Sunday gone: Ladies and gentlemen, behold your new number one single:
Hooray! Almost exactly a year on from "I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor" and My Chemical Romance's preposterous, brilliant "Welcome To The Black Parade" is the first time since that a song's ability to actually get to number one has come as such a pleasant surprise - they're not on an indie label and have reams of press coverage of course, but still. A look at the airplay chart shows that they've achieved it with less radio play than the last Kooks single is still getting, incedentally. Razorlight and Scissor Sisters are 2 and 3, Bob Sinclar and P Diddy swap round to be 4 and 5 and the next biggest new entry is Beatfreakz at 7, who ignored demands to withdraw the single because of their rip-off of the Superman logo.
Laid back? James Morrison and Corinne Bailey Rae will give you laid back at 20 on downloads and 32 on physcials; the smell of repetition really is on Hot Chip as "Over And Over"'s rerelease reaches 27; Placebo and Alison Mosshart are S-E-X-I-N-G at 35; like a monkey with a miniature cymbal (but don't ask how) The Ordinary Boys poke casio at 36 and Badly Drawn Boy has started thinking about what he has to do to get anyone to like him again at 38.
Goo Goo Dolls and Meat Loaf lurk outside the top forty on downloads and Blazin' Squad (remember them?) are 54.
In the albums it's much the same as last week with The Killers at number one and only Trivium entering the top 10 (at 7). Most notable lower down is Sting's lute album at 24, which according to Metro is "rubbing shoulders with the likes of Razorlight and Scissor Sisters". Well, apart from the twenty place difference.
Sunday coming: Week 2 at number one is to come for our emo overlords, probably selling more than last weeks 33,000. Biggest new entry will be Meat Loaf and Marion Raven at 5 or so and James Morrison and The Ordinary Boys are likely to follow them into the top 10. Pet Shop Boys look set to keep their almost 100% top 20 record with "Numb". Jamie T is heading top 20 too - really?
Lower down, The Rifles might just make the top 40, Goo Goo Dolls releasing thier new single as a double A side with their Ronan Keating cover "Iris" will only be enough to scrape in, and The Holloways continue to bring N7 into disrepute.
Next week there will be a much needed clearout near the top as we have a whole lot of download entries coming this Sunday: The Kooks, Rihanna, Cassie, Girls Aloud, Beyonce and, topping the lot in unlikely fashion, Amy Winehouse. Well, she'll get a nice new platform to slag people off from. Should be fun.
In the albums nothing comes close to threatening The Killers, with Badly Drawn Boy and P Diddy heading for middling entries.
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"Laid back? James Morrison and Corinne Bailey Rae will give you laid back at 20 on downloads and 32 on physcials; the smell of repetition really is on Hot Chip as "Over And Over"'s rerelease reaches 27; Placebo and Alison Mosshart are S-E-X-I-N-G at 35; like a monkey with a miniature cymbal (but don't ask how) The Ordinary Boys poke casio at 36."
This is pretty much my favourite thing ever.
Who has Winehouse slagged off?
The Badly Drawn Boy one is part of it too! And I meant to edit out the monkey part as I changed my mind, oops.
Lots of people in the past, usually fairly entertainingly. Katie Melua comes to mind, mainly.
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