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Spoken like a true Scotsman! :D I see what you mean though, usually if something is offered free, there is usually some sort of con involved! It would be good to find out, how many people, have actually paid, for the release, as I have never actually heard it on the radio.

They would have been number 26, on the official chart last week. To think, this week, they are denied a top 20 place. Silly rules really. Aren`t the charts supposed to be about popularity, of songs, not silly rules. Surely, if you didn`t like a song (whether it was a freebie/or came with a freebie, of another object), then surely a person, would not even get it? It beggars belief really!

Early again for a Friday night, but the same break off point, of late Friday afternoon. The most up to date chart in Britain, with thanks to Dave Taylor (daverictaylor@yahoo.co.uk). This week we have albums, films, dvds, and the latest singles/tracks as usual, teamed up with charts from the past. This week, it`s back to March 1989. Here is the album chart... w/k ending 14/03 01 NE ROCKFERRY - DUFFY 02 NE DIG LAZURUS DIG - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS 03 07 BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE 04 02 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 05 01 SEVENTH TREE - GOLDFRAPP 06 10 BREAKDOWN 08-VERY BEST OF EUPHORIC DANCE - VARIOUS 07 11 SOUND OF BASSLINE - VARIOUS 08 NE MASH UP MIX 08 - VARIOUS 09 03 LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION - MIKA 10 06 VERSION - MARK RONSON 11 04 19 - ADELE 12 09 THRILLER 25 - MICHAEL JACKSON 13 26 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE - MICHAEL BUBLE 14 13 THIS IS THE LIFE - AMY MACDONALD 15 07 JOIN WITH US - THE FEELING 16 16 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD - RIHANNA 17 17 SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC - JACK JOHNSON 18 18 X - KYLIE MINOGUE 19 19 STARTED A FIRE - ONE NIGHT ONLY 20 20 RAISING SAND - PLANT/KRAUSS Never fully understand mrib`s album chart, the bottom of the top 20, seems to always be static. Remember the albums in 1989?... w/k ending 11th Mar 89 01 01 A NEW FLAME - SIMPLY RED 02 02 ANYTHING FOR YOU - GLORIA ESTEFAN 03 03 ANCIENT HEART - TANITA TIKARUM 04 10 SPIKE - ELVIS COSTELLO 05 09 BAD - MICHAEL JACKSON 06 04 THE RAW AND THE COOKED - FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS 07 06 HYSTERIA - DEF LEPPARD 08 07 MYSTERY GIRL - ROY ORBISON 09 05 BIG AREA - THEN JERICHO 10 NE CHEEK TO CHEEK - VARIOUS ARTISTS 11 22 TRUE LOVE WAYS - BUDDY HOLLY/CRICKETS 12 12 WANTED - YAZZ 13 NE DEEP HEAT - VARIOUS ARTISTS 14 08 THE LEGENDARY ROY ORBISON 15 25 TRACEY CHAPMAN - TRACEY CHAPMAN 16 11 LIVING YEARS - MIKE AND THE MECHANICS 17 17 THE INNOCENTS - ERASURE 18 16 THE MARQUEE 30 LEGENDARY YEARS - VARIOUS ARTISTS 19 26 REMOTE - HUE AND CRY 20 32 STOP - SAM BROWN Looking down 89`s albums, we see that both SIMPLY RED, and MICHAEL JACKSON also have albums, in the chart of today. SIMPLY RED, had the top selling album, for much of the year, but on Christmas Eve of 89, was pipped to the top of the biggest selling albums of the year, by JASON DONOVAN, although the Red`s had this album near the top 5, every week, for the rest of the year. ELVIS COSTELLO`s latest contained the single VERONICA, as THEN JERICHO`s BIG AREA contained the title track. THE RAW AND THE COOKED by FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS contained a few hit singles, as did HYSTERIA for DEF LEPPARD. YAZZ did the same, on her album...ROY ORBISON still had 2 albums in the top 15, following his untimely death in 1988. CHEEK TO CHEEK was a love songs compilation, DEEP HEAT featured recent hits, and just outside the 20, at 21 was 1989`s Brits collection, THE AWARDS 1989...Was that the awards with SAM FOX, and MICK FLEETWOOD??? On to 1989`s singles... w/k ending 11th Mar 89 01 02 LEAVE ME ALONE - MICHAEL JACKSON 02 01 BELFAST CHILD - SIMPLE MINDS 03 03 STOP - SAM BROWN 04 05 HELP- BANANARAMA/LANANEENEENOONOO 05 36 TOO MANY BROKEN HEARTS - JASON DONOVAN 06 07 HEY MUSIC LOVER - S`EXPRESS 07 04 LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING - MICHAEL BALL 08 17 CAN`T STAY AWAY FROM YOU - GLORIA ESTEFAN 09 10 NOTHIN` HAS BEEN PROVED - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD 10 25 TURN UP THE BASS - TYREE/KOOL ROCK STEADY 11 08 I DON`T WANT A LOVER - TEXAS 12 20 BLOW THE HOUSE DOWN - LIVING IN A BOX 13 06 MY PREROGATIVE - BOBBY BROWN 14 NE STRAIGHT UP - PAULA ABDUL 15 29 WAGES DAY - DEACON BLUE 16 18 WILD THING/LOC`ED AFTER DARK - TONE LOC 17 19 EVERY ROSE HAS IT`S THORN - POISON 18 13 LOOKING FOR LINDA - HUE AND CRY 19 34 THIS TIME I KNOW IT`S FOR REAL - DONNA SUMMER 20 46 MEAN MAN - W.A.S.P. 21 27 I`D RATHER JACK - REYNOLDS GIRLS 22 09 SOMETHINGS GOTTEN HOLD OF MY HEART - MARC ALMOND/GENE PITNEY 23 31 EVERYTHING COUNTS - DEPECHE MODE 24 11 HOLD ME IN YOUR ARMS - RICK ASTLEY 25 35 CELEBRATE THE WORLD - WOMACK AND WOMACK 26 16 LOVE TRAIN - HOLLY JOHNSON 27 NE ROUND AND ROUND - NEW ORDER 28 15 FINE TIME - YAZZ 29 NE SLEEPTALK - ALSON WILIAMS 30 12 ROCKET - DEF LEPPARD Now we were all listening with baited breath, in 89, to th NETWORK CHART SHOW with DAVID KID JENSEN, sponsered by....NESCAFE. No surprise that LEAVE ME ALONE was a MRIB number one, and did not top the Radio One/Gallup chart. BELFAST CHILD was from the SIMPLE MINDS E.P. BALLAD OF THE STREETS....COMIC RELIEF, put BANANARAMA in the charts, with a bit of help from the unfunniest duo on tv, FRENCH AND SAUNDERS (Biased or what)!!! SAM BROWN is of course, JOE BROWN`s daughter, and in 1989, she had a top 3 single, and top 20 album. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD took NOTHING HAS BEEN PROVED from the film, SCANDEL...TYREE annoyed us with TURN UP THE BASS, repeated over and over, and by the end, we wanted to Turn OFF the Bass!!! PAULA ABDUL scored with her first hit...HUE AND CRY took a song from the album...the REYNOLDS GIRLS apparently did not like Oldies! DEPECHE MODE re-hashed a mix of their 1983 hit. NEW ORDER went ROUND AND ROUND (nothing to do with hits by JAKI GRAHAM, or SPANDAU BALLET). W.A.S.P. (can you remember what it stood for)?....it was We Are Sexual Perverts, of course!! They hit the top 20, and WOMACK AND WOMACK could not match success of TEARDROPS, from 1988. Outside the 30 was, WHO WANTS TO BE THE DISCO KING by the WONDER STUFF at 32, VERONICA and ELVIS COSTELLO at 34, VIXEN were CRYIN` at 35, KIM WILDE wanted LOVE IN THE NATURAL WAY at 37. My fav was INTERNATIONAL RESCUE by FUZZBOX at 42. Here are this week`s top films... w/k ending 14th Mar 08 01 NE THE BANK JOB 02 NE SKIN PAD 03 01 JUMPER 04 NE THE ACCIDENTAL HUSBAND 05 04 JUNO 06 02 BE KIND REWIND 07 07 THERE WILL BE BLOOD 08 NE UNTRACEABLE 09 03 RAMBO 10 05 NATIONAL TREASURE-BOOK OF SECRETS The top off-line dvd rentals... w/k ending 14th Mar 08 01 NE STALOUT 02 NE THE INVASION 03 NE ELIZABETH-THE GOLDEN AGE 04 01 RUN FAT BOY RUN 05 NE EASTERN PROMISES 06 04 THE BRAVE ONE 07 05 MR BROOKES 08 06 RATATOUILLE 09 08 THE KINGDOM 10 09 KNOCKED UP Ready for the big finish? The most up to date chart in Britain coming, but these are the top 5 physicals this week...01) DUFFY, 02) WESTLIFE, 03 H TWO 0, 04) WE ARE SCIENTISTS, 05) TAIO CRUZ....The top 5 downloads, 01) DUFFY, 02) NICKELBACK, 03) ONE REPUBLIC, 04) H TWO 0, 05) TAIO CRUZ. Put together, they look like this... w/k ending 14/03 50 NE TIME TO PRETEND - MGMT 49 NE IF ONLY - KT TUNSTALL 48 NE CASSIUS - FOALS * 47 50 TAKE YOU THERE - SEAN KINGSTON 46 32 HOMECOMING - KANYE WEST * 45 NE YOUNG LOVE - MYSTERY JETS/LAURA MARLING * 44 37 BLEEDING LOVE - LEONA LEWIS 43 36 CALL THE SHOTS - GIRLS ALOUD 42 25 READY FOR THE FLOOR - HOT CHIP 41 31 MOVING TO NEW YORK - WOMBATS 40 28 RELAX - MIKA 39 NE BLIND - HERCULES/LOVE AFFAIR 38 29 ELVIS AIN`T DEAD - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 37 NE FIND THE TIME - GET CAPE WEAR CAPE FLY 36 NE DENIAL - SUGABABES * 35 NE THE MYSTERY - DOUG WALKER * 34 30 RIDE IT - JAY SEAN 33 26 NO ONE - ALICIA KEYS 32 23 SUPERSTAR - LUPE FIASCO 31 NE ALWAYS BE - JIMMY EAT WORLD 30 17 I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER - THE FEELING 29 NE BEGINNING OF THE TWIST - FUTUREHEADS * 28 21 APOLOGISE - ONE REPUBLIC 27 39 BETTER IN TIME/FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND - LEONA LEWIS * 26 22 CRANK THAT - SOULJA BOY 25 20 RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT 24 15 PIECE OF ME - BRITNEY SPEARS 23 18 A & E - GOLDFRAPP 22 14 JUST FOR TONIGHT - ONE NIGHT ONLY 21 13 VALERIE - RONSON/WINEHOUSE 20 37 CAN`T SPEAK FRENCH - GIRLS ALOUD * 19 33 MY DESTINY - DELINQUENT/K. CAT 18 16 SCREAM - TIMBALAND/HILSON/SCHERWZINGER * 17 10 WORK - KELLY ROWLAND 16 19 WITH YOU - CHRIS BROWN * 15 NE AFTER HOURS - WE ARE SCIENTISTS 14 27 SOMETHING GOOD 08 - UTAH SAINTS/VAN SHE * 13 06 CHASING PAVEMENTS - ADELE 12 08 SUN GOES DOWN - DAVID JORDAN 11 09 DON`T STOP THE MUSIC - RIHANNA 10 12 LOW - FLO RIDA * 09 05 WOW - KYLIE MINOGUE 08 24 FASCINATION - ALPHABEAT 07 40 US AGAINST THE WORLD - WESTLIFE 06 04 NOW YOU`RE GONE - BASSHUNTER/DJ MENTAL THEO 05 11 COME ON GIRLS - TAIO CRUZ 04 07 STOP AND STARE - ONE REPUBLIC 03 03 ROCKSTAR - NICKELBACK 02 02 WHAT`S IT GONNA BE - H TWO 0 01 01 MERCY - DUFFY * Denotes dowlnload only track DUFFY sales 18,000 more than H TWO 0, to spend a 4th week, at the top. We do note....that in mrib`s chart TING TINGS are actually number 16, but we have taken it out, in order to compare it to the Radio one chart, on Sunday. Actually TING TINGS have gone from 27 - 16, a great shame they are not allowed in the other chart. The people at OCC, have also removed the EDITORS, from the singles chart, because it has a free sticker with it, they hang in our chart today, at the bottom of the top 75. Outside the top 50 are, VAMPIRE WEEKEND at 51, ENVY AND OTHER SINS 54, DARREN HAYES is 62, T-PAIN at 61, AMY MACDONALD and RUN at 64, and also in the top 70 are, GNARLS BARKLEY, THE MANICS, and GABRIELLA CILMI. Of course the UTAH SAINTS original track, was based on CLOUDBUSTING (a 1985 top 20 hit, for KATE BUSH, with the words, "I know that SOMETHING GOOD is gonna happen"). Don`t forget to join us on Monday, for Next Week`s Chart, and maybe we will find out, why Westlife, did not make the top 3, like we said they would!!

