A new number one single for Black Eyed Peas while Michael Jackson stays on top of the albums chart.

 

Black Eyed Peas score their second number one of the year as I Gotta Feeling moves up two places to claim this week’s bragging rights. Fortunately it’s a good deal better than Boom Boom Pow which, let’s face it, is rubbish. The Peas are the second act to have two number ones this year following Lady GaGa. JLS drop a place to number two and Mr. Hudson also falls a place to three.

 

There are five new entries into the top 40 this week and one of those is someone’s idea of a joke. The massive ego that is Chris Moyles has been encouraging his listeners to download John Barrowman’s I Made It Through The Rain and plenty of them have. Why does anyone listen to this oaf? The man better known as Captain Jack Harkness and the host of countless (mostly awful) Saturday teatime shows is at this week’s number 14. He has achieved something previously managed only by Westlife in taking a song previously recorded by Barry Manilow and making it sound even worse than the original. Stick to the day job John.

 

The second new entry sees the return of Sean Kingston at number 29 with Fire Burning. Kingston annoyed a lot of people by warbling over Stand By Me for his first hit, Beautiful Girls but that didn’t prevent it enjoying four weeks at number one. Fire Burning eschews such gimmicks and is simply terrible in its own right.

 

Little Boots kick back into the top 40 with the rather catchy number Remedy at 33. This is not a song about Swine Flu which is also proving rather catchy. Ms Boots will be performing at a free roller disco near Tower Bridge next week.

 

Nick Douwma has been recording under the name Sub Focus since 2003 but without any top 40 success. Until now. Rock It / Follow The Light is new at number 38. I think I need to hear it a few more times to decide what I think of it.

 

The same cannot be said of the fourth new entry featuring Flo-Rida, this time with Nelly Furtado. Some of Mr Rida’s songs are bearable but this isn’t one of them. Jump is at number 40 which means it has already done far better than it deserves.

 

In other news, Noisettes finally reach the top 20 with Never Forget You climbing one place to number 20 and Green Day continue their slow progress up the charts with 21 Guns rising a comparatively massive three places to number 36. Eminem’s Beautiful is a thoroughly undeserved re-entry at number 31 ahead of tomorrow’s physical release. The Veronicas have moved back up a place for some unfathomable reason. I’m still not sure what they’re untouched by but I think it’s probably talent. Overall, there’s not much movement with the biggest move within the chart being just six places.

 

Billie Jean is one of the departures from this week’s chart leaving Man in the Mirror as the only Michael Jackson song – and not before time. This means that half of last week’s Now 73 re-entries have kept their top 40 place, the exceptions being Beyoncé’s Halo which has slipped back out again and Katy Perry whose top 40 career has fallen asleep again and A R Rahmann’s destiny is outside the top 40 once more. Poker Face enjoys a 29th week in the chart, a feat achieved by just 25 other songs. Its climb back up the chart has come to an end though as it falls two places to number 24.

 

The Essential Michael Jackson stays at number one in the albums chart for a fifth week as a couple other Jackson compilations drop out. Note to the record-buying public. The name Essential doesn’t mean you have to buy it. Please stop. For a fourth week, Florence + The Machine are deprived of the number one position they deserve. Four weeks on top would have been a fine achievement by a band who have had only one top 40 single. As it is, Jackson joins Madonna, Robbie Williams and Elton John on 28 weeks at the summit.

 

Any list of the best or most influential videos will include the likes of Bohemian Rhapsody, Sledgehammer and Thriller. Also included would be the video for A-ha’s Take On Me. An innovative mix of live action and animation helped to make the song a big hit for the previously little-known band in 1985. Unfortunately it was beaten to the number one spot by the execrable Power of Love by Jennifer Rush for three weeks, an injustice almost as great as Vienna spending three weeks behind Joe Dolce. It is often said that Vienna spent all four weeks at number two behind that crime against music. However, for the first of those four weeks, John Lennon’s Woman was number one so the first person to deprive Ultravox of a deserved chart-topper was actually Mark Chapman. Anyway, back to A-ha. Their new album, Foot of the Mountain is the week’s highest new entry at number five. This is the Norwegian outfit’s first top ten album since Stay On These Roads in 1988.

 

There’s another apparently essential album at number 13, this time by Alison Krauss who is best known for her highly acclaimed album with Robert Plant. That album won five Grammy awards and was nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize.

 

Alex Turner’s mate Jon McClure made the top ten with Reverend and the Makers’ debut album The State Of Things. The follow-up, A French Kiss in the Chaos is doing less well, entering this week at number 19. From what I’ve heard, the album is a bit patchy but the same applied to the first one.

 

The other two newcomers are both re-entries. The success of Poppiholla has propelled a re-released Best Of Chicane back up to number 14 and Abba Gold puts in another appearance at number 38.

 

As ever, thanks are due to ChC, Music Week and chartsstats.com

 

Good read as always, but not feeling a lot of your opinions unfortunately :(

Good read as always, but not feeling a lot of your opinions unfortunately :(

Sorry :cry: I did do rather a lot of slagging-off this week. Maybe next week will be better :unsure:

Sorry :cry: I did do rather a lot of slagging-off this week. Maybe next week will be better :unsure:

 

Hopefully :w00t:

 

I do suggest you make up your mind about Sub Focus though, it's probably already in my top ten songs ever.

It is very hard to write a Chart Commentary, & NOT add opinons. I couldn't do it.

Suedehead2, I don't mind you expressing your views - at all. After all, it is your Thread.

 

However, Barry Manilow isn't so bad. I like a lot of his Songs. Some of his best ones

did nothing in, the UK - 'Weekend In New England', (1976), 'Somewhere In The Night',

(1978). 'Can't Smile Without You', (1977), & 'Copacabana', (1978), weren't bad either.

He was/is good at his genre of Music - Romantic Songs - mainly slow Ballads.

 

I'm not a Heavy Metal Fan, (for example), but that does not mean that I can't appreciate

Groups who do that sort of Music.

 

MOST WEEKS AT NUMBER 1 - UK ALBUMS ACTS

 

Where there is a 'Tie' - as in 9th place - I've put the Acts in the order that they first

Charted in the UK - and Michael Jackson first entered the UK Singles Chart, with the

Jackson Five, in January 1970 - a Year before Elton John.

 

(To W/E 8th August 2009)

 

1) THE BEATLES - 174

2) ELVIS PRESLEY - 63

3) ABBA - 57

4) THE ROLLING STONES - 44

5) THE SHADOWS - 42 (Includes 21 Weeks with Cliff Richard)

6) SIMON & GARFUNKEL - 40

7) CLIFF RICHARD - 30

8) THE CARPENTERS - 29

9)=MICHAEL JACKSON - 28 (Including 3 Weeks as Michael Jackson Plus The Jackson Five - In 1983)

9)=ELTON JOHN - 28

9)=MADONNA - 28

9)=ROBBIE WILLIAMS - 28

13) ROD STEWART - 27

14) SIMPLY RED - 26

15) PHIL COLLINS - 25

16) BOB DYLAN - 24

17)=DAVID BOWIE - 22

17)=DIRE STRAITS - 22

19)=QUEEN - 21

19)=TAKE THAT - 21

21) OASIS - 20

Edited August 2, 200915 yr by zeus555