What would a new week be without some kind of tally of the biggest selling singles and albums in the UK? It would be nothing, that's what, so it's pretty lucky there is one.
First, on with the singles, where The Saturdays have got themselves to number two with a healthy combination of charity and young ladies in their pants. Yes, indeed, following the success of The Spice Girls' pant-infused video for their Children In Need single, The Saturdays have taken their lead and gone with a theme irrelevant to the charity they're raising money for in the video for their cover of Depeche Mode's 'Just Can't Get Enough'. But even that's not enough to stop the onslaught of Flo Rida, who has elbowed them right out of the way, showing no regard for charity or underwear, and plonked himself down on the number one spot with his new single, 'Right Around'. As for the rest of the top 10, it's just the normal shuffle around, although it's worth mentioning that Lady GaGa still has two singles in that bracket. Please make it stop. And when it comes to the remaining 30 places on the chart, frankly, everyone should try harder. Chipmunk is a new entry at 21, with 'Chip Daddy Chip', Kinds Of Leon rise up from 55 to 29 with 'Revelry', Beyonce makes a similar move from 88 to 40, and U2's woeful single 'Get On Your Boots' continues its plummet down the chart, settling this week at 30. U2's single might have received a vote of no confidence, but the same cannot be said for their album, which has been bought in droves. In the UK anyway. But with the amount of publicity it's had from, er, all those publicly-owned broadcasters, you'd kind of hope it'd do well. And it has, because it's not only knocked The Prodigy down to number two and seen U2 equal The Rolling Stones and Madonna for the third highest amount of number one albums (10 of them in all), but it also sold more this week than rest of the top five put together. Apparently lazy songwriting is excusable, I was wrong. You'd think with all that excitement there wouldn't be any room for any more new entries this week, but you'd be wrong. Red Light Company have gone in at 13 with their debut album, ' Fine Fascination', Tina Turner's 'Platinum Collection' follows at 14, and then down at 25 Irish rockers The Answer hop in with their new album, 'Everyday Demons', thanks in part to being AC/DC's tour support, but mainly it's down to being featured on BBC Breakfast last week, I reckon. And that's it for the charts this week, which are deftly cut and pasted together by tiny elves at The Official Chart Company.