* NM Top 100 singles, January 2008 * [26 Jan up]

[Earl Purple]

First chart of the year:

1 ( 6 ) Beautiful - Parlotones < 1st #1 hit >
2 ( 4 ) This Is The Life - Amy MacDonald
3 ( 2 ) Christmas Number One - Black Arts (#2)
4 ( 3 ) Up Here - Terra Naomi (#1[1])
5 ( 1 ) White Hot Christmas - Jive Aces (#1[3])
6 ( 26 ) Lollipop - Mika
7 ( 8 ) Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold
8 ( 17 ) Rocks In Your Shoes - Emily West
9 ( 5 ) Ur So Gay - Katy Perry (#3)
10 ( 20 ) We're All Going To Die - Malcolm Middleton

11 ( 10 ) Toothpaste Kisses - Maccabees (#10)
12 ( 7 ) Reuben - Cathy Davey (#5)
13 ( -- ) Liverpool 8 - Ringo Starr
14 ( 44 ) Lie Lie Lie - Serj Tankian
15 ( 9 ) Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley (#3)
16 ( 18 ) Home - Amsterdam
17 ( 29 ) Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash
18 ( 22 ) Never Seen The Light Of Day - Mando Diao
19 ( 35 ) If I Had A Heart - Slut
20 ( 25 ) Wait For The Weekend - White Light Parade

21 ( 14 ) The Avenue - Wallbirds (#10)
22 ( 16 ) Benjamin's Ego - Rosemary (#13)
23 ( 19 ) Chained To No-One - Dogs (#18)
24 ( -- ) Mr Pitiful - Matt Costa
25 ( 15 ) Suffer For Two - BC Camplight (#6)
26 ( 12 ) Stuff - Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band ft (Oddly Enough) Terry Jones (#12)
27 ( 23 ) Season's Greetings - Robbers On High Street (#23)
28 ( 11 ) All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey (#11)[RI]
29 ( 13 ) It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams (#13)[OLD]
30 ( 28 ) 12 O'Clock Nearly 1 O'Clock Hurry Up - Lady Fortune (#28)

31 ( 32 ) Too Much Too Young Too Fast - Airbourne
32 ( 43 ) Life Is Beautiful - SixxAM
33 ( 33 ) Falling From These Eyes - Starter
34 ( 36 ) Hate (I Really Don't Like You) - Plain White T's
35 ( 46 ) Frechdachs - Conny Dachs
36 ( 24 ) Hold That Moment - Lutricia McNeal (#21)
37 ( -- ) Worst Case Scenario - Hoosiers
38 ( 67 ) Let Me Go On - Seabird
39 ( 41 ) Fast Lane - Marie Miller
40 ( 51 ) Beautiful - Taylor Dayne

41 ( 21 ) Me And You - Slow Club (#1[4])
42 ( 30 ) Nobody's Fault But Mine - Beth Rowley (#26)
43 ( -- ) Say It's Not True - Queen ft Paul Rodgers
44 ( 74 ) Holiday - Ginger
45 ( 56 ) Life's A Treat - Shaun The Sheep
46 ( 47 ) Classic Cliche - Elektrons
47 ( 34 ) High - RyanDan (#31)
48 ( 40 ) Change / My Love Is Pink - Sugababes (#40)
49 ( 27 ) Rock N Roll - Remi Nicole (#12)
50 ( 61 ) I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl - Allison Moorer

51 ( 81 ) What I've Come Across - 4 Letter Holiday
52 ( -- ) Conquest - White Stripes
53 ( 66 ) What A Wonderful World - Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy
54 ( 55 ) Have I Been A Fool - Jack Penate
55 ( 31 ) Shipwrecked - Derrin Nauendorf (#16)
56 ( 58 ) Let Go - Paul Van Dyk
57 ( 69 ) Vincent Rose - John Graham Leslie
58 ( -- ) Eyes On Me - Celine Dion
59 ( 45 ) Satellite - Sister (#39)
60 ( 49 ) Lazy Bones - Displacements (#45)

61 ( 94 ) Break Away - Blind
62 ( 37 ) Hey Now Now - Cloud Room (#2[3])
63 ( 54 ) Don't Shoot Me Santa - Killers (#53)
64 ( 39 ) Time - Rumble Strips (#9)
65 ( 53 ) Sealegs - Shins (#50)
66 ( -- ) Cache Cache - 1984
67 ( 38 ) Fantastic 6 - Alphabeat (#20)
68 ( 57 ) You Talk - Babyshambles (#56)
69 ( 65 ) My Friends - Stereophonics (#65)
70 ( 42 ) Clash Of The Ash - Runrig & The Tartan Army (#12)

