This time last year...

Posted April 11, 200817 yr

W/E 14/04/2007

1 (1) Proclaimers ft Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin – (I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles

2 (2) Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend

3 (3) Gwen Stefani ft Akon – The Sweet Escape

4 (5) Fray – How To Save A Life

5 (4) Alex Gaudino ft Crystal Waters – Destination Calabria

6 (-) Mark Ronson ft Daniel Merriweather – Stop Me

7 (6) Fergie ft Ludacris – Glamorous

8 (-) Timbaland ft Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake – Give It To Me

9 (7) Kaiser Chiefs – Ruby

10 (-) Beyonce & Shakira – Beautiful Liar

11 (-) Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm

12 (10) Mika – Grace Kelly

13 (43) My Chemical Romance – I Don’t Love You

14 (9) Justin Timberlake – What Goes Around … Comes Around

15 (8) Take That – Shine

16 (28) Ciara – Like A Boy

17 (12) Calvin Harris – Acceptable In The 80s

18 (15) Nelly Furtado – Say It Right

19 (11) Camille Jones vs Fedde Le Grand – The Creeps

20 (17) Christina Aguilera – Candyman

21 (-) Erasure – I Could Fall In Love With You

22 (16) P Diddy ft Keyshia Cole – Last Night

23 (13) Seamus Haji ft KayJay – Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

24 (14) Sugababes vs Girls Aloud – Walk This Way

25 (-) Natasha Bedingfield – I Wanna Have Your Babies

26 (19) Maximo Park – Our Velocity

27 (22) Paolo Nutini – New Shoes

28 (34) Just Jack – Starz In Their Eyes

29 (21) Kelis ft Cee-Lo – Lil Star

30 (20) Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control

31 (26) Take That – Patience

32 (25) Akon ft Snoop Dogg – I Wanna Love You

33 (-) Little Man Tate – This Must Be Love

34 (-) Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Thou Shalt Always Kill

35 (-) Ne-Yo – Because Of You

36 (27) Cascada – Miracle

37 (18) Kings Of Leon – On Call

38 (48) Mika – Love Today

39 (-) Linkin Park – What I’ve Done

40 (31) Omarion – Ice Box

41 (-) Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs

45 (-) Akon – Don’t Matter

46 (-) De Souza ft Shena – Guilty

51 (-) The Good, The Bad & The Queen – Green Fields

56 (re) Arcade Fire – Keep The Car Running

57 (-) Bright Eyes – Four Winds

69 (74) Beyonce – Irreplaceable

70 (75) My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade

71 (re) Cascada – Truly Madly Deeply

73 (-) Amy Winehouse – Back To Black

74 (-) Bloc Party – I Still Remember

75 (-) Just Jack – Glory Days

A story of two halves inside the top 10 – little change in the top 5, but a lot of new entries just below. The 4 highest new entries would all reach the top 2 before the end of April.

Girlfriend was the first song to get to #2 just on downloads and then miss #1 when physically released (Adele – Chasing Pavements has done it since).

The Fray finally reached a new peak of #4 in their 12th week on the chart, having previously spent a total of 5 weeks at #5.

The following week would see the same 10 songs in the top 10 – but in a totally different order (Mark Ronson, Timbaland & Beyonce would all climb, and everybody else would fall). Arctic Monkeys were also a non-mover at #11 the following week. Proclaimers would fall to #4 (but stay #1 on the physical chart).

9 of the 12 new entries in the top 40 (all bar My Chemical Romance, Erasure, and Little Man Tate) were charting just on downloads – although Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip did not get any higher than #34 (it moved 34-46-41-68).

I Don’t Love You was the lowest charting of the 4 singles from their Black Parade album – but it still charted higher than any of the singles from their previous album (4 of which reached the top 30).

The 3 lowest new entries to the top 40 (Ne-Yo, Mika and Linkin Park) would all reach #6 on their first week of physicals (although Ne-Yo did climb to #4 afterwards).

Thnks Fr Th Mmrs was (I believe) only the second chart hit with a title in text-speak (the other being Pts.Of.Athrty by Linkin Park).

Amy Winehouse – Back To Black would break the record for “Most Weeks In The Top 75 Without Reaching The Top 20”, managing 34 weeks in all (it did in fact visit the top 30 on 3 occasions) without exceeding #25.