That is an interesting fact... I guess this could officially be a turning point in the decade for how the chart typically worked then

much preferred when songs climbed than from now on where the normal was to peak on release week

guess cos of the prices

My Country House CD single has a £1.99 price sticker from Our Price (Penzance!) on it.

 

Pleased to see the love for Hideaway - easily one of my favourite dance songs ever which I have on 12 inch. Big fan of Berri as well, was good to see it become a hit at the time.

 

As an aside, that JX song - for years I thought the lyric was ‘if a mango’s on the run, he’s a dirty son of a gun’ :lol:

Although clearly it was trending that way with everything debuting then falling, it looks like Blur/Oasis just massively stole everyone else's thunder that week, added to the sheer weight of having seven simultaneous top 15 new entries, sending everything else down. I guess it was an unusual week with no other real focus outside those two.

 

I checked the few charts afterwards, and there were still quite a lot of climbers (seven in the top 30 about three weeks later, although that was on a week with very few high new entries).

 

Still seems a world away from just a few years later when seven top 10 debuts was not a rare feat. No wonder hardly anything ever had the chance to climb or grow. In many cases, radio moved on to the next thing as soon as you debuted. So many songs between about 1997-2005 achieved such massively overinflated peaks due to this trend, songs that went top five that probably wouldn't have even gone top 20 either before the mid-90s retail distribution/lower introductory pricing/six weeks pre-release at radio model, or the subsequent download/streaming era.

I did wonder if the Blur vs oasis pricing things alerted the industry to the benefits of lower pricing first week tracks. I don't recall it being a thing before this point and I don't think was the norm until around 99/00 from memory so it may have been the first instance of it happening.

I did wonder if the Blur vs oasis pricing things alerted the industry to the benefits of lower pricing first week tracks. I don't recall it being a thing before this point and I don't think was the norm until around 99/00 from memory so it may have been the first instance of it happening.

I remember it a lot from 1997.

It was definitely pretty common before 1997 - I can recall it throughout 1996 but not 100% certain before then... so Gezza could well be correct that it was analysis of what happened between Blur and Oasis that could have caused it.

 

I think even Oasis may have priced theirs lower if they went with £2.99, I can't recall them ever being under the full £3.99 price tag (although I'm solely going by my memory here so could be wrong)

Just a quick note to say that BBC4 have changed their schedule for tomorrow - no 1995 shows tomorrow night - instead, 4 retro shows featuring Steve Wright.

Just a quick note to say that BBC4 have changed their schedule for tomorrow - no 1995 shows tomorrow night - instead, 4 retro shows featuring Steve Wright.

Ahhh fair enough though.

Selected tracks outside the Top 10 TOTP 12th, 19th, 26th August 1995 and 2nd September 1995

 

 

Ash - Girl From Mars

Chart entry this week: 11

Peak: 11

 

 

Cracking song from Ash, by far their best in fact. Shame this just missed the top 10.

 

 

 

The Charlatans - Just When You're Thinking Things Over

Chart entry this week: 12

Peak: 12

 

 

I am an occasional Charlatans fan, but this is one of their better efforts imo.

 

 

 

XPansions '95 - Move Your Body

Chart entry this week: 14

Peak: 14

 

 

A remix from the number 7 peaking 1991 hit. This is the better version I think, it suits a more mid 90s sound.

 

 

 

 

Echobelly - Great Things

Chart entry this week: 13

Peak: 13

 

 

Their biggest and best known hit and their debut on TOTP too! This really is the start of wider Indie/Britpop explosion. I adore this song :wub:

 

 

 

Love all four of those Jester!

 

That Charlatans track is possibly my favourite of theirs, or at least joint with One To Another :wub:

I hadn't realised Girl From Mars missed the top 10! :o

Ash went to a school in the same town I went to school in, this would be their height chart wise imo!

'Girl From Mars' :heart: shame it missed the top 10 indeed.

Girl from Mars really deserved top 10 status!

Loved that Echobelly song and even bought the parent album on the back of it

Loved the last few episodes a lot, the hits of 1995 and the studio/production makeover have finally dragged the show into the kind of 90s style that I remember well.

 

Also been a timely reminder of why Don’t Give Me Your Life remains an all-time favourite of mine. Absolute banger <3

 

And while I’ve never been huge on it, Push The Feeling On is still heard everywhere now, and sampled so often.

 

Some really classic dance hits coming through here in recent weeks.

 

Think Twice is a great ballad but not my favourite Celine song by any stretch, mad that it spent seven weeks at the top after selling so much on the way up there.

 

Oh and Independent Love Song is such a brilliant track - if I didn’t already know its chart run, I could easily be convinced that it was No.1 for weeks. I’m not quite sure how it didn’t even go top ten, it’s not like it lacked exposure.

 

Is Independent Love Song the one that sounds like ‘China In Your Hand’?

 

yes :D

Girl From Mars :wub:

yes :D

 

Literally only watched that episode lastbyt and had to look up from my phone as I thought Carol Decker was ok stage from the keys in the opening lol

9TH SEPTEMBER

 

 

Michael Jackson gets his 5th solo chart topper this week with “You Are Not Alone”- but only just, its winning tally of 83,000 was just 800 copies more than the outgoing chart topper from Blur. However mirroring a situation that happened back in May this year, a fourth format of a record has charted separately, that being Blur’s “Country House” which makes it in at No 57 and would have overhauled Jackson had it been eligible to be added. Jackson himself released a second CD version of “You Are Not Alone” this week including a sought after remix of his classic “Rock With You” by masters at work which itself caused a sales spike.

 

 

 

Masters at Work also provide a remix to the newly remixed and re-issued “I Feel Love” by Donna Summer, the main mix is by Rollo Armstrong though. The title remains Summer’s biggest hit topping the chart for 4 weeks in 1977 and caused minor controversy at the time for its suggestive delivery, it marks her return to the top 10 after a 6 years absence. It has oft been cited as a major influence on dance music something which can be verified by the use of the song in the current hit by Berri which lifts 5-4 (56,000).

 

 

 

Many discounted Scatman John as a novelty act but he now scores a second top 10 hit with “Scatman’s World” which climbs 14-10 (25,000). It’s already been a big hit across Europe making No 1 in Belgium, Germany, Finland, and Spain and is contained on his album of the same name which has yet to chart here in the UK.

 

 

The Rembrandts climb 6-3 (69,000) and stand an outside chance of topping the charts next week if Jackson falters, meanwhile Oasis collapse 2-5 (54,000) and The Original relent 4-6 (40,000). Further down TLC hold at No 7 (32,000) and De’Lacy are static at No 9 (28,000).

 

 

1- YOU ARE NOT ALONE- Michael Jackson (83,000)

2- COUNTRY HOUSE- Blur (82,200)

3- I’LL BE THERE FOR YOU- The Rembrandts (69,000)

4- THE SUNSHINE AFTER THE RAIN- Berri (56,000)

5- ROLL WITH IT- Oasis (54,000)

6- I LUV U BABY- Original (40,000)

7- WATERFALLS- T.L.C (32,000)

8- I FEEL LOVE- Donna Summer (29,000)

9- HIDEAWAY- De’Lacy (28,000)

10- SCATMAN’S WORLD- Scatman John (25,000)