Thanks for that! It is sometimes a hard job, for us to pick stores info. 3 of us, work in the music business anyway. But doing a full day`s work, and spending lunch searching sales etc, is not always long enough. Certainly, we have had success, and at times, the odd mishap! Songs obviously sell better in different stores. Our local Woolworths, no longer stock singles. Around Reading you`re hard pressed to find many shops, that do still stock singles. With Singles, being replaced more than ever by downloads, soon the download chart, will most certainly, replaced the singles chart altogether...then all you are left with is download sites, and the like. It may be a while before that happens to album sales, but if and when it does, the record shop could become extinct, a great shame. It used to be so easy, to get info for a weekly sales based prediction of singles, now it is increasingly harder. Album sales based predictions, are easier than singles at present. Before this year, we never even used to bother about predicting a sales based album chart. It was exactly 19 years this week, that we first compiled a prediction, for the singles chart, in March 1989. The idea did indeed come from Radio Luxembourg`s Next Week`s Chart show, along with a show broadcasted on Radio Mercury, on a Wednesday night at 8pm, where they rundown the latest singles sales, for the South of England. We broadcasted the predicted chart, on Student radio, and also Hospital radio, in various places. We only had 2 hours, and crammed all 40 records in to the time, in those early days! Virtually non-stop. It is great to do it on Buzzjack, every week. I do miss playing it out in full, though! It would be great to be able to do that again, with none of the nonsense, of radio chart shows, of today!!

Thanks Mart!n. Love on the brain!! :naughty:

It will always depend, what decade you were brought up in. In that case I was brought up in the 70s, and Radio 2. Then, they played much from the 50s, 60s, and easy listening 70s music. Your favourite music, will be what you grew up to, I believe. The 80s were ok. Although, Radio one was still not my favourite station, for music or presenters. Local stations had their own "feel" then, and played a better variety of music. Reflecting the decade by music was not neccesarily so, because if a 90s child was brought up with Radio one, then music from the past, maybe wouldn`t have featured in their life, when they were growing up.

Evening All! The weekly guide to what could happen this week, when we take the gang out, into the stores, and find out what`s happened since the weekend`s chart. Now last week, we had Katie Melua, in our singles chart at 11! What happened is a mystery, or maybe not! She was in both Woolies, and HMV top 20s last week, obviously shifting a few physical sales. Apart from that mishap, last week we had 10 out of the 20 in correct positions, have a check back!! We had 17 in total in the 20, but 7 were not correctly placed. 28 were placed in the top 30, yesterday and we had 36, placed in the 40 (though again, not totally correct position wise. We had a mishap with the album chart, because we forgot the significant Monday info from HMV, and Tesco. Woolies, Asda, and WH Smiths, had Jonathan Ansell, at-top of their album chart. Today in those 3 stores, he finished up at the bottom of their top 20s. All corrected this week, and we think, we are going to do well, for next Sunday. So, the Stores CD/Vinyl sales, and the added info of downloads, from the Tesco, Woolies, itunes, HMV, and the newly added Play.com downloads, which are good value, i`m told. Today, myself, Dave, Peter, and John got this in the album top 20... 01 NE ROCKFERRY - DUFFY 02 01 BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE 03 09 VERSION - MARK RONSON 04 02 SEVENTH TREE - GOLDFRAPP 05 05 LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION - MIKA 06 12 19 - ADELE 07 08 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 08 32 SOUND OF BASSLINE - VARIOUS 09 NE MASH UP MIX - VARIOUS 10 16 BREAKDOWN 08-VERY BEST OF EUPHORIC DANCE - VARIOUS 11 NE DIG LAZURUS DIG - NICK CAVE/BAD SEEDS 12 10 THRILLER 25 - MICHAEL JACKSON 13 NE BEST OF - THE CARDIGANS 14 23 CALL ME IRRESPONSIBLE - MICHAEL BUBLE 15 19 THIS IS THE LIFE - AMY MACDONALD 16 20 SPIRIT - LEONA LEWIS 17 42 BACK HOME - WESTLIFE 18 24 X - KYLIE MINOGUE 19 28 DREAMBOOATS AND PETTICOATS - VARIOUS 20 04 JOIN WITH US - FEELING Outside the 20 albums, ALICIA KEYS is 21, JONATHAN ANSELL 22, TAKE THAT 23, followed by DONNY OSMOND, BILLY FURY, ANDREA BOCELLI, RIHANNA, JACK JOHNSON, PLANT AND KRAUS, BRITS HITS 08, MINISTRY OF SOUND ANTHEMS, and ULTIMATE NRG...KELIS has a new entry at 33 with THE HITS...BLACK CROWES, GUTTER TWINS, BILLY BRAGG and the FELICE BROTHERS enter the top 50. On the singles today, we found this... 01 01 MERCY - DUFFY 02 NE US AGAINST THE WORLD - WESTLIFE 03 06 STOP AND STARE - ONE REPUBLIC 04 03 ROCKSTAR - NICKELBACK 05 02 WHAT`S IT GONNA BE - H TWO 0 06 04 NOW YOU`RE GONE - BASSHUNTER 07 15 COME ON GIRLS - TAIO CRUZ 08 05 WOW - KYLIE MINOGUE 09 07 CHASING PAVEMENTS - ADELE 10 08 DON`T STOP THE MUSIC - RIHANNA 11 09 SUN GOES DOWN - DAVID JORDAN 12 14 LOW - FLO RIDA 13 16 SCREAM - TIMBALAND 14 NE FASCINATION - ALPHABEAT 15 23 WITH YOU - CHRIS CROWN 16 38 CAN`T SPEAK FRENCH - GIRLS ALOUD 17 10 WORK - KELLY ROWLAND 18 13 VALERIE - MARK RONSON 19 12 JUST FOR TONIGHT - ONE NIGHT ONLY 20 17 PIECE OF ME - BRITNEY SPEARS 21 NE MY DESTINY - DELINQUENT 22 28 RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT 23 22 A & E - GOLDFRAPP 24 NE GREAT DJs - TING TINGS 25 24 SOMETHING GOOD - UTAH SAINTS 26 18 I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER - THE FEELING 27 25 APOLOGISE - ONE REPUBLIC 28 20 CRANK THAT - SOULJA BOY 29 NE BETTER IN TIME/FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND - LEONA LEWIS 30 21 SUPERSTAR - LUPE FIASCO We could not see the TING TINGS in the shops today, where it was released is open to question. So, it is just based on the downloads (which disqualified it from the official chart)...Outside the 30, ALICIA KEYS (NO ONE), VAMPIRE WEEKEND, AMY MACDONALD (RUN), PLIES/AKON (HYPNOTISED), JAY SEAN, MIKA, WOMBATS, SCOUTING FOR GIRLS, HOT CHIP...KANYE WEST battles with both KT TUNSTALL, and JANET JACKSON for a top 40 place...SEAN KINGSTON moves up to 43 today we found. Other entries from SUGABABES, WE ARE SCIENTISTS (Top 50) and GET CAPE WEAR CAPE FLY in what would be the top 75. On Monday 5th March 2001, We had this in the singles, for w/k ending 17th March 2001... 01 NE UPTOWN GIRL - WESTLIFE 02 01 IT WASNT ME - SHAGGY 03 02 WHOLE AGAIN - ATOMIC KITTEN 04 NE CLINT EASTWOOD - GORILLAZ 05 NE JUST ANOTHER DAY - JONATHON WILKES 06 NE HE LOVES YOU NOT - D:REEM 07 09 TEENAGE DIRTBAG - WHEATUS 08 08 ALWAYS COME BACK TO YOUR LOVE - SAMANTHA MUMBA 09 06 MS JACKSON - OUTKAST 10 07 I`M LIKE A BIRD - NELLY FURTADO 11 NE JADED - AEROSMITH 12 NE THINK ABOUT ME - ARTFUL DODGER 13 NE PIANO LOCO - DJ LUCK/MC NEAT 14 05 NOBODY WANTS TO BE LONELY - RICKY AND CHRISTINA 15 NE XHIBIT - X 16 03 SO WHY SO SAD - MANICS 17 04 FOUND THAT SOUL - MANICS 18 11 HERE WITH ME - DIDO 19 NE THIS YEARS LOVE - DAVID GRAY 20 13 PARADISE - KACI 21 21 DANCIN` IN THE MOONLIGHT - TOPLOADER 22 NE TENDER HEART - LIONEL RITCHIE 23 10 FEELS SO GOOD - MEL B. 24 08 AMERICAN DREAM - JAKATTA 25 17 LADYBOY IS MINE - STUNTMASTERZ 26 14 THE VISION - MARIO PU 27 16 SHUT UP - DANE BOWERS 28 18 HE DON`T LOVE YOU - HUMAN NATURE 29 23 BACK HERE - B.B. MAK 30 20 ROLLIN` - LIMP BIZKIT We had 28 in the 30, in 2001 (not necessarily in the right order, but the top 4 correct. We missed D12 (SxxT ON YOU), which was at 35, on our chart, but enterered the official chart at number 10. Obviously, the original song was not played, due to offensive lyrics. How right will we be for Sunday, and the mids? Time will tell!

Same break off point, which is around 5pm on a Friday. Tings Tings, physically released on Monday...so it will be in next Saturdays chart. It wasn`t disqualified in mrib`s, they have basic rules. We took it out, so it would give a better idea, of tomorrows Radio one countdown. They are in the top 30, at 27 (if we hadn`t taken it out). So, probably in the top 20, next week, if not top 10.

I think it would have done the chart justice, had the colloberation of release dates been simultaneous, from the moment downloads, were allowed to chart, in the first place. It makes me think, even more, when if downloads only were not in, Alicia, R.E.M. etc, would actually have entered the top 40, this week. Dodgy dodgy dodgy.

We messed up somewhere on Monday!!! Even the album chart!! I think the stores info, we had was not added properly, on an average, and certainly the HMV album chart, was not added in, and neither Tesco. As for Katie, well!! She actually made the HMV end of week physical top 20 today, and R.E.M. went top 10. We used to be good on the sales of physicals, but now we are losing with ever incresing downloads. I wish download versions, and physicals were issued together, at the same time. What do you reckon Mart!n? Do you think it would be better, if not fairer?

