Dominator's UK Top 40 Chart Analysis (w/e May 18th 1996)
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Details for positions 41-75 and anything marked "[@]" courtesy of
Chris Dunford (ch...@dunford.demon.co.uk) including :
Thanks to Dave Ewart <ew...@icrf.icnet.uk> and Alexis Katsadorakis
(mel...@hol.gr) for the info on the Pet Shop Boys new single.
Thanks to Alexis Katsadorakis for new release info marked [&].
This week : 14 new entries, 2 non-movers, 3 climbers & 21 downers.
CHART TIME! :
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(* - my current favourites)
(!!! - Single Of The Week!!!)
(:O === the current all-time hate that makes even my smilie want to hurl!)
( (R) - Repeat., ie. a re-release)
40 (22) FALLER : Pet Shop Boys - Before *
Some new remixes of this single are released on Monday 20th May.
39 (35) FALLER : Kavana - Crazy Chance
38 (17) FALLER : Def Leppard - Slang :O ===
37 NEW ENTRY : Lisa Moorish - Love for Life
36 (28) FALLER : The Presidents of the United States of America - Peaches
35 NEW ENTRY : Ricky Ross - Radio On
The first solo single from the now-defunct Deacon Blue, and it's not bad,
but not particularly outstanding either. It sounds very much like an average
Deacon Blue song in fact.
34 NEW ENTRY : Chameleon - The Way It Is
33 NEW ENTRY : Skin - Perfect Day
32 (14) FALLER : S-Express - Theme from S-Express : The Return Trip
31 NEW ENTRY : White Zombie - Electric Head Part 2 (The Ecstasy)
30 (21) FALLER : The Prodigy - Firestarter :O ===
29 (18) FALLER : Sleeper - Sale of the Century *
One of the joint-best singles of the year is this latest single from Sleeper,
a jaunty pop song which definitely deserved a place in the Top 10.
28 (7) FALLER : Bluetones - Cut Some Rug/Castle Rock
27 (23) FALLER : Gabrielle - Give me a little more time
26 NEW ENTRY : Rebekah Ryan - You Lift Me Up
25 (24) FALLER : Mark Snow - The X-Files Theme Tune
24 NEW ENTRY : Underworld - Pearl's Girl
23 (25) CLIMBER : Alanis Morissette - Ironic *
22 NEW ENTRY : Shed Seven - Bully Boy
21 (15) FALLER : Chantay Savage - I Will Survive
20 (13) FALLER : Lisa Marie Experience - Keep on Jumpin'
19 (16) FALLER : Robert Miles - Children *
18 (12) FALLER : 3T - 24/7
17 (8) FALLER : Busta Rhymes - Woo-hah! Got You All in Check
What on earth is this guy on about?
16 (11) FALLER : Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us
15 (9) FALLER : Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life *
Their first single since the disappearance of band member Richie Edwards
in September 1994, of which nothing has been heard since, and if you've
heard their music before, then you'll know exactly what to expect. Superb!
14 NEW ENTRY : Soundgarden - Pretty Noose
13 (10) FALLER : Klubbheads - Klubhopping
12 NEW ENTRY : Horace Brown - One for the Money
11 NEW ENTRY : 1300 Drums featuring Unjustified - Ooh! Aah! Cantona
10 (19) *HIGHEST CLIMBER* : Tony Rich Project - Nobody Knows
9 (5) FALLER : Blur - Charmless Man *
The fourth (if I can count) single from their "Great Escape", and allegedly
is about Morrissey, if anything the Chart Show says is to be believed.
8 NEW ENTRY : Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight *
7 NEW ENTRY : JX - There's Nothing I Won't Do
6 (6) NON-MOVER : 1996 Man Utd FA Cup Squad - Move Move Move (The Red Tribe)
Not exactly the best of football songs, but they still managed to clinch
the FA Carling Premiership, and now the FA Cup making the double double!
I expect Kevin Keegan will be even more angry than he was the other day
when his outburst at a football match made the headlines.
5 (4) FALLER : Suggs & Louchie Lou/Michie One - Cecilia *
4 *HIGHEST NEW ENTRY* : Liverpool FC & Boot Room Boyz -
Pass & Move (Liverpool Groove)
This may have been the highest new entry this week, but Manchester United
will have sold more copies overall since their single's release, making it
a TRIPLE!
3 (2) FALLER : Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
2 (3) CLIMBER : Gina G - Ooh Aah ... Just a Little Bit :O ===
Thanks to Chris Dunford for telling me that this single was 285 copies
away from making No.1. No doubt with Eurovision on the horizon this weekend,
and George Michael's new album, "Older" now available, she'll make the big
one next week.
I'd like to be proved wrong though...
