Archive for the ‘Charts’ Category
Susan Boyle’s Debut Album Continues to Hold the Number One Spot
The debut album of the once unknown church singer from Scotland, Susan Boyle, ranks at number one on the Billboard charts.
“I Dreamed A Dream” has been on the Top 200 list for six weeks now, and it has peaked at the #1 spot.
Today in History
The Chipmunks, in all of their glory, had their song, The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late), hit #1 on this day in history way back in 1958. And it stayed there for the next 4 weeks.
As for other December 22nd songs that make me want to kill myself: the song Escape (The Pina Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes topped the charts in 1979 and stayed there for 2 weeks.
Tomorrow is a better day, at the least — we’ll celebrate the birthday of Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder. Followed by Ricky Martin and Ryan Seacrest on the 24th.
Rage Against the X-Factor
Facebook played its hand in a major shock in singles sales last week, when Rage Against the Machine’s classic anthem ‘Killing in the Name’ shot to Number 1 in the UK. A group was created by Jon Morter, 35, who was fed up of X-Factor winners nabbing the highly-regarded Christmas #1 spot every year, and it seems he has found over half a million like-minded spirits (if the 500,000+ sales of the single are anything to go by).
Up until recently, holding the #1 spot in the Singles Chart at Christmas time was a widely coveted privilege. Since 2004, the winners of each X-Factor competition have seen their debut tracks monopolise the Singles Chart over the festive period, making the race for #1 about as intense as an episode of Hannah Montana. This time around, however, fans of Rage, and X-Factor detractors, have banded together in an unprecedented push to make ‘Killing in the Name’ the most unlikely #1 hit in the history of the UK Singles Chart.
The unfortunate loser in this scenario is young X-Factor victor Joe McElderry, who graciously said he was “just delighted to be in the charts”. McElderry’s cover of Miley Cyrus song ‘The Climb’ shifted 50,000 copies less than RATM’s expletive-littered track, making him the first X-Factor winner not to claim the Christmas #1 spot since first winner Steve Brookstein in 2004. Brookstein entered at number 2, but eventually reached number 1 in the first week of January 2005.
Rage Against the Machine will be giving all profits from sales to Shelter, a homelessness charity. The band have also pledged to play a show in the UK to thank all those who bought the single.
Music That Changed The World
While we’re snowed-in here in the Mid-Atlantic, we’re checking out Twenty Pieces of Music That Changed the World. A few episodes to note: #9 Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power”, #11 Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”, and #18 The French National Anthem “La Marseillaise”.
Top 101 of 2009
DJ Willis has published his Top 101 tracks of 2009. We’ll provide his top 10 tracks. You’ll have to jump on over to his site to see the complete list. (Sorry lazy kids…)
- David Guetta feat Kelly Rowland – When Love Takes Over
- The Script – The Man Who Can’t Be Moved
- The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight
- Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
- Star Pilots – In The Heat Of The Night
- Leona Lewis feat OneRepublic – Lost Then Found
- OneRepublic – All The Right Moves
- Snow Patrol – Crack The Shutters
- The Script – Talk You Down
- Taio Cruz – Break Your Heart