Rolling UK Charts Thread, 2007

David Gilmour didn't get played (his version with or without Dave Bowie, of "Arnold Layne") so I will never hear it.

More 'this record only available as download' signs in HMV!!

Hey, let's all download "Seewohl" by Neu! !

Presumably no-one d/l Xmas songs after the event, right? Not like how people'd buy Xmas singles after the event right?

(I did notice the F**ling singles re-entering t'chart, past few weeks)

Highest new entry aside from those shenanigans is JoJo at #22, accompanied by Eminem et ses petits amis at #32 and Amy Winehouse's second single at #40. Next week, we get the fun of seeing if Amy can overtake her first single, which climbed five places to #20 this week. Other re-entries - CRAYYYY-ZAY #30, MON-STERRR #33, SOARRRR-ING! FLYYYY-ING! #37, MAAAAN-EATER #38, "Hello there, we're the Kooks, and this is our one that sounds like that Bedouin Soundclash one except more half-arsed" #39.

Radio 1 haven't put the albums up yet.

I'm sure I had heard "Chasing Cars" on the radio before but it was so immensely forgettable that I had to relisten to it to make sure I didn't accidentally dismiss the next Stairway to Heaven/Like a Rolling Stone/Good Vibrations, and I can safely say that I did not. Best song of all time? REALLY? I suppose for every point in time there's a contemporary song that people get a bit insane for that doesn't really measure up to the classics but is temporarily placed up there anyhow. Also, of course, eventually there will be a song release that _is_ the next Stairway to Heaven/Like a Rolling Stone/Good Vibrations, and it will be interested to see if we dismiss it as fad anyway.

Re-entries further down include Gary Jules and his "Mad Cap" (68), Orson sans Welles (75) and Fill Moi Little World Roight Up (Autotune, not Wurzels) Out Of Vicar Of Dibley (70). No James Brown whatsoever.

How many downloads does one need to shift to get top40?

Made me spit soda out my nose, Swygart. Nice one.

We say, no, no, no.

is that the pilooski re-edit?! bizarre.

"Beggin'" has probably overtaken "Here (In Your Arms)" and "Throw Some D's" for my single of the year, fwiw.

Pilooski, that's it.

And that's eight weeks of "Umbrella" on top. Kate Nash still does not want to LOOK at your FACE at #2, Avwiw-By-Numbers climbs to 3, Reekay 4, Hoosiers 5, Timbaland climbs 12 to 6, Tashbed crashes in at 7, Fergie In A Hat climbs 20 to 8, Joseph And His Technicolor Perm slips to 9, Kelly R at 10.

Here below below: Lovestoned climbs to 12, Teenagers up to 16, M-Ron and Lallen up 20 to #40. The Enemy fall thirteen places to 17. Munkehs up ten to 22, Gwen down 2 to 24, Bobbert Valentino is a new entry at #25, 'Say It Right' re-enters at 26 (she must have memorialised Diana really well, eh?), Interpol new at 31. For some reason (Diana again?), 'I'll Be Missing You' returns to the chart after ten years at number 32. Alibi Vs Rockefeller #34, Mesh 29 #35. No idea about either of them, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest Mesh 29 might perhaps be a bit rubbish. 'Glamorous' and 'Shine' re-enter at 36 and 37, and, at the 17th time of asking, Britain's Most Held-Down Band, New Young Pony Club, get 'Ice Cream' into the top 40. At 40.

Albums - Chemical Brothers #1, Crowded House #3. Take That's Greatest Hits climbs to 5, Velvet Revolver new at 6, Nelly Furtado climbs 13 to 7. Did she actually resurrect Diana or something? Crikey. Take That's Actual Album is up from 40 to 11, and continuing the post-Di effect, there's re-entries for Lily Allen (15), Elton John (23), James Morrison (25) and The Feeling (34). Bobbin Fick is new at 30, Ash new at 32. I wondered why that was in Morrisons.

i was wondering why the charts were so mental! seriously, bloody diana? people not only watched that but bought songs because of it? what? people are weird.

'lovestoned' = download only apparently. am i correct in thinking that so far 'say it right' is the only download-only single to make the top 10?

Four Seasons only at 73; thought that would have done a lot better.

That Hoosiers track is spectacularly loathsome. It's not _that_ bad, it's just the most box-ticking record I've heard in a long time.

The Radio 2 Music Club is the enemy of the people.

xpost to Marc: Told you it sounded unlikely.

Poor Ash having their "New Morning".

A very similar "New Morning" to Suede's, commercially speaking.

See also "We Love Life".

I like 'The Way I Are' but it's a bit weird that it's this that knocks 'Umbrella' off #1 spot rather than a direct new entry or something even more recent.

Hoo-rye-ay.

Timbaland somehow gets another week at number one, again beating Kate Nash by a NOSE (on his FACE). Then Fergie Sings The Blues and Eh, Eh, Eh, ahead of this week's highest new entry...

