39 Status Quo – The Way It Goes

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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 : 11 new entries, 1 climbers, 2 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…

11 new entries :

  • 39 Status Quo – The Way It Goes
  • 34 QFX – Say You’ll Be Mine
  • 29 Kavana – Will You Wait For Me?
  • 18 Daniel O’Donnell – The Way Dreams Are
  • 14 Travis – Writing To Reach You
  • 13 Orbital – Style
  • 12 Beautiful South – How Long’s a Tear Take To Dry?
  • 11 Roxette – Wish I Could Fly
  • 10 REM – At Your Most Beautiful
  • 5 Manic Street Preachers – You Stole The Sun From My Heart *
  • 2 Steps – Better Best Forgotten so the following dropped out :
  • 40 Kula Shaker – Mystical Machine Gun
  • 39 Tatyana Ali – Boy You Knock Me Out
  • 37 TQ – Westside
  • 36 98 Degrees – Because Of You
  • 35 Lucid – Crazy
  • 34 Beth Orton – Stolen Car
  • 31 Foxy Brown – Hot Spot
  • 30 Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives
  • 29 Offspring – Pretty Fly
  • 28 Alanis Morissette – Joining You
  • 22 Mytown – Party All Night 1 climbers :
  • 37 (38) Cher – Believe 2 non-movers :
  • 1 Boyzone – Comic Relief
  • 8 Cher – Strong Enough and 26 going down. Big fallers include :
  • 16 (7) Madonna
  • 21 (9) Stereophonics
  • 26 (12) E-17
  • 28 (10) Ginuwine
  • 33 (17)
  • Skunk Anansie
  • 40 (24) Jay-Z New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :
  • 43 Eagle-Eye Cherry – Permanent Tears
  • 47 Jessica – How Will I Know (Who You Are)
  • 49 Thunder – You Wanna Know
  • 56 Bob Sinclar – My Only Love
  • 57 Fountains Of Wayne – Denise
  • 58 Ozomatli – Cut Chemist Suite
  • 60 Shy FX – Bambaata 2012
  • 64 Fused – This Party Sucks!
  • 68 Jennifer Paige – Sober

    Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

    39 Status Quo – The Way It Goes

    First single in ages and a low position with few sales is “The Way It Goes” 🙂

    12 Beautiful South – How Long’s a Tear Take To Dry?

    I’ve only heard this briefly. Sounds okay and the promo video pays homageto Scooby Doo.

    11 Roxette – Wish I Could Fly

    First new single in a number of years while the Roxette duo have been off makingbabies (not with each other). It’s not bad, but it’s okay.

    5 Manic Street Preachers – You Stole The Sun From My Heart *

    Third single from the “..Truth” album and like most Manics tracks it’s betterthan most things on the chart, but in comparison with their other singlesthis is the “Australia” from the album – okay but nowhere near as good as theirbest.

    2 Steps – Better Best Forgotten

    Couldn’t have put it better myself…

    1 Boyzone – When The Going Gets Tough :O === *2nd Week at No.1*

    Take the Billy Ocean No.1 original, remove all the impact that the song hadwhen you first heard it, stick a “CON-ic Relief” sticker on it, and you havethe latest charity single, put out so we can buy it and all feel better aboutourselves for subsiding worldwide poverty, while the Government are outspending Âœ800 million on a stupid dome.

    This is the 8th 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

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    New releases :

    March 8th :

      Inside Out – Bryan Adams (A&M/Mercury)
      [tba] – Afro Celt Sound System (Realworld-Virgin)
      Honey To The Bee – Billie (Innocent/Virgin)
      Blame It On The Weatherman – B*Witched (Glow Worm/Epic)
      Never There – Cake (Fontana)
      Like We Used To Say – Common (-)
      You Gotta Be – Des’ree (Dusted Sound/Sony S=B2)
      [tba] – Deus (Island)
      Rust – Echo & The Bunnymen (London)
      Heavy High – Liz Horsman (-)
      Power / Fish Dances – Irresistible Force (Ninja Tune)
      My Love – Kele Le Roc (1st Ave./Wild Card/Polydor)
      Made It Back – Beverley Knight feat. Redman (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)
      Walk My Way – Mathew Marsden (Viper/Columbia)
      Building A Mystery – Sarah McLachlan (Nettwerk/Arista) 8.02
      Do You Feel Me – Men Of Vizion (MJJ/Epic)
      [tba] – Alex Reece (Fourth&Broadway)
      At My Most Beautiful – R.E.M. (Warner Bros.)
      I Wish I Could Fly – Roxette (EMI)
      Hit The Ground Running – Smog (Domino)
      Talk About The Blues – Jon Spencer Blues Explosion (Mute)
      Step Out – The Tamperer feat. Maya (Time/Pepper/Jive)
      Year Of The Apocalypse – Jimi Tenor (Warp)
      No Scrubs – TLC (LaFace/Arista)
      Bitterscene – Velocette (Wiiija)
      Juice – Whale (Hut/Virgin)

