* NM Top 75 singles, 11 December 2004 *

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 1 ) So What Could I Do / Trouble Is - Cranebuilders < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 2 ) Interstate 5 - Wedding Present
3 ( 3 ) Paint The Moon - Czars
4 ( 8 ) Ashes - Embrace
5 ( 4 ) Akira The Don's First EP - Akira The Don (#1[5])
6 ( 10 ) A Pattern / Tape 23 - Fans Of Kate
7 ( 6 ) My Declaration [RE] - Tom Baxter (#6)
8 ( 11 ) This Is The Last Time [RE] - Keane (#1[5] in 2003)
9 ( 13 ) If There's Any Justice In The World - Lemar
10 ( 5 ) Kiss On The Lips - Dualers (#2[1])

11 ( 15 ) Contrary Mary - Thee Unstrung
12 ( 12 ) Massive Crush - Barbs
13 ( 17 ) Irish Son - Brian McFadden
14 ( 14 ) Born In The 70s - Ed Harcourt
15 ( 7 ) Mary - Scissor Sisters (#3)
16 ( 9 ) I Believe In The Good Of Life - Hidden Cameras (#8)
17 ( 24 ) Lua - Bright Eyes
18 ( 20 ) Hotride - Prodigy
19 ( 23 ) Dreaming - I Dream ft Frankie & Calvin
20 ( 28 ) Party For Two - Shania Twain ft Mark McGrath

21 ( 35 ) Right To Be Wrong - Joss Stone
22 ( 16 ) Never Enough [re] - Open (#16)
23 ( 39 ) Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
24 ( 31 ) Room On The 3rd Floor - McFly
25 ( 26 ) Take It Easy (Love Machine) - Bright Eyes
26 ( 32 ) Lost In A Melody / Wanderlust - Delays
27 ( 44 ) Could Well Be In - Streets
28 ( 38 ) Not For All The Love In The World - Thrills
29 ( 49 ) Two Thousand Places - Polyphonic Spree
30 ( 18 ) Happy People - R Kelly (#13)

31 ( -- ) I Believe In You - Kylie Minogue
32 ( 52 ) She Wants To Be Me - Busted
33 ( 45 ) Unconditional - Bravery
34 ( 36 ) Hard Hand To Hold - Willy Mason
35 ( 19 ) Here Am I - Mercedes (#9)
36 ( 34 ) Psycho Killer - Rico (#34)
37 ( -- ) Ring Out Solstice Bells - Ian Anderson & Jethro Tull < DEBUT >
38 ( 59 ) Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid 20
39 ( 62 ) Persimmon Tree - Midnight Movies
40 ( 40 ) Nothing Wrong With You - Finn Brothers

41 ( 33 ) Walkie Talkie Man - Steriogram (#29)
42 ( 21 ) Francesca - Special Needs (#7)
43 ( -- ) Xmas Bloody Xmas - TV Smith < DEBUT >
44 ( 42 ) Breathless / There She Goes My Beautiful World - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (#42)
45 ( 22 ) Amerika - Rammstein (#4)
46 ( 67 ) Killamangiro - Baby Shambles
47 ( -- ) Mexico - Mundy
48 ( 46 ) Change Your Tune - Great Northwestern Hoboes (#46)
49 ( 29 ) Better Get Ready For A Fist Fight - Wonder Stuff (#25)
50 ( 25 ) Old Habits Die Hard - Mick Jagger & Dave Stewart (#21)

51 ( 73 ) Angels From The Ashes - Blair Douglas
52 ( 50 ) Ocean Breathes Salty - Modest Mouse
53 ( -- ) 50 Grand For Christmas - Paul Holt < DEBUT >
54 ( 53 ) What Ya Crying For - Landaus (#53)
55 ( 54 ) Vertigo - U2 (#39)
56 ( 48 ) Turn The Radio Up - Loose Salute (#48)
57 ( -- ) Rip It Up [RI] - Razorlight
58 ( 55 ) London Bridge / End Of An Era - Dogs (#55)
59 ( 27 ) Cold Man's Nightmare - Cathy Davey (#16)
60 ( 57 ) Welcome To My Truth - Anastacia (#57)

61 ( 30 ) Let Me Kiss You - Morrissey (#2[4])
62 ( 69 ) Ladyflash - Go! Team
63 ( 51 ) Prince Harry - Soho Doll (#51)
64 ( -- ) Sunday Morning - Maroon 5
65 ( 60 ) Wow Machine - Caves (#60)
66 ( 64 ) I Love You More Than Rock 'N' Roll - Thunder (#64)
67 ( -- ) This Old Skin - Beautiful South
68 ( 63 ) I'll Stand By You - Girls Aloud (#60)
69 ( 47 ) Pressure / Cow Cow Yicky - Neville Staple (#38)
70 ( 37 ) I Predict A Riot - Kaiser Chiefs (#20)
71 ( -- ) Get On Your Life - Black Velvets < DEBUT >
72 ( 43 ) The Bucket - Kings Of Leon (#34)
73 ( 41 ) Why Do I Do - Tyler James (#31)
74 ( 66 ) What You Waiting For - Gwen Stefani (#66)
75 ( -- ) Renegade Cavalcade - Ash
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-- ( 56 ) Wasn't Even Looking - Jukes (#39)
-- ( 58 ) First Day Of My Life - Rasmus (#36)
-- ( 61 ) Smash It Up - Damned (#58)
-- ( 65 ) Riot Radio - Dead 60s (#13)
-- ( 68 ) Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne
-- ( 70 ) One Moment More - Mindy Smith (#44)
-- ( 71 ) What Became Of The Likely Lads - Libertines (#18)
-- ( 72 ) Lost In The Plot - Dears (#50)
-- ( 74 ) The Long Goodbye - A Girl Called Eddy (#16)
-- ( 75 ) Breeze On By - Donny Osmond (#3)
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-- ( -- ) Misunderstood - Robbie Williams
-- ( -- ) Unwritten - Natasha Bedingfield
-- ( -- ) Wonderful Night - Fatboy Slim
-- ( -- ) Flying - Bryan Adams
-- ( -- ) Good Vibrations - Brian Wilson
-- ( -- ) Misfit - Elefant
-- ( -- ) She's The Blade - Sugarcult
-- ( -- ) Radio - Ludes
-- ( -- ) Sacred Heart - Cass McCombs
-- ( -- ) Modern Art / My Little Brother - Art Brut
-- ( -- ) Almost Blue / Alfie - Alison Moyet
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My comments will come later. Your comments please...

[Sofie]

Excellent #1; both songs that is.

The Blair Douglas song is good. Would be nice for more people to chart it as well.

The Go! Team song is awful. Anyone know what their album is like?

Great Top 10, good to see Czars doing well - a favourite song of mine now.

How many of your new entries are you sharing on Soul Seek?

[TheThorne]

New Entry comments


31 ( -- ) I Believe In You - Kylie Minogue

good song just outside my top 50

37 ( -- ) Ring Out Solstice Bells - Ian Anderson & Jethro Tull < DEBUT >
43 ( -- ) Xmas Bloody Xmas - TV Smith < DEBUT >
53 ( -- ) 50 Grand For Christmas - Paul Holt < DEBUT >


I will never chart a Xmas song just coz its Xmas they have to be very good for me to consider them and no43 & 53 are awful but you cant knock Jethro Tull,think its an old song as I have it on a Xmas album.

47 ( -- ) Mexico - Mundy

Havent heard & not stocked anywhere here or available to download, he needs to sort out is UK marketing team gawd this guy gets top 10 hits in Eire.

57 ( -- ) Rip It Up [RI] - Razorlight

classic stuff

64 ( -- ) Sunday Morning - Maroon 5

not their best single but still good

67 ( -- ) This Old Skin - Beautiful South

dreary

71 ( -- ) Get On Your Life - Black Velvets < DEBUT >
75 ( -- ) Renegade Cavalcade - Ash

Both good , I some how forgot to chart The Black Velvets even tho I have been playing them on my station for over a month lol, need to fix that.

[Earl Purple]

The NM chart is not a chart of one particular genre, though indie tends to dominate.

However the NM chart does, and always has, charted some pop, even the manufactured kind. And for some reason December is often a month when the manufactured pop does better. And not only because there is no indie about, because often there is.

I know we can no longer call Kylie Minogue "manufactured", she gave up being that long ago, still it is not that usual that she would have the highest new entry. A highest new entry guarantees nothing, but she might hope to get her first solo top 10 hit for a while - I don't even know what her last solo top 10 hit was, although she did get to #9 with "Kids" duetting with Robbie Williams. Her single earlier this year "Red Blooded Woman" did go top 20, but "Chocolate" failed to chart at all. She seems to be in her second indie phase, her first was in the mid 1990s, and during that time her singles would often peak higher in the NM chart than in the UK. One single not among that number was "Confide In Me" - it reached #2 in the UK but dropped fairly quickly, while in the NM chart it peaked one place lower at #3 but did become her biggest ever hit, and stayed in the top 10 for quite a long time. Of course this is not really a true solo effort either, the Scissor Sisters did co-write this, and given that they've had two #3 hits this year, you might expect this one to also do well.

Paul Holt getting a high new entry is surprising to many. This song was written after a comment made by Simon Cowell in the trials for the X-Factor, that he would never get a recording contract and a #1 single, and that Simon Cowell would bet £50,000 on it. Well he got the recording contract, but will have to wait at least until his next single. I have a feeling there won't be one, so Mr Cowell's pocket is safe for now (not that he couldn't afford it anyway). By entering at #53, I am pretty certain this is a higher achievement than will be managed by the winner Steve Brookstein's cover of "Against All Odds", although Steve may crack the chart later if he releases some decent new material. As for the Paul Holt song, it is a very jingly archetypal Christmas song, not too dissimilar to Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You".

Among the climbers are Busted, up from 52 to 32, not a bad climb. Their biggest ever NM hit "Year 3000" peaked at #14 just 2 years ago. The new single was released only as a 3" CD and did not make the UK chart (possibly ineligible) so it seems my chart is alternative even when I'm charting Busted. Also doing well in the pop genre are McFly, Lemar and Brian McFadden.

Jethro Tull released a Christmas album in 2003 and a year later decided to release an EP containing songs that were on the 2003 album. Perhaps why it wasn't a bit UK hit, but the lead track is one of the highest entries this week. (The lead track was first out in 1976, but I don't know if this is the same version or a re-recording).

Not many release in the forthcoming weeks, so I may extend the entry list to 3 weeks again (it's been 2 weeks recently). Soon I'll have all these Christmas songs overstaying their welcome.

[Earl Purple]

Kylie in the UK and NM charts during the 1990s.

Title	UK chart	NM chart
What Do I Have To Do	6	5
Shocked	6	4
Word Is Out	16	F
If You Were With Me Now	4	10
Keep On Pumpin' It	49	F
Give Me Just A Little More Time	2	13
Finer Feelings	11	16
What Kind Of Fool	14	F
Celebration	20	F
Confide In Me	2	3
Put Yourself In My Place	11	6
Where Is The Feeling	16	F
Where The Wild Roses Grow	11	5
Some Kind Of Bliss	22	21
Did It Again	14	F
Breathe	14	22
GBI	63	F

5 of Kylie's singles peaked higher in the NM chart. She has never peaked higher in the NM chart in either the 80s or 00s.

[Earl Purple]

This is the chart of 11 December 2004, of course. Don't know why it was posted as 4th.

[anna]

Nice chart Earl P. Any recommendations for me this week? Would I like Mexico?

[Admin]

Good to see Bravery and Go! team climbing, but some songs in there are just YUCK!

[Sofie]

andy said:

some songs in there are just YUCK!

Agreed

[Earl Purple]

You might like Mexico. It reminds me a bit of "Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)" by Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel. I don't think it's as good as his last single "July" and I don't know his earlier stuff. "July" was priced at 1.99 (and I bought it) but this one was sold at 3.99 and I downloaded it.

[TheThorne]

NM you should try and download his 2 nearly hit singles.

'Pardon Me' and 'To You I Bestow' you will have heard the latter without realizing its him as it did feature heavily on the Romeo & Juliet trailer, of coz its 2 late to change your charts but if musics worth hearing its worth hearing and it would put his new muisc into perspective.

[Earl Purple]

Found both of those and am downloading them. Cannot find Life's A Cinch, which was his #75 hit.

I also downloaded the Auteurs song that was in your top singles of the 1990s. Was ok, didn't think it was as good as "The Rubettes" but then that was a #1 for me. But I did only listen to it once so far.

[TheThorne]

yeh its different looking back from knowing them at the time, the newer songs mean more 2 u, but it will grow on u.