The UK Top 5 Songs From October 1961
1 – Helen Shapiro – Walking Back To Happiness
2 – Hghwayman – Michael
3 – John Leyton – Wild Wind
4 – Cleo Laine – You’ll Answer To Me
5 – Billy Fury – Jealousy
The USA Top 5 Songs From October 1961
1 – Ray Charles – Hit The Road Jack
2 – Dovells – Bristol Stomp
3 – Dion – Runaround Sue
4 – Roy Orbison – Crying
5 – Bobby Rydell – Take Good Care Of My Baby
The Q Awards took place last night and was presented by comic Al Murray dressed as his Pub Landlord character. He declared 2009 a terrible year for music because of “the sad demise of Oasis”.
The annual ceremony is which is run by the music magazine Q was the 19th in the series since they began in 1990.
They have become one of Britain’s biggest and best publicized music awards, helped in no small part by the often boisterous behavior of the celebrities who attend the event.
And here is the winners list of who took home an award.
Best New Act : White Lies
Breakthrough Artist : Mr Hudson
Best Video : Lady GaGa – Just Dance
Best Track : Lily Allen – The Fear
Best Live Act : Arctic Monkeys
Best Album : Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Best Act In The World Today : Muse
The Q Idol – Spandau Ballet
The Q Iinspiration Award – The Specials
Innovation In Sound – Sonic Youth
Q Classic Album – U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
The Q Icon – Marianne Faithfull
Classic Song – Relax, Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Q Legend – Edwyn Collins
Classic Songwriter – Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens)
Outstanding Contribution To Music – Robert Plant
New Entries in this weeks chart are (entry numbers are in brackets):
Foo Fighters – Wheels (22)
Chicane – Hiding All The Stars (42)
Whitney Houston – I Didn’t Know My Own Strength (44)
U2 – With Or Without You (RE) (63)
Mike Snow – Black And Blue (RE) (64)
Sean Kingston – Face Drop (78)
Spandau Ballet – Once More (82)
Beyonce – If I Were A Boy (RE) (85)
Jace Everett – Bad Things (90)
Ray Lamontagne – Trouble (91)
Alexandra Burke – The Silence (95)
Alexandra Burke – All Night Long (98)
In the Album Chart The Editors got knocked off (literally) the top spot and is replaced by last year’s X-Factor Winner Alexandra Burke with her debut album “Overcome” entering the chart at Number 1.
TW LW Artist Title
01 – (NE) – Cheryl Cole – Fight For This Love
02 – (01) – Alexandra Burke & Flo Rida – Bad Boys
03 – (03) – Chipmunk – Oopsy Daisy
04 – (02) – Robbie Williams – Bodies
05 – (14) – Whitney Houston – Million Dollar Bill
06 – (04) – Taio Cruz – Break Your Heart
07 – (06) – Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
08 – (05) – Jay Z & Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
09 – (09) – Michael Buble – Haven’t Met You Yet
10 – (NE) – Young Soul Rebels – I Got Soul
11 – (26) – Black Eyed Peas – Meet Me Halfway
12 – (07) – Shakira – She Wolf
13 – (10) – David Guetta & Akon – Sexy Chick
14 – (08) – The Saturdays – Forever Is Over
15 – (12) – Pitbull – Hotel Room Service
16 – (11) – Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
17 – (NE) – Cobra Starship – Good Girls Go Bad
18 – (15) – Tinchy Stryder – You’re Not Alone
19 – (13) – Jordin Sparks – S.O.S. (Let The Music Play)
20 – (NE) – Alphabeat – The Spell
Chart Information is supplied by BBC Radio 1 in conjunction with The Official Charts Company.
She is part of the UK’s Biggest Selling Girl Group and now she has spread her wings, flown the nest (albeit temporarily) and released her debut solo song.
Cheryl Cole’s brand new song, is very upbeat and very dancey. It does have that twist of a “Girls Aloud” song so it should bode well for their fans, and I think they will be buying it in their bucketloads. The song is also very catchy and once everybody hears it a few times it will be playing around in your head and you won’t be able to get rid of it for a while.
