Sunday just gone: Lily Allen, who shot to fame via the popular website "My Space", was number one for a second week. Shakira showed remarkable staying power to remain at 2, Nelly Furtado was still at 4 with Rogue Traders replacing Razorlight at 3. Their actress singer's performance on TOTP the other day was very much a don't quit the day job affair, to put it mildly. Busta Rhymes climbed to 8 and is just like Badly Drawn Boy, apparently.
News that Shayne Ward was releasing a new single obviously didn't get very far as it could only make 14. The very existence of a third single beats Steve Brookstein or Michelle McManus though. Rihanna was the biggest download entry at 16, two ahead of James Dean Bradfield with a song which I haven't heard yet but must be better than Nicky Wire's first effort. Gnarls Barkley unsurprisingly failed to match previous achievements with "Smiley Faces" but 23 on downloads isn't bad.
The top 40 new entries were rounded out by James Morrison (27; downloads, unfortunately), Nylon (29), Milburn (32), Rooster (33; ha) and Richard Ashcroft (40).
Muse were still number one album, not very shockingly, with Thom Yorke (featuring artwork which puts the music to shame, mainly) at 3 and Guillemots at 17. Hooray!
Sunday coming: McFly (where were they on downloads? Was it actually not released in advance?) are going to be number one with their Sport Relief single, the very idea of which is a bit confusing. The last song afforded this honour was Rachel Stevens' "Some Girls" unless I've forgotten one here and "Please, Please" definitely isn't as good a song. Their cover of "Don't Stop Me Now" isn't as bad as "More More More" though. Rihanna and James Morrison (4 and 5) both make the expected big jumps. How many more Blunt-alikes can the nation stand? Your other potential new entries and risers in the top 40 are Red Hot Chili Peppers, Gnarls Barkley, Wolfmother, Christina Aguilera (downloads), Franz Ferdinand, Snow Patrol (downloads, maybe it will be a bigger hit than the later ones from the last album) and The Flaming Lips.
Razorlight are well ahead in the album chart. Coupled with the continuing presence of The Kooks and alarming new emergence of Paolo Nutini in the top 5, this makes Lily Allen (2, probably) look somewhat more like an exciting saviour from total mediocrity than her album would suggest.
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I actually prefer the "Chasing Cars" video with the Grey's Anatomy stuff, but that's because I am unhealthily addicted to that particular brand of melodrama. If you've never seen the show, the three hour(!) season finale, spread out over two nights, made brutally effective use of "Chasing Cars", and the one a few weeks before had made similarly powerful hay of "Somewhere A Clock Is Ticking". Good stuff.
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