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New year, new page, new chart.....and yet another new nomber one!
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CZB'S TOP FORTY ---------------- Month 389 ----------------- JANUARY 2012
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01 02 02 VIDEO GAMES Lana Del Rey ##
02 29 02 JUST SO Agnes Obel [Rapid Riser]
03 15 02 I FOLLOW RIVERS Lykke Li
04 05 04 TITANIUM David Guetta featuring Sia
05 03 03 WITHOUT YOU David Guetta featuring Usher
06 07 04 YOU AND I Lady GaGa
07 08 04 BIG BAD WOLF Duck Sauce
08 04 04 I WANNA GO Britney Spears
09 10 04 PLAGE Crystal Fighters
10 ---- 01 BLUE JEANS Lana Del Rey [Highest New Entry]
11 01 05 COLLIDE / FADE INTO DARKNESS / PENGUIN {Leona Lewis and) Avicii ##
12 14 04 THE OTHER WOMAN Caro Emerald
13 06 04 GUTES NITZWERK Paul Kalkbrenner
14 11 06 JAR OF HEARTS Christina Perri ##
15 ---- 01 BEFORE Barbara Dex ##
16 09 05 GET BACK (ASAP) Alexandra Stan
17 20 03 CINEMA Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go
18 34 02 AGAIN AND AGAIN Basto!
19 ---- 01 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye featuring Kimbra
20 12 07 THE EDGE OF GLORY Lady GaGa
21 26 03 CALL YOUR GIRLFRIEND Robyn
22 18 08 SYNRISE Goose
23 22 05 JOLI GARCON Lolita
24 13 05 KOKO Sander Van Doorn
25 21 07 READY 2 GO Martin Solveig featuring Kele
26 17 07 DROWNING Armin Van Buuren featuring Laura V
27 19 04 HERE WITH ME Lasgo ##
28 23 11 CHASING DREAMS Sebastian Cruz featuring Miryel [Longest Laster] ##
29 40 02 LOVE LOVE Amy MacDonald
30 27 09 ANGER NEVER DIES Hooverphonic
31 16 03 LOCA PEOPLE (LA GENTE ESTA MUY LOCA) Sak Noel [Fastest Faller] ##
32 31 10 THE NIGHT BEFORE Hooverphonic
33 24 07 OGNI TANTO Gianna Nannini
34 33 06 QUE VEUX-TU Yelle
35 25 08 JUDAS Lady GaGa
36 28 08 RIVERSIDE Agnes Obel
37 32 10 DISARM YOURSELF Dash Berlin featuring Emma Hewitt
38 30 09 MR SAXOBEAT Alexandra Stan
39 35 10 GREGORY'S THEME Basto! ##
40 ---- 01 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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01 [ 00 ] EPIC Sandro Silva and Quintino [Chartbuster] ##
02 [ 06 ] UNCHARTED Sara Bareilles
03 [ 05 ] THE FACE OF THE PLANET Subs
04 [ 10 ] PARADISE Coldplay
05 [ 38 ] THE WORLD IS GONNA END TONIGHT School Is Cool
06 [ 08 ] FRIDAY Rebecca Black
07 [ 09 ] GIVE ME EVERYTHING Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer
08 [ 11 ] I LOVE U SO Cassius
09 [ 13 ] LOVE KILLS Robyn
10 [ 00 ] HEARTBROKEN Hooverphonic
11 [ 12 ] NO ONE MAKES IT ON HER OWN Roxette
12 [ 16 ] BORN THIS WAY Lady GaGa
13 [ 28 ] MARRY THE NIGHT Lady GaGa
14 [ 15 ] ONE TWO THREE Hooverphonic
15 [ 17 ] 45 Stars On 45
16 [ 18 ] EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL Coldplay
17 [ 20 ] PAPI Jennifer Lopez
18 [ 19 ] WORDS Goose
19 [ 21 ] WHAT A FEELING Alex Gaudino featuring Kelly Rowland
20 [ 35 ] GABRIEL Joe Goddard featuring Valentina
21 [ 22 ] LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS Moby
22 [ 23 ] WE FOUND LOVE Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
23 [ 24 ] WIR SIND AM LEBEN Rosenstolz
24 [ 25 ] TUNG! Deniz Koyu
25 [ 26 ] ALLIGATOR SKY Owl City featuring Shawn Chrystopher
26 [ 27 ] NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE David Guetta featuring Jennifer Hudson
27 [ 40 ] SHAKE Little Boots
28 [ 29 ] BOUNCE Calvin Harris featuring Kelis
29 [ 31 ] GOOD GIRL Alexis Jordan
30 [ 34 ] GONNA GET OVER YOU Sara Bareilles
31 [ 39 ] BLOOD, TEARS AND GOLD Hurts
32 [ 33 ] HELLO Baseballs
33 [ 00 ] JE VEUX Zaz
34 [ 00 ] PUMPED UP KICKS Foster the People
35 [ 00 ] FAIRYALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl
36 [ 00 ] IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY Ice MC
37 [ 00 ] DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS Band Aid
38 [ 00 ] WHO'D HAVE KNOWN Lily Allen
39 [ 00 ] MARMOR, STEIN UND EISEN BRICHT Ludwig Hirsch
40 [ 00 ] EU CRED Malina Olinescu
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Number one seven years ago: THE SOUND OF LOVE Anaconda
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Number one seventeen years ago: OOH YES I DO Luv'
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Number one twenty-seven years ago: NEVER ENDING STORY Limahl / Beth Anderson
