This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 18 Apr 10
'Oh My Gosh'... Usher is Number One with the help of Will I Am who has taken up residence there with Black Eyed Peas, Steve Aoki and Cheryl Cole. Rihanna's 'Rude Boy' stays top for a fourth week in the USA.

Interesting LP battle sees Plan B's 'Defamation Of Strickland Banks' beating Scouting For Girls 'Everybody Wants To Be On TV' to the top of the UK Album Chart.

Nine new songs see top ten entries for Professor Green's re-worked Inxs classic 'Need You Tonight' at 3, Kesha's 'Accapella' at 5 and 18 year old Disney child star Selena Gomez & The Scene at 7 with 'Naturally' - The Scene are Selena's fan club members so if you're one, welcome to the Top Ten.

Five 'Brit-Pop' entries include Kate Nash 'Doo Wah Do' in at 15, Eliza Doolittle's charming 'Skinny Genes' at 23 and Futureheads 'Heartbeat Song' at 36.

Paul Weller has beaten Elton John to having hits in five decades - his first chart success in 1977 with The Jam and now he's re-united with Jam mate Bruce Foxton on a couple of tracks on his new 'Wake Up the Nation' album out this week.

Snow Patrol have a new entry with 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar', a track that featuring Martha Wainwright from their 2006 album now on the Singles Chart for the first time at 38.

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

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

1 2 4 USHER & WILL I AM OMG US

2 1 3 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS This Ain't A Love Song UK

3 new PROFESSOR GREEN Need You Tonight UK

4 3 3 PLAN B She Said UK

5 new KELIS Accapella US

6 4 11 LADY GAGA & BEYONCE Telephone US

7 new SELENA GOMEZ & THE SCENE Naturally US

8 6 4 TIMBALAND & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Carry Out US

9 5 7 TINIE TEMPAH Pass Out UK

10 7 5 INNA Hot Rumania

11 11 2 JOSHUA RADIN I'd Rather Be With You US

12 40 2 TAIO CRUZ & KE$HA Dirty Picture UK / US

13 8 2 RIHANNA Rude Boy US

14 9 6 JUSTIN BIEBER & LUDACRIS Baby US

15 new KATE NASH Doo Wah Doo UK

16 15 4 DAVID GUETTA & KID CUDI Memories France / US

17 10 10 CHERYL COLE Parachute UK

18 16 12 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD Bedrock US

19 12 8 ELLIE GOULDING Starry Eyed UK

20 13 8 JASON DeRULO In My Head US

21 14 15 ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind (Part 2) US

22 new ELIZA DOOLITTLE Skinny Genes UK

23 17 7 BLACK EYED PEAS Rock That Body US

24 18 14 OWL CITY Fireflies US

25 24 8 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE Dog Days Are Over UK

26 new PAUL WELLER No Tears To Cry / Wake Up The Nation UK

27 27 3 N-DUBZ Say It's Over UK

28 19 12 TIMBALAND & KATY PERRY If We Ever Meet Again US

29 21 6 McLEAN My Name UK

30 22 8 CHIDDY BANG Opposite Of Adult US

31 33 2 PARAMORE The Only Exception US

32 20 9 FLORENCE & DIZZEE You Got The Dirtee Love UK

33 23 8 PIXIE LOTT Gravity UK

34 new FUTUREHEADS Heartbeat Song UK

35 25 25 LADY GAGA Bad Romance US

36 new SNOW PATROL & MARTHA WAINWRIGHT Set The Fire To The Third Bar UK

37 26 17 3OH!3 & KATY PERRY Starstrukk US

38 new JAY-Z & SWIZZ BEATZ On To The Next One US

39 32 21 JOURNEY Don't Stop Believing US

40 29 14 GLEE CAST Don't Stop Believing US

Hot Air...
Posted Friday 23rd April 2010 -
Although the two Prime Ministerial debate's have revealed differences between the three main parties, the leaders don't seem to like to talk about the doorstep feedback they often claim they're taking notice of... bearing that in mind it's hardly surprising the viewing figures slumped from the lowly 9 million of last week to a death bed Top Of The Pops low of 4 million last night.
Labour's two minute cartoon of their 'A Future Fair For All' manifesto is all the more bemusing because it must be the only Government publication featuring no diversity at all.
All of a sudden Labour is using traditional UK names Joe, his wife Jane and their three kids Jack, James & Jill... oh yeh and Granny - with no mention anywhere of the UK's second most popular boys name of 2009 and similar new entries/admissions.
Click here to see the 2 minute's of fun.
So confident or arrogant are they that they're doing the right thing, they again attempt to hide quite deliberate and unspoken progressive/revolutionary policies that have not been approved of by the UK's population - that the Libs and Tories don't home in on this enormous elephant of an issue is in itself striking.
The changes, indeed attacks on the way we live our lives are on so many levels it's harder and harder to keep count... our own language is being used to confuse us... how many know that the South Wales of our lifetime known by our ancestors and earlier has recently been officially re-named south Wales with a lower case 's'...
This is bollox with a capital 'B'.
Don't whatever you do call a pot a pot.
The SNP's new word for a 'hung' parliament is 'balanced' paliament...
Eh? Most would prefer a well hung parliament.
There can be no doubt that a 'hung' parliament and Labour's muted electoral reform will offer us the opportunity to go the same way as the Belgian government which failed yesterday amid squabbling between Flemish and French speaking Belgians over bilingual language rights...
Click here for the New York Times view
The question is who would benefit from the UK continuing along this road?
Well certainly not the UK....
Definately the UK's rivals, one of whom, the German Government just this week aquired what was 25% of British Rail.
Sad days for the Empire but one would be foolish to believe it won't strike back - this bunch need your vote now... they may not next time...

America's Hot 100

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

1 1 9 RIHANNA Rude Boy

2 2 11 B.o.B. & BRUNO MARS Nothin' On You

3 3 28 TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister

4 6 7 TAIO CRUZ Break Your Heart

5 9 18 JASON DERULO In My Head

6 4 35 LADY ANTEBELLEM Need You Now

7 5 20 LADY GAGA & BEYONCE Telephone

8 7 19 BLACK EYED PEAS Imma Be

9 8 12 JUSTIN BIEBER & LUDACRIS Baby

10 14 2 USHER & WILL I AM OMG