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Drake gets a tenth week at number one
Drake still holds on at the top of the singles chart. Rick Astley tops the albums chart.

Drake continues his interminable run at the top of the singles chart. Rick Astley wins a close race to the top of the albums chart.

Drake’s One Dance achieves the rare accolade of getting a tenth week at number one. The last song to do that was Rihanna’s Umbrella back in 2007. There remains a suspicion that this song will end up as one of the least-remembered long-running number ones in chart history. If Pointless is still going in five years’ time and there is a question on songs with eight weeks or more at number one, I suspect one Dance will get a low score. It hasn’t been the best selling song of the week for seven weeks (including this week). This week it isn’t even the best selling Drake song of the week (that accolade goes to Too Good), but it is still number one.

After four weeks at number two, despite being the best-selling song of the week for all four of them, Justin Timberlake’s Can’t Stop The Feeling falls to number three. Calvin Harris and Rihanna fall one place to number four with This Is What You Came For. Rihanna is also at number five as the featured artist on Drake’s Too Good, a song which sounds like a masterpiece when compared with One Dance.

Last Friday the 2016 European Championship football tournament got under way in France. The official tournament song is performed by one of the home country’s biggest musical exports, David Guetta, and Swedish singer Zara Larsson. As I write, Sweden are in danger of establishing an unenviable record by failing to register a single shot on target in each of their first two matches. As one of their strikers claims to be one of the greatest players of all time that is a pretty ignominious achievement. STOP PRESS: They got to the end of the match without a shot on target, thereby going two whole matches without managing one of the most basic aims of the game. This One’s For You, a new entry at number sixteen is Guetta’s 30th top forty hit and Larsson’s fourth hit of the year.

So far, there is no sign of Three Lions returning to the top forty, but David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and the Lightning Seeds may yet be seen in the next few weeks if England do well.

Singer Dua Lipa was born in London to Kosovo Albanian parents, making her a sort-of compatriot to Rita Ora. Her family moved back to Kosovo when she was in her early teens, but she returned to London a couple years later. Her debut single, Last Dance, was a minor hit in one of the Belgian charts earlier this year, but failed to register in the UK chart. Her second release, Hotter Than Hell, has done rather better. It is a new entry at number eighteen.

Stone Roses fans had to wait over twenty years until last month for the release of a new single. The wait for the next one has been rather shorter with Beautiful Thing being released last week. The song can best be described as vintage Roses and, at seven minutes, it is also a new addition to their canon of epics. Once again it went straight to the top of the iTunes chart but, like All For One before it, it fell back as the week went on. AS with its predecessor it’s Official Chart position of number 21 will be some way behind its position in the sales only chart.

No series of Britain’s Got Talent is complete without some sort of family singing group. In most cases viewers are expected to overlook the lack of singing talent and concentrate on the sight of family members who love each other like a family. In last year’s series that slot was filled by The Neales, a father and his three sons. They have released a single, I’ll Be There, in an attempt to get to number one for Father’s Day. They have fallen 21 places short of their target. Ah well, never mind.

Sussex-born singer-songwriter Tom Odell enters at number 40 with Magnetised. It is his third top forty hit, and the first not to include the word love in its title.

Justin Bieber’s two long-running songs are still clinging on to their top forty places. Sorry is at number 36 in its 34th week and Love Yourself is one place lower in its 31st week. They are in adjacent positions for a third successive week.

The battle at the top of the albums chart was about as close as it could possibly be.In Wednesday’s update the top two were separated by just fourteen sales. Tom Odell’s second album was just ahead of an unlikely challenge from Rick Astley.

When the NME gave Tom Odell’s debut album a rare zero out of ten rating, they received an angry phone call from the singer’s father. That bad review didn’t stop the album getting to number one, but Odell may have issued strict instructions to his father to stick with his day job as a pilot. In Wednesday’s chart update Odell’s second album, Wrong Crowd, held a very narrow lead at the top of the chart, but there was a strong challenge from an unexpected source.

Rick Astley’s heyday came in the latter part of the 1980s when he was part of the Stock Aitken and Waterman stable which seemed to have taken over the charts for a time. His debut single, Never Gonna Give You Up, spent five weeks at number one in 1987 and was followed by a further seven top ten hits as well as three top ten albums. It is fair to say that, throughout that time, music critics did not exactly take him seriously.

Fans of both singers may not have been too happy to see Astley’s new album, 50, reduced in price part way through the week. Diehard Astley fans (and they must exist somewhere) will already have bought the album at full price, and fans of Odell may have felt that their artist could be deprived of a second chart-topping album by a rather dubious marketing ploy.

It is, of course, impossible to be sure how much impact the price reduction for Astley’s album had, but many people will feel that it was the decisive factor in taking his album to the top. Odell has to be content with a new entry at number two behind an album that clearly owes its name to a singer with a name that is a bit like Odell.

The chart for the week leading up to Mothering Sunday this year was relatively free of entries deliberately timed to exploit this market. By contrast, this week’s chart has a plethora of entries timed for Father’s Day on Sunday.

