September 8, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 9th September 2006 1 (5) Don’t Let The Morning Come – Soul Avengerz ft Javine 2 (11) Ibiza Mi Amor – Philippe B 3 (14) I Can’t Get Enough – Fireflies ft Alexandra Prince 4 (3) Looking Back – Route 33 ft Alex James 5 (10) You Know – Super Jupiter 6 (1) My Life - Chanel 7 (2) Under The Fuse Of Love - Geyster 8 (18) Oh What A Girl! – Simply Red 9 (22) Changes – Chris Lake ft Laura V 10 (25) 1 Week In Ibiza – House Agents 11 (15) Rudebox – Robbie Williams 12 (New) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Man 13 (21) That’s What Dreams Are Made Of – Space Cowboy 14 (8) I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters 15 (9) Skinny – Lo-Rider ft Cumberbatch 16 (32) Summer Love – Rhythm Love 17 (New) Pressure To Life – Terry King 18 (4) Baby Beat Box - Stylophonic 19 (New) Ghana Sweet - Afroganic 20 (New) Touch My Body – Di Scala & Crellin 21 (40) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 22 (39) Déjà vu - Beyonce 23 (New) I Call It Love – Lionel Richie 24 (6) That Sound – Brinsley Evans ft Sy Smith 25 (38) Superfreak - Beatfreakz 26 (7) I Feel Me – D.S. Jones 27 (12) Abracadabra – Steve Miller Band vs Gauzz 28 (New) Gone - Sun 29 (24) Do You Want It Right Now – Degrees Of Motion 30 (16) Ibiza Sampler – Various Artists 31 (23) Hush Boy – Basement Jaxx 32 (New) Stimulate/Real High – Emjay & The Atari Babies 33 (13) Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream vs Hoxtons 34 (20) Higher – May ft Marion 35 (17) Anthem 2006 – Njoi 36 (New) My Girl Wants 2 Party - Euphonix 37 (New) Raise Your Hand (U Got To) – Ike & Tina Turner 38 (36) Love Don’t Let Me Go – David Guetta vs The Egg 39 (19) Be Free With Your Love – Miami Dub Machine 40 (28) Jealousy - Lucy Soul Avengerz hit the top By Alan Jones From musicweek Soul Avengerz reached number three on the Upfront Club Chart earlier this year with their Sing EP – featuring Sing, Make My Body Rock and Get On Down – and secure their first number one on the list this week with Don’t Let The Morning Come. Based on a riff from Tyrone Brunson’s 1982 electro smash The Smurf, it is a dynamic house anthem and a potential smash hit for the Song Contest and Games TV contestant Javine. It provides the Positiva label with its fifth number one hit on the chart this year, following Deep Dish’s Dreams, Shapeshifters’ Incredible, Teamsters’ Feels Like Love and Axwell’s Watch The Sunrise. The Upfront Club Chart remains extremely competitive, with another nine new entries arriving in the Top 40 this week, and a further 11 debuting in the unpublished 41-100 section of the chart. The 10 making most progress outside the Top 40 are Move Your Body/Can U Dance by Marshall Jefferson & Kenny ‘Jammin’ Jason, Girls by Beenie Man ft Akon, Why by Lucky 7, Hail 2 The DJ by Medusa, Tell Me How You Feel by Krazy Kuts ft Yolanda, Big Area by Undercover Divas, Angel by Flip & Fill, Living On My Own/Love Kills by Freddie Mercury, Stepping To The Beat by DJ Jose and Party All The Time by Sharam. Soul Avengerz also move 8-2 on the Commerical Pop Chart, failing to prevent Beyonce’s Déjà vu from taking pole position a week after it topped the OCC sales chart. Usually, a record will reach its club peak before commercial release, but hot mixes of Déjà vu by Freemasons and Maurice Joshua weren’t serviced until quite late in the day, hence the track’s tardy take-off. The original mix of Déjà vu remains extremely popular in urban clubs allowing it to remain a number one on the Urban Club Chart for the second week in a row, with a 6% margin over Nelly Furtado’s Promiscuous, which remains at number two.
September 16, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 16th September 2006 1 (12) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 2 (4) Looking Back – Route 33 ft Alex James 3 (9) Changes – Chris Lake ft Laura V 4 (5) You Know – Super Jupiter 5 (10) 1 Week In Ibiza – House Agents 6 (2) Ibiza Mi Amor – Philippe B 7 (21) Put Your Hands Up For (Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 8 (1) Don’t Let The Morning Come – Soul Avengerz ft Javine 9 (28) Gone - Sun 10 (20) Touch My Body – Di Scala & Crellin 11 (13) That’s What Dreams Are Made Of – Space Cowboy 12 (6) My Life – Chanel 13 (3) I Can’t Get Enough – Fireflies ft Alexandra Prince 14 (25) Superfreak - Beatfreakz 15 (23) I Call It Love – Lionel Richie 16 (16) Summer Love – Rhythm Royal 17 (New) Brazilian Love Affair – George Duke vs E-S/L 18 (19) Ghana Sweet – Afro(o)ganic 19 (11) Rudebox – Robbie Williams 20 (32) Stimulate/Real High – Emjay & The Atari Babies 21 (7) Under The Fuse Of Love - Geyster 22 (New) U Better Believe It – Shaun Emanuel 23 (New) Do Your Own Thing – Dab Hands 24 (17) Pressure To Live – Terry King 25 (New) Call On Me – Janet Jackson 26 (14) I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters 27 (8) Oh! What A Girl – Simply Red 28 (New) Everybody – Philtre Phreeks vs FPI Project 29 (New) Move Your Body – Rhythm Republic vs Michael Jefferson 30 (New) Stepping To The Beat – DJ Jose 31 (New) Set Me Free – DJ Exacta 32 (18) Baby Beat Box - Stylophonic 33 (New) Living On My Own/Love Kills – Freddie Mercury 34 (37) Raise Your Hand (U Got To) – Ike & Tina Turner 35 (22) Déjà vu - Beyonce 36 (31) Hush Boy – Basement Jaxx 37 (New) No Matter What – Nu Electric 38 (38) Love Don’t Let Me Go – David Guetta vs The Egg 39 (New) Do What U Du - Yoshimoto 40 (24) That Sound – Brinsley Evans ft Sy Smith ‘Dirty’ track cleans up by Alan Jones from musicweek Knocking around for nearly a year in one form or another, Turn Me Out by Dirty Old Ann a funky house mash-up of 1995’s Turn Me Out by Praxis ft Kathy Brown and the Tom Moulton remix of Dirty Old Ann by The Three Degrees. It has reputedly sold more than 8,000 copies on white label, and jumps 12-1 on the Upfront Club Chart this week after finally being serviced to DJs ahead of its full commercial release. Put together by James Wiltshire of the Freemasons at the suggestion of Vincent Morrissey and Ann Jones, it’s been dropped by all the top names including Stonebridge, The Beginerz, Herd & Fitz, Michael Gray, Allister Whitehead, Soul Avengerz and Graeme Park. Turn Me Out also jumps 14-2 on the Commercial Pop Chart, finishing up just behind the new number one, London Bridge by Fergie from Black Eyed Peas. Although, records topping the Upfront and Commerical Pop Charts simultaneously are fairly commonplace, few are number one on the Commerical Pop and Urban Charts at the same time – but that’s what Beyonce did last week, and Fergie does this week. Already a number one in the US, London Bridge is due for full commercial release here next week, and made it to the top of both charts, finishing up 4% ahead of Dirty Old Ann on the Commerical Pop Chart and 2% ahead of both Nelly Furtado and Timbaland’s Promiscuous and Janet Jackson’s Call On Me on the Urban Chart. Turnover in the Upfront Chart in recent weeks has been fast and frantic compared to the recent past, with a noticeable increase in hot tunes. As a result of all this activity, there are only two records in the Top 40 this week which have been in the chart more than five weeks – the lowest tally so far this year. The two with staying power are Love Don’t Let Me Go by David Guetta vs The Egg (10 weeks) and Basement Jaxx’s Hush Boy (eight weeks). Meanwhile, breakers 11-20 this week are as follows: Around The World (La La La La La) by Killa Deejays ft Carrie Ryan, Shine by Luther Vandross, Party All The Time by Sharam, Exceeder by Mason, Celebrate The Summer by Lacuna, I Like It by Tune Brothers, Watching You by Rogue Traders, Something About You by Jamelia, Tonight’s The Night by Gina G and Akcent by Kylie.
