Posted January 8, 201213 yr Flo Rida - Good feeling climbs to #1 After entering the chart at #2 and dropping 1 place each week, last week saw Good Feeling by Flo Rida rise to #3, now the track rises all the way to #1. Featuring on a TV advert for First Choice along with good airplay and a quiet sales week have no doubt helped the track. This is now Flo's 3rd UK #1 as lead artist, following 2009's Right Round (featuring Ke$ha) and 2010's Club Can't Handle Me (feat David Guetta). Good Feeling extensively samples Something's Got A Hold Of Me by Etta James, as does the instrumantal track Levels by Avicii which equals its debut peak of 6 weeks ago in a chart run of 4-5-8-7-9-12-4 so far. Taio Cruz - Troublemaker enters at #3 The highest new entry this week goes to UK R&B singer Taio Cruz who bags himself a 4th top 5 hit as lead artist and 7th in total, as Troublemaker hits #3. Taio made his UK debut in 2006 with top 30 hit I Just Wanna Know, it was in 2008 that he broke through with #5 hit Come On Girl followed by 2 further 20 hits that same year. As the lead single to his second album Rokstarr, Break Your Heart hit #1 in 2009 followed by #42 hit No Other One and #6 hit Dirty Picture. In 2010 he scored a massive #1 with Dynamite then a #8 with Higher, the latter track has 4 versions featuring Kylie Minogue, Travie McCoy, both (Kylie & Travie) and neither (just himself). Troublemaker is the lead single from his forthcoming 3rd album TYO, also featuring David Guetta's #4 hit Little Bad Girl on which he features. Jessie J - Domino climbs to #8 This week's highest climber is from Jessie J whose Domino is well and truly set off now, up from its #34 entry point last week to #8. This gets her a 5th top 10 hit out of 6 releases, with her debut single Do It Like A Dude peaking at #2 a year ago. Million selling (or soon to be) #1 Price Tag followed, #9 hit Nobody's Perfect, #16 hit Who's Laughin Now and #8 hit Who You Are. The atter is the title track to her massive selling album, which was re-released a few weeks ago to feature Domino and 2 other additional tracks. Her collaboration with James Morrison goes up to #30, in which the pair sing "the only way is up up up"! JLS - Do You Feel What I Feel enters at #16 X Factor runners up JLS get themselves a 9th top 20 hit or 10th if you include their minial feature on X Factor Finalists' #1 Wishing On A Star. This release however looks very likely to break their run of top 10 hits, going back to their 2009 debut release Beat Again up to last year's #2 hit Take A Chance On Me. Do You Feel What I Feel serves as their 3rd single from their 3rd album Jukebox which hit #2 around 2 months ago, aparently as a difference there is a 4th single scheduled for release in April. This track samples Bing Crosby's classic 1962 Christmas hit Do You Hear What I Hear, written by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne Baker as a plea for peace between the USA and Cuba. James Vincent McMorrow - Higher Love enters at #21 Coming within a whisker of the top 20 this week is Irish folk singer James Vincent McMorrow with his cover of Higher Love, after hangin around the bottom end of the top 100 for several weeks. The track was originally a #13 hit in the UK for Steve Winwood in 1986, his highest charting hit outside of his bands - Spencer Davis Group, Blind Faith and Traffic. The James Vincent McMorrow cover is featured in the current TV advert for LoveFilm and takes advantage of a quiet week to claim a top 30 placing. Skepta - Hold On London based grime rapper Joseph Junior Adenuga gets himself another top 40 hit this week as Skepta asks us to Hold On. Skepta's first album in 2007 was ironically entitled Greatest Hits, coming 4 years before he had any singles. He released 5 singles off his 3rd album Doin' It Again - Bad Boy, Rescue Me (biggest reaching #14), Cross My Heart, So Alive and Amnesia. The lead single Hold On from his forthcoming 4th album The Honeymoon enters the singles chart at #31. Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again enters at #37 British / Ugandan soul singer Michael Kiwanuka has just been announced as winner of BBC Sound Of 2012, the annual poll to find new musical talent likely to hit big in the coming year. Previous winners have included Jessie J, Adele, 50 Cent and Ellie Goulding; whilst others in this year's poll include Azealia Banks, Skrillex and Niki & The Dove. After a support slot alongside Adele last year on her tour, Michael Kiwanuka now debuts at #37 with new single Home Again. Adele's 21 album returns to #1 Following a BBC airing of her Albert Hall concert, Adele returns to #1 with her 3.8m selling 2nd album 21. The album has now been at #1 for 19 weeks in total, which is the title of her debut album which shoots back up to #18 this week. Continuing on the numbers theme Beyonce's 4th album 4 goes back up to #6 this week, following news that she has become a mother (for real this time). Following Jools Holland's annual Hootenanny show, the Vaccines shoot back up to #16 with their debut album What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? There are also notable climbs from the likes of Cee Lo Green, Caro Emerald and Matt Cardle. Personal opinion I am not happy to see Coldplay knocked off #1, especially as it is the rubbish Flo Rida and this song certainly does not give me a good feeling! Nor does the instrumental borefest by Avicii, or Taio Cruz's forgettable generic guff either. Whilst I am not a fan of Jessie J, I do quite like Domino but I still think Who You Are is a screechy mess that has potential to be a good song! I really don't like that Do You Feel What I Feel tripe from JLS and think that Skepta song is a steaming pile of crap! James Vincent McMorrow's Higher Love is ok though, however not anywhere near as good as the original. With all that negativity I should end of a high note, I really like Michael Kiwinuka's Home Again as it is nice and melodic, hope he lives up to the hype.
January 8, 201213 yr The OCC tell me that they are not counting G. I. Blues, by Elvis Presley, as a Studio Album. Hence why the 19 No.1 Weeks of 21 are now given that Chart Record - as regards Solo Albums. MOST WEEKS AT NUMBER 1 - UK ARTIST ALBUMS @ = The Weeks at No.1 were Non-Consecutive 1) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (1970) - 33 @ 2) PLEASE PLEASE ME - THE BEATLES (1963) - 30 3) SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - THE BEATLES (1967) - 27 @ 4) G.I. BLUES (OST) - ELVIS PRESLEY (1960 - No.1 in 1961) - 22 @ 5)=WITH THE BEATLES - THE BEATLES (1963) - 21 5)=A HARD DAY’S NIGHT - THE BEATLES (1964) - 21 7) 21 - ADELE (2011) - 19 @ THE FOUR NON-ARTIST ALBUMS THAT SPENT 19 - OR MORE - WEEKS AT No.1 1) SOUTH PACIFIC (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS (1958) - 115 @ 2) THE SOUND OF MUSIC (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS (1965) - 70 @ 3) THE KING & I (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS (1956) - 48 @ 4) MY FAIR LADY - ORIGINAL BROADWAY STAGE CAST (1958) - 19 MOVES LIKE JAGGER - THE FIRST NON-No.1 SINCE 1957 TO..... In the meantime, Moves Like Jagger, becomes the first Single, since 1994, to enter in the Top 20, & to remain it in for as long as 21 Weeks. It also becomes the first Non-No.1, since 1957, to achieve it. Another No.1 achieved it in 1967. I'm not saying that no No.1 Hits have beaten that since 1957. I'm merely going on about 21 consecutive Top 20 Weeks, by Singles that entered in the Top 20. She Loves You, by The Beatles, entered at No.12 in 1963, & spent 24 consecutive Weeks in the Top 20. LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND - PAT BOONE (1957) - (Entered at No.18, Peaked at No.2, (7W) - 21 Consecutive Top 20 Weeks) 18-12-12-7-6-5-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-4-5-13-12-13-20 THE LAST WALTZ - ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (1967) - (Entered at No.19, Peaked at No.1, (5W) - 21 Consecutive Top 20 Weeks) 19-3-1-1-1-1-1-3-3-2-4-4-5-8-5-13-16-12-13-16-19 LOVE IS ALL AROUND - WET WET WET (1994) - (Entered at No.4, Peaked at No.1, (15W) - 21 Consecutive Top 20 Weeks) 4-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-8-16 MOVES LIKE JAGGER - MAROON 5 FT. CHRISTINA AGUILERA (2011) - (Entered at No.3, Peaked at No.2, (7W) - 21 Consecutive Top 20 Weeks) @@@ 3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-5-5-9-7-8-10-16-14-15-11-12 @@@ = Up to now ADELE'S No.1 WEEKS IN 2011 Adele spent 23 Weeks at No.1 in 2011. 5 with a Single, & 18 with an Album. It was the most ever by a Solo Female. It was also the most since ABBA managed 23 Weeks in 1976. ABBA had 12 Singles Weeks, (3 No.1's), & 11 Albums Weeks, (1 No.1 Album), that Year.
