Robbie

Have you tried copying the link and pasting it into the address bar? I had the password thing to start with but there were a couple of other characters which weren't on it, copied and pasted and it worked...

I just tried it - still got the same "Authentication Required" dialog box asking for my user name and password...

 

The single is pretty damn underwhelming... :(

I heard it one radio 1 earlier, first (and only) time I've heard it and I didn't think much of it... but I never liked Speed Of Sound until I'd heard it a few times and then grew to like it. I'm hoping this grows on me.

 

The two of you above this post - aren't you lucky? I haven't got the email yet.

 

(Mind you, we do have until next Tuesday to download it.)

my email was in my spam folder.. but it's no good anyway as I can't download the track!

has anyone registered to get the download? I have but when I click on the link in my email it asks for a user name and a password, neither of which I have...

my mum used to have the Puppet On A String album on Pye records - I like some of the songs on there. Tell the Boys, Had A Dream Last Night, Think Sometimes About Me and Stop Before You Start were great songs.

 

Good old Wiki - there's a page there about the album:

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet_on_a_String

 

 

I also like "(There's) Always Something There To Remind Me", one of two other number ones she had (along with Long Live Love).

I used to like Icehouse - I loved Hey Little Girl and also No Promises from 1986 and Crazy from 1988.

a pretty good list there m8, id have added the easybeats 'friday on my mind'.... the best track from down under imho.

of which two members became Flash And The Pan! Harry Vonda and George Young - the latter being the older brother of Angus and Malcolm of AC/DC...

I bought What's Wrong With Dreaming when it was first issued back in summer 1989. It cost me 79p for the 12" single, the local record shop was a chart return shop so sold many new releases for 50p for 7" and 79p or 99p for the 12".

 

I forgot the song was rereleased in 1990.

I have a few of these singles - What's Wrong With Dreaming, California Dreamin' (which was a double A side with Carry The Blame) and Say Something Good, all of which I still have somewhere. Good, but not spectacular, group who had their biggest hit with a cover version of California Dreamin' in 1990. Their preferred choice of A side, Carry The Blame, wasn't radio friendly due to its lyrics being about the effects of an abortion on a young woman.

 

My favourite is What's Wrong With Dreaming which was a minor hit in the hot summer of 1989 - sadly it peaked at #70 during a week when Jive Bunny were at #1!

thanks Dave. Shame to see the MRIB chart go though. Especially as it was the music charts that were the foundations of MRIB, it's the very charts they have now ended. I would have thought they could have continued compiling an album chart but they must have decided it wasn't worth it.

 

Another thing I've always wondered - as Millward Brown receive returns from just about every retailer that sells music, MRIB must have have duplicated returns from some of the same stores. How many stores contributed sales information to MRIB? Or did Millward Brown provide sales information to MRIB too (perhaps from a subset of stores)? Again, having two chart compilers accessing the same raw data is a duplication. A bit like MediaBase (who do Hits Daily Double) and Nielsen Soundscan (Billboard) in the US - the former must duplicate some stores that provide sales data to the latter.

 

Cheers for the charts by the way!

thanks ShakyFan!

 

there appears to be a problem with the airplay charts that Nielsen compile. Or to be more exact, a problem with licensing. ChartsPlus, the UK charts newsletter, is no longer able, as of the current issue, to carry the UK airplay 100 as compiled by Nielsen. Nielsen have instead indicated that they want individual purchasers to pay £35 per week for the chart and to not distribute it to anyone else. It seems they must have pulled the plug on anyone carrying the chart for circulation. Someone at another board indicates that the German airplay chart (again compiled by Nielsen) has been pulled from being available on a German subscription website.

 

I'll be interested to see whether Music week carry the new UK airplay chart tomorrow. It has carried the top 50 since the airplay chart began in the very early 1990s.

I meant to ask this last week and forgot - up to 2002 there used to be a music programme overnight every night on Sky One called Long Play (I think that was its name - it was broadcast from about midnight to 6am). It was all videos and used to feature a top 20 singles chart that didn't match the official chart. Do you have any idea who compiled this chart? I'm wondering if this was a MRIB chart?

Good selection of music there! And a thumbs up from me too for Pulling Muscles by Squeeze - I had that single on red vinyl back in 1980.

was just wondering, how many times can you buy the same single from itunes form the same PC..And is it counted towards chart listing?

the other thing about chart rules: it's possible to buy one copy of different versions of a song and there would be no problem about doing this. Each version of a song has its own catalog / reference number so if you download and buy the single version and the album version each will have its own number and that is two sales. If it is on, eg, Now 69, that too will have its own number and that would count as an extra sale too if that version was downloaded.

 

Multiple purchasing rules are about multiple purchases of the exact same product, not of buying a copy of each version. In 2005, Hung Up by Madonna was available to download and buy in something like 12 different mixes and buying one of each mix was fine. It counted as 12 sales. Had someone bought 12 copies of just one of the mix es then that would be classed as multiple purchasing and the sales would be ignored for chart purposes.

 

was just wondering, how many times can you buy the same single from itunes form the same PC..And is it counted towards chart listing?

well, there's rules about multi-purchases and if those rules are triggered, suspect sales are removed from counting towards the chart. The chart compilers don't publish rules about how many times you can purchase a song and have it count towards the chart but that's simply as a security measure! I doubt it's the PC that's checked but rather the method of payment and perhaps the IP number. iTunes would have to record the MAC number of each computer and these can be spoofed. Credit cards are a lot harder to spoof, but even then there are other ways of purchasing songs (eg gift vouchers).

 

The answer is, you'll never know so you could just be wasting your money...

anyone got an estimate on how many downloads it takes to get into the top 10, UK singles chart, first week...

 

Or a place i can view some numbers week by week..ive checked the above and it was more on total numbers..i need a week by week number, if possible...

 

Also anyone have info on how music is registered to the UK top 40 chart? Once music is on itunes does it automaticly count it for the UK chart?

welcome to the board!

 

If you look in the Chart Reference Library subforum (further up the main chart forum page, under UK Chart Chat Subforums) you'll find the weekly sales archives which list selected sales for each week. Some are sales for download only releases. To go top 10 takes about 13,000+, depending on the week.

 

Songs can only be included on the chart once they have been registered with the chart compilers and after they have been allocated a unique reference number to track sales. It's usually normal for songs on iTunes to be chart eligible but not always the case - freebies don't count, for example. But the vast, vast majority of songs sold on iTunes are chart eligible.

Don't judge a country culture and music by the hits that manage to make it into the UK, it will only make you look stupid and ignorant.

"Crazy frog" was probably the biggest British hits of 2006 worldwide (or one of the biggest because if was the year of James Blunt too if I'm right), and fortunately people all over the world are not that silly to think it represents well british pop culture.

I thought Crazy Frog was a German production, not British?

boring, at the moment.

 

Perhaps when / if sales pick up things might be better. There's too many songs hanging around the top 40 for weeks on end and if sales pick up, especially of new songs, we might get a healthier turnover on the chart.

 

I didn't like the chart when turnover was high and the chart was fast, but it's now gone the other way. Songs are taking an eternity to drop off the top 40.

 

One way to tell that the chart as a whole (top 75) is stale is to look at this table at polyhex, it shows the average weeks on chart for a song on the full chart.

 

http://www.polyhex.com/music/singles/average.php

 

It's the highest it has ever been since the charts started in 1952, at almost 12 weeks per song on the top 75.

so really, Las ketchup are the only act to have a number one sung entirely in Spanish. Los Del Rio who made number two did so with the remix which was sung in both Spanish and quite a bit of English.

 

EDIT: actually just thought - wasn't the hit version of Asereje by Las Ketchup the spanglais version and titled The Ketchup Song (Asereje)? I think the lines may have been sung in both Spanish and English - often in the same line - and the original Spanish version may have just been another track on the CD.

yeah, i was going to say Las Ketchup.

What about Julio Iglesias? Did he ever have a number 1 here?

Begin The Beguine reached #1 in November 1981 - its full title was begin the Beguine (Volver A Empezar) and was sung in Spanish, apart from "when they begin the beguine" which is sung a few times.

 

Album chart...

