Upcoming British indie duo The Ting Tings have stormed into the UK chart at No.1 this week, buoyed by a simultaneous release of the physical and digital versions of the song. Rihanna, who smashed into the top spot at No.1 almost exactly a year ago with the mega hit Umbrella, goes a place lower this time around and is in at No.2 with her new single Take A Bow.

 

The Ting Tings are a hotly tipped indie-pop duo consisting of Jules De Martino and lead singer Katie White. The duo, who hail from Manchester, were cruelly denied their first UK chart hit earlier in the year when Great DJ was disqualified for having been previously given away for free. It had sold enough copies to be a top twenty hit. Therefore, That’s Not My Name, their infectious new single, is there first UK chart hit and a perhaps rather unexpected No.1 single. The pair are making waves in the US where their song Shut Up & Let Me Go is being used in the new iPod advert there. It is the fifth UK number one single of the year following Basshunter, Duffy, Estelle feat Kanye West and Madonna feat Justin Timberlake.

 

Coming in at No.2, and marking the first time that both songs in the top two have been brand new entries since 2006, is Rihanna’s Take A Bow. The singer, from Barbados, has had incredible chart success worldwide since 2005 when her debut single Pon De Replay debuted and peaked at No.2 in the UK. She had further No.2 hits with S.O.S and Unfaithful before Umbrella finally gave her a UK chart topper, spending an unforgettable ten weeks at No.1 throughout last year’s wet summer. Shut Up & Drive and Don’t Stop The Music also reached the top five in the UK while Hate That I Love You reached the top twenty. All of those singles were from her first No.1 album, Good Girl Gone Bad, and the ballad Take A Bow is from the re-release of that album, which is due out next month. The single has debuted at No.2 on downloads alone, making Rihanna the first artist ever to achieve two top three download only debuts. The single is out physically next week and should climb to No.1 in seven days time.

 

After four weeks in pole position then, Madonna and Justin Timberlake fall two places to No.3 with 4 Minutes, which has joined Into The Groove and Vogue as one of her longest running No.1 singles in the UK. The song has sold over a quarter of a million copies in the UK and is her biggest selling single since 2005’s Hung Up, which has now passed half a million sales. Staying at No.4 for a second week having spent the two prior weeks at No.8 is Heartbreaker by Will.I.Am and Cheryl Cole. Rapper and producer Wiley’s Wearing My Rolex, last week’s No.2 single, is down three places to No.5 this week having moved 4-3-2-5 to date.

 

Australian Sam Sparro’s own former No.2 single Black & Gold slides three places to No.6 this week on its eighth week in the top ten. In the last eight weeks it has moved 4-4-2-3-2-2-3-6 raking up sales of over 200,000 copies so far. US singer Usher slides two places to No.7 with his comeback single Love In This Club while Coldplay’s comeback single Violet Hill stays put at No.8 this week. It looks for the moment unlikely to go higher with no physical release or music video to boost it. The British rock quintet, arguably the biggest band to emerge in the UK this decade, release their eagerly anticipated new album, Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, on June 12th, and it is expected to go in at No.1 in the UK despite the fact that its Thursday release will mean that it only has three days of sales that will count towards the chart on Sunday.

 

Estelle and Kanye West’s former No.1 American Boy is on its way down again this week, falling three places to No.9. Swedish singer September rounds off the top ten with the former No.5 single Cry For You which also slides three places to No.10 having moved 9-5-5-6-7-10 so far. The third top five hit this year for Hard2Beat Records, Cry For You has spent six weeks in the UK top ten now and even peaked a place higher than it did in September’s native Sweden. This week’s top ten therefore features two American acts, three British acts, an Australian, a Barbadian, a Swede and rather oddly, two British/American collaborations.

 

There is plenty of action happening outside this week’s top ten with Duffy climbing four places to No.13 with her third UK single, Warwick Avenue. The ballad, which is as far removed from Mercy as you could probably get, is due out on physical formats on May 26th meaning that it has a week left on downloads. It should easily reach the top ten on downloads next week though and become the second big hit for the rising Welsh star. Mercy is making its presence felt across the world currently and the former UK No.1 single is the biggest seller of 2008 here. British indie band The Pigeon Detectives soar ten places to No.14 with new single This Is An Emergency following its physical release. They still seem to be unable to reach the UK top ten though and this is their fourth single to stall in the lower reaches of the top twenty. Its parent album, and the band’s second album to date, is called Emergency and is due out on May 26th.

 

Nelly and Fergie’s Party People spends its last week as a download only track and is up three places to No.16 this week. It will be lucky to scrape into the top ten next week though and it looks like it may well have to settle for just missing out on it in seven days time. Australian soul singer Gabriella Cilmi seems to be heading back in the right direction with the mega hit in waiting, Sweet About Me. Having fallen from No.20 to No.23 last week, the former Australian No.1 single reaches a new peak in the UK this week, inching up four places to No.19. The song has been re-added to the Radio 1 Playlist this week which will hopefully help its cause. As a result of this, the CD single is being re-issued on June 2nd meaning that Gabriella’s next single, Save The Lies, has been delayed until August.

 

Californian singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles is also making a promising leap this week, climbing seven places from No.30 to No.23. The song, which was a No.4 hit in the US earlier in the year and has sold well over two million copies there, is due for physical release here on June 2nd. Fellow US singer Ashlee Simpson’s new single, Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya), makes a promising leap up the chart climbing ten places to a new peak of No.26, still on download sales alone with the physical versions released on Monday. One of Ashlee’s songwriters, Santogold, makes a similarly promising leap upwards with her current single LES Artistes. The song scraped into the top forty at No.37 last week after its physical release but has continued to grow on download sites and finds itself ten places higher at No.27 this week.

 

British rapper and producer Taio Cruz scored by far his biggest UK hit earlier in the year when Come On Girl, his duet with Luciana, reached the top five. The follow up I Can Be, also taken from his current album Departure, is a more inspiring affair, and is an uplifting mid-tempo pop/R&B track on which Taio is singing rather than rapping. I Can Be enters the top forty for the first time this week, climbing from No.54 to No.30. There is a case of an old single going back up at No.32 as US rock band OneRepublic’s former top five hit Stop & Stare jumps back up three places. Meanwhile, emerging British rock act Royworld score their first ever chart hit this week as Dust goes straight in at No.35 on downloads alone. The quartet, who formed in London in 2006, release their debut album Man In The Machine on June 2nd while Dust is released physically on Monday.

 

US rapper Lil’ Wayne has the next new entry to the top forty at No.39. Lollipop has already been a US No.1 a few weeks ago and the track, which is charting on downloads alone currently, looks set to follow in the footsteps of Soulja Boy and Flo Rida to become a massive hit here in the coming months. The final new entry to the top forty this week is Beat It by American alternative rock group Fall Out Boy at No.40. The song is of course a cover of the huge hit by Michael Jackson. The track is a one off by the band, not part of any album but to promote the release of their new live CD and DVD collection Live In Phoenix. The download only track almost made the top forty a few weeks ago but finally arrives now thanks to the increased exposure of the track following the addition of the music video to most TV channels in recent days. Fall Out Boy’s biggest UK hit was last year’s No.2 single This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race.

 

The album chart this week is topped by a new entry from veteran American singer Neil Diamond. Home Before Dark is straight in at No.1 this week. His last UK No.1 album in the UK was his 1992 Greatest Hits collection while this album is his first ever US chart topper this week. Australian drum & bass act Pendulum follow the success of their top ten single Propane Nightmares with a No.2 album In Silico this week. It is in fact their first top forty album in the UK. Jumping All Over The World, last week’s surprise chart topper from Scooter falls two places to No.3 this week while Duffy’s Rockferry is down a place to No.4 ahead of Madonna’s Hard Candy which is down a further three places to No.5. Jay Sean’s second album In My Own Way debuts at No.6 this week while Scouting For Girls eponymous debut album stays at No.7. Gabriella Cilmi climbs to a new peak of No.8 with Lessons To Be Learned while The Very Best Of by The Platters slides a place to No.9 this week. US legend Frank Sinatra rounds off the top ten with a hits collection called Nothing But The Best, which debuts at No.10 this week.

 

Next week Rihanna is expected to climb a place to No.1 with Take A Bow which has been close to The Ting Tings all week despite being out on downloads only so far. Its physical release on Monday should lift it a place higher in seven days time, though in this recently very static UK chart, don’t be surprised if The Ting Tings stay put next week. Other singles released physically on Monday that should have some sort of impact on the top forty are due from Andy Abraham, Ashlee Simpson, Gusto, Nelly feat Fergie, Royworld and Sandi Thom. Neil Diamond looks unlikely to have a second week atop the album chart with The Ting Tings’ debut album We Started Nothing an almost guaranteed chart topper this time next week.

Oh i don't like it like this! Never mind, i know a lot of people do.

 

 

But nice commentary as you always. :D

Great Read! Although i preferred the other layout (:() I understand why its like this :) Great read though and very interesting points in there! :) Where do you think Andy Abraham will chart :heehee:

Oh i don't like it like this! Never mind, i know a lot of people do.

But nice commentary as you always. :D

 

sorry :o I don't have time to do it the other way really, it required far more research and I've been at work for ten hours today! anyway, it was very hard to come up with enough interesting information to fill a paragraph on every song that was in the top ten...the amount of times I must have said the same old thing about Flo Rida and T-Pain was getting beyond a joke :P

Great Read! Although i preferred the other layout (:() I understand why its like this :) Great read though and very interesting points in there! :) Where do you think Andy Abraham will chart :heehee:

 

cheers John, shame you're not as keen on the layout...glad you like the commentrary though :D

 

I'm guessing low top 20 for Andy, but I wouldn't be surprised if it goes low top 40...

sorry :o I don't have time to do it the other way really, it required far more research and I've been at work for ten hours today! anyway, it was very hard to come up with enough interesting information to fill a paragraph on every song that was in the top ten...the amount of times I must have said the same old thing about Flo Rida and T-Pain was getting beyond a joke :P

Its ok im not having a go at you ;) . I know we all have lives (well apart from Shameless :P ), and the commentary is still great this way

Its ok im not having a go at you ;) . I know we all have lives (well apart from Shameless :P ), and the commentary is still great this way

 

lol :P my posting will be severely curtailed now :( probably go back to 150 posts a week, I had been getting up to 300 recently with no job! glad you still like the commentary

Gooddelta, '4 Minutes' is the 3rd Madonna No.1 to spend 4 Weeks at

that Position, in the UK.

 

1) Into The Groove - 1985 (You missed this one).

2) Vogue - 1990

3) 4 Minutes - 2008

Edited May 18, 200817 yr by zeus555

Gooddelta, '4 Minutes' is the 3rd Madonna No.1 to spend 4 Weeks at

that Position, in the UK.

 

1) Into The Groove - 1985 (You missed this one).

2) Vogue - 1990

3) 4 Minutes - 2008

 

thanks for that Zeus! I didn't research that properly did I! corrected in the main commentary :D