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[Last week's chart]

This week: 12 new entries, 1 re-entry, 0 climbers, 0 non-movers & 27 downers.

new entry re-entry climber faller non mover

CHART TIME !

(* - my current favourites)
(!!! - Single Of The Week!!!)
(:O === the current all-time hate that makes even my smilie want to hurl!)
( (R) - Repeat., ie. a re-release)

A brief analysis on the current chart situation...

    12 new entries and 1 re-entry:

    • 36 (48 RE) David Sneddon - Stop Living The Lie
    • 35 Billy Crawford - You Didn't Expect That
    • 26 Macy Gray - When I See You
    • 25 Bluetones - Fast Boy/Liquid Lips
    • 24 Badly Drawn Boy - All Possibilities
    • 23 DT8 - Destination
    • 21 Vbirds - Virtuality
    • 8 Triple Eight - Knock Out
    • 7 White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
    • 6 DMX - X Gon' Give It To Ya
    • 3 David Sneddon - Don't Let Go
    • 2 Lisa Maffia - All Over
    • 1 Busted - You Said No

    so the following dropped out :

    • 40 Def Leppard - Long Long Way To Go
    • 39 Snoop Dogg - Beautiful
    • 38 Mario - Just a Friend
    • 37 DJ Sammy - The Boys of Summer
    • 36 Planet Funk - Who Said
    • 35 Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong
    • 34 tATu - All The Things She Said
    • 33 Coldplay - Clocks
    • 32 Run DMC - It's Tricky 2003
    • 31 Meatloaf - Couldn't Have Said It Better
    • 28 Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
    • 23 Goldfrapp - Train
    • 16 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Date with the Night

    0 climbers :

    0 non-movers :

    and 27 going down.

    Big fallers include :

    • 11 (4) Robbie Williams
    • 12 (2) Madonna
    • 15 (5) Blur
    • 18 (9) D-Side
    • 19 (12) Plummet
    • 28 (17) Jay-Z
    • 31 (19) Lionel Richie/Enrique Iglesias
    • 37 (22) Aaliyah

    New entries from No.41-75. See who missed out this time round :

    • 69 Michelle Weeks - The Light

Of this week's highlights and lowlights...

11 (4) Robbie Williams
12 (2) Madonna
15 (5) Blur
31 (19) Lionel Richie/Enrique Iglesias
37 (22) Aaliyah

So much for the power they once had - all these big names have really dropped the ball over time. How long before they stop selling even in their first week?

2 Lisa Maffia - All Over

Another So Solid Crew offshoot, and just as dull and predictable.

1 (NEW) Busted - You Said No *1st Week at No.1*

Must be a sorry state of affairs if yet another crappy boyband is at the top of the charts.

This is the 36th single in a row to go straight into the Top 40 at No.1 :

  • 1. Aaliyah - More Than a Woman
  • 2. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord (R)
  • 3. Enrique Iglesias - Hero
  • 4. Westlife - World of Our Own
  • 5. Will Young - Anything is Possible/Evergreen
  • 6. Gareth Gates - Unchained Melody
  • 7. Oasis - The Hindu Times
  • 8. Sugababes - Freak Like Me
  • 9. Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss
  • 10. Ronan Keating - If Tomorrow Never Comes
  • 11. Liberty X - Just a Little
  • 12. Eminem - Without Me
  • 13. Will Young - Light My Fire
  • 14. Elvis - A Little Less Conversation (remix)
  • 15. Gareth Gates - Anyone of Us
  • 16. Darius - Colourblind
  • 17. Sugababes - Round Round
  • 18. Blazin Squad - Crossroads
  • 19. Atomic Kitten - The Tide is High
  • 20. Pink - Just Like a Pill
  • 21. Will & Gareth - The Long and Winding Road/Suspicious Minds
  • 22. Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song
  • 23. Nelly - Dilemma
  • 24. DJ Sammy - Heaven
  • 25. Westlife - Unbreakable
  • 26. Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
  • 27. Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not the One
  • 28. Eminem - Lose Yourself
  • 29. Blue & Elton John - Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word
  • 30. Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground
  • 31. David Sneddon - Stop Living The Lie
  • 32. t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said
  • 33. Christina Aguilera - Beautiful
  • 34. Gareth Gates and the Kumars - Spirit in the Sky
  • 35. Room 5 featuring Oliver Cheatham - Make Luv
  • 36. Busted - You Said No

