Chart Review 21st March 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (2/3)	(1/3), (2/3), (3/3).

Next up at Number 4 is Gwen Stefani with the second single from her current solo album. Rich Girl swiftly matches the peak of her last hit, the radio favourite What You Waiting For which enjoyed continuing airplay months after it originally hit the charts. Happily her new single is just as radio friendly. The chorus of the track borrows heavily from the Broadway musical Fiddler On The Roof and in particular its famous song If I Were A Rich Man.

Actor Topol took the lead role in the 1967 film of the musical and his rendition of the song was lifted from the soundtrack to become a Number 9 hit. Stefani's track is of course a world away from the original, a frantic pacy pop song that more than deserves its place as the biggest (almost) original new hit of the week. Guesting on the track is Eve, who thus returns the favour given to her by Gwen back in 2001 when the pair duetted on Let Me Blow Ya Mind which spookily enough also peaked at Number 4.

So what about a new single that isn't a re-release by a pensioner or the deceased or which isn't based on a song from the 60s? Well that would be the debut hit from Jem which makes a welcome appearance at Number 6. Hailing from Wales, the young singer-songwriter has been a name to drop for some time now. Thus far it has been America who has done all the running for her, Jem's song Nothing Falls having found its way onto Madonna's last album whilst in 2002 before she even had a record deal her song Finally Woken was championed by a Los Angeles radio station and soared up the airplay charts.

Her debut UK hit is the haunting They which combines a madrigal-esque chorus with a trip-hop beat to create a spine tingling track which grabs your attention from the word go. Never was there a more deserved debut than this and if there is any justice she deserves to go on and become massive. Hear this track and be utterly enchanted.

Bringing us back down to earth at Number 8 are Basement Jaxx with new single Oh My Gosh. This is their first new single since last years Greatest Hits collection and the TV advert inspired re-release of I See You Baby which hit Number 14. The appealing new single restores them to Top 10 status for the first time since the classic Where's Your Head At back in December 2001 and in the process becomes their biggest hit single for almost four years. Their biggest hit to date remains something of an all-time classic, 1999 Ibiza classic Rendez-Vu hitting Number 4 in August that year.

A genuine jaw-dropper greets us at Number 9. Runners-up in the TV talent show X-Factor, G4 are no run of the mill boy band. All classically trained singers, their speciality is cod-opera versions of famous hit songs, renditions of which helped them all the way to the final of the contest. To be fair they choose their material well, their debut album featuring operatic arrangements of David Bowie's Life On Mars and even Radiohead's Creep.

Who then can blame them for turning to the most famous cod-opera track of all, namely Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody. The kind of single that either turns heads or turns stomachs, G4 imbue the track with a campness that was even beyond Freddie Mercury.

Queen purists will hate the track with a passion (and indeed some of the rudest reviews you will ever see have been directed at both the single and its parents album) but to pull this off requires balls, no doubt about that and credit where credit is due, they have a Top 10 hit as a result.

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