8 New Order – Crystal *

A U G U S T 2 5 T H 2 0 0 1 [This week’s digest] [New Singles Release Info]

[Album Charts] [New Albums Release Info]

[Last week’s chart]

The initial bit :

For my last chart of 2000, I’ve posted my Top 50 singles of the year,starting with the Top 10. During 2001, I’ll be going through the list one byone starting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.

This week: 12 new entries, 0 climbers, 0 non-movers & 28 downers.

new entry re-entry climber faller non moverCHART 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…

12 new entries :
• 40 Manchild – Nothing Without Me
• 36 Supersister – Shopping
• 27 Anastacia – Made For Lovin’ You
• 23 Tymes 4 – Bodyrock
• 15 De Nada – Love You Anyway
• 14 Shade Sheist – Where I Wanna Be
• 12 Groove Armada – Superstylin’
• 8 New Order – Crystal *
• 5 Jamiroquai – Little L
• 4 Eve & Gwen Stefani – Let Me Blow Ya Mind
• 2 Sophie Ellis Bextor – Take Me Home
• 1 Five – Let’s Dance

so the following dropped out :

• 40 Mis-Teeq – All I Want
• 39 S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Movin’
• 38 Hear’Say – The Way to Your Love
• 37 DJ Pied Piper – Do You Really Like It
• 36 Mauro Picotto – Like This Like That
• 35 U2 – Elevation
• 33 Cygnus X – Superstring
• 31 Depeche Mode – I Feel Loved
• 30 Zero 7 – Destiny * !!!
• 29 Usher – U Remind Me
• 28 Honeyz – I Don’t Know
• 21 Bjork – Hidden Place

0 climbers : 0 non-movers : and 28 going down. Big fallers include :

• 10 (3) Jennifer Lopez
• 17 (7) MOP
• 20 (10) Missy Elliot
• 24 (12) Raven Maize
• 28 (14) Tall Paul vs. INXS
• 37 (13) Radiohead

New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :

• 42 Mutiny UK – The Virus
• 47 Paul Oakenfold – Planet Rock
• 57 David Forbes – Questions
• 62 Michael Moog – You Belong To Me
• 74 Mauro Picotto – Verdi
• 75 Proud Mary – Very Best Friend

Of this week’s highlights and lowlights…

8 New Order – Crystal *The first new material from them since 1993 and a great dance/rock trackthat’s getting plenty of airplay on MTV2. Still no idea what it’s about though.

5 Jamiroquai – Little LA song about having a crap lovelife, hence you are loved with a “Little L”and not a “Big L”. Standard stuff from Jay Kay. Nothing exciting.

4 Eve & Gwen Stefani – Let Me Blow Ya MindA crap female rapper and the lead singer of No Doubt (what happened to them?)team up for this duff song.

2 Sophie Ellis Bextor – Take Me HomeAn okayish cover of an old Cher song. Not a patch on her “Groovejet” trackfrom a year ago.

1 Five – Let’s Dance *1st Week at No.1*

Bog standard Five track. That’s all, really.

This is the 9th single in a row to go straight in at No.1 :

• 1. DJ Pied Piper – Do You Really Like It
• 2. Shaggy feat. Rayvon – Angel
• 3. Moulin Rouge – Lady Marmalade
• 4. Hear’Say – The Way To Your Love
• 5. Roger Sanchez – Another Chance
• 6. Robbie Williams – Eternity / The Road to Mandalay
• 7. Atomic Kitten – Eternal Flame
• 8. So Solid Crew – 21 Seconds
• 9. Five – Let’s Dance

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New releases :

August (date unknown) :

Boiler – Limp Bizkit (Interscope/Universal-Island)
The Nobodies – Marilyn Manson (Nothing/Interscope/Polydor)
Cambodia – Pulsedriver (-)
Cinderella – Lionel Richie (Mercury)
Shout (C’mon) [rm] – Sagitaire (NuLife/Arista)
Dream Of You – Schiller & Heppner (Data/Ministry Of Sound)
Miss California – Dante Thomas feat. Pras Michel (-)

August 13th :

