This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
Artist News
Chart update – w/c 16 Aug 2010
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 16 August 2010
After a few tired weeks, the chart finally got a little bit exciting again this week. The Saturdays had been on track to get their first number one single earlier in the week with ‘Missing You’, the lead track from their new mini-album ‘Headlines’. But they’ve been denied by Flo Rida, whose collaboration with David Guetta, ‘Club Can’t Handle Me’, steps up one place to the top spot.
The Saturdays didn’t even manage to match their current best chart position (with both ‘Forever Is Over’ and their cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Just Can’t Get Enough’) as Eminem and Rihanna are up from last week’s number four to this week’s number two. Which means those Saturdays are this week’s highest new entry at number three. And like The Wanted last week, Ne-Yo falls to number five after just one week at number one. The Wanted, meanwhile, are this week’s number eight.
Other than that, there’s not a huge amount going on. Tinchy Stryder is new at number ten with ‘In My System’, while his labelmate Devlin is new at 31 with ‘Brainwashed’. Also new in the top 40 is ‘The Writer’ by Ellie Goulding, which is up from 45 last week to nineteen this week.
Over in the album chart there’s yet more battling at the top. After he was knocked off the number one spot by Arcade Fire last week, we wondered if this was the end of Eminem’s reign at the top, or if he could reclaim it. And he has. In eight weeks he’s only been away from the top spot for two weeks, the first time when Kylie Minogue’s ‘Aphrodite’ album outsold him back at the beginning of July.
Meanwhile, there are no brand new entries in the top ten (or the entire top 40), but The xx have reached their highest chart position to date, with ‘XX’ sitting at number ten this week, one place ahead of fellow Mercury nominees Mumford & Sons, who are out of the top ten for the first time in, er, ages.
Lacking in brand new entries the chart may be, but there are some movements from elsewhere in the chart, so let’s have a look at those. Lady Antebellum are up to 22 from 74 with their second album ‘Need You Now’, former number one album, AC/DC’s ‘Iron Man 2′ soundtrack, is up to 29 from 50, Guns N Roses’ ‘Greatest Hits’ compilation is at 32, moving up from 47, and Lady Gaga’s painfully weak remix album is at 39, up from 54.
The charts are compiled, as the name would suggest, by The Official Charts Company
