The follow up to Party Rock Anthem wasn't actually Sexy And I Know It - it was the #32 smash Champagne Showers!

So 'Ding! Dong! The Witch is Dead' "only" fell to #65, not out of the Top 100 like some were expecting.

 

 

And appears to have the artist credit reverted to Judy Garland?

And appears to have the artist credit reverted to Judy Garland?

 

No, Mikey has just listed it as Judy Garland for some reason.

Mirrors must have been so close to keeping Psy out of the Top 10 damnit!

12 weeks for Opposites in the top 40 - decent enough although no surprise given radio 1s blankett support for them!

Chris Brown reaches 200 weeks in the Top 40 this week.

 

Nicki Minaj makes 250 weeks in the Top 75, the 14th American solo female to reach this mark

(after Madonna, Diana Ross, Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Pink, Whitney Houston, Katy Perry, Janet Jackson, Cher, Donna Summer and Christina Aguilera)

 

Nicki Minaj is technically Trinidadian.

Nicki Minaj is technically Trinidadian.

 

I thought she was born in T&T but moved to the USA at a very young age and now considers herself American. I could be wrong of course.

 

If she is considered Trinidadian, she has the most chart weeks as an artist from that country, ahead of either Billy Ocean (similar to Minaj, born in T&T came to the UK at a young age) or Winifred Atwell (who didn't leave T&T until well into her twenties)

Wikipedia says 'Trinidadian-born American' so you're probably right!

Singles:

 

New entries ([#] = number of chart singles for artist(s) in order listed):

#1 Rudimental feat. Ella Eyre - Waiting All Night [3; 1]

#2 will.i.am feat. Justin Bieber - #thatPOWER [19^[A]; 23^[B]]

#3 Daft Punk feat. Pharrell - Get Lucky [10; 14^[C]]

#17 Clean Bandit - Mozart's House [2]

#28 Mat Zo and Porter Robinson - Easy [1; 2]

#34 will.i.am feat. Miley Cyrus - Fall Down [20^[A]; 11^[D]]

#44 Passenger - Let Her Go [1]

#55 Carly Rae Jepsen - Tonight I'm Getting Over You [4]

#72 Rudimental feat. Foxes - Right Here [4; 2] ^[E]

#79 Frank Turner - Recovery [4^[F]]

#80 Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell - Ain't No Mountain High Enough [26; 7] ^[G]

#91 Viralites - Feel My Rhythm [1]

 

Re-entries:

#75 Rudimental feat. John Newman - Feel The Love [release of new single 'Waiting All Night']

#78 David Guetta feat. Ne-Yo and Akon - Play Hard [starting single release campaign]

#82 Rudimental feat. John Newman and Alex Clare - Not Giving In [release of new single 'Waiting All Night']

#94 Blackstreet feat. Dr. Dre - No Diggity [used in ads for Pitch Perfect]

#100 Bastille - Flaws

 

New peaks:

#7 Calvin Harris feat. Ellie Goulding - I Need Your Love [from #11]

#10 PSY - Gentleman [from #61; first full week of sales + music video premiere]

#12 Macklemore and Ryan Lewis feat. Ray Dalton - Can't Hold Us [from #33]

#19 Iggy Azalea - Work [from #20]

#23 Little Mix feat. Missy Elliott - How Ya Doin'? [from #57; single version released]

#50 Ben Howard - Keep Your Head Up [from #74; official re-release]

#70 Rihanna - Pour It Up [from #94]

#77 Caro Emerald - Tangled Up [from #81]

 

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

#35 Notsensibles - (I'm In Love With) Margaret Thatcher *

#44 Jim Johnston - ChaChaLaLa (Fandango) *

#51 Nicole Scherzinger - Boomerang *

#55 Jason Mraz - I Won't Give Up

#66 We The Kings - Just Keep Breathing *

#73 Angel - The World *

#78 Train - Hey, Soul Sister

#85 Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank)

#87 James Blake - Retrograde

#90 Mumford & Sons - I Will Wait

#91 Pitbull feat. TJR - Don't Stop The Party *

#92 The Streets - Dry Your Eyes

#93 Coldplay - The Scientist

#97 Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire *

#98 Ke$ha - Die Young

#99 Bingo Players feat. Far East Movement - Get Up (Rattle) *

#100 Paramore - Now

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

Clean Bandit

Ella Eyre

Iggy Azalea

Mat Zo

Passenger

Ray Dalton

Viralites

 

Albums:

 

New entries ([#] = number of chart albums for artist(s) in order listed):

#1 Michael Bublé - To Be Loved [11]

#2 Fall Out Boy - Save Rock And Roll [5]

#9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito [4]

#30 Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) - The Low Highway [1^[H]]

#32 Kid Cudi - Indicud [2]

#33 Angel - About Time [1]

#34 Major Lazer - Free The Universe [1]

#39 Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park [1]

#40 Iron And Wine - Ghost On Ghost [3]

#58 Ghost - Infestissumam [1] ^[I]

#85 Charli XCX - True Romance [1]

 

Re-entries:

#56 David Bowie - Aladdin Sane [40th anniversary re-release]

#66 Daft Punk - Discovery [release of comeback single 'Get Lucky']

#67 Paloma Faith - Do You Want The Truth Or Something Beautiful? [taken off budget album chart]

#71 Passenger - All The Little Lights [increasing airplay for single 'Let Her Go']

#80 Everything Everything - Arc [Record Store Day boost?]

