This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 17 Jan 10

Iyaz beat Owl City to clinch a second week at the top while E4's Glee Cast comedy version of 'Don't Stop Believing' enters at 5 one place higher than the Journey original.

Plan B in at 9, Biffy Clyro at 38, Vampire Weekend at 39 and JLS at 32 lead the UK's re-charge of new songs while One Republic get a long overdue follow-up success for 'Apologise' at 30.

Paulo Nutini's 'Sunny Side Up' - £5 in Asda - gets a third week at the top of the Album Chart while Kesha stays top of America's singles chart and has a new entry with Katy Perry's pals 3OH!3 'Blah Blah Blah' straight in at the US's No. 7.

You may have seen Kesha Rose Sebert on TV five years ago when she and her family entertained Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie for the MTV series 'The Simple Life'. She says of them now "I have no interest in talking to either of those girls"

7 new entries - 6 up, 24 down, 3 non-movers

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

1 1 2 IYAZ Replay US

2 new OWL CITY Fireflies US

3 2 2 SIDNEY SAMSON Riverside NETH

4 3 4 3OH!3 & KATY PERRY Starstrukk US

5 new GLEE CAST Don't Stop Believing US

6 6 8 JOURNEY Don't Stop Believing US

7 4 12 LADY GAGA Bad Romance US

8 5 12 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE You've Got The Love UK

9 new PLAN B Stay Too Long UK

10 12 5 ALEXANDRA BURKE Broken Heels UK

11 14 2 JUSTIN BIEBER One Time US

12 8 11 KE$HA Tik Tok US

13 19 7 JAY-Z & Mr HUDSON Young Forever US / UK

14 9 6 SATURDAYS Ego UK

15 16 7 N-DUBZ & Mr HUDSON Playing With Fire UK

16 7 7 8 CHIPMUNK & TALAY RILEY Look For Me 126 UK

17 10 15 BLACK EYED PEAS Meet Me Halfway US

18 11 10 CHERYL COLE & WILL I AM Three Words UK / US

19 13 8 RIHANNA Russian Roulette US

20 18 18 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind US

21 17 7 TIMBALAND & NELLY FURTADO Morning US / Canada

22 21 9 JASON DeRULO Whatcha Say US

23 35 2 ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind (Part 2) US

24 23 2 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE Dog Days Are Over UK

25 15 5 JOE McELDERRY The Climb UK

26 20 3 WILEY & CHEW FU Take That UK

27 24 7 ALICIA KEYS Doesn't Mean Anything US

28 22 28 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling US

29 29 10 PIXIE LOTT Cry Me Out UK

30 new ONE REPUBLIC All The Right Moves US

31 25 10 ROBBIE WILLIAMS You Know Me UK

32 new JLS One Shot US

33 26 13 CHERYL COLE Fight For This Love UK

34 27 14 ALEXANDRA BURKE Bad Boys UK

35 31 6 CHUCKIE & LMFAO I'm In Miami Bitch US

36 40 4 THIRTY SECONDS FROM MARS Kings & Queens UK

37 34 12 JAY SEAN & LIL WAYNE Down UK / US

38 new BIFFY CLYRO Many Of Horror UK

39 new VAMPIRE WEEKEND Cousins UK

40 33 14 MICHAEL BUBLE Haven't Met You Yet UK

America's Hot 100

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

1 1 14 KE$HA Tik Tok

2 2 11 LADY GAGA Bad Romance

3 4 18 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind

4 3 21 IYAZ Replay

5 5 22 OWL CITY Fireflies

6 6 23 DAVID GUETTA & AKON Sexy Chick

7 - 1 KESHA & 3OH!3 Blah Blah Blah

8 12 7 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD BedRock

9 15 8 RIHANNA Hard

10 7 28 JAY SEAN & LIL WAYNE Down

Pix A Lot
Posted Sunday 17 January 2010
Thanks once again to James Da Kemist who supplies us with this week's
Haul of Fame ...

