1. The
Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm (1) (CR-3-1-1) 2. RAM
& Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia) (3) (CR-17-3-4-1-2-3-2) 3. The Common
Linnets - Give Me A Reason (10) (CR-10-3) 4. The
Common Linnets - Lovers And Liars (6) (CR-6-4) 5. Sanna
Nielsen - Undo (2) (CR-3-3-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-2-4-1-2-5) 6. Pamela
Myburgh - Fool (9) (CR-16-9-3-6-9-6) 7.Coldplay
- A Sky Full Of Stars (5) (CR-10-8-5-7) 8. Rae Morris
- Do You Even Know? (19) (CR-20-19-8) 9. Sarah
McLachlan - In Your Shoes (13) (CR-19-13-9) 10. Molly
- Children Of The Universe (4) (CR-3-3-2-2-2-1-1-1-2-4-4-10) 11.
The Common Linnets - When Love Was King (15) (CR-15-11) 12.
Pamela Myburgh - Shepherd (NEW) (CR-12) 13.
SecondCity - I Wanna Feel (NEW)
(CR-13) 14. Sia
- Chandelier (Re-entry) (CR-9-14-OUT-14) 15.
The Common Linnets - Before Complete Surrender (18) (CR-18-15) 16.
The Common Linnets - Hungry Hands (20) (CR-20-16) 17.
Klingande - Jubel (Re-entry) (CR-19-OUT-17) 18.
Oliver Heldens X Becky Hill - Gecko (Overdrive) (NEW) (CR-18) 19. Nico &
Vinz - Am I Wrong (NEW) (CR-19) 20. Andreas
Bourani - Auf Uns (NEW) (CR-20) Top 20 Albums
1. The
Common Linnets - The Common Linnets (1) (CR-1-1) 2. Lily
Allen - Sheezus (2) (CR-1-2-2) 3. Sarah
McLachlan - Shine On (5) (CR-2-5-3) 4. Foxes
- Glorious (3) (CR-3-4) 5.
Coldplay
- Ghost Stories (NEW) (CR-5) 6.
Shakira
- Shakira. (7) (CR-1-1-2-3-2-3-4-7-6) 7. Bravo
Hits 85 (NEW) (CR-7) 8. Eurovision
Song Contest Copenhagen 2014 (6) (CR-12-12-1-1-1-1-3-6-8) 9. Kylie
Minogue - Kiss Me Once (8) (CR-1-1-2-2-3-5-4-5-6-8-9) 10. These
Dreams (16) (CR-16-10) 11.
Michael
Jackson - Xscape (4) (CR-4-11) 12.
Afrojack - Forget The World (NEW) (CR-12) 13.
One
Love, One Rhythm - The 2014 FIFA World Cup™ Official Album (9)
(CR-9-13) 14. Paolo
Nutini - Caustic Love (11) (CR-6-10-11-9-11-14) 15. Cassadee
Pope - Frame By Frame (Re-entry) (CR-20-OUT-15) 16.
Armin Van Buuren - A State Of Trance 2014 (17)
(CR-10-4-8-10-12-6-11-17-16) 17.
Lykke Li - I Never Learn (12) (CR-5-12-17) 18.
Jill
Johnson - Livemusiken Från Jills Veranda Nashville (10) (CR-10-18) 19.
Phillip Phillips - Behind The Light (NEW) (CR-19) 20.
Go!Go!Go! - Radio Go!Go!Go! (20) (CR-4-6-7-12-20-20) Commentary
There's
no budging Dutch country duo The Common Linnets, who only continue to
strengthen their campaigns atop both charts this week! Calm After The
Storm spends a second week at No.1 while Give Me A Reason shoots to
No.3 and Lovers & Liars climbs to No.4! RAM and Susana's former
chart topper RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia) moves back up a place to
No.2 and Sanna Nielsen slides to No.5 with Undo. The Common Linnets
stay strong atop the album chart for a second week with Lily Allen
behind at No.2 for another week with Sheezus. Sarah McLachlan climbs
back up to No.3 with Shine On, Foxes dips a place to No.4 with
Glorious and Coldplay's new album Ghost Stories debuts at No.5.
1. The
Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm (3) (CR-3-1) 2. Sanna
Nielsen - Undo (1) (CR-3-3-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-2-4-1-2) 3. RAM
& Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia) (2) (CR-17-3-4-1-2-3) 4. Molly
- Children Of The Universe (4) (CR-3-3-2-2-2-1-1-1-2-4-4) 5. Coldplay
- A Sky Full Of Stars (8) (CR-10-8-5) 6. The
Common Linnets - Lovers And Liars (NEW) (CR-6) 7.
