FIFA 09 is first UK No.1 of 2009

EA and Activision continue to trade places at the peak of the UK All-Formats Top 40, with FIFA 09 ahead of Call of Duty: World at War for the first recorded week of 2009, which ended on 3rd January.

Interestingly (or not), Call of Duty topped both of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 charts, but FIFA held it off anyway thanks presumably to extra sales on Wii, DS, PS2 and PSP.

Both games nonetheless dropped off over the New Year, with FIFA experiencing a 41 per cent weekly decline in sales and Call of Duty a drop of 50 per cent - still 5,000 more units than Need For Speed: Undercover, which remains third.

Otherwise the Top 40 is the usual reshuffle, with Guitar Hero: World Tour up to fourth (its highest-ever position according to compiler Chart-Track), and various Wii games scattered about including Mario & Sonic, Wii Play and Mario Kart Wii in the top ten.

Mario Kart Wii sales were down 60 per cent, apparently, but that was still enough to give it 8th spot, and the units-sold chart says the Wii exclusive was the second best-selling single unit of software, behind the evergreen Wii Play and ahead of Call of Duty: World at War on 360.

Returning to the All-Formats list, there are a few re-entries lower down, but the only new entry is Nintendo's 100 Classic Book Collection, which arrives at 27 following its Boxing Day launch.

Here's the full UK All-Formats Top 40 for the week ended 3rd January 2009: