This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 21 Mar 10
How d'you make Lady GaGa angry?
Pok 'er Face!

Given the way the singles chart has gone in recent years... from 20 new tunes per week in the 90's and early 00's to an average five new entries each week now - it's all the more remarkable Lady GaGa has claimed her fourth UK number one. 'Telephone' has been available since her 'Fame Monster' album repackaging was launched four or five months back but now with a handsome batch of remixes - each of which is top quality - she's climbed from 12 to the top of the singles the same week as 'Fame Monster' goes back to the top of the album chart and former number one 'Bad Romance' moves back up three to 21. The only mixed news on the awkward GaGa's horizon is the legal action for royalties by her former producer.

Good news for Schools Minister and would be Chancellor Ed Balls and his wifey Yvette Cooper - Skepta is the latest of London's 'Grime' artists to make the top forty - 'Bad Boy' in at 26 - this means the Grime collectives' close association with government initiatives hasn't blown their credibility with their own fans completely.

This weeks new Glee Cast hit is .... 'True Colours' in at 35 while Cheryl Cole 'Fight For This Love' returns at 40 and Sidney Samson's 'Riverside' is back at 39.

Rihanna's 'Rude Boy' goes top Stateside while reaching a high of 2 in the UK.

3 new entries & 2 re-entries - 11 up, 20 down, 4 non-movers

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

1 12 7 LADY GAGA & BEYONCE Telephone US

2 1 3 TINIE TEMPAH Pass Out UK

3 2 8 RIHANNA Rude Boy US

4 3 2 JUSTIN BIEBER & LUDACRIS Baby US

5 4 4 ELLIE GOULDING Starry Eyed UK

6 8 6 CHERYL COLE Parachute UK

7 5 4 JASON DeRULO In My Head US

8 new INNA Hot US

9 6 11 ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind (Part 2) US

10 7 5 FLORENCE & DIZZEE You Got The Dirtee Love UK

11 15 3 BLACK EYED PEAS Rock That Body US

12 18 8 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD Bedrock US

13 10 2 McLEAN My Name UK

14 11 8 TIMBALAND & KATY PERRY If We Ever Meet Again US

15 13 10 OWL CITY Fireflies US

16 16 4 CHIDDY BANG Opposite Of Adult US

17 9 2 GABRIELLA CILME On A Mission Aus

18 17 3 GRAMOPHONEDZIE Why Don't You UK

19 14 3 WILEY & EMELI Never Be Your Woman UK

20 21 10 JLS One Shot UK

21 24 21 LADY GAGA Bad Romance US

22 22 7 KE$HA Blah Blah Blah US

23 26 4 PIXIE LOTT Gravity UK

24 23 4 SUGABABES Wear My Kiss UK

25 28 10 GLEE CAST Don't Stop Believing US

26 new SKEPTA Bad Boy UK

27 19 3 DAISY DARES YOU & CHIPMUNK No.1 Enemy UK

28 31 17 JOURNEY Don't Stop Believing US

29 20 3 BOYZONE Gave It All AwayUK

30 32 11 IYAZ Replay US

31 36 27 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind US

32 25 5 LEONA LEWIS I Got You UK

33 30 13 3OH!3 & KATY PERRY Starstrukk US

34 27 9 JAY SEAN, SEAN PAUL, LIL JOHN Do You Remember UK / US

35 new GLEE CAST True Colours US

36 34 21 FLORENCE & THE MACHINE You've Got The Love UK

37 37 3 MUMFORD & SONS The Cave UK

38 38 20 KE$HA Tik Tok US

39 re-entry 10 SIDNEY SAMSON Riverside (Holland)

40 re-entry 16 CHERYL COLE Fight For This Love UK / US

America's Hot 100

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

1 4 5 RIHANNA Rude Boy

2 2 31 LADY ANTEBELLEM Need You Now

3 1 3 TAIO CRUZ Break Your Heart

4 5 15 BLACK EYED PEAS Imma Be

5 16 7 B.o.B. & BRUNO MARS Nothin' On You

6 7 24 TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister

7 3 16 YOUNG MONEY & LLOYD BedRock

8 6 23 KE$HA TiK ToK

9 11 16 LADY GAGA & BEYONCE Telephone

10 8 14 JASON DeRULO In My Head

Welsh jobs ditched
Posted Thursday 25th March 2010 - Source ITV
Richard Hooper (who?) has announced the contract for providing for ITV Wales news will go to... Northen Ireland... and Ulster TV. The Welsh bid wasn't good enough. I'm sure we could have found someone in our little country of two million people who for £6 million of Government dosh could have come up with something. Ulster TV own Swansea Sound and The Wave. The Tories say if they win the election they'll 'unpick the deal'.

