Joe McElderry climbs to #1 this week for the last chart of 2009

He may have been beaten to Christmas #1 by Rage Against The Machine, now X-Factor winner Joe McElderry fights back to get that number one after all. The RATM campaign was never going to last long, however the very high sales achieved at the beginning of the week ensures that Killing In The Name only drops to #2 this week. Not much more action in this week's chart, here is a quick summary :-

• Cheryl Cole and Will I Am's 3 Words reaches a new peak of #4.
• Journey Don't Stop Believing continues to climb and reaches #7 this week.
• There are 2 tracks featuring Mr Hudson on the rise this week, N-Dubz Playing With Fire reaches #19 and Jay Z Young Forever re-enters at #30.
• Xmas classics reach a new 2009 peak - Pogues #12, Mariah #18, Wham re-enter at #34, slade re-enters at #35 and Chris Rea re-enters at #40.
• Just missing out are Must Be Santa by Bob Dylan, Winter Winds by Mumford & Sons and Video Phone by Beyonce & Lady Gaga.

Michael Buble - Crazy Love is this week's #1 album

So after 4 weeks atop the album chart listings, Susan Boyle is replaced by Michael Buble who scores his very first #1 album with Crazy Love. With no new releases to speak of, there are only reshuffles really in the album chart this week with big sellers like Lady Gaga, JLS, Robbie, Take That and Cheryl Cole all consolidating their positions.

 

2009 Year Summary

January

The start of the year saw Lady Gaga release her debut single Just Dance in the UK after having achieved success elsewhere, the track stayed at #1 for 3 weeks. The Saturdays scored a 3rd top 10 hit as they had Issues, Kevin Rudolf Let It Rock up into the top 5, Kid Cudi scored a massive #2 hit Day & Night and MGMT finally made top 20 with sleeper hit Kids. Beyonce scored a surprise hit with former B side track Single Ladies, which proved to be popular in its own right. In January, 50 Cent didn't Get Up to the top 20, Sugababes (with Keisha still in) said No Can Do to the top 20, and Neyo was Mad he couldn't go beyond #19! Girls Aloud scraped in at #10 with The Loving Kind, following up the massive #1 The Promise. James Morrison scored his biggest hit to date with Nelly Furtado as Broken Strings finally peaked at #2. The Script only peaked at #21 with Breakeven however the track did have staying power, as did Britney's Circus which only reached #13.

 

February

One of the many acts to appear on the BBC Sound of 2009 poll was indie group White Lies, their album went straight to #1 but their singles To Lose My Life and Farewell To The Fairground missed the top 30 (peaking at #34 and #33 respectively). Lady Gaga's album The Fame was released but could only make #3 initially, it did go on to make #1 and ended up as one of the top 5 best sellers of the year. Grime artist Tinchy Stryder finally got commercial success as Take Me Back made #3 (alongside Taio Cruz), the start of better things to come. Pink was Sober as she made #9, Jason Mraz made #11 in a very long chart run with I'm Yours, Alesha Dixon's slow breathing got her to a career high of #3 and Daniel Merriweather's Change did him good making #8. Franz Ferdinand's comeback didn't go too well as lead single Ulysses could only make #20 and album Tonight made #2 but sunk without a trace the following week. Eminem's comeback however did go well as despite promising to hang up his mic, Crack A Bottle made #4! Lily Allen made her successful comeback as new single The Fear debuted at #1 and stayed for 4 weeks. 1990's dance act The Prodigy made a massive comeback as new single Omen peaked at #4 and new album Invaders Must Die debuted at #1 and sold by the bucket load. Irish rockers U2 made their comeback with new single Get On Your Boots but could only make #12, but album No Line On The Horizon was a massive #1 and the band had a very successful 360o tour. Barbadan singer Shontelle hit the top 10 with her T-Shirt as she did her best to sound like Rihanna!

