* NM Top 60 singles, 10 July 2004 *

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 1 ) Eve The Apple Of My Eye - Bell X1 < 3rd week at #1 >
2 ( 2 ) Your Cover's Blown / Wrapped Up In Books - Belle And Sebastian
3 ( 6 ) Pink GR Ease - Pink Grease
4 ( 3 ) Lovers Need Lawyers - Good Life (#2[2])
5 ( 4 ) Hello Starling (Snow Is Gone) - Josh Ritter (#4)
6 ( 9 ) Absent Friends - Divine Comedy
7 ( 7 ) Hand In Hand - Beatsteaks
8 ( 10 ) The Reason - Hoobastank
9 ( 11 ) Story Of My Life - Kristian Leontiou
10 ( 16 ) You Can't Hurry Love - Concretes

11 ( 19 ) Superhorny - David Wrench
12 ( 8 ) Celebrity - Barenaked Ladies (#4)
13 ( 5 ) Irish Blood English Heart - Morrissey (#1[5])
14 ( 20 ) I'm Shakin' - Rooney
15 ( 12 ) Do No Wrong - Thirteen Senses (#12)
16 ( 22 ) Obviously - McFly
17 ( 18 ) Makin' Out - Mark Owen
18 ( 23 ) In A Cage (On Prozac) - My Red Cell
19 ( 25 ) Golden Touch - Razorlight
20 ( 24 ) Wild Dances - Ruslana

21 ( 13 ) Summer Sunshine - Corrs (#9)
22 ( 28 ) Something Good - Bic Runga
23 ( 14 ) Brown Eyes Blue - Mohair (#6)
24 ( 45 ) Remember Me - Zutons
25 ( 29 ) Covered In Punk - Portabella
26 ( 27 ) The Tide That Left & Never Came Back - Veils
27 ( 46 ) Talk Talk Talk - Ordinary Boys
28 ( 39 ) New Home New Life - Alarm
29 ( 33 ) Just Want To Live - Open
30 ( 15 ) 1471  - Tramp Attack (#2[3])

31 ( 50 ) Road To Paradise - Shane MacGowan & Kick Horns
32 ( 47 ) Down To The Sea - Tim Booth
33 ( 41 ) Talk Shows On Mute - Incubus
34 ( 30 ) Ready For You Now - Six By Seven
35 ( 54 ) Shoot Your Gun - 22-20s
36 ( 37 ) Maybe - N.E.R.D
37 ( 17 ) Oh My G-d - Kaiser Chiefs (#11)
38 ( 56 ) All Over This Town - Upper Room
39 ( 53 ) The Song Rides - Do Me Bad Things
40 ( 34 ) Horsemen - Bees

41 ( 60 ) Come As You Are - Beverley Knight
42 ( 57 ) Maybe I've Changed - Daniel Wylie
43 ( 51 ) What Am I To Do - Norah Jones
44 ( 42 ) In It For The Money - Client (#42)
45 ( -- ) I Love You Cause I Have To [RE] - Dogs Die In Hot Cars (#3 in 2003)
46 ( 43 ) Everytime - Britney Spears (#43)
47 ( 21 ) Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery - Graham Coxon (#3)
48 ( -- ) Cannonball [RE] - Damien Rice (#2[1] in 2003)
49 ( 59 ) Teenage Screamers - Tokyo Dragons
50 ( 35 ) Walking Through Walls - Tim Arnold (#35)

51 ( -- ) The Rules - Ben Kweller
52 ( -- ) That's All Right - Elvis Presley [OLD]
53 ( -- ) Friday's Child - Will Young
54 ( -- ) Woo Hoo - 5678s < DEBUT >
55 ( 48 ) Mona Lisa - Jesse Malin (#48)
56 ( -- ) Walk Idiot Walk - Hives
57 ( -- ) Single Again - Fiery Furnaces
58 ( -- ) The Show - Girls Aloud
59 ( -- ) Somebody Hurt You - Girl Called Eddy < DEBUT >
60 ( 26 ) Not About To Lose - Ron Sexsmith (#10)
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-- ( 31 ) In & Out - Speedway (#23)
-- ( 32 ) Give It Back - Polly Paulusma (#14)
-- ( 36 ) 20 Million Miles From Earth - Space (#24)
-- ( 38 ) Dragostea Din Tei - O-Zone (#25)
-- ( 40 ) Everybody's Changing - Keane (#4)
-- ( 44 ) Eyeliner - Melys (#20)
-- ( 49 ) Ether Radio - Chikinki (#39)
-- ( 52 ) Born In England - Twisted X (#13)
-- ( 55 ) Viva England - Undercover (#37)
-- ( 58 ) The Bottle - Paul Weller (#50)
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-- ( -- ) You're Lovely To Me - Lucky Jim
-- ( -- ) In A Dream - Longview
-- ( -- ) Out Of The Sun - Joy Zipper
-- ( -- ) I Could Be An Angle - Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster
-- ( -- ) Utopia - AM
-- ( -- ) Starlight - Young Heart Attack
-- ( -- ) Chocolate - Kylie
-- ( -- ) Never Felt Like This - Shaznay Lewis
-- ( -- ) Summer's Here - Magnus
-- ( -- ) One Evening - Feist
-- ( -- ) Strangest Things - Freeform Five
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This chart was actually compiled on time (Thursday night) it's just taken me a while to post it, but in any case you will not see the next one published until after the 9 days, so it will probably be a week late.

A bit of a "slow down" around this time of year, and that has allowed 2 big hits from last year to enter when usually I would have ignored them.

Belle & Sebastian fail to reach the top this week and look like they might have to content themselves with only a #2 hit this time. If Morrissey can replace Bell X1 then it will be a "sandwich" (i.e. where an artist replaces the one that replaced them). There have been many of these in the past, including a double-layer sandwich in 1989 where the #1 went from the Beautiful South to Debbie Gibson then the Lightning Seeds, back to Debbie Gibson and back to the Beautiful South.

Among the others to enter, Ben Kweller removes himself from the "one hit wonder" list. He previously had a #1 hit in 2002 called "Wasted & Ready". Reality TV show winners Will Young and Girls Aloud both chart.

[Sofie]

Same #1 and #2 as me again!
Good top 10, and good to see Concretes rising.

[Earl Purple]

The Concretes single entered at #60 and has now made it all the way into the top 10. I think that's the first #60 entry to get that high. I does seem a long way to climb.

The Pink G-R-Ease was a UK #75 hit and their only top 75 hit to date. (It actually peaked one position higher than Fever which was UK #76). A few other "Least Successful Chart Acts" have had NM chart careers.

- Campag Velocet were the first with "Vito Satan" in 2000. The single peaked at NM #13. They actually had a new single out last week so I would have to check if it went top 75 (thus removing themselves from the list).

- Biscuit Boy is only a "sort-of" least successful chart act as it's a breakaway group for Paul Heaton who's had many hits with the Beautiful South as well as the Housemartins. His single "Mitch" is the most successful UK #75 hit in the NM chart, peaking at #2. It was kept out of #1 by Travis's "Side".

- Proud Mary's "Very Best Friend" was an NM hit but they had a bigger hit "All Good Things" which was a limited edition and reached NM #9. It was produced by Noel Gallagher.

- The BellRays also did better with a different song in the NM chart. Their UK hit was "They Glued Your Head On Upside Down" by had a bigger NM hit with "Fire On The Moon". Lisa Kekaula has also had a further UK hit with Basement Jaxx with "Good Luck", a single which has actually charted twice.

[Admin]

Nice to see DDIHCars back in again.

[ManicKangaroo]

Earl said:

Campag Velocet were the first with "Vito Satan" in 2000. The single peaked at NM #13. They actually had a new single out last week so I would have to check if it went top 75 (thus removing themselves from the list).

nope, they didn't make top 75 NM

[Earl Purple]

Radio Earl Purple is back up now...

Playing releases of July 2004. Subsequently I hope to compile the chart of 17 July tomorrow and that of 24 July on Sunday.

Then we go away so there'll be another delay.

[The Pioneer]

am listening to radioearlpurple and think it is way good *tops marks earl* *thumbs up*

[Sofie]

Neil, do you know if it's possible to play your radio station on another program apart from Winamp?

[Milliways]

Do Me Bad Things I got this promo single at a record shop here in Newcastle. I wasn't that impressed with the title track but love the third song on the CD, 'Burn Some Money'.

Can you give me a little description of the following bands from your chart, so I can see whether they're worth paying a visit to at Leeds Fest:

Pink Grease
My Red Cell
Kaiser Chiefs
The Open
Fiery Furnaces?

Thanks

[Sofie]

KingB, Pink Grease are a punk band. I have the single NM has charted on MP3, if you want it?

[Sofie]

My comments:

1 ( 1 ) Eve The Apple Of My Eye - Bell X1 < 3rd week at #1 > - Good song, is slowly falling in my chart
2 ( 2 ) Your Cover's Blown / Wrapped Up In Books - Belle And Sebastian - see above
3 ( 6 ) Pink GR Ease - Pink Grease - Good song
4 ( 3 ) Lovers Need Lawyers - Good Life (#2[2]) - Getting a bit bored of it now, may not enter my chart
7 ( 7 ) Hand In Hand - Beatsteaks - Not sure yet
9 ( 11 ) Story Of My Life - Kristian Leontiou - good song
10 ( 16 ) You Can't Hurry Love - Concretes - Set to enter my chart this week

11 ( 19 ) Superhorny - David Wrench - Is slowl climbing up my chart
12 ( 8 ) Celebrity - Barenaked Ladies (#4) - not too keen on this one
13 ( 5 ) Irish Blood English Heart - Morrissey (#1[5]) - His new one is better
14 ( 20 ) I'm Shakin' - Rooney - Not sure yet, this song is so hard to find
16 ( 22 ) Obviously - McFly - Like this one
17 ( 18 ) Makin' Out - Mark Owen - 'Four minute warnign' is better, imo, bt this one is still good
18 ( 23 ) In A Cage (On Prozac) - My Red Cell - god song

21 ( 13 ) Summer Sunshine - Corrs (#9) - Like this one, but not enough for it to enter my chart
23 ( 14 ) Brown Eyes Blue - Mohair (#6) - Bored of this one
24 ( 45 ) Remember Me - Zutons - not sure yet
25 ( 29 ) Covered In Punk - Portabella - (enough said)
26 ( 27 ) The Tide That Left & Never Came Back - Veils - good song
28 ( 39 ) New Home New Life - Alarm - Not too sure yet
30 ( 15 ) 1471  - Tramp Attack (#2[3]) - Goo song, fell out of my chart ages ago

35 ( 54 ) Shoot Your Gun - 22-20s - can't get hold of this one ad I still haven't heard it yet
36 ( 37 ) Maybe - N.E.R.D - ;D
37 ( 17 ) Oh My G-d - Kaiser Chiefs (#11) - Great song, leftmy chart ages ago, though

44 ( 42 ) In It For The Money - Client (#42) - Like this one, the only song of theirs to enter my chart
45 ( -- ) I Love You Cause I Have To [RE] - Dogs Die In Hot Cars (#3 in 2003) - 'Godhopping' is better, but quite like this one
46 ( 43 ) Everytime - Britney Spears (#43) - like this one
47 ( 21 ) Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery - Graham Coxon (#3) - Like this one
48 ( -- ) Cannonball [RE] - Damien Rice (#2[1] in 2003) - not really sure yet, will have to listen to it more

54 ( -- ) Woo Hoo - 5678s < DEBUT > - like this one
56 ( -- ) Walk Idiot Walk - Hives - Oeof their better ones
60 ( 26 ) Not About To Lose - Ron Sexsmith (#10) - Bored of this one

Great chart as always