Maroon 5 return to #1 with Payphone

Maroon 5 return to the top of the singles chart this week, after aparently running out of change last week and having to redial the call from that payphone! This means that Payphone is the first single to return to #1 since Gotye did the same 19 weeks ago after 1 week previously on top. Payphone is also the first single in 9 weeks to get a second week at the top. Like this week, there are few new releases of note next week so Payphone may be in for a 3rd week at #1 for Maroon 5.

 

Blur - Under The Westway enters at #34

This week's highest new entry comes in way down at #34, as there have been very few new releases of note this week. At one point in the week, it was looking like there would be no new entries at all. However Blur made their return this week as they released their new single Under The Westway in the middle of the week. Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon, Alex James and Dave Rowantree formed Blur in 1989 and released their debut single She's So High the following year, however it did not chart so high - #48! However #8 hit There's No Other Way put them well and truly on course in 1991, this was followed by several minor top 30 hits. From 1994 they had a string of 18 consecutive top 20 hits, including the 2 #1s Country House and Beetlebum as well as classics such as Girls & Boys, Parklife, Tender and Song 2. The band then split in 2005, before getting back together in 2009 for a series of live concerts. Now they release their first new material in 9 years, charting at #34 with Under The Westway.

 

Dappy - I'm Coming (Tarzan Part 2)

The only other new entry this week comes from 25 year old rapper Costadinos Contostavlos, known professionally as Dappy. Dappy is best known for being a third of hip hop group N-Dubz, and also for causing controversy with his public comments about various celebrities. This track is essentially a free style rap and not a proper single, however debuts at #35. His solo singles were #5 single from 2011 Spaceship, #1 hit also from last year No Regrets and #2 collaboration with Brian May from earlier this year Rockstar.

 

Chris Brown tops the album charts

Chris Brown scores his first #1 album with Fortune this week, as Maroon 5 hold at #2 and Linkin Park slide to #3. The only other action of note is a return to #6 for Paul Simon's Graceland following a TV documentary, and a return to the top 20 for Train's California 37 and Stone Roses Very Best Of. Country singer Mary Chapin Carpenter is the only other new entry to this week's top 40 albums.

Dave Rowantree? I know there is a rowan tree but I'm not sure any of them have been called Dave :lol:

 

It's a bit difficult to find much to say this week isn't it? Unless, of course, you take up a third of your commentary eulogising Blur :kink:

Dave Rowantree? I know there is a rowan tree but I'm not sure any of them have been called Dave :lol:

 

It's a bit difficult to find much to say this week isn't it? Unless, of course, you take up a third of your commentary eulogising Blur :kink:

Ha well spotted, it should indeed read "Rowntree" ... I thought he perhaps liked the Mountain Ash tree. :lol:

 

Dappy - I'm Coming (Tarzan Part 2)---I like this