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so the following dropped out :

3 climbers :

2 non-movers :

and 23 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...

30 No Doubt - New

After their last album, "Tragic Kingdom", which was already a couple of years old by the time "Don't Speak" went straight to No.1, I've been waiting until the time when they brought some new music out. However, this hasn't had any airplay where I've been listening, which explains the low chart position.

26 Blondie - Nothing is Real But the Girl

"Maria" was excellent, but this follows the same pace and isn't half as exciting. In fact, it's rather a disappointment. Have the reformed Blondie peaked too soon?

16 21st Century Girls - 21st Century Girls

"The New Spice Girls" is how this band of 14-16 yr-olds have been touted, and if memory serves, ex-Spice Girls manager Simon Fuller has had a hand in this, with newspaper stories reporting on a change in line-up as the drummer was booted out before they signed a record deal and one of the other girls learning how to beat them in time. Plus, a story about how the single's release date was pushed back when the promo had to be re-shot due to its war theme, as if anyone could actually be offended by the theme and not the appallingly bad singing.

Anyway, it looks as if the whole project has back-fired now that it's NOT gone straight to No.1, in fact it's nowhere near it.

1 Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) :O === *2nd Week at No.1*

Without a doubt this is one of the worst singles of the year so far and it shows how stupid the single-buying public can be. This is the project of Baz Luhrmann, director of crap films such as "Strictly Ballroom" and the latest incarnation of "Romeo and Juliet", and I fail to see what exactly he's done here.

He didn't write the words, which are spoken to a dance beat, and he didn't speak them either, using an actor's voice instead. I wonder if that's actually him in the video even.

Absolute crap. Save your pennies for S Club 7 next week instead :)

This is the 16th 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

May 31st :

	A Very Good Friend          Just Around
	A1                          Be The First To Believe
	Art Of Trance               Easter Island
	Bjork                       All Is Full Of Love
	Bolland, CJ                 Aint Gonna Be Me
	Cartoons                    Doodah
	Catatonia                   Karaoke Queen
	Cay                         Princes & Princesses
	Celeda                      Be Yourself
	Chef                        Simultaneous
	Chemical Brothers           Hey Boy, Hey Girl
	Cher                        All In One
	Cotton Mather               Password
	Cousins, Tina               Forever
	Dark Star                   About 3 AM
	Delirious                   Gravity
	DJ Go Go                    Cyber EP
	Dog Eat Dog                 TBC
	Garbage                     You Look So Fine (3" Blister
	                            Pack)
	Ginuwine                    Same Ol' G
	Grooverider                 TBC
	Hill, Lauryn                To Zion
	Imaani                      You Got A Way
	Jungle Brothers             VIP
	Lolly                       Viva La Radio
	Manic Street Preachers      Tsunami
	Micronauts, The             The Jag
	Moffats, The                Until You Loved Me
	Orton, Beth                 Central Reservation
	Presence                    Future Love (Remixes)
	Shack                       Comedy
	Shanice                     When I Close My Eyes
	Springsteen, Bruce          Sad Eyes
	Stewart, Dave               All Over The World
	TLC                         Unpretty
	Waits, Tom                  Hold On

June 7th :

	2 Pac                       Dear Mama
	Allison, Dot                Message Personnel
	Bachelor Girl               Buses & Trains
	Brandy                      Almost Doesn't Count
	Brown, Foxy (J.O.B)         TBC
	Dayeene                     And It Hurts
	Def Leppard                 Promises
	De-Ryus                     Grass Aint Greener
	Destiny's Child             Bills, Bills, Bills
	Dorsey, Marc                If You Really Wanna Know
	Elliot, Missy               She's A B*tch
	Great Outdoors              It Looks So Easy
	Hefner                      TBC
	Horsman, Liz                Just Thinking
	Houston, Whitney            My Love Is Your Love
	Lange feat. Sarah Dwyer     I Believe
	Lit                         My Own Worst Enemy
	Madonna                     Beautiful Stranger
	Marliyn Manson              Rock Is Dead
	Martin, Billy Ray           Honey
	Mullins, Shawn              Shimmer
	N Sync                      Tearin Up My Heart
	Orbital                     Nothing Left
	Robyn                       TBC
	S Club 7                    Bring It On Back
	Salt Tank                   Dimension
	Sebadoh                     It's All You
	Shy FX                      Deja Vu Part 2 (Ltd. Edition)
	Spears, Britney             Sometimes
	Sunshine State              Roots
	Three Amigos                Louie Louie

June 14th :

	Electronic                  Late At Night
	Friends Of Matthew          Out There
	Luscious Jackson            Lady Fingers
	Olive                       Love Affair
	Ross, Diana                 Not Over You Yet
	Staton, Candi               Young Hearts Run Free
	Terry, Todd                 Let It Ride
	Vengaboys                   Boom Boom Boom

June 21st :

	Alice Dee Jay               Better Off Alone
	Auteurs, The                Rubettes, The
	B, Mel                      Word Up
	Barlow, Gary                Stronger
	Blur                        Trimm Trabb
	Knight, Beverly             Greatest Day
	Mero                        It Must Be Love
	Orton, Beth                 Central Reservation
	Rickitt, Adam               I Breathe Again
	Smith, Will                 Wild Wild West

June 28th :

	Five                        TBC
	Gomez                       TBC
	Matchbox 20                 Real World

July 5th :

	Westlife                    If I Let You Go

July 12th :

	Madness                     TBC
	Van Helden, Armand          Boogie Monsters

Other forthcoming releases

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

Other forthcoming releases

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

24. Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

Released in July last year and making No.9, this was the second single from "Version 2.0", their second album which has now been re-released with a bonus 4-track Live CD, and was a track that easily topped the excellent "Push It" (No.9, May 98).

The other singles released since have been "Special" (No.15, Oct 98), "When I Grow Up" (No.9, Feb 99) and "You Look So Fine" (No.19, June 99).

The end bit :

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Bye for now,

Dominator

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