American female singer Katy Perry has stayed at the top of the UK chart for a second week with I Kissed A Girl, the former US No.1. Kid Rock’s seasonal anthem All Summer Long is also a non-mover at No.2 ahead of The Script, who climb back up to their previous peak of No.3 with The Man Who Can’t Be Moved. Their debut self titled album goes straight in at the top of the album chart this week.

 

Despite finally leaving the No.1 spot in her home country this week, Katy Perry is going from strength to strength in the UK with I Kissed A Girl. The song, which she wrote with Cathy Dennis, Dr Luke and Max Martin, looks set to spend the majority of the summer at the top of the UK chart and bodes well for the upcoming release of her debut album One Of The Boys. American rock singer Kid Rock stays at No.2 with All Summer Long, a former No.1, which is still picking up increasing airplay support and looks almost certain to spend the rest of the year in the UK top forty and become a future karaoke classic. Irish band The Script have had an excellent week, with their album debuting at No.1 and their current single, The Man Who Can’t Be Moved, climbing back up a place to No.3. It has had the chart run 30-3-4-3 in its first four weeks inside the top forty.

 

The Verve’s comeback single, Love Is Noise, received its full physical release this week but can only climb a place from its debut position of No.5 last week. A No.4 success for the band then, but it is their eagerly anticipated new album, Forth, which will measure the true success of the comeback, and is expected to go straight in at No.1 at the end of the month after its release on August 25th. Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris round off the top five this week with Dance Wiv Me. The single, which also features guest vocals by Chrome, has been inside the UK top five for seven weeks, the first four of which were at No.1. Rihanna’s Disturbia continues to go from strength to strength. The track, which is now of Radio 1’s A List, follows last week’s surge into the top ten with a further three place climb to No.6. Still a download only release with no physical version as yet planned, it will be interesting to see how much higher the single can go for the Barbadian superstar in the coming weeks.

 

The highest new entry this week goes to Norwegian rap group Madcon. The duo, made up of ‘Kapricon’ and ‘Critical’ were expected to debut high with Beggin’ following the single’s huge success across Europe, where it reached the top ten in Germany, Austria and Turkey, and No.1 in Norway. The song is a cover of the old Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons track, which was re-released last year and reached No.32. Madcon have used the chorus of that song and added their own verses and the result is a No.7 debut with the prospect of going higher in the coming weeks. Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown spend a ninth week in the top ten with No Air, which slides two places to No.8 and Noah & The Whale are down two places to No.9 with 5 Years Time. Coldplay round off the top ten, climbing back up four places to No.10 with the former No.1 single Viva La Vida. Although the track has still received no physical release, it has been Britain’s most played song for a number of weeks and the video is now getting heavy rotation on music channels. Therefore this week’s top ten features three American acts, four Brits, a Barbadian, one Irish act and one Norwegian act.

 

Another Norwegian now, and the rare feat of two acts from the country appearing simultaneously in the top fifteen. Ida Maria has been making slow but steady progress upwards with the anthemic indie-rock anthem I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked. The song, which climbs a further two places this week, has now moved 18-16-15-13 and is by far the biggest hit of her career. Bloc Party join the chart at No.16 this week, with the second highest new entry of the week. Mercury is the first single to be lifted from their forthcoming new album, due out in October. The British indie band, led by Kele Okereke, have had success in the UK for the majority of the latter half of this decade, their highest peaking single being last year’s No.4 hit The Prayer, although the dance orientated No.8 hit Flux, released in late 2007, has been by far their most prolific hit single, and spent ten weeks inside the top forty.

 

Nelly, Akon & Ashanti reached the top forty for the first time last week with their collaboration Body On Me, and all three acts add another notch onto their top twenty belt this week as the single jumps six places to No.17 following its physical release. American R&B/Soul act Little Jackie have the next new entry, and are in at No.26 with The World Should Revolve Around Me. Little Jackie are a duo consisting of DJ and producer Adam Pallin, and soul singer Imani Coppola, best known in the UK for her 1998 top forty hit Legend Of A Cowgirl, and her appearance on Baha Men’s 2001 top twenty hit You All Dat. The World Should Revolve Around Me is released physically on August 25th and is poised to at least become a top twenty hit here, ahead of the early September release of the duo’s debut album The Stoop. Another new R&B song enters at No.27. Solange is the sister of Destiny’s Child singer and superstar Beyoncé Knowles. The 22 year old singer released her debut album Solo Star in the US in 2003, but it did not come out in the UK. I Decided is her first UK hit single and comes from Solange’s upcoming new album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams. Like her sister Beyoncé, and Beyoncé’s band mate Kelly Rowland, Solange’s single has been remixed into a hit by Brighton based dance duo Freemasons, who turned the aforementioned acts’ songs Green Light, Beautiful Liar and Work into huge hit singles.

