It was so close - but no, not quite!!!
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CZB'S TOP FORTY ------------- Month 388 -------------- DECEMBER 2011
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01 02 04 COLLIDE / FADE INTO DARKNESS / PENGUIN {Leona Lewis and) Avicii ##
02 ---- 01 VIDEO GAMES Lana Del Rey [Highest New Entry] ##
03 01 02 WITHOUT YOU David Guetta featuring Usher
04 04 03 I WANNA GO Britney Spears
05 03 03 TITANIUM David Guetta featuring Sia
06 07 03 GUTES NITZWERK Paul Kalkbrenner
07 08 03 YOU AND I Lady GaGa
08 09 03 BIG BAD WOLF Duck Sauce
09 05 04 GET BACK (ASAP) Alexandra Stan
10 14 03 PLAGE Crystal Fighters
11 11 05 JAR OF HEARTS Christina Perri ##
12 10 06 THE EDGE OF GLORY Lady GaGa
13 06 04 KOKO Sander Van Doorn
14 20 03 THE OTHER WOMAN Caro Emerald
15 ---- 01 I FOLLOW RIVERS Lykke Li
16 15 02 LOCA PEOPLE (LA GENTE ESTA MUY LOCA) Sak Noel ##
17 12 06 DROWNING Armin Van Buuren featuring Laura V
18 16 07 SYNRISE Goose
19 13 03 HERE WITH ME Lasgo ##
20 27 02 CINEMA Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go
21 22 06 READY 2 GO Martin Solveig featuring Kele
22 30 04 JOLI GARCON Lolita
23 23 10 CHASING DREAMS Sebastian Cruz featuring Miryel ##
24 24 06 OGNI TANTO Gianna Nannini
25 17 07 JUDAS Lady GaGa
26 40 02 CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND Robyn [Rapid Riser]
27 18 08 ANGER NEVER DIES Hooverphonic
28 19 07 RIVERSIDE Agnes Obel
29 ---- 01 JUST SO Agnes Obel
30 21 08 MR SAXOBEAT Alexandra Stan
31 25 09 THE NIGHT BEFORE Hooverphonic
32 26 09 DISARM YOURSELF Dash Berlin featuring Emma Hewitt
33 29 05 QUE VEUX-TU Yelle
34 ---- 01 AGAIN AND AGAIN Basto!
35 31 09 GREGORY'S THEME Basto! ##
36 32 10 INDESTRUCTIBLE Robyn
37 36 09 LOVE IS DARKNESS Sander Van Doorn featuring Carol Lee
38 28 06 IN LOVE FOR A WHILE Anna Rossinelli [Fastest Faller] ##
39 38 13 HELLO Martin Solveig featuring Dragonette [Longest Laster]
40 ---- 01 LOVE LOVE Amy MacDonald
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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01 [ 00 ] BEFORE Barbara Dex [Chartbuster] ##
02 [ 04 ] I WROTE THE BOOK Beth Ditto
03 [ 03 ] FINISH LINE Yasmin
04 [ 06 ] FEEL IT Ferry Corsten
05 [ 05 ] THE FACE OF THE PLANET Subs
06 [ 09 ] UNCHARTED Sara Bareilles
07 [ 11 ] APHRODITE Kylie Minogue
08 [ 14 ] FRIDAY Rebecca Black
09 [ 13 ] GIVE ME EVERYTHING Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer
10 [ 32 ] PARADISE Coldplay
11 [ 12 ] I LOVE U SO Cassius
12 [ 16 ] NO ONE MAKES IT ON HER OWN Roxette
13 [ 18 ] LOVE KILLS Robyn
14 [ 00 ] SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye featuring Kimbra
15 [ 24 ] ONE TWO THREE Hooverphonic
16 [ 22 ] BORN THIS WAY Lady GaGa
17 [ 20 ] 45 Stars On 45
18 [ 21 ] EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL Coldplay
19 [ 23 ] WORDS Goose
20 [ 37 ] PAPI Jennifer Lopez
21 [ 25 ] WHAT A FEELING Alex Gaudino featuring Kelly Rowland
22 [ 26 ] LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS Moby
23 [ 39 ] WE FOUND LOVE Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
24 [ 28 ] WIR SIND AM LEBEN Rosenstolz
25 [ 38 ] TUNG! Deniz Koyu
26 [ 29 ] ALLIGATOR SKY Owl City featuring Shawn Chrystopher
27 [ 33 ] NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE David Guetta featuring Jennifer Hudson
28 [ 00 ] MARRY THE NIGHT Lady GaGa
29 [ 35 ] BOUNCE Calvin Harris featuring Kelis
30 [ 30 ] RABIOSA Shakira featuring Pitbull
31 [ 31 ] GOOD GIRL Alexis Jordan
32 [ 00 ] BLUE JEANS Lana Del Rey
33 [ 34 ] HELLO Baseballs
34 [ 36 ] GONNA GET OVER YOU Sara Bareilles
35 [ 00 ] GABRIEL Joe Goddard featuring Valentina
36 [ 00 ] THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry
37 [ 40 ] SKY AND SAND Paul and Fritz Kalkbrenner
38 [ 00 ] THE WORLD IS GONNA END TONIGHT School Is Cool
39 [ 00 ] BLOOD, TEARS AND GOLD Hurts
40 [ 00 ] SHAKE Little Boots
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Number one eight years ago: I'M FED UP Alizee
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Number one sixteen years ago: AN ANGEL Jam Tronik
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Number one 32 years ago: DO YOU WANT YOUR OLD LOBBY WASHED DOWN Brendan Shine
