Was looking at EBTG's discography pre-Missing, poor Ben & Tracie had so many flops and so few hits

only Each and Every One in the early 80s and then a couple covers but nothing else

 

Night and day/92

Each and every one/28

Mine/58

Native land/73

When all's well/77

Angel/93

Come on home/44

Don’t leave me behind/72

These early days/75

I Always was your Girl/87

I don’t want to talk about it/3

Driving/54

Covers EP/13

The only living boy in New York EP/42

I didn’t know i was looking for love EP/72

Rollercoaster EP/65

Missing/69

 

and not much better discography in albums x EBTG, with only their Best Of doing well

 

Eden/14

Love not Money/10

Baby the stars Shine brght/22

Idlewild/13

The Language of Life/10

Worldwide/29

Home Movies-Best/5

Amplified heart/20

I take it Meat Loaf had been expected to debut at No.1? Seems like Coolio came as a surprise, which in itself is a surprise to me when you think of how big a classic it's seen as now.

 

The Missing remix is great of course, Todd Terry essentially used the same backing track for his remix of Corrs' Dreams.

 

I love Power of a Woman too, much more than the Louise debut.

 

Hopefully that was the last Smokie and Chubby appearance, sick of hearing it.

 

I guess with it being the first rap track to be no1 it was a shock albeit inevitable!

Was looking at EBTG's discography pre-Missing, poor Ben & Tracie had so many flops and so few hits

only Each and Every One in the early 80s and then a couple covers but nothing else

 

Night and day/92

Each and every one/28

Mine/58

Native land/73

When all's well/77

Angel/93

Come on home/44

Don’t leave me behind/72

These early days/75

I Always was your Girl/87

I don’t want to talk about it/3

Driving/54

Covers EP/13

The only living boy in New York EP/42

I didn’t know i was looking for love EP/72

Rollercoaster EP/65

Missing/69

 

What year was that no28 hit?

Their trajectory almost reminds me of Texas in that sense!

 

Although tbf I don't think EBTG are/were a particularly mainstream act or trying to be, but of course the dance remix of 'Missing' brought them a newfound popularity.

What year was that no28 hit?

 

Without googling, I'm guessing 1984 from memory of looking at 80s OCC archive charts

all thru the 80s and mid 90s EBTG were jazz-folk-sophisti-pop kinda uncommercial

they only become dance and more commercial after Missing

Without googling, I'm guessing 1984 from memory of looking at 80s OCC archive charts

 

So many bands started out so many years before their first hit back then - Pulp, Stone Roses, EBTG!

 

 

EBTG not really, as I posted in their discography, their first single was with the lead single from their debut album

 

The Stone Roses had a few pre-fame singles but not that many, the 2nd single from their debut went top 40 already

 

Pulp yes and so many more bands in the 80s like Def Leppard or James

4TH NOVEMBER

 

 

Coolio Featuring LV take an easy 2nd week at No 1 and improve their sales 55% to 166,000 buoyed by 2CD versions one with extra Coolio tracks and one with extra LV tracks. Radio has finally got on board with it although Simply Red’s “Fairground” remains at No 1 on that survey for a ninth week whilst falling 3-5 (57,000) on the sales chart.

 

 

 

“Gangsta’s Paradise” saw off a new single from Queen with some ease, “Heaven For Everyone” started off as a single for Roger Taylor’s splinter group The Cross in 1988 when it failed to chart despite backing vocals by Mercury himself. It was revisited by the band after Mercury’s death as part of a project to piece together an album which the band were working on before Mercury’s death which has understandably taken some time to come to fruition but “Made In Heaven” will be in shops next week as the lead single drives in at No 2 (103,000) unable, at present, to give Mercury his 4th posthumous chart topper.

 

 

 

Back to ward off that pesky Boyzone as Britain’s second biggest boy band East 17 are about to launch their third album “Up All Night” and lead single “Thunder” is doing the trick as it debuts at No 4 (64,000) providing them with an 8th top 10 single in just 3 years. Incredibly none of their singles have ever debuted as high as this single and more than makes up for the blip of their last release “Hold My Body Tight” which broke a string of five top 10 singles when it made No 12 in June, watch the album fly off the shelves when released later this month.

 

 

Queen’s arrival is bad news for Meat Loaf who dips 2-3 (75,000) but Everything But The Girl weather the storm of the new entries at the top to climb 8-6 (47,000).

 

Four fallers at the bottom of the top flight, Def Leppard dive 4-7 (46,000) not helped by the arrival of their greatest hits album at No 3, Smokie Featuring Roy “Chubby” Brown slide 5-8 (30,000), Eternal falter 6-9 (27,000) and former No 1 “Boombastic” limps 7-10 (25,000). Whilst Meat Loaf, Pulp, and Eternal go head to head on the album charts next week, here on the singles front Coolio will have to fend off new singles from both Robson & Jerome and Oasis- can they do it?

