* NM Top 100 singles, 24 March 2007 *

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 2 ) Pressures - Apartment < 1st #1 hit >
2 ( 1 ) Unknown Stuntman - Smokestack Lightnin' (#1[2])
3 ( 5 ) Milk And Honey - Law
4 ( 7 ) Anything But You - Andersson & Gibson
5 ( 14 ) Baby Fratelli - Fratellis
6 ( 3 ) She's Madonna - Robbie Williams (#3)
7 ( 6 ) Surrendered - Bluetones (#6)
8 ( 4 ) High School Never Ends - Bowling For Soup (#1[3])
9 ( 29 ) Alarm Clock - Rumble Strips
10 ( 18 ) Loco - Ripps

11 ( -- ) I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Proclaimers ft Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin / Proclaimers
12 ( 12 ) G-d's Highway - Tobias Froberg
13 ( 9 ) New Shoes - Paolo Nutini (#9)
14 ( 20 ) My Town On TV - Library Trust
15 ( 39 ) All The Love In Your Hands - Thirteen Senses
16 ( 15 ) Read My Mind - Killers (#15)
17 ( 11 ) I Want You To Know - Charlotte Hatherley (#10)
18 ( 10 ) Too Late Too Late - Mr Hudson & The Library (#8)
19 ( 8 ) Shine - Take That (#3)
20 ( 44 ) Man Next Door - Operahouse

21 ( 26 ) Hypocrite - Akira The Don
22 ( 19 ) Story Problem - Envy Corps (#19)
23 ( 21 ) Wicked Man's Rest - Passenger (#21)
24 ( 23 ) P.D.A. (We Just Don't Care) - John Legend (#23)
25 ( 51 ) Wide Awake - Twang
26 ( 32 ) Malmö Beach Night Party - Slagsmålsklubben
27 ( 17 ) Off The Hook - CSS (#15)
28 ( 57 ) Skin Deep - Five O'Clock Heroes
29 ( 36 ) Sorry - Madness ft Sway & Baby Blue
30 ( 13 ) Promis Q - DAAN (#6)

31 ( 28 ) Show Them To Me - Rodney Carrington (#28)
32 ( -- ) Right Time Wrong Place - Chris Norman
33 ( 40 ) Parasite - Consequences
34 ( 61 ) Just Because You Lied - Gilles Luka
35 ( 43 ) Setting Sun - Aliens
36 ( -- ) Everybody Takes A Tumble - Waterboys
37 ( 24 ) Hold That Gun - Keith (#20)
38 ( 67 ) Must Have Done Something Right - Relient K
39 ( -- ) Repeat - Dr Octopus
40 ( 16 ) Grace Kelly - Mika (#1[4])

41 ( 37 ) Alone In The Makeout Room - Broken Family Band (#37)
42 ( -- ) I Will Wait For You - Tiny Dancers
43 ( 35 ) Romantic Type - Pigeon Detectives (#35)
44 ( 27 ) Rocky Roads - Tripoli (#22)
45 ( 50 ) She's My Man - Scissor Sisters
46 ( 72 ) We Danced Together - Rakes
47 ( -- ) Four Winds - Bright Eyes
48 ( 22 ) Paradise - Eskimo Brit (#12)
49 ( 55 ) Nothing I Can Do - Ben Taylor
50 ( 31 ) What Would Steve Do - Mumm-Ra (#25)

51 ( -- ) Let's Lightning - Pull Tiger Tail
52 ( 25 ) Open Your Eyes - Snow Patrol (#16)
53 ( 80 ) Let It Go - VWF
54 ( 59 ) Inside My Head / She - Di-rect
55 ( 58 ) Lasst Uns Lachen (Pinocchio Le Clown) - Pinocchio
56 ( -- ) Dancefloor - Holloways
57 ( 46 ) Stay The Night - Ghosts (#46)
58 ( 83 ) Danny Boy - Elliott Frisby
59 ( -- ) I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got - Razorlight
60 ( 86 ) Raging Storm - Chris De Burgh

61 ( 65 ) Fidelity - Regina Spektor
62 ( 38 ) Talking To Sirens - Thirteen Senses (#31)
63 ( 88 ) Diamond Dancer - Bill Callahan
64 ( -- ) Love Is Dead - Brett Anderson
65 ( 53 ) No Emotion - Idlewild (#53)
66 ( 41 ) Cloud Nine - Onetwo (#34)
67 ( 30 ) This Is A Song - Magic Numbers (#17)
68 ( 68 ) Low Happening - Howling Bells
69 ( 54 ) Rocks In Pockets - Jay-Jay Johanson (#54)
70 ( -- ) Hymn 4 My Soul - Joe Cocker

71 ( 92 ) Undiscovered - James Morrison
72 ( 71 ) Shame For You - Lily Allen (#71)
73 ( 45 ) Save Myself - Willy Mason (#38)
74 ( 94 ) Our Velocity - Maximo Park
75 ( -- ) The Tape - Sondre Lerche
76 ( 96 ) With Love - Tamta
77 ( 74 ) Shell - Gregory Darling (#74)
78 ( 48 ) Mango Tree - Angus & Julia Stone (#41)
79 ( -- ) Sumthin' Serious - Audio Club
80 ( 60 ) Monday's Arms [single version] - Harrisons (#60)

81 ( 98 ) Youth In Movement - Deaf Stereo
82 ( -- ) This Mess - Wolf & Cub
83 ( 100 ) Don't Lose Yourself - Laura Veirs & Saltbreakers
84 ( 63 ) Cold Hearted Business - Polytechnic (#63)
85 ( -- ) Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
86 ( 78 ) Sticks And Stones - Pierces (#78)
87 ( 52 ) Never Never (My Dynamo) - Helena Josefsson (#44)
88 ( -- ) Everything Is Everything - Phoenix
89 ( 33 ) Ruby - Kaiser Chiefs (#6)
90 ( -- ) Drop Dead Casanova - Disco Ensemble

91 ( 69 ) Marble House - Knife (#69)
92 ( 34 ) Lil Star - Kelis ft Cee-Lo (#3)
93 ( -- ) Nothing To Be Done - Love Is All
94 ( -- ) Who Cares What The Question Is - Bees
95 ( 42 ) Monsters - Sugars (#19)
96 ( 73 ) Figure It Out - Lil' Chris (#73)
97 ( 62 ) Broken Heart - Ryland Angel (#53)
98 ( -- ) Speechless - Magenta
99 ( -- ) Last Chance - Moke
100 ( 64 ) The Greatest - Cat Power (#52)
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-- ( 47 ) Little Beats - Schwab (#12)
-- ( 49 ) Stars - Morten Abel (#24)
-- ( 56 ) O Valencia! - Decemberists (#30)
-- ( 66 ) Sunrise - Nichole Nordeman (#55)
-- ( 70 ) A House Is Not A Home - Field Music (#3)
-- ( 75 ) This Old Love - Lior (#18)
-- ( 76 ) This Is Who I Am - Salem Al Fakir (#62)
-- ( 77 ) Say It Like You Mean It - Bill Coleman (#37)
-- ( 79 ) Per Te (For You) - Sasha & Shawna (#64)
-- ( 81 ) Join The Song (Painting The Invisible) - Vicky Beeching (#79)
-- ( 82 ) Someone To Love - Fountains Of Wayne (#40)
-- ( 84 ) Be Good Or Be Gone - Fionn Regan (#19)
-- ( 85 ) Helly Betty - Jeff Golub (#45)
-- ( 87 ) Brother - Murder By Death (#73)
-- ( 89 ) I Spy - Get Cape Wear Cape Fly (#49)
-- ( 90 ) Back To The Cross - Our Hearts Hero (#75)
-- ( 91 ) Giddy Stratospheres - Long Blondes (#20)
-- ( 93 ) Shine On - Jet (#54)
-- ( 95 ) 21st Century Man - Nigel Clark (#5)
-- ( 97 ) Sugar Assault Me Now - Pop Levi (#9)
-- ( 99 ) It's Not OK - Enemy (#62)
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-- ( -- ) De Tegenpartij - Clouseau
-- ( -- ) Get Stoned - Hinder
-- ( -- ) Passing Stranger - Scott Matthews
-- ( -- ) Comfort Comfort - Race
( -- ) Aw Mum They Made Me Read - Telley
( -- ) If I Try - Intercooler
( -- ) Sparkle - Fortune Drive
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I think the fact I had the playlist with me for a longer period made it feel like a better one, thus 21 new entries this week, even though the original playlist was smaller than usual (just 28 songs).

Although I've been generally avoiding remakes and re-issues, I do have to let them in sometimes, and I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) probably deserved better than its NM #6 peak in 1988, albeit that one of the singles above it was "Sweet Child Of Mine" by Guns & Roses so I can't say for certain that it should have been #1. In fact the Guns N Roses single didn't reach #1 until its own re-issue the following year, and in 1988 peaked only at #2 behind another re-issued song, the Hollies' "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother".

Back then in 1988 we had a consecutive run of 7 number ones that all stayed on top for a different length, with the Hollies providing the 5th number one in that link with a stay of 3 weeks. The last 6 number ones have all topped for a different length, 1 to 6 weeks with Smokestack Lightnin' providing the 2-week #1. It's unlikely however that the Apartment will manage 7 weeks on top. Here the run starts with My Chemical Romance - Welcome To The Black Parade which was 5 weeks on top, then Blue October (1), Fratellis (6), Mika (4) and Bowling For Soup (3). The 1988 run included two different songs by Fairground Attraction, providing the 6 week and the 1 week number ones.

The next two acts to enter are no stranger to the re-issue and remake either. The Waterboys had their biggest NM hit with "Whole Of The Moon" in 1991, when it also achieved its UK peak, in both cases at #3. Chris Norman was the lead singer of Smokie. They were last in the chart in 1995 with a re-issue of their 1977 hit "Living Next Door To Alice" with Roy Chubby Brown adding in a bit of swearing. The original version of that was on the first ever NM chart.

[TheThorne]

great number one, I love some parts of that track and other bits dont work but overall its great

[Admin]

I hope Bright Eyes will climb.

[Earl Purple]

thorney said:

great number one, I love some parts of that track and other bits dont work but overall its great

I think I know the bits you don't think work - just before the chorus comes in...

There is a slight similarity between the Waterboys and Bright Eyes tracks.