September 25, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 23rd September 2006 1 (14) Superfreak - Beatfreakz 2 (7) Put Your Hands Up For (Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 3 (9) Gone - Sun 4 (5) 1 Week In Ibiza – House Agents 5 (1) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 6 (17) Brazilian Love Affair – George Duke vs E-S/L 7 (23) Do Your Own Thing – Dab Hands 8 (30) Stepping To The Beat – DJ Jose 9 (2) Looking Back – Route 33 ft Alex James 10 (15) I Call It Love – Lionel Richie 11 (3) Changes – Chris Lake ft Laura V 12 (20) Stimulate/Real High – Emjay & The Atari Babies 13 (37) No Matter What – Nu Electric 14 (18) Ghana Sweet – Afr(o)ganic 15 (34) Raise Your Hand (U Got To) – Ike & Tina Turner 16 (6) Ibiza Mi Amor – Philippe B 17 (8) Don’t Let The Morning Come – Soul Avengerz ft Javine 18 (29) Move Your… - Rhythm Republic vs Marshall Jefferson 19 (28) Everybody… - Philtre Phreeks vs FPI Project 20 (11) That’s What Dreams Are Made Of – Space Cowboy 21 (4) You Know – Super Jupiter 22 (13) I Can’t Get Enough – Fireflies ft Alexandra Prince 23 (12) My Life - Chanel 24 (22) U Better Believe It – Shaun Emanuel 25 (25) Call On Me – Janet Jackson 26 (New) In Love With You - Antrim 27 (16) Summer Love – Rhythm Royal 28 (10) Touch My Body – Di Scala & Crellin 29 (New) Cold As Ice – Nathan ft Rick Ross 30 (26) I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters 31 (39) Du What U Du - Yoshimoto 32 (New) Watching You – Rogue Traders 33 (New) Why – Lucky 7 34 (New) Ordinary Day – Judge Jules 35 (21) Under The Fuse Of Love - Geyster 36 (27) Oh! What A Girl – Simply Red 37 (New) Repossessed - TWM 38 (35) Déjà vu - Beyonce 39 (38) Love Don’t Let Me Go – David Guetta vs The Egg 40 (19) Rudebox – Robbie Williams Beatfreakz rock to the top By Alan Jones From musicweek Dutch dance duo Beatfreakz topped both the Upfront and Commerical Pop Charts with their debut single, a house remake of Rockwell’s 1984 hit Somebody’s Watching Me, in April. The track went on to eclipse Rockwell’s original on the sales chart, peaking at number three and selling more than 130,000 copies. On the grounds that it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, they have raided the Motown songbook again for their follow-up, a remake of Rick James’ Superfreak – a number 16 hit in the US in 1981, which failed to chart here, though it later formed the basis of MC Hammer’s number three success U Can’t Touch This. They are rewarded with another chart clean-up as the track rockets 14-1 on the Upfront and 8-1 on the Pop. With mixes from Fonzerelli, Mason, Bimbo Jones, Friday Night Posse and Beatfreakz member Dennis Christopher as well as the band themselves, it emerges slightly ahead of Fedde Le Grande’s Put Your Hands Up For (Detroit) on the Upfront chart and Sun’s Gone on the Commerical Pop Chart. Upfront Chart breakers this week are as follows: Sharam – Party All The Time, Infernal – Self Control, Mason – Exceeder, Deacon Blue – Real Gone Kid, Pete Walshe – Gonna Miss Me, Understate City – Set It Up In The Bentley, Angie Brown – I’m Gonna Get You, Bob Sinclar – Rock This Party, Various – Lab Recordings Autumn Sampler, and Jamelia – Something About You. Meanwhile, there is a rare repeat top five on the Urban Chart, where Fergie’s London Bridge is number one for the second week, with the remainder of the frozen top tier comprising former chart-topper Nelly Furtado’s Promiscuous, Janet Jackson’s Call On Me, Beyonce’s Déjà vu and Cassie’s Me & U. Fergie’s lead is a still small 7% but London Bridge did at least make a modest gain in support, whilst the rest of the top five all suffered small declines. London Bridge was also number one on the Commercial Pop Chart last week, but it now slips to number three there, while sliding 42-61 on the Upfront Chart.
September 29, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 30th September 2006 1 (7) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grand 2 (8) Stepping To The Beat – DJ Jose 3 (6) Brazilian Love Affair – George Duke vs E-S/L 4 (32) Watching You – Rogue Traders 5 (13) No Matter What – Nu Electric 6 (18) Move Your Body – Rhythm Republic ft Marshall Jefferson 7 (7) Do You Own Thing – Dab Hands 8 (3) Gone - Sun 9 (19) Everybody – Philtre Phreeks vs FPI Project 10 (5) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 11 (15) Raise Your Hand (U Got To) – Ike & Tina Turner 12 (1) Superfreak - Beatfreakz 13 (New) Sex ‘n’ Money – Oakenfold ft Pharrell Williams 14 (11) Changes – Chris Lake ft Laura V 15 (9) Looking Back – Route 33 ft Alex James 16 (12) Stimulate/Real High – Emjay & The Atari Babies 17 (New) Exceeder - Mason 18 (4) 1 Week In Ibiza – House Agents 19 (New) In My Mind – Paris Avenue 20 (New) Watskeburt? – D.J.V.T. 21 (33) Why – Lucky 7 22 (26) In Love With You – Atrium 23 (34) Ordinary Day – Judge Jules 24 (17) Don’t Let The Morning Come – Soul Avengerz ft Javine 25 (16) Ibiza Mi Amor – Philippe B 26 (23) My Life - Chanel 27 (New) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 28 (22) I Can’t Get Enough – Fireflies ft Alexandra Prince 29 (31) Do What U Du - Yoshimoto 30 (21) You Know Super Jupiter 31 (10) I Call It Love – Lionel Richie 32 (24) U Better Believe It – Shaun Emanuel 33 (New) Summer Of Salacious Records ’06 – Various Artists 34 (37) Repossessed – TWM 35 (28) Touch My Body – Di Scala & Crellin 36 (30) I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters 37 (27) Summer Love – Rhythm Royal 38 (20) That’s What Dreams Are Made Of – Space Cowboy 39 (New) Junk – Ferry Corsten ft Guru 40 (14) Ghana Sweet – Afro(o)ganic Detroit track motors ahead By Alan Jones From musicweek One of the hottest club records of 2006, Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) by Fedde La Grand eases into pole position on the Upfront Club Chart this week, enjoying a handsome victory margin over runner-up and Data Records labelmate DJ Jose’s Stepping To The Beat. DJ Le Grand’s electro-house monster has been huge in his native Netherlands, and was one of the big hits of Ibiza this summer. It has been in the Top 100 of the Upfront Club Chart for 14 weeks but had a very slow start as it was initially hard to find. It isn’t fully released until October 20 but is around on 12-inch, on which format has already reached Number 53 on the main OCC sales chart. It has also topped the 12-inch sales chart on two separate occasions in the past three months – 10 weeks ago when the original 12-inch was released, and again three weeks ago when new mixes issued. An unusual and some say annoying record, it is also getting major support from Radio One, with specialist spins from the likes of Pete Tong, Annie Mac, Judge Jules and Fergie being supplemented by daytime play, with the track now firmly established on the station’s B-list. While Le Grand plants the Dutch flag on the Upfront Chart summit, hotly tipped new girl group Nylon claim the Commerical Pop crown for Iceland with Sweet Dreams. Currently supporting McFly on their UK tour, Nylon have been touted as the next Spice Girls, are huge in Iceland and reached number 29 on the OCC chart here in July with Losing A Friend. Sweet Dreams is a cover of the old Eurythmics hit and will be a double A-side with a song called Closer, which has not been promoed to clubs. Nylon’s 11-1 leap on the Commerical Pop Chart is tough luck on DJ Jose, who – as on the Upfront Chart – has to settle for runners-up slot. The difference is that Nylon beat him by a margin of less than 1% compared to the 23% by which Fedde Le Grand beat him on the Upfront Chart. Finally, there’s no change on the Urban Chart, where Fergie’s London Bridge spends a third week in charge, while Nelly Furtado’s Promiscuous is runner-up for the fifth week in a row.
