John_Squire

^ Strokes only had 1 #1, First Impressions of Earth (think it sold 60-70k at #1?); their second album was #2 behind Dido's Life For Rent so probably sold well, but not tremendously. There's been five years to wait for Angles so it should sell reasonably well first week but IMO no more than 80-85k at most.

'Second Chance' was really good but, yes, very 2001 (or possibly 2005).

Christmas #1 2011?

I'm not sure if I like the charts at the moment or not. I quite like a mix of the 2000-style fast movement and the 2008-style slow charts, which to some extent we do have now (except the fast movement is at #1 and the slow stuff is everywhere else). Before 2006/07 songs spending 20 weeks top 40 was very very rare - I can only think of Atomic Kitten 'Whole Again' and 50 Cent 'In Da Club' between 2000 and 2006. Nowadays, there's probably 3 or 4 (at least) every week. It's obviously downloads that have made the difference - and if the songs are still popular then fair enough, they should still be charting. But it's often a shame sometimes to have the charts clogged up with stuff from six months ago. The charts now are obviously bad for some genres (like rock/indie, and often dance music too) but what bothers me more is that it's a lot harder for new acts to chart well unless they're American or hyped by BBC Sound Of/Brits/etc, and it's harder for many established acts to have as big/as many hits from each album - for example U2, Shakira, Take That, REM, Kylie, Morrissey...

Top 5. It would be nice for her to come back with a #1 though, after a long time and without major success from her last project. Sort of like Nelly Furtado in 2006 (or even Cher in 1998!)

Could go low top ten on a low sales week. I quite like it, I wasn't a massive fan of the original.

I suppose Ronan Keating could clear 100k on Mother's Day week, but he's probably not as popular now as he was with previous releases. In any case, Adele will probably still be around 100k even then.

Until Gaga releases. The Strokes and Britney are the only real possible challengers IMO and I can't see either of them doing over 80k - Adele will probably dip below 100k in the next 2-3 weeks but not by that much. So, 11-12 weeks!

12 Dr Dre ft Eminem & Skylar Grey/ I Need A Doctor 11 Tinie Tempah ft Ellie Goulding/ Wonderman 10 Adele/ Rolling In The Deep 09 Martin Solveig ft Dragonette/ Hello 08 Jessie J/ Do It Like A Dude 07 Jessie J ft B.O.B/ Price Tag 06 Rihanna ft Drake/ What's My Name 05 Black Eyed Peas/ Just Can't Get Enough 04 Noah & The Whale/ L.I.F.E G.O.E.S O.N 03 Diddy Dirty-Money ft Skylar Grey/ Coming Home 02 Nicki Minaj ft Drake/ Moment 4 Life 01 Ke$ha/ We R Who We R Can you give multiple minus 1s? If so, -1 for all of these: -1 Adele/ Someone Like You -1 Pink/ F***in Perfect -1 Avril Lavigne/ What The Hell -1 David Guetta ft Rihanna/ Who's That Chick?

:cheer: CC finally gone. Pink this time.

I'm pleased with this too. I'd have given it 10 or 12 (Ace of Base would've had my 15 though!)

Very surprised MCR lasted that long! CC again, please can we get rid of it this time?!?!?!?!

Actually harder than 1992, because a lot of these are average or crap. Pleased with most of the 1993 results! 1994: 15 Baby D 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy' Best song here by a mile 12 Whigfield 'Saturday Night 10 Stiltskin 'Inside' 08 D-Ream 'Things Can Only Get Better' Still good although a bit spoiled by New Labour 06 Doop 'Doop' 05 Toni Di Bart 'The Real Thing' 04 Wet Wet Wet 'Love is All Around' Expect it to get the minus, but it's not bad! 03 Prince 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' Used to hate this but it's actually decent 02 East 17 'Stay Another Day' 01 Take That 'Everything Changes' -2 Manchester United Football Squad 'Come On You Reds' Close between this and Chaka Demus

Great to see the KLF top 1991 :wub: 1992's not a bad year at all really. 15 Tasmin Archer ‘Sleeping Satellite’ 12 Jimmy Nail ‘Ain’t No Doubt’ :wub: 10 Charles and Eddie ‘Would I Lie to You?’ 08 The Shaman ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ 06 Shakespears Sister ‘Stay’ 05 Right Said Fred ‘Deeply Dippy’ 04 Wet Wet Wet ‘Goodnight Girl’ 03 KWS ‘Please Don’t Go’ 02 Snap! ‘Rhythm is a Dancer’ Much prefer The Power 01 Whitney Houston ‘I Will Always Love You’ Overblown but not bad -2 Erasure ‘Abba-esque’ I suppose I should like this, especially as it helped rejuvenate interest in ABBA, but I really don't like most of the songs on the EP at all. Tough between this and BoyzIIMen for the -2, EOTR is a bit crap IMO.

Chasing Cars again. Surprised at the non-love for Rogue Traders!

Ugh, awful year for #1s. Apart from my top 3 of course. 15 KLF feat The Children of the Revolution ‘3AM Eternal’ 12 U2 ‘The Fly’ 10 Enigma ‘Sadness Part 1’ ^ all absolutely brilliant 08 Color Me Badd ‘I Wanna Sex You Up’ not awful at all IMO! Cheesy as, and wouldn't be in my top 5 in most years, but 1991... 06 Cher ‘The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s In His Kiss)’ 05 The Clash ‘Should I Stay Or Should I Go’ 04 Bryan Adams ‘(Everything I Do) I Do it For You’ 03 Chesney Hawkes ‘The One And Only’ 02 Michael Jackson ‘Black Or White’ 01 Iron Maiden ‘Bring Your Daughter… To The Slaughter’ -2 Queen ‘Bohemian Rhapsody/These Are The Days of Our Lives (1991)’ not fussed on TATDOOL, BR is good obviously, not my candidate for best song of all time though. I'm in the 'it belongs in the 70s' camp, I know I voted The Clash but meh, that wasn't a #1 before. It's the same reason the Elvis re-issues would do so badly if rated for 2005. Anyway, BR wouldn't be in my top 3 of 1975 or 1976!

Love 'em...though it's so frustrating when the tape snaps or gets caught in the deck! Cassettes over 10 years old can be hard to keep in good condition...whereas 40-year old vinyl can still sound fresh (wonder if those really old 78rpm records still do!)

Well obviously that's just my opinion. But I really think it's crap! I quite like Snow Patrol, yet this is just dire. Awful lyrics, boring music. The fact that it's overplayed on anything supposedly 'emotional' doesn't help, but I've disliked it since it first charted.

I think Adele will stay #1 next week. (albums), with either just over or (probably) just under 100k. Elbow will probably do 75k (though there's a chance they could 'flop' with 50k or so). I can't see REM doing over 60k, they'll probably be #4 with Jessie at 3. Avril won't be top 5, Rihanna and Jessie will both be above her. #7 maybe, 25-30k.

Ugh, Chasing Cars again. Even if you don't absolutely hate it, it's clearly one of the four worst songs left.

Curious as to why this bombed 23-52 after weeks of stabilising. Was the month in the 23-27 range Christmas time?

This. Though I hadn't thought about cherry-picked album tracks, just download singles that are continuously available.

I think 80-90k this week, 600k or so this year. 18k behind Adele is a greater gap than I expected, though Adele does have Sunday sales which might be quite high especially in the supermarkets. I can see Adele doing 120-130k this week so Jessie could do 100k, but probably not much more.

Is PJ Harvey's album still top 20? I guess probably not.

I'd be up for it when I've got the time!