Naughty Boy feat Sam Smith - La La La La debuts at the top

After 4 weeks at #1 for Daft Punk's Get Lucky, we have a brand new #1 in the form of La La La La by Naughty Boy and Sam Smith. 28 year old music producer Shahid Khan is best known with his work producing Emeli Sande's debut album Our Version Of Events, which has just ended a 66 week consecutive run in the top 10. Naughty Boy has produced 3 previous top 10 hits featuring Ms Sande - Chipmunk's #6 Diamond Rings, Wiley's #9 Never Be Your Woman and his own #10 Wonder. He has also worked with the likes of Leona Lewis, JLS, Cheryl Cole, Jennifer Hudson, Alesha Dixon and Tinie Tempah. Now he scores his first #1, alongside singer Sam Smith who was featured on Disclosure's massive hit Latch earlier this year. Naughty Boy has an album due out shortly, entitled Hotel Cabana. Daft Punk and Passenger each slip a place in the top 3, whilst Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Rudimental both stay at #4 and #5 respectively.

 

2 Chainz feat Wiz Khalifa - We Own It enters at #6

35 year old US rapper Tauheed Epps gets his first UK top 40 hit as the lead credit of 2 Chainz. He has had several big hits in the US including No Lie (feat Drake), Birthday Song (feat Kanye West) and I'm Different, his only top 100 hits here in the UK are on Kanye West's #55 track Mercy and A$AP Rocky's #50 F**kin' Problems. Taken from the soundtrack to Fast & Furious 6, We Own It gets him to #6. The Track features fellow US rapper Wiz Kalifah, who had a #5 hit with Black & Yellow and featured on big hits from Tinie Tempah, T Pain and Maroon 5.

 

Olly Murs - Dear Darlin' climbs to #9

Olly Murs entered at #18 last week with his current single Dear Darlin', that now rises to #9 to give him his first post album top 10 hit. His previous post album singles have been #20 hit Heart On My Sleeve (following #1 debut Please Don't Let Me Go and #4 Thinking Of Me), #13 Oh My Goodness (following 2 huge #1s Heart Skips A Beat and Dance With Me Tonight) and #12 Army Of Two (following #1 Troublemaker). With the release of a remixes EP and various TV performances, the track can be expected to climb further in the next few weeks.

 

Emmelie de Forest - Only Teardrops enters at #15

Every year the Eurovision song conest is held in May, and this has often seen the winning track become a sizeable hit in the UK. That was seen last year when Sweden's winning song Euphoria by Loreen hit #3 and stuck around for a few weeks afterwards. However the same can not be said for our own entries, with Engelbert Humperdinck's track missing the top 40 last year and Bonnie Tyler's Believe In Me stumbling in at #93 last week. However this year's winner comes from 20 year old Danish singer songwriter Emmelie de Forest with her debut single Only Teardrops, entering at #15.

 

Lana Del Rey - Young & Beautiful enters at #23

The other of this week's new arrivals to come from a film soundtrack this week is Young & Beautiful by Lana Del Rey. 26 year old US singer Elizabeth Woolridge Grant first came on the scene here with debut single Video Games, which made #9 in 2011. Then Born To Die also made #9, as the title track to her huge selling #1 album. Several other minor hits followed, the only singles to go top 40 were Blue Jeans and Ride which both made #32. Now Young & Beautiful debuts at #23, taken from the Great Gatsby soundtrack.

 

The 1975 - The City enters at #30

Manchester based 4 piece alternative rock band The 1975 get a second top 40 hit this week as The City debuts at #30. The band have previously performed and recorded under several different names including Talkhouse, The Slowdown, Bigsleep and Drive Like I Do, but have now settled with The 1975. They debuted with #19 peaking single Chocolate which stayed in the top 40 for 10 weeks and only dropped out 2 weeks ago. This is the band's 4th single, and is featured as part of an accompanying EP as the previous 3 have been.

 

Daft Punk have the #1 album with Random Access Memories

As widely predicted, French robots Daft Punk get the biggest weekly sale of the year with their Random Access Memories, featuring likely future million selling #1 hit Get Lucky. They replace Rod Stewart who slips to #2 with Time, his first #1 album in over 30 years. US indie band The National enter at #3 with their 6th studio album Trouble Will Find Me and also score their highest placing yet, beating the #5 peak of last album High Violet. Scottish pop rock band Texas make their return at #4 with their 8th studio album The Conversation, their 5th top 5 album. US rock band 30 Seconds To Mars get a new entry at #5 with their 4th album and by far highest peaking entitled Love, Lust, Faith & Dreams. Other new entries come from Demi Lovato, Jamie Cullum, Beth Hart & Joe Bomamassa and the Tribes.

 

Opinon

I am happy to see Naughty Boy get to #1 with La La La La as I rather like the song after not liking it much at first, however I'd have liked to see Daft Punk get a 5th straight week at #1 and also do the double. At least that horrible 2 Chainz track didn't get a top 5 placing, still over 100 places higher than I think it deserves! On the other hand, I do think that Dear Darlin' deserves its top 10 placing as it is a bit different for Olly Murs and really good. I quite like Only Teardrops by Emmelie De Forrest, not as good as last year's Euphoria though. Great to see the brilliant Lana Del Rey get another hit single with Young & Beautiful (perfect description of Lana herself), hopefully it keeps climbing. I quite like The 1975's 2 singles so far, the City is rather good but not quite on par with Chocolate for me. Good to see Beyonce, Evanescence and The Script back near (or in) the top 40 this week, especially the latter.

I can only find one other Hit that was called La La La. It was by Female Singer,

Massiel, & it Won the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest. It was the Spanish Entry. She

beat Cliff Richard's Congratulations, by 1 Vote. He had a much bigger Global Hit

with his Entry, & Massiel only reached No.35 in the UK Charts, with Cliff having

a No.1 Hit in the UK, & 5 other Countries.