Lady Gaga climbs to #1 with Bad Romance this week

We have a new chart topper this week as everyone goes gaga for the lady of the year! Following a typically outrageous performance on X Factor involving a bath tub and toilet, Lady Gaga climbs to #1 with Bad Romance. Gaga is now the second act to score 3 #1 singles within the calendar year and from the same album, following Black Eyed Peas just a few weeks ago. It is also fairly unusual to see a track climb up slowly to #1 rather than enter there and drop (same can be said for Black Eyed Peas), Bad Romance has gone 14-10-11-8-5-3-1 so far.

 

Ke$ha – Tik Tok rises to #5 and Timbaland – Morning After Dark rises to #6

US singer Kesha Rose Sebert reaches a new peak with her single Tik Tok as she rises to #5. The other climber within the top 10 is Timbaland, Nelly Furtado and So Shy with Morning After Dark. Nelly F is now credited on 9 UK top 10 hits, whilst Timbo is on 6, however this is the debut for So Shy in the UK.

 

Chuckie feat LMFAO - Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl enters at #9

So this week’s highest new entry is the latest house/dance mash-up track. Chuckie is a DJ from Suriname who has done remixes for David Guetta amongst other acts. LMFAO are an electro group from California who have released several singles in their native USA but had no hits to speak of here. All that has now changed as DJ Chuckie’s Let The Bass Kick is mixed up with LMFAO’s I’m In Miami Bitch to give a top 10 new entry. LMFAO means Laughing My Flipping Ass Off by the way for those not familiar wit txt spk!

 

Chipmunk – Look For Me climbs to #10

Rising up the charts again this week is Chipmunk looking for a third top 10 hit and gets just that, as Look For Me rises to #10 this week! Many people compare this to Black Eyed Peas I Gotta Feeling, the question is whether it will have such a long chart run (24+ weeks in the top 40, 17 in the top 10).

 

Robbie Williams – You Know Me climbs back up to #15

Following the album release 5 weeks ago, You Know Me entered the top 20 for Robbie Williams and subsequently dropped to #30 last week. Now with the physical release this week, the track climbs back up to beat its previous #17 peak, and likely to climb further after his X-Factor performance. To date Rob has only had 4 solo singles miss the UK top 10, the only one to miss top 20 was Sin Sin Sin in 2006.

 

Pogues and Mariah’s Christmas classics both enter the top 20

For the week before xmas, Fairytale Of New York rises to #18 for Pogues & Kirsty McColl week and All I Want For Christmas Is You rises to #19 for Mariah Carey. There is also a top 40 re-entry for Wham’s Last Christmas at #39. Festive classics from Shakin’ Stevens, Slade, Wizard, Band Aid and Chris Rea are just outside the top 40 this week, some may enter next week.

 

Terry Wogan & Aled Jones/Sharon Corr – Silver Bells / Me & My Teddy Bear enters at #27

TV and radio personality Sir Terry Wogan once more teams up with singer Aled Jones for a festive single. Their track is a cover of the festive classic Silver Bells which has been recorded by many artists ranging from Andy Williams to Destiny’s Child and more. This is actually a double A Side with Sharon Corr’s version of the children’s song Me & My Teddy Bear. Never mind it is for charity as well.

 

Saturdays – Ego enters at #35

Girl group the Saturdays get themselves a 7th top 40 hit this week as the girls together with their Ego enter at #35. This is a follow up to their #2 hit Forever Is Over, which is still their joint biggest hit along with their charity cover of Just Can’t Get Enough.

 

Top 40 Near Misses!

Amongst the tracks missing out this week are Mumford & Sons as the Winter Winds don’t quite carry them to the top 40. Depeche Mode miss out with their latest double A Side Fragile Tension / Hole To Feed. As do Green Day as they experience a 21st Century Breakdown, title track from their mega-selling album.

