UK Top 10 September 4th 2010

Here are the Top 10 singles in the UK for the week ending September 4th 2010.

10 - Airplanes - B.o.B with Hayley Williams
9 - Beautiful Monster - Ne-Yo
8 - Crossfire - Brandon Flowers
7 - Billionaire - Travie McCoy with Bruno Mars
6 - We Speak No Americano - Yolanda Be Cool vs D Cup
5 - Katy on a Mission - Katy B
4 - Green Light - Roll Deep
3 - Club Can't Handle Me - Flo Rida with David Guetta
2 - Love the Way You Lie - Eminem with Rhianna
1 - Dynamite - Taio Cruz
(Debut at #1)



The Top Ten Albums this week in the UK

10 - Surfing the Void - Klaxons
9 - Crazy Love - Michael Buble
8 - Headlines - Saturdays
7 - Sigh No More - Mumford & Sons
6 - The Fame - Lady GaGa
5 - Eliza Doolittle - Eliza Doolittle
4 - The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
3 - The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden
2 - The Defamation of Strickland Banks - Plan B
1 - Recovery - Eminem


Album Spotlight

Lets look at this weeks #3 album "Final Frontier" by Iron Maiden. It debuted last week at the #1 position and its their first album since 2006. This is the band's first album to debut at #1 in the UK since 1992's "Fear of the Dark" .
However, they debuted at #4 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, which is the highest charting album for Iron Maiden in the US. Their previous highest charting LP was the 2006's
"A Matter of Life and Death" which made it to #9.
This is the fourth Iron Maiden album to reach the top of the UK Album charts, the first was the legendary "The Number of the Beast" in1982.

Top Downloads

Here are the top 5 single downloads from Itunes as of 03/21/2010

5- Telephone - Lady GaGa
4- Rude Boy - Rhianna
3- Hey, Soul Sister - Train
2- Nothin' on You - B.o.B
1- Break Your Heart - Taio Cruz featuring Ludacris


Now for those loyal followers of this blog, this is new and I know nothing of the new acts since about 1995. I will say this, not a bad song at #1 and has a good sound and a real voice without the autotune device.