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CHART REWIND. Guys, this was what you clicked on last week. You definitely embraced the new Jennifer Lopez track.

1.       RedOne+Jennifer Lopez=Lambada – Jennifer Lopez returns to the charts with the lambada flavoured “On the Floor” featuring Pitbull.

2.       The Beatles Top Act on Last.FM Following iTunes Announcement – The Beatles is actually still atop Last.FM’s chart.

3.       The Demonstration Transforms Lady Gaga Into Heavy Metal – “Bad Romance” goes heavy metal in this new version.

4.       Countdown to Adele’s ‘21’ Album Release – we’re soon there. Adele’s next album release is just around the corner.

5.       Glee Comes to the UK – countdown to the UK tour!

James Blunt Is So Far Gone with Latest Single

CHART REWIND. Almost six years have passed since James Blunt got his 2005 breakthrough with the debut album Back to Bedlam. Released in June of that year, the set was an incredible success including four singles. The first single was actually “High” which was released in October 2004. It peaked at No.16 in the UK, unable to match its No.3 peak in Italy. “High” was followed by “Wisemen” which bombed – it only reached No.44 in the UK upon its release in March 2005.

All this changed with “You’re Beautiful.” Released a month ahead of the release of Back to Bedlam, this was the track that would put James Blunt on the map. While “You’re Beautiful” actually was the third single off the debut album, it was the first single to be issued in Canada and the U.S.

“You’re Beautiful” is the biggest James Blunt hit to date. It was followed by the UK No.9 hit “Goodbye My Lover.” In total, Back to Bedlam sold more than 12m copies worldwide, becoming the biggest-selling album in 2005 in the UK. Eight of the ten songs included on the set has been licensed for use in TV shows, ads and promo/trailer spots.

James Blunt returned in 2007 with All the Lost Souls which was preceded by “1973.” The track topped several charts across Europe, peaking at No.4 in the UK and No.73 in the US. It was also the biggest hit single off the set, which spawned five singles.

In November 2010, James Blunt returned with his third album Some Kind of Trouble. The lead single – “Stay the Night” was issued in October last year. Not one for the record books, the single went rather un-noticed in the UK as it only managed to reach No.26. It topped the Swiss chart and reached the top ten in Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria.

Look out for “So Far Gone” – the third single which is expected to bow on the UK singles tally this Sunday. It has already been released in advance in Austria. The track was produced by Steve Robson, whose biggest hit to date is “What Hurts the Most” by Rascal Flatts.

Black Eyed Peas Achieves UK’s Most Downloaded Track Ever


CHART REWIND. Black Eyed Peas’s “I Gotta Feeling” tops UK’s official tally of the Top 100 Downloads of All Time. The track was the second single off  the group’s album The E.N.D. Produced by French guru David Guetta, the track succeeded “Boom Boom Pow” atop the Billboard Hot 100. “I Gotta Feeling” spent 56 week on the chart and was followed by “Meet Me Halfway” (another UK chart topper).

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4vsh1zDA

The Black Eyed Peas currently sits firmly at No.3 on this week’s singles tally with former chart-topper “The Time (Dirty Bit),” which logs an eighth week on the chart. The current album The Beginning, however, falls 8-18 in its fifth week. The group’s first single “Fallin’ Up” was issued in 1997 but failed to chart in the UK. Black Eyed Peas’s UK chart debut came with “Joints & Jams” in 1998 – that single peaked at No.53. There first chart topper came in 2001 with “Where Is the Love?” which featured Justin Timberlake.

Read more about Black Eyed Peas on WelcheMusic:

·         The Black Eyed Peas Have the Time of Their Life
·         Black Eyed Peas Gets Slashed by Sweden’s Leading News Paper
·         Black Eyed Peas Goes Dirty Dancing
·         The Black Eyed Peas Rock Your Body Right
·         Black Eyed Peas Knocks Ke$ha Off the Top
·         The Track that Black Eyed Peas Don’t Want Europeans to Download

The Goo Goo Doll’s ‘Iris’ Returns


CHART REWIND. John Rzeznik wrote “Iris” for the soundtrack to the 1998 film City of Angels starring Nicolas Cage. Rzeznik’s group The Goo Goo Dolls chose to include it on its sixth album Dizzy Up the Girl which amassed more than 3m in worldwide record sales.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdYWuo9OFAw

“Iris” was no less than a chart sensation as it spent a record 18 weeks at No.1 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart in 1998. That beats No Doubt’s “Don’t Speak” (1996-1997) and Mariah Carey’s “We Belong Together” (2005) who spent 16 weeks atop the airplay chart.

So, how come it never made it higher than No.9 on the Hot 100? That’s because it wasn’t allowed to chart on the Hot 100 as it was never released as a physical single (that was long before the legal downloads). It bowed on the chart and peaked at No.9 when Billboard revised its chart policy in 1998. It, however, managed to top the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Despite becoming such a huge US hit, it never reached the UK top 20 peaking at No.26.  WelcheMusic still hasn’t figured out why. Boyzone lead singer  Ronan Keating took “Iris” to No.12, thus beating the original peak of Goo Goo Dolls.

And now, another boy band has covered the track. The Wanted performed “Iris” on The Sun’s concert sessions the other week.

Read more about The Wanted and watch the clip:

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