Kategori: Chart Spotlight
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Love Spreads Biggest Hit for the Stone Roses
The Stone Roses’s eponymous debut album spent six weeks on the Swedish album chart, peaking at No.30. Second Coming peaked at No.26 and spent nine weeks. Their debut peaked at No.5 in the UK and No.3 in Ireland. While the group had a giant success in Ireland with the debut, the follow-up set only peaked…
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Kelly Clarkson Gets UK Top Ten Hit with Mr. Know It All
CHART SPOTLIGHT. Kelly Clarkson made it No.6 in the UK with her latest hit single ‘Mr. Know It All.
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Will Katy Perry Return to No.1 with The One That Got Away?
CHART SPOTLIGHT. Katy Perry has released yet another hit single from her Teenage Dream album. Again, Max Martin and Dr. Luke have written and produced ‘The One That Got Away’ which bows at No.22 on this week’s UK singles tally.
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Westlife Splits After 14 Years
CHART SPOTLIGHT. Westlife has decided to split up, following a successful career selling 44 million records, ten sold-out tours and 26 top ten hits. The tale started in 1998 when their debut hit ‘Swear It Again’ managed to top the UK and Irish singles charts.
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Stone Roses Tickets Sold Out in 68 Minutes
CHART SPOTLIGHT. The Stone Roses reunion is nothing but a success. It only took 68 minutes to sell out 220,000 tickets to the group’s three concerts in Manchester Heaton Park in June and July next year, as reported on the band’s homepage.
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Sak Noel’s Loca People (What the Fuck) Bows Atop the UK Tally
CHART SPOTLIGHT. Sak Noel’s novelty hit ‘Loca People (What the Fuck)’ finally found its way to the UK as it knocked Dappy’s ‘No Regrets’ off the top spot. Also known as ‘Loca People (La Gente Está Muy Loca),’ the single has already topped the tallies in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands and Poland before reaching the…
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Goo Goo Dolls Back on the UK Singles Chart
CHART SPOTLIGHT. When John Rzeznik wrote the lyrics for ‘Iris,’ this was a song breaking several years of writer’s block. Written for the movie City of Angels, ‘Iris’ was initially released by Goo Goo Dolls in 1998. Despite only peaking at No.26 at the UK singles chart that year, it has amassed more than 433,000…
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Welcome Back, James Morrison
CHART SPOTLIGHT. Yesterday, James Morrison returned to the top five of the UK with ’I Won’t Let You Go.’
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Jason Derülo Is Back with the It Girl
CHART SPOTLIGHT. ‘It Girl’ follows ‘Don’t Wanna Go Home’ as the second single off Jason Derülo’s sophomore set Future History.