Posted December 23, 20195 yr I thought there was a thread about this but if there is I can't find it. As you may be aware, Yahoo have decided to pull the plug on all the Yahoo Groups that it hosts. They aren't as popular now but at one time they were an alternative to websites where people could post messages. One such group is Chartfreaks-UK. The group has been pretty much dead for a few years and I'd more or less forgotten I was a member until Yahoo sent me an email about the groups closing. The admin of the group is our very own polyhex and he has made the content available to download in a thread at UKMix: The version I have is 8Mb for the messages only, which I've uploaded to https://www.dropbox.com/s/uisuh4p1itjgqo6/C...ssages.zip?dl=0 The zip is made up of a few .mbox files. You should be able to download something like MBox viewer - https://sourceforge.net/projects/mbox-viewer/. This displays all the messages in a tree like format.
December 23, 20195 yr Author The good thing about the Chartfreaks-UK group is that a number of the posts were copy and paste jobs of things like midweeks and weekly charts. And not just from the likes of BuzzJack, Haven and CHCMedia (I think that was the name of the site) but also Dotmusic up to 2003. So we can now view posts that I had thought were lost forever. For example, here's the midweeks chart thread from Christmas week 2003: 17/12/2003 Sales update to include Tuesday's sales... Singles 1: The Darkness - 77,457 2: Gary Jules - 74,147 3: Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne - 45,626 4: Bo Selecta - 34,122 5: The Idols - 28,835 8: Blue/Stevie Wonder/Angie Stone - 10,282 9: Atomic Kitten - 10,116 Albums: Will Young - 87,936 Dido - 85,100 MJ - 75,767 Black Eye Peas - 52,892 R.E.M. - 48,831 19/12/2003 1 NEW DARKNESS 132690 2 NEW MICHAEL ANDREWS FT GARY JULES 129685 3 1 OZZY & KELLY OSBOURNE 81059 4 NEW BO SELECTA 57580 5 NEW IDOLS 48372 6 2 WILL YOUNG 40170 7 3 BLACK EYED PEAS 29639 8 NEW ATOMIC KITTEN 17380 9 NEW BLUE FT STEVIE WONDER 17260 10 4 SHANE RICHIE 17066 11 NEW SUGABABES 16916 12 5 CLIFF RICHARD 13040 13 NEW ULTRABEAT 12130 14 6 WESTLIFE 9925 15 10 CHEEKY GIRLS 8852 16 14 KATIE MELUA 8654 17 7 EVANESCENCE 8508 18 22 OUTKAST 8454 19 17 UB40/UNITED COLOURS OF SOUND 8245 20 12 GIRLS ALOUD 7875 21 16 SIMPLY RED 7564 22 9 CHRISTINA AGUILERA 7534 23 8 GARETH GATES 6915 24 NEW FAST FOOD ROCKERS 6770 25 NEW BILLY MACK 6576 26 18 KEVIN LYTTLE 6480 27 13 NELLY FURTADO 5566 28 21 LOST BROTHERS FT G TOM MAC 5095 29 11 MADONNA 5040 30 23 BUSTED 4838 31 24 FATMAN SCOOP/CROOKLYN CLAN 4754 32 NEW G UNIT 4610 33 20 DIDO 4565 34 19 ALICIA KEYS 4548 35 15 BIG BROVAZ 4486 36 25 D-SIDE 4315 37 NEW ERIN ROCHA 4180 38 29 NODDY 3811 39 28 LEMAR 3273 40 27 JA RULE 3077 41 30 BRITNEY SPEARS FT MADONNA 2678 42 31 ALEX PARKS 2636 43 NEW BASIL BRUSH FT INDIA BEAU 2482 44 36 JAMELIA 2439 45 NEW JOE STRUMMER & THE MESCALEROS 2282 46 26 RACHEL STEVENS 2197 47 NEW TRAVIS 1954 48 32 JAY-Z 1912 49 33 JOHN & YOKO/PLASTIC ONO BAND 1834 50 39 DELTA GOODREM 1598 21/12/2003 From Music Week Website SINGLES Mad World 227,500 Christmas Time 222,500 Changes 144,800 ALBUMS Dido 270,000 Will Young 239,000 Michael Jackson 222,000 Darkness 90,000 From TOTP Website The Darkness led on Saturday morning by just 889 sales. Saturday ONLY sales looked like this Mad World sold 57,456 Christmas Time sold 51,481 By the end, 'Mad World' outsold The Darkness by 4,986 sales! This weeks sale for the Darkness has out-sold their previous single 'I Believe In A Thing Called Love' total sales by 50,000! *********************************************************************************************** It's like a nostalgia fest looking at some of those old posts! It's also unbelievable to think that it's nearly 16 years since Dotmusic closed. Where has the time gone? Edited December 23, 20195 yr by Robbie
December 23, 20195 yr Wow, I had completely forgotten that Pop Idol did a Christmas album lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_Idol:_The...%93_Xmas_Factor
December 24, 20195 yr Author I remember getting emails from them back in 2012?The Chartfreaks-UK Yahoo group? If so, and you still have the same email address if you click on https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo you'll be able to see what groups you are subscribed to.
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