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Drake makes it nine weeks at number one
Drake continues his residency at the top of the singles chart. Paul Simon tops the albums chart.

Drake continues his reign at the top of the singles chart. Paul Simon has his first chart-topping studio album for 25 years.

Drake continues to bore many people rigid by staying at number one for a ninth week. Once again One Dance is a long way from being the best-selling song of the week, but its position as the most streamed song of the week keeps it on top of the combined chart. Why can’t all these people just cough up a quid and buy the thing? Alternatively, can’t Spotify accidentally delete it?

The remainder of the top three also has a familiar look to it. Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling remains at number two while Calvin Harris and Rihanna are still at number three with This Is What You Came For. Both songs have get a fourth week in their current positions having swapped places with each other a month ago.

Kungs & Cookin’ On 3 Burners continue to storm up the chart. They climb six places to number four with This Girl. Clean Bandit and Louisa Johnson climb one place to number five with Tears.

There are just three new entries this week. The highest is at number 25 and is yet another song featuring Drake. The ubiquitous Canadian joins forces with DJ Khaled on For Free. DJ Khaled has had two very minor chart hits, in 2011 and 2014, but this is the first time he has been anywhere near the top forty. Drake now has four songs in the top forty. These bloomin’ Canadians, they come over here, take all our chart positions…

The second new entry, at number 31, is from another Canadian, Shawn Mendes. The official follow-up to his chart-topper Stitches was I Know What You Did Last Summer; that song has been in the chart for several weeks without breaking into the top forty. Now it seems to be time to move on to the next song, Treat You Better which has indeed been treated better by the music-buying and streaming public.

The last new entry sneaks in at number 40. Ariana Grande’s Into You is her seventh top forty hit since she reached number one with Problem in 2014.

Returning to the subject of Canadians taking over all our chart positions, Justin Bieber still has the two longest-running entries in the chart. Sorry extends its run to a 33rd week, while Love Yourself reaches 30 weeks. As happened last week, they are in adjacent chart positions - Sorry falls three places to number 34 and Love Yourself is down five to 35. Major Lazer and Nyla’s Light It Up has been around for 24 weeks and Zara Larsson’s Lush Life for 21. Three songs reach the 20 week mark this week - Lukas Graham’s 7 Years, Rihanna and Drake’s diabolical Work, and Jonas Blue’s awful remake of Fast Car.

When a new Paul Simon compilation was released last year, its success caught many people - myself included - unawares. The midweek updates showed that it was selling well, but it was still a surprise when it finished the week at the top of the chart. A hurried rewrite of the opening part of that week’s albums chart commentary was required.

By contrast, Simon’s first new studio album since the release of that collection was at number one in the first midweek update with a lead that made it clear that it would not be shifted by the end of the week. Stranger To Stranger, which has picked up some very good reviews, is 75-year-old Simon’s fifth number one album as a solo artist, adding to the two he had as half of Simon and Garfunkel.

His most successful album as a solo artist remains 1986’s Graceland, widely regarded as one of the best albums of the 1980s, which spent eight weeks at the top. That run is still well short of that enjoyed by Simon and Garfunkel’s last studio album, Bridge Over Troubled Water, which accumulated a total of 33 weeks at number one in 1970 and ’71.

Simon’s Ultimate Collection re-enters at number 31.

Drake stays at number two with Views. That is the last time he will be mentioned this week, I promise. Coldplay’s UK tour is now underway. The publicity generated by that has helped them to climb back up to number three with A Head Full Of Dreams. Beyoncé’s Lemonade slips one place to number four. Catfish & The Bottlemen fall to number five after a week at the summit with The Ride.

Manchester-based rapper Bugzy Malone reached the top ten of the albums chart last year with his EP Walk With Me. He returns to the chart this week with Facing Time at number six. It is not clear whether Malone is his real surname, but it is probably safe to assume that the name Bugzy does not appear on his birth certificate.

For a brief period in the early 1980s Dexys Midnight Runners were one of the biggest bands around, despite upsetting pedants with their lack of an apostrophe. Their subsequent career has been rather less stellar, not helped by singer Kevin Rowland’s occasional eccentric behaviour. This week they get their third top ten album a full 34 years after the second as they enter at number ten with Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul. As the title suggests, it is a collection of covers and includes songs such as Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (a number one hit for The Platters, also taken into the top twenty by Bryan Ferry and actor John Alford), You Wear It Well (a hit for Rod Stewart) and Both Sides Now (a hit for Judy Collins among others).

