Mike's Mad4these w/c 20 Apr 09
Choice new CD's - Click below for the latest on each artist
1 1 MARMADUKE DUKE Rubber Lover new single from the 'Duke Pandemonium' album due 4 May
2 8 LITTLE BOOTS New In Town new single 25 May
3 - PRODIGY Warrior's Dance new single 11 May
4 4 MAXIMO PARK The Kids Are Sick Again new single 4 May
5 7 THE VERONICAS Untouched new single 25 May
6 2 ASH Untitled white label sampler promo
7 5 INNERPARTYSYSTEM Heart Of Fire new single 4 May
8 6 MORRISSEY Something Is Squeezing My Skull new single 27 April
9 - ASHER ROTH Lark In My Go-Kart from the 'Asleep In The Bread Isle' album 20 April
10 - KISSY SELL OUT This Kiss new single 11 May
11 - CHAPMAN FAMILY Kids new single 4 May
12 - YEAH YEAH YEAHS Heads Will Roll from the 'It's Blitz!' album
12 - PITBULL & PHARRELL Blanco from the 'Fast & Furious 4' soundtrack album see movie site
12 - GLASSYOUTH Bottle After Bottle free download single 27 April

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This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 19 Apr 09

Two weeks at the top of the UK Top 40 for Calvin Harris while The Black Eyed Peas also get a second week at No.1 in America where the top seven trax are unchanged.

New entries from Green Day, Eminem, The Enemy, Frankmusic, Girls Aloud and Metro Station sisterette Miley Cyrus.

6 new entries – 9 up, 23 down, 2 non-movers

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

1 1 2 CALVIN HARRIS I'm Not Alone

2 4 5 LA ROUX In For The Kill

3 2 14 LADY GAGA Poker Face

4 3 5 AR RAHMAN & PUSSYCAT DOLLS Jai Ho

5 6 2 CIARA & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Love Sex Magic

6 7 7 BEYONCE Halo

7 5 4 NOISETTES Don't Upset The Rhythm

8 new EMINEM We Made You

9 8 6 METRO STATION Shake It

10 11 4 LILY ALLEN Not Fair

11 9 7 FLO RIDA & KESHA Right Round

12 13 5 ENRIQUE IGLESIAS & CIARA Takin' Back My Love

13 10 9 TAYLOR SWIFT Love Story

14 16 2 LIVERPOOL COLLECTIVE Fields Of Anfield Road

15 12 8 AKON Beautiful

16 new THE ENEMY No Time For Tears

17 14 10 T.I. & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Dead & Gone

18 15 16 LADY GAGA & COLBY O'DONNIS Just Dance

19 19 12 LILY ALLEN The Fear

20 17 7 KELLY CLARKSON Life Would Suck Without You

21 18 20 JAMES MORRISON NELLY FURTADO Broken Strings

22 21 28 KINGS OF LEON Use Somebody

23 28 3 PINK Please Don't Leave Me

24 new MILEY CYRUS The Climb

25 35 2 BRITNEY SPEARS If U Seek Amy

26 new FRANKMUSIC Better Off As Two

27 20 4 ROBIN S, ANGELLO & LUKE Show Me Love

28 25 15 JASON MRAZ I'm Yours

29 30 32 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire

30 new GREEN DAY Know Your Enemy

31 26 10 PRODIGY Omen

32 22 5 FRANZ FERDINAND No You Girls

33 39 2 JAMES MORRISON Please Don't Stop The Rain

34 29 15 ALESHA DIXON Breathe Slow

35 33 14 TINCHY STRYDER & TAIO CRUZ Take Me Back

36 new GIRLS ALOUD Untouchable

37 31 4 KIG Heads Shoulders Knees & Toes

38 36 2 BAT FOR LASHES Daniel

39 27 7 SATURDAYS Just Can't Get Enough

40 23 3 JUST JACK Embers

America's Hot 100
This Week ... Last Week ... Artist ... Title

1 1 BLACK EYED PEAS Boom Boom Pow

2 2 LADY GAGA Poker Face

3 3 FLO RIDA & KESHA Right Round

4 4 SOULJA BOY TELL'EM & SAMMIE Kiss Me Thru The Phone

5 5 JAMIE FOXX & T-PAIN Blame It

6 6 T.I. & JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE Dead & Gone

7 7 KID CUDI Day N Nite

10 8 MILEY CYRUS The Climb

9 - THE FRAY You Found Me

10 8 THE ALL-AMERICAN REJECTS Gives You Hell

Classic Radio links
Hollywood Hamilton introducing Sinitta's 'Right Back Where We Started From' on 102.7 KIIS FM Los Angeles. It was a short but inspired interjection, an outburst during what sounded like an intended segue when during the limp seven second intro Hamilton was heard to exclaim ... "What the hell is this?" Bless him, bless her!

