Well after a few weeks of fine music filling the charts, the singles chart is looking less attractive this week. The slightly tiresome Room 5 track (which, OK, comes from the Lynx ad campaign, and not the Sure ads as we said last week) is still at number one, with the rather dreadful 'Cry' from Kym Marsh the highest new entry at number two (a song which caused my colleague to come up with the term 'disposapop', which is a pretty damn good description if you ask me).
Although 50 Cent's 'In Da Club' slips up two places, and Junior Senior is still in the top five, all in all it's a pretty poor top ten this week. New entries wise the highlights have to be Jacknife Lee's Run DMC remix at 20, the excellent The Transplants who go in with 'Diamonds and Guns' at 27 and the rather catchy Erasure cover of 'Make Me Smile' which goes in at 14. If you're a fan you’ll also be glad that Queens of the Stone Age's 'Go With The Flow' goes in at 21 and Richard Ashcroft is back at 26 with 'Buy It In Bottles'.
Albums-wise things are a bit better, though, while the top ten looks quite healthy (White Stripes still at number one, and Coldplay, Avril Lavinge, Linkin Park, Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent all appearing) there is very little new stuff in there except, ahem, the best of the Lighthouse Family. In fact with the exception of the aforementioned Family Lighthouse and the rather good Athlete in at 19 with 'Vehicles and Animals', there are no new entries at all!