Archive for September, 2011

‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ stays top of UK box office

Monday, September 26th, 2011
Gary Oldman as George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has held on to its place at the top of the weekend UK box office.

Tomas Alfredson‘s spy thriller, which stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt and Kathy Burke, comfortably beat the competition from Crazy, Stupid Love, which comes straight in at number two.

Warrior enters the chart at number three, while Ryan Gosling‘s new thriller Drive rounds out the top five.

The final new entry in this week’s chart was Killer Elite, starring Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen.

The Inbetweeners drops from second place to fourth, while fellow comedy Friends With Benefits falls from third to sixth.

The UK Box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – £2,104,762
2. (-) Crazy, Stupid, Love – £860,112
3. (-) Warrior – £808,410
4. (2) The Inbetweeners – £754,226
5. (-) Drive – £754,226
6. (3) Friends With Benefits – £580,641
7. (-) Killer Elite – £481,143
8. (4) Jane Eyre – £445,455
9. (6) The Smurfs – £410,817
10. (5) The Change-Up – £378,226

N-Dubz Dappy snatches first solo No.1 with ‘No Regrets’

Sunday, September 25th, 2011

N-Dubz star Dappy has scored his first solo UK singles chart number one with ‘No Regrets’.

The 24-year-old, real name Costadinos Contostavlos, bumped last Sunday’s champions One Direction and ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ down to third place behind Maroon 5, who finish as runners-up for a fourth week with their Christina Aguilera collaboration ‘Moves Like Jagger’.

Dappy first topped the chart in 2009 as a featured artist on Tinchy Stryder’s ‘Number One’ and has collected seven top 20 hits as part of N-Dubz.

Elsewhere, a double bill of new entries in the shape of Jason Derulo’s ‘It Girl’ and ‘I Wont Let You Go’ by James Morrison completes the top five, while Pixie Lott trips three to six with ‘All About Tonight’.

Former album chart victor Ed Sheeran soars to seven from 14 with ‘The A Team’, Olly Murs drops down four to eight with ‘Heart Skips A Beat’ and Damien Rice’s 2002 track ‘Cannonball’ makes a shock return to the Top 10 at nine. The song has soared an enormous 30 places after it was covered on The X Factor by contestant John Adams.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Dappy: ‘No Regrets’
2. (2) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
3. (1) One Direction: ‘What Makes You Beautiful’
4. (-) Jason Derulo: ‘It Girl’
5. (-) James Morrison: ‘I Won’t Let You Go’
6. (3) Pixie Lott: ‘All About Tonight’
7. (14) Ed Sheeran: ‘The A Team’
8. (4) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
9. (39) Damien Rice: ‘Cannonball’
10. (9) Will Young: ‘Jealousy’

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‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’ tops UK box office

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011
Gary Oldman as George Smiley in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has entered the UK box office at number one.

Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s 1974 spy novel knocks The Inbetweeners from the top of the list, where it had been for a month.

Other new entries in this week’s top ten are Jason Bateman comedy The Change-Up at five, I Don’t Know How She Does It at seven and 30 Minutes or Less at ten.

Friends With Benefits and Jane Eyre shift down one place to third and fourth respectively, while The Smurfs dips to sixth.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – £2,814,860
2. (1) The Inbetweeners – £1,220,650
3. (2) Friends With Benefits – £936,025
4. (4) Jane Eyre – £734,071
5. (-) The Change-Up – £727,497
6. (4) The Smurfs – £585,092
7. (-) I Don’t Know How She Does It – £562,609
8. (5) Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes – £449,922
9. (6) One Day – £291,624
10. (-) 30 Minutes Or Less – £260,337

One Direction win fastest-selling No.1 of 2011

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

One Direction have stormed to the top of the UK singles chart with their debut release ‘What Makes You Beautiful’.

The X Factor boyband – known individually as Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson – achieved the biggest first-week sales of 2011 after shifting over 153,000 copies of their eagerly-anticipated track.

The group’s tally is ahead of the numbers posted by established artists such as Adele, Bruno Mars and Jennifer Lopez, who have also managed to exceed 100,000 sales in one week with their releases throughout the year.

Last week’s number one ‘All About Tonight’ by Pixie Lott is bumped down to third place behind Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera with ‘Moves Like Jagger’, while Olly Murs climbs two to four with Rizzle Kicks team-up ‘Heart Skips A Beat’.

Will Young returns to the single digits this Sunday with ‘Jealousy’, which is up to nine from 12, and Leona Lewis – the third X Factor act in this week’s Top 10 – crashes six places from four with ‘Collide’.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) One Direction: ‘What Makes You Beautiful’
2. (2) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
3. (1) Pixie Lott: ‘All About Tonight’
4. (6) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
5. (3) The Saturdays: ‘All Fired Up’
6. (5) Example: ‘Stay Awake’
7. (7) Calvin Harris: ‘Feel So Close’
8. (8) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
9. (12) Will Young: ‘Jealousy’
10. (4) Leona Lewis ft. Avicii: ‘Collide’

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‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ makes it a month at UK box office No.1

Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
The Inbetweeners movie still

The Inbetweeners Movie has topped the UK box office for the fourth consecutive weekend.

Simon Bird, James Buckley, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison‘s big-screen spinoff of their E4 sitcom holds off competition from new releases Friends with Benefits, starring Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis, and Jane Eyre.

The Smurfs retains the number four spot, while Rise of the Planet of the Apes slides three places to five.

Zoe Saldana’s action movie Colombiana enters at number seven on its debut weekend on release.

