5 Jennifer Lopez – Waiting for Tonight *

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The initial bit :

In the last chart of 1998, I posted my Top 50 singles of the year, pickingout the Top 10 first. During 1999, I’ll be going through the list one by onestarting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.

This week : 13 new entries, 0 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…

13 new entries :

  • 38 The Divine Comedy – Gin Soaked Boy
  • 36 Catatonia – Karaoke Queen
  • 30 Madison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby
  • 28 Marc Anthony – I Need To Know
  • 18 Embrace – Hooligan
  • 16 Mr Vegas – Heads High
  • 15 Planet Perfecto – Bullet in the Gun
  • 14 Alena – Turn it Around
  • 10 Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You
  • 6 Another Level – Bomb Diggy
  • 5 Jennifer Lopez – Waiting for Tonight
  • 2 Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton – What I Am *
  • 1 Geri Halliwell – Lift Me Up so the following dropped out :
  • 40 Foo Fighters – Learning to Fly
  • 39 Solar Stone – Seven Cities
  • 38 Buffalo Tom:Liam Gallagher and Steve Cradock – Going Underground/Carnation
  • 37 Bob Marley vs Funkstar De Luxe – Sun is Shining
  • 35 Bedrock – Heaven Scent
  • 34 Vengaboys – Ibiza
  • 33 Eternal – What’cha Gonna Do
  • 32 Rage Against The Machine – Guerilla Radio
  • 30 Honeyz – Never Let You Down
  • 29 Scooch – When My Baby
  • 26 Shola Ama – Still Believe
  • 23 Ian Brown – Love Like a Fountain
  • 21 Cher – Dov’e L’Amore 0 climbers : 1 non-movers :
  • 7 Macy Gray and 26 going down. Big fallers include :
  • 13 (5) Mariah Carey
  • 20 (9) Diana Ross
  • 22 (12) Basement Jaxx
  • 25 (15) Dreem Teem Vs Neneh Cherry
  • 26 (17) Phil Collins
  • 33 (13) B*Witched
  • 35 (25) Semisonic New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :
  • 46 Tori Amos – Glory of the 80s
  • 50 Sunkids featuring Chance – Rescue Me
  • 68 Day One – I’m Doin’ Fine
  • 70 Garth Brooks – Lost in You

    Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

    5 Jennifer Lopez – Waiting for Tonight *Second single from her “On the 6″ album, whatever that means, and while”If You Had My Love” was incredibly dull, this new single is rather goodindeed.

    2 Tin Tin Out featuring Emma Bunton – What I Am *A fairly faithful cover version of Edie Brickell’s first UK chart singlewhich made No.31 in February 89, except that this video has its lead singerdoing a good impresion of a wet T-shirt contestant.

    If I’m correct, this single was written by Paul Simon, but then I was wrongin thinking that this would trounce the sales of the third single from theginger one.

    1 Geri Halliwell – Lift Me Up *1st Week at No.1*

    Third single from her “Schizophonic” album and a rather dull one to boot.She’s swung the hype machine into action big-style this week by stating thatshe and media-mogul-wannabe Chris Evans are planning to get married.

    The Sun said it best: “If Chris and Geri get married, then divorced, whowould get custody of the sycophants ?”

    This is the 30th single to go straight in at No.1.

