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Hi Brian, I used to listen to those charts on Capital. They were both compiled by MRIB until 1993. All they were really, was the midweek chart, and Saturday chart, based on London only sales. If a record in the chart wasn`t included in Capital`s airplay, it was removed. I remember SL2`s "On A Ragga Tip, being a victim in 1992. Capital only started to put in on their playlist, when it went to number 2 nationally. Strange but true, after Capital added it to their playlist, it went straight in to their chart at number 2, the following week! The MRIB London only chart existed the same as the national one 1978 - 1993. Like you said Peter Young did it until 1982, Alan Freeman dropped it for the NME chart June 1982 - Sept 1984 (then return with the London chart, 1984 - Dec 1988). Pat Sharp did it from Jan 1989 - 1991, when Neil Fox took over. Clive Warren was just a stand in host in 1991, when he did it on a Wednesday night. It was a good and pacey show, and again far better than Hit40uk, and Radio One. You may remember Clive Warren, went on to be a stand in host, for Mark Goodier on Radio One!

Thanks Dave, for all the hard work see you soon.

Well last week, we said a bye bye to the mrib charts. After 30 years, the company will be concentrating on films and dvds, as well as mobile entertainment. Dave Taylor, was rather sad (like a few of us). He will complete our thread later around 10pm, with his thoroughly researched singles/tracks. Dave has loosely based it, on Chart Show tv`s chart, but only loosely, as he has added all the info from Singles/download sites/stores to boost it up to tonight. Chart Show tv, will be running a brand new top 40 in full video form (Saturdays, from 3pm). Who need`s Ferne and Reggie! I am going to start the thread with Albums, Dvds, and top film charts. We have taken Album info, from stores and download sites. Dave was toying around with putting pre-release albums in, but decide not too. Although it would have been an idea, but then that is a prelude to Next Week`s Chart, that we do on Mondays. So, starting with 20 biggest albums, followed by a classic MRIB album chart from 1980. This Week`s Album top 20 w/k beginning 26th Apr 08 (last week`s positions are taken from the last mrib chart) 01 NE AGE OF UNDERSTATEMENT - LAST SHADOW PUPPETS 02 01 KONK - KOOKS 03 03 CLUBLAND CLASSIX - VARIOUS 04 04 NOW 69 - VARIOUS 05 07 SPIRIT - LEONA 06 05 ROCKFERRY - DUFFY 07 08 TRANCE ANTHEMS/DAVE PEARCE - VARIOUS 08 02 E=MC2 - MARIAH CAREY 09 NE GOOD TO BE BAD - WHITESNAKE 10 13 ADDICTED TO BASSLINE - VARIOUS 11 09 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 12 12 GARAGE CLASSICS - VARIOUS 13 15 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 14 RE 19 - ADELE 15 19 STEP UP 2 THE STREETS - VARIOUS/OST 16 14 101 DRIVING SONGS - VARIOUS 17 NE HARD2BEAT CLUB CLASSICS - VARIOUS 18 17 DREAMING OUT LOUD - ONE REPUBLIC 19 18 BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE 20 10 ACCELERATE - R.E.M. LAST SHADOW PUPPETS, win the race easily. It will be short lived for them, at the top because Monday see`s releases for MADONNA, PORTISHEAD, SAM SPARRO, and THE FALL. They should all go top 20. MADONNA, and PORTISHEAD for the battle. Here are the top 20 albums from 1980 this very week, from the MRIB/RECORD BUSINESS charts 01 01 GREATEST HITS - ROSE ROYCE 02 10 SKY 2 - SKY 03 05 MAGIC OF BONEY M - BONEY M. 04 02 12 GOLD BARS - STATUS QUO 05 03 DUKE - GENESIS 06 17 GREATEST HITS - SUZI QUATRO 07 06 SINGLES ALBUM - BOBBY VEE 08 14 IRON MAIDEN - IRON MAIDEN 09 16 HYPNOTISED - UNDERTONES 10 22 BY REQUEST - LENA MARTELL 11 NE HEAVEN AND HELL - BLACK SABBATH 12 07 THE BARBARA DICKSON ALBUM - BARBARA DICKSON 13 26 SNAKES AND LADDERS - GERRY RAFFERTY 14 04 BRITISH STEEL - JUDAS PRIEST 15 08 WHEELS OF STEEL - SAXON 16 09 REGATTA DE BLANC - POLICE 17 15 PRETENDERS - PRETENDERS 18 NE SOMETIMES YOU WIN - DR HOOK 19 12 COUNTRY NUMBER ONE - DON GIBSON 20 11 FACADES - SAD CAFE Getting heavey in 1980 with rock from SAXON, JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, and slightly less heavy with STATUS QUO, and GENESIS. Was it just coincidence that JUDAS PRIEST and SAXON had titles with STEEL in them? Strikes of the British Steel industry kept the news well going in 1980!! Quite a mixed bag with BOBBY VEE and LENA MARTELL both sandwiched between the heavy stuff. BARBARA DICKSON scored with some singles from the album, but LENA MARTELL could not follow up her number one single "ONE DAY AT A TIME". FERGAL SHARKEY was doing great with the UNDERTONES....DR HOOK had a few hits in 1980, from the album....SKY were doing classical rocky stuff, we all remember the impressive "TOCCATA". I always thought it sounded a little like the "RETURN OF THE SAINT, theme", with IAN OGILVY, on tv at the time! Just outside the 20 that week was PETE TOWNSEND and the EMPTY GLASS album (Pete, of the WHO of course, who featured on an edition of ALEXIS KORNER`s Sunday night show on Radio One, in 1980). Those VARIOUS ARTISTS were scarce in 1980, but STARTRACKS was just outside the 20. SAD CAFE were in the top 20, and should have done better with their follow up singles to "EVERY DAY HURTS", but never made the top 10 again. Here are this weeks top UK films, from the Box Office (courtesy of Screen International) w/k beginning 25th Apr 08 01 01 21 02 NE FOOLS GOLD 03 NE IN BRUGES 04 NE STREET KINGS 05 02 SON OF RANBOW 06 04 SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES 07 05 STEP UP 2 THE STREETS 08 03 27 DRESSES 09 NE HAPPY GO LUCKY 10 07 HORTON HEARS A WHO Numbers of 21, and 27 in the top UK films this week, for the second week running. Let`s take a look at the top dvds (from Blockbuster Rentals) 01 NE ST TRINIANS 02 NE ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS 03 03 STARDUST 04 04 RUN FAT BOY RUN 05 02 ENCHANTED 06 08 THE INVASION 07 06 BEOWULF 08 10 THE KINGDOM 09 07 RATATOUILLE 10 12 30 DAYS OF NIGHT WE OWN THE NIGHT falls out of the top ten from last week, along with THE BRAVE ONE and MR BROOKS. On the other hand if you add up all the people that bought "ST TRINIANS", as well as those that rented it, you have 59,412 takers! Pretty impressive! Dave will take over soon with his brand new Singles and Tracks chart. But first here is the Singles chart from 1980 this very week 01 05 GENO - DEXY`S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS 02 01 CALL ME - BLONDIE 03 15 COMING UP - PAUL MCCARTNEY 04 02 KING/FOOD FOR THOUGHT - UB40 05 11 TOCCATA - SKY 06 06 SILVER DREAM MACHINE - DAVID ESSEX 07 04 SEXY EYES - DR HOOK 08 03 WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU-FORGIVE ME GIRL - DETROIT SPINNERS 09 08 TALK OF THE TOWN - PRETENDERS 10 12 DON`T PUSH IT DON`T FORCE IT - LEON HAYWOOD 11 20 CHECK OUT THE GROOVE - BOBBY THURSTON 12 26 THE GROOVE - RODNEY FRANKLIN 13 09 NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO - MADNESS 14 21 MY PERFECT COUSIN - UNDERTONES 15 10 JANUARY FEBRUARY - BARBARA DICKSON 16 07 DANCE YOURSELF DIZZY - LIQUID GOLD 17 18 MY OH MY - SAD CAFE 18 17 KOOL IN THE KAFTAN - B.A. ROBERTSON 19 24 DON`T MAKE WAVES - NOLANS 20 44 I SHOULDA LOVE YA - NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN 21 NE WHAT`S ANOTHER YEAR - JOHNNY LOGAN 22 23 MISSING WORDS - THE SELECTOR 23 13 POISON IVY - LAMBRETTAS 24 31 WHEELS OF STEEL - SAXON 25 36 STARING AT THE RUDE BOYS - RUTS 26 NE GOLDEN YEARS E.P. - MOTORHEAD 27 NE BREATHING - KATE BUSH 28 30 HI FIDELITY - ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS 29 16 TURN IT ON AGAIN - GENESIS 30 28 LET`S DO ROCK STEADY - BODYSNATCHERS DEXY`S and KEVIN ROWLAND stealing the number one, from BLONDIE in1980. PAUL MCCARTNEY`s title was apt, and smashing up the top 20. DAVID ESSEX had the theme to the film "SILVER DREAM RACER". Already told you about SKY. UB40 got more play on FOOD FOR THOUGHT more than KING, the double A sided hit. DETROIT SPINNERS re-worked a FOUR SEASONS number from 67. Good advice from LEON HAYWOOD. The MADNESS song came from the WORK REST AND PLAY E.P. RODNEY FRANKLIN had a catchy instrumental hit....SAD CAFE`s hit had a ROLLING STONES connection....BARBARA DICKSON had her third top 20 hit....JOHNNY LOGAN won EUROVISION, he was born in Australia, but spent all his life virtually in Ireland. He beat the UK entrants PRIMA DONNA (who came third) with LOVE ENOUGH FOR TWO, and totally missed the top 40, by a couple of positions. NARADA MICHAEL WALDEN was actually pronounced NARDA but everyone got his name wrong. I saw him in concert in 1988, and he spent about 10 minutes telling us! MOTORHEAD got heavy again with their E.P. The NOLANS followed up I`M IN THE MOOD FOR DANCING, but didn`t make waves! SELECTOR and BODYSNATCHERS were off the TWO TONE record label, and revived the ska movement. The RUTS took the fledging punk sound. Meanwhile my favourite female was KATE BUSH. Outside the top 30 was BAD MANNERS with NE NE NA NA NA NA NU NU, great lyrics yeah! Stick around Dave will complete the thread with the Singles chart (the new one, he put together between 9, and 11pm)........

