Personal Chart of the Week - Earl Purple!

[o]

This week sees the man in purple take the honours! I'm sure he will tell us how long hios chart has been running for!
I still have his cd from a few years ago, not bad at all.

1 ( 1 ) My Eyes - Travis < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 16 ) Tranquilize - Killers
3 ( 7 ) Rags & Tags - 586
4 ( 3 ) Sunday Morning - Hussy's (#3)
5 ( 4 ) Our Love Goes Deeper Than This - Duke Special ft Neil Hannon & Romeo Stodart (#4)
6 ( 2 ) Running - Sarah Brightman (#1[4])
7 ( 11 ) Goodbye Mr A - Hoosiers
8 ( 25 ) Dream The Summer Back - Ambra
9 ( 14 ) Sixteen - Indelicates
10 ( 6 ) Why - Gabrielle (#6)

11 ( 29 ) Serious - Richard Hawley
12 ( 10 ) Happy Ending - Mika (#10)
13 ( 18 ) Decimate - David Ford
14 ( 5 ) Jimmy Dean & Steve McQueen - Julian Velard (#3)
15 ( 12 ) Jacqueline - Coral (#12)
16 ( 36 ) Valerie - Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse
17 ( 9 ) All The Rage - Royal We (#8)
18 ( 15 ) Potential Breakup Song - Aly & AJ (#15)
19 ( 41 ) Keep Yours - Concretes
20 ( -- ) Me And You - Slow Club

21 ( 24 ) Radio Nowhere - Bruce Springsteen
22 ( 8 ) That Sound - Any Trouble (#5)
23 ( 13 ) L-O-V-E - Joss Stone (#12)
24 ( 45 ) The Daze - Kingsize
25 ( 27 ) One More Time - Alison Moyet
26 ( -- ) All Your Love - Loungs
27 ( 51 ) Acrylic - Courteeners
28 ( 31 ) The Perfect Crime 2 - Decemberists
29 ( 22 ) All I Can - Clocks (#22)
30 ( -- ) King Of The Town - Tabby Callaghan

31 ( 54 ) Ain't No Party - Orson
32 ( 20 ) If I Don't Live Today Then I Might Be Here Tomorrow - Mando Diao (#19)
33 ( 19 ) Second Minute Or Hour - Jack Penate (#16)
34 ( -- ) Because Of You - DJ Bobo
35 ( 37 ) Falling - TD Lind
36 ( 17 ) You're Not Alone - Enemy (#9)
37 ( 26 ) Kite - Steven Lindsay (#26)
38 ( 39 ) Take Me To The Riot - Stars
39 ( 61 ) She's So Sweet - Undertones
40 ( -- ) The International Tweexcore Underground - Los Campesinos

41 ( 43 ) Let's Dance To Joy Division - Wombats
42 ( 30 ) Indian Summer - Manic Street Preachers (#30)
43 ( 67 ) Ghost - 69 Eyes
44 ( -- ) The Heart Never Lies - McFly
45 ( 34 ) Come On - Kharma 45 (#34)
46 ( 23 ) Better - Regina Spektor (#12)
47 ( 21 ) Champagne From A Straw - Andrea Corr (#1[2])
48 ( 72 ) Higher Now - Bishops
49 ( -- ) You And Me - One Night Only
50 ( 50 ) Machines - Biffy Clyro

51 ( 76 ) Bullets - Tunng
52 ( -- ) Tak Attack 1 - Black Affair
53 ( 40 ) Dance The Go-Go - Breakers DK (#40)
54 ( 42 ) You Put A Spell On Me - Ed Harcourt (#42)
55 ( 57 ) Hell And High Water - Black Stone Cherry
56 ( -- ) All I Got - Newton Faulkner
57 ( 32 ) Evil Girls - Days (#24)
58 ( 47 ) Mouthwash - Kate Nash (#47)
59 ( -- ) Goodbye Philadelphia - Peter Cincotti
60 ( 28 ) You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told) - White Stripes (#7)

61 ( 85 ) Morning Child - 4hero ft Carina Andersson
62 ( 62 ) Love Don't Live Here - Lady Antebellum
63 ( 35 ) Blankets - Ruarri Joseph (#27)
64 ( 86 ) Somebody Else - Giant Leap
65 ( 88 ) You Are Everything - Matthew West
66 ( -- ) Tonight I Have To Leave It - Shout Out Louds
67 ( 33 ) Lazy Eye - Silversun Pickups (#16)
68 ( 52 ) Your Song - Kate Walsh (#52)
69 ( 68 ) Rhinemaidens - Envy Corps (#68)
70 ( -- ) Hold Music - Architecture In Helsinki

