Rolling Chart Discuss thread no 2.5 aka

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OK, so what are Slade doing at 22 and 25 in the chart?

I guess everyone is going download xmas crazy, which is why the Pogues are at number 10 with "FT of NY" without the big "bigup" of a couple years ago.

But why are slade etc?

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh?

According to the chart I received Slade are at 23 and Ricky Tomlinson at 25, the latter proving that he is no one-hit-wonder!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:31 (seventeen years ago) link

ah OK. Typo on Ceefax 533 then!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Possibly the most boring album chart ever published, this week's list.

Sad to see Bunton's Life In Mono peak at a mere #65 despite (or because of?) Strictly Come Dancing; it isn't a masterpiece but it deserved better.

Leona for the Christmas number one then, I guess.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:43 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah.

But next year, the X factor winner will make only number two, and the whole media world will eat itself.

So sayeth Ich.

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:45 (seventeen years ago) link

They will be kept off number one by the winner of You've Got Talent (you heard it here first).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anybody else, on seeing the chart rundown with the new James Bond song in it, start singing:

You know my naaaaaaaaammee! a HOY! that's right, Look up my number!

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Monday, 18 December 2006 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/includes/homepage/media/061215_xmas_party.jpg

uhh.....NO

― sede vacante (blueski), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm waiting for the DJ Otzi cover version in 2030 ("Hey eez James Bond from the nine-teez!").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Slade and Pogues doing much better compared to previous re-issues. Presumably a combination of lower sales required and "oh I have the record but must also buy the download as it would be illegal to make my own mp3 from the CD". I don't get why 'DJs' etc. would buy them when they can just pick them up on countless Christmas compilations for same price.

― sede vacante (blueski), Monday, 18 December 2006 11:07 (seventeen years ago) link

damn - i didn't even know Emma B had a new album out (been out of the ILM loop if this has been discussed elsewhere)
i thought her last one was very fine, though i am slightly concerned about her digging into her old trip hop records for inspiration ..
is it more of the 60s pop music sound - or a new direction ?

― mark e (mark e), Monday, 18 December 2006 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

The former, mostly.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 18 December 2006 13:49 (seventeen years ago) link

it's more of the 60s sound but not quite as delightful as her last one - not bad by any means (and seriously 'take me to another town' is FABULOUS) but maybe a bit too conservative.

― lexpretend (lexpretend), Monday, 18 December 2006 13:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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