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[Chart archive – March 1997 to date]
(* – 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…
- 1 new, 2 chart and 2 re-entering and entries :
- 24 (43 RE) Britney Spears – Circus
- 31 (RE) Coolio feat. LV – Gangsta’s Paradise
- 34 (61 CH) Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
- 37 (65 CH) Pink – Sober
- 39 (N) Alesha Dixon – Breathe Slow
- 35 The Script – The Man Who Can’t Be Moved
- 33 Coldplay – Viva La Vida
- 32 Duffy – Rain On Your Parade
- 30 Rihanna – Disturbia
- 26 X Factor – Finalists Hero
- 1 (3) Lady Gaga – Just Dance
- 2 (5) James Morrison feat. Nelly Furtado – Broken Strings
- 5 (6) Kings of Leon – Use Somebody
- 6 (27) The Saturdays – Issues
- 8 (14) Beyonce – Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
- 10 (40) Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne – Let It Rock
- 14 (38) Kanye West – Heartless
- 15 (16) Akon – Right Now
- 16 (37) MGMT – Kids
- 22 (36) Ne-Yo – Mad
- 29 (39) Girls Aloud – The Loving Kind
- 18 The Guru Josh Project – Infinity 2008
- 36 (23) Sugababes – No Can Do
- 56 Jordin Sparks – One Step At A Time
- 66 Akon – Beautiful
- 70 Tinchy Stryder – Take Me Back
so the following dropped out :
11 climbing :
1 not moving :
and 23 going down. Big fallers include:
New entries from No.41-75 :
Charity single featuring the X-Factor people. Great cause, crap song.
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[Viva La Vida…]
Yaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwn! What a bunch of pompous, stuck-up arseholes!
[One of the Boys]
“Oh, look, I’m pretending to be a lesbian”. Bollocks.
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[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
[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.
[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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[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.
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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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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[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.
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[I Am Sasha Fierce]
I’m never a fan of her music and this won’t change anything.
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[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.
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[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! 🙂
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[The Fame]
Mediocre pop.
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New releases :All the new releases info comes courtesy ofHaven Forum.co.uk
[Funhouse]
Jan 12th:
- Fe-Nix Lady Baby
The Game feat Ne Yo – Camera Phone
Girls Aloud The Loving Kind
Johnny Foreigner – DJs Get Doubts
Jose Amnesia vs Karen Overton Your Loving Arms
Kid Cudi vs Crookers Day n Nite
The Orange Lights – Life Is Still Beautiful
Pete And The Pirates – Jennifer / Blood Gets Thin (7)[Limited]
Public Domain – Operation Blade 2009 (Bass In The Place London)
Razorlight Hostage Of Love (7)[Limited]
Timmy Vegas & Bad Lay-Dee – Another Dimension
White Lies To Lose My Life
Jan 19th:
- A Camp Stronger Than Jesus
Bon Iver – Blood Bank
Bryn Christopher Fearless
Chase & Status feat Kano Against All Odds
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip Thou Shalt Always Kill (De La Edit) (7+12)
The Days No Ties
Donaeo Devil In A Blue Dress
Fall Out Boy Americas Suitehearts
Fight Like Apes Tie Me Up With Jackets (7)[Limited]
Franz Ferdinand Ulysses
I Monster – A Sucker For Your Sound
Jem Its Amazing
Jay Sean Tonight
Justice – Tthhee Ppaarrttyy
