UK Music Charts | The Official UK Top 75 Singles: Week of Mon 12 May - Yahoo! Music UK

THIS WEEK		LAST WEEK		ARTIST		SONG		SHOPPING
1		1		MADONNA FT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE		4 MINUTES
2		3		WILEY		WEARING MY ROLEX
3		2		SAM SPARRO		BLACK & GOLD
4		8		WILL I AM FT CHERYL COLE		HEARTBREAKER
5		4		USHER FT YOUNG JEEZY		LOVE IN THIS CLUB
6		5		ESTELLE FT KANYE WEST		AMERICAN BOY
7		6		SEPTEMBER		CRY FOR YOU
8		W		COLDPLAY		VIOLET HILL
9		7		FLO RIDA FT T-PAIN		LOW
10		46		KYLIE MINOGUE		IN MY ARMS

Featured country of the week (for no particular reason): Lithuania. I can only find the airplay chart, and that dates from a couple of weeks ago, but here it is:

Lithuanian Charts Company

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01 01 01  Madonna | Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes ▲3
02 05 02  Estelle | Kanye West - American Boy
03 03 01  Timbaland | Keri Hilson | Nicole Scherzinger - Scream ▲3
04 12 04  Roisin Murphy - You Know Me Better
05 02 02  OneRepublic - Stop And Stare
06 00 06  NEW Vaidas - Per Vėlu (LT)
07 10 07  Moby - Disco Lies
08 36 08  Mariah Carey - Touch My Body
09 18 09  Justice - DVNO
10 06 02  Metal On Metal - No Front Teeth (LT)

ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS

#	-1	W		Artist Title			Label Company	HP	Download
1	1	5		Madonna & Justin 4 Minutes			MAVERICK WARNER	1
2	2	9		dEUS The Architect			UNIVERSAL UNIVERSAL	2
3	4	10		Duffy Mercy			A&M UNIVERSAL	3
4	5	12		Moby Disco Lies			MUTE EMI	4
5		1		Katerine Shut Your Mouth			MOSTIKO CNR	5
6	6	9		Sandrine I Feel The Same Way			TEG EMI	2
7	12	4		Estelle feat. Kanye West American Boy			WARNER BROS. WARNER	7
8	7	9		Flo Rida feat. T-Pain Low			ATLANTIC WARNER	7
9	13	15		Colbie Caillat Bubbly			REPUBLIC UNIVERSAL	2
10	9	17		Leona Lewis Bleeding Love			SYCO SONY BMG	1

Ultratop is the official Belgian music chart. Like the Dutch Single Top 100 it is composed solely by record sales and dowloads. But there are two versions! French and Dutch. The Ultratop 50 is for the Flemish part, the Ultratop 40 for the French part.

Despite the language overlap and geographic closeness between the Netherlands and Flanders, releases are timed completely differently. Which is good for business, at least on the short term.

Belgians also have a better taste in music...

dEUS is the first Belgian band in here. They emerged during the mid-nineties making a crazy kind of stop-go jazz infused rock music. See Suds & Soda, Hotellounge and Theme From Turnpike, which opened as a short for Trainspotting in many European countries. Towards the end of the ninetees they mellowed out a bit. The Architect is quite catchy and still manages to be smart.

Moby seems to have been released a bit late in Flanders, but he's gotten the highest position here so far. The song has a great video. Otherwise I don't really know what the point of it is. If you put the nice enough singing aside it's really the same stuff Moby has been doing for ages.

Katerine is a Belgian starlet who won one of these teevee casting shows once. The song has OK production, but she's singing too much, which ruins it.

Sandrine entered that song for Eurovision but it did not get through. She's doing fine in the charts as a consolation. The Same Way is aiming to be Amy Winehouse-like but it ends up being closer to Des'ree.

Here's the video for The Architect:

ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS

#	-1	W		Artist Title			Label Company	HP	Download
1	1	5		Madonna & Justin 4 Minutes			MAVERICK WARNER	1
2	3	6		Laurent Wolf feat. Eric Carter No Stress			COLUMBIA SONY BMG	2
3	5	10		Francis Cabrel La robe & l'échelle			COLUMBIA SONY BMG	2
4	2	9		M. Pokora feat. Timbaland & Sebastian Dangerous			CAPITOL EMI	2
5	4	7		Pauline [FR] Allo le monde			CAPITOL EMI	4
6	7	8		Duffy Mercy			A&M UNIVERSAL	5
7	6	15		Sheryfa Luna Il avait les mots			ULM UNIVERSAL	1
8	9	17		Renan Luce La lettre			BARCLAY UNIVERSAL	3
9	12	11		David Guetta feat. Tara McDonald Delirious			VIRGIN EMI	2
10	19	11		Colbie Caillat Bubbly			REPUBLIC UNIVERSAL	9

And here we go again...

Ultratop is the official Belgian music chart. Like the Dutch Single Top 100 it is composed solely by record sales and dowloads. But there are two versions! French and Dutch. The Ultratop 50 is for the Flemish part, the Ultratop 40 for the French part.

