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21.2.02

Australia's charts


I'm sure you're dying to know what's Number One out here, aren't you? Singles-wise, the answer is Shakira, with 'Whenever Wherever' (AKA 'Suerte' in its Spanish version). She appears poised to take over the world, as S&R reported to me after their Christmas trip to Panama and neighbouring countries that this song has followed them around Central America. Think it's out in the UK very soon, maybe next week? Before I left, I also saw her perform the Spanish ' Suerte' version on Operacion Triunfo; Spain's Big Brother meets Popstars programme to choose their Eurovision entrants.Robbie Williams has a surprising hit in the Top Ten, with 'Better Man'. This track is 18 months old, and when it appeared on Sing When You're Winning, was pencilled in, and widely touted, as the 2000 Christmas Number One, but it has never been released at home. I will now have to import it. As at home, 'Come With Us' by the Chemical Brothers is knocked off the top of the album chart, but here in Oz it's a one place climb by Jamiroquai, not Enrique.


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