Posted March 23, 200916 yr Lady GaGa scores her second No1 of 2009. 04 01 Lady GaGa Poker Face After a brief stumble last week; 23-year-old New Yorker Lady GaGa known as Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta to her mother; reaches the summit today with Poker Face the second single from her No3 debut album The Fame. After studying arts at a college of New York University she started to pen material for artists such as The Pussycat Dolls through Interscope records. Soon after singer-songwriter and record producer Akon picked up on her vocal talents and signed her jointly to his Kon Live Distribution Label. By climbing three places Lady GaGa becomes the first artist since Timbaland in 2007 to record a second successive No1 from a released album; following Just Dance’s three-week stint at the top in January; a major achievement with the current dominance of new material. So far Poker Face has moved 30-26-28-24-22-15-3-3-4-1- and looks like embarking in a substantial run at the top. 02 02 Flo Rida Feat. Ke$ha Right Round Floridian rapper Flo Rida narrowly misses out on a swift return to the top spot, as Right Round has to settle for the runners up spot for a second week in a row 1-2-2-. While download sales remain close with those of Lady GaGa with the physical release of Right Round today/tomorrow it raises the possibility that it could yet still reclaim the top spot. 01 03 Vanessa Jenkins & Bryn West Feat. Sir Tom Jones & Robin Gibb (Barry) Islands In The Stream Therefore the Gavin and Stacey comedy Comic Relief single could only manage a week in control; it’s the first time since 2001 that a single or singles raising money for Comic Relief have only spent a week at No1: 2001 (1), 2003 (2), 2005 (8), 2007(4). Islands In The Stream becomes the third single to spend a solitary week at No1 the longest such run since McFly, Fedde Le Grand, Westlife and Akon each spent a week at No1 in succession in November 2006. 09 08 Akon Feat. Colby O’Donis & Kardinal Offishall Beautiful Senegalese-American rapper Akon reaches a new peak with Beautiful the third single from his third No18 studio album: Freedom. 60-56-xx-xx-xx-66-59-53-52-56-54-56-30-13-9-8- 20 09 Beyoncé Halo Climbing another eleven places is Halo the third single from 27-year-old Beyoncé Giselle Knowles third solo No7 studio album I Am… Sasha Fierce. Thus she has recorded four top 10 hits in just under 5 months: If I Were A Boy (No1, Nov 08), Listen (No8 Dec 08), Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) (No7, Feb 09) and Halo (No9, Mar 09). 40-20-9- Rounding out the top10: The Saturday’s dip a place with their Comic Relief effort Just Can’t Get Enough 2-3-4-. Country-pop singer-songwriter Taylor Swift holds for a third week at No5 22-2-5-5-5- which is the longest run at No5 since The Fray’s How To Save A Life spent four consecutive weeks at No5 in early 2007. Meanwhile T.I. Feat. Justin Timberlake Dead And Gone goes back up one place to No6: 58-47-30-17-4-6-7-6- after four weeks in the top10; Kelly Clarkson’s former No1 My Life Would Suck Without You is down another place to No7 1-4-6-7-; Kings Of Leon’s epic chart run with Use Somebody continues with a 13th non-consecutive week inside the top10 falling 8-10- in it’s 26th week inside the top50 which is unprecedented since the 1950’s. NEW 11 La Roux In For The Kill La Roux are a British electro-pop duo consisting of lead singer and synth player Elly Jackson and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid whose influences include Eurythmics, Yazoo and Depeche Mode. La Roux came 5th in the BBC News Sound Of 2009 poll at the turn of the year. The name La Roux in French refers to Elly’s hair colour. Their debut single ‘Quicksand’ was released last November on an independent label; now signed to Polydor In For The Kill becomes their first charting hit making a sizeable splash within the top15 backed by remixes from leading dubstep producer Skream. 