Posted February 2, 200916 yr And we're back! I'm standing in for Davetaylor this week again. It's his birthday so happy 60th Dave (I'm sure he won't mind me saying that!) :birthday: He'll be back for the Almost Saturday Charts, if not before, it depends on his hangover ;) Anyway it's time for the first new chart of the week,where we preview Next Sunday`s Chart. This is the chart everyone's talking about. Thanks as always to Peter Jay, and John McManus. Ta The Albums are based on sales at HMV/TESCO/ASDA/SAINSBURYS/and Downloads. Singles are based on Sales at HMV, and Downloads st iTunes/HMV/7Digital/Tesco Downloads. Both Album, and Singles chart are compiled from Tuesday-Monday and include sales/pre-orders for Monday 19th Jan 2009. The Albums: 01 01 WORKING ON A DREAM - BRUCE 02 04 ONLY BY THE NIGHT - KOL 03 02 TONIGHT - FRANZ 04 05 THE FAME - LADY GAGA 05 07 SONGS FOR YOU TRUTHS FOR ME - JAMES M 06 30 FLEET FOXES SPECIAL ED - FLEET FOXES 07 03 THE SCRIPT 08 09 MOTOWN 50 - VARIOUS 09 08 I AM SASHA FIERCE - BEYONCE 10 NE WHICH BITCH - VIEW 11 13 WE SING WE DANCE WE STEAL THINGS - JASON MRAZ 12 NE COVERS - JAMES TAYLOR 13 10 SOUND OF BASSLINE 2 - VARIOUS 14 17 MAMMA MIA - OST 15 33 ALESHA SHOW - ALESHA DIXON 16 12 ROCKFERRY - DUFFY 17 20 DAY AND AGE - KILLERS 18 26 YEAR OF THE GENTLEMAN - NE-YO 19 15 FUNHOUSE - PINK 20 19 GOLDEN AGE OF - ROGER WHITAKER 21 NE ULTIMATE NRG 4 - VARIOUS 22 18 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD - RIHANNA 23 NE GREATEST HITS - BUDDY HOLLY 24 NE DUETS - PAVAROTTI 25 06 TO LOSE MY LIFE - WHITE LIES 26 14 CHASING LIGHTS - SATURDAYS 27 NE LOVE SONGS - UB40 28 11 ANTHEMS 09 - VARIOUS 29 16 ORACULAR SPECTACULAR - MGMT 30 22 SELDOM SEEN KID - ELBOW 31 32 I STARTED WITH...- SEASICK STEVE 32 23 ANTHEMS 91 - 08 - VARIOUS 33 21 THE CIRCUS - TAKE THAT Outside the 33..in comes TYLER RIX - ASCENT at 34, ANDREW BIRD - NOBLE BEAST, back up for Britney, Mariah Carey`s "Ballads", and Celine Dion "My Love", Other entries from Burt Bacharach, Luther Vandross....all this means VD is around the corner (that`s Valentine`s Day, not Val Doonican, or the other thing)!!! Other Valentine`s comps are: MISSING YOU, JUST GREAT LOVE SONGS, LOVE LIFTS US UP, THATS AMORE, and STEVE WRIGHT`S SUNDAY LOVE SONGS. As SATURDAY NIGHTCLUB CLASSICS enters the combined top 40. The Singles: 01 01 THE FEAR - LILY ALLEN 02 02 JUST DANCE - LADY GAGA 03 03 TAKE ME BACK - TINCHY/TAIO 04 10 BREATHE SLOW - ALESHA 05 05 BROKEN STRINGS - JAMES/NELLY 06 04 DAY N`NITE - KID CUDI 07 06 SINGLE LADIES - BEYONCE 08 08 LET IT ROCK - KEVIN RUDOLF 09 09 ISSUES - SATURDAYS 10 10 USE SOMEBODY - KOL 11 20 I`M YOURS - JASON MRAZ 12 19 CIRCUS - BRITNEY 13 31 T-SHIRT - SHONTELLE 14 11 SOBER - PINK 15 16 HUMAN - KILLERS 16 NE CHANGE - DANIEL MERRIWEATHER 17 22 HOT N` COLD - KATY PERRY 18 23 SEX ON FIRE - KOL 19 18 IF I WERE A BOY - BEYONCE 20 24 MAD - NE-YO 21 27 ONE STEP AT A TIME - JORDIN SPARKS 22 35 GIVES YOU HELL - ALL AMERICAN REJECTS 23 13 HALLELUJAH - ALEXANDRA 24 15 RUN - LEONA 25 14 HEARTLESS - KANYE 26 17 LOVING KIND - GIRLS ALOUD 27 47 WHATCHA GONNA DO - PUSSYCAT/MISS ELLIOT 28 28 POKERFACE - LADY GAGA 29 12 GIVE ME A CALL - TOMMY REILLY 30 26 RIGHT NOW - AKON 31 35 SOMETIME AROUND MIDNIGHT - AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT 32 30 BOY DOES NOTHING - ALESHA 33 34 KIDS - MGMT 34 21 TONIGHT - JAY SEAN 35 29 LIVE YOUR LIFE - T.I. 36 33 WOMANIZER - BRITNEY 37 38 UP - SATURDAYS 38 25 ULYSSES - FRANZ FERDINAND 39 34 INFINITY - GURU JOSH 40 32 YOU FOUND ME - FRAY 41 39 SO WHAT - PINK 42 41 I HATE THIS PART - PUSSYCAT DOLLS 43 NE DO YOU MIND - KYLA 44 46 PAPER PLANES - MIA 45 44 THE PROMISE - GIRLS ALOUD 46 42 GREATEST DAY - TAKE THAT 47 43 REHAB - RIHANNA 48 NE STRONG AGAIN - N-DUBZ 49 NE DEAD AND GONE - T.I. 50 RE VIVA LA VIDA - COLDPLAY Outside the 50: Top 60 status for MYKONOS - FLEET FOXES, COLDPLAY - LIFE IN TECHNICOLOUR II, MGMT - TIME TO PRETEND, MILEY CYRUS - FLY ON THE WALL, KATY PERRY - THINKING OF YOU, KILLERS - SPACEMAN...and back up for Miss JENNIFER HUDSON. Flop of the week for KARDINAL OFFISHALL - NUMBA 1... looks like it won't make the top 40 at all this week! Last week we had 38 in the 40 on singles, and 27 in the top 30 combined albums. A right good hit rate, I'm sure you'll agree :) Back in 1987, Radio Luxembourg came up with this: 01 03 I KNEW YOU WERE WAITING - ARETHA FRANKLIN/GEORGE MICHAEL 02 02 C`EST LA VIE - ROBBIE NEVIL 03 16 HEARTACHE - PEPSI AND SHIRLIE 04 01 JACK YOUR BODY - STEVE SILK HURLEY 05 06 NO MORE THE FOOL - ELKIE BROOKS 