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This
week saw nine climbers, five new entries, one re-entry,
twenty three songs going down and two were non movers. As
expected the Helping Haiti held on for a second week at
the top with 'Everybody Hurts' though was run close
by Dizzee Rascal's collaboration with Florence & The
Machine on her current hit 'You've Got The Love'.
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Their
duet was performed live at last weeks Brit Awards and was
immediately released on download as 'You Got The Dirtee Love' and
is now sitting pretty at no.2.
That
new entry caused three next three singles to fall one place with
Owl City ending up at no.3 with 'Fireflies', Timbaland featuring
Katy Perry finding themselves at no.4 with 'If We Ever Meet Again'
while Alicia Keys was at no.5 with 'Empire State Of Mind Part II'.
Rihanna went up four places to no.6 with 'Rude Boy' while Glee
Cast slipped two to no.7 with 'Don't Stop Believin''. Lemar got a
new entry at no.8 with 'The Way Love Goes' and Glee Cast held firm
at no.9 for a second week with 'Halo / Walking On Sunshine'. The
final place in the top ten went to 3OH!3 featuring Katy Perry who
fell four to no.10 with 'Starstrukk'.
A
further five climbers were to be found in what remained of the top
twenty. Jedward featuring Vanilla Ice went back up one to no.11
following the physical release of 'Under Pressure (Ice Ice Baby)'
and Florence & The Machine went back up seventeen places to
no.12 with 'You've Got The Love' spending its twenty fifth week on
the chart. Lady Gaga climbed again with 'Bad Romance' going up
five to no.15 and Jay-Z featuring Alicia Keys benefitted from
their Brits performance as 'Empire State Of Mind' went up nine to
no.16. Cheryl Cole went up seven as 'Parachute' found its way to
no.19.
There
were three climbers, three new entries and one re-entry in the
lower half of the chart. Young Money featuring Lloyd went up one
to no.27 with 'Bedrock' and The Courteeners got a new entry
at no.28 with 'You Overdid It Doll'. Black Eyed Peas went back up
two to no.33 with 'I Gotta Feeling' and Lady Gaga featuring
Beyonce climbed five to no.34 with 'Telephone'. Chris Brown scored
a new entry at no.35 with 'Crawl' and Cheryl Cole re-entered at
no.36 with her former number one 'Fight For This Love'. Leona
Lewis rounded proceedings off this week as 'I Got You' became a
new entry at no.40.
'One
Shot' is the latest single from X Factor phenomenon JLS who have
already scored number one hits with 'Everybody In Love' and 'Beat
Again'. Although they finished runners up to Alexandra Burke in
the 2008 series their debut long player has gone on to
rack up 900k sales which is more than twice that of her 'Overcome'
album. Last year also saw them win MOBO Awards for Best UK
Newcomer and Best Song (for 'Beat Again') and already 2010 is
shaping up to be another successful year for them. I'm not sure
that this will be strong enough to make it all the way to the top
but its top ten status is success in itself considering its the
third single from their album. Could well be inside the top
five next weekend.
Errors
release their brand new single 'A Rumour In Africa' this week
but only as a download. For those who may be unaware of their
existence they are a four piece electro band hailing from Glasgow
in Scotland. They formed in 2004 but did not release their first
long player 'It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever' until
2008. This is their sixth single and is the follow up to 2008's
'Pump'. Their first release was 'Hans Herman' back in 2005 which
featured 'Ah-Ha-Ha' on the flip side. The band have also just
released their remix of the Manic Street Preachers track 'All Is
Vanity' which features on an EP alongside mixes from Andrew
Weatherall, British Sea Power and The Horrors. They have a series
of dates in the UK which kick off at the end of February in
Glasgow and concludes a month later at the Black Box in Belfast.
'I
Got You' is the second single to be taken from Leona
Lewis's second album 'Echo' although her cover of Oasis's 'Stop
Crying Your Heart Out' did chart on download sales following her
performance of the track on X Factor. This release is not to be
confused with 'I Need You', which is the theme to current movie
'Avatar' and has been nominated for a Golden Globe. 'I Got
You' is released on a CD format and comes with the additional
track 'Heartbeat'. Her last single 'Happy' peaked at no.2 which
was a disappointing performance for the opening single from her
second album. I don't see this performing much better, and I
certainly don't think this will become her fourth number one
though the Avatar theme could do that if it gets released.
Sixty
one year old legendary singer and poet Gil Scott-Heron has just
released his new album 'I'm New Here' and this week sees him
release the track 'Me & The Devil' as the first single
from it. It's released on 7" vinyl while the album is
his eighteenth studio long player and is released
on XL Recordings. Despite having a high profile amongst music
critics he has yet to make an appearance on the UK chart and so
its hard to see him breaking that tradition some forty years after
the release of his first album 'Small Talk At 125th & Lenox'.
Zane Lowe featured the single as his "Hottest Record In The
World" while The Guardian journalist Jude Rodgers has already
labelled his album as one of the best of the new decade.
High praise indeed!
