Posted November 29, 200915 yr Peter Kay’s Children In Need Medley is #1 this week! After entering at #18 last week on just 2 days of sales, Peter Kay climbs to #1 with his All Star Animated Band. Unusually in the download era, this is actually based on huge physical sales as the CD contains the video which in this case is the main selling point for the single. This breaks the trend of X-Factor related chart toppers we have seen every week since Alexandra Burke hit the top when the series started. It also replaces a charity single, You Are Not Alone being for Great Ormond Street Hospital and also based primarily on physical sales. Lady Gaga – Bad Romance climbs to #5, she also enters with some other album tracks. This is a perfect example of a track slowly gaining exposure and rising up the charts slowly and steadily, this week Bad Romance by Lady Gaga rises to #5. Lady Gaga also enters with her Beyonce collaboration Telephone at #30 this week. There is also a release due for a re-recorded version of Beyonce’s track Video Phone, featuring Lady Gaga. Gaga also enters outside the top 40 with several other tracks from her (partly) new album The Fame Monster. Rihanna – Russian Roulette enters at #6 This week marks the return of Barbadan singer Rihanna, who scored 7 top 20 hits from her last album alone. Russian Roulette is the first single to be taken from her 5th album Rated R which is also out this week. This is now her 13th top 20 hit and maintains her 100% strike rate of top 20 hits (Maroon 5 collaboration aside), her 2 #1s so far are Umbrella and Take A Bow. Susan Boyle – Wild Horses enters at #8, I Dreamed A Dream also enters at #37 Susan Boyle of course is the Scottish spinster who famously came on Britain’s Got Talent last year and blew everyone away with her operatic sounding voice. She has of course hardly been out of the limelight ever since with America really falling for her charms and this week she finally releases her debut single and album in the UK. More on the album later, however she enters the top 10 with her debut Wild Horses (actually just an album track and not a single as such). This is a cover of the Rolling Stones 1971 album track which actually didn’t chart in the UK originally but has been covered by numerous artists ranging from Garbage to the Cranberries and John Barrowman. Although not actually released as a single, this is used as the lead track to her album and therefore charts in the top 10. Also charting for SuBo at #37 is the song that made her famous and she originally performed on BGT I Dreamed A Dream from the musical Les Miserables. Mariah Carey – I Want To Know What Love Is enters at #19 Now for another track released and charting on the same week as the parent album, Mariah Carey’s new single enters at #19. This is a cover of The Foreigner’s 1984 chart topping ballad I Want To Know What Love Is. This also comes off the back of an X-Factor performance and returns Mariah to the top 20 for the first time since Touch My Body became her 21st UK top 10 hit last year, this is her 29th UK top 20 hit since her debut way back in 1990 (Vision Of Love). This week’s chart misses! Mika’s new single Rain misses out this week, a little surprising given his previous success. Following 2 #1s David Guetta’s new single One Love has flopped, it features Estelle. Jamie T is another to follow up 2 top 30 singles with a flop as The Man’s Machine can’t work its way to success. La Roux’s Quicksand was finally released properly this week but appears to have gone into the quicksand! Susan Boyle tops the album chart To the surprise of nobody, BGT star Susan Boyle tops the album charts this week as her dreams really come true, with over 400k sales beating the opening sales of Leona Lewis Spirit. I Dreamed A Dream is the fastest selling album of the year and fully cements SuBo’s status as a true talent and a huge success. Lady Gaga has repackaged her album and added 8 brand new tracks under the name of The Fame Monster which is a new (or re) entry at #7 this week. Entering rather lower than perhaps expected is Rihanna’s 5th studio album Rated R in at #16 this week, expect a rise following her X-Factor performance. Also Britney, Mariah, Janet and Scooter experience relative flops position wise this week … sales are good though. The highly opinionated bit! I am of the same opinion of Peter Kay’s #1 this week as the X Factor one last week, happy to see Mr Kay get to #1 for a good cause and also a very good video but musically it is rubbish. I really like Rihanna’s Russian Roulette and think it deserves higher, may climb next week though. I am not a fan of Susan Boyle at all, however I think her cover of Wild Horses is very beautiful indeed. Same for Mariah’s cover of I Want To Know What Love Is, I’m not normally a fan of covers in general but I really like this one. I think the pairing of Lady Gaga and Beyonce works very well and Telephone is quite catchy but not the best song around … just OK. It’s a shame for Mika as his new song Rain is rather good, even if his second album is a bit patchy. I absolutely love La Roux and think it’s a shame that Quicksand bombed, mind you the album’s done good.
November 29, 200915 yr Good read, but PK was #18 on just one day of sales last week. Two. The first midweeks includes Sunday and Monday.
November 29, 200915 yr Mind you that was the second time Quicksand was released for La Roux, that was her first single before she released In For The Kill
November 30, 200915 yr Author Mind you that was the second time Quicksand was released for La Roux, that was her first single before she released In For The Kill Yeh that's true, I think it may have been a limited release first time though!
November 30, 200915 yr Two. The first midweeks includes Sunday and Monday. It was released on Friday at midnight, giving it exactly 23 hours and 59 minutes of sales.
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