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Did you write that TLC's Waterfalls is a cover or did I misread the whole thing?

 

Also, Give Me Love is on the original version of Ed Sheeran's + (or at least it has been on my iTunes since January)

Edited November 18, 201212 yr by SKOB

TLC's Waterfalls was an original song as far as I know. I was just saying that the Stooshe version is just as awful.

 

I only looked at the track listing for the new edition of + and assumed Give Me Love was one of the new songs :ph34r:

Are there even any new songs on the re-release?

 

Also, if you're around zeus, has there ever previously been two different double toppers in a row? (Robbie last week to One Direction this week).

Edited November 18, 201212 yr by Bré

Bre, the Robbie Williams + One Direction 'Double Tops', are the 5th time that it has

been achieved in successive Weeks. The Beatles succeeded themselves with Double

Tops on 2 occasions - for 3 Weeks in a row, & for 2 Weeks in a row.

 

So, it has been achieved, by different Acts, on 3 occasions.

 

28/11/1963 (1) The Beatles - Please Please Me // She Loves You

05/12/1963 (1) The Beatles - With The Beatles // She Loves You

12/12/1963 (5) The Beatles - With The Beatles // I Want To Hold Your Hand

 

16/07/1964 (1) The Rolling Stones - The Rolling Stones // It's All Over Now

23/07/1964 (3) The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (OST) // A Hard Day's Night

 

10/12/1964 (1) The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night (OST) // I Feel Fine

17/12/1964 (4) The Beatles - Beatles For Sale // I Feel Fine

 

15/01/2011 (1) Rihanna - Loud // What’s My Name? (Featuring Drake)

22/01/2011 (1) Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans // Grenade

 

17/11/2012 (1) Robbie Williams - Take The Crown // Candy

24/11/2012 (1) One Direction - Take Me Home // Little Things

 

NOTE - I believe that One Direction are the 1st Act to enter at No.1, in

both Charts, on the Week that they've achieved it. Usually a Single has

gone to No.1 before the Album - so they cannot both enter at No.1 in the same

Week. And many Acts did the 'Double Top' with Singles & Albums that climbed

to No.1. Either both Records climbed to the Top, or the Single or the Album

climbed there.

 

 

Oh yes, of course there was Rihanna/Bruno - I don't recall thinking at the time that was a particularly unusual occurrence but it was the first one since the 60s and only the second ever (involving 2 different acts) :o

Thanks for that Colin. So One Direction are only the third act (after The Beatles and Brin Mars) to replace a chart double with a double of their own.