This week's Top 40 ...

Top 40 Sun 25 Oct 09

Cheryl Cole takes straight to the top 'Fighting For Love' ... Ashley look out. It's the fastest selling single of 2009 with 290,000 sold this week. Ms Cole replaces Alexandra Burke at the top, Ms Burke's 'Bad Boys' became fastest selling single of the year last week with 185,000 sold. She won't be too disappointed as her album 'Overcome' has gone straight to the top of the Album Chart.

In the US, London boy Jay Sean has regained the top spot from Britney's '33' with his new song 'Down' released in the UK this week.

Young Soul Rebels 'Warchild' charity single is nin at 10. In 1995 the debut 'Warchild' single was released, a duet from Bono & Pavarotti on a haunting specially written song 'Miss Sarajevo', the then Yugoslavia fighting a divorce war to become Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia Herzogovinia. This year good cause aside we rate this track an absolutely pointless, horrific recording of the classic Killers song 'All These Things That I've Done' retitled 'I Got Soul' but I'm not a soldier. Aimed at raising awareness of the 300,000 children who are in deed 'Soldiers'. Musically this track is so soul-less N-Dubz singer Tulissa has said she'd never heard the song before recording it. What's she been doing for the past four years, is the divide that big? Killers seem to be a Conservative kind of a band and even David Cameron used the song at the Tory party conference. Fine to make a donation but forget a soon to be, like next week, useless download.

Foo Fighters, Christina Aguilera, Cobra Starship, Alphabeat, Calvin Harris and Paulo Nutini's strange 1920s style 'Pencil full of Lead' make up the rest of this week's crop of new tunes.

8 new entries & 1 re-entry – 4 up, 25 down, 2 non-movers

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

1 new CHERYL COLE Figh For This Love

2 1 2 ALEXANDRA BURKE & FLO RIDA Bad Boys

3 3 3 CHIPMUNK Ooopsy Daisy

4 2 2 ROBBIE WILLIAMS Bodies

5 14 3 WHITNEY HOUSTON Million Dollar Bill

6 4 6 TAIO CRUZ Break Your Heart

7 6 17 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling

8 5 6 JAY-Z & ALICIA KEYS Empire State Of Mind

9 9 2 MICHAEL BUBLE Haven't Met You Yet

10 new YOUNG SOUL REBELS I Got Soul

11 26 2 BLACK EYED PEAS Meet Me Halfway

12 7 7 SHAKIRA She Wolf

13 10 11 DAVID GUETTA & AKON Sexy Chick

14 8 3 SATURDAYS Forever Is Over

15 12 6 PITBULL Hotel Room Service 126

16 11 10 TEMPER TRAP Sweet Disposition

17 new COBRA STARSHIP Good Girls Go Bad

18 15 4 TINCHY STRYDER You're Not Alone

19 13 5 JORDIN SPARKS SOS (Let The Music Play)

20 new ALPHABEAT The Spell

21 19 6 PALOMA FAITH New York

22 new FOO FIGHTERS Wheels

23 22 5 DIZZEE RASCAL Dirtee Cash

24 18 7 PIXIE LOTT Girls & Boys

25 new CHRISTINA AGUILERA Hurt

26 21 44 KINGS OF LEON Sex On Fire

27 29 2 BIG PINK Dominoes

28 17 8 JAY-Z, RIHANNA & KANYE WEST Run This Town

29 20 2 Mr HUDSON White Lies

30 new CALVIN HARRIS Flashback

31 28 15 JLS Beat Again

32 re-entry 13 Mr HUDSON & KANYE WEST Supernova

33 new PAULO NUTINI Pencil Full Of Lead

34 25 19 5 EXAMPLE Watch The Sun Come Up

35 33 15 BEYONCE Sweet Dreams

36 16 2 LOSTPROPHETS It's Not The End Of The World

37 23 2 EDITORS Papillon

38 31 9 DIZZEE RASCAL Holiday

39 40 29 JASON MRAZ I'm Yours

40 30 13 LITTLE BOOTS Remedy

Still ill

We wish Morrissey a speedy recovery, he collapsed on stage over the weekend at a rearranged gig cancelled earlier in the year because of illness.

True or false

At this point it seems quite reasonable to quote Caine (David Carradine) from Kung Fu in 'The Third Man' episode "I seek not to know all the answers but to understand the questions." Here's news of a couple of things that will change your life irrevocably....

From 9 November the Metropolitan Police will be patroling London's streets armed with Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns capable of firing 800 rounds per minute. Now that's what I call 'respec', it's true, it's even in The Sun - read the page here.

A former Tony Blair adviser and speech-writer says Labour's immigration miscalculations have been presented as a cock up quite deliberately. Quoting the Daily Telegraph "Labour has encouraged mass immigration to help socially engineer a "multicultural" country and to try to rub the right's nose in diversity according to Andrew Neather, a former advisor to Tony Blair." It's true - see the story on Sky News here and see the Daily Telgraph coverage here, last paragraph

I don't recall any mention of that in their manifestos of '97 and '01 when I cast my vote for them. And what is that - some kind of fraud, treason or just a oh well.

Wonder how many other policies are pretend cock-ups?

Stage managers eh

And, there you go ... 8 million viewers up from two and a half million - it's a disaster.

A whole array of stage managers out flanked, "More than 240 complainants to the BBC felt the show was biased, while more than 100 complaints have been about Mr Griffin being allowed to appear on Question Time in the first place. However, more than 50 people contacted the BBC to show their appreciation for the programme."

Some questions submitted but not used on Thursday's British Broadcasting Corporation Question Time...

On the Post dispute, what should happen to the Royal Mail and the 300,000 Post Office workers?

Does the panel think we can trust the man who said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to be the first President of Europe?

What happened to the new Ice Age we were promised thirty years ago?

Are the climate change predictions likely to be more accurate than the weather forecasts?

Who is the most legitimate leader
a. Afghanistans elected President Kharzi or
b. Britains unelected Gordon Brown?

Which of these broken promises has been the most nasty lie ...
a Conservative Ted Heath's promise to have a referendum on membership of the Common Market if he was elected Prime Minister in 1970 or
b. Labour Tony Blair's promise to have a referendum on Europe if he was re-elected Prime Minister in 2005?

Would either of the above lies qualify as a 'big lie' in Hitler's definition?

Why has Tory leader David Cameron chosen now to launch his discriminatory 'women only' candidate lists?

Why should a democratically elected Government feel the need to have secret policies?

Are security lapses at Buckingham Palace being used to remind the Royal family what happened in Russia?

If Labour's objective is chaos, have they achieved it - Is that the reason for their smug appearance

Maybe next week .... don't hold your breath.

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

1 2 16 JAY SEAN & LIL WAYNE Down

2 4 10 JASON REBELLO Whatcha Say

3 3 10 MILEY CYRUS Party In The USA

4 5 12 JAY-Z, RIHANNA & KANYE WEST Run This Town

5 1 2 BRITNEY SPEARS 3

6 7 8 LADY GAGA Paparazzi

7 9 9 OWL CITY Fireflies

8 6 19 BLACK EYED PEAS I Gotta Feeling

9 17 5 BLACK EYED PEAS Meet Me Halfway

10 8 26 TAYLOR SWIFT You Belong With Me