As I'm going to be busy with work tomorrow afternoon (and, I suspect, well into the evening), I'm posting my new charts a day earlier than usual - and can only apologize that there's somewhat less movement at the top ends than in most months! I've explained this to some extent in the commentary - into which I only just remembered to shoe-horn a reference to another five-year period to hopefully be featured in a couple of weeks' time.....
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CZB'S TOP FORTY ------------------- Month 393 -------------------- MAY 2012
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01 01 02 NOVA ZEMBLA Wiegel Meirmans Snitker
02 02 04 EPIC Sandro Silva and Quintino ##
03 03 05 BLUE JEANS Lana Del Rey
04 04 05 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye featuring Kimbra
05 07 04 THE WORLD IS GONNA END TONIGHT School Is Cool
06 05 04 HEARTBROKEN Hooverphonic
07 06 03 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey ##
08 08 06 VIDEO GAMES Lana Del Rey ##
09 09 06 I FOLLOW RIVERS Lykke Li
10 10 06 AGAIN AND AGAIN Basto!
11 11 05 BEFORE Barbara Dex ##
12 12 05 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry
13 28 02 LEVELS Avicii [Rapid Riser]
14 16 06 LOVE LOVE Amy MacDonald
15 13 04 PARADISE Coldplay
16 19 04 MARRY THE NIGHT Lady GaGa
17 ---- 01 WILD ONES Flo Rida featuring Sia [Highest New Entry]
18 14 08 TITANIUM David Guetta featuring Sia
19 17 06 JUST SO Agnes Obel
20 18 07 WITHOUT YOU David Guetta featuring Usher
21 35 02 GIVE ME ALL YOUR LUVIN' Madonna featuring M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj
22 ---- 01 BLESSED Tom Hangs and Shermanology
23 24 03 GABRIEL Joe Goddard featuring Valentina
24 ---- 01 BETTER THAN A DREAM Katie Melua ##
25 26 03 BIG IN JAPAN Martin Solveig and Dragonette
26 38 02 YOUTOPIA Armin Van Buuren featuring Adam Young
27 21 09 COLLIDE / FADE INTO DARKNESS / PENGUIN {Leona Lewis and) Avicii ##
28 ---- 01 YOU DON'T LOVE ME Caro Emerald
29 23 08 THE OTHER WOMAN Caro Emerald
30 25 07 CINEMA Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go
31 ---- 01 SARAH Heidi Happy
32 40 02 IN THE DARK Dev
33 31 03 LOVE KILLS Robyn
34 20 08 YOU AND I Lady GaGa
35 34 12 SYNRISE Goose
36 ---- 01 DR WANNA DO Caro Emerald
37 15 02 YOU AND YOUR SISTER Mayken Hoessen [Fastest Faller] ##
38 22 08 PLAGE Crystal Fighters
39 37 14 THE NIGHT BEFORE Hooverphonic [Longest Laster]
40 39 13 ANGER NEVER DIES Hooverphonic
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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01 [ 00 ] YOU AND ME Joan Franka [Chartbuster] ##
02 [ 02 ] FRIDAY Rebecca Black
03 [ 03 ] GIVE ME EVERYTHING Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer
04 [ 04 ] PUMPED UP KICKS Foster the People
05 [ 05 ] ONE TWO THREE Hooverphonic
06 [ 06 ] YODEL IN THE CANYON OF LOVE Do Re Mi featuring Kerry
07 [ 07 ] WE FOUND LOVE Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
08 [ 08 ] WORDS Goose
09 [ 09 ] WHAT A FEELING Alex Gaudino featuring Kelly Rowland
10 [ 10 ] EVERY TEARDROP IS A WATERFALL Coldplay
11 [ 11 ] PAPI Jennifer Lopez
12 [ 12 ] JE VEUX Zaz
13 [ 13 ] LOVE YOU LIKE A LOVE SONG Selena Gomez and the Scene
14 [ 14 ] SHAKE Little Boots
15 [ 15 ] ROCK WITH YOU Bob Sinclar featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor
16 [ 16 ] LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS Moby
17 [ 19 ] COLOURS Emma Hewitt
18 [ 18 ] GONNA GET OVER YOU Sara Bareilles
19 [ 23 ] EYES WIDE OPEN Gotye
20 [ 21 ] BOUNCE Calvin Harris featuring Kelis
21 [ 24 ] LIED VON DEN VERGESSENEN Rosenstolz
22 [ 30 ] CHARLIE BROWN Coldplay
23 [ 00 ] WE ARE YOUNG Fun featuring Janelle Monae
24 [ 27 ] BLOOD, TEARS AND GOLD Hurts
25 [ 00 ] GIRL GONE WILD Madonna
26 [ 38 ] NEXT TO ME Emeli Sande
27 [ 31 ] RAPTURE Nadia Ali
28 [ 00 ] DU UND ICH Colina
29 [ 29 ] ALL AT ONCE Whitney Houston
30 [ 34 ] TIME Chase and Status featuring Delilah
31 [ 35 ] HIMMEL AUF Silbermond
32 [ 32 ] DIDN'T WE ALMOST HAVE IT ALL Whitney Houston
33 [ 33 ] ONE MOMENT IN TIME Whitney Houston
34 [ 39 ] FEEL SO CLOSE Calvin Harris
35 [ 00 ] THE BIT THAT I DON'T GET Katie Melua
36 [ 36 ] DANCE AGAIN Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull
37 [ 00 ] RESURRECTION Michael Calfan
38 [ 00 ] DRIVE BY Train
39 [ 00 ] I FOLLOW RIVERS Triggerfinger
40 [ 40 ] DAYDREAM BELIEVER Monkees
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Number one fifteen years ago: OFFSHORE Chicane
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Number one thirty years ago: A BUNCH OF THYME Foster and Allen