    March 15th :

      Never Gonna Give You Up ’99 – Rick Astley (-)
      [tba] – Gary Barlow (RCA)
      If You Really Want To Know – Marc Dorsey (Jive)
      Korean Bodega – Fun Lovin’ Criminals (Difontaine/Chrysalis)
      Flowerz – Armand van Helden (ffrr)
      Big Love – Peter Heller (Junior Boys Own)
      If You Believe – Sasha (-)
      [tba] – Todd Terry (VC/Virgin)
      Push Upstairs – Underworld (Junior Boy’s Own/V2)
      Strong – Robbie Williams (Chrysalis)

    March 22nd :

      Windowlicker – The Aphex Twin (Warp)
      Keep A Lid On It – Crash Test Dummies (RCA)
      Day In, Day Ou – Feeder (Echo)
      I Got Something To Say – Reef (Sony S=B2)
      The Living Dream [rm] – Sundance (React)

    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 :

      Glamma Kid TabooGroove Armada If Everybody LookedMcCutcheon, Martine Perfect MomentPuressence This FeelingRhymes, Busta Whats It Gonna BeSasha TBCUB40 TBC

    April 12th :

      Fatboy Slim Right Here, Right NowHappy Mondays TBCNail, Jimmy Blue Beyond The GreyStar Power X Ray OK (Remixes)Suede Electricity

    April 19th :

      Cast Beat MammaSara Evans No Place For ThatMike & The Mechanics TBCMishka Give You All The LoveSalt N Pepa Push It ’99Terry, Todd TBC

    April 26th :

      Cardigans TBCGay Dad JoyMeja How Crazy Are YouVictoria Fall

    Other forthcoming releases

    MARCH :

      Aquila (EP) [rm] – Anjali (Wiiija)
      [tba] – Aya (Universal)
      Remote Control – Beastie Boys (Grand Royal/Capitol)
      Just Say – Blood (Oyster)
      Sure Thing – Brassy (Wiiija)
      [tba] EP – Brothers In Sound (Regal/Parlophone)
      [tba] – Cay (East West)
      [tba] – Chicane feat. M=E1ire Brennan (Xtravaganza)
      Button Down Disco – Clinton (Wiiija)
      Angel – Deep Venus (24 Stroke)
      Buddy X – Dreem Teem vs. Neneh Cherry (4 Liberty/Deconstruction)
      Club Lonely – Sam Ellis (Paral.lel/ZTT)
      [tba] – Fierce (Hardback/Wildstar/Telstar)
      Joy – Gay Dad (London)
      At The River – Groove Armada (Pepper/Jive)
      [tba] – Geri Halliwell (EMI)
      Love Of A Lifetime – The Honeyz (1st Ave./Mercury)
      Relax – Robbie Rivera pres. Invasion (Stoney Boy Music)
      [tba] – Jamelia (Rhythm Series/Parlophone)
      I Believe – Jamestown feat. Jocelyn Brown (Playola/Edel)
      [tba] – Mike Koglin (Multiply)
      [tba] – Koot (WEA)
      [tba] – Laptop (Island)
      Afrika Shox – Leftfield feat. Afrika Bambaataa (Hard Hands/Columbia)
      [tba] – Lobster (MCA)
      [tba] – Marvin & Tamara (Epic)
      [tba] – Mero (RCA)
      The Jag – Micronauts (Science/Virgin)
      [tba] – Monk & Canatella (Multiply)
      Mambo ’99 – Mucho Mambo (Ministry Of Sound)
      Positivism – NT (Response/Epic) ~ [tba] – N-Trance (All Around The World)
      Cut Chemist Suite – Ozomatli (Almo Sounds)
      [tba] – Plone (Warp)
      [tba] EP – DJ Pulse (FutureFlex/WEA)
      Peace & Mind – Qattara (Steel Fish)
      [tba] – Queeny Dreena (Blanco Y Negro/WEA)
      [tba] – Karen Ramirez (Manifesto/Mercury)
      [tba] – Raylex (Universal)
      Desert Music – Steve Reich (Arthrob/Coalition)
      You Got Me – Roots feat. Erykah Badu (Universal)
      Nomansland – DJ Sakin & Friends (Additive)
      Sweet Like Chocolate [rm] – Shanks & Bigfoot (Chocolate Boy)
      [tba] – Super Collider (Loaded)
      [tba] – Taxi Driver (Estereo)
      Sun Is Shining – Technique (Creation)
      [tba] – Touch & Go (V2)
      Skylines Over Rooftops – Two Banks Of Four (Sirkus)

    APRIL :