71 ( -- ) Standing In The Rain - Jamie Scott
72 ( 62 ) Carry Me Home - King Family (#58)
73 ( -- ) Something In My Eye - Turin Brakes
74 ( 50 ) Best Nights - Little Things (#27)
75 ( 75 ) All Over Again - Runners
76 ( 76 ) Sanctuary - Gabriella Cilmi
77 ( 73 ) These Bones - Dashboard Confessional (#70)
78 ( 71 ) Maybe Tonight - Ads (#66)
79 ( 48 ) Shopping With Mother - Per Gessle (#22)
80 ( 52 ) On My Own - Vincent Vincent And The Villains (#5)

81 ( -- ) Home - Daughtry
82 ( 79 ) We'll Live And Die In These To - Enemy (#79)
83 ( 89 ) Extraordinary - Tim Matthews (#79)
84 ( 59 ) Carry On - Ben's Brother (#3)
85 ( -- ) If I Had Eyes - Jack Johnson
86 ( 92 ) Me Love - Sean Kingston (#84)
87 ( 90 ) Push The Ghosts - Twang (#77)
88 ( 93 ) So Wrong - Waiting Room (#81)
89 ( 63 ) Joni - Correcto (#18)
90 ( 60 ) No Cover Up - Duke Special (#31)

91 ( 72 ) Paper And Glue - Emma Pollock (#48)
92 ( 91 ) The Racing Rats - Editors (#74)
93 ( 64 ) Coming Down - Richard Fleeshman (#15)
94 ( 87 ) Cool Town Rock - Holy Hail (#67)
95 ( 70 ) Mellow Down Pussycat - Edgar Jones (#43)
96 ( 85 ) I'll Be Fine - Jives (#62)
97 ( 84 ) Make It Wit Chu - Queens Of The Stone Age (#56)
98 ( 68 ) Assembly - Wild Beasts (#39)
99 ( 80 ) Pointless - Brilliant Things (#50)
100 ( 82 ) Home In A Sentence / Cowardly Custard - King Creosote (#15)
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-- ( 77 ) What Do We Do Now - Laura Critchley (#10)
-- ( 78 ) Find You Waiting - DecembeRadio (#23)
-- ( 83 ) Small Town Girl - Good Shoes (#30)
-- ( 86 ) When The World Was Round - Ian Hunter (#9)
-- ( 88 ) Staring At The Rude Bois - Gallows ft Lethal Bizzle (#28)
-- ( 95 ) Rags & Tags - 586 (#2[2])
-- ( 96 ) It's My Club - Helen Love (#33)
-- ( 97 ) Saving My Face - KT Tunstall (#18)
-- ( 98 ) Where Is Dennis - Radio Luxembourg (#11)
-- ( 99 ) Ever Present Past - Paul McCartney (#5)
-- ( 100 ) Dead Sound - Raveonettes (#53)
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First chart of the new year sees 11 new entries and a new #1. It was always likely that the Parlotones were going to be #1 this week, and by doing so they are the first South African act to reach the top since August 1978 when Clout did so with "Substitute" (a song first recorded by the Righteous Brothers!). Clout never had any other hits so are one-hit wonders, but the Parlotones had a previous hit, "Dragonflies And Astronauts", which was good but reached the disappointingly (and shockingly) low peak of #81. (I don't go about "re-issuing" on the whole so it's unlikely I will re-chart that song. The Christmas songs recently were different because they were added to the iTunes catalogue, well White Hot Christmas was added for the first time, and the others were promoted as re-releases).

Some of this week's advertised releases were actually out earlier in 2007 and they were not considered for charting now. Those that do appear on my list are all available now on iTunes or 7Digital, even though some of them they appear on the physical release list later in the year.

[o]

Will the new Biffy Clyro be charting?

[Milliways]

No videos this week?

[Earl Purple]

I don't have a Biffy Clyro song on the playlist. I did edit in links yesterday but I obviously didn't submit. I will redo it. (I have another copy with the links)

[o]

Then will you be adding Biffy Clyro to the playlist?

[Earl Purple]

Yes when it is out.

[Milliways]

Where do you get your list of releases to check out?

[Earl Purple]

iTunes annoy me.

1. They don't have a formal release list

2. The music either comes in m4a or m4p format, the latter being "protected", but the main issue is that the m4p ones are a very poor bitrate and they don't tell you in advance which one you are going to get. I don't care about 5p off the price, I just want a 256 bitrate, not a 128.

3. If I want to burn and then rip, there is no option to pick the layout. Yet another piece of software that tries to force their "library" system on me, when all I want to do is rip tracks with whatever name format and to whatever location I want.

