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Forced by who & for what reason?

Just bought my 1st ever signed item after being a fan for 32.5 years! https://townsendmusic.store/cart/product.php?id=72458 If there's still signed blue vinyl available tomorrow i may go for that for the complete vinyl set :cheer:

SO glad you're 'honest' in saying Kylie can't sing, so good of you Joel! hahahahha I've been following her for 32 years & she's never sounded better. I may wait until the mids to see if it pushes me to buy the cassette bundle. The alternative covers are nice but it's a bit of plastic I can't play & three of them are in cheap paper sleeves. If a Disco Picture Disc LP became available however, I'd be right on it!

I'm spread-eagled for Kylie. :D Found these from Golden's 1st week, forgot it was an April release & I was still buying off iTunes then rather than streaming, think a fair few other men of my age might have got into streaming the past 2.5 years too. Golden 1st week sales - 48,032 copies (including 1,870 from sales-equivalent streams, 6,398 copies on vinyl) Dancing – the first single from Golden – debuted 11 weeks ago at No.47, and finally becomes Minogue’s 51st Top 40 hit, re-entering the chart at No.38 with 8,267 sales, of which 1,617 were for its newly-released 7-inch picture vinyl edition. Stop Me From Falling, has been available for five weeks. It enters the Top 100 for the first time this week (No.78, 5,045 sales)

Any updates? Thought Innerspeaker by Tame Impala would have sold more after 10 years. Bought it at the time on cd & play it regularly on Apple Music

Ahhh that was nice of them. Least Urban Hymns sold bucketloads at the time.

He always says he doesn't know what his lyrics mean!

The Verve lose money everytime it's played! Negative publishing lol

Great Things was probably my least favourite Echobelly song to that point, Bellyache EP was my 1st ever CD single and all 4 tracks were bangers. Presume this isn't at number 4? think it was released a week before or after the oasis/blur battle.

The original version pre-mix got to No60 was was more guitar based. Yeah! for multi-cultural britain :)

Would have thought Chasing rainbows would have made it, i remember it hung around a bit over xmas time

Prefer Blur, their song was actually about something. Noel often said he didn't have a clue what his own songs were about which is why i think they were overrated, Blur's dig back "Oasis Quo" fits 'Roll with it' perfectly. Ultimately it was a huge novelty to have two british guitar bands battle it out for number one & if it made record companies sign more bands for a slice of the action then it was good for music :)

TSOB 1 woz has main chorus that goes "why should we suffer with no comfort... I can do better, I, I can better I" TSOB could be "The son of (a) bitch" Didn't realise Victory was Sia, makes complete sense, it's the best of what i've heard along with Love in stereo & Boys.

No Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson????!

Thought Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends would be on a lot more. Cult classic 👌🏻

I never thought I'd ever lose interest in the uk singles chart but it's happened. Makes me dislike many of the artists that dominate because of streaming. Maybe I'm just getting old but why is every every song on an album allowed to chart, it's got nothing to do with singles if everyone is streaming (most of) the album?? I should read the streaming rules, I know, I know. Hopefully Steps will knock Ed off his perch (very hopefully!)

Hope Justice can make the top 40, it's a great album IMO

It's a bit weird that Michael Jackson's "Man in the mirror" was his highest charting song after he died when it only got to #21 previously (during his imperial phase) & Bowie's #24 hit Heroes is looking likely to be his highest posthumous charting song. Was hoping the BBC's article on "Kooks" would have had a bigger impact on it's chart placing. I owe Robbie William's b-side cover of that song for making me buy the "Hunky Dory" album in 1996.

83 :( I defy anyone to honestly get over half in the time provided, i was constantly typing (or re-typing), very little time pausing for thought I did keep pressing enter for 1st 20 which would open up a new window grrr

Only you is higher now! #40 it says on kworb

The chimey bit at about 2:10 is the same as Bananarama's I heard a rumour at about the same time frame! Suppose it's allowed to steal off yourself! Just realised my pic below is very pertinant to this thread!

19/22 got caught out a few times. Great quiz!

The main version that sold was the live performance from the Brits which was released the night of the Brits. Maybe that's not what you meant but define "single"? lol

Unless someone more famous/loved dies perhaps?

15/20 you really had to think about legacy sales & sales climates (no spoiler there surely?) It's just pure sales isn't it, no streaming malarkey?