October 3, 200618 yr Well deserved chart topper, mark my words, this will be the one that sparks an electro revolution!!!! FLG FOR NUMBER ONE!!!
October 8, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 7th October 2006 1 (4) Watching You – Rogue Traders 2 (13) Sex ‘n’ Money – Oakenfold ft Pharrell Williams 3 (1) Put Your Hands Up For (Detroit) – Fedde Le Grand 4 (17) Exceeder - Mason 5 (27) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 6 (19) In My Mind – Paris Avenue 7 (5) No Matter What – Nu Electric 8 (7) Do Your Own Thing – Dab Hands 9 (23) Ordinary Day – Judge Jules 10 (21) Why – Lucky 7 11 (2) Stepping To The Beat – DJ Jose 12 (20) Watskeburt? – D.J.V.T. 13 (3) Brazilian Love Affair – George Duke vs E-S/L 14 (10) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 15 (6) Move Your Body – Rhythm Republic ft Marshall Jefferson 16 (39) Junk – Ferry Corsten ft Junk 17 (9) Everybody (All Over…) - Philtre Phreeks vs FPI Project 18 (New) Album Sampler – Dallas Superstars 19 (14) Changes – Chris Lake ft Laura V 20 (New) Champion Sound/Star 69 – Fatboy Slim 21 (12) Superfreak – Beatfreakz 22 (New) Discoteka - Starkillers 23 (15) Looking Back – Route 33 ft Alex James 24 (8) Gone – Sun 25 (18) 1 Week In Ibiza – House Agents 26 (33) Summer Of Salacious Records ’06 – Various Artists 27 (25) Don’t Let The Morning Come – Soul Avengerz ft Javine 28 (34) Repossessed - TWM 29 (28) I Can’t Get Enough – Fireflies ft Alexandra Prince 30 (26) My Life - Chanel 31 (New) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar 32 (16) Stimulate/Real High – Emjay & The Atari Babies 33 (22) In Love With You - Atrium 34 (11) Raise Your Hand (U Got To) – Ike & Tina Turner 35 (New) Shine – Luther Vandross 36 (New) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 37 (25) Ibiza Mi Amor – Philippe B 38 (New) Runaway - Jamiroquai 39 (31) I Call It Love – Lionel Richie 40 (36) I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters Traders get the knack By Alan Jones From musicweek Rogue Traders reached number three on both the Upfront and Commercial Pop club charts in June with their single Voodoo Child, and went on to achieve the same placing on the OCC sales chart a month later. The track, based around a sample from Elvis Costello’s Pump It Up, marked a successful UK debut for the Anglo-Australian band, and follow-up Watching You looks set to do even better. Using the same rock/dance sound that made its predecessor such a success, Watching You is constructed around the riff from The Knack’s 1979 hit My Sharona, and jumps to the top of the Upfront and Commerical Pop charts this week. On the Upfront Chart, it has a 139% victory margin over Oakenfold’s Sex ‘n’ Money, while it finishes up 274% ahead of nearest challenger Paris Avenue’s In My Mind on the Commerical pop chart. Mixes of Watching You come from Chris Lake, Olli Collins & Fred Portelli, Dirty South and the Rogue Traders themselves. Meanwhile, after three weeks at the top of the Urban Club Chart, Fergie’s London Bridge loses a close-fought battle and its leadership of the chart to P Diddy’s Come To Me, which made a slow start to its chart career but has moved 19-7-1 in the past fortnight. Come To Me is Diddy’s fifth number one on the chart, and features vocals from Nicole Scherzinger, who also fronts the Pussycat Dolls, whose own new hit I Don’t Need A Man is this week’s highest climber, jumping 26-8. The Pussycat Dolls track also makes the Top 10 of the sales chart this week, and is likely to be followed next week by Come To Me, which receives its physical release this week. Finally, breakers on the Upfront Club Chart this week are as follows: Pussycat Dolls – I Don’t Need A Man, Girls Aloud – Something Kinda Ooooh, Bootyluv – Boogie2nite, Helena Paparizou – Mambo, Shibuku – Crazy Situation, Midnight Cowboys – Wicked Mountain, Outwork ft Mr Gee – Elektro, Gloria Estefan – Rhythm Is Gonna Get You ’06, Streetplayer ft Raychel – Give U What U Need, Fish Go Deep – The Cure and the Cause.
October 8, 200618 yr Thanks for the info CM. My faves... 1 (4) Watching You – Rogue Traders 3 (1) Put Your Hands Up For (Detroit) – Fedde Le Grand 4 (17) Exceeder - Mason 5 (27) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 6 (19) In My Mind – Paris Avenue 7 (5) No Matter What – Nu Electric 8 (7) Do Your Own Thing – Dab Hands 9 (23) Ordinary Day – Judge Jules 11 (2) Stepping To The Beat – DJ Jose 14 (10) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 19 (14) Changes – Chris Lake ft Laura V 21 (12) Superfreak – Beatfreakz 22 (New) Discoteka - Starkillers 24 (8) Gone – Sun 27 (25) Don’t Let The Morning Come – Soul Avengerz ft Javine 29 (28) I Can’t Get Enough – Fireflies ft Alexandra Prince 30 (26) My Life - Chanel 31 (New) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar 33 (22) In Love With You - Atrium 34 (11) Raise Your Hand (U Got To) – Ike & Tina Turner 35 (New) Shine – Luther Vandross 36 (New) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 38 (New) Runaway - Jamiroquai 40 (36) I Don’t Feel Like Dancin’ – Scissor Sisters It's a reversal of fortunes in my chart this week, Fedde hits the top spot where Rogue Traders settle for third placing behind Dirty Old Ann.
