Chart Review 7th March 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (2/3)

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The third biggest new hit of the week lands at Number 4. It comes from club land and oh yes, represents the latest in a trend for club remakes of 80s hits. Hard on the heels of the likes of Call On Me, This Is The World We Live In and Out Of Touch comes Cabin Crew's Star To Fall. Just for a change the record doesn't originate from the continent but from Australia from where import copies began appearing and which has prompted this UK release. The track is based heavily around samples from Waiting For A Star To Fall which was a Top 10 hit for George Merrill and Shannon Rubican, aka Boy Meets Girl in early 1989.

The two were successful songwriters in the late 80s, contributing several hits for the likes of Whitney Houston. Indeed it was for Whitney that Waiting For A Star To Fall was first composed, her management rejecting the song and then having to watch it become a worldwide hit for its composers. Back to the present day though and the Cabin Crew version is accompanied by the requisite cheesy video featuring a series of scantily clad airhostesses going through the motions so to speak in time to the music. Yes it is lightweight, throwaway pop but it works well. By a curious coincidence the song is the second Merrill/Rubican composition to be turned into a dance smash, the duo also having penned How Will I Know which was turned by LMC into Take Me To The Clouds Above at the start of last year.

Next up at Number 6 is Do Somethin, the latest offering from Britney Spears who breaks her self-imposed musical vow of silence for the promotion of this track. Like her previous hit My Prerogative the single is taken from her Greatest Hits collection that was released before Christmas and thus appears in the shops for the sake of keeping her name in the charts more than anything else. Still, the single gives her another Top 10 hit (her 17th in total) and the task of promoting it has forced her to scrub back up for a change. For small mercies we can at least be grateful.

Landing at Number 7 this week are an act who at the start of the year were widely tipped to be one of the discoveries of 2005 - and just for a change all those wild predictions have turned out to be quite correct.

New Yorkers The Bravery have been compared to the likes of The Cure and New Order and after forming in 2003 became the subject of something of a bidding war when the signed for a major label at the end of last year. Their debut Top 40 hit comes on the back of support slots for the likes of Interpol and The Libertines and it certainly goes a long way towards explaining just why they have been one of the biggest names to drop over the last few months. For the next new entry of the week we have to look as far down as Number 16 where Styles & Breeze crash in with Heartbeatz.

The single is the second Top 20 hit in a row for the duo who also made Number 19 in July last year with Your Shining which features the vocal talents of Karen Danzig. Expect their debut album to follow shortly.

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