 

British indie act Keane launched into the UK charts for the first time back in 2004 with the anthemic top ten hits Somewhere Only We Know, Everybody’s Changing and Bedshaped, all of which came from the multi-million selling Hopes & Fears album. The trio mark their return to the UK top forty this week with new single Spiralling. A more upbeat affair than what the band are perhaps best known for, the track was available as a free download up until last Sunday from their official website. Spiralling received its proper digital release on Monday and duly enters the chart at No.28 thanks to downloader’s who were perhaps oblivious to the free giveaway. Dance act Spoon, Harris and Obernik entered the top forty on downloads alone last week and the physical release of their new single Badtitude propels them up a rather lacklustre five places to No.29, a perhaps disappointing position for a song with full A-List support from Radio 1.

 

Taio Cruz has been hugely successful over the last twelve months in the UK, his finest hour arguably coming with Come On Girl, a duet with Luciana which was a top five hit earlier in the year. The British electro-urban singer’s new single She’s Like A Star goes into the top forty for the first time at No.32 this week. It is the fifth top forty single from Taio’s debut album Departure, which has peaked at No.17 so far. The album’s first two singles; I Just Wanna Know and Moving On, reached the UK top thirty whilst Come On Girl’s follow up I Can Be, reached the top twenty in May. Though not on the CD single, there is a remix of She’s Like A Star which features rapper Busta Rhymes and British girl group Sugababes. Finally, there is a re-entry to the top forty at No.33 this week from rising Irish stars The Script. Though at No.1 with their album and No.3 with their current single, their debut single We Cry could only peak at No.15 earlier in the year, despite being tipped for much bigger things, and then plummeted out of the chart very quickly by 2008 standards, moving 30-15-20-33-61, before it re-entered the top seventy-five two weeks ago. With cherry picked downloads from the album now boosting the sales of the single, it looks to pick up sales that it may have missed first time around when the trio were not quickly on their way to becoming a household name.

 

Topping off a brilliant week then, The Script go straight in at No.1 with their debut self titled album, well ahead of nearest challenger’s ABBA, who slide a place to No.2 with Gold – The Greatest Hits, after a couple of weeks at No.1. Duffy’s Rockferry is down a place at No.3 and Coldplay slide a place to No.4 with Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends. London based indie group Noah & The Whale follow their top ten single 5 Years Time with a top five album, Peaceful The World Lays Me Down, which goes straight in at No.5 this week just ahead of Kid Rock who is down two places at No.6 with Rock ‘N’ Roll Jesus. Show singer Jane McDonald, best known previously for her appearance on the 1998 reality TV show The Cruise, and now known as being one of the panel on ITV chat show Loose Women, goes in at No.7 this week with new album Jane. It is the third top ten album for the forty five year old singer from Wakefield, following her 1998 No.1 self titled debut album and her 2000 No.6 album Inspiration. Sharleen Spiteri slides three places with Melody, at No.8 this week and The Ting Tings are also down three with We Started Nothing at No.9. Rihanna rounds off the top ten with the Reloaded edition of Good Girl Gone Bad, which slides a place to No.10 this week.

 

Next week’s chart should see Katy Perry easily keep the top spot with I Kissed A Girl, whilst The Script, Kid Rock, Madcon and Rihanna should keep her company. In a slow physical release week, there are notable new releases from The Automatic, Fratellis, Gabriella Cilmi and Taio Cruz. Little Jackie and Solange could continue to make progress, whilst Alphabeat will be hoping to enter on downloads alone with Boyfriend and Colbie Caillat could finally make waves over here with the worldwide hit Bubbly. In the album chart, The Script should remain at No.1 for a second week ahead of ABBA and Duffy. Notable new releases come from new Damon Albarn side project Monkey, Madcon, Black Stone Cherry, Solange, Dandy Warhols, Olivia Newton-John and New Kids On The Block.

 

Mr Deltz a good read again

merci Rob :D

Legend Of A Cowgirl was a hit in 1998, not 1997.

 

Other than that, a great read as usual!

I never knew Madcon were Norweigian. Great again :cheer:

Brill again Rich! Amazing week for The Script! I think they have done around 40K on album sales :o which is MUCH better than i was anticipating :dance:

Your chart commentaries are an inspiration when I'm writing mine on the Personal Charts forum!

 

Have you spotted a similarity in style? Hope it's not copyright! :o

 

And keep talking up Colbie Caillat's chances, she'll have a big UK hit eventually.

Legend Of A Cowgirl was a hit in 1998, not 1997.

 

Other than that, a great read as usual!

 

so it was, I was looking at the US release of the song...

 

I never knew Madcon were Norweigian. Great again :cheer:

 

indeed they are :D

 

cheers Harve :cheer:

Brill again Rich! Amazing week for The Script! I think they have done around 40K on album sales :o which is MUCH better than i was anticipating :dance:

 

I know, very good week for them, an album release used to affect the single, but now it boosts them up the chart :lol:

Your chart commentaries are an inspiration when I'm writing mine on the Personal Charts forum!

 

Have you spotted a similarity in style? Hope it's not copyright! :o

 

And keep talking up Colbie Caillat's chances, she'll have a big UK hit eventually.

 

that's kind of you to say, I'm flattered :wub: it's not copyright :P

 

I have everything crossed for Colbie but she's started falling back down the iTunes chart now :(

brilliant as usual

 

Thanks, gooddelta

thanks :D