Bleedin' lucky: Leona Lewis tastes stateside success
Former X Factor winner and recent number one artist on these shores Leona Lewis has become the first UK artist since 1987 to top the US Billboard Top 100»
Former X Factor winner and recent number one artist on these shores Leona Lewis has become the first UK artist since 1987 to top the US Billboard Top 100»
When Leona Lewis does key changes, she is faintly discernible in alternate universes and cats have been known to go completely mad and shave off their own body hair. 'Better In Time', in at number 38 this week, has no key change and is therefore worthless.»
The Ghost of Christmas Past haunts the charts this week, with classics of yesteryear from Mariah Carey, The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, Wham! and Wizzard all reminding you of happier times and, by implication, what terrible people you’ve all become.»
It’s gone eerily quiet in the singles chart this week; it is, we fear, the calm before the almighty shit-storm that is the rush for Christmas number one.»
This week's charts remind me of a cigarette butt dancing at the bottom of an escalator; I look upon it, and am filled with a sense of the futility of all existence, but, you know, it's poetic and that.»
Leona Lewis might be sitting pretty at number one for another week, but we're most interested to see Whitney Houston laying off the everything long enough to see a best-of collection rise to the album chart's top end»
You’re probably not old enough to remember it now, but there was a time when indie didn’t rule the world with an iron fist, and those times looked a lot like this week’s singles chart»