2006 in British music charts

none June 2021 article April 2007 2006 British music charts This is a summary of 2006 in music in the United Kingdom including the official single and album charts. Summary At both ends of the year, the chart was dominated by acts from series 2 and series 3 of The X Factor: former contestants Shayne Ward, Chico Slimani and Leona Lewis had number one singles, with Ward and Journey South both enjoying number-one albums. A number of pop acts from the 1990s enjoyed comebacks, with Take That in particular having chart and touring success; Emma Bunton and All Saints also returned to the charts. The internet had an increased impact on music. Sandi Thom and Lily Allen both had massive success off the back of initial exposure on the web,The year in music: 2006 BBC News, 26 December 2006 Many artists used MySpace to spread their music to the wider world Downloaded music also began to dominate the charts, with sales of legal downloads rising from less than six million in 2004 to over 50 million in 2006. When the rules changed, "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley became the first song to top the singles chart on the basis of downloads alone. From the beginning of 2007, 'physical' copies of a song no longer need to be issued for a song to chart which raises the possibility of golden oldies entering the charts on the back of downloads alone. The rise of the internet's influence contrasted with the end of some other long running pop media. Smash Hits magazine, the traditional live Saturday morning kids' programmes on BBC & ITV and Top of the Pops television show all ended in 2006; Top of the Pops had been broadcasting on the BBC since 1964 whilst the Saturday morning kids shows had been broadcasting on the BBC & ITV since 1968 with Smash! Hits being published since 1978. Chronological Review In January, X Factor winner Shayne Ward held on to the top spot in the single chart with his debut "That's My Goal" for three weeks. Ward later went on to top the charts with his debut album in April, on the back of his reality TV show success. Meanwhile, The Strokes and HARD-Fi both got their first number one albums in January, the Strokes previously having two number twos. Arctic Monkeys were the big story, with their second single "When the Sun Goes Down" repeating the feat of their debut and reaching number one. A week later their debut album, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not", sold over 360,000 copies in its first week. It stayed at number one for four weeks. Arctic Monkeys were also big winners at the NME Awards, taking home three awards.https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4745358.stm BBC News Arctic Monkeys hottest act at NME 24 February 2006 22 April 2010 They picked up Best Single for "I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor", Best New Band and Best Group. Other winners included Kanye West, singer Ricky Wilson and the Kaiser Chiefs who despite being nominated for six awards only came away with one for Best Album. The 2006 BRIT Awards were dominated by 'new' acts, with the Kaiser Chiefs winning 3 awards, including 'Best Group', and James Blunt coming away with two. Other big winners were Coldplay, who had the best album and single, and Green Day. The pop band All Saints announced that they would be reforming, five years after they had split in 2001.All Saints reunite | News | NME.COM Another return came from Leo Sayer, who hit number one 29 years after his previous chart topper, with a remix of the single "Thunder in My Heart". Smash Hits magazine, however, left the music business after 28 years of covering pop music. Later in the year, Top of the Pops also ended, after 42 years on British television. It had been losing ratings for the past five years, having been usurped by music television. The traditional live Saturday morning children's programmes ended too, after 38 years on BBC & ITV. Again, they had been losing ratings for the past 4 years, for the same reason. The other number ones in the start