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Artist News
Chart update – w/c 16 Nov 2009
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 16 November 2009
Oh look, The Black Eyed Peas are number one again. After eight weeks on the chart, ‘Meet Me Halfway’ has wormed its way to the top, denying Leona Lewis the chance to go straight in at number one with ‘Happy’. She’ll never get that opportunity again, Peas. Not with that song, anyway. Why do you have to ruin everything?
Urgh, let’s just look at the rest of the chart and try to forget what Will.i.am et al have done. If we can. Other new entries in the top ten come from N-Dubz at five, Britney Spears at seven, and Sugababes at eight.
Further down, Robbie has a new entry at seventeen, with album track, ‘You Know Me’ (possibly a hint at what’s coming up in the second half of this chart update), Pixie Lott is in at 25 with ‘Cry Me Out’, and Chartjackers fail to really live up to their name by stopping at 36 with ‘I’ve Got Nothing’.
Now, albums. We heard all last week that Robbie Williams was well on the way to going straight in at number one with his new album, ‘Reality Killed The Video Star’, so it will come as no surprise to you when I tell you that JLS are this week’s number one. That’s right, JLS. Come on, I know Robbie’s not actually very good at singing, but he doesn’t deserve that. He is at number two, though, beating Snow Patrol into third place. Both Robbie and JLS shifted over 200K units to secure their chart positions, making last week a rather big one in terms of album sales.
Also new amongst the top selling LPs are Biffy Clyro at eight and Rod Stewart at ten. Below them, Jamie Cullum is in at sixteen, Miley Cyrus just behind at seventeen, and Shirley Bassey at 20. Below that, everyone has fallen at least one place (except Lady Gaga, who’s sticking at 36), making them all failures in my eyes.
The charts are packed full of failure and disappointment by The Official Charts Company.
