Chartsengrafs - There's nothing left to guess now

Sunday just gone: Shakira number one for a third week in a row, which is difficult to have too much to say about by now. Cascada up to two; Snow Patrol creep into the top ten with long-time Chartsendgrafs irritants The Kooks following up three places just below.
Michael Gray and gray Shelly Poole are the highest new(ish) entry at 12. I promised to report back on The View (15) last week, and my response after searching YouTube for it was "oh, it's that one", meaning that I'd heard its Libertines/Monkeys mediocrities a few times before without being too annoyed, at least. The wonderfully named Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone breach the top twenty on downloads alone, and people actually bought that Mousse T vs The Dandy Warhols record. Oh dear. They bought Orson (27) too, but that's less of a surprise.
Cassie and David Guetta vs The Dancing Transformer are also top 30 on downloads. I've just noticed that The Zutons are still there, too. It's a slow summer. Tom Novy (31), Peter Bjorn John & Victoria (35), Panic! At The Disco (39) and Primal Scream (40, and not downloads either) are your remaining top 40 newies.
If you thought that was unexciting, just look at the albums, where a leap for Orson passes for something happening.




Sunday coming: Shakira tops the midweeks, unbelievably. But David Guetta vs The Egg isn't far behind!! Arctic Monkeys seem to have shaken off any interest in them quite admirably and look set to barely make the top five, probably as good a chance as any to ask if anyone else can't follow the lyrics to their single. Ok, so its protagonists are leaving the club before the lights come on, that makes sense. But then after they've ended up sleeping together (either in the dark or too drunk to remember, I guess), and one has woken up we get "Quick, let's leave, before the lights come on,
Cos then you don't have to see [...] what you've done". Where are they sleeping that the lights are going to come on by themsleves without having to walk over and flick the switch?? Am I missing something obvious?
Anyway, that over with, Chamillionaire is heading top 5 too, with Cassie and Micky Modelle (?) following in the top 10. Ronan Keating has finally outworn his welcome, set to barely make the low teens, with Iron Maiden currently ahead of him but sure to fall. Alesha (of Mis-teeq "gonna burn you with my lyrical flame!!" fame) is off to a bit of a shaky start too. The Young Knives and The Sunshine Underground are heading for the middling 30-40 indie entries of the week (although only one is middling in musical terms as well), with TV's The X Factor's Sharon Osbourne's Maria Lawson managing something similar. That might look bad if it wasn't for Chico, barely in the top 75. Ha.
In the albums, Christina Aguilera's Back To Basics, a bit of a mess by most accounts, is selling rather fast and sure of number one. Captain will probably be the next highest new entry, doing surprisingly well in the top 20.