Posted October 28, 200816 yr 1 (-) Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love 2 (46) Take That – Rule The World 3 (-) McFly – The Heart Never Lies 4 (1) Sugababes – About You Now 5 (2) Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse - Valerie 6 (3) Britney Spears – Gimme More 7 (6) Timbaland pts OneRepublic - Apologize 8 (8) Freemasons ft Bailey Tzuke - Uninvited 9 (4) Hoosiers – Goodbye Mr A 10 (-) Oasis – Lord Don’t Slow Me Down 11 (5) Ida Corr vs Fedde Le Grand – Let Me Think About It 12 (7) Mika – Happy Ending 13 (10) Shayne Ward – No U Hang Up / If That’s OK With You 14 (9) 50 Cent ft Jusin Timberlake & Timbaland – Ayo Technology 15 (11) Plain White T’s – Hey There Delilah 16 (17) Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight 17 (-) Elvis Presley – If I Can Dream 18 (12) Scouting For Girls – She’s So Lovely 19 (14) Sean Kingston – Beautiful Girls 20 (18) Timbaland ft Keri Hilson – The Way I Are 21 (23) Fergie – Big Girls Don’t Cry 22 (15) Wombats – Let’s Dance To Joy Division 23 (21) Orson – Ain’t No Party 24 (-) Backstreet Boys - Inconsolable 25 (29) Rihanna ft Ne-Yo – Hate That I Love You 26 (-) N-Dubz – You Better Not Waste My Time 27 (25) Rihanna – Shut Up And Drive 28 (27) Foo Fighters – The Pretender 29 (-) Samim - Heater 30 (20) Jennifer Lopez – Do It Well 31 (24) James Blunt - 1973 32 (26) Kanye West - Stronger 33 (36) Rihanna ft Jay-Z - Umbrella 34 (37) Hoosiers – Worried About Ray 35 (28) Akon – Sorry Blame It On Me 36 (19) Feist – 1,2,3,4 37 (31) Stereophonics – It Means Nothing 38 (33) Kanye West ft T-Pain – Good Life 39 (34) Nicole Scherzinger – Baby Love 40 (-) Chris Brown ft T-Pain – Kiss Kiss 41 (43) 30 Seconds To Mars – The Kill (Rebirth) 43 (-) Robyn – Handle Me 44 (-) Courteeners – Acrylic 46 (-) Leona Lewis – Forgiveness 47 (49) Newton Faulkner – Dream Catch Me 49 (51) Avril Lavigne – Hot 50 (57) Chamillionaire ft Slick Rick – Hip Hop Police 55 (re) Leona Lewis – A Moment Like This 58 (64) Nickelback – Rockstar 59 (-) Newton Faulkner – All I Got 63 (73) Take That – Shine 64 (re) Take That – Patience 65 (-) Mutya Buena – Just A Little Bit 68 (71) Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars 69 (-) Andrea Bocelli – Con Te Partiro 71 (-) Sean Kingston – Me Love 74 (-) Sex Pistols – Holidays In The Sun The big story of this week was the huge sales – Leona Lewis sold 218805 copies (the biggest one-week sale for any record since some woman called Leona Lewis sold 571253 copies of A Moment Like This in December 2006). Bleeding Love would go on to outsell A Moment Like This (unusually for a reality act), and would be the biggest selling single of 2007. Take That sold 97832 copies at #2 – a figure which would have been enough for #1 on 41 of the previous 42 weeks. This figure was also more than either Patience or Shine ever managed in a single week. It was in fact the first time since 1992 that they had missed #1 with a track not already available on an album. McFly sold 39737 copies at #3 – more than their previous hit Baby’s Coming Back / Transylvania had sold to enter at #1 earlier in the year (30693). The top 3 were in fact the same 3 artists (in the same order!) that comprised the top 3 for 2006’s Christmas chart. Gimme More was the first high-profile song to fall on its week of physical release (albeit increasing its sales). Uninvited was also physically released. #10 was only the second record to reach the top 10 without ever receiving a physical release (the first was Nelly Furtado – Say It Right). #17 was the joint lowest-charting of the string of Elvis re-issues that entered the chart in the final few months of 2007 (not counting My Baby Left Me which was not part of the series). #29 was an instrumental that was described as ‘the soundtrack to Vernon Kay’s weekend’ – a title that was then given to Steve Mac – Paddy’s Revenge (another instrumental). This was amazingly the first week that Umbrella climbed (it was its 24th week on the chart)! #40 would peak at #38 in 2 weeks’ time, and get to #39 a few weeks ago when re-issued (on physical as well this time). Chris Brown is also new at #40 this week! #46 was the B-side to the #1. #71 had a strange chart run – it peaked at #32 in its 6th of 7 weeks in the top 75. #74 was the 4th Sex Pistols re-issue to chart in as many weeks. Looking back at this chart, on one website I discovered this amusing comment about Leona Lewis that was made at the time: She's left it too late to capitalise on her X-Factor success now that the new contest is underway. She says she's spent months in America recording her album with "top producers" but over 10 months after winning the contest, will enough people care? And finally – who honestly predicted how big the song at #58 (in its 2nd week in the top 75) would go on to become?
October 28, 200816 yr i dont think anyone expected nickelback to be such ahuge hit it was a surprise and for people like me a great surprise
October 29, 200816 yr I knew Rockstar would rise after christmas into the top 10, i didn't think it would hang around for so long and become a national "craze" 1 (-) Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love 2 (46) Take That – Rule The World 23 (21) Orson – Ain’t No Party 29 (-) Samim - Heater 38 (33) Kanye West ft T-Pain – Good Life 39 (34) Nicole Scherzinger – Baby Love 40 (-) Chris Brown ft T-Pain – Kiss Kiss 41 (43) 30 Seconds To Mars – The Kill (Rebirth) 43 (-) Robyn – Handle Me :wub:
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