Top 40 Sun 23 May10
BoB's US chart-topper goes straight to Number One in the UK, Usher deposes Eminem to reclaim America's top spot.
It's May 1972 again Leeds United's anthem 'Leeds Leeds Leeds' goes straight to 10 in celebration of The Whites promotion to the Championship while The Rolling Stones re-mastered classic 'Exile On Main Street' album shoots straight to the top of the UK Albums.
Radio One's Big Weekend is massive... but why didn't Bethan or Huw or even Moyles Welsh producer Aled give Reggie Yates some guidance on how to pronounce Bangor... it's only the Chart Show, only the showcase for the station and it's 'Big Weekend' after all... I lost count of the number of times the man Yates called it Bangor with a soft 'G'... as in 'bangers and mash'... the BBC used to have a 'Pronunciation Unit' but with the last government's attack on our most prevalent language - the Queen's received English - who knows what that section may have been renamed, if it still exists.
11 new entries - 4 up, 24 down, 1 non-mover
This Week ... Last Wk ... Wks In ... Artist ... Title ... Origin
1 new B.o.B. Nothing On You US
2 2 4 JASON DeRULO Ridin' Solo US
3 1 4 ROLL DEEP Good Times UK
4 8 4 ALEXANDRA BURKE & PITBULL All Night Long UK / US
5 4 2 EDWARD MAYA & VIKA JIGULINA Stereo Love Rumania
6 3 9 USHER & WILL I AM OMG US
7 5 3 AGGRO SANTOS & KIMBERLY WYATT Candy UK / US
8 6 8 PLAN B She Said UK
9 7 3 FYFE DANGERFIELD She's Always A Woman UK
10 new LEEDS UNITED Leeds Leeds Leeds UK
11 new MUSE Neutron Star Collision UK
12 10 6 KELIS Accapella US
13 20 4 ALICIA KEYS Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart US
14 19 3 RIHANNA Te Amo US
15 11 7 TAIO CRUZ & KE$HA Dirty Picture UK / US
16 new PRETTY RECKLESS Make Me Wanna Die US
17 new SEAN KINGSTON & JUSTIN BIEBER Eenie Meenie US
18 22 4 TRAIN Hey Soul Sister US
19 16 16 LADY GAGA & BEYONCE Telephone US
20 14 6 PROFESSOR GREEN Need You Tonight UK
21 new SQUAD Three Lions 2010 UK
22 13 3 PENDULUM Watercolour Australia
23 15 5 CHIPMUNK & ESMEE DENTERS Until You Were Gone UK
24 12 2 CHRISTINA AGUILERA Not Myself Tonight US
25 24 12 TINIE TEMPAH Pass Out UK
26 new ELLIE GOULDING Guns & Horses UK
27 23 9 DAVID GUETTA & KID CUDI Memories France / US
28 17 9 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS This Ain't A Love Song UK
29 9 2 GLEE CAST Total Eclipse Of The Heart US
30 21 9 TIMBALAND & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Carry Out US
31 18 5 DIANA VICKERS Once UK
32 25 11 JUSTIN BIEBER & LUDACRIS Baby US
33 new GLEE CAST Jessie's Girl US
34 new KE$HA Your Love Is My Drug US
35 new KATIE MELUA The Flood UK
36 32 20 ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind (Part 2) US
37 30 17 RIHANNA Rude Boy US
38 31 13 ELLIE GOULDING Starry Eyed UK
39 new NAS & DAMIEN MARLEY As We Enter US
40 34 3 BIFFY CLYRO Bubbles UK |
America's Hot 100
This Week ... Last Week ... Weeks In ... Artist ... Title
1 2 7 USHER & WILL I AM OMG
2 new KATY PERRY & SNOOP DOGG California Gurls
3 5 5 B.o.B. & HAYLEY WILLIAMS of PARAMORE Airplanes
4 3 16 B.o.B. & BRUNO MARS Nothin' On You
5 4 12 TAIO CRUZ Break Your Heart
6 1 2 EMINEM Not Afraid
7 8 14 KE$HA Your Love Is My Drug
8 11 7 LADY GAGA Alejandro
9 6 14 RIHANNA Rude Boy
10 7 33 TRAIN Hey, Soul Sister
Feeder News
Posted Monday 17th May 2010
Feeder have announced a new album and tour. 'Renegades' will be released on July 5th and the Newport band are heading out on tour in October - no Welsh dates yet...
Leeds Metropolitan University Thu 21st Oct
Glasgow, ABC Fri 22nd Oct
Manchester, Academy 2 - Sun 24th Oct
Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall - Mon 25th Oct
Bristol O2 Academy Wed 27th Oct
London Shepherds Bush Empire Thu 28th Oct
Oxford Academy 2 Sat 30th Oct
Southampton University Sun 31st Oct
A New Day Dawns...
Posted Sunday 16th May 2010
As Yo Blair once said "A new day has dawned, has it not?"... and what to make of the past week.... for a couple of hours last Monday it looked likely Gordon Brown would remain as a kind of 'Caretaker PM' until September but then the deafening diplomatic silence maintained by David Cameron and his team of negotiators paid dividends to clinch a coalition with Nick Clegg's Lib Dems and wrench power away from Labour after thirteen mind-boggling years.
And the surprises keep coming... today we hear there's a distinct possibility far left Labour MP Frank Field will be hired as Camerons 'Poverty Tzar' - surely a revenge of sorts for Labour's baffling immigration policy which is again starkly contrasted by the look of the new Lib Dem / Tory cabinet.
Let's give the benefit of the doubt and travel in hope for a little while at least - well at least until the Queens Speech next week.. there can be little doubt the direction Labour were pointed the threat of civil unrest was looking ever more likely. It's a certainty their 'trojan mice' will be secretly conspiring to continue the chaos but in the meantime the growing unease may have been arrested and God willing reversed... and if common sense, logic, brains, wisdom, truth, and fairness can carry the day...
Coming to your street soon... the liberal spot the difference conservation game
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