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Toy Story 3 has smashed UK box office records with a £21 million opening.

The latest movie from Pixar breaks the record for the biggest debut haul of 2010 and is the second largest UK opening of all-time behind Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban. It is also the biggest July opening to date.

“These characters are like family and so we could not be more proud of the response to Toy Story 3 this weekend,” said producer Darla K. Anderson. “We are thrilled that fans – old and new – continue to embrace and love these characters as much as we do.”

Toy Story 3 is one of four new entries in this week’s chart ahead of Catherine Zeta-Jones rom-com The Rebound, Bollywood movie Khatta Meetha and horror Splice.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Toy Story 3 – £21,187,264
2. (1) Inception – £4,172, 568
3. (3) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – £1,436,792
4. (2) Shrek Forever After – £1,223,759
5. (-) The Rebound – £360,015
6. (4) Predators – £305,424
7. (-) Khatta Meetha – £124,104
8. (5) Get Him To The Greek – £119,424
9. (-) Splice – £110,225
10. (10) Leaving – £39,409

Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup have risen to No.1 on this week’s UK singles chart with ‘We No Speak Americano’.

The club anthem, which first entered the charts a fortnight ago, jumped from number two last week to take the top spot and end B.o.B’s short-lived reign. His song ‘Airplanes’ slips to three after Eminem & Rihanna climb up to two with ‘I Love The Way You Lie’.

Despite his high debut on the album chart, Professor Green drops two spots from five to seven with ‘Just Be Good To Green’. The same fate befalls JLS, who are barely holding on inside the top 10 just two weeks after topping the chart, as ‘The Club Is Alive’ drops from seven to nine.

None of this week’s releases managed to make a dent on the top 10, with ‘DJ Got Us Falling In Love’ by Usher & Pitbull the highest new entry on the chart at 20. They debuted one place behind Jason Derulo’s What If which advanced by 21 spots on its second week in the top 40 to become this week’s number 19.

The top ten singles in full (click where available to see official music video):
1. (2) Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup: ‘We No Speak Americano’
2. (3) Eminem & Rihanna: ‘I Love The Way You Lie’
3. (1) B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams: ‘Airplanes’
4. (4) Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg: ‘California Gurls’
5. (8) Eliza Doolittle: ‘Pack Up’
6. (6) Mark Ronson & The Business Intl: ‘Bang Bang Bang’
7. (5) Professor Green ft. Lily Allen: ‘Just Be Good To Green’
8. (9) Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull: ‘I Like It’
9.(7) JLS: ‘The Club Is Alive’
10.(10) 30H!3 ft. Ke$ha: ‘My First Kiss’

Source: Official Charts Company

Leonardo DiCaprio’s sci-fi thriller Inception has gone straight to the top of the UK box office on its first weekend on release.

The Christopher Nolan-helmed blockbuster takes in £5.9 million to chart ahead of Shrek Forever After (£4.1 million) and Eclipse (£3.3 million).

Predators and Get Him To The Greek complete the top five.

Elsewhere, three French films are in this week’s top ten – rom-com Heartbreaker, Kristen Scott Thomas’s Leaving and Melanie Laurent’s Le Concert.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Inception – £5,912,814
2. (2) Shrek Forever After – £4,198,874
3. (1) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – £3,390,512
4. (3) Predators – £893,439
5. (4) Get Him To The Greek – £440,282
6. (5) Killers – £71,486
7. (7) Heartbreaker – £68,757
8. (6) Sex And The City 2 – £51,777
9. (-) Leaving – £50,241
10. (-) Le Concert – £38,053

B.o.B has risen from last week’s third spot to number one in the UK singles charts with ‘Airplanes’.

Yolando Be Cool & D Cup and Eminem & Rihanna also climbed to second and third place, as Katy Perry dropped to number four.

Professor Green and Mark Ronson were new entries at fifth and sixth place respectively. Meanwhile, a major drop in sales saw JLS plummet from the top spot to number seven.

Elsewhere, Eliza Doolittle made her first entry into the top ten at eight, while Enrique Iglesias and 3OH!3 were both down three places.

The top ten singles in full (click where available to see official music video):
1. (3) B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams: ‘Airplanes’
2. (5) Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup: ‘We No Speak Americano’
3. (4) Eminem & Rihanna: ‘I Love The Way You Lie’
4. (2) Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg: ‘California Gurls’
5. (-) Professor Green ft. Lily Allen: ‘Just Be Good To Green’
6. (-) Mark Ronson & The Business Intl: ‘Bang Bang Bang’
7. (1) JLS: ‘The Club Is Alive’
8. (12) Eliza Doolittle: ‘Pack Up’
9. (6) Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull: ‘I Like It’
10. (7) 30H!3 ft. Ke$ha: ‘My First Kiss’

Source: Official Charts Company

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse has smashed the 2010 opening weekend record at the UK box office.

The vampire romance, starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, took in £13 million to best Alice In Wonderland‘s £10 million debut from March.

Eclipse‘s total is also ahead of the last Twilight film, New Moon, which earned £11 million in ticket sales last year on its first weekend on release.

Shrek Forever After falls to second place, the Adrien Brody-led Predators is a new entry at number three and comedies Get Him To The Greek and Killers round out the top five.

Elsewhere, two Bollywood films make appearances in the chart. I Hate Luv Stories falls to number eight and new release Milenge Milenge bows at ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:

1. (-) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – £13,756,653
2. (1) Shrek Forever After – £4,591,105
3. (-) Predators – £2,203,193
4. (2) Get Him To The Greek – £610,705
5. (3) Killers – £157,615
6. (4) Sex And The City 2 – £107,884
7. (6) Heartbreaker – £84,417
8. (5) I Hate Luv Stories – £78,353
9. (7) Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time – £48,268
10. (-) Milenge Milenge – £48,172

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JLS have landed straight at the top of the UK singles chart with ‘The Club Is Alive’, finally ending Katy Perry’s two-week reign.