 

March

American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson scored her first UK #1 with My Life Would Suck Without You, ahead of US country singer Taylor Swift with her Love Story. Lady Gaga's second single Poker Face kept rising and finally made #1 to end up as the biggest seller of the year, turned out to be an incredible 2009 for this superstar! 2 acts to somewhat miss the mark were male/female duo Honey Ryder as Fly Away only made #31 and singer songwriter Gary Go as Wonderful could only reach #25 and his album flopped. Take That were kept Up All Night as they hit the top 20 with the second single from the still massive selling The Circus album. This year's official Comic Relief single was a cver of Just Can't Get Enough by The Saturdays, however this was beaten to #1 by Flo Rida's Right Round (sampling Dead Or Alive). Akon scored another top 10 hit as Beautiful rose to #8, Chipmunk's debut single Chip Diddy Chip came in at #21, and Kings Of Leon only made #29 with Revelry. The comedy / unofficial Comic Relief single Islands In The Stream by Vanessa Jenkins & Bryn West feat Tom Jones & Barry Gibb made #1. Oasis made #10 with Falling Down, Annie Lennox made #39 with her Shining Light cover, and Katy Perry made #27 with 3rd single Thinking Of You. 1980's electro-pop duo Pet Shop Boys made a fairly successful comeback as lead single Love Etc hit #14 and album Yes made top 5. Beyonce made #4 with her Halo to help her, AR Rahmann & Pussycat Dolls hit #3 with Jai Ho, and Metro Station invited everyone to Shake It as they made the top 10.

 

April

The Noisettes finally hit it big with #2 hit Don't Upset The Rhythm, and a #7 peaking album Wild Young Hearts to follow. Indie act Doves followed in the footsteps of Franz by only hitting #28 with new single Kingdom Of Rust, album of the same name didn't do that well either. Scottish dance producer Calvin Harris hit #1 with his huge dance single I'm Not Alone. US singer Ciara and Justin Timberlake hit top 5 as they had Love, Sex & Magic in equal quantities. Electro duo La Roux were another act of the BBC Sound poll, they went In For The Kill and hit #2 with their debut single and album. Frankmusik on the other hand had minor success as Better Of As Two hit #26 and the album didn't do great either. Eminem scored a second hit of the year with #4 peaking We Made You, Prodigy made the top 20 again with Warrior's Dance and Lily Allen had another top 10 success but claimed it's Not Fair! Tinchy Stryder scored a Number One by title and by nature as his collaboration with N-Dubz made the top. Girls Aloud proved that the top 10 was Untouchable as they missed the top 10 for the very first time, Green Day though couldn't even make top 20 with comeback single Know Your Enemy but their album 21st Century Breakdown did hit #1. US Disney star Miley Cyrus hit #11 with the original version of The Climb.

 

May

Rapper Ironik hit #3 with his cover of Elton John's Tiny Dancer, joined by Elton himself. U2 missed the top 40 for the first time in their mainstream career as Magnificent made #42. After a break to do solo material, hip hop collective Black Eyed Peas returned this year and scored a second #1 singe with massive comeback single Boom Boom Pow, the start of a great year for them. The Prodigy hit top 10 again with second comeback single Warrior's Dance, Alesha Dixon said Let's Get Excited and made #13, and dance act DeadMau5 & Kaskadehit #14 with I Remember. Dizzee Rascal went Bonkers as he finally released his second comeback single and scored a #1 with it. Daniel Merriweather proved that he is no one hit wonder as ballad Red hit #5 in a long chart run. Scots singer Paolo Nutini made his comeback as Candy made #19 and album Sunny Side Up hit the dizzy heights of #1.