Elsewhere, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is still in the top ten, two months after its theatrical debut. The Potter finale has grossed £72 million in total in the UK.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Inbetweeners Movie – £2,147,393
2. (-) Friends with Benefits – £1,947,272
3. (-) Jane Eyre – £1,012,111
4. (4) The Smurfs – £817,306
5. (2) Rise of the Planet of the Apes – £701,258
6. (3) One Day – £634,807
7. (-) Colombiana – £424,049
8. (6) Final Destination 5 – £396,687
9. (7) Fright Night – £278,342
10. (9) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 – £259,540

Alexandra Burke apologises for new single delay

Monday, September 12th, 2011
Alexandra Burke

Alexandra Burke has confirmed that the release of the lead single from her second album has been delayed.

The ‘Start Without You’ singer has been working on the follow-up to her number one debut album Overcome since last November. The first track to be lifted from the collection was expected to premiere on radio this week.

“To all my supporters out there.. Firstly again. Thank you for you patience, (sic)” Burke wrote on in a new blog post, confirming that her record label had decided to push the date back.

“I am so so sorry for telling you guys that a single would be serviced to radio this week, that was the plan but we’ve decided to take a tiny bit more time as some exciting things have come up that we are looking at and RCA want to make sure everything is perfect. So please bare with us.”

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Pixie Lott nabs third UK singles No.1 with ‘All About Tonight’

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Pixie Lott has collected her third UK singles chart number one with ‘All About Tonight’.

The 20-year-old, who first reached pole position in 2009 with debut tracks ‘Mama Do’ and ‘Boys And Girls’, kept Maroon 5 and ‘Moves Like Jagger’ in the runner-up spot for a second week to take the top spot.

The Saturdays once again just miss out on their first UK number one with their latest release ‘All Fired Up’, their tenth Top 10 single since 2008, while Leona Lewis returns to the chart with her Avicii collaboration ‘Collide’ at four.

Last week’s number one ‘Stay Awake’ by Example concludes the top five and Olly Murs stumbles three to six with ‘Heart Skips A Beat’. Ed Sheeran rounds out this Sunday’s best sellers with ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You’, down six from its previous finish of four.

The Top 10 in full:
1.
(-) Pixie Lott: ‘All About Tonight’
2. (2) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
3. (-) The Saturdays: ‘All Fired Up’
4. (-) Leona Lewis ft. Avicii: ‘Collide’
5. (1) Example: ‘Stay Awake’
6. (3) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
7. (5) Calvin Harris: ‘Feel So Close’
8. (6) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
9. (10) Sean Kingston: ‘Party All Night (Sleep All Day)’
10. (4) Ed Sheeran: ‘You Need Me, I Don’t Need You’

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‘The Inbetweeners Movie’ holds UK box office No.1 spot

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Blake Harrison, Simon Bird, James Buckley and Joe Thomas

The Inbetweeners Movie has spent its third weekend at the top of the UK box office.

The sitcom spinoff, starring Simon Bird, Joe Thomas, James Buckley and Blake Harrison, takes in £3.6 million to easily hold off competition from Rise of the Planet of the Apes and One Day.

The Inbetweeners Movie has now grossed more than £34 million from UK cinemas, but co-creator Iain Morris has maintained that the comedy is unlikely to get a sequel.

The Smurfs holds its place at number four, while Salman Khan’s Bollywood release Bodyguard opens strongly to land at five.

Elsewhere, new movies Fright Night and Apollo 18 make disappointing debuts, landing at numbers seven and eight respectively.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Inbetweeners Movie – £3,679,555
2. (3) Rise of the Planet of the Apes – £1,083,091
3. (2) One Day – £1,048,343
4. (4) The Smurfs – £1,043,353
5. (-) Bodyguard – £839,695
6. (5) Final Destination 5 – £815,216
7. (-) Fright Night – £680,543
8. (-) Apollo 18 – £490,746
9. (7) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – £454,862
10. (6) Cowboys & Aliens – £401,751

Example scores second number one single with ‘Stay Awake’

Sunday, September 4th, 2011

Example has scored his second number one on the UK singles chart with his latest song ‘Stay Awake’.

The track, taken from the rapper’s third album Playing In The Shadows, follows his previous single ‘Changed The Way You Kissed Me’, which also topped the charts back in June.

Last week’s number one, ‘Heart Skips A Beat’ by Olly Murs, is forced into third place, while Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera climb one place with ‘Moves Like Jagger’.

Ed Sheeran debuts at number four with ‘You Need Me I Don’t Need You’, nine places ahead of his previous single ‘The A Team’. ‘Lick Ya Down’, the first track from Bajan four-piece Cover Drive, is straight in at number nine, while Sean Kingston climbs eight places to complete the top ten with ‘Party All Night (Sleep All Day)’.

The Top 10 in full:
1. (-) Example: ‘Stay Awake’
2. (3) Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera: ‘Moves Like Jagger’
3. (1) Olly Murs ft. Rizzle Kicks: ‘Heart Skips A Beat’
4. (-) Ed Sheeran: ‘You Need Me I Don’t Need You’
5. (2) Calvin Harris: ‘Feel So Close’
6. (6) Christina Perri: ‘Jar Of Hearts’
7. (4) Wretch 32 ft. Josh Kumra: ‘Don’t Go’
8. (5) Will Young: ‘Jealousy’
9. (-) Cover Drive: ‘Lick Ya Down’
10. (18) Sean Kingston: ‘Party All Night (Sleep All Day)’

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