  • 1. Fatboy Slim – Praise You
  • 2. 911 – A Little Bit More
  • 3. Offspring – Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
  • 4. Armand Van Helden featuring Duane Harden – You Don’t Know Me
  • 5. Blondie – Maria
  • 6. Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away
  • 7. Britney Spears – Baby One More Time
  • 8. Boyzone – When The Going Gets Tough
  • 9. B*witched – Blame It On The Weatherman
  • 10. Mr Oizo – Flat Beat
  • 11. Martine McCutcheon – Perfect Moment
  • 12. Westlife – Swear It Again
  • 13. Backpassage Boys – I Like It That Way
  • 14. Boyzone – You Needed Me
  • 15. Shanks and Bigfoot – Sweet Like Chocolate
  • 16. Baz Luhrmann – Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
  • 17. S Club 7 – Bring It All Back
  • 18. Vengaboys – Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
  • 19. ATB – 9pm (Till I Come)
  • 20. Ricky Martin – Livin’ La Vida Loca
  • 21. Ronan Keating – When You Say Nothing At All
  • 22. Westlife – If I Let You Go
  • 23. Geri Halliwell – Mi Chico Latino
  • 24. Lou Bega – Mambo No.5
  • 25. Vengaboys – We’re Going To Ibiza
  • 26. Eiffel 65 – Blue (Da Ba Dee)
  • 27. Christina Aguilera – Genie in a Bottle
  • 28. Westlife – Flying Without Wings
  • 29. 5ive – Keep on Movin’
  • 30. Geri Halliwell – Lift Me Up

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    New releases :

    November (date unknown) :

      Keep On Movin’ – 5 (RCA)
      How To Rob – 50c & Madd Rapper (Columbia)
      You Don’t Know – 702 (Motown)
      4G – DJ Albert (Club Tools/Edel)
      I Need To Know – Marc Anthony (Columbia)
      Sexx Laws – Beck (Geffen)
      Why You Follow Me – Eric Ben‚t (Warner Bros.)
      See You – Big Country (Track)
      I Don’t Want To See Myself (Without You) – Terry Callier (Talkin Loud)
      La Mouche – Cassius (Distinct’ive/Virgin)
      Touch You – Celtus (Sony Sý)
      Is It Love? – Chili Hi Fly (Ministry Of Sound)
      You’ll Be In My Heart – Phil Collins (Walt Disney/Edel)
      Just My Imagination – Cranberries (Island US/Mercury)
      On The Dancefloor – D’ception (48K)
      Aisha – Death In Vegas (Concrete)
      Ready To Run – Dixie Chicks (Monument/Epic)
      [tba] – Dust Brothers feat. Brad Pitt (-)
      Summer Blues – Erire (Rhythm Engine)
      Diff’erent Sound – Family Values (Regal)
      Paperfaces – Feeder (Echo)
      Love Like That – Filo (Rotating)
      Filthy Mind – Amanda Ghost (Warner Bros.)
      Do You Wanna Dance – Glasgow Gangster Funk Tracs (Independiente)
      Kinetic [rm] – Golden Girls (Distinct’ive)
      Walhalla – Gouryella (Code Blue/East West)
      Please Forgive Me – David Gray (IHT)
      Wide Open Spaces – The Groobees (-)
      Deep Deep Down – Hepburn (Columbia)
      Feeling You – Indoctrinate (Bonzai)
      That Don’t Impress Me Much – Jackie “O” (Euphoric)
      Get Down – The Jungle Brothers (Gee Street/V2)
      Women Beat Their Men – Junior Cartier (Nucamp)
      The Warning – Kayestone (Distinct’ive/Virgin)
      Let The Good Times Roll – B.B. King (-)
      Waiting For Tonight – Jennifer Lopez (Columbia)
      All I Really Want – Kim Lukas (Pepper/Jive)
      Strobe – Thee MaddKatt Courtship (ffrr)
      Unforgivable Sinner – Lene Marlin (-)
      Things I Cannot Change – The Mavericks (MCA Nashville)
      Angel – Sarah McLachlan (Nettwerk/Arista)
      Crush ‘Em – Megadeth (Capitol)
      [tba] – Luis Miguel (WEA Int.)
      Music Is The Key – Dr. Motte & Westbam (Low Sense)
      In Your Arms (Rescue Me) – Nu Generation (Concept)
      So Low – Ocean Colour Scene (Island/Universal-Island)
      Paranoia – Rennie Pilgrem pres. Thursday Cluc (Thursday Club)
      Come On Baby – Psycho Cowboys (Wall Of Sound)
      Critikal Freaks – Sharp Side (Storm Cat)
      Hats Off To George – Silent Majority (Derby St.)
      Another Day – Skip Raiders (Perfecto)
      Will 2K – Will Smith (Columbia)
      Motorcross Madness / Soulera! – Paul Jacobs pres. Soul Grabber (Loaded/XL)
      It’s All About You – Tracie Spencer (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)
      I Won’t Let This Feeling Go – Sundance (Inferno)
      Turn – Travis (Independiente)
      Everything Dies – Type O Negative (Roadrunner)
      Heads High [rm] – Mr. Vegas (Greensleeves)
      King Of My Castle [rm] – Wamdue Project (Eruption)
      Someting’s Goin’ On – White Heat (white)

    1st November :

      Bomb Diggy – Another Level (Satellite/Northwestside)
      Heart Go Boom – Apollo Four Forty (Stealth Sonic/Epic)
      Karaoke Queen – Catatonia (Blanco Y Negro)
      Hooligans – Embrace (Hut/Virgin)
      As Time Goes By – Bryan Ferry (Virgin)
      Lift Me Up – Geri Halliwell (EMI)
      Thinking ‘Bout You – Jamelia (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)
      Mary – Supergrass (Parlophone)
      What Am I – Tin Tin Out feat. Emma Bunton (VC/Virgin)

    8th November :

      Everytime – A1 (Byrne Blood/Columbia)
      No Distance Left To Run – Blur (Food/Parlophone)
      [tba] – Culture Club (Virgin)
      We Haven’t Turned Around – Gomez (Hut/Virgin)
      [tba] – Alanis Morissette (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
      New Times Square – Chris Rea (East West)
      Otherside – Red Hot Chili Peppers (Warner Bros.)
      When We Are Together – Texas (Mercury)
      She’s The One / It’s Only Us – Robbie Williams (Chrysalis)

    15th November :

      [tba] – Birth (Hut/Virgin)
      Why – Glamma Kid (FutureFlex/WEA)
      Pictures Of Romance EP – Hobotalk (Hut/Virgin)
      Dusted – Leftfield (Higher Ground/Hard Hands/Columbia)
      Hanging With You – Marvin & Tamara (Epic)
      If You Believe – Sascha (WEA Germany)
      Lucie – Barrett Waugh (Warner Classics)

    22nd November :

      Back In My Life – Alice Deejay (Violent/Positiva)
      C vs. I – Cuban Boys (EMI)
      Talking In Your Sleep / Love Me – Martine McCutcheon (Innocent/Virgin)
      Muscle Museum – Muse (Taste/Mushroom)
      Barber’s Adagio For Strings – William Orbit (WEA)
      Kiss (When The Sun Don’t Shine) – Vengaboys (Positiva)

    29th November :

      Right Now – Atomic Kitten (Innocent/Virgin)

    6th December :

      Never Love A Stranger – Babyface & Madonna (Epic)
      I Got A Girl – Lou Bega (RCA)
      I Want Than Man ’99 – Deborah Harry (EMI)
      The Dolphin’s Cry – Live (Radioactive)
      You Only Tell Me You Love Me When You’re Drunk – Pet Shop Boys (Parlophone)

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    Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

    This week there are new entries for

  • 2 Westlife – Westlife
  • 6 Simply Red – Love and the Russian Winter
  • 8 Mariah Carey – Rainbow
  • 9 Tina Turner – 24-7
  • 10 Foo Fighters – Nothing Left To Lose
  • 15 Belinda Carlisle – A Place on Earth: The Greatest Hits
  • 17 Madness – Wonderful
  • 19 Counting Crows – This Desert Life
  • 23 Rage Against The Machine – Battle of Los Angeles
  • 44 James A Johnston – WWF Music Vol.4
  • 56 Original Cast Recording – Mamma Mia! The top 5 goes like this :
  • 1 Steps – Steptacular
  • 2 Westlife – Westlife
  • 3 Shania Twain – Come On Over
  • 4 Macy Gray – On How Life Is
  • 5 Travis – The Man Who

