Kit Curran

Not odd at all, it's the January effect. Nothing happens in music in January, nobody you've ever heard of wants to release anything new, so the music press seem to cast around for someone unknown to throw all the hype onto and they dominate the charts all through the month. Then they usually slip back into obscurity, never to be heard of again. Obvious examples are Owl City and Just Jack (yeah, he's had minor hits, but no way did he live up to the January 2007 hype) Mika and Adele look like they're going the same way. Only Lady Gaga has been able to sustain a good chart career on the back of a January debut hit.

6. ( 2 ) Marco Borsato & Guus Meeuwis - Schouder aan schouder This is a Holland World Cup thing isn't it? I've seen a YouTube video of them performing with loads of football and orange lighting effects. It'd be the only reason such a middle of the road song can appear in the hardcore Dutch charts. <_< I like it though! Much better than 'Shout'.

1st Feb The Dawn Chorus feat Frank Turner - Carnivalesque What song is this? Is it an alternative version of which I thought was called 'The Guilt'. I don't know anything about this band except someone sent me this video cause they reckoned I'd like it and yeah, it's pretty good, I'd download this. :dance:

Usual January hype - because it's a dismal, boring month, the media look desperately for something to hype up as the 'Sound' of the new year, and with very little opposition, it tops the chart immediately... such as Mika, who in all honesty, really isn't a good artist and won't have much longevity. Just Jack the same year was a similar situation. And could Basshunter's awful guff been number one for five weeks in ANY other month than January? I think not. The only artist to get past the January hype and have chart toppers later in the year had been Gaga.

Don't remember Please Sir, but I do remember Ralph in Dear John with his motorcyle combination. And 'Dazzling Darren' DJ act, which just involved saying 'boogaloo' completely deadpan at points during the song. Dear John was a funny programme, sad that 'John' is dead too. :(

Probably because the Americans hadn't yet got over the break-up of the Police! That summer, 1986, was chock-full of songs that were heard a lot on the radio, but didn't become big hits. Two examples, 'Right Between The Eyes' by Wax and Bangles 'Going Down To Liverpool', numbers 60 and 56 respectively, but never off the radio that summer.

You may huh, but hey, I have the weirdest selection of musical taste of anyone I know. I bet you don't know anybody in Germany with both Helene Fischer AND Tobias Luetzenkirchen on their Ipod! And I'm English, haha. :D Come to think of it, that would be one freaky collaboration. It might give some of Helene's, shall we say, older fans heart failure! :o

I never said she had to enter with a Schlager song. ;) Helene Fischer is young, attractive, has a nice personality, was born in Eastern Europe, and is a really good singer, so why not ESC, but with a more modern song? She's better than a lot of the stuff she sings to be honest - such as the current poor single. (I quite like Schalger, in an ironic way, even way back to Cindy und Bert and Juergen Marcus ha ha, but even I've decided that Helene's new single is rubbish!) But I've heard her sing standards, also sing in English, and there could be a lot more to her than being trapped in a Schlager ghetto. Maybe we'll never know, as she releases yet another Schlager album for the homes of the 60+ and the Majorca beaches, possibly she's happy there. But it would be nice to see her stretch herself musically and as an entertainer.

Considering the exposure she gets on TV variety shows, Helene Fischer charts quite low in singles, but Zaubermond is still in the Top 50 albums after 63 weeks! :cheer: At the risk of ridicule for liking Schlager (well, some of it), I will admit though that Helene's new song is nowhere near as good as the top songs from her previous albums. So it's weird that it's charted higher than 'Lass mich in dein Leben', which was as close as Schlager gets to an epic... I'm curious to see where the new album will enter, my guess is 8 or 9, because I think her popularity peaked with Zaubermond. It will need some pretty catchy songs on it to match Zaubermond, Schlager thrives on the hummability and joining in factor, lol. My guess is that it won't last 10 weeks on the chart based on this first song. With her Russian background, can't they see that the next move is Eurovision, instead of an ever speeding conveyor belt of rushed albums? She'd get the best German result since the 90s.

Uqxt9Mt962U Chart Commentary: It's her sixth number one in this chart, and her second to go straight in at the top - Madonna has a new entry at the top of the chart this week with 'Celebration'. About to release a grand retrospective of her twenty-five year chart career, Madge celebrates her silver jubilee with an instant number one, and a track which continues 2009's dance-centric trend. Last week's cricket-dominated top three is broken up with Shannon Noll dropping down to number two with 'Shine' and the two Duckworth Lewis Method singles dropping out of the top five. Taking their place are the long-running collaboration between David Guetta and Akon, which finally starts to roar up the chart, and the R n B 'supergroup' involving Jay Z, Rhianna and Kanye West... though 'Run This Town' had been expected to challenge for number one, so maybe a new entry at four is something on a disappointment. The other brand new entry in the chart is from Muse at 14, in what is otherwise a fairly slow moving chart... but as Autumn gets going, a raft of new singles from big names looks set to make week after week up to Christmas a tense battle for the top spot... This week's chart 1 (NEW) Celebration - Madonna (New number one!) 2 (1) Shine – Shannon Noll 3 (12) Sexy Bitch – David Guetta feat Akon 4 (NEW) Run This Town - Jay Z, Rhianna and Kanye West 5 (5) Holiday – Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris and Chrome 6 (3) Test Match Special – Duckworth Lewis Method 7 (8) Boys and Girls – Pixie Lott 8 (2) Meeting Mr Miandad – Duckworth Lewis Method 9 (10) Outta Here – Esmee Denters 10 (7) Remedy – Little Boots 11 (4) Ready For The Weekend - Calvin Harris 12 (17) I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas 13 (9) Get Sexy - Sugababes 14 (NEW) Uprising – Muse 15 (11) Dressed To Kill – Preston 16 (6) Get Shaky – Ian Carey Project 17 (14) Nobody Does It Better – Inger-Lise Rypdal 18 (23) I'll Be Around – Daryl Hall and John Oates 19 (13) Grand Guignol – Bajofondo 20 (21) You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift

_uAr4Mnb6N4 Oh the irony, how England's Ashes cricket victory has taken an Australian to the top of the Radio Newtown chart. Shannon Noll was Australia's very own 'Pop Idol' four years ago, and hit the top of the charts there with his song 'Shine'. But for most people in this country, it's known as the theme tune to Cricket on Five, and with this having been the most thrilling of Ashes summers, Shannon finds his song as the most popular of the week, denying Calvin Harris the chance to take over from himself at number one. Despite having overtaken the song he's produced for Dizzee Rascal with his own title-track 'Ready For The Weekend', Calvin remains stuck at number two, with 'Holiday' dropping to three. The Ian Carey Project and Grand Guignon complete the top five, but it seems the Top Ten has gone cricket mad this week! Not only does Shannon rule at the top, but there are TWO hits from Neil Hannon's cricket inspired project Duckworth Lewis Method. 'Test Match Special' entered last week at 13 and climbs to six today, but with more momentum, the jaunty 'Meeting Mr Miandad' shoots up from 33 to 8. But will the current cricket mania last long enough to keep these songs high? Preston continues his steady progress and is in something like a cricket sandwich at seven, and three talented ladies, Dutch star Esmee Denters, our own Little Boots and the American diva Mariah Carey, have Top 20 entries at 17, 18 and 19 respectively. 1 (4) Shine - Shannon Noll (New number one!) 2 (2) Ready For The Weekend – Calvin Harris feat Mary Pierce 3 (1) Holiday – Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris and Chrome 4 (5) Get Shaky - Ian Carey Project 5 (3) Grand Guignol – Bajofondo 6 (13) Test Match Special – Duckworth Lewis Method 7 (10) Dressed To Kill – Preston 8 (33) Meeting Mr Miandad – Duckworth Lewis Method 9 (9) Jump – Flo-Rida feat Nelly Furtado 10 (6) Paparazzi – Lady GaGa 11 (8) I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight - U2 12 (20) Dreamer – Jacksons 13 (12) You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift 14 (7) Evacuate The Dancefloor – Cascada 15 (15) Bicycle – Memory Tapes 16 (14) So You Win Again – Septimus 17 (23) Outta Here – Esmee Denters 18 (26) Remedy – Little Boots 19 (34) Obsession – Mariah Carey 20 (11) Poppiholla – Chicane And here's the new Number One! Z_9id4I0pCw

etJA23vWQ8A Having already had the biggest hit of the year so far, Calvin Harris dominates the chart this week, with hits at number one and number two in the new countdown. At the top of the chart, it's a repeat of the combination that hit the top last year: Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris and Chrome combined to make 'Dance Wiv Me' one of the biggest songs of 2008, now in 2009 'Holiday', after a steady climb up the Top 20, finally makes it to the top for the unstoppable trio. What Calvin thinks about the track he produced keeping his own track off the top of the chart, but 'Ready For The Weekend', his collaboration with the shoe-loving Mary Pierce, also climbs two places to number two. Bajofondo, the South American instrumentalists who have topped the chart for three weeks, drop to number three, but two strong contenders for number one climb into the top five - Ian Carey Project's dance smash 'Get Shaky' climbs six places to 5, but he is overtaken by Aussie idol Shannon Noll, and his cricket coverage theme 'Shine', which jumps to number four in the run-up to the final crucial Ashes Test Match this week. It's not the only cricket-related hit this week, as Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon's side project Duckworth-Lewis Method climb into the Top 20 at 13 with 'Test Match Special'. Other entries into a slow moving lower half of the chart are at 14, where Norwegian band Septimus' iconically bad cover version of a classic Hot Chocolate hit climbs for comedy value; and at 20, the Michael Jackson memorials continue, 'Show You The Way' drops off the chart but climbing today is the poignant Jacksons song 'Dreamer', which will keep the memory of the legendary singer in the chart for a few mor weeks. Here's the chart... 1 (3) Holiday - Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris and Chrome (New number one!) 2 (4) Ready For The Weekend – Calvin Harris feat Mary Pierce 3 (1) Grand Guignol – Bajofondo 4 (13) Shine - Shannon Noll 5 (11) Get Shaky – Ian Carey Project 6 (2) Paparazzi – Lady Ga-Ga 7 (5) Evacuate The Dancefloor – Cascada 8 (6) I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight – U2 9 (9) Jump – Flo-Rida feat Nelly Furtado 10 (15) Dressed To Kill – Preston 11 (7) Poppiholla - Chicane 12 (12) You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift 13 (23) Test Match Special - Duckworth-Lewis Method 14 (21) So You Win Again – Septimus 15 (17) Bicycle – Memory Tapes 16 (10) Bichiluz – Los Auténticos Decadentes 17 (14) Diamond Rings – Chipmunk feat Emeli Sande 18 (16) Foot Of The Mountain – A-Ha 19 (8) Bulletproof – La Roux 20 (32) Dreamer – Jacksons

