It's the beginning of another new month.....
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CZB'S TOP FORTY ------------------- Month 394 ------------------- JUNE 2012
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01 ---- 01 WE ARE YOUNG Fun featuring Janelle Monae [Highest New Entry]
02 22 02 BETTER THAN A DREAM Katie Melua [Rapid Riser] ##
03 01 03 NOVA ZEMBLA Wiegel Meirmans Snitker
04 13 03 LEVELS Avicii
05 04 06 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye featuring Kimbra
06 02 05 EPIC Sandro Silva and Quintino ##
07 05 05 THE WORLD IS GONNA END TONIGHT School Is Cool
08 24 02 BLESSED Tom Hangs and Shermanology
09 17 02 WILD ONES Flo Rida featuring Sia
10 28 02 YOU DON'T LOVE ME Caro Emerald
11 06 05 HEARTBROKEN Hooverphonic
12 11 06 BEFORE Barbara Dex ##
13 03 06 BLUE JEANS Lana Del Rey
14 08 07 VIDEO GAMES Lana Del Rey ##
15 ---- 01 YOU AND ME Joan Franka ##
16 09 07 I FOLLOW RIVERS Lykke Li
17 21 03 GIVE ME ALL YOUR LUVIN' Madonna featuring M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj
18 07 04 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey ##
19 10 07 AGAIN AND AGAIN Basto!
20 26 03 YOUTOPIA Armin Van Buuren featuring Adam Young
21 31 02 SARAH Heidi Happy
22 14 07 LOVE LOVE Amy MacDonald
23 32 03 IN THE DARK Dev
24 12 06 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry
25 ---- 01 GIRL GONE WILD Madonna
26 36 02 DR WANNA DO Caro Emerald
27 15 05 PARADISE Coldplay
28 20 08 WITHOUT YOU David Guetta featuring Usher
29 16 05 MARRY THE NIGHT Lady GaGa
30 18 09 TITANIUM David Guetta featuring Sia
31 ---- 01 COLOURS Emma Hewitt
32 27 10 COLLIDE / FADE INTO DARKNESS / PENGUIN Avicii [Longest Laster] ##
33 19 07 JUST SO Agnes Obel [Fastest Faller]
34 23 04 GABRIEL Joe Goddard featuring Valentina
35 ---- 01 ROCK WITH YOU Bob Sinclar featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor
36 25 04 BIG IN JAPAN Martin Solveig and Dragonette
37 30 08 CINEMA Benny Benassi featuring Gary Go
38 ---- 01 DANCE AGAIN Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull
39 37 03 YOU AND YOUR SISTER Mayken Hoessen ##
40 ---- 01 I FOLLOW RIVERS Triggerfinger
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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01 [ 00 ] PRIMADONNA Marina and the Diamonds [Chartbuster] ##
02 [ 04 ] PUMPED UP KICKS Foster the People
03 [ 05 ] ONE TWO THREE Hooverphonic
04 [ 00 ] JULIET Robin Gibb
05 [ 06 ] YODEL IN THE CANYON OF LOVE Do Re Mi featuring Kerry
06 [ 07 ] WE FOUND LOVE Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
07 [ 11 ] PAPI Jennifer Lopez
08 [ 13 ] LOVE YOU LIKE A LOVE SONG Selena Gomez and the Scene
09 [ 28 ] DU UND ICH Colina
10 [ 12 ] JE VEUX Zaz
11 [ 14 ] SHAKE Little Boots
12 [ 19 ] EYES WIDE OPEN Gotye
13 [ 16 ] LIE DOWN IN DARKNESS Moby
14 [ 00 ] DEFAULT Django Django
15 [ 20 ] BOUNCE Calvin Harris featuring Kelis
16 [ 18 ] GONNA GET OVER YOU Sara Bareilles
17 [ 22 ] CHARLIE BROWN Coldplay
18 [ 35 ] THE BIT THAT I DON'T GET Katie Melua
19 [ 21 ] LIED VON DEN VERGESSENEN Rosenstolz
20 [ 26 ] NEXT TO ME Emeli Sande
21 [ 37 ] RESURRECTION Michael Calfan
22 [ 24 ] BLOOD, TEARS AND GOLD Hurts
23 [ 00 ] DON'T LEAVE ME (NE ME QUITTEZ PAS) Regina Spektor
24 [ 27 ] RAPTURE Nadia Ali
25 [ 34 ] FEEL SO CLOSE Calvin Harris
26 [ 29 ] ALL AT ONCE Whitney Houston
27 [ 00 ] INSPECTOR NORSE Todd Terje
28 [ 30 ] TIME Chase and Status featuring Delilah
29 [ 38 ] DRIVE BY Train
30 [ 31 ] HIMMEL AUF Silbermond
31 [ 00 ] LIVE MY LIFE Far East Movement featuring Justin Bieber
32 [ 00 ] CALL ME MAYBE Carly Rae Jepsen
33 [ 00 ] SOLDIERS OF LOVE 2012 Liliane Saint-Pierre
34 [ 00 ] HEY, SOUL SISTER Train
35 [ 00 ] IS ANYBODY OUT THERE K'Naan featuring Nelly Furtado
36 [ 00 ] CALLING Sebastian Ingrosso and Alesso featuring Ryan Tedder
37 [ 00 ] I FEEL LOVE Donna Summer
38 [ 00 ] THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL Donna Summer
39 [ 00 ] I DON'T WANNA GET HURT Donna Summer
40 [ 00 ] I WILL GO WITH YOU (CON TE PARTIRO) Donna Summer
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Number one eight years ago: SILENCE Gigi D'Agostino
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Number one sixteen years ago: FAIRYTALES 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor
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Number one thirty-two years ago:
DO YOU WANT YOUR OLD LOBBY WASHED DOWN Brendan Shine
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My top ten remained very static in May - but it changes considerably in June, with six of last month’s top tracks no longer there. And the other four are also among a total of twenty-three fallers - including Wiegel, Meirmans and Snitker, who topple from the top to number three with “Nova Zembla”. Replacing them, with a 107-place climb to become the highest of seven new entries and my 194th number one is the song that also reached number one in the UK just this week, after already being a number one in the USA and elsewhere - “We Are Young”, by Fun featuring Janelle Monae. Congratulations to them - but can that stay at the top for a second month? Not many hits have managed this recently - and, indeed, there are currently seven former number ones dropping down the top forty. They include Agnes Obel with “Just So” - the fastest faller this time, taking a fourteen-place