Westlife received the title of “Song of the Week” on the inaugural “Smash or Gash” review feature on this site. It now does what their previous song didn’t and that’s enter straight at number 1. Meanwhile, “Hello My Love” manages to climb in its 12th week on the chart.

Amazingly, 2 of the 3 weakest tracks, according to the reviews last week have 2 highest new entries on the chart. “Hustle” is the 2nd single from P!nk’s forthcoming album “Hurts 2 B Human” and it’s a bit of a non-event, but at the same time not offensive either (unless you have a problem with the word “fuck”, that is). Ciara’s new single was slightly downgraded in my review due to it not really going anywhere. But, I think it’s the mixture of middle-of-the-road, major key 90s-ness that has turned “Thinkin Bout You” into a bit of an earworm as the week’s gone on. I still think it will flop on the international charts though.

Further new mixes of “Body Funk” help Italian DJ Purple Disco Machine climb back into the top 3 for after a large drop from the top slot last week. A new compilation album from him arrives at the end of April.

Ariana Grande and regular collaborator Victoria Monet share the performer credit for the first time on a single on surprise release “Monopoly”, which is currently in the itunes top 10 in the UK after 3 days of release. The song doesn’t appear on her latest album “Thank U Next” and it’s unknown at this time whether it’ll appear on Ariana’s next album, which will no doubt come out by summer.

COMING SOON: On my next blog post I’ll be reviewing this week’s new song releases as well as a special review of Marina’s new digital album release of “Love”.

On next week’s TT20, will Little Mix’s “Woman Like Me” become the first track since Kesha’s “Woman” in early 2018, to score 20 weeks on the chart? It’s taken a battering on the rundown this week, with the biggest drop within the chart (down 14 places to number 20) so we’ll have to wait and see.

Also, I’ll be updating my Record Store Day picks in another blog post, as the annual event takes place in just 1 week from now.

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