1 (1) NON-MOVER : George Michael - Fastlove * *3rd Week at No.1*
Once again, George Michael goes straight into the top slot, although with
this single I didn't think that it would as until the middle of last week
it hadn't really grown on me, but now it has.
I wonder if this will start another run of new entries at the top slot,
but if it does it'll have some way to go to beat the run of TEN going straight
in which was set recently.
The rest of the chart from 41 to 75...
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41 31 -10 2 Pac featuring Dr. Dre - California Love
42 36 -6 Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
43 26 -17 Alex Reece - Feel the Sunshine (remix)
44 N kd lang - You're OK
45 N Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel/I Was the One
46 20 -26 Luniz - Playa Hata
47 N KRS One - Rappaz Rn Dainja
48 30 -18 Ash - Goldfinger
49 34 -15 Technohead - Happy Birthday
50 N BBG - Snappiness
51 39 -12 Kadoc - the Nighttrain
52 29 -23 Incognito - Jump to My Love/Always There
53 N Marmion - Schoneberg
54 27 -27 Sting - You Still Touch Me
55 38 -17 911 - Night to Remember
56 61 +5 Take That - How Deep Is Your Love
57 N In Aura - Coma Aroma
58 44 -14 Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
59 N Bianca Kinane - All the Lover I Need
60 42 -18 Dana Dawson - Show Me
61 N Aloof - Wish You Were Here...
62 32 -30 Honeycrack - King of Misery
63 33 -30 Super Furry Animals - God! Show Me Magic
64 N Terra Firma - Floating
65 43 -22 Terrorvision - Celebrity Hit List
66 41 -25 Coolio - 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New)
67 62 -5 Oasis - Whatever
68 40 -28 Salt Tank - Eugina
69 N De-Code featuring Beverili Skeete - Wonderwall/Some Might Say
70 53 -17 Kula Shakur - Grateful When You're Dead-Jerry Was There
71 45 -26 Orbital - the Box
72 48 -24 Briana Corrigan - Love Me Now
73 N Sandy B - Make the World Go Round
74 65 -9 the Cranberries - Salvation
75 72 -3 Oasis - Cigarettes and Alcohol
Those that fell out of the Top 75...
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37 60ft Dolls - Talk To Me
46 Mary Kiani - Let the Music Play
47 the Cure - the 13th
49 Geto Boys featuring Flaj - the World is a Ghetto
50 Babylon Zoo - Animal Army
50 Sharada House Gang - Let the Rhythm Move You
52 Bruce Springsteen - the Ghost of Tom Joad
54 Matt Goss - If You Were Here Tonight
55 Supernova - Some Might Say
56 AC/DC - Hail Caeser
57 Meat Loaf - Runnin' for the Red Light (I Gotta Life)
58 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - It's Time
59 Plux featuring Georgia Jones - Over & Over
60 Skunk Anansie - Charity
63 Maxwell - ...Til the Cops Come Knockin'
64 Cast - Walkaway
66 Johnna - In My Dreams
67 Luniz - I Got 5 On It
68 Adeva - I Thank You
69 Ken Doh - Nakasaki EP (I Need a Lover Tonight)
70 Spacehog - In the Meantime
71 DJ Dado - X-Files
73 Midi Xpress - Chase
74 Joe - All the Things (Your Man Won't Do)
75 George Michael - Jesus to a Child
New releases :
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(* - my current favourites)
May 6th :
(also released)
BBG - Snappiness
Indoor - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
J Pac - Nutter
Bianca Kinane - All the Lover I Need
k.d. lang - You're O.K.
Elvis Presley - Heartbreak Hotel (R)
Lou Reed - Hooky Wooky
SWV - You're the One
May 13th :
John Alford - Blue Moon/Only You
Anticapella - 2 231
Black Grape - Fat Neck
Blue - Still Moving
The Corrs - The Right Time
D'Angelo - Lady
Gloria Estefan - Reach
Grace - Down to Earth
Hallucinogen - Spacepussy
Jodeci - Get on Up
Mark Knopfler - Cannibals
The Lightning Seeds featuring Frank Skinner and David Baddiel
- The Official Song of the England Football Team *
Sean Maguire - Good Day
- He actually wrote this one so you can be sure that it's full of
strong political insight...NOT!