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For the second month in a row, David Guetta has fallen to number three immediately after having a new entry at number one. “Without You” follows “Titanium” downwards, and my new chart-topper is the first for Avicii, with a little help from Leona Lewis. Tim Bergling, born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1989, failed to improve on his number two debut last October with “Bromance”, but now climbs one place to the summit with “Collide / Fade Into Darkness / Penguin”. That winning combination is my 189th number one, by the narrowest of margins over this month’s highest new entry. November’s Chartbuster from Lana Del Rey, “Video Games”, crashes in at number two - and must be a strong contender for the first number one of 2012. She’s from New York, USA - but the other four new entries this time are by acts from different parts of Europe. From Sweden, Lykke Li has her first success with “I Follow Rivers” (primarily due to its “Magician Remix”) at 15 - and, from Scotland, Amy MacDonald gets her fifth with “Love Love”, which finally arrives at number 40 after ten months as a breaker. Denmark’s Agnes Obel and Belgium’s Basto now both have two hits in adjacent positions - “Just So” enters at 29, below “Riverside”, while “Again And Again” comes in at 34, just above the former Chartbuster and ex-number one “Gregory’s Theme”. Twenty-one tracks moving down this month also include former Chartbuster “In Love For A While” by Anna Rossinelli - the fastest faller, taking a ten-place dive to 38 - and Martin Solveig’s ex-number one “Hello”, at 39 and still the longest laster. But he also has one of ten climbers, as “Ready 2 Go” creeps back up one place to number 21. Lolita rebounds too after falling eight places in November, bouncing right back to her number 22 peak with “Joli Garcon” - while this month’s Rapid Riser is Robyn, up fourteen places to number 26 with “Call Your Girlfriend”. That leaves just four non-movers this time - Britney Spears at 4, Christina Perri at 11, Sebastian Cruz and Miryel at 23 and Gianna Nannini at 24.
While many potential hits that originally appeared in the top 40 breakers in the first half of this year slowly edge ever nearer to the chart, there are much faster upward moves for more recent releases by Coldplay and Jennifer Lopez - and there’s room for nine brand new contenders. Two are by artists who have previously had at least one number one hit in my chart - Lady GaGa and Little Boots return with “Marry The Night” and “Shake” respectively - and Lana Del Rey could rapidly follow up “Video Games” with the other side of the same single, “Blue Jeans”. But the only other new breaker this time by an act that has previously impressed me is “Blood, Tears and Gold”. Three other tracks from the same album by Hurts couldn’t quite reach the top forty - “Stay”, “Wonderful Life” and “Sunday” peaked at 72, 77 and 83 - but could this be the one to go further? Meanwhile, after much worldwide success with a series of releases that I didn’t like at all, Katy Perry finally has a more tuneful effort with “The One That Got Away”. Both Joe Goddard and Valentina are from London, but their recent release “Gabriel” has performed considerably better in Belgium than in the UK - and the other three new potential hits have also been charting there this month. “The World Is Gonna End Tonight” is the current single from School Is Cool, a young “Baroque pop” band - while Wouter De Backer, better known as Gotye, has spent an incredible twelve weeks at number one with “Somebody That I Used To Know”, ably assisted by New Zealand vocalist Kimbra. However, a more unusual lasting legacy may eventually be left by someone who, through almost no fault of her own, had an award named after her! The perfomer of this month’s Chartbuster was born in 1974, and sung for her country in the Eurovision Song Contest while still a teenager. She finished.....last. Many others have done that, of course, often to then disappear without trace - but something that was never forgotten was the outfit she wore. In its honour, the “Barbara Dex Award” is given annually to the worst-dressed participant in the contest - the most well-known winners including Guildo Horn and TaTu. Meanwhile, she has since doubled in age, but has continued making music. And her latest hit in her homeland is now a guaranteed new entry in my first chart of 2012. My Record of the Month for December 2011 is Barbara Dex, with “Before”.
