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A brief analysis on the current chart situation…
- 3 new and 1 re-entering and 4 chart entries :
- 38 Chris Brown Feat Keri Hilson – Superhuman
- 37 (47 CH) Miley Cyrus – 7 Things
- 36 Pussycat Dolls – I Hate This Part
- 35 (RE) Michael Jackson – Thriller
- 30 (50 CH) Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
- 26 (63 CH) Adele – Make You Feel My Love
- 23 (44 CH) Akon – Right Now (Na Na Na)
- 1 X Factor Finallists – Hero
- 40 Chris Brown – Superhuman
- 39 Bloc Party – Talons
- 38 N-Dubz – Ouch
- 37 Dizzee Rascal Feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome – Dance Wiv Me
- 35 John Legend feat. Andre 3000 – Green Light
- 34 The Game feat. Lil Wayne – My Life
- 30 MIA – Paper Planes
- 29 Keane – Spiralling
- 6 (7) Katy Perry – Hot N Cold
- 10 (18) Jack White & Alicia Keys – Another Way To Die
- 12 (13) Jennifer Hudson – Spotlight
- 14 (15) Rihanna – Disturbia
- 15 (16) snow Patrol – Take Back The City
- 16 (17) Katy Perry – I Kissed A Girl
- 18 (20) Pussycat Dolls – When I Grow Up
- 21 (32) Kardinal Offishall feat. Akon – Dangerous
- 34 (36) Jordin Sparks feat. Chris Brown – No Air
- 8 Kanye West – Love Lockdown
- 24 Jordin Sparks – Tattoo
- 19 (10) Geraldine The Winner’s Song
- 20 (11) Leon Jackson Don’t Call This Love
- 25 (19) Kaiser Chiefs Never Miss A Beat
- 41 Cast Of High School Musical 3 – Now Or Never
- 48 Bellamy Brothers – Let Your Love Flow
- 54 Dido – Don’t Believe In Love
- 57 The View – 5 Rebeccas
- 63 Scouting For Girls – I Wish I Was James Bond
- 67 Anastacia – I Can Feel You
so the following dropped out :
9 climbing :
2 not moving :
and 21 going down. Big fallers include:
New entries from No.41-75 :
[Sam Sparro]
Funky as hell, this is a wonderful piece of music and the kind of thing that,when it does get released, normally gets overlooked, but here it’s all payingoff in spades.
I’ve never heard of Sam Sparro before, but here’s hoping we hear a lot morefrom him in the near future.
[Let It Go]
Hmmm… he normally does fairly decent tracks since he shook off the ‘PopIdol’ beginnings, but this track started off okay and then just didn’t seemto know which musical direction to head off in!
Click here for the video
Sweet About Me
[Lessons To Be Learned]
Quite a decent, jaunty little track and one that sounds like an old Motown tune.
Click here to see the video
Shock of the Lightning
[Dig Out Your Soul]
Another typical raucous mess from Manchester’s most tired band.
[Rock ‘n’ Roll Jesus]
Lazy dance-ish track to the tune of Warren Zevon’s Werewolves of London.
Rather average and, wot, no fit women in much of the video??
[Year of the Gentleman]
Predictable and uninteresting.
Click here for the video
[Viva La Vida…]
Yaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn! What a bunch of pompous, stuck-up arseholes!
This track made No.1 originally based on downloads alone, but it’s rather mediocre anddidn’t deserve the top slot.
[One of the Boys]
“Oh, look, I’m pretending to be a lesbian”. Bollocks.
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Peter Kay used to be a funny man, but after he finished Phoenix Nights and went onto Max & Paddy’s Road To Nowhere, it’s clearthat the other writers of PN, Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice, were the ones that wrote all the funny lines so no wonder they’llno longer work with him since he claimed all the credit.
“Britain’s Got the Pop Factor” may be well observed but The X-Factor is a spoof that didn’t need spoofing, since it continuallysends itself up with the way it behaves.
Still, there’s one born every minute. A lot of people bought the single by Katy Perry in which she pretended to be a lesbian,and now lots of people have bought this joke-free song. God knows why.
The only plus is that it got higher than the single from X-Factor Leon “where has he been?” Jackson.
[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
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.
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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!
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[Funhouse]
So what, indeed?
[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.
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Charity single featuring the X-Factor people. Great cause, crap song.