18 13 James Morrison & Nelly Furtado Broken Strings Continuing to climb for a second week in the wake of James Morison’s appearance on Comic Relief Does Top Of The Pops having moved: 73-51-31-18-6-4-5-2-3-4-5-7-6-7-14-19-18-13- to date. NEW 14 Pet Shop Boys Love Etc The Pet Shop Boys are Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe who over the past 24 years as one of the most influential electronic pop duo’s have scored 42 top40 hits. Tennant and Lowe met in an electronics shop in Chelsea in August 1981. Between 1981 and 1984 they worked on material under the guise West End before deciding on the name The Pet Shop Boys. Tennant worked for Smash Hits magazine first as a writer reaching the post of deputy editor by the time he left in 1985. Their first single West End Girls originally flopped under the direction of New York producer Bobby Orlando in 1984. The Pet Shop Boys split from Orlando for a significant proportion of royalties and signed for Parlophone in London. The next single was Opportunities (Let’s Make Money) that reached No116 in 1985. The B Side was incidentally a track called In The Night, which was remixed the following year and used as the distinctive theme tune to the BBC’s Clothes show. They then remixed West End Girls and it proved third time lucky as after an initial slow start on it’s release in November 1985 it steadily climbed and by the 5th January 1986 had reached No1 where it spent two weeks in control. Next came Love Comes Quickly in March 1986 which reached No19 followed by their debut album Please which reached No3. Opportunities (Let’s Make Money) was re-released and reached No11 while album cut Suburbia reached No8 when activated in October 1986. They rounded out 1986 with a remix album Disco that reached No15. The Pet Shop Boys returned in June 1987 with It’s A Sin which quickly climbed to No1 where it spent three weeks in control. Next up was the collaboration with Dusty Springfield on the track What Have I Done To Deserve This that reached No2 in August 87. The second studio album Pet Shop Boys, Actually reached No2 in September 1987. The next single was Rent which reached No8 in November the same year. Having featured on a ITV programme in August 1987 called Love Me Tender to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death in 1977 singing their up to date version of Always On My Mind (originally recorded by Brenda Lee); it was decided to release their cover of Always On My Mind in December 1987 becoming the Christmas No1, spending four weeks at No1 and becoming the biggest selling single of their career. Always On My Mind famously blocked The Pogues’ Fairytale Of New York from No1. In April 1988 the Pet Shop Boys released a remix of Heart, which exploded 7-1- within two weeks of release and spent 3 weeks at No1; however their fourth No1 also proved to be their last. 1988 also saw the release of the bands third studio album: Introspective which reached No2 and proved to be their biggest selling album. It most notably featured the Trevor Horn produced Left To My Own Devices which reached No4 in December 1988. The 1990’s saw their success continue including their first and only No1 album in October 1993 - Very as well as a further 6 top10 albums: Behaviour (No2 1990); Discography (No3 1991); Disco 2 (No6 1994); Alternative (No2 1995); Bilingual (No4 1996); Nightlife (No7 1999). Their biggest single success of the decade came in October 1993 when their cover of the 1979 No15 Village People hit Go West reached No2. The Pet Shop Boy’s enjoyed a further 7 top10 hits in the 90’s including the March 1997 No9 hit A Red Letter Day which became one of a few records to slump straight out of the top40 from within the top10 moving 9-42-. In 1998 Neil Tennant provided backing vocals on Robbie Williams No4 No Regrets. This decade has seen the Pet Shop Boys rack up 10 UK Top 40 hits including three top10 smashes the latest of which was I’m With Stupid which reached No8 in May 2006. The 2002 studio album Release reached No7 while their last effort Fundamental reached No5 in June 2006. A remix album featuring some new material Pop 3 reached No36 in February 2003 and a greatest hits package Pop Art: Pet Shop Boys - The Hits reached No30 in December 2003 but reached a new peak of No18 in February of this year in the wake of their Outstanding Contribution To Music award at this years BRIT awards. Love Etc is their tenth top30 hit of the decade and their 5th hit to peak at No14 after: Liberation 1994, Single Bilingual 1996, New York City Boy 1999 and Home And Dry 2002. It is taken from their forthcoming 10th studio album Yes due out today/tomorrow; which is a collaboration with production team Xenomania, who have been behind many of Girls Alouds hits. NEW 20 AR Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls Feat. Nicole Scherzinger Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) Allah Rakha Rahman is the revered Indian film soundtrack composer, producer and musician whose soundtrack records have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Jai Ho! is an Hindi song which comes from the 2008 British film Slumdog Millionaire directed by Danny Boyle and won an Oscar earlier this year for Best Original Song. The burlesque group Pussycat Dolls opportunistic version has been translated English and looks set to provide them with a 8th UK top10 hit in seven days hence; for now it is their 10th top20 hit since 2005. 