Ef-rfb-qgRE No change in the top two this week, Bajofondo stay at number one with 'Grand Guignol', keep Lady Ga-Ga's 'Paparazzi' at two. But Calvin Harris continues to enjoy a fantastic 2009, now placing two tracks inside the top five. The one he's produced for Dizzee Rascal and Chrome, 'Holiday' climbs to number three, just ahead of his own hit, 'Ready For The Weekend'. It could be a fair bet that Calvin will chalk up his fourth number one next week, but with which song? Or maybe some of the exciting new tracks entering the chart this week could beat him to it. You would think that U2 (up four places to six), Flo-Rida and Nelly Furtado (up eight to nine) and Taylor Swift (climbing seven to 12) would have high hopes of a top five place next Tuesday, but not with what's coming up behind... The big features of the Radio Newtown chart this year have been the twin sucesses of trancy dance music and a revival of early 80s sounding electronica, and both these are reflected in the new entries, with The Ian Carey Project's club smash 'Get Shaky!' the highest of these at 11. Meanwhile, former Ordinary Boys singer Preston is going in for the 80s sound with his excellent new 'Dressed To Kill', leaving the ska scene behind for a slice of Fiction Factory/Blancmange type action at 15. And Memory Tapes with their hypnotic 'Bicycle' comes in at 17. But a strong outside bet for the top enters at 13 today. Shannon Noll was one of the early contestants in the 'Asutralian Idol' competition, but has been virtually unknown on these shores since... except that for the last few weeks, cricket fans have heard his voice accompanying Five's highlights programmes of the Ashes Tests on TV... 'Shine', a song that hit the top in Oz back in 2005, is accompanying England and Australia's hopes to hit the top with bat and ball, and with one crucial Test still to play, five more plays could propel it to the upper reaches of the Radio Newtown chart before August's out. Here's the chart... 1 (1) Grand Guignol - Bajofondo (Third week) 2 (2) Paparazzi – Lady GaGa 3 (6) Holiday – Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris and Chrome 4 (8) Ready For The Weekend - Calvin Harris 5 (3) Evacuate The Dancefloor – Cascada 6 (10) I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight – U2 7 (5) Poppiholla – Chicane 8 (4) Bulletproof – La Roux 9 (17) Jump – Flo-Rida feat Nelly Furtado 10 (9) Bichiluz – Los Auténticos Decadentes 11 (NEW) Get Shaky! - Ian Carey Project 12 (19) You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift 13 (NEW) Shine - Shannon Noll 14 (13) Diamond Rings – Chipmunk feat Emeli Sande 15 (NEW) Dressed To Kill – Preston 16 (15) Foot Of The Mountain – A-Ha 17 (NEW) Bicycle – Memory Tapes 18 (7) Show You The Way – Jacksons 19 (13) Battlefield – Jordin Sparks 20 (11) Story Of A Heart – Benny Andersson Band