October 12, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 14th October 2006 1 (4) Exceeder - Mason 2 (20) Champion Sound/Star 69 – Fatboy Slim 3 (5) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 4 (3) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grand 5 (2) Sex ‘n’ Money – Oakenfold ft Pharrell Williams 6 (16) Junk – Ferry Corsten ft Guru 7 (New) Touch Me – Cass Fox 8 (1) Watching You – Rogue Traders 9 (New) Dance 4 Life – Tiesto ft Maxi Jazz 10 (38) Runaway - Jamiroquai 11 (36) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 12 (22) Discoteka - Starkillers 13 (9) Ordinary Day – Judge Jules 14 (New) New York, New York – Moby ft Debbie Harry 15 (10) Why – Lucky 7 16 (18) Album Sampler – Dallas Superstars 17 (11) Stepping To The Beat – DJ Jose 18 (New) Life Begins – The Energies 19 (8) Do Your Own Thing – Dab Hands 20 (7) No Matter What – Nu Electric 21 (6) In My Mind – Paris Avenue 22 (14) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 23 (New) Heaven - Lorraine 24 (19) Changes – Chris Lake ft Laura V 25 (35) Shine – Luther Vandross 26 (12) Watskeburt? – D.J.V.T. 27 (13) Brazilian Love Affair – George Duke vs E-S/L 28 (15) Move Your Body – Rhythm Republic ft Marshall Jefferson 29 (17) Everybody (All Over…) – Philtre Phreeks vs FPI Project 30 (New) Rock Da House 2006 – Tall Paul 31 (21) Superfreak – Beatfreakz 32 (New) Lab Recordings Autumn Sampler – Various Artists 33 (New) Take Me Back To Your House – Basement Jaxx 34 (27) Don’t Let The Morning Come – Soul Avengerz ft Javine 35 (23) Looking Back – Route 33 ft Alex James 36 (33) In Love With You - Atrium 37 (31) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar 38 (30) My Life - Chanel 39 (24) Gone - Sun 40 (New) Martyr – Depeche Mode Mason exceeds expectations By Alan Jones Pete Tong made it his Essential New Tune, Judge Jules proclaimed it Tried & Tested and Fergie chose it as his Speaker Freaker. Where Radio One leads, others follow, including our DJs, whose chart returns elect Mason’s exceeder number one on the Upfront Club Chart this week. Beating off a challenge from Fatboy Slim’s latest Greatest Hits promo package by a 6.7% margin, Exceeder is the latest in the new wave of electro tracks to interrupt funky house’s recent domination of the chart. Originating from the Netherlands, it’s also being dropped by many other big name DJs, including David Guetta, John Digweed, Sasha, Axwell, Deep Dish, Sander Kleinenberg, Sebastian Ingrosso and Erick Morillo. Meanwhile, a familiar name returns to the top of the Commerical Pop Chart – Girls Aloud. Something Kinda Ooooh is a new track from Girls Aloud’s upcoming greatest hits set The Sound Of Girls Aloud and continues their magnificent run on the chart, where they have had eleven consecutive top three entries, including six number ones. Before Something Kinda Ooooh, they topped with No Good Advice, Jump, The Show, Love Machine and Biology; reached number two with Life Got Cold, I’ll Stand By You, Long Hot Summer and Whole Lotta History; and number three with Wake Me Up. Their only no-show came from their debut single Sound Of The Underground, which was rushed into the shops when the girls were formed from the female finalists of Pop Stars – The Rivals without enough time to put together a package for clubs. Runner-up to Girls Aloud, the late Luther Vandross’s Shine – which bears the solid gold writing credit of Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards – has been serviced in a superb mix by the Freemasons, and misses out on a deserved top spot bu a sliver. No change at the top of the Urban Chart, where P. Diddy & Nicole lengthen their lead with Come To Me. Nicole is lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, whose I Don’t Need A Man could be the one to dethrone Come To Me, as it advances 8-3 this week on a 31% increase in support, though it is still 28% in arrears.
October 21, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 21st October 2006 1 (10) Runaway - Jamiroquai 2 (7) Touch Me – Cass Fox 3 (9) Dance 4 Life – Tiesto ft Maxi Jaxx 4 (11) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 5 (4) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 6 (30) Rock Da House 2006 – Tall Paul 7 (2) Champion Sound/Star 69 – Fatboy Slim 8 (1) Exceeder - Mason 9 (3) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 10 (33) Take Me Back To Your House – Basement Jaxx 11 (14) New York, New York – Moby ft Debbie Harry 12 (18) Life Begins – The Energies 13 (8) Watching You – Rogue Traders 14 (5) Sex ‘n’ Money – Oakenfold ft Pharrell Williams 15 (16) Album Sampler – Dallas Superstars 16 (23) Heaven - Lorraine 17 (22) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 18 (40) Martyr – Depeche Mode 19 (6) Junk – Ferry Corsten ft Guru 20 (New) Boogie 2Nite – Booty Luv 21 (17) Stepping To The Beat – DJ Jose 22 (20) No Matter What – Nu Electric 23 (12) Discoteka - Starkillers 24 (13) Ordinary Day – Judge Jules 25 (25) Shine – Luther Vandross 26 (21) In My Mind – Paris Avenue 27 (26) Watskeburt? – D.J.V.T. 28 (19) Do Your Own Thing – Dab Hands 29 (24) Changes – Chris Lake ft Laura V 30 (New) Party For The Weekend – Soul Seekerz ft Kate Smith 31 (37) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar 32 (New) Self Control - Infernal 33 (New) I’m Gonna Get You – Angie Brown 34 (15) Why – Lucky 7 35 (28) Move Your Body – Rhythm Republic ft Marshall Jefferson 36 (29) Everybody (All Over…) – Philtre Phtreeks vs FPI Project 37 (New) Save Me – Darren Styles 38 (31) Superfreak - Beatfreakz 39 (27) Brazilian Love Affair – George Duke vs E-S/L 40 (32) Lab Recordings Autumn Sampler – Various Artists Cat in the hat is back By Alan Jones From musicweek Jamiroquai have a long and distinguished record of success in the Upfront Club Chart stretching back to 1993 – but to an outsider they may have looked as though they have been faltering this year, with newly promoted remixes of their classic singles peaking at low positions in the past few months. First to hit the dancefloor, Space Cowboy peaked at number 37 in June in mixes by Mayhem & Musaphia and David Morales. In July, Cosmic Girl (mixed by Tom Belton, Quasar and David Morales) peaked at number 56, followed in August by Deeper Underground (Paul Jackson, Roger Sanchez, Metro), which climbed no higher than number 61. Finally, Love Foolosophy (Raul Rincon, Knee Deep Lottie) reached number 51 last month. But they were all very limited promos, serviced only to an elite few DJs, and serving as promotional teasers for the band’s first ever “best of†set: High Times: Singles 1992-2006. That album includes two new tracks, of which the first, Runaway, received a full servicing to DJs – and it has responded in more typical style, climbing 10-1 on the Upfront Chart this week. With mixes by Alan Braxe & Fred Faulke, Tom Belton & Grant Nelson, it has an easy succession to the chart throne this week beating its nearest competitor – Cass Fox’s remake of Touch Me, which she sang on the original Rui Di Silva hit – by a 19.5% margin. Runaway was within a whisker of making it a double, missing out on the Commerical Pop Chart by a slender 3% margin to Pussycat Dolls’ I Don’t Need A Man, their first number one on this chart., though they have had three on the Urban Chart, where they inch up 3-2 this week. Their very own lead singer Nicole Scherzinger is partly to blame for I Don’t Need A Man not yet topping the Urban Chart because the record that keeps it off the top – by a 9% margin – is P. Diddy’s Come To Me, on which her vocals provide a sweetener to Diddy’s rap. Come To Me will be the first single from Diddy’s Press Play album, which will also include guest spots from Christina Aguilera, Fergie, Mary J. Blige, Brandy and Keyshia Cole, among others.
