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so the following dropped out :

3 climbers :

3 non-movers :

and 27 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...

16 Gary Barlow - Stronger

Well, it goes to show that if you piss your fans about by cancelling concerts and putting your album release back because it's "not ready", they won't thank you for it.

Instead why not just try releasing an album of crap songs, aside from one with involvement from the Pet Shop Boys, and watch all your singles jump into the Top 5 with ease...

1 Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca *1st Week at No.1*

Energetic Latino music and the sort of thing that sells a lot of records in summer, but it doesn't leave a lasting impression.

He's being sold over here as the next Big Thing to hit the UK, but if that's the case then why did he disappear off the face of the planet after his previous (and before this single, only) single, "Un, Dos, Tres, Maria" made No.6 in September 97. Why couldn't his record company have spared us the pain?

This is the 20th 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

July 5th :

	Alice Dee Jay                 Better Off Alone
	Aphrodite                     Woman That Rolls
	Barlow, Gary                  Stronger
	Bis                           Detour
	Blockster                     Grooveline
	Blur                          Coffee & TV (12")
	Cardigans                     Hanging Around
	Carroll, Dina                 Without Love
	Catatonia                     Londinium
	De Lange, Isle                Flying Blind
	Def Leppard                   Promises
	Destiny's Child               Bills, Bills, Bills
	Electronic                    Late At Night
	Fridge                        Of EP
	Funky Green Dogs              Can't Help It
	J-88                          The Look Of Love
	Manic Street Preachers        Tsunami
	Martin, Ricky                 La Vida Loca
	Mazelle, Kym                  A Place In My Heart
	Merz                          Many Weathers Apart
	Mullins, Shawn                Shimmer
	Ooberman                      Million Sun's
	Orbital                       Nothing Left
	Peshay                        Blue
	Phats & Small                 September '99
	Roxette                       Anyone
	Sasha                         Expander E.P.
	Sepultura                     TBC
	Shaboom                       Sweet Sensation
	Skribble, DJ                  Everybody Come On
	Ultrasound                    Aire & Calder
	Westlife                      If I Let You Go

July 12th :

	Art Of Trance                 Madagascar (Remix)
	Blue Nature                   A Life So Changed
	Caprice                       Oh Yeah
	Cassius                       TBC
	Cast                          Magic Hour
	Doolally                      Straight From The Heart
	Freestylers                   Here We Go
	Hell                          Copa
	Madness                       TBC
	Marlo                         How Do I Know
	Orton, Beth                   Central Reservation
	Shanice                       When I Close My Eyes
	Van Helden, Armand            Boogie Monsters
	Yomanda                       Synth & Strings

July 19th :

	Basement Jaxx                 Rendez-Vu
	Brown, Jennifer               Alive
	Clock                         Sunshine Day
	Eminem                        Guilty Conscience
	Grooves, Scott/Parliament     Mothership Reconnection
	James                         TBC
	Keating, Ronan                When You Say Nothing At All
	Martin, Billy Ray             Honey
	Masters At Work & India       To Be In Love
	Morisson, Mark                My Best Friend
	Pet Shop Boys                 I Don't Know What You Want
	Planet Perfecto Feat          Not Over Yet '99
	Richard, Cliff                The Miracle
	Smash Mouth                   All Star
	Tyrese                        Nobody Else

July 26th :

	Animal House                  Animal House EP
	Costello, Elvis               She
	De-Ryus                       Grass Aint Greener
	Dope Smugglaz                 Double Double Dutch
	Space Raiders                 (I Need The) Disko Doktor

2nd August :

	All Seeing I                  1st Man In Space
	Blackstreet                   Think About You
	Brand New Heavies             Saturday Night
	Monica                        Angel Of Mine
	Westlife                      If I Let You Go

9th August :

	Salt N Pepa                   Gitty Up

16th August :

	La's, The                     There She Goes

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

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

29. Indo - R U Sleeping

A one-hit wonder from April last year, this made No.31 and received plenty of airplay on Galaxy 102FM. At first I thought the chorus for this was "Are You Felippe", but now I know different.

Not a bad tune either and I never thought I'd spend most of my in-car radio-listening tuned to a dance music station. I still do listen to it a lot. Well, either them or Classic FM...

The end bit :

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Bye for now,

Dominator

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