Like Peter Cushing prying open a creaky wooden coffin in a dank cavern and smashing a wooden stake through Christopher Lee's rotting, 700-year-old chest, pop's gallant hero Lady GaGa continues to erase any need for Ye Olde Vampyre Madonna.This time the feat comes in the U.K., where Lady GaGa is at #3 with "Poker Face." Earlier in the week, GaGa moved up to #3 on Billboard's Hot 100 here in the States, as well.
But perhaps the most surprising upset comes from Flo Rida and Kesha's "Right Round," which knocked the week's assumed champ—"Just Can't Get Enough" by the Saturdays—out of the way to clip the #1 position.All of England's kiddies must've read Chart Rigger's "10 Reasons Why Kesha Needs To Be Your New Favorite Singer" list and taken to iTunes! Listen to teacher, children.
And surely Pete Burns is somewhere silently screaming, now that his song "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" that he claims he can't stand anymore is back at the top of the British charts (albeit in a completely modernized version). If only he'd held out just a couple years longer before selling the publishing rights...
Meanwhile, WTF, Take That? Missing the Top 10 altogether and sticking at #14? Of the band's six British singles released since their 2005 reunion, this marks the second to miss the U.K. Top 10—the first being "I'd Wait For Life," which made #17 in June 2007.Perhaps since so many people have bought Take That's album, there's no need to pay for the single. Although, there is the Jason Orange-featuring b-side "84"... What, not enticing enough for you picky bastards?
On the album chart, U2's No Line On The Horizon becomes the Irish band's 10th U.K. chart topper, tying them with Madonna and the Rolling Stones in third place for the most #1 LPs (behind Elvis Presley and the Beatles).
Though much is being made in the press of the actual low sales figures for the album. Blame it on "Get On Your Boots."
The U.K. Top 10:
1. "Right Round" - Flo Rida feat. Kesha *1 week*
2. "Just Can't Get Enough" - The Saturdays *new*
3. "Poker Face" - Lady GaGa
4. "My Life Would Suck Without You" - Kelly Clarkson
5. "Love Story'" - Taylor Swift
6. "Dead And Gone" - T.I. feat. Justin Timberlake
7. "The Fear" - Lily Allen
8. "Just Dance" - Lady GaGa feat. Colby Adonis
9. "T-Shirt" - Shontelle
10. "Use Somebody" - Kings Of Leon