* NM Top 50 singles, 7 February 2004 *

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 2 ) Til The Day - Easyworld < 1st #1 hit >
2 ( 7 ) Run - Snow Patrol
3 ( 3 ) I'm On Standby - Grandaddy
4 ( 1 ) My Enormous Penis - 4 Poofs & A Piano (#1[4])
5 ( 5 ) Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand
6 ( 8 ) The Voice Within - Christina Aguilera
7 ( 10 ) Hit That - Offspring
8 ( 13 ) Long Time Coming - Delays
9 ( 4 ) My Immortal - Evanescence (#1[3])
10 ( 16 ) Me And My Love - David Kitt

11 ( 19 ) Pressure Point - Zutons
12 ( 23 ) Comfortably Numb - Scissors Sister
13 ( 6 ) The Beautiful Occupation - Travis (#3)
14 ( 31 ) So Alive - Ryan Adams
15 ( 24 ) Harder To Breathe - Maroon 5
16 ( 30 ) Desolation Highway - Bikini Atoll
17 ( -- ) Plastic Lions - Eberg < DEBUT >
18 ( 40 ) Spinning - Clarkesville
19 ( 39 ) I'll Be There - Emma Bunton
20 ( 14 ) Powerless (Say What You Want) - Nelly Furtado (#13)

21 ( 12 ) Heartbreak Stroll - Raveonettes (#12)
22 ( 9 ) Let Go With The Flow - Beautiful South (#4)
23 ( 42 ) The Wild Son - Veils
24 ( 33 ) Still - Longview
25 ( 20 ) Bring It On / My Lover's Prayer - Alistair Griffin (& Robin Gibb) (#20)
26 ( 11 ) Shut Up - Black Eyed Peas (#5)
27 ( -- ) Real - Plumb < DEBUT >
28 ( 36 ) Stumble And Fall - Razorlight
29 ( -- ) Truck On - Simple Kid
30 ( 27 ) Everybody Cries - Liberty X (#27)

31 ( 44 ) Neon Commando - Surferosa
32 ( 45 ) G-d Is A DJ - Pink
33 ( 32 ) Forget It All / All I Wanna Do - Amy Studt (#32)
34 ( 15 ) Changes - Ozzy & Kelly Osbourne (#6)
35 ( -- ) Maybe Someday - Ordinary Boys < DEBUT >
36 ( 48 ) Fell In Love With A Boy - Joss Stone
37 ( -- ) Megalomaniac - Incubus
38 ( 49 ) Last Train Home - Lostprophets
39 ( -- ) Big Thing Coming - Stranglers
40 ( 25 ) Kick It - Peaches ft Iggy Pop (#24)

41 ( -- ) Catalyst - Oceansize
42 ( 28 ) Good Luck - Basement Jaxx ft Lisa Kekaula (#26)
43 ( -- ) Sylvia - Special Needs < DEBUT >
44 ( 21 ) Animal - REM (#18)
45 ( 17 ) Closest Thing To Crazy - Katie Melua (#8)
46 ( -- ) C'mon C'mon - Von Bondies < DEBUT >
47 ( 22 ) Sparkle Me - Buffseeds (#9)
48 ( 18 ) Life For Rent - Dido (#7)
49 ( -- ) Nighttime Anytime - Constantines < DEBUT >
50 ( 34 ) Mister Mental - Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster (#32)
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-- ( 26 ) This Groove - Victoria Beckham (#20)
-- ( 29 ) Golden Gate Bridge - Ocean Colour Scene (#21)
-- ( 35 ) Leave Right Now - Will Young (#10)
-- ( 37 ) Funeral Of Hearts - HIM (#35)
-- ( 38 ) Palmcorder Yajna - Mountain Goats (#15)
-- ( 41 ) All This Time - Michelle (#30)
-- ( 43 ) Here And Now - Client (#16)
-- ( 46 ) Luminosity - Empathy (#46)
-- ( 47 ) Too Lost In You - Sugababes (#34)
-- ( 50 ) I Won't Change You - Sophie Ellis-Bextor (#34)
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we have bubblers:

-- ( -- ) Room In Brooklyn - John Squire
-- ( -- ) This Love - LeAnn Rimes
-- ( -- ) Predator - Modey Lemon
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No longer am I listing those below the chart in the order in which were ranked. The bubblers are in order of rank among themselves, those that dropped out are ordered by their last week's position.

Easyworld get to #1 for the first time ever - keeping out Snow Patrol, and the top of the chart is beginning to get the indie look to it with a "fresh music" feel, though Christina is still climbing there at #6, probably its peak.

Thursday there will be another chart and things will be back to normal.

According to my records, Snow Patrol had a single out last year called "Spitting Games" on 15 September, that was the same week as "Porn Shoes" by the French and "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex" by Rachel Stevens. It failed to even reach my bubblers on the first 2 weeks then was listed as the 8th bubbler on the 3rd week (behind 9 new entries). I'm listening to it now - it sounds familiar. I can also see why it didn't chart.

[Melian]

I know and like:

2 ( 7 ) Run - Snow Patrol

Great song, as usual, I don't know that much, but do like most of what I've heard.

[Robin]

Hey Earl Purple, great taste in music. I like most of the top 20. There's a few I don't know like Edberg and Clarksville. The Easyworld song is really growing on me ;D

[Earl Purple]

I think the group is called Eberg and not Edberg.

It's quite a weird sound and has crackling noises on it so I thought at first the rip was faulty, but the crackles were there when I played it on my CD player too, and they come regularly at the same point in the tempo, so it must be there intentionally.

[Admin]

Snow Patrol for #1!! ;D

[Melian]

Mulligatawny said:

Snow Patrol for #1!! ;D

Yay! ;D

[Robin]

Earl said:

I think the group is called Eberg and not Edberg.

It's quite a weird sound and has crackling noises on it so I thought at first the rip was faulty, but the crackles were there when I played it on my CD player too, and they come regularly at the same point in the tempo, so it must be there intentionally.

Sounds weird! When I was listening to Travis the other day in the car, the track "Paperclips" has some bizzare squeaking noises in it! Switched the tape off coz I thought it was the car conking out!!!

[Earl Purple]

The last track on the Beautiful Occupation CD wouldn't rip properly into mp3 but all the rest of the album did. I was able to rip it in analog mode (in Music Match) but it still came out a bit distorted.

I think they tampered with it on purpose to stop people downloading the entire album, and that might have an effect on car stereos too.