Rolling top 40 discussion thread, nr1.

*clears throat*

Number nine, G4 went in at - any chance of a cover of "Revolution #9" for a follow-up then?

Tony Christie bang in at number one as expected. This week Elvis hits a new low with the frankly undersung "She's Not You" debuting at a mere number three.

Other notable new entries: Gwen Stefani/Eve (4), Dido sorry Jem (6), Basement Jaxx (8), Shapeshifters (10, with thudding inevitability not as good as the last one), Green Day (11), Beverley Shite (16), QOTSA (18), and, ladies and gentlemen, making their UK singles chart debut at number 20...THE MARS VOLTA!

(alas Lady Sovereign stumbles in at a disappointing 73 with "Random")

In the albums chart, the Stereophonics, with thudding inevitability, go straight in at the top, Tony C's greatest back up to 2 (what about that Best of Tony Christie for three quid that's been sitting in the basement of Berwick Street MVE for the last 18 months then?), Teh Bravery in at 5, Moby spearheading the Knack revival at 8, H***n A***r A*l struggles to make number 10. Further down, My Chemical Romance and Brendan Benson debut at 69 and 70 respectively, which presumably indicates the number of copies each sold.

i like the Jem and Knight tracks. guilty pleasures? whatever

i'd suggest a Rolling Top 40 thread instead of starting a new one every week now

But a discussion thread for the weeks chart seems a good idea.

I thought the Jaxx deserved to beat Jem (in realistic terms - they couldn't have topped Eve and her mate) and Sov, Beck and Beverley should have fared way better.

No 73, oh for fuck's fucking sake: I was probably the only person in the entire country to buy it, then. Even 'Hype Hype' managed to get to No 22!

woah woah woah. This is no minor fucking claim here, that was one of the best songs of the 90s. Who / what?

Nah, I bought the other copy. Nicely off the wall newspaper mock-up sleeve.

"The sandcastle virtues are all swept away in the tidal destruction of the moral melee."

"Columnated ruins domino" schmomino!

i can't see what the Bev Knight single has got to do with 'Show Me Love' - totally different songs. edward o mistaken?

Also - Futureheads album out of the top 20 after just one week. In the week when I find that I've booked a club night on the very same night they're playing Leeds. Buggggggger. Though there may still be tickets left for their Sheffield gig, so fingers crossed etc. They may be re-releasing Decent Days & Nights for their next single, despite how the album is riddled with potential smash hits but especially dancefloor-heart-attack-waiting-to-happen 'Carnival Kids'.

As for the singles being released this week, a handy summary can be found here. Have a read, why don't you?

Aha, that makes more sense.

6 Robin S Show Me Love Mar 1993
11 Robin S Luv 4 Luv Jul 1993
9 Robin S Show Me Love (remix) Mar 1997
37 Robin S It Must Be Love Jul 1997

and Robyn (From Sweden):

26 Robyn Do You Know (What It Takes) Aug 1997
8 Robyn Show Me Love Mar 1998
20 Robyn Do You Really Want Me May 1998

Robin S also had a hit album, which charted at #34. Have a guess what the title was...

It was vastly improved on CD:UK after livening it up a bit and getting Spike Jonze (or a lookalike) to b-boy around the stage. Some of the other Guero songs blow this away tho'.

As far as I know, Robyn's KTFB wasn't released outside of Sweden. Popjustice bigged it up a few years back, bemoaning the fact that no record company seemed interested in a UK release. Someone somewhere must have been reading. If only she'd released it directly after "Come As You Are", she probably would have gone top 10.

Barima, which Guero songs should I be hearing if I loved Odelay and Midnite Vultures, but hated Sea Change?

And WBS: the Tyler James single is fantastico - I like it more than "Why Do I Do?" actually.

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Mario is unspectacularly at #2, Fiddy's at 4, Elvis only gets to #5 this week (and it was 'Return To Sender' an' all), Wusmiff is at #6, The Imbruglinator is #8, The Faders are all over by Christmas at #13, Erasure are #15, and the magical prospect that was BRITISH SEA POWER IN THE TOP 10 FOR FUCK'S SAKES didn't come to pass, though they still got their first top 20 single - #18. Hilariouser still, Kasabian's re-release of 'Club Foot' managed to chart two places lower than it did first time around (#21), while The Subways set about carving their own deeply inconsequential niche at #25. XTM & DJ Chucky Presented Annia again at #28, just as I though I'd wiped the horror that was 'Fly On The Wings Of Love' from my memory forever. Immediately prior was Yet Another Fucking Damien Rice Single. Perhaps it was a good thing I gave this up. The lower end of the 40 was a haven for classic songwriting, in fact, with the Finn Brothers at #32, Bright Eyes and I Am Kloot making their chart bows at #37 and #38 respectively, and Stylus UK Singles Jukebox Grand Champeen Roots Manuva winding it up at #39.