 

June

Swedish singer Agnes hit big with #3 hit Release Me, nothing at all to do with Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1967 hit of the same name. Australian twins the Veronicas hit #8 with their debut single Untouched. Singer Victoria Hesketh topped the BBC Sound of 2009 poll as Little Boots, she got her first hit single which entered at a lowly #13, but hey she was New In Town! Soulja Boy reached the top 10 as he asked to Kiss Me Thru The Phone, no thanks! Keri Hilson scored a big hit with Knock You Down as it reached a high of #5. Kasabian proved that the indie genre coould still be big in 2009 as Fire entered at #3 to become their biggest single yet. Kasabian also made #1 with strangely titled mega-selling album West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Pet Shop Boys got a #21 hit with Did You See Me Coming, hotly tipped Empire Of The Sun hit #14 with We Are The People, and Take That got a #9 hit with Said It All. David Guetta & Kelly Rowland hit #1 with When Love Takes Over, after a fake cover version by Airi L charted at #22. Hot new singer Pixie Lott hit the very top with her debut Mama Do, Paloma Faith also debuted with Stone Cold Sober at a rather lower #17. American Idol winner Jordin Sparks scored a #11 hit as she found herself in a Battlefield, the album didn’t do too well in comparison.

 

July

La Roux released their second proper single Bulletproof and entered straight in at #1, the album then hit #2 (behind Jacko). Hotly tipped alternative singer Florence Welch and her Machine hit #12 with first major hit Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up). June saw the sad death of King Of Pop and musical icon Michael Jackson, so as a result 13 of his hit singles were in the top 40 at once, in early July. Leading the way was Man In The Mirror which made #2, he also topped the album chart with Number Ones then Essential Collection for a massive 7 weeks. MJ was beaten to #1 by dance act Cascada who wanted to Evacuate The Dancefloor! Chipmunk scored his very first top 10 hit with Diamond Rings, Arctic Monkeys made their comeback with #12 hit Crying Lightning (famously with no prior airplay or promotion). Rapper Pitbull made top 10 with I Know You Want Me and Lady Gaga got another top 10 hit with Paparazzi peaking at #4. Boyband JLS came second in last year’s X-Factor and hit playdirt with their debut single Beat Again which went to the top. Dance act Chicane also got another top 10 hit with his Poppiholla.

 

August

After being part of The Library for the last few years, Mr Hudson finally got his commercial breakthrough with massive #2 hit Supernova which also featured Kanye West. Noisettes did a slow climb up to #20 with highly regarded single Never Forget You. Frankmusik got a second small hit with Confusion Girl which could only limp to #27. Green Day got another small hit with 21 Guns making #36 but Beyonce had Sweet Dreams as she hit #5 with the forth single to come from her huge selling I Am Sasha Fierce album. Black Eyed Peas got a second #1 of the year with I Gotta Feeling which went on to have a massive 17 week stay in the top 10. Tinchy Stryder became the next artist to get 2 #1s in the year as Never Leave You entered at the top. Little Boots had the Remedy as she made #6 with her second full single, the album did ok but not as good as hoped by many. Ian Carey Project scored a big dance hit as he wanted to Get Shaky. Calvin Harris was Ready For The Weekend as he hit #3 with the single and #1 with the album. Peter Andre made a comeback on the back of media hype and a split from Katie Price, Behind Closed Doors hit #4. David Guetta got a second #1 of the year alongside Akon as Sexy Bitch rose to the summit, again following a fake version. Esmee Denters made her debut with Outta Here and Just Jack got to #11, but that was the day he died (not really … just the title of his song).

 

September

Dizzee Rascal became the next in line to have 2 chart toppers as he went on Holiday. Biffy Clyro came back with That Golden Rule, the one to score a #10 hit then. Another rapper to make a spectacular comeback was Jay Z, who hit the top alongside Rihanna and Kanye think they Run This Town. This beat Sugababes comeback single Get Sexy to #1, after they had yet another lineup change. The force’s sweetheart Veera Lynn hit the top of the albums chart with her retrospective We’ll Meet Again. Boys & Girls was the second straight #1 for Pixie Lott, ahead of Mika’s comeback We Are Golden at #4. Mini Viva may have Left Her Heart In Tokyo but Muse were having an Uprising, and also hit #1 in the albums. Shakira had a She Wolf in the closet and Madonna had a Celebration as her single made #3 and her hits compilation made #1. Taio Cruz is only gonna Break Your Heart, he got his first #1 and stayed for 3 weeks there. Both Jay Z (Empire State Of Mind with Alicia Keys) and Dizzee Rascal (Dirtee Cash) charted in the top 10 with album tracks this month.