of the year went to Madonna, with her 12th chart-topper "Sorry", and to US rapper The Notorious B.I.G. in February, who climbed to number one. The song was a re-working of his debut single "Nasty Girl" (which features guest appearances from Jagged Edge, P. Diddy, Nelly, and Avery Storm). He died in 1997, but this is the first time he has scored a #1 and just under a year after "rival" rapper 2Pac had also achieved his first #1 with "Ghetto Gospel". Chico Slimani, who had finished fifth in the X Factor, went straight to number one with "It's Chico Time", holding on to the top spot for two weeks in March. Orson climbed to the top of the singles chart successfully knocked Chico off the top spot with their song "No Tomorrow". With a new chart rule stating that singles on downloads alone may enter the chart a week before their full release, Ne-Yo was the first act who managed to climb from #18 to #1, one week after it was released on downloads alone, with his debut single So Sick. Embrace entered to #2 that week with their new single "Nature's Law", making it their biggest single to date. However, it only failed to reach #1 due to a large count of legal downloads which didn't register in the official charts. The following week, their fifth studio album This New Day became their third album to reach #1 in the UK Albums Chart. Other acts that benefited from the change in rules included The Black Eyed Peas, Pink, Liz McClarnon, Girls Aloud, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, James Blunt, Joey Negro, Sean Paul and Nelly. The following week, Gnarls Barkley became the first act to top the singles chart on downloads alone, with Crazy. This was the start of huge success for the duo, who went on to top the singles charts for 9 weeks, as well as the album chart for a week and also the UK Official Download Chart for an outstanding 11 weeks making it the longest stay on the UK Official Download Chart history. However, the single version of Crazy was deliberately deleted on 28 May in order to stop the single's welcome being overstayed. "Crazy" was the first single to top the UK singles chart for nine weeks consecutively since 1994 when Wet Wet Wet's "Love Is All Around" was number one for fifteen weeks (the last song to spend exactly nine weeks on top was "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood in 1984). But, Crazy's nine-week run at number one came to an end when singer/songwriter Sandi Thom finally knocked it off number one with her debut single I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair). 2006 also saw Morrissey return to the top of the album chart for the first time in 12 years with "Ringleader of the Tormentors". Thom occupied the number one spot for a solitary week before being replaced by Nelly Furtado, who climbed to number one with Maneater and maintained her position the following 3 weeks. On 18 June 2006 there were five England Football World Cup songs in the top 13 in the Official UK Singles Chart. This included the official single by Embrace, a parody of the Dad's Army theme by the Tonedef Allstars and the former number 1 single Three Lions, which topped the chart in both 1996 and 1998. The festival season was marked by the absence of Glastonbury, which was taking a 'fallow year'. Headliners at the major festivals included: The Who and Red Hot Chili Peppers at T in the Park; Coldplay and the Foo Fighters at the Isle of Wight Festival; Metallica and Guns N' Roses at Download Festival; Radiohead and Kasabian at V Festival; The Prodigy and Goldfrapp at Creamfields; Daft Punk and Groove Armada at Global Gathering 2006; The Who and The Strokes at the Wireless Festival; and Pearl Jam and Muse at the Carling Weekend. This would turn out to be the penultimate year, that the much disputed sponsorship deal by the brewery would take place, and would go on to be the start of the brewery's decline in the UK live music scene, as it suddenly lost its sponsorship deals for gig venues to LiveNation and O2 Following Nelly Furtado's 3 weeks on top for the first