January 12, 20169 yr I'm really hoping the Bowie domination can run into next week, while sad circumstances it's nice to see everyone back listening to Bowie and seemingly really appreciating the music again.
January 12, 20169 yr Loving the idea that some or all of the Spice Girls are potentially immortal... Made me laugh too :lol: If one ever :cheesebloc:
January 13, 20169 yr I'm in Dundee. Good to know there are fellow Dundonians here! We're a dying breed! Good to know I'm not alone! :D
January 13, 20169 yr Heroes reminds me of that brilliant film 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' However Space Oddity reminds me of one of my fave films of all time called 'C.R.A.Z.Y' :wub: CxQv6tdjQYc Edited January 13, 20169 yr by Jason
January 13, 20169 yr Jason, Space Oddity reminds me of the same thing! I was thinking about re watching it this week! It's so good.
January 13, 20169 yr Bowie's Heroes is currently sitting just outside the Top 10 at Number 11 in today's sales flash, leaping from yesterday's position at Number 25. The current momentum of sales and streams of Heroes puts it in good stead to enter this week's Top 10. If it does, it would be his first since Where Are We Now, which hit Number 6 in 2013. As things stand, the song is just under 3,000 combined sales away from the Top 10, and 7,500 away from the Top 5. On the Official Albums Chart, his new album Blackstar continues to lead the way and has pushed passed the 100,000 combined sales mark in today's sales flash. As was reported yesterday, many of his classic albums are set to re-enter the chart, with a further nine records in addition to Blackstar set to enter this week's Top 40. http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/a...s-week-__13541/
January 13, 20169 yr Remember that Monday's streaming should now be included for Bowie (and everyone). I can't see such a huge jump in tomorrow's mids.
January 13, 20169 yr Can't see a better place to put this, but this was Bowie's Top 75 hit record up until now. I sense a lot of "Also charted in 2016" will appear in this list by this time next week. DAVID BOWIE British male singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist (born David Jones, 8/1/47-10/1/16). His constant innovation across more than 40 years saw him hailed as one of the must influential figures of modern music. He won 2 Grammy awards and 2 Brits, and in the 2002 BBC poll of 100 Greatest Britons, he was ranked 29th. He declined a knighthood in 2003. 06 Sep 69 Space Oddity 1 24 wks (Also charted in 1975. Peaked in November 1975) 24 Jun 72 Starman 10 11 wks 16 Sep 72 John I'm Only Dancing 12 10 wks 09 Dec 72 The Jean Genie 2 13 wks 14 Apr 73 Drive-In Saturday 3 10 wks 30 Jun 73 Life On Mars 3 16 wks (Also charted in 2007 & 2013) 15 Sep 73 Laughing Gnome 6 12 wks 20 Oct 73 Sorrow 3 13 wks (Also charted in 1974) 23 Feb 74 Rebel Rebel 5 7 wks 20 Apr 74 Rock And Roll Suicide 22 7 wks 22 Jun 74 Diamond Dogs 21 6 wks 28 Sep 74 Knock On Wood 10 6 wks 01 Mar 75 Young Americans 18 7 wks 02 Aug 75 Fame $ 17 8 wks 29 Nov 75 Golden Years 8 10 wks 22 May 76 TVC 15 33 4 wks 19 Feb 77 Sound And Vision 3 11 wks 15 Oct 77 Heroes 24 8 wks 21 Jan 78 Beauty And The Beast 39 3 wks 02 Dec 78 Breaking Glass (EP) 54 7 wks (Tracks: Breaking Glass/Art Decade/Ziggy Stardust) 05 May 79 Boys Keep Swingin' 7 10 wks 21 Jul 79 DJ 29 5 wks 15 Dec 79 John I'm Only Dancing (Again) 12 8 wks 01 Mar 80 Alabama Song 23 5 wks 16 Aug 80 Ashes To Ashes 1 10 wks 01 Nov 80 Fashion 5 12 wks 10 Jan 81 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) 20 6 wks 28 Mar 81 Up The Hill Backwards 32 6 wks 14 Nov 81 Under Pressure (Queen & David Bowie) 1 18 wks (Also charted in 1999) 28 Nov 81 Wild Is The Wind 24 10 wks 06 Mar 82 Baal's Hymn EP 29 5 wks (Tracks: Baal's Hymn/Remembering Marie A/Ballad Of The Adventurers/The Drowned Girl/The Dirty Song) 10 Apr 82 Cat People (Putting Out Fire) 26 6 wks 27 Nov 82 Peace On Earth-Little Drummer Boy (David Bowie & Bing Crosby) 3 9 wks (Also charted in 2007) 26 Mar 83 Let's Dance $ 1 14 wks 11 Jun 83 China Girl 2 8 wks 24 Sep 83 Modern Love 2 8 wks 05 Nov 83 White Light White Heat 46 3 wks 22 Sep 84 Blue Jean 6 8 wks 08 Dec 84 Tonight 53 4 wks 09 Feb 85 This Is Not