This week's Goss ...

UK Top 40 Sun 22 Aug 10
Iron Maiden's 'The Final Frontier' flies to the top of the UK Album Chart, after AC/DC's 'Iron Man' the second metal chart-topping album of 2010.

Stateside Eminem & Rihanna's 'Love The Way You Lie' is still top while Roll Deep get the 'Green Light' for a second UK number one single.

4 new entries - 4 up, 28 down, 4 non-movers

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

1 new 1 ROLL DEEP Green Light UK

2 2 9 EMINEM & RIHANNA Love The Way You Lie USA

3 1 4 FLO RIDA & DAVID GUETTA Club Can't Handle Me USA & France

4 4 7 YOLANDA B COOL & D CUP We Speak No Americano Australia

5 5 3 NE-YO Beautiful Monster USA

6 6 4 TRAVIE McCOY & B.o.B. Billionaire USA

7 3 2 THE SATURDAYS Missing You UK

8 7 12 B.o.B. & HAYLEY WILLIAMS Airplanes USA

9 9 7 ELIZA DOOLITTLE Pack Up UK

10 8 4 THE WANTED All Time Low UK

11 new 1 CHASE & STATUS with MALI Let You Go UK

12 11 4 SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA PHARREL One (Your Name) USA

13 12 9 KATY PERRY & SNOOP DOGG California Girls USA

14 new 1 INNA Amazing Rumania

15 13 6 JASON DeRULO What If USA

16 10 2 TINCHY STRYDER In My System UK

17 16 3 THE HOOSIERS Choices UK

18 14 4 MAGNETIC MAN & ANGELA HUNTE I Need Air UK

19 17 8 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & PITBULL I Like It USA

20 15 10 EXAMPLE Kickstarts UK

21 20 5 USHER & PITBULL DJ Got Us Falling In Love USA

22 23 14 EDWARD MAYA & VIKA JIGULINA Stereo Love Rumania

23 new 1 ONE NIGHT ONLY Say You Don't Want It UK

24 27 3 DJ FRESH Gold Dust UK

25 18 6 MARK RONSON Bang Bang Bang USA

26 22 13 LADY GAGA Alejandro USA

27 21 10 KELLY ROWLAND & DAVID GUETTA Commander USA & France

28 24 13 EMINEM Not Afraid USA

29 19 2 ELLIE GOULDING The Writer UK

30 34 17 TRAIN Hey Soul Sister USA

31 28 12 DAVID GUETTA, CHRIS WILLIS, FERGIE & LMFAO Getting Over France & USA

32 26 3 10 KYLIE MINOGUE All The Lovers 120 Aus

33 25 6 PROFESSOR GREEN Just Be Good To Green UK

34 30 11 TINIE TEMPAH Frisky UK

35 29 8 PLAN B Prayin' UK

36 33 7 DRAKE Find Your Love Australia

37 38 17 JASON DeRULO Ridin' Solo USA

38 39 11 SHAKIRA Waka Waka (This Time For Africa) Colombia

39 32 7 JLS The Club Is Alive UK

40 31 2 DEVLIN Brainwashed UK

America's Hot 100

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

1 1 8 EMINEM & RIHANNA Love The Way You Lie

2 2 11 TAIO CRUZ Dynamite

3 4 14 KATY PERRY & SNOOP DOGG California Gurls

4 5 14 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & PITBULL I Like It

5 9 4 KATY PERRY Teenage Dream

6 7 16 MIKE POSNER Cooler Than Me

7 8 5 USHER & PITBULL DJ Got Us Falling In Love

8 3 2 TAYLOR SWIFT Mine

9 6 18 B.o.B. & HAYLEY WILLIAMS of PARAMORE Airplanes

10 10 20 JASON DeRULO Ridin' Solo

Tis Ex-NHS Direct
Posted Saturday 28th August 2010 - Source : BBC
'Tis an Ex-NHS Direct according to new Coalition Government plans announced today. I'm not sure NHS Direct even looked good on paper, an obstacle to be overcome when seeking treatment. In practice our personal experience of NHS Direct involved trying to find an emergency NHS Dentist for an elderly relative - we were given two telephone numbers for Dentists who'd ceased taking NHS patients years earlier. RIP another badly enacted money eating Labour failure.
This week residents of Pontypridd have been dumbstruck to learn their council has spent £190,000 of their money on three bridges for doormice... you would be hard-pushed to make up this nonsense.