So far this year, Alexandra Burke’s 2nd song is this years fastest selling, but Cheryl has overtaken her on that little feat and should be this weeks best seller. Also after her performance on last week’s X-Factor, single sales of the song have rocketed, despite the numerous complaints made that she was miming part of the song, should see her become the biggest seller so far this year.
The UK’s Top 10 Songs from October 1975
1 – David Essex – Hold Me Close
2 – Art Garfunkel – I Only Have Eyes For You
3 – The Drifters – There Goes My First Love
4 – Chi-Lites – It’s Time For Love
5 – Jonathan King – Una Paloma Blanca
6 – The Four Seasons – Who Loves You
7 – ABBA – S.O.S.
8 – Band Of The Black Watch – Scotch On The Rocks
9 – Morris Albert – Feelings
10 – Jasper Carrot – Funky Moped/Magic Roundabout
The USA’s Top 5 Songs from October 1975
1 – John Denver – I’m Sorry/Calypso
2 – Neil Sedaka – Bad Blood
3 – Sweet – Ballroom Blitz
4 – Jennifer Starship – Miracles
5 – Orleans – Dance With Me
6 – The Eagles – Lying Eyes
7 – Morris Albert – Feelings
8 – David Bowie – Fame
9 – The Spinners – They Just Can’t Stop It (Games People Play)
10 – Dickie Goodman – Mr. Jaws
New Entries in this week’s Top 100 are (Entry Numbers are in brackets):
The Editors – Papillon (23)
Jennifer Hudson – And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going (RE) (32)
Paolo Nutini – Pencil Full Of Lead (41)
Dionne Bromfield – Mama Said (43)
Gracious K – Migraine Skank (53)
Calvin Harris – Flashback (56)
Coldplay – The Scientist (RE) (59)
Cascada – Dangerous (67)
Chipmunk & N-Dubz – Lose My Life (77)
Tommy Sparkes – She Got Me Dancing (78)
Leona Lewis – Footprints In The Sand (RE) (83)
Alexandra Burke – Hallelujah (RE) (84)
Christina Aguilera – Hurt (RE) (86)
Boyzone – No Matter What (RE) (88)
Death Cab For Cutie – Meet Me On The Equinox (89)
Selma Gomez – Magic (90)
Taio Cruz – No Other One (91)
Peter Andre – Behind Closed Doors (RE) (95)
Robbie Williams – Angels (RE) (96)
Chipmunk – Chip Diddy Chip (RE) (98)
Robbie Williams – No Regrets/Antmusic (RE) (100)
In the album chart, this week’s highest new entry goes to The Editors with the new studio album “In This Light And On This Evening” going straight at the top of the chart at Number 1.
TW LW Artist Title
01 – (NE) – Alexandra Burke & Flo Rida – Bad Boys
02 – (NE) – Robbie Williams – Bodies
03 – (01) – Chipmunk – Oopsy Daisy
04 – (04) – Taio Cruz – Break Your Heart
05 – (03) – Jay Z & Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
06 – (08) – Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
07 – (07) – Shakira – She Wolf
08 – (02) – The Saturdays – Forever Is Over
09 – (NE) – Michael Buble – Haven’t Met You Yet
10 – (05) – David Guetta & Akon – Sexy Chick
11 – (06) – Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
12 – (09) – Pitbull – Hotel Room Service
13 – (15) – Jordin Sparks – SOS (Let The Music Play)
14 – (12) – Whitney Houston – Million Dollar Bill
15 – (14) – Tinchy Stryder – You’re Not Alone
16 – (NE) – Lostprophets – It’s Not The End Of The World But I Can
17 – (10) – Jay Z/Rihanna/Kanye West – Run This Town
18 – (13) – Pixie Lott – Boys & Girls
19 – (20) – Paloma Faith – New York
20 – (NE) – Mr Hudson – White Lies
Chart Information is supplied by BBC Radio 1 in conjunction with The Official Charts Company.