3LW – Playa’s Gon’ Play
A Camp – I Can Buy You
Aerosmith – Fly Away From Here
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force – Planet Rock Remix
B-15 Project – Everyone Falls In Love
Foxy Brown – Oh Yeah
Emma Bunton – Take My Breath Away
Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Take Me Home
Eve feat. Gwen Stefani – Let Me Blow Ya Mind
Five – Let’s Dance
Fun Lovin’ Criminals – Bump
Groove Armada – Superstylin’
Jamiroquai – Little L
Mint Royale feat. POS – Show Me
New Order – Crystal
Stargate – Wilder
Supersister – Shopping
Tymes 4 – Body Rock

August 20th :

Arnold – Oh My
Biscuit Boy – Mitch
Darude – Out Of Control
DJ Luck & MC Neat – All About You
Embrace – Wonder
Nelly Furtado – Turn Off The Light
Little Trees – Help! I’m A Fish
Lowgold – Beauty Dies Young
Muse – Bliss
Planet Funk – Inside All The People
Santos – Gimme Da Mike
Spooks – Sweet Revenge
Stereo MCs – We Belong In This World Together
Svenson & Gielen- The Beauty Of Silence
Todd Terry – Enough Is Enough / Raining

August 27th :

Artful Dodger feat. Melanie Blatt – Twentyfourseven
Charlatans – Love Is The Key
Lifehouse – Hanging By A Moment
Louise – Stuck In The Middle With You
Spiritualised – Stop Your Crying

September (date unknown) :

Love Is The Key – The Charlatans (MCA/Universal-Island)
Mojo – Secret Knowledge (One Little Indian)
They Don’t Know – So Solid Crew feat. Ms. Dynamite (Idependiente)

September 3rd :

Aurora – Dreaming
Victoria Beckham – Innocent Girl
Commonwealth – That’s The Way It Goes
Fatboy Slim – Song For Shelter
Garbage – Androginy
Michael Jackson – Rock My World
Lisa Roxanne – Ex-Boyfriend
Shelby Lynne – Killin’ Kind
Superman Lovers feat. Mani Hoffman – Starlight

September 10th :

Aerosmith – Fly Away From Here
Dido – Hunter
Jemima Price – Denis
Roxette – Milk And Toast And Honey
Samantha Mumba – Baby Come On Over (This Is Our Night)
Spineshank – New Disease
StarGate – Wilder
Steps – Chain Reaction

September 17th :

Ben And Jason – The Wild Thing
Elbow – Newborn
Macy Gray – Sweet Baby
Shaznay Lewis – No Hooks
Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head

September 24th :

Daddy DJ – Daddy DJ

Forthcoming releases :

A*Teens – Halfway Around The World
BBMak – Ghost Of You And Me
Dream – This Is Me
Green Day – Waiting
Debelah Morgan – I Remember
LeAnn Rimes – But I Do Love You
Steps – Chain Reaction
Stereophonics – Step On My Old Size Nines

November (date unknown) :

Judas – The Charlatans (MCA/Universal-Island)

Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

• 13 The Definitive Ray Charles
• 33 Roots Manuva – Run Come Save Me
• 40 MOP – Warriorz
• 72 Alison Krauss & Union Station – New Favourite

The top 5 goes like this :

• 1 David Gray – White Ladder
• 2 Atomic Kitten – Right Now
• 3 Very Best of Prince
• 4 Destiny’s Child – Survivor
• 5 Eva Cassidy – Songbird

New releases :

August 2001 :

3 Feet High & Rising [rem. ri w/add. tr.]] – De La Soul (Tommy Boy)
[tba] – Embrace (Hut/Virgin)
Beautiful Garbage – Garbage (Mushroom)
[tba] – So Solid Crew (Independiente)
Is This It – The Strokes (Rough Trade)

August 27th :

Get Ready – New Order (Warner Bros.)

September 2001 :

Wonderland – The Charlatans (MCA/Universal-Island)
Wonderland – Kelis (Virgin)
[tba] – Massive Attack (Wild Bunch/Virgin)
[tba] – William Orbit (WEA)

October 2001 :

[tba] – Portishead (Go.Beat/Polydor)

November 2001 :

[tba] – Oasis (Big Brother)

Dominator’s Top 50 of 2000

34. Melanie C – I Turn To YouMaking No.1 in August last year, this track was terrible in its slow form,but the dance mix is blisteringly brilliant. Quite possibly one of the fewdance tracks that can make you feel like you’re back in a club when you’rereally driving to work.

Other hits last year were “Never Be The Same Again” (No.1, April 2000)and “If That Were Me” (No.18, Dec 2000).

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.

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