28 Wyclef Jean – Wish You Were Here :O ===

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[This week’s digest] [New Singles Release Info]

[Album Charts] [New Albums Release Info]

[Last week’s chart]

The initial bit :

For my last chart of 2000, I’ve posted my Top 50 singles of the year,starting with the Top 10. During 2001, I’ll be going through the list one byone starting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.

This week: 13 new entries, 1 climbers, 0 non-movers & 26 downers.

new entry re-entry climber faller non mover
CHART 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…

    13 new entries :

    • 39 Belle and Sebastian – I’m Waking Up To Us
    • 33 Cypress Hill – Trouble
    • 28 Wyclef Jean – Wish You Were Here :O ===
    • 25 Fragma – Say That You’re Here
    • 24 Nsync – Gone
    • 13 Alcazar – Crying at the Discotheque
    • 12 Oxide & Neutrino – Rap Dis
    • 9 Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At
    • 7 Geri Halliwell – Calling
    • 6 Kate Winslet – What If
    • 4 Hear’Say – Everybody :O ===
    • 3 PPK – Resurrection
    • 1 Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Thru This

    so the following dropped out :

    • 40 Strokes – Last Nite
    • 39 Alien Ant Farm – Smooth Criminal
    • 38 Gabrille – The Sun
    • 37 Uncle Kracker – Follow Me
    • 36 Britney Spears – Slave 4 U
    • 35 Dave Matthews Band – The Space Between
    • 33 Staind – Outside *
    • 31 Charlatans – A Man Needs to be Told
    • 30 D12 – Fight Music
    • 29 New Order – 60 Miles an Hour
    • 28 Marti Pellow – I’ve Been Around the World
    • 27 Pharoahe Monch – Got You
    • 24 Muse – Feeling Good *

    1 climbers :

    • 29 (34) Five

    0 non-movers : and 26 going down. Big fallers include :

    • 16 (9) DJ Otzi
    • 27 (5) U2
    • 32 (16) Jamiroquai
    • 38 (19) Shaggy

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

    • 41 Lostprophets – Shinobi vs Dragon Ninja
    • 42 Logo – Don’t Panic
    • 45 Macy Gray – Sexual Revolution
    • 46 Dave Clarke – The Compass
    • 53 Ryan Adams – New York New York
    • 65 Spiritualized – Out of Sight
    • 67 BK & Nick Stentience

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

28 Wyclef Jean – Wish You Were Here :O ===I love the Pink Floyd original, so why did this idiot go the whole hogin making a pig’s ear of it?

7 Geri Halliwell – CallingA standard ballad. Nothing more, nothing less.

6 Kate Winslet – What IfThe actress’ first single and taken from the soundtrack of the new cartoon,”A Christmas Carol”. The single’s a rather dreary effort though.

4 Hear’Say – Everybody :O ===Their 3rd single and with this they’ve really delved to the depths ofbanality. Avoid like the plague.

1 Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Thru This *1st Week at No.1*

Somehow this dance track from a complete unknown has shot to No.1. It’snot much cop either.

This is the 18th single in a row to go straight in at No.1 :

  • 1. DJ Pied Piper – Do You Really Like It
  • 2. Shaggy feat. Rayvon – Angel
  • 3. Moulin Rouge – Lady Marmalade
  • 4. Hear’Say – The Way To Your Love
  • 5. Roger Sanchez – Another Chance
  • 6. Robbie Williams – Eternity / The Road to Mandalay
  • 7. Atomic Kitten – Eternal Flame
  • 8. So Solid Crew – 21 Seconds
  • 9. Five – Let’s Dance
  • 10. Blue – Too Close
  • 11. Bob The Builder – Mambo No.5
  • 12. DJ Otzi – Hey Baby
  • 13. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out of My Head
  • 14. Afroman: Because I Got High
  • 15. Westlife – Queen of My Heart
  • 16. Blue – If You Come Back
  • 17. S Club 7 – Have You Ever
  • 18. Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Thru This

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New releases :

    November 26th :

