CROONER MICHAEL Bublé's new studio album, Crazy Love, sold more albums during Christmas week than any other album in Irish chart history.
A total of 41,362 copies of the album were bought between Friday, December 18th, and Christmas Eve. It beats the previous record held by U2’s greatest hits compilation which sold 36,889 albums in one week in 1998.
Bublé's remarkable popularity in Ireland is evidenced not only by the sale of his new album, but five of his previous releases are all in the top 100 Irish albums of Christmas week. X-Factor winner Joe McElderry would have got a small measure of consolation as he managed to top the Irish Christmas single charts with The Climbby a comfortable margin.
The campaign to get Rage Against The Machine's Killing in the Nameto number one, which worked so brilliantly in the UK, got little traction here.
Though he failed to get the Christmas number one, McElderry did finally succeed in getting to the top of the UK singles chart this week.
Having succeeded in their goal of getting Killing in the Nameto number one as a protest to everything X-Factor represents, there was little interest in keeping the single there. Sales dropped off dramatically and The Climboutsold it by three to one.
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