Love Alone is not enough at the Top

Little action affects the top spot this week as Beyoncé and Shakira rack up a third week on top. Just below them, the Manic Street Preachers bullet 26-2 with ‘Your Love Alone Is Not Enough’, their first top ten in ions and the single predicted to take them to the top. A mere 5000 copies separate them from ‘Beautiful Liar’ but for this week, anyway they’ll have to settle for a respectable number 2.

Gym Class Heroes move into the number 3 position with ‘Cupid's Chokehold’ and the rest of the top ten reads much like last week until we get to the lower portion. Groove Armada Ft Stush plough into the top ten at 9 with ‘Get Down’ the song they debuted with last week at 32. This placing gives them their biggest hit ever despite being around since 1999 when they debuted with 'If Everybody Looked The Same' from the soundtrack to Madonna’s film “The Next Best Thing’.

Right behind them at 10, Hellogoodbye attack the entire chart with ‘Here (in Your Arms)’. From California, this band vocodes, bleeps and spins enough sunshine to overpower any other hit on the chart. This single sounds like nothing else on the entire 75 single chart. A cross between Daft Punk and Cher, and Sonny and Cher splitting a coke, this track bubbles with enough fun to claim summer anthem status a whole month and a half before beach season arrives.

While long considered a possible one hit wonder, Amerie climbs 28 – 13 with ‘Take Control’ a guitar strumming romp through super powerful woman land. She belts out her vocal with enough attitude to make you soon forget that this song is about absolutely nothing. A sure-fire top ten in a week.

New at 18, Dada Ft Sandy Rivera & Trix sweeten up the top 20 with ‘Lollipop’. Dada first charted with Deepest Blue a few years back but now along with club track singer Sandy the trio have their first dance chart cross over hit. While not necessarily a subtle single about enjoying the desserts of a lover, the beat infects and makes a great kick off to the summer club scene.

New at 37, crooner Michael Bublé flies the maple leaf along with fellow Canadians, Avril Lavigne (5) and Nelly Furtado (4 - Give It To Me and 27 - Say It Right) with his new single ‘Everything’. Not to be confused with the single of the same name that Alanis Morrissette charted with in 2004, this original recording is surprisingly only Bublé’s second. ‘Home’ his first hit charted in 2005 peaked at 31 but became such a huge hit on radio, stayed around for what seemed forever.

Snow Patrol return to the chart this week with ‘Signal Fire’ from the Spiderman 3 Soundtrack at number 50. Meanwhile eternal flame ‘Chasing Cars” moves up two to number 45 this week.

New at 56, Right Said Fred comeback to the chart with ‘I'm too Sexy 2007’ as if it wasn’t all bad enough. Could those two shirtless Maawdolls have what it takes to shake it at the top 15 years later or is the modern listening public to sexy for this song?

The last new noteworthy track bumps in barely at 74. DJ extraordinaire, Armand Van Helden returns with ‘NYC Beat’. Another summer potential.