With several targeted collections doing well, the compilations market felt a bigger uplift from the Mother's Day effect - 51.8%, more than double the 25.7% increase in artist album sales - but sales of the new number one compilation, You Raise Me Up 2006, were just 34,392, a total surpassed by all of the top six artist albums.

The only album in the artist Top 20 not to increase sales week-on-week was The Feeling's Join With Us, which suffered a ...