Articles tagged with: charts
It's good to end your year better than you started it - Britney Spears has, but only because she was cheating. Britney Spears' 2008 is ending with her new album Circus at number one in America - and she's also the first ever SoundScan artist to have four albums sell 500,000 week-one copies. So well done - Britney Spears' year has ended better than it started. But then again she did start it in a mental hospital - Britney could have caught Ebola off a rabid zombie meerkat while falling down a lift shaft and the year would have still been an upswing for her.
There are all kinds of ways to tell if your comeback has been successful, but Britney Spears has easily just found the best one. Britney's big new comeback single Womanizer has jumped 95 places in the American singles chart to reach number one. And you know what they say - when a song that sounds like Professor Stephen Hawking's faulty voicebox being jumpstarted by a big spluttering clown-car engine gets to number one, you've probably been accepted by the general population to some extent. And now that Womanizer's number one position is the cherry on Britney Spears' public rehabilitation cake, it's time for her to celebrate. How? The same way she always does - by shaving her head, mashing anti-psychotic drugs into her food and trapping her own children in a bathroom until she's sedated and taken to a mental hospital. Hooray!
The UK is a bad place to be living at the moment. Everything is going wrong from the government losing all the country's information, dodgy political donations and Morrissey getting caught up in a scrap about immigration.
At times of crisis hecklerspray turns to music, but this time we can't. We can’t get away from the X Factor at all. It’s splashed across our TV screens and advertised during ITV’s endless repeats of Midsomer Murders. Amazingly, last year's X Factor winner Leona Lewis hasn’t faded into oblivion yet. In fact, she’s been plonked on top of the charts for six weeks now, with a song that we think is about about periods. Not only is Bleeding Love the best-selling single of the year, her album is also number one. Time to celebrate? No, we’d rather just crack Simon Cowell one for brainwashing ten-year-olds everywhere into buying songs about irrational female moodswings.