 

October

Chipmunk got his very first #1 with Oopsy Daisy ahead of the Saturdays lead single from second album, saying that Forever Is Over. US superstar Whitney Houston made her comeback with Million Dollar Bill which initially was a #12 hit until she performed on X-Factor which propelled the track to #5. Speaking of which, this was the month that the X-Factor live shows started so the hits from that started flowing. Alexandra Burke was first with her Bad Boys which hit the top ahead of Robbie Williams huge comeback single Bodies. Michael Buble made his comeback and scored what is by far his biggest hit single with Haven’t Met You Yet, peaking at #5. Editors made their comeback, new single Papillon may have only made #23 but new album In This Light And On This Evening hit #1. Temper Trap finally hit top 10 with Sweet Disposition and Veronicas got a second top 20 hit at #17 with 4ever, also Mr Hudson got a second hit as he told some White Lies but could only make #20 this time around. Pitbull also provided us with his very own Hotel Room Service, a second top 10 hit for the rapper.

 

November

Girls Aloud singer and X-Factor judge Cheryl Cole hit the top of the charts with her solo debut, she had to Fight For This Love and only had 3 Words as that album went to the top too. Charity collective Young Soul Rebels hit #10 with their single I Got Soul, borrowing from the Killers track All These Things I’ve Done. Alphabeat made a comeback but could only hit #20 as they cast The Spell on us, Foo Fighters returned but their Wheels could only take them to #22, their Greatest Hits did go top 5 though. Having been really big in the US, Jay Sean got the biggest hit of his UK career with Down, just behind Westlife with their #2 cover of Daughtry’s What About Now. Miley Cyrus had a Party In The USA but still could not make it past #11. Lady Gaga had another hit as she was caught in a Bad Romance, that track started at #14 and eventually climbed to #1 after an X-Factor performance. Boy band JLS got themselves a second chart topper after they performed Everybody In Love on X-Factor. US singer Ke$ha made her debut as she went Tik Tok into a #5 peak, Snow Patrol made #15 and advised us to Just Say Yes! US rockers Bon Jovi made a comeback with their single We Weren’t Born To Follow which could only make #25 and album The Circle which did make #2. Disgraced US singer Chris Brown reappeared with new single I Can Transform Ya but could only hit top 30, album Graffiti also flopped. Former X-Factor winner Leona Lewis released new single Happy which was widely expected to go to #1 but had to settle for runner’s up. Also with an X-Factor performance to help, Black Eyed Peas beat her to #1 with their third #1 of the year Meet Me Halfway. JLS released their album in the same week as Robbie’s Reality Killed The Video Star and beat him to #1. N-Dubz, Britney and Sugababes also charted in the top 10 with their respective new singles, more than can be said for Shakira as Did It Again only made #26. Like last year the X-Factor Finalists 2009 released a charity song and hit #1 with big sales, this time it was with MJ’s You Are Not Alone.

 

December

50 Cent hit the top 20 with his track Baby By Me, a collaboration with Neyo. After many changes by her record company and an X-Factor performance, Mariah Carey’s comeback didn’t go well as her cover of I Want To Know What Love Is limped in at #19 and album flopped. However Rihanna did well by hitting #2 with her game of Russian Roulette and top 20 album Rated R. Peter Kay topped the charts for a fortnight with his Official Children In Need Medley featuring a video with animal puppets. Britain’s Got Talent spawned an unlikely star in the form of singer Susan Boyle and her big voice! SuBo got the fastest selling debut album of all time with I Dreamed A Dream and top 10 single Wild Horses from it. Alicia Keys hit #8 with her comeback single off the back of an X-Factor performance … but hey It Doesn’t Mean Anything! Timbaland made a comeback with another Nelly Furtado collaboration, Morning After Dark peaked at #6. Chipmunk made #10 with forth single Look For Me, and Robbie made top 10 with You Know Me. Just for a change, the battle for Christmas #1 was not a foregone conclusion thanks to a Facebook campaign to get Rage Against The Machine to #1 with their 1992 single Killing In The Name. In a very close battle, Rage made #1 ahead of X-Factor winner Joe McElderry who had to sing a cover of The Climb by Miley Cyrus. Hip hop act 3 Oh 3 along with Katy Perry made a high debut at #5 as they were Starstrukk. After featuring on the X-Factor and rumoured to be the winner’s single, Journey’s 1980’s rock anthem Don’t Stop Believing finally made the top 10 peaking at #7 (so far). There were festive offerings from George Michael (made #14) and Pet Shop Boys (a lowly #40) and old classics from Pogues, Mariah, Wham, Slade and Chris Rea as has become the norm.

