Chart Review 28th Feb 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (3/3)

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

The big new hits just keep coming (no less than 12 singles enter the Top 20 this week, the 8 survivors from last week all coming from last weeks Top 10). The tenth is club land's best showing this week as Reftekt's Need To Feel Love lands at Number 14. The duo are better known under the own names, Seb Fontaine and Jay P being the brains behind the track. Female singer Delline Bass is a name to watch for the future too, the singer songwriter apparently set for a chart career of her own later in the year.

At Number 16 are Idlewild, Love Steals Us From Loneliness marking their chart comeback after two years away to record a new album. The Scotsmen began their chart career six years ago but this is only their fourth Top 20 single to date. Their biggest hit came in May 2002 when You Held The World In Your Arms sneaked to Number 9. The 12th new entry of the week is from XFM darlings Maximo Park. Hailing from Newcastle, the band have a nice line in snappy Britrock and although they risk being lost in the maelstrom of one of the busiest chart weeks ever, a Top 20 debut is the acorn from which greater things can grow.

Heck, I wish I had more time to delve into the rest of the chart, as a further six new singles chart lower down as the Top 40 experiences a near 50% turnover. Solo women make a stand at 28 and 29 in the shape of the first Top 40 singles for the much talked-about KT Tunstall and Keisha White. In a similar vein Charlotte Hatherley charts at Number 31 with Bastardo, her second Top 40 following Summer which made the same chart peak back in August 2004.

Finally the 80's rears its head both with Number 33 entry We Close Our Eyes by the Groove Cutters, a dance remake of Go Wests' 1985 classic and sneaking in at the wire the returning Tears For Fears. Closest Thing To Heaven is the first Top 40 single in over nine years for Kurt and Roland who have been silent since the 1995 album Raoul And The Kings Of Spain. There were hopes that the new single would make the same kind of impact as previous comeback hits such as Sowing The Seeds Of Love but alas t'was not to be and you suspect that this latest return will turn out to be a big a disappointment as it was back in '95. (Shame really)...

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