71 ( 92 ) LA - Amy Macdonald
72 ( 55 ) The New Flesh - Wildhearts (#55)
73 ( 94 ) Molten - Sky Larkin
74 ( 71 ) Choosing My Religion - Buen Chico (#71)
75 ( -- ) Klempner Beim Reaktor - Geier Sturzflug
76 ( 73 ) We Know Best - Raid (#73)
77 ( 97 ) Bitter End - Nine Black Alps
78 ( -- ) Nothing Lasts Forever - King Jacks
79 ( 60 ) Myriad Harbour - New Pornographers (#60)
80 ( 100 ) Signature - Hooray For Humans

81 ( 77 ) Do You Feel Like I Do - People's Revolutionary Choir (#77)
82 ( 38 ) Wonderlust King - Gogol Bordello (#3)
83 ( 48 ) What You Heard - Checks (#37)
84 ( -- ) Let's Get Our Hands Dirty - We Start Fires
85 ( 44 ) What Will You Do (When The Money Goes) - Milburn (#20)
86 ( 79 ) Blossoms In The Street - Wallis Bird (#79)
87 ( 65 ) It Means Nothing - Stereophonics (#65)
88 ( 53 ) If You Were A Sailboat - Katie Melua (#43)
89 ( -- ) Massive Nights - Hold Steady
90 ( -- ) When We Die - Bowling For Soup

91 ( 70 ) Broomhouse Road - Dash (#70)
92 ( 69 ) True Love Will Never Fade - Mark Knopfler (#68)
93 ( 46 ) Ninja / Love Me Like You Used To - 7 Seconds Of Love (#5)
94 ( -- ) Lord Don't Slow Me Down - Oasis
95 ( 74 ) About You Now - Sugababes (#73)
96 ( -- ) New York City - Emigrate
97 ( 49 ) Wake Up Call - Songbirds (#12)
98 ( -- ) Poor Man's Heaven - Seth Lakeman
99 ( 63 ) Bubbly - Colbie Caillat (#48)
100 ( -- ) Waiting On The World To Change - John Mayer __________________________________________________

-- ( 56 ) Delivery - Babyshambles (#28)
-- ( 58 ) Miracles Happen - Alan Fields (#24)
-- ( 59 ) Blanco - Broken Hearts (#15)
-- ( 64 ) Last Man Standing - Hammerfall (#31)
-- ( 66 ) Turn On Me - Shins (#7)
-- ( 75 ) Fantasy - Blizzards (#57)
-- ( 78 ) Monkey Song - Laika Dog (#36)
-- ( 80 ) In The Devil's Back Yard - Jon Amor (#19)
-- ( 81 ) Shoot The Boy / Nice One Jerry - Toy Guns (#10)
-- ( 82 ) 4am - Cherry Ghost (#62)
-- ( 83 ) Sew My Name - Josh Pyke (#78)
-- ( 84 ) Bloodline - Monkey Swallows The Universe (#64)
-- ( 87 ) Oh Father - Linda Sundblad (#42)
-- ( 89 ) Kilimanjaro - Joshua Jones (#71)
-- ( 90 ) Be Sweet By My Side - Dear Leader (#25)
-- ( 91 ) Nessun Dorma [RE] - Luciano Pavarotti (#3)
-- ( 93 ) I'm Like A Lawyer With The Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off - Fall Out Boy (#47)
-- ( 95 ) Tired Of Being Sorry - Enrique Iglesias (#74)
-- ( 96 ) Stand Up - Dead 60s (#13)
-- ( 98 ) The Rain - Lou Rhodes (#77)
-- ( 99 ) Beautiful Ones - Billiam (#53)
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-- ( -- ) Down To Rest - O'Death
-- ( -- ) Rule The World - Take That
-- ( -- ) Thrash Unreal - Against Me!
-- ( -- ) Rockstar - Nickelback
( -- ) I Wish I Was Someone Better - Blood Red Shoes
( -- ) Screamer - Enjoy Destroy
( -- ) How Far We've Come - Matchbox Twenty
( -- ) This Time - Melanie C
( -- ) Money - Daggers
( -- ) Skin - Wills & The Willing ft Didier Drogba & Michael Essien
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This week I had a huge playlist, and there were quite a few "big names" on it. On this chart though your name counts for nothing, it's what you put out that counts.

Whilst Britney Spears is not a "big name" on the NM chart (and Leona Lewis certainly isn't), Oasis are - they have had 8 NM #1 singles, however hits are never guaranteed even for them. Nevertheless it would appear Lord Don't Slow Me Down is likely to be their worst performing single ever, their previous worst "Who Feels Love" peaked at #36 in 2000.

