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CHART COMMENTARY

 

Singles sales slipped by six percent last week but remained above the million mark at 1,020,000, making it the first time this year we have had a seven figure sale for two weeks in a row. The main contribution, of course, is Will Young's Light My Fire, which cornered a 17.31% share of the overall market. Impressive as that is, it is still a far cry from 54.93% first week share won by his debut hit Anything Is Possible/Evergreen.

 

In case it has escaped your notice, the World Cup is once again upon us, and a flurry of related singles flood the chart this week. Leading the way at number three (and, very surprisingly, number eight in Scotland) is Ant & Dec's first single in five years, We're On The Ball. Their 14th hit in all, it sold nearly 65,000 copies last week and is their biggest hit by far, beating the number nine peak scaled by their 1994 single Let's Get Ready To Rumble, at which point they were styled as PJ & Duncan. DJ Otzi and Dario G's cash-in remixes of earlier hits are among the other soccer songs to score, with Otzi's remixed Hey Baby debuting at number 10, nine months after topping the chart and selling 772,000 copies, while Dario G's Carnaval De Paris, which reached number five in 1998 when it was tied-in with the French staging of the World Cup, re-enters the chart at number 34. Other football hits debuting this week--Goldenballs by Bell & Spurling (number 25), Go England by the England Boys (number 26), Over There by Babe Team (number 45) and We're Coming Over by Mr. Smash & Friends (number 67), while the already charting England Crazy by Rider & Terry Venables slips 46-58. While the eight to chart thus far is moderate compared to the 15 football-related singles that made the Top 75 during World Cup 1998, there are more to come, including Elvis Presley's A Little Less Conversation and Baddiel & Skinner's 3 Lions.

 

Twenty-five years ago this very week, the Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen dashed 112 on the singles chart, being denied top billing during the Queen's Silver Jubilee by Rod Stewart's I Don't Want to Talk About It. Re-released to coincide with the Queen's Golden Jubilee and to celebrate its own Silver Jubilee, the record makes a smaller impact this time around by debuting at 15.

 

SINGLE FACTFILE

 

Exactly three months after making a breathtaking debut with Anything Is Possible/Evergreen selling 1,108,000 copies on its chart debut, Will Young is back. Admittedly first week sales of his second single, Light My Fire, were less than a sixth of those of his first hit--nearly 177,000--but they were still more than enough for Young to enjoy a victory margin of more than two to one over Eminem's Without Me. Light My Fire is, of course, one of the classic rock songs, and was introduced by the Doors on their eponymous 1967 debut album. As a single, it was all but overlooked originally, however, peaking at a disappointing number 49. It fared much better when reissued in 1991, reaching a highly creditable number seven. In the interim, it was a Top 10 hit twice, first for Jose Feliciano (number six, 1968) and then for Amii Stewart (number five, 1979). It has also been a minor hit for Mike Flowers and UB40.

 

CHART COMMENTARY

 

Only four rap albums have ever topped the chart--and Eminem has two of them. A week after becoming the first rapper to have three number one singles, Eminem becomes the first to have two number one albums. He is thus responsible for half the rap albums to top the chart in the UK, the others being the Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty, a 1998 number one, and the Wu-Tang Clan's Wu-Tang Forever, which became the first ever rap album to top the chart, doing so five years ago next week, albeit with a first week sale of just 26,000--barely a ninth as many as The EminemShow sold last week.

 

Two weeks after their third hit Just A Little topped the singles chart, Liberty X make a creditable album chart debut, entering at number three with Thinking It Over. The album sold more than 44,000 copies last week--enough in some recent weeks to have earned them a number one. It compares very favourably with their PopStars vanquishers Hear'Say's latest album Everybody, which charted at number 24 last December, with first week sales of nearly 38,000.

 

There are two other newcomers to the Top 10 this week--jazz singer Norah Jones' Come Away With Me increases sales for the seventh straight week and jumps 11-8, while dance act Ian Van Dahl's reward for three consecutive Top 10 singles is a number seven debut with Ace.

 

A1's opening sequence of Top 10 singles spluttered to a halt last month when Make It Good debuted at number 11. Their latest album, named after that single and also including their eighth and last Top 10 single Caught In The Middle, does surprisingly well nevertheless. A1's previous albums Here We Come and The A List reached numbers 20 and 14 respectively, and Make It Good is in similar territory, debuting at number 15.

