Chartfridays

I do wonder if Adele's record could ever be broken between the decline of physical sales and the move towards streaming it seems totally impossible now. Would certainly take one hell of an artist to manage it.

It's easy to criticise after the fact here, had the show been stopped you could have been looking at riots and far more deaths from a heavily intoxicated and drugged up crowd. I would never want to be the event managers who had to make those calls, but they at least deserve the chance to explain why they did what they did. At least in the UK, event organisers can normally cut music off if there's a safety issue regardless of what the performers do, so I'd imagine it was a case of them trying to decide if more issues were going to happen if they did that. A stampede to get in does seem like a massive security failure though - and they could have cut the show off after that.

Yeah, brought forward due to concerns about imports - 424k first day sales. Was also the most sold album to second hand record stores in 1999. To this day you can almost guarantee seeing it in a charity shop

#25 Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads - Faith Can Move Mountains Debut: 19 December 1952 Peak: #7 WoC: 2 Chart Run: 7-7 hXn5w6l5i1A Another hit for Johnnie Ray and a beautiful one - with Faith Can Move Mountains, of course Nat King Cole's version would do a slightky better stand of surviving the test of time, and I'll cover the song itself when we get to that one but aside from that Johnnie Ray managed a brief two week stint on the chart - helped largely as with the previous song by the late December frozen chart syndrome on it's way to being more than a one week wonder. The actual verses differ slightly from Nat King Cole's version.

Directly ripping off Paramore wasn't exactly the vibe I was going for.... I've already got all their cds :lol: Anyone was more hoping Slipknot might get their chance for a few more singles in the top 40.

As long as it leads to the metal/pop punk revival I've been waiting for when everyone loses the lust for indie then I'll suffer a few years of landfill indie resurgence. In all seriousness enough time has probably now past since the peak of landfill indie (which also happened to be some of my peak pop listening years - we actually though Kings of Leon and Keane we're f***ing great!! Oh and The Pigeon Detectives Jesus). Maybe one day a more honest look at some of those hits will be found in the chart singles run down (if I live to around 300...)

A woman singing the song about a man and you wouldn't bat an eyelid. Or a man about another man. It's only ever criticised when it's men singing about women. Get a grip Bjork. Getting almost as off the wall as your namesake with comments like this... :lol:

There's a difference between possibility and plausibility - and that applies even in shows about time travel and aliens! There's books on that subject if you're ever bored enough/interested enough. Seems odd for me not to be watching this series, I might get it on DVD when it comes out - to complete the collection - but I've watched every series since the 2005 one as broadcast, and a fair chunk of the old one but the last series and the one before it left me completely cold sadly so will be waiting until RTD comes back to reassess the situation

You can tell their desperate with this 'drunken Labour and SNP MPs' bollocks. Can't imagine anyone's buying it.

The anti-sleaze candidate should it happen might be a shoe-in for Paterson's seat.

I mean the song is utterly dreadful.

I mean there did used to be an element of having to fight for it against the existing No 1 though, which has long since gone.

It's kind of sad how predictable the album chart is becoming. I think artists like Ed and Adele should be trying to go up against eachother instead of running scared

Hollyoaks sacking an actress for doing porn..... Yeah bit it's fine when they wear next nothing on set

It feels like we'll get Ed Sheeran - ABBA - ABBA/Ed - Adele

Nothing that won't sort itself in time. Anyway - It means we actually get to wait til November to include the first Christmas songs of the run down :rolleyes: #24 - Bing Crosby - Silent Night, Holy Night Debut: 19 December 1952 Peak: #8 WoC: 2 Chart Run: 8-8 6GUnfLPpjLs And it begins, thankfully with a short run down of only 12 songs on the list we only have a handful of Christmas songs to deal with this year. Bing Crosby's version of classic carol Silent Night begins in that vein. Contrary to what you might think Christmas number ones weren't viewed as particularly important in the very early years of the chart and it would be the 70s before it became one of the big achievement it was viewed as for many years until The X Factor, LadBaby, streaming services and other charity chuggers decided to ruin the tradition for the next generation. Good old Bing wouldn't manage to threaten that particular list though, gaining two weeks on the chart at 8 purely due to the frozen Christmas chart syndrome of the 50s. An older member might know more about this than me, but I imagine data just wasn't collected due to the bank holidays?

Best thing to happen in music.

Surely they're going to have to at this point, isn't George pretty much the tier below Adele and Sheeran these days.

With the first half of the week down I think it's fair to say people might finally have got a bit bored of Ed Sheeran after however many years.

#23 - Louis Armstrong - It Takes Two To Tango Debut: 19 December 1952 Peak: #6 WoC: 10 Chart Run: 8-8-8-9-7-6-7-10-7-10 Y4llRBKAzHk The first of 7 UK Top 40 singles for Louis Armstrong - including his most famous song and UK No 1 What A Wonderful World in 1968. It was written by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning in 1952, it was recorded by many other artists to the years. It's a euphemistic classic in an era where euphemism was a necessity - a custom long since disregarded. (Sorry for the break in this, being going through a rough patch personally)

Looking like a pretty bad album launch for Ed.

I guess once you do it for one single it becomes necessary to do it for more.

Well that's it. The Tories have killed mask wearing. Apparently they don't have to wear them cos they know eachother, that's great I probably know the near 100 people who do my commute on a tiny bus about as well so can expect them all (of the very few who were still wearing them) to ditch them.

Ewan McVicar will probably be on the next one, it only just hit top 40 - despite seeming to have been around forever.

Yup with some pretty big R1/General Pop songs missing out for them to be fitted in.