Dandy* Xmas Chart 2006

[dandyhighwayman]

01 - 01 Damien Rice "9 Crimes"
02 - 05 Guillemots "Of The Night EP"
03 - 02 Juliette & The Licks "Sticky Honey" (02)
04 - 07 Ladyfuzz "Kerfuffle"
05 - 04 Nelly Furtado "All Good Things (Come To An End)" (04)
06 - 03 Snow Patrol featuring Martha Wainwright "Set The Fire To The Third Bar" (02)
07 - 12 Scott Matthews "Dream Song"
08 - 09 Polytechnic "Man Overboard"
09 - 11 Mason "Exceeder"
10 - 08 Thom Yorke "Analyse" (01)

11 - 06 Scissor Sisters "Land Of A Thousand Words" (03)
12 - 19 Charlie May vs Sasha "Seal Clubbing"
13 - 21 Primal Scream "Sometimes I Feel So Lonely"
14 - 13 Bodyrox "Yeah Yeah" (04)
15 - 16 Fish Go Deep "The Cure And The Cause"
16 - 10 Outwork "Elektro" (06)
17 - 22 Booty Luv "Boogie 2nite"
18 - 14 The Good The Bad And The Queen "Herculean" (05)
19 - 15 Amy Winehouse "Rehab" (03)
20 - 38 Leopold Gregori "Pigeon Dance"

21 - 17 The Knife "Like A Pen" (04)
22 - 20 Joan As Police Woman "Christobel" (02)
23 - 34 The Rapture "Whoo! Alright - Yeah... Uh Huh"
24 - 18 Faithless "Bombs" (12)
25 - 24 Duke Special "Last Night I Nearly Died" (08)
26 - 26 Cassius "Toop Toop" (01)
27 - 35 Girls Aloud "I Think We're Alone Now"
28 - 36 Blondie vs Edison "Heart Of Glass"
29 - 28 Patrick Wolf "Accident And Emergency" (06)
30 - 32 Joan As Police Woman "Eternal Flame" (01)

31 - 23 Jamelia "Beware Of The Dog" (20)
32 - 25 CSS "Alala" (11)
33 - 30 I'm From Barcelona "We're From Barcelona" (01)
34 - 31 Cerys Matthews "Streets Of New York" (05)
35 - 27 The Feeling "I Love It When You Call" (16)
36 - 33 Madonna "Jump" (02)
37 - 29 Áme "Rej" (10)
38 - 37 Corinne Bailey Rae "Like A Star" (10)
39 - 50 Amy Winehouse "You Know I'm No Good"
40 - 40 All Saints "Rock Steady" (27)

41 - 41 Djuma Soundsystem "Les Djinns" (28)
42 - 49 Joan As Police Woman "The Ride"
43 - 43 Mike Monday "Bhalobashi"
44 - 39 Moby featuring Debbie Harry "New York New York" (35)
45 - NE Jarvis "Don't Let Him Waste Your Time"
46 - 45 Scissor Sisters "I Don't Feel Like Dancin" (01)
47 - 44 Peter Bjorn & John "Let's Call It Off" (16)
48 - 48 September "Satellites" (17)
49 - NE Guillemots "Annie Let's Not Wait"
50 - 42 Kathryn Williams "Hollow" (08)

[frag]

Not that keen on your #1 (it narrowly failed to reach my chart - if I did a top 40, it would be in its third week, having peaked at #32), but I am looking forward to both of your new entries.

Past Christmas #1s? ;D

[Serge Freeman]

So glad you have many dance tunes in your chart Dandy!

[Laurence]

dandyhighwayman said:

01 - 01 Damien Rice "9 Crimes"

Nice song but bad single choice IMO. It only made no.14 in my chart, it's just too bleak to hear on the radio. Prefer 'Rootless Tree'

02 - 05 Guillemots "Of The Night EP"

What's this? It's only an MP3 release isn't it? Shame. Must be worth checking out though.

05 - 04 Nelly Furtado "All Good Things (Come To An End)" (04)
06 - 03 Snow Patrol featuring Martha Wainwright "Set The Fire To The Third Bar" (02)
07 - 12 Scott Matthews "Dream Song"

You've only charted your fellow because it name drops you! All 3 are great peaking at #3, #3 and #1 in my chart respectively.

Also charted: Primal Scream (#3), Bodyrox (#9), Good Bad and the Queen (#1, 5wks and going to buy that album first day of release), The Feeling (#1, 2 wks), Madonna (#9), Scissor Sisters (Dancing #6) and I fully expect The Guillemots to be another massive top 3 smash in my early Jan chart.

[dandyhighwayman]

fragolata said:

Not that keen on your #1 (it narrowly failed to reach my chart - if I did a top 40, it would be in its third week, having peaked at #32), but I am looking forward to both of your new entries.

Past Christmas #1s? ;D

I did a guestimate of my past Christmas #1s the other year that actually turned out to be completely wrong. But I have since found my 'accurate records' (charts jotted down in old school note books!) so can answer properly this time:

1990 The Beautiful South "My Book" (5th of 5 weeks)
1991 The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette "Justified And Ancient" (1st of 5 weeks)
1992 Madonna "Deeper And Deeper" (1st of 4 weeks)
1993 Pet Shop Boys "I Wouldn't Normally Do This Kind Of Thing" (2nd of 3 weeks)
1994 Oasis "Whatever" (1st of 3 weeks)
1995 Pulp "Disco 2000" (4th of 4 weeks)
1996 Chicane "Offshore" (1st of 2 weeks)
1997 Bjork "Bachelorette" (1st of 3 weeks)
1998 Air "All I Need" (1st of 2 weeks)
1999 William Orbit "Barber's Adagio For Strings" (3rd of 6 weeks)
2000 Madonna "Don't Tell Me" (3rd of 6 weeks)
2001 Goldfrapp "Lovely Head / Pilots" (2nd of 3 weeks)
2002 Eminem "Lose Yourself" (1st of 2 weeks)
2003 Alex Parks "Maybe That's What It Takes" (5th of 5 weeks)
2004 Interpol "Evil" (1st of 2 weeks)
2005 Sigur Ros "Hoppipolla" (5th of 5 weeks)
2006 Damien Rice "9 Crimes" (5th of 5 weeks so far...)


I'm reasonably OK with my Christmas #1s as I'd still listen to most of them today. There's not a single festive themed one though (Gary Jules missed out by one week in 2003 and is as close as anyone's ever come) but there is a distinct trend for the song to kinda sound a bit 'Wintery'.

[dandyhighwayman]

sergefreeman said:

So glad you have many dance tunes in your chart Dandy!

Thanks for responding Serge... my chart is getting down wit da dance massive of late - I seem to be enjoying the genre more than I have done in years. In fact it's probably about as dancey as it's been since the dancetastic days of 1997-1999!

[dandyhighwayman]

homesplace said:

dandyhighwayman said:

01 - 01 Damien Rice "9 Crimes"

Nice song but bad single choice IMO. It only made no.14 in my chart, it's just too bleak to hear on the radio. Prefer 'Rootless Tree'



What's this? It's only an MP3 release isn't it? Shame. Must be worth checking out though.

05 - 04 Nelly Furtado "All Good Things (Come To An End)" (04)
06 - 03 Snow Patrol featuring Martha Wainwright "Set The Fire To The Third Bar" (02)
07 - 12 Scott Matthews "Dream Song"

You've only charted your fellow because it name drops you! All 3 are great peaking at #3, #3 and #1 in my chart respectively.

Also charted: Primal Scream (#3), Bodyrox (#9), Good Bad and the Queen (#1, 5wks and going to buy that album first day of release), The Feeling (#1, 2 wks), Madonna (#9), Scissor Sisters (Dancing #6) and I fully expect The Guillemots to be another massive top 3 smash in my early Jan chart.

The Guillemots EP was released physically, just very limited - I don't have a physical copy but did download the whole ep. It's good but it's #2 position is probably more down to the lack of new releases in December.

It does make me smile when Nelly sings the word 'Dandy' in her song also and maybe that does have a direct result in her biggest hit on my chart for years...

As for 'Herculean', it probably should have made #1 in retrospect but I didn't catch on to it quickly enough and hence stalled at #5, very much looking forward to the next single and album though.

[Earl Purple]

Your #1 by Damien Rice is #46 in my Christmas chart. His biggest NM hit "Cannonball" reached #2 in 2003. It was kept out of #1 by Keane's "This Is the Last Time".

We have never had the same Christmas #1. Although "Whatever" by Oasis did spend 7 weeks at NM #1 it wasn't the Christmas #1 of 1994, entering the chart that week at #2 behind the Stone Roses' "Love Spreads".

The Beautiful South, Madonna (twice) and Eminem have all had NM Christmas #1s but not with the same songs and not in the same years as they did in yours.