Lady Sov sods off
Posted Friday 22 January 2010
Exiled from Celebrity Big Brothel Lady Sovereign was all set to appear on Andrew Neils BBC1 politics show 'This Week' when mysteriously she 'did a runner' leaving Mr Neil fluffing his lines. Nice one Sov! ... ish, that's er nice-ish.
Sov's got a new fan in Russia on DailyMail.co.uk
If she is Britain's female version of Eminem no wonder your country is a laughing stock!
- Olga Kalashnikova, Moscow, 19/1/2010 23:53 Wiki got this explanation up quick...
On 22 January 2010, Lady Sovereign was due to appear on This Week, a BBC political review show, to discuss the laws regarding self-defence for householders. Early in the programme, she was shown backstage waving to camera in anticipation of her appearance. However, when the segment began, presenter Andrew Neil apologised to viewers and explained the rapper had "done a runner." Neil instead discussed the topic with regular contributors Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott and concluded by joking "Who needs Lady Sovereign? Who IS Lady Sovereign?" Abbott laughed and responded "I don't know."

Phonics vs City
Posted Thursday 21 January 2010
Stereophonics are extremely pleased to announce that they will be playing the FIRST concert at the newly built state of the art, Cardiff City stadium on Saturday June 5th! Tickets go on sale from 9am on Friday 22nd January and are priced at £35 (+ booking fee) stereophonics.com

U2 & Jay-Z for Haiti
Posted Thursday 21 January 2010 BBC.co.uk
U2, Jay-Z and producer Swizz Beatz have recorded a song together to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
U2's guitarist The Edge told Irish radio station 2FM the band "wrote a song, finished and recorded" last week after being contacted about the idea.
The Edge, Bono and Jay-Z, along with Rihanna, are due to appear in London for "a group performance" as part of Friday's Hope For Haiti telethon.
George Clooney's two-hour benefit show will be aired on MTV in the UK.
More encouraging developments came on Thursday with the news that Prime Minister Gordon Brown has asked the Independent Republic of Cowell to produce a charity record for Haiti. The PM's office wouldn't confirm whether Mr Brown had also asked Mr Cowell to help him with his credit crunch debt of between £200-800 billion.

Save The Globe
Posted Wednesday 20 January 2010
The Globe maybe threatened with closure but look at the line-up over the coming weeks ... Judy Collins, Courtney Pine, Bad Manners, Peter Green, Wishbone Ash, Colin Blunstone, Sassafras ... oh yeah and Andy Fairweather-Low ... oh yeh yeh and a superb birthday tribute weekend to celebrate Bob Marley's birthday with Bob Bailey & The Jailers, BBC Radio 1Extra's Young Lion and Cardiff's extremely talented Leighton Jones among the line-up ... Leighton's a dead ringer for Michael McDonald's classy sounds and has wowed 100,000 at Hyde Park ... click here for January's gig list at The Globe's website

Having lived in Cardiff under Conservative and Labour governance, my verdict is that by far the worse has been the current Lib Dem / Plaid Cymru Party Of Wales Alliance ... they've been responsible through their crazy antagonistic decision-making for impoverishing many city centre traders, the closure of Cardiff's brilliant live music venue The Point, the many jobs lost from Cardiff's heritage bakers Memory Lane Cakes in Llanishen ... the list goes on ... the plan to charge CF1 residents for parking outside their homes, ending free Sunday parking in the city centre, building a road through Bute Park, the illogical impractical ending of terminus status on many bus routes of the you guessed it.. central bus terminus ... there's more .... I have never seen so many mothers and children crying on television at a Council anouncement ... an evil announcement calculated to upset ... I say evil because their long overdue school closures announcement was made at the beginning of the Easter holiday when.. hey the opposition was on holiday. I know that's how shifty it was because I bumped into Wales former First Minister Rhodri Morgan the following day - as you do completely by chance - and he explained it to me.
Then there's the planning permission for a hostel to be built next to Clwb Ifor Bach - presumably with all the sound adjustments that will require.
In the meantime the latest live music venue threatened with closure is The Globe, which needs to raise an extra £25,000 to comply with sound proofing demands ... this is an extra £25,000 ... it is dwarfed by the money that's been wasted by this council on unnecessary road narrowing - these unhealthy chumps have really only been elected as a result of the UK Labour leadership - Blair & Brown's deliberate abandoning it's traditional support, they've stepped into a vacuum, rather like another party they don't like to speak to ... it's a bullying behaviour perhaps reminiscent of another country not so far away in the 1930's not so far where the idea for 'no smoking' zones originated.
It feels like we're living here under a seige of stupidity, but it's not stupidity it's more resembles some weird anal retentive social engineering.
Did you know the average cost of a road hump is budgetted at £1,000 .. now you do!

