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[Chart archive – March 1997 to date]
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(!!! – 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…
- 1 new, 0 chart and 3 re-entering and entries :
- 1 Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You
- 30 (56 RE) Akon – Beautiful
- 35 (70 RE) Madcon – Beggin’
- 39 (49 RE) MGMT – Time To Pretend
- 39 Girls Aloud – The Promise
- 38 Leona Lewis – Run
- 33 Daniel Merriweather – Change
- 31 Honey Ryder – Fly Away
- 2 (22) 2 Taylor Swift Love Story
- 3 (15) 7 Lady Gaga Poker Face
- 4 (17) 3 T.I. feat Justin Timberlake Dead & Gone
- 9 (10) 5 Pussycat Dolls Whatcha Think About That
- 17 (37) 4 Take That Up All Night
- 19 (23) 6 All-american Rejects Gives You Hell
- 25 (28) 10 N-Dubz Strong Again
- 28 (34) 18 MIA Paper Planes
- 36 (40) 20 The Saturdays Up
- 21 Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
- 32 Beyonce – If I Were A Boy
- 20 (12) U2 – Get On Your Boots
- 34 (25) Gary Go – Wonderful
- 37 (24) Rudenko – Everybody
- 45 Chase & Status feat. Kano – Against All Odds
- 46 Lemar – Weight Of The World
- 49 The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
- 55 Kings of Leon – Revelry
- 58 The Ting Tings – We Walk
- 59 Enrique Iglesias feat. Ciara – Takin’ Back My Love
- 72 Jennifer Hudson – If This Isn’t Love
- 75 50 Cent – I Get It In
so the following dropped out :
9 climbing :
2 not moving :
and 25 going down. Big fallers include:
New entries from No.41-75 :
[Funhouse]
So what, indeed?
Infinity 2008
Although the 80s is my decade of great music, I was at Uni from 1990-93, and in the first year the original track of this was out and about all over the place and it was fantastic. Great to hear a remixed version!
1990 was, most definitely, time for the Guru. Now 2008 should be as well but too often there’s some stupid lyrics being spoken here which breaks theflow of the track which was only ever meant to be an instrumental!
Click here for the original video
[The Album]
With the better versions of this track, Jeff Buckley (at No.2 in its first week) and Leonard Cohen(No.38 in its first week) also doing the rounds, this utter dirge has made the top slot for theX-Factor yet again, so Simon Cowell’s right and we’re wrong, but what’s new?
Listen to the best version below, from Mr Cohen. All those singers behind himremind me of the opening of the Muppet Show! 🙂
Click here for the video
[Out of Control]
Is it just me or is every subsequent Girls Aloud single getting even more tedious than the last one? This one just drifts through insleepwalking mode and the last one, The Promise, didn’t even have any kind of hook with the alleged melody going all over the place.
[The Circus]
Having been used on a yawnsome advert, this track is so tedious beyond belief Ican’t work out how it ever got made.
[Spirit]
A cover version of the fantastic Snow Patrol track, but here Leona starts offtedious and then throws her voice around like Mariah Carey throwing a strop.Avoid.
Click here for the video
[Out of Control]
Where’s the hook in this song? It’s as bad as Will Young’s “Changes” in that it just goes all over the place.
Click here for the video
[Chasing Lights]
Ah, The Saturdays. Good to look at, and they were on Something for the Weekend recently. Watch here:
Click here for Part 1
Click here for Part 2
Click here for Part 3
Click here for Part 4
[I Am Sasha Fierce]
I’m never a fan of her music and this won’t change anything.
Click here for the video
[Viva La Vida…]
Yaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn! What a bunch of pompous, stuck-up arseholes!
[Day and Age]
Sometimes The Killers’ music can be a bit samey, and this comes across as rather a carbon copy of ‘Read My Mind’ but it’salways listenable so this is worth hearing, but not Top 5 material.
Click here for the video
[No Line on the Horizon]
The video on the official link below is pretty lousy quality, especially given that it’s the official one.
Click here for the video
Sex On Fire
[Only By the Night]
Great band. Not a bad track, either and great to see them at the top slot.Certainly more deserved than most things that get there.
Click here for the video
[The Fame]
Mediocre pop.
Click here for the video
[It’s Not Me It’s You]
“Look, my name’s Lily Allen. I’ve got a failed chat show and I can use the f-word in my songs, but hey, I’m on Myspace!”
Stupid mockney bint.
(sigh)
Would Suck Without You
[All I Ever Wanted]
Mine wouldn’t if I didn’t have to hear this record.
This is teen pop pretending to be something better.
Click here for the video
New releases :All the new releases info comes courtesy ofHaven Forum.co.uk
Just Cant Get Enough
[Chasing Lights]
Mar 2nd:
- Amy Studt – Nice Boys
Annie Lennox Shining Light
The Boy Least Likely To Every Goliath Has Its David/A Balloon On A Broken String
Brakes Hey Hey
The Bronx Young Bloods (7)
Casiokids – Verdens Storste Land / Fot i Hose (7)
Chipmunk Chip Diddy Chip
Chris Cornell – Part Of Me
Deerhunter – Never Stops
Friendly Fires – Skeleton Boy (12)[Limited]
Ghetts – Sing 4 Me
Hockey Too Fake (7)
In Case Of Fire The Cleansing
Karima Francis – Again
Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You
Kings of Leon – Revelry
La Roux In For The Kill (7)
Ladyhawke Paris Is Burning
Laura Izibor Shine
Lemar Weight Of The World
Marmaduke Duke Kid Gloves
Melody Gardot Who Will Comfort Me
Mesh 29 Wide Awake
Red Light Company Arts & Crafts
The Saturdays Just Cant Get Enough
The Script Talk You Down
September Cant Get Over
Spinto Band – Vivian Dont (7)
Starsailor – Tell Me It’s Not Over
Take That Up All Night
Taylor Swift – Love Story
Two Door Cinema Club – Something Good Can Work (7)
VV Brown – Leave! (7)
Will Young Let It Go
Wombats – My Circuit Board City
Mar 9th:
- Bat For Lashes Daniel
Beyonce Halo
Black Lips Short Fuse (7)
The BPA feat Iggy Pop Hes Frank
Cocknbullkid Im Not Sorry (7)
Dan Black – Alone
Doman & Gooding feat Dru & Lincoln Runnin
Filthy Dukes – This Rhythm
Jim Jones & Ron Brownz feat Juelz Santana Pop Champagne
Katy Perry Thinking Of You
Marina & The Diamonds Obsessions (7)[Limited]
Metric – Help Im Alive (7)[Limited]
Oasis Falling Down
Pete Doherty – Last Of The English Roses
Roll Deep Movin In Circles
Röyksopp Happy Up Here
Sneaky Sound System – I Love It
Snow Patrol – If Theres A Rocket Tie Me To It
T2 feat Michelle Come Over
Vanessa Jenkins & Bryn West (Ruth Jones & Rob Brydon) feat Sir Tom Jones & Robin Gibb Barry Islands In The Stream
The Xcerts – Crisis In The Slow Lane
You Me At Six Save It For The Bedroom
Mar 16th:
- Calvin Harris – I’m Not Alone
Goldie Lookin Chain By Any Means Necessary
Grammatics – Shadow Committee / Time Capsule And The Greater Truth
Jazmine Sullivan Dream Big
Keane Better Than This
Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc
The Rakes 1989
Twisted Wheel We Are Us
Mar 23rd:
- Dananananaykroyd – Black Wax
Enrique Iglesias feat Ciara Takin Back My Love
Flo Rida – Right Round
Funeral For A Friend – Rules And Games
KIG – Head Shoulders Kneez And Toez
The Kills – Black Balloon (EP)
Little Man Tate I Am Alive (7)
Metro Station – Shake It