 

The screening of the Classical Brits gave many participants and award winners a big boost, most notably Andrea Bocelli and Operababes. Andrea Bocelli's Cieli Di Toscana explodes 175-16, achieving its highest position since last October with week-on-week sales up 1257%, while the Operababes' debut set Beyond Imagination makes a fine number 26 debut.

 

THE OFFICIAL CHARTS JUNE 08th, 2002

 

singles

 

[new] 1 LIGHT MY FIRE Will Young S

 

1 2 WITHOUT ME Eminem Interscope/Polydor

 

[new] 3 WE'RE ON THE BALL Ant And Dec Columbia

 

2 4 JUST A LITTLE Liberty X V2

 

4 5 IF TOMORROW NEVER COMES

Ronan Keating Polydor

 

3 6 IT'S OK! Atomic Kitten Innocent

 

6 7 ESCAPE Enrique Iglesias Interscope/Polydor

 

9 8 WHATS LUV? Fat Joe feat. Ashanti Atlantic

 

10 9 KISS KISS Holly Valance London

 

[new] 10 HEY BABY (UNOFRCIAL WORLD CUP

REMIX) DJ Otzi EMI/Liberty

 

8 11 REASON Ian Van Dahl Nulife

 

7 12 IT TAKES MORE Ms Dynamite Polydor

 

11 13 DONT LET ME GET ME Pink Arista

 

5 14 BOP BOP BABY Westlife S

 

[new] 15 GOD SAVE THE QUEEN Sex Pistols Virgin

 

[new] 16 PASS THE COURVOISIER--PART II

Busta Rhymes/P Diddy/Pharrell J

 

13 17 ONE STEP CLOSER S Club Juniors Polydor

 

[new] 18 DREAMER/GETS ME THROUGH

Ozzy Osbourne Epic

 

17 19 COME BACK Jessica Garlick Columbia

 

14 20 FOLLOW DA LEADER Nigel & Marvin Relentless

 

15 21 IN MY EYES Milk Inc Alt Around The World

 

19 22 HOW YOU REMIND ME Nickelback Roadrunner

 

12 23 HERE TO STAY Korn Epic

 

16 24 FREAK LIKE ME Sugababes Island/Uni-Island

 

[new] 25 GOLDENBALLS (MR BECKHAM TO YOU)

Bell & Spurling Eternal

 

[new] 26 GO ENGLAND England Boys Phonogram

 

18 27 OH BABY Rhianna S2

 

21 28 GIRLFRIEND 'N Sync feat. Nelly Jive

 

[new] 29 PUNK Ferry Corsten Positiva

 

25 30 WHENEVER WHEREVER Shakira Epic

 

[new] 31 YOU TAKE ME AWAY Reel Universal 7V

 

23 32 OOPS (OH MY) Tweet Elektra

 

[new] 33 REST & PLAY EP Orbital ffrr

 

[new] 34 CARNAVAL 2002 Dario G Eternal

 

28 35 LAZY X-Press 2 feat. David Byrne Skint

 

32 36 UNCHAINED MELODY Gareth Gates S

 

26 37 DJ H & Claire WEA

 

20 38 STARBUCKS A London

 

37 39 INSATIABLE Darren Hayes Columbia

 

34 40 AT NIGHT Shakedown Defected

 

albums

 

[new] 1 THE EMINEM SHOW Eminem Interscope/Polydor

 

1 2 DESTINATION Ronan Keating Polydor

 

[new] 3 THINKING IT OVER Liberty X V2

 

3 4 GREATEST HITS I II & III Queen Parlophone

 

2 5 ESCAPE Enrique Iglesias Interscope/Polydor

 

4 6 TOGETHER Lulu Mercury

 

[new] 7 ACE Ian Van Dahl Nulife

 

11 8 COME WHAT WITH ME Norah Jones Parlophone

 

5 9 18 Moby Mute

 

[new] 10 M!SSUNDAZTOOD Pink Arista

 

10 11 FEVER Kylie Minogue Parlophone

 

8 12 SILVER SIDE UP Nickelback Roadrunner

 

7 13 NO MORE DRAMA Mary J Blige MCA/Uni-Island

 

13 14 ABOUT A BOY (OST) Badly Drawn Boy Twisted Nerve/XL

 

[new] 15 MAKE IT GOOD A1 Columbia

 

[re] 16 CIELI DI TOSCANA Andrea Bocelli Polydor

 

12 17 THE DEFINITIVE Everly Brothers WSM

 

14 18 NO ANGEL Dido Cheeky/Arista

 

19 19 ASHANTI Ashanti Mercury

 

16 20 ALL RISE Blue Innocent

 

17 21 FREAK OF NATURE Anastacia Epic

 

6 22 IDEAS ABOVE OUR STATION

Hundred Reasons Columbia

 

15 23 RESIST Kosheen Moksha/Arista

 

34 24 COME CLEAN Puddle Of Mudd Interscope/Polydor

 

23 25 J TO THA L-O--THE REMIXES

Jennifer Lopez Epic

 

[new] 26 BEYOND IMAGINATION Operababes Sony Classical

 

[new] 27 BOX CAR RACER Box Car Racer MCA/Uni-Island

 

27 28 SONGS IN A MINOR Alicia Keys J

 

24 29 WORLD OF OUR OWN Westlife RCA

 

26 30 LAUNDRY SERVICE Shakira Epic

 

18 31 THE LAST BROADCAST Doves Heavenly

 

22 32 A NEW DAY HAS COME Celine Dion Epic

 

36 33 BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Virgin

 

[new] 34 IT'S ALL GOOD Luck & Neat Island/Uni-Island

 

[new] 35 THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION Kinks Sanctuary

 

21 36 THE SOUND OF The Jam Polydor

 

28 37 SPIN Darren Hayes Columbia

 

30 38 THE BEST OF Proclaimers Chrysalis

 

20 39 DOWN THE ROAD Van Morrison Exile/Polydor

 

32 40 YOUR NEW FAVOURITE BAND Hives Poptones

 

Top 50 Airplay Chart At The Time:

 

Week Ending 8 June 2002

 

1 (1) Just A Little (By Liberty X) 8w (91.64 million audience impressions)

2 (5) A Little Less Conversation (By Elvis Vs JXL) 6w (84.88 million audience impressions)

3 (11) Love At First Sight (By Kylie Minogue) 5w (79.87 million audience impressions)

4 (2) Kiss Kiss (By Holly Valance) 9w (71.90 million audience impressions)

5 (6) Don't Let Me Get Me (By Pink) 8w (68.07 million audience impressions)

6 (3) Freak Like Me (By Sugababes) 12w

7 (4) Lazy (By X-Press 2 Featuring David Byrne) 14w

8 (12) Dove (By Moony) 8w

9 (8) What's Luv (By Fat Joe Featuring Ashanti) 7w

10 (7) Escape (By Enrique Iglesias) 6w

11 (14) Without Me (By Eminem) 6w

12 (16) It's OK (By Atomic Kitten) 6w

13 (17) Something To Talk About (By Badly Drawn Boy) 4w

14 (9) If Tomorrow Never Comes (By Ronan Keating) 10w

15 (10) Bop Bop Baby (By Westlife) 6w

16 (23) Oh Baby (By Rhianna) 7w

17 (21) Light My Fire (By Will Young) 6w

18 (15) At Night (By Shakedown) 9w

19 (13) How You Remind Me (By Nickelback) 18w

20 (32) Hella Good (By No Doubt) 4w

21 (28) Reason (By Ian Van Dahl) 6w

22 (24) It Takes More (By Ms Dynamite) 8w

23 (30) Get Over You (By Sophie Ellis-Bextor) 3w

24 (19) No More Drama (By Mary J Blige) 10w

25 (20) Girlfriend (By 'N Sync And Nelly) 11w

26 (18) Fly By II (By Blue) 15w

27 (44) Stop Crying Your Heart Out (By Oasis) 3w

28 (38) Blurry (By Puddle Of Mudd) 5w

29 (25) Something (By Lasgo) 17w

30 (22) 4 My People (By Missy Elliott Featuring Eve) 14w

31 (26) One Day In Your Life (By Anastacia) 15w

32 (34) Make It Good (By A1) 6w

33 (33) Ain't It Funny (Remix) (By Jennifer Lopez Featuring Ja Rule And Cadiilac Tah) 16w

