Man, if anything has characterised the opening months of 1996, it's been the inconsistent and sometimes wild swings and while last week was calm, this week was a little crazy and little more reminiscent of the week, "Jesus to a Child" by George Michael went number one because folks, we have yet a nother new number one and it's one I kind of predicted last week would challenge rather than hit number one outright, the new number one is Shaggy's "Boombastic" which climbed eleven places to reach the top spot.
I don't mind "Boombastic", Shaggy sells the song with plenty of charisma and heck, it's a lot of fun, I'll take it over some songs that went number one in 1995 for a start like Jann Arden's "Insensitive" (a song that really does annoy the hell out of me)
I'll even take "Boombastic" over our new number two which is "Be My Lover" by La Bouche...christ, that song is grating.
In better news, Oasis's "Wonderwall" climbed over to number three. in fact both "Be My Lover" and "Wonderwall" pushed "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men. "One Sweet Day" spending it's NINTH week at number one in the US.
Tracy Chapman joins the top 5 with "Givfe Me One Reason" climbing one spot. Not that it needs a reason to climb up the chart because its an excellent song
Last week's number one, "Jesus to a Child" fell 5 places to number 6.
One of the biggest gainers of the week is Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" which jumped from 20 to 7. It's a bit of a guilty pleasure song for me to be honest.
"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio feat. L.V. continues to gracefukly work its way out of the top ten down 1 place to number eight.
"Boom Boom Boom" by The Outhere Brothers feel four places to number nine as it continues to lose steam.
Finally remaining at number ten is "Apple Eyes" by Swoop.
Gains
So apart from the big gains from Shaggy and Deep Blue Something gained big. Well...Monica's "Don't Take it Personal (Just One of Dem Days)" is up ten places to 14. "Diggin' On You" by TLC seems to have plenty of momentum behind it so it's up 9 places to 18.
"It's Oh So Quiet" by Bjork tiptoed quietly up 7 places to 23 while LL Cool J is also up 7 with "Hey Lover" at 33make
Re-Entries
Only one new entry this week "New" from Regurgitator returned at 50.
Losers
Not too many big losers this week, of those that lost maybe Pearl Jam's "Merkinball (EP)" which fell from 19 to 25.
New Entries
Three new entries this week led by Eternal's female power anthem "Power of A Woman" at number 44. The Outhere Brothers new single " La La La Hey Hey" arrives at number 45 and Joan Osborne's "One Of Us" makes it's debut at number 48.
So pretty bussy old week, can "Boombastic" keep hold of number one? Or will La Bouche or Oasis snatch it away, find out next week.
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