69 (67) Take That – Greatest Day

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[Chart archive – March 1997 to date]

This week: 4 new entries, 3 chart, 1 re-entering, 8 climbing, 2 not moving & 22 downers. new entry re-entry climber faller non moverCHART TIME !

(* – my current favourites)
(!!! – Single Of The Week!!!)
(:O === the current all-time hate that makes even my smilie want to hurl!)
( (R) – Repeat., ie. a re-release)

A brief analysis on the current chart situation…

4 new, 3 chart and 1 re-entering and entries :
• 1 Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
• 6 Ciara feat. Justin Timberlake – Love Sex Magic
• 16 Liverpool Collective/Kop Choir – Fields Of Anfield Road
• 24 Depeche Mode – Wrong
• 35 (45 CH) Britney Spears – If You Seek Amy
• 36 (56 CH) Bat For Lashes – Daniel
• 39 (46 CH) James Morrison – Please Don’t Stop The Rain
• 40 (48 RE) The Killers – Human

so the following dropped out :

• 40 Jennifer Hudson – If This Isn’t Love
• 37 Take That – Up All Night
• 36 September – Can’t Get Over
• 35 Flo-rida – Suga
• 34 Asher Roth – I Love College
• 33 White Lies – Farewell To The Fairground
• 28 Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
• 23 Jack Penate – Tonight’s Today

8 climbing :

• 4 (7) La Roux – In For The Kill
• 11 (12) Lily Allen – Not Fair
• 13 (16) Enrique Iglesias feat. Ciara – Takin’ Back My Love
• 18 (22) James Morrison feat. Nelly Furtado – Broken Strings
• 22 (24) Franz Ferdinand – No You Girls
• 25 (32) Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
• 28 (31) Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me
• 33 (39) Tinchy Stryder feat. Taio Cruz – Take Me Back

2 not moving :

• 3 A R Rahman & Pussycat Dolls feat. Nicole Scherzinger – Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)
• 19 Lily Allen – The Fear

and 22 going down. Big fallers include:

20 (11) Steve Angello & Laidback Luke feat. Robin S – Show Me Love23 (17) Just Jack – Embers31 (18) KIG – Heads Shoulders Kneez And Toez

New entries from No.41-75 :

• 46 Fightstar – Mercury Summer
• 47 Ercola feat. Daniella – Every Word
• 62 Miley Cyrus – Hoedown Throwdown
• 68 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

Take That: Greatest Day
[The Circus]

69 (67) Take That – Greatest Day

Having been used on a yawnsome advert, this track is so tedious beyond belief Ican’t work out how it ever got made.

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Beyonce: If I Were A Boy
[I Am Sasha Fierce]

66 (52) Beyonce – If I Were A Boy

I’m never a fan of her music and this won’t change anything.

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The Saturdays: Up
[Chasing Lights]

64 (43) The Saturdays – Up

Ah, The Saturdays. Good to look at, and they were on Something for the Weekend recently. Watch here:

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Leona Lewis: Run
[Spirit]

56 (57) Leona Lewis – Run

A cover version of the fantastic Snow Patrol track, but here Leona starts offtedious and then throws her voice around like Mariah Carey throwing a strop.Avoid.

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The Killers: Human
[Day and Age]

40 (48) The Killers – Human

Sometimes The Killers’ music can be a bit samey, and this comes across as rather a carbon copy of ‘Read My Mind’ but it’salways listenable so this is worth hearing, but not Top 5 material.

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Kings Of Leon:
Sex On Fire
[Only By the Night]

30 (27) Kings Of Leon: Sex On Fire

Great band. Not a bad track, either and great to see them at the top slot.Certainly more deserved than most things that get there.

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The Saturdays: Just Can’t Get Enough
[Up]

27 (20) Saturdays – Just Can’t Get Enough

A dreadful cover of the Depeche Mode song, but it’s for charidee so that makes it alright, yes? No, not really.

They were also on Something for the Weekend recently, on March 1st. Watch here:

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Lily Allen: The Fear
[It’s Not Me It’s You]

19 (19) Lily Allen – The Fear

“Look, my name’s Lily Allen. I’ve got a failed chat show and I can use the f-word in my songs, but hey, I’m on Myspace!”

Stupid mockney bint.

(sigh)

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Kelly Clarkson: My Life
Would Suck Without You
[All I Ever Wanted]

17 (14) Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You

Mine wouldn’t if I didn’t have to hear this record.

