Sunday just gone: Beyoncé's single may not have been met with great excitement by anyone much but it still removes Shakira from number 1 at long last. Cascada move up one to 5 and Snow Patrol somehow move up five to 7 (this year's "You're Beautiful"?) in an otherwise featureless top 10. Don't worry, things are finally changing around a bit next week!
Matt Willis achieves a just about respectable 11, and things start to get interesting with Justin Timberlake's 13 on downloads for a song which is initially barely identifiable as him. Morrissey at 17 almost might as well not be there and Keane's newfound tabloid notoriety isn't enough to get Mew-lite "Crystal Ball" any higher than 20.
Stacey Orrico and Thom Yorke's about equally catchy songs are at 22 and 23, just ahead of The Feeling. Difference is that they're there on downloads - how are they turning out to be such a big singles band as well as albums? Pink and The Fratellis follow similarly at 28 and 35, with Lazy-B and Pharell/Kanye less successful at 30 and 31 on full release. Missy Elliott at 38 isn't that great a sign for her forthcoming album, but it's a Greatest Hits so she should be ok. Hope Of The States go out with a whimper not a bang at 63.
And in the albums Snow Patrol are back up to number one ahead of Christina Aguilera's Back To Basics. 'Including the number one single Ain't No Other Man!' trumpet its posters around town, rather misleadingly.
Sunday coming: Justin Timberlake is of course set for number one with ease. The real interest, then, is in Scissor Sisters' more of the fine same "I Don't Feel Like Dancin'" set for a top 5 place on downloads alone and therefore in with a decent chance of deposing him after another week. The Fratellis are depressingly heading for 3 and Shakira still at 2. Likely to be up there or thereabouts for some time yet unless someone gets the bright idea of deleting it. Nelly Furtado's "Promiscuous" is also doing pretty well on downloads, joined by full top 20 entries for Pink and The Feeling. Little Man Tate are doing not quite so well, but still better than Sandi Thom and, rather surprisingly, Basement Jaxx, set to barely make the top 40 this time around.
In the albums Kasabian look set to overpower up and coming rivals Bob Dylan and Iron Maiden with ease. Oh well.
2 comments:
First of all, for some reason this entry finally clarified for me why I love Chartsengrafs so much - ever since William B Swygart gave up on the UK charts I've been adrift, without any idea of what goes on over there (and let's face it, the UK charts are so much better than the US ones). This column is strangely comforting, in that I kind of know what's going on again.
Secondly... Kasabian? Ha. Ha ha ha.
If it hasn't completely combusted now (it certainly isn't working at the moment, again), I've recently discovered that ILX does have a thread with William and others doing something fairly similar. Glad to be of comfort though.
And totally agreed on the superiority of our charts, long may it last!
I might be reviewing that Kasabian album shortly.
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