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Charts – 5 June 2011

Posted on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 by Paul in Music

Don’t get too comfortable, there’s nothing much to say.  The charts really don’t get much less eventful than this.

Number 1 for a third week is “Give Me Everything” by Pitbull featuring Ne-Yo, Afrojack and Nayer.  It looks like it won’t manage a fourth.  Still, three weeks at the top is much longer than I’d have expected for this single, and for some reason that remains unfathomable to me, it’s one of the bigger hits of the year.

There are only two new entries this week, neither of them especially memorable.

First up, at number 6, is “What A Feeling” by Alex Gaudino featuring Kelly Rowland.  It’s a perfectly acceptable mid-tempo dance record and it’s dropping sharply on the midweeks.  Alex Gaudino is an Italian DJ and I can only imagine that he thinks he looks good in this video.  He might want to reconsider that.

This is his fourth hit since 2007 – he’s not what you’d call a regular presence on the chart, but he does knock out a moderately successful record every year or so.  His biggest hit remains his debut “Destination Calabria”, which made number 4 in Britain, was a hit around Europe, and for some strange reason was a mainstay on the video channels for years. The video is a particularly blatant example of that period when dance videos were Really Not Subtle At All.

It’s actually a mash-up of the vocals from Gaudino’s own “Destination Unknown” (performed by Crystal Waters) with the backing track from “Calabria” by Rune.  Well, more accurately, the same sax sample that they looped for their entire track.

Kelly Rowland, the one from Destiny’s Child who isn’t Beyonce but who you can still name, gets her twelfth solo hit (counting collaborations).  Since she’s going to be a judge on the next series of X Factor, I can only assume she has plenty more product in the pipeline for the autumn.

This week’s other new entry is “Don’t Stop The Party” by the Black Eyed Peas, down at number 30.  The midweeks have it climbing to 19, so I guess it’s going to be around for a while.  It’s a typical Black Eyes Peas single, notable (if at all) for its six-minute-plus epic video of tour footage.  It’s not entirely irritating.  It’s just kind of there.  According to Wikipedia, the Daily Mirror described it as “operatically ambitious”, which suggests that their reviewer may not understand the difference between “operatic” and “too long”.

And that’s pretty much it for this week.  As usual on a quiet week, there are loads of climbers.  The most notable are “California King Bed” by Rihanna (number 8) and “Super Bass” by Nicki Minaj (number 22), but there are also loads going of songs going up two or three places, and a few songs that have been around forever rebounding after being used on Britain’s Got Talent – that includes “Fast Car” by Tracey Chapman (number 28) which looks to be climbing further next week.

Bring on the comments

  1. AJ says:

    I love how Rihanna’s latest chart placing got converted into an emoticon by the upload form. I kind of wish that was an actual chart position.

  2. kingderella says:

    ‘what a feeling’ is an utterly generic track by two utterly generic people, but i dig all the male dancers in the video. there should be more choreography, everywhere, always.

    i find it funny that you point out how the dj looks. i think he just looks like most dance producers in their videos, which is to say kinda douchy, but not remarkably so.

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