Noisettes Dont Upset The Rhythm
Peter Bjorn & John Nothing To Worry About (7)
Sparks – Lighten Up Morrissey
Steve Angello & Laidback Luke feat Robin S Show Me Love
The Veronicas – Untouched
White Lies – Farewell To The Fairground
Mar 30th:
- Basshunter Walk On Water
Buffalo 77 Mememto
Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
Fightstar tba
Frankmusik Better Off As Two
Grace Jones Love You To Life (12)
Just Jack – Embers
Kid British – Sunny Days
Lady Gaga Pokerface
Lady Sovereign So Human
White Light Parade Wake Up (7)
Yo! Majesty – Don’t Let Go
Zarif – Let Me Back
April 6th:
- Art Brut – Alcoholics Unanimous
Das Pop Never Get Enough
Depeche Mode Wrong
Fugative Jimmy Shoe
PJ Harvey & John Parrish Black Hearted Love
Screaming Lights Phenomena
The Virgins Rich Girls
April 13th:
- AC/DC Anything Goes/Big Jack
Alex Cornish My Word What A Mess
Pink – Please Don’t Leave Me
Super Furry Animals tba
Will And The People Knocking
Coming soon:
- Alcazar – Burning
Alesha Dixon – Let’s Get Excited
Annagrace You Make Me Feel
Annie Ánthonio
Avenue – Can You Feel It
Blackout Crew – Dialled
Bombay Bicycle Club tba [Apr]
Brian McFadden Room To Breathe
Britney Spears If You Seek Amy
Cahill Sex Shooter [Mar]
Caramell – Caramelldansen
Cassie Official Girl
Champagne Riot Paris & I (EP)
Charlotte Hatherley Winter
Cutback feat Federal – Rock To The Rhythm [Mar]
Daniela Push It Up
Deadmau5 feat MC Flipside – Hi Friend
Dinosaur Pile-Up – Traynor
Elliott Minor Discover (Why Love Hurts)
E-Type – True Believer
Echo & The Bunnymen – Think I Need It Too
Ercola feat Daniella – Every Word
Eve feat Sean Paul Give It To You
Fe-Nix Lady Baby
Fields – Are You Ready Yet?
Freemasons feat Hazel Fernandes If (2009 Re-Rub)
Gianluca Motta feat Molly – Not Alone
Iglu & Hartly Violent & Young
Infadels – Circus Of The Mad
Jade Ewen My Time
Janelle Monae Many Moons
Jenny Jones Dont Walk Away
Junior Boys Hazel [20th Apr]
Kanye West – Heartless
Kate Ryan – Ella Elle L’a [Mar/Apr]
Kid British Rum Boys [15th Jun]
Kidbase feat Sincere Goodgirls Love Rudeboys [20th Apr]
The King Blues I Got Love [27th Apri]
King Creosote – Coast On By [27th Apr]
La Roux Bulletproof [25th May]
Leon Jackson – Stargazing
Lonnie Gordon Gonna Catch You 2009 [Mar]
M83 – We Own The Sky (EP)
Malibu Sneakers – Get Down Again
Maria Lawson – These Walls
Melody Gardot Baby Im A Fool [25th May]
Maroon 5 – Goodnight Goodnight
Mongrel Silence Is Talking
Natalie Imbruglia tba [Feb]
Nono feat Huski – Three More Days
The Notwist – Boneless
Panic At The Disco – Northern Downpour
Peacemakerz feat Danielle Senior Take It To The Dancefloor
Platnum – Trippin’
Poppy & The Jezebels Rhubarb & Custard
Private My Secret Lover
Sander Van Doorn vs Robbie Williams Close My Eyes
Sandi Thom – Pink & The Lily
Saturdays Work
Shannon Noll Shine [27th Apr]
Sirens Dreams
Star Pilots – In the Heat of the Night
Still Flyin – Good Ting It’s A Ghost Town Around Here (7) [20th Apr]
The Stills Being Here
Stone Walters Trouble
Ultrabeat Starry Eyed Girl [Mar]
Van She – Cat & The Eye [Feb]
Velvet Chemistry [Apr]
Vogue Another Night
White Light Parade Wait for The Weekend (7) [18th May]
Total Pop! 40 Hits
- This week there are new entries for :
- 1 The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
- 21 Erasure – Total Pop!