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New releases :

    April 21st:

      Aqualung - If I Fall (NCQ)
      Asian Dub Foundation featuring Sinead O'Connor - 1000 Mirrors
      Audioslave - Like A Stone
      Badly Drawn Boy - All Possibilities
      Beachbuggy - Killer Bee
      The Bluetones - Fast Boy/Liquid Lips
      Busted - You Said No
      Paul Carrack - She Lived Down The Street
      Johnny Cash - Hurt/Personal Jesus
      Billy Crawford - You Didn't Expect That
      Delays - Nearer Than Heaven
      DMX - X Gon' Give It To Ya
      Donots - Big Mouth
      DT8 featuring Roxanne Wilde - Destination
      Glassjaw - Ape Dos Mil
      Macy Gray - When I See You
      J Walk - Another Lover
      Lisa Maffia - All Over
      Magnet - The Day We Left Town EP
      Pippa - I Don't Want To Miss A Thing
      Relaxed Muscle - The Heavy EP
      Reno - Rock 'N' Roll
      Rocket Science - Run Like A Gun
      David Sneddon - Don't Let Go
      Therapy? - If It Kills Me / Rust
      Triple Eight - Knock Out
      VBirds - Virtuality
      Venus Hum - Montana
      The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army

    April 28th:

      Amerie - I'm Coming Out
      Ballboy - Europewide Search For Love
      Calexico - Quattro (World Drifts In)
      Capdown - Act Your Rage
      Johnny Cash - Hurt/Personal Jesus
      Craig David featuring Sting - Rise And Fall
      Eyes Adrift - Alaska
      Gasolineros - The Day I Ran Away
      Bebel Gilberto - Close Your Eyes
      Dana Glover - Thinking Over
      Grandadbob - City Approach
      Richard Hawley - Run For Me
      Holden & Thompson - Nothing
      Ronan Keating - The Long Goodbye/Love Won't Work (If We Don't Try)
      Kid Creme - Hypnotising
      Killer Mike featuring Big Boi - A.D.I.D.A.S.
      King Of Woolworths - Evel Song
      Dino Lenny vs The Housemartins - Change The World
      Lil' Kim - The Jump Off
      Stephen Malkmus - Dark Wave
      Ian McCulloch - Slideling
      Nivea - Laundromat/Don't Mess With My Man
      Palace Of Pleasure - The Art Of Falling Apart
      Laura Pausini - Surrender
      Jamie Pearce - Tabloid Queen
      Playgroup - Make It Happen
      The Pretenders - Complex Person
      Puretone - Stuck In A Groove
      Revelation - Just Be Dub To Me
      Kelly Rowland - Can't Nobody
      Bruce Springsteen - Waiting For A Sunny Day
      Tomcraft - Loneliness

    May 5th:

      The Androids - Do It With Madonna
      Bell X1 - Whitewater Song/In Every Sunflower
      Bhangra Knights vs Husan - Husan
      Big Brovaz - Favourite Things
      Blind Guardian - Bard's Song
      Bone Thugs & Harmony featuring Phil Collins - Home
      Bonobo - Pick Up
      Broadcast - Pendulum
      The Cheeky Girls - Take Your Shoes Off
      The Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends
      Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
      The Droyds - Take Me, I'm Yours
      Feeder - Forget About Tomorrow
      Good Charlotte - Girls And Boys
      Groove Armada - Easy
      Richard Hawley - Run For Me
      Hell Is For Heroes - Retreat
      Saffron Hill featuring Ben Onono - My Love Is Always
      HIM - Buried Alive By Love
      Jody Lei - Oh No
      R Kelly - Ignition
      Matchbox 20 - Unwell
      Mint Royale - Dancehall Places/I Don't Know
      Pretenders - You Know Who Your Friends Are
      Serafin - Things Fall Apart
      Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer 2003
      Andy Stochansky - Wonderful (It's Superman)
      Stylophonic - Soul Reply
      3 Inches Of Blood - Ride Darkhorse Ride
      Tindersticks - Don't Even Go There EP
      Armin Van Buuren - Yet Another Day
      The Vessels - Don't Waste Your Time
      Terri Walker - Ching Ching