British jobs Dutched
Posted Wednesday 24th March 2010 - Source Labour

How disappointing is this... the election hasn't yet been called and the Labour 'British Jobs For British Workers lie' party is after our votes... The above election communication indicates it's been sent by the MPs constituency office... but the constituency office don't know anything about it because it's come from Socialist Central Command. Well they've made their intentions clear... rather than support their own Union of Communications Workers and protect their UK jobs by sending their mail-outs with Royal Mail they're using the Dutch Company TNT - owned by the Dutch State... just as Labour 'allowed' the BBC's TV Licensing mail to go from Royal Mail to TNT... This arrangement saves senders 10p per letter, but Royal Mail still deliver the letters and get starved of revenue while scheming Hoon like creatures 'bluntly' pocket the 'money'.
Shame on them, shame on their lies.

Production Music: What & How??
Posted Monday 22nd March 2010 - Source WMF
Production Music: What it is and How to Sell it.... Calling all composers, studios, labels & publishers, producers, editors & directors....
Saturday 27 March 2010, 3 - 4.30pm, Galeri, Caernarfon.
Wednesday 14 April 2010, 6.30 - 8pm, Norwegian Church, Cardiff Bay.
With so many TV programmes being made in Wales and more to come, find out how to tap into the production music market; the difference in categories of audio visual music, the people who use it and how it could be a new revenue for you.
A panel from the audio-visual sector will be answering your questions and explaining the market.
Also featuring the launch of WMF's essential production music toolkit : a 'how to' guide for music creators and rights owners. Pick up your free copy.
Drinks, nibbles and networking after.
All FREE
To book your place e-mail hello@welshmusicfoundation.com or call 02920 494 110

Gig in a kitchen?
Posted Monday 22nd March 2010 - Source Radio One
What a treat, Radio One DJ Huw Stephens (son of Welsh Author and Journalist Meik Stephens - Literature Director of the Welsh Arts Council from 1967-1990) puts on a gig in his fellow Radio One Wales DJ/Producer Jen Long's kitchen... the aim of this Radio One Stories Show being to find out how easy it is to put a gig on in your kitchen???? Well I would guess it's gonna be a bit of a synch if you can offer BBC monopoly money, all the technical support required and precious airtime on the nation's biggest pop network... however if you've none of that going for you - don't hold your breath.
These kind of expensive 'wanky arty' forays into pretentious music journalese may be on the increase as the BBC feels pressure to show clear programming difference with it's commercial rivals - then again if the Tories win the election there will likely be big pressure to privatise Radio One.
With government institutions alert to the increasing chance of a new Conservative Government the BEEB haven't been the only department trying to head off trouble by making early changes.
Radio Two is showing the first major sign of change with Mark Radcliffe & Stuart Maconie's shows cut from four to three nights a week - with the station to become 50% speech through daytime. Obviously the Heart's and Real's will benefit from this move. So the near million listeners who've deserted Chris Evans Radio 2 Breakfast Show won't be the only headache for Evans - there is a strong possibility the station will change it's music policy and format completely as it did when the Tories and ILR had their last rage against Radio Two in the 1980's. Back then after a futile struggle against bosses re-introducing the music of the 1940's and 1930's David Hamilton and sale-able music had to concede and retreat.
The commercial radio industry has forever moaned it can't compete with the BBC - xplosure contends it's because many stations are just plain boring, totally predictable.
However it does appear that Murdoch, News International and their commercial radio chums would appear to have gained an early upperhand in BEEB battering...

Gig in a lobby?
Posted Monday 22nd March 2010 - Source Channel 4
Thank you Channel 4 Dispatches... are you working for the EU in trying to finish our UK democracy...
... because here comes the strangely forseen Lobbying Scandal... forseen by David 'Dad to be for a 4th time' Cameron on 12 February...??? How did he know that then...? Did Channel 4 give him the nod?
It seems that as with the expenses scandal MPs and former Ministers are for hire like 'cabs', but if you haven't got £3-5k a day don't bother looking for help in that direction.
These in the main, Labour people give the impression they are so corrupt they've forgotten what corruption is ... never mind all the broken election promises from 1997, 2001 and 2005....
What can possibly redeem Geoff Hoon... Defence Minister responsible for ensuring our soldiers have the right equipment... failing miserably and then wanting £3k per day on the back of his shortcomings - a snip at around half the £5k per day for which the useless former Transport Minister Steven Byers can be hired.
It's cringingly embarrassing to see the cream of Government talent reveal themselves as unprincipled lowlife and worse... Hoon, Hewitt, Byers, Moran and the Tory bloke appear so stupid their greed blinds them to Channel 4's use of surely one of the least convincing actresses. Surf onto Channel 4's Dispatches mini-site by clicking here.

Historian David Starkey on BBC1's Question Time last week was in no doubt of the Brown Gang's performance ... 'criminal negligence' he said.