Not often we get a Saturday chart, on a Friday night, but this week we have it early. With thanks to Dave Taylor (daverictaylor@yahoo.co.uk). This week, we have the Album chart, the film chart, the dvd chart, and the most up to date chart in Britain as usual. Add a classic chart, from this week in 1971. Which is something special, because in 1971, a postal strike prevented Music Week, from printing an album chart. Many people use the Melody Maker chart, from the 8 week postal strike, but Dave has dug out the EMI charts, for that period. At the time equivalent to MRIB (who didn`t actually exist under that name, until 1981, but were basically the same as the Record Business magazine, published weekly between 1978 - 83. Anyway on to this week`s Albums... w/k ending 07/03 01 NE SEVENTH TREE - GOLDFRAPP 02 02 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 03 07 LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION - MIKA 04 06 19 - ADELE 05 25 YOU RAISE ME UP 08 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 06 RE VERSION - MARK RONSON 07 01 JOIN WITH US - THE FEELING 08 14 BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE 09 03 THRILLER 25 - MICHAEL JACKSON 10 04 BREAKDOWN 08-VERY BEST OF EUPHORIC DANCE - VARIOUS 11 NE SOUND OF BASSLINE - VARIOUS ARTISTS 12 16 DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS - VARIOUS ARTISTS 13 13 THIS IS THE LIFE - AMY MACDONALD 14 NE JUST FOR YOU - VARIOUS ARTISTS 15 NE MUM`S FAVOURITE SONGS - VARIOUS ARTISTS 16 09 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD - RIHANNA 17 05 SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC - JACK JOHNSON 18 RE X - KYLIE MINOGUE 19 10 STARTED A FIRE - ONE NIGHT ONLY 20 11 RAISING SAND - PLANT/KRAUSS GOLDFRAPP win. Why is AMY WINEHOUSE not in the top 3, is the question. Only mrib, can answer that one. So, let`s go back to 1971, and the EMI compiled album top 20... w/k ending 5th Mar 1971 01 01 ALL THINGS MUST PASS - GEORGE HARRISON 02 02 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER - SIMON AND GARFUNKEL 03 03 TUMBLEWEED CONNECTION - ELTON JOHN 04 04 GREATEST HITS - ANDY WILLIAMS 05 06 LED ZEPPELIN III - LED ZEPPELIN 06 05 MOTOWN CHARTBUSTERS VOL. 4 07 08 PENDULUM - CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL 08 07 SWEET BABY JAMES - JAMES TAYLOR 09 12 ELTON JOHN - ELTON JOHN 10 13 AIR CONDITIONING - CURVED AIR 11 09 DEEP PURPLE IN ROCK - DEEP PURPLE 12 10 GREATEST HITS VOL. 2 - FRANK SINATRA 13 18 JOHN LENNON PLASTIC ONO BAND - JOHN LENNON 14 11 EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER - EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER 15 14 STEPEHEN STILLS - STEPHEN STILLS 16 25 YES ALBUM - YES 17 20 CHICAGO 3 - CHICAGO 18 23 AFTER THE GOLDRUSH - NEIL YOUNG 19 24 WATT - TEN YEARS AFTER 20 21 EASY LISTENING - VARIOUS ARTISTS Lots of self-titled albums in 71. ALL THINGS MUST PASS and GEORGE HARRISON contained the single MY SWEET LORD (the song, that alledgedly nicked the melody of HE`S SO FINE), it also featured it`s B side WHAT IS LIFE (later covered by OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN). BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER of course contained the single, and it`s B side KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED. ELTON JOHN`s career was finally taking off, after being well known, as a session singer, here he had 2 albums in the top ten. LED ZEPPELIN never released singles in the UK, but the albums sold absolutely brilliantly (although one of the members JOHN PAUL JOANS released a single, THE MAN FROM NAZARETH, about Jesus, of course). JAMES TAYLOR was married to CARLY SIMON in those days, he was doing well in the albums. DEEP PURPLE were breaking into the singles market, by now, but the albums still selling well. The single HUSH in 1968, didn`t quite make it in Britain, but did in Europe, and was a cover of a JOE SOUTH song. JOHN LENNON went all peace loving with YOKO. EMERSON LAKE and PALMER kept the rock alive, pleasing ALAN FREEMAN, most certainly! CHICAGO were originally the CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY, and shortened it to just CHICAGO. NEIL YOUNG wrote AFTER THE GOLDRUSH, but later the song became mor associated with PRELUDE in 1974. MOTOWN CHARTBUSTERS, and EASY LISTENING were just like it said on the tin, and did very well, in the compilations market. ANDY WILLIAMS had a top U.S. TV show, and his albums, sold well off of that, and of course so did, the singles. One day Dave Taylor is going to get the original British Market Research Bureau/BBC album charts, for this 8 week period. And they have not been seen, anywhere since Radio one, in 1971! Who remembers 1971`s singles... w/k ending 5th Mar 1971 01 01 MY SWEET LORD - GEORGE HARRISON 02 02 PUSHBIKE SONG - MIXTURES 03 05 IT`S IMPOSSIBLE - PERRY COMO 04 10 BABY JUMP - MUNGO JERRY 05 03 RESSURECTION SHUFFLE - ASHTON GARDNER AND DYKE 06 04 STONED LOVE - SUPREMES 07 06 AMAZING GRACE - JUDY COLLINS 08 30 ANOTHER DAY - PAUL MCCARTNEY 09 18 SWEET CAROLINE - NEIL DIAMOND 10 07 YOUR SONG - ELTON JOHN 11 23 ROSE GARDEN - LYNN ANDERSON 12 15 FORGET ME NOT - MARTHA REEVES/VANDELLAS 13 08 NO MATTER WHAT - BADFINGER 14 11 COME AROUND HERE I`M THE ONE YOU NEED - SMOKEY ROBINSON/MIRACLES 15 09 CANDIDA - DAWN 16 22 TOMORROW NIGHT - ATOMIC ROOSTER 17 16 RUPERT - JACKIE LEE 18 21 EVERYTHING`S TUESDAY - CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD 19 20 CHESTNUT MARE - BYRDS 20 25 I THINK I LOVE YOU - PARTRIDGE FAMILY 21 NE HOT LOVE - T. REX 22 12 GRANDAD - CLIVE DUNN 23 14 SHE`S A LADY - TOM JONES 24 29 WHO PUT THE LIGHTS OUT - DANA 25 17 IT`S THE SAME OLD SONG - WEATHERMEN 26 13 APEMAN - KINKS 27 31 ROSE GARDEN - NEW WORLD 28 19 SUNNY HONEY GIRL - CLIFF RICHARD 29 34 I WILL DRINK THE WINE - FRANK SINATRA 30 24 RIDE A WHITE SWAN - T. REX GEORGE HARRISON topping both album, and singles charts, in 71. THE MIXTURES could not follow up THE PUSHBIKE SONG, the follow up did not sell entitled NEVER BE UNTRUE, an Australian outfit, with just the one, UK hit. PERRY COMO, had his own series, much like ANDY WILLIAMS did, and again did him well. MUNGO JERRY had singer RAY DORSET (who penned FEELS LIKE I`M IN LOVE in 1977, with ELVIS PRESLEY in mind, unfortunately ELVIS died before he even saw it, and it later topped the 1980 chart, for KELLY MARIE). Both ELTON JOHN and NEIL DIAMOND had their first UK chart singles. MOTOWN ruled for the SUPREMES, MARTHA REEVES and SMOKEY ROBINSON. ATOMIC ROOSTER were known to produce the music known as "underground". JACKIE LEE recorded RUPERT the theme to the ATV produced puppet series (previously JACKIE recorded the theme of another series WHITE HORSES in 68). MARC BOLAN had 2 hits in the the top 30. ROGER McGWINN returned to the top 20, fronting the BYRDS. The KINKS had a dodgy lyric in APEMAN (was the air-pollution fogging up their eyes, or something else)?!!! The WEATHERMAN was actually JONOTHAN KING, covering the FOUR TOPS 1965 top 30 hit. FRANK SINATRA was doing good, both in singles, and albums. JUDY COLLINS stayed in the charts forever, with the vocal version of AMAZING GRACE...CLIFF had a small hit, many small hits folowed in the early part of the 70s, and he too, had a BBC Saturday night series. PETULA CLARK was bubbling under with SONG OF MY LIFE, and ELVIS was again, covering old songs, as YOU DON`T HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME, slipped outside the 30, from the number 23 album, THAT`S THE WAY IT IS. CLIVE DUNN (MR JONES, in DAD`S ARMY) went all the way too the top with GRANDAD (written by HERBIE FLOWERS, of BLUE MINK fame. NEW WORLD won OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS (the talent show in 1970, and covered ROSE GARDEN, featured in the very first series of, the TWO RONNIES). ROSE GARDEN was also a very minor hit for, SANDIE SHAW. Also on tv, in 1971, over on ITV, there was a technicians strike, it started in Dec 1970, ending in Feb 71, all ITV`s programmes, had to be made in black & white, because of the strike, including early outings for, ON THE BUSES, UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, and the first seven editions of, BLESS THIS HOUSE with SIDNEY JAMES, DIANA COUPLAND and SALLY GEESON. Here are this week`s films... w/k ending 7th Mar 08 01 01 JUMPER 02 NE BE KIND REWIND 03 NE RAMBO 04 03 JUNO 05 02 NATIONAL TREASURE 06 04 THE WATER HORSE 07 07 THERE WILL BE LOVE 08 06 BUCKET LIST 09 05 CLOVERFIELD 10 14 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS A bit of a half-term reflection, in the top films, this week. Here are the top off-line dvds... w/k ending 7th Mar 08 01 NE RUN FAT BOY RUN 02 NE RESIDENT EVIL EXTINCTION 03 NE MICHAEL CLAXTON 04 01 THE BRAVE ONE 05 03 MR BROOKES 06 02 RATATOUILLE 07 04 HEARTBREAK KID 08 05 THE KINGDOM 09 09 KNOCKED UP 10 07 SUPERBAD Ready for the latest top singles/tracks, here we go... w/k ending 07/03 50 NE TAKE YOU THERE - SEAN KINGSTON * 49 43 WHAT HURT`S THE MOST - CASCADA 48 38 JUST FINE - MARY J. BLIGE 47 RE STOP ME - MARK RONSON 46 42 HEARTBROKEN - T2 45 27 WHEN I`M GONE - SIMPLE PLAN 44 39 SIX OF ONE THING - CRAIG DAVID 43 45 UMBRELLA - RIHANNA 42 NE UP ALL NIGHT - YOUNG KNIVES 41 30 NEW SOUL - YAEL NAIM * 40 NE US AGAINST THE WORLD - WESTLIFE * 39 NE BETTER IN TIME - LEONA LEWIS * 38 31 BE MINE - ROBYN 37 36 BLEEDING LOVE - LEONA LEWIS 36 40 CALL THE SHOTS - GIRLS ALOUD 35 34 JUST - MARK RONSON 34 NE CAN`T SPEAK FRENCH - GIRLS ALOUD * 33 NE MY DESTINY - DELINQUENT * 32 32 HOMECOMING - KANYE WEST * 31 37 MOVING TO NEW YORK - WOMBATS 30 27 RIDE IT - JAY SEAN 29 24 ELVIS AIN`T DEAD - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 28 18 SOMETHING GOOD - UTAH SAINTS/VAN SHE * 27 31 RELAX - MIKA 26 26 NO ONE - ALICIA KEYS 25 15 READY FOR THE FLOOR - HOT CHIP 24 NE FASCINATION - ALPHABEAT * 23 21 SUPERSTAR - LUPE FIASCO 22 17 CRANK THAT - SOULJA BOY 21 20 APOLOGISE - ONE REPUBLIC 20 29 RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT 19 33 WITH YOU - CHRIS BROWN * 18 16 A & E - GOLDFRAPP 17 11 I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER - FEELING 16 19 SCREAM - TIMBALAND/HILSON/SCHWERZINGER * 15 13 PIECE OF ME - BRITNEY SPEARS 14 12 JUST FOR TONIGHT - ONE NIGHT ONLY 13 14 VALERIE - RONSON/WINEHOUSE 12 22 LOW - FLORIDA 11 23 COME ON GIRL - TAIO CRUZ * 10 10 WORK - KELLY ROWLAND 09 08 DON`T STOP THE MUSIC - RIHANNA 08 07 SUN GOES DOWN - JORDAN 07 09 STOP AND STARE - ONE REPUBLIC * 06 06 CHASING PAVEMENTS - ADELE 05 04 WOW - KYLIE MINOGUE 04 05 NOW YOU`RE GONE - BASSHUNTER 03 03 ROCKSTAR - NICKELBACK 02 02 WHAT`S IT GONNA BE - H TWO 0 01 01 MERCY - DUFFY * (Denotes download only track) Well, a bit static near the top, DUFFY`s physical release pushes it too 50% up on last week`s sales, and quite a gap below. Outside the 50, ALICIA KEYS new one enters at 54, MARCO DEMARK is 56, R.E.M. stumble at 61, with BODIES WITHOUT ORGANS coming in at 64, SUGABABES have a DENIAL in the top 70, and poor KATIE MELUA what happened? We do also note this week, that the TINGS TINGS (if not disqualified at the moment) would be at 27. On a physical chart this week it looks like this in the top 5....01) DUFFY, 02) H TWO 0, 03) KYLIE, 04) NICKELBACK, 05) BASSHUNTER...On a download top 5....01) DUFFY, 02) H TWO 0, 03) NICKELBACK, 04) BASSHUNTER, 05 ADELE. Don`t forget we will attempt NEXT WEEK`S CHART on Monday, and we will find out why KATIE did not even make the top 75!!!!!