America (David Bowie & The Pat Metheny Group) 14 7 wks 08 Jun 85 Loving The Alien 19 7 wks 07 Sep 85 Dancing In The Street (David Bowie & Mick Jagger) 1 12 wks 15 Mar 86 Absolute Beginners 2 9 wks 21 Jun 86 Underground 21 6 wks 08 Nov 86 When The Wind Blows 44 4 wks 04 Apr 87 Day In Day Out 17 6 wks 27 Jun 87 Time Will Crawl 33 4 wks 29 Aug 87 Never Let Me Down 34 6 wks 07 Apr 90 Fame 90 (Gass Mix) 28 4 wks 22 Aug 92 Real Cool World 53 1 wk 27 Mar 93 Jump They Say 9 6 wks 12 Jun 93 Black Tie White Noise (David Bowie featuring Al B Sure) 36 2 wks 23 Oct 93 Miracle Goodnight 40 2 wks 04 Dec 93 The Buddha Of Suburbia (David Bowie featuring Lenny Kravitz) 35 3 wks 23 Sep 95 The Heart's Filthy Lesson 35 2 wks 02 Dec 95 Strangers When We Meet /The Man Who Sold The World (Live) 39 2 wks 02 Mar 96 Hallo Spaceboy 12 4 wks 08 Feb 97 Little Wonder 14 3 wks 26 Apr 97 Dead Man Walking 32 2 wks 30 Aug 97 Seven Years In Tibet 61 1 wk 21 Feb 98 I Can't Read 73 1 wk 02 Oct 99 Thursday's Child 16 3 wks 05 Feb 00 Survive 28 2 wks 29 Jul 00 Seven 32 2 wks 11 May 02 Loving The Alien (Scumfrog vs Bowie) 41 1 wk 28 Sep 02 Everyone Says Hi 20 3 wks 12 Jul 03 Just For One Day (Heroes) (David Guetta vs Bowie) 73 1 wk 26 Jun 04 Rebel Never Gets Old 47 2 wks 19 Jan 13 Where Are We Now 6 2 wks 29 Nov 14 Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime) 81 1 wk Total Hits : 70 Total Weeks : 459 Edited January 13, 20169 yr by fchd
January 13, 20169 yr David Bowie's new album has just crossed the 100k mark. It's the first album not Adele related to pass 100k in January since The View in 2007
January 13, 20169 yr The current momentum of sales and streams of Heroes puts it in good stead to enter this week's Top 10. If it does, it would be his first since Where Are We Now, which hit Number 6 in 2013. As things stand, the song is just under 3,000 combined sales away from the Top 10, and 7,500 away from the Top 5. I see they've corrected themselves from previously stating it would be his first Top 10 since 1993! :P Somehow, "first since...2013" doesn't have the same effect.
January 13, 20169 yr It's a bit weird that Michael Jackson's "Man in the mirror" was his highest charting song after he died when it only got to #21 previously (during his imperial phase) & Bowie's #24 hit Heroes is looking likely to be his highest posthumous charting song. Was hoping the BBC's article on "Kooks" would have had a bigger impact on it's chart placing. I owe Robbie William's b-side cover of that song for making me buy the "Hunky Dory" album in 1996.
January 13, 20169 yr It's a bit weird that Michael Jackson's "Man in the mirror" was his highest charting song after he died when it only got to #21 previously (during his imperial phase) & Bowie's #24 hit Heroes is looking likely to be his highest posthumous charting song. It is odd and it makes me wonder how popular they were at the time. Obviously legacy is established after a number of years but they surely must have been popular at the time for them to end up being classics.
January 13, 20169 yr Man in the Mirror was a late single from the huge selling Bad album i think! Sure Thriller only peaked at 10 in 1984 for similar reasons!
January 13, 20169 yr Yes, that's practically always the reason why a much-loved song didn't chart too highly - because fans already had it on an album. Doesn't explain "Heroes" though, which was the lead single of the album of the same name. It hovered in the mid 20s for weeks but never climbed in the way that Sound and Vision did earlier in the year.
January 13, 20169 yr So, Craig David is getting his first top 20 hit since Hot Stuff (Let's Dance) on the same week that the song that last top 20 hit samples (Let's Dance) re-enters the chart.
January 13, 20169 yr I'm in Dundee. Good to know there are fellow Dundonians here! omg three dundee posters
January 13, 20169 yr Man in the Mirror was a late single from the huge selling Bad album i think! Sure Thriller only peaked at 10 in 1984 for similar reasons! It was the 4th of 9 singles taken from it. Though later singles all did better they had proper promo's or were linked to tours/ films/ were only on certain formats of the album.
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