Music in England

Coldplay

jason pierce stole all of sonic boom's snack cake fortune.

las ketchup song and s club juniors.
make of that what you will.

Spiritualized are bigger in England but not "really big". Coldplay, unfortunately, are "really big".

The (singles) charts in England are based purely on sales, not on airplay. This means they're a lot faster moving than the US charts. I really like the UK charts for the mix of musics you get in them but judging from your previous posts David you wouldn't like any of it.

the uk charts are brilliant, they were kind of best between 1972-2002, although pre-72 was good too

only vapid music is good though, although i dont use this as a vindication of spiritualized

1.(new) Nelly feat. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma (Universal/Island)
2.(1) Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereje) (Columbia)
3.(new) Big Brovaz - Nu Flow (Epic)
4.(4) Avril Lavigne - Complicated
5.(new) Samantha Mumba - I'm Right Here (Wildcard)
6.(new) Manic Street Preachers - There By the Grace of God (Epic)
7.(new) LL Cool J - Luv U Better (Def Jam)
8.(2) S Club Juniors - New Direction (Polydor)
9.(new) Badly Drawn Boy - You Were Right (Twisted Nerve/XL)
10.(3) Will Young & Gareth Gates - The Long and Winding Road (RCA)
11.(6) Pink - Just Like A Pill (LaFace)
12.(5) Foo Fighters - All My Life (RCA)
13.(12) Atomic Kitten - The Tide is High (get the feeling) (Innocent)
14.(7) Holly Valance - Down Boy (London)
15.(8) Jakatta feat. Seal - My Vision (Rulin)
16.(9) Irv Gotti presents - Down 4 U (Murder Inc/Def Jam)
17.(10) Oasis - Little By Little (Big Brother)
18.(14) Busted - What I Go To School For (MCA)
19.(15) Eve feat. Alicia Keys - Gangsta Lovin' (Interscope)
20.(18) Leann Rimes - Life Goes On (Curb/London)

that big brovaz thing is embarassing, isn't it?

That Big Brovaz thing sounds like link music from an early 90s variety show.

Out of that top 20:
Not Heard: 8

Really like: 2
Like: 4
Don't Mind: 2
Dislike: 3
Loathe: 1

business as usual pretty much

like 6
indifferent 7
not heard 3
dislike 4

Why are you two using Not Heard as an exclusive category?

Not Heard: 4

Really like: 4
Like: 8
Don't Mind: 5
Dislike: 3

My English sense of fair play Graham.

Here's this week's UK album chart:

1 (1) Will Young - Darkness On The Edge Of Town

2 (2) Rolling Stones - Forty Winks

3 (3) Elvis - All I Hate About English Culture In 2002 Plus 29 Other Golden Nuggets!

4 (4) Norah Jones - 10 CDs Per Year

5 (6) Nelly - Nellyville YAY!

6 (5) Pink - Mizzpelt

7 (-) Fleetwood Mac - It's Christmas

8 (7) Avril Lavigne - Leggo My Ear You Rotters!

9 (-) Holly Valance - Footprints (surprisingly low entry, or not if you believe the interpretation of "Down Boy" fnaar etc.)

10 (8) The aforementioned Coldplay - Radiohead Like It Used To Be (When They Were Still Called On A Sunday)

11 (9) Oasis - Heathen Chemistry (well come on, you try thinking of something interesting to say about it!)

12 (-) Jakatta - Visions (where did I put that whale music sample?)

13 (14) Red Hot CPs - Down Your Way

14 (-) Leanne Rimes - Twisted Angel HAR HARHAHAHAHHAHAHAAARRRR!!

15 (-) INXS - Death Duties Now Payable

16 (12) Ms Dynamitee-hee

17 (11) David Gates - Songbook (fact: I'm thinking of getting this)

18 (13) Atomic Kitten - Spiceworld

19 (10) Mark Knopfler - The Ragpicker's Dream GREATEST MUSICAL ACHIEVEMENT OF THE 21ST CENTURY CYNOSURE OF MODERN MUSIC ALL MUSIC IS REDUNDANT BY COMPARISON

20 (-) JJ72 - I To Sky (not to be confused with "Eye In The Sky" by the Alan Parsons Project)

That was pretty good.

Oh god, I love 'Nu Flow'. Single of the year. Maybe.

Yep. Looks almost exactly like the american charts, with a few exceptions (Badly Drawn Boy).

It actually seems like there's a big population who enjoy good music, but still a huge amount who just buy whatever MTV tells them to (MTVEurope? Is it as big as MTV here?)

no, mtv europe isnt as big. not by a long way

everyone buys whatever some media outlet tells them, no? whatever you listen to? i mean, saying just becuase the media push spiritualized, coldplay, badly drawn boy, interpol,radiohead, doves, flaming lips whatever college rock bizness, dont forget the same happens with xenakis, arovane, glen campbell, bump'n'flex, nelly, jay-z or offenbach too

from the top 20

Not heard 12

Dislike 6

Don't mind 1

Like 1

Not Heard: 4
Really like: 3
Like: 4
Don't Mind: 5
Dislike: 2
Loathe: 2

That's about it