November 2, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 4th November 2006 1 (14) Party For The Weekend – Soul Seekerz ft Kate Smith 2 (6) My Love – Justin Timberlake 3 (7) Boogie 2Nite – Booty Luv 4 (36) Jump - Madonna 5 (1) Rock Da House 2006 – Tall Paul 6 (37) Ugly - Sugababes 7 (12) Martyr – Depeche Mode 8 (10) Touch Me – Cass Fox 9 (3) Take Me Back To Your House – Basement Jaxx 10 (11) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 11 (2) New York, New York – Moby ft Debbie Harry 12 (13) Runaway - Jamiroquai 13 (30) Teardrops – Whelan & Di Scala ft Nikki Belle 14 (4) Yeah Yeah - Bodyrox 15 (5) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 16 (8) Life Begins – The Energies 17 (15) Exceeder - Mason 18 (23) One Touch - 365 19 (16) Dance 4 Life – Tiesto ft Maxi Jazz 20 (New) Love You More – Armin Van Burren ft Racoon 21 (9) Champion Sound/Star 69 – Fatboy Slim 22 (New) Weightlessness – Freelance Hellraiser 23 (20) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 24 (New) Lovelight – Robbie Williams 25 (19) Sex ‘n’ Money – Oakenfold ft Pharrell Williams 26 (18) Heaven - Lorraine 27 (17) Watching You – Rogue Traders 28 (21) Junk – Ferry Corsten ft Guru 29 (New) Cruising (Beachball 2006) – Nalin & Kane ft Alex Prince 30 (New) Kickin’ In The Beat 2006 – Phunkin’ DJs ft Pamela Fernandez 31 (22) Album Sampler – Dallas Superstars 32 (29) Stepping To The Beat – DJ Jose 33 (25) Discoteka - Starkillers 34 (24) Save Me – Darren Styles 35 (33) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar 36 (35) Shine – Luther Vandross 37 (New) Rocksteady – All Saints 38 (New) Bombs - Faithless 39 (26) No Matter What – Nu Electric 40 (New) Deeper Love – Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis Soul Seekerz in top spot By Alan Jones From musicweek The same two records battled it out for supremacy on the Upfront and Commercial Pop Charts this week, and the result was one victory apiece. The Soul Seekerz take the Upfront title with Party For The Weekend, ahead of My Love by Justin Timberlake; on the Commercial Pop Chart, those positions are reversed, and in both charts, the victory margin was negligible. For The Soul Seekerz, it’s a return to the top of the Upfront Chart which they topped exactly a year ago, in partnership with Dannii Minogue on Perfection. They didn’t manage to synchronise it then either, but Perfection did move to the top of the Commerical Club Chart the following week. The Soul Seekerz’ latest chart topper, Party For The Weekend, is a funky hands-in-the-air anthem, and their vocal foil this time is Kate Smith. Party For The Weekend has enlisted support from many big name DJs, including Judge Jules, Roger Sanchez, Dab Hands, Stonebridge, Graeme Park, Herd & Fitz, The Sharp Boys, Oliver Lang and the Trophy Twins. It’s only 11 weeks since Justin Timberlake topped the Commercial Pop Chart with SexyBack and his return to the summit with My Love comes courtesy of mixes by Poker Face and Paul Jackson. While My Love rests at number 2 on the Upfront Chart, SexyBack climbed no higher than number 37 on the same list when it was promoed in August. While reigns of two weeks are, in any case, extremely rare on the Commercial Pop Chart, Timberlake’s chances of pulling it off are smaller than most, primarily because there are four debuts in the Top 10 this week – the highest intake of the year – and each and every one of them is by an artist of substantial pedigree. Madonna, Sugababes, All Saints and Robbie Williams have over 30 Commercial Club Chart number ones between them and their combined tally is almost certain to increase next week. My Love also climbs to pole position on the Urban Chart, where it emphatically ends a four week reign by P. Diddy & Nicole, moving 43% ahead of the latter disc. SexyBack reached number three on the Urban Chart just eight weeks ago, and has, surprisingly, revived strongly since My Love was promoed, moving 21-16-12.
November 4, 200618 yr This topic pinned. You seem to post it on a weekly basis and its a very useful source of information. Thank you.
November 9, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 11th November 2006 1 (3) Boogie2Nite – Booty Luv 2 (4) Jump - Madonna 3 (24) Lovelight – Robbie Williams 4 (6) Easy - Sugababes 5 (2) My Love – Justin Timberlake 6 (13) Teardrops – Whelan & Di Scala ft Nikki Belle 7 (40) Deeper Love – Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis 8 (1) Party For The Weekend – Soul Seekerz ft Kate Smith 9 (5) Rock Da House 2006 – Tall Paul 10 (8) Touch Me – Cass Fox 11 (New) This Is Not Real Love – George Michael & Mutya Beuna 12 (14) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 13 (22) Weightlessness – Freelance Hellraiser 14 (18) One Touch - 365 15 (New) Overload: The Remix Collection (Sampler) – Sugababes 16 (15) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 17 (New) So Excited – Janet Jackson 18 (9) Take Me Back To Your House – Basement Jaxx 19 (17) Exceeder - Mason 20 (11) New York, New York – Moby ft Debbie Harry 21 (20) Love You More – Armin Van Buuren ft Racoon 22 (12) Runaway - Jamiroquai 23 (10) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 24 (38) Bombs - Faithless 25 (7) Martyr – Depeche Mode 26 (30) Kickin’ In The Beat 2006 – Phunkin’ DJs ft Pamela Fernandez 27 (New) Another One Bites The Dust – Queen vs The Miami Project 28 (21) Champion Sound/Star 69 – Fatboy Slim 29 (23) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 30 (29) Cruising (Beachball 2006) – Nalin & Kane ft Alex Prince 31 (19) Dance 4 Life – Tiesto ft Maxi Jazz 32 (16) Life Begins – The Energies 33 (28) Junk – Ferry Corsten 34 (37) Rock Steady – All Saints 35 (New) Winter Sampler – Various Artists 36 (25) Sex ‘n’ Money – Oakenfold ft Pharrell Williams 37 (26) Heaven - Lorraine 38 (27) Watching You – Rogue Traders 39 (New) Miracle - Cascada 40 (35) Rock This Party – Bob Sinclar Bootyluv Top Upfront List By Alan Jones From musicweek There’s always a certain amount of crossover between the tracks that gravitate towards the top of the Upfront Chart and Commercial Pop Charts, but they are closer this week than at any time in 2006, with the top five in both charts being identical, save for the fact that Bootyluv and Madonna trade places at the top. In both charts, Robbie Williams’ Lovelight, Sugababes’ Easy and My Love by Justin Timberlake are ranked at three, four and five, respectively. On the Upfront Chart, Boogie2Nite by Bootyluv is top, 3.7% ahead of Madonna’s Jump, but on the Commercial Pop Chart it’s Madonna who leads the way from Bootyluv, with a victory margin of 10.7%. Bootyluv’s record is a housed-up remake of Tweet’s 2003 single which wasn’t a hit at the time, but which has become something of an anthem. Bootyluv are actually Nadia and Cherise from Big Brovaz, and their remake of Boogie2Nite has been remixed by DB Boulevard and Seamus Haji, among others. It’s already crossing over to radio in a big way, ahead of its November 27 release: it was ranked 38th on the radio airplay chart last week, and has just been added to the Radio One b-list. Meanwhile, Jump is the fourth straight number one hit on the Commerical Pop Chart from Madonna’s Confessions On A Dance Floor album, arriving at the summit a year to the week after first hit Hung Up. Follow-up Sorry topped the list in February, and Get Together did likewise in July. They all topped the Upfront Chart too – a task that may prove too tough for Jump in the current, extremely competitive climate. There’s an unchanged top three at the top of the Urban Chart, with Justin Timberlake’s My Love continuing to hold a big lead over P. Diddy’s Come To Me and Hands Up by Lloyd Banks. Diddy’s track was itself number one for four weeks and does well to hang on to second place, especially as Diddy’s follow-up, Tell Me – a collaboration with Christina Aguilera – is the highest of four new entries on the chart this week, debuting at number 17.
