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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 : 7 new entries, 3 climbers, 2 non-movers & 28 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…

7 new entries :

36 Gene – Fill Her Up

28 Ben Folds Five – Army

18 E-Z Rollers – Walk This Land

17 Electronic – Vivid

14 Ruff Driverz Presents Arrola – La Musica

9 Honeyz – Love of a Lifetime

5 Suede – Electricity so the following dropped out :

40 James Brown – Funk On Ah Roll

39 Sash! – Colour My Life

37 Bon Jovi – Real Life

36 Kele Le Roc – My Love

35 System F – Out of the Blue

34 Alisha’s Attic – Barbarella

27 Candi Staton – Love On Love 3 climbers :

2 (4) Phats & Small – Turn Around

4 (5) Various – Thank Abba For The Music

6 (8) TLC 2 non-movers :

1 Martine McCutcheon

3 Eminem and 28 going down. Big fallers include :

8 (2) Mr Oizo

21 (13) The Cranberries

26 (15) Meat Loaf & Patti Russo

35 (22) Ace Of Base New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :

45 Baby DC featuring Imajin – Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll

46 Barbara Windsor & Mike Reid – The More I See You

49 Deus – Instant Street

50 Straw – Moving To California

51 Hollis P Monroe – I’m Lonely

53 Mike Oldfield – Far Above The Clouds

62 Gus Gus – Starlovers

67 Travel – Bulgarian

68 Ralph Fridge – Paradise

69 Sound 5 – Ala Kaboo

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

17 Electronic – Vivid
5 Suede – Electricity

Nothing much new in the charts this week, the above being first singles releasedin a while from both bands which will act as precursors to a new album, butneither single will particularly change your opinion of the band as they’reboth okay, but nothing special.

1 Martine McCutcheon – Perfect Moment *2nd 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

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

1 Catatonia – Equally Cursed and Blessed

12 Eminem – Slim Shady

19 James Last – Country Roads

23 Bruce Springsteen – 18 Tracks

25 Delirious? – Mezzamorphis

71 Nightmares On Wax – Car Boot Soul The top 5 goes like this :

1 Catatonia – Equally Cursed and Blessed

2 Abba – Abba Gold: Greatest Hits

3 Corrs – Forgiven, Not Forgotten

4 Corrs – Talk On Corners

5 Stereophonics – Performance and Cocktails

New releases :

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

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

17. Dandy Warhols – Every Day Should Be A Holiday

This was the first chart hit for the American band who made a record whichsounds like something straight out of the early 80s and deserved to be a No.1,but only made No.29 in February last year.

It was followed by “Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth” (No.13, May 98)which didn’t seem to have any of the title in the song, opting more forrepeating the words, “Herion is so passe”; and “Boys Better” (No.36, Aug 98)which did badly because it had near-zero airplay.

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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