34 (27) Shoulda Woulda Coulda (By Beverley Knight) 18w

35 (35) Whenever Wherever (By Shakira) 17w

36 (31) Oops (Oh My) (By Tweet) 9w

37 (73) Roll On (By Mis-Teeq) 2w

38 (45) Don't Know Why (By Norah Jones) 7w

39 (67) Be Cool (By Paffendorf) 2w

40 (29) Starbucks (By A) 7w

41 (68) Hero (By Chad Kroeger Featuring Josey Scott) 2w

42 (46) Insatiable (By Darren Hayes) 13w

43 (53) I Would Die 4 U (By Space Cowboy) 3w

44 (52) Love Will Set You Free (By Starchaser) 2w

45 (41) Always On Time (By Ja Rule Featuring Ashanti) 21w

46 (77) Get Me Off (By Basement Jaxx) 2w

47 (59) Mother (By M Factor) 2w

48 (NEW) Get On With Your Short Life (By Brian Kennedy) 1w

49 (39) Flowers In The Window (By Travis) 16w

50 (71) When You Look At Me (By Christina Milian) 2w

Nice read

Ooh Baby by Rhianna, nice memories ^_^

:drama: these days are loooong gone :( 65,000 sales for a number THREE record... Now number 1 barely does that (Only times if its a new artist like Duffy, or its a major artist comeback Madonna) Im all depressed now looking at this chart and comparing it :(

the sales may have been good but the charts weren't...

 

2000 and 2001 was amazing for music but in 2002 I looked elsewhere for music because all the manufactured British pop was a bit over the top, especially the reality TV show winners and losers clogging the charts all year

 

the only song I really liked in that top ten was It's Ok by Atomic Kitten...it was a good year for Belgian dance music though :D Milk Inc, Lasgo, Ian Van Dahl, Minimalistix, Dee Dee :wub:

 

compare that to now where I like 8 or 9 songs in the current top ten...

the pop idol c**p definitely ruined the charts in 2002, but I think I definitely prefered the pop, dance and R&B music from then.

the pop idol c**p definitely ruined the charts in 2002, but I think I definitely prefered the pop, dance and R&B music from then.

 

it was the year of the bargain bin! there were so many awful singles released...I don't know if anyone bought the album Hits 54 from 2002, but this is the tracklist:

 

Disc: 1

 

1. Will & Gareth - The Long & Winding Road

2. Holly Valance - Down Boy

3. Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereje)

4. Big Brovaz - Nu Flow

5. Liberty X - Got To Have Your Love

6. Sarah Whatmore - When I Lost You

7. Rosie Ribbons - Blink

8. Abs - What You Got

9. 3SL - Touch Me Tease Me

10. Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You

11. Tweet - Call Me

12. Boniface - Cheeky

13. Oxide & Neutrino - Dem Girls

14. Heartless Crew - The Heartless Theme

15. The Streets - Weak Become Heroes

16. Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise

17. Underworld - Two Months Off

18. Jurgen Vries - The Theme

19. Ian Van Dahl - Try

20. N-Trance - Forever

21. Milky - Just The Way You Are

 

Disc: 2

 

1. Blazin' Squad - Crossroads

2. Oasis - Little By Little

3. Aqualung - Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)

4. Kelly Osbourne - Papa Don't Preach

5. The Calling - Adrienne

6. JJ72 - Formulae

7. Suede - Positivity

8. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?

9. LeAnn Rimes - Life Goes On

10. Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty On The Fire

11. Anastacia - Why'd You Lie To Me

12. H & Claire - Have A Heart

13. Celine Dion - I'm Alive

14. Darren Hayes - Strange Relationship

15. Natural - Put Your Arms Around Me

16. Toploader - Time Of Your Life

17. Rhianna - Word Love

18. Morcheeba - Way Beyond

19. Amillionsons - Mistiblue

 

so much rubbish on there, especially on the first disc...the last handful of tracks on disc one are the only reason I bought this...

Not the best of cd's I've seen. The Now's from that time were better imo.

 

I liked:

 

Disc: 1

 

2. Holly Valance - Down Boy

5. Liberty X - Got To Have Your Love

6. Sarah Whatmore - When I Lost You

8. Abs - What You Got

10. Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You

18. Jurgen Vries - The Theme

19. Ian Van Dahl - Try

20. N-Trance - Forever

 

Disc: 2

 

4. Kelly Osbourne - Papa Don't Preach

9. LeAnn Rimes - Life Goes On

10. Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty On The Fire

11. Anastacia - Why'd You Lie To Me

12. H & Claire - Have A Heart

13. Celine Dion - I'm Alive

14. Darren Hayes - Strange Relationship

 

yes, I was very excited (:lol:) when Now 52 had DJ Sammy's Heaven as the first track on CD 1...I'd been 'championing' that track since the start of 2002 to everyone else's indifference, until it reached No.1 in November of course...

