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Artist News
Chart update – w/c 26 Jul 2010
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 26 July 2010
There’s been an awful lot of shuffling about in the singles chart this week. It all started with last week’s number one, BOB with ‘Airplanes’, falling to number three. With nothing to stop them, Yolanda Be Cool Vs D Cup and Eminem shot up one place each, taking the first and second positions respectively.
Shuffling there may have been, but not in order to make way for a wave of new entries, which are pretty thin on the ground. This week’s highest new entry – ‘DJ Got Us Falling In Love’ by Usher – is way down at number 20, followed at 21 by Basshunter’s ‘Saturday’. After that, ‘Witchcraft’ by Pendulum bobs up into the top 40 at 29, having been at 67 last week, ‘The Boy Who Murdered Love’ by Diana Vickers is at 36, up from 57, and ‘Famous’ by Scouting For Girls is at 37, up from 43.
In the album chart, Eminem is refusing to budge at number one, having wrestled the position back from Kylie Minogue last week. He’s followed by this week’s highest new entry, Professor Green at number two with ‘Alive Till I’m Dead’. Also new this week is Earth, Wind & Fire’s new greatest hits album at nine.
Further down, Diana Vickers’ album, ‘Songs From The Tainted Cherry Tree’, has made it back into the top 40, sitting this week at thirteen, despite her horrible voice. Brand new this week are ‘Hearts & Minds’ by Seth Lakemen at seventeen, ‘Streets Of Gold’ by 3OH!3 at nineteen, the eponymous debut from by Richard Ashcroft’s United Nations Of Sound at 20, ‘Symphonicities’ by Sting at 30, and ‘100 Miles Of Memphis’ by Sheryl Crow at 34.
Enjoying a post-Mercury nomination boost is ‘XX’ by The xx, which is at sixteen, up from 44 last week. As for the other nominees, Mumford & Sons remain in the top ten, moving down one place to seven, Biffy Clyro’s ‘Only Revelations’ is down two places to 48, I Am Kloot’s ‘Sky At Night’ is up from 77 to 52, ‘Tongue N Cheek’ by Dizzee Rascal drops one place to 58, ‘I Speak Because I Can’ by Laura Marling enjoys a massive jump from 145 to 63, ‘Total Life Forever’ by Foals is up to 89 from 121, and Paul Weller’s Wake Up The Nation’ moves from 155 to 97.
In terms of the actual award, this all means absolutely nothing, though it does seem that The xx have been given a big vote of confidence by the public, possibly helped by the fact that 97% of pundits are predicting that they’ll walk away with the £20,000 prize come September.
The charts are shuffled an awful lot by The Official Charts Company.
