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Chart round-up: Really, who HASN'T heard Eyes Open yet?

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by Mike Diver

Who’d have thought it? A good few weeks in and still ‘Grace Kelly’ is doing it for the people of Britain. Well, for the people of Britain who don’t like music, anyway.

Yup, Mika remains top of the singles chart this week, with Kaiser Chiefs‘Ruby’ at two for a second week. Below these two the top five looks like this: Akon is at three with the Snoop-guesting ‘I Wanna Love You’; Just Jack’s ‘Starz In Their Eyes’ (review) continues its loitering around the chart’s upper levels at four; and Fall Out Boy are at five with ‘This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race’ (review).

The highest new entry this week comes from Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose ‘Desecration Smile’ makes 27 in its first week; below the Californians, Towers Of London make 46 with ‘I’m A Rat’, Plus 44’s ‘When Your Heart Stops Beating’ debuts at 47, and The Killers‘Read My Mind’ begins its assault on the chart at 62.

In the albums chart, the highest new entry comes courtesy of Van Morrison, whose At The Movies album debuts at 17. Mika’s Life In Cartoon Motion (review) is at number one, with Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black at two and Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open at three (Snow Patrol pictured). Surely everyone has that last one by now, no? I do, and I hate them! Well, hate’s a bit strong, but come on… this record’s legs must be as long as the Nile.

In further albums chart news, KlaxonsMyths Of The Near Future (review) tumbles from seven to 21 this week, probably because it’s hardly Valentine’s-friendly. Phil CollinsLove Songs certainly is, though, and that climbs from 19 to number seven, a place above Bloc Party’s A Weekend In The City (review).

Our tips for your chump-change this week: Explosions In The Sky’s All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (review), Trans Am’s Sex Change (review), and The Besnard Lakes’ awesome …Are The Dark Horse (review). Shopping for singles? Pick up ‘Heart Of Hearts’ by playing-in-the-office-right-now sorts !!! (review) and Grinderman’s ‘No Pussy Blues’. Look for a review of the latter later this week, and an interview with the band early next month.


I can honestly say...

... that I've not heard the song. Therefore I have no idea how bad it is, but I'm guessing very.


Me either

Or the Snow Patrol album.

Must be out of touch, or somefink.


I'd quite like to hear

the Snow Patrol album.


It's not amazing.

I really like the new single though.


i listened to the album once

it's shite. i like final straw.


seriously

what is "eyes open"...?


as in

is it their next "huge groudbreaking transatlantic smash" - i.e. another singysongy plodalong to market car ads and provide the news at ten with the definitive moment of CorpRockFest or whatever...?

Didn't Snow Patrol used to be good?


I feel very lucky

that I've still not heard anything by Mika!

I have heard Snow Patrol though.


...

I haven't heard it. unless it was playing in bar and I didn't notice.

or Mika, or the new kaiser Chiefs. in fact I haven't knowingly heard any of those songs mentioned above...

my bubble rules!


Just Jack...

Is it just me or does that starz in their eyes track sound just like "I wish" by Skee-Lo?


just jack is unfathomably awful

that he's spared bile and snow patrol and mika aren't is too kind


just jack

always makes me think of will and grace. which is a shame, because it is a hideous song and w&g is a classy show.

I've heard 'chasing cars' once, and half of 'open your eyes' in a cafe today, and that is the extent of my knowledge of 'eyes open'. woo woo.


i've just made that connection also

and now my enjoyment of that programme has been marred forever

never watched it anyway though, so it's ok

I think +44 should fuck right off though


Snow Patrol

I've held back and NOT bought 'eyes open'. Do I get a medal or summat?


BBBBBBBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSNNNNNNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDD

LLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSS

buy it


"Surely everyone has that last one by now, no?"

Not me! But my mum does. She loves it. She likes the one that goes (quote) "If I lay here ... if i just lay here...meepmeepmepmeeeep meeep meeeep...."


Mika

can just go and die


really

i haven't listened to Eyes Open. I had it playing once when it first came out (my dads copy) and tried to listen to it the other day and just couldn't do it.

snow patrol are one of my favourites, for sure, but back in the starfighter pilot times. even final straw was a goodun.

but. bands change.