Tulisa - Young

[Supernatural]

#1 UK ~122k

[jpguy]

#1 UK ~122k

[sambo9]

Wow, fantastic sales! So deserved! (This is already my 2nd most played song since January 2011!)

[topopMAC1]

From the Official Charts Company:

Tulisa scores fastest selling debut smash hit of 2012 with Young
06/05/2012
By Lauren Kreisler



Tulisa crowns a victorious week by today securing a debut solo Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart with Young, and lays her hands on her first Official Number 1 Award.

Earlier this week the N-Dubz singer and X Factor judge scooped FHM’s Sexiest Woman In The World gong, and today goes one even better as she scores a chart topping smash hit with new solo single Young, and claims an Official Number 1 Award from the Official Charts Company.

The highest new entry of the week, Tulisa has racked up an impressive first week tally of nearly 122,000 copies, which makes Young the second fastest selling single of 2012 so far. DJ Fresh & Rita Ora still hold the overall record this year with 128,000 sales of Hot Right Now in its first week on sale back in February.

“Congratulations to Tulisa on scoring a Number 1 with Young - especially given that she has also racked up the fastest selling debut single of the year so far,” comments Martin Talbot, the Official Charts Company’s Managing Director. “It’s a fantastic start to her solo career and a deserving recipient of the Official Number 1 Award!”

Tulisa is pictured today back stage at Britian’s Got Talent in London with her Official Number 1 Award – the new award scheme launched by the Official Charts Company and BBC Radio 1 in what is the 60th anniversary year of the Official Singles Chart. The new brushed aluminium trophy is now presented to artists to mark the special achievement of a Number 1 single on the UK’s Official Singles Chart.

Tulisa ends Carly Rae Jepsen’s four-week stint at Number 1 and manages to equal N-Dubz bandmate Dappy who also scored a chart topper with his debut solo material last summer. However, the track, which was co-written by Tulisa’s ex-boyfriend and N-Dubz bandmate Fazer, wasn’t originally intended for her.

"It was one of those ones I heard in the studio, and I was like, 'I have to have this song’,” she revealed in an interview with BBC Radio 2. “It was meant for someone else, I'm not going to say who it was meant for, who they pictured it for, but I nicked it!”

"They didn't even get a chance to pitch it to the [other singer],” she added. “It wasn't even finished and I was like, 'I'm having that song, give it to me!’."

Carly Rae Jepsen has now slipped into second place but still with a high sale of over 80,000 in Call Me Maybe’s fifth week on chart. Fun and Janelle Monae’s We Are Young is a non-mover at 3, while former chart toppers Cover Drive debut at Number 4 with their new track, Sparks. Alex Clare’s Too Closeclimbs yet another place this week to achieve its highest chart position to date at Number 5.

New entries and high climbers

Tulisa (1) and Cover Drive (4) lead six new entries on the Official Singles Chart today. Rihanna’s Where Have You Been is at 21, followed by Sub Focus FT Alice Gold at 23 with Out The Blue, with Avicii’s Silhouettes at 26 and Flux Pavilion’s Daydreamer at 39.

However, talent show contestant Tyler James’ performance on The Voice last weekend sends James Vincent McMorrow’s 2011 release Higher Love, shooting up 125 places into the Top 40 at Number 37.

[UKMusicLova]

Fantastic sales! Such a great summer track, she deserved this success

[PosziMC2]

Get it Tulisa! So happy right now

[LJC123]

She needs to sack her stylist. Pronto.

[lenor]

Congrats to her!

however.....

was so arkward just watching her trying to perform this song on BGT. Awful!

From her terrible dress, dodgy vocals, to her arkward dance moves, it was horrible!

[sambo9]

It was not good.

You can so tell that this song doesn't suit her at all.

[lenor]

OMG!!!!

still cant believe how shockingly bad her performance was!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZJPcdZdEdw

awful.

[UKMusicLova]

For a 1st solo performance I think it was alright!

Her vocals were solid enough and for someone who never has done the choreography thing (it's blatently not her thing) she gave it her best!

[Thriller]

Awful performance! The vocal was OK but she looked horrendous, it made her legs look fat and stumpy and the set/production made the song seem really cheap.

Great sales as expected.

[jpguy]

I think she was OK... Obviously one of my fav UK singles lately !!! She's cool... I love the video!

[matthew_dixon]

OMG!!!!

still cant believe how shockingly bad her performance was!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZJPcdZdEdw

awful.

Sorry, but I have to agree with lenor - that performance was dreadfully out of tune, and it was telling that the audience didn't cheer anywhere near as much as they had done for a number of the acts, and unlike your traditional "Talent show etiquette", the judges did NOT give her a standing ovation.

[Noahh]

Woo for #1 and wow great sales!

About the performance, I didn't think it was that bad actually! I liked it.

[toni_pest]

That was one awful performance. Her dancing looked really awkward, her vocals were weak,...

[johnny_d]

For a 1st solo performance I think it was alright

Definitely wasn't her first. She performed solo at G-A-Y on Saturday 28th April. She wasn't too amazing at that either!

[topopMAC1]

I didn't think it was THAT bad. The outfit was pretty awful (the shoes?!!!) and you could tell she was nervous.

I thought, overall, the vocal was fine (bar a couple of parts) although I've noticed her voice has been a lot huskier the last week. She's either got a sore throat or she needs to cut down on the smoking because I've heard her sound better. The little bit of choreography was OK too, she's not a dancer. I was surprised to see her do any!

[crazyman324]

The outfit was awful and the overall "choreography" was pretty awkward. Thought she sounded pretty good though. Would have been better to just stand in a nice dress with a mic stand - which says something for an upbeat dance song.

[aaliyahman]

Congrats to her!

however.....

was so arkward just watching her trying to perform this song on BGT. Awful!

From her terrible dress, dodgy vocals, to her arkward dance moves, it was horrible!

[Mike_54]

Her vocals were quite good, and that's what matters for me...She looked extremley HOT also!!

Performnace(dance parts) were definetley awkward, but that's what you get when urban artist goes all dance....

[alxx]

It was no worse than an average Rihanna performance.

[sambo9]

It was no worse than an average Rihanna performance.

Yes, and with better vocals. (IMO!)

[aaliyahman]

It was no worse than a Rihanna performance.

[neoepzilon]

It was better than a Rihanna performance.