 

SuBo stays at #1 in the album charts

For a third week running, Susan Boyle’s #1 dreams are coming true as she continues to sell by the bucketload. SuBo performed with mega-star Elaine Page this week which has doubtlessly helped also. Lady Gaga’s Fame Monster rises to #2 as a result of her X Factor performance. The highest new entry this week comes in at a lowly #31 for rockers 30 Seconds To Mars as they declare war on the album charts. There are debuts outside the top 40 from Timbaland as he shocks us for a second time with Shock Value II and Chris Brown with his new album entitled Graffiti, amongst others.

 

Next week’s contenders

The X Factor Winner will obviously be #1 next week with his/her version of The Climb, however there are a few contenders for the #2 slot. Following a Facebook campaign, we could see Rage Against The Machine re-enter high with Killing In The Name. Pet Shop Boys Christmas EP and Queen with the Muppets could both enter high as well.

 

Personal opinion of the author … not necessarily the opinion of the general public!

Whilst I’m not a fan of Lady Gaga, I do really love Bad Romance. I even think it has an edge on the brilliant Poker Face, and am glad to see it rise to #1 even just for 1 week. I hate that Chuckie song and don’t think it should be anywhere near the top 40 let alone top 10! On the other hand I really do love Robbie’s new one and think it deserves top 10, better than Bodies which is good too – true return to form. I am happy to see some xmas classics come back – Pogues and Wham in particular. However I do not like the Terry & Aled song but it is marginally better than the sickly Me & My Teddy Bear by Sharon Corr! I am beginning to like the new N-Dubz song Playing With Fire and I really like the new Saturdays track Ego, an improvement on Forever Is Over. Oh well more X-Factor rubbish for xmas #1 then!

 

Suriname? Oh my :o

 

Good read ^_^

Suriname? Oh my :o

 

Good read ^_^

Yeh I had to double check that one! <_<

 

 

LADY GAGA - THE FIRST SOLO FEMALE ACT TO HAVE 3 CALENDAR YEAR UK No.1 SINGLES

 

The UK Singles Chart began in mid-November 1952. It has taken

57 Years, but Lady GaGa becomes the first Solo Female, to have

3 No.1 Singles in a Calendar Year.

 

Her 1st No.1 of the Year, ('Just Dance'), was credited as 'Featuring Colby

O'Donis', but it was really a Solo Single - one only has to see the Video. Colby

O'Donis only Sings a small part of the Song. She does about 95% of it.

 

Only 6 Groups, with Female Singers, have ever achieved 3 No.1 Singles in A Calendar Year:,

 

1) ABBA - 1976

2) Blondie - 1980

3) Spice Girls 1996

4) Spice Girls - 1997 (4 No.1's if you count '2 Become 1', the 1996 Xmas No.1)

5) All Saints - 1998

6) B*Witched - 1998

7) Black Eyed Peas - 2009

 

MADONNA has had 13 UK No.1 Singles, but has never had more than 2 in a

Calendar Year. Kylie Minogue has never had more than 1 genuine SOLO No.1

in a Calendar Year. (She only had 1 No.1 Solo Hit in 1989 - the 1st one was

a Duet with Jason Donovan).

 

THE 10 SOLO FEMALES WITH 2 UK No.1 SINGLES (CALENDAR YEAR)

 

(Doris Day went to No.1 twice, with 'Secret Love', in 1954, but

that does not count. Rosemary Clooney went to No.1 twice, in

1955 - 'Mambo Italiano' - that does not count either. Nor does

Celine Dion - No.1 - twice - with 'My Heart Will Go On', in 1998)

 

1) Connie Francis - 1958

2) Helen Shapiro - 1961

3) Cilla Black - 1964

4) Madonna - 1986

5) Madonna - 1987

6) Billie - 1998

7) Geri Halliwell - 1999

8) Britney Spears - 2000

9) Madonna - 2000

10) Britney Spears - 2004

11) Leona Lewis - 2007

12) Alexandra Burke ('Hallelujah' was No.1 in the 1st Chart of 2009 - W/E 10th January)

13) Pixie Lott - 2009

Edited December 14, 200915 yr by zeus555

Thanks Zeus ... good information.

I really don't get why collaborations with other artists should make a song not count to an artist's solo career - so they weren't the only ones credited, big deal, they were still singing solo (ie without a band), just with help from another act.