time, both Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean's Hips Don't Lie and Lily Allen's Smile enjoyed a first time at the top of the UK singles chart summit with Shakira's smash hit and Lily Allen's debut single. Another debut single to be released was German dance group Cascada's Everytime We Touch which went on to peak at #2, as Hips Don't Lie held them of the top spot. It ended 2006 as being the UK's fifteenth best selling single. Pop band McFly scored their fifth UK number one single Don't Stop Me Now/Please, Please but the following week dropped to number 6 in the top 40. The week after Shakira climbed back on top with "Hips Don't Lie", the first time since 2004's single Call on Me by Eric Prydz to return to the top. July also saw first time number one albums for the Lostprophets and Razorlight. In August, it was an American female double on top of both charts, with Christina Aguilera's Back To Basics topping the album chart, and the following week former Destiny's Child star Beyoncé Knowles scored her second (fourth, including her career with the group) number one single with Deja Vu along with her boyfriend Jay-Z. September kicked off with another American act at #1 in both charts, this time former 'N Sync star Justin Timberlake with his comeback single SexyBack and with his second album FutureSex/LoveSounds. He had previously has three number two records and this is his first #1 single as a solo artist and as part of 'N Sync. The following week the Scissor Sisters managed to score their first UK #1 with I Don't Feel Like Dancin' and is third highest seller (so far) of this year. They also scored their second #1 in the album chart with Ta-Dah, therefore topping both the album and singles chart at the same time (the last act to manage that was Gnarls Barkley with Crazy and St. Elsewhere). In October, Girls Aloud became the first British act (sixth act overall) to enter the UK Top 10 on downloads alone when Something Kinda Ooooh charted at #5 on 22 October. The following week it climbed to #3, but they were beaten to number one by McFly with their sixth number one Star Girl. We also saw #1 albums from The Killers, Robbie Williams, Girls Aloud and Jamiroquai. November saw Dutch DJ and producer Fedde Le Grand manage to get his first UK #1 with Put Your Hands Up For Detroit, while Westlife were still breaking records with their 14 number one The Rose. Westlife didn't last long at the top and later got replaced by rapstar Akon with Smack That which featured the rap music legend Eminem; this was Akon's second and Eminem's seventh number one single. In November and early December, the charts were dominated by boy bands. Ten years since their last number one single, Take That managed to reclaim their position on top of the singles chart with Patience. Meanwhile, Westlife's number one streak continued with their sixth #1 album The Love Album beating compilation albums from Oasis, The Beatles and U2. This was then knocked off the top by Take That's album Beautiful World. These remained on top of the charts for two more weeks. During this time there were hit singles from Emma Bunton's Official Children in Need song Downtown, Chris Cornell's You Know My Name which was used in Casino Royale, Cliff Richard's 21st Century Christmas and Wind It Up from No Doubt front woman Gwen Stefani. The X Factor was won by Leona Lewis, beating former child actor Raymond Quinn in the final. She became the first female winner of the show. Her debut single "A Moment Like This" was chosen for whoever won the competition and was released on download the day after the final, selling 50,000 copies in its first half-hour,LEONA'S THE DIVA OF DOWNLOADS – The Daily Record more than most songs this year achieved in a whole week. Record sales Single sales bounced back in 2006 as legal downloads added nearly thirty million sales to the total for the year. Despite this, the 17,694 copies sold during its week at number one gave Orson's "No Tomorrow" the distinction of being the lowest sales ever of a chart topper.Record-Breakers