THE UK TOP 40 PREDICTION LEAGUE - Week 7

#7: Black Eyed Peas

Best charting single will be Abs! Yay for Abs! Or something, even though I really do like 7 Ways an awful lot. It'll probably be #12 or so.

Random number - #7: K. Lyttle
#1: Britney Spears, #2: Kylie... hopefully Busted kept out. If they make #1, God help us with Wes' response to that. :-/

And SPECIAL BONUS ROUND FOR PURPOSES OF GROUPING TOGETHER A LOAD OF NOT ENTIRELY RELATED RECORDS THAT MIGHT CHART:

Mel C I'll say. P. Scream ft. Kate Moss? WTF?

#7 - Fatman Scoop

And SPECIAL BONUS ROUND FOR PURPOSES OF GROUPING TOGETHER A LOAD OF NOT ENTIRELY RELATED RECORDS THAT MIGHT CHART:

COOPER TEMPLE CLAUSE - Blind Pilots

Random number - #7: Kevin Lyttle

charts highest: ABS - 7 Ways

And SPECIAL BONUS ROUND FOR PURPOSES OF GROUPING TOGETHER A LOAD OF NOT ENTIRELY RELATED RECORDS THAT MIGHT CHART:

ABS will chart highest, although i wish it were the Scream.

Random number - #7 Kevin Lyttle
Abs will chart highest.

I don't even begin to understand what people like about Busted, each single is more hacky and diluted than the last, they need something as meaty as Sk8er Boi maybe. Everything they do is slightly too krazy and quirky and they're really starting to play up to it now, they were coooooler and more smoulder-y a year or so ago.

Hyperprops to Outkast, BJaxx greatest single of week and glorious work of metagenius bleh bleh etc.

Random number - #7 Black eyed peas

And SPECIAL BONUS ROUND FOR PURPOSES OF GROUPING TOGETHER A LOAD OF NOT ENTIRELY RELATED RECORDS THAT MIGHT CHART:

Which charts highest out of:

ABS - 7 Ways

I detested them when they came out but 'Crashed and Burned' was a great single, I thought. This one is pretty much a feeble retread of that. I find that Javine single perplexing. The groove on the verse is good but then it drops into that cheesy Diana Ross chorus which hasn't grown on me at all. As for Abs, he annoys me with his arrogance and fake street accent but the last couple of singles have been pretty good.

No predictions, just comments.

KEVIN LYTTLE #7

Which charts highest:

ABS - 7 Ways

BRITNEY SPEARS - Me Against The Music #1
OUTKAST - Hey Ya #9
BUSTED - Crashed The Wedding #3
MISSY ELLIOTT - Pass That Dutch #11
LUDACRIS - Stand Up #22
JAVINE - Surrender #7
LINUS LOVES - Stand Back #31
RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS - Fortune Faded #36
STEREOPHONICS - Since I Told You It's Over #19
BASEMENT JAXX - Lucky Star #14
RONAN KEATING - Lost For Words #5

#7 - bep

Which charts highest:

ABS - 7 Ways

BRITNEY SPEARS - Me Against The Music #2
OUTKAST - Hey Ya #14
BUSTED - Crashed The Wedding #1
MISSY ELLIOTT - Pass That Dutch #11
LUDACRIS - Stand Up #21
JAVINE - Surrender #9
LINUS LOVES - Stand Back #19
RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS - Fortune Faded #8
STEREOPHONICS - Since I Told You It's Over #17
BASEMENT JAXX - Lucky Star #20
RONAN KEATING - Lost For Words #6

Random number - #7 Blazin Squad - Flip Reverse

And SPECIAL BONUS ROUND FOR PURPOSES OF GROUPING TOGETHER A LOAD OF NOT ENTIRELY RELATED RECORDS THAT MIGHT CHART:

Which charts highest?:

MEL C - Yeh Yeh Yeh

#7 - Outkast (see above)

which charts highest: ABS - 7 Ways

the Melanie C song will do perhaps marginally better than the last Appleton single. the Seal song is currently Top 10 in Germany but I can't see him replicating that here at all; he is the black Sting, the pop Enya, huge in Britain at a very specific time and now big everywhere but here, seemingly.