    May 12th:

      Audio Bullys - Turned Away
      Bon Jovi - All About Loving You
      Boomkat - The Wreckoning
      Clipse featuring Faith Evans - Ma, I Dont Love Her
      The Crimea - White Russian Galaxy
      Evan Dando - Stop My Head
      Deftones - The Late, Great Planet Earth
      Fallacy - Big 'N' Bashy
      Flaming Lips - Flight Test
      Flip & Fill - Field Of Dreams
      Ginuwine - Hell Yeah
      Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
      Kealer - Superman
      Keane - Everybody's Changing
      Less Than Jake - She's Gonna Break
      Courtney Love - Mono
      Tom McRae - Karaoke Soul
      Mint Royale - I Don't Know/Dancehall Places
      Mitchell & Dewbury - Globetrotter
      Moloko - Forever More
      Yoko Ono - Walking On Thin Ice
      Sean Paul - Get Busy
      Mr Reds vs DJ Skribble - Everybody Come On (Can You Feel It)
      Nada Surf - Inside Of Love
      Robin S - Luv 4 Luv 2003
      Lisa Scott-Lee - Lately
      Shed Seven - Why Can't I Be With You?
      Stain'd - Price To Pay
      TLC - Hands Up
      Wayne Williams - Anything Is Possible
      Michael Woods featuring Imogen Bailey - If U Want Me
      Zutons - Creepin' An' A Crawlin'

    May 19th:

      Anotherside - This Is Your Night
      Apollo 440 - Dude Descending A Staircase
      Ataris - In My Diary
      The Basement - The Only Mr. Lonely
      Cave-In - Anchor
      Biffy Clyro - Questions & Answers
      Common - New Wave
      Ed Harcourt - Watching The Sun Come Up
      Hot Action Cop On Lava - Fever For The Flava
      Whitney Houston - On My Own
      Jemani - Cry Baby
      Love Inc. - Broken Bones
      Sam Obernik - Mr. Butterfly
      Outlandish - Guantanamo
      P.O.D. - Sleeping Away
      Resource - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
      Stereophonics - Madame Helga
      t.A.T.u. - Not Gonna Get Us
      Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
      Paul Van Dyk featuring Jan Johnston - Nothing But You
      XTM featuring Annia - Fly On The Wings Of Love

    May 26th:

      Abs - Stop Sign
      Blak Beatniks - One Day At A Time
      John Cale - Five Tracks
      DJ Chrome - Who's Crying Now?
      Emma - Free Me
      Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
      Ashley Hamilton - Wimmin
      Massive Attack - Butterfly Caught
      John Mayer - Your Body Is A Wonderland
      Erlend Oye - Sheltered Life
      Radiohead - There There
      S Club - Say Goodbye/Love Ain't Gonna Wait
      Shy FX & Kele Le Roc - Feelin' You
      Skin - Trashed
      Sonique - Can't Make Up My Mind*
      Alexis Strum - Addicted
      Martina Toplay - Need One
      3 Drives - Carrera
      Train - Calling All The Angels
      Turin Brakes - Average Man

    June 2nd:

      Melanie C - On The Horizon
      Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - He Wants You/Babe I'm On Fire
      The Darkness - Growing On Me
      Electric Six - Gay Bar
      Jennifer Ellison - Baby I Don't Care
      Eminem - Superman
      The Foundation featuring Natalie Rossi - All Out Of Love
      Delta Goodrem - Lost Without You
      Jamelia featuring Rah Digga - Bout
      Junkie XL - Catch Up To My Step
      Linkin Park - From The Inside
      Marilyn Manson - M-Obscene
      Nu - Any Other Girl
      One True Voice - Shakespeare's (Way With) Words
      Placebo - This Picture
      Busta Rhymes & Mariah Carey featuring Flipmode Squad - I Know What You Want
      Space Cowboy - Just Put Your Hand In Mine
      Shania Twain - Forever And For Always
      Stone Sour - Inhale
      Amy Studt - Misfit
      Wayne Wonder - No Letting Go

    June 9th:

      Christina Aguilera - Fighter
      Appleton - Everything Eventually
      Aurora - Sleeping Satellite
      Darius - Girl In The Moon*
      DJ Sammy - Sunlight
      Foo Fighters - Low
      Liquid People vs Talk Talk - It's My Life
      Dannii Minogue - Don't Wanna Lose This Feeling
      N-Trance - Destiny*
      NRC - Here Comes The Rain Again
      Wheatus - I'm An American In Amsterdam
      The Wildhearts - So Into You

    June 16th:

      The Bangles - Tear Off Your Own Head
      David Guetta vs David Bowie - Just For One Day
      Lemonescent - Cinderella
      Timo Maas - Unite
      Mis-Teeq - Can't Get It Back
      Shakedown - Drowsy With Hope
      Siobhan - Overrated
      Sugar Ray - Hey Bartender
      Tommi - Like What
      Barratt Waugh - Skip A Beat

    June 23rd:

      50 Cent - 21 Questions
      Sinéad Quinn - What You Need Is
      Red Hot Chili Peppers - Universally Speaking
      Vitamin C - Last Nite

    June 30th:

      Cerys Matthews - Only A Fool
      S Club 8 - Fool No More
      Seal - Get It Together
      Super Furry Animals - Golden Retriever

    July 7th:

      Daniel Bedingfield - Never Gonna Leave Your Side
      Kelly Osbourne - Come Dig Me Out
      Kate Ryan - Scream For More

Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

    This week there are new entries for :

    • 1 Madonna - American Life
    • 4 Meat Loaf - Couldn't Have Said It Better

    The top 5 goes like this :

    • 1 Madonna - American Life
    • 2 Justin Timberland - Justified
    • 3 White Stripes - Elephant
    • 4 Meat Loaf - Couldn't Have Said It Better
    • 5 Busted - Busted

New releases :

    April 21st:

      Duran Duran - The Singles '81-'85
      Madonna - American Life
      Maria McKee - High Dive

    April 28th:

      Evanescence - Fallen
      Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
      Macy Gray - The Trouble With Being Myself
      Tony Hadley - True Ballads
      Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
      David Sneddon - Seven Years, Ten Weeks
      Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever To Tell

    May 5th:

      Blur - Think Tank
      Dana Glover - Testimony

    May 12th:

      Alkaline Trio - Good Mourning
      Bluetones - Luxembourg
      Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age Of Grotesque
      Pretenders - Loose Screw

    May 19th:

      Deftones - Deftones
      Cerys Matthews - Cock-A-Hoop
      Stain'd - 14 Shades Of Grey
      Various Artists - Eurovision Song Contest: Latvia 2003*

    May 26th:

      Girls Aloud - Girls Aloud

    June 2nd:

      S Club - BeSt
      Skin - Fleshwounds
      Stereophonics - You Gotta Go There To Come Back
      Train - Private Nation

    June 9th:

      Annie Lennox - Bare
      Metallica - St. Anger
      Radiohead - Hail To The Thief

    June 16th:

      Limp Bizkit - The Search For Teddy Swoes
      Mariah Carey - The Remix Album
      Delta Goodrem - Innocent Eyes

    June 23rd:

      The Coral - Magic And Medicine

    June 30th:

      Electric Six - Fire

    July 7th:

      Electric Six - Fire

Dominator's Top 50 of 2002

Check the music chart from w/e January 4th 2003 for this list.

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2003.

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