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?
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!
ah OK. Typo on Ceefax 533 then!
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.
yeah.
But next year, the X factor winner will make only number two, and the whole media world will eat itself.
So sayeth Ich.
They will be kept off number one by the winner of You’ve Got Talent (you heard it here first).
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!
uhh.....NO
I’m waiting for the DJ Otzi cover version in 2030 (“Hey eez James Bond from the nine-teez!”).
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.
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 ?
The former, mostly.
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.