UK Chart Notes

• It's a second week at #1 for Leona Lewis and "Bleeding Love." In another strong week, she moved over 158,000 copies, nearly three times the 57,000 copies sold of #2 track, Take That's "Rule the World." "Bleeding Love" was written by American pop star Jesse McCartney, best known for "Beautiful Soul," and Ryan Tedder, the lead singer for OneRepublic, whom along with Timbaland moved up 3 spots to #4 this week with "Apologize." The Timbaland/OneRepublic track also also #8 on the UK airplay chart, #2 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and #1 US top 40 radio.
• Landing at #3 for most acts would be a success, but for Westlife, who've hit #1 with 14 of their now 22 singles, it's a disappointment. "Home" is the first single from their forthcoming 8th album, Home Again. As is the case with most of their recent hits, this is a remake, this time from Michael Buble's recent adult hit. This is the second time Westlife have missed #1 with an album's first single, the first time being "Hey Whatever," the first single from their 2003 album Turnaround, which hit #4. Still, the single keeps up their perfect record of top 5 hits.
• Swiss-Iranian dance artist Samim has one of the year's most ununsual dance hits, "Heater," at #12 this week. The instrumental club track is led by accordian of all things.
• "Hot Stuff (Let's Dance)," Craig David's first single from his forthcoming fouth album, Trust Me, lands at #19 on digital sales. Expect it to be his 13th top 10 hit next week.
• Every Avril Lavigne album has found a tipping point after which the singles just don't perform. For The Best Damn Thing, that point would be third single "Hot," which manages to reach only #30 following the #2 hit "Girlfriend" and #3 hit "When You're Gone."
• Finally Keane released new single "The Night Sky" last week, but it's nowhere to be seen on the chart. The reason? Disqualified because it contains a free gift. Who knew.