After another week's break - the chart was ready to post but Buzzjack was down - the Radio Newtown Top 20 returns... it's still number one, it's Top of the Charts! wx84REDFnE0 The tango sounds of Uruguyan-Argentinian combo Bajofondo continue to dominate as their massive instrumental 'Grand Guignol' spends a second week at number one, but a surprise challenger has emerged in the form of Lady GaGa's 'Paparazzi'. Surprise, because Gaga has never charted in this top 20 before, as her brand of vocoded electronic dance showed little sign of impressing the Radio Newtown audience... but a catchy melody and a little bit of Gwen Stefani sound-alike have done wonders, and the song is a possible number one next week. Maybe poor weather continues to hamper the latest Dizzee Rascal/Calvin Harris collaboration... after Dance Wiv Me went to number one last year, 'Holiday' was widely tipped as a 2009 chart topper, but it does continue to climb, this week up five to number six in an otherwise pretty slow-moving top ten, and could be ready to pounce in the event of a return of summer. Calvin had a number one in his own right a few months ago, and currently has two songs in the top ten, with 'Ready For The Weekend' off his own album climbing to number eight. And a new entry into the top ten, helped by the current Blackberry tv ad, is 'I'll Go Crazy...' by U2, in at ten, though maybe a return to the top isn't as strong a possibility as it was with the more powerful 'Maginificent' a few weeks ago. There's good movement for Chipmunk at 12 and Jordin Sparks at 13, while new entries come from Nelly Furtado in collaboration with Flo-Rida at 17, and Taylor Swift at 19, both names that have graced the top three in the past, though are these singles strong enough to keep up their hitmaking reputations? Here's the chart... 1 (1) Grand Guignol - Bajofondo (Second week) 2 (5) Paparazzi – Lady GaGa 3 (3) Evacuate The Dancefloor – Cascada 4 (2) Bulletproof - La Roux 5 (6) Poppiholla – Chicane 6 (11) Holiday – Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris and Chrome 7 (4) Show You The Way – Jacksons 8 (14) Ready For The Weekend – Calvin Harris feat Mary Pearce 9 (7) Bichiluz – Los Auténticos Decadentes 10 (NEW) I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight – U2 11 (8) Story Of A Heart - Benny Andersson Band 12 (23) Diamond Rings – Chipmunk feat Emeli Sande 13 (20) Battlefield - Jordin Sparks 14 (9) Back Together Again – Daryl Hall and John Oates 15 (16) Foot Of The Mountain – A-Ha 16 (10) Queen Bitch – David Bowie 17 (NEW) Jump – Flo-Rida feat Nelly Furtado 18 (12) Pearl's Dream – Bat For Lashes 19 (NEW) You Belong With Me – Taylor Swift 20 (13) Telegram – Silver Convention And, performing live in the studio, here's Bajofondo, still at number one... gEg59ySj1fU

I hope the public don't fall for Mika again. :puke2: If I have to listen to any more of his drivel, I think I will have to cut off my ears.

Chart commentary: No change in the top three in a typically slow moving summer chart, except that the hot Latin sounds of Bajofondo shoot up to number four to challenge La Roux, Cascada and The Jacksons domination. And with trancey dance having a hugely successful year in this chart after number ones for Calvin Harris and Deadmau5, Chicane get the highest new entry at number seven with 'Popiholla'. With many of the newest sounds, such as the RnB-by-numbers of JLS, failing to interest the Radio Newtown listener, the way is clear for more oldies and more quirky sounds.... With the DVD release of 'The Damned United' imminent, the ever popular David Bowie takes a track from it into the Top 20 with his second revived 45 hit of the year in this chart. Meanwhile, odd Europop entries from Norway's Inger-Lise Rypdal and Germany's Silver Convention are from running jokes on Radio Newtown which it would take too long to explain here... In other words, what we need is... better new singles nothing to with X-Factor! We live in hope... This Week's Chart xcfKbFEdnb0 1 (1) Bulletproof - La Roux (Fourth week) 2 (2) Evacuate The Dancefloor – Cascada 3 (3) Show You The Way To Go – Jacksons 4 (11) Grand Guignol - Bajofondo 5 (5) Bichiluz – Los Auténticos Decadentes 6 (4) Back Together Again – Daryl Hall and John Oates 7 (NEW) Popiholla – Chicane 8 (10) Paparazzi – Lady Ga-Ga 9 (16) Story of a Heart – Benny Andersson Band 10 (19) Pearl's Dream – Bat For Lashes 11 (6) 15 Minutes - The Yeah You's 12 (8) Said It All – Take That 13 (33) Queen Bitch - David Bowie 14 (11) Overpowered – Roisin Murphy 15 (18) Waking Up In Vegas – Katy Perry 16 (7) Untouched – Veronicas 17 (23) You're Movin Out Today – Inger-Lise Rypdal 18 (NEW) Telegram – Silver Convention 19 (14) Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) – Florence and The Machine 20 (13) Winter Hill – Doves

Chart commentary: La Roux get a third week at number one with ‘Bulletproof’, holding off Cascada’s ‘Evacuate The Dancefloor’ which climbs two places to number two. Michael Jackson commemoration continues as the Jacksons’ Philly soul-sounding classic ‘Show You The Way’ climbs seven places to three. But the big feature in this week’s chart is the success of Latino music, bringing a taste of the sun to Radio Newtown’s Top 20 this week. Climbing twenty places to five on download plays is ‘Bichiluz’, a South American-pipe – led ballad from Argentina’s Los Auténticos Decadentes, while the highest new entry comes from electro-tango band Bajofondo, whose instrumental track ‘Grand Guignol’ enters at eleven. Both acts have been stars of recent Latin American music festivals, and could turn another summer into a Latin summer in the Radio Newtown chart, after Turf’s ‘Pasos Al Costado’ topped the charts for five weeks last year. Both the Benny Andersson Band and, surprisingly, Lady Ga-Ga get their first top ten hits in this chart today, but the big story next week will be the Latino challenge to the current girlie double ruling the Radio Newtown Top 20. This Week's Chart http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/2705728.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/CDGLOBE1179.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/88697304722.JPGhttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/hallandoates.jpghttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/autenticos.jpg 1 (1) Bulletproof - La Roux (Third week) 2 (4) Evacuate The Dancefloor – Cascada 3 (10) Show You The Way To Go – Jacksons 4 (2) Back Together Again - Daryl Hall and John Oates 5 (25) Bichiluz – Los Auténticos Decadentes 6 (5) 15 Minutes – The Yeah You’s 7 (8) Untouched – Veronicas 8 (3) Said It All – Take That 9 (16) Story of a Heart – Benny Andersson Band 10 (17) Paparazzi – Lady Ga-Ga 11 (NEW) Grand Guignol - Bajofondo 12 (11) Overpowered – Roisin Murphy 13 (7) Winter Hill - Doves 14 (12) Rabbit Heart (Lift It Up) – Florence and the Machine 15 (13) Kiss Me Through The Phone – Soulja Boy 16 (6) Stone Cold Sober – Paloma Faith 17 (9) Mama Do – Pixie Lott 18 (23) Waking Up In Vegas – Katy Perry 19 (22) Pearl’s Dream – Bat For Lashes 20 (14) Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer) – Freemasons feat Sophie Ellis Bextor

