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S E P T E M B E R 1 1 T H 1 9 9 9

The initial bit :

In the last chart of 1998, I posted my Top 50 singles of the year, picking out the Top 10 first. During 1999, I'll be going through the list one by one starting with the Top 10 in alphabetical order.

This week : 12 new entries, 1 chart entry, 1 climbers, 1 non-movers & 25 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 chart entry :

  • 39 (51) Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
  • 37 Dove - Don't Dream :O ===
  • 35 The Brand New Heavies - Saturday Nite
  • 30 Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child O' Mine :O ===
  • 26 Tin Tin Out featuring Wendy Page - Eleven To Fly
  • 24 Lost Tribe - Gamemaster
  • 18 Gomez - Rhythm & Blues Alibi
  • 17 Agnelli & Nelson - Everyday
  • 11 The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright
  • 6 Martine McCutcheon - I've Got You
  • 5 A1 - Summertime of our Lives
  • 4 Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos
  • 2 DJ Jean - The Launch

    so the following dropped out :

  • 40 Destiny's Child - Bills * 3
  • 39 Yomanda - Synth and Strings
  • 38 Yazoo - Only You
  • 37 Jennifer Lopez - If You Had My Love
  • 36 Vengaboys - Boom * 4
  • 35 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around the World
  • 34 Steps - Love's Got a Hold on my Heart
  • 30 Phats & Small - Feel Good
  • 29 Hepburn - Bugs
  • 27 Whitney Houston - My Love is your dullness
  • 24 Caprice - Oh Yeah
  • 23 Mark Morrison & Connor Reeves - Best Friend
  • 22 Ayla - Ayla

    1 climbers :

  • 31 (32) Shania Twain

    1 non-movers :

  • 1 Lou Bega

    and 25 going down.

    Big fallers include :

  • 15 (7) Another Level
  • 21 (12) A Teens
  • 22 (13) Ocean Colour Scene
  • 23 (11) Stereophonics
  • 32 (16) Cartoons

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

  • 47 Wiseguys - Start the Commotion
  • 51 Naughty By Nature featuring Zhane - Jamboree
  • 52 Hybrid featuring Julee Cruise - If I Survive
  • 63 Lee Ann - 2 Times
  • 69 Vengaboys - We're Going To Ibiza
  • 73 Reef - New Bird

    Of this week's highlights and lowlights...

    69 Vengaboys - We're Going To Ibiza :O ===

    I had this down for another instant No.1, but the fact that it's bombed so spectacularly proves that there is a god!

    37 Dove - Don't Dream :O ===

    Godawful rap-cover of the classic Crowded House song, "Don't Dream It's Over" which became their first AND last single.

    30 Sheryl Crow - Sweet Child O' Mine :O ===

    Want a more tuneless version than Axl Rose's original? It's right here!

    6 Martine McCutcheon - I've Got You

    Second single and not another No.1. I haven't heard it unless the bit of warbling I caught on Jerry Springer's new UK chat show was it, but with her new long blonde tresses, she looks like she's trying to be England's answer to Mariah Carey with a Sarah Jessica Parker haircut.

    4 Enrique Iglesias - Bailamos

    Julio Iglesias Jr. Not a bad song either.

    1 Lou Bega - Mambo No.5 *2nd Week at No.1*

    After becoming the first single to climb into the Top 40, when only being available on import, since The Jam's That's Entertainment, the UK release of this single secures it a top slot, one place about Shaft's similar "Mucho Mambo"

    It's not a bad tune, but isn't the most impressive since it's the rapping that spoils it. Without the rapping, those who saw the recent Guiness advert will remember it accompanying the one where the old man swims for exactly 119.5 seconds as the perfect pint is scored and his brother and the town cheer him on. On TV it was quite a short ad, but at the cinema it seemed to go on forever.

    This is the 24th single to go straight in at No.1.

