The UK music charts may mean less now than they used to but they’re still an indicator of what’s hot on the popular British music scene right now. This week’s Top 10 singles and Top 10 albums are listed below.

Helping Haiti with the charity version of R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts has unsurprisingly entered straight in at number one on the singles chart, knocking Owl City to number two in the process. And surely no one can bemoan this, with all the money raised going to help the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Brilliantly. Jedward’s debut single, Ice Ice Baby, fell out …read more

I was a huge fan of Kate Nash’s first album, Made Of Bricks, and have been eagerly awaiting her second album ever since. Thankfully, the wait is almost over. Nash has revealed the tracklisting and release date of the as-yet-untitled LP and even thrown in a free download.

Although the album hasn’t yet got a name, it will be released on April 19, almost a full two years after the release of her debut. I guess that’s what having a celebrity boyfriend (Ryan Jarman from The Cribs) does to you and your sense of timing.
The tracklisting, according to NME, is:
‘You’ll Never …read more

The Kaiser Chiefs have done little for nearly a year, apart from a few festival appearances. But they’re now back, working together on new material which will inevitably form the basis for a new album. Just don’t rush them, OK.

It was last March that the Kaiser Chiefs decided they were taking a break from writing, recording, and playing music. The rumor at the time was that Ricky Wilson was eager to forge a career in television, although that seems to have erroneous.
However, there was probably some truth to the fact that the band wanted to go on musical hiatus after …read more

The UK music charts may mean less now than they used to but they’re still an indicator of what’s hot on the popular British music scene right now. This week’s Top 10 singles and Top 10 albums are listed below.

This week’s singles chart has seen Owl City hold off the challenge of Jedward – that awful twin beast of baloney from The X Factor – for the number one spot. The fact that Jedward can’t even make number one with help from Vanilla Ice doesn’t bode well for their future career. Timbaland and Katy Perry jumped 14 places to number …read more

Things have been a little quiet on the Amy Winehouse front of late. Sure, she’s still getting drunk and making a fool of herself regularly, and there’s the whole on/off relationship mess with Blake Fielder-Civil, but she’s out of the limelight in terms of music. Mainly because she hasn’t released anything for over three years now.

Back To Black was released in October 2006 and did fantastically well. It turned Winehouse into a huge star around the world, but also led to the party lifestyle which has left her skinny and scarred.
Winehouse has been working on her new album for well …read more

The Who are absolute legends. Without them there wouldn’t have been half the rock bands there has been over the past three decades. They started trends and they created classic albums, one of which is Quadrophenia, which the band are set to play in full at a forthcoming gig.

Quadrophenia is a quality film and an even better album. And The Who are preparing to play it in full for their Royal Albert Hall gig on March 30 in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust.

As someone who covers the U.K. music charts every Sunday, I’m intrigued to hear that the midweek placings are to be revealed to the public for the first time from later this year. They’ve always been available to the music industry, but now the public will get to hear them too.

There’s no doubt the music charts mean less now than they used to. The way we consume and listen to music has changed, with file-sharing and streaming services muddying the waters considerably. But the charts are still the best indication of what’s popular.

The UK music charts may mean less now than they used to but they’re still an indicator of what’s hot on the popular British music scene right now. This week’s Top 10 singles and Top 10 albums are listed below.

This week’s U.K. singles chart sees Owl City retain the number one spot with Fireflies, while Iyaz and the cast of Glee swap places in two and three. There are still two versions of Don’t Stop Believin’ hanging around in the top 10 (don’t do it, Joe). Alica Keys and Jay-Z are the big climbers, with Empire State Of Mind (Part …read more

The UK music charts may mean less now than they used to but they’re still an indicator of what’s hot on the popular British music scene right now. This week’s Top 10 singles and Top 10 albums are listed below.

This week’s singles chart has seen Owl City topple Iyaz from the top spot he grabbed last week. Fireflies is Owl City’s first U.K. number one, despite the American singer-songwriter having released three albums. Iyaz only dropped to number two, while the Glee cast climbed to number three with their rendition of Don’t Stop Believin’. The only new entry in the …read more

I’m really not a fan of U2, but even I, who really wasn’t expecting much, was disappointed by their last album, No Line On The Horizon. It may as well have been named No Good Songs On The Album. And now they’re hard (a relative term) at work on their next LP.

U2 were, at one time, the best rock band in the world. But they lost it. The hype got to them, with Bono in particular thinking he’s something special, some Jesus-like figure sent to Earth in order to do good deeds. And release increasingly sucky music.
It’s as though the …read more