Billy Ray Martin - You I (Keep Holding On)
Nu Colours - Desire
Midge Ure - Breathe
Voice of the Beehive - Heavenly
May 20th :
Pet Shop Boys - Before (more DJ remixes)
Top 10 ALBUM chart :
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10 (8) FALLER : Celine Dion - Falling into You
9 NEW ENTRY : Cure - Wild Mood Swings
8 (6) FALLER : Mike and the Mechanics - Hits
7 (2) FALLER : Cranberries - To the Faithful Departed
6 (3) FALLER : Take That - Greatest Hits
5 NEW ENTRY : Sleeper - The It Girl
4 NEW ENTRY : Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
3 (4) CLIMBER : Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
2 (1) FALLER : Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
1 NEW ENTRY : Ash - 1977
Other new entries in the Top 40 Album chart :
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17 Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
27 Lightning Seeds - Pure Lightning Seeds
30 Ian McNabb - Merseybeast
35 (47) Blur - The Great Escape
New releases :
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May 6th :
Apocalypse Now - Original Soundtrack
The Birdcage - Original Soundtrack
The Cure - Wild Mood Swings
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
Gin Blossoms - Congratulations I'm Sorry
Hackers - Original Soundtrack
The Lightning Seeds - Pure Lightning Seeds
Ian McNabb - Merseybeat
Ian McNabb - Merseybeat (ltd. double-CD : cat.no. 524 240-2)
Mr. Holland's Opus - Original Soundtrack
No Bananas - Original Soundtrack
Tony Rich Project - Words
Sleeper - The It Girl
Vertigo - Original Soundtrack
The Wildhearts - Fishing For Luckies
May 13th :
Boys - Original Soundtrack
Chantay Savage - I Will Survive (Doin It My Way)
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Def Leppard - Slang
Neil Diamond - The Best of...
Executive Decision - Original Soundtrack
The Hamsters - Jimi Hendrix Memorial Concerts
George Michael - Older [&]
Pan Pipes Moods - In Paradise
Peanuts Bank Foots the Bill - Original Soundtrack
The Quest - Original Soundtrack
Danny Rampling - The Love Groove Dance Party
Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead - Original Soundtrack
The Truth About Cats and Dogs - Original Soundtrack
- the latest film from Michael Lehmann, director of "Heathers"
White Squall - Original Soundtrack
Music-related IRC channels :
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Marcus (melo...@airmail.net) has the first of this chart's IRC channels.
The Channel Name: #EuroHits_Heaven
It's on the DalNet system of IRC servers (liberator is a DalNet Server in
Britain), so all you need is IRC software (mIRC for Windows, Ircle for Mac),
log into a server and type "/join EuroHits_Heaven"
it's that easy ;-)
And be sure to bring your smilie
P.S. I work Sunday through Thursday (15:00-22:30, sometimes later) this
means that when I am home from work, most people in Europe will be up...so
maybe we can chat live with computer users in Britain and the
Continent...(maybe some new mailing list subscribers :-)
Music group WWW sites :
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Neal Davies <ne...@jwd42.demon.co.uk> has a Dodgy Website at :
http://www.ftech.net/~nebula/dodgy/dodgy.html
The MAD Mosher <irpu...@comp.brad.ac.uk> has the following page :
http://www.brad.ac.uk/~irpurdie/MusicPage
"I've got pages for Megadeth, Little Angels, Terrorvision, The
Wildhearts, Pantera and Paradise Lost, though I confess these are
getting somewhat out of date. I'm mainly concentrating on the main page
which fetarures a load of links to other heavy metal pages as well as
reasonably up-to-date news (again, all rock/metal-related)."
Adam Reeve <rad...@dircon.co.uk> writes with a link to his Sunscreem homepage.
It's at http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~radish/suns.html
David <dpla...@worldnet.att.net> writes :
I have a link for a Diana Ross webpage. The link is
http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/1254
James Hoye <James...@pa-consulting.com> has a page for the Cardigans,
which is run by Nicolas Moch :
Ross Clement <cle...@westminster.ac.uk> says :
Hi. I've got a web address you might like to add to your list. It's a page
(not too well formatted) for visitors to London describing some places
and ways of searching for records/cds.
It's usually described as "Ross Clement's London Record Hunters' FAQ".
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~clemenr/lonrec.html
Chris Sully <C.M....@cs.cf.ac.uk> maintains a list of past Radio 1
Essential Mixes at his web site :
http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/User/C.M.Sully
N.Morgenstern (frog...@dircon.co.uk) writes :
Mine is http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/external/nmorgens/music.html
Anders (anders....@mailbox.swipnet.se) has a Mariah Carey home page :
http://www-und.ida.liu.se/~d93andwa/Mariah/gallery.html
There are MANY pictures of Mariah there.