      I Know My Love – The Corrs (143/Lava/Atlantic)
      [tba] – Tina Cousins (Ebul/Jive)
      [tba] – Dope Smugglaz (Perfecto/Mushroom)
      [tba] – Rob Dougan (Cheeky)
      Mad Dog – Elastica (Deceptive)
      My Love Is Your Love – Whitney Houston (Arista)
      Viva La Radio – Lolly (Polydor)
      Shut Your Mouth – Made In London (RCA)
      [tba] – Martine McCutcheon (Innocent/Virgin)
      [tba] – Jez Metcalf (Ebul/Jive)
      [tba] – Ocean Colour Scene feat. P.P. Arnold (MCA)
      [tba] – Pocket Size (EMI)
      [tba] – Suede (Nude)
      [tba] – Super Furry Animals (Creation)
      [tba] – Supergrass (Parlophone)
      [tba] – Teenage Rampage (19 Recs.)
      [tba] – Westside (RCA)
      We’re Going Out – Younger Younger 28s (V2)

    MAY :

      The F-Word – Baby Bird (Echo)
      Dove L’Amore – Cher (WEA)
      [tba] – Collette (RCA)
      Oh Jim – Gay Dad (London)
      [tba] – Gintare (Parlophone)
      [tba] – Johnson Brothers (WEA)
      [tba] – Merz (Lotus/Epic)
      Out Of Your Tree – Papa Mantra (Telstar)
      [tba] – Adam Rickit (Polydor)

    JUNE :

      [tba] – Archive (Independiente)
      [tba] – BB Mak (Telstar)
      Big Boys Don’t Cry – Lolly (Polydor)

    JULY :

      [tba] – Whitney Houston (Arista)

    AUGUST :

      [tba] – Johnson Brothers (WEA)

    SEPTEMBER :

      ~ [tba] – Oasis (Creation)

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    Top 40 ALBUM chart analysis :

    This week there are new entries for

  • 1 Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails
  • 8 Britney Spears – Baby One More Time
  • 9 Kula Shaker – Peasants, Pigs and Astronauts
  • 11 Van Morrison – Back On Top
  • 22 The Best of Carly Simon
  • 38 Wilco – Summerteeth
  • 60 Shawn Mullins – Soul’s Core The top 5 goes like this :
  • 1 Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails
  • 2 Corrs – Talk On Corners
  • 3 Robbie Williams – I’ve Been Expecting You
  • 4 Lauryn Hill – Mistimed Ramblings and Other Crap
  • 5 Whitney – My Love Is Your LoveThis week there are new entries for :The top 5 goes like this :

    New releases :

    March 8th :

      CM / FM – Cornelius (Matador) . Wrong Town, Wrong Planet, Two Hours Late – Dawn Of The Replicants (East West) 1.03
      [tba] – Joi (VC/Virgin)
      Instinct – Kavana (Nemesis/Virgin)
      Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts – Kula Shaker (Columbia)
      Back On Top – Van Morrison (Virgin)
      Central Reservation – Beth Orton (Heavenly)
      Dark Dancer – Les Rhythmes Digitales (Wall Of Sound)
      Exorcise The Demons – Source Direkt (Virgin)
      [tba] – DJ Spooky (Universal)
      Performance & Cocktails – Stereophonics (V2)

    March 15th :

      13 – Blur (Food/Parlophone)
      Adventure – Furslide (Virgin)
      100% Ginuwine – Ginuwine (Epic)
      Aida – Elton John (Rocket/Mercury)
      Best Of … – Kool & The Gang (Mercury)
      [tba] – Roxette (EMI)
      Dead Bees On A Cake – David Sylvian (Virgin)
      The Best Choral Album In The World … Ever! – v.a. (VirginEMI)

    March 22nd :

      March 22nd :
      Social Dancing – Bis (Wiiija) 22.02
      Give Yourself A Hand – Crash Test Dummies (RCA)
      [tba] – Beverley Craven (Epic)
      [tba] – King Crimson (Virgin)
      Post Orgasmic Chill – Skunk Anansie (Mercury)

    March 29th :

      [tba] – Bentley Rhythm Ace (Skint/Parlophone)
      Twisted Tenderness – Electronic (Parlophone)

    April 5th :

      What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? – Echo & The Bunnymen (London)
      Middle Of Nowhere – Orbital (ffrr)

    April 19th :

      [tba] – Gary Barlow (RCA)
      [tba] – Texas (Mercury)

    April 26th :

      Us & Them – Godflesh (Earache)

    May 3rd :

      [tba] H – Suede (Nude)

    May 10th :

      Supreme Clientele – Ghostface Killah (Epic)

    Other forthcoming releases

    MARCH :

