Chartfridays

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The Lathums to get some preliferal award?

Attempt to change narrative with COP26 press conference tonight, why any statement couldn't wait until parliament is beyond me.

Ardee - Flowers (Say My Name) Switchtotr ft A1 x J1 - Coming For You I'm sure I can think of earlier in the year stuff later

Careful or your going to get dragged into a 'pop punks not real rock' debate' 🤣

Pop Smoke's posthumous catalogue has been particularly dreadful.

I'm sure it's already mentioned but Already Dead at #14 is a good showing. Actually quite a good song too. Am I right in thinking he fully wrote and recorded this before he died unlike some of the other stitched together crap?

Boris Johnson's pushing through a bill at the moment that will scrap the FTPA (a mess anyway and does need scrapping) and return the power to call the election to him, which means realistically we'll only get one before then if the Tories lead significantly in the polls - he doens't want to be the second tory leader in a row to fall on that banana peel. Being the incumbent government has always bestowed the right to call the election when it suits you so you can't really fault them on that.

I'm not convinced it's the beginning of the end for the Tories though. It's worth remembering that mid-term typically provides a hit to most governments popularities. If the election ends up being May 2024, that's still a very long way off. Also we know how ruthless the Conservative Party is, Boris replaced May because of her f*** up of Brexit despite her still having a functioning government. So it will be interesting who replaces him in late 2022 and how much damage limitation they can do. I think that most people's immediate priority is shifting from Covid to the economy is the big deal here.

Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness is well worth listening to in it's entirety to be honest. A single evening should do it, the singles don't do it justice. I always find it odd that people complain about 2 hour long albums but will sit and watch a 3 hour film without blinking.

#27 Mantovani - White Christmas Debut: 19 December 1952 Peak: #6 WoC: 3 Chart Run: 6-6-9 ls6MfswxJZc Mantovani lead one of the most popular British dance bands of the jazz era in the 30s and 40s on BBC Radio and in live performances, with his star still shining bright into the introduction of the official chart of the 1950s. However he would retire from performing live eventually following the war to concentrate on recording. Notably in the context of this thread he was the first person to sell 1m stereophonic records. He recorded numerous succesful albums, but also managed pop success with his single tracks. I'm sure there's some very good uses for instrumental versions of Christmas songs, not that I can think of them off the top of my head. That said as so often through the early 50s Mantovani and his orchestra are ready to jump in. He'd later go on to have a number one with David Whitfield's Cara Mia, but our first introduction is this orchestral treatment of White Christmas which would tally up three weeks on the chart over the Christmas and New Year period, peaking at No 6.

The Greens, Labour and the Lib Dems need to sit down and have a honest chat before the next election.

I think labour have twigged getting people in the red wall not to like the Tories is as important as getting them to like Labour again. I imagine we'll have attacks on the government for the next 6-12 months followed by a relatively centrist policy platform after that

With Helders comments about linking into the sound of THBC while going into a new direction I'm kind of still making my mind up whether to be terrified or ecstatic for this album. If they make the prog rock epic that THBC was screaming out to be then it could be a landmark album, if they just use more pianos and then add some of their older more down to earth lyrics from their earlier days over it it's going to be naff. Of course there's a lot of good middle ground between the two.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/mp-...insurance/?s=09 More wrong'uns in the big job on the green benches of scumbags

I should probably have read wiki more thoroughly before posting 🤣 Did seem a bit odd....

#26 Nat King Cole - Because You’re Mine Debut: 19 December 1952 Peak: #6 WoC: 4 Chart Run: 6-6 (B) 10-11 JOPc6hpSulc We've already covered the Mario Lanza version from the film of the title name in this run-down, which had a very extended run in the UK Singles Chart, but Nat King Cole also managed to score up one of his 31 hits in Top 40 with a rendition of it too.

The album chart No 1 is pretty much guaranteed here in the UK - a bit like The Killers these days it would be more suprising if they didn't do it. They won't be that bothered about the singles chart, only Four Out of Five made the Top 40 last time out.

Hopefully it's more WPSIAM and FWN than AM or THBC I like all of their albums and THBC has really grown on me since release, but I just want them rocking out again.

Very impressive opening for Avril. Top 40 seems unlikely but would be nice.

Whilst there obviously not going to do outdo ABBA or Ed Sheeran, I wouldn't underestimate Idles, they've been blowing up these past few years. Top 5 seems remotely possible.

This is definitely this governments rough patch isn't it :lol: Natalie Elphicke who said Marcus Rashford should stick to his day job has a second job. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit...urce=reddit.com

Yeah my comment was a bit tongue firmly lodged in the back of my throat. Anyway as others have said it's just nice to see rock and indie music charting, we've all lived through eras where the stuff was akin to hot potato's and even established charting names of the genres can't scrape the top 100

A quick fag packet calculation suggests you'd need 1,200,460,500 streams in a single week to match Adele's sale target if physicals completed disappeared tomorrow, which seems rather underweighted to say the least when we consider 1,000,000 daily streams a massive achievement. Without some recalibration it seems short of the great CD revival it's unlikely to happen.

Seems very odd CD singles are reviving at the very moment CD albums seem to be beginning to go the way of the dodo. I'm still waiting for a CD of Montero - or just news on one.