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Chart catch-up from w/e March 10th 2007 to April 14th 2007…
[Lil’ Chris]
Catching up on the past chart weeks that I missed:
For w/e March 10th 2007, Take That climbed to No.1 from No.10 with Shine and the singles worthcommenting on were Calvin Harris‘ Acceptable in the ’80s entered the charts at No.32. Fromgarish clothes to hair gel to animal experiments and weird-shaped cups, this is an amusing track witha great video.
Then further down, at No.57, was Lil’ Chris with Figure It Out: He looks about 10 and asprecocious as one of the kids on ‘Why Don’t You?’, but the chorus has shades of something that sounds likeit came from the mid-’80s, so it’s certainly worth five minutes of your time.
She’s Madonna
[Rudebox Special Edition]
For w/e March 17th 2007, Take That stayed at the top slot for a second week, while RobbieWilliams limped on the single’s physical release from No.109 to No.16 with the lacklustre She’sMadonna, dropping to No.31 the following week.
Walk This Way
For w/e March 24th 2007, the No.1 slot was taken by official Comic Relief single cover version WalkThis Way by the Sugababes & Girls Aloud. However, this Aerosmith classic is done a terribledisservice with a lame cover and a godawful video that badly rips off the 1986 cover between Aerosmithand Run DMC.
Red Nose Day was on March 16th, so if you want to give your money to the deep pockets of dictators likeRobert Mugabe, then continue ring the BBC on that day and pledge away all your hard-earned cash(!)
Another charity single went in at No.3 with another Peter Kay outing, this time as Phoenix Nightscharacter Brian Potter with Little Britain’s Andy Pipkin, teaming up with the Proclaimers for a coverof their No.11 song from 1988, I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), while the original went back into thecharts at No.37.
(I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles
[Best of Proclaimers]
For w/e March 31st 2007, the Proclaimers’ Comic Relief version made it to No.1 for the first week while newentries were very thin on the ground inside the Top 40, with Jamelia’s No More landing outsideat No.43 and being no more than a bastardised version of The Stranglers’ Golden Brown.
Oh, and our Eurovision non-hopeful, Scooch, limped in at No.61 with Flying the Flag. Nilpoints for sure…
[This Time]
For w/e April 7th 2007, the Proclaimers retained the top slot with the other Comic Relief offering,from Sugababes and Girls Aloud, slipping from No.2 to No.14. New entries included Mel C‘srather pedestrian cover of I Want Candy, being the theme to the Carmen Electra film of the samename, entering at No.24, while a couple of much older tracks featured outside of the Top 40.
Cat Stevens‘ Wild World was actually new entry, in singles terms, at No.52 while EltonJohn‘s Rocket Man re-entered the charts at No.62, having made No.2 back in April 1972.
This Must Be Love
[Eyes Open]
And to bring us up to date with w/e April 14th 2007, the Proclaimers made it their 3rd week at No.1,while Amy Winehouse claimed she was going Back to Black with a new entry at No.73,Natasha Bedingfield gave us the excruciatingly-bad I Wanna Have Your Babies at No.25and Frank Sidebottom‘s guests from his recent Proper Telly Show, Little Man Tateentered the charts at No.33 with This Must Be Love.
That’s all for now, but thanks for your patience until normal service isresumed.
Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2007.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.