Posted May 16, 201015 yr Roll Deep – Good Times stays at #1 for a third week Roll Deep stay for a third week at the summit of the singles chart now, as once again none of the new entries prove to be a challenge. The last single to spend this long at #1 was Fireflies by Owl City at the beginning of this year, whilst the last one to do better was Lilly Allen’s The Fear at the beginning of last year which stayed for 4 weeks. Next week could see a new #1 though from BoB, another one to come from the urban / rap genre. Jason Derulo – Riding Solo climbs to #2 Jason Derulo gets another big rise with his new single Riding Solo to now follow in the footsteps of his first 2 by going top 3, landing at #2 this week. The #3 Imogen Heap sampling debut Whatcha Say, previous #1 In My Head (at #35 this week) and this track all come from his self titled album. It seems that Mr Derulo is more of a singles artist, as the album has sold modestly so far. Edward Maya & Vika Jigulina – Stereo Love enters at #4 This week’s highest new entry goes to a hotly tipped new dance track entitled Stereo Love by Edward Maya feat Vika Jigulina. Bucharest born musician, producer and performer Edward Maya first made a name for himself when he composed a song for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. His first real breakthrough came last year when this track Stereo Love became a top 5 hit in 8 different countries, now it repeats that feat here in the UK. Maya has worked in the past with several Romanian artists, the one providing vocals on this track is Vika Jigulina, Stereo Love debuts at a respectable #4. Fyfe Dangerfield – She’s Always A Woman up to #7 and Alex Burke – All Night Long up to #8 Jason Derulo is not Riding Solo, as there are another 2 climbers into this week’s top 10 from 2 very different artists and 2 very different songs. Ex Guillemot Fyfe Dangerfield reaches #7 with his cover of Billy Joel’s She’s Always A Woman, which debuted at #14 last week after its use in the current John Lewis advert. Alexandra Burke scores a forth top 10 hit with All Night Long, with the single version (featuring Pitbull) due out next week, the track is likely to climb further. Glee Cast – Total Eclipse Of The Heart enters at #9 and Run Joey Run enters at #27[/u] The Glee tracks released last week didn’t make much of an impact, in fact none made the top 40 at all. This week is a different story with 2 making their debut, highest being their cover of Bonnie Tyler’s worldwide 1983 #1 Total Eclipse Of The Heart. In at #27 is Glee’s cover of Run Joey Run, a 1975 song by soft rock singer David Geddes but never charting in the UK until now. Christina Aguilera – Not Myself Tonight enters at #12 Following a very brief early release on iTunes, Christina Aguilera’s comeback single was finally released for real and enters at #12 this week. It is the first track to be taken from her forthcoming new album Bionic and now becomes her 15th lead artist top 20 hit (another 4 as featuring artist). She made her debut back in 1999 with the #1 Genie In A Bottle, the first of 4 #1s with the others being Dirrty (feat Redman), Beautiful and Lady Marmalade (alongside Lil Kim, Missy Elliot, Pink and Mya). Hopefully she gets back to being herself soon! Fugative – Crush enters at #26 16 year old Essex born rapper Harry James Byart gets his top 40 debut this week, better known as Fugataive. In 2009, he relelase his debut single Jimmy Shoes, followed by Supafly earlier on this year, now he enters at #26 with his third single release Crush. Fugative has toured with Basshunter and been championed by the likes of Radio 1. Kean feat K’naan – Stop For A Minute enters at #40 Right stop for a minute everyone … Keane return to the top 40 with their new single! The UK piano rock band first achieved mainstream success in 2004 when their debut album Hopes & Fears sold bucket loads and spawned 4 top 20 hits. This was followed in 2006 by another 4 top 30 hits from second album Under The Iron Sea, then in 2008 was third album Perfect Symmetry and top 30 single Spiralling. Teaming up with Somali born rapper K’naan, Stop For A Minute is now their tenth top 40 hit. Keane top the album charts with Night Train This week Keane score their forth #1 album to follow in the footsteps of Hopes & Fears, Under The Iron Sea and Perfect Symmetry. This is not actually a full album but essentially an 8 track EP but is termed as an album for chart purposes. Lady Gaga gets a new entry with her remixes album at #3, which is as the title suggests remixes of her songs! US Indie band The National get their first UK album chart entry (or chart entry of any description) with their fifth album The High Violet, entering at #5. Another Indie band enter the top 10 with their album, this time is it UK based band Foals with their second album Total Life Forever in at #8. Celine Dion enters at #11 with her live album, Slash in at 17 with his fully released album and Alicia Keys Platinum Collection in at #20. Personal opinion I still do not like that Roll Deep song that is till at #1, not Good Times for me when I hear it! I’m not normally a big fan of dance music in general, however I find something really good and appealing about Stereo Love. Good to see Fyfe Dangerfield’s gorgeous version of She’s Always A Woman make the top 10, equally good to see All Night Long become a top 10 hit for Alex. Not Myself Tonight is far from Christina’s best but it’s OK, just not a patch on Genie In A Bottle or Beautiful for me. I think Fugative’s Crush is terrible, but no worse than the likes of Tinie Tempah, Roll Deep or Prof Green mind you. Glee’s latest offerings are certainly not any better, I really Bonnie Tyler and really cringe at what Glee have done to it … I’ve not heard Run Joey Run but don’t particularly want to! Keane’s new one is good, rapper K’naan doesn’t really ruin it too badly. Edited May 16, 201015 yr by loudjamesbond
