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2nd December 2008

Breaking Dawn debuts in second spot

12.08.08 Philip Stone

Thirteen new entries, with three in the top ten, inject life to the UK's Official Top 50 this week with Stephenie Meyer's much-anticipated Breaking Dawn (Atom) debuting in second position, failing to unseat Lindwood Barclay's No Time for Goodbye from the top spot.

The fourth instalment in Meyer's teen vampire series, Twlight, sold 32,452 copies through Nielsen BookScan's Total Consumer market last week, once its strict embargo was lifted on 4th August. The book sold almost 825,000 copies in the US in its first two days on sale, according to US BookScan data.

Ian Rankin's final Rebus novel Exit Music (Orion), thanks to half-price book of the week offers at Borders, Waterstone's and W H Smith, debuted in fourth position with a 27,099 part-week sale. Meanwhile, former Richard and Judy participant, Dorothy Koomson also enters the top ten, with emotional drama Goodnight, Beautiful (Sphere) joining the top 50 in sixth position with 19,168 seven-day sale.

Toni Jordan's Addition (Sceptre) went under the Richard and Judy spotlight last week and sold 10,515 copies during the seven days to 9th August. It represents the lowest weekly sale of a Richard and Judy title in its week on the couch since  George Hagen's The Laments (Hodder) sold less than 5,000 copies through the market during its week under the spotlight back in the summer of 2005.

Meanwhile, £30.8m was spent through the Total Consumer market last week - the strongest seven-day spend for 19 weeks when £31.4m was spent during the week leading up to Mother's Day. Year-on-year growth was 4.8% last week - a 16-week high.

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