 

oh, and interestingly, that 3SL flop single featured Estelle on guest vocals!

lol at Estelle doing backup vocals for 3SL :lol: I bet she feels embarassed now :D

probably not her finest career choice was it...I doubt she'd like to be reminded of it now :lol:

 

I wish I could interview her:

 

'So Estelle, you've duetted with some greats; John Legend, Kanye West, Lisa Scott-Lee's brothers' :rofl:

In case it has escaped your notice, the World Cup is once again upon us, and a flurry of related singles flood the chart this week. Leading the way at number three (and, very surprisingly, number eight in Scotland) is Ant & Dec's first single in five years, We're On The Ball.

 

The English WC2002 single made No8 in Scotland? :o

 

it was the year of the bargain bin! there were so many awful singles released...I don't know if anyone bought the album Hits 54 from 2002, but this is the tracklist:

 

Disc: 1

 

1. Will & Gareth - The Long & Winding Road

2. Holly Valance - Down Boy

3. Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereje)

4. Big Brovaz - Nu Flow

5. Liberty X - Got To Have Your Love

6. Sarah Whatmore - When I Lost You

7. Rosie Ribbons - Blink

8. Abs - What You Got

9. 3SL - Touch Me Tease Me

10. Angie Stone - Wish I Didn't Miss You

11. Tweet - Call Me

12. Boniface - Cheeky

13. Oxide & Neutrino - Dem Girls

14. Heartless Crew - The Heartless Theme

15. The Streets - Weak Become Heroes

16. Oakenfold - Starry Eyed Surprise

17. Underworld - Two Months Off

18. Jurgen Vries - The Theme

19. Ian Van Dahl - Try

20. N-Trance - Forever

21. Milky - Just The Way You Are

 

Disc: 2

 

1. Blazin' Squad - Crossroads

2. Oasis - Little By Little

3. Aqualung - Strange & Beautiful (I'll Put A Spell On You)

4. Kelly Osbourne - Papa Don't Preach

5. The Calling - Adrienne

6. JJ72 - Formulae

7. Suede - Positivity

8. The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?

9. LeAnn Rimes - Life Goes On

10. Natalie Imbruglia - Beauty On The Fire

11. Anastacia - Why'd You Lie To Me

12. H & Claire - Have A Heart

13. Celine Dion - I'm Alive

14. Darren Hayes - Strange Relationship

15. Natural - Put Your Arms Around Me

16. Toploader - Time Of Your Life

17. Rhianna - Word Love

18. Morcheeba - Way Beyond

19. Amillionsons - Mistiblue

 

so much rubbish on there, especially on the first disc...the last handful of tracks on disc one are the only reason I bought this...

 

And it came after a rather quite good Hits 53 (minus the Gareth Gates and Scooter tracks, mind).

Hits 53 was indeed brilliant, although Scooter weren't on it :P there was a song on there called Fallin' For You by Ashley that I loved which was planned for UK release but pulled at the last minute...

I had to re-read the sales for #3 - 65,000?! :mellow: I know that sales have dropped, but :o

I had to re-read the sales for #3 - 65,000?! :mellow: I know that sales have dropped, but :o

 

And rewind 3 years more and the #5 was doing 75,000 :P

And rewind 3 years more and the #5 was doing 75,000 :P

That must be less than 1997 - which must have been one of the highest ever selling years for music in the Uk....

That must be less than 1997 - which must have been one of the highest ever selling years for music in the Uk....

 

1997 sales were highly inflated by Candle In The Wind. I think sales in the top10 were at their highest in 1999.

1997 sales were highly inflated by Candle In The Wind. I think sales in the top10 were at their highest in 1999.

Well, the whole period was sales excess. I do know that the whole of the top 40 of 1997 sold over 300,000!

Well, the whole period was sales excess. I do know that the whole of the top 40 of 1997 sold over 300,000!

 

#40 sales:

 

1996 300k

1997 340k

1998 345k

1999 380k

2000 270k

2001 245k

2002 195k

2003 150k

#40 sales:

 

1997 340k

1998 345k

1999 380k

2000 270k

2001 245k

2002 195k

2003 150k

:mellow: at 1999!