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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?

 

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i dont think anyone expected nickelback to be such ahuge hit it was a surprise and for people like me a great surprise

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

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LMAO at that comment made about Leona, how wrong were they? :rofl:
Alot of these songs really dont feel like a year ago to me! time flies

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