- 25 Lamb Of God – Wrath
- 26 Joe Bonamassa – The Ballad Of John Henry
- 27 Connie Fisher – Secret Love
- 59 Natalie Cole – Still Unforgettable
- The top 10 goes like this :
- 1 The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die
- 2 Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
- 3 Lily Allen – It’s Not Me It’s You
- 4 Duffy – Rockferry
- 5 Lady Gaga – The Fame
- 6 Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
- 7 The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
- 8 Take That – The Circus
- 9 Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
- 10 The Killers – Day & Age
New releases :All the new releases info comes courtesy ofHaven Forum.co.uk
Mar 2nd:
- The Answer Everyday Demons
Bell X1 – Blue Lights On The Runway
The Bishops For Now
The BPA I Think Were Gonna Need A Bigger Boat
David Archuleta David Archuleta
Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers – Pandemonium Ensues
Grandmaster Flash – The Bridge: Concept Of A Culture
Howling Bells – Radio Wars
Julian Velard The Planeteer
The Leisure Society – The Sleeper
Loney Dear – Dear John
Madness The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
Maria Lawson Emotional Rollercoaster
Mongrel Better Than Heavy
Montt Mardie Introducing The Best Of
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
Nikka Costa Pebble To A Pearl
One eskimO All Balloons
Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It
Ray LaMontagne Gossip In The Grain
Red Light Company Fine Fascination
Rush Retrospective 3 (1989-2007)
Sarah McLachlan Closer: The Best Of
Shinedown The Sound Of Madness
The Tunics – Somewhere In Somebodys Heart
U2 No Line On The Horizon
The Ultrasonics – Ultrasound
Vetiver – Tight Knit
Mar 9th:
- Annie Lennox The Annie Lennox Collection
The Boy Least Likely To The Law Of The Playground
Busta Rhymes B.O.M.B
Chris Cornell Scream
Colin Blunstone The Ghost Of You And Me
The Everly Brothers – 50 Years Of Hits
Faryl Smith Faryl
Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted
Laura Izibor – Let The Truth Be Told
Micachu Jewellery
Michael Ball – Past & Present: The Very Best Of
Milk Kan Milk Kan
Nat King Cole Re Generations
New Found Glory Not Without A Fight
Polly Scattergood Polly Scattergood
Pure Reason Revolution Amor Vincit Omnia
Sam Beeton No Definite Answer
Shontelle Shontelligence
Starsailor All The Plans
Taylor Swift Fearless
Mar 16th:
- Alain Clark Live It Out
Andrew Bain – Presents Modern Classics
Barry Manilow The Greatest Songs Of The Eighties
Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand
Bonnie Prince Billy Beware
Delta Spirit Ode To Sunshine
Duke Special – I Never Thought This Day Would Come
Eoghan Quigg – tba
Filthy Dukes Nonsense In The Dark
JJ Cale Roll On
Karima Francis The Author
Lionel Richie Just Go
Marianne Faithfull – Easy Come Easy Go
Melody Gardot – My One And Only Thrill
Pete Doherty – Grace/Wastelands
Static-X – The Cult Of Static
Oliver! (2009 London Cast)
Mar 23rd:
- 1990s – Kicks
British Sea Power – Man Of Arun
The Decemberists The Hazards Of Love
Fever Ray Fever Ray
Grammatics Grammatics
Mastodon – Crack The Skye
My Dying Bride – For Lies I Sire
N.E.R.D. – The Best Of
Pet Shop Boys Yes
The Rakes Klang
Rinocerose – Futurino
Röyksopp Junior
Stevie Nicks The Soundstage Sessions
Therapy? – Crooked Timber
The Xcerts – In The Cold Wind We Smile
Mar 30th:
- Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Diana Krall Quiet Nights
Frightened Rabbit – Quietly Now! Midnight Organ Fight Live and Acoustic At The Captains Rest
Goldie Lookin Chain Asbo 4 Life
Gomez – A New Tide
I Monster A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars
Malajube – Labyrinthes
Metro Station Metro Station
Neil Young- Fork In The Road
Noisettes Wild Young Hearts
Peter Bjorn & John Living Thing
PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
Twisted Wheel – Twisted Wheel
Two Fingers Two Fingers
The Whitest Boy Alive Rules
April 6th:
- Amy Speace The Killer In Me
Bat For Lashes Two Suns
Chris De Burgh – Footsteps
Dananananaykroyd Hey Everyone
Doves Kingdom Of Rust
Flo Rida R.O.O.T.S.
