Take That and
JLS make a bit of a boy band compromise this week, as the former have a massive week with
Progress, their sixth studio album—and their
first with Robbie Williams since 1995—and the latter take hold of the UK singles chart with
"Love You More."Progress sold roughly 520,000 copies after its release this past Monday, the most for any album in one week in the UK since
Oasis'
Be Here Now moved 663,000 copies in 1997. Meanwhile, Take That's lead single off the LP,
"The Flood", is at #2 on the singles chart for a second week. Debuting at
#1 is JLS' Children In Need charity single "Love You More", which has now become the
X Factor alums' fourth chart-topper in the past year-and-a-half.
Elsewhere, it's amateur hour for the blandest boy band on the planet,
Westlife, as their latest cure for insomnia "Safe" flops at
#10. It's now been four years since the low-rent Irish noise makers had a #1 single, and you have to wonder at this point why they don't just hang it up and go live out their boring lives outside of public eye?
Sorry, gents—you can work with
John Shanks, producer of the last two Take That albums, but you'll just never be Take That.
On a final note, it's a sad week for
Shayne Ward, whose
"Gotta Be Somebody" drops from #12 to
#24 while third LP
Obsession limps into the album chart at
#15, and Manchester duo
Hurts, whose latest single
"Stay" crashes and burns at
#50.
The U.K. Top 10:
1. "Love You More" -
JLS *new* *1 week* 2. "The Flood" -
Take That 3. "Your Song" -
Ellie Goulding 4. "Only Girl (In The World)" -
Rihanna 5. "Firework" -
Katy Perry 6. "Like A G6" -
Far East Movement feat. The Cataracs & Dev *new* 7. "The Time (The Dirty Bit)" -
The Black Eyed Peas 8. "Happiness" -
Alexis Jordan 9. "Shine A Light" -
McFly feat. Taio Cruz 10. "Safe" -
Westlife *new*
