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Yes, you are right. An amazing run!

Not the answer you wanted exactly, but Status quo have had a top 75 hit every year since 1973, except for years 1985 ,1987,1993,1997, 1998,2001 and 2003.

Wonder where 'Wigwam' will debut?. ("Betty boo's" new band with someone from Blur in it as well). I quite like that song. :)

You are right. Jade must be clever than us ;) and East Anglia is 'angular' anyway, its gots lots of angles, (and saxons).

Not bad Jade!, quite good in fact!. I think with some voice training on the phrasing she be VERY good!. Sang it in tune, and didn't sound bad at all. If she is in celeb x factor a lot of people might be surprised at her singing!

To me overated is an act which gets hyped up, but doesnt actually have the commercial success to back it up. Otherwise its just another way of listing acts you dont personally like. eg. I dont like Westlife, but they certainly arent overrated as their continued commercial success shows. Id agree that 'menswear' were overated, critically accliamed. but had relativly little commercial success. If you dont use commercial success as a yardstick, then isnt it just a simple list of acts people dont like?.

Hi BA!. Nice to see you here :)

UK will win, a brilliant eurovision song for once!

currently in top 80! as I said, info from Mikeys top 80 chart thread

whats that, 9 years for Madonna?

Using Mikey's chart data for this week, and a little help from Excel :) Here is the top 30 for most weeks on the UK album chart (top 200) .....wks 1) 483 THE IMMACULATE COLLECTION MADONNA 2) 418 GREATEST HITS QUEEN 3) 147 THE GREATEST HITS WHITNEY HOUSTON 4) 111 BEST OF BOWIE DAVID BOWIE 5) 96 NUMBER ONES MICHAEL JACKSON 6) 96 HOPES AND FEARS KEANE 7) 95 THE VERY BEST OF BEACH BOYS 8) 92 HOT FUSS KILLERS 9) 78 MODERN CLASSICS THE GREATEST HITS PAUL WELLER 10) 77 AMERICAN IDIOT GREEN DAY 11) 63 EYE TO THE TELESCOPE KT TUNSTALL 12) 60 THE VERY BEST OF PRINCE 13) 56 SILENT ALARM BLOC PARTY 14) 54 IN BETWEEN DREAMS JACK JOHNSON 15) 53 BACK TO BEDLAM JAMES BLUNT 16) 53 EMPLOYMENT KAISER CHIEFS 17) 42 DEMON DAYS GORILLAZ 18) 42 IF WE FALL IN LOVE TONIGHT ROD STEWART 19) 41 MONKEY BUSINESS BLACK EYED PEAS 20) 41 DON'T BELIEVE THE TRUTH OASIS 21) 40 X&Y COLDPLAY 22) 39 THE MAGIC NUMBERS MAGIC NUMBERS 23) 36 STARS OF CCTV HARDFI 24) 36 BRUSHFIRE FAIRYTALES JACK JOHNSON 25) 35 TISSUES AND ISSUES CHARLOTTE CHURCH 26) 34 BREAKAWAY KELLY CLARKSON 27) 33 ON AND ON JACK JOHNSON 28) 33 THE BACK ROOM EDITORS 29) 29 SUPERNATURE GOLDFRAPP 30) 29 THE STORY GOES CRAIG DAVID

It's retained its number 11 spot this week!

1988 - Michael Jackson brought his ranch, which he named 'Neverland'.

" At the very least it maintains his 100% strike rate of Top 10 hits although a failure to climb next week will make this single his smallest ever chart hit. " 100% top ten? His latest is 18 so far, as the report says. also 25/10/2003 Craig David World Filled With Love 15 {15}-26-42-61->4 and 'smallest ever chart hit? what about 10/01/2004 Craig David You Don't Miss Your Water ('til The Well Runs Dry) 43 {43}-53->2 (source polyhex)

This weeks chart has three new entries, all from retro acts. Dave Gilmour number one! Also new entries for Van Morrison and David Essex. In fact these three are out of the only 4 new entries in this weeks top twenty albums. Also an entry for Leo Sayer in the top thirty.

The first Sabbath album and the track 'Black sabbath' defined metal, with its flattened fifth given prominance, a device found in almost all present day metal. Songs like 'born to be wild' etc more define general rock, if you decide to go back to what influenced all rock, metal included, then Chuck Berry etc would have to be a contender. But for what we know as metal today as opposed to rock, its definatly Sabbath. Although I'd give Jimi Hendrix a credit as well for influencing guitar work.

Thanks for that. Appriciated!

Hi Does anyone have , or know where I can find, the top selling albums worldwide of 2005?. Thanks