MJ surely also sets the record for most New/Re-entries in a single week, right?
The Veronicas "Untouched" actually is a good song, but the music video is very weak. Is that part of their schtick to be unimpressed about everything, quasi emo/slacker?
There was some Russian dance song I heard on Radio 1 during the weekend that was rather good, but I'll be damned if I can remember the name.
Have you been caught up in the Murray Mania yet Paul? It's seems to be exponentially bigger than when Tim Henman would always stall out in the semis to Hewitt, Sampras, or Ivanesevic.
%$#*ing love the Jam.
Town Called Malice, David Watts, Eton Rifles, manymany more, all great.
'David Watts' was originally by The Kinks. A less spiky and in your face version, but consequently the superior one IMO.
Jonny: Bit of a grey area. Because of a massive programme of re-releases a couple of years ago, almost all of Jackson's singles have previously charted (albeit low down) during the download era. According to the enormously helpful Polyhex.com, only two of this week's chart entries are technically NEW entries (i.e., the first chart appearance for that particular release of the song): "Ben" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'".
However, it must be a record for the most singles to (re-)enter the top 40 simultaneously, since Elvis' six singles were released one at a time over a six week period.
By the way, "Man in the Mirror" has now slipped back to number 4 in the iTunes charts, so unless it did REALLY well in the initial sales surge (which is possible, but that surge was split across two sales weeks), it may well not make number 1 after all.
If it doesn't, the current frontrunner would seem to be "Evacuate the Dancefloor" by Cascada, a record that could charitably be described as self-reviewing.
Actually, who has the record for most new entries in one week? I suspected most Jackson singles would technically be re-entries, for, well, the obvious reasons.
In the post-dl era, surely someone releasing an album will have caused this, right? I'm tempted to say High School Musical, which would greatly annoy me...
It's somewhat of a shame that Little Boots appears to be the electro-gal that less people are interested in - I think she's by far and away the best. New in Town isn't amazing, but the two earlier singles (Stuck on Repeat, and especially Meddle) are fantastic. Though not particularly 'pop'. In fact, perhaps that's the reason for her (comparative) lack of success - she's really kinda indie at heart (as was her previous, really quite good indeed, band Dead Disco).
Though saying that, her next single Remedy is both very pop and very brilliant, and could well be a bigger hit.
It won't be High School Musical. That album did spawn a bunch of minor download singles, but the artist credit "Cast of High School Musical" was only used for the ones performed by the whole cast. Other tracks were credit to the individual actors.
Coldplay? Or, actually, Radiohead?
Hmm. Wiki suggests Leona Lewis, but I think that seems wrong. Would sort of hope it is...
The Jam/ Paul Weller... Wonderful.
Going Underground was number one the week I was born. FLASH FACT.
I'm surprised Little Boots is getting outshone by La Roux given all the hype she got at the beginning of the year from the Sound of 2009 thing by the BBC (which is what brought her to my attention). But from that she always seemed more indie pop that anything particularly electro or dance. I liked New in Town, but it isn't really fully representative of the album and isn't as good as the earlier non-singles on the EP.
from what I saw at Glastonbury Little Boots didn't seem particularly impressive. La Roux remains a pleasure to listen to.
Irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but when I saw ittle Boots a few weeks ago in Glasgow she was rubbish.
Much as your Cascada comment is a great zinger, I have to say I like the track and am a little surprised to see you dismiss it so totally.
That eyebrowless girl is the daughter of THE BILL actress Trudi Goodwin.
I don't know why that matters.
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