      Premiers Symptomes – Air (Virgin)
      Out Of Alda – Alda (Wildstar/Telstar)
      [tba] – Badly Drawn Boy (XL)
      [tba] – The Blockster (Ministry Of Sound)
      [tba] – Andrea Bocelli (Universal)
      [tba] – Cay (East West)
      [tba] – Clinton (Wiiija)
      One Advice, Space – Deus (Independiente)
      Whitey Ford Sings The Blues – Everlast (Tommy Boy)
      Utopia Parkway – Fountains Of Wayne (Atlantic/East West)
      [tba] – Leftfield (Hard Hands/Columbia)
      Lovestation – Lovestation (Fresh)
      Come On Die Young – Mogwai (Chemikal Underground)
      Recycle – New Order (London)
      [tba] – Regular Fries (JBO/V2)
      [tba] – Somatic (Universal)
      [tba] – Sparky Lightbourne (Skint)
      [tba] – Straw (WEA)
      [tba] – Tam (Roadrunner)
      Everything Picture – Ultrasound (Nude)
      On The Floor At The Boutique – Mixed By Fatboy Slim – v.a. (Skint)
      Tommy Boy’s Greatest Beats – v.a. (Tommy Boy)
      [tba] – Whistler (Wiiija)

    APRIL :

      [tba] – Backstreet Boys (Jive)
      [tba] – Cast (Polydor)
      [tba] – The Charlatans (Beggars Banquet)
      [tba] – Hanson (Mercury)
      [tba] – James (Fontana/Mercury)
      [tba] – Jamiroquai (Sony S=B2)
      [tba] – Laptop (Island)
      Bleach [ri] – Nirvana (Sub Pop)
      [tba] – Plone (Warp) – Bring The Noise 2000 – Public Enemy (Def Jam/Mercury)
      Reef On A Fresh Tip – Reef (Sony S=B2)
      Rhinocerose – Rhinocerose (V2)
      [tba] – Soul Assassins (Columbia)
      [tba] – Sound 5 (Gut)
      [tba] – Sting (A&M/Mercury)
      [tba] – Super Collider (Loaded)
      [tba] – Travis (Independiente)
      [tba] – Neil Young (WEA)

    MAY :

      [tba] – Archive (Independiente)
      [tba] – Catatonia (Blanco Y Negro)
      [tba] – The Chemical Brothers (Freestyle Dust/Junior Boy’s Own/V2)
      [tba] – Dope Smugglaz (Perfecto/Mushroom)
      [tba] – Rob Dougan (Cheeky)
      [tba] – Elastica (Deceptive)
      [tba] – Fierce (Hardback/Wildstar/Telstar)
      Leisurenoise – Gay Dad (London)
      [tba] – Merz (Lotus/Epic)
      To The Surface – NT (Response/Epic)
      [tba] – Ocean Colour Scene (MCA)
      [tba] – Pocket Size (EMI)
      [tba] – Seafruit (Electric Canyon/Telstar)
      By 7:30 – Vonda Shepard (Epic)
      [tba] – Miriam Stockley (Virgin)
      [tba] – Super Furry Animals (Creation)
      Lexicon Of Melody – T-Spoon (Control/Edel)

    JUNE :

      [tba] – Baby Bird (Echo)
      [tba] – The Beta Band (Regal/Parlophone)
      God’s Big Spaceship – Gomez (Hut/Virgin)
      [tba] – Hepburn (Columbia)
      [tba] – Lolly (Polydor)
      [tba] – Monaco (Polydor)
      [tba] – Pet Shop Boys (Parlophone)
      [tba] – Propellerheads (Wall Of Sound)
      Cocked – Supergrass (Parlophone)
      [tba] – Paul Weller (Island)

    JULY :

      [tba] – Aqua (Universal)
      [tba] – No Doubt (Interscope)

    AUGUST :

      [tba] – Johnson Brothers (WEA)
      [tba] – Tom Jones (Gut)

    SEPTEMBER :

      [tba] – Mary Jane Lamond (Wicklow/BMG Classics)
      [tba] – Bill Laswell (Wicklow/BMG Classics)
      [tba] – Laurel MacDonald (Wicklow/BMG Classics)
      [tba] – Varttina (Wicklow/BMG Classics)

    OCTOBER :

      [tba] – Metallica w/San Francisco Symphony Orch. (Vertigo/Mercury)
      [tba] – Oasis (Creation)
      [tba] – Radiohead (Parlophone)
      [tba] – U2 (Island)

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    Dominator’s Top 50 of 1998

    12. Beautiful South – Perfect 10

    Single-of-the-week in October last year was this No.2 hit, a funky first releasefrom the album, “Quench”, about the size of a woman’s figure, unless they’vegot a hidden agenda…

    It was followed two months later with “Dumb”, making only No.16 but beingno worse off for it in terms of musical quality and it also had a 2.35:1widescreen promo video to boot 🙂

    The third single from the album, “How Long’s a Tear Take To Dry?” went intothis week’s chart at No.12.

    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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