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Artist News
Chart Update – w/c 03 May 2010
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 3 May 2010
Following the solo success of former members, such as Dizzee Rascal and Tinchy Stryder, and two of their founders, Wiley and Flow Dan, grime crew Roll Deep have this week scored their first number one single, with ‘Good Times’, knocking Diana Vickers off the top spot (another commendable achievement). However, unfortunately, Vickers still holds a position in the top ten, at number four. I cannot understand why this is.
Other than that, there’s been little activity in the top ten this week, with the only new track at the top end of the chart being Taio Cruz and Ke$ha’s ‘Dirty Picture’, which is up two places from twelve to ten. To find a second bonafide new entry (Roll Deep also having gone straight in at the top), you need to travel down to sixteen, where those pesky Glee kids have dropped their cover of Madonna’s ‘Like A Prayer’.
Further down the chart, the new entries really pick up, with grand total of eight charting between 25 and 40. The first is Marina & The Diamonds at 26 with ‘I Am Not A Robot’, followed by Lady Antebellum at 28 with ‘Need You Now’, a song which already picked up various plaudits at this year’s Academy Of Country Music Awards. ‘She’s Always A Woman’ by Billy Joel is new at 29, ahead of Alicia Keys with ‘Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart’ at 31 – the two only separated by another Alicia Keys single, ‘Empire State Of Mind (Part II)’.
Moving deeper into the 30s, Alexandra Burke is in at 34 with ‘All Night Long’, Train are at 36 with ‘Hey, Soul Sister’, Jason Derulo rides in at 36 with ‘Ridin Solo’, and he’s followed by this week’s final new entry, ‘For Your Entertainment’ by Adam Lambert at 39.
It’s all go in the album chart this week. In the midweeks, Usher was sitting at number one with his new album, ‘Raymond Vs Raymond’, comfortably out-selling his nearest rival, Plan B, by 20%. But since then Plan B has closed that gap, getting himself into the number one spot with a sales gap of less than 1% and making Usher’s album this week’s highest new entry at number two.
There are three more new entries in the top ten this week, starting with the Glee cast’s new mini-album of Madonna hits, ‘The Power Of Madonna’, a spin-off from an episode of the show of the same name of course, in at four. That’s followed by Bullet For My Valentine with ‘Fever’ at five and The Fisherman’s Friends at nine, apparently making the latter, a group of singing fishermen from Cornwall, the first traditional British folk group to ever have a top ten album.
Moving on, James Last’s three disc career retrospective, ‘Eighty Not Out’, is new at twelve, ‘The Very Best Of Billy Ocean’, goes straight in at seventeen, and finally, The Fall enter the chart at 38 with their 28th studio album, ‘Your Future, Our Clutter’.
The charts are compiled by The Official Charts Company, who have a nice new website, look: www.theofficialcharts.com
