It does so despite a 37.0% dip in sales week-on-week to 73,770, primarily because last week's new release schedule was one of the weakest in living memory, throwing up nothing with sufficiently broad appeal to dent the Top 40, let alone challenge for number one.

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The Wanted aren't the only becalmed act in a freakishly quiet market - the entire top five is made up of non-movers for the first time ...