7-Digital annoy me too in that:
1. There are major songs they just don't have
2. To find what singles are out you have to go through every page, although at least it's better than last year when you had to click on all of them to see if they are singles or albums
3. They claim stuff to be "new releases" when they're old music they've added or re-added and are not an official "release" at all.
4. If you go through the pages the same ones seem to come up again and again
5. There are tracks added later retrospectively, so they never showed up as new releases.

7-Digital does have the huge advantage of not forcing you to download any software to use it, although there is a recommended downloader that you can optionally get free to download multiple tracks.

I use a combination of 7-Digital and ManicK's release list to compile it, with iTunes to locate tracks, and then there are still those that sneak through, like the Katie Melua / Eva Cassidy one that was midweek #1 when I didn't even see it on a release list (because it was Tesco-only) and that I Fought The Lloyds one this week because to buy that you had to text a number then go to a site to download it, albeit that it was only 50p and the download was a 320 Kbps track.

I also use a certain Russian site to get some of my music. Good quality bitrates (320 Kbps) available, decently priced, album versions not stupid radio edits and no silly rules telling me I can't buy them because I'm not from their country.

I considered Napster but that became a non-option when it wanted to put so much software on my computer as well as trying to force its way into my start-up programs and refusing to install when my virus-checker blocked it from doing so.

[Milliways]

I probably wouldn't want to pay the expense of downloading every track, I just want to know what's out there.

[Earl Purple]

Ideally for me a list of single releases with a short description of what sort of music it is, and the ability to click on the track to hear a sample. I also expect to be told what bitrate I would be getting if I bought it.

Although I'm against silly chart rules and that they should chart whatever has sold, I would like to see a couple of rules introduced, thus:

- For a physical single to qualify it has to be available in any record store, i.e. any record store could order a copy if they wanted to sell it.

- For a download single it must be available to any download site to sell.

That doesn't mean all the stores / download sites have to sell it, just that they would be able to if they wanted to.

[Earl Purple]

Chart of 12 January 2008:

1 ( 1 ) Beautiful - Parlotones < 2nd week at #1 >
2 ( 2 ) This Is The Life - Amy MacDonald
3 ( 6 ) Lollipop - Mika
4 ( 13 ) Liverpool 8 - Ringo Starr
5 ( 8 ) Rocks In Your Shoes - Emily West
6 ( 10 ) We're All Going To Die - Malcolm Middleton
7 ( 11 ) Toothpaste Kisses - Maccabees
8 ( 24 ) Mr Pitiful - Matt Costa
9 ( 14 ) Lie Lie Lie - Serj Tankian
10 ( 4 ) Up Here - Terra Naomi (#1[1])

11 ( 7 ) Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold
12 ( 3 ) Christmas Number One - Black Arts (#2)
13 ( 37 ) Worst Case Scenario - Hoosiers
14 ( 17 ) Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash
15 ( 19 ) If I Had A Heart - Slut
16 ( 5 ) White Hot Christmas - Jive Aces (#1[3])
17 ( 43 ) Say It's Not True - Queen ft Paul Rodgers
18 ( 9 ) Ur So Gay - Katy Perry (#3)
19 ( -- ) I'm Alright Now - David Ford
20 ( 16 ) Home - Amsterdam

21 ( 18 ) Never Seen The Light Of Day - Mando Diao
22 ( 20 ) Wait For The Weekend - White Light Parade
23 ( -- ) State Of Mind - Clockwork Radio
24 ( 12 ) Reuben - Cathy Davey (#5)
25 ( 52 ) Conquest - White Stripes
26 ( -- ) Waving Flags - British Sea Power
27 ( 15 ) Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley (#3)
28 ( 38 ) Let Me Go On - Seabird
29 ( 58 ) Eyes On Me - Celine Dion
30 ( -- ) Das Matterhorn - Rheinländer

31 ( 32 ) Life Is Beautiful - SixxAM
32 ( 44 ) Holiday - Ginger
33 ( -- ) Surrender - Grit (link is of live version)
34 ( 35 ) Frechdachs - Conny Dachs
35 ( 23 ) Chained To No-One - Dogs (#18)
36 ( 22 ) Benjamin's Ego - Rosemary (#13)
37 ( 21 ) The Avenue - Wallbirds (#10)
38 ( 66 ) Cache Cache - 1984
39 ( -- ) Let It Be Mine - Daniel Rachel
40 ( 31 ) Too Much Too Young Too Fast - Airbourne

41 ( 40 ) Beautiful - Taylor Dayne
42 ( 51 ) What I've Come Across - 4 Letter Holiday
43 ( 34 ) Hate (I Really Don't Like You) - Plain White T's
44 ( 30 ) 12 O'Clock Nearly 1 O'Clock Hurry Up - Lady Fortune (#28)
45 ( 71 ) Standing In The Rain - Jamie Scott
46 ( -- ) Disco Dancer - Parka
47 ( 33 ) Falling From These Eyes - Starter
48 ( 73 ) Something In My Eye - Turin Brakes
49 ( 25 ) Suffer For Two - BC Camplight (#6)
50 ( 45 ) Life's A Treat - Shaun The Sheep

