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Gnarls shift focus to next single.(The Market)

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Claiming the number one position on the singles chart for the ninth week in a row, Crazy by Gnarls Barkley saw its sales slip just 6% last week to 37,682, beating off a challenge from new runner-up Sandi Thom's I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair) by a margin of 15.2%.

Crazy now has one of the longest reigns at number one in chart history, being inferior to only six of the previous 1,032 chart-toppers, namely I Believe by Frankie Laine (18 weeks at number one in total, split into separate runs of nine, six and three weeks), (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. by Bryan Adams (16), Love Is All Around by Wet Wet Wet (15), Rose Marie by Slim Whitman (11), Cara Mia by David Whitfield and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston (both 10).

Crazy shares another distinction with Love Is All Around--that of being deleted while number one. The Wet Wet Wet single was deleted at lead singer Marti Pellow's insistence, while Crazy is being withdrawn by Warner Music today (Monday) in cahoots with Gnarls Barkley, so that attention can be focused on follow-up Smiley Faces--which is due for release on July 17--and the duo's St. Elsewhere album, which has thus far ...

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