No Good (Start the Dance) :wub: :wub: :wub: By FAR the best thing in that top 10 at the moment

4TH JUNE

 

 

Manchester United are no longer the champions, of the charts that is, sales of “Come On You Reds” slide by 18% to 69,000 but with sales almost at a third of a million it has more than done its job. It is superseded by Wet, Wet, Wet who celebrate their third chart topper following “With A Little Help From My Friends” and “Goodnight Girl”, they are the first Scots at to grab a trio of chart toppers and are of course helped by the film “Four Weddings & A Funeral” which is doing a roaring trade at the Box office at present. We had 16 chart toppers in 1993 and so far in 1994 we’ve now had 10 as it looks like it will surpass its predecessor easily. The Wets last release was a greatest hits set “End Of Part One” and continues to inch up the chart 19-17 despite not containing the current single.

"Love Is All Around" powered 2-1 on a sale of 84,000

 

 

 

The Wets place at the top is under threat from the off however with another film cut “Baby I Love Your Way” by Big Mountain which features in the flick “Reality Bites”. The song is a cover of the Peter Frampton classic which has already been a top 10 hit in cover version thanks to Will To Power’s 1989 version though Frampton’s original never went top 40. It’s the group’s first hit here and will have some legs in it as the film isn’t out for another three weeks, it debuts at No 7 (27,000) regardless.

 

 

 

Some thought this track would never make the top 10 as it moved nervously 16-15-13 over the last three weeks but Gloworm’s “Carry Me Home” finally lifts to No 9 (22,000). It was recorded apparently under the stairs after the neighbours complained about the noise, Rollo Armstrong (a quarter of the outfit) is also the man behind the O.T Quartet’s “Hold That Sucker Down” which was also top 40 recently.

 

 

East 17 spend a third week at No 3 (46,000) but they’re now in decline at retail so expect this to fall especially with Maxx climbing 5-4 (42,000) and The Prodigy up 9-5 (34,000). Stiltskin continue their gentle decline 4-6 (33,000) as they cross the 250,000 mark, CJ Lewis drops 7-8 (23,000) and 2 Unlimited are fading 6-10 (20,000).

 

 

1- LOVE IS ALL AROUND- Wet, wet, wet (87,000)

2- COME ON YOU REDS- Manchester United Squad (69,000)

3- AROUND THE WORLD- East 17 (46,000)

4- GET-A-WAY- Maxx (42,000)

5- NO GOOD (START THE DANCE)- The Prodigy (34,000)

6- INSIDE- Stiltskin (33,000)

7- BABY, I LOVE YOUR WAY- Big Mountain (27,000)

8- SWEETS FOR MY SWEET- CJ Lewis (23,000)

9- CARRY ME HOME- Gloworm (22,000)

10- THE REAL THING- 2 Unlimited (20,000)

 

This chart saw Pulp’s TOTP debut at 19 with the Sisters EP :wub:

Sales are already so much stronger than 2 years ago

Also echoing the love for No Good (Start The Dance).

Get-A-Way has a cringe-worthy second rap verse but has a good chorus and is amazing instrumentally, I wonder were Maxx influenced by Trans-X - Living on Video from 1982 with the synths though!

 

No Good (Start The Dance) is great of course so echoing the love here for that track.

 

About Big Mountain, to be honest Peter Frampton in the original and the singer for Big Mountain Quino McWhinney both sound very similar and I like both versions of the track

 

The Gloworm track with the soulful male vocal is a bit Bob Sinclar/Yves Larock a decade ahead of time!

Edited March 25, 20232 yr by TheSnake

yes No Good easily the best track in the top 10

 

did Wet Wet Wet re-release their GH adding Love is all Around?

yes No Good easily the best track in the top 10

 

did Wet Wet Wet re-release their GH adding Love is all Around?

Certainly did

Get-A-Way has a cringe-worthy second rap verse but has a good chorus and is amazing instrumentally

 

Cringeworthy rap verses in these early-mid 90s dance tracks were a blessing!

No Good (Start the Dance) :wub: :wub: :wub: By FAR the best thing in that top 10 at the moment

 

Sounds as fresh today as it did 30 years ago upon release!

This chart saw Pulp’s TOTP debut at 19 with the Sisters EP :wub:

and Jarvis flashing the "I hate Wet Wet Wet" sign!

 

Get-A-Way was the first single I bought myself.

Wet Wet Wet's reign of terror begins! It's crazy to think in normal pacing that from now you'd have to wait until the middle of September for a new number one to arrive, but of course while it's happening no one would have seen it coming.

11TH JUNE

 

 

No moving Wet Wet Wet this week with “Love Is All Around” still gaining at retail by 20% to an impressive 104,000, the fifth highest weekly tally of the year, they will definitely be No 1 for another week at least as though Big Mountain improve 7-2 (41,000) its sales are relatively slack and indeed it only ascended so far thanks to the collapse of Manchester United Football squad who lose a massive 45% week on week to sell 37,000 last week as it falls 2-3.

 

 

 

The second series of “Absolutely Fabulous” aired earlier this year and now the TV show has a hit record with a track sharing its name though it isn’t the theme to the show. Credited similarly to Absolutely Fabulous it is in fact the work of The Pet Shop Boys who have taken dialogue from the show and interwoven it with this dance tune in aid of Comic Relief, it was initially promoted with the theme to the show “This Wheel’s On Fire” but that has had to be withdrawn due to copyright issues, at any rate it debuts at No 7 (26,000). If we count it as a Pet Shop Boys single then it’s their 15th top 10 hit, the boys are currently working on a remix album “Relentless” due for Autumn.

 

 

 

Dawn Penn’s “You Don’t Love Me (No No No)” has a long history despite not being a hit in the UK previously. Starting off life as a song called “She’s Fine, She’s Mine” by Bo Diddley in 1955 which was subsequently turned into “You Don’t Love Me” by Willie Cobbs five years later and then recorded by Penn in 1967. Her version has become something of a classic in the genre and Penn returned from retirement in 1992 to perform a version for the Studio One 30th anniversary concert in Jamaica where it went down a storm and was heard by producers Steely and Clevie who promptly re-recorded it with Penn with an updated dancehall feel. The new version enters at No 9 (24,000) besting a No 26 peak in a version by Gary Walker in 1966, prior to this Penn’s main claim to fame was as a backing singer on Jimmy Cliff’s “I Can See Clearly Now”.

 

 

 

Guns N Roses are back with an 11th top 10 single in 5 years and another cut from “The Spaghetti Incident”, which of course means it is a cover this time of a 1958 Skyliners track “Since I Don’t Have You”. It sprints 22-10 (16,000), it’s only their 2nd single from their last 9 to not to debut at its peak position.

 

 

Maxx hold at No 4 (34,000) but it was very close between it, East 17 (32,000) and The Prodigy (32,000) in the mid section of the top 10, elsewhere Stiltskin continue their sequential drop 6-8 (26,000). Next week will see a new Mariah Carey single- will it repeat “Without You”’s chart trajectory?

 

 

1- LOVE IS ALL AROUND- Wet, wet, wet (104,000)

2- BABY, I LOVE YOUR WAY- Big Mountain (41,000)

3- COME ON YOU REDS- Manchester United Squad (37,000)

4- GET-A-WAY- Maxx (34,000)

5- AROUND THE WORLD- East 17 (32,000)

6- NO GOOD (START THE DANCE)- The Prodigy (32,000)

7- ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS- Absolutely Fabulous (26,000)

8- INSIDE- Stiltskin (26,000)

9- YOU DON’T LOVE ME (NO NO NO)- Dawn Penn (24,000)

10- SINCE I DON’T HAVE YOU- Guns N Roses (16,000)

 

Hmmm, far from being the most interesting top 10 of the year.

18TH JUNE

 

 

Beaten only by tallies by Doop and Take That, Wet wet wet make it three weeks at the top after shifting another 115,000 copies last week, both of their previous chart toppers were there for 4 weeks and there’s nothing to threaten them at present to stop them at least matching this feat. Big Mountain remain a distant No 2 with sales up 37% to 56,000 but clearly that isn’t even half of the Wets tallies, Dawn Penn accelerates 9-3 (47,000) and may very well be No 2 next week.

 

 

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Currently No 4 in the states Ace Of Base continue their success story with a cover of “Don’t Turn Around” which you may recall made No 1 here 6 years ago for Aswad though it started out as a Tina Turner B-side. Presumably as the Aswad version failed to dent the Billboard Top 100 Ace Of Base must have thought it had potential and indeed we don’t seem to have had enough of it here as their version lifts 14-7 (26,000).

 

 

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After the break up of Soft Cell in 1984 Marc Almond obviously went on to have a string of solo hits but what of Dave Ball? Well he went on to become a remixer and then form dance outfit The Grid with Richard Norris. The hits started arriving in 1990 with the highest of six outings coming with last year’s “Texas Cowboys” making No 21, that’s all dwarfed by their new single “Swamp Thing” which debuted at No 11 last week and now snakes to No 8 (25,000), their third album is due in the Autumn if you like the sound of this.

 

 

 

Highest new entry of the week time and surprise surprise it comes from Mariah Carey, a fourth cut from her “Music Box” album called “Anytime You Need A Friend”. It smashes straight in at No 9 (18,000) which is a disappointment to some but it is worth recalling that the parent album has already sold over 1.1 million copies and indeed the accompanying C & C music remixes are commonly thought to be the driving force behind many of the sales for the single, at any rate it is her 6th top 10 single and fifth in a row.

 

 

The Prodigy continue to move north 5-4 (30,000) swapping places with Maxx 4-5 (27,000) but both lose sales, and Absolutely Fabulous can only edge 7-6 (27,000). Meanwhile Manchester United Football Squad hurtle 3-10 (17,000) as they keep losing sales at a frightening pace.

 

 

1- LOVE IS ALL AROUND- Wet, wet, wet (115,000)

2- BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY- Big Mountain (56,000)

3- YOU DON’T LOVE ME (NO NO NO)- Dawn Penn (47,000)

4- NO GOOD (START THE DANCE)- The Prodigy (30,000)

5- GET-A-WAY- Maxx (27,000)

6- ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS- Absolutely Fabulous (27,000)

7- DON’T TURN AROUND- Ace Of Base (26,000)

8- SWAMP THING- The Grid (25,000)

9- ANYTIME YOU NEED A FRIEND- Mariah Carey (18,000)

10- COME ON YOU REDS- Manchester United Squad (17,000)

 

'Swamp Thing' is such an utter tune :wub:

Swamp Thing is indeed a tune!

 

Loved Blur - To The End last week at 22, Shane Damon couldn’t quite reach the high note!

Swamp Thing! :wub:

 

Loved all of their singles from that album, Rollercoaster in particular is an underrated track

To The End much better than anything on that top 10

Manic Street Preachers - Faster, my favourite song of theirs, opened the first of those two TOTPs.