Thanks Martin, Tonsillitis recurrent prob of mine. Unfortunately they don`t like to remove them today. Problem is it gets very tiresome.

We will find out what happens, as the week progresses. The other 2 tell me it is selling as high as number 9, on the HMV daily figures.

Are you sure about that Ben? It is on our list of new material at HMV today.

It`s Monday, and back to business.....and thanks to Mr Taylor, for continuing this preview thread, of what may happen, on Next Sunday`s top 40! So, the gang were out today, and Peter, and John from their record stores, and other info from HMV, Woolworths, Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury`s, and the download sites, of iTunes, Tesco, HMV, Woolworths, amazon, and play.com Here are what we found in albums selling today 01 NE AGE OF UNDERSTATEMENT - LAST SHADOW PUPPETS 02 01 KONK - KOOKS 03 03 CLUBLAND CLASSIX - VARIOUS 04 07 SPIRIT - LEONA 05 04 NOW 69 - VARIOUS 06 02 e=mc2 - MARIAH CAREY 07 05 ROCKFERRY - DUFFY 08 NE HARD2BEAT CLUB ANTHEMS - VARIOUS 09 12 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 10 06 DAVE PEARCE-TRANCE ANTHEMS - VARIOUS 11 15 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 12 NE ESSENTIAL CLUB ANTHEMS - VARIOUS 13 10 ADDICTED TO BASSLINE - VARIOUS 14 NE NOW AND THEN - CHRIS DE BURGH 15 11 GARAGE CLASSICS - VARIOUS 16 16 DREAMING OUT LOUD - ONE REPUBLIC 17 20 19 - ADELE 18 28 ELLIOT MINOR 19 NE GOOD TO BE BAD - WHITESNAKE 20 17 BACK TO BLACK - AMY W 21 19 EDGE OF THE 80S - VARIOUS 22 09 SHINE A LIGHT - ROLLING STONES 23 22 101 DRIVING SONGS - VARIOUS 24 18 ST JUDE - COURTEENERS 25 25 TANGLED UP - GIRLS ALOUD Rather a quiet Album week, it look`s this week apart from Last Shadow Puppets (I believe Mart!n`s tip for the top, recently)! Climbing back up further down Gabriella Cilmi, the Hoosiers, and the Feeling. In the Singles/songs today we found this outlook... 01 01 4 MINUTES - MADONNA 02 02 AMERICAN BOY - ESTELLE 03 04 BLACK AND GOLD - SAM SPARRO 04 03 LOW - FLO RIDA 05 05 CRY FOR YOU - SEPTEMBER 06 13 LOVE IN THIS CLUB - USHER 07 07 MERCY - DUFFY 08 14 HEARTBEAT - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 09 06 TOUCH MY BODY - MARIAH 10 24 HEARTBREAKER - WILL I. AM 11 23 TRIPPIN` - CAHILL 12 11 BETTER IN TIME - LEONA 13 16 FASCINATION - ALPHABEAT 14 17 NICKELBACK - ROCKSTAR 15 08 ALWAYS WHERE I NEED TO BE - KOOKS 16 09 BREAK THE ICE - BRITNEY 17 10 WITH YOU - CHRIS BROWN 18 12 AGE OF UNDERSTATEMENT - LAST SHADOW PUPPETS 19 19 STOP AND STARE - ONE REPUBLIC 20 NE SPEED UP - FUNKERMAN 21 NE WITHOUT YOU - FEELING 22 NE COLD SHOULDER - ADELE 23 17 SOMETHING GOOD - UTAH SAINTS 24 21 CAN`T SPEAK FRENCH - GIRLS ALOUD 25 NE COPS AND ROBBERS - HOOSIERS 26 15 I`M NOT GONNA TEACH YOUR BOYFRIEND - BLACK KIDS 27 NE BACKFIRE AT THE DISCO - WOMBATS 28 20 TOCA`S MIRACLE 08 - FRAGMA 29 25 COME ON GIRLS - TAIO CRUZ 30 NE YOUR LOVE IS A LIE - SIMPLE PLAN Outside the 30 today Peter, and John found that Nelly, Gabriella, Natasha B, Panic at the Disco, Kanye, H TWO O, Basshunter, Sugababes and Rihanna....ROBYN in at 39 and Ben`s Brother on downloads alone not far behind. Phil Campbell, Fall out Boy, and Jordin Sparks, were in the top 50, along with Miss Kylie Minogue. Now more on Ben`s Brother because we looked into our crystal ball of future hits, and we think that as the pre-orders of the physical version of Stuttering, are anthing to go by, it will soon be heading to the top 20, without fail. The other future hit is Wiley, Wear My Rolex is released on the 5th May. But pre-orders already place that at number 11!!!!!!! On last week`s Next Week thread we had the top 5 almost exact, 19 in the 20, 28 in the 30, and 36 in the top 40. In the albums, we had 18 in the 20, 29 in the 30, and the number one was correct, funnily Mariah managed to slip behind Leona, and 2 compilations. Let`s look back to see how the team did in 1998... This was the 20th Apr 98, the chart for Sunday 25th Apr 98 01 NE ALL THAT I NEED - BOYZONE 02 NE SOUND OF DRUMS - KULA SHAKER 03 01 IT`S LIKE THAT - RUN DMC/JASON NEVINS 04 02 TURN IT UP - BUSTA RYHMES 05 05 FEEL IT - TAMPERER 06 NE LAST THING ON MY MIND - STEPS 07 03 MY HEART WILL GO ON - CELINE DION 08 NE ROADRAGE - CATATONIA 09 NE SUPERSTAR - NOVY VS ENIAC 10 NE KEEP ON DANCING - PERPETUAL 11 08 FOUND A CURE - ULTRA NATE 12 NE NICE N` SLOW - USHER 13 09 TRULY MADLY DEEPLY - SAVAGE GARDEN 14 11 HOW DO I LIVE WITHOUT YOU - LEANN RIMES 15 NE DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY - MAVERICKS 16 10 LA PRIMAVERA - SASH 17 NE FUN - DA MOB AND JOCELYN BROWN 18 06 KISS THE RAIN - BILLY MYERS 19 NE SPARK - TORI AMOS 20 NE DEJA VOUS - LORD TARIQ AND PETER GUNZ 21 04 ALL MY LIFE - K.CI AND JOJO 22 NE NOT IF YOU WERE THE LAST JUNKY - DANDY WARHOLS 23 18 KUNG-FU - 187 LOCKDOWN 24 07 SOUNDS OF WICKEDNESS - T.ZANT 25 13 IMPRESSION THAT I GET - MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES 26 14 LET ME ENTERTAIN YOU - ROBBIE WILLIAMS 27 12 SAY YOU DO - ULTRA 28 16 THAT`S WHERE THE STORY ENDS - TIN TIN OUT 29 22 NOBODY BETTER - TINA MOORE 30 15 STOP - SPICE GIRLS Shock Horror etc...the Spice Girls did not get to number one with Stop! We had 27 in the top 30 in 98, but the order was out! Although the top 5 wasn`t too out. Dave will have the top 40 without downloads, sometime during the week. And we will have a replacement up to date chart to replace the now defunct MRIB Singles and Albums charts late Friday/early Saturday. As a tribute to the original Network Chart, much missed by some of us, who remember it`s inception, as a alternate for an already flagging Radio One chart in the mid-eighties.....oh dear politics!!!!!!