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New releases :All the new releases info comes courtesy ofHaven Forum.co.uk
[Breakout]
Nov 3rd:
- Alesha Dixon – The Boy Does Nothing
Beyonce – If I Was A Boy
Christina Aguilera – Keeps Gettin’ Better
David Jordan – Only Living Soul
Enter Shikari – We Can Breathe In Space, They Just Don’t Want Us To Escape
Farley Jack Master Funk – Love Can’t Turn Around 2008
Filthy Dukes – Tupac Robot Club Rock
Herve feat Plastic Little – Cheap Thrills
Ida Maria – Oh My God
Kardinal Offishal feat Akon – Dangerous
Leona Lewis – Forgive Me
Madcon – Liar
Paul Carrack feat The Eagles – I DonÂ’t Want To Hear Any More
Paul Weller – Sea Spray / 22 Dreams
Scouting For Girls – I Wish I Was James Bond
The Shortwave Set – Glitches ‘N’ Bugs
Sneaky Sound System – UFO
Tony Christie – Born To Cry
Tracy Chapman – Sing For You
VV Brown – Crying Blood (7”)
Youthmovies – Polyp (EP)
Nov 10th:
- The Automatic – Magazines
Coldplay – Lost
Emmy The Great – We Almost Had A Baby
Enya – Trains and Winter Rains
Frankmusik – 3 Little Words (EP)
Gabriella Cilmi – Sanctuary
Grace Jones – William’s Blood
James Blunt – Love Love Love
The Kills – Tape Song
Liam Finn – Better To Be
Miley Cyrus – 7 Things
Nickelback – If Today Was Your Last Day
Oasis – I’m Outta Time
Same Difference – We R One
The Script – Break Even
Taio Cruz – I Just Wanna Know
Tom Jones – If He Should Ever Leave You
Twisted Wheel – Lucy The Castle
Nov 17th:
- Alphabeat – What Is Happening
Asobi Seksu – Me & Mary (7”)
Chris Brown – Superhuman
Daniel Powter – The Best Of Me
Death Cab For Cutie – No Sunlight
John Barrowman – What About Us?
Jonas Brothers – Lovebug
Kid Rock – Roll On
Killers – Human
Koopa – Gimme It Back
Lemar – If She Knew
Santogold – Say A-ha
Skint & Demoralised – The Thrill Of 30 Seconds (7”)[Limited]
Usher feat Will I Am – What’s Your Name
Nov 24th:
- Britney Spears – Womanizer
Christian Falk feat Robyn – Dream On
Clinic – Planetarium Of The Soul
Ladyhawke – My Delirium
Dec 1st:
- HEARTSREVOLUTION – Ultraviolence
Pussycat Dolls – I Hate This Part
TBA:
- Amy Studt – Nice Boys
Annagrace – You Make Me Feel
Atlanta – 5 Star Lover
Audio Bullys – Flickery Vision
Beat Players feat Lara McAllen – Piece Of Heaven
Black Affair – Japanese Happening
The Black Angels – Doves [8th Dec]
Blue Lagoon – Break My Stride
Captain – Echoes Of Fashion
Caramell – Caramelldansen
Cassie – Official Girl
Celine Dion – My Love
Champagne Riot – Paris & I (EP)
Christian Silva – Great To Begin
Clocks – She Wants Something Else
Cold War Kids – I’ve Seen Enough [8th Dec]
Coldplay – Prospekts March (EP) [26th Dec]
Constantines – Hard Feelings
Danny Bond feat Jennifer Jones – 3 Is Family
David Rubato – Deep Inside
Dizzee Rascal feat Lily Allen – Wannabe
Doug Walker – Obstacles
Duffy – Enough Love
E-Type – True Believer
Echo & The Bunnymen – Think I Need It Too
Eve feat Sean Paul – Give It To You
Everlast – Folsom Prison Blues
Eye Witness feat Charlene Oliver – I’ve Never Been To Me
Foxboro Hot Tubs – The Pedestrian
Fugative – It’s Summertime
Gianluca Motta feat Molly – Not Alone
The Great Northwestern Hoboes – Won’t Let This Love
Hey Negrita – Room Service / The Last Thing That I Do
James Morrison & Nelly Furtado – Broken Strings [15th Dec]
Jamie Scott & The Town – Stare Into The Sun [Oct]
Jason Donovan – Dreamboats & Petticoats
Jem – It’s Amazing
Jim Noir – Don’t You Worry
K-Klass – Getting Ready
Katy Perry – Hot N Cold
Kenna – Say Goodbye To Love
Kerry Leatham – Run Dry [Sep]
The Kic Pimpz – No Stopping Us
Kidda – Under The Sun
Killers – Joseph, Better You Than Me [Dec]
Kim Leoni – Medicine
Kings Of Leon – tba [Dec[
Kush – Wanna Be Your Girl (Bittersweet)
Laura – Your Loving Arms
The Lazarus Plot – Do You Want To Be Someone?
