14th April 2019

 

It's a first week on top for Jackie, the late Scott Walker's brilliant dramatic and naughty solo track from 1968, banned on the radio way back and written by the great Jacques Brel, a French star who could pen a great song at the drop of a hat back in the 60's. It's the second time on top, for a second week, both in the 21st century, being as it predated my charts by a couple of months, and was ineligible when I went mad on it in 1976/77 and beyond. Rock The Boat goes top 5 for a second time, thanks to Record Store Day releases (with more waiting to chart), Olly Murs gets another top 20, helped by Niles Rodgers who can claim a sweet 41-year chart-span as a result since Dance Dance Dance went top 10 in my first year at Uni, ah memories of recording onto cassette so I could play them when my room-mates were out or in - I like an audience for my music taste :lol:

 

Talking of oldies Baron Samedi gets top 20 some 45 years late (and outdoing the single off the album Silly Love) for 10cc, Morrissey has a second chart cover, the highly-unlikely version of Mozza crooning Laura Nyro's Wedding Bell Blues, as hit for the The 5th Dimension in 1969, lo those 50 years back. Still a great song and a nice version at 22. P!nk also has 2 on the charts as she hustles her way into the 30, just behind Louise who leaps above her with a great comeback single, one of her best efforts.

 

The late Avicii gets a posthumous chart entry (a growing club at the moment) with Aloe Blacc helping on SOS, 6 years for Avicii, 8 years for Aloe. Foster The People started selling downloads again on the back of articles stating how they are shifting streaming "sales" in bucketloads to become the biggest track of 2011 since streaming started despite peaking at 18 in the UK charts. It topped my charts back then, so good to see the world catch up with me.... :lol: Tame Impala get a second charter, and ABC get two Lexicon Of Love debuts 37-years late. To be frank every track on the classic album is a gem, and Martin Fry is still fab in concert (which I saw last week).

 

Finally an advert is popularizing Together In Electric Dreams again, so I might as well chart it again, and Alan Parsons is back after a gap of at least 35 years, I'd say. Apart from being an Austin Powers gag, Alan was a music engineer on Abbey Road (The Beatles) and Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd) just to namedrop 2 classics, before producing brilliant hit records from the likes of Pilot, The Hollies, Al Stewart in the 70's just ahead of his 80's Alan Parsons Project hits like Eye In The Sky. A bit of a veteran then! Jason Mraz lends a vocal hand, 11 years since make It Mine debuted.

 

1 2 1 3 JACKIE Scott Walker 350000

2 1 1 3 THE SUN AIN’T GONNA SHINE ANYMORE The Walker Brothers 455000

3 3 1 6 CHRYSALIS Empire Of The Sun 540000

4 6 4 3 ROCK THE BOAT The Hues Corporation 168000

5 5 1 8 YOUR EX Paloma Faith 529800

6 7 6 6 KIND OF LOVE Rat City featuring Isak Heim 231100

7 4 2 5 SPARROW Emeli Sande 366000

8 8 6 6 YOU BELONG TO ME Cat Pierce 304000

9 10 9 6 SUCKER Jonas Brothers 182250

10 15 10 6 LIFTED Parker Bossley 149700

 

11 11 3 9 BEST 54 (ALL GOOD NOW) Jungle 516100

12 12 10 9 TALK Khalid & Disclosure 285000

13 9 1 6 IT’S OVER Morrissey featuring LP 477000

14 16 14 6 STUFF LIKE THAT Bananarama 114500

15 18 15 3 MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF The Walker Brothers 66200

16 17 16 6 DON’T CALL ME UP Mabel 97850

17 20 17 6 OCEAN EYES Billie Eilish 99600

18 28 18 4 FEEL THE SAME Olly Murs featuring Nile Rodgers 70000

19 23 19 5 BARON SAMEDI 10cc 83450

20 19 2 9 365 Zedd & Katy Perry 525000

 

21 13 13 6 WHAT MORE CAN I DO? Jack Savoretti 126600

22 NEW 22 1 WEDDING BELL BLUES Morrissey 19500

23 31 13 6 NEVER COMIN DOWN Keith Urban 143900

24 29 24 4 PATIENCE Tame Impala 67900

25 14 14 9 COLD IN LA Why Don’t We 170350

26 21 1 7 AMERICAN GENERATION The Ritchie Family 386250

27 72 27 2 STRETCH Louise 24000

28 22 14 8 WALK ME HOME P!nk 155500

29 30 29 6 CASIO Jungle 87700

30 NEW 30 1 HUSTLE P!nk 18000

 

31 26 21 7 KILLING MY TIME G-Flip 129650

32 32 32 2 YEKE YEKE Mory Kante 35600

33 33 33 4 ALL THE SONGS Will Young 54150

34 24 5 6 SON OF MAN GG/06 aka 10cc (Kevin Godley & Graham Gouldman) featuring Hotlegs 200600