      Alcazar – Crying At The Discotheque
      Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Through This
      Cypress Hill – Low Rider/Trouble
      Five – Rock The Party
      Geri Halliwell – Calling
      Hear’Say – Everybody
      Wyclef Jean – Wish You Were Here
      Maxwell – Get To Know Ya
      Oxide and Neutrino – U Can’t Stop Dis/Only Wanna Know U Cos Ure Famous
      Riva feat. Dannii Minogue – Who Do You Love Now?
      Roger Sanchez feat. N’Dea Davenport – You Can’t Change Me
      Spiller – Cry Baby (non-chart-qualifying)
      Steps – Words Are Not Enough/I Know Him So Well
      Stereophonics – Handbags and Gladrags
      Sum 41 – In Too Deep
      Kate Winslet – What If

    December 3rd :

      Bomfunk MCs – Super Electric
      Emma Bunton – We’re Not Gonna Sleep Tonight
      Damage – After The Love Has Gone
      Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Murder On The Dancefloor
      Hermes House Band – Country Roads
      Janet Jackson and Missy Elliot – Son Of A Gun
      Liberty – Doin’ It
      Middlerow – Today’s The Day
      Cliff Richard – Somewhere Over The Rainbow/What A Wonderful World
      Tukan – Light A Rainbow
      Tymes 4 – She Got Game
      Volatile Agents – Hooked On You
      Warp Brothers – Blast The Speakers

    December 10th :

      Boney M – Daddy Cool
      BTH – Last Christmas
      Creamy – Never Ending Story
      TJ Davis – Wonderful Life (Ian van Dahl Mix)
      Dido – All You Want/Christmas Day
      DJ Pied Piper & The Master Of Ceremonies – We R Here
      Enya – Only Time
      Michael Jackson – Cry
      Kosheen – Catch
      Lampies – Light Up The World
      Samantha Mumba – Lately
      Starsailor – Lullaby
      Ian Van Dahl – Will I?
      Matchbox 20 – Last Beautiful Girl
      Robbie Williams/Nicole Kidman – Something Stupid

    December 17th :

      Mariah Carey – Never Too Far/Don’t Stop
      David Gray – Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
      Faithless – Tarantula
      Pokemon Allstars – Gotta Catch ‘Em All
      Public Domain – Too Many MCs
      Warp Brothers – Blast The Speakers

    December 31st :

      Atomic Kitten – You Are
      Backstreet Boys – Drowning
      Basstoy – Runnin’
      Garbage – Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go)
      Milk & Sugar vs. John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air
      OPM – El Capitan

    January 7th :

      Aaliyah – More Than A Woman
      Dr Dre – Bad Intentions
      E’Voke – Arms Of Loren (Ferry Corsten Mix)
      Missy Elliot – Take Away
      P Diddy – Diddy
      Wheatus – Wannabe Gangster

    January 14th :

      Afroman – Crazy Rap
      BrainStorm – Maybe
      Ian Brown – Whispers
      Chemical Brothers – Star Guitar
      Nelly Furtado – On The Radio (Remember The Days?)
      Nightcrawlers – Push The Feeling On 2002
      Pink – Get The Party Started
      POD – Alive
      Heather Small – Proud

    January 21st :

      Alien Ant Farm – Movies
      Jam & Spoon – Be Angeled
      Mary J Blige – Dance For Me
      Christina Milian – AM To PM
      Kylie Minogue – In Your Eyes

    January 28th :

      Peppercorn – Nice To You

    February 4th :

      City High – Caramel
      Creed – My Sacriice
      Puddle Of Mudd – Control

    February 11th :

      Jewel – Standing Still

    February 18th :

      TBA

    February 25th :

      Nickelback – How You Remind Me
      Shakira – Whenever, Wherever
      Sylver – Turn The Tide

Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

  • 2 Blue – All Rise
  • 3 S Club 7 – Sunshine
  • 14 Anastacia – Freak of Nature
  • 41 Aerosmith – Young Lust: The Anthology

The top 5 goes like this :

  • 1 Robbie Williams – Swing When You’re Winning
  • 2 Blue – All Rise
  • 3 S Club 7 – Sunshine
  • 4 Gabrielle – Dreams Can Come True (Best of)
  • 5 Westlife – World of Our Own

New releases :

Need a new source for info.

Dominator’s Top 50 of 2000

49. Travis – Coming AroundMaking No.5 in June last year, this was Travis’ last decent single releasebefore all the turgid shite they put out this year which got all the credit.

The other good tracks that preceeded Coming Around were 1999’sWriting To Reach You, Driftwood and Turn.

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

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