Blood
Red Shoes are a Brighton based duo consisting of Laura-Mary Carter
and Steven Ansell who were named after a Ginger Rogers / Fred
Astaire musical. They formed back in 2005 and released their debut
single 'Victory For The Magpie' the same year. Their album 'Box Of
Secrets' made the top fifty in 2008 and now they are about to
release the follow up 'Fire Like This'. Their debut album yielded
two minor hits in 'You Bring Me Down' and 'Say Something, Say
Anything' but they have yet to make a top forty appearance. 'Light
It Up' is the first single to be lifted from the new album and
they are about to embark on an extensive eleven date tour of the
UK. It is released on 7" vinyl and is looking set to do well
for them, though I'm not quite sure that it will do enough to grace
the higher end of the chart.
'Wear
My Kiss' is an important release for all girl trio Sugababes.
Things looked promising for them when 'Get Sexy' made it to no.2
but then Keisha left the band in a blaze of publicity leaving Jade
Ewen to take up the reins as the new member. Their first release
as a trio was 'About A Girl' which made no.8 and now comes the
follow up 'Wear My Kiss'. Their 'Sweet 7' album is due for
release in March and is the follow up to 'Catfights &
Spotlights' which was a relative flop for them, spawning only one
top ten hit. It does seem slightly ridiculous that the band now
does not contain any of the original members and so it is little
more than a franchise. The quality of the songs has dipped off too
and I do wonder if this is the beginning of the end for one of the
best pop bands in recent years.
Ellie
Goulding has widely been tipped as the artist to watch out for in
2010 so now its time to see if she can deliver. She won the
Critics Choice award at this years Brits and she also won the BBC
Sound of 2010 poll which has traditionally been a good barometer
as to who will succeed in the twelve months ahead. 'Starry Eyed'
is released as a single this week ahead of her forthcoming debut
album 'Lights'. It comes with the Little Noise session
version and the Russ Chimes remix and is the follow up to last
years low key single 'Under The Sheets' which peaked at no.53. She
has recently written two songs for Diana Vickers debut album and
looks set for big things as both a singer and a songwriter.
Hopes are riding high that this will see her secure her first top
twenty appearance.
Jay
Sean (or Kamaljit Singh Jhooti as his parents would know him) has
been slowly but steadily climbing the charts with his Lil Jon /
Sean Paul collaboration 'Do You Remember' and now it finally gets
its own CD format release. It's the second track to be lifted from
his third studio album 'All Or Nothing' which also sees
him perform with fellow r'n'b artists Craig David, Lil Wayne and
former Sugababe Keisha Buchanan. The album has performed
disappointingly in the UK peaking at just no.62 despite featuring
the top three single 'Down'. Conversely his last studio album 'My
Own Way' got all the way to no.6 despite holding no top ten hits.
This is Sean's eighth top forty appearance to date and could
yet see him secure a fourth top ten hit.
The
Stranglers are aiming for their fifth decade of hits with the
release of their 'Retro Rockets' single. There is a Facebook
campaign to push them back into the charts although at the time of
writing it only has 2.5k members which is well short of the total
sales required to hit the top forty. The band formed in 1974
The band have an extensive tour lined up for March and are also
set to play Glastonbury in the Summer. Drummer Jet Black is
now 70 and so there are questions as to how long the band can keep
going! They have notched up twenty three top forty hits with
their last being 'Big Thing Coming' in 2004. Their career is well
captured on their forthcoming thirty five track compilation
'Decades Apart' which also features this single. It would be
great to see them back in the top forty.
Also
released this week are 'Hole In My Heart' by Alphabeat,
'Sharks Tooth' by Archie Bronson Outfit, 'High Road' by
Broken Bells, 'O Maybe I' by Chapel Club, 'The Opposite
Of Adults' by Chiddy Bang, 'Nothing Like You' by Frightened
Rabbit, 'Morning Light' by Girls, 'With Days Like This As
Cheap As Chewing Gum, Why Would Anyone Want To Work?' by Hot Club
De Paris, 'Hustle' by Tuung, 'Undercover Martyn' by Two
Door Cinema Club and White Feather' by Wolfmother. Download only
releases include 'Empire State Of Mind Part II' by Alicia Keys,
'Fever' by Beyonce, 'Boy Girl' by Bomb The Bass, 'Dreams' by
Brandi Charlie, 'Suddenly' by BT, 'Into The Blue / Mae Angen Llong
Ar Gapten' by Cerys Matthews, 'I Love Your Smile' by Charlie
Winston, 'Love Cry' by Four Tet, 'Don't Go There' by Giggs
featuring B.o.B., 'Paper Romance' by Groove Armada, 'In My Head'
by Jason Derulo, 'Feast Of The Heart' by Jesca Hoop and 'Sea
Change' by Turin Brakes.
With
physical sales still strong I expect Helping Haiti to squeeze a
third week in at the top but Florence & The Machine featuring
Dizzee Rascal and JLS could both run the race close. Don't forget
to stop by next week when artists releasing new singles look set
to include The Automatic, Boyzone, Gorillaz featuring Mos Def
& Bobby Womack and Ok Go. Until then have yourself a
good week.
JHME Music Correspondent
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