"My, there are a load of new entries to the top 40 this week," I thought to myself, "and they're all bloody awful anonymous trancey bollocks." DJ Alligator? Lange? Who are these people? And what are they doing in the charts? Tom gives them a thorough - and thoroughly funny - going-over on Pop-Eye. And there's yet more exhaustive commentary from James Masterton over at dotmusic.

In a very low-selling week, Aaliyah becomes the ninth person to top the UK charts posthumously:
Buddy Holly (plane crash), 1959
Eddie Cochran (motor accident), 1960
Jim Reeves (plane crash), 1966 (died 1964)
Jimi Hendrix (drugs), 1970
Elvis Presley (heart failure), 1977
John Lennon (murdered), 1980
Jackie Wilson (natural causes), 1986 (died 1984)
Freddie Mercury (AIDS), 1991
Aaliyah (plane crash), 2002 (died 2001)

Will George Harrison repeat the feat next week?