1. Telephone - Lady GaGa feat. Beyonce
All week up to Friday Tinie Tempah's "Pass Out" was leading sales, but Gaga and B were gaining, closing the gap to mere hundreds of copies by Friday, a momentum that over the weekend saw them pull ahead in the race for #1. In the end, she finishes about 1400 copies ahead, selling 58,500 to Tinie Tempah's 57,100.
"Telephone" ups the ante for excitement around a Lady GaGa track, and in the run up to getting this chart-topper, did everything right. Holding the video while whetting our appetites with rumors about it was particularly brilliant, as the racy clip has certainly done its job to propel this track to #1. Pretty amazing when you consider it's been on the chart for 16 weeks, it's the second single from Fame Monster, and the 6th Lady GaGa single in just over a year. Interest is not flagging--she's as hot as ever.
This is GaGa's fourth UK chart topper, following last year's "Just Dance," "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance." It's also her fifth top 10 hit, a group that also includes "Paparazzi." Only "Lovegame" has underperformed, peaking at a rather lowly #19. Interesting, as it was as big a hit in the US as "Paparazzi." "Telephone" is Beyonce's fifth UK #1, following "Crazy in Love," "Deja Vu," "Beautiful Liar" and "If I Were a Boy." The singles leaps 11 spots to #1, the biggest jump Lady Gaga has had to the top spot, and none of her #1s debuted as such.
6. Parachute - Cheryl Cole
Cheryl Cole climbs two spots to #6, just a couple notches shy of the #4 peak of her last single, "3 Words." Although it may not peak as high, I see this song having more staying power, so ultimately it may be the bigger hit, as "3 Words" spent only 3 weeks in the top 10, a feat "Parachute" matches this week. "Fight for This Love" spent 7 weeks in the top 10 during the busy final quarter. "Parachute" is #1 on this week's UK airplay chart.
8. Hot - Inna
How often does a Romanian score a UK top 10? Although she is a new face in the UK, Inna--full name, Elena Alexandra Apostoleanu--has been all over the continent with this one, which was first released in 2008. Dance pop like this generally comes from a fairly anonymous singer, so it's interesting to see a female vocalist fronting such a clubby track.
11. Rock that Body - Black Eyed Peas
Black Eyed Peas climb 4 spots to #11--just one notch shy of scoring another top 10 hit.
35. True Colours - Cast of Glee
The Glee kids score their 7th top 40 hit. This one missed the top 40 in the US, peaking at #47.
3 comments:
poor Robbie Williams. His Morning Sun track hasn't done phenomenally well? Is it even out yet? Anyway, i reminisce over the days when he was hitting top 20 with every single release he made!
All hail the new Queen, again! :) It's pretty BS since it's not even at the top of the Hot100~
Paul - Morning Sun was released as a "digital single" a couple of weeks ago. That it hasn't cracked the top 40 yet is really disappointing.
rcLoy - It may never top the Hot 100. "Bad Romance" never did.
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