You International
Posted Friday 27th August 2010 - Source : Welsh Music Foundation
Your Music. International Audience.
Midem and SXSW Briefing
Friday 3 September 2010, Chapter, Cardiff.
11.30-14.30hrs
Interested in taking your music overseas? Want to find out more about music trade missions? Now's your chance... Ahead of international trade missions to Womex, Midem and SXSW 2011, UKTI will host a series of briefing meetings across the UK, including Cardiff in association with Welsh Music Foundation. This meeting is designed for music industry professionals interested in taking their business/music to a broader international market. The meeting will outline what it is that these conferences have to offer, and how to apply and make the most of you international business trip.
The briefing session will consist of:
- 1 hour covering Midem including the showcase opportunities available and how to access them
- 2 hours covering SXSW and everything that the conference and festival offers, including a brief insight into the Film and Interactive elements.
The session will include presentations by Javier Lopez (Midem), Una Johnston (SXSW), Phil Patterson(UKTI) and Welsh Music Foundation staff with plenty of time for Q & As. To reserve your place email hello@welshmusicfoundation.com
If you are unable to attend this date in Cardiff, a UKTI briefing meeting is also being held in Liverpool: Tuesday August 31st, Liverpool / North West briefing, 12.00 – 15.00hrs (venue TBC)

Stereophonics..
Posted Thursday 26th August 2010 -
If you're a Phonics fan you'll have 'Word Gets Around' and you'll probably seriously consider paying £26.99 to get the disc again.... 'Word Gets Around' is re-released on 18 October 2010 as a Deluxe Edition with a second CD including B-sides and rarities... and also a Super Deluxe Edition with a third CD which includes their original Grass Roots made in Charles Street, Cardiff. This demo got them the gig in Aberdare that put them in touch with their future manager John Brand... the man who would within weeks land them their deal with Richard Branson. Upon hearing these demo versions of 'More Life In A Tramps Vest', 'Looks Like Chaplin' and 'In My Day' one can immediately assert how important the availability of oodles of dosh is when making a demo in terms of production. The songs were there and assuming his managerial role John Brand put Kelly and Co. in touch with the new production team that made them sound like a Welsh version of The Jam. Stereophonics will be performing their first and second albums on consecutive nights at London Hammersmith Apollo on Sunday 17th October (Word Gets Around) and Monday 18th October (Performance & Cocktail). 'Word Gets Around' is our pick, the essential Stereophonics album with some wonderful new inclusions, check the HMV site here

You Know Now..
Posted Tuesday 24th August 2010 -
Did you know the World Wide Web was invented by a Londoner. Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the idea in March 1989 however, it came to fruition while he was working for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva, Switzerland. On 6 August 1991 he gave his employer and the world it's first website.... http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Pass.. Pass.. Pass
Posted Tuesday 24th August 2010 -
The legacy of Labour's Marxist glory continues with everyone passing their exams... so overwhelming has this ever increasing success rate been that a new set of exams are to be introduced. The idea being that these new exams will really sort the the brains from the bollocks...

Craig Bellamy
Posted Sunday 22nd August 2010 -
Much Respect..... wonder how many other soccer men are secretly dreaming of a return to their hometown club with such mutual love on display...

NewportWrexham
Posted Sunday 22nd August 2010 -
The Welsh derby between Newport County and Wrexham is to be televised and has been put back to Sunday, 5 September with a 1pm kick off.
The two sides were due to meet in a League fixture for the first time since 1988 at Spytty Park the day before, but a new pay-per-view television deal has been struck and the game moved.
Newport are back in the top flight of non-league for the first time in 21 years having won promotion last season.
Wrexham are hoping to return to the football League at the third attempt.