UK Singles Chart

1. Islands in the Stream - Vanessa Jenkins and Bryn West featuring Tom Jones and Robin Gibb

While The Saturday's Comic Relief single missed out on #1 last week, the follow-up "funny" single manages to debut at #1 this week. It is, of course, a remake of the Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers classic, which was sort of covered by Mya in 1998 as "Ghetto Superstar," which used "Island's" tune with some new lyrics for the chorus. While the original hit #7 and Mya's sort-of-remake #2, the single finally hits #1. That this Comic Relief single outperformed last week's "official" Comic Relief track has made it 3 Comic Reliefs in a row where this has happened. In 2007, while Girls Aloud and Sugababes had the official single with their "Walk This Way" remake, the "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" remake by the Proclaimers, Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin was a much bigger hit, and in 2005, while McFly had the official single with "All About You"/"You've Got a Friend," Tony Christie and Peter Kay's "Is This the Way to (Amarillo)" was also a much bigger hit--the biggest of the year in fact.

8. Use Somebody - Kings of Leon

Kings of Leon's "Use Somebody" returns to the top 10 this week--almost 6 months on the chart for this now. Meanwhile their new single "Revelry" fails to get a lift from last week's #29 peak, dropping two spots to #31 this week.

10. Falling Down - Oasis

Oasis's third Dig Out Your Soul single manages to reclaim some face lost by their last single, "I'm Outta Time," which hit only #12, becoming their first single in 14 years (basically since they became big) to miss the top 10.

14. Can't Get Over - September

Top 5 hit "Cry For You" was one of last year's most enduring dance pop hits, but September's decdidedly inferior follow-up "Can't Get Over" can't get into the top 10, debuting at #14 this week with its physical release.

20. Halo - Beyonce

Beyonce makes a big 20-spot leap with "Halo," still a month away from its CD release.

27. Thinking of You - Katy Perry

Katy Perry's latest single performs similarly in the UK as it did in the US by not becoming a big hit like "I Kissed a Girl" or "Hot N Cold." I actually like this song, but it took awhile to grow on me, not being instantly likable like her other hits.

39. Shining Light - Annie Lennox

"Shining Light," the new track from Annie Lennox's recent greatest hits collection, climbs into the top 40 this week (up 11). Amazingly, this is her first solo top 40 since "Waiting in Vain" from Medusa hit #31 in October of 1995. None of the Bare releases were official singles and her two Songs of Mass Destruction singles were flops. It's worth nothing too that her 1999 Eurythmics reunion yielded the #11 hit "I Saved the World Today," and when she and Dave put out their hits collection in 2005, scored at #14 hit with "I've Got a Life."