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4.6.06
Hallelujah! It's a hit!



After their amusingly-introduced performance on C4's Popworld yesterday, Eurovision winners Lordi have entered the UK's singles chart at #59 today, on downloads alone. 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' is also at a very healthy #28 in the download chart.

That singles chart placing of #59 today is one place above the new entry from back-on-form Prince and four places above the always over-rated Mariah Carey (with Snoop Dogg). It means that Lordi have already beaten the #72 peak of Sertab's 2003 winner. Ruslana made #47 in 2004 and Helena Paparizou's winner from last year wasn't released here, despite the UK giving her 12 points, because record companies are run by idiots. None of the three winners from 2000 to 2002 were released in the UK either. We have to go back to 1999 to find the last Eurovision winner to make the UK top 40, when Sweden's Charlotte Nilsson made #20 with 'Take Me To Your Heaven'. The last Eurovion winner to make the UK top ten was Katrina & The Waves making #3 in 1997 with 'Love Shine A Light', which is the only one of our five winners which didn't also top our chart.

Just in case Lordi are aiming high, I should mention that Nicole's 'A Little Peace' from 1982 is the last Eurovision-winning song to become a UK number one.

The CD release of Lordi's single is officially on Tuesday this week, not tomorrow (Monday), so that they can release it on the devil's day, 06/06/06; the same day as the remake of The Omen, for the same reasons. This is quite odd really, considering how keen Mr Lordi was in Athens to distance the group from satanism. He pointed out that they even have a song called Devil Is A Loser, but I guess the opportunity was too good to ignore.

I would expect to see 'Hard Rock Hallelujah' jump into the top twenty next week, if not the top ten. Then perhaps Radio 1 might join the more enlightened people at Xfm and actually play it. Pigs might fly.


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