Owl City climbs to #1 with Fireflies

As widely tipped, US synthpop singer Adam Young climbs a place to reach #1 as Owl City with his Fireflies. He replaces Iyaz as his iPod is still stuck on replay ... isn't it time he got a new one then?! Iyaz had a healthy lead at the start of the week only to be overtaken at the end of the week by Owl City. Glee Cast rise to #3 with their version of Don't Stop Believing and also enter at #36 with their version of Rihanna's #1 hit Take A Bow.

 

Example - Won't Go Quietly enters at #6

This week Brittish rapper Elliot John Gleave gets his very first top 10 hit single at #6, as he states that he Won't Go Quietly. He is better known as Example, having chosen that name because his initials EG are often used to denote an example. Whilst Example did release several limited edition singles in 2007, his only previous hit was last year's Watch The Sun Come Up which made #19. Both singles come from his forthcoming second album entitled Won't Go Quietly ... it seems he won't!

 

JLS - One Shot climbs to #10

Boyband JLS shoot up 22 places to #10 this week with their third single, from their self titled album which has now sold close to 1 million copies in the UK alone. Time will tell whether One Shot can repeat the chart topping success of their first 2 singles Beat Again and Everybody In Love. Doubtful as there is no X-Factor for promotion and the Haiti Relief song Everybody Hurts is due for release in a week's time.

 

Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind Part II (Broken Down) climbs to #15

Alicia Keys continues her climb up the charts with what is to be her next UK single, her solo version of Empire State Of Mind. Her solo version of the song has now climbed above Jay Z's version which has had a long chart run and just drops out of the top 20 this week.

 

Girls Can't Catch - Echo enters at #19

New girl group Girls Can't Catch this week get their second chart hit and despite heavy promotion only just manage to scrape into the top 20. It seems that they cannot Echo the success of fellow girl groups Sugababes, Girls Aloud and Saturdays as they can't catch a top 10 placing with this. Their previous chart hit came in the form of last year's #26 hit Keep Your Head Up.

 

Biffy Clyro - Many Of Horror (When We Collide) climbs to #20

Scots rockers Biffy Clyro score their 4th successive top 20 hit this week with their bizarrely titled rock ballad Many Of Horror as it rises all the way to #20. This has also helped their album Only Revolutions to rise up to #13, the band's 5th studio album. Biffy can now lay claim to 7 top 20 singles to date, out of 21 releases in total.

 

Jay Sean feat Sean Paul & Lil John - Do You Remember enters at #23

Jay Sean scores an immediate follow up to his top 3 single Down, which has just dropped out of the top 40. This time Jay can be found collaborating with Sean Paul and Lil John for Do You Remember, the track debuts at #23 with the distinct possibility of climbing in the next few weeks leading up to full release.

 

Pitbull feat Akon - Shut It Down enters at #40

US rapper Pitbull this week scores his 3rd UK top 40 hit in the form of Shut It Down, following up top 10 hits I Know You Want Me and Hotel Room Service. Shut It Down features Akon, so effectively is his follow up to David Guetta's #1 hit Sexy Bitch on which Akon was the featured singer. This is the 4th single to come from Pitbull's current album Rebelution, however he plans to release at least 7 singles from the album in the future.

 

This week's non-top 40 hits!

Manchester electro duo Hurts came 4th in the BBC Sound Of 2010 poll, but still miss out with debut single Wonderful Life. Paolo Nutini may be riding high in the album charts right now, however he somewhat flops with latest single 10 Out Of 10. Madness once again flop with Forever Young, the 4th single to be taken from their latest studio album. In October last year Irish rockers Ash announced that they would release 26 singles over the next year at 1 per fortnight, however none have become hits so far including the latest single Space Shot.

 

Florence & The Machine stay at #1 with their Lungs album

Florence gets a second week at #1 with her Machine and the hugely successful Lungs album, after spending 5 weeks at #2 last year behind the late MJ. This week's highest new entry comes in at #3 for Welsh rockers Lost Prophets with their 4th studio album The Betrayed, following up the chart topping Liberation Transmission. Child star Justin Bieber enters one place below with his debut album My World, but just misses out on a top 10 single as One Time drops a place this week. One Republic also released their second album Waking Up but somewhat flops, along with Guillemots lead singer Fyfe Dangerfield.

 

Next week's big releases

There is not much in the way of new singles due next week so Owl City is looking good for a second week on top. We could see an invasion of Haiti charity singles as there is a compilation album released featuring contributions from Jay Z/Bono/The Edge/Rihanna, Coldplay, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and more.

 

Personal opinion

I am glad to see Owl City get #1 with Fireflies, I love this track and think its miles better than Replay which is good as well (if a bit generic). I think it's terrible how Glee Cast's abysmal version of Don't Stop Believing has gone top 3 but the great original by Journey slips a place. Example is not really my kind of thing but actually I like Won't Go Quietly better than I thought I would. One Shot is definitely JLS's best song to date, I thought the last 2 were OK but nothing special at all. I still love Alicia Keys' solo version of Empire State Of Mind, miles better without Jay Z ruining it with his inane rap! No wonder Girls Can't Catch haven't made the top 10 as the song is just plain boring to me, I'm not a fan of girl groups in general but I do think the Saturdays Ego is really good and deserved better than #9. I really like Biffy Clyro's new song, I think they've got better and better with their last few releases and Many Of Horror is no exception. I am happy that Florence is still at #1 with the absolutely brilliant Lungs album, also pleasing to see Pixie and Paloma's albums continuing to do well.

Good read