Right, so Coldplay's new single is going to be KEPT off the number one spot....

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― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

MIDWEEKS:

01 (NE) Crazy Frog - Axel F
02 (NE) Coldplay - Speed of Sound
03 (01) Oasis - Lyla
04 (02) Akon - Lonely
05 (04) Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc
06 (03) Black Eyed Peas - Don't Phunk With My Heart
07 (NE) Amerie - 1 Thing
08 (NE) Audio Bully's ft. Nancy Sinatra - Shot Me Down
09 (NE) Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl
10 (05) Tony Christie ft. Peter Kay - (Is This The Way To) Amarillo?

New Entries 11-40
11 Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
19 Arcade Fire - Power Out
20 My Chemical Romance - Helena
26 British Sea Power - Please Stand Up
27 Nine Black Alps - Not Everyone
28 Star Wars - Battle Of The Heroes
30 Sons & Daughters - Dance Me In
31 Brian McFadden - Demons
32 The Bravery - Fearless

New Entries 20-75
42 Daniel Bedingfield
44 Glitterati
48 Chesney hawkes
54 M Crue
55 M Runner
65 Il Divo - Mama
91 Keisha White
178 Shane Lynch!
179 Tom McRae

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

NYLPM must be even more widely read than I thought!

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

What is this Crazy Frog (for us Americans)?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

01 Crazy Frog - Axel F
179 Tom McRae

What I love about the UK charts is that there's always a sense of... symmetry about it.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

woo - go amerie / sons and daughters / arcade fire, go!

is that audio bully's track good?

― Sean M (Sean M), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oasis AND the Gorillaz? Britain, you are stupid

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:53 (twenty-one years ago)

is that audio bully's track good?

I think its one of the worst singles of the year, Tom Ewing thinks it's one of the best... I think the truth lies somewhere between those two extremes.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Ewing thinks it's one of the best

I never! I think it's good though. I'm a tart, anything can get an 8/10 off me.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a sad placing for Amerie :(

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

OASIS

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Kelly Osbourne's album is failing to make the top 40 as well. I don't know if Bedingfield or McFadden's placing is more satisfying.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Are they actually new singles?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

07 (NE) Amerie - 1 Thing

Britain I HATE you.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Bryan McFaddens new single...

1. Demons [Album Version]
2. Auf Wiedersehen Bitch
3. Demons [Live]
4. Be True To Your Woman [Live]
5. Demons [Video]

Mmmmm.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Britain I HATE you.

Alex, are you saying that's low? It's already better than it did in the US!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

D Bedders down the dumper!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

jaymc that's really low in Britain for a single of the magnitude of '1 Thing'! It should be a No 1, and if it's going to be a No 1 at all it really needs to go in at No 1.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

D Bedders down the dumper!

And Il Divo! Nearly missed that...

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Poor old Shane Lynch. His first solo single, a version of the Hothouse Flowers' "Don't Go".

Mmm, don't hold yr breath for the album then...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I really can't figure out this country's attitude to r&b and hip hop, I mean this happens to '1 Thing' but then Akon and Usher and Mario Winans get to spend weeks at No 1.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Il Divo! Wasn't that the one that was supposedly going to contest the number one spot with "Hounds of love" Futureheads?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

And "Get Right" got to No.1!

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Lex: Do singles in Britain not get to climb to the top over a few weeks that often? It just debuted and you're already sounding its death-knell!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:10 (twenty-one years ago)

No, generally your debut chart position is as good as it gets. There are exceptions - "Hey Ya!" started at 6 and climbed to about 3 eventually.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Jaymc -- trust me, the charts work differently over there. Think of the UK singles charts as the equivalent of the US opening weekend box office charts and perceptions on success there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean this happens to '1 Thing' but then Akon and Usher and Mario Winans get to spend weeks at No 1.

Maybe '1 Thing' is too 'weird' for them. Or it's the same reason that kept Beyonce's 'Work It Out' off the top (considering it was her first solo single I figured it would enter at #1 regardless of what it sounded like). Solo males tend to do better generally anyway (see Pop Idol/X-Factor winners).

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

If "1 Thing" (or "Hollaback Girl", for that matter) manage to go top 5, they could easily have a 2/3 month stay in the top ten as a summer jam radio staple. However, 8 and below: one week in the top 10, two in the top 20.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

And the Blu Cantrell weirdness, too. It's like Britain has decided that it will only like r&b if it is quite good but not if it is earthshatteringly magnificent. 'Goodies' is the exception which proves the rule.

jaymc, singles in Britain stopped climbing from anywhere to anywhere nearly a decade ago! They go in at their highest position and then either hang around for weeks or plummet like a stone.

Unless they're that 'Fly On The Wings Of Love' gubbins which annoyed Will so much last year.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, I see. Actually, that makes perfect sense, since it's sales-driven.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What is this Crazy Frog (for us Americans)?

