U.K. CHART GOES DUTCH WITH CARO EMERALD

Netherlands retro-pop star Caro Emerald nails her first-ever U.K. chart-topper with the sophomore album The Shocking Miss Emerald on Grandmono/Dramatico, selling 34k to finish ahead of last week’s #1, Rudimental’s Home on Asylum/WB at #2.

Emerald’s 2010 debut album, Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor, has sold 410k copies in the U.K. and 1.3 million worldwide. That album spent 30 weeks at #1 in Holland, where the new album also bows on top.

On the singles side, Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” on Columbia, sells another 123k downloads for its third consecutive week in the lead.

House actor-turned-blues crooner Hugh Laurie’s sophomore album, Didn’t It Rain, on Warner Music, the follow-up to 2011’s Let Them Talk, debuts at #3.

Ex-Yaz member Alison Moyet’s eighth solo studio album, The Minutes, on notable indie Cooking Vinyl, enters at # 5, her highest-charting set since 1987’s Raindancing, which debuted at #2.

Decca/Universal country trio Lady Antebellum’s fourth album Golden enters at #7, while Mercury/Universal rockers Noah & the Whale’s Heart of Nowhere (#13) and Matador buzz band Savages' Silence Yourself (#19), both make Top 20 debuts.

The Daft Punk single has now sold more than 100k copies for three straight weeks, and finishes the week 50k units ahead of its nearest challenger, with a total of 492k. N.Y. DJ/producer Chris Malinchak’s “So Good to Me,” on the Ministry of Sound label, debuts at #2.

Passenger’s “Let Her Go” (Nettwerk) goes #4-3, while Dutch DJ Armin Van Buuren enters at #6 with “This Is What It Feels Like” (Positiva/Virgin/Universal).