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

Back To Basics in a quite literal sense at Number 10 as Shapeshifters get the seventh new entry of the week with their second single. This is of course the follow-up to the memorable Lola's Theme which topped the charts last summer and which easily ranks as one of the anthems of the year. The new single takes them further in the direction of the Brand New Heavies, laden as it is with strings and brass and a floor-filling vocal track - best of all the single claiming to be sample free (although the melody owes more than a little to disco classic Ain't No Stopping Us Now but that is surely a minor quibble).

I've always been a closet Acid Jazz fan so I can't help but love this track, others may wish to seek out the other mixes which dials the 70s down a little.

At Number 11 are the resurgent Green Day with the third single from the acclaimed American Idiot album. Holiday is the follow-up to Boulevard Of Broken Dreams which hit Number 5 at Christmas and which subsequently spent the first part of this year lingering in the Top 20 and refusing to go away. Indeed 16 weeks on from its release the single is still shifting copies, sliding nine places this week to Number 55.

Whilst we are on the subject it is interesting to note that the other two evergreen hits of the first few months of the year are also still selling, Uniting Nations' Out Of Touch finally dropping out of the Top 40 after four months at Number 42 this week. Jay-Z and Linkin Park however just won't go away, Numb/Encore now resting at Number 37, it too having been charting now for 17 weeks.

Beverley Knight chalks up another hit single at Number 16, Keep This Fire Burning returning her to what seems her regular position in the Top 20 after her last single Not Too Late For Love made a comparatively disappointing Number 31 back in October. Hailed upon each return as one of the biggest voices in UK R&B, Beverley Knight has never really broken through as a huge star, despite some memorable singles in the past. Two Top 10 hits is the peak of her achievements, this after some ten years of trying.

One act who will be more than happy with a Top 20 hit are Queens Of The Stone Age who return this week with their first hit single in almost two years. Little Sister instantly becomes one of their biggest, only their second Top 20 hit ever - the first coming in November 2002 when No-One Knows hit Number 15. Speaking of rock acts, Number 20 sees the UK Top 40 debut for The Mars Volta of whom big things have been predicted for some time. Their only other chart appearance to date came back in 2003 when an EP entitled Inertiatic made Number 42. I'd tell you more about them but either the biography on their website is written in impenetrable English or I'm just worn out after 11 new entries in the Top 20 alone.

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