    New releases :

    November (date unknown) :

      Musiovc In A Dolls House / Family Entertainment – Family (See For Miles)
      [tba] – New Order (London)
      In London 1966-1967 – Pink Floyd (See For Miles)
      The Ultimate Collection – Cat Stevens (Island/Universal-Island)
      A Perfect Love III – v.a. (warner.espGlobal TV)
      Cheggars Choice (The Worst Songs Of The Century) – v.a. (warner.espGlobal TVSony TV)
      Funky Divas 3 – v.a. (Global TV)
      Radio Two Songs Of The Century – v.a. (warner.espGlobal TVSony TV)
      The Best Dance Label In The World … Ever! Vol. 1 – v.a. (Champion)
      Greatest Hits – Village People (Wrasse)

    1st November :

      Sing Something Simple: A Sentimental Journey – The Cliff Adams Singers (BBC Worldwide)
      The Journey – The Best Of … – Adiemus (Venture/Virgin)
      Throwin’ Rocks At The Moon – The Backsliders (Mammoth/Edel)
      The Collection – John Barry (EMI Catalogue)
      Backtracks – George Benson (Renaissance)
      Soldier Blue OST – Roy Budd (Cinephile/Castle Comm.)
      The Seawolves OST – Roy Budd (Cinephile/Castle Comm.)
      Rainbows – Mariah Carey (Columbia)
      A Place On Earth – The Greatest Hits – Belinda Carlisle (Virgin)
      Statik Majik – Cathedral (Earache)
      Anarchy – Chumbawamba (One Little Indian)
      This Desert Life – Counting Crows (Interscope)
      More Songs About Food & Revolutionary Art [ri] – Carl Craig (Planet E)
      Hybrids – The Creatures (Sioux/Hydrogen Dukebox)
      The Game – Chico DeBarge (Kedar/Motown)
      Ears To The Wall – The Dirty Dozen (Mammoth/Edel)
      Taking Guitar Blues – The Very Best Of … – Lonnie Donegan (Sequel)
      Felons & Revolutionaries – Dope (Epic)
      Black Juju – Entombed (Man’s Ruin)
      Polythene – Feeder (Echo)
      Bˆte Noire [ri] – Bryan Ferry (Virgin)
      Boys & Girls [ri] – Bryan Ferry (Virgin)
      Mamouna [ri] – Bryan Ferry (Virgin)
      Taxi [ri] – Bryan Ferry (Virgin)
      There Is Nothing Left To Lose – Foo Fighters (Roswell/RCA)
      Early Days – Beth Hirsch (Vital Song)
      Wonder No. 8 [rr] – The Honeyz (1st Ave./Mercury)
      Imajin – Imajin (Jive)
      The Ultimate Collection – Billy Joel (Sony TV)
      WWF: The Music – Vol. 4 – James A. Johnston (Koch Int.)
      V.I.P. – Jungle Brothers (Gee Street/V2)
      A Beginner’s Guide To Projekcts – King Crimson (Discipline)
      The Projekcts – King Crimson (Discipline)
      A Festival Of Nine Lessons & Carols – Choir Of King’s College Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury (EMI Classics)
      Christmas With Emma Kirkby – Emma Kirkby / Choir Of Westminster Abbey (Sony Classical)
      Coded Language – Krust (Talkin Loud)
      Black President – Fela Kuti (Talkin Loud)
      Give Me Back My Bullets [ri] – Lynard Skynard (MCA)
      Nothin’ Fancy [ri] – Lynard Skynard (MCA)
      Tell ‘Em Why U Madd – Madd Rapper (Columbia)
      Wonderful – Madness (Virgin)
      Sun Is Shining – Bob Marley (Eagle)
      The Best Of … – Mediaeval Baebes (Venture/Virgin)
      It’s Alright – Motorhomes (Epic)
      Analog Worms Attack – Mr. Oizo (F Comm./PIAS)
      Vivaldi: Four Seasons – Anne-Sophie Mutter (Deutsche Grammophon/Universal)
      2 Xs [ri] – Nazareth (Essential!/Castle Comm.)
      Exercises [ri] – Nazareth (Essential!/Castle Comm.)
      Nazareth [ri] – Nazareth (Essential!/Castle Comm.)
      Play’n’The Game [ri] – Nazareth (Essential!/Castle Comm.)
      Sound Elixir [ri] – Nazareth (Essential!/Castle Comm.)
      Les Princesses Nubiennes – Les Nubians (Virgin)
      Dance [ri] – Gary Numan (Beggars Banquet)
      New Dreams For Old – Gary Numan (Eagle)
      The Plan [ri] – Gary Numan (Beggars Banquet)
      Live From The Shark Cage – Papa M (Domino)
      Song Of The Bailing Man [ri] – Pere Ubu (Cooking Vinyl)
      The Art Of Walking – Pere Ubu (Cooking Vinyl)
      The Battle Of Los Angeles – Rage Against The Machine (Epic)
      The Hand That Rocks The Cradle OST – Graeme Revell (Hollywood/Edel)
      River City Rapists – River City Rapists (Man’s Ruin)
      Faces & Phases – Kevin Saunderson (Planet E)
      The Collection – Scholy D (Jive)
      The Great Divide – Semisonic (MCA)
      Burton On Trent – The Sex Pistols (Yeah)
      Angels WEith Dirty Faces [ri] – Sham 69 (Essential!/Castle Comm.)
      Love & The Russian Winter – Simply Red (East West)
      The Fatherless & The Widow [ri] – Sixpence None The Richer (World Ent. UK)
      Goodbye 20th Century – Sonic Youth (SYR/Smells Like)
      Sonic Solutions – Speed (Good Cop Bad Cop)
      Tracie Spencer – Tracie Spencer (Capitol/Parlophone)
      Hits – Spice 1 (Jive)
      Just For The Record – Barbra Streisand (Sony)
      Rap Life – Tash (Epic)
      Deep Fried Fanclub – Teenage Fanclub (Foire)
      Twenty Four Seven – Tina Turner (Parlophone)
      Live In Concert – Midge Ure (Strange Fruit)
      Les Mis‚rables – The Complete Symphonic Recording – Original Cast Recording (First Night)
      Mamma Mia – Original Cast Recording (Polydor)
      Best Of Bond – v.a. (EMI Catalogue)
      It’s A Finger Lickin’ Thang – v.a. (Finger Lickin’)
      Nuphonic 02 – v.a. (Nuphonic)
      The All Time Greatest Movie Songs – v.a. (Columbia)
      Reprise 1990-1999 – Vangelis (East West)
      Registry [ri] – The Wedding Present (Cooking Vinyl)
      Westlife – Westlife (RCA)
      Katherine Whalen’s Jazz Squad – Katherine Whalen (Mammoth/Edel)
      The Collection – Whodini (Jive)
      The Very Best Of … – Andy Williams (Columbia)
      Greatest Hits – John Williams (Sony Classical)
      One Blood – Yothu Yindi (Mushroom)

    8th November :

      Invincible – 5 (RCA)
      Sing Something Simple – The Cliff Adams Singers (Catalogue)
      In Return – Shola Ama (Freakstreet/WEA)
      Marc Anthony – Marc Anthony (Columbia)
      Anthology – Anti Nowhere League (Eagle)
      The Stranger – Babyface (Epic)
      The Very Best Of Michael Ball In Concert – Michael Ball (Universal TV)
      The Very Best Of Michael Ball In Concert – Michael Ball Live At The Royal Albert Hall – Michael Ball (Universal TV) [d/CD&MC]
      A Christmas Celebration – BBC Concert Orchestra (World Ent. UK)
      Sacred Arias – Timeless Arias Of Hope & Devotion – Andrea Bocelli / Orquestra e cor dell’ Academia Nazionale di Sana Cecilia / Myung-Whum Chung (Philips)
      Golden Greats – Ian Brown (Polydor)
      Live At Studio 5 – James Brown (Castle Pie)
      Cher – Cher (Geffen)
      The Casablanca Year – Cher (Spectrum)
      The Greatest Hits – Cher (WEAUniversal TV)
      The Ultimate Collection – Nat ‘King’ Cole (EMI Catalogue)
      From The Cradle To Enslave – Cradle Of Filth (Music For Nation)
      Swinging On A Star – Bing Crosby (Spectrum)
      Coda-Unreal-Appendix – Crowded House (Capitol/Parlophone)
      Watching Over You – Jim Davidson (Universal TV)
      The Magic Of The Movies – Doris Day (Columbia)
      The Complete Studio Recordings – The Doors (Elektra/East West)
      Duke Elegant – Dr. John (Parlophone)
      Eternal – Eternal (1st Ave./EMI)
      The Very Best Of … – Marianne Faithfull (Spectrum)
      All Right Now – Free (Spectrum)
      Greatest Hits – Fu Schnickens (Jive)
      The Collection – Lesley Garrett (RCA Victor)
      Deep Rising OST – Jerry Goldsmith (Hollywood/Edel)
      Maledictions – Grand Mal (Slash/London)
      Collectors Series 1 – Hawkwind (Hawkwind)
      Collectors Series 1 – Hawkwind (Hawkwind)
      Greasy Truckers – Hawkwind (Hawkwind)
      Live @ Glastonbury Festival 1990 – Hawkwind (Hawkwind)
      Boom Boom – John Lee Hooker (Castle Pie)
      I’m A Fucked Up Dancer But My Moods Are Swinging – I Against I (Epitaph)
      Evil Ones & Zeroes – Immense (Fat Cat)
      The Very Best Of Burt Bacharach – The Jet Set (Global TV)
      From Las Vegas To London – The Best Of Live – Tom Jones (Spectrum)
      The Collection – Tom Jones (Spectrum)
      The Television Shows – Tom Jones (Lost Moment)
      The Geatest Hits – Kool Moe Dee (Jive)
      Live At The Star Club, Hamburg – Jerry Lee Lewis (Spectrum)
      The Country Collection – Jerry Lee Lewis (Spectrum)
      The Killer Collection – Jerry Lee Lewis (Spectrum)
      Johnny Remember Me – John Leyton (Castle Pie)
      I’m Back For More – The Best Of Her Nineties Recordings – Lulu (Dome)
      The Best Of … – Lulu (Spectrum)
      The Best Of … – Vera Lynn (Spectrum)
      The Lot [rem. ri] – Madness (Virgin)
      The Singles Collection – Mantovani (Spectrum)
      Making Spirits Bright – Dean Martin (Capitol/EMI)
      Now & Then – The Best Of … – The Mavericks (MercuryUniversal TV)
      Emotion – Martina McBride (RCA)
      Live In Concert – Natalie Merchant (Elektra/East West)
      Resurrection – The Mission (Eagle)
      California – Mister Bungle (London)
      Crypt Of The Wizard – Mortiis (Earache)
      Mortiis II – Fodt Til A Berske – Mortiis (Earache)
      Chocolate Mood – Marc Nelson (Columbia)
      The Commissar Vanishes – Michael Nyman (Venture/Virgin)
      Rev – Perry Farrell (Warner Bros.)
      Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic – Prince (NPG/Arista)
      Greatest Hits III – Queen (Parlophone)
      The Road To Hell Part 2 – Chris Rea (East West)
      Every Day Is A New Day – Diana Ross (EMI)
      Celtic Glory – Runrig (Connoisseur Coll.)
      Affirmation – Savage Garden (Columbia)
      Vita Mia – Vincenzo La Scola feat. Cliff Richard (EMI Classics)
      Heart & Soul – New Songs From Ally McBeal – Vonda Shepard (Epic)
      This Beautiful Mess [ri] – Sixpence None The Richer (World Ent. UK)
      Reason To Believe – Rod Stewart (Spectrum)
      Clandestine Marriage – Stanislaw Syrewicz (Venture/Virgin)
      Le Tigre – Le Tigre (Wiiija)
      Onka’s Big Moka – Toploader (Sony Sý)
      An Anthology – A Tribe Called Quest (Jive)
      1000 Irish Favourites – v.a. (Pulse)
      1, 2, 3, 4 Punk Box – v.a. (MCA)
      Abbamania – v.a. (Polydor)
      Best Of Brass – v.a. (Pulse)
      Blunted Beatz – v.a. (Beechwood)
      Bossa Trez … Jazz – v.a. (Yellow/East West)
      Buffy The Vampire Slayer – v.a. (Columbia)
      Club Anthems – v.a. (Castle Pie)
      Desert Island Discs – Classics In Paradise – v.a. (BBC)
      Fire & Skill – The Songs Of The Jam – v.a. (Ignition)
      Funk Soul Brother – v.a. (Global TV)
      Mastercuts Classic R&B Vol. 2 – v.a. (Mastercuts/Beechwood)
      Millennium – A Thousand Years Of History – v.a. (Point)
      Millennium Movies – v.a. (VirginEMI)
      Millennium Party – v.a. (Pulse)
      More Music To Watch Girls By – v.a. (Columbia)
      Music Of The Millennium – v.a. (EMIVirginUniversal TV)
      Rock 97.4 FM – Rock The Dancefloor – v.a. (All Around The World)
      Sixties Shagadelic Lounge – v.a. (Castle Pie)
      Swing’s The Thing! – v.a. (Castle Pie)
      The Best Love Songs In The World … Ever! – v.a. (VirginEMI)
      The Christmas Album – v.a. (Global TV)
      The Love Songs Of Andreww Lloyd Webber – v.a. (Castle Pie)
      The Only Musicals Album You’ll Ever Need! – v.a. (RCA Victor)
      The Only Opera Album You’ll Ever Need – v.a. (RCA Victor)
      We Got The Funk – v.a. (Castle Pie)
      Give Me The Moonlight – The Best Of … – Frankie Vaughan (Spectrum)

    15th November :

      Here We Come – A1 (Byrne Blood/Columbia)
      The Best Of Me – Bryan Adams (A&M/Mercury)
      Live At The Royal Albert Hall – The Best Of … – Michael Ball (Universal TV)
      Anthology – Beastie Boys (Grand Royal/Capitol)
      Midnight Vultures – Beck (Geffen/Polydor)
      Timeless (The Classics) Vol. II – Michael Bolton (Columbia)
      In The Life Of Chris Gaines – Garth Brooks (Capitol/Parlophone)
      Charlotte Church – Charlotte Church (Sony Classical)
      MTV Unplugged – The Corrs (143/Lava/Atlantic/East West)
      Don’t Mind If I Do – Culture Club (Virgin)
      Lust 2 – Depth Charge (DC)
      All The Way: A Decade Of Song – C‚line Dion (Epic)
      Maori Songs – Kiri (EMI Classics)
      Tilt – Lightning Seeds (Epic)
      Chant Down Babylon – Bob Marley (Island/Universal-Island)
      Unplugged – Alanis Morissette (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
      Crown Royal – Run DMC (Profile/Arista)
      Willennium – Will Smith (Columbia)
      Eleven To Fly – Tin Tin Out (VC/Virgin)
      Love In The Time Of Science – Emiliana Torrini (One Little Indian)
      Blow Up A-Go-Go – v.a. (Blow Up/V2)
      Friends II – v.a. (Reprise/Warner Bros.)
      The All Time Greatest Love Songs Vol. 3 – v.a. (Columbia)
      Barrett Waugh – Barrett Waugh (Warner Classics)