Mart!n, have you got the combined artist/compilation chart? If so please!

I don`t believe Peace On Earth was played on Radio 1. Certainly Simon Bates didn`t play it on the top 20 show. A chap called Pete Drummond (remember him?) played it on the ILR countdown on Radio 210 in Reading, all the time.

I think it would be a good idea, if he did. He has years and years, of Radio experience, and the charts. Having work with him, many times. He is brilliant. From what I hear he gets a lot of stick, on that "other forum".

Thanks Robbie mate! Who could forget the British Hustle. I actually quite like Peace on Earth, which if I remember was the other side? Which through popular demand, became a double A, with it in the Autumn of 78.

With Happy wotsit? No, she didn`t show in the top 75!

Number 15!

Oh dear another forum, I thought this one was best! :cry: I worked out that if the downloads that were available only, as a download wre removed, Cascada would be 46. So, blame the downloads, that jump in ahead! :angry:

Cheers for that, I did know, but missed it! :)

Sadly John, Cascada only scrape number 56, on the top 60.

Another week flys by, and April approaches. What has been happening in the Albums, singles, films and dvd charts this week? Thanks to Dave Taylor (daverictaylor@yahoo.co.uk), we are going to find out, with the most up to date charts in Britain. Also, we back track to late March 1983. Firstly this week`s top films... w/k ending 4th Apr 2008 01 NE HORTON HEARS A WHO 02 NE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES 03 NE STEP UP TO THE STREETS 04 NE MEET THE SPARTANS 05 01 10,000 BC 06 02 VANTAGE POINT 07 03 GAME PLAN 08 04 THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL 09 NE RACE 10 NE EL ORNATO A good host of new films this week. Here are the top dvd rentals... w/k ending 4th Apr 2008 01 NE 30 DAYS OF NIGHT 02 NE BEOWULF 03 NE LIONS FOR LAMBS 04 03 STARDUST 05 04 RUN FAT BOY RUN 06 06 THE BRAVE ONE 07 NE GOOD LUCK CHUCK 08 08 MR BROOKES 09 NE THE INVASION 10 NE THE KINGDOM Big moves in the dvds, as PLANET TERROR and AMERICAN GANGSTER full out of the top ten, from last week`s no. 1 and 2 respectively. Here are this week`s top albums... w/k ending 04/04 01 01 NOW THAT`S WHAT I CALL MUSIC 69 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 02 NE PRETTY ODD - PANIC AT THE DISCO 03 NE ANTIDOTES - FOALS 04 02 ROCKFERRY - DUFFY 05 07 ASHES TO ASHES - VARIOUS ARTISTS/OST 06 03 H.A.R.R.P. - MUSE 07 NE RED - GUILLEMOTS 08 06 DREAMING OUT LOUD - ONE REPUBLIC 09 08 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 10 09 SPIRIT - LEONA LEWIS 11 12 BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE 12 10 FLOORFILLERS 08 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 13 13 MASSIVE R + B SPRING COLLECTION 08 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 14 14 BREAKDOWN 08-VERY BEST OF EUPHORIC DANCE - VARIOUS ARTISTS 15 NE HED KANDI-BACK TO LOVE - VARIOUS ARTISTS Another healthy album chart, with 4 new entries, in the top 15, putting last week`s entries from ELBOW, BRYAN ADAMS, and MIKE OLDFIELD in the bottom, of the top 20. Let`s slip back 25 years, and look at March 1983... In the albums then... w/k ending 2nd April 1983 01 04 THE HURTING - TEARS FOR FEARS 02 03 SWEET DREAMS - EURYTHMICS 03 01 THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON 04 02 WAR - U2 05 35 SCRIPT FOR A JESTERS TEAR - MARILLION 06 08 THE KEY - JOAN ARMATRADING 07 07 TRUE - SPANDAU BALLET 08 05 THUNDER AND LIGHTNING - THIN LIZZY 09 NE INARTICULATE SYSTEM OF THE HEAT - VAN MORRISON 10 10 DEEP SEA SKIVING - BANANARAMA 11 12 TOTO IV - TOTO 12 NE POWER AND THE GLORY - SAXON 13 09 QUICKSTEP AND SIDEKICK - THOMPSON TWINS 14 NE FINAL CUT - PINK FLOYD 15 06 DAZZLE SHIPS - ORCHESTRAL MANOUEVRES IN THE DARK 16 28 CHARTBUSTERS - VARIOUS ARTISTS 17 11 HOTLINE - VARIOUS ARTISTS 18 22 HIGH ROAD - ROXY MUSIC 19 29 HAND CUT - BUCKS FIZZ 20 23 SIN OF PRIDE - UNDERTONES Album title tracks were selling well, as they were released as singles. Such as SPANDAU BALLET, and the EURYTHMICS....Previously title tracks lifted from albums didn`t always sell too well, as singles. ELTON JOHN`s 1972 album HONKY CHATEAU springs to mind, as HONKY CAT as a single, didn`t make the top 30, in the 70s. More artists had singles from their current albums, in 1983, MARILLION, U2, JOAN ARMATRADING, BANANARAMA, TOTO, and infact most of that week`s top 30 album artists had a single lifted from it. FEARGAL SHARKEY was about to wrap up, the UNDERTONES, to form the ASSEMBLY, with VINCE CLARK (of YAZOO). Keep fit was the big thing, and JANE FONDA`s WORKOUT album was in the top 40, along with FELICITY KENDAL`s SHAPE UP AND DANCE. 1983`s singles chart... w/k ending 2nd Apr 1983 01 04 IS THERE SOMETHING I SHOULD KNOW - DURAN DURAN 02 08 LET`S DANCE - DAVID BOWIE 03 03 SPEAK LIKE A CHILD - STYLE COUNCIL 04 01 TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART - BONNIE TYLER 05 02 SWEET DREAMS - EURYTHMICS 06 18 DON`T TALK TO ME ABOUT LOVE - ALTERED IMAGES 07 09 RIP IT UP - ORANGE JUICE 08 05 ROCK THE BOAT - FORREST 09 20 DROP THE PILOT - JOAN ARMATRADING 10 07 NA NA HEY HEY KISS HIM GOODBYE - BANANARAMA 11 06 BILLIE JEAN - MICHAEL JACKSON 12 12 YOU CAN`T HIDE YOUR LOVE FROM ME - DAVID JOSEPH 13 26 BOXERBEAT - JO BOXERS 14 22 BLUE MONDAY - NEW ORDER 15 24 GARDEN PARTY - MEZZOFORTE 16 13 VISIONS IN BLUE - ULTRAVOX 17 14 RUN FOR YOUR LIFE - BUCKS FIZZ 18 29 WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND - NICK HEYWARD 19 34 FIELDS OF FIRE - BIG COUNTRY 20 32 ORCHARD ROAD - LEO SAYER 21 10 HIGH LIFE - MODERN ROMANCE 22 19 WAVES - BLANCMANGE 23 36 CRY ME A RIVER - MARI WILSON 24 21 COMMUNICATION - SPANDAU BALLET 25 43 BREAKAWAY - TRACEY ULLMAN 26 NE OOH TO BE AHH - KAJAGOOGOO 27 NE TWO HEARTS BEAT AS ONE - U2 28 23 JOY - BAND AKA 29 11 SHE MEANS NOTHING TO ME - PHIL EVERLY AND CLIFF RICHARD 30 NE I AM I`M ME - TWISTED SISTER DURAN DURAN bang at number one in 83, and BOWIE not far behind. PAUL WELLER scored with the STYLE COUNCIL after the JAM. The JAM reunion coming soon without Paul, though. EURYTHMICS were doing good, with ANNIE and DAVE...One dodgy person called "me", had the pleasure of actually playing the keyboards on a version, of said song, in a re-working at a Uni gig, a few years back! All the boys favourite singer CLARE GROGAN returned with ALTERED IMAGES...JOAN ARMATRADING lifted DROP THE PILOT from the album, to the top 10 singles. FORREST re-worked the 1974 hit by the HUES CORPORATION...One of the singers with FORREST was SINNITA. NICK HEYWARD went solo, from HAIRCUT 100...NEW ORDER had the big 12 inch version only, of BLUE MONDAY in the chart for the rest of