The upbeat dance track is the X Factor boyband’s third UK number one single and their fourth consecutive top 10 release. The song’s arrival bumps Katy Perry with ‘California Gurls’ and B.o.B’s ‘Airplanes’ down a place each to second and third respectively.

Eminem & Rihanna climb the chart for the third consecutive week, advancing two paces from six to four.

As well as JLS, this week’s top 10 sees two more new entries, Yolanda Be Cool and D Cup’s ‘We No Speak Americano’ at five and 3OH!3 and Kesha’s ‘My First Kiss’ at seven.

Kylie Minogue may have scored her fourth number one on the album chart, but her comeback single ‘All The Lovers’ falls six spots, from three to nine, in its fourth week on the chart.

Outside the top 10, Eliza Doolittle’s ‘Pack Up’ is the only new entry, entering the chart at 11.

The top ten singles in full (click where available to see official music video):
1. (-) JLS: ‘The Club Is Alive’
2. (1) Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg: ‘California Gurls’
3. (2) B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams: ‘Airplanes’
4. (6) Eminem & Rihanna: ‘I Love The Way You Lie’
5. (-) Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup: ‘We No Speak Americano’
6. (4) Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull: ‘I Like It’
7. (-) 30H!3 ft. Ke$ha: ‘My First Kiss’
8. (7) Lady GaGa: ‘Alejandro’
9. (3) Kylie Minogue: ‘All The Lovers’
10. (8) Example: ‘Kickstarts’

Source: Official Charts Company

Apple Records has announced plans to reissue its back catalogue of music not recorded by The Beatles.

The venture released recordings from artists signed by The Beatles between 1968 and 1973, and 15 albums will be released on October 26.

All the digitally remastered material will be available via CD and digital download. The Beatles’ own recordings still remain unavailable online despite their recent re-release.

The full list of reissued albums is as follows:
James Taylor – James Taylor
Magic Christian Music, No Dice, Straight Up and Ass – Badfinger
Postcard and Earth Song, Ocean Song – Mary Hopkin
That’s The Way God Planned It, Encouraging Words – Billy Preston
Doris Troy – Doris Troy
Is This What You Want? – Jackie Lomax
Under The Jasmine Tree and Space (2LPs on 1CD) – Modern Jazz Quartet
The Whale and Celtic Requiem (2LPs on 1CD) – John Tavener

Shrek Forever After has topped the UK box office.

The latest film in DreamWorks’s animated comedy series nets £8.9 million over the weekend to knock Russell Brand’s Get Him To The Greek from the chart summit.

Killers and Sex And The City 2 fall to numbers three and four respectively, while Bollywood movie I Hate Luv Stories bows at five. French rom-com Heartbreaker is the only other new release to chart in the top ten, landing at number six.

Elsewhere, Woody Allen’s latest film Whatever Works climbs a place in its second weekend in cinemas to claim the number ten spot.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Shrek Forever After – £8,955,554
2. (1) Get Him To The Greek – £1,048,898
3. (2) Killers – £274,768
4. (3) Sex And The City 2 – £212,501
5. (-) I Hate Luv Stories – £202,907
6. (-) Heartbreaker – £119,742
7. (4) Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time – £92,682
8. (6) Death At A Funeral – £68,609
9. (7) The Collector – £65,042
10. (11) Whatever Works – £49,321

Katy Perry has easily secured a second week at the top of the UK singles chart, after ‘California Gurls’ outsold its nearest rival by 70%.

Perry beat B.o.B and Hayley Williams’s ‘Airplanes’, which climbs from twelve last week to become this week’s second-biggest seller.

Enrique Iglesias notches up the highest new entry on the chart, as well as his seventh UK top ten single, with ‘I Like It’, which debuts at four.

Climbers in this week’s chart include Kylie Minogue’s ‘All The Lovers’, which jumps from six to three and ‘Love The Way You Lie’ by Eminem and Rihanna, which hops one spot to six, as does Lady GaGa’s ‘Alejandro’, rising from eight to seven.

Kelly Rowland and David Guetta finally crack the top ten in their sixth week on the chart with ‘Commander’, advancing from 13 to nine.

England’s exit from the World Cup last Sunday has clearly had an effect on the music world, with K’Naan’s football anthem ‘Wavin’ Flag’ slipping from two to five and former No.1 ‘Shout’ by Shout For England, Dizzee Rascal and James Corden crashing 12 places from three to 15.

Elsewhere outside the top ten, Skepta manages the second highest new entry of the week with ‘Rescue Me’ at 14, while Alicia Keys’s ‘Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart’ climbs one spot from twenty to nineteen.

The top ten singles in full (click where available to see official music video):
1. (1) Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg: ‘California Gurls’
2. (12) B.o.B ft. Hayley Williams: ‘Airplanes’
3.(6) Kylie Minogue: ‘All The Lovers’
4. (-) Enrique Iglesias ft. Pitbull: ‘I Like It’
5. (2) K’naan: ‘Wavin’ Flag’
6.(7) Eminem & Rihanna: ‘Love The Way You Lie’
7. (8) Lady GaGa: ‘Alejandro’
8. (4) Example: ‘Kickstarts’
9 (12) Kelly Rowland ft. David Guetta: ‘Commander’
10. (5) Eminem: ‘Not Afraid’

Source: Official Charts Company