Posted October 21, 200717 yr Britney storms back to the UK charts but Sugababes hold firm at No.1 About You Now has become the biggest ever hit for Sugababes, scoring a 4th consecutive week at No.1 this week. This eclipses the three week stint that Push The Button had exactly two years ago. Their closest rivals throughout the week were Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse’s Zutons cover Valerie. The track spends its 3rd week in the top 10 this week and after its physical release inches up a place to No.2. This is by far Amy’s biggest hit single though Rehab has been a steady seller despite peaking at No.7 late last year and is still in the top 75 now. Mark Ronson emulates his previous peak position; Stop Me got to No.2 in July. US pop star Britney Spears launched onto the music scene in 1999 with the classic single …Baby One More Time which sold 1.5 million copies in the UK alone. Since then she has had a steady run of hits with only two missing the top 10 though many doubted her comeback to be quite as huge as it has been considering how turbulent were well publicised personal life has been over the past 2 and a half years since her last single Do Somethin’ (#6, 2005). Gimme More impressively debuts at No.3 then on downloads alone, matching its US peak. It is fully released next week but will have to work hard to improve on its debuting position with new physical releases from Take That, Leona Lewis and McFly. The Hoosiers jump up a place with new single Goodbye Mr A. This moving up after the physical release is a common occurrence now as downloads now account for the majority of sales and they often take a while to take off as opposed to physicals which take off instantly and then decline. The Hoosiers have now beaten the No.5 peak of Worried About Ray. Rounding off the top 5 is the last record to climb a week after its physical release, Ida Corr and Fedde LeGrand’s club smash Let Me Think About It which falls from No.2 to No.5. Timbaland scores an impressive climb from No.32 to No.6 with the excellent Apologize featuring US rock act One Republic. Its Timbaland’s 3rd top 10 hit this year where he is credited as the main act, the other two being the Silver selling No.1 hits Give It To Me and The Way I Are. Mika climbs to No.7 after the physical release of Happy Ending. Its been an incredible year for Mika who defies the law of diminishing returns with this release, peaking higher than his last single Big Girl. Happy Ending, a gorgeous string laden ballad is perhaps an odd single choice despite being a highlight of the album as download smash Lollipop and European hit Relax Take It Easy could have also been top 10 singles. Freemasons shoot into the top 10 from No.21 to No.8 with Uninvited which becomes their biggest ever hit eclipsing the No.11 peak of 2005’s Love On My Mind. Uninvited is a cover of an unreleased but popular Alanis Morrissette track from the late 1990’s. DHT who scored a top 10 hit in 2005 with Listen To Your Heart also covered the track recently, though Freemasons house reworking arguably suits the song better than DHT’s trance remake. Rounding off the top 10 is 50 Cent’s Ayo Technology which is down two places to No.9 and Shayne Ward’s No U Hang Up/If That’s Ok With You which plummets six places to No.10 on its 4th week in the top 10. Five other songs join the top 40 this week. The Killers are back at No.13 with Tranquilize, a single from their forthcoming rarities collection. As a download only release it was tipped to go into the top 10 but lost a bit of momentum and ends up at No.13, not yet beating Nelly Furtado’s Say It Right which remains the most successful download only release in the UK peaking at No.10 and selling almost 200,000 copies. Elvis Presley hits a new low with Wear My Ring Around Your Neck, the king’s latest re-release which debuts at No.16. The series has had an impressive consistency with all of the singles debuting somewhere between No.11 and No.16 suggesting that around 8,500 people have decided to purchase every single from the collection. Some singles sell slightly more than others and these are perhaps to casual listeners who might like just the one or two singles from the series based on song quality as opposed to aiming to complete a set. US indie-rock act Orson return at No.21 with Ain’t No Party. Perhaps a disappointing position after its physical release, their biggest hit remains, and no doubt forever will be, last year’s No.1 single No Tomorrow. The UK may not have won the Rugby World Cup final for a second successive time but download sales throughout the week have allowed Kenny Rogers’ The Gambler to surge from No.70 to No.22 this week. Next up is Rihanna and Ne-Yo who jump from No.57 to No.29 with Hate That I Love You. It’s the third single from Rihanna’s No.1 album Good Girl Gone Bad, which also spawned the 10 week No.1 Umbrella and top 5 hit Shut Up And Drive, both of which also currently reside in the top 40 this week. Hate That I Love You sounds more like a Ne-Yo record than a Rihanna record in all honesty but fans of both artists will ensure that this is a future hit. There are only 3 other songs in the top 40 making upward progress this week. The now physically released Let’s Dance To Joy Division by The Wombats jumps from No.35 to No.15. There are more modest climbs from Kanye West’s Good Life (#37-#33) and Nicole Scherzinger’s Baby Love (#39-#34). Over in the album chart this week Welsh band Stereophonics make up for the disappointing No.12 peak of It Means Nothing by scoring their 5th No.1 album with Pull The Pin. Sugababes fall to No.2 with last week’s No.1 album Change while Eric Clapton is down a place to No.3. Former No.1 albums from Amy Winehouse and Foo Fighters round off the top 5, both climbing back up a place each. Other new entries in the top 40 this week come from Jools Holland (#9), REM (#12), Paul Anka (#13), Roisin Murphy (#20), Alison Moyet (#21), Jennifer Lopez (#24), Jimmy Eat World (#27) and The Hives (#29). Next week promises to be the most exciting chart battle of the year with a potential 7 way tussle for the top. Backstreet Boys, Chamillionaire, Elvis Presley, Melanie C, N-Dubz, Mutya Buena, Newton Faulkner and Unklejam could all score top 40 hits but they chose the wrong week to release if they are looking for a top 10 entry. Sugababes will hope to score a 5th week at No.1 with the still strong selling About You Now but the girls will have six major challenges to their crown. Oasis embrace the download era with Lord Don’t Slow Me Down, their first download only single while Freemasons and Britney Spears will hope to improve on their current No.8 and No.3 positions when physicals are thrown into the mix. Take That release brand new non-album single Rule The World and will aim for their third No.1 in less than a year while McFly know all about how to bend the rules of the chart to ensure No.1 singles. Will The Heart Never Lies give them an 8th No.1 single next week? X Factor winner Leona Lewis is tipped for the top by many with second single Bleeding Love which is also released physically tomorrow. Who will win this major battle? All will be revealed next week… Related Link: http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=53654
October 22, 200717 yr Author Great report! Good read too. ^_^ Next week is gonna be brilliant :o Cheers I'm looking forward to next week, should have a good report for that one :w00t:
October 22, 200717 yr Your weekly average views for your commentaries on the front page are 17278 for last week, and the odd commentaries over 20000, nicely written Rich And I have re-edited the Push The Button to two years ago.
October 23, 200717 yr Author Cheers Mikey! Thats an incredible figure I had no idea that many people were viewing the commentary :o It takes me sometimes an hour to do that write up so I'm glad quite a few people are reading it!
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