It Hugs Back Inside Your Guitar
Just Jack – All Night Cinema
Lil Wayne – Rebirth
Queensryche – American Soldier
Still Flyin – Never Gonna Touch The Ground
The Veils – Sun Gangs
The Wave Pictures – If You Leave It Alone
Zero 7 – The Best Of
Now 72
April 13th:
- The Days – Atlantic Skies
Fightstar Be Human
Lady Sovereign Jigsaw
Madeleine Peyroux – Bare Bones
The Virgins The Virgins
Coming soon:
- 1 Giant Leap What About Me?
50 Cent Before I Self Destruct [Mar]
Ace Of Base tba
Aerosmith tba
Alessis Ark – Notes From The Treehouse [Mar]
Alex Cornish – Until The Traffic Stops [27th Apr]
Alexandra Burke tba
Andre 3000 tba
Annie Dont Stop
Annuals Such Fun
Arctic Monkeys tba
Art Brut – Art Brut VS Satan [20th Apr]
Asteroids Galaxy Tour – tba
Audio Bullys Sunday Night Fever
Basement Jaxx tba
Beastie Boys tba
Bella And Sebastian God Help The Girl
Beverley Trotman tba
Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot Son Of Chico Dusty
Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) [Mar]
Blondie tba
Bombay Bicycle Club tba [Jun]
Booker T Potato Hole [20th Apr]
Boom Bip tba
Brakes Touchdown [20th Apr]
Brian McFadden – Set In Stone [Feb]
The Broken Family Band – Please And Thank You [20th Apr]
Cajun Dance Party tba
Camera Obscura – tba
Captain Distraction
Cassie tba
Cat Power Sun
Charlotte Hatherley Cinnabar City
Chilli Gold – Waterfalls
Chipmunk I Am Chipmunk
Ciara Fantasy Ride [Apr]
Client Command [Mar]
Clipse Till The Casket Drops
Corinne Bailey Rae tba
The Count & Sinden tba
Courtney Love Nobodys Daughter
Dan Deacon Bromst [Mar]
Daniel Merriweather – Love & War [27th Apr]
Das Pop Das Pop
Deftones Eros
Depeche Mode Sounds Of The Universe [20th Apr]
Dolores ORiordan – No Baggage? [May]
Doug Walker Fear Together
Dr Dre Detox
Echo & The Bunnymen The Fountain
Elliott Minor tba [Jun/Jul]
Eminem Relapse
The Enemy – Music For The People
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
Escala Escala [Apr]
Eddi Reader – Love Is The Way [13th May]
Eskimo Joe tba
Esser Braveface [27th Apr]
Eva Peterson tba
Eve Flirt
The Faces – tba
Fat Freddys Drop Big BW
Fields Hollow Mountains [11th May]
Final Fantasy Heartland
Fleetwood Mac tba
Florence & The Machine tba [Jul]
Frankmusik – Complete Me
FrYars – Dark Young Hearts [Mar]
Gallows Grey Britain [May[
Gary Go Gary Go [11th May]
Go:Audio – Made Up Stories
Good Books tba [4th May]
Good Charlotte Cardiology
Green Day tba [4th May]
The Handsome Family Honey Moon [Apr]
Hatcham Social – You Dig The Tunnel I’ll Hide The Soil
Helen Love Stick It (f*** Off)
The Hidden Cameras – tba
Holloways Tales From The Tarmac
Ian Brown – tba [Aug]
Idlewild tba [Apr]
In Case Of Fire Align The Planets [May]
Ivyrise Worldwide
Jack Penate tba [May]
Jamie Cullum tba [Apr]
