38 Macy Gray - Why Didn't You Call Me

A U G U S T 5 T H 2 0 0 0 [This week’s digest] [New Singles Release Info]

[Album Charts] [New Albums Release Info]

[Last week’s chart]

In the last chart of 1999, I posted my Top 50 singles of the year, pickingout the Top 10 first. During 2000, I’ll be going through the list one by onestarting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.

This week : 9 new entries, 1 climbers, 2 non-movers & 28 downers.

new entry re-entry climber faller non moverCHART TIME !

(* – 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)

A brief analysis on the current chart situation…

9 new entries :

38 Macy Gray – Why Didn’t You Call Me
34 Morcheeba – Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day
28 Different Gear Vs The Police – When the World is Running Down
21 Moloko – Pure Pleasure Speaker
15 Scooch – For Sure
14 Point Break – You
6 Santana feat. The Product G&B – Maria Maria
2 Bomfunk Mc’s – Freestyler :O ===
1 Craig David – 7 Days :O ===

so the following dropped out :

40 Damage – Ghetto Romance
38 Bon Jovi – It’s My Rubbish
37 Jonah – Sssst
36 Lucy Pearl – Dance Tonight
34 Jessica Simpson – Jack and Diane 2
33 Lonyo – Summer of Love
32 David Bowie – Seven
29 Cleopatra – Come and Get Me
26 Atomic Kitten – I Want Your Love

1 climbers :

13 (15) Samantha Mumbles

2 non-movers :

11 Darude
23 S Club 7

and 28 going down. Big fallers include :

8 (3) Louise
18 (8) Savage Garden
39 (16) Placebo

New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :

43 Teebone feat. MC Kie & MC Sparks – Fly Bi
46 Fe-m@il – Flee Fly Fo
51 Less Than Jake – Best Friends are Metalheads
63 Clint Boon Experience – Do What You Do

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

38 Macy Gray – Why Didn’t You Call MeHa! Ha! Macy, everyone’s finally realised you’re shit!

34 Morcheeba – Rome Wasn’t Built in a DayA big hoo-hah has been made about this excellent band recently as theirlatest album was released a few weeks ahead of the single, which isn’t the wayit’s normally done.

However, such promotion should’ve been done when they were turning outclassics like “Tape Loop” and “The Music That We Hear”, not this formulaicsong which sets them apart from nobody.

28 Different Gear Vs The Police – When the World is Running DownI’ve heard a bit of this. It stinks. So does any other ‘dance’ singleso dumb enough to use “Vs” in the name. Replace “Vs” with “fucks up anothertrack by…”

21 Moloko – Pure Pleasure SpeakerStrangely makes you want to tap your foot even if it’s not that good andthe video’s terrible, making it look like they’re performing on “The Old GreyWhistle Test”, even going as far as to give back that hair to“Whispering” Bob Harris for a cameo.

2 Bomfunk Mc’s – Freestyler :O ===About as standard and generic as “dance” music can get and it’s totallyuninspired stuff.

1 Craig David – 7 Days :O === *1st Week at No.1*Why is all his music so turgid and dull? If he’s with the Artful Dodgerall you hear is the name “Craig David” over the music, while on his ownit’s about as engaging cleaning the fluff out of your navel.

This single is the 25th in a row to go straight in at No.1.

1. Westlife – I Have a Dream / Seasons in the Sun

2. Manic Street Preachers – The Masses Against the Classes

3. Britney Spears – Born to Make You Happy

4. Gabrielle – Rise

5. Oasis – Go Let it Out

6. All Saints – Pure Shores

7. Madonna – American Pie

8. Chicane featuring Bryan Adams – Don’t Give Up

9. Geri Halliwell – Bag It Up

10. Melanie C – Never Be The Same Again

11. Westlife – Fool Again

12. Craig David – Fill Me In

13. Fragma – Toca’s Miracle

14. Oxide & Neutrino – Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty)

15. Britney Spears – Oops! I Did It Again :O ===

16. Madison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby

17. Billie Piper – Day & Night

18. Sonique – It Feels So Good

19. Black Legend – You See The Trouble With Me

20. Kylie Minogue – Spinning Around

21. Eminem – The Real Slim Shady

22. The Corrs – Breathless

23. Ronan Keating – Life is a Rollercoaster

24. Five & Queen – We Will Rock You

25. Craig David – 7 Days

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New releases :

July 24th :

July 31st :

August (date unknown) :

August 7th :

August 14th :

August 28th :

September (date unknown) :

September 4th :

Quality Control – Jurassic 5 (Pan/Polydor)

September 11th :

I Believe – Stephen Gately (A&M/Polydor)

October (date unknown) :

November (date unknown) :

February 2001 (date unknown) :

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Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

68 Rancid – Rancid

The top 5 goes like this :

1 The Corrs – In Blue
2 Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP
3 Coldplay – Parachutes
4 David Gray – White Ladder
5 Moby – Play

New releases :

July 24th :

July 31st :

August (date unknown) :

August 7th :

August 14th :

August 21st :

September (date unknown) :

September 4th :

Everything Is Everything – Underworld (Junior Boy’s Own/V2)

October (date unknown) :

November (date unknown) :

January 2001 (date unknown) :

[tba] – Cast (Polydor)

February 2001 :

March 2001 :

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Dominator’s Top 50 of 1999

31. Lenny Kravitz – Fly AwayAnother week, another No.1 and most people bought this on the strengthof the Peugeot car advert in which it was featured over the previous fewweeks, rather than the man’s musical talents.

Although his biggest hit before now was “Are You Gonna Go My Way”, it’s hisfirst album, “Let Love Rule”, which has been the best for me so far.

Topping the chart in February 1999, this was the sixth of 32 consecutive No.1sin a row last year, the spell being broken by Cliff Richard’s Millennium Poor.

The end bit :

Well, that’s it for now. If you want to be added to the WidescreenVideo and Laserdisc lists, just mail me.

Bye for now,

Dominator

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Dom Robinson

Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.

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