Everything posted by paulgilb
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Quiz Series 5 Finale: POINTLESS (with bonuses)
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QUICK FIRE QUIZ IV - THE RESULTS!!
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Chart forum quiz week 8 - the results!
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MANGO'S QUIZ OF TWO HALVES: THE RESULTS
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⭐️🌟⭐️ Family Fortunes: Chart Edition ⭐️🌟⭐️
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BuzzJack - Only Connect: The Results
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RESULTS: BUZZJACK POINTLESS (with a twist)
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QUICK FIRE QUIZ III - THE RESULTS!!
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Top 100 Singles + Albums; W/E 23/09/21
A search of polyhex.com reveals that week ending 10/10/2019 had three such new entries in the lower part of the top 75:
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Unluckiest Chart Hits
Thanks for another great thread, Gezza!
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Official Chart Flashback
That 2001 chart may well be the only one where the song at #3 name-checks the artists at #1, #7 and #10 in the space of 3 lines.
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Quiz Results: FAMILY FORTUNES
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Misleading highest peaks?
The Troggs' only #1 was With A Girl Like You, but Wild Thing (#2) and Love Is All Around (#5) are both better known. Katrina & The Waves are best known for Walking On Sunshine (#8), but reached #3 over a decade later with Love Shine A Light. Redbone's only UK hit was The Witch Queen Of New Orleans (#2 in 1971), but they may be better known now for Come And Get Your Love (upon which Cyndi Lauper's re-recording of Girls Just Wanna Have Fun was partly based), which was their biggest US hit.
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Misleading highest peaks?
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia reached #2, but songs such as Born In The USA and Hungry Heart are definitely better known. Weezer reached #9 in 2005 with Beverly Hills, but the #12-peaking Buddy Holly is better remembered. Embrace had 2 top 3 hits in 2006 (Nature's Law only narrowly missing out on #1), but I would certainly say Gravity (which peaked at #7) is better remembered. Morrissey reached #3 in 2004 with Irish Blood English Heart and in 2006 with You Have Killed Me, but tracks such as Suedehead and Everyday Is Like Sunday are more well known. Primal Scream are best remembered for Loaded and Movin' On Up in the 1990s, but their only top 10 hit was 2006's Country Girl.
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QUIZ WEEK 9: Julian's intros - the results!
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Chart Forum Quizzes: Pointless Fortune
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ONLY CONNECT: the results!
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Quiz Results: SONG TITLE ANAGRAMS
Thanks for hosting, Jim! I did get the 'reached peak position twice' part of the theme after submitting (upon checking some of the chart runs of the ones I did get), but would probably never have got it genuinely, especially given that I went for the wrong artist on a couple of them. Incidentally, Polyhex gives the run of Just The One as 12-14-13-13-22-34-49-68, however the OCC gives it as #12 on week 3 (thus fitting in with the theme of the quiz). There seem to be a few other differences between the two sources for this chart (week ending 6/1/96) e.g. Lump by Presidents Of The United States Of America enters at #17 according to Polyhex but #18 according to the OCC. Maybe there's been a correction to this chart (just like week ending 10/7/99)?
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WEEK 5: MANGO'S NMTB QUIZ - THE RESULTS
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RESULTS: CHART FORUM DINGBATS
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QUICK FIRE QUIZ - THE RESULTS!!
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Unluckiest #3 peaking songs
Ordinary Boys - Boys Will Be Boys spent 3 weeks in a row at #3, coming very close to #2 in the first two of those weeks. Plan B - She Said was unlucky not to get to at least #2 (it spent 4 weeks in total at #3, and the first week was very close sales-wise).
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❇️ BuzzJack Pointless Chart Quiz! ❇️
For Q2, David Gilmour should be incorrect as he reached #19 at the end of 2006 with a re-recording of Arnold Layne. Thanks for hosting, awardinary!
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Which artists have we lost to STREAMING?
Flo Rida and Pitbull are 2 other artists who have not had a top 40 hit since 2015.
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Unluckiest #2 song that didn't reach #1
I voted for Moves Like Jagger (for the reasons already mentioned), but a few others deserve a mention: Beatles - Please Please Me: spent a total of 3 weeks at #2 in the Record Retailer chart (retrospectively deemed 'official'), apparently only missing out on #1 on one of those weeks on a tie-break. It topped the other charts that were compiled at the time e.g. NME, thus was widely considered a #1 at the time. DJ Jurgen pts Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone: spent 3 weeks at #2 behind 3 different tracks, only losing out to Westlife by about 1,000 sales in the second of those weeks. Puretone - Addicted To Bass: missed out on #1 by a small margin to Aaliyah's posthumous More Than A Woman, but may have made it had a few copies not accidentally been sold the previous week (causing it to chart at #68).