"Quitting's out of the question!"

1. Fight For This Love – Cheryl Cole  (1) Second week at number one in the shower tune chart. Coz it works!
2. The Gambler – Kenny Rogers (2) This one continues to baffle me but the stats don’t lie!
3. Hot N Cold – Katy Perry (3) Good chooooon Ms Perry, that album refuses to die. She releases MTV Unplugged this month though so look out for that.
4. The Loving Kind – Girls Aloud (6) Dreams that glitter…
5. We Built This City – Starship (4) Down one place to 5 but it’s a feel good classic and might stick around
6. 3 Words – Cheryl Cole This will be released in December. It’s a grower with a touch of Black Eyed magic.
7. Heaven – Cheryl Cole (23) No wonder this made a massive leap. It’s been in my head and should be in yours too. Tune’s good, lyrics are all lovey dovey but I can forgive that.
8. Boys and Girls – Pixie Lott (13) Blame this on needing music when you get ready for a night out.
9. Waking Up In Vegas – Katy Perry (12) Shake the glitter….
10. Paparazzi – Lady Gaga (5) I think this one stuck around coz I saw the V performance. Down 5 places tho…

Nearly but not quite…

• 13. I Kissed a Girl – Katy Perry (11) Down two for the anthem ‘straightened out’ by Lloyd in X Factor
• 14. One of the Boys – Katy Perry (9) Down five but still around. A song about being pretty and sparkly YAY
• 24. Boyfriend – Alphabeat (25) Up one coz someone thought it was funny to dedicate this song to me after Pride. No more shall be said about this. If you were around at the time, you already know!
• 25. Call the Shots – Girls Aloud Pulled this one back from nowhere and it sounds mega before you go out.
• 26. Take Your Mama – Scissor Sisters
• 28. Sweet Home Alabama – Lyn Skyn (27) Down one, catchy and reminds me of the film and J Lu. Yum!
• 29. Haven’t Met You Yet – Michael Buble (36) Slow and steady progress for the gorgeously bouncy happy song, ruined slightly by the video and the girl he sings to. He sings it to me, in my mind he does!
• 30. Meet Me Halfway – Black Eyed Peas NEW ENTRY coz it makes ya dance. Will be huge!
• 38. Cry Me A River – Michael Buble NEW ENTRY It’s a catchy ‘I don’t care about you so ner’ kinda song.
• 39. Use Somebody – Kings of Leon RE-ENTRY coz it reminds me of people. hehe xx
• 41. Remedy – Little Boots (37) Ooops it’s slipping down the chart. Still a stonking choon though.
• 44. Music is the Victim – Scissor Sisters  NEW -Jakey’s second appearance of four. Pre-going out track!
• 45. Rock With You – Michael Jackson NEW- MJ  doubters need to discover Off The Wall. When he was good he was very very good, Funky. This track does it all.
• 49. I Don’t Feel Like Dancing – Scissor Sisters NEW  funny how a song about sitting down, fills the dancefloor! And with help from Elton too…
• 50. I Can’t Decide – Scissor Sisters Another with the stubborn theme. Used in Dr Who with John Simm too.

Until next week I’ll leave you with this… Taio Cruz contributed ‘Stand Up’ to Cheryl’s album. Her management had first refusal on a song that he wrote especially for her but he ended up taking it back. That song?  ‘Break Your Heart’, damn record company executives…. most unglittery move of the month!

Don't we have the best listeners, sending pics like this in? Creepy and stalkerish yes?

1. Fight For This Love – Cheryl Cole. People will say what they like. Great single. And she gets ‘sick’ and ‘picnic’ said with attitude. Fab!
2. The Gambler – Kenny Rogers Blame the Office US and Steve Carrell for this one, beautiful though!
3. Hot N Cold – Katy Perry Pretty ironic for a shower music play list.
4. We Built This City – Starship Admittedly a bit of cheese, and factually incorrect if you listen to the words. But damn it’s bouncey and feel good.
5. Paparazzi – Lady Gaga
6. The Loving Kind – Girls Aloud This was number one for AGES, Zenomania do it again. Beware they are working with Mini Viva now. She left her heart in Tokyo… silly girl.
7. Never Forget You – The Noisettes I know this is modern but it sounds all old and souly and I like it.
8. Don’t Stop Believing – Journey And the cheese just keeps on comin’, takes a while to get going this song. It’s a great song but not a Shower Music classic. Expect it to drop next month!
9. One of the Boys – Katy Perry
10. Love in the First Degree – Banarama I was on the balcony of the VIP area at Manchester Pride with this lad on my knee screaming that all he wanted to hear was “Guilty as a Girl Could Be”, they insisted on throwing ‘new’ stuff at us and eventually played this and VENUS (at the request of a drunk drag queen in the front row). Ah the memories….from what I can remember!

• 11. I Kissed A Girl – Katy Perry I read something this week that blamed Poptastic in Canal St for drumming this into our heads over the past year. I quite agree. I kissed a girl too, was nice. Didn’t do much for me though.
• 13. Boys and Girls – Pixie Lott
• 14. The Chase - KANE (Christian Kane) Now that Chris is a big star about to release a proper record, his first album has been deleted but if you’re a lil bit country and a lil bit rock n roll… this is a good album to get. Otherwise catch him as Lindsay McDonald in ‘Angel’ or his new US TV thing.
• 18. Footloose – Kenny Loggins This is a great shower song and I’m shocked it’s not higher… la Bacon. Bad film. Good song. Kenny Loggins was a bit of a hit maker for 80′s films wasn’t he…ah. Pure cheese!
• 22. Philadelphia Freedom – Elton John This list would not be complete without the presence of the Queen of England. This is a choon and a half.
• 23. Heaven – Cheryl Cole Stand out track of the debut album of our Cheryl. It’s trancey, good vocal… and a bit of Black Eyed Pea magic in their too.
• 24. Condemnation - Depeche Mode
• 27. Sweet Home Alabama – Lyn Skyn It’s the opening riff man, all about that opening!
• 28. I Gotta Feeling – Black Eyed Peas A reminder of the best week of my life ever, this song has Manchester Pride 09 all over it. Bouncing along to the rappy bit and everyone knowing the words? Fabulous!
• 36. Haven’t Met You Yet – Michael Buble He sings, have you heard him talk? Have you seen him? Phwoar! Give this a listen and I swear you will be smiling a bigger smile…if not I want to know why!
• 37. Remedy – Little Boots Another Pride 09 reminder, everyone went crazy for this and it was hammered by the DJ, sung live by LB herself and played to death by me at the time so no wonder it’s slipped lower now.
• 45. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now – the Smiths Get well soon Moz!