Now there's a shock - Oasis at number one. Lyla is taken from Don't Believe The Truth, hailed in reviews as a return to form. You know, like the last two albums were. I'm slightly confused by the video - are they suggesting it's better to live in run-down housing than briefly experience technicolour glamour, such as Oasis give off such a thing?
Black Eyed Peas failed to make it a proper number one standoff by entering behind Akon at 3 with their not quite swearing. Jennifer Lopez enters at 6, and we all slag her off all we like but this comes a week after her similarly panned new film entered the UK box office list at number two. Max Graham vs Yes - oh god, Jon Anderson on TOTP, does this mean? - is at nine, proving there's life yet in the MOR sample/girls in bikinis market, while Kaiser Chiefs continue to press their claim as the first true British singles band in a while by entering at 10.
Rob Thomas, far better known than his band, is at 11, Mylo comes third in the Star To Fall race at 13, Javine actually charts lower than Jemini did at 18, although to be fair how were we to know virtually every other country would also enter a song that ripped off Ruslana, Stevie Wonder gets the old clavichord out at 19 and New Order and Ana Matronic, who've made a pretty double act on TV these last couple of weeks with Ana's bubbly excitement next to the singularly dour looking Barney, at 20.
Lower down, dance lot Gadjo are at 22, Turin Brakes - they had a top five single once! How? - 32, Hot Hot Heat 36, Stonebridge use the advantage of their promotional vido at 37 and bloody hell, Ian McNabb makes his first solo top 40 appearance and only second ever, the Icicle Works only breaking into the chart once in 1983, at 38. It was outside the midweek 40, so lord knows where that's come from. It would have been great to see Antony & The Johnsons have a proper chart entry but they'll be satisfied with 44. For everyone, and there's quite a few, who found the site via Google searches this week, The Gaff did not enter the top 75 at all.
Next week, Coldplay vs Amerie vs Crazy Frog. Place your bets!
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