Radio One played the whole 40, from January 1991, when Goodier, started the show at 4.30. It grew to 3 hours in 92, when Bruno Brookes returned to host it. The Network Chart and Kid Jensen grew to a top 40, in 92 with 3 hours. The Pepsi Chart was launched in August 93, with Neil Fox, when the airplay factor, grew to a big proportion. Although the top ten, was the official Milward Brown researched one. As is today, Hit40uk and the airplay factor, is just too much, even slower moving than, the Radio One chart has become. It`s possible for Independant Radio, to broadcast a chart on a Saturday. All they have to do, is use a different compiler, play it in full, and then they would have the most up to date chart in Britain, just like the original Network Chart Show. I think that would knock Radio One, sideways!! A proper Saturday chart, is so close to Sunday`s chart, so the Independant Radio people, should go ahead, and do it. Apart from the chart on Radio One, does anyone actually bother to listen, to any other of it`s output? Radio One even seems to try to push, it`s playlist on the top 40 show. Who`s interested in their playlist? Taken in to acount, the amount of times, the Top 40, in recent weeks, missed out Amy Macdonald, but still managed to play all of Rihanna`s material, even though the songs, had been in for months!

Either way, still an utter load of nonsense/waste of time, that does not befit a chart show. Glad I made the switch to the Smash Hits Chart, where many weeks Mark Goodier, or Robin Banks more often than not, got 47 records into 3 hours, and no ads. I did forget that Wes Butters did 2 years, because that used to be the minimum contract, back then.

No this wasn`t JK and JOEL it was Wes Butters. How long did he last? Just one ghastly year!!!!!! When Wes started he missed most of the 40 - 21 part, and then in the final 6 months of his reign, he did start the format, later used by JK and JOEL. Of course by then (if we lived in the right area), we switched to Mark Goodier, on the brilliant Smash Hits Chart...where downloads arrived 3 years early, by the use of requested songs, from the Box, the Hits, and Smash Hits tv. Then we had new number ones, up to 3 weeks, before the Radio one top 40. In the newspapers the headline read, "Radio One Chart Show, Become`s Chat Show, with unknown DJ Wes Butters"...The butter certainly slipped the show, right out of the ratings!! Although Independant Radio lost out too, because all 3 radio groups, broadcasted either the Hit40, Smash Hits Chart, or the dire "A" List.

I can post the mrib top 10 physical chart, like this... 01 ne H TWO 0 02 ne KYLIE 03 01 NICKELBACK 04 02 BASSHUNTER 05 04 DAVID JORDAN 06 03 ADELE 07 05 RIHANNA 08 06 THE FEELING 09 08 KELLY ROWLAND 10 07 GOLDFRAPP That was up until last Friday evening. Alas have no sales.

Very surprised myself. Doing pretty good today in both HMV and WOOLIES. The album IN PICTURES is just outside the top 30 too. How come you have become MART!N...instead of the loveable M!KEY??? I`m sure everybody wants to know.........

