New entry at #70 on the singles chart based on the Tesco ad expsosure presumably..but the version in the ad is a Rod-plus-piano (effectively a demo) version from a Rhino outtake boxset in 2009 (Sessions). With both the original and the Sessions version selling at the moment, would both count for the one chart slot - or has the piano version charted somewhere outside the Top 100 this week?

 

Cheers.

As long as they're both credited to Rod Stewart and they're both the same song (which as far as I'm aware is the case), they will have been combined.

As long as they're both credited to Rod Stewart and they're both the same song (which as far as I'm aware is the case), they will have been combined.

 

Thanks..it is the same song, just two very different recordings of it (not remixes). It's the first time he has been in the singles chart with a self penned song since 1995..

Thanks..it is the same song, just two very different recordings of it (not remixes). It's the first time he has been in the singles chart with a self penned song since 1995..

 

He got to #91 with 'It's Over' from his current album earlier this year. (Maybe first time in the top 75 since 1995 though :P)

Stretching the definition of a self-penned song there, since he ripped most of it off from Bob Dylan. In fact until I looked it up I assumed it was just a cover of the Dylan song.

 

AFAICT, the last Top 75 hit he had a justified writing credit on was 'Lady Luck' in 1995 - he's credited on 'Purple Heather' in 1996 but that's just an arrangement of a traditional song.

Its been a great year for Rod Stewart, the home album has done very well and prob outperformed many expectations, getting an official top 75 is a nice bonus in the singles chart, on top of that, his christmas albums looks like doing well again for him this year.

He got to #91 with 'It's Over' from his current album earlier this year. (Maybe first time in the top 75 since 1995 though :P)

I completely missed that - was it a one week wonder?

 

Stretching the definition of a self-penned song there, since he ripped most of it off from Bob Dylan. In fact until I looked it up I assumed it was just a cover of the Dylan song.

AFAICT, the last Top 75 hit he had a justified writing credit on was 'Lady Luck' in 1995 - he's credited on 'Purple Heather' in 1996 but that's just an arrangement of a traditional song.

Hard to argue with the Dylan point, a bit cheeky alright.

 

Its been a great year for Rod Stewart, the home album has done very well and prob outperformed many expectations, getting an official top 75 is a nice bonus in the singles chart, on top of that, his christmas albums looks like doing well again for him this year.

That makes 3 Top 100 in twelve months after none since 2001 :)

"Time" should also get a bump from the forthcoming 2cd deluxe version (although I don't know whether it will share a chart position or get it's own.