Sunday just gone: The UK still LOVES Scissor Sisters and they remove Justin at the top with ease. Nelly Furtado and Timbaland reach 3, which is pretty impressive, becoming her second biggest hit ever. And all this after five years of not troubling the top 10. Whether "Promiscuous" would have been as huge a first single here as "Maneater" is an interesting question - I reckon it would have been number one but not for three weeks. Robbie Williams' "Rudebox" turns out not to be the entertaining disaster hoped/expected, although a place of 4 is still the worst for a first single from an album apart from his first and "Feel", that one being due to it being released well after the (very well selling) album.
Snow Patrol climb up yet another place and are only one away from the top 5, despite their album selling well enough to get back to number one for a third time. "Chasing Cars" is largely there thanks to continuing downloads, second on that particular chart behind the unassailable Scissor Sisters. More impressive is its (rather similar) current run in the US top ten. Last week's Stylus Singles Jukebox favourite Lemar achieves 7, which is about right, and all those young people with their downloads push The Feeling's "Never Be Lonely" into the top ten after entering outside last week.
Muse's "Starlight", which is sadly neither the Queen one or the Depeche Mode one, climbs from the depths of the forty to 13 on full release, with Kelis similarly going to 22. Ouch. Whoever Supafly Inc are, they're at 23. Fergie's "Ha, That's Tower Bridge" and Jamelia's "Not The Depeche Mode One Either" are both in on downloads at 25 and 28 respectively. Jealousy is an awful name, but not enough so to prevent 30. Since I didn't do this last week let's pause to gloat at Sandi Thom's new single's failure (22, now 31); the resulting amusement is possibly the one thing which can make "I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker"'s reappearance just below in any way welcome. The Feeling similarly find people again buying their last single enough to put it into the top forty. Oh brave new world. Final new entries are Lorenz' "Set Me Free" and The Rapture's first hit here with "Connected". Oh wait, someone's probably already done that one.
In the albums it's the Mercury effect which is most interested - no, not Freddie with a new greatest hits propelled to number 6 by endless nostalgia, but the (officially no longer Music) Prize which sees its mardy winners up just one place but Guillemots up fifteen to 31, Richard Hawley in the top forty for the first time ever at 37, Hot Chip up to 44 and Thom Yorke up twenty to 52.
Sunday coming: Scissor Sisters for another easy win, with Justin Timberlake at 2 and a distinct lack of challengers being enough to give the unlikely prospect of "Rudebox" now reaching the top 3. Fergie is heading for a very Black Eyed Peas number 5, with Jamelia and possibly Embrace heading top 10 on full release and
Other new entries will be from Lupe Fiasco, Lostprophets (whose unparodyable song title is "A Town Called Hypocrisy"), Daniel O'Donnell, Larrikin Love, Guillemots and Bedouin Soundclash.
In the albums it's out with the old and in with Justin Timberlake. And, er, The Fratellis. I missed out on my chance to attack them last week but having just seen a poster for their album (which, as usual, is based entirely on the selling power of drawings of ladies) which featured the quote "The most important album you could possibly buy! - NME", now is as good a time as any. Gosh, they're hateful.
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