Posted July 12, 200916 yr No change at the top of the charts this week and the Jackson effect is reduceed slightly in the singles but not the albums. Cascada hold on to the number one spot this week with Evacuate The Dancefloor. It ends the run of single week number ones going back to mid-June when Black Eyed Peas regained top spot. Below them La Roux move back up to number two, swapping places with Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror. Those two songs were separated by just one copy last week. It’s safe to assume that there’s a rather bigger gap between them this week. Three Michael Jackson songs have left the top 40 but another one has entered giving a total of eleven this week. The newcomer is actually a Jackson 5 song, Who’s Loving You at number 36 which has not charted before. That follows the performance of the song by Shaheen Jaffacake at the memorial service. Three Jackson songs take a bit of a tumble this week, Billie Jean down 11 to 21, Thriller down 13 to 25 and Beat It down 13 to 32. The others also fall but not so sharply apart from They Don’t Care About Us which goes up four places to 28. The highest new entry is Diamond Rings by Chipmunk at number six. It would have been very difficult for him to come up with a single even worse than Chip Diddy Chip. Thankfully, he hasn’t. That’s not to say Diamond Rings is good but at least it doesn’t make me want to throw my radio across the room. Arctic Monkeys make a very welcome return at number 12 with Crying Lightning. The physical release isn’t due until the middle of next month so it should go a lot higher, preferably another number one. If this is representative of the quality of the new album (Humbug due on August 24), it will add to Alex Turner’s reputation as one of the best British songwriters of his generation. To come up with four top quality albums (including the superb Last Shadow Puppets album) in just four years would be a very impressive achievement. V V Brown has been hotly tipped for great things by many critics and was included in the BBC’s Sound of 2009 list. With all the hype, Shark in the Water enters at a rather disappointing number 38 so would only just have made the top 30 even without all the MJ songs ahead of her. There are three songs with big climbs within the top 40. Leading the way are Black Eyed Peas who climb 29 places to number ten with I Gotta Feeling. Jordin Sparks climbs back up to number 11 with the rather atrocious Battlefield and Pitbull is up 15 places to 13 with the utterly appalling I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho). Lady GaGa’s Poker Face clocks up a 26th week in the top 40. It is the 55th single to spend a full six months in the chart and actually goes back up five places this week. The Jackson invasion of the singles chart is beginning to wane but in the albums chart it is gathering pace. This is clearly a reflection of the different split between download and physical sales. The singles started to be downloaded almost immediately but most people who wanted to buy albums waited until they could get a physical copy. The Essential Michael Jackson holds on for a second week on top giving Jackson a 25th week with a number one album, level with Phil Collins at number 14 in the all-time list. Off The Wall peaked at number five on its release in 1979, his first album as an adult. Now, thirty years on, it has reached a new peak of number three. Both versions of Thriller are also in the top ten (the original at four and the 25th anniversary edition at nine) along with two more compilations, including The Motown years which is new this week at five. There are a further three compilations between 11 and 20. Last week La Roux were kept off the top of the albums chart by Michael Jackson. This week another female-fronted British band suffer the same fate as Florence + the Machine’s rather wonderful debut Lungs enters at number two. With the title track still topping the singles chart, Cascada enter at number eight with Evacuate The Dancefloor. Yes, some people actually want to hear a whole album of this stuff. Oh well, it takes all sorts. Kings of Leon have joined the trend (Simon and Garfunkel, Pink) of bundling together a set of previous albums with Boxed which comprises their first three releases. It’s worked for them as it enters at number 20. There’s a similar set from Michael Jackson due on 20 July which might also do quite well. New at 29 is Story of a Heart by the Benny Andersson band. The 28 year gap between the demise of Abba and a first hit solo album must surely be some sort of record. New material from Neil Hannon is always good news, even more so after a wait of three years since the last Divine Comedy album. He has teamed up with Thomas Walsh from the rather less well known band Pugwash under the name of The Duckworth Lewis Method. That is, of course, the fiendishly complicated method of calculating a new target in an interrupted one-day cricket match. And, yes, this is an album about cricket. Fans of dodgy rhymes will appreciate lines such as “Time to take the new ball, the dollars and the roubles / Stormont to the Oval, We’re all going global” or the even more corny “Twas the first test of the Ashes series 1993, Australia had only managed 289 and we / felt all was going to plan that first innings at Old Trafford, then Merv Hughes and his handlebar moustache dismissed poor Athers”. Sadly nobody has come up with a fiendishly complicated method of compiling the album charts which might have seen this enter higher than number 40. Among the albums missing out as a result of all the Jackson entries is the debut from Crouch End’s Bombay Bicycle Club. I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose has received some excellent reviews for a band whose members only left school last year. The only non-Jackson re-entry is Take That’s Greatest Hits collection, Never Forget at 39 which is presumably benefitting from their current live dates.
