How the charts work

If you can bear to look at the terrible new layout of the online Sun, there's a fascinating lesson in how the charts work, according to Victoria Newton:

SUGABABES have found the key to chart success – showing a bit of leg.

KEISHA, HEIDI and AMELLE flashed the flesh during a show at London club night G.A.Y. – and then saw themselves hold on to the No1 slot in yesterday’s chart with new single About You Now.

Now, you and I might wonder how an appearance in a London nightclub on a Saturday night, which doesn't seem to have picked up any coverage apart from Newton's column the day after the chart was published would have influenced sales, but then we can't pretend to have Victoria's expertise in these matters.