Lisa Mitchell – Neopolitan Dreams
Manu Chao – La Vida Tombola
Natural Born Grooves Candy On The Dancefloor
Oh Atoms Sugar Mouse
Pink Sober
Rifles Fall To Sorrow
Teddy Thompson – The Things I Do
Tinchy Stryder feat Taio Cruz Take Me Back
Tilly & The Wall Pot Kettle Black (7)
Van She – Cat & The Eye
Jan 26th:
- The Airborne Toxic Event Sometime Around Midnight
Bloc Party – One Month Off
Cage The Elephant – Back Against The Wall
The Days No Ties
Ercola feat Daniella – Every Word
Fifty Phantoms – Last Night
The Fray – You Found Me
Helen Love Calm Down Dad (7)[Limited]
Ida Maria Oh My God
Imelda May – Johnny Got A Boom Boom
Jordin Sparks – One Step At A Time
Lily Allen The Fear
Maria Lawson – These Walls
Pulled Apart By Horses – I Punched A Lion In The Throat / The Crapsons (7)
Sky Larkin Beeline
Sugarush Beat Company Love Breed
Sway feat Akon Silver & Gold
Feb 2nd:
- Constantines Our Age
Daniel Merriweather Change
Iglu & Hartly Violent & Young
Julian Velard Love Again For The First Time
Kardinal Offishall feat Keri Hilson – Numba 1 (Tide Is High)
Of Montreal – An Eluardian Instance
Red Light Company Arts & Crafts
Sander Van Doorn vs Robbie Williams Close My Eyes
Twisted Wheel We Are Us
The View Shock Horror (7)
Feb 9th:
- Alesha Dixon Breathe Slow
Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream
Morrissey I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris
New Kids On The Block 2 In The Morning
Nikka Costa Stuck To You
Tom Jones Give A Little Love
Wombats – My Circuit Board City
Feb 16th:
- Britney Spears – Circus
Gary Go Wonderful
Katy Perry Thinking Of You
Kid Rock Roll On
Kidbase feat Sincere Goodgirls Love Rudeboys
Raphael Saadiq Love That Girl
School Of Seven Bells Iamundernodisguise
Shinedown Second Chance
Skint & Demoralised – This Song Is Definitely Not About You
Coming soon:
- Amy Studt – Nice Boys [Jan/Feb]
Anastacia – Absolutely Positively
Annagrace You Make Me Feel
Annie Ánthonio [Jan]
The Automatic Magazines [Jan]
Avenue – Can You Feel It [Feb]
Bat For Lashes Daniel [9th Mar]
Beat Players feat Lara McAllen – Piece Of Heaven
Black Keys Same Old Thing
Blue Lagoon – Break My Stride
The BPA feat Iggy Pop Hes Frank
Brakes Hey Hey [Jan/Feb]
Brian McFadden Room To Breathe
Caramell – Caramelldansen
Cassie Official Girl
Champagne Riot Paris & I (EP)
Chase & Status feat Kano Against All Odds [23rd Feb]
Christian Silva – Great To Begin
Das Pop Never Get Enough [6th Apr]
Danny Bond feat Jennifer Jones – 3 Is Family
Darren Styles – Girls Like You
Deadmau5 feat MC Flipside – Hi Friend
Deerhunter – Never Stops [2nd Mar]
Doug Walker Obstacles [Jan]
Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
Elliott Minor Discover (Why Love Hurts) [Jan]
E-Type – True Believer
Echo & The Bunnymen – Think I Need It Too
Eskiboy feat Kano & Ghetto Shes Glowing [23rd Feb]
Esser Work It Out [23rd Feb]
Eve feat Sean Paul Give It To You
Eye Witness feat Charlene Oliver Ive Never Been To Me
Fields – Are You Ready Yet?
Filthy Dukes – This Rhythm [23rd Feb]
Flo Rida feat Sean Kingston – Roll
Gianluca Motta feat Molly – Not Alone
Glasvegas Flowers & Football Tops [23rd Feb]
The Great Northwestern Hoboes Won’t Let This Love
Herman Dune – Try To Think About Me [23rd Feb]
Infadels – Circus Of The Mad
Ironik Tiny Dancer
Jamie Scott & The Town Stare Into The Sun
Janelle Monae Many Moons
Jazmine Sullivan Dream Big [16th Mar]
Kanye West – Heartless
Kate Ryan – Ella Elle L’a
Kenna – Say Goodbye To Love
Kerry Leatham – Run Dry
Killers Joseph, Better You Than Me [Dec]
The Killers – Spaceman
Kim Leoni Medicine
Kush Wanna Be Your Girl (Bittersweet)
La Roux In For The Kill [Mar]
La Roux Bulletproof
Laura Your Loving Arms
Laura Izibor Shine [23rd Feb]
Leon Jackson – Creative
Leonid Rudenko Everybody [Feb]