51 ( -- ) City Of Lights / Before It's Over - Circuits
52 ( 39 ) Fast Lane - Marie Miller
53 ( 61 ) Break Away - Blind
54 ( -- ) Falling - Mark Timothy
55 ( 50 ) I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl - Allison Moorer
56 ( 81 ) Home - Daughtry
57 ( 27 ) Season's Greetings - Robbers On High Street (#23)
58 ( 53 ) What A Wonderful World - Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy
59 ( -- ) Now - Stephen Fretwell
60 ( 46 ) Classic Cliche - Elektrons

61 ( 85 ) If I Had Eyes - Jack Johnson
62 ( -- ) I Fought The Lloyds - Oystar
63 ( 57 ) Vincent Rose - John Graham Leslie
64 ( 36 ) Hold That Moment - Lutricia McNeal (#21)
65 ( -- ) Lights Go Out - Client
66 ( -- ) Wir Ham St Anton Überlebt - Jürgen & Mickie Krause
67 ( 54 ) Have I Been A Fool - Jack Penate
68 ( 42 ) Nobody's Fault But Mine - Beth Rowley (#26)
69 ( 56 ) Let Go - Paul Van Dyk
70 ( -- ) Moving To New York - Wombats

71 ( 48 ) Change / My Love Is Pink - Sugababes (#40)
72 ( -- ) U.R.A Fever - Kills
73 ( 47 ) High - RyanDan (#31)
74 ( 26 ) Stuff - Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band ft (Oddly Enough) Terry Jones (#12)
75 ( 41 ) Me And You - Slow Club (#1[4])
76 ( -- ) Be Mine - Robyn
77 ( -- ) Piece Of Me - Britney Spears
78 ( 28 ) All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey (#11)[RI]
79 ( -- ) Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead
80 ( 29 ) It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams (#13)[OLD]

81 ( 60 ) Lazy Bones - Displacements (#45)
82 ( 49 ) Rock N Roll - Remi Nicole (#12)
83 ( -- ) Baby Baby Baby - Joss Stone
84 ( 59 ) Satellite - Sister (#39)
85 ( 69 ) My Friends - Stereophonics (#65)
86 ( 63 ) Don't Shoot Me Santa - Killers (#53)
87 ( 75 ) All Over Again - Runners
88 ( -- ) Saw Something - Dave Gahan
89 ( 76 ) Sanctuary - Gabriella Cilmi
90 ( 65 ) Sealegs - Shins (#50)

91 ( 83 ) Extraordinary - Tim Matthews (#79)
92 ( 55 ) Shipwrecked - Derrin Nauendorf (#16)
93 ( -- ) Get It On - Moxxie
94 ( 86 ) Me Love - Sean Kingston (#84)
95 ( 68 ) You Talk - Babyshambles (#56)
96 ( 77 ) These Bones - Dashboard Confessional (#70)
97 ( -- ) Hold It Don't Drop It - Jennifer Lopez
98 ( 88 ) So Wrong - Waiting Room (#81)
99 ( 72 ) Carry Me Home - King Family (#58)
100 ( 87 ) Push The Ghosts - Twang (#77)
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-- ( 62 ) Hey Now Now - Cloud Room (#2[3])
-- ( 64 ) Time - Rumble Strips (#9)
-- ( 67 ) Fantastic 6 - Alphabeat (#20)
-- ( 70 ) Clash Of The Ash - Runrig & The Tartan Army (#12)
-- ( 74 ) Best Nights - Little Things (#27)
-- ( 78 ) Maybe Tonight - Ads (#66)
-- ( 79 ) Shopping With Mother - Per Gessle (#22)
-- ( 80 ) On My Own - Vincent Vincent And The Villains (#5)
-- ( 82 ) We'll Live And Die In These To - Enemy (#79)
-- ( 84 ) Carry On - Ben's Brother (#3)
-- ( 89 ) Joni - Correcto (#18)
-- ( 90 ) No Cover Up - Duke Special (#31)
-- ( 91 ) Paper And Glue - Emma Pollock (#48)
-- ( 92 ) The Racing Rats - Editors (#74)
-- ( 93 ) Coming Down - Richard Fleeshman (#15)
-- ( 94 ) Cool Town Rock - Holy Hail (#67)
-- ( 95 ) Mellow Down Pussycat - Edgar Jones (#43)
-- ( 96 ) I'll Be Fine - Jives (#62)
-- ( 97 ) Make It Wit Chu - Queens Of The Stone Age (#56)
-- ( 98 ) Assembly - Wild Beasts (#39)
-- ( 99 ) Pointless - Brilliant Things (#50)
-- ( 100 ) Home In A Sentence / Cowardly Custard - King Creosote (#15)
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21 new entries, and Jennifer Lopez makes it into the chart for the first time ever. Two of the entries are in German. Actually there are German songs I get on my release list every week, I decided to add a couple this week to help fill up the playlist. I usually give them a play but a lot of them sound very similar...