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Chart commentary: During the 70s and 80s, one of the highlights of the BBC's coverage of the Wimbledon tennis fortnight was the pop montage at the end. A selection of exciting and amusing clips from that year's tournament would be set to one of the pop hits of the day. Particularly memorable ones were 1983's 'Every Breath You Take' and 1985's 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World'. Now, in 2009, we are treated to a new BBC montage every night, and this week's chart certainly reflects this year's BBC Wimbldeon effect. Up an amazing twenty places, after being featured on a Wimbledon montage, La Roux, who recently reached number two with her debut 'In For The Kill', shoots to number one in the new chart with 'Bulletproof'. 'Winter Hill' by Doves drops to two after two weeks at the top, and the Freemasons collaboration with Sophie Ellis Bextor, 'Heartbreak, Make Me A Dancer', also drops one place to two, making was for La Roux's infectious chart-topper. And the BBC Wimbledon effect doesn't end there. Up sixteen places to number six is 'Stone Cold Sober' by Paloma Faith, and '15 Minutes' by The Yeah You's climbs fifteen to number eight, having both been featured as closing numbers on Wimbledon coverage this week. So a lot of movement in today's chart. The regular influx of random 70sness from downloads sees Daryl Hall and John Oates climb to four with 'Back Together Again', while Cerrone's Eurodisco hit continues its climb up the top ten at seven. But the highest new entry is entirely predictable as a result of the tragic death of Michael Jackson - 'Show You The Way To Go', a number one hit in 1977, is the most popular of the Jackson songs in this chart, entering today at thirteen. Further new entries come from Roisin Murphy at 14, with a two year old track that again has re-emerged through downloads, and also Cascada, who topped the chart with her first hit three years ago, and whose 'Evacuate The Dancefloor' comes in at sixteen. Watch out also for further progress from Veronicas, who climb nine places to eleven with 'Untouched'. Even without the tennis exposure, though, La Roux's song would have been a likely number one contender, and after such a strong surge to the top, it could well become the song of Summer 2009. This Week's Chart http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/2705728.JPGhttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/doves.jpghttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/sophie.jpghttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/hallandoates.jpghttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/2708717.JPG 1 (21) Bulletproof - La Roux (New number one) 2 (1) Winter Hill – Doves 3 (2) Heartbreak, Make Me A Dancer – Freemasons ft Sophie Ellis Bextor 4 (11) Back Together Again - Daryl Hall and John Oates 5 (8) Said It All – Take That 6 (22) Stone Cold Sober – Paloma Faith 7 (9) Love In C Minor – Cerrone with Bob Sinclair 8 (23) 15 Minutes – The Yeah Yous 9 (10) Mama Do – Pixie Lott 10 (4) I Do Not Hook Up – Kelly Clarkson 11 (20) Untouched - Veronicas 12 (3) New In Town – Little Boots 13 (NEW) Show You The Way To Go - Jacksons 14 (NEW) Overpowered – Roisin Murphy 15 (5) Pounding – Doves 16 (NEW) Evacuate The Dancefloor – Cascada 17 (6) Magnificent – U2 18 (15) It Is Isn't It – Shmoo 19 (7) I Remember – Deadmau5 ft Kaskade 20 (12) Silence Is Talking – Reverend and the Makers

