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CHART COMMENTARY

Sing by Travis becomes the Scottish group's first airplay chart number one this week, and also completes the notable feat of topping the airplay chart prior to commercial release. The record, which comes out today (28th), is the first single to reach number one this year before being made commercially available, and both its audience of 84.4m and its plays tally of 1,789 are the highest of Travis's career.

Meanwhile, the Stereophonics give rock a second bridgehead to the Top 10, jumping 259 with Have A Nice Day, which is undoubtedly building on the popularity of their most recent single Mr Writer, which accumulated a massive amount of plays altogether, although it failed to reach the Top 10. The only other new entry to the Top 10 is DJ Pied Piper's Do You Really Like It, which surges 19-10. Thirty-two plays on Radio One (up from 28 last week) provide almost exactly half of its audience, but ILR support jumped from 590 to 904 plays last week, providing much of the impetus for its jump.

Records frequently miss out on a Top 50 place with more than 1,000 plays and it is certainly very unusual for a record to climb to just outside the Top 30 with just 129 plays -- but that's exactly what I Monster have done with their superb Daydream In Blue, which jumps 53-34 this week to become the highest new entry to the Top 50. Basically a cover of Belgian group the Wallace Collection's 1969 single Daydream -- a massive international hit which did not do anything here -- it is being propelled by huge support from Radio One, which aired it 26 times last week, and sister station Radio Two, where it is exciting much praise from the likes of Jonathan Ross and Terry Wogan. Radio One's support provided 76% of the record's total audience last week, the highest of any Top 50 record.

In the same way as Music Control provides airplay chart information for the UK and a dozen other European territories, Mediabase monitors American airplay, with its findings reported in our US cousin Gavin and our pan-European trade title fono. Mediabase monitors more than 1,000 stations including 133 Top 40 outlets -- and in the seven days up to midnight on Friday, those Top 40 stations aired Lady Marmalade, by the all-star configuration of Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Mya & Pink, a phenomenal 9,159 times, an average of 69 plays per station. That is the highest tally ever achieved by a record on the panel, and an indication of just how popular the track -- which is also number one on Billboards Hot 100 -- is in America. And it looks like becoming a major hit here too.

Although rightly adjudged "a little busy" by Nona Hendryx who was a third of Labelle when they recorded the original in 1975, the Aguitera and friends version is scorching up the chart here. It jumps 30-15 this week with a 92% increase in spins and a 57% increase in audience. The 671 extra plays it bagged last week also put it at number one on the growers chart. The ease with which it is conquering UK playlists is perhaps surprising, considering it is only three years since UK radio stations were giving heavy support to All Saints' version of the song.

Hear'Say's follow-up to Pure & Simple -- The Way To Your Love -- is off to a great start. The record was serviced to radio last week and immediately found its way on to 20 stations, with 343 plays making it the second biggest grower of the week, behind Lady Marmalade.