This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 11 Apr 10
Scouting For Girls take a second week top of the UK's Singles with their latest hit 'This Ain't A Love Song' while Rihanna's 'Rude Boy' stays top Stateside and in fact America's top eight stay the same - is that a record? Lady GaGa's 'The Fame' returns for another week on top of the UK Album Chart.

Joshua Radin, Paramore and Taio Cruz with Ke$ha score this weeks three new tunes while The Saturdays & Florence & The Machine re-enter with their recent top ten hits 'Ego' and 'You've Got The Love'.

3 new entries & 2 re-entries - 9 up, 21 down, 5 non-movers

This Week ... Last Wk ... Wks In ... Artist ... Title ... Origin

1 1 2 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS This Ain't A Love Song UK

2 8 3 USHER & WILL I AM OMG US

3 3 2 PLAN B She Said UK

4 2 10 LADY GAGA & BEYONCE Telephone US

5 5 6 TINIE TEMPAH Pass Out UK

6 16 3 TIMBALAND & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Carry Out US

7 9 4 INNA Hot Rumania

8 6 11 RIHANNA Rude Boy US

9 7 5 JUSTIN BIEBER & LUDACRIS Baby US

10 10 9 CHERYL COLE Parachute UK

11 new JOSHUA RADIN I'd Rather Be With You UK

12 12 7 ELLIE GOULDING Starry Eyed UK

13 11 7 JASON DeRULO In My Head US

14 13 14 ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind (Part 2) US

15 30 3 DAVID GUETTA & KID CUDI Memories France / US

16 19 11 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD Bedrock US

17 14 6 BLACK EYED PEAS Rock That Body US

18 15 13 OWL CITY Fireflies US

19 17 11 TIMBALAND & KATY PERRY If We Ever Meet Again US

20 18 8 FLORENCE & DIZZEE You Got The Dirtee Love UK

21 20 5 McLEAN My Name UK

22 21 7 CHIDDY BANG Opposite Of Adult US

23 26 7 PIXIE LOTT Gravity UK

24 34 7 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE Dog Days Are Over UK

25 24 24 LADY GAGA Bad Romance US

26 25 16 3OH!3 & KATY PERRY Starstrukk US

27 40 2 N-DUBZ Say It's Over UK

28 23 5 GABRIELLA CILME On A Mission Australia

29 27 13 GLEE CAST Don't Stop Believing US

30 22 6 BOYZONE Gave It All Away UK

31 32 6 MUMFORD & SONS The Cave UK

32 28 20 JOURNEY Don't Stop Believing US

33 new PARAMORE The Only Exception US

34 29 14 IYAZ Replay US

35 33 10 KE$HA Blah Blah Blah US

36 re-entry 13 SATURDAYS Ego UK

37 31 12 JLS One Shot UK

38 35 30 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind US

39 re-entry 23 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE You've Got The Love UK