Attention Detention
Posted Wednesday 20 January 2010
Detentions where pupils are forced to listen to classical music are an effective deterrent against unruly behaviour, a head teacher has found.
Brian Walker, head at West Park School in Derby, runs the two-hour detentions, featuring Elgar, Mozart, Verdi and Bach, on a Friday after school. BBC.co.uk
The Musicians Union & legal rights charity Reprieve will be interested in this as they are currently running a campaign against the use of music like Eminem's 'Slim Shady' and Dr Dre for purposes of torture in Guantanamo. TimesOnLine
You can picture the decision making at West Park School, it was a hard choice - Elgar, Eminem or Barney The Dinosaur?

Cadbury's Bosched
Posted Tuesday 19 January 2010
Bosch pull out .. another 900 join the Dole.. jobs transferred to Hungary where workers cost 65% of a UK worker. 'Cadbury's Keynsham factory is saved by the American firm Kraft in their £11.5 billion takeover ....' that's the dodgy reasoning broadcast by BBC West tonight. However, there can't have been many takeovers where the workforce taken over have gained, ask anyone from Capital Radio Group. And if Gordon's on your side watch out....
I've just taken phone calls ... three previously routine calls from around the corner that are now coming from India, The Phillipines and South Africa.
Globalisation is marching on and gathering pace and it is easy to understand why when you learn a little about the differential.
Why do firms pull out of Britain? Sometimes the government aid that lured them has dried up.
One colleague of mine in a large organisation dealing with finance made it quite easy to understand.
He mentioned that some contractors sub-contract out to India despite predictable communications problems prompting the obvious question - why would a company decide to transfer work from the UK to somewhere like India or The Phillipines.
His answer should shake anyone who imagines British recovery to be imminent ... it's as simple as this he said "in India 10 graduates can easily be recruited and cost around the same as one graduate here where there is a more difficult recruitment process."
Let's run that back .... ten times the labour force for the same dosh ...
This is where a Government would normally step in to help their own population ie the electorate that voted for them. For thirteen years it seems Labour have been doing the opposite.
It's difficult to see how this scenario will benefit many in the UK .. so we can eliminate that idea from their thinking.

Dappy drops one
Posted Friday 15 January 2010 Source BBC.co.uk
Government policies that tackle social exclusion are not without their problems. It seems elevation to star status isn't likely to help ... get this story from le Beeb
N-Dubz Dappy - real name Dino Contostavlos - was last night a guest on BBC 1's politics show 'This Week' with Andrew Neil and made some reference to how the band boyz were having to learn to be 'gentlemen'.
Today he's been apologising to a woman for sending her threatening text messages, after she contacted BBC Radio 1 expressing her dislike for the band.
Chloe Moody texted The Chris Moyles Show while the band were being interviewed, calling them "losers" and labelling Dappy "repulsive".
But she was shocked to receive a message the following day from rapper Dappy saying: "Your [sic] gonna die".
The BBC said Dappy took down Ms Moody's number without producers' knowledge.
As a result of the incident, N-Dubz have been dropped as ambassadors of anti-bullying charity Beatbullying.