34 Alisha's Attic - Barbarella *

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 : 9 new entries, 1 climbers, 1 non-movers & 29 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…

9 new entries :

40 James Brown – Funk On Ah Roll

34 Alisha’s Attic – Barbarella *

27 Candi Staton – Love On Love

22 Ace Of Base – Everytime It Rains

15 Meat Loaf featuring Patti Russo – Is Nothing Sacred

13 The Cranberries – Promises

11 Blackstreet with Janet – Girlfriend/Boyfriend

10 Glamma Kid featuring Shola Ama – Taboo :O ===

1 Martine McCutcheon – Perfect Moment so the following dropped out :

40 Tina Cousins – Killin’ Time

39 Ultrasound – Floodlit World

38 Roger Taylor – Surrender

37 Manic Street Preachers – You Stole the Sun from my Heart

36 Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away

35 Shawn Mullins – Lullaby

34 Cypress Hill – Dr Greenthumb

29 Andy Williams – Music To Watch Girls By

23 Bus Stop – Jump 1 climbers :

8 (13) TLC – No Scrubs 1 non-movers :

30 (30) Steps – Heartbeat and 29 going down. Big fallers include :

20 (11) Another Level

24 (16) Mariah Carey

25 (15) Reef

26 (19) Beverley Knight

37 (21) Bon Jovi New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :

48 Invisible Man – Give A Little Love

51 Sizzla – Rain Showers

59 Niall Quinn’s Disco Pants – Love Supreme

60 Rod Stewart – Faith Of The Heart

61 Lennie De Ice – We Are Ie

67 Wilco – Can’t Stand It

72 Faith Hill – Let Me Let Go

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

34 Alisha’s Attic – Barbarella *

Third single from the current album and another excellent pop tune.Just a shame that the radio stations and the single-buying public have given ita wide berth 🙁

10 Glamma Kid featuring Shola Ama – Taboo :O ===

Dire cover of Sade‘s “Sweetest Taboo” which made No.31 in October 85.

1 Martine McCutcheon – Perfect Moment *1st Week at No.1*

The most obvious No.1 of the year so far has got to be Martine McCutcheon‘sdebut solo single. You wouldn’t have thought so given that she started off in a3-piece girl band Milan a few years ago, whose singles don’t even register inthe Guinness Book of British Hit Singles.

Since then she found fame as barmaid and part-time wife to Grant Mitchell inBBC1’s soap opera, “Eastenders”, before doing a show at the Royal Albert Hall.After bowing out of the soap at Xmas by banging her head against the pavement,she now makes a different assault – that of on the charts, and if anyone was inany doubt that this would debut at No.1, you only had to see that a freehour-long advert for her career was given on Easter Monday, ITV in the formof a documentary.

This is the 11th 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

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New releases :

If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know

March 29th :Cassius TBCCatatonia Dead From The Waste DownCranberries TBCDeetah El ParadisoDes’ree You Gotta BeElectronic VividHeller, Pete Big LoveLynden David Hall Medicine 4 My PainMarsden, Mathew Walk My WayTexas Once in a Lifetime

April 5th :A Love Supreme Niall Quinns Disco PantsAbba Singles Box SetAbi Thanking YouAlisha’s Attic BarbarellaArchive Take My HeadBeber Juvenile DelinquentBlackstreet Girlfriend/BoyfriendBleep & Booster Let The Bass KickBlood Just Say ItBrown, James Funk On Ah RollCommon Like We Used To SayCranberries PromisesDe Ice, Lennie We Are I.E.Electronic VividFish IncompleteGene Fill Her UpGlamma Kid TabooGrandmaster Flash The Message b/wGrandmaster Flash White Lines b/w ScorpioHall, Lynden David Medicine 4 My PainHand, Kelli Do ItHill, Faith Let Me Let GoInvisible Man Give a Little LoveIrresistible Force Fish DancesJade.ell Got To Let You GoLuna Superfreaky MemoriesMan Called Adam Duende Dubs (T. Middleton)Marsden, Mathew Walk My WayMcCutcheon, Martine Perfect MomentMonica InsideMore Rockers CureNYC Live & Direct I Want YouO’Brown, Wade No Other WomanPills Super HarmonyPorcupine Tree Piano LessonsPositive Force We Got The Funk b/wShy FX Deja Vu Part 2 (Ltd. Edition)Sonic Avengers Funk N DriveSoul Dhamma FlowerStaton, Candi Love On LoveStewart, Rod Faith Of The HeartSugarhill Gang Rapper’s Delight b/w ApacheTrouble Funk Pump Me Up b/wUnderworld Born SlippyUnity feat. Nicola Wish I Could FlyVarious Artists Six-Pack Sugar Hill Record BagVarious Artists Hall Of Fame EP 3Waits, Tom Hold OnWest Street Mob Break Dance – Electric BoogieWilco Can’t Stand ItXTC Easter Theatre

April 12th :Ash AphroditeBaby DC Feat Imajin Bounce, Rock, Skate, RollBen Folds Five ArmyBMR Feat Felicia Check It OutBrown, Jennifer Tuesday AfternoonCox, Carl Phuture 2000Deetah El ParadisoDesert Eagle Discs All Night LoveDJ Dado Ready Or NotDJ SS SS RevengeEminem My Name is (12″)Faithless Bring My family BackFridge, Ralph ParadiseGus Gus StarloversHoneyz Love Of A LifetimeKawala SnowballMcAlmont Lose My FaithMunroe, Hollis P I’m LonelyNail, Jimmy Blue Beyond The GreyOldfield, Mike Far Above The CloudsRico Attack MeRuff Driverz/Arrolla La MusicaS.O.L. (aka Oliver Lieb) QuantensprugSound 5 Ala KabooStar Power X Ray OK (Remixes)Straw Moving To CaliforniaSuede ElectricityToybox Tarzan & JaneUB40 Train Is ComingVan Helden, Armand FlowerzVarious Artists 3 The Hard Way

April 19th :3rd Storee If EverAdams, Bryan Cloud Number 9Basement Jaxx Red AlertCake Never ThereCalyx Acid BluesEvans, Faith All Night LongE-Z Rollers Walk This LandFatboy Slim Right Here, Right NowFaultline MuteFreddy Fresh feat. Badder Badder SchwingFun Lovin Criminals Korean BodegaHappy Mondays The Boys Are Back In TownHeller, Pete Big LoveKings Of The Wild Frontier Trans AmLeilani Do You Want MeMishka Give You All The LovePras What You Gonna DoRevolutionary Corps Of Pay Tha WreckRhymes, Busta What’s It Gonna BeSalt N Pepa Push It ’99Shanks & Bigfoot Sweet Like ChocolateSmith, Elliot Baby BritainTexas In Our LifetimeWestlife Swear It Again

April 26th :911 Private NumberBackstreet Boys TBCCamisra Clap Your HandsCassius Feeling For YouCast Beat MammaCube ScroungerDa Click We R Da ClickGroove Armada If Everybody LookedIndian Ropeman 66 MetersJamelia So HighMartin, Billy Ray HoneyMeja How Crazy Are YouMethod Man Feat D’Angelo Break Ups 2 Make UpsMoby Run OnNas I Will SurvivePrice, Kelly Secret LoveShaker, Johnny Pearl RiverStoneproof Everything’s Not YouTilt InvisibleVera Coche Carte BlancheVictoria FallYello vs. Hardfloor Vicious Games

May 5th :A Old FolksBolland, CJ Ain’t Gonna Be MeCharlotte SkinChieftans Feat The Corrs I Know My LoveDJ Sakin TBCHouston, Whitney My Love Is Your LoveMike & The Mechanics TBCSkunk Anansie SecretlyStereophonics Pick A Part Thats NewTerrorvision TBCTwain, Shania That Don’t Impress Me Much

May 10th :Beastie Boys TBCBoyzone You Needed MeBrown, Foxy (J.O.B) TBCGay Dad JoyHalliwell, Geri TBCLucid Stay With Me Til DawnMorrison, Van Back On TopPavement Carrot RopeSuper Furry Animals Northern Lights

May 17th :Blondie Nothing Is Real But The GirlMoffats, The TBCShed 7 Disco DownSupergrass TBCTerry, Todd Let It RideThree Colours Red This Is My Time

May 24th :Chemical Brothers TBCDef Leppard TBCJamiroquai Canned HeatMicronauts, The The JagParadise Lost TBCVengaboys TBC21st Century Girls TBC

Other forthcoming releases

APRIL :

MAY :

JUNE :

JULY :

[tba] – Whitney Houston (Arista)

AUGUST :

[tba] – Johnson Brothers (WEA)

SEPTEMBER :

~ [tba] – Oasis (Creation)

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Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

4 Orbital – Middle of Nowhere

11 New Radicals – Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too

15 Cartoons – Toonage

21 Echo & The Bunnymen – What Are You Going To Do With Your Life?

31 NAS – I Am… The top 5 goes like this :

1 Abba – Abba Gold: Greatest Hits

2 Corrs – Talk On Corners

3 Corrs – Forgiven, Not Forgotten

4 Orbital – Middle of Nowhere

5 Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails

New releases :

If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know

March 29th :

April 5th :

April 19th :

April 26th :

Us & Them – Godflesh (Earache)

May 3rd :

[tba] H – Suede (Nude)

May 10th :

Supreme Clientele – Ghostface Killah (Epic)

Other forthcoming releases

APRIL :

MAY :

JUNE :

JULY :

AUGUST :

SEPTEMBER :

OCTOBER :

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Dominator’s Top 50 of 1998

16. Chef – Chocolate Salty Balls (PS. I Love You)

This is the single from South Park’s Chef, aka soul star Isaac Hayes.Yes it’s a novelty record and I don’t really like South Park, but you can’tbeat a bit of groovy funk, especially amongst all the insipid Xmas rubbish.

The track debuted at No.2 in Xmas week while the Spice Girls went to the top,and Chef followed them a week later climbing to become the first No.1 of 1999.

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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