Cher Lloyd Gets That Number One Hit
Cher Lloyd becomes the ninth artist this year to score their first number-one hit as a solo/main artist in RT40 following Adele, Fun., Gotye, The Wanted, Chris Rene, One Direction, Drake and Justin Bieber. It must be noted that Final 20, my former weekly chart, was also considered. Lloyd also continues the strike of newcomers hitting number-one in my chart as Want U Back hits #1 on its ninth week in the chart. Want U back debuted in RT40 on chart date June 16, 2012 at #38; and from that week forward the song kept on rising. Lloyd gained popularity after competing and finishing fourth in the seventh series of The X Factor UK.
Meanwhile, Fun. settles at #2 for a second consecutive week with Some Nights - the follow-up to the number-one hit, We Are Young. Coldplay and Rihanna drop 1 - 3 with Princess of China, as Usher's Scream, Maroon 5 and Wiz Khalifa's Payphone, and The Cab's La La all drop one spot to #4, #5 and #6 respectively. Katy Perry's Wide Awake and Justin Bieber's Boyfriend flip-flop at #7 and #8. As Boyfriend is starting to fall-off the top ten, Bieber's follow-up single As Long As You Love Me moves in to the top 20 this week at #19.
Back in the top ten, two artists score their first top ten hits this week. Carly Rae Jepsen, alongside the not-so-new-to-the-top-ten-artist Owl City moves 15 - 9 with Good Time. Jepsen, the Call Me Maybe singer, failed to enter my chart with her debut song but scores her first top ten with this collaboration. Meanwhile, this is Owl City's third top ten hit, following the top two hit Fireflies and number-one hit Vanilla Twilight (both from Final 20).
Also scoring her first top ten hit this week is Ellie Goulding with Lights. Goulding also has a second entry this week. Hanging On, featuring Tinie Tempah, peaks at #35 this week. Hanging On is a song off Goulding's sophomore album Halcyon out this October.
On other chart news, One Direction's One Thing is just two weeks away in order to tie Foster the People's Pumped Up Kicks for the most weeks in the chart. See full list below:
Pumped Up Kicks by Foster The People - 33 weeks
One Thing by One Direction - 31 weeks (still charting)
How To Love by Lil Wayne - 28 weeks
Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye feat. Kimbra - 28 weeks (still charting)
Science and Faith by The Script - 27 weeks
Set Fire To The Rain by ADELE - 27 weeks
Mr. Know It All by Kelly Clarkson - 26 weeks
Someone Like You by ADELE - 26 weeks
You And I by Lady GaGa - 26 weeks
Invisible by Skylar Grey - 25 weeks
Moves Like Jagger by Maroon 5 - 25 weeks
Papi by Jeniffer Lopez - 25 weeks
Sexy & I Know It by LMFAO - 25 weeks
You Make Me Feel by Cobra Starship - 25 weeks
Helena Beat by Foster The People - 24 weeks
I Like It Like That by Hot Chelle Rae - 24 weeks
Never Gonna Leave This Bed by Maroon 5 - 24 weeks
The One That Got Away by Katy Perry - 24 weeks
What Doesn't Kill You by Kelly Clarkson - 24 weeks