* NM Top 100 singles, 5 May 2007 *

[Earl Purple]

1 ( 1 ) Love Today - Mika < 3rd week at #1 >
2 ( 13 ) Liza / Suzannah - Turner Cody
3 ( 2 ) This Must Be Love - Little Man Tate (#2[1])
4 ( 3 ) Pistols At Down - Circuits (#3)
5 ( 7 ) I Wish That I Could See You Soon - Herman Dune
6 ( 4 ) I Want A Better Life / Valentine - Shakes (#4)
7 ( 6 ) Australia - Shins (#6)
8 ( 22 ) Closer - Travis
9 ( 8 ) The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf (#8)
10 ( 12 ) Today's The Day - Bel Boys

11 ( 29 ) The Don / Skag Trendy - View
12 ( 5 ) Pressures - Apartment (#1[4])
13 ( 17 ) I Told You So - Ocean Colour Scene
14 ( 34 ) Major And Minor - Procession
15 ( 9 ) Invincible - Muse (#9)
16 ( 38 ) The Living Tree - Shirley Bassey
17 ( 21 ) Armageddon Outta Here - Loungs
18 ( 23 ) Lay Down The Law - Switches
19 ( -- ) 40-40 - Rosemary
20 ( 44 ) Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

21 ( 18 ) Stop Me - Mark Ronson ft Daniel Merriweather (#18)
22 ( 28 ) Tell Your Friends - Beep Seals
23 ( 10 ) Right Time Wrong Place - Chris Norman (#3)
24 ( -- ) Rise - Ben's Brother
25 ( 50 ) Open Your Eyes - Shesays
26 ( 15 ) Would You Wake Up The Sun - Ben Lee Tyler (#13)
27 ( 11 ) Milk And Honey - Law (#2[3])
28 ( 32 ) Somebody Save Me - Krypteria
29 ( 36 ) Little Polvier - Monkey Swallows The Universe
30 ( -- ) Fed Up - Remi Nicole

31 ( 14 ) Everybody Takes A Tumble - Waterboys (#5)
32 ( 56 ) Tears For Affairs - Camera Obscura
33 ( 24 ) Fountainhead - Vatican DC (#24)
34 ( 26 ) Change Yourself - Tom Helsen (#26)
35 ( 16 ) Baby Fratelli - Fratellis (#3)
36 ( 41 ) I Can't Stand It Anymore - Bishops
37 ( 61 ) Chopping Wood - Show
38 ( -- ) All The Same - Go Cadenza
39 ( 30 ) Jack & Judy - El Club (#30)
40 ( 20 ) Beep Beep I Love You - Malcolm Middleton (#15)

41 ( 19 ) War Out There - Radar (#11)
42 ( 66 ) Ten Minutes - Karl Frierson
43 ( -- ) Signal Fire - Snow Patrol
44 ( 46 ) Finally Made Me Happy - Macy Gray ft Natalie Cole
45 ( 33 ) Hey Eugene! - Pink Martini (#33)
46 ( 25 ) Keep The Car Running - Arcade Fire (#20)
47 ( -- ) Your Love Alone is Not Enough - Manic Street Preachers ft Nina Persson
48 ( 72 ) Viva A Vida - Edson & Hudson
49 ( 40 ) Let's Get It Together - Stalkers (#40)
50 ( 51 ) Backfire At The Disco - Wombats

51 ( -- ) Springtime - Voodoo Buddhas
52 ( 77 ) Through Dark Night - Wild Beasts
53 ( 45 ) Together We Belong - Kim Wilde (#45)
54 ( -- ) In The Countryside - Benjy Ferree
55 ( 82 ) Spil For Galleriet - Nordstrøm
56 ( 37 ) Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys (#32)
57 ( 60 ) Lost - ROOOM
58 ( 27 ) Good Luck - Alterkicks (#17)
59 ( 35 ) Cold Outside - Ricochets (#28)
60 ( 62 ) She Can Do What She Wants - Field Music

61 ( -- ) Going To A Town - Rufus Wainwright
62 ( 86 ) Everything - Michael Bublé
63 ( 65 ) Suits My Soul - Popium
64 ( 88 ) Under Grey English Skies / London Is Divided - Social
65 ( 31 ) Repeat - Dr Octopus (#10)
66 ( -- ) Adrenaline - Emma Pollock
67 ( 90 ) Space Rider - Dwomo
68 ( -- ) X E Cute My X - Drugleader Cheerleader
69 ( 69 ) I Wanna Have Your Babies - Natasha Bedingfield
70 ( 55 ) Poison Prince - Amy MacDonald (#55)

71 ( 94 ) You Are The One - Shiny Toy Guns
72 ( 71 ) Glory Days - Just Jack (#71)
73 ( 47 ) Pussy Cat Rock - Pepe Deluxe (#40)
74 ( 58 ) It's Got To Be Me - An Pierlé & White Velvet (#58)
75 ( -- ) Robert Redford - Distophia
76 ( 97 ) Still Here - Sundrive
77 ( 74 ) The White Witch Woman Blues / What Is It - Pride Tiger (#74)
78 ( 99 ) I Am John - Loney Dear
79 ( -- ) The Freest Man - Tilly And The Wall
80 ( 39 ) All The Love In Your Hands - Thirteen Senses (#8)

