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CHART COMMENTARY by ALAN JONES
With notable exceptions like Boyzone and Take That, boy bands rarely achieve album sales commensurate with their singles success. Five look like making that leap too, if initial sales of their self-titled debut album are anything to go by - and maybe 911 too. Two weeks ago, we were citing the number 10 debut of 911's latest single, How Do You Want Me To Love You, as a big disappointment, coming, as it did, after they had scored five consecutive top five hit singles. In the circumstances, their debut at number 10 on the album chart this week with their second LP, Moving On, is a bit of a triumph. Containing the hits Party People...Friday Night and All I Want Is You as well as How Do You Want Me to Love You, it sold nearly 12,500 copies last week, and has already eclipsed the number 13 peak of their debut album The Journey.
Underlining the difference between the US and UK markets, the Def Squad album El Nino enters the Billboard chart at number two this week with sales of more than 140,000. In Britain it sold less than...