At least they got into the chart. Take That didn't even manage that. The last time they failed to chart with a single was in 1994 with "Sure". Their next single got to NM #1 though so you never know what is going to be round the corner.

Back to Oasis, they won the poll on Haven for the best UK #1 album ever, and they had the second best too. I often feel that the real strength of an album is that every track on it is a bit of a classic, and in particular many of the tracks that were not singles are fairly famous. So I think most people would know the song "She's Electric". Anyway, in one part of that song it goes "I'll be you and you'll be me, lots and lots for us to see, lots and lots for us to do...". That was actually based on a children's TV show called "Me And You", which had a theme that went "Me and you, you and me, lots of things for us to see, lots of things for us to do, you and me, me and you".

Which leads us on to this week's highest new entry and also this week's 7th highest entry. And also the number of male/female uptempo vocal songs out right now. 586, Slow Club and Los Campesinos...

[o]

I know and like these.

1 ( 1 ) My Eyes - Travis < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 16 ) Tranquilize - Killers
12 ( 10 ) Happy Ending - Mika (#10)
16 ( 36 ) Valerie - Mark Ronson ft Amy Winehouse
18 ( 15 ) Potential Breakup Song - Aly & AJ (#15)
27 ( 51 ) Acrylic - Courteeners
31 ( 54 ) Ain't No Party - Orson
33 ( 19 ) Second Minute Or Hour - Jack Penate (#16)
41 ( 43 ) Let's Dance To Joy Division - Wombats
42 ( 30 ) Indian Summer - Manic Street Preachers (#30)
44 ( -- ) The Heart Never Lies - McFly
50 ( 50 ) Machines - Biffy Clyro
58 ( 47 ) Mouthwash - Kate Nash (#47)
60 ( 28 ) You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do As You're Told) - White Stripes (#7)
71 ( 92 ) LA - Amy Macdonald
77 ( 97 ) Bitter End - Nine Black Alps
83 ( 48 ) What You Heard - Checks (#37)
85 ( 44 ) What Will You Do (When The Money Goes) - Milburn (#20)
87 ( 65 ) It Means Nothing - Stereophonics (#65)
95 ( 74 ) About You Now - Sugababes (#73)


-- ( 56 ) Delivery - Babyshambles (#28)
-- ( 66 ) Turn On Me - Shins (#7)
-- ( 95 ) Tired Of Being Sorry - Enrique Iglesias (#74)

[Earl Purple]

Nice to be "chart of the week". I might try at some point to find some youtube / myspace links to the lesser known songs, although of course it's easy enough to find them if you really want.

[Thor]

The only place Gabrielle can go top 10 these days

[Chi]

Only 3/100

[Deleted]

8/100

[TheThorne]

A fairly decent 34/100 although still a bit confused with your policy of dance music there are some great dance & rnb tracks around infinitely better than anything Dj Bobo has ever done,the man is a joke.

especially new singles by Timbaland/Onerepublic and LCD Soundsystem even Leona & Britney are better than that. Although I guess you didnt include Freemasons as its a cover though

[Earl Purple]

LCD Soundsystem, Leona and Britney were all on my playlist. I didn't bother with Timbaland though. Ambra (or AmbrA as they are sometimes listed) is sort-of dancey too. My general "policy" is to consider it if it is a straightforward song with a melody, thus, for example, Kelis' single "Little Star" did fairly well in my chart earlier this year (matched its UK peak of #3) and Fergie did reasonably well with "Big Girls Don't Cry" (NM #6) but every week I have a playlist between 30 and 50 songs of which only 18-21 will normally enter the chart and it can be very much hit and miss. I like to think that the good ones will normally get through and do well.

I normally consider anything that reaches #25 or higher to be considered a "hit".

[o]

You would like the timbaland track, one republic sing on it, it's very mor.

[frag]

18/100, plus a load that I haven't heard of, and a few that I haven't heard yet. No FragChart #1s in there, but some very good songs nonetheless.

[Earl Purple]

A few to be getting on with that you might not have heard (I expect you might know the Duke Special one but not sure what others you are likely to know)

Rags & Tags - 586
Sunday Morning (live TV version) - Hussy's
Our Love Goes Deeper Than This - Duke Special et al
Running (live in Osaka) - Sarah Brightman
Sixteen - Indelicates
Serious - Richard Hawley
Jimmy Dean & Steve McQueen - Julian Velard(live version)
Me And You - Slow Club

A few to get on with. The Hussy's lead singer isn't a great singer live but on the single version it is totally in tune.