[o]

I hope Kate Nash reaches your top 10...

[Earl Purple]

highly unlikely, I'm afraid. Looks like it might catch just the two fallers above it whilst there are a few underneath likely to pass it this week, so it will probably fall.

I'm going to try to edit in a few links now.

[Earl Purple]

19 January 2008:

1 ( 1 ) Beautiful - Parlotones < 3rd week at #1 >
2 ( 3 ) Lollipop - Mika
3 ( 4 ) Liverpool 8 - Ringo Starr
4 ( 2 ) This Is The Life - Amy MacDonald #1[2]
5 ( 8 ) Mr Pitiful - Matt Costa
6 ( 19 ) I'm Alright Now - David Ford
7 ( 5 ) Rocks In Your Shoes - Emily West (#5)
8 ( 6 ) We're All Going To Die - Malcolm Middleton (#6)
9 ( 23 ) State Of Mind - Clockwork Radio
10 ( 7 ) Toothpaste Kisses - Maccabees (#7)

11 ( 13 ) Worst Case Scenario - Hoosiers
12 ( 26 ) Waving Flags - British Sea Power
13 ( 9 ) Lie Lie Lie - Serj Tankian (#9)
14 ( 30 ) Das Matterhorn - Rheinländer
15 ( 17 ) Say It's Not True - Queen ft Paul Rodgers
16 ( 33 ) Surrender - Grit
17 ( 39 ) Let It Be Mine - Daniel Rachel
18 ( 14 ) Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash (#14)
19 ( 15 ) If I Had A Heart - Slut (#15)
20 ( 25 ) Conquest - White Stripes

21 ( -- ) Chasing Pavements - Adele
22 ( 29 ) Eyes On Me - Celine Dion
23 ( 46 ) Disco Dancer - Parka
24 ( 11 ) Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold (#11)
25 ( 10 ) Up Here - Terra Naomi (#1[1])
26 ( 51 ) City Of Lights / Before It's Over - Circuits
27 ( -- ) NW5 - Madness
28 ( 54 ) Falling - Mark Timothy
29 ( 28 ) Let Me Go On - Seabird (#28)
30 ( 38 ) Cache Cache - 1984

31 ( 59 ) Now - Stephen Fretwell
32 ( 32 ) Holiday - Ginger
33 ( -- ) Darling - Sons & Daughters
34 ( 20 ) Home - Amsterdam (#20)
35 ( 22 ) Wait For The Weekend - White Light Parade (#22)
36 ( 21 ) Never Seen The Light Of Day - Mando Diao (#21)
37 ( 12 ) Christmas Number One - Black Arts (#2)
38 ( 62 ) I Fought The Lloyds - Oystar
39 ( 18 ) Ur So Gay - Katy Perry (#3)
40 ( 65 ) Lights Go Out - Client

41 ( 45 ) Standing In The Rain - Jamie Scott
42 ( 66 ) Wir Ham St Anton Überlebt - Jürgen & Mickie Krause
43 ( -- ) Not About A Girl Or A Place - Jonah Matranga
44 ( 31 ) Life Is Beautiful - SixxAM (#31)
45 ( 48 ) Something In My Eye - Turin Brakes
46 ( 70 ) Moving To New York - Wombats
47 ( 16 ) White Hot Christmas - Jive Aces (#1[3])
48 ( 34 ) Frechdachs - Conny Dachs (#34)
49 ( 72 ) U.R.A Fever - Kills
50 ( -- ) Elvis Ain't Dead - Scouting For Girls

51 ( 42 ) What I've Come Across - 4 Letter Holiday (#42)
52 ( 24 ) Reuben - Cathy Davey (#5)
53 ( 76 ) Be Mine - Robyn
54 ( 77 ) Piece Of Me - Britney Spears
55 ( -- ) Reality - Louie Austen
56 ( 56 ) Home - Daughtry
57 ( 27 ) Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley (#3)
58 ( 79 ) Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead
59 ( 41 ) Beautiful - Taylor Dayne (#41)
60 ( 83 ) Baby Baby Baby - Joss Stone