 

Week Ending 27 April 1968

 

1 ( 1 ) John Wesley Harding (By Bob Dylan) 9 Wks

2 ( 3 ) Greatest Hits - Supremes (By Supremes) 15 Wks

3 ( 4 ) History Of Otis Redding (By Otis Redding) 12 Wks

4 ( 2 ) Greatest Hits - Four Tops (By Four Tops) 15 Wks

5 ( 10) Hangman'S Beautiful Daughter (By Incredible String Band) 4 Wks

6 ( 5 ) The Sound Of Music (OST) 160 Wks

7 ( 9 ) Live At The Talk Of The Town (By Supremes) 5 Wks

8 ( 19) Live At The Talk Of The Town (By Tom Jones) 45 Wks

9 ( 6 ) Fleetwood Mac (By Fleetwood Mac) 9 Wks

10 ( 11) 13 Smash Hits (By Tom Jones) 18 Wks

11 ( 8 ) Wild Honey (By Beach Boys) 7 Wks

12 ( 13) Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (By Beatles) 48 Wks

13 ( 20) Dr Zhivago (OST) 86 Wks

14 ( 17) Reach Out (By Four Tops) 23 Wks

15 ( 29) Sher-Oo (By Cilla Black) 3 Wks

16 ( 15) Move (By Move) 3 Wks

17 ( 14) British Motown Chartbusters (By Various) 28 Wks

18 ( 7 ) 2 In 3 (By Esther & Abi Ofarim) 10 Wks

19 ( 12) Otis Blue (By Otis Redding) 53 Wks

20 ( 18) Otis Redding In Europe (By Otis Redding) 5 Wks

21 ( 22) The Jungle Book (OST) 8 Wks

22 ( 21) Best Of The Beach Boys (By Beach Boys) 77 Wks

23 ( 32) Greatest Hits - Temptations (By Temptations) 32 Wks

24 ( 33) Motown Memories (By Various) 12 Wks

25 ( 28) Four Tops Live (By Four Tops) 64 Wks

26 ( 24) The Last Waltz (By Engelbert Humperdinck) 23 Wks

27 ( 31) Going Places (By Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass) 112 Wks

28 ( 23) Scott 2 (By Scott Walker) 2 Wks

29 ( 26) Val Doonican Rocks But Gently (By Val Doonican) 22 Wks

30 ( 16) Best Of The Beach Boys Vol.2 (By Beach Boys) 28 Wks

31 ( 27) Round Amen Corner (By Amen Corner) 5 Wks

32 ( NE) Smash Hits (By Jimi Hendrix Experience) 1 Wk

33 ( 35) Free Wheelers (By Peddlers) 6 Wks

34 ( 30) Fiddler On The Roof (By Original London Cast) 50 Wks

35 ( 38) Diary Of A Band Volume 1 (By John Mayall's Bluesbreakers) 7 Wks

36 ( 25) Horizontal (By Bee Gees) 10 Wks

37 ( 36) Soul Men (By Sam And Dave) 6 Wks

38 ( 37) Release Me (By Engelbert Humperdinck) 50 Wks

39 ( 40) Disraeli Gears (By Cream) 24 Wks

40 ( RE) Two Faces Of Fame (By Georgie Fame) 11 Wks

 

thanks to kingofskiffle at ukmix.

 

 

Still a dull album chart, typical of the 60s with multiple albums by some acts and many albums with many weeks on chart.

I'll give a thumbs up or a thumbs down to some of these songs later, though there's a fair few in there I don't think I've heard.

 

Always wondered about "White Horses" - did it pre-date the children's TV programme of the same name and then get adapted as the theme tune? I only know it from the 1970s when the programme was a staple of summer holidays TV. badly dubbed TV if I remember...

 

A few of those songs in the top 10 made it into TV commercials much later on - What A Wonderful World was used in the mid-70s for Diary Milk, Can't Take My Eyes Off You was used in the late 90s in a car advert and I Can't Let Maggie Go was used in the Slimcea bread adverts in the mid 70s that I remember and perhaps before that too?

cheers BeautifulAngel! I will give your quiz another go - I did start sending in answers a while back but could never get more than a handful of answers!

Well done Rob! Great achievement. :cheer:

hehe! I must get around to entering your quiz, though I do find it hard and never know half the answers...

 

Edit: Actually, just thought: which Rob?! MMR or myself...

thanks for that clip, very melancholic but lovely song and a nice voice. I'll definitely listen in on Wednesday.