Posted July 1, 201213 yr Will.i.am feat Eva Simons - This Is Love enters at #1 US hip hop producer, rapper and singer William James Adams, Jr gets his first chart topper as lead artist as Will.i.am tops the UK charts with This Is Love. Will first came to prominence with Black Eyed Peas, who made their commercial breakthrough in 2001 with massive #1 Where Is the Love. Since then, the peas have had a total of 16 top 20 hits, including 4 further #1s. Million selling I Gotta Feeling, Boom Boom Pow, Meet Me Halfway and The Time (Dirty Bit) were those chart toppers. Outside of the group, Will has featured on or produced numerous hits for the likes of Usher, Nicole Scherzinger (group and solo), Estelle, David Guetta and Cheryl Cole. Earlier this year, Mr i.am scored a #3 hit with THE (The Hardest Ever) alongside JLo and Mick Jagger, before feauting as one of the 4 mentors on The Voice UK. Now he hits #1 alongside singer Eva Simons with single This Is Love, becoming the 4th successive #1 single to sell over 100k. Chris Brown - Don't Wake Me Up enters at #3 23 year old US singer, songwriter, dancer and entertainer Chris Brown gets another UK top 5 hit this week, but he doesn't want ot be woken up to be told the news! Chris Brown first hit the UK charts in 2005 with #2 debut hit Run It, followed by several smaller hits. Then in 2007 he hit #8 with With You, #3 alongside Jordin Sparks with No Air, then #4 with Forever the following year. This was followed by several more minor hits, until 2010 saw him hit #6 with the hit single Yeah 3X and 2011 saw his massive #4 hit Beautiful People. Earlier this year, Chris got his first #1 with Turn Up The Music and now follows that with Don't Wake Me Up which debuts at #3. Both of these singles are taken from his forthcoming new album Fortune, due for release next week. Taio Cruz feat Pitbull - There She Goes enters at #12 UK singer songwriter and producer Jacob Taio Cruz gets his 9th top 20 hit this week as There She Goes debuts at #12, featuring guest rapper Pitbull. Taio first came on the scene in 2006 with top 30 hits I Just Wanna Know and Moving On. Come On Girl hit #5 in 2008, followed by 2 further top 20 hits I Can Be and She's Like A Star. Break Your Heart became his first chart topper in 2009, followed by #42 hit No Other One. Dirty Picture saw him back in the top 10 alongside Ke$ha, as it made #6 in 2010, before Dynamite became his biggest seller and second chart topper. #8 peaking single Higher followed, alongside Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy. At the very start of this year, Taio hit #3 with Troublemaker then #27 with Hangover. Now he returns to the top 20, as There She Goes benefits from a price reduction to debut at #12. Muse - Survival enters at #25 UK rock band Muse first formed in 1994 under various names including Fixed Penalty and Rocket Baby Dolls, before settling on Muse. The band's debut album Showbiz was released in 1999, spawning top 30 hits Muscle Museum, Sunburn and Unintended. 2001 saw Origin Of Symmetry released, including #11 hit Plug In Baby and #12 hit Newborn. 3rd studio album Absolution followed, featuring their first top 10 hit, the #8 peaking Time Is Running Out. Black Holes & Revelations followed in 2006, featuring the band's highest peaking single to date Supermassive Black Hole which made #4. #13 hit Starlight and #10 Knights Of Cydonia are also on this. The Resistance then came in 2009, with #9 hit Uprising and other smaller hits. Last year saw them hit #11 with Neutron Star Collision, taken from the Twilight Saga sound track. Now they debut at #25 with the first single from their forthcoming 6th album The 2nd Law, entitled Survival and also acting as the official 2012 Olympics theme. Nicki Minaj - Pound The Alarm enters at #34 Trinidad born US rapper Nicki Minaj gets another top 40 hit this week as Pound The Alarm debuts at #34, following her huge #2 smash Starships which goes back up to #19. Nicki stared off with 2 #71 singles Your Love and Right Thru Me, then hit #11 alongside the aforementioned Will.i.am on Check It Out. She then made #22 and #24 with singles Moment 4 Life and Girls Fall Like Dominoes respectively. Then came the #8 smash Super Bass, followed by #16 collaboration with Rihanna entitled Fly. All of her previous singles except Starships are from her debut album Pink Friday, it and Pound The Alarm come from her second album (a different one) Pink Friday : Roman Reloaded. Jay Z & Kanye West - No Church In The Wild enters at #37 Following the performance of Jay Z and Kanye West together at Radio 1's Hackney weekend, the pair find themselves back in the top 40 with not one but two of their songs. Their new single No Church In The Wild features Frank Ocean and debuts at #37, after spending several weeks outside of the top 40. Thier last single Niggas In Paris made #10 earlier on this year and is back #18 this week. Linkin Park have the #1 album with Living Things There was a close battle for the #1 album again this week, with rock band Linkin Park coming out on top with their 5th album Living Things and their 3rd to go to #1. Maroon 5 come second with 4th album Overexposed, improving on their last album Hands All Over's #6 peak but not matching the #1 peak of the first 2. Hackney Weekend performers Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Jay Z/Kanye West and Ben Howard all see upwards movement this week. US rapper Flo Rida debuts at #xx with 4th album Wild Ones, whilst other new comers include Ginger Wildheart, Glenn frey, Jedward and Netsky. Opinion Whilst I am no fan of Will.i.am or the Black Eyed Peas, I do quite like This Is Love and so am not complaining about it being #1 this week. Maroon 5's Payphone is fantastic and I would've prefered it at #1, however their equally fantastic album is #2. At least that awful Chris Brown song is not #1, nor that average Taio Cruz one either. I do like Muse's new song and have quite liked some of their past output, this one may not be their best but it is not their worst either. Jay Z & Kanye West's vile Niggas In Paris is back, No Church In The Wild is an improvement on that but it's still diabolical to me.
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