It has been announced that the 2010 BRIT Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday 16th February 2010 at London’s Earl’s Court Arena.
ITV Will be screening the ceremony live bringing millions and millions of viewers worldwide to watch the annual and biggest awards show in the UK.
As the BRITs Academy members deliberate and cast their votes, The BRIT Awards Nominations Launch moves to a brand new venue for what will be a bigger and even more exciting event. On Monday 18 January 2010, The BRIT Awards Nominations will take place at IndigO2 at London’s O2, unveiling which candidates will be battling it out in each category for the coveted BRIT trophies. The launch will also include unique live performances from breakthrough acts and will be broadcast on ITV2.
Keep it here for any further news regarding next years BRITs
The UK’s Top 5 songs from October 1999
1 – Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba De)
2 – Shania Twain – Man I Feel Like A Woman
3 – Christina Aguilera – Genie In A Bottle
4 – S Club 7 – S Club Party
5 – Britney Spears – (You Drive Me) Crazy
The USA’s Top 5 Songs from October 1999
1 – Santana & Rob Thomas – Smooth
2 – Whitney Houston – My Love Is Your Love
3 – Marc Anthony – I Need To Know
4 – Garth Brooks (as Chris Gaines) – Lost In You
5 – Deborah Cox – We Can’t Be Friends
Well the current title holder of the UK’s version of The X-Factor has released her 2nd single and a follow up to her million seller “Halelujah”.
“Bad Boys” is an up tempo song which to me sounds like the 60′s has met the 00′s with some of the song sounding very “hippyfied”. And to top it all off she has got the USA Hottest act at the minute, and no it’s not Lady Gaga, to perform halfway through the song. Flo Rida has added his own little twist to the track and when Alexandra performed the song on last week’s X-Factor he made his presence felt but joining her on stage.
Watch out for this to get to Number 1 and give Alexandra her 2nd Number 1 song.
It has been reported that Al Martino has died aged 82.
Al Martino was the 1st person at Number one on the very 1st UK Singles Chart with “Here In My Heart” which stayed at Number 1 for 9 weeks. He is also famous for appearing in the 1972 film The Godfather, playing Johnny Fonatne, rumoured to be based around Frank Sinatra.
His UK chart career ended in 1973 with the re-release of “Spanish Eyes” reaching Number 5, however he continued to enter the US Adult Comtemporary chart until 1978 with the song “One Last Time”.
New Entries in this week’s chart are (entry numbers ar in brackets):
Big Pink – Dominoes (42)
Massive Attack – Splitting The Atom (64)
Black Eyes Peas – Meet Me Halfway (67)
Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream (RE) (72)
Leona Lewis – Run (RE) (73)
Oasis – Stop Crying Your Heart Out (76)
David Guetta – Grrrr (88)
Mike Snow – Black And Blue (95)
Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone (RE) (98)
Elbow – On A Day Like This (RE) (100)
In the album chart Paramore’s short chart reign came to and end when Barbara Streisand took the top spot with her album “Love Is The Answer”. This week’s Highest New Entry is for Chris Rea with another greatest hits entitled “Still So Far To Go – The Best Of” entering at Number 8.
TW LW Artist Title
01 – (NE) – Chipmunk – Oopsy Daisy
02 – (NE) – The Saturdays – Forever Is OVer
03 – (02) – Jay Z & Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
04 – (01) – Taio Cruz – Break Your Heart
05 – (03) – David Guetta & Akon – Sexy Chick
06 – (07) – Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
07 – (04) – Shakira – She Wolf
08 – (05) – Black Eyed PEas – I Gotta Feeling
09 – (09) – Pitbull – Hotel Room Service
10 – (10) – Jay Z/Rihanna/Kanye West – Run This Town
11 – (39) – Daughtry – What About Now
12 – (NE) – Whitney Houston – Million Dollar Bill
13 – (08) – Pixie Lott – Boys & Girls
14 – (32) – Tinchy Stryder – You’re Not Alone
15 – (18) – Jordin Sparks – SOS (Let The Music Play)
16 – (16) – Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
17 – (12) – Deadmau5 & Rob Swire – Ghosts n Stuff
18 – (10) – Dizzee Rascal – Dirtee Cash
19 – (19) – Example – Watch The Sun Come Up
20 – (15) – Paloma Faith – New York
Chart Information is supplied by BBC Radio 1 in conjunction with The Official Charts Company.