35 NEW 35 1 SOS Avicii featuring Aloe Blacc 17500

36 38 36 6 WE’RE THROUGH The Hollies 73600

37 NEW 37 1 DRUM Noa Kirel 17300

38 45 38 5 OLD WILD MEN 10cc 55700

39 41 39 5 SOMEWHERE IN HOLLYWOOD 10cc 58800

40 44 40 2 SELFISH Vargas & Lagola 30250

 

41 27 2 12 SWAN SONG Dua Lipa 445300

42 39 39 5 HALFWAY THERE ROZES 62550

43 25 25 5 WATERFALLS TLC 78550

44 52 44 6 THE BIRD SYML 57150

45 49 45 3 CAN’T GET USED TO LOSING YOU The Beat 35200

46 34 6 9 ELECTRO ROMANTICO Bob Sinclar featuring Robbie Williams 306950

47 48 47 5 HURRICANES Dido 51350

48 NEW 48 1 PIECE OF YOUR HEART Meduza featuring GOODBOYS 12300

49 59 49 3 MY SHIP IS COMING IN The Walker Brothers 29000

50 70 50 3 HERE WITH ME Marshmello Featuring CHVRCHES 23000

 

51 43 1 9 THE KILLING MOON (SYMPHONIC VERSION) Echo & The Bunnymen 536050

52 36 29 6 SAY THE WORD Hornal with Graham Gouldman & Kevin Godley 94600

53 64 53 2 COOL The Jonas Brothers 18350

54 57 54 6 SO AM I Ava Max 49000

55 60 55 3 FOLLOW YOU FOLLOW ME Genesis 26800

56 42 18 9 DON’T FEEL LIKE CRYING Sigrid 157150

57 58 57 3 MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM The Beat 27700

58 35 35 6 LO/HI The Black Keys 79300

59 51 3 13 STARTED OUT Georgia 473200

60 NEW 60 1 PUMPED UP KICKS Foster The People 10000

 

61 37 30 6 EVERY STEP Gabrielle 82700

62 47 9 10 WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THE RICH? Pet Shop Boys 265800

63 56 1 16 SERMON Mercury Rev featuring Margo Price 629600

64 NEW 64 1 BORDERLINE Tame Impala 7100

65 75 65 2 KING JAMES Anderson .Paak 12000

66 46 46 7 DOVE Pillar Point 69200

67 67 67 4 JUST ONE LIFETIME Sting & Shaggy 24200

68 NEW 68 1 SHOW ME ABC 6400

69 73 69 2 JUST YOU AND I Tom Walker 11600

70 NEW 70 1 TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder 6000

 

71 63 63 4 MACHO MAN Suzi Quatro 25400

72 54 29 8 DESIRE Sub Focus & Dimension 88150

73 55 17 11 BONES Galantis featuring OneRepublic 177400

74 NEW 74 1 DATE STAMP ABC 5200

75 NEW 75 1 MIRACLE Alan Parsons featuring Jason Mraz 5000

 

DROP OUTS

40 40 4 CLOCKWORK CREEP 10cc 60100

50 50 4 CONNECTION Elastica 47500

53 10 6 IT’S MY LIFE Talk Talk 143350

61 46 6 SAVE A LITTLE LOVE Junior J featuring John Gibbons & Therese 55400

62 20 10 ALL MY FRIENDS The Revivalists 153400

65 13 10 GOT TO KEEP ON The Chemical Brothers 181700

66 7 11 BETTER THAN ME Ten Tonnes 252350

68 68 3 NO SOUL/ NO CONTROL Suzi Quatro 18600

69 62 4 ONLY HAPPY WHEN IT RAINS Garbage 27200

71 71 2 EXPERIMENT IV (EXTENDED MIX) Kate Bush 11200

74 74 1 BRONTOSAURUS The Move 5200

Hi John!

 

Giving Jackie a listen now, it's sounding nice! Not heard of Scott Walker before but it sounds like he was a character, RIP :(

 

Rock the Boat - well there's a song I've not heard in a while! It's a great song though, makes me feel nostalgic as it was on one of my dad's disco albums that I loved.

 

Nice to see MEDUZA and SOS make their entrance as well, both great dance tracks that I'm glad are doing so well officially!

 

Great chart :D

Hi John!

 

Giving Jackie a listen now, it's sounding nice! Not heard of Scott Walker before but it sounds like he was a character, RIP :(

 

Rock the Boat - well there's a song I've not heard in a while! It's a great song though, makes me feel nostalgic as it was on one of my dad's disco albums that I loved.

 

Nice to see MEDUZA and SOS make their entrance as well, both great dance tracks that I'm glad are doing so well officially!

 

Great chart :D

 

Hi Pete glad you like Scott's track, he very much turned his back on pop success and did his own thing, even leaving the USA for Europe where his inspirations were. Good to hear your dad liked disco albums - I've got loads of them, so many that I have some tracks on CD many times over :lol: - we all go back to our parents record collections, I know I do, Beatles, Elvis, Roy Orbison and many more!

 

I was a bit pleasantly surprised that a track like Meduza can still make the charts, and SOS is good to see a hit too, I understand poor Avicii had quite a lot of completed stuff pending so it won't be the last time he charts I'm sure.

 

cheers!

 

John B-)