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so the following dropped out :

0 climbers :

2 non-movers :

and 25 going down.

Big fallers include :

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

Of this week's highlights and lowlights...

23 Bus Stop - Jump

Dance cover of the Van Halen classic. Haven't heard this, but if it's anything like their "Kung Fu Fighting" cover, I don't want to.

21 Bon Jovi - Real Life

Oh dear. Once they were a regular stalwart of the Top 5 with new singles, but let's hope this signals the end of their dry MOR run.

11 Another Level - Be Alone No More (remix)

Re-released for charidee. Take my advice and leave the single alone in the shops.

7 Catatonia - Dead From The Waist Down *

I've only heard this once, when they were on TFI Friday, and it's another top track. Certainly a lot better than most things in the chart.

4 Various Artists - Thank Abba For The Music

Did you see the Brits in February? I'm surprised they've taken so long to release this, but it's the Abba tribute you heard then, sung by Steps, Billie, Cleopatra and other one-name acts.

1 Mr Oizo - Flat Beat :O === *1st Week at No.1*

Who is Mr. Oizo? Seen the Levi's ads with the puppet tapping away to a monotonous drum beat? That's the one. The puppet is "Flat Eric" and he is apparently the latest trend, such that everything containing his image, eg. T-shirts, are the hottest property in town.

Sad. Sad. Sad.

This is the 10th single to go straight in at No.1.

New releases :

If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know

March 29th :

	Cassius                  TBC
	Catatonia                Dead From The Waste Down
	Cranberries              TBC
	Deetah                   El Paradiso
	Des'ree                  You Gotta Be
	Electronic               Vivid
	Heller, Pete             Big Love
	Lynden David Hall        Medicine 4 My Pain
	Marsden, Mathew          Walk My Way
	Texas			 Once in a Lifetime

April 5th :

	A Love Supreme             Niall Quinns Disco Pants
	Abba                       Singles Box Set
	Abi                        Thanking You
	Alisha's Attic             Barbarella
	Archive                    Take My Head
	Beber                      Juvenile Delinquent
	Blackstreet                Girlfriend/Boyfriend
	Bleep & Booster            Let The Bass Kick
	Blood                      Just Say It
	Brown, James               Funk On Ah Roll
	Common                     Like We Used To Say
	Cranberries                Promises
	De Ice, Lennie             We Are I.E.
	Electronic                 Vivid
	Fish                       Incomplete
	Gene                       Fill Her Up
	Glamma Kid                 Taboo
	Grandmaster Flash          The Message b/w
	Grandmaster Flash          White Lines b/w Scorpio
	Hall, Lynden David         Medicine 4 My Pain
	Hand, Kelli                Do It
	Hill, Faith                Let Me Let Go
	Invisible Man              Give a Little Love
	Irresistible Force         Fish Dances
	Jade.ell                   Got To Let You Go
	Luna                       Superfreaky Memories
	Man Called Adam            Duende Dubs (T. Middleton)
	Marsden, Mathew            Walk My Way
	McCutcheon, Martine        Perfect Moment
	Monica                     Inside
	More Rockers               Cure
	NYC Live & Direct          I Want You
	O'Brown, Wade              No Other Woman
	Pills                      Super Harmony
	Porcupine Tree             Piano Lessons
	Positive Force             We Got The Funk b/w
	Shy FX                     Deja Vu Part 2 (Ltd. Edition)
	Sonic Avengers             Funk N Drive
	Soul Dhamma                Flower
	Staton, Candi              Love On Love
	Stewart, Rod               Faith Of The Heart
	Sugarhill Gang             Rapper's Delight b/w Apache
	Trouble Funk               Pump Me Up b/w
	Underworld                 Born Slippy
	Unity feat. Nicola         Wish I Could Fly
	Various Artists            Six-Pack Sugar Hill Record Bag
	Various Artists            Hall Of Fame EP 3
	Waits, Tom                 Hold On
	West Street Mob            Break Dance - Electric Boogie
	Wilco                      Can't Stand It
	XTC                        Easter Theatre

April 12th :

	Ash                        Aphrodite
	Baby DC Feat Imajin        Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll
	Ben Folds Five             Army
	BMR Feat Felicia           Check It Out
	Brown, Jennifer            Tuesday Afternoon
	Cox, Carl                  Phuture 2000
	Deetah                     El Paradiso
	Desert Eagle Discs         All Night Love
	DJ Dado                    Ready Or Not
	DJ SS                      SS Revenge
	Eminem                     My Name is … (12")
	Faithless                  Bring My family Back
	Fridge, Ralph              Paradise
	Gus Gus                    Starlovers
	Honeyz                     Love Of A Lifetime
	Kawala                     Snowball
	McAlmont                   Lose My Faith
	Munroe, Hollis P           I'm Lonely
	Nail, Jimmy                Blue Beyond The Grey
	Oldfield, Mike             Far Above The Clouds
	Rico                       Attack Me
	Ruff Driverz/Arrolla       La Musica
	S.O.L. (aka Oliver Lieb)   Quantensprug
	Sound 5                    Ala Kaboo
	Star Power                 X Ray OK (Remixes)
	Straw                      Moving To California
	Suede                      Electricity
	Toybox                     Tarzan & Jane
	UB40                       Train Is Coming
	Van Helden, Armand         Flowerz
	Various Artists            3 The Hard Way

