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Note: Helping Haiti fund; Glee TV programme
A NEW NAME TOPS the singles chart this week, while a more familiar presence reasserts itself on the album chart.
Singles chart honours go to Jason Derulo, whose second release In My Head sold 68,134 copies to debut at the summit. The 20-year-newcomer's first single Whatcha Say debuted and peaked at number three last November, with first-week sales of 66,737. Both songs are on Derulo's eponymous debut album, which drops today (Monday). His coronation is something of a Haiti handover - although born in Florida, the singer was born to Haitian parents, and his song replaces the Helping Haiti charity single Everybody Hurts, which takes a 1-9 tumble (33,084 sales) - the biggest for a number one single since McFly's Baby's Coming Back/Transylvania slumped 1-20 on 26 May 2007. In My Head is the third number one single in just three months to be produced and co-written by South African-born, Canadian raised Israeli Jonathan 'JR' Rotem, who also helmed the desk on JLS's Everybody In Love and Iyaz's Replay.
Derulo's number one debut was hard earned - in early midweek flashes the Florence/Dizzee Rascal collaboration You Got The Dirtee Love was ahead but it eventually faded, remaining at number two on sales of 61,788 copies.
Meanwhile, although Suga-babes' line-up has changed entirely since its 2000 debut Overload, the band notionally racks up its 26th hit - all of them Top 40, and 18 of them Top 10 entries - with Wear My Kiss, the third single from upcoming album Sweet 7, debuting at number seven on sales of 38,209 copies.
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