Why did Adele's Make You Feel My Love shoot up again from 27 to 7? I suspect one of the answers is - Bob Dylan knows how to write great songs.
Why did JLS only scrape in at 10? I suspect because our new "stars" are less popular than the media likes to pretend.

Did anyone see The Brits Nominations Show? Bloody awful.

I saw some of that Brits show, and had to switch off.
It seems to me that the "music scene" is now made up of certain acts who are basically the same as each other in 2 or 3 styles.
Firstly: we have the Florences & Ellies. Female singer-songwriters (apparantly, Ellie Goulding seemed to be suggesting she gets told what to write in an interview I caught) who are, or pupport to be, yoof facsimiles of the Bat For Lashes "I love Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell & all the great songwriters, and I write my own tunes and play my instruments" schtick. It's getting harder to tell the wheat from the chaff.
Then we have "grime". What is "grime"? Well, it was once an edgy street 21st century variant of UK hip-hop, but it seems to have become a soundalike commericialised "style", and the music cliched "Landan streets, innit" rap scattered with computerised (and generically interchangable) music and "same old same old" lyrics. Apparantly Tinie Tempah is very good, though I'm finding it hard to cut through the bullshit hype and silly name to listen!
Thirdly, there is this watered down, limp UK "R'n'B", indistinguishable from most pop. Apparantly "soul" now involves constant auto-tune, and of course interchangable syncronized dance routines.
All three genres must also do what trendy Fearne "Billy" Cotton calls "collabo's" which are all-the-rage. Another word for this is "mash-ups". I understand these unnecessary "collabo's" were started years ago on the Brits by Texas & Method Man, but shh! best not tell "ver kids" they didn't invent it! According to Fearne "you're no-one in 2011 if you don't do collabo's"

Talking of Fearne:

Hi JK

I've finally joined after months of lurking!

Re Adele - for some reason Kerry Katona and partner skating to a minute-and-a-half edit of the track on last week's Dancing On Ice inspired an extra 20,000 buyers.

RE JLS - the track is being cherrypicked from their album at present. The single version featuring Tinie Tempah hasn't been released yet but its video went to TV just over a week ago, which is what's prompted the chart entry early. It will probably hang around for a few weeks and then leap up the chart again when the new version is released.

Great news from Sony and Universal that this scenario is on its way out with the instant radio/retail policy, as detailed in your other post! Long overdue!

Agreed on the BRITS launch show...! Although anything featuring Fearne Cotton is painful viewing.

Adele's "Make You Feel My Love" shot up because it was featured on ITV's "Dancing On Ice".

JLS's title has only entered the chart at no. 10 because it hasn't been officially released yet, so it is people purchasing the album track. But an interesting question. This, in my opinion is how the chart should work, and commentators shouldn't assume that a lower entry means our new "stars" are less popular than the media likes to pretend.