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The official UK airplay charts: top 50.

Music Week

| July 05, 2003 | Jones, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2003 UBM Information Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

AIRPLAY COMMENTARY

BMG's Jive imprint has held the number one slot for seven weeks--first via Justin Timberlake, then R. Kelly--and has maintained a top two shut-out for six weeks, but all that changes this week, with Columbia's Beyonce and Jay-Z single Crazy In Love moving past both Timberlake and Kelly to claim pole position. Moving 64-39-22-10-4-4-1, Beyonce's single put on a spectacular late spurt to reach the summit, increasing its audience from 68.837m to 92.590m--a 34.5% increase--while upping its tally of plays from 1,923 to 2,572, a 33.7% improvement. The Beyonce and Jay-Z single was the most-played song on Radio One for the second week in a row, with 33 ...

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