November 9, 200618 yr Thanks for the info. Pinned. Great to see Bootyluv at the top its my number one too!!!
November 17, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 18th November 2006 1 (7) Deeper Love – Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis 2 (3) Lovelight – Robbie Williams 3 (27) Another One Bites The Dust – Queen vs The Miami Project 4 (2) Jump - Madonna 5 (1) Boogie2Nite – Booty Luv 6 (26) Kickin’ In The Beat 2006 – Phunkin’ DJs ft Pamela Fernandez 7 (4) Easy – Sugababes 8 (5) My Love – Justin Timberlake 9 (15) Overload: The Remix Collection - Sugababes 10 (11) This Is Not Real Love – George Michael & Mutya Beuna 11 (New) What You Do – Big Bass vs Michelle Narine 12 (6) Teardrops – Whelan & Di Scala ft Nikki Belle 13 (17) So Excited – Janet Jackson 14 (New) We Ride - Rihanna 15 (24) Bombs - Faithless 16 (35) Winter Sampler – Various Artists 17 (8) Party For The Weekend – Soul Seekerz ft Kate Smith 18 (14) One Touch - 365 19 (13) Weightlessness – Freelance Hellraiser 20 (9) Rock Da House 2006 – Tall Paul 21 (12) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 22 (10) Touch Me – Cass Fox 23 (16) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 24 (New) Cillit Bang – Jazakid ft Barry Scott 25 (New) Patt (Party All The Time) - Sharam 26 (21) Love You More – Armin Van Buuren 27 (30) Crusing (Beachball 2006) – Nalin & Kane 28 (New) W.A.Y.U.H (People Don’t Dance No More) – The Rapture 29 (20) New York, New York – Moby ft Debbie Harry 30 (New) Rain Down Love – Freemasons ft Siedah Garrett 31 (23) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 32 (19) Exceeder - Mason 33 (22) Runaway – Jamiroquai 34 (18) Take Me Back To Your House – Basement Jaxx 35 (New) In Love With You - Freestylers 36 (29) Turn Me On – Dirty Old Ann 37 (New) Work It Out – DJ Disciple 38 (28) Champion Sound/Star 69 – Fatboy Slim 39 (25) Martyr – Depeche Mode 40 (New) Music’s Got Me – Stu Allen Thoneick returns to top By Alan Jones From musicweek Cover confusion seems to be the name of the game for Eddie Thoneick, who scampers to the top of the Upfront Chart this week alongside Berget Lewis. It’s the second number one hit for Thoneick, who topped in April in partnership with Kurd Maverick with a version of the Love Sensation, even though a remixed version of the Loleatta Holloway original was in the Top 10 at the same time. The record which was number two behind Thoneick & Maverick was Corenell’s remake of Clivilles & Coles classic 1992 hit Pride (A Deeper Love), under the abbreviated title of A Deeper Love – and it’s a new cover of the same song which earns Thoneick & Lewis chart honours this week. Thoneick and Maverick were on All Around The World for Love Sensation, which scraped into the Top 40 at number 39 but Deeper Love is on CR2, the original home of Fedde Le Grande’s Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit), which was itself a number one club hit before crossing over to top the pop chart a week ago. Although Sugababes’ last two singles – Red Dress and Follow Me Home – both settled for number two peaks on the Commerical Pop Chart, Easy springs 4-1 this week to become their 10th number one in a run that also includes Overload, Freak Like Me, Round Round, Stronger, Shape, Hole In The Head, Too Lost In You, Push The Button and Ugly. Easy slips 4-7 on the Upfront Chart, where a remix collection for Sugababes’ new hits set Overload jumps 15-9. Meanwhile, Cascada registers her second straight Top 10 hit on the Commercial Pop Chart in as many weeks, with her Savage Garden cover Truly Madly Deeply debuting at number six a week after Miracle peaked at number nine. Both tracks are from her Everytime We Touch album, from which the title track was a number two sales hit earlier this year. Truly Madly Deeply is on All Around The World, and Miracle on Product/Incentive. Why they’re competing and on different labels is a mystery. Finally, no change on the urban chart, where Justin Timberlake is number one for the third straight week with My Love.
November 29, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 25th November 2006 1 (3) Another One Bites The Dust – Queen vs Miami Project 2 (16) Winter Sampler – Various Artists 3 (11) What You Do – Big Bass ft Michelle Narine 4 (30) Rain Down Love – Freemasons ft Siedah Garrett 5 (25) Patt (Party All The Time) - Sharam 6 (37) Work It Out – DJ Disciple 7 (5) Boogie2Nite - Bootyluv 8 (14) We Ride - Rihanna 9 (1) Deeper Love – Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis 10 (4) Jump - Madonna 11 (35) In Love With You - Freestylers 12 (6) Kickin’ In The Beat 2006 – Phunkin DJs ft Pamela Fernandez 13 (New) Proper Education – Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd 14 (New) Heart Of Glass – Blondie vs Edison 15 (28) W.A.Y.U.H. (People Don’t Dance No More) – The Rapture 16 (2) Lovelight – Robbie Williams 17 (8) My Love – Justin Timberlake 18 (24) Cillit Bang – Jazakid ft Barry Scott 19 (9) Overload: The Remix Collection (Sampler) - Sugababes 20 (7) Easy – Sugababes 21 (40) Music’s Got Me – Stu Allen 22 (10) This Is Not Real Love – George Michael & Mutya Beuna 23 (27) Cruising (Beachball 2006) – Nalin & Kane 24 (12) Teardrops – Whelin & Di Scala ft Nikki Belle 25 (15) Bombs - Faithless 26 (21) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 27 (New) Show Me What You Got – Jay-Z 28 (17) Party For The Weekend – Soul Seekerz ft Kate Smith 29 (23) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 30 (New) Love It When You Call (Remixes) – The Feeling 31 (20) Rock Da House 2006 – Tall Paul 32 (22) Touch Me – Cass Fox 33 (32) Exceeder - Mason 34 (13) So Excited – Janet Jackson 35 (26) Love You More – Armin Van Buuren 36 (33) Runaway - Jamiroquai 37 (31) Café Del Mar 2006 – Energy 52 38 (19) Weightlessness – Freelance Hellraisers 39 (New) Truly Madly Deeply - Cascada 40 (New) Nothing In This World – Paris Hilton Queen reigns over charts By Alan Jones From musicweek A few weeks ago, new mixes of Freddie Mercury’s Living On My Own by The Egg and Love Kills by Sunshine People and Pixel 82 were given a limited promotional push to help publicise Mercury’s latest posthumous compilation The Very Best Of, and peaked at 33 on the Upfront Club Chart and 26 on the Commerical Pop Chart. Making a more spectacular impression this week, Mercury and his former colleagues in Queen catapult to the top of both charts with new mixes of their 1980 smash Another One Bites The Dust. Credited to Queen vs Miami Project, and featuring mixes by Cedric Gervais & Second Sun, Oliver Koletski, A Skillz, Soul Avengerz and DJ Pedro & Olivier Berger, Another One Bites The Dust was bubbling away illicitly for much of the year before getting official clearance, and will be released commercially on December 18. In addition to the vast majority of DJs returning our charts, Another One Bites The Dust has been supported by the likes of Pete Tong, Seb Fontaine, The Shapeshifters, Deep Dish, Alex Gaudino, Erick Morillo, David Guetta, Stonebridge, Freemasons, Herd & Fitz and K-Klass. It’s one of three radically remixed classic cuts from 1979/80 by major rock acts in the Top 20 of the Upfront Club Chart at present ahead of commercial release on Positiva, the others being Proper Education by Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd – a joint Positiva/Data release based around a sample from Pink Floyd’s Another Brick In The Wall – and Heart Of Glass, originally by Blondie but now credited to Blondie vs Edison. Proper Education debuts at number 13 this week, and Heart Of Glass at number 14. On the Urban Chart, Justin Timberlake is number one for the fourth week in a row with My Love, narrowly holding off an attempted takeover by Akon & Eminem, whose Smack That surges 4-2, while reducing its deficit from 21% to 9%. At the time of Music Week going to press, the battle for sales supremacy on the singles chart was being fought out by the same two combatants but Smack That looked far more likely to emerge as top dog ahead of My Love.