May 16, 201015 yr "Another Indie band enter the top 5 with their album, this time is it UK based band Foals with their second album Total Life Forever in at #7." :kink: What a typo It's #8 by the way
May 16, 201015 yr Author "Another Indie band enter the top 5 with their album, this time is it UK based band Foals with their second album Total Life Forever in at #7." :kink: What a typo It's #8 by the way That's what I get for typing this up based on the midweeks! :o
May 16, 201015 yr That's what I get for typing this up based on the midweeks! :o There was a fair bit of rewriting in mine because of that as well :lol:
May 16, 201015 yr KEANE - ONLY THE 5TH ACT TO..... By going to No.1 with 'Night Train', Keane are only the 5th Act - and 3rd Group - to reach No.1 here with their first 4 Albums. 'Night Train' is actually an 8 Track EP. The only Acts to reach No.1 with their first 4 - or more - Albums are:, 1) BEATLES - First 7 at No.1 (1963 - 1966) 2) ROBBIE WILLIAMS - First 5 at No.1 (1998 - 2002) ('Life Thru A Lens' was released in 1997, but it did not reach No.1 until 1998). (He'd previously had 3 No.1 Albums in Take That. (1993 - 1996). He left Take That in 1995, but sang on most of the Tracks on their 1996 No.1 'Greatest Hits' Album). 3) GEORGE MICHAEL - First 4 at No.1 (1987 - 1998) (He'd previously had 2 No.1 Albums in Wham!) (1983 - 1984) 4) BOYZONE - First 4 at No.1 (1995 - 1999) 5) KEANE - First 4 at No.1 (2004 - 2010) (I was surprised to see that they formed in 1995, but did not release their Debut Album - 'Hopes & Fears' - until 2004 ). NOTE - COLDPLAY - They'd have achieved it, (4 No.1's - 2000 - 2008), had not a 'Live 2003' Album been released, in 2008, & reached No.46. Its No.46 Peak came between their 3rd & 4th No.1 Albums. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ LADY GAGA - THE 1st SOLO FEMALE TO HAVE 2 UK TOP 5 ALBUMS AT THE SAME TIME By having the No.3, ('Remix'), & No.4, ('The Fame'), Albums this Week, Lady GaGa becomes the first Female Solo Act to manage 2 simultaneous Top 5 Albums, in the UK. LADY GAGA - ONLY THE 6th SOLO FEMALE ACT TO..... She's also only the 6th Female Solo Act with 2 simultaneous UK Top 10 Albums. 1) MADONNA (1985) In 1985 she was in the Top 10, with 2 simultaneous Albums, from W/E 17th August to W/E 19th October. (10 Weeks/Charts). They were, 'Like A Virgin' & 'The First Album' - formerly called 'Madonna'. During the 10 Weeks, they did this in the Top 10:, 'Like a Virgin' - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 2 - 1 - 3 'The First Album' - 10 - 6 - 6 - 9 - 8 - 8 - 9 - 7 - 8 - 9 2) SHANIA TWAIN (2000) She had 2 Top 10 Albums, from W/E 18th March 2000 to W/E 15th April 2000. During that 5 Week/Chart period, they did this in the Top 10:, 'Come On Over' - 8 - 8 - 6 - 5 - 8 'The Woman In Me' - 9 - 10 - 7 - 9 - 9 Then she managed it for a 6th Week - also in 2000. W/E 29th April 2000 'Come On Over' - 7 'The Woman In Me' - 10 3) DIDO (2004) She achieved it for 3 Weeks - W/E 10th January 2004 to W/E 24th January 2004 'Life For Rent' - 2 - 1 - 1 'No Angel' - 9 - 8 - 9 4) AMY WINEHOUSE (2007) She managed it for 1 Week - W/E 29th December 2007 'Back To Black Deluxe' - 9 'Back To Black' - 10 NOTE - The OCC has changed its Chart Rules since then, & they'd now combine the 2 Albums in the Chart - giving it higher Positions - but only 1 Chart Entry. So, Amy Winehouse would not have achieved it under current Chart Rules. 5) P!NK (2009) She achieved it in 2009 - but, one of her 2 Top 10 Albums was a 4 CD Box Set, of her 4 Albums prior to 'Funhouse'. So - in a way - she had 5 Albums in the Top 10, at the same time. However, as 4 were in a Box Set, it only counts as 1 Top 10 Entry. (At the time, some P!nk Fans wanted her to be credited with 5 Top 10 Albums that Week - meaning that 4 of them would have been shown as ALL being at No.7! ) REMIX ALBUMS..... By entering at No.3, 'Remix', by Lady GaGa, is the highest Charting 'Remix' Album by a Solo Female. In 1981, 'Love & Dancing', by the League Unlimited Orchestra, reached No.3. It was really a Human League Album. It had 7 Remixes off 'Dare' on it, plus, a Remix of 'Hard Times' - which had previously been the 'B' Side of 'Love Action (I Believe In Love'), in 1981. ('Hard Times' was not on 'Dare'). In 1997, 'Blood On The Dance Floor - History In The Mix', by Michael Jackson, was No.1 for 2 Weeks. That had 8 Remixes of Songs from 'HIStory', (1995), on it - plus 5 New Songs. The 'Love' Album, was a UK No.3 Hit in 2006, & that consisted of 26 Tracks that were Remixes of Beatles songs. So - Lady GaGa is the first person, to reach the Top 3, with a Remix Album, that is soley made up of Remixed Tracks from her previous Album. (Or Albums - if you count 'The Fame' & 'The Fame Monster' as 2 Albums). Edited May 16, 201015 yr by zeus555
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