and Trivia – everyHit.com https://web.archive.org/web/20110830151858/http://www.everyhit.com/record4.html 30 August 2011 However 2006 also saw one song achieve sales of over half a million in its first week, Leona Lewis's song "A Moment Like This" sold 571,992 copies. Although not the biggest first week sales of any of the UK television talent show winners it was still a remarkable figure when total sales of individual records were generally in decline. As of year end, Gnarls Barkley's single "Crazy", had sold over 800,000 (plus an additional 40,000+ before it became chart eligible) to become the best selling single of 2006, while Leona Lewis had the second biggest seller of the year and enjoyed a second week at number one as 2006 became 2007. The rest of the top five best sellers saw Shakira at three with over 500,000 copies sold in what was a very long chart run, Scissor Sisters were fourth and Sandi Thom was fifth in the overall sales list. Charts Number-one singles Chart date(week ending) Song Artist(s) Sales 7 January "That's My Goal" Shayne Ward 132,284 14 January 54,152 21 January 31,724 28 January "When the Sun Goes Down" Arctic Monkeys 34,992 4 February "Nasty Girl"The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge & Avery Storm 27,482 11 February 24,854 18 February "Thunder in My Heart Again" Meck featuring Leo Sayer 36,185 25 February 33,635 4 March "Sorry" Madonna 36,928 11 March "It's Chico Time" Chico 51,000 18 March 29,000 25 March "No Tomorrow" Orson 17,694 1 April "So Sick" Ne-Yo 28,287 8 April "Crazy"Gnarls Barkley 31,709 15 April 194,179 22 April 118,714 29 April 76,114 6 May 69,202 13 May 50,163 20 May 42,968 27 May 40,000 3 June 37,682 10 June "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)" Sandi Thom 39,797 17 June "Maneater" Nelly Furtado 48,724 24 June 42,859 1 July 34,537 8 July "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean 32,584 15 July "Smile" Lily Allen 39,501 22 July 35,228 29 July "Don't Stop Me Now" / "Please, Please" McFly 36,469 5 August "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean 29,109 12 August 33,400 19 August 28,638 26 August 29,955 2 September "Déjà Vu" Beyoncé featuring Jay Z 29,365 9 September "SexyBack" Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland 49,556 16 September "I Don't Feel Like Dancin" Scissor Sisters 66,757 23 September 56,044 30 September 42,310 7 October 32,338 14 October "America" Razorlight 32,753 21 October "Welcome to the Black Parade" My Chemical Romance 33,883 28 October 29,201 4 November "Star Girl" McFly 54,802 11 November "Put Your Hands Up for Detroit" Fedde Le Grand 34,391 18 November "The Rose" Westlife 44,305 25 November "Smack That" Akon featuring Eminem 35,119 2 December "Patience" Take That 61,978 9 December 38,337 16 December 37,894 23 December 30,833 30 December "A Moment Like This" Leona Lewis 571,253 Number-one single downloads Chart date(week ending) Song Artist(s) 7 January "That's My Goal" Shayne Ward 14 January "JCB Song" Nizlopi 21 January 28 January "Nasty Girl" The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge & Avery Storm 4 February 11 February "Boys Will Be Boys" The Ordinary Boys 18 February "Thunder in My Heart Again" Meck featuring Leo Sayer 25 February 4 March "Put Your Records On" Corinne Bailey Rae 11 March 18 March "No Tomorrow" Orson 25 March "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley 1 April 8 April 15 April 22 April 29 April 6 May 13 May 20 May 27 May 3 June 10 June "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)" Sandi Thom 17 June "Maneater" Nelly Furtado 24 June 1 July 8 July 15 July "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean 22 July 29 July 5 August 12 August "SexyBack" Justin Timberlake featuring Timbaland 19 August "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean 26 August "I Don't Feel Like Dancin" Scissor Sisters 2 September 9 September 16 September 23 September 30 September 7 October 14 October "America" Razorlight 21 October 28 October 4 November "Star Girl" McFly 11 