Little Jackie The Stoop
M83 – We Own The Sky
Madcon Liar [23rd Feb]
Malibu Sneakers – Get Down Again
Maroon 5 – Goodnight Goodnight
Metro Station – Shake It [2nd Mar]
Miley Cyrus – Fly On The Wall
Mongrel Silence Is Talking
N-Dubz – Strong Again
Noisettes – Wild Young Hearts
Nono feat Huski – Three More Days
The Notwist – Boneless
One eskimO Kandi [23rd Feb]
Out Of Office Insatiable
Panic At The Disco – Northern Downpour
Passion Pit – Chunk Of Change (EP) [Feb]
Peacemakerz feat Danielle Senior Take It To The Dancefloor
Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc [16th Mar]
Peter Bjorn & John Nothing To Worry About (7) [23rd Mar]
Plain White Ts Natural Disaster [23rd Feb]
Poppy & The Jezebels Rhubarb & Custard
Primal Scream Uptown (12)
Private My Secret Lover
Pussycat Dolls – Bottle Pop
Raghav feat Redman My Kinda Girl / Humarahee
The Rasmus – Justify [Dec]
Ray LaMontagne – You Are The Best Thing [23rd Feb]
Rex The Dog Bubblicious [23rd Feb]
Rihanna – Rehab
R.I.O. – Shine On
Roll Deep Movin In Circles [2nd Mar]
Sam Sparro Pocket
Sandi Thom – Pink & The Lily
Scratch – Let’s Go
September Cant Get Over
Sharleen Spiteri It Was You
Shontelle T-Shirt [23rd Feb]
Sirens Dreams
Starsailor – Tell Me It’s Not Over [23rd Feb]
The Stills Being Here
T.I. feat Justin Timberlake Dead And Gone [23rd Feb]
The Ting Tings We Walk [23rd Feb]
Twisted Wheel We Are Us [16th Mar]
Usher Trading Places
Vampire Weekend – A Punk
The Virgins Rich Girls [16th Mar]
Vogue Another Night
Weezer Troublemaker
Yo! Majesty – Don’t Let Go [30th Mar]
The Young Punx – MA$h!tUP
- This week there are new entries for :
- 28 Kylie Minogue – Boombox
- 41 Jeff Buckley – So Real: Songs From
- 57 Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Only By The Night
- The top 10 goes like this :
- 1 Kings of Leon – Only By The Night
- 2 Take That – The Circus
- 3 Duffy – Rockferry
- 4 Leona Lewis – Spirit
- 5 The Killers – Day & Age
- 6 The Script – The Script
- 7 James Morrison – Songs For You, Truths For Me
- 8 MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
- 9 The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
- 10 Beyonce – I Am Sasha Fierce
New releases :All the new releases info comes courtesy ofHaven Forum.co.uk
Jan 12th:
- Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
Chilli Gold – Waterfalls
Jamie Foxx Intuition
Jay-Z – Blueprint III
Lady Gaga The Fame
Ultrabeat Discolights
NOW 1
Jan 19th:
- Ane Brun Changing Of The Seasons
Antony & The Johnsons The Crying Light
Go:Audio – Made Up Stories
It Hugs Back Inside Your Guitar
John Frusciante – The Empyrean
Scott Weiland Happy In Galoshes
White Lies To Lose My Life
Jan 26th:
- Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
The Bird And The Bee – Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future
The BPA _ Were Gonna Need A Bigger Boat
Bruce Springsteen – Working On A Dream
Cara Dillon – Hill Of Thieves
Ciara Fantasy Ride
Cut Off Your Hands You And I
Doug Walker Fear Together
Eagles Of Death Metal Heart On
Fight Like Apes – Fight Like Apes And The Mystery Of The Golden Medallion
Franz Ferdinand Tonight
Loney Dear – Dear John
The Orange Lights – Life Is Still Beautiful
Reel Big Fish – Fame Fortune & Fornication
The Rifles Great Escape
Secret Machines Secret Machines
Sepultura A-Lex
Shaky Hands Lunglight
Shinichi Osawa – One
Sven Vath – Sound Of The Ninth Season
Feb 2nd:
- A Camp Colonia
The Airborne Toxic Event The Airborne Toxic Event
Chris Cornell Scream
Emmy The Great – First Love
Fifty Phantoms Revolutionism
The Fray – The Fray
James Taylor – Covers
Jem – Down To Earth
The Jesus & Mary Chain – The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides and Rarities (4CD)
Oh Atoms – You Can’t See The Stars From Here
Pavarotti The Duets
The View – Which b**ch?
