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  1. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Former Dotmusic poster and sometime Haven poster Chartfacts compiled a detailed list of Beatles singles sales back in 2002. The article is still available to view at beatleslink.net where it was re-posted by Wolf (another former Dotmusic poster). http://www.beatlelinks.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1351 Sales for 'All You Need Is Love' from back in 1967 are given as 550k to 560k and around 560k to 570k to 1987.
  2. James Masterton has published his own tribute to Alan Jones. It's well worth a read. https://chart-watch.uk/james-blog/charts-news/long-live from the above: Although Alan shunned the limelight he did once appear as a guest on the Radio 1 new releases review programme "Round Table". From comments made at a dance music blog this would have been around December 1990 as one of the records featured was 'I Can't Take The Power' by Off-Shore. His fellow guest was the lovely Kim Wilde.
  3. I was beginning to think MW were just going to publish his first chart analyses columns without any advance confirmation.
  4. He's only made a handful of posts at Haven in the 11 years he's been a member. A poster of the same name as he originally had at Haven is a member here at BuzzJack. That poster has never made a single post at BuzzJack despite being a member since late 2010. The poster, whoever it is, still lurks here though as the poster profile shows the poster was last online yesterday morning. I'll leave it up to JM, assuming it's him, to reveal himself. JM does give BuzzJack a namecheck on his website though. See the comment he added a couple of years back to his original chart analysis for 27 December 2003 https://chart-watch.uk/archives/2003/week-e...ember-27th-2003. It's near the end of the article. I think it's fair to say that BuzzJack is doing a bit more than just "limping on"! What's also of interest is that a moderator at UKMix revealed the other day that Alan Jones is a member at UKMix. I don't know the poster name though. Back in the day AJ did make the occasional post at Dotmusic. I'm guessing here but I assume it must be a while since he posted at UKMix.
  5. He's a member of Haven so it wouldn't surprise me to find he's also a member here as well...
  6. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    As we're now close to the start of the top 75 chart era it'll be interesting to see if the Biddu Orchestra, at #41, achieve the highest placed "one week wonder" chart position for the period where exclusion rules applied to the 41-50 part of the top 50 chart (12 July 1975 to 6 May 1978).
  7. The chart show: Music Week pays tribute to departing chart guru Alan Jones by Mark Sutherland Since the mid 1980s, the Official UK Charts' rules and regulations have undergone numerous revamps. Formats from vinyl to cassette to CD to downloads to streaming have ebbed and flowed. The Radio 1 Chart Show has had over a dozen different permanent hosts. Even the chart compilation company has changed. But one thing has remained constant. Alan Jones, who first started contributing regularly to Music Week in 1984 – and wrote for our sister publication Record Mirror long before that, starting his Chart File column there in January 1979 – has been the chronicler of the UK charts’ ups, downs and non-movers for as long as almost anyone in the UK biz can remember. In the process, he essentially invented the art of charts analysis as we know it today, and became a font of all knowledge on the arcane minutiae of the charts world. But, sadly, the Singles and Albums analysis featured in the new issue of Music Week, available now, will be Alan’s final ones for Music Week, after he decided to step down after 36 years of incredible service, both to this publication and chart-watchers everywhere. Jonesy being Jonesy, and never a fan of the limelight, he has requested no fanfare upon his exit, but Music Week staffers past and present couldn’t let his departure go unacknowledged. “It really does feel like the end of an era,” says Martin Talbot, former Music Week editor and now CEO of the Official Charts Company. “His length of service is both evidence of the great job he has done and the source of his incredible knowledge, as he has had access to the deepest of chart data for longer than anyone I know. He will be greatly missed, not just by those of us in the industry who have relied on his insights over these past several decades – but also by the nation’s chart obsessives, for whom Alan truly is ‘the King’.” The charts, of course, will go on, and Music Week’s plans for the post-Jones era will be announced soon. Alan himself will continue to provide his take on the Music Week Club Charts. But, in the meantime, please hasten to here and here [note: article contains link to his current chart analyses] and revel one last time in Alan Jones’ searing assessment of the UK charts. Truly, we shall not see his like again. from Music Week
  8. The Drifters had 11 top 20 hits between 1960 and 1977. Not to be confused with Cliff Richard's backing group of the same name who had to change their name to The Shadows to avoid confusion with The Drifters. Smokie had 11 top 20 hits (including one with Roy 'Chubby Brown' between 1975 and 1995
  9. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    I think what's happened is the OCC have curtailed (to just 4 days) the wrong chart in their archive. They have used the RR chart dated 30/07/69 to produce a chart dated 30/07/69 to 02/08/69 when it should have been the RR chart dated 06/08/69 used to by the OCC (06/08/69 to 09/08/69) with the first Saturday chart being 10/08/69 to 16/08/69 and not 03/08/69 to 09/08/69 as it is in the OCC database. If that makes sense...
  10. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    I'd imagine most people would think DJ Otzi was a one hit wonder (with 'Hey Baby') but he did have two other top 10 hits. One of his other top 10 hits was admittedly an "unofficial World Cup" remix of 'Hey Baby'. I had to look it up but Afroman is also seen as a one hit wonder with 'Because I Got High' but he did also have a top 10 hit with the follow up 'Crazy Rap'.
