Top 40 Sun 18 Oct 09
Alexandra & Flo Rida's ballad of her hopeless surrender to 'Bad Boys' in at Number One with 180,000 sales - that means 'Oopsy Daisy' last weeks chart-topper from Chipmunk drops to 3 behind Robbie Williams new song 'Bodies'. With sales of 90,000 Rob's a new entry at 2, it's Robbie's twentieth top five hit in a thirteen year solo career, it would have been his seventh number one.
The 2009 record ten new entries also include Lostprophets at 14, Mr Hudson at 20, Editors single 'Papillon' at 23, Black Eyed Peas 'meet Me Halfway at 26, Big Pink's debut hit 'Dominoes' at 29, Jennifer hudson's cover of the Jennifer Holiday 'Dreamgirls' classic 'And I'm Telling You' at 32 and Medina's debut hit at 39.
Further congratulations are due to Brummies Editors who helped Jonny Wing launch the newly refurbed 02 Academy in Birmingham last month and have gone straight to the top of the album chart with their new LP 'In This Light & On This Evening'.
In America, London boy Jay Sean's 'down' is down, immediately replaced at the top by Britney Spears new song '3' which achieves another record for Ms Spears - it's not usual for records don't go straight in at number one in America ... well now Britney has two having done just that, reports of her demise were more than a little premature!
10 new entries – 4 up, 24 down, 2 non-movers
This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title
1 new ALEXANDRA BURKE & FLO RIDA Bad Boys
2 new ROBBIE WILLIAMS Bodies
3 1 2 CHIPMUNK Ooopsy Daisy
4 4 5 TAIO CRUZ Break Your Heart
5 3 5 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind
6 8 16 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling
7 7 6 SHAKIRA She Wolf
8 2 2 SATURDAYS Forever Is Over
9 new MICHAEL BUBLE Haven't Met You Yet
10 5 10 DAVID GUETTA & AKON Sexy Bitch
11 6 9 TEMPER TRAP Sweet Disposition
12 9 5 PITBULL Hotel Room Service
13 15 4 JORDIN SPARKS SOS (Let The Music Play)
14 12 2 WHITNEY HOUSTON Million Dollar Bill
15 14 3 TINCHY STRYDER You're Not Alone
16 new LOSTPROPHETS It's Not The End Of The World But I Can See It From Here
17 10 7 JAY-Z, RIHANNA & KANYE WEST Run This Town
18 13 6 PIXIE LOTT Girls & Boys
19 20 5 PALOMA FAITH New York
20 new Mr HUDSON White Lies
21 16 43 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire
22 18 4 DIZZEE RASCAL Dirtee Cash
23 new EDITORS Papillon
24 11 3 DAUGHTRY What About Now
25 19 4 EXAMPLE Watch The Sun Come Up
26 new BLACK EYED PEAS Meet Me Halfway
27 21 3 VERONICAS 4ever
28 36 14 JLS Beat Again
29 new BIG PINK Dominoes
30 26 12 LITTLE BOOTS Remedy
31 22 8 DIZZEE RASCAL Holiday
32 new JENNIFER HUDSON And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going
33 27 14 BEYONCE Sweet Dreams
34 24 2 MUMFORD & SONS Little Lion Man
35 29 11 IAN CAREY PROJECT Get Shaky
36 17 3 DEADMAU5 & ROB SWIRE Ghosts ‘n' Stuff
37 25 5 MADONNA Celebration
38 23 6 MINI VIVA Left My Heart In Tokyo
39 new MEDINA You & I
40 30 28 JASON MRAZ I'm Yours |
Week Unique
Beat the recession with something rising in value ... Harrods are selling blocks of pure Swiss gold at £300,000 each.
Or according to the Daily Mail like the so-called Lord pictured above put your dosh into a collection of Patek Philippe wrist watch's - the Reference 5146 he's alleged to have worn at Conference has a retail price of £21,490.
Brown's on about the climate catastrophe again ... shame he's not as worried about the Downing Street disaster. This week Afghanistani's will get the chance to see what we Brits mean by democracy. They, like us will be able to evaluate it's worth. Thursday looks likely to be as significant as the day Sinn Fein and others were banned from broadcasting in the UK - coincidentally 21 years ago - 19 October 1988. Perhaps as significant as the day in 1945 when Winston Churchill claimed Labour would need a Secret Police to govern "no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance".
Hard working Posties all over the UK have been undermined time and again in recent years. They must be wondering how with the workers party in government they find themselves treated so badly. Since Labour forced the Post Office / Consignia / Royal Mail to axe 60,000 plus jobs we take bets on delivery times. Yes, remember Consignia? It was renamed for no apparent reason and now we know why - they hoped we wouldn't notice. A European Union dictat to destroy Her Majesty's Post Office that's served us through nearly 400 years since it was founded by King Charles in 1635.
The Communication Workers Union leadership seem so cowed by the thought of losing Labour the election, they're reluctant to connect Royal Mail management with it's Government masters instructing it. Mandelson wanted to sell off more profitable Post Office activity, now with Thursday's planned strike he won't have to - TNT, UK Mail and others will benefit immediately.
This has to be up there with Labour's most notorious betrayals of it's 110 year existence. So clandestine a deed that this month 96 per cent of the communication workers voted against continued affiliation to the Labour Party. Peter Mandelson, Boss of Business? It's doubtful whether any 'champagne' Socialist wearing a £22,000 wrist watch would have a postman's interest at heart.
Heard & not seen
Former Red Dragon FM Engineer & Swansea Bay Radio DJ Rick Ward is delivering the travel news on BBC Radio Wales ... flawlessly!
Why's 6 afraid of 7.... because 7 8 9.
County out of Exile?
Along with Newcastle United they've the joint second best defensive record of the 158 clubs in the top seven divisions of the English pyramid system, better than Man United, Chelsea, Spurs, Arsenal and Liverpool - only Leeds United have conceded less - five. I hate to tempt fate by drawing attention to it but Newport County deserve recognition for their fantastic start to the season. Now undefeated in 20 league games, Charlie Henry blasted The Exiles to Saturday's 1-0 victory at St Albans to stay top of the Blue Square Conference South. They have a superbly impressive defensive record having conceded only one goal away from home since August. Adding the five conceded at home that's only six conceded in all twelve league games so far. 581 saw County win on Saturday, compared to a total attendance of 2,687 for all nine Welsh Premier League games.
America's Hot 100
This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title
1 new 1 BRITNEY SPEARS 3
2 1 15 JAY SEAN & LIL WAYNE Down
3 2 9 MILEY CYRUS Party In The USA
4 4 9 JASON REBELLO Whatcha Say
5 3 11JAY-Z, RIHANNA & KANYE WEST Run This Town
6 5 18 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling
7 6 7 LADY GAGA Paparazzi
8 7 25 TAYLOR SWIFT You Belong With Me
9 11 8 OWL CITY Fireflies
10 9 37 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody |
