The Hit Parade

I'm totally confused by which of their songs is which, with the film one and the album one coming out at the same time.

According to this article in Italian, Bruce Springsteen will be releasing Chapter & Verse on 23rd September. Seemingly a compilation to tie in with his autobiography. http://www.rockol.it/news-661042/bruce-spr...apter-and-verse

Well, if we're all doing it: POS TITLE ARTIST YEAR HIGH POSN 1 GREATEST HITS QUEEN 1981 1 * 3 SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND BEATLES 1967 1 ~5.1 million 4 21 ADELE 2011 1 5 WHAT'S THE STORY MORNING GLORY OASIS 1995 1 ~4.7 million 10 GREATEST HITS II QUEEN 1991 1 * 11 RUMOURS FLEETWOOD MAC 1977 1 16 LEGEND BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS 1984 1 18 URBAN HYMNS VERVE 1997 1 20 1 BEATLES 2000 1 * 21 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER SIMON & GARFUNKEL 1970 1 26 WHITE LADDER DAVID GRAY 1998 1 31 A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD COLDPLAY 2002 1 33 ONLY BY THE NIGHT KINGS OF LEON 2008 1** 36 THE JOSHUA TREE U2 1987 1* 40 X&Y COLDPLAY 2005 1 45 PARACHUTES COLDPLAY 2000 1 50 COME AWAY WITH ME NORAH JONES 2002 1* 51 GRACELAND PAUL SIMON 1986 1* 54 TANGO IN THE NIGHT FLEETWOOD MAC 1987 1* 58 EYES OPEN SNOW PATROL 2006 1 60 AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE REM 1992 1 *bought secondhand **I got this free in a Google special offer and have never actually listened to it

Has anyone ever heard this English version of 'Rock Me Amadeus'? I've looked up the UK issue on Discogs and it's labelled as The American Edit, which is on YouTube and is in German. There are obviously are some English words in it, but they're being used within the German for effect. Also I just remembered about the Radha Krishna Temple who had two hits on the Beatles' Apple label in 1969-70: the Hare Krishna Mantra and 'Govinda' (a different version from the Kula Shaker song).

Sorry to post twice in a row, but I've done the easy bit by posting the information I already know (or think I do, at least) without resorting to research. Alizee – Moi... Lolita {#9 in 2002} FRENCH - Me... Lolita Andrea Bocelli – Canto Della Terra {#24 in 1999} ITALIAN Bellini – Samba De Janeiro {#8 in 1997} PORTUGUESE Bhangra Knights feat. Husan – Husan {#7 in 2003} Céline Dion – Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore {#7 in 1995} FRENCH - So You Love Me Again Clannad – Theme From 'Harry's Game' {#3 in 1982} IRISH GAELIC? Daddy Yankee – Gasolina {#5 in 2005} Dario G – Sunchyme {#2 in 1997} ? Deep Forest – Sweet Lullaby {#10 in 1994} ? Desireless – Voyage Voyage {#5 in 1988} FRENCH - Voyage Voyage Domenico Modugno – Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Volare) {#10 in 1958} ITALIAN Echobeatz – Mas Que Nada {#10 in 1998} PORTUGUESE Eddie Calvert – Oh, Mein Papa {#1 in 1953} GERMAN? Oh, My Daddy Enigma – Sadeness (Part 1) {#1 in 1990} LATIN & FRENCH - Title is already English Fairport Convention – Si Tu Dois Partir {#21 in 1969} CAJUN FRENCH - If You Gotta Go, Go Now [translation of a song written by Bob Dylan] Falco – Rock Me Amadeus {#1 in 1986} GERMAN - Title is already in English Gigliola Cinquetti – Non Ho L'Eta Per Amarti {#17 in 1964} ITALIAN Jacqueline Boyer – Tom Pillibi {#33 in 1960} Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus {#1 in 1969} FRENCH - I Love You... Neither Do I José Carreras, Plácido Domingo & Luciano Pavarotti – Libiamo {#21 in 1994} ITALIAN - Let's Love Julio Iglesias – Begin The Beguine (Volver A Empezar) {#1 in 1981} SPANISH [translation of song written by Cole Porter] Kaoma – Lambada {#4 in 1989} Portuguese - Slap? Kraftwerk – Autobahn {#11 in 1975} GERMAN - Motorway Kraftwerk – Tour De France {#22 in 1983} FRENCH - Title is a proper noun Kula Shaker – Govinda {#7 in 1996} SANSKRIT Kyu Sakamoto – Sukiyaki {#6 in 1963} JAPANESE - [not the original title] Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Inkanyezi Nezazi (The Star And The Wiseman) {#33 in 1997} Las Ketchup – Aserejé (The Ketchup Song) {#1 in 2002} SPANISH/ENGLISH Los Del Rio – Macarena {#2 in 1996} SPANISH - Title is a name [uK hit version has English lyrics] Los Lobos – La Bamba {#1 in 1987} SPANISH Los Umbrellos – No Tengo Dinero {#33 in 1998} Lucenzo & Qwote feat. Pitbull & Don Omar – Danza Kuduro (Throw Your Hands Up) {#13 in 2011} Luciano Pavarotti – Nessun Dorma {#2 in 1990} ITALIAN - No One Shall Sleep The Manhattan Transfer – Chanson D'Amour {#1 in 1977} FRENCH - Love Song Marie Myriam – L'Oiseau Et L'Enfant {#42 in 1977} FRENCH - The Bird And The Child Mory Kante – Yeke Yeke {#25 in 1995} O-Zone – Dragostea Din Tei {#3 in 2004} Panjabi MC – Mundian To Bach Ke {#5 in 2003} PUNJABI - Beware Of The Boys PSY – Gangnam Style (강남스타일) {#1 in 2012} KOREAN - Title in English, Gangnam is a district in Seoul Rammstiein – Ich Will {#30 in 2002} GERMAN - I Want You To The Sandpipers – Guantanamera {#7 in 1966} Sash! – Encore Une Fois {#2 in 1997} FRENCH - One More Time Sash! – La Primavera {#3 in 1998} ITALIAN - Spring Sash! – Adelante {#2 in 2000} SPANISH - Severine – Un Banc Un Arbre Un Rue {#9 in 1971} FRENCH - A Bench, A Tree, A Street Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla {#24 in 2005} ICELANDIC - Jumping in Puddles? The Singing Nun (Sœur Sourie) – Dominique {#7 in 1963} FRENCH - Title is a name Stromae – Alors On Danse {#25 in 2010} FRENCH - So You Might As Well Dance Wes – Alane {#11 in 1998} DUALA Yolanda B Cool & D Cup – We No Speak Americano {#1 in 2010} NEAPOLITAN ITALIAN - Title is in broken English Zucchero feat. Luciano Pavarotti & Michael Kamen – Miserere {#15 in 1992} ITALIAN - Misery?