  11. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Incidentally, regarding the chart dates in 1969. I did think that the changing chart dates were less to do with the date that the chart was compiled / published by BMRB and more to do with the publication date of Record Retailer. In August 1969 it moved from a Wednesday date to a Saturday date. Using the dates in the OCC archive as a guide it suggests there would have been a RR issue dated 30/07/69 (a Wednesday) and then the next issue would have been published on 06/08/69 but dated 09/08/69 (a Saturday). Hence in the OCC archive the first chart shows as 30/06/69 to 02/08/69 while the following chart shows as 03/08/89 to 09/08/69 and all charts from that date onwards until the chart moved to a Friday follow the Sunday to Saturday dating system.
  12. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Tiny Tim apparently always thought of himself as a straightforward musician but his whole stage personna was geared towards attracting attention to himself in order to achieve fame. It has been said that it tended to bring out an unintentional comedic side to his performance. Personally I think he knew what he was doing. Prior to adopting the stage name Tiny Tim he was known as "Larry Love The Singing Canary"!
  13. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Re 'Spooky': The Atlanta Rhythm Section, who had a minor hit with the track in 1979, were born out of the ashes of both Classics IV and another band called The Candymen who were Roy Orbison's backing band in the 1960s.
  14. I'm always cautious when discussing why a poster has been banned (at DigitalSpy it's actually something that will get you banned!) but he has told me the reason but I don't think it's right for me to post it here. It's not connnected with any posts he's made in the chart forum but as it's not possible to just ban someone from half of the board I suppose it has to be a total ban or nothing at all.
  15. He's been banned. So that's it for the YTD charts.
  16. Yes, it looks like whoever compiled this list at the OCC has decided to add streams of the 'Holiday/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams' track to 'Holiday' for the purpose of compiling this list. 'Holiday/Boulevard Of Broken Dreams' was awarded a Silver certification in August 2018 while 'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams' went Gold in November 2019 (having gone Silver in July 2013). 'Holiday' itself has yet to be awarded a certification. Everything down to 'When I Come Around', at number 8 (other than 'Holiday'), has been certified at least Silver.
  17. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    Back when the OCC still compiled a main top 200 Singles chart, 'Alone' by Alan Walker spent just two weeks on the chart. Entered the chart published on 20/01/17 at number 195, climbed to 193 the following week and then dropped off the chart.
  18. 1. Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon (1977) 2. Licence To Kill - Gladys Knight (1989) 3. Live and Let Die - Paul McCartney & Wings (1973) 4. We Have All The Time In The World - Louis Armstrong (1969) 5. A View To A Kill - Duran Duran (1985) Andre Paine probably forgot about the Louis Armstrong song (theme to On Her Majesty's Secret Service) as it was re-released in 1994 after being used in a Guinness advert. It sold 323,000 copies in 1994 and was certified Gold (400,000) in January 1995.
  19. Well spotted! I read the article and failed to notice that. Unusual for Andre Paine, his articles are usually pretty much error free as would be expected for a former global news editor of Billboard.
  20. My post crossed with yours. It looks like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' has vanished intothin air as it's on neither the top 200 Artist Albums chart nor the Top 100 Compilation Albums chart unless its sales are very low. But as I posted one track isn't credited to Queen. For 'A Star Is Born' the label would have to convince the OCC it was a Lady GaGa and Bradley Cooper album. But there are two tracks, one instrumental, one featuring other casts members, on which neither appear. From the Albums Definition Summary part of the Albums Chart Rules:
  21. For 'Last Christmas OST' all the tracks feature George Michael, he's the link for all the tracks. One of the tracks on 'Bohemian Rhaspody OST' doesn't feature Queen (one track is performed by the group Smile, an early version of what became Queen and without Freddie Mercury) while 'A Star Is Born' doesn't have the same artist on all tracks. If the label wanted to push the album as being a Lady GaGa and Bradley Cooper album they don't perform together on all tracks and even if the OCC were to ignore that there's two tracks where neither feature!
  22. They've been removed from the Artist Album charts. All Original Soundtracks, Motion Picture Cast albums etc now qualify for the Compilation Albums unless the label can show why an album should be treated as an artist album - this would be where the same artist / act features on every track.
  23. Robbie posted a post in a topic in UK Charts
    A version of 'Hey Good Lookin' was used in a series of Findus Lean Cuisine adverts in the mid 1980s. That may be why the song is familiar to you.
  24. He's not my favourite artist by any means but he has shown some staying power. Those tattoos he's now got look awful though, he's made himself look a complete mess.
  25. Most pop groups are label, management (telent spotters) or X Factor style inventions. The latter is on its last legs and one of the former - record labels - perhaps see no need these days to throw money at a project that might not work in a music world that favours solo acts and collaborations. Similarly talent spotters, who were responsible for putting together and marketing the likes of Take That, Boyzone, the Spice Girls and Steps just don't seem to get as involved these days in creating acts. I do miss the days of the likes of The Sugababes and Girls Aloud charting on a regular basis. Plus that was the era of the guitar / indie revival of the mid 00s which to me was the last great period for the charts. Plus there was lots of great dance music around then too.