1. Everything Comes At The Right Time
2. Free My Name
3. Wah Wah
4. Drive Away
5. I Love You
6. This Day Should Last Forever
7. Move Things Over
8. Waving Not Drowning
9. God's World
10. Another Time To Stay
11. Have You Got The Right
12. Start Of The Day
13. My Time

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it's the return of Mr Simon Fowler and his Ocean Colour Scene, entitled A Hyperactive Workout For The Flying Squad.

I've this weird feeling that I really want to hear it, y'know...

Mozzer's live versions of 'There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' and 'Redondo Beach' are YOUR number eleven(s), closely followed by Studio B at #12. No new entries till #23, which is the fourth single off Avwiw's album living up to expectations - song's quite good, the video's just very, very disturbing. The Dead 60's get their second piece of top 40 action at #24 (has anyone heard this one? 'Riot Radio' was quite good... I could probably have done with putting it in the jukebox anyhow), and Twista gets his Jesus on at #25. The Arcade Fire provide more stuff for JK & Joel to talk all over ("DURR! HE CAN'T SING! DURR!") at #30, but get the consolation of out-charting fellow Canadian Michael Buble (#31). Estelle is probably OK to start work on some new stuff now (#32), while Do Me Bad Things come to a screeching halt at #33. Yeti are #36, Hanson #39, and Bullet For My Valentine are in the vanguard OF YORRR HARRRTTT at #40.

Tony continues to top the album chart. New Order are #5, Wusmiff #15, Damien Rice is in the top 20 YET A-FUCKING-GAIN, Brandy's best of (you're apathetic towards more of her songs than you think you are!) is #24 and John Legend As Seen On The Hit ITV Show Parkinson is #32.

Would you settle for "I Did What I Did For Maria" which is something like 84 times better than "Amarillo"?

"Negotiate With Love" at #10 is something of a triumph, really. Without a high powered name behind it (Rachel Stevens is enough of a drawcard, I mean, "More More More" made #3, remember), this would have been another "Chewing Gum"/"Looking For A Place" chart travesty.

Discussing that particular single, someone said to me "Sounds like another Number 2!". Ho, what a pity.

See, JK/Joel? You can, if you try.

Time for pillorying. I really like the Mel Blatt single. First listen - er, go away. Fifth listen, the same burrowing, hypnotic hooks that were all through something like "Overrated" by Siobhan Donaghy.

New entries for Natasha Bedingfield ("I Bruise Easily", #12), Feeder ("Our Drummer's Still Dead", #13), Kelis ft Nas ("In Public", #17), The Bees, The Others, and The Departure bring the pain between 28 and 30, and Sir Elton is at #32. The longest running single on the charts is J-Lo (8 weeks).

Natalie Imbruglia debuts at #1 in the album charts, Mariah Carey at #7, British Sea Power will never record another "Remember Me" at #13, with Morrissey's live album at #18.

How did that happen? No-one else got albums out?

The top two singles both mention churches.

1) When did that last happen?
2) How long till a christian webste mentions this? (ILX doesn't count)

that was my slightly convoluted joke!

the 'paid your dues' thing is important I feel, sugababes have been through the mill and been gossiped about and had issues, maybe all of this makes them more 'real' in the sense that consumers 'know' them in a heat magazine esque style whereas rachel hasn't really had a private life of note at all.

(Yes, I know, it's all recorded on Weds aftrnoon, I have done this myself you kno)

SPECIAL BONUS OUTSIDE THE TOP 40 LOOK

Route 1 (#47), El Presidente (#48), Clor (#50), Delirious? (#56), Louis XIV (#57), Honeymoon Machine (#64), Protocol (#65), Steve Mac (#73), and Alfie (#76). What do all these people have in common? They're all more popular than MULTIMILLION SELLING POP SENSATION MIA, who charts at #77.