Robyn! YAY INTERNETS! "With Every Heartbeat" comes storming in at number five on downloads alone, possibly setting it up to be the third single to keep Knasher off the top spot. Expect massive complaints about Scandinavian bias in pop music to start appearing in The Victoria Newton Column any day now. Reekay stays steady at six, ahead of 2007's Most Talked About New Talent (according to Jo "Sauvignon Blanc" Whiley). Then it's Verse-Chorus-Verse-Jaunt-Jaunt-A-Roo, "Seven'een mumffs, yeah, I feel fine" and, upsettingly, "Hey There Delilah".

Of course, Sean Kingston will come along and wipe all this out in a week or two, but never mind.

Yves LaRock climbs to 13 because the world is a cold, dead place. Dizzee enters at 22, ahead of Hans Zimmer's "Spider Pig", which becomes the second Simpsons Movie-inspired hit at 24. Does "Hey There Delilah" crop up in The Simpsons Movie? I'm fishing for explanations here. The Coral are at 25. Yatesy Winelodge, The Cribs and Coxler (as Popjustice may one day dub them) are new entries from 37 to 39.

Albums... feh. Paul Potts, Amy MacDonald, Newton Faulkner.

I'll do a horrific big thing on the top 40 again this week, cos we have net at home now plus I am PSYCHED.

'Spider Pig' is just 64 seconds long but this week lands at Number 24 to become far and away the briefest track ever to become a UK hit.

Of course, that's if you ignore "Theme from Space Invaders" by Yellow Magic Orchestra!

Bad: Kanye #1
Good: Plain White T's will be at #1 next week

OK, so some things have happened in the charts. Kanye remains at number one next week, holding off Sean Kingston ahead of Queen Of Yr Bandwidth, Timbaland and, amazingly, Gym Class Heroes, racking up a second top ten hit. How that 'appen? Hello There, Delilah head off Hard-Fi, Knasher and Fergwad, with Fiddus and Jusspot at ten. Elvis is at 13 and 19 and 26, Rihanna at 15 and 16.

Stuff that may or may not be completely new: Freaks 21, Kaisers 22, Kanos 24, Foos 28, Linkins 29, Pigeons 30, Maximos 33, KTs 39.

Albums is where it's all 'appening, though! Ignoring Newtface Faulknob getting to number one, RICHARD HAWLEY IS NUMBER SIX! The album isn't stunning at first listen, but it'll get there, regardless of how much denial I have to go through. DAUGHTERIZER gets to 13, one ahead of Darren Hayes' Two-Disc Farfisa Extravaganza Live From The Hull Adelphi or whatever it's called. Hell, even M.I.A. gets through the gates this week at number 39, though, in further Dom-pleasing news, that's five whole places lower than...

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RILO FUCKING KILEY.

No, really.

i figured MIA would only just dent the top 40.

Has Rilo Kiley even done any press over here yet? Or is this just the British love affair with breasts taken to its logical extremes? Maybe MIA should just spend all the street teaming dollars on a set of implants.

lead review in Q / Mojo / Uncut. dunno what that means.

quick, do a "who would u fuk?" poll - Jenny vs. MIA

Is no one else going to mention Craig David's triumphant return to the top 40?

quick, do a "who would u fuk?" poll - Jenny vs. MIA

^^^ this

what the hell is Moby's 'Extreme Ways' doing back at #45 this week? is this Hollyoaks playing silly buggers with their end credits music again?

See, the Elvis "box reissue" thingy is now picking the 'best' singles to repush.

Now, if they'd have done that last time around, they would have got more nmber ones and earned their hero the 'most UK number ones' medal they so desired, over the Beatles. (see, "One Night" being number one twice over counts as ONE in my book)

This time, the list of 'singles getting the treatment' has about 75% great stuff, as opposed to "none past the first four or thereabouts"

It's not a good week.

Sean Kingzzzzzzzzzzzz....ton is number one. PWTs climb to 3. Shut Up + Drive finally cracks the top ten at number five. Freaks climb to 9, All-New Slightly Less Crap But He's Still James Blunt debuts at 10 on the digitals.

"Hound Dog" fills yr Elvis quota at 14, ahead of Kano getting a top 20 hit at 18. Scouting For Girls are number 19. Oh... great.

Tunstall climbs to 21, Broooglyer new at 23, Foo Fighters consolidate the number 28 slot. The Second Reverend And The Makers Single is number 30. Athlete 31, Van Helden 38.

Faulkner still holds the albums. Furries 11, Ringo 26.

Not a good week.

Darn These Beautiful Girls To Heck has a second week at number one. Hi-Ho Silver Delilah leapfrogs Stronger, with Bluntula and Nicola Roberts Featuring Someone Else's Eyelashes close behind. R'anna, 'byn and Fiddus follow, and at number nine... Scouting For Girls. Hooray for London. Timbaland's single, which I'm increasingly unsure ever existed, is your number ten.