We have been around the stores again today, that is HMV, WOOLWORTHS and 2 smaller stockists. Taking in their sales since Yesterday, adding in the download sites, of Tesco, HMV, Woolworths, and the big iTunes. As radioplay is letting our charts down each week, we have knocked the airplay off. So its just 50/50 shop sales, and downloads. Let`s go to today`s averaged albums... 01 06 TENOR AT THE MOVIES - JONATHAN ANSELL 02 01 JOIN WITH US - FEELING 03 08 BACK TO BLACK (BOTH VERSIONS) - AMY WINEHOUSE 04 NE MUM`S FAVOURITE SONGS - VARIOUS 05 NE SEVENTH TREE - GOLDFRAPP 06 NE FROM DONNY WITH LOVE - DONNY OSMOND 07 02 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 08 05 LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION - MIKA 09 11 VERSION - MARK RONSON 10 09 THRILLER 25TH - MICHAEL JACKSON 11 19 YOU RAISE ME UP 08 - VARIOUS 12 03 19 - ADELE 13 16 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD - RIHANNA 14 NE STARS (COLLECTORS EDITION) - SIMPLY RED 15 25 JUST FOR YOU - VARIOUS 16 12 BEST OF EUPHORIC DANCE 08 - VARIOUS 17 04 SLEEP THRU THE STATIC - JACK JOHNSON 18 05 BRITS HITS - VARIOUS 19 17 THIS IS THE LIFE - AMY MACDONALD 20 22 SPIRIT - LEONA 21 13 SET THE MOOD - DAVID JORDAN JONATHAN ANSELL goes to the top of the albums, a bit of a surprise. Outside the 20 today we found ULTIMATE NRG at 22, MICHAEL BUBLE at 23, JOHNNY MATHIS (A NIGHT TO REMEMBER) at 24, BILLY FURY 25, SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 26, JOE BROWN 27. Further down entries for HERE COME THE GIRLS 3, TOP OF THE POPS 80s, SOUND OF BASSLINE, and CLARE TEAL enters at 37, with GET HAPPY. If we had both versions of BACK TO BLACK listed separately, it would be at 5, and 18, pushing MUM`S FAVOURITE SONGS to 3, and GOLDFRAPP to 4. Today we found a top 30 singles chart... 01 02 MERCY - DUFFY 02 01 WHAT`S IT GONNA BE - H TWO 0 03 03 ROCKSTAR - NICKELBACK 04 04 NOW YOU`RE GONE - BASSHUNTER 05 05 WOW - KYLIE MINOGUE 06 07 STOP AND STARE - ONE REPUBLIC 07 06 CHASING PAVEMENTS - ADELE 08 09 DON`T STOP THE MUSIC - RIHANNA 09 08 SUN GOES DOWN - DAVID JORDAN 10 11 WORK - KELLY ROWLAND 11 NE IF THE LIGHTS GO OUT - KATIE MELUA 12 15 JUST FOR TONIGHT - ONE NIGHT ONLY 13 30 VALERIE - AMY/MARK 14 31 LOW - FLOR IDA 15 26 COME ON GIRL - TAIO CRUZ 16 22 SCREAM - TIMBALAND 17 12 PIECE OF ME - BRITNEY 18 11 I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER - FEELING 19 21 READY FOR THE FLOOR - HOT CHIP 20 19 CRANK THAT - SOULJA BOY 21 14 SUPERSTAR - LUPE FIASCO 22 18 A & E - GOLDFRAPP 23 41 WITH YOU - CHRIS BROWN 24 23 SOMETHING GOOD - UTAH SAINTS 25 25 APOLOGISE - ONE REPUBLIC 26 24 ELVIS AIN`T DEAD - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 27 36 NEW SOUL - YAEL NAIM 28 32 RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT 29 29 NO ONE - ALICIA KEYS 30 35 RELAX - MIKA Static chart next week, apart from KATIE MELUA, it looks!! KANYE WEST hangs in the 40, at 31, as does JAY SEAN, SIMPLE PLAN, MARK BROWN, WOMBATS, LEONA, ROBYN...There are entries for R.E.M, and ALICIA KEYS (LIKE YOU`LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN) at 32...meanwhile YOUNG KNIVES and UP ALL NIGHT, are right at the end of what would be the top 60. GIRLS ALOUD, CAN`T SPEAK FRENCH is at 38. Let`s look back to 1998, in the chart we did then. On Happening Radio (the Student station, I broadcasted this chart, on Monday 23rd Feb 1998...the chart actually for w/k ending 7th Mar 98... 01 01 MY HEART WILL GO ON - CELINE DION 02 03 BRIMFUL OF ASHA - CORNERSHOP 03 NE FROZEN - MADONNA 04 02 DOCTOR JONES - AQUA 05 NE BALLAD OF TOM JONES - SPACE/CERYS MATTHEWS 06 11 TRULY MADLY DEEPLY - SAVAGE GARDEN 07 NE TRULY - STEPHEN HOUGHTON 08 NE HOW DO I LIVE WITHOUT YOU - LEANN RIMES 09 09 WHEN I NEED YOU - WILL MELLOR 10 05 BE ALONE NO MORE - ANOTHER LEVEL 11 06 NEVER EVER - ALL SAINTS 12 NE SHOW ME LOVE - ROBYN 13 08 GETTING JIGGY WITH IT - WILL SMITH 14 16 STILL THE ONE - SHANIA TWAIN 15 NE YOUR LOVE GET`S SWEETER - FINLAY QUAY 16 07 ANGELS - ROBBIE WILLIAMS 17 12 LET ME SHOW YOU - CAMISRA 18 NE UNFORGIVEN II - METALLICA 19 NE MUSIC IN MY MIND - ADAM FENTON 20 NE WHO AM I - BEENIE MAN 21 19 CLEOPATRA`S THEME - CLEOPATRA 22 13 IT`S A BEAUTIFUL THING - OCEAN COLOUR SCENE 23 04 TREAT INFAMY - REST ASSURED 24 14 ALL I HAVE TO GIVE - BACK STREET BOYS 25 22 TOGETHER AGAIN - JANET JACKSON 26 15 HIGH - LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY 27 21 YOU MAKE ME WANNA - USHER 28 NE IF YOU WANT ME - HINDA HICKS 29 10 TELE-FUNKIN` - N`TYCE 30 NE MAKE THE WORLD GO AROUND - SANDY B. In 98, I played 28 out of the actual next weeks top 30! But missed IGGY POP and PASSENGER (which was bubbling at 33). We had CATATONIA down to 31 (they were 29 on the following Sunday). We had BLACK GRAPE at 32, but they only made 46 officially. Also we had MERIDITH BROOKES at 35 (only got to 49 officially, and we also had YOUNG OFFENDERS at 38 (they only got to 60 officially)!!!!! We missed with QUEEN PENN and the song, MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC officially 37, it did not appear in our top 50!!

Girls Aloud at 66, Ang!