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This is a month of very little change at the top end of my top forty - there are nine non-movers this time, all of them in the top twelve, and that means a second month on top for Wiegel, Meirmans and Snitker with “Nova Zembla”. They’re the first act to manage that since Goose last August - and “Synrise” is still around after a full year in the chart, down one place to 35. But among fifteen other fallers are two extended stayers by another Belgian act, Hooverphonic. Their former number one “Anger Never Dies” is down one place to number 40 in its thirteenth month, while just above it is “The Night Before”, making its fourteenth appearance and now becoming the longest laster. The fastest faller is a much more recent arrival - a new entry last time at 15, former Chartbuster “You And Your Sister” dives twenty-two places to 37 for Mayken Hoessen, a participant from the recent Belgian edition of the singing contest “The Voice”. A variation of this programme, but apparently with a more significant emphasis on contestants’ ability to shout, has since reached the UK!
Last month’s Chartbuster, by the beautiful singer and filthy joke-teller Katie Melua, is the second strongest of six new entries.“Better Than A Dream” debuts at number 22 - but five places higher is the first hit for Flo Rida and the second for Sia, “Wild Ones”. It’s one place above her first success, the former number one “Titanium”. However, Caro Emerald can go one better - not for the first time, three tracks from her album “Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor” are in my top forty simultaneously. Joining “The Other Woman” are two new entries - “You Don’t Love Me” and “Dr Wanna Do”, at 28 and 36 respectively. Almost half way between them, Switzerland are now represented with the first appearance of Heidi Happy, and “Sarah” at 31. Although the other newcomer this month, “Blesssed”, might also look like a chart debut, Tom Hangs and Shermanology is yet another alias of Tim Bergling, still in my top forty as Avicii with the former number one “Penguin” plus its two vocal variants, and racing up fifteen places to number 13 with “Levels”. That’s the Rapid Riser this time, narrowly beating one of eight other climbers - Madonna’s “Give Me All Your Luvin’”, up fourteen notches at 21.
Although she has been having hits for many years now - indeed, since the second half of the 1980s - the last time Madonna had the Chartbuster was almost a decade ago, in arguably my strangest top forty breakers ever. As no downward movement is permitted there, and the top slot is always reserved for the highest newcomer inside the top 100, there can be occasions in which it can’t accurately reflect tracks moving upwards at speed, because all the positions above them are already taken by (slower) climbers. So, when “Love Profusion” was one of only two new breakers, it was at number one and the other was at number forty, surrounding thirty-eight non-movers! Something similar has happened at the top end of the breakers this month - Emma Hewitt’s “Colours” can’t be listed any higher than number 17, even though it is closer to the top forty than any of the top sixteen potential hits - all still moving upwards at varying speeds, but mainly at a snail’s pace. So that probably stands a very good chance of entering my top forty next month, along with the nine brand new breakers. Those include yet another new Madonna track - “Girl Gone Wild”, the second single from her latest album, “MDNA” - and a second track from Katie Melua’s new album “Secret Symphony”, “The Bit That I Don’t Get”. That could soon join the first in my top forty - while Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull may go on to repeat their success of last year with “Dance Again”.
The other six new breakers are all by acts still looking for a first hit - and only Train have previously impressed me (just slightly!) with “Hey, Soul Sister”. “Drive By” is their latest single. Meanwhile, Triggerfinger have recorded a cover version of the Lykke Li hit “I Follow Rivers” which has proved about equally massively popular in some territories, and which could also be on the way to my top forty - along with new dance tracks from Michael Calfan and Colina. Fun featuring Janelle Monae have already topped the US charts for six weeks with “We Are Young”, and are well on the way towards conquering other parts of the world too - they have the second most impressive new breaker of the month. But the guaranteed new entry in June’s top forty is far from a guaranteed success at the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. Standing out as only a slight jewel in a sludge of mediocrity (at least based on my first couple of listens to all of this year’s several dozen entries), is a submission whose visual realisation could barely be more at odds with the way it sounds - and I do wish that it was performed by a better singer, or at least one who didn’t seem either to be trying to imitate the vocal style of former winner Lena Meyer-Landrut, or to be enunciating as if her mouth was permanently at least half-full of sand. However, it’s from a country (and certainly not the first) whose contenders were drawn only from a pool of reality-show participants - and it’s still the best offering this time. So, representing the Netherlands, my Record of the Month for May 2012 is Joan Franka, with “You And Me”.
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