 

Personal opinion of 007 - Week and Year

I am happy to see Rage fall off #1 but am not happy that Joe's got his #1 after all as The Climb is such a lame song and the ultimate lesson would have been to have it stall at #2. I really like 3 Words and am happy to see it get a top 5 peak, also good to see the festive classics get a look in there ... shame that Wizzard and Shaky couldn't make it this year though!

Whilst I really like Poker Face and especially Bad Romance, I don’t really care for the rest of Lady Gaga’s musical output and think she’s a tad overrated. Still good that she’s been successful this year, along with the likes of Lilly Allen and Beyonce. However, I absolutely love La Roux, In For The Kill is my favourite song of the year. This comes a close second to Little Boots Remedy, I think Little Boots should have been more successful and her album is so underrated. Same for Noisettes, they should have hit big with more than just the single Don’t Upset The Rhythm … Never Forget You was brilliant and Wild Young Hearts a fantastic album. I don’t care too much for Calvin Harris, I’m Not Alone was ok but that’s it really. He is far better than the pure rubbish that is Tinchy Stryder or even Dizzee Rascal … quite what anyone sees in either of these artists is beyond me. Black Eyed Peas are quite good and probably did deserve success I guess, I do really like I Gotta Feeling and Meet Me Halfway but not Boom Boom Pow! They are far better than the still rubbish N-Dubz and Chipmunk isn’t great despite getting better with each single he released. Pixie Lott on the other is fully deserving of her success, however the Turn It Up album should have done better. One who I think should have done better is the very versatile and brilliant Paloma Faith, her album is great … always next year eh! JLS are ok but very overrated, both Beat Again and Everybody In Love are catchy songs but not deserving of quite such big success. Alexandra Burke is rather good, Bad Boys is not what I expected but actually quite catchy but I was underwhelmed by her album as a whole. Leona’s new one is good if not as good as seminal debut Spirit, that would be difficult to top for anyone though. As you probably know I hate both Rage and Joe’s songs, but I do think Joe has potential if he is given good material of his own to sing … time will tell.

Edited January 3, 201015 yr by loudjamesbond

You can see why I didn't do a commentary this week. There really isn't much to say :lol:

 

It's a shame Bob Dylan and Mumford and Sons missed out so narrowly although the Mumfords album looks like doing well on Sunday :)

You can see why I didn't do a commentary this week. There really isn't much to say :lol:

 

It's a shame Bob Dylan and Mumford and Sons missed out so narrowly although the Mumfords album looks like doing well on Sunday :)

Yes I thought I'd encorporate a year end review which will be up very shortly. I'd agree about Bob Dylan and Mumford, they should be above some of the other classic xmas songs, I do like Slade, Wham, Mariah, etc xmas songs but I think the new ones should get a chance instead. :rolleyes:

Year review now up!

You've got a few chart peaks wrong: A.R. Rahman - Jai Ho peaked at #3, Frankmusik - Confusion Girl at #27, Editors - Papillon at #23 and the Noisettes album at #7.

 

Also Chicane is one person, and Mini Viva are a group. And Calvin Harris' song is called I'm Not Alone, not You're Not Alone.

 

And I REALLY must stress that The Prodigy have a 'The' in their name. This is to avoid confusion with the (crap) rapper Prodigy. Please utilise the definite article on this electronic act...

