Chart Review 16th May 2005 with DJ Chris Plant (1/3)	(1/3), (2/3), (3/3).
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Firstly, sorry I haven't written a singles chart review for over a month. I have been in Las Vegas having a great time...On with this weeks review.

Despite strong competition from a, shall we say, expected unexpected source, Akon's Lonely stands proud at the top of the charts for a second week at Number One. The single is thus only the second track this year to spend more than a week at the top of the chart, but perhaps more interestingly the first rap single to hang on at the summit for more than seven days since Fatman Scoop's Be Faithful had a two week run back in November 2003.

Challenging for the top this week is a record which makes an impressive 18 place leap up the charts and which has been the embodiment of the changes that have come about as a result of the new chart methodology introduced five weeks ago. Gorillaz Feel Good Inc has spent the past month on the chart hovering on the cusp of the Top 20 as a result of almost 100% of its sales being online.

Until now its chart eligibility has hinged on a limited edition 7-inch release of just a few hundred copies, effectively ensuring it charted as a download-only single despite the presence of rules that are supposed to prevent this. Finally however, the single was released on CD and DVD and with its parent album still a couple of weeks away from release, Feel Good Inc benefits from this new presence in the shops and vaults up the chart to a position which perhaps more adequately reflects its overall popularity.

In the process it winds up as the highest charting Gorillaz single to date, beating the Number 4 peak scaled by their first chart single Clint Eastwood back in 2001. This isn't the first time Hewlett et al have used cute marketing tricks to promote themselves, as back in 2000 when the first Gorillaz album was being mooted they released the track Tomorrow Comes Today as a very limited edition, the result being a single that everyone raved about but which you could not get hold of for love nor money.

As a result anticipation for the album and the first single proper had reached fever pitch by the time they arrived in the shops in March 2001. Back to the present though and Feel Good Inc has demonstrated that whilst the day will surely come when a single can sell more online than it does in the shops, for the moment it still takes the availability of a small shiny disc to turn a mid-table hit into a smash.

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