Albumwise, Sugababes run it across the board at #1, Paul Weller is OLD at #4, and Bryn Tefrel just looks it at #10. Liberty X's accountants can't be too happy at #27, and Ricky Martin's triumphant comeback is greated with a "huh?" at #40. Charting outside the top 40: Bratz Rock Angels (#42), Roadrunner United (#45, someone please tell me who the hell they are), Alicia Keys (#52), and taTu (#78, whoops).

eh?

Thirteen.

Fucking.

Weeks.

Jesus wept etc.

Dannii Minogue isn't really what she used to be at 11, The Love Bites are exactly as successful as the Faders at #13, Not Another Pete Doherty Collaboration finds its way to #22, and oh look, the Kooks are #28. Go them, probably. Lethal Bizzle samples the Detroit Spinners and gets to #34 for his troubles, and at #35, Clea enter into the realm of 'fanbase acts'. S&D's slot goes to Bratz Rock Angelz.

In the albums, The Prodigy go straight in at the top with their 'Forget About 'Baby's Got A Temper'' compilation. Simply Red do it for themselves at #3, and Depeche Mode are #6. There's something a bit inevitable about that, isn't there? Michael Ball vs Michael Bolton - Ball wins (#11 vs #18), and somewhere in the middle someone still cares about Starsailor (#13). Aled Jones' 'New Horizons' is this week's least accurately titled new entry at #21, Stevie Wonder's last album is #24 for some reason, and - is that a new Rick Astley album I spy at #26? Eh? How peculiar. Two spots ahead of St Rachel Near The Stevens, anyway. Still, top 40 is top 40, no? McFly are in the Duke Spirit slot.

1. Vincent
2. And I Love You So
3. Portrait Of My Love
4. Where Do I Begin
5. These Foolish Things
6. Cry Me A River
7. Nature Boy
8. Close To You
9. You Belong To Me
10. Make It Easy On Yourself
11. Somewhere
12. I Can't Help Falling In Love (With You)
13. What The World Needs Now

The odd thing is, I'd imagine he's got the voice for it, but somehow I can't help but think this will be dreadful.

So, obviously, in this era of independant indie Myspace fuckwittery, the first band to get to number one are... Westlife. With the second highest first week singles sales of the year so far. Well done all involved. Kate Bush brings the old haggard pointlessness at #4, and Hilary Duff has her biggest hit to date at #7 with "Wake Up", a song, like the rest of Duff's, that would be totally improved by a guest verse from the awesome Gordo. Backstreet Boys become the uni ball for the masses at #8, and Maximo Park "apply" "some" "pressure" at #17. On Saturday, I fucked a Maximo Park fan. Well done all involved.

Will Smith once heard a DMX single at #19, and its the yearly "Pump Up The Jam" remix at #22. It's the Cafe Del Mar you can dance to! Magic Numbers (more like the Fatgic Numbers, am I right?) are probably on the decline now at #24, and the Test Icicles are possibly the worst indie band since The Others at #25. Audio Bullys release their traditional post-hit flop at #27, and the Rifles are apparently at #36.

Albumwise, in a total shock to all, Robbie Williams goes straight in at number one and probably won't be moving for at least six weeks. Destiny's Child's gramatically incorrect "1's" is at #6', and a similar greatest hits album from the Destiny's Child of the 70s, Supertramp, gets to #9. Tiny lesbian Alex Parks comes back at #24, and Jack "Cunt" Johnson finally enters the top 40 at #26. Longest stayer on the top 40 is the Kaiser Chiefs, who've now managed 34 weeks, and are still top 20.

SINGLES
44. Morning Runner- Be All You Want Me To be
52. Supergrass- Low C
59. Tom Vek- Nothing But Green Lights
62. Gliterrati- Back In Power
68. The Corrs- Heart Like A Wheel
79. Mattafix- Passer By

ALBUMS
57. El Presidente- El Presidente
60. Burt Bacharach- All This Time

Anyway, Nizlopi! Congrats, and a nice moment for TOTP.

Course, they won't be there next week, making way for Shayne and "Whoopee, I Won" song.

The kids like it a lot, well the video anyway. Amber "Bands are quite boring sometimes when they sing it live". Mind you that was also about Robbie, who did his song live and showed it up as being especially unmemorable also.

The niz enjoyed their TOTP Performance, so good for them. I've heared it three times up to now, so it hasn't worn off just yet. (The "Quite Like" level).