Leon Jean Marie – You Must Know
Madonna – Miles Away [Oct]
Mara Carlyle – Weird Girl
Maroon 5 – Goodnight Goodnight
Micky Modelle vs Samantha Mumba – Gotta Tell You
Mihai – Tornero
Missy Elliott – Best Best
Mongrel – Silence Is Talking
N-Dubz – Papa
N*E*R*D – Sooner Or Later
N-Force – All My Life
Nono feat Huski – Three More Days
Oh Atoms – Sugar Mouse
One eskimO – Kandi
Out Of Office – Insatiable
Panic At The Disco – Northern Downpour
Pendulum – Granite [Oct]
Plain White Ts – Natural Disaster
Poppy & The Jezebels – Rhubarb & Custard
Private – My Secret Lover
Raconteurs – Many Shades Of Black
The Rasmus – Livin’ In A World Without You
Razorlight – Hostage Of Love [22nd Dec]
The Revelations – Its You
Rihanna – Rehab
R.I.O. – Shine On
Sam Sparro – Pocket
Sandi Thom – Pink & The Lily
Scarlet BLONDE – Bedroom Superstar
Scooter vs Status Quo – Jump That Rock (Whatever You Want) [Oct]
Scratch – Let’s Go
Simply Red – Go Now [Nov]
Sirens – Dreams
Slipknot – Dead Memories
Snow Patrol – Crack The Shutters [22nd Dec]
Travis – Song To Self
Vampire Weekend – A Punk
Vines – He’s A Rocker
Vogue – Another Night
Weezer – Troublemaker
Will Young – Grace [15th Dec]
Wombats – Is It Christmas? [15th Dec]
A Hundred Million Suns
- This week there are new entries for :
- 1 Pink – FunHouse
- 2 Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns
- 5 Celine Dion – My Love: Essential Collection
- 6 Daniel O’Donnell – Country Boy
- 8 Bloc Party – Intimacy
- 11 The Saturdays – Chasing Lights
- 15 Katie Melua – The Katie Melua Collection
- 17 Anastacia – Heavy Rotation
- 24 Hayley Westenra – River Of Dreams: Very Best Of
- 33 The Cure – 4:13 Dream
- 41 Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Cardinology
- 64 David Arnold – Quantum Of Solace OST
- 73 Cradle Of Filth – Godspeed On The Devils Thunder
- The top 10 goes like this :
- 1 Pink – FunHouse
- 2 Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns
- 3 AC/DC – Black Ice
- 4 Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
- 5 Celine Dion – My Love: Essential Collection
- 6 Daniel O’Donnell – Country Boy
- 7 Katherine Jenkins – Sacred Arias
- 8 Bloc Party – Intimacy
- 9 Sash! – The Best Of
- 10 Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul
New releases :All the new releases info comes courtesy ofHaven Forum.co.uk
The Very Best Of
Nov 3rd:
- Andrea Bocelli – Incanto
Ava Leigh – Rollin’
Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot Son Of Chico Dusty
Brian Houston – Three Feet From Gold
Cliff Richard – The 50th Anniversary Album
Dido – Safe Trip Home
Elvis Presley – Christmas Duets
Escala – Escala
Fall Out Boy – Folie A Deux
Flipron – Gravity Calling
Girls Aloud – tba
Hayley Westenra – River Of Dreams: The Very Best Of
Her Space Holiday – XOXO Panda And The New Kid Revival
Herbie Hancock – The Definitive
Mavis Staples – Hope At The Hideout
The Paddingtons – No Mundane Options
Razorlight – Slipway Fires
Satyricon – The Age Of Nero
School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms
Seal – Soul
Status Quo – Pictures: 40 Years Of Hits
Nov 10th:
- Brandy – Human
Chris Cornell – Scream
Christina Aguilera – Keeps Gettin’ Better: A Decade of Hits
David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Enrique Iglesias – Greatest Hits
Enya – And Winter Came
Flaming Lips – Christmas On Mars
Foo Fighters – The Best Of
Il Divo – The Promise
James Fox – Rocking Chairs & Lemonade
Jason Donovan – Let It Be Me
Joan Osborne – Little Wild One
Jonathan Ansell – Forever
Keith – Vice & Virtue
The Smiths – The Sound Of: The Very Best Of
Stereophonics – A Decade In The Sun: The Best Of
T-Pain – Thr33 Ringz
Tony Christie – Made In Sheffield
Tracy Chapman – Our Bright Future
Clubland 14
Nov 17th:
- Alesha Dixon – The Alesha Show
Amadou & Mariam – Welcome To Mali
Belle And Sebastian – The BBC Sessions
Beyonce – tba
The Fireman – Electric Arguments
Jools Holland – The Informer
Josh Groban – Meet Josh Groban
Nickelback – tba
Only Men Allowed – tba
The Priests – The Priests
Rod Stewart – The Definitive
Royal Scots Dragoon Guards – Spirit Of The Glen Encore
Russell Watson – Soul
Same Difference – Pop
Simply Red – 25: The Greatest Hits
Tom Jones – 24 Hours
Now 71
Nov 24th:
- Akon – Freedom
Andrew Bain – Presents Modern Classics
Connie Talbot – Connie’s Christmas Album
Craig David – Greatest Hits
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
Jay-Z – Blueprint III
John Barrowman – Music Music Music
Kelli Ali – Rocking Horse
Killers – Day & Age
Lemar – The Reason
Lesley Garrett – Amazing Grace
Pavarotti – The Duets
Rhydian – tba
Heroes (War Child)
Dec 1st:
- Bob The Builder – Never Mind The Breeze Blocks
Britney Spears – Circus
Connie Francis – Very Best Of
Kieran Hebden & Steve Reid – NYC
Natasha Panas – Yellow Flowers
Take That – tba
Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2008.
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.