January 9, 201213 yr Author The OCC tell me that they are not counting G. I. Blues, by Elvis Presley, as a Studio Album. Hence why the 19 No.1 Weeks of 21 are now given that Chart Record - as regards Solo Albums. MOST WEEKS AT NUMBER 1 - UK ARTIST ALBUMS @ = The Weeks at No.1 were Non-Consecutive 1) BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (1970) - 33 @ 2) PLEASE PLEASE ME - THE BEATLES (1963) - 30 3) SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - THE BEATLES (1967) - 27 @ 4) G.I. BLUES (OST) - ELVIS PRESLEY (1960 - No.1 in 1961) - 22 @ 5)=WITH THE BEATLES - THE BEATLES (1963) - 21 5)=A HARD DAY’S NIGHT - THE BEATLES (1964) - 21 7) 21 - ADELE (2011) - 19 @ THE FOUR NON-ARTIST ALBUMS THAT SPENT 19 - OR MORE - WEEKS AT No.1 1) SOUTH PACIFIC (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS (1958) - 115 @ 2) THE SOUND OF MUSIC (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS (1965) - 70 @ 3) THE KING & I (OST) - VARIOUS ARTISTS (1956) - 48 @ 4) MY FAIR LADY - ORIGINAL BROADWAY STAGE CAST (1958) - 19 MOVES LIKE JAGGER - THE FIRST NON-No.1 SINCE 1957 TO..... In the meantime, Moves Like Jagger, becomes the first Single, since 1994, to enter in the Top 20, & to remain it in for as long as 21 Weeks. It also becomes the first Non-No.1, since 1957, to achieve it. Another No.1 achieved it in 1967. I'm not saying that no No.1 Hits have beaten that since 1957. I'm merely going on about 21 consecutive Top 20 Weeks, by Singles that entered in the Top 20. She Loves You, by The Beatles, entered at No.12 in 1963, & spent 24 consecutive Weeks in the Top 20. LOVE LETTERS IN THE SAND - PAT BOONE (1957) - (Entered at No.18, Peaked at No.2, (7W) - 21 Consecutive Top 20 Weeks) 18-12-12-7-6-5-2-2-2-2-3-2-2-3-2-4-5-13-12-13-20 THE LAST WALTZ - ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK (1967) - (Entered at No.19, Peaked at No.1, (5W) - 21 Consecutive Top 20 Weeks) 19-3-1-1-1-1-1-3-3-2-4-4-5-8-5-13-16-12-13-16-19 LOVE IS ALL AROUND - WET WET WET (1994) - (Entered at No.4, Peaked at No.1, (15W) - 21 Consecutive Top 20 Weeks) 4-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-8-16 MOVES LIKE JAGGER - MAROON 5 FT. CHRISTINA AGUILERA (2011) - (Entered at No.3, Peaked at No.2, (7W) - 21 Consecutive Top 20 Weeks) @@@ 3-3-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-4-5-5-9-7-8-10-16-14-15-11-12 @@@ = Up to now ADELE'S No.1 WEEKS IN 2011 Adele spent 23 Weeks at No.1 in 2011. 5 with a Single, & 18 with an Album. It was the most ever by a Solo Female. It was also the most since ABBA managed 23 Weeks in 1976. ABBA had 12 Singles Weeks, (3 No.1's), & 11 Albums Weeks, (1 No.1 Album), that Year. Thanks for that Zeus. I think 21 is quite likely to get 21 weeks at #1 or maybe even exceed that, also Moves Like Jagger is almost certain to beat 21 top 20 weeks next week. I think 21 and MLJ deserve their respective success, so good on them!
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