61 ( -- ) Who Are Ya - Jakil link is to live version but reasonable
62 ( 61 ) If I Had Eyes - Jack Johnson (#61)
63 ( 53 ) Break Away - Blind (#53)
64 ( 35 ) Chained To No-One - Dogs (#18)
65 ( 88 ) Saw Something - Dave Gahan
66 ( -- ) 2 Bodies 1 Heart - Noah & The Whale
67 ( 40 ) Too Much Too Young Too Fast - Airbourne (#40)
68 ( 36 ) Benjamin's Ego - Rosemary (#13)
69 ( 43 ) Hate (I Really Don't Like You) - Plain White T's (#43)
70 ( -- ) Wishing - Eton Road

71 ( 93 ) Get It On - Moxxie
72 ( 37 ) The Avenue - Wallbirds (#10)
73 ( 50 ) Life's A Treat - Shaun The Sheep (#50)
74 ( 97 ) Hold It Don't Drop It - Jennifer Lopez
75 ( -- ) Tell Me What It's Worth - Lightspeed Champion
76 ( 44 ) 12 O'Clock Nearly 1 O'Clock Hurry Up - Lady Fortune (#28)
77 ( 55 ) I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl - Allison Moorer (#55)
78 ( 47 ) Falling From These Eyes - Starter (#47)
79 ( -- ) What Took You So Long - Courteeners
80 ( 58 ) What A Wonderful World - Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy (#58)

81 ( 52 ) Fast Lane - Marie Miller (#52)
82 ( -- ) That's That - Cass McCombs
83 ( 63 ) Vincent Rose - John Graham Leslie (#63)
84 ( -- ) Sunshine In The Rain - BWO
85 ( 49 ) Suffer For Two - BC Camplight (#6)
86 ( 60 ) Classic Cliche - Elektrons (#60)
87 ( -- ) About To Happen - Siouxsie
88 ( 67 ) Have I Been A Fool - Jack Penate (#67)
89 ( -- ) Sweet Little Princess - Arthur Kitchener
90 ( 69 ) Let Go - Paul Van Dyk (#69)

91 ( -- ) The Last Ride - MirrorView
92 ( 57 ) Season's Greetings - Robbers On High Street (#23)
93 ( -- ) Wax Simulacra - Mars Volta
94 ( 64 ) Hold That Moment - Lutricia McNeal (#21)
95 ( 71 ) Change / My Love Is Pink - Sugababes (#40)
96 ( 68 ) Nobody's Fault But Mine - Beth Rowley (#26)
97 ( -- ) Ties That Bind - Alter Bridge
98 ( 73 ) High - RyanDan (#31)
99 ( 91 ) Extraordinary - Tim Matthews (#79)
100 ( 87 ) All Over Again - Runners (#75)
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-- ( 74 ) Stuff - Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band ft (Oddly Enough) Terry Jones (#12)
-- ( 75 ) Me And You - Slow Club (#1[4])
-- ( 78 ) All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey (#11)[RI]
-- ( 80 ) It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Andy Williams (#13)[OLD]
-- ( 81 ) Lazy Bones - Displacements (#45)
-- ( 82 ) Rock N Roll - Remi Nicole (#12)
-- ( 84 ) Satellite - Sister (#39)
-- ( 85 ) My Friends - Stereophonics (#65)
-- ( 86 ) Don't Shoot Me Santa - Killers (#53)
-- ( 89 ) Sanctuary - Gabriella Cilmi (#76)
-- ( 90 ) Sealegs - Shins (#50)
-- ( 92 ) Shipwrecked - Derrin Nauendorf (#16)
-- ( 94 ) Me Love - Sean Kingston (#84)
-- ( 95 ) You Talk - Babyshambles (#56)
-- ( 96 ) These Bones - Dashboard Confessional (#70)
-- ( 98 ) So Wrong - Waiting Room (#81)
-- ( 99 ) Carry Me Home - King Family (#58)
-- ( 100 ) Push The Ghosts - Twang (#77)
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If you don't think much of this, I can only chart what's out and 2008 has not started as strongly as 2007 did by a long way. 2007 had the strongest start of any year in history, but I was hoping that as 2007 was the first year in which download-only tracks were allowed in the NM chart, it would be a trend that would continue. In fact to fill a playlist this week I added 2 tracks from the 7-Digital indie list and one that has been out already for 4 weeks, which I wouldn't normally do. So whoever may say that Scouting For Girls aren't indie, well it would seem that Eton Road are, yes, they are the group from the X-Factor 2006 series, and they released "indie", not that the music is of indie-rock style, but it was done on an independent, and on 7-Digital's indie site.

I will try to put in some links for the new entries.

[o]

Adele doing well, nice.

[Earl Purple]

Adele is doing well. Not sure if it will reach #1, if David Ford will get there or if the Parlotones are going to hold on for a while longer. No singles in 2007 stayed more than 4 weeks on top and the Parlotones reach that many next week, although in 2007 the Fratellis did spend a 5th and 6th week at #1 having first topped in 2006.

[Earl Purple]

Ok, I have posted more links. Whilst I always enjoy getting replies, I would be much happier if people would follow the links to some of the lesser known songs and comment on those, rather than on the well-known songs like Chasing Pavements.

[o]

Had a listen to Noah and the Whale, nice enough, bit like Jack Penate, or that chap with the guitar, oh poop, cant remember his name.
Also tried Louie Asten, laid back.

[Earl Purple]

Last chart in this topic:

26 January 2008

1 ( 1 ) Beautiful - Parlotones < 4th week at #1 >
2 ( 2 ) Lollipop - Mika
3 ( 6 ) I'm Alright Now - David Ford
4 ( 3 ) Liverpool 8 - Ringo Starr (#3)
5 ( 5 ) Mr Pitiful - Matt Costa
6 ( 21 ) Chasing Pavements - Adele
7 ( 9 ) State Of Mind - Clockwork Radio
8 ( 27 ) NW5 - Madness
9 ( 12 ) Waving Flags - British Sea Power
10 ( 4 ) This Is The Life - Amy MacDonald (#2[2])

11 ( 14 ) Das Matterhorn - Rheinländer
12 ( 17 ) Let It Be Mine - Daniel Rachel
13 ( 16 ) Surrender - Grit
14 ( 33 ) Darling - Sons & Daughters
15 ( 7 ) Rocks In Your Shoes - Emily West (#5)
16 ( 11 ) Worst Case Scenario - Hoosiers (#11)
17 ( 8 ) We're All Going To Die - Malcolm Middleton (#6)
18 ( 23 ) Disco Dancer - Parka
19 ( -- ) Big Umbrella - Kings Have Long Arms ft Candie Payne
20 ( 43 ) Not About A Girl Or A Place - Jonah Matranga

21 ( 10 ) Toothpaste Kisses - Maccabees (#7)
22 ( 15 ) Say It's Not True - Queen ft Paul Rodgers (#15)
23 ( 26 ) City Of Lights / Before It's Over - Circuits
24 ( 28 ) Falling - Mark Timothy
25 ( 20 ) Conquest - White Stripes (#20)
26 ( -- ) Just For Tonight - One Night Only
27 ( 31 ) Now - Stephen Fretwell
28 ( 22 ) Eyes On Me - Celine Dion (#22)
29 ( 13 ) Lie Lie Lie - Serj Tankian (#9)
30 ( 50 ) Elvis Ain't Dead - Scouting For Girls

31 ( -- ) Valentine - Richard Hawley
32 ( 55 ) Reality - Louie Austen
33 ( 18 ) Pumpkin Soup - Kate Nash (#14)
34 ( 19 ) If I Had A Heart - Slut (#15)
35 ( 38 ) I Fought The Lloyds - Oystar
36 ( 30 ) Cache Cache - 1984 (#30)
37 ( -- ) Why Do Men Fight - Silicon/Carbon Silicon
38 ( 40 ) Lights Go Out - Client
39 ( 61 ) Who Are Ya - Jakil
40 ( 42 ) Wir Ham St Anton Überlebt - Jürgen & Mickie Krause

41 ( 66 ) 2 Bodies 1 Heart - Noah & The Whale
42 ( -- ) Who's Got A Match - Biffy Clyro
43 ( 29 ) Let Me Go On - Seabird (#28)
44 ( 46 ) Moving To New York - Wombats
45 ( 70 ) Wishing - Eton Road
46 ( 32 ) Holiday - Ginger (#32)
47 ( -- ) Help Me Make It - Van Tramp
48 ( 49 ) U.R.A Fever - Kills
49 ( 75 ) Tell Me What It's Worth - Lightspeed Champion
50 ( 53 ) Be Mine - Robyn

51 ( 24 ) Afterlife - Avenged Sevenfold (#11)
52 ( -- ) Isolation - Sean Whittaker
53 ( 41 ) Standing In The Rain - Jamie Scott (#41)
54 ( 54 ) Piece Of Me - Britney Spears
55 ( 79 ) What Took You So Long - Courteeners
56 ( 25 ) Up Here - Terra Naomi (#1[1])
57 ( -- ) Breathe - Heathers
58 ( 45 ) Something In My Eye - Turin Brakes (#45)
59 ( 82 ) That's That - Cass McCombs
60 ( 58 ) Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead (#58)

