I know we always complain that nothing stays in the charts these days – that records shoot into the top ten on the back of overpriced marketing campaigns – only to disappear the following week. Tracks that enter low down the charts and then build as more people discover them are a good thing. But who is still buying the Las Ketchup and Cheeky Girls singles? Surely anyone who wants these singles has already got them.
Then again its Christmas time – no new releases – so very little changes in the retail charts. Which is why, although they’ve swapped places, this week's eleven best selling records are the same as last week's, with the Popstar girls still at number one with the very poor ‘Sound Of The Underground’.
In fact there’s only four new entries in the whole Top 40, all on the dance side of things - Erick Sermon Ft Redman at 14, Milk Inc at 18, Ck & Supreme Dream Team at 23 and Oxygen Ft Andrea Britton at 30.
The album chart is just as dull this week – though Robbie slips off the top spot to make way for Avril Lavigne, who rises from 4 to 1. No new entries of note – though post-Christmas spending money has put Justin Timberlake, Blue, Christina Aguilera and Jools Holland – all of whose albums had slipped out of the Top 40 – back into the chart.
Roll on the new releases and some decent entries into those charts next week. And with the Westlife release originally planned for this week postponed, perhaps something good will have a chance!