#81 David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars [Record Store Day boost?]

#83 Celine Dion - My Love - Essential Collection

#90 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not [reduced to £4.99 on iTunes]

#91 Jessie Ware - Devotion [release of new single 'Imagine It Was Us']

#97 Michael Bublé - It's Time [release of new album 'To Be Loved']

#99 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend - The Best Of [4/20 effect?]

#100 Michael Bublé - Call Me Irresponsible [release of new album 'To Be Loved']

 

New peaks:

#42 Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - The Heist [from #55]

#71 Passenger - All The Little Lights [from #100; see above]

 

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

#54 Fossil Collective - Tell Where I Lie *

#58 Sarah Brightman - Dreamchaser *

#64 Device - Device *

#68 Big Country - The Journey *

#69 Brad Paisley - Wheelhouse *

#71 Tyler, The Creator - Wolf *

#75 Willy Moon - Here's Willy Moon *

#78 Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies *

#79 Rod Stewart - Soulbook

#83 Peace - In Love *

#84 Paramore - Brand New Eyes

#85 Olly Murs - In Case You Didn't Know *

#86 Paramore - Riot!

#89 Maroon 5 - Overexposed *

#90 Frank Ocean - channel ORANGE

#91 Jools Holland & His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra - The Golden Age Of Song *

#94 Daughter - If You Leave *

#95 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday - Roman Reloaded

#96 Luther Vandross - The Ultimate Luther Vandross

#97 Joe Bonamassa - An Acoustic Evening At The Vienna Opera House *

#98 Jimi Hendrix - People, Hell And Angels

#99 Depeche Mode - The Best Of - Volume 1

#100 André Rieu - In Love With Maastricht - A Tribute To My Hometown

 

Artists reaching new career peaks this week:

Angel

Charli XCX

Fall Out Boy

Ghost

Kacey Musgraves

Kid Cudi

Macklemore

Major Lazer

Passenger

Ryan Lewis

Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) ^[J]

 

Longest running entries (with an unbroken top 100 run since entering for the first time):

 

Singles:

=1 33wks PSY - Gangnam Style

=1 33wks The Script feat. will.i.am - Hall Of Fame

=3 29wks Adele - Skyfall

=3 29wks Rihanna - Diamonds

=5 28wks Disclosure feat. Sam Smith - Latch

=5 28wks Swedish House Mafia feat. John Martin - Don't You Worry Child

=7 27wks The Lumineers - Ho Hey

=7 27wks P!nk - Try

=9 23wks Bruno Mars - Locked Out Of Heaven

=9 23wks One Direction - Little Things

 

Albums:

1 117wks Adele - 21

2 84wks Ed Sheeran - +

3 81wks Ben Howard - Every Kingdom

4 74wks One Direction - Up All Night

5 72wks The Black Keys - El Camino

6 64wks Lana Del Rey - Born To Die

7 62wks Emeli Sandé - Our Version Of Events

8 48wks fun. - Some Nights

=9 47wks Δ - An Awesome Wave

=9 47wks Paloma Faith - Fall To Grace

 

Dropping out:

Olly Murs - In Case You Didn't Know [from #5]

 

Notes:

^[A] +20 as a member of The Black Eyed Peas; +1 as a member of Artists For Haiti

^[B] +1 as a member of Artists For Haiti

^[C] +7 as a member of N*E*R*D; +1 as a member of The Neptunes

^[D] +3 as Hannah Montana; +1 as a member of Artists For Haiti; +1 as a member of Helping Haiti

^[E] Album track from 'Home' charting off sales of the Andy C remix included as a B-Side to 'Waiting All Night'

^[F] +2 as a member of Million Dead

^[G] Charting for the first time due to being reduced to 59p on iTunes and featuring on an ad

^[H] First chart album under this credit; Steve Earle & The Dukes have 3 chart albums and Steve Earle has 8 solo

^[I] Released under the name 'Ghost B.C.' due to legal reasons, Wikipedia says this is supposed to be US only

^[J] Steve Earle has charted higher solo and as 'Steve Earle & The Dukes'

 

Celine Dion's album may have also been on the budget chart until this week but I don't know that for sure unlike the Paloma album.

Devotion was also re-released this week, wasn't it?

Braydeux, your work is amazing!! Well done!!