This is teen pop pretending to be something better.

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Lady Gaga: Just Dance
[The Fame]

15 (13) Lady Gaga – Just Dance

Mediocre pop.

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Flo-rida: Right Round
[Mail On Sunday]

9 (4) Flo-rida – Right Round

Good God almighty, take an old Dead Or Alive classic and then just ramble a load of old shite over a backingbeat instead of writing any actual lyrics.

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Lady Gaga: Poker Face
[The Fame]

2 (1) Lady Gaga – Poker Face*

I’d probably poker in the face, but I wouldn’t choose to listen to this tedious excuse for music.

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Calvin Harris:
I’m Not Alone

1 Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone *1st Week at No.1*

Takes a while before it really gets going and even then it sounds rather derivative. I can’t work out why it’s No.1

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Calvin Harris:
I’m Not Alone

April 13th:

A.R. Rahman & Pussycat Dolls – Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny)
AC/DC – Anything Goes/Big Jack
Alex Cornish – My Word What A Mess
Beyonce – Halo
Bombay Bicycle Club – Always Like This
Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
Das Pop – Never Get Enough
Death Cab For Cutie – The Open Door
The Enemy – No Time For Tears
Everything Everything – Photoshop Handsome
Frankmusik – Better Off As Two
Gomez – Airstream Driver
Kabeedies – Little Brains
Lady Gaga – Poker Face
N-Dubz – Wouldn’t You
PJ Harvey & John Parrish – Black Hearted Love
Rochelle – Chin Up
The Shermans – Venom
Super Furry Animals – tba
Tinchy Stryder feat N-Dubz – Number One
The View – Temptation Dice (7”)
The Wave Pictures – If You Leave It Alone (7”)

April 20th:

Asher Roth – I Love College
The Days – Never Give Up
Eagles Of Death Metal – Anything ‘Cept The Truth
John Dahlback feat Basto – Out There
Junior Boys – Hazel (12”)
Kevin Rudolf – Welcome To The World
Kidbase feat Sincere – Goodgirls Love Rudeboys
Kleerup feat Titiyo – Longing For Lullabies
Still Flyin’ – Good Ting It’s A Ghost Town Around Here (7”)

April 27th:

Ben Harper & Relentless 7 – White Lies For Dark Times
Bimbo Jones – And I Try
Blazin’ Squad – Let’s Start Again
Girls Aloud – Untouchable
Ironik – Tiny Dancer
Kanye West – Paranoid
The King Blues – I Got Love
King Creosote – Coast On By
Maccabees – Colour It In
Madina Lake – Never Take Us Alive
Peaches – Talk To Me / More
Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me
Shannon Noll – Shine
Sky Larkin – Antibodies (Cassette)[Limited]
St Vincent – Actor Out Of Work
T-Pain feat Chris Brown – Freeze

May 4th:

Britney Spears – If You Seek Amy
Carolina Liar – Show Me What I’m Looking For
Daniel Merriweather – Red
Empire Of The Sun – We Are The People
Hockey – Song Away
Jade Ewen– My Time
Laurent Wolf – No Stress
Maximo Park – The Kids Are Sick Again
Tommy Sparks – She’s Got Me Dancing
Will And The People – Knocking

May 11th:

Alesha Dixon – Let’s Get Excited
Broken Records – Until The Earth Begins To Part
Laura Izibor – Don’t Stay
Lily Allen – Not Fair
Livvi Franc – Free
Marilyn Manson – Armageddon
Passion Pit – The Reeling
Pixie Lott – Mama Do

May 18th:

Absent Elk – Sun And Water
Dan Black – Hypntz
Graham Coxon – Sorrow’s Army
Ladyhawke – Back Of The Van
Scott Matthews – Fractured
White Light Parade – Wait for The Weekend (7”)

Coming soon:

Agnes – Release Me
Alcazar – Burning
Alina – When You Leave [May]
Anastacia – Defeated [Apr]
Annagrace – You Make Me Feel
Annie – Ánthonio (12”) [Apr]
Basic Element – Touch You Right Now
Billy Talent – Rusted From The Rain [25th May]
Blackout Crew – Dialled
Cahill – Sex Shooter
Charlotte Hatherley – Winter
Client – Can You Feel [1st Jun]
Cutback feat Federal – Rock To The Rhythm [Apr]
Daniela – Push It Up
David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland – Love Takes Over
Deadmau5 feat MC Flipside – Hi Friend
Deerhunter – Never Stops
Dub Pistols – Back To Daylight
E-Type – Rain [Apr/May]
Elliott Minor – Discover (Why Love Hurts)
Example – Girl Can’t Dance [Jun]
Flo Rida – Suga [8th Jun]
Fragma – Memory
Freemasons feat Sophie Ellis Bextor – Heartbreak Make Me A Dancer [Apr]
Friday Night Posse – Before He Cheats
Gathania – Blame It On You
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown
Iglu & Hartly – Violent & Young
Infadels – Circus Of The Mad
Janelle Monae – Many Moons
Jenny Jones – Don’t Walk Away
Kasabian – Fire [1st Jun]
Kate Ryan – Ella Elle L’a [Apr]
Katy Perry – Waking Up In Vegas
Kid British – Rum Boys [15th Jun]
La Roux – Bulletproof [25th May]
Laura And The Tears – Love Live On!
Little Boots – New In Town [25th May]
Lonnie Gordon – Gonna Catch You 2009
M Ward – Rave On [Jun]
M83 – We Own The Sky (EP)
Malibu Sneakers – Get Down Again
Maria Lawson – These Walls
Melody Gardot – Baby I’m A Fool [25th May]
Mongrel – Silence Is Talking
Natalie Imbruglia – tba
Natural Born Grooves – Candy On The Dancefloor
Peacemakerz feat Danielle Senior – Take It To The Dancefloor
Platnum – Trippin’
Poppy & The Jezebels – Rhubarb & Custard
Private – My Secret Lover
Ray LaMontagne – You Are The Best Thing
Röyksopp feat Robyn – The Girl & The Robot
Saturdays – Work
Star Pilots – In The Heat Of The Night
The Stills – Being Here
Swingfly – Singing That Melody
TV On The Radio – Crying [May]
U2 – Magnificent
Ultrabeat – Starry Eyed Girl
Van She – Cat & The Eye
The Veils – Three Sisters
The Veronicas – Untouched [25th May]
Vogue – Twilight [29th Jun]
Wideboys feat Dennis G – Sambuca (The Return)

Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

Doves: Kingdom Of Rust

This week there are new entries for :
• 2 Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
• 5 Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
• 9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
• 12 Carole King – Tapestry
• 14 Eoghan Quigg – Eoghan Quigg
• 22 Neil Young – Fork In The Road
• 26 The Specials – The Best Of
• 35 Ultravox – The Very Best Of

Lady Gaga: The Fame

The top 10 goes like this :
• 1 Lady Gaga – The Fame
• 2 Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
• 3 Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
• 4 Annie Lennox – The Collection
• 5 Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
• 6 Lily Allen – It’s Not Me It’s You
• 7 Ronan Keating – Songs For My Mother
• 8 Akon – Freedom
• 9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
• 10 Beyonce – I Am Sasha Fierce

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Chris De Burgh: Footsteps

April 13th:

Bob James – The Very Best Of
Chris De Burgh – Footsteps
The Days – Atlantic Skies
Duke Special – I Never Thought This Day Would Come
Eddi Reader – Love Is The Way
Erykah Badu – Live
Juliette Lewis & The New Romantiques – Terra Incognita
Lady Sovereign – Jigsaw
Madeleine Peyroux – Bare Bones
Silversun Pickups – Swoon
Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years
Twisted Wheel – Twisted Wheel
Ultrabeat – Discolights
The Von Bondies – Love Hate And Then There’s You

April 20th:

Art Brut – Art Brut VS Satan
Asher Roth – Asleep In The Bread Aisle
Booker T – Potato Hole
Brakes – Touchdown
The Broken Family Band – Please And Thank You
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Das Pop – Das Pop
Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe
Fightstar – Be Human
Golden Silvers – Golden Silvers
The Hours – See The Light
Jim Bob – Goffam
The Juan MacLean – The Future Will Come
King Creosote – Flick The Vs
Labelle – Back To Now
Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
Metric – Fantasies
Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Smoove & Turrell – Antique Soul
Sneaky Sound System – Sneaky Sound System
Sucioperro – Pain Agency
The Ultrasonics – Ultrasound
The Virgins – The Virgins

April 27th:

Alex Cornish – Until The Traffic Stops
Black Crowes – Warpaint Live
Blue Roses – Blue Roses
Daniel Merriweather – Love & War
The Enemy – Music For The People
Mumford And Sons – The Cave and The Open Sea

May 4th:

Alessi’s Ark – Notes From The Treehouse
Ben Harper & Relentless 7 – White Lies For Dark Times
British Sea Power – Man Of Aran
Conor Oberst – Outer South
Esser – Braveface
Fischerspooner – Entertainment
Gallows – Grey Britain
Good Books – tba
Isis – Wavering Radiant
Jersey Budd – Wonderlands
Maccabees – Wall Of Arms
Madina Lake – Attics To Eden
Marmaduke Duke – Duke Pandemonium
Peaches – I Feel Cream
Shannon Noll – What Matters The Most
St Vincent – Actor
Theory Of A Deadman – I Hate My Life
Tiga – Ciao!
The Wave Pictures – If You Leave It Alone
William Orbit – My Oracle Lives Uptown
Eurovision 2009

May 11th:

Ben’s Brother – Battling Giants
Ciara – Fantasy Ride
David Archuleta – David Archuleta
Ed Harcourt – Russian Roulette
Fields – Hollow Mountains
Gary Go – Gary Go
Graham Coxon – The Spinning Top
In Case Of Fire – Align The Planets
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care
Maximo Park – Quicken The Heart
My Latest Novel – Deaths And Entrances
Operation Aloha – Operation Aloha
Patrick Watson – Wooden Arms
Sarah McLachlan – Closer: The Best Of
Tommy Sparks – tba
VV Brown – Travelling Like The Light

May 18th:

Au Revoir Simone – Still Night Still Light
Busta Rhymes – Back On My BS
Dub Pistols – Rum & Coke
Eminem – Relapse
FrYars – Dark Young Hearts
Hockey – Mind Chaos
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
Laura Izibor – Let The Truth Be Told
Lil Wayne – Rebirth
Madness – The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
Marilyn Manson – The High End Of Low
One eskimO – All Balloons
Passion Pit – Manners
Scott Matthews – Elsewhere
Skint & Demoralised – Love And Other Catastrophes
Slow Club – Yeah So?
Tori Amos – Abnormally Attracted to Sin

Coming soon:

1 Giant Leap – What About Me?
50 Cent – Before I Self Destruct
Ace Of Base – tba
Aerosmith – tba
Alexandra Burke – tba
Andre 3000 – tba
Andrew Bain – Presents Modern Classics
Annie – Don’t Stop
Annuals – Such Fun
Arctic Monkeys – tba
Asteroids Galaxy Tour – tba
Audio Bullys – Sunday Night Fever
Ava Leigh – Rollin’
Basement Jaxx – tba
Beastie Boys – tba
Belle And Sebastian – God Help The Girl [Jun]
Beverley Trotman – tba
Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot… Son Of Chico Dusty
Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) [Jun]
Blondie – tba
Bob Dylan – tba [Apr]
Bombay Bicycle Club – tba [Jun]
Boom Bip – tba
Broken Records – Until The Earth Begins To Part [1st Jun]
Cajun Dance Party – tba
Captain – Distraction
Carolina Liar – Coming To Terms [27th Jul]
Cassie – tba
Cat Power – Sun
Charlotte Hatherley – Cinnabar City
Chilli Gold – Waterfalls
Chipmunk – I Am Chipmunk
Client – Command [8th Jun]
Clipse – Till The Casket Drops
Colin MacIntyre – Island
Corinne Bailey Rae – tba
The Count & Sinden – tba
Courtney Love – Nobody’s Daughter
The Crystal Method – Divided By Night
Dan Black – Un [25th May]
Das Wanderlust – Horses For Courses [May]
The Dead Weather – Horehound [8th Jun]
Deftones – Eros
Diana Krall – Quiet Nights [1st Jun]
Dolores O’Riordan – No Baggage? [May]
Doug Walker – Fear Together
Dr Dre – Detox
Echo & The Bunnymen – The Fountain
Eels – Hombre Lobo [1st Jun]
Elliott Minor – tba [Jun/Jul]
Elvis Costello – The Secret The Profane And Sugarcane [8th Jun]
Eminem – Relapse 2
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
Escala – Escala [25th May]
Eskimo Joe – tba
Eva Peterson – tba
Eve – Flirt
The Faces – tba
Fat Freddy’s Drop – Big BW
Final Fantasy – Heartland
Findlay Brown – Love Will Find You [25th May]
Five For Fighting – tba
Fleetwood Mac – tba
Florence & The Machine – tba [Jul]
Frank Turner – Poetry Of The Deed [Oct]
Frankmusik – Complete Me [13th Jul]
Ghost Of A Thousand – New Hopes, New Demonstrations [1st Jun]
Go:Audio – Made Up Stories
Good Charlotte – Cardiology
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown [May]
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest [25th May]
The Handsome Family – Honey Moon [Apr]
Helen Love – Stick It (f*** Off)
The Hidden Cameras – tba
Holloways – Tales From The Tarmac
Howard Elliott Payne – Bright Light Ballads
Ian Brown – tba [Aug]
Idlewild – tba [Apr]
Iggy Pop – Preliminaires
Ivyrise – Worldwide
Jack Penate – tba [May]
Jack Savoretti – Harder Than Easy [15th Jun]
Jamie Cullum – tba [Apr]
Jamie T – tba [Jun]
Janelle Monae – tba [Apr]
Jay-Z – Blueprint III
Jazmine Sullivan – Fearless [Apr]
Jennifer Lopez – Greatest Hits
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong – Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
JoJo – All I Want Is Everything
Joss Stone – Colour Me Free [Jul]
Julian Velard – The Planeteer [1st Jun]
Kasabian – West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum [8th Jun]
Keri Hilson – In A Perfect World
Kid British – tba [29th Jun]
Klaxons – tba
Kleerup – Kleerup [May]
Koopa – tba
Laura Critchley – Laura
Liam Frost – tba
Lifehouse – tba
Lightning Seeds – Four Winds [25th May]
Lisa Mitchell – tba [May]
Luke Haines – Achtung Mother
Macy Gray – The Gray Life
MadM (Melissa Auf der Maur) – Out Of Our Minds
Manic Street Preachers – Journal For Plague Lovers or I Know I Believe In Nothing But It Is My Nothing [Apr]
Maria Lawson – Emotional Rollercoaster
Mark Morrison – King of British R&B: The Best Of…
Massive Attack – Weather Underground
Melanie B – Reimagined
The Metaphors – London! Paris! New York! Rome!
MGMT – tba
Mika – tba
Missy Elliott – Block Party
Mr Hudson – Now I See
Natalia – All Of Me
Natalie Imbruglia – Come To Life [May]
Neils Children – X.Enc
Nelly Furtado – tba
Nicole Scherzinger – Her Name Is Nicole
Noah & The Whale – The First Days Of Spring [Jun]
Noisettes – Wild Young Hearts [Jun]
OK Go – tba
P Diddy – Last Train To Paris [Sep]
Paolo Nutini – tba
Paramore! – tba
Patrick Wolf – The Bachelor [1st Jun]
Paul Potts – Passione [1st Jun]
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix [25th May]
Pixie Lott – Pixie [Aug]
Placebo – tba [Jun]
Pretty Ricky – Eighties Babies
Prince – MPLSoUND / LOtUSFLOW3R / Elixir
Propellerheads – tba
Pumajaw – Favourites [Apr/May]
Raghav – Identity
Rihanna – tba
Rose Elinor Dougall – tba
The Rumble Strips – Welcome To The Walk Alone [15th Jun]
Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha 2009 [May]
Sam Beeton – No Definite Answer
Sam Isaac – Bears [Apr]
Santana – Supernatural 2
The Saturdays – tba
Scarlet BLONDE – Acerbic [May]
September – Can’t Get Over
Shakira – tba
Shania Twain – tba
Simple Minds – Graffiti Soul [25th May]
Snoop Dogg – Malice In Wonderland
Sonic Youth – The Eternal [8th Jun]
Soulja Boy – iSouljaBoy
Thomas Bromley – In It For The Moment
Timbaland – Shock Value 2
Tommy Reilly –tba [Jun]
Trashcan Sinatras – In The Music [Apr]
The Tunics – Somewhere In Somebody’s Heart
The Twang – Not Tonight, It’s Monday
UB40 – Labour Of Love IV
Urbnri – Young Team
The Veronicas – Hook Me Up [8th Jun]
Whitney Houston – Undefeated
Wilco – tba [Jun]
Young Jeezy – The Recession
Zoot Woman – Things Are What They Used To Be [Apr]

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2009.

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