Chart commentary: One band takes up 20% of the Top Twenty this week - Doves, who get their first number one hit in this chart with 'Winter Hill' - a song that delighted fans at Saturday's exciting concert at Delamere Forest, the event which has sparked off the current Doves-mania in the chart. 'Ship of Fools', an atmospheric track on their current album 'Kingdom of Rust', was not performed at the show, but still reaches number ten, while their most famous track 'Pounding', as ever the centrepiece of their live show, makes a re-entry at 15, two places above another fan favourite, 'The Cedar Room', which comes in at 17. And so the whole of Radio Newtown seems to be listening to Doves right now... Deadmau5 and Kaskade have been number one for three weeks with 'I Remember', but drop a place to number two, as does Little Boots, down one at three with 'New In Town'. Kelly Clarkson holds steady at 4 with 'I Do Not Hook Up', but there's still room for new dance music of the commercial kind in the top five, with a nine place climb for Freemasons and Sophie Ellis Bextor's 'Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer'. Reverend and The Makers at 7 and Kasabian at 8 keep that loose banner known as 'indie' high into the charts with singles that climb into the top ten. Meanwhile, much-hyped newcomer Pixie Lott does get a Top 20 hit, with 'Mama Do' entering at sixteen, but the only brand new song to make its debut in the twenty today. The everlasting popularity of 70s disco sees the French duo of Cerrone and 21st century hitmaker Bob Sinclair get and old instrumental track into the chart at 19, while in the run-up to Father's Day, 'Dad Rock' favourites Daryl Hall and John Oates climb to 20 with another old song proving popular on the download scene, the misleadingly titled 'Back Together Again'. The 80s duo who've never split up continue to tour, and recently received a special award for creative achievement from America's National Association of Record Merchandisers. But still no number one, which Doves will be celebrating tonight. This Week's Chart http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/doves.jpghttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MAU5017.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/679L166CD.JPGhttp://i40.tinypic.com/347z693.jpghttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/sophie.jpg 1 (11) Winter Hill - Doves (New number one) 2 (1) I Remember – Deadmau5 ft Kaskade 3 (2) New In Town – Little Boots 4 (4) I Do Not Hook Up - Kelly Clarkson 5 (14) Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer – Freemasons feat Sophie Ellis Bextor 6 (3) Magnificent – U2 7 (12) Silence Is Talking – Reverend and The Makers 8 (15) Fire – Kasabian 9 (6) Red – Daniel Merriweather 10 (19) Ship of Fools – Doves 11 (8) Teardrops On My Guitar - Taylor Swift 12 (7) Release Me – Agnes 13 (17) Candy - Paolo Nutini 14 (5) The Girl And The Robot – Royksopp feat Robyn 15 (RE) Pounding – Doves 16 (NEW) Mama Do – Pixie Lott 17 (NEW) The Cedar Room – Doves 18 (9) Bonkers – Dizzee Rascal and Armand van Helden 19 (25) Love In C Minor – Cerrone By Bob Sinclair 20 (27) Back Together Again – Daryl Hall and John Oates

Chart commentary: So much debate last week about which of Daniel Merriweather, Little Boots, Agnes, Kelly Clarkson or U2 would get the number one spot on the chart this week after major movement last Tuesday. And the answer? None of them! In a year dominated so far by various forms of dance music, Deadmau5 and Kaskade's chill-out epic, which conjures up an Ibiza sunrise every time you hear it, stays at the top, 'I Remember' chalking up its third consecutive week at number one. Little Boots climbs to no 2 with 'New In Town', and U2, tipped strongly for number one in this chart last week, jump six to three with 'Magnificent'. This overtakes Kelly Clarkson, 'I Do Not Hook Up' still getting her a top five place this week at four, and all three artists will be pleased to have made so much progress on the Radio Newtown listing after disappointing performaces on the inferior charts of other radio stations... ;) The former number one by Royksopp and Robyn makes up the top five, while Daniel Merriweather at 6 and Agnes at 7 will be disappointed to have dropped back after good progress last week. Taylor Swift's pleasing brand of country-pop gets her another top ten hit to go with 'Love Story', as 'Teardrops on My Guitar' climbs to eight, and there's a cimilar country feel to Paolo Nutini's hit that climbs to 17 today. But two acts founded decades apart claim two spots each in today's chart. The Carpenters were featured in a BBC retrospective a couple of weeks ago, and it enables two of their tracks to maintain places in the chart, 'One More Time' holding at 16, while 'Mr Guder' climbs to 18. The big winners though, would appear to be Doves. They have one of the most successful singles on the 2009 chart so far under their belts with 'Kingdom of Rust', which spent weeks at number two behind the Calvin Harris chart topper, and now the stupendous album of the same name fires two more of its tracks into the Top 20 - the hypnotic and almost psychedelic 'Winter Hill' is the biggest climber to number 11 today, and at 19, 'Ship of Fools' adds to their chart presence in the run-up to their much anticipated concert in Delamere Forest on Saturday. Fans will be hoping for good weather for this potential music event of the year, and the show could well help Doves to dominate the chart next week. Which could be bad news for the Freemasons, as they haul Sophie Ellis Bextor back into the charts as a new entry at 14, and Kasabian, who enter and 15, and would be hoping for Top 10 positions next week, as would Reverend and the Makers, whose new song based on the 70s classic 'Low Rider' by War climbs to 12 today. But the possibility of Doves domination in the chart next Saturday could well mean all bets are off... This Week's Chart http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MAU5017.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/679L166CD.JPGhttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/u2.jpghttp://i40.tinypic.com/347z693.jpghttp://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1906/0eab.jpg 1 (1) I Remember - Deadmau5 feat Kaskade (Third Week) 2 (5) New In Town – Little Boots 3 (9) Magnificent – U2 4 (8) I Do Not Hook Up - Kelly Clarkson 5 (2) The Girl And The Robot – Royksopp and Robyn 6 (4) Red – Daniel Merriweather 7 (6) Release Me – Agnes 8 (13) Teardrops On My Guitar – Taylor Swift 9 (10) Bonkers – Dizzee Rascal and Armand van Helden 10 (3) Your Own Special Way – Genesis 11 (25) Winter Hill - Doves 12 (24) Silence Is Talking – Reverend and The Makers 13 (7) The Climb - Miley Cyrus 14 (NEW) Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer – Freemasons feat Sophie Ellis Bextor 15 (NEW) Fire – Kasabian 16 (16) One More Time – Carpenters 17 (22) Candy – Paolo Nutini 18 (21) Mr Guder – The Carpenters 19 (29) Ship of Fools – Doves 20 (11) Number One – Tinchy Stryder and N Dubz

