Kanye West scores second week at the top in urban dominated top 5

 

Kanye West has spent a second week at the top of the UK charts with the Daft Punk sampling ‘Stronger’. The highest new entry this week goes to fellow American Sean Kingston, whose debut single ‘Beautiful Girls’ which is based on ‘Lean On Me’ by Ben E King, enters at No.2. The 17 year old has already been No.1 in America for 4 weeks with the infectious R & B song. Kingston was No.1 on iTunes for the majority of the week and the No.1 download but Kanye West’s CD sales helped him to No.1 for a second week.

 

Robyn’s ‘With Every Heartbeat’ falls a place to No.3 on its 4th week in the top 5 while her album climbs a place to a new peak of No.19. Timbaland’s ‘The Way I Are’ is down a place to No.4 after 8 weeks in the top 10 while Gym Class Heroes climb three places to No.5 after the physical release of ‘Clothes Off’ which is based on the Jermaine Stewart song ‘We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off’ from the 80’s. Gym Class Heroes No.5 hit mean that urban music from the US takes 80% of the top 5 this week. Its back to the US for No.6 and a slight blip for Plain White T’s whose ‘Hey There Delilah’ is down from No.5. The physical is out this week and should see the band climb back into the top 5. Hard-Fi score their biggest ever hit with ‘Suburban Knights’ which is up to No.7 while Kate Nash is down to No.8 after 9 weeks in the top 10 with ‘Foundations’. Fergie slides two places with ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’ and 50 Cent rounds off the top 10 with ‘Ayo Technology’ which shoots up from No.23.

 

There are 7 further new entries in the top 40 this week. Elvis Presley continues his series of re-releases as two singles join the top 20 this week; ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ at No.13 and ‘My Baby Left Me’ at No.19 which is not officially part of the box set and is available from Memphis as opposed to RCA. Freaks enter the top 40 at No.21 with the electro dance anthem, ‘The Creeps’ which is not related to the Camille Jones top 10 hit from earlier this year. Freaks are expected to climb into the top 10 next week. Kaiser Chiefs debut at No.22 with ‘The Angry Mob’ while Kano and Craig David are in at No.24 with ‘This Is The Girl’ which I can’t help thinking sounds like ‘Dayz Like That’, a top 20 hit for Fierce in 1999. Linkin Park and Maximo Park enter within two spots of each other at No.29 and No.31 with ‘Bleed It Out’ and ‘Girls Who Play Guitars’. As for the songs that aren’t out on CD single yet in the top 40 KT Tunstall worryingly falls to No.39, Foo Fighters stay at No.28 and Rihanna is down to No.17 with ‘Shut Up And Drive’. A physical release gives Eve a top 20 hit with ‘Tambourine’ up to No.18.

 

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Sean Kingston is expected to take the No.1 spot from Kanye next week with the physical release of ‘Beautiful Girls’ while Plain White T’s should move back up. Rihanna, Freaks and KT Tunstall are also out tomorrow with the first two aiming to make the top 10 while KT looks lucky to go top 20 with ‘Hold On’.

 

The album chart sees a new No.1 from British singer Newton Faulkner who climbs from No.3 to see of Elvis while Amy Winehouse returns to the top 3 with ‘Back To Black’. The top 75 is full of new entries but only 3 reach the top 20. Former Longpigs singer Richard Hawley is in at No.6, American Idol singer Chris Daughtry’s band Daughtry debut at No.13 while former Savage Garden singer Darren Hayes new album is in at No.14.

 

Star Profile: Sean Kingston

 

Kisean Anderson (born February 3, 1990 in Miami, Florida) known by his stage name Sean Kingston, is a Jamaican-American emerging reggae, rap and pop hybrid musician.

 

Kingston, through a unique venture between Epic Records and Koch Records, released the single, "Beautiful Girls," in summer 2007. A single based on the exact bass line, and some lyrical "association" of the 1967 hit (and later a hit when re-released in 1986) "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King. Kingston's latest single, "Me Love" stays in the same musical "association" vein, and its chorus samples Led Zeppelin's "D'Yer Mak'er."

 

Kingston also has a "street single", entitled "Colours", which features The Game, along with a fellow Miami native, Rick Ross. The remix features Kardinal Offishall and Vybz Kartel. Many of the lyrics on 'Colours' are based on his experience seeing his mother and sister incarcerated. He regrets the circumstances they created that put them in prison but admits it has made the family stronger and made him a better person. Andre 3000 and Amy Winehouse are few that have said that they want to make a verse or a remix of the song "Beautiful Girls".

 

Sean Kingston is known for switching between an Urban-American dialect and a Jamaican patois in his music.

 

Bio: Wikipedia

Excellent commentary, Rich. Just a small point - Sean Kingston samples Stand My Me, not Lean On Me.

Excellent commentary, Rich. Just a small point - Sean Kingston samples Stand My Me, not Lean On Me.

 

Lean on Me was Bill Withers wasnt it????

 

(I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know) :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

 

Excellently written added it to the front page already.

Excellent commentary, Rich. Just a small point - Sean Kingston samples Stand My Me, not Lean On Me.

 

:lol: My mistake :naughty:

Stand by me was a hit in 1961, not 1967.

 

I've just changed the date in Wikipedia. Just goes to show you can't trust it!

Edited August 27, 200717 yr by 45cat