December 1, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 2nd December 2006 1 (5) Patt (Party All The Time) – Sharam 2 (6) Work It Out – DJ Disciple 3 (4) Rain Down Love – Freemasons ft Siedah Garrett 4 (11) Proper Education – Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd 5 (1) Another One Bites The Dust – Queen vs Miami Project 6 (30) Love It When You Call (Remixes) – The Feeling 7 (3) What You Do (Playing With Stones) – Big Bass vs Michelle Narine 8 (21) Music’s Got Me – Stu Allen 9 (9) Deeper Love – Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis 10 (2) Winter Sampler – Various Artists 11 (New) I Love You – Klaas vs I Am Finn 12 (14) Heart Of Glass – Blondie vs Edison 13 (7) Boogie2Nite - Bootyluv 14 (15) W.A.Y.U.H. (People Don’t Dance No More) – The Rapture 15 (8) We Ride - Rihanna 16 (New) Zerox Machine - Client 17 (10) Jump - Madonna 18 (27) Show Me What You Got – Jay-Z 19 (12) Kickin’ In The Beat 2006 – Phunkin DJs ft Pamela Fernandez 20 (17) My Love – Justin Timberlake 21 (11) In Love With You - Freestylers 22 (16) Lovelight – Robbie Williams 23 (24) Teardrops – Whelan & Di Scala ft Nikki Belle 24 (19) Overload: The Remix Collection (Sampler) - Sugababes 25 (20) Easy - Sugababes 26 (26) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 27 (29) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 28 (New) Into The Light – 4 Strings 29 (New) Feel Together – Ben Macklin ft Toger Lily 30 (28) Party For The Weekend – Soul Seekerz ft Kate Smith 31 (22) This Is Not Real Love – George Michael & Mutya Beuna 32 (35) Love You More – Armin Van Buuren ft Racoon 33 (31) Rock Da House 2006 – Tall Paul 34 (33) Exceeder - Mason 35 (23) Cruising (Beachball 2006) – Nalin & Kane ft Alex Prince 36 (18) Cillit Bang – Jazakid ft Barry Scott 37 (25) Bombs – Faithless 38 (32) Touch Me – Cass Fox 39 (New) My Egyptian Lover – Space Cowboy ft Nadia Oh 40 (34) So Excited – Janet Jackson The Superfreak returns By Alan Jones From musicweek 10 weeks after Beatfreakz topped the Upfront and Commerical Pop charts with a remake of Rick James’ Eighties dancefloor classic Superfreak, another of the late, legendary Canadian’s songs repeats the feat. The track doing the double this week is PATT (Party All The Time), a rousing louped house revival of a tune James wrote and produced, titled simply Party All The Time, for Eddie Murphy in 1985. The new version is by Sharam, better known as one half of Washington-based Iranian duo Deep Dish, who have had a string of number one hits, most recently with their remake of Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams, featuring original vocalist Stevie Nicks. Promoted with a plethora of mixes and schedules for release on Boxing Day, PATT is already on the B-list at Radio One, having previously been caned by their specialist dance DJs, notably Pete Tong and Judge Jules. Originally on Yo$h!toshi, on which label it previously had a run in the extended (Top 100) version of the Upfront Club Chart in the summer, PATT was a big club success at Miami and Ibiza before arriving on these shores. It is the second version of Party All The Time to achieve club success in recent weeks, following hot on the heels of Euphonix’s version – titled My Girl Wants To Party after another chunk of the original’s lyrics – which peaked at number 45 Upfront and number seven Commercial Pop a few weeks ago. The original Party All The Time failed to chart here at all for Eddie Murphy, though it sold two million copies in America, where it peaked at number two. Meanwhile, after four weeks at number one on the Urban Chart, My Love by Justin Timberlake is narrowly defeated, and slips to number two. The track to replace it is the one which denied it top billing on the Official UK Chart singles rundown – Smack That by Akon ft Eminem. The Akon track establishes a slender 2% lead at the summit. Akon actually bookends the chart, as he also holds the number 30 position with the new entry I Wanna Luv U, which also features Snoop Dogg, and will be released as a single next year.