Up to 13 are the disappointingly non-Tod Browning influenced Freaks, with this week's Elvis ('Let Me Be Your Teddybear') at 14. Reverend And The Makers' new single has thus far eluded my ears, but it's number 16 anyway.

Pavarotti's death prompts a surge for sales of Nessun Dorma, and it gets to 24. The Editors single may well be new, it's number 27 anyhow. Young Folks has at least its second top 40 appearance at 38, 'How To Save A Life' returns at number 40.

Much activity album-wise, with Hard-Fi claiming the top spot from Army Of Handmade Robots. Plain White Ts get to 3, Athlete are at 5, Seany K is 8, The Proclaimers are number thirteen. For some reason, 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn has got to number 22. For some other reason, Jamie Scott And The Town are number 24. Ronan's mate Kate Rusby is number 32.

Some reason = 2 or 3 CD rerelease, and the NME pushing it as a lost classic.

(lost being the word in dispute, OK?)

So what b the word about JK and Joel getting the bullet from the chart show, and indeed, the BBC Radio entirely?

And handing it to Fearne Cotton and the bloke who is sooo amusing?

Oh, and the NME are also in some promotion to get "Anarchy in the UK" to number one on it's official re-release, so get downloading you umm followers of the NME I guess...

RIP polyhex chart database ;_;

hopefully people will all chip in and buy them a licence.

Polyhex is gone! Fuck! RIP, you were the best.

site is still there but the Official Chart Company (staffed by just 88 people, fact fans) made them take the search facility down because the data is copyright (they sit on all this data and do nothing useful for the public with it themselves, fewls).

ha, that should be 8 people, not 88

RIP

No: 27 JONNY TRUNK & WISBEY - THE LADIES' BRAS

Hmm, now here's a thing. Scott Mills has been getting people to buy this and get it into the chart. It's an annoying thing. But it's Jonny Trunk, so why not? But it's a DJ exercising his will and strength! what to do?

(well, not actually buy it, naturally._)

Oh yeah, and today is the start of the NME's "Get the Sex Pistols to number one with "Anarchy in the UK" campaign...

Facsimile single available at HMV now EMI own Virgin Records. A similar deal with A&M came to nothing I guess.

And Joy Division is at 46, and Bob Dylan is at 51.

Ton numero uno is Sugababes for a second whole week. For some reason, Ida Corr & Fedde Le Grand are number two - not that it's bad or owt, but... number two? Really? Similarly, Shayne Ward is at 3, Fiddy's 4, then Dullarlurrgh and SUICIDAL and Valurghray. Feist becomes the first artist to be simultaneously number eight in the US and UK since records began, maybe, then there's Luvvurghlay and "You should be ONNID by my late-nizz!"

Stereophonics are number 12. Is there any point saying Elvis is number 15? Manics 22, Mowfwosch 23, P'nartay 27, Mika 29. Aly & AJ are number 33. Is this the point where the cars go SQUEEEE!!! ? And Lethal Bizzle gets himself another hit single after yonks away at 37, and right good it is too.

BROOOOOOCE beats Mellwah to top album. Babyshambles 5, AnnieLennie 7, Dylan 10, Gabrielle 11, Nightwish 25, Bee Gees 35, 30 Seconds To Arse 39.

nice to see the Feist doing so well

"About You Now" is the weakest first single from an album for the Sugababes...I can't believe it's on pace to be their biggest.

otm.

it bench presses 300kg compared to the rest of their new LP :(

The kids love it, I do hear a combination of that Strokes bootmix and the intro to "Can't stand me now" in there too.

I love love love "Denial". The two lamest-titled tracks, "My Love Is Pink" and "3 Spoons of Suga" are both ace too. In fact, the album is pretty good, although "Undigified" is dross and "Back When" puts me to sleep. Overall it's solid, but I miss Mutya as a Sugababe :(

That Lethal Bizzle song is the fucking business! As long as it's not the Enemy remix.

site is still there but the Official Chart Company (staffed by just 8 people, fact fans) made them take the search facility down because the data is copyright (they sit on all this data and do nothing useful for the public with it themselves, fewls).

I had an interview with the OCC to be Chart Operations Manager. I'd've sorted this shit out. Fewls.

So Leona Lewis is the bestselling single of the year already after only 3 weeks. The song is brilliant OTT power ballad, menstruation jokes aside, it is perfect for singing to in the shower. Take That have been behind her at number 2 for 3 weeks counting. Timbaland and Mark Ronson are battling each other yet again for the umpteenth time this year.

The comebacks of Kylie and the Spice Girls are both kind of flopping, landing at #12 and #20, both being outsold by Alicia Keys, who isn't out on physical yet either. Craig David is good again for the first time in years.

Also "About You Now" is nowhere near the Sugas' weakest. The harmonies at the end practically make me orgasmic.

"About You Now" isn't even one of the strongest songs on their new album. If you're into their harmonies, I assume you've heard "Denial"? Miles and miles and miles better.

Do I have to listen to "Heartbroken" 100 times to "get" it, or will I always think it's terrible?