 

 

1- GANGSTA’ S PARADISE- Coolio Ft LV (166,000)

2- HEAVEN FOR EVERYONE- Queen (103,000)

3- I’D LIE FOR YOU (AND THAT’S THE TRUTH)- Meat Loaf (75,000)

4- THUNDER- East 17 (64,000)

5- FAIRGROUND- Simply Red (57,000)

6- MISSING- Everything But The Girl (47,000)

7- WHEN LOVE AND HATE COLLIDE- Def Leppard (46,000)

8- LIVING NEXT DOOR TO ALICE (WHO THE f*** IS ALICE)- Smokie Ft Roy Chubby Brown (30,000)

9- POWER OF A WOMAN- Eternal (27,000)

10- BOOMBASTIC- Shaggy (25,000)

 

11TH NOVEMBER

 

 

Single sales soar by 19% this week as for the first time in almost 11 years the entire top 3 sell over 160,000 copies each!

 

W/E 29.12.84 was the last time sales were so astonishing, but that of course was buoyed by Christmas and Band Aid and Wham!, this time around it’s all down to eagerly awaited new singles from acts and a strong outgoing chart topper.

 

Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise” registers a mere 2% decrease to a still phenomenal 163,000 but despite a late surge it still falls 1-3 overtaken by new entries. The headlines go to Robson & Jerome whose second single “Up On The Roof/ I Believe” charges to No 1 on a stellar sale of 258,000 copies, 18% down on the opening tally of their first hit, the 1.8 million selling “Unchained Melody/ White Cliffs Of Dover”. As you might suspect both tracks are covers, “Up On The Roof” is a Goffin/ King composition and was originally recorded by the Drifters but was first hit here for Kenny Lynch (No 10, 1962), whilst “I Believe” spent 18 weeks at No 1 (still a record) for Frankie Laine in 1953 in three separate stints. Its arrival at No 1 marks the first time in history that 4 consecutive chart toppers have all debuted there (all as genuine first releases) and sets everything up nicely for their debut album due in a fortnight. Incidentally at 2min and 8 sec “I Believe” is the shortest No 1 since The Specials topped the charts 15 years ago.

 

 

 

Both the top 2 are new entries then for only the 5th time in chart history, three of those occasions have been in 1995 and two of them have now included Oasis. “Wonderwall” smashes in at No 2 (163,000) selling a couple of hundred copies more than Coolio to give the Mancunian band their 4th top 3 hit on the trot. The band premiered the track on Channel 4 back in June as part of their Glastonbury coverage and is on their second album “(What’s The Story) Morning Glory” which has already sold 700,000 in its first 5 weeks of release which makes the achievement of the single all the more noteworthy. The subject of the song is apparently Noel’s girlfriend Meg Matthews FYI.

 

 

 

If you watched TOTP this week you’ll know that it featured the first live performance on the show by Madonna in 11 years (since “Like A Virgin” in fact) and it certainly did the trick of reversing a midweek fall into a 11-8 (36,000) climb- who said the show didn’t matter anymore? Her 36th top 10 single it will feature on her new album, a collection of ballads, called “Something To Remember” which is out this week, and is apparently an attempt to become low key after years where her image and private life has gained more publicity than her music.

 

 

Queen drop 2-4 (82,000) but will be focusing on their album out this week and going head to head with Madonna, and East 17 similarly fall back 4-5 (56,000). The top 7 all clear the 50,000 mark to illustrate the strength of the market at present, Everything But The Girl hold at No 6 (55,000) while Meat Loaf drops past them 3-7 (51,000) but his new album debuts at No 3, Simply Red cascade 5-9 (36,000) and Def Leppard are down 7-10 (30,000)

 

 

1- UP ON THE ROOF/ I BELIEVE- Robson & Jerome (258,000)

2- WONDERWALL- Oasis (163,000)

3- GANGSTA’S PARADISE- Coolio Ft LV (163,000)

4- HEAVEN FOR EVERYONE- Queen (82,000)

5- THUNDER- East 17 (56,000)

6- MISSING- Everything But The Girl (55,000)

7- I’D LIE FOR YOU (AND THAT’S THE TRUTH)- Meat Loaf (51,000)

8- YOU’LL SEE- Madonna (36,000)

9- FAIRGROUND- Simply Red (36,000)

10- WHEN LOVE AND HATE COLLIDE- Def Leppard (30,000)

 

Woah, I never knew how close Oasis and Coolio were! :o Almost at number 3 entry for Wonderwall.

 

If there was a half ok Robson and Jerome song, I suppose I Believe would be it.

I also had no idea how close Coolio was to Oasis that week.

 

Amazing that Oasis had two #2 singles in 1995 that had such huge sales in a week though.

Wow Huge sales!

guess Oasis priority's was album sales otherwise they could have picked another week

Wonderwall is of course fantastic but I still remember listening to the album for the 1st time and thinking their classic of classics was gonna be Don't look back in anger :)

 

Never liked that Queen song and not a fan of posthumous albums

 

You'll See is ok but far from Madonna's bestest, another average song of hers from the 90s

You'll See is one of my favourite Madonna songs. Missing is great, of course. I could live without ever hearing Wonderwall again.

in at #11 this week is the fabulous He's on the Phone by St Etienne at their most commercial sound

 

I’ll be popping in my usual outside the top 10 post later (including He’s On The Phone).

Were there many more St Etienne hits to come?

Good to see that even when it became the norm for #1s to debut there, some would still increase in sales in later weeks - huge week 2 & 3 sales for Coolio! Hard to imagine if 'Wonderwall' had a #3 peak...