Posted April 18, 200719 yr Arctics in close chart battle with Beyonce/Shakira 17 April 2007 - 12:59:07 Source: Music Week Arctic Monkeys and a pairing of Beyonce and Shakira are fighting it out in an extremely-close battle to top this coming Sunday’s singles chart. Retail reports indicate just a handful of sales are presently separating Domino act Arctic Monkeys’ Brianstorm and the RCA Group-handled Beautiful Liar by Beyonce & Shakira for the top spot after both were physically released this week. One of them looks almost certain to end Interscope/Polydor’s one-week run at one with Timbaland/Nelly Furtado/Justin Tumberlake’s Give It To Me. Warner Bros’s The Enemy are also benefiting from the new availability of a physical format with their track Away From Here set to climb from its debut chart position of 52 last weekend into the Top 10. The RCA Group’s I Wanna Have Your Babies by Natasha Bedingfield is also expected to move into the Top 10 after being physically released some two weeks after debuting via download-only sales. Mark Ronson, who has enjoyed chart action as a producer/writer over the past few months with the likes of Lily Allen, Robbie Williams and Amy Winehouse, is poised to become a Top 10 chart star in his own right simultaneously on the singles and albums charts. His Columbia single Stop Me is looking very likely to be the chart’s highest new entry on Sunday, while its parent album Version is one of three albums vying to debut inside the albums top five. Version will be joined on the chart by new entries from the RCA Group’s Avril Lavigne (The Best Damn Thing) and Interscope/Polydor’s Nine Inch Nails (Year Xero) with one of these three new entries expected to replace the Columbia group’s Kings Of Leon at the top of the chart. Roadrunner’s Porcupine Tree are looking likely to debut in the Top 20 with Fear Of A Blank Planet, while other possible Top 40 new entries could come from Virgin’s Tiesto, Gardar Thor Cortes – signed to independent Believer Music – and Columbia’s Patti Smith. Back on the singles chart, Infectious/Mushroom act Ash’s brand new single You Can’t Have It All is heading for a Top 20 place, as is Absolute-signed Ocean Colour Scene’s I Told You So. Lower down, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s first Universal single, Weapon Of Choice, is set to debut in the Top 40 this Sunday. ========================================== TUESDAY 17 April Singles 1 Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar (9 copies ahead, but 2-1 on downloads!) 2 Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm 3 Timbaland feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake - Give It To Me Top 5 The Enemy - Away From Here (P) Top 10 Ne-Yo - Because Of You (P) Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies (P) Top 15 Linkin Park - What I've done (D) Ash - You Can Have It All (P) Ocean Colour Scene - I Told You So (P) Top 30 Mika - Love Today (D) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (P) Top 40 Gym Class Heroes - Cupid's Chokehold (D) Hanson - Go (P) Just Jack - Glory Days (P) Matt Willis - Crash (P) Meck - Feels Like Home (P) Top 50 Siobhan - Don't Give It Up (P) Dan Le Sac feat. Scroobius Pip - Thou Shall Not Kill (P) Switches - Lay Down The law (P) Wombats - Backfire At The Disco (P) Top 60 Groove Armada feat. Stush - Get Down (D) Top 75 Another Chance - Everytime I See Her (Sound of Eden) (P) The Fray - Over My Head (Cable Car) (D) Top 90 Travis - Closer (D) ===================== Albums 1 Avril Lavigne (Over 4000 ahead) 2 Mark Ronson 3 Nine Inch Nails Top 15 Porcupine Tree Top 30 Tiesto Top 40 Gardar Thor Cortes Patti Smith Top 50 Andrew LLoyd Webber Joseph Top 70 $h!tdisco
April 18, 200719 yr Author WEDNESDAY 18 April Singles 1 Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful Liar 2 Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm 3 Timbaland feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake - Give It To Me Top 5 Mark Ronson feat. Daniel Merriweather - Stop Me (P) - Combined now Top 10 Ne-Yo - Because Of You (P) The Enemy - Away From Here (P) Natasha Bedingfield - I Wanna Have Your Babies (P) Top 15 Ash - You Can Have It All (P) Linkin Park - What I've done (D) Top 20 Ocean Colour Scene - I Told You So (P) ===================== Albums 1 Avril Lavigne 2 Mark Ronson 3 Nine Inch Nails
April 19, 200719 yr Author Beauties are beating the beasts THE bootylicious juggernaut of BEYONCE and SHAKIRA is pulling clear of the ARCTIC MONKEYS in the race for the No1 single. I told you yesterday that the US/Colombian pair were leading the Sheffield rockers by just nine copies in the battle to be on top on Sunday — but that gap has widened to 1,500. The divas have shifted around 15,200 copies of Beautiful Liar compared to the Monkeys’ 13,700 sales of Brianstorm. I reckon the lads have done themselves out of a No1 with their single’s unusual release. It was available to download for two weeks before it hit the shops — instead of the usual one. But the cheeky chimps probably won’t care — having stuck two fingers up to chart success before. After their hit debut album they released EP Who The F*** Are Arctic Monkeys? — which was not eligible for the charts at all. The Sun's Report 1. Beyonce and Shakira 15,200 2. Arctic Monkeys 13,700
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