This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 14 Feb 10
So no surprises Helping Haiti is number one ... well maybe one surprise ... in the sales figures ... 200,000 copies were sold on Sunday and Monday while the record suffered a comparatively sharp fall off with 250,000 sold in the next five days. With downloading it's become far easier to buy an often below average record for a good cause but people didn't rush to buy this one in the same numbers as Band Aid, Ferryaid, Dunblane or even Band Aid 20 ... or even Peter Kays Children In Need thing .... or even the X-Factor Finalists .. gosh there's a lot of charity chunes at the top in't there ... but not in America ... and it's just what our embattled PM Gordon needs right now - a number one single.

It was Mr Brown who called Mr Cowell to get the musical fundraising ball rolling and some cynicals may think Helping Haiti has something to do with your vote ... but the money raised by the best paid man on American TV Simon Cowell will go to a worthy cause ... and unlike Mrs Thatcher with Band Aid in 1984 Mr Brown volunteered to drop any VAT due on the record...

... now for Mr B's next job - a tv show where the guests cry and some onions ... and try to remember to get an audience waving union jacks. Sad without doubt, but tears don't erase the pre-meditated lies/deceipts on weapons of mass destruction, immigration, tax, equality and so on and so on ad nauseum..... oh and Piers Morgan? What did Fern Britton do wrong... oh yeah asked a good question that nailed a big lie... doh.

The Glee Cast take-over continues with a second track 'Halo/Walking On Sunshine' joining their cover of 'Don't Stop Believing' in the top ten - 'It's My Life / Confessions' enters at 14 and their recordings of 'Somebody Too Love' drops to 33 with 'Take A Bow' still hanging around just outside the top forty.

Oh dear ... Jedward & Vanilla Ice drop ten to 12 .. now their younger fans have the track a quick descent is inevitable.

Alicia Keys 'Element Of Freedom' stays top of the UK Albums while Ke$ha tops America's Singles for a ninth week.

5 new entries - 8 up, 25 down, 2 non-movers

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

1 new HELPING HAITI Everybody Hurts UK

2 1 5 OWL CITY Fireflies US

3 3 3 TIMBALAND & KATY PERRY If We Ever Meet Again US

4 5 6 ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind (Part 2) US

5 4 5 GLEE CAST Don' Stop Believing US

6 7 8 3OH!3 & KATY PERRY Starstrukk US

7 8 5 JLS One Shot UK

8 6 6 IYAZ Replay US

9 new GLEE CAST Halo / Walking On Sunshine US

10 20 3 RIHANNA Rude Boy US

11 9 12 JOURNEY Don't Stop Believing US

12 2 2 JEDWARD & VANILLA ICE Under Pressure UK / US

13 14 4 JAY SEAN, SEAN PAUL, LIL JOHN Remember 73 UKUS

14 new GLEE CAST It's My Life / Confessions Part 3 US

15 11 2 KE$HA Blah Blah Blah US

16 10 4 EXAMPLE Won't Go Quietly UK

17 13 6 SIDNEY SAMSON Riverside Holland

18 12 2 MARINA & THE DIAMONDS Hollywood UK

19 15 11 JAY-Z & Mr HUDSON Young Forever US / UK

20 16 17 LADY GAGA Bad Romance US

21 17 9 ALEXANDRA BURKE Broken Heels UK

22 21 11 N-DUBZ & Mr HUDSON Playing With Fire UK

23 18 15 KE$HA Tik Tok US

24 19 10 SATURDAYS Ego UK

25 22 22 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind US

26 new CHERYL COLE Parachute UK

27 38 2 CALVIN HARRIS You Used To Hold Me UK

28 34 3 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD BedRock US

29 24 16 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE You've Got The Love UK

30 32 14 PIXIE LOTT Cry Me Out UK

31 25 19 BLACK EYED PEAS Meet Me Halfway US

32 23 5 PLAN B Stay Too Long UK

33 26 2 GLEE CAST Somebody To Love UK

34 30 5 BIFFY CLYRO Many Of Horror UK

35 33 33 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling US

36 27 11 ALICIA KEYS Doesn't Mean Anything US

37 31 12 RIHANNA Russian Roulette US

38 new DJ ZINC & Ms DYNAMITE Wile Out UK

39 39 2 LADY GAGA & BEYONCE Telephone US

40 28 11 TIMBALAND & NELLY FURTADO Morning US / Canada

America's Hot 100

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

1 1 18 KE$HA TiK ToK

2 4 10 BLACK EYED PEAS Imma Be

3 8 26 LADY ANTEBELLEM Need You Now

4 3 11 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD BedRock

5 2 15 LADY GAGA Bad Romance

6 5 27 DAVID GUETTA & AKON Sexy Chick

7 9 19 TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister

8 6 9 LUDACRIS How Long

9 16 35 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling

10 7 25 IYAZ Replay

Tony Wright...
Posted Sunday 21st February 2010
This is a rumour so be warned .. it may not be the truth ... Chris Needs to leave BBC Radio Wales ... Tony Wright to replace him ... it does sound like a plan.

