The five-piece boyband - who are only the eighth act ever to achieve this feat - have sold over 900,000 copies of their latest effort since its release and currently sit at second place on the album chart of the year so far behind Lady GaGa's The Fame.

Last year's X Factor runner-up Olly Murs also makes a record breaking appearance with his self-titled album, which posted the biggest first week sales for a debut artist of 2010 thus far, after shifting over 108,000 copies.

Also arriving in the top ten this week are Camden-based hip-hop group N-Dubz, who settle in at seven with Love Live Life, and Welsh songstress Duffy, whose sophomore effort Endlessly lands at nine.

Elsewhere on this week's rankings, The Black Eyed Peas return with their sixth studio album The Beginning, which debuts at 18, and after three consecutive weeks of falling Rumer's Seasons Of My Soul manages to climb back into the top half of the chart after advancing five spots to 20.

The top ten in full:

1. (1) Take That: 'Progress'
2. (-) Olly Murs: 'Olly Murs'
3. (2) JLS: 'Outta This World'
4. (5) Rihanna: 'Loud'
5. (4) Susan Boyle: 'The Gift'
6. (7) Bon Jovi: 'Greatest Hits'
7. (-) N-Dubz: 'Love Live Life'
8. (10) Michael Bublé : 'Crazy Love'
9. (-) Duffy: 'Endlessly'
10. (6) André Rieu & Johann Strauss Orchestra: 'Moonlight Serenade'
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music....rt.html

более 900,000 всего и это второй альбом в 2010 по продажам. Через неделю должны обойти ЛедиГагу и первыми (и, возможно, последними) в году разменять британский миллион копий.

The boy band are currently at number one with 'Progress', but the odds have shortened on Jackson claiming a posthumous chart hit with new album 'Michael'.

Released this month, the LP includes collaborations with the likes of Akon, Lenny Kravitz and 50 Cent, and was finished after the star's death.

Take That are currently 4/7 favourites to beat Jackson (7/4) to the top of the Christmas album chart.

“t will take a very big name to knock Take That off the number one spot but Michael Jackson could do it from beyond the grave, assuming of course that it is Michael Jackson singing on the album," said William Hill spokesman Rupert Adams.

Take That's 'Progress', which is the group's first album in fifteen years to feature Robbie Williams, is currently spending its third week at number one.
http://www.gigwise.com/news....ber-One

Take That’s Progress has become the first album in 2010 to break through 1m sales in the UK.

It hit seven figures yesterday as it also overtook fellow Polydor release The Fame by Lady GaGa to become the biggest-selling album of the year to date, according to OCC Data.

Progress, which up until yesterday had sold 1.009m units domestically, has taken 24 days to reach 1m sales compared to its predecessor The Circus managing to reach the landmark in 19 days two years ago.

The first album by the band since 1995 to feature Robbie Williams, Progress debuted at number one last month with 518,601 sales, the highest opening tally for any album since Oasis’s Be Here Now in 1997. It sold 208,219 and 176,881 units respectively the following two weeks and has already surpassed 100,000 this week as it heads to a fourth successive week at number one.

Although it has now been overtaken as 2010’s biggest album, Lady GaGa’s The Fame is also expected to reach 1m sales this year in the next few days, having by yesterday moved its tally up to 990,000. The album was 2009’s second top seller, finishing behind Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream with nearly 1.4m sales.

на 15% увеличились продажи

на следующей неделе увеличатся еще, а потом еще, ибо Рождество.

в общем к Новому Году как минимум 1,6 млн можно считать свершившимся фактом. Поздравляю =)