While the name Beartooth doesn’t give much away about the type of band they are, the title of their first debut album, Disgusting, offers more of a clue. Just in case some people still haven’t guessed that they might be a little loud, they have called their second album Aggressive. Disgusting didn’t get into the chart, but Aggressive is a newcomer at number 35.

With Beartooth representing American rock in this week’s new entries, the European rock flag is carried by Danish band Volbeat. Their first five albums managed a magnificent total of one week in the albums chart, at number 78. Their sixth release, Seal The Deal & Let’s Boogie, becomes their biggest UK hit by a very large margin by entering at number sixteen.

Anglo-American duo The Kills enter at number eighteen with their fifth album, Ash & Ice. Their first three albums all narrowly missed a top forty place before Blood Pressures just about made it fourth time lucky be reaching number 40.

The band Ash recorded a version of the Star Wars theme for the b-side of their breakthrough hit single Girl From Mars. They also named their debut album 1977 to mark both the year they were born and the year the original Star Wars film was released.

Although the soundtrack to that film contains one of the most recognisable theme tunes, it has never been a hit album - until now. Repackaged as Star Wars IV - A New Hope, it is in the chart for the first time this week, but has missed the top forty.

It is often assumed that manufactured bands - rather than bands formed by a group of mates getting together - are a relatively recent phenomenon. However, that is far from the truth. Their history can be traced back at least as far as the 1960s when The Monkees were formed to make a television show about a fictional band who wanted to be the American answer to The Beatles. They even copied the Fab Four in adopting a slightly mis-spelt name of an animal.

The show was so successful that the four actors - Mickey Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork and Davy Jones (the reason David Jones from London became David Bowie) - formed a real band. They enjoyed chart success with songs such as Last Train To Clarksville, Daydream Believer and I’m A Believer. They even continued to record music for a few years after the original show was cancelled. They have got back together several times since they first split up.

Jones died in 2012, but the remainder of the band re-formed again and have now recorded their first new album for twenty years, Good Times!, to celebrate their 50th anniversary.

Their first four studio albums all reached the top ten, but subsequent visits to the albums chart have all been with hits collections. This week, that sequence comes to an end as Good Times! enters at number 29 to give them a first hit with a studio album since 1968. Just to clarify, that isn’t a typo, it really should say 1968.

On the subject of typos, for many years it was almost obligatory for any discussion of The Monkees to include reference to the fact that Nesmith’s mother invented Tippex. Younger readers may now need to look up what Tippex is.

Canadian twin sisters Tegan and Sara enter at number thirty with Love You To Death, their eighth studio album but only the second to reach the UK charts. If they had paid me, I would have been willing to overlook the fact that they had a hit single with Everything Is Awesome. No cheque has been received, so I’ve mentioned it.

As well as the Paul Simon collection, Bob Marley’s Legend compilation is also a re-entry, at number 39.
Published on: 2016-06-10 by BuzzJack.com Suedehead2 || 50936 Views
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Popchartfreak
10 Jun 2016 - 21:31
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Drake. 9 weeks. Either that song is as well known in society as bohemian rhapsody, mull of kintyre, crazy, umbrella, i will always love you, everything i do, love is all around or streaming charts are completely not representative of popularity in society. I would be happy to take a bet justin timberlake is more widely known and popular than the nothing single keeping it off the top.

Monkees. Songs gifted by noel gallagher, paul weller, andy partridge and many others. Fab gear! 2 of the monkees were musicians hired to be actors, mike nesmith had a hit with different drum - for linda ronstadt in the usa - 2 of them child actors hired to be singers and actors. Davy was in coronation street! Micky wrote a fab huge uk hit with an offensive title for the bbc - randy scouse git - so it was called alternate title in the uk. The band rebelled after 6 months and became a genuine in-control group musically. Finally, mike nesmith invented the mtv format, and pushed or it. I still adore them.laugh.gif
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Suedehead2
10 Jun 2016 - 22:26
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Oops, I missed all those songwriters. Thanks for the extra info!
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