Will.i.am feat Britney Spears - Scream & Shout climbs to #1

So claiming the first new #1 of 2013, Will.i.am rises to #1 after spending 4 weeks in the top 3 with Scream & Shout alongside Britney Spears. Will.i.am thus claims his second #1 as lead credit, after last year's This Is Love (featuring Eva Simons). It is Will's 9th UK #1 in total now - 5 as a Black Eyed Pea (Where Is The Love, Boom Boom Pow, I Gotta Feeling, Meet Me Halfway and The Time) and 2 as a featured artist (Usher's OMG and The Script's Hall Of Fame). Meanwhile Britney had 5 #1s as a solo artist (Baby One More Time, Born To Make You Happy, Oops I Did It Again, Toxic and Everytime), Scream & Shout is her 6th. Mr I Am has therefore had 11 UK #1s from 2003-2013, whereas Britney's 6 date from 1998 to 2013. Scream & Shout will appear on Will.i.am's forthcoming album #willpower, due out next month.

 

New peaks achieved by Taylor Swift, Calvin Harris feat Tinie Tempah, Pitbull feat TJR, Kanye West and Emelie Sande

Taylor Swift gets another new peak with her latest single I Knew You Were Trouble, this equals her highest peak of #2 achieved by 2009's Love Story. Calvin Harris also reaches a new peak as his Tinie Tempah featuring single Drinking From The Bottle rises to #5 this week. This is Calvin's 10th top 5 hit as lead credit since his 2007 debut Acceptible In The 80s, whilst it is Tinie's 7th top 5 in total. Another track on the rise to a new peak is Don't Stop The Party, which goes up to #7 to give Pitbull his 5th top 10 hit since his 2009 UK debut I Know You Want Me made #4. 2 other tracks equal their peak this week - Rihanna's Stay at #4 and One Direction's Kiss You at #12. Clique by Kanye West feat Jay Z and Big Sean reaches a new peak of #22 thanks to Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw making a parody video of the song. Emeli Sande has performed on yet another TV show during the week, this time she performed Clown on the Graham Norton Show and as such repeaks at #23 with it.

 

David Bowie - Where Are We Now? enters at #6

Wednesday of this week was David Bowie's 66th birthday, and with that came the announcement of a new album and single which would mark his return to music after a 10 year period of silence. The new single Where Are We Now was released and got to #1 on iTunes for a part of the week, however there was a great deal of controversy over whether it should be eligible to chart. The reason for that is that those who pre-order the album also get the single, but the single is also available as a standalone purchase. Distinguishing those sales was the issue, however in the end it has charted as the week's highest new entry at #6. David Bowie made his chart debut in 1969 with the classic Space Oddity, the first of his 23 top 10 hits. He has had 5 #1s (Space Oddity in 1973, Ashes To Ashes, Let's Dance, Under Pressure with Queen and Dancing In The Street with Mick Jagger). Bowie was last seen in the charts in 2003 with #38 single New Killer Star, however his last top 10 was Jump They Say, a #9 hit back in 1993. His last single to peak higher than this was 1986's #2 hit Absolute Beginners. Biggest hit in 27 years for David Bowie ... who'd have thought?

 

Vato Gonzalez feat Lethal Bizzle & Donae'o - Not A Saint enters at #20

29 year old Dutch producer and songwriter Björn Franken gets a new entry at #20 under the name of Vato Gonzalez, teaming up with Lethal Bizzle and Donaeo. Vato has only had 1 previous UK top 40 hit, that was Badman Riddim (Jump) which made #7 in 2011 with dubstep duo Foreign Beggars. He has produced remixes though for the likes of Sway, Skepta, Rizzle Kicks and Taio Cruz. Lethal Bizzle scored a #7 hit with Oi as part of More Fire Crew in 2007 and a #11 hit of his own with Pow (Forward) in 2004. Not A Saint is the first hit single though for UK singer and rapper Donae'o.

 

Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt enters at #26

19 year old singer songwriter Jacob Edwin Kennedy gets a second top 40 hit this week under the name of Jake Bugg, as Lightning Bolt enters the top 40 at #26. Jake has been a hotly tipped new singer songwriter since the beginning of last year, during which he released 5 singles and had a #1 album. He only made the top 40 with one of those singles, Two Fingers peaked at #28 when his self titled album was released. Lightning Bolt was also one of those singles, which has been re-released and gets a #26 entry in the top 40 this week. Jake Bugg has performed on several TV shows over the last few weeks, which has also helped his album rise back up to #3.

 

David Guetta feat Taped Rai - Just One Last Time enters at #28

45 year old French DJ David Guetta gets yet another UK top 40 hit this week as Just One Last Time debuts at #28, featuring Taped Rai. Guetta made #19 in 2001 with his debut single Just A Little More Love with US singer Chris Willis. However it wasn't until 2006 that he hit it big, with #3 hit Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away). That was followed by #9 hit Love is gone the next year. In 2009, he scored 2 huge #1s When Love Takes Over and Sexy Bitch, featuring Kelly Rowland and Akon respectively. They were followed by #15 hit Memories and 3rd #1 Gettin' Over You. Several big hit collaborations followed - Rihanna on #6 Who's That Chick, Flo Rida and Nicki Minaj on #3 Where Them Girls At, Taio Cruz on #4 Little Bad Girl and Usher on #6 Without You. Last year saw Guetta score a huge 4th #1 with Sia on Titanium, followed by #8 Turn Me On with Nicki Minaj. He made #18 with the Chris Brown featuring I Can Only Imagine and #8 with another Sia collaboration She Wolf (Falling To Pieces). Now he hits #28 with vocalist Taped Rai, making this Guetta's 22nd top 40 hit in total since 2001.

 

Haim - Don't Save Me

Haim are a Los Angeles based trio of sisters, who formed in 2006 but did not start to make music until 2012. Last year, the group independently released an EP entitled Forever, as well as supporting Mumford & Sons and Florence & The Machine on tour. Haim's debut single entitled Don't Save Me, enters the chart this week at #32 whilst the aforementioned Forever EP was at #75 last week. The group have a new single scheduled for next month and a debut album for later on in the year.

 

Bon Jovi - Because We Can

US rock group Bon Jovi make a return to the top 40 this week to score their 39th top 40 hit with new single Because We Can. The New Jersey based rockers made their debut in 1986 with #14 hit You Give Love A Bad Name and have gone on to have massive hits with the likes of Living On A Prayer, Bad Medicine, Keep The Faith, In These Arms, Always, These Days, It's My Life and Who Says You Can't Come Home. They were last seen in the charts in 2009, when they made #25 with single We Weren't Born To Follow. Because We Can is taken from their forthcoming new album What About Now, due out in March.

 

Emeli Sande's album is back at #1

After being knocked off #1 last week by Calvin Harris, Emeli Sande's Our Version Of Events goes back up to #1 to spend its 7th non-consecutive week at the top. The Les Miserables Sountrack is this week's highest new entry on downloads only, charting on the artist album chart as it is credited to The Cast Of Les Miserables. The only other new entry this week comes from US rock band Black Veil Brides at #20 with Wretched And Divine - The Story Of The Wild Ones. Lumineers reach the top 10 for the first time with their album, Taylor Swift is back in the top 10 with Red, Alt-J are back in the top 20 making an awesome wave, as is Frank Ocean with his Channel Orange.

Edited January 14, 201312 yr by loudjamesbond

Tinie isn't a "Lead artist" on "Drinking From The Bottle"

Oops neither he is! In that case, I'll make it Tinie's 7th top 5 hit in total then. :D