UK Album Chart

Albums:

1 1 5 Robbie Williams Swings Both Ways
2 2 4 One Direction Midnight Memories
3 3 4 Gary Barlow Since I Saw You Last
4 4 56 Olly Murs Right Place Right Time (53wks T75)
5 5 2 Beyoncé BEYONCÉ
6 15 63 Ellie Goulding Halcyon
7 8 6 Celine Dion Loved Me Back To Life
8 6 36 Michael Bublé To Be Loved
9 7 24 Michael Bublé Christmas (23wks T75)
10 25 6 The Killers Direct Hits
11 10 7 Elvis Presley The Nation's Favourite Elvis Songs
12 11 4 Boyzone BZ20
13 12 32 Rod Stewart Time
14 9 7 Eminem The Marshall Mathers LP 2
15 13 3 Leona Lewis Christmas, With Love
16 16 3 Il Divo A Musical Affair
17 20 3 Rebecca Ferguson Freedom
18 23 15 Arctic Monkeys AM
19 14 6 Little Mix Salute
20 17 9 Katy Perry PRISM
21 19 7 James Arthur James Arthur
22 26 14 Rod Stewart Merry Christmas, Baby
23 18 7 André Rieu & His Johann Strauss Orchestra Music Of The Night
24 24 4 Susan Boyle Home For Christmas
25 21 9 James Blunt Moon Landing
26 28 42 Bastille Bad Blood
27 36 10 John Newman Tribute
28 32 15 London Grammar If You Wait
29 27 54 Bruno Mars Unorthodox Jukebox
30 22 6 Alfie Boe Trust
31 39 26 Tom Odell Long Way Down
32 34 6 Keane The Best Of
33 31 5 Jake Bugg Shangri La
34 41 14 Avicii True
35 29 6 Lady Gaga ARTPOP
36 37 13 Kings Of Leon Mechanical Bull
37 30 6 Cliff Richard The Fabulous Rock 'N' Roll Songbook
38 43 46 Boyzone Back Again... No Matter What (34wks T75)
39 33 13 Jessie J Alive
40 38 7 The Overtones Saturday Night At The Movies
41 42 3 Simply Red Song Book 1985-2010
42 35 3 Richard & Adam The Christmas Album
43 45 97 Emeli Sandé Our Version Of Events
44 44 65 Mumford & Sons Babel
45 40 5 JLS Goodbye - The Greatest Hits
46 48 34 Rudimental Home
47 46 11 Miley Cyrus Bangerz
48 52 12 HAIM Days Are Gone
49 47 109 One Direction Up All Night
50 49 58 One Direction Take Me Home
51 50 38 Passenger All The Little Lights (36wks T75)
52 61 8 Lorde Pure Heroine
53 54 16 The 1975 The 1975
54 60 4 Eagles Selected Works 1972-1999 (3wks T75)
55 56 62 Jake Bugg Jake Bugg
56 51 33 Caro Emerald The Shocking Miss Emerald (25wks T75)
57 58 8 Arcade Fire Reflektor
58 55 6 Daniel O'Donnell A Picture Of You
59 63 13 Drake Nothing Was The Same
60 59 6 The Beatles On Air - Live At The BBC Volume 2
61 68 31 Daft Punk Random Access Memories (30wks T75)
62 97 60 Calvin Harris 18 Months (54wks T75 (RE))
63 79 133 Fleetwood Mac The Very Best Of (104wks T75 (RE))
64 73 29 Disclosure Settle (28wks T75)
65 74 7 Shane Filan You And Me
66 62 4 Mary J. Blige A Mary Christmas
67 88 7 Tinie Tempah Demonstration (6wks T75 (RE))
68 53 4 Dido Greatest Hits
69 94 531 ABBA Gold - Greatest Hits (459wks T75 (RE))
70 67 38 Imagine Dragons Night Visions
71 65 7 Bob Dylan The Very Best Of
72 64 10 Jonathan & Charlotte Perhaps Love
73 83 112 Rod Stewart Some Guys Have All The Luck (71wks T75 (RE))
74 86 24 David Bowie The Next Day (16wks T75 (RE))
75 71 56 The Lumineers The Lumineers (54wks T75)

 After becoming the 10th winner of the competition but after running a little ahead of Robbie

Williams' Swings Both Ways all week, One Direction - who finished third in the 2010 competition - faltered at the final hurdle, with third album Midnight Memories remaining at number two instead of reclaiming the throne. Ironically, the programme which has served to damage The X Factor's Saturday night dominance all year - Strictly Come Dancing - undoubtedly provided the necessary swing for Williams to ease past One Direction. With the end of the sales week just 160 minutes away, Williams took to the screen to perform Puttin' On The Ritz, helping to boost last minute digital downloads of the album. In the week as a whole, Swings Both Ways sold 126,330 copies - just 162 up on its previous personal best set a week earlier - to top the chart for the third time in five weeks. Holding at number two, Midnight Memories sold 126,146 copies. The gap of 184 between the top two was the smallest since Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events outsold Joe Bonamassa's Driving Towards The Daylightby just

85 copies to deny the prolific American bluesman his first number one album in June 2012. Like Robbie Williams and One Direction, the rest of last week's top five remain unmoved. Gary Barlow's Since I Saw You Last increases sales by 10.81% to 116,730 (its best yet, 579 more than its opening week) as it holds at number three; Olly Murs' Right Place Right Time is number four for the fourth week in a row since being expanded, and in the top five for the second Christmas in a row, with sales up 17.99% week-on-week at 98,249; and Beyonce's eponymous new album continues at number five. The album debuted in that position last week on the basis of just two days of digital sales. It came out on CD last week, but despite the fact that it sold 16,690 copies in that format, its overall

sales were down by two (!) at 67,856. Tracks from Beyonce also became available as individual downloads for the first time, and four of them made the Top 200 - Drunk In Love (feat. Jay-Z) at number 57 (5,747 sales), Mine (feat. Drake) at number 89 (3,177 sales), Pretty Hurts at number 123 (2,200 sales) and Xo at number 177 (1,540 sales). In what has been an incredibly tough year, the rest of the Top 10 sold upwards of 50,000 for the first time - Ellie Goulding's Halcyon hurtles 15-6 (64,208 sales), Celine Dion's Loved Me Back To Life climbs 8-7 (63,925 sales), Michael Buble bubbles 6-8 (63,843 sales) with To Be Loved and 7-9 (61.719 sales) with Christmas, and The Killers' Direct Hits powers 25-10 (53,040 sales). It is nine years to the week since the biggest ever number 10 sale of 161,849 - more than three times The Killers' tally - for Madonna's Confessions On A Dance Floor. Christmas is on the verge of becoming Michael Buble's second album to sell upwards of 2m copies, with a to-date tally of 1,987,563. His 2009 album Crazy Love has sold 3,040,144 copies. Overall album sales last week were up 13.21% at 4,598,813. It is the 10th week in a row they have increased, and the fifth week in a row they have smashed their 2013 record. However, they are 16.80% below same week 2012 sales of 5,527,603. In the same week in 2005, album sales reached their all-time peak of 10,581,571 - 120.09% higher than last week. In that week, 16 artist albums topped the 100,000 sales mark, compared to just three last week