November "Put Your Hands Up for Detroit" Fedde Le Grand 18 November "Rock Steady" All Saints 25 November "Patience" Take That 2 December 9 December 16 December 23 December "A Moment Like This" Leona Lewis 30 December Number-one albums Chart date(week ending) Album Artist Sales 7 January Curtain Call: The Hits Eminem 58,369 14 January First Impressions of Earth The Strokes 63,046 21 January Back to BedlamJames Blunt 35,385 28 JanuaryStars of CCTVHard-Fi 50,310 4 February Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm NotArctic Monkeys 363,735 11 February 162,169 18 February 95,007 25 February 79,241 4 March In Between Dreams Jack Johnson 46,749 11 March Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae 108,181 18 March On an Island David Gilmour 83,060 25 March Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae 50,732 1 April Journey South Journey South 216,843 8 April This New Day Embrace 76,322 15 April Ringleader of the Tormentors Morrissey 62,709 22 April The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living The Streets 71,407 29 April Shayne Ward Shayne Ward 201,266 6 May St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley 91,195 13 May Eyes Open Snow Patrol 126,809 20 May Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers 202,499 27 May 80,087 3 June 52,146 10 June Bright Idea Orson 47,542 17 June Smile... It Confuses People Sandi Thom 51,128 24 June Under the Iron Sea Keane 222,297 1 July 79,438 8 July Liberation Transmission Lostprophets 55,425 15 July Black Holes and Revelations Muse 115,144 22 July 47,519 29 July RazorlightRazorlight 106,805 5 August 66,591 12 August UndiscoveredJames Morrison 84,511 19 August 55,852 26 August Back to Basics Christina Aguilera 84,279 2 September Eyes Open Snow Patrol 49,772 9 September Empire Kasabian 109,397 16 September Eyes Open Snow Patrol 45,450 23 September FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake 90,985 30 September Ta-DahScissor Sisters 288,167 7 October 134,953 14 October Sam's TownThe Killers 268,946 21 October 82,300 28 October 48,152 4 November Rudebox Robbie Williams 147,236 11 November The Sound of Girls Aloud Girls Aloud 84,354 18 November High Times: Singles 1992–2006 Jamiroquai 78,957 25 November Twenty Five George Michael 100,502 2 December The Love Album Westlife 219,662 9 December Beautiful World Take That 168,954 16 December 199,185 23 December 229,001 30 December 443,070 Number-one compilation albums Chart date(week ending) Album 7 January Now 62 14 January Clubbers Guide 2006 21 January 28 January 4 February 11 February R&B Love Songs 18 February 25 February 4 March BRIT Awards 2006 11 March The Mash Up Mix 2006 18 March Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 2 25 March 1 April World's Best Mum 8 April Floorfillers – Club Classics 15 April 22 April Now 63 29 April 6 May 13 May 20 May 27 May Big Club Hits 3 June 10 June 17 June England – The Album 24 June Dad Rocks 1 July Clubbers Guide Summer 2006 8 July Clubland 9 15 July 22 July 29 July 5 August Now 64 12 August 19 August 26 August 2 September 9 September 16 September Dance Mania 23 September 30 September 7 October High School Musical 14 October 21 October 28 October Radio 1's Live Lounge 4 November High School Musical 11 November Radio 1's Live Lounge 18 November Clubland 10 25 November Pop Party 4 2 December Now 65 9 December 16 December 23 December 30 December Number-one album downloads Chart date(week ending) Album Artist 15 April This New Day Embrace 22 April The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living The Streets 29 April Shayne Ward Shayne Ward 6 May St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley 13 May Eyes Open Snow Patrol 20 May Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers 27 May Eyes Open Snow Patrol 3 June 10 June The Garden Zero 7 17 June Twelve Stops and Home The Feeling 24 June Under the Iron Sea Keane 1 July 8 July 15 July Black Holes and Revelations Muse 22 July 29 July RazorlightRazorlight 5 August 12 August UndiscoveredJames Morrison 19 August 26 August