A day earlier than usual, as I'll be busy doing the UKmixParade at this time tomorrow night.....
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CZB'S TOP FORTY ------------------- Month 395 -------------------- JULY 2012
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01 02 03 BETTER THAN A DREAM Katie Melua ##
02 01 02 WE ARE YOUNG Fun featuring Janelle Monae
03 04 04 LEVELS Avicii
04 03 04 NOVA ZEMBLA Wiegel Meirmans Snitker
05 08 03 BLESSED Tom Hangs and Shermanology
06 09 03 WILD ONES Flo Rida featuring Sia
07 10 03 YOU DON'T LOVE ME Caro Emerald
08 ---- 01 DEFAULT Django Django [Highest New Entry]
09 05 07 SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW Gotye featuring Kimbra
10 16 08 I FOLLOW RIVERS Lykke Li
11 06 06 EPIC Sandro Silva and Quintino ##
12 07 06 THE WORLD IS GONNA END TONIGHT School Is Cool
13 15 02 YOU AND ME Joan Franka ##
14 21 03 SARAH Heidi Happy
15 ---- 01 PRIMADONNA Marina and the Diamonds ##
16 12 07 BEFORE Barbara Dex ##
17 25 02 GIRL GONE WILD Madonna
18 35 02 ROCK WITH YOU Bob Sinclar featuring Sophie Ellis-Bextor [Rapid Riser]
19 17 04 GIVE ME ALL YOUR LUVIN' Madonna featuring M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj
20 31 02 COLOURS Emma Hewitt
21 14 08 VIDEO GAMES Lana Del Rey ##
22 26 03 DR WANNA DO Caro Emerald
23 11 06 HEARTBROKEN Hooverphonic
24 13 07 BLUE JEANS Lana Del Rey
25 20 04 YOUTOPIA Armin Van Buuren featuring Adam Young
26 23 04 IN THE DARK Dev
27 Re 09 JULIET Robin Gibb
28 19 08 AGAIN AND AGAIN Basto!
29 38 02 DANCE AGAIN Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull
30 28 09 WITHOUT YOU David Guetta featuring Usher
31 ---- 01 THE BIT THAT I DON'T GET Katie Melua
32 22 08 LOVE LOVE Amy MacDonald
33 18 05 BORN TO DIE Lana Del Rey [Fastest Faller] ##
34 24 07 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY Katy Perry
35 ---- 01 DON'T LEAVE ME (NE ME QUITTEZ PAS) Regina Spektor
36 30 10 TITANIUM David Guetta featuring Sia [Longest Laster]
37 27 06 PARADISE Coldplay
38 40 02 I FOLLOW RIVERS Triggerfinger
39 29 06 MARRY THE NIGHT Lady GaGa
40 39 04 YOU AND YOUR SISTER Mayken Hoessen ##
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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01 [ 00 ] DA BOP - W T F ! [Chartbuster] ##
02 [ 02 ] PUMPED UP KICKS Foster the People
03 [ 09 ] DU UND ICH Colina
04 [ 06 ] WE FOUND LOVE Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris
05 [ 08 ] LOVE YOU LIKE A LOVE SONG Selena Gomez and the Scene
06 [ 21 ] RESURRECTION Michael Calfan
07 [ 27 ] INSPECTOR NORSE Todd Terje
08 [ 31 ] LIVE MY LIFE Far East Movement featuring Justin Bieber
09 [ 10 ] JE VEUX Zaz
10 [ 11 ] SHAKE Little Boots
11 [ 12 ] EYES WIDE OPEN Gotye
12 [ 15 ] BOUNCE Calvin Harris featuring Kelis
13 [ 16 ] GONNA GET OVER YOU Sara Bareilles
14 [ 17 ] CHARLIE BROWN Coldplay
15 [ 35 ] IS ANYBODY OUT THERE K'Naan featuring Nelly Furtado
16 [ 25 ] FEEL SO CLOSE Calvin Harris
17 [ 20 ] NEXT TO ME Emeli Sande
18 [ 19 ] LIED VON DEN VERGESSENEN Rosenstolz
19 [ 22 ] BLOOD, TEARS AND GOLD Hurts
20 [ 28 ] TIME Chase and Status featuring Delilah
21 [ 00 ] GIVE AND TAKE Netsky
22 [ 29 ] DRIVE BY Train
23 [ 00 ] ONLY THE HORSES Scissor Sisters
24 [ 26 ] ALL AT ONCE Whitney Houston
25 [ 32 ] CALL ME MAYBE Carly Rae Jepsen
26 [ 30 ] HIMMEL AUF Silbermond
27 [ 00 ] SOME NIGHTS Fun
28 [ 33 ] SOLDIERS OF LOVE 2012 Liliane Saint-Pierre
29 [ 00 ] INFINITY 2012 Guru Josh
30 [ 37 ] I FEEL LOVE Donna Summer
31 [ 34 ] HEY, SOUL SISTER Train
32 [ 00 ] THE NIGHT OUT Martin Solveig
33 [ 36 ] CALLING Sebastian Ingrosso and Alesso featuring Ryan Tedder
34 [ 38 ] THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL Donna Summer
35 [ 00 ] SILHOUETTES Avicii
36 [ 39 ] I DON'T WANNA GET HURT Donna Summer
37 [ 00 ] TIMEBOMB Kylie Minogue
38 [ 40 ] I WILL GO WITH YOU (CON TE PARTIRO) Donna Summer
39 [ 00 ] SLOW IT DOWN Amy MacDonald
40 [ 00 ] NEED YOU NOW Lady Antebellum
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Number one eleven years ago: DREAM TO ME Dario G
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Number one twenty-two years ago: HIJO DE LA LUNA Mecano
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Number one thirty-three years ago: ONE DAY AT A TIME Gloria
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The seventh chart of 2012 has the sixth new number one so far this year, and the 195th in total. It’s the first for the 27-year-old Georgia-born Katie Melua, as the former Chartbuster “Better Than A Dream” switches positions with "We Are Young" and climbs one place to the top. Her first appearance in my top forty, with “The Closest Thing To Crazy”, was exactly one hundred months ago - but there have been several other acts that have taken longer to achieve their first number one. Top of that list are BZN, who originally had several hits in the first half of the 1980s, but didn’t get to number one until June 2007 with their final single “Goodbye” - and in second place is the late Malcolm McLaren, who topped my chart with “House Of The Blue Danube” more than fourteen years after his debut with “Buffalo Gals”. One of his other hits re-entered my top forty following his death - and the same is now true of Robin Gibb. The recently-deceased former Bee Gee originally peaked at number 19 with “Juliet” - which returns at number 27 this month, only the fifth re-entry this century.
The highest of four new entries this time is a debut hit for a Scottish neo-psychedelic art-rock band, consisting of David Maclean, Vincent Neff, Jimmy Dixon and Tommy Grace - “Default” crashes straight in at number eight for Django Django. From Wales, seven places lower, it's the third hit for Marina and the Diamonds - “Primadonna”, which has now spent nine weeks inside the top ten in Ireland, despite getting no higher than number 11 in the UK. Not many Russian-born artists have ever featured in my chart - but Regina Spektor now makes a third appearance, with “Don’t Leave Me (Ne Me Quittez Pas)” at 35. And Katie Melua’s tenth breaker becomes her tenth hit - a success rate that very few others have beaten - as the album track “The Bit That I Don’t Get” arrives at 31, while almost everything else at the bottom end of the top forty is moving downwards. A total of twenty-one tracks sliding include the fastest faller and former Chartbuster “Born To Die”, diving fifteen places to 33 for Lana Del Rey, and the longest laster “Titanium”, the former number one from David Guetta featuring Sia, down six at 36. But Sia is also among fourteen climbers this month, as her collaboration with Flo Rida advances a further three places to number six - and July’s Rapid Riser is also a joint effort. Bob Sinclar and Sophie Ellis-Bextor race up seventeen places to number 18 with, er.....“Rock With You”.
Following their recent returns to the charts of the UK and continental Europe respectively, Lady Antebellum and Guru Josh reappear in the top forty breakers with “Need You Now” and “Infinity” - and there are eight brand new potential future hits. Six of the artists involved have impressed me before - some of them many times over! Amy MacDonald has had six hits out of eight breakers - the biggest being “Mr Rock And Roll”, which peaked at number six - and “Slow It Down” could be the next. Three of Kylie Minogue’s ten top ten successes peaked at number four - and “Timebomb” might soon be on the way there. The Scissor Sisters have a new breaker with “Only The Horses” - and were unlucky not to reach number one in my chart with “I Don’t Feel Like Dancing”, which spent five months as runner-up to the animated dancing donkey Holly Dolly. But no such obstacles got in the way of Avicii, Martin Solveig and Fun with “Penguin“, “Hello” and “We Are Young” - and their latest bids to double their tally of number ones are with “Silhouettes”, “The Night Out” and “Some Nights”. Meanwhile, the two strongest new breakers are somewhat light on lyrics. Netsky - Belgian drum and bass producer Boris Daenan - could make a chart debut with “Give And Take”, a recent single from newly-released album “Netsky 2”. However, guaranteed a place there in August is a track that samples something called “Nash Sosed” by the now 74-year-old Russian singer and actress Edita Piekha, and has already reached the top three in the Netherlands. It’s now beginning to spread towards the charts of other countries in continental Europe, and (I know I’ve said this about other tracks before, and have probably been wrong more often than not!) perhaps it may even reach the UK at some point? It actually seems to be, under a somewhat less elegant name, the British dance producers who had hits as Ultrabeat - including “Feelin’ Fine”, which went to number 14 in my top forty - and they could well be about to improve on that with this new Chartbuster. My Record of the Month for July 2012 is “Da Bop”, by W T F !
