The first chart of a new year sees a new No. 1 from a singer who hasn't been there before. "Britain's Got Talent" and YouTube phenomenon Susan Boyle moves 2-1 with "Wild Horses" from her debut CD, "I Dreamed a Dream." The live version of the title track went to No. 2 last spring. Boyle's debut album has already sold more than 2 million copies in five weeks in the U.S.
Last week's highest debut is this week's biggest mover. Even as Kyle and Fish heat up on TV's "One Life to Live" (check out YouTube for more on that), their love song, "My Confession" by Rie Sinclair & Friends, does the same here, moving 29-9. It's one of the three biggest movers of the week, all packed together this week in spots 9, 10 and 11. Robbie Williams' "Last Days of Disco" jumps 19-10, while the Alicia Keys/Beyonce duet "Put It in a Love Song" sprints 22-11.
Only one new song in the Top 40 this week, but it makes for an interesting chart coincidence. Ringo Starr's "Walk With You" enters at No. 40, just a few weeks after a different song with that title by Edwin McCain dropped off the countdown. This song features backing vocals by Paul McCartney, and it marks the first time the two surviving former Beatles have been in the Top 40 on my weekly charts. Starr's solo success occurred in the 1970s prior to the establishment of my surveys; his sole '80s chart hit, 1981's "Wrack My Brain," fell during a period when McCartney wasn't active. But this week, Starr joins both McCartney and their late bandmate's older son, Julian Lennon, in the Top 40. Starr is at No. 40, McCartney at No. 28 with "(I Want to) Come Home" and Lennon at No. 32 with James Scott Cook on "Lucy."
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