Chart Review 7th Feb 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (2/2)	(1/2), (2/2).
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Then around the time of the release of his second single Irish Son he leaves said wife and family rather acrimoniously and now releases a third solo hit in the shape of a love duet with Delta Goodrem, the woman for whom he appears to have left the wife and family for. Now that takes style. The latest celebrity couple of the moment waltz in to the Top 3 to give McFadden his third solo hit and Goodrem her fifth hit single. This most topical of collaborations has given her a second successive Top 10 single, her last hit Out Of The Blue having made Number 9 back in November. Indeed Almost Here ranks as her joint biggest hit to date, matching the Number 3 peak of Born To Try from March 2003.

Marching in at Number 5 are Bloc Party, the foursome formed through small ads in the music press celebrating their biggest hit to date. So Here We Are/Positive Tension is their third Top 40 hit to date, Little Thoughts making Number 38 in July last year whilst Helicopter made a slightly better Number 26 in November. With a Top 5 hit to their name they can indeed claim to have arrived once and for all on the block (sorry BLOC).

Also creeping into the Top 10 at Number 9 are Good Charlotte. This is their second single from the current album, the follow-up to Predictable which made Number 12 back in October. It is their fourth Top 10 single in all and their biggest hit since Girls And Boys hit Number 6 in May 2003.

One place below are Uniting Nations whose pre-Christmas release Out Of Touch simply refuses to go away. By climbing from Number 13 it makes the Top 10 for a second time, its high point so far having been the Number 7 peak it scaled five weeks ago. Of a similar vintage is Jay-Z and Linkin Park's Numb/Encore which has been bounding around the Top 20 ever since its release before the holiday. Having now travelled 14-18-19-19-18-17-16-17-14-17-18 word has it the single is set for an untimely deletion in a classic act of record company stupidity.

Just above all of this at Number 11 are Duran Duran, the 80s legends proving that October's Reach Up (For The Sunrise) (A Number 5 hit) was no fluke as their new single What Happens Tomorrow gives them back to back Top 20 hits for the first time since Ordinary World and Come Undone followed each other into the chart in 1993.

After several weeks of frantic turnover on the singles chart it is almost a pleasant novelty to report that the bottom end is relatively quiet. One final new entry of note however is at Number 34 in the shape of I'm From Further North Than You the first chart single in seven years for indie legends The Wedding Present.

The Leeds band boast a chart career that dates back to the late 80s and were last seen on the chart back in January 1997 when Montreal crept in at Number 40. It is a topical comeback as they are the current holders of the most singles in a calendar year record following their epic run in 1992 when they released a new single every month, all 12 making the Top 40. Elvis Presley is of course set to break that with all 18 of his Number One singles being released back to back but of course they are all re-releases. The Wedding Present set their record with 12 brand new songs.

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