Thanks! I'm always so rushed, I'm sorry I never take time to thank people for commenting, but thanks all anyway. :cheer: There are so many fantastic songs I'm listening to at the moment I really have no idea what I want to be number one next week... right this second U2 have a very good chance as I have 'Magnificent' blasting out of my speakers at top volume... that song could've been on 'War' or 'October', it's brilliant... but then, so are Deadmau5, Merriweather, Lil' Boots, Agnes, Kelly, even the obscure Carpenters tracks I've been downloading since watching that programme! :wub: Feeling very musical at the moment, I think this must be one of my best ever charts... also enjoying Doves and Reverend and the Makers which didn't make it this week, but will next...

Chart commentary: After some weeks of relatively slow movement, the Top 20 gets a massive shake-up this week, though not at the very top, where Canadian producer Deadmau5 again holds off former chart-toppers Royksopp and Robyn to make it two weeks at number one with 'I Remember' (featuring the vocals of Kaskade). Meanwhile, Peter Gabriel era Genesis continues to find unexpected favour as 'Your Own Special Way' climbs two places to number three. But below the top three, there are such might movers that it is almost impossible to predict which of them, if any, will be number one next week or later. Daniel Merriweather will be delighted with the progress of his second solely credited single 'Red', which is already out performing his debut hit, by climbing ten places to number four today, but this is almost tortoise-like progress compared to what's going on below him. Joint biggest climber is Little Boots, up twenty-two places with 'New In Town' to number five, overtaking Swedish idol Agnes, who nevertheless makes a big jump as well with 'Release Me', up nineteen places to six. Sharing the climbing honours with LB is Kelly Clarkson, who has her 22 place climb to eight with 'I Do Not Hook Up', while in an attempt to inject more testosterone in a female dominated top ten (which also includes Miley Cyrus at seven), U2 get the highest new entry, going back to 80s basics with 'Magnificent'. Dizzee Rascal makes up the top ten with 'Bonkers', but looks unlikely to repeat his number one of last year with such intense competition. It's certainly done for the likes of Green Day and The Courteeners, who have seen their chart progress suddenly reversed. But coming back into the charts as a result of a beautiful Bank Holiday TV retrospective are The Carpenters, although with album tracks, not the well-worn singles... 'Mr Guder' is stationed just outside the Top 20, while from the album 'A Kind of Hush', the sublime 'One More Time' enters at 16, meaning that one of the greatest female voices of all time in Karen Carpenter may still be able to compete with the top stars of today on this chart at least. This Week's Chart http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MAU5017.JPGhttp://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1906/0eab.jpghttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/genesis.jpghttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/88697499282.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/679L166CD.JPG 1 (1) I Remember - Deadmau5 feat Kaskade (Second Week) 2 (2) The Girl And The Robot – Royksopp feat Robyn 3 (5) Your Own Special Way – Genesis 4 (14) Red - Daniel Merriweather 5 (27) New In Town – Little Boots 6 (26) Release Me – Agnes 7 (3) The Climb – Miley Cyrus 8 (30) I Do Not Hook Up – Kelly Clarkson 9 (NEW) Magnificent – U2 10 (13) Bonkers – Dizzee Rascal/Armand van Helden 11 (4) Number One - Tinchy Stryder/N Dubz 12 (6) Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny) – A R Rahman/Pussycat Dolls 13 (16) Teardrops On My Guitar - Taylor Swift 14 (11) The World We Live In – Killers 15 (7) In For The Kill – La Roux 16 (NEW) One More Time – Carpenters 17 (9) See The Light – Green Day 18 (8) I'm Not Alone – Calvin Harris 19 (10) Not Nineteen Forever – Courteeners 20 (12) Untouchable – Girls Aloud

