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Chart update – w/c 06 Apr 2009

By | Published on Monday 6 April 2009

Okay, so I refused to talk about Lady GaGa last week, but she’s number one in both the single and album charts this week, so I guess I’m going to have to. For everything worth saying about Lady GaGa, see the previous sentence.

Elsewhere in the singles chart, there’s very little going on. It’s not until we get to number 17 that there’s a new entry – it being ‘Embers’, the first single from Just Jack’s forthcoming new album, which is due out in June. The next is another Jack – Jack Penate – at 23 with ‘Tonight’s Today’. Then at 28 it’s Doves with ‘Kingdom Of Rust’. Down at the bottom end, Pink steps into the top 40 from 56 with ‘Please Don’t Leave Me’, Flo Rida gets another song in the chart, ‘Sugar (feat. Wynter), at 35, and Lady Sovereign enters at 38 with ‘So Human’.

Over in the album chart there’s similarly very little going on. Flo Rida’s second album, ‘R.O.O.T.S’ is a new entry at five, then the next comes from Leonard Cohen with ‘Live In London’ at 19. Lionel Richie and The Commodores’ ‘Definitive Collection’ goes in at 23, while PJ Harvey and John Parish’s second collaborative album, ‘A Woman A Man Walked By’, is in at 25, and down at 35, Metro Station make their entrance to the album chart. On the Re-entry front, Pink’s ‘Funhouse’ is back in at 33, White Lies’ ‘To Lose My Life’ bobs back up to 37, and Nickelback’s ‘Dark Horse’ is in at 40.

The most interesting chart position this week is that of the Pet Shop Boys’ new album, ‘Yes’. Last week there was talk of them missing out on getting the number one position because the album was released three days early on iTunes, meaning that the first rush of sales did not count towards its official first week on sale. It seemed like a ropey excuse for not selling enough records to me, and any hope that the duo might sustain sales high enough to see them rise up to the top now seem dashed, as this week they’ve slipped all the way down to number 21. Maybe some sort of collaboration with Lady GaGa would help them to appeal to a wider audience. Oh wait, didn’t they…

The chart is compiled, even on weeks when its completely boring, by The Official Charts Company.



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