Chartsengrafs - Nothing on the radio that means that much to me

Your last Chartsengrafs was absent due to a week's silence in commemoration of The Bluetones' "My Neighbour's House" reaching 68 and becoming their first ever proper single to miss the top 40. Aww. Joking aside, not that much happened at the top that week anyway with continued Scissor Sisters dominance, The Killers at 2 and not a lot else. On to normal, only slightly outdated business...



Sunday gone: Scissor Sisters stay on top of both singles and albums, making it four and two weeks respectively now. Lil' Chris achieves a number 3, which I certainly didn't see coming. Reckon anyone from Ice T's Rap School will manage as much? Evanescence at 4 comes as just slightly less of a shock, though seems no less incongruous these days, and Lily Allen only reaches 6 as everyone goes and buys the album instead. No such problem for Pussycat Dolls (7), who appear guarenteed a top ten place for every single track off theirs at this rate. What is this High School Musical thing at 9? I had never heard of it before seeing the chart although I now discover it's a fairly big deal. I must be too old. Shakira is still in the top 10.
Razorlight go 15 on downloads. 15. On downloads. Snow Patrol are at 17 so, er, haven't been deleted after all (well, not that the question was whether Snow Patrol themselves would be deleted anyway, obviously) and Paolo Nutini at 20 would be a failure if it wasn't for the fact that his album is back into the top ten. Its TV advert resorts to quotes from 'The Metro' and The Sun for positive coverage.
Bob Sinclar seems everpresent this year and is now 21 with one Cutee B and some downloads. The combined forces of P Diddy And The Singing One Out Of Pussycat Dolls are just about enough to see off James Dean Bradfield for 30, even on downloads. Dirty Pretty Things (34), LeToya (35) and US5 (38, Top ten for the single! Top ten for the album!) bring up the rear.
Well, apart from the lower down still, particularly full of big names this week. Not so much for The Pipettes (46, doing the "Bastardo" video but not as well) but for Bryian McFadden AND LeAnn Rimes, who are 48 on full release. He's had a nervous breakdown as a result, apparently. And for Simply Red at 57 missing the top forty for the first time in who knows how long.





Sunday coming: What the fuck, Britain? I saw Razorlight supporting Hope Of The States (heh) almost exactly three years ago and thought that they were a decent, if unoriginal band who put on a good show but weren't going anywhere much. They went on to release a decent, if unoriginal first album and eventually managed to go somewhere, seemingly by force of talking themselves up alone. Since then, though, they have become more pompous and useless by the day. Much, much more pompous and useless, in the case of "America" which is, of course, probably going to be number one. Makes The Killers sweeping aside all others in the album chart look all the brighter a prospect in comparison.
Other singles chart action will involve P Diddy (I thought he wasn't allowed to call himself that here?) and Bob Sinclar charging the top 10, David Hasselhoff and My Chemical Romance's downloads storming the top 20 and Bedouin Soundclash bumping into the top 30.
In the albums Evanescence are heading for 2 but the more interesting news is Beck managing to get himself banned completely, Ikara Colt style, by giving away a 'free gift' with the album. Is that an acknowledgement that stickers to make your own cover art with are way cooler than bonus DVDs or any of the things which are allowed? Anyway, here's my attempt.