April 19th :

	3rd Storee                 If Ever
	Adams, Bryan               Cloud Number 9
	Basement Jaxx              Red Alert
	Cake                       Never There
	Calyx                      Acid Blues
	Evans, Faith               All Night Long
	E-Z Rollers                Walk This Land
	Fatboy Slim                Right Here, Right Now
	Faultline                  Mute
	Freddy Fresh feat.         Badder Badder Schwing
	Fun Lovin Criminals        Korean Bodega
	Happy Mondays              The Boys Are Back In Town
	Heller, Pete               Big Love
	Kings Of The Wild Frontier Trans Am
	Leilani                    Do You Want Me
	Mishka                     Give You All The Love
	Pras                       What You Gonna Do
	Revolutionary Corps Of…    Pay Tha Wreck
	Rhymes, Busta              What's It Gonna Be
	Salt N Pepa                Push It '99
	Shanks & Bigfoot           Sweet Like Chocolate
	Smith, Elliot              Baby Britain
	Texas                      In Our Lifetime
	Westlife                   Swear It Again

April 26th :

	911                        Private Number
	Backstreet Boys            TBC
	Camisra                    Clap Your Hands
	Cassius                    Feeling For You
	Cast                       Beat Mamma
	Cube                       Scrounger
	Da Click                   We R Da Click
	Groove Armada              If Everybody Looked
	Indian Ropeman             66 Meters
	Jamelia                    So High
	Martin, Billy Ray          Honey
	Meja                       How Crazy Are You
	Method Man Feat D'Angelo   Break Ups 2 Make Ups
	Moby                       Run On
	Nas                        I Will Survive
	Price, Kelly               Secret Love
	Shaker, Johnny             Pearl River
	Stoneproof                 Everything's Not You
	Tilt                       Invisible
	Vera Coche                 Carte Blanche
	Victoria                   Fall
	Yello vs. Hardfloor        Vicious Games

May 5th :

	A                          Old Folks
	Bolland, CJ                Ain't Gonna Be Me
	Charlotte                  Skin
	Chieftans Feat The Corrs   I Know My Love
	DJ Sakin                   TBC
	Houston, Whitney           My Love Is Your Love
	Mike & The Mechanics       TBC
	Skunk Anansie              Secretly
	Stereophonics              Pick A Part Thats New
	Terrorvision               TBC
	Twain, Shania              That Don't Impress Me Much

May 10th :

	Beastie Boys               TBC
	Boyzone                    You Needed Me
	Brown, Foxy (J.O.B)        TBC
	Gay Dad                    Joy
	Halliwell, Geri            TBC
	Lucid                      Stay With Me Til Dawn
	Morrison, Van              Back On Top
	Pavement                   Carrot Rope
	Super Furry Animals        Northern Lights

May 17th :

	Blondie                    Nothing Is Real But The Girl
	Moffats, The               TBC
	Shed 7                     Disco Down
	Supergrass                 TBC
	Terry, Todd                Let It Ride
	Three Colours Red          This Is My Time

May 24th :

	Chemical Brothers          TBC
	Def Leppard                TBC
	Jamiroquai                 Canned Heat
	Micronauts, The            The Jag
	Paradise Lost              TBC
	Vengaboys                  TBC
	21st Century Girls         TBC

Other forthcoming releases

APRIL :

I Know My Love - The Corrs (143/Lava/Atlantic)

[tba] - Tina Cousins (Ebul/Jive)

[tba] - Dope Smugglaz (Perfecto/Mushroom)

[tba] - Rob Dougan (Cheeky)

Mad Dog - Elastica (Deceptive)

My Love Is Your Love - Whitney Houston (Arista)

Viva La Radio - Lolly (Polydor)

Shut Your Mouth - Made In London (RCA)

[tba] - Martine McCutcheon (Innocent/Virgin)

[tba] - Jez Metcalf (Ebul/Jive)

[tba] - Ocean Colour Scene feat. P.P. Arnold (MCA)

[tba] - Pocket Size (EMI)

[tba] - Suede (Nude)

[tba] - Super Furry Animals (Creation)

[tba] - Supergrass (Parlophone)

[tba] - Teenage Rampage (19 Recs.)