dive to number 33 - and “Collide” / “Fade Into Darkness” / “Penguin”, one place above her at 32 for Tim Bergling. However, he has now reached the top ten with all four of his hits to date - as “Blessed” (credited to “Tom Hangs and Shermanology”) races up sixteen places to number eight, and “Levels” (credited to “Avicii”) climbs from 13 to number four. Caro Emerald also has two big movers this time - her latest single “Dr Wanna Do” is up ten places at 26, while “You Don’t Love Me” becomes the fourth top ten hit from the same album, zooming up eighteen places to number 10. Six other climbers include a second top ten hit for Sia with “Wild Ones“, as her collaboration with Flo Rida advances eight places to number nine - but this month’s Rapid Riser is a former Chartbuster. Although it has not enjoyed the singles chart success of any of its predecessors, “Better Than A Dream” now gives Katie Melua her highest ever placing on my chart - last month’s number 22 is this month’s number two!
Most of this month’s new entries are in the bottom half of my top forty - including yet another success for Madonna. “Girl Gone Wild” has performed extremely poorly in the UK chart and elsewhere, but it debuts at number 25 in my chart. Six places lower is the third hit for Emma Hewitt - having previously reached number one and number two respectively with “Waiting” and “Disarm Yourself”, both with Dash Berlin, her solo single “Colours” is in at 31. Sophie Ellis-Bextor has also previously had a number one and a number two success in my top forty - with “Heartbreak (Make Me A Dancer)” and “Bittersweet” - followed by a number five, “Not Giving Up On Love”. Her fourth success, and the fifth for Bob Sinclar, is.....er, “Rock with You”, at 35 - three spots ahead of “Dance Again”, the fifth hit for Jennifer Lopez, and her second with Pitbull. That leaves only two acts arriving in my top forty for the first time ever - Triggerfinger just manage to sneak in at 40 with their version of the Lykke Li hit “I Follow Rivers”, while Joan Franka had a very disappointing result at this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, failing by a long way to reach the final with “You And Me”. But that former Chartbuster is the second highest new entry, crashing in at number 15. No other submission from the 2012 contest has reached the breakers - yet - but a former contestant is back there with a recent reworking of her entry from twenty-five years ago - Liliane Saint-Pierre and “Soldiers Of Love”. A former breaker from Train, “Hey, Soul Sister”, has also returned, following its recent reappearance in the UK charts - and no less than five former top forty hits are listed again, after the deaths this month of their performers. Donna Summer, who passed away aged 63, had four successes in my chart, all of which are back - “I Will Go With You”, “I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt”, “This Time I Know It’s For Real” and “I Feel Love”. And Robin Gibb, who was taken at the age of 62, had only one as a solo artist - “Juliet”, which inexplicably failed to chart in the UK, despite being a major hit elsewhere. Returning to an extremely high position in the breakers, this seems very likely to re-enter my top forty next month.
The frustrating decline in availability of physical product - vinyl singles, CD singles and even CD albums or compilations - continues to mean that some new releases that might otherwise have been there have to be denied places in my top forty breakers. However, there are still eight new potential future hits this month.- and most of those are by acts who have never impressed me before! Sebastian Ingrosso and Alesso featuring Ryan Tedder look likely to enter the UK chart this week with “Calling (Lose My Mind)” while Carly Rae Jepsen and Far East Movement featuring Justin Bieber are both already there with “Call Me Maybe” and “Live My Life” respectively. Todd Terje is from Norway, and could be on the way to my top forty with “Inspector Norse” - while the second most impressive new breaker this time is for an Edinburgh quartet, Django Django. “Default” has not charted in their homeland yet, but is doing better in other countries. The other three new breakers involve artists who previously reached my top forty with recordings made between 2005 and 2009. From Canada, Nelly Furtado peaked at number five with “All Good Things (Come To An End)”, and could double her tally of hits with her collaboration with K’Naan, “Is Anybody Out There”. Moscow-born Regina Spektor reached number ten with “On The Radio“ and number 11 with “Samson” - she could now have her third hit with “Don’t Leave Me (Ne Me Quittez Pas)”. However, a track that is currently spending a third week at number three in Ireland is now guaranteed a place in my July 2012 top forty. It‘s the first Chartbuster, and will become the third hit, for a 26-year old New Wave / indie-pop singer-songwriter and poet from Wales. Her two previous top ten entries in my chart currently stand side by side in my all-time top thousand, at 909 and 910 - “I Am Not A Robot” and “Hollywood”, which peaked at number six and number seven respectively. Both, however, missed the top ten in the UK - as did her current hit! My Record of the Month for June 2012 is Marina and the Diamonds - “Primadonna”.