61 ( 60 ) Baby Baby Baby - Joss Stone (#60)
62 ( 84 ) Sunshine In The Rain - BWO
63 ( -- ) Spirits Up Above - Jose James
64 ( 87 ) About To Happen - Siouxsie
65 ( 35 ) Wait For The Weekend - White Light Parade (#22)
66 ( 34 ) Home - Amsterdam (#20)
67 ( 65 ) Saw Something - Dave Gahan (#65)
68 ( 89 ) Sweet Little Princess - Arthur Kitchener
69 ( -- ) These Hard Times - Matchbox Twenty
70 ( 91 ) The Last Ride - MirrorView

71 ( 36 ) Never Seen The Light Of Day - Mando Diao (#21)
72 ( 93 ) Wax Simulacra - Mars Volta
73 ( -- ) Fool For Love - Das Pop
74 ( 71 ) Get It On - Moxxie (#71)
75 ( 56 ) Home - Daughtry (#56)
76 ( 74 ) Hold It Don't Drop It - Jennifer Lopez (#74)
77 ( 97 ) Ties That Bind - Alter Bridge
78 ( 44 ) Life Is Beautiful - SixxAM (#31)
79 ( -- ) Ordinary Song - Little Ones
80 ( 51 ) What I've Come Across - 4 Letter Holiday (#42)

81 ( 39 ) Ur So Gay - Katy Perry (#3)
82 ( 48 ) Frechdachs - Conny Dachs (#34)
83 ( 37 ) Christmas Number One - Black Arts (#2)
84 ( -- ) Addicted - Saving Abel
85 ( 62 ) If I Had Eyes - Jack Johnson (#61)
86 ( -- ) Sun Goes Down - David Jordan
87 ( -- ) Weightless - Wet Wet Wet
88 ( 63 ) Break Away - Blind (#53)
89 ( -- ) Please Read The Letter - Robert Plant ft Alison Krauss
90 ( 59 ) Beautiful - Taylor Dayne (#41)

91 ( 47 ) White Hot Christmas - Jive Aces (#1[3])
92 ( -- ) Just Fine - Mary J Blige
93 ( 52 ) Reuben - Cathy Davey (#5)
94 ( -- ) Rockist - School Of Language
95 ( 57 ) Breakin' Up - Rilo Kiley (#3)
96 ( -- ) From Yesterday - 30 Seconds To Mars
97 ( -- ) Work - Kelly Rowland
98 ( 64 ) Chained To No-One - Dogs (#18)
99 ( 67 ) Too Much Too Young Too Fast - Airbourne (#40)
100 ( 69 ) Hate (I Really Don't Like You) - Plain White T's (#43)
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-- ( 68 ) Benjamin's Ego - Rosemary (#13)
-- ( 72 ) The Avenue - Wallbirds (#10)
-- ( 73 ) Life's A Treat - Shaun The Sheep (#50)
-- ( 76 ) 12 O'Clock Nearly 1 O'Clock Hurry Up - Lady Fortune (#28)
-- ( 77 ) I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl - Allison Moorer (#55)
-- ( 78 ) Falling From These Eyes - Starter (#47)
-- ( 80 ) What A Wonderful World - Katie Melua & Eva Cassidy (#58)
-- ( 81 ) Fast Lane - Marie Miller (#52)
-- ( 83 ) Vincent Rose - John Graham Leslie (#63)
-- ( 85 ) Suffer For Two - BC Camplight (#6)
-- ( 86 ) Classic Cliche - Elektrons (#60)
-- ( 88 ) Have I Been A Fool - Jack Penate (#67)
-- ( 90 ) Let Go - Paul Van Dyk (#69)
-- ( 92 ) Season's Greetings - Robbers On High Street (#23)
-- ( 94 ) Hold That Moment - Lutricia McNeal (#21)
-- ( 95 ) Change / My Love Is Pink - Sugababes (#40)
-- ( 96 ) Nobody's Fault But Mine - Beth Rowley (#26)
-- ( 98 ) High - RyanDan (#31)
-- ( 99 ) Extraordinary - Tim Matthews (#79)
-- ( 100 ) All Over Again - Runners (#75)
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It was a bit of a struggle to get that playlist together and I turned to 7-Digital indie section again to help fill the list. Haven't added Kylie's "Wow" yet although perhaps I should given it's in the UK chart.

Ended up with 2 R&B songs getting in the chart to make up the numbers, so Kelly Rowland charts for what I think is the first time ever, Mary J Blige has charted a few times before, including a duet with Wyclef Jean called 911 which reached #5, her highest ever peak.

Also the answer to the question above is "yes, I charted Biffy Clyro". They came in as the 5th highest entry, and they may go top 20 with that. A catchy song, but the fact the first line is so much like an Abba song is just a slight negative. Having said that, the Inspiral Carpets had a #1 in July 2003 with a song where the chorus was a bit like an Elton John song that you would be most likely to listen to in December.