I think usage of the word "deserves" is what we should be debating.

 

Is deserving a subjective or objecting attribute?

 

It's obviously subjective - down to opinion. I'm not debating that. I know that Justin worked hard on this but you might not think he deserves it because of that - we all think of the word differently.

I do think that some artists deserve their success because they're talented - people would be stupid if acts like David Bowie, Madonna and The Beatles would've remained unnoticed. For some acts it's just impossible to think that they would not be recognised.

 

However, having success on pop charts is not matter of deserving it at all. Charts are (supposed to be) objective so it's a case of people liking what you do, not you doing your thing well.

Edited June 25, 201214 yr by SKOB

Justin Beiber and Cheryl Cole #1 and #2? Sickening.

 

One was obviously bought by people with bad taste and paedophiles the other vaccous ninnies and Simon Cowell buying 75% of the copies.

:lol:

 

 

Top 100s updated, I shall post the regular summary-majig tomorrow.

 

Fiona Apple's album title won't fit on one line on my browser :lol:

 

I see Paul Weller sold enough in just 24 hours of 'Birthday' for it to chart two places higher than the actual lead single from his last album ('That Dangerous Age' #66) :o

Singles

 

New entries:

#1 Maroon 5 feat. Wiz Khalifa - Payphone [12th hit for Maroon 5; 6th hit for Wiz Khalifa]

#4 Stooshe - Black Heart [2nd hit]

#64 Paul Weller - Birthday [35th hit {+18 with The Jam; +18 with The Style Council; +1 with Band Aid; +1 with Paul Weller Movement; +1 with The Smokin' Mojo Filters}] *

#79 Eva Cassidy - Time After Time [5th hit] **

#84 Justin Bieber feat. Nicki Minaj - Beauty And A Beat [20th hit for Justin Bieber {+1 with Artists For Haiti}; 21st hit for Nicki Minaj {+1 with Young Money}]

#89 Josh Osho feat. Ghostface Killah - Redemption Days [1st hit for Josh Osho; 8th hit for Ghostface Killah {+2 with Wu-Tang Clan}]

#90 JME - Murking [3rd hit {+1 with Boy Better Know}]

#100 Cheryl Cole feat. Wretch 32 - Screw You [8th hit for Cheryl Cole {+22 with Girls Aloud; +1 with Helping Haiti}; 8th hit for Wretch 32 {+1 with The Collective}]

 

* was only made available for 24 hours during the week

** charting now due to being used in an ad for True Love

 

Re-entries:

#61 Nicki Minaj - Pound The Alarm [single campaign starting]

#63 Wynter Gordon - Dirty Talk [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#66 Flo Rida feat. T-Pain - Low [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#69 Bruno Mars - Runaway Baby [on a Vauxhall ad]

#72 Wilson Phillips - Hold On [YouTube comments still suggesting this is something to do with Bridesmaids - shown on TV?]

#76 Linkin Park - What I've Done [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#77 Radiohead - Creep [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#94 Flo Rida feat. Ke$ha - Right Round [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

#98 Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) [reduced to 59p on iTunes + on a Kia ad]

 

New peaks:

#12 Katy Perry - Wide Awake [from #31]

#22 Avicii - Silhouettes [from #26]

#41 Jay-Z and Kanye West feat. Frank Ocean - No Church In The Wild [from #48]

#61 Nicki Minaj - Pound The Alarm [from #79; see above]

#68 Knife Party - Bonfire [from #83]

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#63 Max Milner - Free Fallin' *

#66 Lilygreen & Maguire - Ain't Love Crazy *

#69 Bo Bruce - Running Up That Hill *

#71 Wretch 32 feat. Ed Sheeran - Hush Little Baby

#75 Plan B - ill Manors

#76 Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull - Dance Again *

#77 David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions

#79 Coldplay - Charlie Brown

#80 Tiësto and Wolfgang Gartner feat. Luciana - We Own The Night *

#87 Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger

#88 Jake Bugg - Lightning Bolt *

#89 Far East Movement feat. Justin Bieber - Live My Life *

#90 Usher feat. Rick Ross - Lemme See *

#96 Alexandra Burke - Let It Go *

#97 Vince Kidd - Like A Virgin *

#99 The Saturdays - 30 Days *

#100 Aiden Grimshaw - Is This Love *

 

Albums

 

New entries:

#1 Justin Bieber - Believe [4th hit]

#2 Cheryl Cole - A Million Lights [3rd hit {+8 with Girls Aloud}]

#11 Carrie Underwood - Blown Away [2nd hit]

#16 Reverend And The Makers - @Reverend_Makers [3rd hit]

#19 Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania [7th hit]

#68 Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More Than Ropes Will Ever Do [1st hit]

#77 Can - The Lost Tapes [1st hit]

 

Re-entries:

#12 Slash feat. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators - Apocalyptic Love [physical release; previous download-only]

#58 Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

#87 David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

#89 Foo Fighters - Greatest Hits

#95 The Maccabees - Given To The Wild

#100 The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?

 

New peaks:

#12 Slash feat. Myles Kennedy And The Conspirators - Apocalyptic Love [from #27; see above]

 

Dropping out (* = for the first time since entering):

#67 Tenacious D - Rize Of The Fenix *

#76 Rush - Clockwork Angels *

#86 Madness - Complete Madness

#87 Sigur Rós - Valtari *

#88 Snow Patrol - Up To Now

#89 Rumer - Seasons Of My Soul

#94 Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life

#95 Alan Jackson - Thirty Miles West *

#96 Richard Hawley - Standing At The Sky's Edge *

#97 Madness - Ultimate Madness - 21 Of Their Finest

#98 Patti Smith - Banga *

#99 Guns N' Roses - Greatest Hits

#100 Chris Rea - The Journey 1978-2009

Edited June 27, 201214 yr by BBB

#98 Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've?) [reduced to 59p on iTunes]

A cover of this by Nouvelle Vague is also the soundtrack to the new KIA car advert.

 

Pleasing to see Jay-Z/Kanye and Nicki getting new peaks; the latter especially is growing on me as a single choice :D

A cover of this by Nouvelle Vague is also the soundtrack to the new KIA car advert.

 

Ah, thanks for that - I thought I'd heard it on TV as well but I just had a quick check if it was 59p anyway and it is as well.

Singles

 

#79 Eva Cassidy - Time After Time [5th hit] **

 

Wondered why Eva had randomly charted with the above - Great to see her score a 5th hit, Love her material although there seems to be no new releases now as they have uncovered and released everything they had by her :(

Edited albums summary into previous post.

 

Does anyone know if there's a particular reason Mumford & Sons' album has re-entered? I normally just put lower re-entries down to slow weeks / random fluctuations but #58 seems too high to not have a precedent.

 

Also, Chartstats seems to only use the top 40 albums in its archives for 1999, so TIWIWTTDOTSAWCWSYMTRWED (that's longer than a lot of album titles even as an abbreviation :lol:) is only Fiona Apple's first hit for the purposes of this summary, even though WTPHTCHTLAKWHKTTBWHGTTFAHWTWTFHETRTNBTBWYMIYMSWYGSYHYOHARTDITGOHAIYKWYSTYKWTLAIYFIWMCYKTYR (:drama:) apparently made #46 in 1999.

Edited June 27, 201214 yr by BBB