You really, really don't want to find out the answer.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, debuting at #1 in the UK is almost standard issue now -- that's because it's all based on sales, right (as opposed to the US, where the chart placements are mainly determined by airplay)?

xxxxxpost my post is somewhat irrelevant now

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

'Work It Out' was kind of Beyoncé testing the waters though, no? She didn't make a big fuss over it, its release wasn't precision-planned like 'Crazy In Love'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

The song is all over radio 1 BUT

- I don't know if the commercial stations have been playing it.
- I haven't seen adverts or marketing particularly.
- Amerie isn't a 'name' here at all. (but then as Lex says, Ciara...)

I expect a lot of people who like it will end up with it on a compilation and go "oh, THIS one". I also honestly expect it to be a fairly steady summer seller, straight in at 7 but then hanging around the top 20 for ages.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Plus: "1 Thing" is being released three months after the #1 movie it featured in hit the box office. That can't be too good, surely?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway it demonstrates once again how the most popular bands in this country in recent years have all failed to get their #1 (Radiohead, Travis, The Darkness, The Scissor Sisters, Coldplay) and probably never will. It's funny that their albums sell in droves but when it comes to singles they don't make the same mark.

Oddly, the most popular British band of the last ten years, Oasis, have now notched up seven numbers ones but if you polled fans for their 10 favourite Oasis singles, only one or two of those would make the list. Coldplay would've probably been better off pitting their rub new single against Oasis's.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Ciara had the fortune to be released in a really quiet week though. "Speed of Sound" and "Axel F" are probably two of the biggest singles of the year so far, that's tough competition for anyone.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

'1 Thing' seems totally ubiquitous right now though, almost like every time I'm in a public place I hear it blasting out of some car window/shop radio. And it has 'token r&b record for indie fuxx' written all over it too due to retro feel, like 'Crazy In Love'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay: the crazy frog is a cartoon frog, who makes a crazy noise, and performs a crazy version of "Axel F" by Harold Faltermeyer. I blame The Manual.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Ciara was up against the Elvis juggernaut though (or at least it seemed like a juggernaut at the time).

I've never understood this 'competition' thing though - are there really people who would buy '1 Thing' but are instead buying Coldplay and the Crazy Frog?

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Americands.. you know that Jamster commercial with that annoying little yellow cartoon bird singing an extremely annoying electro/ringtone song? It's like that.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

'1 Thing' has the ability to annoy people much more than 'Goodies' which is the sleeker machine. The latter's too cool for school but '1 Thing' is more of a sexily messed up hairdo of a song that calls for all kinds of jerky hip movements on the dancefloor - it might almost sound too clumsy rhythmically (sort of the point missed) for some, and I think this actually puts them off. That and her 'nanananana oh' bits.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely with the success of 'Lonely' Sweetie the Chick will clean up this Summer and put the Crazy Frog in it's place.

I may shoot myself before then.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

And it has 'token r&b record for indie fuxx' written all over it too due to retro feel, like 'Crazy In Love'.

I've seen a few comments saying it's too like CiL, tho.

Maybe my post-punk comment was right, oh no :(

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

you think Steve?! '1 Thing' is retro and proper and not discordant, whereas 'Goodies' is ripe for people making unfunny jokes about how it sounds like a malfunctioning mobile phone or whatever, and also about how Ciara 'can't' 'sing'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

ie the British public seem a bit scared of modernity and weird sounds right now, but reassured by horn samples and proper drums.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't mind the yellow bird song actually but then I have a sweet tooth for happy hardcore.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely with the success of 'Lonely' Sweetie the Chick will clean up this Summer and put the Crazy Frog in it's place.

This is the danger actually. I have nothing against CF beating Coldplay, it's an amusing news story, but a trend of these animated horrors could upset the fragile ecosystem of the singles chart at exactly the time of year we need it most.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I do get the feeling that when all is said and done, "1 Thing" will have outsold "Goodies" in the UK. How long did "Goodies" spend in the UK charts?

And the Elvis juggernaut was just a few lucky hits in quiet weeks. He only managed three number ones in the end ("Jailhouse Rock", "One Night", "It's Now Or Never")

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Thing is, post Crazy Frog and Sweetie the Chick, the new ones don't seem to be connecting with the public. Like that DJing dragon, for instance.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

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i am actually really disappointed in this. i expected a chorus of cartoon bullfrogs "playing" the riff from "axel f". for shame, england.

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"crazy frog riddim" also seems to have nothing to do with crazy frog, though it is a good riddim.

― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i think you need to SEE the frog to really commit to it.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

as IF it would've been THAT imaginative.

How 'English' is this record anyway? Did a Brit actually produce the track?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The Crazy Frog sound guy is German I think.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Thanks Anna! My RealPlayer sez the track is Miami bass, so there ya go. It IS just the Cuban Boys all over again, isn't it?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm kind of surprised anna had d/l'd the track...

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Is a Shimura Curves cover in the offing???

