The Hit Parade

Er, 12th again?

'Boys Of The Summer'?

Who says you can't buy record players any more? You can (and in any case, I'm still using the one I bought in 1997).

Yeah 'Sue' is the single from his new best-of. It's coming out on 10" as well.

305 The X Clap - I Keep Going to the River to Pray Fake version LOL

Norman Greenbaum did the original of 'Spirit In The Sky', not 'Everything I Own'. Ken Booth (UK pop-reggae) had the first Number One with the song, even though he got the words wrong.

(obligatory Chris Eubank reference)

I don't really understand what the point was of waiting until midnight to release it when it was the same chart week anyway (quite aside from the fact that it was late anyway).

Depends what you mean by "playing in the background" anyway - unless somebody was actually playing it on a radio or something (which seems very unlikely), the music would only be dubbed on in the edit, which would be finalised much closer to transmission, possibly even as late as the day before.

Family by Thompson (ie Richard Thompson, Teddy Thompson and other excellent but uncharted musicians from that family) is an album on 17th November according to Amazon. The project also has its own website but that quotes the US release date of the 18th. Anyone mentioning the Thompson Twins will be sent away with a flea in their ear.

And it never got to Number One. BTW, I have checked and this version is actually shorter than the original, though all the lyrics seem to be in place. Brian Wilson may of course be both tracked and Autotuned.

Yeah, that's how I remember it - everyone expected it to be a huge entry on Sunday and it wasn't. So it did get to iTunes Number One later in the week but had no chance of getting there officially. And it didn't hang around long either. Poor song IMO so I wasn't disappointed.

I'm so old I can remember Capital playing 'Pull Up To The Bumper' by Grace Jones. It's not exactly news.

But hasn't Professor Green already worked with Miles Kane, who is closely associated with Arctic Monkeys and has worked with them a lot? And they've worked with Dizzee Rascal, so it's not as if they wouldn't collaborate with a rapper.

Yeah, I was wondering how best to approach the 'Ipanema' thing, as it charted under different artist credits. Also, Lea Michelle has had some solo chart success IIRC. Paul Webb/Rustin Man was also a member of Talk Talk. RE: The Glitter Band - they were only a live backing group for Gary Glitter and weren't involved in his studio recordings.

No, because a "record contract worth £1m" means a total investment of that much, including all the money they spend on recording costs, marketing etc. And in some cases when figures are bandied about it's a *possible* figure (eg, if it's a five-album deal and she lasts for all five albums without getting dropped, that's how much they'd spend). What it certainly doesn't mean is a million quid in her bank account. Of course, figures talked about for record deals are mostly lies anyway, since it's in the interests of both parties to exaggerate the figure.

This is all making me nostalgic for the Britpop days of Cast with their songs 'Finetime' and 'Walkaway'.

What happened to the Naughty Boy track that was in the schedule last week?

Permission? Surely he wouldn't even have heard the song unless it was given to him as a promotional device?

At time of writing it is still on Deezer.

Why wouldn't John Mellencamp still be around? He's only 62.

This also includes one of my favourite bands, Gene. Not a lot to add here, actually. Phil Fearon is married to Dorothy Galdes from Baby D Dave Allen from Gang Of Four was also in Shriekback It might also be worth mentioning that the chart run of Simon & Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson EP was truncated by the change in chart compiler. "British" is spelt wrong in Dave Gahan's entry. Otherwise excellent though.

From today's Metro (and doubtless other newspapers): Barry Manilow releases My Dream Duets on 24th November. They're all with dead people. And from the Beeb: AC/DC release Rock Or Bust on 2nd Dec (presumably the 1st in the UK) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29345368

I never thought Gaga & Bennett were even remotely contenders for a Number One album, who did? Who knew Tim McGraw was *that* much bigger than Kenny Chesney over here, even with a Number One single?

Oh yeah, what I know of her as a person seems very likeable, it's just her annoying voice and her awful songs I hate.