[tba] - Westside (RCA)

We're Going Out - Younger Younger 28s (V2)

MAY :

The F-Word - Baby Bird (Echo)

Dove L'Amore - Cher (WEA)

[tba] - Collette (RCA)

Oh Jim - Gay Dad (London)

[tba] - Gintare (Parlophone)

[tba] - Johnson Brothers (WEA)

[tba] - Merz (Lotus/Epic)

Out Of Your Tree - Papa Mantra (Telstar)

[tba] - Adam Rickit (Polydor)

JUNE :

[tba] - Archive (Independiente)

[tba] - BB Mak (Telstar)

Big Boys Don't Cry - Lolly (Polydor)

JULY :

[tba] - Whitney Houston (Arista)

AUGUST :

[tba] - Johnson Brothers (WEA)

SEPTEMBER :

 ~ [tba] - Oasis (Creation)

Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

The top 5 goes like this :

New releases :

If anyone knows of a good site for new release info, please let me know

March 29th :

[tba] - Bentley Rhythm Ace (Skint/Parlophone)

Twisted Tenderness - Electronic (Parlophone)

April 5th :

What Are You Going To Do With Your Life? - Echo & The Bunnymen (London)

Middle Of Nowhere - Orbital (ffrr)

April 19th :

[tba] - Gary Barlow (RCA)

[tba] - Texas (Mercury)

April 26th :

Us & Them - Godflesh (Earache)

May 3rd :

[tba] H - Suede (Nude)

May 10th :

Supreme Clientele - Ghostface Killah (Epic)

Other forthcoming releases

APRIL :

[tba] - Backstreet Boys (Jive)

[tba] - Cast (Polydor)

[tba] - The Charlatans (Beggars Banquet)

[tba] - Hanson (Mercury)

[tba] - James (Fontana/Mercury)

[tba] - Jamiroquai (Sony S=B2)

[tba] - Laptop (Island)

Bleach [ri] - Nirvana (Sub Pop)

[tba] - Plone (Warp)
 - Bring The Noise 2000 - Public Enemy (Def Jam/Mercury)

Reef On A Fresh Tip - Reef (Sony S=B2)

Rhinocerose - Rhinocerose (V2)

[tba] - Soul Assassins (Columbia)

[tba] - Sound 5 (Gut)

[tba] - Sting (A&M/Mercury)

[tba] - Super Collider (Loaded)

[tba] - Travis (Independiente)

[tba] - Neil Young (WEA)

MAY :

[tba] - Archive (Independiente)

[tba] - Catatonia (Blanco Y Negro)

[tba] - The Chemical Brothers (Freestyle Dust/Junior Boy's Own/V2)

[tba] - Dope Smugglaz (Perfecto/Mushroom)

[tba] - Rob Dougan (Cheeky)

[tba] - Elastica (Deceptive)

[tba] - Fierce (Hardback/Wildstar/Telstar)

Leisurenoise - Gay Dad (London)

[tba] - Merz (Lotus/Epic)

To The Surface - NT (Response/Epic)

[tba] - Ocean Colour Scene (MCA)

[tba] - Pocket Size (EMI)

[tba] - Seafruit (Electric Canyon/Telstar)

By 7:30 - Vonda Shepard (Epic)

[tba] - Miriam Stockley (Virgin)

[tba] - Super Furry Animals (Creation)

Lexicon Of Melody - T-Spoon (Control/Edel)

JUNE :

[tba] - Baby Bird (Echo)

[tba] - The Beta Band (Regal/Parlophone)

God's Big Spaceship - Gomez (Hut/Virgin)

[tba] - Hepburn (Columbia)

[tba] - Lolly (Polydor)

[tba] - Monaco (Polydor)

[tba] - Pet Shop Boys (Parlophone)

[tba] - Propellerheads (Wall Of Sound)

Cocked - Supergrass (Parlophone)

[tba] - Paul Weller (Island)

JULY :

[tba] - Aqua (Universal)

[tba] - No Doubt (Interscope)

AUGUST :

[tba] - Johnson Brothers (WEA)

[tba] - Tom Jones (Gut)

SEPTEMBER :

[tba] - Mary Jane Lamond (Wicklow/BMG Classics)

[tba] - Bill Laswell (Wicklow/BMG Classics)

[tba] - Laurel MacDonald (Wicklow/BMG Classics)

[tba] - Varttina (Wicklow/BMG Classics)

OCTOBER :

[tba] - Metallica w/San Francisco Symphony Orch. (Vertigo/Mercury)

[tba] - Oasis (Creation)

[tba] - Radiohead (Parlophone)

[tba] - U2 (Island)

Dominator's Top 50 of 1998

15. The Cardigans - My Favourite Game

This track hung around for two months, but I thought it would have done better than it did, making No.14 in October last year. A fast-paced tune that's bound to stop the radio station playing "Love Fool" AGAIN! I wish they'd dump that one and play "Sick And Tired" instead. Much better.

About the video for "My Favourite Game", when I saw it on MTV it just showed singer Nina driving her car down the highway, but there's a better promo (four in all I understand) which features plenty of car crashes, ending with Nina "car-surfing", resulting in her crashing and landing on the ground. Perhaps that's the reason for her plaster cast.

It was followed up with "Erase/Rewind" (No.7, Mar 99) which was okay, but not really special and a rather dull video.

Next question: why does Nina sometimes look a complete babe, and at other times, when she's being interviewed, look like the complete opposite?

The end bit :

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Bye for now,

Dominator

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