Conchita Wurst - Rise Like A Phoenix (10) (CR-10-7) 8. Fox
Stevenson - Tico (5) (CR-5-5-8) 9. Pamela
Myburgh - Fool (6) (CR-16-9-3-6-9) 10. The
Common Linnets - Give Me A Reason (NEW) (CR-10) 11.
Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This (13) (CR-19-13-11) 12.
Meadowlark
- Family Tree (7) (CR-13-7-12) 13. Sarah
McLachlan - In Your Shoes (19) (CR-19-13) 14. Elaiza
- Is It Right (16) (CR-16-14) 15.
The Common Linnets - When Love Was King (NEW) (CR-15) 16.
Michael
Jackson & Justin Timberlake - Love Never Felt So Good (15)
(CR-17-15-16) 17.
Röyksopp & Robyn - Do It Again (9) (CR-20-8-9-17) 18.
The Common Linnets - Before Complete Surrender (NEW) (CR-18) 19. Rae
Morris - Do You Even Know? (20) (CR-20-19) 20. The
Common Linnets - Hungry Hands (NEW) (CR-20) Top 20 albums
1. The
Common Linnets - The Common Linnets (NEW) (CR-1) 2. Lily
Allen - Sheezus (1) (CR-1-2) 3. Foxes
- Glorious (NEW) (CR-3) 4. Michael
Jackson - Xscape (NEW) (CR-4) 5.
Sarah
McLachlan - Shine On (2) (CR-2-5) 6.
Eurovision
Song Contest Copenhagen 2014 (3) (CR-12-12-1-1-1-1-3-6) 7. Shakira
- Shakira. (4) (CR-1-1-2-3-2-3-4-7) 8. Kylie
Minogue - Kiss Me Once (6) (CR-1-1-2-2-3-5-4-5-6-8) 9. One
Love, One Rhythm - The 2014 FIFA World Cup™ Official Album (NEW)
(CR-9) 10. Jill
Johnson - Livemusiken Från Jills Veranda Nashville (NEW) (CR-10) 11.
Paolo
Nutini - Caustic Love (9) (CR-6-10-11-9-11) 12.
Lykke Li - I Never Learn (5) (CR-5-12) 13.
Euphoric
Clubland II (8) (CR-3-2-8-13) 14. Hafdis
Huld - Home (10) (CR-10-14) 15. Anastacia
- Resurrection (7) (CR-7-15) 16.
These Dreams (NEW) (CR-16) 17.
Armin Van Buuren - A State Of Trance 2014 (11)
(CR-10-4-8-10-12-6-11-17) 18.
Tori
Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines (NEW) (CR-18) 19.
Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband (NEW) (CR-19) 20.
Go!Go!Go! - Radio Go!Go!Go! (12) (CR-4-6-7-12-20) Commentary It's
double Dutch for The Common Linnets as Eurovision runner-up Calm
After The Storm climbs two places to No.1, becoming the first ever
Dutch entry to top the chart and the third Eurovision entry to go to
No.1 this year! Sanna Nielsen's Undo dips one spot to No.2, and
contiuning the Dutch theme at No.3 is RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia) by
RAM and Susana who drop one place to No.3. Molly stays put at No.4
with Children Of The Universe, making the entire top four current or
former chart toppers, and Coldplay climb to No.5 with new single, the
Avicii produced A Sky Full Of Stars. The
Common Linnets complete their double by storming in at No.1 as Ilse
and Waylon deliver the best country album in nearly a decade! Lily
Allen's Sheezus falls to No.2, Foxes enters at No.3 with debut album
Glorious, the new posthumous Michael Jackson album Xscape debuts at
No.4 and Sarah McLachlan dips to No.5 with Shine On.