Actually, since Drake is Canadian it would have been more appropriate to call it 'Maple Syrup' but otherwise I like the analogy. I think I will have a go at the languages from the first post.

Is 'Sunchyme' in any recognisable language at all? I thought it was just chanting. The vocals are of course sampled from 'Life In A Northern Town', but that also features English lyrics. A few other big ones that I haven't seen mentioned yet: Luciano Pavarotti 'Nessun Dorma' [italian] 2, 1990 Enigma 'Sadness Part 1' [Latin/French] 1, 1991 Kyu Sakamoto 'Sukiyaki' [Japanese] 6, 1963 Kraftwerk 'Autobahn' [German] 11, 1975 Kula Shaker 'Govinda' [sanskrit] 7, 1996 Fairport Convention 'Si Tu Dois Partir' [French] 21, 1969 The Kula Shaker and Fairport singles are also notable as English-speaking acts singing in foreign languages.

You'd think but it didn't stop George Sampson! Even the singers haven't made much impact apart from Susan Boyle. I know Paul Potts had a Number One album but not a single.

Actually that wasn't clear, which was why I asked. I use social media but evidently not with the sort of people who are interested in this track.

Why doesn't everyone else from BGT have a long-running Top 40 hit though?

So if the Callum Scott track is only just starting to get airplay and they only made a video a couple of weeks ago, who's been buying it all these months?

Don't worry, Tony Blackburn won't be presenting it this time.

It's obviously based on how people currently identify themselves [apart from Freddie Mercury, of course]. Otherwise 'Careless Whisper' and 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' wouldn't be there and 'Price Tag' would.

I wonder how different this list would be if you only counted people who were out at the time?

It's on Spotify & Deezer too, unlike most of his back catalogue.

I was just wondering the other day what had happened to Two Door Cinema Club. They seemed to disappear after having their first Top 40 hit. I thought the Kaiser Chiefs song sounded a bit like A-Ha.

The Richard Ashcroft example still doesn't work because all the albums with his surname on the cover have charted similarly. At least part of the reason the RPA & United Nations Of Sound album flopped was because people didn't know who it was.

Never seen the point of dance music you can't dance to, myself.

As a member of the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, I'm certainly not going to object to some nice duck pictures brightening up the thread.

Got to be honest, I don't remember that last one at all.

I think Up! is the real giveaway that it's the US chart.

Yeah, Gemini were a flop boy-band (if a duo counts as a "band"). -QAZJ_6nR1k

I think Christine, and possibly her Queens, were on telly.

Not to boast or anything but... 30/30. Surprised how close the percentages were in some cases.

I presume you mean that people referring to a record as "a vinyl" is a recent phenomenon, which is probably true. I think I first heard it from DJs around the turn of the century. Obviously people have been calling the format vinyl for decades. The pressing plants are busy, though, that's part of the reason prices are so high. There's a major shortage of capacity now because so many manufacturing plants closed down as the format declined and nobody's opening new ones. Some would argue that's why quality control has declined too. That Manics 12" almost looks like it's not meant to be played - you'd have to break the seal and imagine getting fingermarks on that glossy cover. Somebody I follow on Twitter did play it and apparently they've just cut it from the album master so the end of the previous track is still audible at the start.