38 LeAnn Rimes - Looking Through Your Eyes/Commitment

In the last chart of 1997, I posted my Top 50 singles of theyear, picking out the Top 10 first. During 1998, I’ll be going through thelist one by one.

This week : 12 new entries, 1 climbers, 1 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…

12 new entries this week :

38 LeAnn Rimes – Looking Through Your Eyes/Commitment

35 Gomez – Whippin’ Piccadilly *

28 N-Trance – Paradise City

20 Tin Tin Out featuring Shelley Nelson – Sometimes

19 Hole – Celebrity Skin

17 Dario G & David Bowie – Sunmachine * !!!

12 Aerosmith – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing

11 Aaliyah – Are You That Somebody?

9 Sheryl Crow – My Favourite Mistake *

4 Jennifer Paige – Crush *

2 Five – Everybody Get Up :O ===

1 All Saints – Bootie Call :O === so the following dropped out :

40 Del Amitri – Cry To Be Found

39 Placebo – Pure Morning

38 Suggs – I Am *

37 Lucid – I Can’t Help Myself

36 Danny Tenaglia & Celeda – Music is the answer (Dancin’ and Prancin’)

34 Kavana – Special Kind Of Something

33 Moby – Honey

30 D’influence – Rock With You

28 Paul Van Dyk – For An Angel

24 Queen Pen – It’s True :O ===

20 Truce – Eyes Don’t Lie

13 Mansun – Being A Girl (Part One) 1 climbers :

32 (35) LeAnn Rimes – How Do I Live 1 non-movers :

3 (3) Boyzone and 26 going down. Big fallers include :

14 (6) Faithless

27 (10) Madonna

29 (19) Electrasy

33 (18) Simply Red

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

38 LeAnn Rimes – Looking Through Your Eyes/Commitment

Following the hit cover version of “How Do I Live” which hasn’t left thecharts since it entered over 6 months ago, and this week has just gone upagain from No.35 to No.32, this new single does incredibly badly, probablybecause the radio stations haven’t stopped playing her first Top 40 foray.

My girlfriend won’t be happy because she thinks “Commitment” is brilliant.Personally, I’d only take Trisha Yearwood’s cover of “How Do I Live” andthat’s only when I’m watching “Con Air” in which it features.

35 Gomez – Whippin’ Piccadilly *

Third time lucky for Gomez following “78 Stone Wobble” (No.44, April) and”Get Myself Arrested” (No.45, June) and the promo video (another good excusefor a very wide widescreen shot) is doing the rounds aplenty on VH1 at themoment.

20 Tin Tin Out featuring Shelley Nelson – Sometimes

Lacklustre follow-up to the decent cover of the 10,000 Maniacs‘ “Here’s WhereThe Story Ends”. Again, it’s a case of the radio stations still playing thefirst hit instead of this one.

17 Dario G & David Bowie – Sunmachine * !!!

It took me a while to warm to “Carnival De Paris” but it took no time to warmto this one when I first heard it two months ago. I haven’t heard it for awhile, but the combination of a good dance tune and David Bowie can’t failto impress, making this the single of the week.

12 Aerosmith – I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing

Taken from the soundtrack to “Armageddon”, they’re only on the album becauselead singer Steven Tyler’s daughter plays Bruce Willis’ daughter in the film.Personally, I’d have rather put someone else in that role (Kate Winsletperhaps) but then that’s just me.

9 Sheryl Crow – My Favourite Mistake *

For another track from an album that’s had a few taken from it already, thishas gone in surprisingly high. It’s a good song, and from the promo videoMs. Crow proves she’s looking good too 🙂

4 Jennifer Paige – Crush *

Haven’t heard this much, but from what I remember of this US-crossover hit,it’s worth a * from me.

2 Five – Everybody Get Up :O ===

After hearing their previous hits a few times, I grew to like them, but thisblatant murder of Joan Jett‘s classic “I Love Rock N Roll” is dire beyondbelief.

