Popjustice
  • Home
    • Briefing archive
  • Features
  • Playlists
  • Get Popjustice emails
  • About Popjustice
    • About
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Contact
    • General contact details
    • Submit music
  • Forum
Recent Posts
  • New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
  • New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
Hello! In theory you should only be seeing this if you're using a mobile or tablet. How's the site looking? If anything's wonky click here and tell us so we can fix it. Thanks! x
Popjustice
  • Briefing
  • Features
  • Playlists
    • New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
    • Big Hit Energy
    • 21st Century Pop
    • 2018% Solid Pop Music
    • Full archive
  • About
    • About Popjustice
    • Contacting Popjustice
    • Send music
    • Popjustice: Est 2000
    • The Popjustice Twenty Quid Music Prize
  • Forum
  • The Briefing

What's happening in the iTunes chart?

  • June 2, 2008
  • Popjustice

In case you missed it over the weekend, a dancing child moved VERY NEARLY in time to 'Singin' In The Rain (Short Rad…' on the tele­vi­sion on Saturday night, and now people are buying it 'in their droves'.

Perhaps that would be a good term for songs which appear in the charts simply because a short appear­ance on a light enter­tain­ment show has sent Saturday night primetime audiences flocking to iTunes. "Mint Royale are droving up the charts this week." "Number One on drove downloads alone." Maybe not.

Anyway there is bad news for the dancing child according to today's The Sun.

Where were these so-called 'docs' when we really needed them?

Of course what should happen now is that the Sugababes should rush-release this…

[audio:sugababesdance.mp3]

…as their next single and get George The Dancing Child to appear in the video dancing his last ever dance. It would be literally drovetastic.

  • Sugababes
Previous Article
  • Songs

Kim Leoni — 'Medicine'

  • June 2, 2008
  • Popjustice
Have a read
Next Article
  • The Briefing

All we hear is Lady GaGa

  • June 2, 2008
  • Popjustice
Have a read
Pop as in popular
  • 1
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 2
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
Further listening
Greatest hits
  • Marina & The Diamonds interview: "Everyone’s vapid to a degree"
  • Alison Goldfrapp interview: "I feel good about this"
  • Robyn talks 'Body Talk': "I'm always going to feel like an outsider"
Further reading
  • 1
    New Music Friday: Let's kick off 2021 with some KLF
  • 2
    The Top 45 Singles Of 2020
  • 3
    New Music Friday: Mae Muller doesn't want to be dependent
  • 4
    New Music Friday: There's a big one from Royal & The Serpent
  • 5
    New Music Friday: Baby Queen takes the throne
  • 6
    Twenty Quid 2020: Dua Lipa is the winner
Est 2000. Still going.
Socials

 Spotify
 Facebook
 Twitter
 Instagram
 Soundcloud

'Quick links'

About Popjustice
Contact Popjustice
Sign up for the news­let­ter
Submit music
Est 2000
Twenty Quid Music Prize

Playlists

21st Century Pop
New Music Friday: The Popjustice Edit
2018% Solid Pop Music
The Sound Of Popjustice
Playlist archive

© 2020 Popjustice Ltd. Scrolled to the bottom now you're here
  • Privacy, Ts & Cs, cookies etc
  • Corrections

Input your search keywords and press Enter.