Gail Martin
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I would argue that due to hot hits on Spotify and promotional tools as such have led to the demise of certain artists. Then again the market these days is much more different than it was let’s say 15 years ago - less frontloaded, so more songs are very slow burners like chasing cars by snow patrol was in the download era.
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Oh my days, I'd forgotten about Kele Le Roc. Such a gorgeous song! British R&B was the one at this time - her, Another Level, Honeyz. Also the sadly late Lynden David Hall who was a new entry in the top 20 that same week. All providing some great singles!
Lynden David Halls Sexy Cinderella, ah! British RnB at its best. Dru Hill's how deep is your love is a great american track also and Meja with all about that money a brilliant contemporary pop song cant remember where she was from though.
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1 Cher - Believe 167 000
2 George Michael - Outside 116 000
3 U2 - Sweetest Thing 111 000
4 Culture Club - I Just Wanna Be Loved 71 000
5 Alanis Morissette - Thank U 59 000
8 Kele Le Roc - A Little Bit of Lovin 43 000
What a great week and top 5 and no. 8 of new entries! Kele Le Roc's track was a great, slick RnB Track, hugely underrated!
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Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, Alainis Morissette & Boyz II Men all very successful artists in both the US and UK, although they had big success in the UK too, it was slightly underwhelming compared to the US. But still very successful even in the UK. I am referring to Alanis’ singles btw because of course Jagged Little Pill was massive!
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If you're looking for some Mark Goodier chart shows there are quite a few available here.
Thanks but I have already eaten my way through these.
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This is kind of off-topic, but I feel this was the only thread appropriate to ask this. I am looking for radio 1 top 40 recordings specifically from the years 1998-2002 during the later Mark Goodier years. And I am wondering if anyone knows any place I can find these or if somebody can send me some of they have any or just where I can find them.
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Yep sadly until OCC actually do something about properly separating singles streams and albums streams we'll get messy situations like Nice For What dropping 25-OUT before returning at around 50 or even lower many weeks down the line.The whole point of the artist cap was to stop album takeovers of the singles chart (which it has done a rather good job at) but also to value the single over the album track, which isn't really happening when singles are being forced out of the chart in favour of album tracks.
I hope soon we'll have a way of stopping the 'double counting', and have streams of singles going to the singles chart only and album streams going to the albums chart only.
The least they could do is allow only singles which are released separately such as songs which have had a separate release before the album, promo singles, instant grats, remix EPs, radio release or music video release it’s not that hard to determine whether it’s a single or not
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While it probably hasn't happened, I did think last night that the OCC must have added video streaing data to the current chart as 46 out of the top 75 singles have recorded a sales increase, something I've not seen since last Christmas. As it probably hasn't happened, I wonder what caused sales to increase so much this week? The fact that 18 out of the top 20 singles recorded a sales increase looks suspicious...
Also lower down the chart is a new entry by an artist who has impacted only YouTube known as geko
How could the singles chart be improved?
in UK Charts
If EVERY single was sent to radio first then released after 4-8 weeks that way we could have chart runs like:
1-1-2-4-8-11-16-23-30-28-35-52-64-79-99
Or
3-10-12-17-22-31-41-54-67-86
Or
12-27-36-50-72
Or
7-19-36-64
Or
13-42-75
We would have higher turnover of singles and more variety hitting the top end.