This is not true - he is of Senegalese 'descent' but was born in the USA.

 

Come on now, does anybody really know where Akon was born? :lol:

glad to see Garbage went top 10, but expected more since it's their comeback album after 7 years and it's such an amazing album!!!!

 

happy to see 'Madonna's 'Girl Gone wild' finally & randomly in the top 75!!!

Two big shocks for me in the charts this week - The Gossip album A Joyful Noise staggering at at number 47..... pitiful considering it's the best album of 2012 so far.

 

And Madonna's best single in years, Girl Gone Wild, limping in at number 73..... it's fair to say her record company have COMPLETELY f*cked up the single releases from MDNA. The only formats of this available are a 12" picture disc (mega pricey) and a 2-track CD single - retailing at a fiver.

Bless the Broken Road went 76->41. Quite unlucky in terms of positions.

 

Also, I just realised that there have been several singles peaking at #7 and #13 recently.

 

Oh dear at Gossip. At least Garbage could scrape the top ten.

Bless the Broken Road went 76->41. Quite unlucky in terms of positions.

 

Also, I just realised that there have been several singles peaking at #7 and #13 recently.

 

Oh dear at Gossip. At least Garbage could scrape the top ten.

 

There's been four of those this year already after only one the whole of last year!

You can buy the Girl Gone Wild 2 track cd for £3. The remix ep is £2.99 (download only) and the 8 track physical ep is £14 which isn't out here till June 11th.

First African artist to have a top 10? Surely that would date back to at least 1958 when Elias & His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes took their version of "Tom Hark" to number 2

OK, several chart milestones this week (all relate to top 75 only)

 

Both Katy Perry & Donna Summer reach 300 weeks Top 75

Calvin Harris reaches 200 weeks

Ed Sheeran reaches 100 weeks (I'm not giving him a separate credit on "Teardrop"

 

and perhaps most impressively of all, Glee Cast have their 100th Top 75 hit - making them the first group to achieve this feat.

 

 

On a Donna Summer-related note, "I Feel Love" has been a hit for the same artist in three noticeably different versions at separate times, the original in 1977, a Patrick Cowley remix in 1982 and another re-recorded version in 1995. I know "Cars" by Gary Numan has also done this, are there any others I've forgotten about at the moment?

You can buy the Girl Gone Wild 2 track cd for £3. The remix ep is £2.99 (download only) and the 8 track physical ep is £14 which isn't out here till June 11th.

 

amazon currently have the 2-track CD single (with the frankly abysmal 4 minute remix as the 2nd track) for £4.57. 2 track CD singles usually retail for £1.99.

 

Never buy downloads, not ever. iTunes? Ugh.

 

And £14 for a CD single? Really? And why on earth wait til June 11th when GGW will be ancient history?

 

Is Madonna bored of having UK hit singles? Seems so.

Ouch at Cover Drive on both charts. :(

 

30 weeks top 100 for Kelly Clarkson's album is suprising. Wonder if it could go platinum after 'Dark Side' is released?

Ouch at Cover Drive on both charts. :(

 

30 weeks top 100 for Kelly Clarkson's album is suprising. Wonder if it could go platinum after 'Dark Side' is released?

 

Only if it was a mahoosive hit, I don't think the album's crossed 200k yet.

Bré, you've got the Glee Cast entry at no. 69 wrong - at least according to the OCC it's "It's All Coming Back To Me Now"

Nice to see the tour announcement seems to have helped Kelly a tiny bit as she climbs 8 places in the albums and climbs with 'Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)'! What's with the random entry for Glee's 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You'? Is it an MW/OCC error?

Nice to see the tour announcement seems to have helped Kelly a tiny bit as she climbs 8 places in the albums and climbs with 'Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)'! What's with the random entry for Glee's 'I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You'? Is it an MW/OCC error?

It's a Bré error - check the post above yours :P "Paradise By the Dashboard Light" is also new at #95 :)

Given I clearly haven't updated the top 100s yet it's an MW error...

 

It's a good thing you pointed that out though because I probably wouldn't have spotted that, I don't really pay much attention to Glee songs these days.

Edited May 21, 201214 yr by Bré

Random observation: 7 of the current top 10 singles are first chart entries as a lead artist for the artists involved.

THEO... why is Cheryl Cole wearing a used tampon in your sig? :o

Random observation: 7 of the current top 10 singles are first chart entries as a lead artist for the artists involved.

 

Yet none of 11-20 are

Top 100s now updated.

 

Singles

 

New entries:

#7 The Saturdays - 30 Days [13th hit]

#9 D'banj - Oliver Twist [1st hit]

#12 Scissor Sisters - Only The Horses [13th hit]

#27 Professor Green feat. Ruth Anne - Remedy [10th hit for Professor Green; 1st hit for Ruth Anne]

#29 Skepta - Make Peace Not War [7th hit {+1 with Boy Better Know}]

#55 Mark Ronson and Katy B - Anywhere In The World [8th hit for Mark Ronson {+3 as Mark Ronson & The Business Intl}; 6th hit for Katy B]

#69 Glee Cast - It's All Coming Back To Me Now [143rd hit]

#73 Madonna - Girl Gone Wild [69th hit]

#87 Delilah - Breathe [3rd hit]

#95 Glee Cast - Paradise By The Dashboard Light [144th hit]

#96 Jessie Ware - 110% [1st hit]

 