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After reaching number one for the first time last month, Leona Lewis and Avicii are among twenty-four fallers this time, diving ten places back to their number eleven entry position - leaving three of December’s new entries in a closely-contested battle to become my 190th chart-topper. In the end, Sweden’s Lykke Li finishes in third place, climbing from number 15 with the recent Belgian number one “I Follow Rivers”, while Denmark’s Agnes Obel improves by one place on her peak with “Riverside”, as “Just So” is this month’s Rapid Riser, racing up from 29 to number two. And last month’s number two ascends one place to the top for New Yorker Lana Del Rey - “Video Games”. Two former number ones by David Guetta complete the top five - “Without You” slides to five, while “Titanium” moves back up to four - and among eight other climbers, there’s someone else who had a number one recently, and is now doing well with the follow-up. Basto’s “Again And Again” moves up sixteen places to number 18. His chart-topping “Gregory’s Theme” hangs on in for a tenth month, down four notches at 39 - but the preceding Chartbuster from Sebastian Cruz and Miryel, is now the longest laster. “Chasing Dreams”, one of my favourite tracks of the past year, falls five at 28. A rather less successful Chartbuster was “Loca People” - Sak Noel failed to improve on his number 15 debut, and it’s now the fastest faller, plummeting fifteen places to number 31. Hopefully Barbara Dex isn’t about to similarly disappoint - December’s Chartbuster “Before” is in at 15 this month, four places above one of the biggest-selling singles of the past year in Belgium and Holland. Gotye featuring Kimbra crash in at 19 with “Somebody That I Used To Know”. Also making her chart debut is Katy Perry - “The One That Got Away” sneaks in at 40. But, thirty places higher, the most impressive of this month’s four new entries is a second hit for Lana Del Rey. The other track of her “Video Games” single, “Blue Jeans” comes straight in at number ten. Could she replace herself at number one in the months ahead?
Six former breakers reappear this month, for a variety of reasons. Firstly, it’s the festive season, and I’ve been hearing a lot of former Christmas hits by Band Aid, Ice MC and the Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - although perhaps “Do They Know It’s Christmas”, “It’s Christmas Day” and “Fairytale Of New York” aren’t necessarily the most likely to race back into the top forty in the months ahead! But what about Lily Allen’s album track from a couple of years ago, “Who’d Have Known”? That has made its way into the UK top ten in the last few weeks, albeit almost smothered under all kinds of sh-omething. Thirdly, and most tragically, the suicides of two performers have been reported in recent weeks. Both Malina Olinescu of Romania and Ludwig Hirsch of Austria sadly chose to end their lives - in virtually identical ways - aged 37 and 65 respectively. Their best works, “Eu Cred” and “Marmor, Stein Und Eisen Bricht”, are back in the breakers. In a poor month for new releases, only four tracks arrive there for the first time - and the majority are not exactly “new” recordings. “Heartbroken” is the fourth single from Hooverphonic’s 2010 album, and already looks more likely than the third one, “One Two Three”, to give them a trio of hits in next month’s top forty. “Je Veux” also comes from a 2010 album - by Zaz, 31-year-old French jazz singer Isabelle Geffroy - and has enjoyed a frequent, or almost continuous, presence in various European charts ever since its release. And, although the album containing “Pumped Up Kicks” wasn’t released until more recently, that track by Foster The People also dates back to 2010 - but could still be on the way to my top forty in 2012! However, the Chartbuster, guaranteed to enter in February, is by someone born in 1981. He is “one of Holland's most promising new talents”, who is “known for his broad, energetic sound that is so perfectly combined with a musical depth acquired by his years of piano study.” - according to his website. Well, he must be doing something right - as his single has just become only the eleventh purely instrumental number one in forty-seven years in his homeland, and the first for almost five years. My Record of the Month for January 2012 is Sandro Silva and Quintino, with “Epic”.
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(i used to watch it with my mum!)
