South Korean Rapper Psy Tops UK chart
Rapper Psy has become the first
South Korean pop star to make it to the top of the UK singles chart with his
song Gangnam Style.
The track has become a global
phenomenon and the video featuring his famous horse-riding dance is YouTube's
most "liked" of all time.
It entered the top 40 at number
37 two weeks ago, jumping to number three last Sunday.
Gangnam Style knocked The
Script's Hall of Fame off top spot.
The Irish band is now at number
two, with US rapper Flo Rida at number three with his single I Cry.
The highest new entry was DJ
Fresh's The Feel at number 13.
Mumford & Sons' new album,
Babel, has gone straight to the top of the UK album chart.
The band recently revealed that a
song on Babel features a line "lifted completely" from Hilary
Mantel's Wolf Hall.
The band's frontman, Marcus
Mumford, admitted to being inspired by the Man Booker Prize-winning novel in an
interview with BBC Radio 4's Front Row.
He said it was
"definitely" a line spoken by central character Thomas Cromwell, but
chose not to elaborate.
"I'm not going to tell you
which, because I think it might be illegal."
Babel follows their 2009
award-winning debut, Sigh No More, which also re-entered the top 40 this week
at number 10.
There is another new entry at
number two, Green Day's Uno, the first of a trilogy of albums.
Opera duo Jonathan and Charlotte,
who were contestants on the last series of Britain's Got Talent, debuted at
number five on the chart with their album, Together.
No Doubt's first album in more
than a decade entered the chart at number 16.
Push and Shove is the follow up
to 2001's Rock Steady.
Grateful
to: BBC
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