the year!! TRACEY ULLMAN comedienne broke away from tv`s THREE OF A KIND, for a few chart hits, before going stateside...MEZZOFORTE had the catchy instrumental GARDEN PARTY (later used by BBC racing). One MICHELLE COLLINS (of EASTENDERS fame) was singing backing vocals, on the MARI WILSON re-worked 1957 JULIE LONDON smash...BUCKS FIZZ kept going, as Easter approached SWEET DREAMS (the group that is), won the SONG FOR EUROPE to enter the EUROVISION SONG CONTEST for the UK, with NEVER GIVING UP. KENNY EVERETT was back on BBC1, on Thursdays, after TOP OF THE POPS, and actually appeared on TOTP, performing SNOT RAP (which this week sat at 33, in the mrib top 40). While HOPE by the brilliant WAH, could get no higher than 32. I note that DAVID JOSEPH sat at number 12, in this chart, but for the life of me, I can not remember which group he sang with previous to this. So, please remind me someone??? Here is the big finish...this week`s singles/tracks...In the physical singles this week it`s 1) ESTELLE, 2) DUFFY 3) FLO RIDA...Downloads are 1) ESTELLE, 2) FLO RIDA, 3) DUFFY. Put together it`s like this... w/k ending 04/04 45 40 SWEET ABOUT ME - GABRIELLA CILMI 44 45 NO ONE - ALICIA KEYS 43 35 GREAT DJ - TING TINGS 42 31 BEGINNING OF THE TWIST - FUTUREHEADS 41 26 US AGAINST THE WORLD - WESTLIFE 40 50 CALL THE SHOTS - GIRLS ALOUD 39 51 CHURCH - T-PAIN 38 36 VALERIE - RONSON/WINEHOUSE 37 NE HEARTBEAT - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 36 NE BREAK THE ICE - BRITNEY SPEARS 35 34 RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT 34 28 SUN GOES DOWN - DAVID JORDAN 33 24 ONE NIGHT ONLY - JUST FOR TONIGHT 32 30 PIECE OF ME - BRITNEY SPEARS 31 33 RUN - GNARLS BARKLEY 30 NE SENSUAL SEDUCTION - SNOOP DOGG 29 NE NEW SOUL - YAEL NAIM 28 25 CRANK THAT - SOULJA BOY 27 23 KELLY ROWLAND - WORK 26 29 LOVE LIKE THIS - NATASHA BEDINGFIELD/SEAN KINGSTON 25 22 APOLOGISE - ONE REPUBLIC 24 20 GET OVER IT - GUILLEMOTS 23 21 WOW - KYLIE MINOGUE 22 NE CARRY YOU HOME - JAMES BLUNT 21 19 SCREAM - TIMBALAND 20 18 CHASING PAVEMENTS - ADELE 19 NE LOVE IN THIS CLUB - USHER 18 15 DENIAL - SUGABABES 17 14 9 IN THE AFTERNOON - PANIC AT THE DISCO 16 16 RIHANNA - DON`T STOP THE MUSIC 15 12 NOW YOU`RE GONE - BASSHUNTER 14 10 WHAT WE GONNA DO - H TWO O 13 08 SOMETHING GOOD 08 - UTAH SAINTS/VAN SHE 12 13 COME ON GIRLS - TAIO CRUZ 11 09 CAN`T SPEAK FRENCH - GIRLS ALOUD 10 11 FASCINATION - ALPHABEAT 09 17 WITH YOU - CHRIS BROWN 08 05 STOP AND STARE - ONE REPUBLIC 07 06 ROCKSTAR - NICKELBACK 06 02 BETTER IN TIME/FOOTSTEPS IN THE SAND - LEONA LEWIS 05 04 4 MINUTES - MADONNA 04 27 BLACK AND GOLD - SAM SPARRO 03 03 MERCY - DUFFY 02 07 LOW - FLO RIDA 01 01 AMERICAN BOY - ESTELLE/KANYE WEST With the physical out, on the 2nd week of ESTELLE`s reign, she easily sells twice as many copies, as FLO RIDA. What will knock her off the top? Will it be MADONNA or SAM SPARRO? Or neither? Maybe USHER will push passed the 2 of them? Outside the 45, The MANICS slip, and PORTISHEAD surprisingly enters at 47, with CASSIE just behind. KANYE WEST clocks up 3 hits simultaneously in the top 75, JORDIN SPARKS, and PLIES/AKON also sit in the top 75. Don`t forget Next Week`s Chart, will be here on Monday. When we may find new entries from RADIOHEAD, MARIAH CAREY and the COURTEENERS...Will they all make the top 20? Find out Monday at 5pm.