Anyway, for what its worth....

Midweeks:

NEW 1 CRASHED THE WEDDING BUSTED
NEW 2 ME AGAINST THE MUSIC BRITNEY SPEARS FT MADONNA
1 3 SLOW KYLIE MINOGUE
3 4 BE FAITHFUL FATMAN SCOOP FT CROOKLYN CLAN
4 5 KEVIN LYTTLE TURN ME ON
NEW 6 HEY YA OUTKAST
2 7 FLIP REVERSE BLAZING SQUAD
5 8 WHERE IS THE LOVE BLACK EYED PEAS
6 9 IF YOU COME TO ME ATOMIC KITTEN
7 11 GUILTY BLUE
NEW 11 SINCE I TOLD YOU ITS OVER STEREOPHONICS
NEW 12 FIND THE WORDS RONAN KEATING
8 13 HOLE IN THE HEAD SUGABABES
9 14 TROUBLE PINK
NEW 15 SURRENDER JAVINE
NEW 16 RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS FORTUNE FADED
13 17 SUPERSTAR JAMELIA
12 18 STATE OF MIND HOLLY VALANCE
10 19 SEXED UP ROBBIE WILLIAMS
11 20 LOVE ME RIGHT (OH SHEILA) ANGELCITY FT LARA MCALLEN
16 21 WHITE FLAG DIDO
19 22 I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE THE DARKNESS
15 23 JUMPIN LIBERTY X
NEW 24 MELT/YEH YEH YEH MELANIE C
NEW 25 GAY BOYFRIEND THE HAZZARDS
18 26 MAYBE EMMA
14 27 STEP IN THE NAME OF LOVE/THOIA THOING R KELLY
23 28 (THERES GOTTA BE) MORE TO LIFE STACIE ORRICO
21 29 P.I.M.P 50 CENT
20 30 GOT SOME TEETH OBIE TRICE
25 31 SO YESTERDAY HILLARY DUFF
28 32 BABY BOY BEYONCE FT SEAN PAUL
17 33 BURN BURN LOST PROPHETS
24 34 HOLD ON ME PHIXX
22 35 IM COMING WIH YA MATT GOSS
27 36 BOUNCE ALONG WAYNE WONDER
30 37 OHH WEE MARK RONSON
33 38 SO INTO YOU FABULOUS FT TAMIA
38 39 BREATHE BLU CANTRELL FT SEAN PAUL
NEW 40 PASS THAT DUTCH MISSY ELLIOT

Again, taken from the same place so take with a large pinch of salt...

#52 All American Rejects - The Last Song
#43 Basement Jaxx featuring Dizzee Rascal - Lucky Star
#under 100 Boysterous - Up And Down
#49 The Cooper Temple Clause - Blind Pilots
#under Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
#59 Electric Soft Parade - Lose Your Frown
#76 Elephant Man - Pon Di River, Pon Di Bank
#64 Fun Lovin Criminals - Lost It All
#41 Linus Loves featuring Sam Obernik - Stand Back
#54 Ludacris - Stand Up
#66 Adam Masterson - Same Sad Story
#48 Marti Pellow - A Lot Of Love
#97 Liz Phair - Why Can't I

Incidentally, can we not post the midweeks here plz - first cos it sort of wrecks the suspense, second cos we might cop some shit for it from official types (cf. Popjustice board)

The Cooper Temple Clause. #37.

Britney has gone #1 in a few places around the world, but she won't here. I hope. Even though I love her.

is this a reference to the pink track he played?

And Elephant Man is #29.

This puts Siegbran in the lead, BTW.

"'7 Ways' has been pulled from release on 10 November and no future release date has been given as yet. The explanation was the bad timing against other major releases, the distraction of the fall music awards shows and Abs doing this sudden tour with Beyonce which cuts way down on his promotion time."

some pretty weak excuses there!

Busted are #1, Wes was about as over the moon as he usually is. Britney #2, Outkast #6, Ronan #9, Missy #10, RHCP #11 or #12.

Some excellent records on the charts this week; things only really tempered by Busted, whom the cretinous Wes deserves.

Tool.