The Von Bondies – Love Hate And Then Theres You
Feb 9th:
- All American Rejects – When The World Comes Down
Andrew Bain – Presents Modern Classics
Connie Francis Very Best Of
Courtney Love Nobodys Daughter
Dollar Greatest Hits
Glenn Tilbrook & The Fluffers – Pandemonium Ensues
Hayley Sales Sunseed
Howling Bells – Radio Wars
Jennifer Lopez Greatest Hits
Keith – Vice & Virtue
Lily Allen It’s Not Me It’s You
Luther Vandross Love Songs
Mongrel Better Than Heavy
Sam Roberts – Love At The End Of The World
Sky Larkin The Golden Spike
Feb 16th:
- Alex Cornish – Until The Traffic Stops
The Answer Hush
Asobi Seksu Hush
Beirut – March Of The Zapotec
Empire Of The Sun Walking On A Dream
Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh
Grand Duchy Petit Fours
Jane Monheit – The Lovers The Dreamers And Me
Lionel Richie Just Go
M Ward – Hold Time
Morrissey Years Of Refusal
Nikka Costa Pebble To A Pearl
Red Light Company Final Fascination
Robyn Hitchcock – Goodnight Oslo
Saint Etienne – London Conversations: The Best Of
Susumu Yokota Mother
Heroes (War Child)
Coming soon:
- 50 Cent Before I Self Destruct [23rd Feb]
1 Giant Leap What About Me?
Ace Of Base tba
Aerosmith tba
Aidan Moffat – How To Get To Heaven From Scotland [14th Feb]
Alessis Ark – Notes From The Treehouse [Mar]
Alexandra Burke tba [16th Mar]
Andre 3000 tba
Annie Dont Stop
Annie Lennox The Annie Lennox Collection [16th Mar]
Annuals Such Fun
Arctic Monkeys tba
Audio Bullys Sunday Night Fever
Ava Leigh Rollin [23rd Feb]
Barry Manilow The Greatest Songs Of The Eighties [9th Mar]
Basement Jaxx tba [Feb]
Bat For Lashes tba
Beastie Boys tba
Bella And Sebastian God Help The Girl
Ben Kweller – Changing Horses [Jan]
Beverley Trotman tba
Big Boi – Sir Luscious Left Foot Son Of Chico Dusty
The Bishops tba
Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D. (The Energy Never Dies) [Mar]
Black Lips – 200 Million Thousand [23rd Feb]
Blondie tba
Bombay Bicycle Club – tba
Bonnie Prince Billy Beware [19th Mar]
Boom Bip tba
The Boy Least Likely To Fight The Power [2nd Mar]
Brakes Touchdown [20th Apr]
Brian McFadden – Set In Stone [Jan/Feb]
Busta Rhymes B.O.M.B. [9th Mar]
Cajun Dance Party tba
Captain Distraction
Cassie tba
Cat Power Sun
Charlotte Hatherley tba
Child Rebel Soldiers tba
Chipmunk I Am Chipmunk
Clipse Till The Casket Drops
Connie Fisher Secret Love [23rd Feb]
Corinne Bailey Rae tba
The Count & Sinden tba
Dan Deacon BRO MSTY [Jan]
Dananananaykroyd Hey Everyone
Daniel Merriweather – Love & War [Apr]
Das Pop Das Pop
David Archuleta David Archuleta [2nd Mar]
Deftones Eros
Depeche Mode tba [20th Apr]
Doves tba [Apr]
Dr Dre Detox
Duke Special – I Never Thought This Day Would Come [16th Mar]
Echo & The Bunnymen The Fountain
Eddi Reader – Love Is The Way [2nd Mar]
Eminem Relapse
Escala Escala [Apr]
Esser Braveface [27th Apr]
Eva Peterson tba
Eve Here I Am
The Everly Brothers – 50 Years Of Hits [9th Mar]
Fat Freddys Drop Big BW
Fever Ray Fever Ray [30th Mar]
Fields Hollow Mountains [2nd Mar]
Filthy Dukes Nonsense In The Dark [2nd Mar]
Final Fantasy Heartland
Fleetwood Mac tba
Frankmusik – Complete Me
FrYars – Dark Young Hearts [Mar]
Gary Go Gary Go [May]
Goldie Lookin Chain By Any Means Necessary
Good Books tba [4th May]
