Posted November 1, 200915 yr Cheryl Cole holds on at #1 with lots of competition! Following huge sales last week, Cheryl Cole continues to fight and as such stays at #1 for a second week with her single, X-Factor judging and album cherry picks both helping. Her album 3 Words also tops the albums listings this week so she is now the first act to do the double since Lady Gaga just over 6 months ago. Westlife – What About Now enters at #2 Now for the return of Irish boy-band turned man-band Westlife, who famously rose to fame in 1998 with their first 7 singles all going to #1, a record which has not yet been beaten. What About Now is a cover of the Daughtry song which has been used extensively in the X Factor and Britian’s Got talent, and also reenters at #39 this week. This is now Westlife’s 24th top 10 single with a total of 15 #1 hits to date and a 100% strike rate of top 10 hits, they must have done something right over the past 11 years. Jay Sean – Down enters at #3 Almost giving Westlife and Cheryl a run for their money is UK R&B singer Kamaljit Singh Jhooti, better known as Jay Sean, scoring his biggest hit to date as Down enters up (not down) at #3. His previous hits include Eyes On You, Stolen, Ride It and Tonight with Stolen being his biggest until now, peaking at #4 in 2004. Jay’s third album All Or Nothing is due for release next month and is sure to do well. Michael Buble – Haven't Met You Yet rises to #5 Michael Buble gets a new peak of #5 with his latest single Haven’t Met You Yet, following his appearance on the X-Factor. Strangely enough he did not perform this single, but opted for album track Cry Me A River instead, which enters at #34 this week. This is not a cover of Justin Timberlake’s song, it is the jazz/blues standard first recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and covered by numerous artists over the years. Rather more suited to Buble’s style. Black Eyed Peas –Meet Me Halfway rises to #6 Black Eyes Peas new single Meet Me Halfway now rises to meet the top 10 this week, joining I Gotta Feeling which incredibly spends its 17th week inside the top 10. They have now never missed the top 11 since their 2003 breakthrough Where Is The Love. Miley Cyrus – Party In The US enters at #11 This week Miley Cyrus can celebrate another #11 peak this week and have a party here as well! The Hannah Montanna star has peaked at #11 with debut hit See You Again and The Climb, and now Party In The USA. She has yet to score a UK top 10 hit so just a small scale party then! Lady Gaga – Bad Romance enters at #14 2009’s big breakthrough act Lady Gaga makes a return this week with new track Bad Romance. This is her 5th UK single release following #1s Just Dance and Poker Face, top 5 hit Paparazzi and top 20 hit Love Game. Bad Romance does not appear on the current version of The Fame album, so as a new single enters at #14. The album is due for a re-release with the addition of this track, entitled The Fame Monster. This tactic has been used many times before with 3rd or 4th singles from big albums, and is seen as a blatant cash-in by many, with people buying the same album again with 1 or 2 “new” tracks added. Biffy Clyro – The Captain enters at #17 Scottish group Biffy Clyro come sailing into the top 20 this week as they become The Captain! The band made #5 last year with Mountains and #10 back in August with That Golden Rule, and now #17 with The Captain. Another tactic being used recently is releasing both the 1st and the 2nd single before the parent album, thus helping to sell the singles and the album. This has been done here, with the new album Only Revolutions due out later this month. Duck Sauce – aNYway enters at #22 The prixe for the most bizarrely named act this week goes to Duck Sauce, a DJ collaboration between Armand Van Helden and A-Trak. Armand Van Held is a US producer and remixer who had a #1 in 1997 with his own track You Don’t Know Me and remixes of Tori Amos Professional Widow and most recently featured on Dizzee Rascal’s Bonkers. A-Trak on the other hand is rather less well known, a US DJ who has won numerous awards and apparently gave lessons on the art of scratching! The track title has capital letters to signify the band’s