UK Top 100 Music chart summary w/e July 21st 2012

Florence + The Machine goes straight in at No.1 with Spectrum and, fuck me, THAT. IS. MUSIC!

As such, Maroon 5 Feat. Wizball something or other drops to No.2 with Payphone, and it’s a right load of autotuned guff. What happened to this band? Pretty cool video, though.

Meanwhile, there are new entries in the Top 40 for:

• 17 Adam Lambert – Never Close Our Eyes
  
• 37 The Vaccines – No Hope

You can see the Florence video here:

Lower entries outside the Top 40 include:

• 46 (RE) B.o.B Feat. Taylor Swift – Both Of Us
  
• 70 (RE) The Vaccines – If You Wanna
  
• 71 (RE) Semisonic – Closing Time
  
• 82 (RE) The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work
  
• 90 (RE) Maverick Sabre – I Need
  
• 96 Lana Del Rey – National Anthem
  
• 98 (RE) The Animals – The House Of The Rising Sun
  
• 99 (RE) Coolio Feat. L.V. – Gangsta’s Paradise
  
• 100 (RE) Sinead O’Connor – Nothing Compares 2 U

In the album charts, Newton Faulkner goes straight in at No.1 with Write It On Your Skin, knocking girlfriend-beater Chris Brown down to No.5 with Fortune. The other new entries come from:

• 1 Newton Faulkner – Write It On Your Skin
  
• 2 Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
  
• 4 Lianne La Havas – Is Your Love Big Enough
  
• 9 The View – Cheeky For A Reason
  
• 16 Adam Lambert – Trespassing
  
• 21 (RE) Rush – Clockwork Angels
  
• 62 Bananarama – 30 Years Of Bananarama
  
• 70 Dirty Projectors – Swing Lo Magellan
  
• 87 Serj – Tankian Harakiri
  

The new release dates for singles and albums can be found HERE and they go up to early Sept 2012.