Hearts & Minds debuts at number 17 (7,992 sales). It’s Lakeman’s second Top 20 album, following Poor Man’s Heaven, which debuted at number eight on sales of 12,522 in 2008. Into the album chart for the first time in the 21st century, Earth, Wind & Fire debut at number nine (11,361 sales) with their new Greatest Hits compilation. It’s their 11th chart album since their 1978 debut, and their highest charting album since The Collection reached number five in 1986. Thanks to Professor Green (Virgin) Kylie Minogue and Eliza Doolittle (both Parlophone), EMI has 3 albums in the top five, equalling its 21st century best. It has achieved the feat on eight previous occasions since 2000, most recently last September, courtesy of Jamie T, David Guetta and The Beatles. 3OH3! reached only number 77 with last album Want but follow-up Streets Of Gold debuts at number 19 (7,545 sales), following the band’s success with Don’t Trust Me, Katy Perry collaboration Starstrukk (which has sold 525,408 copies), and current single My First Kiss (feat. Ke$ha), all of which are included. Now That’s What I Call Music! 75 has sold fewer than 600,000 copies to date, less than any of its 11 immediate predecessors and follow-up Now! 76 is off to a slower start. Including 10 number one hits among its 46 tracks, it achieved first-week sales of 249,195 last week – 1.54% below Now! 75’s first week tally of 253,081, and 9.27% down on its 2009 equivalent Now! 73’s first week tally of 274,661. Overall album sales last week improved 7.3% to 2,027,196 – 0.46% above same week 2009 sales of 2,017,820.  COMPLETE CHARTS