2000 Sound: 22nd October. it's a Beautiful Day to be Friends Forever with a Teenage Dirtbag

Another week and yet another change right at the very top and plenty of moves up and down the chart yet again, the new number one comes from a new entry from U2 with their new single "Beautiful Day", it got to number one on the back of massive sales but I don't see it staying at number one.

If not for U2, it would have almost certainly meant Pink's "Most Girls", stuck at number two, would have gone back to number one but it is starting to show signs of weakening which makes it vulnerable to "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)" by Spiller which also remained at three but is an incredibly strong chance of taking number one if not next week...very soon.

All of this saw "On A Night Like This" by Kylie Minogue drop three places to number four and "Shackles (Praise You)" by Mary Mary down one to number five.

What is remaining steady is "Rock DJ" by Robbie Williams at number six, this song is actually surprisingly consistent.

Madonna's "Music" fell two places to number seven. Good. The sooner its gone the better while "Fill Me In" by Craig David unfortunately slipped one to number eight, also taking a one place hit is Bomfunk MCs with "B-Boys & Flygirls" at number nine.

Hitting the top ten for the first time is "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus which rose three places to number ten.

Gains

Up eleven places to 29 is "Friends Forever (Graduation)" by Vitamin C because somehow this song is going to be a thing and looks like it might suffer from overplay down the track.

Rising eight places into the top 20 is "Something Deep Inside" by Billie Piper. The song is fine but it's not better than "Day & Night"

Losers

Former number one "I'm Outta Love" by Anastacia dropped hard from 18 to 31 this week (more on Anastacia in the new entries) while "Jumpin' Jumpin'" by Destiny's Child fell 16 places to 46 and "Say It Isn't So" by Bon Jovi dived down from 34 to 48...ouch. 

"Breathless" by The Corrs plunged 7 places to 30 as it literally runs out of puff on the chart, the same for Savage Garden's "Chained To You" as it lost it's gains from last week to go back to 28 while "Everything You Need" by Madison Avenue slipped 7 places to 17.

New Entries

So I already mentioned the biggest debut of the week belonging to U2's "Beautiful Day" at number one but we also have a slew of new songs beyond the top ten so let's start at number 19 with thirteen year old Nikki Webster and the Sing 2001 Choir's song from the Sydney Olympics called "We'll be One" which got enough traction to hit the chart. 

Anastacia's follow up to "I'm Outta Love" called "Not That Kind" lodges at number 21, it's not quite as good as "I'm Outta Love" but hey it's still decent.

Eminem's new single "The Way I Am" enters at number 34/ *NSync are promising the girls things at number 42 with "This I Promise You" while on the other side the Pacific, British boy group A1 have hit the ARIA chart with a cover of A-Ha's 1985 smash "Take On Me". 

Unfortunately "Black Coffee" by All Saints lost all momentum to go cold down from 29 to 45...a shame because it's one of All Saints best songs.