July 12, 200916 yr Author Good read. How do you write this so quickly? :o I write most of it based on the midweeks then update it as the chart is announced. Sometimes, like the week Michael Jackson died, it's more difficult because the final midweeks are nothing like the final chart :lol:
July 12, 200916 yr I write most of it based on the midweeks then update it as the chart is announced. Sometimes, like the week Michael Jackson died, it's more difficult because the final midweeks are nothing like the final chart :lol: Clever. :D
July 12, 200916 yr Suedehead2, the Benny Andersson Band Album is not a Solo Album. He has Helen Sjoholm, & Tommy Korberg - plus several other people, with him. In Sweden, they are called Benny Andersson's Orkester, & they've had 4 Hit Albums in Swedish. Benny & Bjorn have written loads of stuff in recent Years, it's just that the UK only notices him/them, when such things get released here - in English. As regards Michael Jackson, he sets 2 UK Album records this Week:, 1) Last Week, he became the first Act to have more than 3 Albums in the Top 10, at the same time. He had 5 in. This Week, he beats that - 6 in. 2) Before him, 10 Acts had 3 Albums in the Top 10 at once - the last 3 were David Bowie, (6 Weeks in 1973), Elvis Presley - 1 Week in 1977, & Prince - 1 Week in 1993. 3) MJ also has 9 Albums in the Top 20 - beating the W/E 26th September 1964 Record of Jim Reeves - 8 Top 20 Albums. Edited July 12, 200916 yr by zeus555
July 12, 200916 yr Author Suedehead2, the Benny Andersson Band Album is not a Solo Album. He has Helen Sjoholm, & Tommy Korberg - plus several other people, with him. In Sweden, they are called Benny Andersson's Orkester, & they've had 4 Hit Albums in Swedish. Benny & Bjorn have written loads of stuff in recent Years, it's just that the UK only notices him/them, when such things get released here - in English. As regards Michael Jackson, he sets 2 UK Album records this Week:, 1) Last Week, he became the first Act to have more than 3 Albums in the Top 10, at the same time. He had 5 in. This Week, he beats that - 6 in. 2) Before him, 10 Acts had 3 Albums in the Top 10 at once - the last 3 were David Bowie, (6 Weeks in 1973), Elvis Presley - 1 Week in 1977, & Prince - 1 Week in 1993. 3) MJ also has 9 Albums in the Top 20 - beating the W/E 26th September 1964 Record of Jim Reeves - 8 Top 20 Albums. Thanks for those extra stats. The Jim Reeves domination was shortly after he died in July 1964. I think he means Benny Andersson without the rest of ABBA by 'solo'. ;) Yes, I did. I should have made it clearer.
July 12, 200916 yr Even Girls Aloud have got a box set coming out soon. Personally I don't like these boxed set themes, as I already own most of the albums, can't see the point of them, but I might get the Boxed set of Kings Of Leon, as it seems I don't own their 3 previous albums.
July 12, 200916 yr Even Girls Aloud have got a box set coming out soon. Ooh! What albums are being boxed? :w00t:
July 12, 200916 yr Ooh! What albums are being boxed? :w00t: All, apart from their last release, I think.
July 12, 200916 yr All, apart from their last release, I think. Oh really, well I have WWTNS?, Chemistry, TU and OOC so probably no point :D
July 12, 200916 yr Oh really, well I have WWTNS?, Chemistry, TU and OOC so probably no point :D Butbut that means you'll decline them a sale! You wouldn't do that to your favourite girlband would you? :P
July 12, 200916 yr Butbut that means you'll decline them a sale! You wouldn't do that to your favourite girlband would you? :P Correction, favourite artist
July 12, 200916 yr That further proves my point ;) :lol: Well, I don't even know when it's out I'm sure Tom will get it though :kink:
July 12, 200916 yr :lol: Well, I don't even know when it's out I'm sure Tom will get it though :kink: Cool :P Hey, I ain't 'jackin your style' (like dem chickens) any more. I got my own style on my screenname! :D (And don't you dare change your display name to oehT :x) Edited July 12, 200916 yr by eyr-B
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