The top 20 singles of May, with one of the places they’re being released in brackets:
1. Pipettes – Pullshapes (UK)
2. Lillix – Sweet Temptation (Canada)
3. Dima Bilan – Never Let You Go (Russia)
4. The Similou – All This Love (UK)
5. Mihai Traistariu – Tornero (Romania)
6. The Kooks – She Moves In Her Own Way (UK)
7. Texas Lightning – No No Never (Germany)
8. Lorraine – Transatlantic Flight (UK)
9. Amy Diamond – Don’t Cry Your Heart Out (Sweden)
10. Agnes Carlsson – Stranded (Sweden)
11. The Attic – Life To Live (Sweden)
12. Arsenium ft. Natalia Gordienko & Connect-R – Loca (Moldova)
13. Sylver – Lay All Your Love On Me (Germany)
14. West End Girls – Suburbia (Sweden)
15. Andy Bell – I’ll Never Fall In Love Again (UK)
16. Eric Gadd – Meet Me Here (Sweden)
17. Nick Lachey – What’s Left Of Me (USA)
18. Paolo Nutini – Last Request (UK)
19. Boy Kill Boy – Suzie (UK)
20. Christina Milian – Say I (USA)
And how does this effect the chart of the year, I hear you ask!
1. BWO – Temple Of Love
2. Will Young – Who Am I
3. Delays – Valentine
4. Rihanna – S.O.S (Rescue Me)
5. Kate Ryan – Je t’adore
6. Pipettes – Pullshapes (UK)
7. Infernal – From Paris To Berlin
8. Najoua Belyzel – Gabriel
9. Will Young – All Time Love
10. The Veronicas – When It All Falls Apart
11. Lillix – Sweet Temptation
12. Fefe Dobson – As A Blonde
13. Morningwood – Nth Degree
14. BWO – We Could Be Heroes
15. September – It Doesn’t Matter
16. The Veronicas – Everything I’m Not
17. Delays – Hideaway
18. Protocol – Where’s The Pleasure
19. Elisa – Swan
20. The Research – Lonely Hearts Still Beat The Same
While only 9 of the above received UK releases, and only 3 were top 10 hits, a look at that amazingly ace list shows that this has still been a great year for music so far, and with 2 of the songs in particular (Rhianna and Infernal) being huge hits, we definitely can’t complain.