Grammatics Grammatics [2nd Mar]
Grandmaster Flash – The Bridge: Concept Of A Culture [23rd Feb]
The Handsome Family Honey Moon [Apr]
Hatcham Social – You Dig The Tunnel I’ll Hide The Soil
Hayley Westenra tba [Mar]
Helen Love Stick It (f*** Off)
The Hidden Cameras – tba
Holloways Tales From The Tarmac [Jan]
I Monster tba [Feb]
Idlewild tba [Apr]
Ivyrise Worldwide [Jan]
Jamie Cullum tba [Jan]
Jazmine Sullivan Fearless [Apr]
Joe Bonamassa – The Ballad Of John Henry [23rd Feb]
Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
JoJo – All I Want Is Everything
Julian Velard The Planeteer [2nd Mar]
Kasabian tba
Kelly Clarkson tba [Mar]
Keri Hilson In A Perfect World
Klaxons tba
Koopa tba
Lady Sovereign Jigsaw [6th Apr]
Lamb Of God Wrath [23rd Feb]
Laura Critchley Laura
Laura Izibor – Let The Truth Be Told [9th Mar]
Lisa Mitchell tba [May]
Loney Dear – Dear John [2nd Mar]
Maccabees tba [Feb/Mar]
Madina Lake – Attics To Eden [Mar]
Madness The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
Manic Street Preachers Journal For Plague Lovers or I Know I Believe In Nothing But It Is My Nothing [Apr]
Maria Lawson Emotional Rollercoaster [2nd Mar]
Mark Morrison King of British R&B: The Best Of…
Massive Attack Weather Underground
Mastodon – Crack The Skye [9th Mar]
Matt Duke – Kingdom Underground [23rd Feb]
Maximo Park tba
Melanie B Reimagined
Melody Gardot – My One And Only Thrill [9th Mar]
The Metaphors – London! Paris! New York! Rome! [Feb]
MGMT tba
Missy Elliott Block Party
Mr Hudson – Now I See
Natalia All Of Me [Jan]
Natalie Cole – Still Unforgettable [23rd Feb]
Neils Children X.Enc
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone [2nd Mar]
Nelly Furtado tba
Nicole Scherzinger – Her Name Is Nicole
OK Go – tba
One eskimO All Balloons [2nd Mar]
Paolo Nutini tba [Jan]
Paramore! tba
Patrick Wolf Battle
Peaches tba [Mar]
Pet Shop Boys tba [23rd Mar]
Peter Bjorn & John Living Thing [30th Mar]
PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By [30th Mar]
Pretty Ricky – Eighties Babies
The Prodigy Invaders Must Die [2nd Mar]
Propellerheads tba
Pure Reason Revolution tba [Feb]
Raghav – Identity
The Rakes tba
Raphael Saadiq – The Way I See It [2nd Mar]
Ray LaMontagne Gossip In The Grain [2nd Mar]
Rose Elinor Dougall – tba
Röyksopp tba
Ruarri Joseph – Both Sides Of The Coin [Jan]
Rumble Strips tba [Mar]
Sam Beeton No Definite Answer [9th Mar]
Sam Isaac – Bears
Santana Supernatural 2
Sarah McLachlan Closer: The Best Of [2nd Mar]
Scarlet BLONDE – tba
Shania Twain tba
Shinedown The Sound Of Madness [2nd Mar]
Shontelle Shontelligence [9th Mar]
Sonic Youth – tba
Soulja Boy iSouljaBoy
Starsailor All The Plans [2nd Mar]
Thomas Bromley In It For The Moment
Timbaland Shock Value 2 [Feb]
Tori Amos tba
Trashcan Sinatras In The Music
The Tunics – Somewhere In Somebodys Heart [2nd Mar]
The Twang tba [Jan]
Twisted Wheel – Twisted Wheel [30th Mar]
U2 No Line On The Horizon [Feb]
Ultravox Best Of
Urbnri Young Team
The Virgins The Virgins [30th Mar]
VV Brown – Travelling Like The Light [Apr]
The Whitest Boy Alive Rules [2nd Mar]
Whitney Houston Undefeated
Young Jeezy The Recession
Zero 7 – The Best Of [9th Mar]
Zoot Woman – Things Are What They Used To Be
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.