1 (NEW) All Saints – Bootie Call :O === *1st Week at No.1*

Single Number Four for the All Saints and they get worse as they go on.

A “Bootie Call”, or “Booty Call” as a recent US film was titled, is a phonecall a girl makes to a man asking him to come round for sex.

Despite the fact that it wouldn’t take a phone call for Natalie Appleton toconvince me to pop round, this single never really gets going and near thestart it sounds like they’re playing the Atari VCS classic “Yars’ Revenge” !

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

1. B*witched – C’est La Vie

2. Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds – 3 Lions 98

3. Billie – Because We Want To

4. Another Level – Freak Me

5. Jamiroquai – Deeper Underground

6. Spice Girls – Viva Forever

7. Boyzone – No Matter What

8. Manic Street Preachers – If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

9. All Saints – Bootie Call

The chances are that next week Robbie Williams will be No.1 with his newsingle “Millenium” which will make Ten No.1’s in a row, equalling the recordset in the chart at week ending April 13th 1996 when the Prodigy rounded off10 singles going in at No.1 in a row which began with Shaggy. The list lookslike this :

1. Shaggy – Boombastic

2. Simply Red – Fairground

3. Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise

4. Robson & Jerome – I Believe/Up on the Roof

5. Michael Jackson – Earth Song

6. George Michael – Jesus to a Child

7. Babylon Zoo – Spaceman

8. Oasis – Don’t Look Back in Anger

9. Take That – How Deep is Your Love

10. The Prodigy – Firestarter

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New releases :

August 31st :

September 7th :

September 14th :

September 21st :

September 28th :

October 5th :

October 12th :

October 19th :

December 14th :

Granada – Placido Domingo (WEA)

Other forthcoming releases

SEPTEMBER :

OCTOBER :

NOVEMBER :

DECEMBER :

JANUARY :

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Top 40 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

9 The Divine Comedy – Fin De Siecle

10 James Horner – Back To Titanic

32 Kenickie – Get In The top 5 goes like this :

1 Boyzone – Where We Belong

2 The Corrs – Talk On Corners

3 Savage Garden – Savage Garden

4 Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells III

5 Simply Red – Blue

New releases :

August 31st :

September 7th :

September 14th :

September 21st :

September 28th :

October 5th :

October 12th :

October 19th :

Mutations – Beck (Geffen)

October 26th :

November 2nd :

Masterplan – Oasis (Creation)

November 9th :

[tba] – Culture Club (Virgin)

November 16th :

[tba] – Metallica (Vertigo)

Other forthcoming releases

SEPTEMBER :

OCTOBER :

NOVEMBER :

DECEMBER :

JANUARY :

FEBRUARY :

Class Reunion 1999 – Fugees (Ruffhouse/Columbia)

COMPILATIONS :

August 31st :

Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels OST – v.a. (Island)

September 14th :

Motown 40 Forever – Remix Album – v.a. (Motown)

October 10th :

Divas Live – v.a. (Sony)

SEPTEMBER :

Motown 40 Forever – v.a. (Motown)

OCTOBER :

South Park – The Album – v.a. (Columbia)

NOVEMBER :

August 24th :NOVEMBER :

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Dominator’s Top 10 of 1997

37. Portishead – All Mine

Of last year’s self-titled second album, Portishead have released threesingles from it, the first one being “All Mine” (No.8, Sept 97).

Following 1995’s “Dummy” album, which brought this excellent British bandto the attention of the nation, their first two singles defined their offbeatstyle, both making No.13 with Glory Box (Jan 95) and a re-release for SourTimes (Apr 95).

This new single went higher than the first two in a stroke, and is indescribableapart from that it’s slow, and contains sampled sound in the background makingit sound like it’s come from a scratched record, coupled with a video whichfrom what I’ve seen comprises of little more than a girl doing the singing,and you have a bizarre, radio-unfriendly, but classic tune that is Portisheadwhich packs a bigger punch in one chorus than most bands manage in a wholesong.

The follow-ups were “Over” (No.25, Nov 97) and “Only You” (March 98).

The end bit :

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