Slightly delayed weekly look back (and forward) at the UK charts.
So, as predicted last week, Gnarls Barkley stayed number one on Sunday, with Shayne Ward at 2 barely making it past half their sales figure with No Promises, seemingly a song bolted together entirely from discarded bits of old Daniel Bedingfield ballads.
This week he's going to be comfortably number one in the album charts though, with sales that will be very high if not quite at an Arctic Monkeys level. So it does look like he may yet prove more of a viable career proposition than McManus or Brookstein, although surely only if he's given some songs which aren't utter shit.
Lower down Sunday's chart, Hard-Fi had the inevitable weekend tail-off to end up at 14, again, Jamie Foxxxxx only got to 16 and Lorraine recovered slightly to a still disappointing 29.
On pre-release downloads, Infernal made 34 (heading for 3 on full release), Fall Out Boy 26 (set to become another top ten hit, somehow) and Rihanna entered at 5, which is going to be turned into 2 this week, still behind the all-conquering Gnarls.
Finally, The Flaming Lips' Yeah Yeah Yeah Song looks set to make the top 20 and probably become their biggest hit ever. Not bad for over 20 years into their career.
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