  • 1. Fatboy Slim - Praise You
  • 2. 911 - A Little Bit More
  • 3. Offspring - Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)
  • 4. Armand Van Helden featuring Duane Harden - You Don't Know Me
  • 5. Blondie - Maria
  • 6. Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
  • 7. Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
  • 8. Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough
  • 9. B*witched - Blame It On The Weatherman
  • 10. Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
  • 11. Martine McCutcheon - Perfect Moment
  • 12. Westlife - Swear It Again
  • 13. Backpassage Boys - I Like It That Way
  • 14. Boyzone - You Needed Me
  • 15. Shanks and Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate
  • 16. Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
  • 17. S Club 7 - Bring It All Back
  • 18. Vengaboys - Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
  • 19. ATB - 9pm (Till I Come)
  • 20. Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
  • 21. Ronan Keating - When You Say Nothing At All
  • 22. Westlife - If I Let You Go
  • 23. Geri Halliwell - Mi Chico Latino
  • 24. Lou Bega - Mambo No.5

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    New releases :

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

    30th August :

    	95 North                    The Request
    	All Seeing I                1st Man In Space
    	Allison, Dot                Close My eyes
    	Angel, Dave                 Knockout EP
    	Aydin The Funky Child       The Voice
    	Ayla                        Ayla
    	Cornell, Chris              Can't Change Me
    	DJ Flavours                 Your Caress 99
    	DJ Jean                     The Launch
    	DJ Rap                      Good To Be Alive
    	Elliot, Missy               All N My Grill
    	Fatt Jack                   Who Let The Dogs Out
    	Fountains Of Wayne          Troubled Times
    	Garnier, Laurent            Sound Of The Big Bobou
    	Gomez                       Rhythm & Blues Alibi
    	Gopher, Alex                Party People
    	Heliotropic                 Alive
    	Hell                        Copa
    	Hybrid                      If I Survive
    	Kaylif, Layla               Apricot Time
    	Naughty By Nature           Jamboree
    	Pavement                    Major Leagues
    	Rahzel                      All I Know
    	Rising Star                 Touch Me
    	Roots                       Strategy
    	Ruff Driverz                Waiting 4 The Sun
    	Shaft                       Mucho Mambo
    	Stone Factory               Sunset
    	Strike                      U Sure Do
    	Supergrass                  Movin'
    	T - Spoon                   Summerlove
    	Torrini, Emiliana           To Be Free
    	Usual Suspects              Stalker
    	Vengaboys                   We're Going To Ibiza
    

    6th September :

    	A-Sides                     Revolver
    	ATB                         Don't Stop
    	Balearic Bill               Destination Sunshine
    	Benet, Eric                 Spend My Life With You
    	Blaze                       Wishing You Were Here
    
    	Blur                        Set
    	Brother Brown               Under The Water
    	Bryan, Kelle                Higher Than Heaven
    	Cole, Andy                  Outstanding
    	Cosmos                      Summer In Space
    	Cruzeman                    Astec
    	Echobeatz                   Africa 2000
    	Eiffel '65                  Blue
    	Flaming Lips                Waitin' For A Superman
    	Fragma                      Toca Me
    	Genelab                     Anorak Lou
    	Jamiroquai                  Supersonic
    	Juno Reactor                Pistolero
    	L, Jonny                    Spike
    	Leftfield                   Afrika Shox/Phat Planet
    	Leila                       Sodastream
    	Lolly                       Mickey
    	Medal                       Porno Song
    	Mullins, Shawn              What Is Life
    	Muse                        Cave
    	N Sync                      Drives Me Crazy
    	Phoenix                     Heatwave
    	Regular Fries               Dust It (Don't Bust it)
    	Ross, Diana                 Not Over You Yet
    	Sixpence None The Richer    There She Goes
    	Sugar Ray                   Someday
    	Supergrass                  Movin' (NCQ 7")
    	Sylvian, David              God Man
    	Twain, Shania               Man I Feel Like A Woman
    

    13th September :