The musical and televisual event of the year has been and gone once again and this year the Eurovision Song Contest threw up a very unexpected set of results. Held in Copenhagen this year, Denmark put on a stellar show with fantastic presentation and staging. The hosts came across as a bit odd at times and the 'ode to joy' interval act was plain bizarre, but overall it was a well packaged show. It was not without its controversy however, with the recent political situation between Russia and Ukraine spilling over into the contest and Russia getting heavily booed whenever they got awarded points. This was the final scoreboard at the end of the night: 1. Austria: Conchita Wurst, Rise Like a Phoenix - 290 points 2. The Netherlands: The Common Linnets, Calm After The Storm - 238 points 3. Sweden: Sanna Nielsen, Undo - 218 points 4. Armenia: Aram MP3, Not Alone - 174 points 5. Hungary: Andras Kallay-Saunders, Running - 143 points 6. Ukraine: Mariya Yaremchuk, Tick - Tock - 113 points 7. Russia: Tolmachevy Sisters, Shine - 89 points 8. Norway: Carl Espen, Silent Storm - 88 points 9. Denmark: Basim, Cliche Love Song - 74 points 10. Spain: Ruth Lorenzo, Dancing In the Rain - 74 points 11. Finland: Softengine, Something Better - 72 points 12. Romania: Paula Seling & OVI, Miracle - 72 points 13. Switzerland: Sebalter, Hunter Of Stars - 64 points 14. Poland: Donatan & Cleo, My Slowianie - We Are Slavic - 62 points 15. Iceland: Pollaponk, No Prejudice - 58 points 16. Belarus: Teo, Cheesecake - 43 points 17. United Kingdom: Molly Smitten-Downes, Children of the Universe - 40 points 18. Germany: Elaiza, Is it Right - 39 points 19. Montenegro: Sergej Cetkovic, Moj Svijet - 37 points 20. Greece: Freaky Fortune feat. RiskyKidd, Rise Up - 35 points 21. Italy: Emma, La Mia Citta - 33 points 22. Azerbaijan: Dilara Kazimova, Start a Fire - 33 points 23. Malta: Firelight, Coming Home - 32 points 24. San Marino: Valentina Monetta, Maybe (Forse) - 14 points 25. Slovenia: Tinkara Kovac, Round and Round - 9 points 26. France: TWIN TWIN, Moustache - 2 points A deserved win for drag artist Conchita Wurst from Austria and her grand Bond theme-esque entry, which marked the first time that Austria have won since 1966!
Fellow perennial underachievers The Netherlands finished in second place, the Dutch enjoying a recent renaissance with this being their second consecutive top ten finish! And it was a thoroughly deserved second and one of the two songs I voted for, a gorgeous, classy but very subtle country duet that had a fantastic performance and perfect presentation. It's set to become the biggest post-contest hit around Europe somewhat surprisingly and has even cracked the top five on iTunes UK.
In third place was the Swedish legend that is Sanna Nielsen. The lady has literally given her entire career, which stretches 20 years (not bad for a 29 year old!) to the contest but finally made it through Melodifestivalen victorious this year. And she didn't disappoint, belting out the stunning Undo as if her life depended on it. It's Sweden's third top three finish in the last four years after Eric Saade's Popular and Loreen's winning smash Euphoria. It was naturally the second song that I voted for last night.
Elsewhere in the top 10 were expected high finishers from Armenia, Hungary, Ukraine, Norway and Denmark and slight over achievers perhaps in Russia and Spain, the former quite surprising considering all of the hate directed that way recently, but admittedly the song, a sort of The Pierces Juniors, grew on me a lot with the performance.
Stuck in the middle of table is poor Poland who finished 5th in the televote with their 'sexually churning the butter' anthem of life My Slowianie - We Are Slavic! Suffering the fate of Blue three years ago, the jury vote completely killed them off with a 12 in the UK televote translating to nothing overall once the jury votes had been combined!
And then of course onto the flops, some of which were incredibly surprising. The United Kingdom were widely expected to finish top five or top ten at the very least with Molly's pop anthem Children Of The Universe. In the end, it wasn't to be and she finished 17th. A marginal improvement on Bonnie Tyler's 19th last year but rather undeserved overall, the song was certainly far superior to the mess that finished one place above and Molly delivered a stellar performance! On the plus side it looks set to give her a UK top 20 hit and hopefully she'll have more hits to follow.
Azerbaijan, Italy and Greece have a habit of finishing in the top ten with just about anything that they send, the former finishing top five in all five previous contests. But they all failed spectacularly this year with Azerbaijan's deathly boring Start A Fire doing the complete opposite and finishing in the bottom five and Italy and Greece not doing much better!
Malta's Mumford and Sons-esque Coming Home sounded like it had real potential, and in fact the UK gave it 10 points, but that was to be almost a third of its total and it somewhat shockingly finished 4th from last! The bottom three however are not at all surprising, with France very nearly scoring the dreaded nul points for their Stromae meets Major Lazer type entry Moustache.
