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Artist News
Chart update – w/c 29 Mar 2010
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 29 March 2010
Hey! It’s another exciting Chart Update. You wanna know what’s going on in the chart? This is the place. Well, it’s a place, anyway.
At number one in the singles chart this week Lady Gaga has held firm with ‘Telephone’, despite strong competition from Tinie Tempah, who’s desperately trying to get back up there. Maybe this excellent Wrong Tom remix, which takes the track back to the 80s dancehall, will help.
Aside from the vicious battle for the top spot, there’s little going on in the top ten. After eleven weeks on the chart, Young Money’s ‘Bedrock’ has moved up to number nine, the single’s highest chart position to date, but you have to travel right down to number thirteen to find a new entry in the single chart this week, Usher’s ‘OMG’. And then there are only two other tracks making their debut appearance this week: Timbaland’s ‘Carry Out’ at 29 and David Guetta’s ‘Memories’ at 38.
The album chart is mildly more exciting, with another Lady Gaga-fuelled battle for the number one position. This is a fight the Gaga hasn’t won, though. After one week back at the top with ‘The Fame’, she’s been knocked off by Boyzone, who saw a 60% increase in sales this week to take them back to the top for the second time in three weeks.
Down at number four, Laura Marling’s second album, ‘I Speak Because I Can’, launches itself into the chart, ahead of Goldfrapp’s ‘Head First’, another new entry at six. Meanwhile, outside the top ten, Joe Bonamassa’s ‘Black Rock’ is another new entry at fourteen, Gabriella Cilmi is at 28 with ‘Ten’ and Mary J Blige is at 33 with ‘Stronger With Each Tear’.
The charts are compiled by The Official Charts Company. Not, contrary to popular opinion, by employing black magic.
