1. Give It to Me - Timbaland (Feat. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake)
It's so long to the charity #1 this week as The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," resurrected for Comic Relief falls three spots to #4 to make way for new #1 single "Give It to Me" the superstar collaboration between producer/sometimes rapper Timbaland and two of his surely most grateful pop subjects, Nelly Furtado and Justin Timberlake, who both had #1 Timbaland-produced hits last year with "Maneater" and "Sexyback" respectively (and another 4 singles between them that topped the U.S. chart, in addition to "Sexyback" doing it in both countries).
"Give It to Me" is notable for being the first single of 2007 to have topped both the U.K. and U.S. singles charts. In a nice twist, it manages the feat in both countries in the same week. Interestingly, the only single to manage to simultaneously top both countries' charts last year was Timberlake's "Sexyback." Two other records, Ne-Yo's "So Sick" and Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie," topped both charts, but did so at different times (another record, James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" was #1 in the U.S. after having been a U.K. #1 in 2005).
"Give It to Me" is Timbaland's first #1 hit as an artist, his previous best being the #22 single from 2004 "Cop that Sh#!" credited to Timbaland and Magoo. Both Timberlake and Furtado both have other top 40 hits this week, his "What Goes Around...Comes Around" at #16, her "Say It Right" at #25.
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