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:55 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/music/features/C/crazyfrog0505.html

I hadn't. Oh, I had not. Part of my current job involves making files from CDs that should be charting this weekend and emailing them off to whoeever needs them.

X-post with Tom - NOOOOOOOOOOO.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

More for clueless non-UKians like myself.

Jamba! have earnt an estimated £14 million from the ringtone, making it the most commercially successful ringtone of all time. Attempting to repeat the Frog's success, Jamba! commissioned a new animated creature ringtone, Sweety the Chick. Sweety the Chick inspired the creation of another character known as Nessy the Dragon.

Ringtone Lyrics
Beh-ding ding ding ding dididing ding bing bing pscht,
Dorhrm bom bom bedom bem bom bedom bom bum ba ba bom bom,
Bouuuuum bom bom bedahm, Bom be barbedarm bedabedabedabeda
Bbrrrrrimm bbrrrrramm bbbrrrrrrrrraammmmm ddddddraammm,
Bah bah baah baah ba wheeeeeee-eeeee-eeeee!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweety_the_Chick
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nessy_the_Dragon

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 13:58 (twenty-one years ago)

the cock-blocking is fascinating, it being a cartoon. it's like those 'blooper reels' they do on pixar films, maybe...

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

"We appreciate that the frequent broadcast of the same, or similar, commercials can be annoying to some viewers. However, it is for the advertiser and broadcaster to decide how often a particular advertisement is shown."
Advertising Standards Authority, February 2005.

haha

― sleep (sleep), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The only way to beat the terrorists now is to put the Crazy Frog in the Big Brother house.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Part of my current job involves making files from CDs that should be charting this weekend and emailing them off to whoeever needs them.

This is part of my current leisure life. I want to be Anna.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh you. You could settle for actually getting in touch once in a while (though my phone has been cut off, so you could have been tele-stalking me for all I know.)

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I sent you a weird drunken txtmsg only a week or two ago!

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

See above phone-cut-off reason. That's also the reason I didn't send you a birthday message.

Anyway - email me.

Frog conversations shoudl resume.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

How do I get on the list of recipients where you work Anna?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Americans if you go to this site it plays the Crazy Frog on infinite loop.

OMG, I was rolling off my chair with laughter just by *looking* at the frog (while thinking to myself "feast your eyes upon Britain's #1 pop star"). The infinite loop became incidental at that point.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:23 (twenty-one years ago)

How can we get Black Strobe in the top ten?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Stab a Frog.

― Negativa, True Believer (You know you love it when I'm dressed in drag) (Barima), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's the worst number one by a non-human though.

"Star Trekkin'" to thread!

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I already mentioned 'Star Trekkin'. It remains fantastic.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Also it's credited to a human band.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf, it doesn't even look that much like a frog.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Jamster is directly from Satan but conceptually I can't fathom how this isn't the greatest thing ever (of course I haven't heard it).

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

It promises more than it delivers, good sir. Worth hearing the once at least.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

and chesney hawkes ? is this written by nik kershaw ?

― kik nershaw, Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

See above phone-cut-off reason.

For some reason I think of 'cutting off' as physical snipping and thus only relating to land lines, with their wires. I see, no mobile. Did you run up a huge unpayable bill downloading Crazy Frog variants?

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Worth hearing the once at least.

To hear it just once? Oh what bliss that would be! I honestly want to fucking kill the people behind this nu-Jive Bunny shit.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

OLD JIVE BUNNY FOREVER - NU-JIVE BUNNY NEVAH

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

wtf, it doesn't even look that much like a frog.

dude, that's becuz it's a CRAAAAAZZZY frog

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Why aren't its riding goggles covering its eyes while it's, er, riding?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this like one of those Bob the Builder things?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It's like what I said over here! We Americans just think you Brits are always wacky like this.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

What is the American version of "Crazy Frog" anyway?
"Disco Duck"

― Ian Riese-Moraine's Plateau Rouge! (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr. Chaos will be next...

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 30 May 2005 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!" was worse than Crazy Frog, and that was Christmas number one.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 30 May 2005 23:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked the Teletubbies... :-(

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

PITCHFORK GAVE THIS PIECE OF SHIT FIVE STARS!??!?!??!

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

that is possibly the pinnacle of Pitchfork journalism.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:07 (twenty-one years ago)

All I really know in this crazy world is that this Crazy Frog has made a song at least as good as "Candy Shop".

This is brilliantly phrased.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Even, apparently, a really annoying advertisement that all you have to do is turn on the BBC and you will see a hundred times in a hour.

Um...

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I expect Jess to claim that as a 'deliberate mistake'.

― The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

genre: omg wtf

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't claim to understand all that "tory" crap either

― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 31 May 2005 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

There was even a story about Crazy Frog on the news this morning!

I wish he was real so that I could marry him.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

He'd make a great alarm clock.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

"Not now, frog"

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 31 May 2005 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

five months pass...

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1645054,00.html?gusrc=ticker-103704

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Friday, 18 November 2005 11:47 (twenty years ago)

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