New Entries in this weeks charts are (Entry Numbers in brackets):
Tinchy Stryder – You’re Not Alone (32)
Daughtry – What About Now (40)
Paolo Nutini – Last Request (RE) (41)
Tiesto & Sneaky Sound System – I Will Be Here (44)
Jennifer Hudson – And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going (60)
U2 – With Or Without You (RE) (63)
Ian Brown – Stellify (RE) (66)
Backstreet Boys – Straight Through My Heart (72)
Luther Vandross – Dance With My Father (RE) (76)
Medina – You & I (80)
Paloma FRaith – Stone Cold Sober (RE) (83)
Faith Hill – There You’ll Be (RE) (85)
Natalie Imbruglia – Want (88)
Christina Aguilera – Hurt (92)
Filthy Dukes – Tupac Robot Club Rock (95)
A R Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls – Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny) (RE) (98)
The Killers – Human (RE) (99)
Kasabian – Underdog (RE) (100)
In the Album Chart American rockers Paramore scored their 1st Number One with their 3rd studio album entitled “Brand New Eyes” entering the top of the chart, knocking Pop Queen Madonna into 2nd place.
TW LW Artist Title
01 – (01) – Taio Cruz – Break Your Heart
02 – (03) – Jay Z & Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind
03 – (02) – David Guetta & Akon – Sexy Chick
04 – (04) – Shakira – She Wolf
05 – (06) – Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
06 – (05) – Jay Z/Rihanna/Kanye West – Run This Town
07 – (12) – Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition
08 – (07) – Pixie Lott – Boys & Girls
09 – (21) – Pitbull – Hotel Room Service
10 – (11) – Dizzee Rascal – Dirtee Cash
11 – (10) – Mini Viva – I Left My Heart In Tokyo
12 – (NE) – Deadmau5 & Rob Swire – Ghosts n Stuff
13 – (09) – Dizzee Rascal – Holiday
14 – (08) – Madonna – Celebration
15 – (31) – Paloma Faith – New York
16 – (16) – Kings Of Leon – Sex On Fire
17 – (NE) – The Veronicas – 4Ever
18 – (39) – Jordin Sparks – SOS (Let The Music Play)
19 – (20) – Example – Watch The Sun Come Up
20 – (15) – Sugababes – Get Sexy
Chart information is supplied by BBC Radio 1 in conjunction with The Official Charts Company.
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Last night Reggie Yates and R n B diva Keri Hilson presented the 14th MOBO Awards live in Glasgow. The big winners of the night were N-Dubz, J.L.S. and Beyonce all taking home 2 awards each.
The ceremony also included a tribute to the late Michael Jackson with Britain’s Got Talent winners Diversity dancing to some of his classic songs.
Here is a list of who won what award:
Best UK Act: N-Dubz
Best Newcomer: JLS
Best Song: ‘Beat Again’ – JLS
Best Album: ‘Uncle B’ – N-Dubz
Best DJ: Trevor Nelson
Best Hip Hop: Chipmunk
Best R&B: Keri Hilson
Best International: Beyonce
Best Video: ‘Single Ladies’ – Beyonce
Best Reggae: Sean Paul
Best Jazz: Yolanda Brown
Best Gospel: Victizzle
Best African Act: Nneka
Check out all the news and gossip from back stage of the event at the official MOBO Website.