As you can see, this is quite a different chart from the Flemish one, aside of having the same number one and a few other US products.

Laurent Wolf is a French deejay, and this track was big in France (#1). Pleasant dance music.

Francis Cabrel is 54-year old French singer-songwriter. The song sounds like a typical French chanson. Very sweet. I can imagine that the lyrics might be cliched, but, perhaps fortunately, I can only understand so much. There's a lot of sky and honey and smiles and fruit in there. I like it.

M.Pokora gets to play a French version of Justin Timberlake, featuring a beat Timbaland just more or less plucked out of an alternative take of 'The Way I Are' and sent some old takes he had left from this videoshoot or that. Recycling is efficient!

Pauline's 'Allo Le Monde' is a hideously produced simple pop track.

Sheryfa Luna's 'Il avait les mots' is French R&B, with a kind of piano and beat production you'd expect well, ages ago, and nagging vocals.

'La Lettre' by Renan Luce starts off as a kind of 'This is the French Jack Johnson' track, but then picks up speed halfway as French chansons are wont to. Very sweet, again.

David Guetta is another French deejay, of whom you probably know the dance track 'Love Don't Let Me Go'. This one is similar, but not quite as strong.

In total you see that there is quite a bit more music in French in the Walloon charts than there is Dutch-speaking music in the Flemish charts. This is how things usually are, though normally there will be one or two Dutch-speaking songs in the Flemish top 10.

On the other hand, there is more music by Belgian artists in the Flemish charts whereas the Walloon top 10 is made up solely by French and US artists.

Here's Renan Luce:

Long-tiome-no-see look at one of the German charts, that of music television VIVA:

Viva.tv - Charts - VIVA TOP 100

VIVA TOP 100

Gültig ab 16.05.2008

Die deutschen Single-Charts in der
Langfassung. Online immer freitags.

• 1 (NEU) Mark Medlock "Summer Love"
   video
• 2 (1) Madonna "4 Minutes To Save The World"
   video
• 3 (2) Duffy "Mercy"
• 4 (3) Ich + Ich "So Soll Es Bleiben"
   video
• 5 (4) Amy Winehouse "Valerie"
• 6 (5) Kanye West feat. Estelle "American Boy"
   video
• 7 (9) Madcon "Beggin`/Basic"
   video
• 8 (17) Scooter "I´m Lonely"
   video
• 9 (6) One Republic "Stop and Stare"
   video
• 10 (7) Leona Lewis "Bleeding Love"
   video

Mark Medlock is a talent show winner, my only comment: uaaargh.

Ich + Ich is classed on Wiki as pop; it seems to be in the rough musical tradition of Echt (taste: Weinst Du, Du trägst keine Liebe in dir). It is in the charts since 2005 but I missed it. Didn't miss too much. But I post this one, the sound may be new for some:

Madcon is a Norwegian melodic hip-hop band, never heard of them; the song reminds me somewhat of Gnarls Barkley.

Scooter is a hardcore techno band of long standing.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

Not much change on the Hungarian chart compared to last week, except Madonna storming in:

2008. 19. hét

2008. 05. 05. - 2008. 05. 11.

No.: 294

No.	M	H	CS	Előadó - Dal címe		Kiadó
1	1	5	1	ÁKOS Negyven	M, O	Fehér Sólyom/Warner
2	új	1	2	MADONNA 4 Minutes	F, M	Warner Music
3	2	59	1	ÁKOS Minden most kezdődik el	F, M	Fehér Sólyom/Warner
4	10	18	1	JOSH ÉS JUTTA Zakatol a szívem	M, O	Josh Music/Private Moon/EMI
5	7	21	2	SHANE 54 & DJ JUNIOR feat. MICHELLE WILD 69	M	Laptop DJ
6	5	14	3	CRYSTAL Elmegyek	M, O	EMI
7	3	12	3	ERICK MORILLO feat. P. DIDDY Dance I Said	F, M	lightmedia
8	új	1	8	KARÁNYI feat. JUDIE JAY Ellaybe-Aido	O	CLS Music
9	új	1	9	MADONNA Voices	M	Warner Music
10	9	10	4	GROOVEHOUSE Mit ér neked?	M, O	Private Moon/EMI

I guess I'm bound to post Ákos - 40 (it's about his age), though he had better songs than that...:

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

We are in the middle of signing a contract for my daughter with a multinational. The terms will specifically exclude any music releases until she has finished school (at which point she can sign whatever she likes). It is to be a fairly unique deal in which they pay for vocal coaching and career development in composition, and performance on stage and in the studio, without the possibilty for commercial exploitation for two years. So you'll all just have to wait (though I may post some teasers).

There will be no Eurovisions, Idols or other inanity, except over my dead body ;-)


You can't be me, I'm taken

... is catchy like a pop song, metatone.

Like that lurking feeling of unease that sits in your brain the morning after a nightmare, the weekly chart round up returns:

In the category Best Diary Opening Ever, we have a winner.

Skennah Kowa