Chartsengrafs - Young heavy hopefuls staying the night

Sunday just gone: Shakira number one for a second week (plus the one weeks ago). Anything to do with ending the final TOTP? Probably not, but anyway "Hips Don't Lie" hits 33,000 sales for the week, the highest since week 4 of its 9. Not much excitement below, with Rihanna and Christina swapping places at 2 and 3 ahead of entries from Cascada (nope, no idea) and ParisHilton' kind of good "Stars Are Blind" at 4 and 5. A lack of anything much out also helps Paolo Nutini, The Kooks and Snow Patrol to all climb a few places, to the highest position yet at 13 in the last case. The Similou just about get the top 20, which is impressive enough by itself, really. The Raconteurs (29), not as good as promised when it comes to their album Captain (30), not quite as awful as remembered The Holloways (33) and doing so badly it's hard not to feel sorry for them Frank (40) complete the top 40 new entries. It's worth noting that The Kooks still have two singles in the top 40, too, and that were it not disallowed for having been deleted too long ago, JayZ and Linkin Park's Numb/Encore would be joining them, presumably solely on the basis of being used for Miami Vice TV ads.
In the albums... James Morrison gets number one, and The Puppini Sisters are in the top 20. Lets move on, quick.




Sunday coming: Yes, we're going to still have Shakira at number one. Top 5 movement will probably be confined to Rihanna and Christina maybe swapping round again and basically no one much released anything this week.
The View are set to be the biggest new entry at 10 or so. That's a name which meant ntohing to me, but apparently their single is a "fiery slice of teenage rock 'n' roll", they supported Primal Scream and (this is where you can tell how good they are) they got banned from a hotel for riding a scooter along the bar!! Ok, perhaps I should wait to actual hear the song before the scorn. Will get back to you next week. Chamillionaire is also going top 20 along with Michael Gray's snoozefest and the rather irritating Mousse T/Dandy Warhols mash-up. Other top 40s expected from Orson, Tom Novy, Panic! At The Disco, Primal Scream themselves and Peter, Bjorn & John. See, 6Music and evening xfm shows can help you into the charts!
In the album chart, nothing is happening. Really.