New York origins. Cheryl Cole feat Will.i.am – 3 Words enters at #26 The next artist to chart with an album track in the singles chart is Cheryl Cole. 3 Words is the title track of this week’s brand new #1 album and is a collaboration with Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am. Florence & The Machine – You’ve Got The Love enters at #37 Florence & The Machine are another of this year’s big album sellers with the appropriately named Lungs. The next single to be released from this is a cover of You’ve Got The Love, originally a hit for The Source feat Candi Staton. This version has been a UK top 10 hit on no less than 3 different occasions - in 1991, 1997 and 2006 respectively. This week’s near misses Missing out this week again is Beyonce with Broken Hearted Girl, due for full release tomorrow I can see her missing the top 20 for the first time. UK rapper and producer Sway misses out with his new track Mercedes Benz, as does fellow UK rapper Kano with Rock n Roller. Kasabian miss the top 40 with the release of Underdog, however it did chart at #32 as an album track earlier on this year. Ladyhawke’s Magic doesn’t seem to be paying off as she misses out yet again this week. Even with the presence of Anastacia on the new Ben’s Brother track, they are still in Stalemate as they miss out again. The new #1 album this week goes to Cheryl Cole Topping another busy album chart this week is Cheryl Cole, to the surprise of few. This is Mrs Cole’s 3rd #1 album in total, following Girls Aloud’s Sound Of compilation and last year’s Out Of Control. Michael Jackson gets another new entry in this week’s album chart, this time it is the soundtrack to the eagerly anticipated film This Is It. The Soldiers are a trio of serving British Army soldiers who enter at #5 with their charity album Coming Home. Welsh classical singer Katherine Jenkins enters in the top 10 with her 7th album entitled Believe, containing some more popular songs like Bring Me To Life and No Woman No Cry. Also Daniel O’Donnel charts with his 29th studio album this week, he has now had at least 1 album in the UK top 10 every year since 1997 (except 2001 and 2002). Personal opinion of this week’s hits! I am very happy to see Cheryl stay at#1 for a second week with the rather good Fight For This Love. I do admit to liking Flying Without Wings, My Love and Queen Of My Heart by Westlife but nothing since. What About Now does show a more mature side to them but has no other redeeming factors for me … they should just disappear now! I haven’t liked any of Jay Sean’s stuff in the past, Down is however OK but does not deserve a top 3 placing in my opinion. I almost liked the last Miley Cyrus single The Climb but Party In The USA is just cheesy rubbish to me and doesn’t deserve top 20 at all. On a more positive note, I think The Captain is easily Biffy Clyro’s best song to date and very catchy. I think I like Gaga’s new one Bad Romance, certainly better than that disco stick nonsense that is Love Game. Next week’s contenders Almost certain to take the #1 spot next week is Everybody In Love by JLS, especially after their X-Factor performance. New singles releases are also due from Bon Jovi, Beyonce, Chris Brown, Chase & Status, Snow Patrol, BEPs, Paolo and Calvin amongst others. We are due new albums from the likes of Bon Jovi, Sting, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Bryn Terfel and BeeGees.
November 1, 200915 yr Brill read, you got all your facts right I believe, and I agree with most of your opinions also (exception being that Down is amazing :wub:)! More commentaries like this please :D
