Rihanna’s banging new single ‘Only Girl (In The World)’ debuts at #1 in Australia this week, shifting a mind-blowing 22,621 copies to become her fourth [Editor’s note: make that fifth solo] chart-topper here. If these walls could speak, they’d probably tell me to stop blasting this track on loop. Instead, they’re peeling my photos off the wall in silent protest. *Shakes fist*
Glee fans fangurling all over last week’s season premiere have sent the show’s version of ‘Empire State of Mind’, ‘Telephone’ and ‘Billionaire’ into our Top 50. The choir-hood rendition of ‘Empire State of Mind’ debuts at #40 (the original version bullets to #25) and Charice vs Lea Michele’s ‘Telephone’ robo-vamp debuts at #45.
Charice – when she’s engaging in Filipina diva mode and not being the Hello Kitty-totting Sunshine on Glee – scores her first UK crossover. Her ‘Pyramid’ single debuts at #17 this week six months after it first came out in the US. Perhaps the song stands a better chance of succeeding here now with the Glee association. Better yet – Moving Forward ™, Australia – let’s just submit ‘In Love So Deep’ to local radios.
Jessica Mauboy’s glossy-ghetto comeback ‘Get Em Girls’ debuts at #22 on the Australian digital charts this week. While I love clicking my heels to this, I can’t imagine the wider Aussie public snapping to J Mau’s new flo’. On the other hand, if this was Willow Smith’s ‘Whip My Hair’…
Will.i.Am and Nicki Minaj’s Buggles-sampled track ‘Check It Out’ enters at #21 here this week, making this Minaj’s highest charting Aussie single yet. The fine femme-cee has been the talk of the block for months now but what got me throwing the side eye is revelations of her alter egos: Roman Zolanski and Onika (the latter being the I Am of her many Sasha Fierces).
The Potbelleez’s mighty new single ‘Hello’ rockets from #42 to #26 after their rapturous X Factor performance last Monday. I don’t think this show knows its own strength. Can you imagine Scarlett Belle making Top 20 next week after tonight’s elimination gig? Please.
Justice Crew (for those playing at home, see: winners of Australia’s Got Talent) finds their debut single ‘And Then We Dance’ heading back up to #46 on this week’s chart. The hip hop dance troupe will also be rocking the X Factor stage tonight.
Brian McFadden and Delta Goodrem’s disco ballad ‘Mistakes’ has finally cracked our Top 50 this week, selling over 2400 copies to make #41. Time to tape off the scene and bring in the demolition team to knock down that Wall of Soundz, people.
Donna Summer’s new piece ‘To Paris With Love’ and Kylie’s ‘Get Outta My Way’ sashays up the US Dance/Club Plays chart, peaking at #12 and #14 respectively. I’m sorry, my fellow gays but if this is the best we can work with then I might just hibernate for the next three months.
Bruno Mars is gonna be a billionaire, so fucking fast. The Hawaiian producer/songwriter has gone #1 in the US and UK for his new solo single: ‘Just The Way You Are’. You can check out tracks from his forthcoming Doo-Wops & Hooligans album on his Myspace now. I don’t care what this man does from here on in. He who had a hand in writing Sugababes’ ‘Get Sexy’ earns my eternal adoration.
Florence + The Machines celebrates their first US charting single ‘Dog Days Are Over’ this week. The track shot from #93 to #21, no doubt an after effect of the MTV VMAs win. The 2008 single was re-released with a new video this year, which picked up a moon man for Best Art Direction. “The original was so cheap… it was a video camera in a forest with my dad and Marks & Spencer sandwiches,” Flo says of ye olde promo clip.
Kasey Chambers sees her new album Little Bird debut at #3 in Australia this week. This is the country warbler’s sixth studio album and her first one yet since The Captain to not make #1. But stay tuned and keep your banjos in check because it could very well move up the charts in the coming weeks.
Maroon 5’s Hands All Over debuts at #6 in the UK this week, making this the first hit album Robert “Mutt” Lange has produced since his ex-wife Shania Twain’s Up! (STFU, Wikipedia. I refuse to acknowledge Nickelback’s Dark Horse as a valid contribution to pop music). Speaking of my Revlon country pop beauty, where is she hiding out these days? Is she still living off the royalty dimes she collects from drag clubs playing ‘Man! I Feel Like A Woman’? Not good enough.
Also, Phil Collins has a new album out and it’s the #1 seller in the UK this week. Don’t tell dad.
Feed Limmy Top 20 Most Played:
#1 davidlim – Do What I Do*
#2 Cheryl Cole – Promise This
#3 Jessica Mauboy – Get ‘Em Girls (feat. Snoop Dogg)
#4 Nadine Coyle – Insatiable
#5 Brandy – Lifeguard*
#6 Jazmine Sullivan – Bust Your Windows*
#7 davidlim – Get Crazy
#8 Ace of Base – All For You
#9 Shontelle – Take Ova (feat. Pitbull)
#10 Beyonce – Diva
#11 Che’nelle – Tear Jerker
#12 Shontelle – Perfect Nightmare
#13 Scott Spark – Fail Like You Mean It*
#14 Glee Cast – Telephone*
#15 Glee Cast – Empire State of Mind*
#16 BoA – Copy & Paste*
#17 Scott Spark – Half Formed Song*
#18 Kelly Rowland – Commander
#19 Kylie Minogue – All The Lovers
#20 Glee Cast – The Boy Is Mine
* = Added to playlist this week
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