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This week: 4 new entries, 9 climbers, 6 non-movers & 21 downers.

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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...

4 new entries:

• 30 Oxygen - Am I On Your Mind
• 23 CK & Supreme Dream Team - Dreamer
• 18 Milk Inc - Land of the Living
• 14 Erick Sermon & Redman - React

so the following dropped out :

• 40 Blue - One Love
• 38 Enrique Iglesias - Maybe
• 37 Westlife - Unbreakable
• 32 Christina Aguilera - Dirrty

9 climbers :

• 3 (5) Eminem
• 4 (6) Daniel Bedingfield
• 8 (9) Avril Lavigne
• 10 (11) Nelly & Kelly
• 12 (14) P!nk
• 13 (15) Atomic Kitten
• 28 (31) Justin Timberlake
• 29 (34) Madonna
• 38 (39) Ms Dynamite

6 non-movers :

• 1 Girls Aloud
• 2 Cheeky Girls
• 7 Love Inc
• 17 Liberty X
• 22 Holly Valance
• 35 S Club

and 21 going down.

Big fallers include :

• None in particular

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

• 47 Peter Gabriel - More Than This
• 50 Cooper - I Believe In Love

Of this week's highlights and lowlights...

1 (1) Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground *3rd Week at No.1*

The girls song, also a cover version as some other girlband, Orchid, sang on it first. Rumour has it their vocals are in the background too. Either that, or it's another "Milli Vanilli" scandal.

This is the 30th 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

New releases :

December 30th:

Richard Ashcroft - Science Of Silence
CK & Supreme Dream Team - Dreamer
Cooper - I Believe In Love
Chris Difford - Cowboys Are My Weakness
Divine Inspiration - The Way (Put Your Hand In My Hand)
Peter Gabriel - More Than This
Milk Inc - Land Of The Living
Oxygen featuring Andrea Britton - Am I On Your Mind?
Erick Sermon - React
Spunge - Oliver's Army

January 6th:...:

Audio Bullys - We Don't Care
Badly Drawn Boy - Born Again
Busted - Year 3000
Lucy Carr - Missing You
Default - Wasting My Time
Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage
Erasure - Solsbury Hill
Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling
Flip & Fill - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Foo Fighters - Times Like These
InMe - Crushed Like Fruit
Jaheim - Fabulous
The Libertines - Time For Heroes
Masai - Do That Thang
Riva - Time Is A Healer
Bob Sinclar - The Beat Goes On
Who Da Funk - Sting Me Red
Wilt - Understand

January 13th:...:

Audioslave - Cochise
Zoe Birkett - Treat Me Like A Lady
Brooklyn Bounce - Loud & Proud
The Calling - Could It Be Any Harder
Dario G - Heaven Is Closer
Jaimeson featuring Angel Blu - True
Knoc'turnal - Muzik
Layo & Bushwacka - Love Story (Finally)
Mario - Just A Friend
More Fire Crew - Back Then
Nas - Made You Look
Oakenfold - The Harder They Come
Panjabi MC - Mudian To Bach Ke (Beware Of The Boys)
Sean Paul - Gimme The Light
Reef - Give Me Your Love
Rosie Ribbons - Little Bit

January 20th:...:

Coolio - Ghetto Square Dance
Craig David - Hidden Agenda
Driftwood - Freeloader
Eve - Satisfaction
Hell Is For Heroes - You Drove Me To It
Jay-Z featuring Beyonce - Bonnie & Clyde
JJ72 - Always & Forever
Kira - I'll Be Your Angel
Lifehouse - Spin
Alanis Morrisette - Surrending
No Doubt - Running
Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up
Rui Da Silva - Feel The Love
Smoke 2 Seven - Envy
Third Edge - You Know Ya Wanna
Jurgen Vries & Charlotte Church - The Opera Song (Brave New World)

January 27th:...:

Beenie Man - Street Life
Big Brovaz - OK
Blackstreet - Wizzy-Wow
Blazin' Squad - Where The Story Ends/In The Beginning
Cam'Ron - Hey Ma
Chicane - Love On The Run
Dee Dee - The One
Darren Hayes - Crush (1980 Me)
Mint Royale - Blue Song
O-Town - These Are The Days
Busta Rhymes featuring Spliff Star - Make It Clap
Kelly Rowland - Stole
t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said

February 3rd:...:

Clipse - When The Last Time/Grindin'
Counting Crows - Big Yellow Taxi
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
Sash! - Ganbareh
Justin Timberlake - Cry Me A River

February 10th:...:

Appleton - Don't Worry
Aquagen - Hard To Say I'm Sorry
Matchbox 20 - Disease
Moony - Acrobats (Looking For Balance)
Mya - People Change
Rhianna - I Love Every Little Thing About You
Jan Wayne - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Sarah Whatmore - Automatic

February 17th:...:

The Ones - Superstar

February 24th:...:

Toni Braxton - Hit The Freeway
Melanie C - Here It Comes Again
Cradle Of Filth - Dark
Des'Ree - It's OK
Junior Senior - Move Ya Feet
Linkin Park - TBA
Dannii Minogue - I Begin To Wonder
Nelly & Justin Timberlake - Work It/Air Force One
N-E-R-D - Lapdance/Provider
LeAnn Rimes - Suddenly
Sugababes - Shape

March 3rd:...:

TBA

March 10th:...:

Mis-Teeq - TBA
Holly Valance - Tuck Your Shirt In
Westlife - Tonight/Miss You Nights

Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

This week there are new entries for

• None

The top 5 goes like this :

• 1 Avril Lavigne - Let Go
• 2 Robbie Williams - Escapology
• 3 P!nk - Missundaztood
• 4 Blue - One Love
• 5 Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head

New releases :

January 6th:

Zoe Birkett - Treat Me Like A Lady
Busted - Year 3000
Clipse - Grindin'
InMe - Crushed Like Fruit
Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi
More Fire Crew - Back Then
O-Town - These Are The Days
Smoke 2 Seven - Envy
Spunge - Oliver's Army
Who Da Funk - Sting Me Red

January 13th:

Audioslave - Cochise
Foo Fighters - Times Like These
Mario - Just A Friend
Reef - Give Me Your Love
t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said

January 20th:

ATC - My Heart Beats Like A Drum (Dam Dam Dam)
Hell Is For Heroes - You Drove Me To It
Alanis Morrisette - Surrending
Kelly Osbourne - Shut Up
Reef - Together
Sarah Whatmore - Automatic

January 27th:

Erasure - Other People's Songs
Rosie Ribbons - Misbehaving

February 3rd:

Appleton - Don't Worry
Sash! - Ganbareh
Sugababes featuring Sting - Shape

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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