Posted June 15, 200817 yr British dance act Mint Royale’s 2005 single Singin’ In The Rain clocks up a second week atop the UK singles chart this week, ahead of a non-mover from Rihanna at No.2, and Ne-Yo who moves up to No.3. After just three days on sale, Coldplay’s fourth studio album Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends, has debuted at No.1, knocking off Paul Weller’s 22 Dreams. Singin’ In The Rain soared to No.1 from No.28 last week and this week it stays at No.1, having been widely expected to swiftly leave the top spot. It is the second dance No.1 of the year, following Basshunter’s Now You’re Gone, which spent five weeks at the top at the start of the year. With the initial Britain’s Got Talent hype over, it looks as if the song is picking up sales on its own merit now, with appearances on some TV music video channels, even though radio stations are still largely snubbing the track. Rihanna’s Take A Bow spends its fifth consecutive week in the top five, moving 2-1-1-2-2 in the five weeks since its download release. Rihanna’s next single, Rehab, is due out in August, while other countries are expected to get the new track Disturbia, which many fans feel would be a far stronger single choice and a potential future UK No.1 single. Rihanna’s former duet partner Ne-Yo returns to the UK top three for the first time since his debut single So Sick reached No.1 back in 2006. Closer climbs two places to No.3 on its sixth week inside the UK chart, having moved 22-24-12-7-5-3 so far. With the physical single due for release on June 23rd, the song could well still have a shot at the No.1 spot in the next couple of weeks. The Ting Tings slide just a place to No.4 with the former No.1 single That’s Not My Name this week. The song, which has moved 1-2-2-3-4 so far, was welcomed by the current UK Big Brother housemates recently when it was blasted out over speakers in the house after days of no music in the house. Sara Bareilles is the third American artist in the UK top five this week. The singer-songwriter from California jumped into the top ten last week for the first time and this week moves up a further place to No.5. The song has had huge support from commercial radio as well as Radio 1 and Radio 2 and although Sara has all the hallmarks of a one hit wonder, she will aim to at least score a hit album from her fifteen minutes of fame. Little Voice is released on Monday in the UK and has already been a top ten success in the US. Whether the album can spawn anymore hit singles remains to be seen; Love Song came about after Sara’s record label asked her to ‘write a hit’ as there were thought to be no potential singles on Little Voice at the time. Australian singer Gabriella Cilmi refuses to stop peaking. Her debut Xenomania produced single, Sweet About Me, jumps another place to No.6 this week. The song has now been inside the UK top 75 for fifteen weeks and could still yet make the top five in the coming weeks. Gabriella’s next single Save The Lies is still due for release in August, although any prolonged success of this single may push that back further. Duffy’s former No.3 hit Warwick Avenue slides a further three places to No.7 this week while Chris Brown’s Forever is up three places to No.8, moving 17-11-8 in its first three chart weeks. No.8 is the same position that Chris’ former single With You reached after its full release. Forever is due out physically on Monday so could potentially climb to another new peak next week. Impressively, Chris has three songs in the UK top forty this week. Forever and With You are joined by a new entry, which I will discuss later on. The top ten is completed by two non-movers. Australian pop singer Sam Sparro stays at No.9 with the silver selling former No.2 single Black & Gold while Heartbreaker by rapper Will.I.Am and Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Cole sticks at No.10. Cheryl has been in the news this week as she is the confirmed replacement for Sharon Osbourne as the new judge on X Factor. With such success away from Girls Aloud for Cheryl, many analysts are predicting that this could be the beginning of the end for the hugely popular girl group. In a slow moving top ten, just like last week American artists and British artists account for three and a half spots each in the top ten this week, while there is also one Barbadian and two Australian acts. Few future hits are making waves outside the top ten this week with the only excitement being Coldplay back up two places to No.12 with current download only single Violet Hill. Madonna’s 4 Minutes is the only song leaving the top ten this week, falling to No.11 having swapped places with Chris Brown, while the only other action in the top twenty comes courtesy of Alex Gaudino. Just after a year since the No.4 success of Alex’s single Destination Calabria, the Italian DJ’s new single Watch Out, which features the vocals of popular session singer Shena, climbs nine places to No.16 following its physical release. It is unlikely to go any higher and certainly won’t go as high as some of the more successful singles that Shena has featured on; the 2004 No.7 hit The Weekend by Michael Gray and the 1996 No.4 hit There’s Nothing I Won’t Do by JX being two of the most memorable. American rock act Fall Out Boy continue to move in the right direction with Beat It. A non-album, download only Michael Jackson cover, released to coincide with their Live In Phoenix DVD, the song has so far moved 40-31-30-27-21 in its five weeks inside the top forty, and could yet go further having recently reached the top ten on iTunes for the first time. American Idol season six winner Jordin Sparks’ debut single Tattoo was a download only release in the UK which reached No.50 here in April. No Air, Jordin’s second UK single, and a duet with fellow American singer Chris Brown, also made a brief appearance at No.58 in the UK charts in April thanks to an American Idol live performance. Now heading for a full physical release, Jordin follows in the footsteps of Kelly Clarkson to become the second American Idol winner to reach the top forty in the UK. No Air is new to the top forty at No.22 this week, although it made its top 75 re-entry at No.74 last week. Bucking the expected trend, British indie act Mystery Jets manage a four place climb to a new peak of No.24 with current single Two Doors Down this week despite having been physically released last week. It is now their first single to ever clock up more than a week in the top forty, although 2006’s The Boy Who Ran Away reached a slightly higher peak of No.23. Feeder are back at No.25 with new single We Are The People. Clearly being affected by a lack of downloads despite more impressive physical sales, like many indie bands are in 2008, it is the lowest position a lead single has arrived at for the band since 1999’s Day In Day Out entered at No.31. The British group have had a string of hits during this decade, the biggest being the iconic 2001 single Buck Rogers, which peaked at No.5. Just A Day from the same year is also highly regarded as a rock classic despite only peaking at No.12. The band should score their sixth consecutive UK top ten album when Silent Cry is released on Monday, their first new studio album since 2005’s Pushing The Senses although a successful singles was released collection in 2006. Both of those albums peaked at No.2 in the UK. German dance act Scooter jump eight places to No.28 this week with the title track of their surprise No.1 album Jumping All Over The World. The bouncy single follows the rap/high pitched chorus formula that has worked with the majority of their other singles, and this is their most successful UK release since 2003’s Maria (I Like It Loud). If anything though, it proves that their record label All Around The World, have little success with singles now and much more success with album releases, such as those from Scooter, Cascada, Ultrabeat and the Clubland compilation series. Happy hardcore producer and singer Darren Styles releases his debut album Sky Diving on the label on Monday so do not be too surprised if it finds itself in an unexpectedly high chart position in seven days time. It seems that successful dance albums may soon become the norm rather than the exception. Nickelback’s Rockstar finds itself back up two places at No.31 this week. The former No.2 single has sold over 450,000 copies in the UK so far, and the follow up single Photograph is nearly inside the top forty, climbing ten places to No.42 this week. Photograph was of course the first single from All The Right Reasons back in late 2005 when the song peaked at No.29 originally. There is also relative success for a few other indie and rock singles this week, although all of them would have arguably been a lot higher in the pre-download era. Surprisingly though, it is downloads that have boosted The Fratellis’ Mistress Mabel back up four places to No.34 this week. This pattern of songs stabilising or increasing in sales on the week of an album release is becoming quite common as more and more people are starting to cherry pick selected tracks from new albums rather than buying the album itself now, one of the many reasons for plummeting album sales recently. American indie act We Are Scientists are in at No.37 with Chick Lit while Leeds rock band The Music are in at No.38 with new single Strength In Numbers. Sandwiched between these three indie/rock hits is Madonna’s Give It 2 Me. The second single to be taken from the queen of pop’s latest album Hard Candy, it is more dance orientated than 4 Minutes and makes an impressive jump from No.80 to No.36, and into the top forty for the first time. The song was produced by NERD/Neptunes member Pharrell Williams, who also contributes vocals to the track and it is almost certain to become another top ten hit for Madge in the coming weeks. The final new entry inside the top forty is in fact a three place climb for Elevator, the new single from US rapper Flo Rida. The single features Timbaland, and is not too dissimilar to Madonna’s 4 Minutes in its sound. Interestingly, Flo Rida’s debut UK single Low, which eventually peaked at No.2, also made its top forty entry at No.40. It is unlikely that this one will go as high as the top ten but it has a couple more weeks to make an impact; the physical single is released on June 23rd. Having been on sale only since Thursday, Coldplay have stormed to the top of the UK album chart this week with hugely anticipated new release Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends. It is the band’s fourth UK chart topper following Parachutes, A Rush Of Blood To The Head and X & Y, all of which sold over two million copies each in the UK. If not for Coldplay’s bought forward release, Neil Diamond would have returned to No.1. Home Before Dark nevertheless continues its impressive success, climbing back to No.2 this week and swapping places with Duffy’s Rockferry which is back down to No.3. Paul Weller slides to No.4 with last week’s chart topper 22 Dreams while The Fratellis debut at No.5 with second album Here We Stand, the follow up to their hugely successful 2006 debut, Costello Music. Radiohead are down to No.6 with their Best Of, Neil Diamond’s Best Of stays at No.7 while Usher’s Here I Stand is down to No.8. Scooter’s former No.1 album Jumping All Over The World stays at No.9 this week whilst heavy TV advertising has pushed Austria’s Cistercian Monks back into the top ten at No.10. Next week Mint Royale will aim to spend a third week in control with Singin’ In The Rain with the nearest contender for the No.1 single looking to be Ne-Yo’s Closer. Coldplay’s Viva La Vida could have been inside the top three in seven days time but is still disqualified from the UK charts and is therefore unlikely to appear next week, despite being a No.2 hit in the US currently. Gabriella Cilmi and Sara Bareilles should also stay in the upper reaches with their current singles. Notable physical releases are due from Billiam, Cage The Elephant, Chris Brown, Jonas Brothers, N-Force vs. Darren Styles, Panic At The Disco and Potbelleez, at least some of which should make the top forty next week. Coldplay should become the first act since Duffy to spend longer than a week at No.1 in the album chart while new entries in the album chart should come from Feeder, Dennis Wilson, Fleet Foxes, Sara Bareilles, The Music, Weezer, Offspring, UB40 and Darren styles amongst others.
June 15, 200817 yr I had no idea Shena was the vocalist on the JX record, now that is a tune!!!! Very good read again!!!!
June 15, 200817 yr Author I had no idea Shena was the vocalist on the JX record, now that is a tune!!!! Very good read again!!!! apparently so :o I've been doing my reseach :P Nothing I Won't Do was definitely one of 1996's best tunes :wub: Special D covered it a few years back but it wasn't quite as good
June 15, 200817 yr Author Very good this week Rich your commentary gets better each week :D thank you Rob :cheer: glad you think so :D
June 16, 200817 yr Author I know, I realised that this morning but forgot to edit it :heehee: will do so now, thank you Trashley :D
June 16, 200817 yr AMAZINg as always and N Force arent released until Next Week now or I will have to give HMV an earful for not shipping out my Copy and writing that the release date is the 23rd on the site :angry:
June 16, 200817 yr Author oh are they not :o I didn't go to any of the shops that sell singles today so I wouldn't know :( not that I need that single anyway as it's on Darren's album (which is unmixed thank god) :wub:
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