November 1, 200915 yr 007:, 1) Westlife have not had 15 No.1 Singles - they've had 14. And, their 20 weeks at No.1, (Singles Chart), are only good enough for 13th= place, in the 'Most Singles Weeks At No.1' List. Equal 13th place with Slade - who only needed 6 No.1's to get their 20 No.1 Weeks. Add in Westlife's 7 Weeks at No.1 in the Album Chart, & their 27 Weeks at No.1 are only the 27th 'Most UK No.1 Weeks'. So, they may be the Act with the 3rd= Most UK No.1 Singles, (Equal with Cliff Richard, & only behind Elvis Presley & The Beatles), but, their achievements with those 14 No.1's have not been so great. (Hardly any of them were No.1 outside the UK & Ireland, for example). And they have yet to keep an Album at No.1 for more than 1 Week, in the UK..... 2) The Lady Gaga 'Re-issue' is a lot more than 1 or 2 added Tracks. It contains all of 'The Fame' Album - but 2 New Songs are added to that. Plus, there is a 2nd CD with 8 New Songs on it. So, the 'Re-issue' is really 'The Fame' with TEN added New Songs. I'm an ABBA Fan, & I'd haver loved ABBA to have done such 'Re-issues. when they were together. You were lucky to get 10 Songs on most ABBA Albums - & 'The Album', & 'The Visitors' only had 9 Songs each.....Lady GaGa seems to be very prolific. 3) Cheryl Cole is the 12th Solo Female to have Topped both the UK Singles & Albums Charts, in the same Week. Although the Album Chart started on W/E 28th July 1956, no Solo Female Topped both Charts until W/E 8th November 1980 - Barbra Streisand. CHERYL COLE - 12th SOLO FEMALE DOUBLE CHART TOPPER She has become only the 12th Solo Female to Top BOTH the UK Singles & Albums Chart at the same time. Plus, only the 4th British Solo Female to manage it - Leona Lewis, Duffy, Lily Allen, & Cheryl Cole. 2009 - AND - 2009 becomes the first Year - since the Album Chart began - that more than 2 Solo Females have achieved it - Lily Allen, Lady GaGa, & Cheryl Cole. Barbra Streisand - 1980 Madonna - 1986, 1989, 2005, & 2008 *** Mariah Carey - 1994 Celine Dion - 1995 Kylie Minogue - 2001 Beyonce - 2003 Rihanna - 2007 Leona Lewis - 2007 Duffy - 2008 Lily Allen - 2009 Lady GaGa - 2009 Cheryl Cole - 2009 *** = The only other Female Singers to manage it as many as 4 times, are Agnetha & Frida, as part of ABBA. That Group managed to Top both UK Charts - at the same time - in 1976, 1977, 1978, & 1980. Edited November 2, 200915 yr by zeus555
November 2, 200915 yr The UK Media are saying that Cheryl is only the 12th Woman to Top both UK Charts at the same time. This is wrong. She's the 37th. (Alan Jones has made the same error, in 'Music Week' - saying she's only the 12th Woman to achieve it). Barbra Streisand was the 1st Solo Female to achieve it - W/E November 8th 1980. However, the 2 Women in ABBA had already managed it 3 times before her - and a 4th time, just after her. (W/E 29th November 1980 to W/E 13th December 1980). It was managed by Females in GROUPS, numerous times:, ABBA - 1976, 1977, 1978, & 1980 (2 Females) BLONDIE - 1979 (1 Female) THE PRETENDERS - 1980 (1 Female) HUMAN LEAGUE - 1982 (2 Females) CULTURE CLUB - 1983 (1 Female) T'PAU - 1987 (1 Female) SOUL II SOUL - 1989 (1 Female) SPICE GIRLS - 1996 & 1997 (5 Females) HEAR'SAY - 2001 (3 Females) ATOMIC KITTEN - 2002 (3 Females) EVANESCENCE - 2003 (1 Female) SUGABABES - 2005 & 2007 (3 Females) SCISSOR SISTERS - 2006 (1 Female) That's 25 Females, in Groups, who've achieved it, plus 12 Solo Females = 37 Female Singers, who've 'Topped' both Charts, in the same Week. Cheryl is the 12th SOLO Female to manage it. It is misleading to say, '12th Female to achieve it' - or '12th Woman to achieve it'..... Cheryl Cole is the 12th Solo Female to have Topped both the UK Singles & Albums Charts, in the same Week. Although the Album Chart started on W/E 28th July 1956, no Solo Female Topped both Charts until W/E 8th November 1980 - Barbra Streisand. CHERYL COLE - 12th SOLO FEMALE DOUBLE CHART TOPPER She has become only the 12th Solo Female to Top BOTH the UK Singles & Albums Chart at the same time. Plus, only the 4th British Solo Female to manage it - Leona Lewis, Duffy, Lily Allen, & Cheryl Cole. 2009 - AND - 2009 becomes the first Year - since the Album Chart began - that more than 2 Solo Females have achieved it - Lily Allen, Lady GaGa, & Cheryl Cole. Barbra Streisand - 1980 Madonna - 1986, 1989, 2005, & 2008 Mariah Carey - 1994 Celine Dion - 1995 Kylie Minogue - 2001 Beyonce - 2003 Rihanna - 2007 Leona Lewis - 2007 Duffy - 2008 Lily Allen - 2009 Lady GaGa - 2009 Cheryl Cole - 2009 NOTE - Some Sites/News Sources are saying that Alexandra Burke achieved it too. She didn't. 'Bad Boys' was No.1 - for 1 Week - on W/E 24th October. Her Album - 'Overcome' - was No.1 - for 1 Week - on W/E 31st October. Edited November 2, 200915 yr by zeus555
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