    	Bentley Rhythm Ace          TBC
    	Blackstreet                 Think About You
    	Bocelli, Andrea             Canto Della Terra
    	Brainchild                  Symmetry C
    	Brooks, Garth               Lost In You
    	Cube                        It Happens To Me All The Time
    	De Burgh, Chris             TBC
    	Estefan, Gloria             Santo Santo
    	Etienne, Valerie            Misunderstanding
    	Everything But The Girl     Five Fathoms
    	Houston, Whitney            Heartbreak Hotel
    	Jamiroquai                  12" Box Set
    	Jones, Tom & The Cardigans  Burning Down The House
    	Lit                         Ziplock
    	Marley, Bob                 Sun Is Shining
    	Northern Line               Run For Your Life
    	Remy Zero                   Prophecy
    	Sanchez, Junior             Be With You
    	Sting                       Brand New Day
    	Tamperer                    Hammer To The Heart
    	Tyrese                      Sweet Lady
    	York                        The Awakening
    

    20th September :

    	21st Century Girls          Teenage Attack
    	Barlow, Gary                Arms
    	Bowie, David                Thursday's Child
    	Brooks, Meredith            Lay Down
    	C, Melanie                  TBC
    	Carroll, Dina               Say You Love Me
    	Daddy's Favourite           I Feel Good Things For You
    	Eternal                     What'cha Gonna Do
    	Idlewild                    A Little Discouraged
    	Insane Clown Posse          TBC
    	Jamelia                     Thinking Of You
    	Kelly, R                    Turn Back The Hands Of Time
    	Longpigs                    TBC
    	S Club 7                    S Club Party
    	Space Brothers              TBC
    	Spears, Britney             (You Drive Me) Crazy
    

    27th September :

    	911                         Wonderland
    	Backstreet Boys             Larger Than Life
    	Gabrielle                   Sunshine
    	Glamma Kid                  Why
    	Guano Apes                  Open Your Eyes
    	Honeyz                      TBC
    	James                       TBC
    	Knight, Jordan              Give It To You
    	Pet Shop Boys               New York City Boy
    	Rickett, Adam               Everything My Heart Desires
    

    4th October :

    	B*Witched                   Jesse Hold On
    	Beck                        TBC
    	Charlatans, The             Forever
    	Chemical Brothers           Out Of Control
    	Cranberries                 Just My Imagination
    	Eurythmics                  I Saved The World Today
    

    18th October :

    	Aguilera, Christina         Genie In A Bottle
    	Five                        TBC
    

    25th October :

    	Westlife                    Fly Without Wings
    

    8th November :

    	Fun Lovin' Criminals        Up On The Hill
    	Williams, Robbie            She's The One/It's Only Us
    

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    Top 75 ALBUM chart analysis :

    This week there are new entries for

  • 3 Divine Comedy - A Secret History
  • 8 Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
  • 28 Hepburn - Hepburn
  • 31 Breakbeat - ERA - Ultra Obscene
  • 38 Dixie Chicks - Fly
  • 41 Billy Bragg - Reaching to the Converted

    The top 5 goes like this :

  • 1 Shania Twwain - Come On Over
  • 2 Travis - The Man Who
  • 3 Divine Comedy - A Secret History
  • 4 Boyzone - By Request
  • 5 Texas - The Hush The top 5 goes like this :

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

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    Dominator's Top 50 of 1998

    37. Natalie Imbruglia - Smoke

    The fourth single from her "Left of the Middle" album was a ballad that grew on me with each play. It's also one of the few slow songs that translated perfectly to a fast dance track and still gets the occasional play on Galaxy 102 FM in Manchester.

    In its original form, the track made No.5 in October last year. Her only other single last year was "Wishing I Was There" (No.19, June 98), but she's done nothing in the charts so far this year.

    The end bit :

    Well, that's it for now. If you want to be added to the Widescreen Video and Laserdisc lists, just mail me at Charts Request to tell me.

    Bye for now,

    Dominator

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