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UK Pop Music Charts January 21, 2008

Singles and Albums

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Scouting for Girls

Scouting for Girls

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Top 5 Pop Singles

  1. Basshunter - Now You're Gone
  2. Adele - Chasing Pavements
  3. Britney Spears - Piece of Me
  4. Lupe Fiasco featuring Matthew Santos - Superstar
  5. Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music

Big Chart Movers

  • #23-#10 Robyn - Be Mine
  • #37-#13 Wombats - Moving to New York
  • #56-#31 Kelly Rowland - Work

Hot New Singles

  • #20 Courteeners - What Took You So Long?
  • #24 Madness - NW5

Comments

With Basshunter holding on at the top this week, newcomer Adele charges in at #2 with her first week on the chart. Adele is receivig the same anticipatory support from the BBC that Mika received last year. Will she be this year's Mika with massive success across Europe? Nearly 30 years after they first hit the UK pop singles chart, Madness return with their latest hit "NW5."

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Top 5 Pop Albums

  1. Scouting for Girls - Scouting for Girls
  2. Amy MacDonald - This Is the Life
  3. Take That - Beautiful World
  4. Newton Faulkner - Hand Built By Robots
  5. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

Hot New Albums

  • #10 British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music
  • #34 Neil Diamond - The Essential Neil Diamond

Comments

The debut album by Scouting for Girls climbs to the top this week for the first time. Indie band British Sea Power enjoy their first top 10 album with Do You Like Rock Music opening at the #10 spot.

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