Joe Wicks earns eleventh number one

Joe “The Body Coach” Wicks’ second title Lean in 15: The Shape Plan (Bluebird) has scored a second consecutive week in the Official UK Top 50 number one spot, according to Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market.

The Instagram star’s follow-up to his blockbuster debut Lean in 15—currently the biggest-selling book of 2016—shifted 46,313 copies in its first full week on sale, for £385,270. In volume terms, this was almost exactly half (50.1%) the amount it sold in its first three days on sale. Compared to its predecessor, The Shape Plan was down 58.5%  on Lean in 15’s first seven-day total at the beginning of January, despite beating its début week by 20.4%.

The Shape Plan thus may not match Lean in 15’s stratospheric sales of nearly 800,000 copies in six months. Incredibly, this was the first week Wicks’ debut dropped below 15,000 copies per week since its publication, shifting 14,203. Still, Wicks probably won’t be crying into his quinoa: he has now spent eleven weeks at number ones since December 2015, 10 in 2016, and 23 weeks as Paperback Non-Fiction number one.

Father’s Day titles expectedly sunk week on week, with Ladybird Book for Grown-Ups title How it Works: The Dad (Michael Joseph) dropping all the way from second to 26th, and Bill Bryson’s The Road to Little Dribbling (Black Swan) and Wilbur Smith and Giles Kristian’s Golden Lion (Harper) experiencing shallower slides down the Top 50. Paperback fiction titles received a boost, with Paula Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train (Black Swan) declining fewer than 2,000 copies week on week and rising to second place, while Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (Arrow) shifting 30% more copies than its début week on sale and jumping six places.

All five category number ones stayed the same as the week before, for the first time since November 2015. Aside from The Shape Plan, How it Works: The Dad held the Hardback Non-Fiction number one, with The Girl on the Train spending its eighth week at the top of the Mass Market Fiction top 20. Stephen King racked up a third week as Original Fiction number one with End of Watch (Hodder & Stoughton), and David Walliams’ The World’s Worst Children  (HarperCollins Children’s) took the Children’s number one for a sixth consecutive week.

In total, the market suffered a 15.1% drop in value on the week before, and a 12.2% decline on 2015. It’s unlikely Brexit-related financial woe is responsible, though, as the equivalent week’s sales in 2015 not only included Father’s Day gift-buying sales but also E L James’ smash hit number one Grey (Arrow), which sold 385,972 copies. June 2016 was up 4.67% on June 2015, the shallowest monthly rise for the year so far.