FragChart ~ Week 406 ~ 27 January

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FragChart ~ Week 406 ~ Sunday 27 January 2008

Pos C LW Title Artist Wks PP
1 > 1 Jigsaw Falling Into Place – Radiohead 4 1
2 > 2 I Wish I Was Someone Better – Blood Red Shoes 8 1 [/color]
3 ^ 4 Waving Flags – British Sea Power 4 3
4 v 3 Darling – Sons & Daughters 4 3
5 ^ 7 Broken Watch – Orson 3 5
6 ^ 13 Moving To New York – Wombats 2 6
7 v 5 Story Problem – Envy Corps 4 5
8 ^ 18 Be Mine – Robyn 2 8 *début top 10*
9 v 8 Long Road To Ruin – Foo Fighters 8 4
10 v 6 This Is The Life – Amy MacDonald 7 3
11 ^ 14 I Found Out – Pigeon Detectives 11 1
12 > 12 Open Your Window – Reverend And The Makers 10 2
13 HN That's That – Cass McCoombs 1 13 *début*
14 ^ 16 We'll Live And Die In These Towns – Enemy 8 14
15 ^ 23 NW5 (I Would Give You Everything) – Madness 2 15
16 ^ 20 Elvis Ain't Dead – Scouting For Girls 5 16
17 N And It Rained All Night (Burial Remix) – Thom Yorke 1 17
18 N What Took You So Long? – Courteeners 1 18 *début*
19 ^ 22 Worst Case Scenario – Hoosiers 4 16
20 v 9 Never Before Have I Seen A Man Alive Who Looks So Exactly Like A Skeleton – Ghost Frequency 6 2
21 v 10 Karaoke Plays – Maximo Park 8 10
22 v 17 The Racing Rats – Editors 10 3
23 N Chasing Pavements – Adele 1 23 *début*
24 v 15 Flux – Bloc Party 12 1
25 v 11 Saving My Face – KT Tunstall 10 5
26 ^ 28 If I Had Eyes – Jack Johnson 2 26
27 ^ 30 Tell Me What It's Worth – Lightspeed Champion 2 27
28 v 21 Diamond Hoo Ha Man – Supergrass 3 20
29 N 2 Bodies 1 Heart – Noah & The Whale 1 29
30 v 25 Gilt Complex – Sons & Daughters 13 1 ;D

DROPPING OUT
-- 19 These Bones – Dashboard Confessional, 7 wks, PP #9, Run: 23-9-15-16-14-18-19
-- 24 No Conversation – Boy Kill Boy, 11, 3, 23-25-9-3-3-8-9-11-13-19-24
-- 26 Declare Independence – Bjork, 4, 14, 14-18-25-26
-- 27 The Pretender – Foo Fighters, 16, 1, 9-1-2-2-1-1-2-2-5-7-9-17-27-29-x-x-27-27
-- 29 Hljomalind – Sigur Rós, 13, 1, 22-14-5-1-2-5-11-12-15-23-26-x-28-29

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COMMENTARY
Is it just me, or is this January even slower then usual? There's a large number of hangers-on in the chart at the moment, as indicated by four songs dropping sharply this week. Three of the songs that left the chart had been around since October, and there are still six songs with 10 or more weeks on the chart.
So there's not much change in the top 4: Radiohead have a third week at #1, Blood Red Shoes a seventh in the top two. Arriving to shake things up a bit next week are Biffy Clyro with 'Who's Got A Match?' (Audio), which might even enter in the top 5.
There is *some* promise... Robyn makes a big rise into the top 10, Wombats are back in the top 10 too, and I'm especially fond of Cass McCombs (Click here for a clip), whom I wouldn't have heard of if it wasn't for a meticulous scrawl through last week's confirmed releases. Thanks, ManicK!
Also débuting: Courteeners. On hearing another of their songs, I feared they would be Libertines clones, but 'What Took You So Long?', while still retaining some Libertinity, is catchy enough, and reminiscent of the Holloways.

NEW ENTRIES - CHART HISTORIES[/i]
Thom Yorke
2 hits, both top 5, 17 WOC, best: #2
With Radiohead: 6 hits, 45+ WOC, 4 top 10, 3 number ones
Harrowdown Hill, Aug-06, 10 wks, PP #2 [4 wks], YEC #10
Analyse, Oct-06, 7 wks, PP #5 [2 wks], YEC #47

FragChart welcomes: Cass McCombs, Courteeners, Adele, Noah & The Whale (new artists in 2008: 9)

More chart histories available on request ;D

[Jonny]

22/30 this week Frag, great chart.

Have you heard of I Was A Cub Scout before?

Also really good to see Noah And The Whale chart, my No 1 this week. ;D

[Sauron]

21/30 for me, a great chart

[wonderwall]

19/30 not bad for a arsenal fan

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jonny said:

Have you heard of I Was A Cub Scout before?


Also really good to see Noah And The Whale chart, my No 1 this week. ;D

I have indeed, they got in the chart with 'I Hate Nightclubs' back in March '07, but only to #29...

I thought the NATW song was fairly good, but not that special... I saw them live about two years ago, on a memorable line-up that also included The Mules and Kid Harpoon. Nice theme there

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wonderwall said:

19/30 not bad for a arsenal fan

What, do Arsenal fans have inferior music taste? Most of the chavs (who naturally have awful taste) tend to support ManU or Chelsea, so Gooners probably have better taste in general

[Earl Purple]

This January is slower than last year but I can't compare it to "usual" because in previous years I didn't have the benefit of downloads.

It's also a matter of what's left after filtering out those that are so bad I can't consider them for my playlist. In 2002 there was one week when I had just one new entry and I had to reduce the size of my chart down from 50 back to 40. I also recall reducing my chart from 20 to 18 around the beginning of 1994 although I think I may have reduced it even earlier as 1993 was a particularly poor year. In any case I have 1994 and 2002 down as the years with the worst ever starts.