Paddington James

27 – When We Collide – Matt Cardle 2 Weeks at #1 / Weekly Sales – 262,953* & 113,037 #122 in EOY 2011 – Total Sales of 179,000 The first #1 of 2011 When We Collide by Matt Cardle was also the final #1 of 2010. Winning the 2010 series on The X Factor, Matt Cardle managed to stay atop the UK Singles Chart for the first two weeks of 2011 with his winners single When We Collide, which was a cover of the Biffy Clyro song (which had a different name) Many Of Horror. For the two weeks this was at #1 in January the highest new entries were Lights On by Katy B ft Ms Dynamite (January 1) at #4 and Hello by Martin Solveig & Dragonette at #73. As a fun bit of trivia this was the first of two songs with the word ‘Collide’ in the title to reach the top 5 in 2011. I started off really enjoying this song and initially had it placed a lot higher than 27th place as I quite enjoyed it, but as I progressed through multiple listen throughs of all the #1’s for 2011 it started to blend into the background as it felt more and more stock standard for an X Factors winners single.

The next entry is on it's way and it's another X Factor act.

Looking forward to this, in particular seeing which artists from the mid to late 90's will feature as that's when I really started to get into music and the charts.

Looking forward to the England v Croatia game tomorrow. It starts at 6am for me.

Austria win 3-1 with a penalty goal to Marko Arnautovic.

Austria lead 2-1 now thanks to an own goal from Yazan Al-Arab.

Austria and Jordan locked at 1-1 at the 71st minute. A VAR review denies Austria the go ahead goal due to hand ball.

Just from the small snippet it’s sounding like the best thing since Never Really Over.

I’ve just seen the one photo, but she looked absolutely stunning.

A hat-trick for Messi and he moves into equal first most goals in a World Cup!

Messi and Argentina have their second.

Wonderful goal from Messi.

That’s two in the first 10 minutes. Has that ever happened before?

Algeria scores, but its overturned.

I’d agree with it too. I know it’s quite well liked amongst fans but I’m not overly keen on Magic either.

It wasn’t the direction I was expecting her to go in at the time, but I do really enjoy it.

Norway 4 - 1 Iraq It’s pretty lopsided now.

A Christmas album done right would be really good. I wouldn’t be disappointed if that happened.

Last Thing On My Mind I’ve had some of those Top Of The Pops episodes coming up on YouTube and the one I saw was an episode from 1998 with Last Thing On My Mind.

Norway score again Norway 3 - 1 Iraq

Thanks for sharing, I did find their font really interesting.

Oh no I missed all the goals! Hopefully there’s a few more left in this match.

Chris Cornell

Catch You, it’s one of Sophie’s best for me.

Abs Ft Nodesha What a very underwhelming list of songs. I think I only like one of the 10.