Janelle Monae tba [Apr]
Jay-Z – Blueprint III [Feb]
Jazmine Sullivan Fearless [Apr]
Jennifer Lopez Greatest Hits
Jersey Budd Wonderlands [4th May]
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
JoJo – All I Want Is Everything
Junior Boys – Begone Dull Care [11th May]
Kasabian tba
Keri Hilson In A Perfect World
Kid British tba [29th Jun]
King Creosote – Flick The Vs [20th Apr]
Klaxons tba
Koopa tba
Laura Critchley Laura
Liam Frost – tba
Lifehouse – tba
Lisa Mitchell tba [May]
Luke Haines Achtung Mother
Maccabees tba [Feb/Mar]
Macy Gray – The Gray Life
Madina Lake – Attics To Eden [Mar]
MadM (Melissa Auf der Maur) – Out Of Our Minds
Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers or I Know I Believe In Nothing But It Is My Nothing [Apr]
Marilyn Manson – The High End Of Low
Mark Morrison King of British R&B: The Best Of…
Massive Attack Weather Underground
Maximo Park tba
Melanie B Reimagined
The Metaphors – London! Paris! New York! Rome! [Feb]
Metric Fantasies [20th Apr]
MGMT tba
Mika – tba
Missy Elliott Block Party
Mr Hudson – Now I See
Mumford And Sons – The Cave and The Open Sea [27th Apr]
Natalia All Of Me
Natalie Imbruglia tba [Mar]
Neils Children X.Enc
Nelly Furtado tba
Nicole Scherzinger – Her Name Is Nicole
OK Go tba
Operation Aloha – Operation Aloha [12th May]
Paolo Nutini tba
Paramore! tba
Patrick Wolf Battle
Peaches tba [Mar]
Placebo tba [Jun]
Prefuse 73 – Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
Pretty Ricky – Eighties Babies
Prince MPLSound
Prince Lotus Flower
Prince Elixir
Propellerheads tba
Pumajaw Favourites [Apr/May]
Raghav Identity
Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean [20th Apr]
Rihanna – tba
Rose Elinor Dougall – tba
Ruarri Joseph – Both Sides Of The Coin [Feb]
Rumble Strips tba [Mar]
Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha 2009 [May]
Sam Isaac – Bears
Santana Supernatural 2
Scarlet BLONDE Acerbic [Mar]
September Cant Get Over
Shakira – tba
Shania Twain tba
Shannon Noll – What Matters The Most [4th May]
Skint & Demoralised – Love And Other Catastrophes [18th May]
Smoove & Turrell – Antique Soul [20th Apr]
Sonic Youth The Eternal [Jun]
Soulja Boy iSouljaBoy
Thomas Bromley In It For The Moment
Timbaland Shock Value 2
Tommy Sparks tba
Tori Amos tba
Trashcan Sinatras In The Music
The Twang Not Tonight, It’s Monday
UB40 Labour Of Love IV
Ultrabeat Discolights [Mar]
Ultravox Best Of
Urbnri Young Team
VV Brown – Travelling Like The Light [May]
Whitney Houston Undefeated
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz
Young Jeezy The Recession
Zoot Woman – Things Are What They Used To Be
Eurovision 2009 [4th May]
Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2009.
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.