Tony Wright who?
Posted Tuesday 16th February 2010
Young Jason Harrold, DJ Competition Winner 1988 seems to be 'torn between two lovers' ... Our radio spy has spotted the Red Dragon Breakfast legend is now to be a future Real Radio Wales Breakfast legend having apparently taken over their Breakfast Show ... the only thing is he's still on BBC Radio Bristol's Afternoon Show with 'The biggest laughs' - listen here.
A bit of moonlighting as he appears to have inherited the mysteriously disappeared Tony Wright's job in a double shifting at Real Radio see here.
He certainly sounds happier than his last months on Red Dragon when I could hear the familiarly agonising dying vocal throes of a dj headed for the exit.
Good luck Jason, where's that drink you owe me?

Phonics @ Home
Posted Tuesday 16th February 2010
Adding to their sold out Keep Calm and Carry On World Tour Stereophonics will make a stop to play an exclusive virtual concert in Sony Playstation's online space 'Home' on March 25th!
Home is Sony Playstation's virtual gaming world which has been downloaded by 11 million users worldwide.
The virtual concert will be inside the SingStar VIP room and will feature exclusive live footage and backstage interviews with the band and a virtual meet n greet with the band where fans will be able to participate in a live Q&A.
If that's not enough... the love-in doesn't stop there, with a SongPack from the band winging its way to the SingStore and a special competition tie-in coming later this month!
The band have just completed the European leg of their Keep Calm and Carry On tour and will next be leaving for Vancouver to perform at the Medal ceremonies at the Winter Olympics on Feb 20th before returning home to start their UK arena tour on March 1st.
In the mean time, catch the band performing Could You Be The One on Channel 4's Freshly Squeezed, this Friday (19th) at 7am!

From TOG to WASP
Posted Sunday 14th February 2010
Ole Tel's back on Radio 2 with 'Weekend Wogan', with a format resembling more his TV show than his Radio Show.
71 year old Wogan will have 16 weeks holiday a year with his shows recorded in three blocks of twelve ie 36 per year. The new name for Terry's Old Geezers is to be Wogan's Ageing Sunday Participants' ... err yes.
Click here for Wogan's return on BBC.co.uk

Billy Dreamer...
Posted Sunday 14th February 2010
Musician Billy Bragg has taken his protest against excessive bonuses for RBS bosses to Edinburgh, the home of the bank.
He is calling on Chancellor Alistair Darling to cap bonuses for chiefs at the bailed-out bank to £25,000.
The campaign currently has 30,000 online supporters.
Bragg is refusing to pay tax on his earnings until the limit is imposed. He delivered a speech at RBS' former headquarters in St Andrew's Square.
After the event, the singer-songwriter said: "I'm doing it to draw attention to the fact the bankers seem to think it's business as usual now.
Either we own 84% of the company or the entire thing is a sham
"They're starting already to talk about paying the kind of excessive bonuses that got us into all this trouble in the first place, whilst the rest of us are being softened up for public service cuts. Considering that this hole in the public purse has been caused by the bailout for the banks, the bankers should be leading the way in making economies."
RBS, which is 84% owned by the taxpayer following a string of bail-outs, is expected to pay millions of pounds in bonuses to its investment bankers this year.
Bragg, who released the hit album Talking With The Taxman About Poetry in 1986, is urging people to send letters or e-mails to the chancellor as part of his online campaign. Asked previously about the prospect of going to jail for refusing to pay his taxes, Bragg said: "I'm hoping it won't come to that. This is to draw attention to the issue. Either we own 84% of the company or the entire thing is a sham. I'm fed up with no-one doing anything about it."
Click here for this story at BBC.co.uk
Billy from Barking, I've got your 'Progressive Patriot' autobiogarphy we were both wrong - we've been had ... Sir Fred could and surely should have been sacked without a penny compensation - instead he's the bank robber with the biggest haul in history and thank's to our Labour chums entirely legal - for now ... the Government had the power to stop the financial disaster but why not the will - that's how Australia did better ... Billy, of course Labour has become and is a sham ... the sweets from strangers party ... by the way, good luck in jail writing to Darling Alistair, find a new party to support.