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Kerridge outsells Wicks to claim first number one of 2018
Tom Kerridge has swiped the first number one of the year with Lose Weight for Good (Absolute), which sold 32,835 copies for £310,291 and toppled Joe Wicks’ The Fat-Loss Plan (Bluebird). Kerridge outsold Wicks by 9,241 copies, denying the Instagram personal trainer a third year in the inaugural top spot.
The title everyone is talking about - Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury exposé of US president Donald Trump published by Little, Brown - will not chart until next week with copies only really hitting UK bookshops from Tuesday (9th January).
Kerridge scored his first ever number one in January 2017 with Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet, which went on to sell 148,351 copies across 2017. But Lose Weight for Good’s first full week volume is 115% up in volume on Dopamine Diet’s first week in the top spot—in fact, it is the highest-selling week for a January number one hardback since The Hairy Dieters (W&N) in January 2013. It beats Deliciously Ella (Yellow Kite), in January 2015, by fewer than 700 copies.
Lose Weight for Good also knocked Jamie Oliver’s 5 Ingredients (Michael Joseph) from the Hardback Non-Fiction number one spot, after 19 straight weeks.
Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s The 4 Pillar Plan (Penguin Life) made an impressive leap up the Top 50, improving 124% in volume week on week to 13,101 copies sold and charting in fifth place, missing out on an apposite fourth position to Jo Nesbo's Mass Market Fiction number one The Thirst (Vintage).
"New year, new you" is now in full swing, with "Geordie Shore" star Charlotte Crosby's 30-Day Blitz (Headline) and Emmerdale actress Lisa Riley's Honesty Diet (Michael Joseph), along with the slightly more offbeat Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep (Penguin), joining Kerridge, Wicks and Chatterjee in the Top 50.
The Costa Book Award category winners performed strongly, with regular Heatseekers Fiction chart-hanger Gail Honeyman’s Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (HarperCollins) graduating into the Top 50 for the first time after winning the First Novel Award. It jumped 60% in volume week on week to claim 31st place, and scored third place in the Original Fiction chart. The Children’s winner, Katherine Rundell’s The Explorer (Bloomsbury Children's), hit the Children’s and YA Fiction top 20 in its first week on sale, selling exactly 2,500 copies.
Naomi Alderman’s Baileys Women’s Prize winner The Power (Penguin) returned to the Top 50, after featuring on Barack Obama’s books of 2017 list.
Jeff Kinney’s The Getaway (Puffin) leapfrogged David Walliams’ Bad Dad (HarperCollins), ending the latter’s nine-week run in the Children’s number one and racking up Kinney’s first top spot since January 2016. US author Sara Holland's debut Everless (Hachette Children's) was the highest new entry in the kids' category, becoming the fourth bestselling Children's title of the week.