37 22 Metro Station Shake It Californian pop rockers Metro Station climb 15 places with their first UK release from their forthcoming self-titled debut album. Shake It has moved 54-37-22- in the past 3 weeks and looks likely to crack the top20 next week. 52 27 Franz Ferdinand No You Girls Glaswegian rock band Franz Ferdinand score their 9th UK top40 hit of their careers following exposure from their appearance on Comic Relief Does Top Of The Pops. It also features in the latest iPod Touch advertisements. Their biggest singles success came in January 2004 when Take Me Out reached No3. 54 30 Enrique Iglesias Feat. Ciara Takin' Back My Love Takin’ Back My Love is the second single to be taken from Enrique Iglesias’ No3 Greatest Hits album after the lead single Away flopped at an embarrassingly lowly No132. Enrique’s biggest success came in January 2002 with Hero; following the 9/11 terrorist attacks it encapsulated the public mood; spending four consecutive weeks at No1. The Moroccan/Swedish producer RedOne produces the track having already produced Lady GaGa’s January No1 single Just Dance. Ciara makes her first appearance in the top40 since Like A Boy reached No16 in March 2007. Her debut single Goodies topped the chart for a week in January 2005, however its sales 21,128 were the lowest ever for a non-limited single entering at No1. The first single featuring Justin Timberlake Love, Sex, Magic from her third studio album Fantasy Ride is out to download now. Albums Ronan Keating scores his fourth solo album No1 with his fifth studio album the Mothers Day inspired set Songs For My Mother. Both his first two solo studio albums reached No1: Ronan (August 2000) and Destination (June 2002). Next came his third studio album Turn It On that was a relative flop only reaching as high as No21. He returned a year later with the greatest hits package 10 Years Of Hits, which reached No1 in October 2004. His fourth studio album Bring You Home reached No3 in 2006. As a member of Boyzone he scored four No1 albums; the biggest of which was the greatest hits package By Request which spent a colossal 9 weeks at No1 in total between June and August 1999. In a market dominated by the Mothers Day market holding at No2 for a second week is The Annie Lennox Collection the first solo greatest hits package containing Annie Lennox’s solo material between 1992 and 2009 2-2-. The Kings Of Leon’s Only By The Night climbs (4-3-) for the first time in a month having previously moved 1-2-3-4-. Britain’s Got Talent finalist operatic youngster Faryl Smith climbs two places with her debut album Faryl 6-4-. Take That’s Circus climbs four places to No5 1-1-1-1-1-2-6-15-19-24-17-16-8-7-9-5- after a 9 week absence. Meanwhile like the only previous 2009 album to spend two consecutive weeks at No1 Bruce Springsteen’s Working On A Dream; U2’s No Line On The Horizon slips out of the top5 after two weeks at No1 1-1-6-. As Poker Face becomes the second single from The Fame to top the chart; Lady GaGa’s debut No3 album climbs a place to No7 3-4-4-5-13-7-5-4-8-7- in its 10th week on the chart. Next up is Kelly Clarkson’s fourth studio album All I Ever Wanted that slides five places to No8 3-8-. Bette Midler’s Best Of Bette Collection returns to the top 10 after peaking at No6 in October and again after Valentines Day climbing twelve places 21-9-. Finally Lionel Richie returns with his 10th top10 album his first since March 2004 when Just For You reached No5. Both Can’t Slow Down (October 1983) and Back To Front (June 1992) reached No1 the latter spent 6 weeks at the top. Next Week On the singles front Lady GaGa can expect to face renewed competition from Flo Rida whose Right Round is released physically today/tomorrow. Also vying for the top spot will be KIG with Head Shoulders Kneez And Toez with the radio edit released digitally and a physical release. Other physical single releases today/tomorrow include: Metro Station, Noisettes, White Lies, Funeral For A Friend, Steve Angello & Laidback Luke Feat. Robin S, Little Man Tate, The Rifles, The Kills and Sparks. On the albums were likely to see a close battle between Ronan Keating, Annie Lennox and Kings Of Leon for the No1 spot. While the Pet Shop Boys will be looking for a 13th top10 album hit with Yes. Also keep a close eye on AR Rahman who could yet score a surprise No1 with his Best Of. Edited March 23, 200916 yr by Ethan.
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