Back to Basics Christina Aguilera 2 September Eyes Open Snow Patrol 9 September 16 September 23 September FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake 30 September Ta-DahScissor Sisters 7 October 14 October Sam's TownThe Killers 21 October 28 October Razorlight Razorlight 4 November Rudebox Robbie Williams 11 November Back to Black Amy Winehouse 18 November 9 Damien Rice 25 November Twenty Five George Michael 2 December Stop the Clocks Oasis 9 December Beautiful World Take That 16 December 23 December 30 December Year-end charts Between 31 December 2005 and 31 December 2006. Best-selling singles Source: Music Week2006 Singles Top 100 Music Week UBM London, England 17 13 January 2007 No. Number Title Artist Peakposition Sales 1 "Crazy" Gnarls Barkley 1 820,000http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/chart-day-every-end-of-year-chart-from-2005-2014__9958/ Chart Day: Every end of year chart from 2005–2014 Official Charts Company 5 July 2015 Justin Myers 2 "A Moment Like This" Leona Lewis 1 700,069 3 "Hips Don't Lie" Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean 1 495,000 4 "I Don't Feel Like Dancin" Scissor Sisters 1 353,733 5 "I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)" Sandi Thom 1 325,600 6 "From Paris to Berlin" Infernal 2 308,000 7 "Maneater" Nelly Furtado 1 296,000 8 "Patience" Take That 1 282,423 9 "SOS" Rihanna 2 243,000 10 "SexyBack" Justin Timberlake 1 241,250 11 "Smile" Lily Allen 1 228,500 12 "No Tomorrow" Orson 1 227,000 13 "Nasty Girl" The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Diddy, Nelly, Jagged Edge & Avery Storm 1 222,000 14 "Chasing Cars" Snow Patrol 6 210,606 15 "Everytime We Touch" Cascada 2 201,000 16 "No Promises" Shayne Ward 2 197,500 17 "America" Razorlight 1 197,000 18 "That's My Goal" Shayne Ward 1 196,000 19 "Naïve" The Kooks 5 186,000 20 "Put Your Hands Up for Detroit" Fedde le Grand 1 184,000 21 "Monster" The Automatic 4 182,500 22 "Thunder in My Heart Again" Meck featuring Leo Sayer 1 181,500 23 "Unfaithful" Rihanna 2 177,250 24 "Put Your Records On" Corinne Bailey Rae 2 174,000 25 "You Give Me Something" James Morrison James Morrison (singer) 5 171,000 26 "Welcome to the Black Parade" My Chemical Romance 1 169,000 27 "Smack That" Akon featuring Eminem 1 166,250 28 "Voodoo Child" Rogue Traders 3 163,500 29 "Irreplaceable" Beyoncé 4 158,000 30 "Who Knew" Pink 5 157,500 31 "Beep" The Pussycat Dolls featuring will.i.am 2 157,000 32 "So Sick" Ne-Yo 1 152,250 33 "Ain't No Other Man" Christina Aguilera 2 152,000 34 "Pump It" The Black Eyed Peas 3 148,500 35 "One" Mary J. Blige and U2 2 148,000 36 "Something Kinda Ooooh" Girls Aloud 3 147,000 37 "JCB" Nizlopi 2Reached number 1 in 2005 146,500 38 "Promiscuous" Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland 3 141,500 39 "She Moves in Her Own Way" The Kooks 7 141,000 40 "It's Chico Time" Chico 1 140,500 41 "Ridin'" Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone 2 140,000 42 "Somebody's Watching Me" Beatfreakz 3 137,000 43 "Dani California" Red Hot Chili Peppers 2 136,500 44 "Sorry" Madonna 1 136,000 45 "Last Request" Paolo Nutini 5 134,500 46 "Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)" David Guetta vs. The Egg 3 132,000 47 "When You Were Young" The Killers 2 130,000 48 "Control Myself" LL Cool J featuring Jennifer Lopez 2 129,000 49 "Boys Will Be Boys" The Ordinary Boys 3 127,000 50 "Me & U" Cassie 6 124,000 Best-selling albums 2006 Albums Top 100 Music Week UBM London, England 19 13 January 2007 No. Number Title Artist Peakposition Sales 1 Eyes Open Snow Patrol 1 1,504,000 2 Beautiful World Take That 1 1,122,000 3 Ta-Dah Scissor Sisters 1 1,120,000 4Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Arctic Monkeys 1 1,111,000 5 Inside In/Inside Out The Kooks 2 1,099,000 6 Razorlight Razorlight 1 1,067,000 7 Stop the Clocks Oasis 2 898,000 8 The Love Album Westlife 1 891,000 9 I'm Not Dead Pink 3 844,000 10 Undiscovered James Morrison James Morrison (singer) 1 839,000 11 In Between Dreams Jack Johnson Jack Johnson (musician) 