December 7, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 9th December 2006 1 (3) Rain Down Love – Freemasons ft Siedah Garrett 2 (4) Proper Education – Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd 3 (New) Love It When You Call (Remixes) – The Feeling 4 (2) Work It Out – DJ Disciple 5 (29) Feel Together – Ben Macklin ft Toger Lily 6 (11) I Love You – Klaas vs I Am Finn 7 (1) Patt (Party All The Time) - Sharam 8 (39) My Egyptian Lover – Space Cowboy ft Nadia Oh 9 (8) Music’s Got Me – Stu Allen 10 (5) Another One Bites The Dust – Queen vs The Miami Project 11 (9) Deeper Love – Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis 12 (New) The Beat Is Rockin’ – Erick E 13 (New) Don’t Give Me Your Love - Shanie 14 (7) What You Do (Playing With Stones) – Big Bass vs Michelle Narine 15 (13) Boogie2Nite – Bootyluv 16 (16) Zerox Machine - Client 17 (10) Winter Sampler – Various Artists 18 (12) Heart Of Glass – Blondie vs Edison 19 (14) W.A.Y.U.H. (People Don’t Dance No More) – The Rapture 20 (19) Kickin’ In The Beat 2006 – Phunkin DJs ft Pamela Fernandez 21 (18) Show Me What You Got – Jay-Z 22 (17) Jump - Madonna 23 (28) Into The Night – 4 Strings 24 (20) My Love – Justin Timberlake 25 (15) We Ride - Rihanna 26 (23) Teardrops – Whelan & Di Scala ft Nikki Belle 27 (New) Come Back To Me – Vanessa Hudgens 28 (26) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 29 (22) Lovelight – Robbie Williams 30 (21) In Love With You - Freestylers 31 (New) Grace Kelly - Mika 32 (25) Easy - Sugababes 33 (New) Think About The Way – Frisco vs Ice MC 34 (27) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 35 (24) Overload: The Singles Collection (Sampler) – Sugababes 36 (New) Hurt – Christina Aguilera 37 (New) Skinny – Lo-Rider ft Cumberbatch 38 (New) I’m Rushin’ - Bump 39 (35) Cruising (Beachball 2006) – Nalin & Kane ft Alex Prince 40 (34) Exceeder - Mason Freemasons return to the top By Alan Jones From musicweek Brighton house duo The Freemasons achieve their third straight double number one this week, ascending to the summit of both the Upfront and Commerical Pop charts with Rain Down Love. The Freemasons victory should not be underestimated; there were up against very stiff opposition, with Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd’s Proper Education and Christina Aguilera’s Hurt finishing as their runners-up. Rain Down Love features the vocals of the estimable Siedah Garrett – who matched her vocals to Dennis Edwards’ on Don’t Look Any Further and Michael Jackson’s on I Just Can’t Stop Loving You – and is already on the Radio One C-list, even though it isn’t released commercially until January 8, 2007. The Freemasons have had many club hits as mixers, most recently on Luther Vandross’ Shine, and as artists they previously topped both charts in August 2005 with Love On My Mind, and repeated the feat in January with their follow-up Watchin’. Both of these tracks featured vocals from Amanda Wilson, and managed to reach the Top 20 of the OCC sales chart. Love On My Mind was based around a sample from Jackie Moore’s 1979 single This Time Baby and topped the year-end Upfront and Commerical Pop Charts in 2005. Watchin’ won’t be too far away from doing likewise in the 2006 lists, as it spent a fortnight at the top of both charts, and hung around for a long time when turnover was sluggish at the start of the year. While The Freemasons’ victory on the other two charts was comfortable, Akon ft Eminem only retained their Urban Chart title after a struggle. While Jay-Z’s Show Me What You Got moved 3-2 as it closed the gap to less than 1%, former chart topper Justin Timberlake 2-3 dip with My Love was accompanied by a slight increase in support, and it is still very much in touch with the top two, 3% in arrears. Timberlake, in turn, is only 1% ahead of Gwen Stefani’s fast-rising Wind It Up, which added 23% extra support last week but only moves 6-4. Stefani’s single is, however, 20% ahead of fifth placed Snoop Dogg, and is well-placed to make a decisive move over the coming week.
December 7, 200618 yr Great to see Freemasons doing so well. Should give them another top 20 hit. Great tune.
December 16, 200618 yr The Upfront Club Top 40 weekending 16th December 2006 1 (2) Proper Education – Eric Prydz vs Pink Floyd 2 (13) Don’t Give Me Your Life - Shanie 3 (5) Feel Together – Ben Macklin ft Toger Lily 4 (12) The Beat Is Rockin’ – Erick E 5 (8) My Egyptian Lover – Space Cowboy ft Nadia Oh 6 (1) Rain Down Love – Freemasons ft Siedah Garrett 7 (6) I Love You – Klaas vs I Am Finn 8 (3) Love It When You Call (Remixes) – The Feeling 9 (7) Patt (Party All The Time) - Sharam 10 (4) Work It Out – DJ Disciple 11 (31) Grace Kelly - Mika 12 (14) What You Do… - Big Bass vs Michelle Narine 13 (11) Deeper Love – Eddie Thoneick ft Berget Lewis 14 (New) Too Little Too Late - JoJo 15 (27) Come Back To Me – Vanessa Hudgens 16 (10) Another One Bites The Dust – Queen vs Miami Project 17 (15) Boogie2Nite - Bootyluv 18 (9) Music’s Got Me – Stu Allen 19 (17) Winter Sampler – Various Artists 20 (16) Zerox Machine – Client 21 (23) Into The Night – 4 Strings 22 (New) Inner Sense – Disco Brothers ft Andrea Britton 23 (18) Heart Of Glass – Blondie vs Edison 24 (New) Billie Jean (People Always Told Me) – Starzoom 25 (19) W.A.Y.U.H. (People Don’t Dance No More) – The Rapture 26 (20) Kickin’ In The Beat 2006 – Phunkin DJs ft Pamela Fernandez 27 (24) My Love – Justin Timberlake 28 (New) I Think We’re Alone Now – Girls Aloud 29 (40) Exceeder - Mason 30 (34) Put Your Hands Up (For Detroit) – Fedde Le Grande 31 (28) Yeah Yeah – Bodyrox ft Luciana 32 (New) Starz In Their Eyes – Just Jack 33 (New) He’s The Greatest Dancer – Dannii Minogue 34 (22) Jump - Madonna 35 (New) The Reason – Diddy 36 (30) In Love With You - Freestylers 37 (21) Show Me What You Got – Jay-Z 38 (26) Teardrops – Whelan & Di Scala ft Nikki Belle 39 (29) Lovelight – Robbie Williams 40 (31) Think About The Way – Frisco vs Ice MC Prydz does it again By Alan Jones From musicweek Some 27 years to the week after Pink Floyd topped the singles chart with Another Brick In The Wall, they make an unexpected appearance at the top of the Upfront Club Chart with Proper Education, DJ Eric Prydz’s 21st century revision of the track. Scheduled for release on New Year’s Day, as a joint Data/Positiva release, it is believed to be the first track to use a legally cleared Pink Floyd sample, its legal status being alluded too in the Eric Prydz vs Floyd artist credit. It’s the long-awaited follow-up to Swede Prydz’s 2004 hit Call On Me, which successfully transformed a sample from the 1987 Steve Winwood hit Valerie into a number one club and sales hit. Although Proper Education had an easy victory on the Upfront Club Chart, where it powered 23.7% ahead of runner-up Shanie’s Don’t Give Me Your Life, it falls just short of making it a double, finishing second on the Commerical Pop Chart behind Girls Aloud’s latest smash. It’s the first time that the Upfront and Commerical Pop Charts have had a different number one for four weeks. Queen vs Miami Project, Sharam and the Freemasons have all enjoyed twin toppers in the interim. I Think We’re Alone Now – a version of the Tommy James & The Shondells hit best known here for Tiffany’s 1988 cover – arrives at the Commerical Pop Chart summit only nine weeks after Girls Aloud’s last single, Something Kinda Ooooh. It continues their magnificent run on the chart, where they have had seven number ones, and 12 consecutive top three hits – if we overlook the odd Girls On 45/Stars On 45 mash-up which was serviced in very limited quantities to promote their Greatest Hits album and reached number 23 six weeks ago. Before I Think We’re Alone Now, they topped with No Good Advice, Jump, The Show, Love Machine, Biology and Something Kinda Ooooh. On the Urban Chart, Jay-Z’s Show Me What You Got increases its support for the sixth week in a row and moves 2-1, ending the two-week reign of Akon & Eminem’s Smack That, which slips to number three. Completing an all hip-hop top three, That’s That by Snoop Dogg & R. Kelly jumps 5-2, pulling up just 2% short of the summit.
Create an account or sign in to comment