    22nd November :

      Singles Of The Nineties – Ace Of Base (Polydor)
      [tba] – Toni Braxton (LaFace/Arista)
      Christmas Album – Garth Brooks (Capitol/Parlophone)
      Voodoo – D’Angelo (Cooltempo/EMI)
      Mimosa – The Lounge Album – Fun Lovin’ Criminals (Chrysalis/EMI)
      Enrique Iglesias – Enrique Iglesias (Polydor)
      VH-1 Storytellers – Wyclef Jean (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
      [tba] – Korn (Immortal/Epic)
      [tba] – LL Cool J (Def Jam/Mercury)
      Nastradamus – NAS (Columbia)
      Amplified – Q-Tip (Arista)
      Now That’s What I Call Music! 44 – v.a. (EMIVirginPolyGram)
      The World Is Not Enough OST – v.a. (MCA/Universal-Island)

    29th November :

      Thank You For The Music – 25th Anniversary – Abba (Polydor)
      Singles Box Set – Boyzone (Polydor)
      [tba] – K‚ll‚ Bryan (1st Ave./Mercury)
      Dina Carroll – Dina Carroll (1st Ave./Mercury)
      Live Era ’98-’93 – Guns’n’Roses (Geffen)
      The First Ten Years – Shawn Mullins (Columbia)
      The Millennium Bell – Mike Oldfield (WEA)
      The Wall – Live – Pink Floyd (EMI)
      Greatest Hits – Salt’n’Pepa (Arista)
      Box Set – Dusty Springfield (MercuryPolyGram TV)
      Box Set – Dusty Springfield (MercuryPolyGram TV)
      Delicious – Thunderbugs (1st Ave./Epic)
      The Platinum Album! – Vengaboys (Positiva)

    6th December :

      Live – Sheryl Crow (A&M/Polydor)
      There Can Only Be One – Vol. 3 – Jay-Z (Rock-A-Fela/Def Jam/Mercury)
      Lil’ Kim – Lil’ Kim (Atlantic/East West)
      [tba] – Method Man (Def Jam/Mercury)
      Songs From The Last Century – George Michael (Virgin)
      Born Again – The Notorious B.I.G. (Puff Daddy/Arista)
      [tba] – Redman (Def Jam/Mercury)
      Feel The Noize – Greatest Hits – Slade (Polydor)
      Smash Hits 2000 – v.a. (VirginEMI)
      The Sopranos OST – v.a. (Columbia)

    20th December :

      [tba] – DMX (Ruff Ryders/Def Jam/Mercury)

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    Dominator’s Top 50 of 1998

    46. Space featuring Cerys Matthews – The Ballad of Tom Jones

    Making No.4 in March last year, this was easily the best single of the week,a superbly-crafted ‘ballad of hate’ from Liverpool’s Space, who have surelystamped their definitive mark on British Pop, and Cerys Matthews, lead singerof Catatonia, who recently had their biggest hit single to date with theexcellent, “Mulder And Scully”.

    “The Ballad of Tom Jones” is about a couple who were on the verge of killingeach other to keep themselves sane, as their relationship had become so bad,but it was only by one of them accidentally turning the radio on and thesubsequent sound of a Tom Jones record which cooled their anger instantly.

    If that sounds like a completely unworkable scenario then you couldn’t bemore wrong. With Tommy and Cerys singing alternate lines about how they’d liketo maim each other, and then when their hate subsides they own up to buying his’greatest hits’ album.

    Definitely one of those songs you need to check out!

    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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