Tag Archives: UK Pop Charts

UK Chart Report: Adele’s ‘Rolling In the Deep’ at No. 2

By | Posted on January 24th, 2011

OK, no time to concoct a theory about this week’s chart, as it is all change in the Top 10, with five new entries arriving and booting everyone else down a few places. Were it not for the imperious presence of Bruno Mars at ...

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UK Chart Report: ‘Glee’ Cooties Threaten an Infestation

By | Posted on January 18th, 2011

Oh Lord it’s happening all over again. We’ve been clear for weeks…months even. And now The Infestation is back, maybe worse than ever before.

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UK Chart Roundup: ‘The X Factor’ Influence

By | Posted on November 15th, 2010

This week's chart report takes the form of a lesson in TV and how to use it to promote your product. Some of the results are a little baffling at first glance, so do bear with me, won't you?

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UK Chart Roundup: Ladies Night vs Bonfire Night

By | Posted on November 8th, 2010

Katy Perry

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UK Chart Roundup: Cheryl ‘Alouettes’ Her Way To UK No. 1

By | Posted on November 1st, 2010

You know how it works with pop music: someone does something once, it’s an innovation. If someone else does it too, it’s a trend.

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The UK Charts Welcome a New Breed of Boyband

By | Posted on October 26th, 2010

Everyone knows that the age of the boyband is well and truly over, right? You couldn’t move for the blighters around here for a while, standing in a line and doing those funny synchronized kicky dance steps like the floor was ...

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The UK Pop Chart…Now with Duck Sauce

By | Posted on October 18th, 2010

This week, the UK’s charts are being dominated by an aggressive man with a shiny head and a prominent grill for the second week running. No, not Darth Vader, he’s wheezier, I mean Cee-Lo Green, whose sweary chart-topper ...

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TV Talent Show Contestants Let Loose on UK Pop Chart

By | Posted on September 27th, 2010

Welcome aboard Fraser McAlpine to our roster of Anglophenia music contributors. He started writing about pop music for Top of the Pops Online, back when you had to know where the asterisk went in B*Witched, and before Billie Piper was ...

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Leona Lewis Scores Her Third UK No. 1

By | Posted on December 8th, 2008

In record-breaking fashion, Leona Lewis got her third UK No. 1, “A Moment Like This” and “Bleeding Love” being the others.

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Gordon Ramsay: “I Want to Be the Culinary Simon Cowell!”

By | Posted on October 6th, 2008

The Daily Telegraph‘s Andrew Pierce profiles Gordon Ramsay, who says, “I am not copying Simon Cowell but it is clever what he has done, how he has masterminded and reinvented pop. It is clever to be in a position to search ...

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