Here we go, with another Saturday and this week`s set of charts (courtesy of Dave Taylor, daverictaylor@yahoo.co.uk). This week`s trawl, brings the album top 15, the top films, top dvds, and rounding off with the singles. All back to back with a sneaking look back to Feb 1983. Off to the album top 15... w/k ending 29/02 01 NE JOIN WITH US - THE FEELING 02 02 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 03 04 THRILLER 25TH - MICHAEL JACKSON 04 NE BEST OF EUPHORIC DANCE BREAKDOWN 08 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 05 01 SLEEP TROUGH THE STATIC - JACK JOHNSON 06 03 19 - ADELE 07 18 LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION - MIKA 08 NE BRITS HITS 2008 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 09 13 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD - RIHANNA 10 09 STARTED A FIRE - ONE NIGHT ONLY 11 11 RAISING SAND - PLANT/KRAUS 12 07 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 13 12 THIS IS THE LIFE - AMY MACDONALD 14 17 BACK TO BLACK - AMY WINEHOUSE 15 14 ULTIMATE NRG - VARIOUS ARTISTS The other entries in the top 30 albums, come from JOE BROWN, SIMPLE PLAN and two other VA Compilations, YOU RAISE ME UP 08 (scrapes the top 20), and JUST FOR YOU, slightly further down. Meanwhile, DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS also hangs in the top 20. All that, and the BRITS awards dominating the chart. Expect GOLDFRAPP to smash into the top 5, next week. Who remembers 1983? The albums... w/k ending 25th Feb 1983 01 01 BUSINESS AS USUAL - MEN AT WORK 02 02 PORCUPINE - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 03 06 THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON 04 03 NIGHT AND DAY - JOE JACKSON 05 05 HELLO I MUST BE GOING - PHIL COLLINS 06 19 ANOTHER PAGE - CHRISTOPHER CROSS 07 22 WAITING - FUN BOY THREE 08 04 JOHN LENNON COLLECTION - JOHN LENNON 09 21 FRONTIERS - JOURNEY 10 14 BELLE STARS - BELLE STARS 11 11 ALL THE BEST - STIFF LITTLE FINGERS 12 09 HEARTBREAKER - DIONNE WARWICK 13 07 KILLER ON THE RAMPAGE - EDDY GRANT 14 33 MONEY AND CIGARETTES - ERIC CLAPTON 15 16 DIFFICULT SHAPES AND PASSIVE RYTHYMS - CHINA CRISIS 16 10 RICHARD CLAYDERMAN - RICHARD CLAYDERMAN 17 08 FELINE - STRANGLERS 18 26 PEARLS II - ELKIE BROOKES 19 NE POWERLIGHT - EARTH WIND AND FIRE 20 25 RIO - DURAN DURAN Well in 1983, there were no VA Compilations in the top 20 (although VISIONS had just slipped 4 places, to 21)!! It was THRILLER the first time around at 3, and a number of artists, who could never quite make it in the singles chart. True to say that ERIC CLAPTON, JOURNEY and RICHARD CLAYDERMAN preferred the album market. RICHARD CLAYDERMAN of course the french, piano playing artiste. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN appealed to a select group, The STRANGLERS had done well with FELINE (spourning the top ten single EUROPEAN FEMALE). EDDY GRANT spourned the number 2 single, from the album KILLER ON THE RAMPAGE (ELECTRIC AVENUE). CHINA CRISIS are back for 2008 (their new single is a re-working of the MICHAEL HOLLIDAY 1960 number one, STARRY EYED, check it out)!! Here are 1983`s singles w/k ending 25th Feb 1983 01 01 TOO SHY - KAJAGOOGOO 02 07 BILLIE JEAN - MICHAEL JACKSON 03 08 AFRICA - TOTO 04 03 CHANGE - TEARS FOR FEARS 05 04 SIGN OF THE TIMES - BELLE STARS 06 02 DOWN UNDER - MEN AT WORK 07 05 UP WHERE WE BELONG - JOE COCKER/JENNIFER WARNES 08 06 WHAM RAP (ENJOY WHAT YOU DO) - WHAM 09 27 TOMORROW`S JUST ANOTHER DAY - MADNESS 10 17 TUNNEL OF LOVE - FUN BOY THREE 11 24 NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP - MUSICAL YOUTH 12 19 LOVE ON YOUR SIDE - THOMSON TWINS 13 09 OH DIANE - FLEETWOOD MAC 14 13 CHRISTIAN - CHINA CRISIS 15 12 LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE - INDEEP 16 11 GLORIA - LAURA BRANIGAN 17 10 ELECTRIC AVENUE - EDDY GRANT 18 28 SHINY SHINY - HAYSI FANTAYSEE 19 NE TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART - BONNIE TYLER 20 22 GET THE BALANCE RIGHT - DEPECHE MODE 21 34 HEY LITTLE GIRL - ICEHOUSE 22 37 GENETIC ENGINEERING - ORCHESTRAL MANOUEVRES IN THE DARK 23 35 BABY COME TO ME - PATTI AUSTIN/JAMES INGRAM 24 21 STORY OF THE BLUES - WAH 25 NE WAVES - BLANCMANGE 26 14 THE CUTTER - ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN 27 39 SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS) - EURYTHMICS 28 29 COMMUNICATION - SPANDAU BALLET 29 25 COLD SWEAT - THIN LIZZY 30 16 NEW YEAR`S DAY - U2 2nd week at the top, for KAJAGOOGOO in 83. TOTO did take their name from the dog in the WIZARD OF OZ, surprise surprise! TEARS FOR FEARS were doing good, and followed up MAD WORLD with CHANGE (which actually went to number one, in one chart, at the time). JOE COCKER returned to the chart, after a 13 year break...The BELLE STARS scored their only top tenner, after just missing with the CLAPPING SONG (a reworked version of a SHIRLEY ELLIS top 3 hit), themselves the BELLE STARS, had previously had competition from NATASHA ENGLAND (who had her version of IKO IKO out in June 1982, the same time as the BELLE STARS version). NATASHA recently revived her song, but it did not sell well at all. LAURA BRANIGAN passed away a few years back, but in 83 she wasa going down the chart, with a re-worked Euro-hit from 1979 (that was covered in the UK in 79, by the outrageous JONATHON KING). DEPECHE MODE actually got some airplay on Radio 2, with GET THE BALANCE RIGHT on the DAVID HAMILTON SHOW. My particular favourite cover in 1983, was NATURE BOY by CENTRAL LINE which this week in 83, had slid 10 places to 31! Also sliding outside the top 30 were, PRINCE (1999, the first time around down from 31 to 34). ROCKERS REVENGE folowed up WALKING ON SUNSHINE with THE HARDER THEY COME but, only managed to sneak into the top 30 and this week slid 2 places to 35. ELVIS PRESLEY return to the chart 25 years after the original release of JAILHOUSE ROCK, but only managed 32 on the MRIB chart. PATTI AUSTIN had sung on the 1981 top 20 hit "RAZZAMATAZZ", by QUINCY JONES. Here she was 2 years later, with JAMES INGRAM...JAMES well known, for the duet (he also sung with MICHAEL MCDONALD in 1985, LINDA RONSTADT in 1987, and so on). Here are this week`s top films... w/k ending 29/02/08 01 NE JUMPER 02 01 NATIONAL TREASURES-BOOK OF SECRETS 03 02 JUNO 04 05 WATER HORSE-LEGEND OF THE DEEP 05 03 CLOVERFIELD 06 NE BUCKET LIST 07 NE THERE WILL BE BLOOD 08 06 DEFINATELY, MAYBE 09 08 PENELOPE 10 NE JODKAA AKDAR The top DVD offline rentals... w/k ending 29/02/08 01 NE BRAVE ONE 02 NE RATATOUILLE 03 NE MR BROOKS 04 02 HEARTBREAK KID 05 04 THE KINGDOM 06 01 ATONEMENT 07 07 SUPERBAD 08 03 WEDDING DAZE 09 08 KNOCKED UP 10 NE 3.10 TO YUMA Here are the top 5 owned cars in Britain (well it`s different)!!! 01 FORD FOCUS 125,000 02 OPEL/VAUXHALL ASTRA 113, 894 03 FORD FIESTA 104,000 04 OPEL VAUXHALL CORSA 94,000 05 PEUGEOT 207 70,000 In Europe... 01 PEUGEOT 207 437,505 02 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF 435,055 03 FORD FOCUS 406,557 04 OPEL/VAUXHALL CORSA 402,173 05 OPEL/VAUXHALL ASTRA 402,044 On to this weeks all important selling singles, physically this week the top 5 are 1) H TWO 0, 2) KYLIE MINOGUE, 3) NICKLEBACK, 4) BASSHUNTER, 5) DAVID JORDAN...Download top 5, 1) DUFFY, 2) H TWO 0, 3) NICKELBACK, 4) BASSHUNTER 5) ADELE...How`s it look when put together?.... Singles/Track chart... w/k ending 29/02 45 48 UMBRELLA - RIHANNA 44 NE CASSIUS - FOALS 43 37 WHAT HURT`S THE MOST - CASCADA 42 34 SHE`S SO LOVELY - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 41 NE BREAK OF DAWN 08 - OUT OF OFFICE 40 32 CALL THE SHOTS - GIRLS ALOUD 39 NE 6 OF ONE - CRAIG DAVID 38 33 MOVING TO NEW YORK - WOMBATS 37 23 JUST FINE - MARY J. BLIGE 36 38 BLEEDING LOVE - LEONA LEWIS 35 31 RELAX-TAKE IT EASY - MIKA 34 NE JUST - MARK RONSON 33 NE WITH YOU - CHRIS BROWN * 32 29 HOMECOMING - KANYE WEST 31 22 BE MINE - ROBYN 30 43 NEW SOUL - YAEL NAIM * 29 30 RULE THE WORLD - TAKE THAT 28 27 RIDE IT - JAY SEAN 27 26 WHEN I`M GONE - SIMPLE PLAN 26 24 NO ONE - ALICIA KEYS 25 19 JOURNEY CONTINUES - MARK BROWN/SARAH CRACKNELL 24 41 LOW - FLO RIDA * 23 42 COME ON GIRL - TAIO CRUZ * 22 20 ELVIS AIN`T DEAD - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 21 12 SUPERSTAR - LUPE FIASCO 20 21 APOLOGISE - ONE REPUBLIC/TIMBALAND 19 28 SCREAM - TIMBALAND/HILSON/SCHWERZINGER * 18 35 SOMETHING GOOD 08 - UTAH SAINTS VS VAN SHE * 17 16 CRANK THAT - SOULJA BOY 16 10 A & E - GOLDFRAPP 15 15 READY FOR THE FLOOR - HOT CHIP 14 25 VALERIE - RONSON/WINEHOUSE 13 12 PIECE OF ME - BRITNEY SPEARS 12 14 JUST FOR TONIGHT - ONE NIGHT ONLY 11 08 I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER - THE FEELING 10 09 WORK - KELLY ROWLAND 09 13 STOP AND STARE - ONE REPUBLIC * 08 06 DON`T STOP THE MUSIC - RIHANNA 07 05 SUN GOES DOWN - DAVID JORDAN 06 04 CHASING PAVEMENTS - ADELE 05 03 NOW YOU`RE GONE - BASSHUNTER 04 18 WOW - KYLIE MINOGUE 03 02 ROCKSTAR - NICKELBACK 02 07 WHAT`S IT GONNA BE - H TWO 0 01 01 MERCY - DUFFY * * (Denotes download only) DUFFY notches up nearly 80, 000 downloads in 13 days to take the top, for a second week (pretty impressive). It sells nearly 8, 000 more copies than H TWO 0...a large gap equally between H TWO 0, and KYLIE neck and neck with BASSHUNTER. Obviously the 9 week download only version, kept KYLIE out of the top 3...but even physically the song is available in at least 3 versions. Outside the top 45, slides T2 at 46...AMY WINEHOUSE bangs back up with REHAB and BACK TO BLACK...ROCKFERRY (DUFFY`s second offering is hanging in the 50, with the HOOSIERS, and GOODBYE MR A, which just won`t say goodbye to the top 50. NEWTON FAULKNER goes back up this week, as does STOP ME and MARK RONSON. NICK CAVE/BAD SEEDS misses the top 50, by a couple, and SEAN KINGSTON is at 55. Next week look out for entries from R.E.M, GARY NUMAN, BODIES WITHOUT ORGANS, and KATIE MELUA. Join us for NEXT WEEK`s CHART, Monday from 4.30pm, and find out what could happen. Remember last week, we told you first that KYLIE would make the top 5!