My worldchartspage:
http://www.edu.isy.liu.se/~d93andwa/stuff/html/chart.html
Katsadorakis Alexis (mel...@hol.gr) writes :
The OFFICIAL web page of Queen is: http//:www.queen-fip.com
Tobias Zywietz (10042...@compuserve.com) writes :
I've got a couple web-sites that you might add to your regular list (the first
one's actually my own homepage!):
1. The Official Zobbel Website
>From the Zobbel Homepage
http://www.rpms.ac.uk/csc/CW/tobias/zobbel.htm
I link a number of pages concerned with British charts, namely:
- The Complete 1995 Chart Runs of the CIN Top 200 Singles & Top 150 Albums
Charts
On a total of over 50 pages you can access the complete chart runs of the
2,537 singles and albums that appeared on the Top 200 of CIN's Official
UK Singles Chart and the Top 150 of CIN's Official UK Artist Albums Chart
for the period of 14.01.1995 - 4.11.1995.
- The 1960 Chart Runs of the NME/RR Charts
5 Pages with the chart runs of some 280 singles that appeared on the NME
Top 30/RR Top 40 during 1960.
- Bibliography of Chartography
12 pages with bibliographic records of over 500 books on charts, from
the UK, the US, Germany, and several other countries.
- Several statistics pages with basic statistical data on the UK & World
Record Industries:
World Record Sales, 1994 & 1993
UK Record Sales, 1972-1994
UK Record Sales: Singles by Format & Quarter, 1987-1994
UK Record Sales: Albums by Format & Quarter, 1980-1994
UK Record Releases, 1976-1994
Selected Chart Statistics
- Several Billy Bragg Pages, linking also other BB sites:
I'm constantly adding new pages.
I'm also opearting a mailing list (sort of): I send out the British Reggae
charts from ECHOES on a weekly basis. Anyone interested should send me a
message with subject=Reggae Chart list and his address in the body of the
mail to : 10042...@compuserve.com
2. The Chartwatch Homepage:
http://www.rpms.ac.uk/csc/CW/CWhp.html
The homepage of Chartwatch Magazine, currently featuring mainly info about
the mag itself.
Have a look & judge yourself.
Harinderpal Singh Grewal (ha...@iti.gov.sg) :
Marc Almond & Soft Cell
http://www.iti.gov.sg/almond/
Bevis King (B.K...@ee.surrey.ac.uk) :
The Go-Gos
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/music/go-gos/
Belinda Carlisle
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/music/go-gos/belinda.html
Laura Branigan
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/music/laura-branigan/
MONDO TRASHO <rbe...@mit.edu> :
http://www.mit.edu:8001/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/r/b/rberth/www/home.html
"The Allman Brothers Band" from Bruce Anderson (band...@emr.ca) :
http://pubweb.acns.nwu.edu/~slee/allman/abb.html
Heather Weir's hot-list of WWW music sites :
"This seems to be a good place to link
to all sorts of other music sites and was voted best music
site on the web by radio 1.
Perfecto,
WEA, Parlophone, Creation,MCA all have home page links,
there is blur, pet shop boys, black grape" :
http://www.musicbase.co.uk/music/
"The Cocteau Twins", "Dead Can Dance" and the 4ad Home Page :
http://grether.haas.berkeley.edu:8080/
The Parlaphone music site (Blur, Elastica, Supergrass, Oasis) :
http://lispstat.alcd.soton.ac.uk/~prbt/blur/links.html
Go Disks title page on :
(Beautiful South, Portishead, Paul Weller and all go discs artists
eg Drugstore and many more)
Stereolab :
http://www.maths.monash.edu.au/people/rjh/stereolab/
"Morrissey" from Jack Stefani (jste...@indiana.edu) :
http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~jstefani
"Bjork" from Tony Howat :
http://www.indian.co.uk/bjork/
http://www.indian.co.uk/ will get you to One Little Indian's home-page,
which will get you to stuff on Skunk Anansie, The Shamen and other
OLI artists.
"Morrissey/The Smiths" and "Shelter" from Christian Arvidson
<s94...@student.adb.gu.se> :
http://w3.adb.gu.se/~s94moz/Mozpage.html
http://w3.adb.gu.se/~s94moz/Shelter.html
"Suzanne Vega" from Hugo Westerlund ipm <Hugo.We...@ipm.ki.se> :
http://www.vega.net/vega/
Dom Hulewicz (d...@inta.net) adds :
Don't forget the general home of hardcore/jungle/breakbeat music which is:
http://www.breaks.com/
I have plenty of links to other sites and bands from there.
Tony Bowden (P949...@queens-belfast.ac.uk) gives us :
Manic Street Preachers : http://boris.qub.ac.uk/tony/manics/
Plus... Ewan Brown (E.B...@roe.ac.uk) says :
Take a look at:
http://www.music.indiana.edu/misc/music_resources.html
in the "Artist-specific sites" section.
This is full of links for artists from ABBA to ZZ Top.
So, if anyone has anymore WWW sites for bands, please mail them to me.
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