Meanwhile, the Mariah Carey and Madonna chart battle continues abroad, as it does in the States, and even Entertainment Weekly weighs in on the scuffle between the two pop powerhouses in a piece titled "Mariah Carey Vs. Madonna: Total Eclipse Of The Charts."
EW also favorably reviews Mimi's E=MC², though it brands the second single, "Bye Bye," a "somber elegy," and one of the set's "missteps."Perhaps lost in all this swizzly-twizzle is the breakthrough of Swede doll September's "Cry For You," at #9. The song, which borrows from Bronski Beat's "Smalltown Boy," debuts this week on downloads alone, with a physical U.K. CD single released Monday.
Here's the souped-up vid, which differs from the original 2006 clip used when "Cry For You" was released in Sweden:
And finally, after 15 hours of traveling, I'm back home. It was a nice week and a half in Italy, but, damn, is that Zurich to L.A. flight a pain in the ass!
The U.K. Top 10:
1. "American Boy" - Estelle Feat. Kanye West *4 weeks*
2. "Black And Gold" - Sam Sparro
3. "Low" - Flo Rida Feat. T-Pain
4. "4 Minutes" - Madonna Feat. Justin Timberlake
5. "Touch My Body" - Mariah Carey
6. "Mercy" - Duffy
7. "Always There Where I Need To Be" - The Kooks
8. "Better In Time/Footprints In The Sand" - Leona Lewis
9. "Cry For You" - September *new*
10. "With You" - Chris Brown