Chart Review 18th July 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (3/3)

(1/3), (2/3), (3/3).

A curious apartheid has developed in the Top 10 this week. With the Top 6 singles all by what you might term 'real' singers (Blunt, Elton, Mariah, Church and Clarkson), the remaining four are all from clubland. Joining MVP, Crazy Frog and Audio Bullys in this mix is New York club Queen Inaya Day. Although a new name in solo terms she is no stranger to the charts, having contributed to Boris Dlugosch's mid-90s hits Keep Pushin and Hold Your Head Up High.

Intriguingly her official biog also credits her as being the voice of Mousse T's 1998 classic Horny, in contrast to the official line that Nadine and Emma aka Hot N' Juicy sang on the track. Dodgy dance music politics aside, she makes her solo debut with a barnstorming single whose release has been much anticipated. Yes, it might have done a little better given all the hype but only two records entered the Top 10 this week, and Inaya Day has done damn well to be one of them.

Clubland gives us our third new hit of the week as Deep Dish shoot to Number 14 with Say Hello. This single is the somewhat belated follow-up to Flashdance which hit Number 3 in October last year and wound up as one of the most successful club hits of 2004. The new single is a far more trippy, trancy offering than its predecessor with a breezy vocal from Anousheh Khalili that will enchant as much as it annoys. Again you might have expected better for such a big club hit.

For the moment Number 14 will have to suffice, for this isn't the next James Blunt by any means. The new music world makes a stand at Number 18 with the third and biggest chart single so far for The Editors. Blood is a fine example of just why they have received so much good press over the past few weeks, a wonderfully old school piece of rock that calls to mind the best work of Killing Joke and Joy Division.

Invoking the spirit of the 80s is pretty much de-rigueur at the moment and when a band gets it right it is a joy to behold. Last single Munich saw them hit Number 22, with this single they become Top 20 hit makers for the first time.

The unusually disjointed nature of the singles chart we have seen for the past few weeks is in evidence once again this week. For the second time in three weeks there are just two new entries inside the Top 10 with a raft of lesser-hit singles occupying the bottom end. The also-rans are a fun mixture of the old and the new. Denmark's Raveonettes get their first Top 40 hit for two years with Love In A Trashcan at Number 26, just one place above REM who for the second time this year discover that even the Top 20 is beyond them at the present time, Wanderlust failing even to match the shockingly bad Number 26 peak of Electron Blue from back in March.

Also new are Rooster with a rather unnecessary third single Deep And Meaningless at Number 29. Hot prospects the Paddingtons failing to improve on their debut Panic Attack with new single 50 To A Pound limping in at Number 32 and just one place below are under-appreciated aural insanity merchants Lemon Jelly who follow up The Shouty Track with Make Things Right and can find themselves thankful to even be in the Top 40.

For the biggest surprise of the week, look no further than Number 41 and The Boxer, the third single this year from the Chemical Brothers which has the dubious honour of becoming their first single ever to miss the Top 40.

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