Chart commentary: After just one week at number one, the Scandinavian collaboration of Royksopp and Robyn fall to number two, as Canadian producer Deadmau5, with the gorgeous vocals of Kaskade, at last takes the number one position with 'I Remember'. The club favourite has been gradually building up support to climb the Radio Newtown chart, and now jumps two places to become the new chart topper. Miley Cyrus also makes way, as 'The Climb' goes into reverse, dropping one two three. The top five is completed by the long runner from Tinchy Stryder and N-Dubz, climbing back up the chart to four with 'Number One', while the revived 45 from 70s Genesis gets into the top five. Another long runner from AR Rahman and the Pussycat Dolls climbs six places to number six as songs from such as La Roux and Calvin Harris start to fall to make some room in the higher reaches. Green Day's new album track (9) and The Courteeners epic (10) complete the top ten, but the main action in the Top 20 comes in the lower half. Dizzee Rascal and Daniel Merriweather have new entries at 13 and 14 respectively. Taylor Swift's heavy rotation on a local TV channel's musical interludes see two of her tracks leap into the Top 20, while the release of a Greatest Hits album helps Kiki Dee get her first ever Top 20 hit in this chart. This Week's Chart http://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MAU5017.JPGhttp://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1906/0eab.jpghttp://s5.tinypic.com/dyk6zr.jpghttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/2701362.JPGhttp://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii35/Merlo2001/genesis.jpg 1 (3) I Remember - Deadmau5 feat Kaskade (New Number One) 2 (1) The Girl And The Robot – Royksopp feat Robyn 3 (2) The Climb – Miley Cyrus 4 (7) Number One - Tinchy Stryder/N Dubz 5 (8) Your Own Special Way – Genesis 6 (12) Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny) – A R Rahman and Pussycat Dolls 7 (4) In For The Kill – La Roux 8 (5) I'm Not Alone – Calvin Harris 9 (16) See The Light – Green Day 10 (17) Not Nineteen Forever – Courteeners 11 (15) The World We Live In - Killers 12 (9) Untouchable – Girls Aloud 13 (NEW) Bonkers - Dizzee Rascall/Armand van Helden 14 (NEW) Red – Daniel Merriweather 15 (14) Always Crashing In The Same Car – David Bowie 16 (53) Teardrops On My Guitar – Taylor Swift 17 (10) Kingdom of Rust – Doves 18 (28) Love Story – Taylor Swift 19 (6) Let Me Down Easy – Rare Pleasure 20 (24) First Thing In The Morning – Kiki Dee

Chart commentary: The Radio Newtown Top 20 is back after a month-long absence, due to illness of chart compilers, and the new chart has a new number one, in the form of Royksopp and Robyn's 80s-tinged slice of electronica 'The Girl And The Robot'. Calvin Harris, who topped the three unpublished charts to make a total of six weeks at number one, drops to number five with 'I'm Not Alone', in between there's plenty of exciting activity to welcome back the Radio Newtown listing. Miley Cyrus is looking to score her first number one hit with 'The Climb' and goes up five places to 2 to become the obvious challenger to the two 'R's, but another strong contender is another hot dance track: Canadian producer Deadmau5 leaps eleven places to three with 'I Remember'. Retro still has a big presence in the chart, with disco cult stars Rare Pleasure dropping to 6, and 'Damned United'-inspired 'Man Of The World' by Fleetwood Mac down to 11, but upward progress from two seventies superstar tracks: Peter Gabriel-era Genesis track 'Your Own Special Way' climbs to number eight, while 'Always Crashing In The Same Car' from the David Bowie album 'Low' is at 14. With chart-watchers wondering about the sudden outbreak of 70s rock, a chart compiler confides "It's probably a case of listeners turning to the past due to the current singles of previously successful artists such as Lily Allen, Eminem and Black Eyed Peas receiving underwhelming reaction from the Radio Newtown audience, and those singles failing to challenge at the top of the chart so far. Even at 18, a recent hit makes a comeback - a one-year old song from Courteeners leaps up to 18, as a result of its recent use in TV sports coverage. But there are three new entries within the Top 20 very much of today - The Killers enter at 15 with a well-aired track from a long-running album, while a brand new album from Green Day sees not the nominated single, but closing track See The Light in at 16. And the latest floor-burning epic from Prodigy enters at 19, with promise of big climbs next week. This Week's Chart http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/1906/0eab.jpghttp://s5.tinypic.com/dyk6zr.jpghttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/MAU5017.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/2700304.JPGhttp://www3.hmv.co.uk/hmv/Large_Images/HMV/88697513252.JPG 1 (3) The Girl And The Robot - Royksopp and Robyn (New Number One) 2 (7) The Climb – Miley Cyrus 3 (14) I Remember – Deadmau5 feat Kaskade 4 (2) In For The Kill - La Roux 5 (1) I'm Not Alone – Calvin Harris 6 (4) Let Me Down Easy – Rare Pleasure 7 (5) Number One – Tinchy Stryder/N-Dubz 8 (18) Your Own Special Way – Genesis 9 (6) Untouchable – Girls Aloud 10 (8) Kingdom of Rust – Doves 11 (9) Man Of The World - Fleetwood Mac 12 (16) Jai-Ho (You Are My Destiny) – A R Rahman and Pussycat Dolls 13 (10) If This Isn't Love - Jennifer Hudson 14 (19) Always Crashing In The Same Car – David Bowie 15 (NEW) The World We Live In – Killers 16 (NEW) See The Light – Green Day 17 (44) Not Nineteen Forever – Courteeners 18 (11) Dragonflies – Eddi Reader 19 (NEW) Warrior's Dance – Prodigy 20 (12) Love, Sex and Magic – Ciara and Justin Timberlake