1 788,000 12 Sam's Town The Killers 1 770,000 13 Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae 1 763,000 14 Under the Iron Sea Keane 1 699,000 15 Stadium Arcadium Red Hot Chili Peppers 1 682,000 16 The Sound of Girls Aloud: The Greatest Hits Girls Aloud 1 664,000 17 Love The Beatles 3 663,000 18 Twenty Five George Michael 1 617,000 19 U218 Singles U2 4 609,000 20 Siempre Il Divo 2 609,000 21 Twelve Stops and Home The Feeling 2 592,000 22 Back to Bedlam James Blunt 1 585,000 23 Costello Music The Fratellis 2 552,000 24 These Streets Paolo Nutini 3 552,000 25 FutureSex/LoveSounds Justin Timberlake 1 546,000 26 Black Holes and Revelations Muse 1 541,000 27 High Times: Singles 1992–2006 Jamiroquai 1 539,000 28 PCD Pussycat Dolls 10Reached number 7 in 2005 533,000 29 Alright, Still Lily Allen 2 519,000 30 Breakaway Kelly Clarkson 3 506,000 31 St. Elsewhere Gnarls Barkley 1 489,300 32 Employment Kaiser Chiefs 2 489,232 33 Collected Massive Attack 2 461,000 34 Eye to the Telescope KT Tunstall 3 459,300 35 Shayne Ward Shayne Ward 1 459,200 36 Rudebox Robbie Williams 1 451,000 37 Tired of Hanging Around The Zutons 2 445,000 38 Keep On Will Young 4Reached number 2 in 2005 444,500 39 Loose Nelly Furtado 5 440,000 40 The Very Best of Nina Simone Nina Simone 6 440,000 41 Overloaded: The Singles Collection Sugababes 3 441,000 42 Demon Days Gorillaz 6Reached number 1 in 2005 411,000 43 Empire Kasabian 1 406,000 44 Journey South Journey South 1 404,500 45 A Girl like Me Rihanna 5 390,000 46 Confessions on a Dancefloor Madonna 9Reached number 1 in 2005 384,900 47 Voices of the Valley Fron Male Voice Choir 9 384,600 48 The Singles Feeder 2 384,300 49 X&Y Coldplay 8Reached number 1 in 2005 374,000 50 The Truth About Love Lemar 3 369,000 Best-selling compilations Compilations Music Week UBM London, England 20 13 January 2007 No. Number Title Peakposition 1 Now 65 1 2 Now 64 1 3 Radio 1's Live Lounge 1 4High School Musical (Original Soundtrack) 1 5 Now 63 1 6 Pop Party 4 1 7 Floorfillers: Club Classics 1 8 NME Presents the Essential Bands 2006 3 9 The Anthems 2 10 Clubland 9 1 Notes: 30em Music awards BRIT Awards The 2006 BRIT Awards took place on 15 February 2006, at Earl's Court in London Best British Male Solo Artist: James Blunt Best British Female Solo Artist: KT Tunstall Best British Group: Kaiser Chiefs Best British Album: Coldplay - X&Y Best British Single: Coldplay - "Speed of Sound" Best British Rock Act: Kaiser Chiefs Best British Urban Act: Lemar Best British Live Act: Kaiser Chiefs British Breakthrough Artist: Arctic Monkeys Best Pop Act: James Blunt Best International Male Solo Artist: Kanye West Best International Female Solo Artist: Madonna Best International Group: Green Day Best International Album: Green Day - American Idiot International Breakthrough Artist: Jack Johnson Outstanding Contribution to Music: Paul Weller Mercury Music Prize The 2006 Mercury Music Prize was awarded to Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Popjustice £20 Music Prize The 2006 Popjustice £20 Music Prize was awarded to Girls Aloud for their song Biology from the album Chemistry. Record of the Year The Record of the Year was awarded to "Patience" by Take That. See also List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2000s List of UK Independent Singles Chart number ones of 2006 List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2006 References External links BBC Radio 1's Chart Show http://www.subculturemagazine.com/specialsdetails.php?id=12 Top 50 Albums For 2006 - Subculture Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20070910065527/http://www.subculturemagazine.com/specialsdetails.php?id=12 10 September 2007 The Official Charts Company http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40_2006.shtml Top 40 singles of 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20070329010801/http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40_2006.shtml 29 March 2007 Top 200 singles of 2006 United Kingdom Charts, 2006 in British Music Category:British record charts