2000 Sound: December 10. 7 Days as Independent Women

So let's dive straight into this week without any of the usual mucking around as it looks like being a fairly straight forward week here...the top ten hasn't changed right at the very top in spite of how much I badly want it to change, "Who Let the Dogs Out?" by the Baha Men remains at number one for a third week

The song best placed to retake the top spot is "Teenage Dirtbag" by Wheatus which has sales on its side...may well just be a matter of time before it returns to number one but it blew past "Graduation (Friends Forever)" by Vitamin C which slipped back to number three. 

Human Nature remain at number four with "He Don't Love You", the hype in the UK around this song is crazy thanks to Neighbours being shown over there however there's pressure being brought to bear by a new arrival to the top ten that being "Independent Women Part I" by Destiny's Child which climbed seven places to number five thanks to Charlie's Angels movie hype.

Madasun's "Don't You Worry" remained stable at number six which is good because I still like the song while "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love" by Spiller slides gracefully down two places to number seven, it pushed the Spice Girls down one places to number eight with "Holler"

Refusing to go away is "Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez which remains steady at number nine while rising nine places to number ten is "7 Days" by Craig David, it's his second consecutive top ten hit.

Gains

So apart from "7 Days" by Craig David reaching the top ten, what else gained big? Well, there's Matchbox Twenty's ballad "If You're Gone" which roared up from 39 to land at 22.

"My Love" by Westlife climbed from 43 to 37 and "Dance With Me" by Debelah Morgan rose eight places to 39. 

"Girls On Top" by Girl Thing jumped seven places to 43,

Re-Entries

The one return is from Blink 182 with "Man Overboard" back at number 50. 

Losses

The Sydney Olympics hype has well and truly faded so that meant "We'll Be One" by Nikki Webster and Sing 2001 Choir went down from 41 to 49. Mandy Moore's "I Wanna Be With You" skidded down from 25 to 32.

"Shackles (Praise You)" by Mary Mary tumbled from 18 to 25 while the terrible "Don't Tell Me" by Madonna fell out of the top ten to 17.

New Entries.

Just two new entries with the highest debut coming from Ronan Keating's ballad "The Way You Make Me Feel" in at 45 while shock rocker Marilyn Manson is right behind him at 46 with "Disposable Teens"