So here we are on a Monday, when I get together with some chums (who work in and around the music biz), and we go around the town shops, and have a look at what has been selling since yesterday. We take 4 record stores sales, 4 download sites, add in 20% of radio/tv play, put it together, and come up with the following... Today we came up with this, in the albums... 01 NE JOIN WITH US - THE FEELING 02 03 ALL THE RIGHT REASONS - NICKELBACK 03 02 19 - ADELE 04 01 SLEEP THROUGH THE STATIC - JACK JOHNSON 05 NE BRITS O8 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 06 17 LIFE IN CARTOON MOTION - MIKA 07 NE TENOR AT THE MOVIES - JONATHAN ANSELL 08 RE BACK TO BLACK (BOTH EDITIONS) - AMY WINEHOUSE 09 18 THRILLER 25TH ANNIVERSARY - MICHAEL JACKSON 10 07 SCOUTING FOR GIRLS - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 11 NE BREAKDOWN 08-VERY BEST OF EUPHORIC DANCE - VARIOUS ARTISTS 12 RE VERSION - MARK RONSON 13 16 SET THE MOOD - DAVID JORDAN 14 12 STARTED A FIRE - ONE NIGHT ONLY 15 11 RAISING SAND - PLANT AND KRAUSS 16 10 GOOD GIRL GONE BAD - RIHANNA 17 14 THIS IS THE LIFE - AMY MACDONALD 18 04 GREATEST HITS - MORRISEY 19 NE YOU RAISE ME UP 2008 - VARIOUS ARTISTS 20 20 DREAMBOATS AND PETTICOATS - VARIOUS ARTISTS Just outside the top 20 today, we found new entries from SHERYL CROW at 24, KYLIE is up to 28, LEONA LEWIS back up to 22, SIMPLE PLAN at 35, and JOE BROWN`s GREATEST HITS is in at number 42. PAUL MCCARTNEY has a couple of albums in the top 50. On the singles front, we had a hard job. The top ten was simple, but the rest full of download only tracks was the hardest chart, we ever put together, in 19 years! So in the end we relegated the 11 - 20, to physical and radioplay. Anyway we came up with this... 01 13 WHAT`S IT GONNA BE - H TWO O 02 NE MERCY - DUFFY 03 01 ROCKSTAR - NICKELBACK 04 02 NOW YOUR`E GONE - BASSHUNTER 05 09 WOW - KYLIE MINOGUE 06 05 CHASING PAVEMENTS - ADELE 07 NE STOP AND STARE - ONE REPUBLIC 08 06 SUN GOES DOWN - DAVID JORDAN 09 07 DON`T STOP THE MUSIC - RIHANNA 10 03 I THOUGHT IT WAS OVER - THE FEELING 11 08 WORK - KELLY ROWLAND 12 10 PIECE OF ME - BRITNEY SPEARS 13 NE 6 0F ONE - CRAIG DAVID 14 11 SUPERSTAR - LUPE FIASCO 15 15 JUST FOR TONIGHT - ONE NIGHT ONLY 16 16 HOMECOMING - KANYE WEST 17 NE JUST - MARK RONSON 18 04 A & E - GOLDFRAPP 19 17 CRANK THAT - SOULJABOY 20 NE BREAK OF DAWN 08 - OUT OF OFFICE Outside the 20, HOT CHIP 21, TIMBALAND 22 (SCREAM), UTAH SAINTS 23, SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 24, APOLOGISE 25, TAIO CRUZ 26, MARK BROWN 27, ROBYN 28, ALICIA KEYS 29, VALERIE at 30...We had problems with REM, GNARLS BARKLEY but they are close in the top 40, doing well in Woolworths/HMVdownloads, and further down on iTUNES. FLO RIDA, YAEL NAIM also in the 40...and CHRIS BROWN top 50. NICK CAVE/BAD SEEDS, and the RASCALS also scrape the far low regions of what would be a top 100. How will this reflect next Sunday`s chart, and the mids we will see! Last week we had 25 in the 30, but not necessarily in the right order, as usual! In the albums (combined) we had 27 in, again slightly out of order. Let`s end with a flashback to 1995...Luxembourg ended satellite broadcasts in 1992. But we (thats Peter, Dave, John, and myself started it up for student radio in 1989, so this is what we came up with on Mon 20th Feb 95, which would have been the singles chart, for w/k ending 4th March 95... 01 02 THINK TWICE - CELINE DION 02 01 NO MORE I LOVE YOU`S - ANNIE LENNOX 03 06 I`VE GOT A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR YOU - MN8 04 05 DON`T GIVE ME YOUR LIFE - ALEX PARTY 05 03 BEDTIME STORIES - MADONNA 06 10 REACH UP - PAFECTO ALL STARS 07 18 SOMEDAY I`LL BE SATURDAY - BON JOVI 08 04 SET YOU FREE - N`TRANCE 09 33 WAKING UP - ELASTICA 10 08 COTTON EYE JOE - REDNEX 11 16 OUR RADIO ROCKS - PJ AND DUNCAN 12 07 HERE COMES THE HOTSTEPPER - INI KAMOZE 13 15 RUNAWAY - REAL MCCOY 14 NE BELIEVE - ELTON JOHN 15 14 INDEPENDANT LOVE SONG - SCARLET 16 21 TOCCATA AND PHUGE - VANESSA MAI 17 23 OVER MY SHOULDER - MIKE AND THE MECHANICS 18 12 TOTAL ECLYPSE OF THE HEART - NICKI FRENCH 19 13 CALL IT LOVE - DEUCE 20 35 FOR YOUR LOVE - STEVIE WONDER We had 17 in the 20, in 1995, although only 4 totally correct (compared to the following Sun). I seem to remember, DEUCE narrowly missed out on representing the UK, in the Eurovision Song Contest (being beat in the Song For Europe, at some point). Now if anyone can remind me when that was, and the song title (I believe a chart hit), I would be grateful!! Any offers?

That`s what I thought, but apparently wrong. From what Dave Taylor says, tomorrow will put H TWO O, in the top 7, and Britney and GOLDFRAPP could swap places. While, ONE REPUBLIC will swap places, with ONE NIGHT ONLY. KYLIE and SOULJA BOY could push ahead of PARAMORE, and TAIO CRUZ will knock MICHAEL JACKSON out! Funnily enough I wish someone would! Now I must correct, a little mistake.

I remember the deputy head at school, playing, "Coward of the County" in assembly one day. She told this most amazing story, about not having to fight your way through life! The following day, we were all surprised when it went to number one! At school we were all mystified. Was it all the deputy head`s doing?! New Musik certainly had lots of airplay. Quite amazing that even "This World of Water" couldn`t get into the top 30, at all. I always remember my sister copying the songs, from the top 40! I used to hate the fact she stopped the tape when Tony Blackburn/Simon Bate/Tom Browne started to talk. I would have preferred to listen to the whole shows, even years on, like I do with some I did myself! I don`t think we will ever re-capture the fun of such presenters (who would be very slick) even with the odd mistake thrown in. Making the programme, that more interesting, without the talentless presenters, who do such a ghastly job, today!

Thanks Manic, how could I forget Mika, and of course January 2007.

Same as me! You miust remember the VAPORS follow up to the Feb 80 release of TURNING JAPANESE ? It was called NEWS AT TEN and in 1981, they had another small hit with JIMMIE JONES?

Absolutley Mikey mate. Do you remember the follow up, and 3rd chart single by the BUGGLES though? It scraped the chart in the early Summer of 1980, called CLEAN CLEAN...remember it? The PLASTIC AGE always reminds me of an episode of the TOMORROW PEOPLE being shown at the time, entitled "The Living Skins", about a plastic clothing fabric, that took over ones will/mind! I must get on with the rest of the charts :yahoo: