Sunday just gone: She did it! With an impressively tiny difference in sales (48724 v 48538), Nelly Furtado took the top spot from Sandi Thom. She did to number one at the head of an all-new top 5 in the albums though, ahead of The Feeling, Ronan Keating, Paul Simon and Primal Scream. The last two were seperated by an even smaller margin of 32 copies.
Embrace went up to 3, with such a shedload of football songs ranging from bad to worse following that I can't even be bothered to list them. Although at 30, "Scotland Scotland Jason Scotland" by The Trinidad And Tobago Tartan Army possibly deserves a special mention of some kind though I have (sadly?) not heard it yet. What chance a top 20 place in the rather unlikely event (ie he isn't playing) of him scoring against England?
In what passes for chart normalcy, The Automatic somehow took their massive shouty chorus and not much else all the way to the 4, Morrissey (14) and Depeche Mode's (18) fanbases couldn't stop them getting crowded out of the top 10, Lordi (25) have missed their chance and Sugababes (32) and Duncan James (35) suffered shockingly bad results probably even worse than Ukraine's today. Hope Of The States fell down from a surprisingly promising midweek to bring up the rear at 39. Oh and The Kooks' increasingly annoying "Naive" (38) may at long last be on its way out!
Sunday just coming: Nelly Furtado looks pretty comfortable for a second week, with a bizarre number two for Bon Jovi making them the current nearest contenders. Extremely unlikely to last the week, though. Shakira for highest new-ish entry at 5, with Sham 69 (bleh), The Fratellis (double bleh), Dannii Minogue and Armand van Helden also going top 20.
Lower down in the top 40, we have Solu Music, Sergio Mendes and his Black Eyed Peas, T.I, and The Divine Comedy, still just about clinging on despite choosing a first single which is just about everything bad he's always accused of being.
Battle are just outside, next to download only entries for The Zutons and Muse, who maybe won't get quite such a Britney-sized hit next week then.
In the albums, Keane will take number one. But you didn't need midweeks to tell you that, right?
1 comment:
That Nelly Furtado single, though - fantastic! Which is the last thing I would have thought I'd be able to say about her.
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