Chartsengrafs (06/07/06)

Sunday just gone: Shakira (ok, and Wyclef) rather surprisingly climbed to number one with a late-week surge, selling more than last week too. Perhaps, though, it actually fits the odd yet naggingly addictive nature of the song. Is it just me who thinks that her vocals sit totally uneasily on the whole thing yet somehow it works really well? Pussycat Dolls went up to three, seemingly without a great deal of attention being paid, ditto for Ne-Yo at 5 and The Kooks only making 7 was rather a relief (though "Naive" went up one!). Lily Allen and Razorlight got to 13 and 15 respectively on downloads, but more of them shortly because below that we have Guillemots! 23! Finally! The Long Blondes at 28, CORD somehow at 34, Larrikin Love one below and an (underperforming?) Fatboy Slim at 39 completed the top 40 list. The 41 is worth mentioning though - Lacuna Coil doing "Enjoy The Silence".

Lostprophets managed to knock Keane off the top of the albums, and I thought that they'd lost all their fans a la Hundred Reasons, with Plan B the next highest new entry at 30 and The Kooks making their worrying their towards the top at 3.




Sunday coming: Time for another round of newspaper articles on the blogosphere/Myspace (take your pick according to pessimism levels) as Lily Allen is heading for number one! With a song vastly inferior to "LDN", but lets wait and see what the rest of the album is like. Razorlight probably won't even make it to two with their deeply average "Float On" "In The Morning" which is pleasantly surprising. Paolo Nutini beats even CORD in the "act in my Camden Crawl review I thought were total nonentities I'd never hear of again, who have somehow got somewhere" stakes by heading top 5. George Michael, Bob Sinclar and Rogue Traders are also going top 20. I haven't heard any of them.
The Pipettes, Jamie T, The Rifles, Justice vs Simian (rather too late for them to finally get a hit huh?), Busta Rhymes (downloads), another Jose Gonzalez cover, Fall Out Boy and Till West are your other prospective new top 40 entries.

In the albums, Muse are of course going to be number one, with Johnny Cash top 10 as the only other major new entry. Liberty X also deserve a mention though, currently heading as they are for somewhere in the region of 170.