 

Good overall though ^_^

Edited January 2, 201015 yr by BrayFish

March

2 acts to somewhat miss the mark were girl group Honey Rider as Fly Away only made #31 and singer songwriter Gary Go as Wonderful could only reach #25 and his album flopped.

 

Honey Ryder are a male/female duo.

 

April

Tinchy Stryder scored a Number One by title and by nature as their collaboration with N-Dubz made the top.

 

Tinchy Stryder is one person (as has been implied in February's section).

 

May

Hip hop collective Black Eyed Peas reformed this year and scored a second #1 singe with massive comeack Boom Boom Pow, the start of a great year for them.

 

Did they split up?

 

July

Hotly tipped alternative singer Florence Welsh and her Machine hit #12 with first proper hit Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up).

 

July saw the sad death of King Of Pop and musical icon Michael Jackson.

 

Florence Welch and her Machine reached #51 Kiss With A Fist in 2008 (which I'm pretty sure was a proper release). And Jacko died in June.

 

Apart from that, brilliant stuff!

 

The Black Eyed Peas did not split, they were just doing their own solo stuff, they were on a break.

Yeah, BEP were on a hiatus, seemed to do them a LOT of good.

Good review of the year :)

Jay Sean is from the UK, not the US!

The Black Eyed Peas did not split, they were just doing their own solo stuff, they were on a break.

 

Like Ross & Rachel? :P

Jay Sean is from the UK, not the US!

 

I think 007 meant that he's from the UK and has been big in the US (which he has, he has 2 singles in the top 10 in the USA atm, which is very unusual for a British solo male R&B artist)

OK thanks all for your feedback and pointing out my various errors ... just checking to see if you were paying attention! :lol: I think I have now fixed everything (plus a few more I spotted). Cheers for the feedback though! :cheer:

Regarding 2009's Year End Charts:,

 

1) Lady GaGa becomes the first Solo Female Singer to have 2 Singles in

the UK'S Top 5 of the Year since 1958, when Connie Francis achieved it.

('Just Dance' was also credited to Colby O'Donis, but the Song is about

4.10 long, & he only Sings about 36 Seconds of it. She Sings the vast bulk of

that Single). (Kylie Minogue was 3rd & 4th for 1988, but the Hit in 4th

place - 'Especially For You', was a genuine 50/50 Duet with Jason Donovan,

so it was not a Kylie Solo Hit).

 

2) The first Solo Female to have 2 Songs in the Top 10 of

the Year, since 1961, when it was achieved by Helen Shapiro.

(Madonna has never achieved it. She had 2 in the Top 20

of the Year in 1985, & 1986 - 1 in the Top 10, each time.

Plus, 2 of the Top 20 of 1987 - neither in the Top 10).

 

3) Lady GaGa also becomes only the 2nd Female Singer to have more

than 2 Hits in the Top 20 of the Year. She's at 1, 3, & 17, for the Year.

In 1988, Kylie was 3rd, 4th, 11th, & 20th, for the Year - and in 21st

place too!

 

4) Black Eyed Peas become the first USA Group to have as many as 3

Singles in the UK's Yearly Top 10. Elvis Presley was the last USA Act to

achieve it - way back in 1962.

 

5) The Black Eyed Peas are also only the 2nd Act, with a Female

in it, to have 3 of the Annual Top 10. The Spice Girls are the only

other. They had the 2nd, 4th, & 5th, Best Sellers of 1996. (The

Spice Girls are only the 2nd Act, to have had 3 of the Top 5 of

the Year. The other is Engelbert Humperdinck, who had the Top

3 of the Year, in 1967). The Black Eyed Peas are 2nd, 7th, &

10th for 2009.

 

6) As regards Groups - Apart from the Spice Girls, & Black Eyed

Peas - The Beatles had 3 of the Annual Top 10 in 1963, 1964, &

1965. 4 Hits in the Top 10 of 1963, if we count the 'Twist &

Shout' EP. (Some Year End Lists do not show The Beatles

achieving it - at all - in the 1960's, but those Lists are based on

Points - not on Sales).

Edited January 4, 201015 yr by zeus555