Afternoon Mart!n...another week flies by! How many down for this bunch today, since Sun? Panic at the Disco Apologize Guillemots One Night Only Take That Elvis Ain`t Dead and Waistlife!

Afternoon Mart!n, how are you today? How many down for this bunch since Sun? Scream Guillemots Soulja boy Piece of Me David Jordan Take That FITS Valerie Thanks as ever!

Hi Mart!n, how much down for these today since Sunday? Alphabeat Basshunter Adele Apologise Kylie Kelly R. Soulja Boy Timbaland - Scream Thanks old boy!

But remember there is more than one download site, and the sales on mids, cover the point of Sundays and Monday`s sales :D

Good afternoon Mart!n, no surprise for James for me! How many down for this lot? Basshunter Alphabeat Panic at - 9 in the Afternoon Scream Guillemots Soulja Boy FITS David Jordan and darling Kylie Thanks!

That`s why they sale though. It`s a gimmick to capture the males attention :puke2:

That will be the official video download chart. I believe it`s going to happen before the end of the year.

I wondered at first if you saw him, when I saw him, but then maybe not. I saw him around 1992, in Reading. Least I thought I was going too! We went to his 8pm performance. He came on stage, dressed in army uniform. Then, a member of the audience shouted something out. Freddie mumbled something, went off stage, and refused to come back on, and that was the end of the evening! Asking around I thought maybe the person, in the audience swore at him, but apparently they didn`t. It turned out to be a sideways derogatry remark, that was probably a joke. However Mr Starr did not share his sense of humour.