Valleys protest
Listeners are planning to protest against the possible closure of an Ebbw Vale-based radio station.
They feel the loss of medium wave station Valleys Radio would be a blow to the community in Ebbw Vale and they plan to protest outside the station on Thursday. One of the protestors Nathan Edwards said: “The station closing would make such a big impact on the Welsh valleys, because its the one station we all listen to. It has a major role in the community.” Mr Edwards said that he and others will be at the station’s headquarters at the Garden Festival site, Ebbw Vale, from 9am.
Valleys Radio owner UTV Radio announced in late March that it could close before the end of April if a buyer was not found. UTV said without new investment the licence will be handed back to media regulator Ofcom, and the station would cease broadcasting. The company said it had written twice to the regulator to request that the station be moved to premises in Swansea, but this was rejected both times. If no buyer was found everything would be done to relocate permanent members of staff to different positions within the group, director of local radio Calum Macaulay said at the time.
UTV Radio were unavailable for comment. story from South Wales Argus.

Moyles Perplexed
Chris Moyles has just begun a new chapter with a TV quiz show and he must be wondering who he has upset to have Radio One issue denials that he'll be axed later this year. The vote of confidence usually being the kiss of bye bye Sooty. BEEB bosses could be unhappy with frequently having to explain his 'offensive content' to Ofcom and what barely passes for a government. Could it be they'll move Moyles before October, denying 'Their Saviour' the opportunity of passing Tony Blackburn's record five years and nine months on the Radio One Breakfast Show? Or is it a ploy to attract column inches and listeners.

More Perplexed
As many as 50 local radio stations could be forced to close without changes being made to the way the industry is regulated, an official report warned this week.
The paper, ordered by the government as part of the Digital Britain review of the media and communications sectors, said major changes were needed if local commercial stations were not to suffer "death by a thousand cuts".
In the report, John Myers, the former head of GMG Radio, recommended changing existing rules on local programming, music policy and the location of a station's premises in favour of a "local impact test".
Local commercial stations were facing huge difficulties, he said, overwhelmed by the explosion of online radio services, hemmed in by an outdated regulatory framework and hamstrung by poor decision-making within the industry.
Half make a loss every year, the report said.
"I believe firmly that now is not the time for 'baby steps' or for weakness of commitment," Mr Myers wrote in the report. "Instead, the radio industry as a whole must be bold, as I believe this might be one of the last opportunities it will be offered to carve out a long-term, profitable and successful future."
Strong local identity was vital to the sector, he said.
"I firmly believe that the 'localness' of local radio will continue to be the key to its success. If local radio were to 'de-localise' its broadcast content, it would simply fade into a sea of similar radio stations that offer no particular USP to their audiences."
Current rules dictate a minimum number of hours of local programming commercial stations must broadcast, but Mr Myers wants this replaced by a "local impact test".
The new test would require stations to provide evidence of local listeners' satisfaction with their output.
He also recommended increasing the minimum number of local news bulletins broadcast each day.
Tomorrow, the Prime Minister will deliver a keynote speech at a a one-day summit of major players from the fields of broadcasting and technology, where the UK's place in the new digital economy will be discussed.
At the launch of the interim Digital Britain paper in January, Gordon Brown said digital technology would be as important to the nation's prosperity in the 21st economy as "roads, bridges, trains and electricity were in the 20th Century".
One important area of debate will be the law governing media ownership, which currently restricts common ownership of local newspapers, radio stations and television channels.
The intention was to guarantee a range of voices in local media by preventing one owner dominating every news outlet, but many local media companies want the law relaxed so they can pool resources.
Mr Myers said the current law was out of date and should be changed.
"I suggest that competition legislation is itself sufficient to ensure plurality of voices within a market, making an additional layer of specific media ownership rules for local commercial radio increasingly redundant," he said.
"There are economies of scale to be gained from integrating news operations for both local newspapers and local radio within a market, and this may prove to be the only way to ensure the continued existence of both local media." Reported by Damon Wake, Press Association Media Correspondent

More bleating and whining. Why don't these commercial music radio types try copying the flair shown by Radio 2 & Radio One and stop relying on their boring computer programmed playlists and jingles.

Their idea is to cripple or change / handicap the BBC even more because, they argue the BBC with it's vast resources is unfair competition. The |BBC has it's own deadweight though, it does it really need a team of five or six people to create the impression that Chris Moyles is funny? Commercial stations just seem flatly unable to provide comparible quality shows. Xplosure would like to see the BBC offer the best quality and talent unbridled with the "we can't do that coz commercial company's do it" nonsense. If we lose the BBC from 'pop' or popular music or TV we'll be in big trouble. Entrusting the nation's airwaves to people who'd replace employees with a computerised formatted logic and drivel that's served them so poorly in the past would be folly, and even then they'd struggle for listeners.

When I worked at Red Dragon the Capital management at the time saw fit to take a group-wide axe to all the local Late Shows and use the money to pay for a big name 'celebrity dj' ... Steve Penk. He cost the same as all the local shows put together and halved the audience across the board in one three month survey. Too late to repair the damage a year later when his contract wasn't renewed. Here, listeners disaffected at how little they were valued had jumped ship with Real Radio, Radio Wales the beneficiaries.

Doh!