06 17 ALMAZ - RANDY CRAWFORD 07 13 DOWN TO EARTH - CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT 08 22 I LOVE MY RADIO - TAFFY 09 11 RAT IN MI KITCHEN - UB40 10 24 YOU SEXY THING 87 MIX - HOT CHOCOLATE 11 NE SHOPLIFTERS OF THE WORLD UNITE - SMITHS 12 04 SURRENDER - SWING OUT SISTER 13 NE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT - MICHAEL CRAWFORD/SARAH BRIGHTMAN 14 NE IT DOESN`T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY - BLOW MONKEYS 15 19 JACK THE GROOVE - RAZE 16 07 WASTELAND - MISSION 17 15 REET PETITE - JACKIE WILSON 18 20 I.O.U. - FREEEZ 19 NE BEHIND THE MASK - ERIC CLAPTON 20 NE SOMEDAY - GLASS TIGER 21 23 ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY - VESTA WILLIAMS 22 05 IT DIDN`T MATTER - STYLE COUNCIL 23 NE ROCK THE NIGHT - EUROPE 24 08 REAL WILD CHILD - IGGY POP 25 12 WALKING DOWN YOUR STREET - BANGLES 26 14 HYMN TO HER - PRETENDERS 27 18 BIG FUN - GAP BAND 28 09 SOMETHING IN MY HOUSE - DEAD OR ALIVE 29 10 THIS WHEEL`S ON FIRE - SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES 30 27 VICTORY - KOOL AND THE GANG Luxembourg had 27 in the 30 in 1987, these were the days when they did better. Although Glass Tiger did not make it with "Someday" as the follow up to "Don`t Forget Me When I`m Gone". Aretha and George had had enough of waiting and stormed to number 1, just ahead of Robbie saying C'est La Vie long before B*Witched were a glint in smiling Irish eyes. Wham's backing singers Pepsi and Shirlie were also zooming up the chart. Wonder if they ever did a Coke ad? Randy Crawford was a lucky lucky thing climbing into the top 10. Italy-based British songstress Taffy also flying up with one of my favourite guilty pleasures of the 80s, origianlly titled Midnight Radio, but it had to be changed because Radio 1 didn't broadcast after midnight then! Hot Chocolate getting sexy in the bottom end of the top ten, and Morrissey and gang were so near yet so far with Shoplifters. Our 2009 Eurovision entrant (to all intents and purposes) Andrew Lloyd Webber's song from Phantom Of The Opera appears out of nowhere at number 13, Freez write one hell of a funky IOU at number 18 (one of my favourite 80s non-guilty pleasures) and Eric Clapton gets a little help from Japanese synth pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra, taking their song in at number 19. Europe also proved themselves not to be one hit wonders with their first UK hit since The Final Countdown (again with the guilty pleasures!)
February 2, 200916 yr Cheers Tom. :) The charts are SO slow at the moment! :( Unfortunately I think Eminem will be at least top10 by the end of the week on downloads. :puke:
February 2, 200916 yr Author Cheers Tom. :) The charts are SO slow at the moment! :( Unfortunately I think Eminem will be at least top10 by the end of the week on downloads. :puke: No probs :) True about the charts being slow :( But I really think it's going to pick up in the next couple of the weeks. As for Eminem, he's nowhere to be seen right now... I think top 40 at absolute best. I also think Daniel Merriweather will be higher by the end of the week.
February 2, 200916 yr Thanks for covering Tom, just popped in to say...It looks like Hit40uk were right, and the combined physical/downloads will soon match the download chart totally, as yesterday`s chart showed.
February 2, 200916 yr Thanks for posting Tom :D Shame to see White Lies falling so much with the album :( A drop of 19 places is awful!
February 2, 200916 yr Author Thanks for covering Tom, just popped in to say...It looks like Hit40uk were right, and the combined physical/downloads will soon match the download chart totally, as yesterday`s chart showed. Thanks Dave. Interesting stuff. It's funny how many other countries still use physical only sales... it's got to be distorting the chart!
February 2, 200916 yr Author Thanks for posting Tom :D Shame to see White Lies falling so much with the album :( A drop of 19 places is awful! No prob Cremey :) I agree, I just downloaded it, it's a great album... (I guess I'm partly to blame, that said!)
February 2, 200916 yr I wasn't expecting Daniel Merriwether that high, it seems too high, I think that will chart lower down in the official chart. Other than that is another dead week. Thanks for posting Tom
February 2, 200916 yr Author No problem Mart!n. DM has done a lot of promotionm lately, like the Sunday Night Project yesterday, I would actually be surprised not to see it in the top 10!
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