The Official UK Music Chart | 23rd March, 2003

By James Temperton 24.03.2003 1

The UK Top 25 Singles
Article by Adam Riley (jesusraz)


1 (1) SPIRIT IN THE SKY - GARETH GATES FT THE KUMARS S

2 (!) SCANDALOUS - MIS-TEEQ TELSTAR

3 (!) BEING NOBODY - RICHARD X VS LIBERTY X VIRGIN

4 (!) U MAKE ME WANNA - BLUE INNOCENT

5 (6) MOVE YOUR FEET - JUNIOR SENIOR MERCURY

6 (2) ALL I HAVE - JENNIFER LOPEZ FT LL COOL J EPIC

7 (!) SUNRISE - SIMPLY RED SIMPLYRED.COM

8 (3) BORN TO TRY - DELTA GOODREM EPIC

9 (4) IN DA CLUB - 50 CENT INTERSCOPE

10 (!) SOMEWHERE I BELONG - LINKIN' PARK WARNER BROS

11 (!) BUMP BUMP BUMP - B2K FT P. DIDDY EPIC

12 (!) MESMERIZE - JA RULE FT ASHANTI MURDER INC/MERCURY

13 (5) BEAUTIFUL - CHRISTINA AGUILERA RCA

14 (7) I BEGIN TO WONDER - DANNII MINOGUE LONDON

15 (!) FLASH - QUEEN & VANGUARD NEBULA

16 (9) GOSSIP FOLKS - MISSY ELLIOTT FT LUDACRIS ELEKTRA

17 (10) THE BOYS OF SUMMER - DJ SAMMY DATA/MOS

18 (8) KA-CHING! - SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY

19 (13) ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID - T.A.T.U INTERSCOPE

20 (!) PROVIDER/LAPDANCE - NERD VIRGIN

21 (11) SHAPE - SUGABABES ISLAND

22 (14) SING FOR THE MOMENT - EMINEM INTERSCOPE

23 (16) CRY ME A RIVER - JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE

24 (12) BITTER END - PLACEBO HUT

25 (15) WORK IT - NELLY FT JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE UNIVERSAL


In what was yet another big week for singles, nine new songs made it into the Top 25 this week...but none of them could manage to de-throne the spikey-haired Pop Idol runner-up with his Comic Relief cover song 'Spirit in the Sky'. Mis-teeq, with one of their strongest singles to date were forced to make do with second place, Liberty X's take on the classic Ain't Nobody enters at No.3 and Blue's latest album-cut, U Make Me Wanna, slides in at No.4. Continuous radio airplay and TV coverage of Junior Senior's Move Your Feet has turned the single into one of the few songs of late that has actually risen up the charts! And to be honest, it deserves it - partially for the catchy song, but mainly for the superb video.

Mick Hucknell and Simply Red mark their return with an old cover...another song that has a great video - but for an entirely different reason. Anyone that has seen it will know what I mean - hehe! Entering at No.7 it is barely a patch on the No.1 they had a few years back with Rollercoaster. Another returning act is Linkin' Park at No.10 with Somewhere To Belong - which should set-up the release of new album Meteora perfectly well. But did you know that they were supposed to be a manufactured boy-band, until their manager had a last-minute change-of-mind? Would they have been as famous then I wonder...Ms Aguilera falls sharply from No.5 down to No.13, whilst Dannii Minogue's album release has sent her latest single, I Begin to Wonder, down seven to No.14. Yet another Queen collaboration enters this week at No.15, this time we have a re-working of Flash - I think you know the one...Other than that, there are a lot of artists tumbling at a rate of knots: Shania down ten to No.18, Sugababes down ten to No.21 and Placebo down twelve to No.24. The UK Chart certainly lives up to its moniker of 'The Fastest Chart in the World!

Make sure you go to pa
ge two for the UK Top 25 Albums...

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The UK Top 25 Albums


1 (1) COME AWAY WITH ME - NORAH JONES PARLOPHONE

2 (2) A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD - COLDPLAY PARLOPHONE

3 (6) DANIEL IN BLUE JEANS - DANIEL O'DONNELL DMG TV

4 (3) STRIPPED - CHRISTINA AGUILERA RCA

5 (!) BACK IN THE WORLD - PAUL McCARTNEY PARLOPHONE

6 (!) BALLADS: THE LOVE SONG COLLECTION - BOYZONE UMTV

7 (4) BY THE WAY - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS WARNER BROS

8 (!) NEON NIGHTS - DANNII MINOGUE LONDON

9 (8) LET GO - AVRIL LAVIGNE ARISTA

10 (7) JUSTIFIED - JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE JIVE

11 (10) GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN' - 50 CENT INTERSCOPE

12 (9) GREATEST HITS - TOM JONES UMTV

13 (20) THIS IS ME...THEN - JENNIFER LOPEZ EPIC

14 (12) ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES - SUGABABES ISLAND

15 (15) GREATEST HITS: HISTORY VOL 1 - MICHAEL JACKSON EPIC

16 (25) UP - SHANIA TWAIN MERCURY

17 (11) ETHER SONG - TURIN BRAKES SOURCE

18 (13) VERY BEST OF: EARLY DAYS & LATTER DAYS - LED ZEPPELIN ATLANTIC

19 (5) REASON - MELANIE C VIRGIN

20 (21) BUSTED - BUSTED UNIVERSAL

21 (24) ONE LOVE - BLUE INNOCENT

22 (19) SPIRIT OF THE IRISH DUBLINERS SANCTUARY

23 (16) THE EMINEM SHOW - EMINEM INTERSCOPE

24 (17) SIMPLY DEEP - KELLY ROWLAND COLUMBIA

25 (14) HEAVEN - DJ SAMMY DATA/MOS


Will Norah Jones and Coldplay ever be knocked from the top two slots? It doesn't look too likely for the time being, but Daniel O'Donnell is snapping at their heels. You'd never have guessed that it was Saint Patrick's Day last week, would you?! The Irish charmer is up three to No.3 this week, just ahead of new entries for veteran Paul McCartney at No.5 and a 'Greatest Hits Mk II' of sorts from now defunct boy-band Boyzone at No.6. Dannii Minogue may have been hoping for a No.1 hit with her latest album after seeing three singles hit the Top 10 in a row, but she's going to have to settle for the No.8 peak for the moment, unless one of her future singles boosts sales. Do artists not realise by now that dance albums just don't sell in vast numbers?

Jenny from the Block's No.2 hit last week, which fell to No.6 this week, has rousled interest in her extremely mediocre album This Is Me...Then - it rises seven to No.13. Michael Jackson holds strong at No.15 with HIStory, and also has a few other albums in the Top 75 that can be found on dotmusic, the kind folk that provide us with the charts every week! As Shania Twain's Ka-Ching! falls down the singles chart, she can take solace in the fact that it's due to people buying her album instead. Buyers will have to take caution as there are three versions of Up! - green (Country), blue (World) and red (Pop). Be sure to pick up the green or red...and NOT the blue one, because trust me, you will most likely find it far too weird for your liking. As expected, Melanie C's drab second album slides quickly out of the Top 10 to No.19 this week. The album is very weak, and boring - but she may be able to con some more fans into buying it if she releases the one good song from Reason: The Nick Alexander (ex-New Radicals) penned On the Horizon. Think Ronan Keating's Rollercoaster if you want to know what it sounds like. Elsewhere Eminem is down to No.23, Destiny's Child member Kelly Rowland down to No.24 and dance-guru DJ Sammy slips to No.25 from No.14 last week.

Tune in next week for more charty-goodness!

[Source: dotmusic]

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