Overall, a week of big surprises. Few fans would have predicted an Austria vs. Netherlands top two this time a week ago, but both gave stellar renditions of excellent songs. Next year it's off to Vienna and I can't begin to imagine what will happen, but this year proved more than ever that you definitely can't rely on friends, politics and diaspora to get you a respectable finish. It's all about the song, the quality, the performance, the gimmick, the staging and the connection to the audience. Will the UK return to sending crap or finally find a winner? Will Azerbaijan pull another smash out of the bag after this epic fail? Will The Netherlands pick a winner now that they have their mojo back? #Join Us in a year's time to find out!
1. Sanna
Nielsen - Undo (4) (CR-3-3-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-2-4-1) 2. RAM
& Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia) (1) (CR-17-3-4-1-2) 3. The
Common Linnets - Calm After The Storm (NEW) (CR-3) 4. Molly
- Children Of The Universe (2) (CR-3-3-2-2-2-1-1-1-2-4) 5. Fox
Stevenson - Tico (5) (CR-5-5) 6. Pamela
Myburgh - Fool (3) (CR-16-9-3-6) 7.Meadowlark
- Family Tree (13) (CR-13-7) 8. Coldplay
- A Sky Full Of Stars (10) (CR-10-8) 9. Röyksopp
& Robyn - Do It Again (8) (CR-20-8-9) 10. Conchita
Wurst - Rise Like A Phoenix (NEW) (CR-10) 11.
Tolmachevy Sisters - Shine (NEW) (CR-11) 12.
Mr
Probz - Waves (Robin Schulz Radio Edit) (7) (CR-13-8-5-5-5-7-12) 13. Paloma
Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This (19) (CR-19-13) 14. Andriette
& Adam Tas - Ek Sal (11) (CR-20-11-8-11-14) 15.
Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake - Love Never Felt So Good
(17) (CR-17-15) 16.
Elaiza - Is It Right (NEW) (CR-16) 17.
Lily Allen - Life For Me (NEW) (CR-17) 18.
Ariana Grande feat Iggy Azalea - Problem (20) (CR-20-18) 19. Sarah
McLachlan - In Your Shoes (NEW) (CR-19) 20. Rae
Morris - Do You Even Know? (NEW) (CR-20) Top 20 albums
1. Lily
Allen - Sheezus (NEW) (CR-1) 2. Sarah
McLachlan - Shine On (NEW) (CR-2) 3. Eurovision
Song Contest Copenhagen 2014 (1) (CR-12-12-1-1-1-1-3) 4. Shakira
- Shakira. (3) (CR-1-1-2-3-2-3-4) 5.
Lykke
Li - I Never Learn (NEW) (CR-5) 6.
Kylie
Minogue - Kiss Me Once (5) (CR-1-1-2-2-3-5-4-5-6) 7. Anastacia
- Resurrection (NEW) (CR-7) 8. Euphoric
Clubland II (2) (CR-3-2-8) 9. Paolo
Nutini - Caustic Love (11) (CR-6-10-11-9) 10. Hafdis
Huld - Home (NEW) (CR-10) 11.
Armin
Van Buuren - A State Of Trance 2014 (6) (CR-10-4-8-10-12-6-11) 12.
Go!Go!Go! - Radio Go!Go!Go! (7) (CR-4-6-7-12) 13.
The
Ultimate Collection: 90s Anthems (4) (CR-4-13) 14. Sweet
California - Break Of Day (9) (CR-2-5-9-14) 15.
Frankmusik
- By Nicole (8) (CR-8-15) 16.
Mando
Diao - Aelita (10) (CR-10-16) 17.
Rebecca & Fiona - Beauty Is Pain (NEW) (CR-17) 18.
Iggy
Azalea - The New Classic (12) (CR-7-12-18) 19.
Christina Perri - Head Or Heart (16) (CR-3-7-12-15-16-19) 20.
Kent - Tigerdrottningen (NEW) (CR-20) Commentary
It's
a return to No.1 for Sanna Nielsen's epic ballad Undo, which clocks
up its sixth week on top after finishing third in last night's
Eurovision final. RAM & Susana fall a place to No.2 with the
equally huge RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia) while fellow Dutch act
country duo The Common Linnets debut at No.3 with their Eurovision
runner-up Calm After The Storm. Molly's Children Of The Universe
slides two places to No.4 and Fox Stevenson remains at No.5 for a
second week with Tico.
Lily Allen's Sheezus becomes her third
consecutive chart topper as it goes straight in at the top ahead of
fellow chart heavyweight Sarah McLachlan, the C+++anadian
singer-songwriter debuting at No.2 with Shine On. The Eurovision
compilation falls two spots to No.3 after a month on top, Shakira's
Shakira. falls two places to No.4 and Swedish balladeer Lykke Li
enters at No.5 with I Never Learn.