While some copies of Odell and Astley’s albums will clearly be handed over to fathers on Sunday, the highest entry from an album clearly aimed at that market is a new collection from Paul McCartney. The two CDs that form the standard version of Pure McCartney comprise tracks from his post-Beatles career and serve as a reminder that he has bee n responsible for songs of the quality of Maybe I’m Amazed, Live And Let Die, Band On The Run and Jet as well as the less revered Ebony And Ivory (with Stevie Wonder).

Pure McCartney enters at number three to give the man affectionately known as Macca a nineteenth top ten album as a named artist, the first since New in 2013.

Earlier this week Henry McCullough, who played guitar on many of the tracks on this album died aged 72. His most famous vocal performance, however, was on Pink Floyd’s Money on the Dark Side Of The Moon album. He spoke the words “I don’t know, I was really drunk at the time”.

Any list of classic 1960s albums will contain at least one Beatles album. It is also very likely to include the Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds album, originally released in 1966 as the Californian band’s eleventh studio album. The album, which clocks in at just 36-and-a-half minutes long, contains beach Boys classics such as Wouldn’t It Be Nice, Sloop John B and God Only Knows and spent three weeks at number two in the UK charts behind the Sound Of Music soundtrack album.

The fiftieth anniversary of the album, released when Rick Astley was just a few months old, includes the full album in both mono and stereo (many albums were released in both mono and stereo versions at the time because stereo albums could not be played on some older equipment) as well as a further CD of remixes and live versions. It enters the chart at number 26.

ELO’s record company have used the opportunity provided by their upcoming Glastonbury appearance to release a new vinyl edition of their Best Of collection, accompanied by a television advertising campaign. They have, however, chosen not to change the order of the tracks from the CD version which means that Mr Blue Sky is still the first track. Famously, the song was the final track on side 3 of its parent album Out Of The Blue and finished with the instruction “Please turn me over”. Anybody following that instruction when playing the Best Of collection will miss the next four tracks. Anybody trying the same with the CD is just being silly.

All Over The World: The Very Best Of Electric Light Orchestra leaps back into the chart at number four. A separate collection comprising the five studio albums they released from 1973 to 1977 has also been released, but that has not reached the chart despite a very competitive price.

Drake’s Views falls three places to number five. Further - and larger - falls would be very welcome. Paul Simon’s Stranger To Stranger falls to number eight after topping the chart last week.

As noted here recently when an album by her and Jools Holland was released, beverley Knight has been one of the most regular performers on BBC2’s music show later. True to form, she also appeared on the most recent series of the programme to promote her latest album Soulsville. The album features her versions of songs such as Hound Dog and I Can’t Stand The Rain for people who like that sort of thing. It is a new entry at number nine.

It might have been expected that a new collection from seventies singer Gilbert O’Sullivan might have been released for Mothering Sunday rather than Father’s Day, but here it is at number eleven. The Essential Collection contains hits such as Clair, Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day and Get Down as well as a host of songs that got nowhere near the chart.

Younger fathers, by which I mean fathers vaguely close to my own age rather than fathers in their thirties, might be anticipating receiving a copy of Garbage’s new album on Sunday. The band achieved their greatest success in the latter half of the 1990s when they had five top ten singles (including Stupid Girl) and a number one album. The band, comprising Scottish singer Shirley Manson and three American bandmates, have never formally split up although they did have a brief hiatus in the middle of the last decade. Their sixth studio album, Strange Little Birds, is a new entry at number seventeen.

Fathers who still have a love of rock may be due to receive Clean Your Clock, the eleventh live album from Motörhead. It was recorded in November last year at what proved to be Lemmy’s final two shows before his death just after Christmas. It enters at number 36.

Alternatively, they may receive a copy of Band Of Horses’ Why Are You OK, a new entry at number 37 or, particularly if they face a long wait before they reach their sixties, Hollow Bones, the fifth album from Rival Sons. That album makes it as high as number thirteen. Lovers of something rather more esoteric might even get some Icelandic rock from Kaleo. Their second album, A/B, enters at number 27.

The new entry that is seemingly least aimed at the Father’s Day market is Nick Jonas’s third solo album Last Year Was Complicated. That turns up at number 25.

The Very Best Of The Stone Roses makes another appearance at number fifteen. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Greatest hits album is back at number nineteen and Bruce Springsteen’s Greatest Hits makes a welcome return at number 29.
Published on: 2016-06-17 by BuzzJack.com Suedehead2 || 66803 Views
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TheSnake
17 Jun 2016 - 18:06
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Yesss! The Kungs track is very overrated and just has the same instrumentation as Cheerleader, which was at the number one spot for too long last year so it is good Drake is still at number 1. Although I wish it was Clean bandit at number one.
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T83:Y96
18 Jun 2016 - 7:37
My mother said, to get things done, you better not mess with Maj
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It remains to be seen whether the NME's review for Wrong Crowd will be any better. Although I take their reviews with a pinch of salt, especially since they gave Years & Years' Communion 4/10.
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TheSnake
22 Jun 2016 - 13:01
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It feel like 'Drake gets an nth week at number one'
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