007 Chart Commentary - 29th April 2012

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe stays at #1

26 year old Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen stays at #1 for the 4th straight week with Call Me Maybe, after selling over 100k for the last 3 weeks and increasing slightly each week. Carly is currently on a US/Canada tour, after having released her debut album in 2008 Tug Of War, and an EP entitled Curiosity. She is due to release Curiosity as her debut internation album later on this year. Over here, Carly has Tulisa and Cover drive to contend with in order to make it a 5th week at the top.

Calvin Harris feat Neyo - Let's Go enters at #2

Dumfries born producer and singer Calvin Harris proves himself as the "king of #2s" as his new single enters there, but is the week's highest new entry and indeed only one to debut within the top 40. Calvin Harris made his debut in 2007 with top 10 singles Acceptable In The 80s and The Girls. 2009 saw him top the charts with I'm Not Alone then hit #3 with Ready For The Weekend, 2 further top 30 hits followed - Flashback and You Used To Hold Me. Last year, he had 2 #2 hits Bounce (featuring Kelis) and Feel So Close. Let's Go features vocals from US R&B singer Neyo, who achieved 8 top 20 hit singles of his own, including 3 #1s since his 2006 debut. This is Calvin's 7th and Neyo's 8th top 10 in total (including Pitbull's Give Me Everything).

Alex Clare - Too Close and Train - Drive By climb to #6 and #10 respectively

This week's top 40 may be short of new entries, however there are 2 climbs into the top 10. Highest of those is Too Close by Alex Clare as it rises 15-6, whilst Train rise from #14 to equal their highest chart placing yet of #10 with Drive By. Stereophonics, The Fray and Kings Of Leon all re-enter the lower part of the top 40, due to The Voice and 59p price reductions. Also Rihanna and Maroon 5 make a reappearence with their huge million selling hits from last year.

Jack White tops the album chart with Blunderbuss

Jack White gets his first solo #1 following the disbanding of the White Stripes, with whom he achived 3 top 3 albums including 2 #1s Elephant (2003) and Icky Thump (2007). Adele's 21 is at #2, whilst Lana Del Rey and Nicki Minaj swap places in the top 5 and Jason Mraz tumbles out the top 10. US/Canadian singer songwriter Rufus Wainwright gets his 2nd UK top 5 album as Out Of The Game enters at #5 and shows that he is not! Other new entries this week come from Feeder, Santigold and the Chieftans.

Personal Opinion

I am happy to see Carly remain at #1 as I don't like all these 1 week wonder #1s we seemed to be getting for a while. I quite like Let's Go, just like the rest of Calvin's work, it is nothing special but quite good none the less. Really like Alex Clare and Train's songs, also good to see oldies from Stereophonics, The Fray and Kings Of Leon come back, pity they couldn't be joined by U2.