1. RAM
& Susana - RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia) (4) (CR-17-3-4-1) 2. Molly
- Children Of The Universe (1) (CR-3-3-2-2-2-1-1-1-2) 3. Pamela
Myburgh - Fool (9) (CR-16-9-3) 4. Sanna
Nielsen - Undo (2) (CR-3-3-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-4-2-4) 5. Fox
Stevenson - Tico (NEW) (CR-5) 6. Sigma
- Nobody To Love (3) (CR-19-14-7-8-9-12-4-2-3-6) 7.Mr
Probz - Waves (Robin Schulz Radio Edit) (5) (CR-13-8-5-5-5-7) 8. Röyksopp
& Robyn - Do It Again (20) (CR-20-8) 9. Vilija
Matačiūnaitė - Attention (6) (CR-15-8-6-9) 10. Coldplay
- A Sky Full Of Stars (NEW) (CR-10) 11.
Andriette & Adam Tas - Ek Sal (8) (CR-20-11-8-11) 12.
Sheppard
- Geronimo (7) (CR-18-12-7-12) 13.
Meadowlark - Family Tree (NEW) (CR-13) 14. Katy
Perry - Birthday (17) (CR-17-14) 15.
Ella Henderson - Ghost (10) (CR-10-15) 16.
Clean
Bandit feat Sharna Bass - Extraordinary (12) (CR-18-11-9-12-16) 17.
Michael Jackson & Justin Timberlake - Love Never Felt So Good
(NEW) (CR-17) 18.
Aram MP3 - Not Alone (Re-entry) (CR-17-OUT-18) 19. Paloma
Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This (NEW) (CR-19) 20. Ariana
Grande feat Iggy Azalea - Problem (NEW) (CR-20) Top 20 albums
1. Eurovision
Song Contest Copenhagen 2014 (1) (CR-12-12-1-1-1-1) 2. Euphoric
Clubland II (3) (CR-3-2) 3. Shakira
- Shakira. (2) (CR-1-1-2-3-2-3) 4. The
Ultimate Collection: 90s Anthems (NEW) (CR-4) 5.
Kylie
Minogue - Kiss Me Once (4) (CR-1-1-2-2-3-5-4-5) 6.
Armin
Van Buuren - A State Of Trance 2014 (12) (CR-10-4-8-10-12-6) 7. Go!Go!Go!
- Radio Go!Go!Go! (6) (CR-4-6-7) 8. Frankmusik
- By Nicole (NEW) (CR-8) 9. Sweet
California - Break Of Day (5) (CR-2-5-9) 10. Mando
Diao - Aelita (NEW) (CR-10) 11.
Paolo
Nutini - Caustic Love (10) (CR-6-10-11) 12.
Iggy Azalea - The New Classic (7) (CR-7-12) 13.
Now
That's What I Call 21st
Century (9) (CR-9-13) 14.
Dconstructed
(8) (CR-8-14) 15. Imelda
May - Tribal (NEW) (CR-15) 16.
Christina Perri - Head Or Heart (15) (CR-3-7-12-15-16) 17.
Embrace
- Embrace (NEW) (CR-17) 18.
Ingrid
Michaelson - Lights Out (14) (CR-10-7-14-18) 19.
Katy
B - Little Red (20) (CR-1-1-1-2-2-4-5-11-14-17-19-20-19) 20.
Helene Fischer - Best Of (18) (CR-3-5-9-14-18-20) Commentary Despite
it being one week until Eurovision, after eight weeks solid of
contest related No.1's there's a new leader this week. Dutch trance
producer RAM and singer Susana's RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia), a
tribute to RAM's late wife, climbs three places to the top of the
chart! Molly's Children Of The Universe is down a place to No.2 after
nine weeks in the top three and Pamela Myburgh, the lead singer of
South African duo The Arrows who topped the chart last year with Spin
My World and Entropy, climbs to No.3 with the beautiful piano ballad
Fool! Sanna Nielsen is down to No.4 with the former chart topper Undo
and UK producer Fox Stevenson makes a huge chart debut at No.5 with
the instrumental dance track Tico!
The Eurovision 2014
compilation makes it four weeks in a row at No.1 ahead of Euphoric
Clubland II which moves up a place to a new peak of No.2! Shakira's
Shakira. drops a place to No.3, compilation album The Ultimate
Collection: 90s Anthems debuts at No.4 and Kylie Minogue falls to
No.5 with Kiss Me Once.
