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DATAFILE EXPOSURE: 12.04.08.
After seven weeks at the top of the radio airplay chart, Duffy's Mercy tumbles to number five. Although Mercy is still by far the most-played song on the Music Control panel - it was aired 2,505 times last week, nearly 600 more than the second most-played track, Better In Time by Leona Lewis - its audience slumped from 84.50m to 62.85m, allowing One Republic's Stop And Stare to end its reign.
Stop And Stare increased its audience from 55.06m to 70.44m to move to the summit, with a total of 1,615 plays. It was helped considerably by 23 plays on Radio One (worth 22.65m listeners) and 16 plays on Radio Two (21.36m).
Stop And Stare is One Republic's follow-up to Apologize. Surprisingly, their collaboration with Timbaland never made it to number one. Although in the Top 10 for 19 weeks, its highest airplay chart slot was number three.
Scouting For Girls continue in hot pursuit of their second airplay number one, with Heartbeat climbing 5-3. Its tally of 989 plays is fewer than Sugababes' Denial needed to secure 43rd place but Heartbeat is getting massive support from the BBC's behemoths, with 18 spins on Radio Two ...