UK Chart Analysis, 5/13/2006

It's a sixth straight week at the top for Gnarls Barkley, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers score their second #2 single. Click below for more.



1. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

It's 6 weeks at the top for Gnarls Barkley. Their album, St. Elsewhere, was #1 last week on the albums chart, but succumbed to Snow Patrol's new album, Eyes Open, this week. It's biggest challenger for #1 next week: LL Cool J and Jennifer Lopez.

2. Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers

Red Hot Chili Peppers' 18th top 40 hit ties with "By The Way" to become their biggest--their second (along with the aforementioned) to hit #2. "Dani California" is their first release from Stadium Arcadium, out tomorrow.

3. Somebody's Watching Me - Beatfreakz

After a lousy first quarter, dance music is making a comeback this spring. Beatfreakz joins Infernal and Chicane in the top 10 as the latest hit dance track, which uses a liberal looped-vocal sample of Michael Jackson from Rockwell's '80s hit, "Somebody's Watching Me."

7. Stoned in Love - Chicane Featuring Tom Jones

It debuted last week at #7 and this week it's up to #8. The formerly uncommon sight of a single actually rising on the chart is no longer so uncommon.

12. Lost & Found - Feeder

Feeder score their 18th top 40 hit this week with "Lost & Found," the obligatorily new track from their forthcoming greatest hits package, The Singles (out May 15). I thought it might go top 10, as it's a pretty good track--more upbeat than the releases from their last album, the mellow Pushing the Senses. Considering they've only had 3 top 10 hits though, #12 isn't bad for them.

15. Control Myself - LL Cool J Featuring Jennifer Lopez

Good download sales lands LL Cool J Featuring Jennifer Lopez's "Control Myself" at #15--watch it contend for #1 next week.

22. Remember the Time - Michael Jackson

Lowest placing yet for these re-releases. Snooze.

23. But It's Better If You Do - Panic at the Disco

Okay. So this group sounds like it would be interesting. And by its name, you'd think it was a Scissor Sisters clone. But it's really nothing of the sort, as they don't sound anything like disco at all. What a let down.

24. Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros

This hit #45 in December, and since then has apparently been shown on TV in Britain, so it gets a re-release to let it land at #24. Better, but still not a slam dunk.

26. Fly Me Away - Goldfrapp

By the law of diminishing returns, the fouth Supernature single becomes the first to fall outside the top 20. Sounds lowsy, but consider that prior to this album, the group had scored only 1 top 20 single (and it peaked at #20). "Fly Me Away" is a lightweight track--a disappointing choice from a hard-hitting album that had lots of other good choices.