Re-entries:

#45 Donna Summer - I Feel Love [death effect; R.I.P. Donna Summer 17/05/2012]

#62 Lana Del Rey - Video Games [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#68 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Birdge [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#74 Alanis Morissette - Ironic [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#80 Massive Attack - Teardrop [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#82 Gavin DeGraw - I Don't Want To Be [used in advert campaign for last episode of One Tree Hill]

#86 Estelle feat. Kanye West - American Boy [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#92 Faith Hill - There You'll Be [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

 

New peaks:

#2 fun. feat. Janelle Monáe - We Are Young [from #3]

#6 Rihanna - Where Have You Been [from #8]

#17 Labrinth - Express Yourself [from #34]

#19 Emeli Sandé - My Kind Of Love [from #27]

#30 Coldplay and Rihanna - Princess Of China [from #33]

#32 Skrillex feat. Sirah - Bangarang [from #42]

#37 Ben Howard - Only Love [from #80]

#41 Rascal Flatts - Bless The Broken Road [from #76]

#46 Wretch 32 feat. Ed Sheeran - Hush Little Baby [from #87]

#72 Angus & Julia Stone - You're The One That I Want [from #82]

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#51 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)

#53 Plan B - She Said

#56 Modestep - Show Me A Sign *

#59 Tom Petty - Free Fallin'

#68 deadmau5 feat. Chris James - The Veldt *

#70 Glee Cast - Shake It Out *

#72 Beyoncé - Irreplaceable

#79 Rachel K Collier - Hard Road To Travel *

#85 Skrillex and Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley - Make It Bun Dem *

#86 Radiohead - Creep

#87 Florence + The Machine - Shake It Out

#88 Labrinth - Last Time *

#89 Tenacious D - Tribute *

#90 The Script - Breakeven

#92 James Vincent McMorrow - Higher Love

#94 B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift - Both Of Us *

#97 U2 - Beautiful Day

#98 Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory

#99 Maverick Sabre - Let Me Go

 

Albums

 

New entries:

#2 Tenacious D - Rize Of The Fenix [3rd hit]

#5 Ren Harvieu - Through The Night [1st hit]

#10 Garbage - Not Your Kind Of People [6th hit]

#15 Beach House - Bloom [2nd hit]

#17 Glee Cast - Glee - The Music - Season Three - The Graduation Album [16th hit]

#21 Engelbert Humperdinck - Release Me - The Best Of [18th hit]

#37 Morten Harket - Out Of My Hands [1st hit* {+14 with a-ha}]

#47 Gossip - A Joyful Noise [3rd hit]

#49 Santana - Shape Shifter [24th hit]

#55 Best Coast - The Only Place [2nd hit]

#60 Niki And The Dove - Instinct [1st hit]

#73 Willie Nelson - Heroes [2nd hit]

#74 Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns [3rd hit]

#83 The Imagined Village - Bending The Dark [2nd hit]

#92 Starboy Nathan - 3D - Determination Dedication Desire [1st hit]

 

*despite what the MW commentary would have you believe

 

Re-entries:

#67 Donna Summer - The Journey - The Very Best Of [death effect; R.I.P. Donna Summer 17/05/2012]

#84 John Denver - Take Me Home

#90 The Maccabees - Given To The Wild

#91 Professor Green - At Your Inconvenience [new single 'Remedy' (feat. Ruth Anne)]

#94 Rumer - Seasons Of My Soul

#97 Carpenters - Gold - Greatest Hits

 

New peaks:

#6 Ben Howard - Every Kingdom [from #7; performed on Later... with Jools Holland + new single 'Only Love']

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#33 My Bloody Valentine - EP's 1988-1991 *

#36 King Charles - LoveBlood *

#42 Damon Albarn - Dr Dee *

#45 Storm Corrosion - Storm Corrosion *

#50 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

#61 My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything *

#68 Marilyn Manson - Born Villain *

#70 Rufus Wainwright - Out Of The Game *

#72 JD McPherson - Signs & Signifiers *

#73 The Chieftains - Voice Of Ages *

#84 Fleetwood Mac - The Very Best Of

#85 John Legend - Get Lifted

#86 Silversun Pickups - Neck Of The Woods *

#87 Eurythmics - Ultimate Collection

#88 The Temper Trap - Conditions

#90 Grimes - Visions

#92 Example - Playing In The Shadows *

#94 Dire Straits and Mark Knopfler - The Best Of - Private Investigations

#98 Snow Patrol - Fallen Empires

#99 James Morrison - The Awakening

#100 Noah And The Whale - Last Night On Earth *

Edited May 22, 201214 yr by Bré

Two big shocks for me in the charts this week - The Gossip album A Joyful Noise staggering at at number 47..... pitiful considering it's the best album of 2012 so far.

 

And Madonna's best single in years, Girl Gone Wild, limping in at number 73..... it's fair to say her record company have COMPLETELY f*cked up the single releases from MDNA. The only formats of this available are a 12" picture disc (mega pricey) and a 2-track CD single - retailing at a fiver.

 

She's signed to Interscope now isn't she?

 

That explains why. Look at their roster. Full of flops (not saying Madonna is a flop, but I mean the record label clearly has no intentions to promote 95% of the artists on there for some reason). It used to be dominating the charts a few years ago, but now they only seem to focus on 2 or 3 artists at a time. It's awful. I don't know why she went there.