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Jamie Oliver scored the final number one of the year with Jamie's 30-minute Meals easily outselling the second-placed title Michael McIntyre's Life and Laughing by a measure of three-to-one in Nielsen BookScan's last full week chart of 2010.
The week, to 25th December, benefitted from one extra day's trading compared with last year, resulting in sales through the Total Consumer Market showing a 9.6% rise when compared to the same week in 2009. Sales reached £71.3m, down 4% on the previous week's peak. As consumers took to the high streets following the poor weather, the General Retail Market, Nielsen's best measure of high street performance, showed a 20% year-on-year climb, and a 27% week-on-week rise.
Both McIntyre and Stephen Fry received sales boosts in the final week, with the two autobiographies knocking fictional biography A Simples Life and Guinness World Records from second and third spots respectively.