Chart Review 7th Feb 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (1/2)	(1/2), (2/2).
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Eminem's new single Like Toy Soldiers proudly claims the Number One position this week. Whilst it may not be his greatest track ever, it was always an obvious choice for single release thanks to the catchy chorus (of which more in a moment). The single gives him back to back Number Ones for the second time in his career, following on from Just Lose It which charted at the back end of last year. Overall it is his sixth Number One single, putting him still further ahead as the most successful rapper (chart-wise) of all time.

Like Toy Soldiers takes as its hook the sampled chorus from Toy Soldiers which was the debut hit single for Martika back in 1989 - the single reaching Number 5 on these shores. Martika was at the time being hailed as the next big thing in American pop and even had the dreaded new Madonna label planted on her by some.

Sadly it wasn't to last and despite some well received Prince collaborations on her second album in 1991 she got married, retreated from show business and vanished off the radar - until this year when the Eminem sample prompted her to emerge from hiding.

Still, even without a Number One single there is no holding Elvis back and this weeks reissued offering Are You Lonesome Tonight slides in at Number 2 to give him his fifth Top 3 hit in as many weeks. First time around the single was Elvis' second Number One in a row, topping the chart in early 1961. Just like It's Now Or Never the song was older than the artist himself, having first been recorded way back in the 1920s.

Elvis' version is still something of a standard and features the memorable all the world's a stage soliloquy in the middle. The song is one of the few Elvis singles that has charted in two different versions.

In 1982, five years after his death, a version recorded live in 1969 made it to Number 25. This particular recording was famous due to the King's inability to make it through the middle section without laughing and forgetting his words. Whilst last week's Number One It's Now Or Never takes a spectacular tumble to Number 14 this week, A Fool Such As I dips a mere two places to 22 whilst One Night and Jailhouse Rock rebound spectacularly as new copies find their way into the shops, moving 40-26 and 57-27 respectively. This makes Elvis only the second act in modern UK chart history to have five simultaneous Top 40 hits. The other?

You guessed it, The Beatles who in the week of April 17th 1976 had Hey Jude at 12, Yesterday at 13, Paperback Writer at 27, Get Back at 28 and Help at 37. Just like Elvis today this domination came as a result of a mass re-release program of their older singles and strangely enough prompted complaints at the time that all these oldies were knackering up the charts for everyone else with calls in some quarters for them to be excluded.

The most complete chart domination since the inception of the Top 75 in 1978 was achieved by The Jam in the week of February 5th 1982 when a mass re-release program saw them have no less than 14 singles on the chart at once - four of them inside the Top 40.

Moving on and at Number 3 we have a man who deserves our admiration. Brian McFadden is he, and let's face it you do have to hand it to him. First he kicks off his solo career with Real To Me, a song about how important his home life and his wife and family are.

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