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"Thrift Shop"

I thought he was still with Leona Naess! Shows how much attention I pay to pop stars' personal relationships. (and I must have looked it up at one point for his entry on my Virtual Book thread)! On a related note, must dig out my Leona Naess albums - some real cracking tracks on the first two albums.

Probably best not to use the word "hit" when referring to Chris Brown though

No worse than the Meghan Trainor version?

Ryan Adams is someone who has never quite broke through to the big time that his talent seemed to indicate was possible. Probably for the best though as I'm not sure he could have embraced the increased exposure

Whoops, so he did. Apologies iain for misreading your post and to others for wasting your time. Blame it on old age.

Managed to cast my vote successfully for "Thrift Shop" this time around

Then they wouldn't really be On Air/On Sale, would they?

Next part added. Not a stellar selection to be honest (in comparitive terms at least). The Four Tops have the most weeks on chart of this batch, Connie Francis the second and only Florence & The Machine, Four Seasons & Foo Fighters have over 100 weeks on chart. Tennessee Ernie Ford had a short but impressive chart career, Foreigner seemed to be around for ages, and the Flying Pickets' accappella hits were a short term phase. Samantha Fox is best known for her other assets, Peter Frampton was more successful in the US than here, and George Formby's success mostly pre-dated the chart era. Finally a shout out for Julia Fordham whose talent deserved more than just two Top 40 hits among her discography. Note - most of the above corrections have been made, but Flipmode Squad don't seem to have been listed on the charts as printed at the time, and aren't shown in the OCC archive as being featured on that track. Still, I've made a note so that when that record comes up again (either in a re-post of the Mariah Carey section or when we get to Busta Rhymes, it will be shown as an alternative credit)

Who considers "Doop" an instrumental? The whole song was chuck full of "doopy-doop" vocals

I'm sure no-one would have begrudged this a place in the Top 10 even if they don't like this particular song.

Two Oliver's in the chart. Only other ones seem to have been Oliver Cheatham, Oliver Lieb plus the Oliver who did "good Morning Sunshine" and he wasn't even a proper Oliver. As a surname there's been Frankie Oliver, plus in songs we've had "Oliver Twist" and the vastly superior "Oliver's Army" Apologies to Suedehead if this has nicked some of his chart commentary!

Thought this had departed the scene, not gone up!

We had two French instrumentals in the top 10 at the same time in 1977 "Magic Fly" by Space and "Oxygene" by Jean-Michel Jarre. Pigbag had four instrumental hits, including the superb "Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag" I'll leave others for somebody else to get.

Selected "Thrift Shop" from the list, then.... Clicked on View Results instead of Vote. Epic failure on my part.

Stranger On The Shore - Mr Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale - 37 weeks top 20 I Believe - Frankie Laine - 36 weeks Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley & His Comets - 36 weeks Fairytale Of New York - Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - 34 weeks Happy - Pharrell Williams - 32 weeks Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - 30 weeks Sex On Fire - Kings Of Leon - 29 weeks Secret Love - Doris Day - 29 weeks All Of Me - John Legend - 27 weeks (not necessarily consecutive weeks)

Ah, OK. Sorry, I didn't know that and if my post seems crass and insenstive it's because of ignorance on my part and not trying to make fun of her death.

Why? Has National Geographic had a programme about rivers on?

"Thrift Shop" because it is goddamn awful

Next part added. The usual mix - the urban 50 Cent, the urban-lite Flo-Rida, veterans Fleetwood Mac, boybands Five & Five Seconds Of Summer, the soulful Roberta Flack and the suave Bryan Ferry. Not quite sure where A Flock of Seagulls would fit in, probably more remembered now for Mike Score's haircut than a string of excellent singles. Lupe Fiasco seemed like he was going to make it big here at one point but never did. Ella Fitzgerald's influence and career dwarf her comparitively small presence on the singles chart over the years (i guess the same can be said for Gracie Fields. Finally, the criminally underachieving Fischer-Z deserved far more than a token two Top 75 hits. The usual thanks for all the corrections/updates above. It is a pleasant change on the internet to have a forum where people point out things that I've got wrong in a constructive manner rather than a dismissive or insulting manner. Having said that, this week again has seen me concentrating on football data rather than music data so please fire away with the replies and I'll include them all in next week's offering!

I know it wasn't download only completely, I just seemed to remember that it was (at least flagged as) download for it's first week. I never knew that about the Frank Ocean album though. Thanks for the clarification

1100 new entries to the top 75 in a year, over 97% of which peak at their entry position - no thank you.

Wasn't her debut the first album to chart on downloads only?

Sam Smith - the dullest pop star in years?

Is he saying "Dance Instructor" or "Denture Structure"?