81 ( 42 ) Four Winds - Bright Eyes (#15)
82 ( 78 ) Earth Intruders - Björk (#78)
83 ( -- ) Be With You - Director
84 ( 54 ) Thought It Over - Dan Sartain (#45)
85 ( -- ) Ask The DJ - Mr Hudson & The Library
86 ( 68 ) Funky Tonight - John Butler Trio (#66)
87 ( 59 ) Green Fields - Good The Bad And The Queen (#49)
88 ( 43 ) Just A Thought - Michael Andrews (#22)
89 ( -- ) Push It To The Limit - Corbin Bleu
90 ( 70 ) Kicking Sand - Lodger (#67)

91 ( 73 ) You Can't Have It All - Ash (#72)
92 ( 49 ) I Will Wait For You - Tiny Dancers (#13)
93 ( -- ) Revival - Soulsavers
94 ( 75 ) I'm In Love - Andrea Wilde (#74)
95 ( 63 ) I Could Fall In Love With You - Erasure (#52)
96 ( 48 ) Anything But You - Andersson & Gibson (#4)
97 ( 64 ) Chelsea - Stefy (#53)
98 ( 52 ) Let's Lightning - Pull Tiger Tail (#16)
99 ( -- ) The Curse Of Curves - Cute Is What We Aim For
100 ( 79 ) Parallel Worlds - Elliot Minor (#77)
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-- ( 53 ) Don't Leave Me Blue - Blue Van (#28)
-- ( 57 ) Sweet Things - Indiana Gregg (#31)
-- ( 67 ) On Call - Kings Of Leon (#36)
-- ( 76 ) I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Proclaimers ft Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin (#6)
-- ( 80 ) Dancefloor - Holloways (#21)
-- ( 81 ) Love Is Dead - Brett Anderson (#27)
-- ( 83 ) Girl I Used To Know / Dead Or Alive - Needles (#64)
-- ( 84 ) I Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got - Razorlight (#22)
-- ( 85 ) Sweet Dreams - Pride Tiger (#81)
-- ( 87 ) Close Your Eyes - Racoon (#69)
-- ( 89 ) Young Free & Simple - Urbnri (#47)
-- ( 91 ) Here Come The Arrows - New World Record (#48)
-- ( 92 ) Build G-d Then We'll Talk - Panic! At The Disco (#51)
-- ( 93 ) Hymn 4 My Soul - Joe Cocker (#34)
-- ( 95 ) Never Say Die - 69 Eyes (#76)
-- ( 96 ) Pokka - Irina (#77)
-- ( 98 ) Alarm Clock - Rumble Strips (#7)
-- ( 100 ) Man Next Door - Operahouse (#12)
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-- ( -- ) All For You - Seven
-- ( -- ) A Mi Filmünk - No Thanx
-- ( -- ) I Don't Know How To Love Him - Sinead O'Connor
-- ( -- ) Pick Up The Pieces - Money Mark
-- ( -- ) Broken Things - Attack In Black
-- ( -- ) Guess Again - Future Kings Of Spain
-- ( -- ) White On White Crime - Jai-Alai Savant
-- ( -- ) Tidløs - Postgirobygget
-- ( -- ) Shingles - 4Minutes33
-- ( -- ) Mistaken For Strangers - National
-- ( -- ) Postcode - Orphan Boy
-- ( -- ) The Kill (Bury Me) - 30 Seconds To Mars
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For the last few weeks I've been a bit hurried but this week I'm back on course, with the playlist getting its full 5 days of play before the chart was compiled.

I've looked up Turner Cody online and usually Herman Dune's name comes up at the same time, and he also has a single in the top 5. They've apparently been touring the UK recently, and I missed it although I'm pretty much past going to gigs now.

Among the new entries this week, we have Nina Persson of the Cardigans featuring on the new Manic Street Preachers single. Both have had two NM #1s previously, Nina Persson having topped with the Cardigans and also with David Arnold, and she also had a #2 hit with A Camp entitled "I Can Buy You" in 2001.

Emma Pollock, who enters this week, has also featured on a #1 hit, the track "Love" on Cinerama's 1998 "Kerry Kerry" single. She has also featured as lead singer on some of the Delgados hit, although she wasn't lead vocalist on their biggest NM hit "All You Need Is Hate" which peaked at #3.

Other names among the high entrants, Rosemary (a male band), Ben's Brother, Remi Nicole (a female singer) and Go Cadenza are previously uncharted and it's always good to welcome new artists to the NM chart, and quite often the unknown act's single turns out to be better than that of the major act that has a single out that week.

From last week's entrants, we had Shirley Bassey. She isn't quite the oldest debutant on the NM chart, that record still belongs to Larry Adler in 1994 who was aged 80 when he played harmonica on "The Man I Love", with vocals provided by Kate Bush. She does take 2nd place, ahead of Chris Barber who was just under 70 when he combined with Van Morrison and Lonnie Donegan (who was 68) on "I Wanna Go Home". Only new recordings count here - although Frank Sinatra was fairly old when he recorded the theme from New York New York and was 70 when he reached the chart, it was already nearly 6 years old, and he was 64 at the time of recording it. The oldest artist ever to appear on a #1 is John Cleese last year for his contribution on "Don't Mention The World Cup" at age 66.