40 new TAIO CRUZ & KE$HA Dirty Picture UK / US

America's Hot 100

This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title

1 1 8 RIHANNA Rude Boy

2 2 10 B.o.B. & BRUNO MARS Nothin' On You

3 3 27 TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister

4 4 34 LADY ANTEBELLEM Need You Now

5 5 19 LADY GAGA & BEYONCE Telephone

6 6 6 TAIO CRUZ Break Your Heart

7 7 18 BLACK EYED PEAS Imma Be

8 8 11 JUSTIN BIEBER & LUDACRIS Baby

9 11 17 JASON DERULO In My Head

10 8 19 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD BedRock

Follow Your Leader
Posted Saturday 17th April 2010 -
"I'm different" Clegg said of his Lib Dems... we know that in Cardiff... they won't listen to anyone... least of all the 93% who voted against a school reorganisation plan involving the demolition of a leisure centre... they just plough on doing untold damage which will rebound at some point... and he's the clear winner... mainly because he's neither Gordon Brown or David Cameron.
And that ladies and gentlemen is how the democratic debate will be hijacked and public opinion sidelined.
From Comrade's Brown's overtures to the 43 year old Lib Dem Leader it seems Labour's strategy is to go for a hung parliament and hang on to power with Clegg's Libs help by offering electoral reform. It's muted we should allow infants to have the vote... give them sweets... that kind of deal... anything to retain power.
Commentators were expecting a National Grid power surge moment akin to Englands 1966 World Cup victory when 23 million viewers simultaneously went for tea at the end, or the 1977 Morecambe & Wise Christmas Show when 27 million did similar... in the event a meagre 9.4 million tuned in to our leaders first debate... a little more than the BBC's controversial BNP Newsnight last October...
Nineteen days till D-Day... Democracy Day that is.
How different is Nick Clegg? Here's some excerpts from Wiki on the Lib Dem boss...
Nick Clegg was born in Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire in 1967, the third of four children. His half-Russian half-English father, Nicholas, was a banker, and is a trustee (and former chairman) of The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. His great-great-grandfather, the Russian nobleman Ignaty Zakrevsky, was Attorney General of Senate in Imperial Russia. His great-great aunt was the writer Baroness Moura Budberg. His Dutch mother Hermance van den Wall Bake was a teacher of children with special educational needs who had been interned as a girl with her family by the Japanese in Batavia (Jakarta) in the Dutch East Indies. He was brought up bilingually in Dutch and English and also speaks French, German and Spanish.
Clegg was educated at Caldicott in South Buckinghamshire, then Westminster School in London. As a 16-year-old exchange student in Munich, Germany, he performed community service for a minor case of arson: he and a friend burned Germany's leading collection of cacti belonging to a professor, something which he said he was "not proud" of, when it re-emerged during his time as Lib Dem Home Affairs spokesman. He attended Robinson College, Cambridge, after spending a gap year as a ski instructor in Austria and as an office junior in a Helsinki bank. At Cambridge, Clegg studied Archaeology and Anthropology. He was active in the student theatre, captain of the college tennis team, and campaigned for Survival International, protecting the rights of threatened indigenous peoples.
In 2008 it was reported that while at university, Clegg had joined the Cambridge University Conservative Association between 1986 and 1987, with contemporary membership records citing an "N Clegg" of Robinson College. (At the time, Clegg was the only person of that name at Robinson.) However, Clegg himself later maintained he had "no recollection of that whatsoever." After university he was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Minnesota for a year, where he wrote a thesis on the political philosophy of the Deep Green movement. He then moved to New York, where he worked as an intern under Christopher Hitchens at The Nation, a left wing magazine. Clegg next moved to Brussels, where he worked for six months as a trainee in the G24 Co-ordination Unit which delivered aid to the countries of the former Soviet Union. After the internship he took a second Master's degree at the College of Europe in Bruges, where he met his wife, Míriam González Durantez.

Evans Brain Drain
Posted Saturday 17th April 2010 -
Radio 2 Breakfast Clone Chris Evans Election Analyst has been named as... Will Carling. Will, previously famous for the affections of Princess Diana and Rugby is a man who professes no knowledge of Party Politics... in our New Britain the less knowledge the better... Will will be in a similar plight to Chris Evans in that the Ginger One seems to have little idea on how to retain Wogan's listenership.

Sampson Syco Bill
Posted Saturday 17th April 2010 -
2008 Simon's Got Money Winner George Sampson has been talking in the Daily Mail about the great Cowell man... "George himself has been quite outspoken about how he felt abandoned by Simon Cowell, whose record label Syco dropped him after his first single flopped. George was then staggered to discover that he actually owed Cowell money. 'I suppose Simon has realised he can make more money out of other people,' he said. 'But I thought we were tight. I had one of the bestselling DVDs, we sold loads of copies. 'But then I found out that Simon's company takes 90 per cent of the revenue. I get ten per cent. But I have to pay the production costs out of that. So I ended up owing them money.'

Razorlight Gigs
Posted Saturday 17th April 2010 -
Razorlight will be playing two shows this summer. They are currently working on their fourth album but will be playing Sandown Park on Wednesday 21st July and Newmarket on 23rd July.
The racetrack is hosting a series of Music Nights with the band playing after the racing has finished and tickets include access to the afternoon/evening horse racing. Tickets are onsale now!
Plus Razorlight will be supporting U2 in Finland for two exclusive shows! They will be joining them at the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki, Finland on 20th & 21st August.

Weller Returns
Posted Saturday 10th April 2010 -
Paul Weller has a new single released on Monday, a new album due week later, and a new girlfriend half his age here