FragChart - April 2018 (Weeks 628 to 632)

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Week 628: Sunday, April 01, 2018

The Blue Giants stay at #1 for a fourth week, but will have a big challenge next week from The Vaccines, who storm straight to #5. Another new Vaccines song sneaks in at #58. Meanwhile, Feeder have another new entry in the lower reaches of the chart, and Frank Turner becomes another artist to follow up a FragChart success with a bit of a flop; 'Blackout' would have been #64 this week.

Tusky still have two songs in the top 10, and 'Going Out' becomes the equal longest runner this week - still as high as #7. Surely a strong contender for year-end #1.

01 (01) 6 She Is Fire - The Blue Giants
02 (03) 6 Chasing Shadows - The Sherlocks
03 (05) 4 Mosquito Chase - Jive Boys
04 (02) 5 Armed to the Teeth - Tusky
05 (NE) 1 Surfing in the Sky - The Vaccines
06 (04) 4 Thing Like That - Skinny Lister
07 (06) 12 Going Out - Tusky
08 (18) 2 If I Tell You - Himalayas
09 (17) 3 123 Go - Keaton Simons
10 (15) 5 Mad Animal Shuffle - Francine
11 (08) 8 1933 - Frank Turner
12 (09) 9 Paradise - George Ezra
13 (11) 3 No Roots - Alice Merton
14 (12) 7 Sweeter - Flidge
15 (24) 3 Hold Unknown - Dinosaur Jr.
16 (NE) 1 Money Maker - The Shrives
17 (26) 2 Vivacious Crush - Buddie
18 (07) 5 Girl - Brand New Friend
19 (21) 4 Chemistry - Retro Video Club
20 (27) 3 Kendall Drive - The Polar Boys
21 (28) 4 Animals - Silent War
22 (33) 2 New York City - Owl City
23 (NE) 1 For Now - DMA'S
24 (23) 7 Thought Contagion - Muse
25 (10) 8 Blood in the Water - DON BROCO
26 (13) 8 Mirrors - Chivalry
27 (14) 7 Buzzkill - Ash
28 (16) 8 Radio Emergency - Any Other Time
29 (22) 3 Mediocre At Best - Brand New Friend
30 (43) 3 I Did It! - Kitten

31 (45) 3 Bed & Breakfast - Deaf School
32 (19) 8 Patience - Only Sun
33 (31) 8 Tidal Waves - Parade of Lights
34 (50) 5 Radio Rebelde - The Baboon Show
35 (NE) 1 You. Me. Sanity. - Retrograde
36 (35) 2 Lives - Only Sun
37 (NE) 1 Head Like a Haunted House - Queens of the Stone Age
38 (20) 7 Feel Better - The Eaves
39 (25) 11 Another Sort of Homecoming - Black Space Riders
40 (30) 4 Y.D.W.I.W.M. - The Hunna
41 (32) 12 Everyone's the Same - FREAK
42 (NE) 1 Weekend - Parliamo
43 (47) 3 New Kind of Ego - The Ninth Wave
44 (53) 2 Take Arms - La Bête Blooms
45 (NE) 1 Mr Perfect - The Tailormade
46 (NE) 1 Desert Queen - Ecstatic Union
47 (29) 4 Send in the Roses - Towers Of London
48 (36) 7 Lost With You - Kula Bay
49 (37) 9 Stay Close to Me - Only Shadows
50 (NE) 1 Bees - Alt. Mix - Feeder
51 (NE) 1 Usurper - Forever Cult
52 (44) 2 Messed up Feeling - RedFaces
53 (40) 2 AMERICAN GODS - ONR
54 (39) 9 Nightclub - The Vaccines
55 (52) 2 Human For - Sunflower Bean
56 (NE) 1 Torn - Fulminante
57 (42) 6 Shock Machine - SHEAFS
58 (NE) 1 Your Love Is My Favourite Band - The Vaccines
59 (NE) 1 Shooting Pains - IBG
60 (41) 9 Look Like You Know - Royal Blood

-- (--) 1 Blackout - Frank Turner
-- (--) 1 Margo - Kings
-- (--) 2 Ride Or Die (feat. Foster The People) - The Knocks
-- (--) 1 Maybe It's Too Much to Ask - Hi, Mom!

-- (34) 5 Pretty Little Animals - Saint Sapphire
-- (38) 3 Everybody Thinks They Know (But No One Really Knows) - Naked Giants
-- (46) 8 Lazy Boy - Edit - Franz Ferdinand
-- (48) 8 Paranoid - Milestones
-- (49) 4 Loveless - The Pale White
-- (51) 1 Bright Young People - The Opera Comic
-- (54) 2 I'll Make You Sorry - Screaming Females
-- (55) 2 Rattle Kids - Hurst
-- (56) 19 Follow - Bottle Note
-- (57) 2 Talking to Yourself - Daphne Guinness
-- (58) 1 Waterfall - Katalina Kicks
-- (59) 8 Main & Lincoln - Stop.Drop.Rewind
-- (60) 2 Road Less Travelled - Atlas Wynd

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Week 629: Sunday, April 08, 2018

The Vaccines score their first number 1 with a two and a half minute blast of sustained energy. DMA'S Stone Roses-like sound sees them jump to #5, while The Shrives and Retro Video Club enter the top 10 with straight-up indie. Many of the highest new entries come from Milliways' chart, but he missed (or disliked?) Asylums.

01 (05) 2 Surfing in the Sky - The Vaccines
02 (01) 7 She Is Fire - The Blue Giants
03 (02) 7 Chasing Shadows - The Sherlocks
04 (09) 4 123 Go - Keaton Simons
05 (23) 2 For Now - DMA'S
06 (16) 2 Money Maker - The Shrives
07 (03) 5 Mosquito Chase - Jive Boys
08 (19) 5 Chemistry - Retro Video Club
09 (04) 6 Armed to the Teeth - Tusky
10 (08) 3 If I Tell You - Himalayas
11 (15) 4 Hold Unknown - Dinosaur Jr.
12 (20) 4 Kendall Drive - The Polar Boys
13 (10) 6 Mad Animal Shuffle - Francine
14 (12) 10 Paradise - George Ezra
15 (06) 5 Thing Like That - Skinny Lister
16 (NE) 1 When We Wake Up - Asylums
17 (07) 13 Going Out - Tusky
18 (NE) 1 April's Fool - Sweden
19 (13) 4 No Roots - Alice Merton
20 (24) 8 Thought Contagion - Muse
21 (NE) 1 My Kind of Girl - Be Like Pablo
22 (31) 4 Bed & Breakfast - Deaf School
23 (11) 9 1933 - Frank Turner
24 (14) 8 Sweeter - Flidge
25 (NE) 1 Desperation - The Stanfields
26 (29) 4 Mediocre At Best - Brand New Friend
27 (17) 3 Vivacious Crush - Buddie
28 (21) 5 Animals - Silent War
29 (25) 9 Blood in the Water - DON BROCO
30 (22) 3 New York City - Owl City

31 (NE) 1 Extralarge - North Alone
32 (28) 9 Radio Emergency - Any Other Time
33 (27) 8 Buzzkill - Ash
34 (37) 2 Head Like a Haunted House - Queens of the Stone Age
35 (42) 2 Weekend - Parliamo
36 (26) 9 Mirrors - Chivalry
37 (18) 6 Girl - Brand New Friend
38 (44) 3 Take Arms - La Bête Blooms
39 (NE) 1 Animalize - Hello Operator
40 (NE) 1 Tune It Up - John Bull Gang
41 (43) 4 New Kind of Ego - The Ninth Wave
42 (NE) 1 Let You Believe - Vida
43 (30) 4 I Did It! - Kitten
44 (33) 9 Tidal Waves - Parade of Lights
45 (45) 2 Mr Perfect - The Tailormade
46 (32) 9 Patience - Only Sun
47 (53) 3 AMERICAN GODS - ONR
48 (NE) 1 Calm - Vistas
49 (NE) 1 Open Up Your Soul - Maple
50 (34) 6 Radio Rebelde - The Baboon Show
51 (NE) 1 Fred Astaire - Jukebox The Ghost
52 (39) 12 Another Sort of Homecoming - Black Space Riders
53 (NE) 1 Nothing but Trouble - The Lazys
54 (38) 8 Feel Better - The Eaves
55 (NE) 1 Garden Ornaments - Voodoos
56 (NE) 1 Glimpse Of Love - Version - Franz Ferdinand
57 (46) 2 Desert Queen - Ecstatic Union
58 (35) 2 You. Me. Sanity. - Retrograde
59 (36) 3 Lives - Only Sun
60 (41) 13 Everyone's the Same - FREAK

-- (--) 1 Cool Generator - Bad Moves
-- (--) 1 Standby - Here for a reason
-- (--) 2 Blackout - Frank Turner
-- (--) 1 A Faecal Matter - Strapped for Cash

-- (40) 4 Y.D.W.I.W.M. - The Hunna
-- (47) 4 Send in the Roses - Towers Of London
-- (48) 7 Lost With You - Kula Bay
-- (49) 9 Stay Close to Me - Only Shadows
-- (50) 1 Bees - Alt. Mix - Feeder
-- (51) 1 Usurper - Forever Cult
-- (52) 2 Messed up Feeling - RedFaces
-- (54) 9 Nightclub - The Vaccines
-- (55) 2 Human For - Sunflower Bean
-- (56) 1 Torn - Fulminante
-- (57) 6 Shock Machine - SHEAFS
-- (58) 1 Your Love Is My Favourite Band - The Vaccines
-- (59) 1 Shooting Pains - IBG
-- (60) 9 Look Like You Know - Royal Blood

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Week 630: Sunday, April 15, 2018

01 (18) 2 April's Fool - Sweden
02 (01) 3 Surfing in the Sky - The Vaccines
03 (21) 2 My Kind of Girl - Be Like Pablo
04 (16) 2 When We Wake Up - Asylums
05 (02) 8 She Is Fire - The Blue Giants
06 (04) 5 123 Go - Keaton Simons
07 (03) 8 Chasing Shadows - The Sherlocks
08 (08) 6 Chemistry - Retro Video Club
09 (22) 5 Bed & Breakfast - Deaf School
10 (05) 3 For Now - DMA'S
11 (06) 3 Money Maker - The Shrives
12 (10) 4 If I Tell You - Himalayas
13 (12) 5 Kendall Drive - The Polar Boys
14 (07) 6 Mosquito Chase - Jive Boys
15 (17) 14 Going Out - Tusky
16 (09) 7 Armed to the Teeth - Tusky
17 (11) 5 Hold Unknown - Dinosaur Jr.
18 (19) 5 No Roots - Alice Merton
19 (25) 2 Desperation - The Stanfields
20 (26) 5 Mediocre At Best - Brand New Friend
21 (NE) 1 Caught Up - Death From Above 1979
22 (13) 7 Mad Animal Shuffle - Francine
23 (14) 11 Paradise - George Ezra
24 (40) 2 Tune It Up - John Bull Gang
25 (24) 9 Sweeter - Flidge
26 (NE) 1 The Tracers - Johnny Marr
27 (NE) 1 Forget About It - J.F.K
28 (20) 9 Thought Contagion - Muse
29 (23) 10 1933 - Frank Turner
30 (35) 3 Weekend - Parliamo

31 (28) 6 Animals - Silent War
32 (51) 2 Fred Astaire - Jukebox The Ghost
33 (NE) 1 Molly - The Wrinkled Suits
34 (31) 2 Extralarge - North Alone
35 (33) 9 Buzzkill - Ash
36 (NE) 1 Paper, Pencil, Copyright - McCafferty
37 (15) 6 Thing Like That - Skinny Lister
38 (34) 3 Head Like a Haunted House - Queens of the Stone Age
39 (27) 4 Vivacious Crush - Buddie
40 (32) 10 Radio Emergency - Any Other Time
41 (47) 4 AMERICAN GODS - ONR
42 (29) 10 Blood in the Water - DON BROCO
43 (NE) 1 Seatbelts For Aeroplanes - Brand New Friend
44 (41) 5 New Kind of Ego - The Ninth Wave
45 (NE) 1 Won't Give Up The Fight - Pennywise
46 (39) 2 Animalize - Hello Operator
47 (37) 7 Girl - Brand New Friend
48 (50) 7 Radio Rebelde - The Baboon Show
49 (53) 2 Nothing but Trouble - The Lazys
50 (NE) 1 You Don't Walk Away From Love - Peace
51 (43) 5 I Did It! - Kitten
52 (42) 2 Let You Believe - Vida
53 (44) 10 Tidal Waves - Parade of Lights
54 (NE) 1 Scratch My Back - The Strays
55 (NE) 1 Liverpool Revisited - Manic Street Preachers
56 (48) 2 Calm - Vistas
57 (NE) 1 Jig of Death - The Rumpled
58 (36) 10 Mirrors - Chivalry
59 (49) 2 Open Up Your Soul - Maple
60 (NE) 1 Where Did I Go Wrong? - Youth Killed It

-- (--) 2 Standby - Here for a reason
-- (--) 1 Cotch - Only Sun
-- (--) 1 The Game Is On - Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
-- (--) 1 Police - Rascalton
-- (--) 1 Typical - Low Cut High Tops
-- (--) 2 Cool Generator - Bad Moves

-- (30) 3 New York City - Owl City
-- (38) 3 Take Arms - La Bête Blooms
-- (45) 2 Mr Perfect - The Tailormade
-- (46) 9 Patience - Only Sun
-- (52) 12 Another Sort of Homecoming - Black Space Riders
-- (54) 8 Feel Better - The Eaves
-- (55) 1 Garden Ornaments - Voodoos
-- (56) 1 Glimpse Of Love - Version - Franz Ferdinand
-- (57) 2 Desert Queen - Ecstatic Union
-- (58) 2 You. Me. Sanity. - Retrograde
-- (59) 3 Lives - Only Sun
-- (60) 13 Everyone's the Same - FREAK

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Week 631: Sunday, April 22, 2018

01 (01) 3 April's Fool - Sweden
02 (02) 4 Surfing in the Sky - The Vaccines
03 (04) 3 When We Wake Up - Asylums
04 (03) 3 My Kind of Girl - Be Like Pablo
05 (05) 9 She Is Fire - The Blue Giants
06 (09) 6 Bed & Breakfast - Deaf School
07 (21) 2 Caught Up - Death From Above 1979
08 (06) 6 123 Go - Keaton Simons
09 (08) 7 Chemistry - Retro Video Club
10 (27) 2 Forget About It - J.F.K
11 (10) 4 For Now - DMA'S
12 (19) 3 Desperation - The Stanfields
13 (11) 4 Money Maker - The Shrives
14 (13) 6 Kendall Drive - The Polar Boys
15 (12) 5 If I Tell You - Himalayas
16 (07) 9 Chasing Shadows - The Sherlocks
17 (20) 6 Mediocre At Best - Brand New Friend
18 (24) 3 Tune It Up - John Bull Gang
19 (26) 2 The Tracers - Johnny Marr
20 (NE) 1 Annabel - Ash
21 (32) 3 Fred Astaire - Jukebox The Ghost
22 (18) 6 No Roots - Alice Merton
23 (NE) 1 Kandy Krush - Kim Wilde
24 (22) 8 Mad Animal Shuffle - Francine
25 (16) 8 Armed to the Teeth - Tusky
26 (34) 3 Extralarge - North Alone
27 (NE) 1 The Way We Wanna Go - Paddy And The Rats
28 (14) 7 Mosquito Chase - Jive Boys
29 (30) 4 Weekend - Parliamo
30 (NE) 1 Take It - Teacup Monster

31 (NE) 1 The Heart Is a Muscle - Radio Edit - Gang of Youths
32 (15) 15 Going Out - Tusky
33 (44) 6 New Kind of Ego - The Ninth Wave
34 (43) 2 Seatbelts For Aeroplanes - Brand New Friend
35 (23) 12 Paradise - George Ezra
36 (NE) 1 Swallow Me - The Ninth Wave
37 (38) 4 Head Like a Haunted House - Queens of the Stone Age
38 (NE) 1 Coolidge Effect - Cereals
39 (33) 2 Molly - The Wrinkled Suits
40 (17) 6 Hold Unknown - Dinosaur Jr.
41 (40) 11 Radio Emergency - Any Other Time
42 (41) 5 AMERICAN GODS - ONR
43 (NE) 1 I Don't Wanna Go - Ballyhoo!
44 (25) 10 Sweeter - Flidge
45 (28) 10 Thought Contagion - Muse
46 (NE) 1 Pink Magic - Fizzy Blood
47 (NE) 1 Buzzkiller - Danny Goffey
48 (NE) 1 The Humdrum Way - No Fun At All
49 (36) 2 Paper, Pencil, Copyright - McCafferty
50 (NE) 1 So Alone - The Jjohns
51 (NE) 1 Aftermath - Cold Fronts
52 (NE) 1 With the Tides - Usselman
53 (29) 11 1933 - Frank Turner
54 (31) 7 Animals - Silent War
55 (35) 10 Buzzkill - Ash
56 (50) 2 You Don't Walk Away From Love - Peace
57 (NE) 1 Lash Out - Alice Merton
58 (NE) 1 Young Guns - violet night
59 (55) 2 Liverpool Revisited - Manic Street Preachers
60 (39) 5 Vivacious Crush - Buddie

-- (--) 1 Driving Me Crazy - :PM
-- (--) 1 Discover - Oskar Braves
-- (--) 1 Not Another Word - We Are Scientists
-- (--) 2 Typical - Low Cut High Tops
-- (--) 1 Love is for Losers - The Longshot
-- (--) 1 In Chains - Edit - The War On Drugs

-- (37) 6 Thing Like That - Skinny Lister
-- (42) 10 Blood in the Water - DON BROCO
-- (45) 1 Won't Give Up The Fight - Pennywise
-- (46) 2 Animalize - Hello Operator
-- (47) 7 Girl - Brand New Friend
-- (48) 7 Radio Rebelde - The Baboon Show
-- (49) 2 Nothing but Trouble - The Lazys
-- (51) 5 I Did It! - Kitten
-- (52) 2 Let You Believe - Vida
-- (53) 10 Tidal Waves - Parade of Lights
-- (54) 1 Scratch My Back - The Strays
-- (56) 2 Calm - Vistas
-- (57) 1 Jig of Death - The Rumpled
-- (58) 10 Mirrors - Chivalry
-- (59) 2 Open Up Your Soul - Maple
-- (60) 1 Where Did I Go Wrong? - Youth Killed It

[Razzle Dazzle]

Ohh new song by Ballyhoo! Will have to check that out

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Week 632: Sunday, April 29, 2018

01 (03) 4 When We Wake Up - Asylums
02 (04) 4 My Kind of Girl - Be Like Pablo
03 (01) 4 April's Fool - Sweden
04 (12) 4 Desperation - The Stanfields
05 (02) 5 Surfing in the Sky - The Vaccines
06 (10) 3 Forget About It - J.F.K
07 (07) 3 Caught Up - Death From Above 1979
08 (05) 10 She Is Fire - The Blue Giants
09 (06) 7 Bed & Breakfast - Deaf School
10 (18) 4 Tune It Up - John Bull Gang
11 (21) 4 Fred Astaire - Jukebox The Ghost
12 (20) 2 Annabel - Ash
13 (30) 2 Take It - Teacup Monster
14 (23) 2 Kandy Krush - Kim Wilde
15 (13) 5 Money Maker - The Shrives
16 (34) 3 Seatbelts For Aeroplanes - Brand New Friend
17 (NE) 1 Wise Up - RedFaces
18 (33) 7 New Kind of Ego - The Ninth Wave
19 (15) 6 If I Tell You - Himalayas
20 (09) 8 Chemistry - Retro Video Club
21 (26) 4 Extralarge - North Alone
22 (11) 5 For Now - DMA'S
23 (17) 7 Mediocre At Best - Brand New Friend
24 (08) 7 123 Go - Keaton Simons
25 (NE) 1 Chasing A Ghost - The Longshot
26 (36) 2 Swallow Me - The Ninth Wave
27 (25) 9 Armed to the Teeth - Tusky
28 (NE) 1 Not the Kind of Girl - The Lips
29 (19) 3 The Tracers - Johnny Marr
30 (31) 2 The Heart Is a Muscle - Radio Edit - Gang of Youths

31 (14) 7 Kendall Drive - The Polar Boys
32 (NE) 1 Violent Video Games - Camens
33 (16) 10 Chasing Shadows - The Sherlocks
34 (29) 5 Weekend - Parliamo
35 (47) 2 Buzzkiller - Danny Goffey
36 (NE) 1 Sin City - Carnival Club
37 (22) 7 No Roots - Alice Merton
38 (NE) 1 Left Right to One - Dany Laj and The Looks
39 (37) 5 Head Like a Haunted House - Queens of the Stone Age
40 (27) 2 The Way We Wanna Go - Paddy And The Rats
41 (39) 3 Molly - The Wrinkled Suits
42 (NE) 1 Bruised - Feeder
43 (40) 7 Hold Unknown - Dinosaur Jr.
44 (24) 9 Mad Animal Shuffle - Francine
45 (NE) 1 We Are Machines - Only Shadows
46 (43) 2 I Don't Wanna Go - Ballyhoo!
47 (NE) 1 Error Code - Kersh
48 (38) 2 Coolidge Effect - Cereals
49 (46) 2 Pink Magic - Fizzy Blood
50 (32) 16 Going Out - Tusky
51 (NE) 1 Cars and Houses - Ruler
52 (NE) 1 Make America Great Again - Frank Turner
53 (48) 2 The Humdrum Way - No Fun At All
54 (NE) 1 Sweet Release - The Coral
55 (52) 2 With the Tides - Usselman
56 (RE/72) 2 Won't Give Up The Fight - Pennywise
57 (42) 6 AMERICAN GODS - ONR
58 (57) 2 Lash Out - Alice Merton
59 (28) 8 Mosquito Chase - Jive Boys
60 (NE) 1 So Real - Black Pistol Fire

-- (--) 1 Youth Cult - Eldoradio
-- (--) 1 Sky Full Of Song - Florence + The Machine
-- (--) 1 Self Control - LION
-- (--) 2 Love is for Losers - The Longshot
-- (--) 1 Achey Bones - The Happy Fits
-- (--) 1 Love Gotten - Bokito
-- (--) 1 Heart of Gold - The Harlers

-- (35) 12 Paradise - George Ezra
-- (41) 11 Radio Emergency - Any Other Time
-- (44) 10 Sweeter - Flidge
-- (45) 10 Thought Contagion - Muse
-- (49) 2 Paper, Pencil, Copyright - McCafferty
-- (50) 1 So Alone - The Jjohns
-- (51) 1 Aftermath - Cold Fronts
-- (53) 11 1933 - Frank Turner
-- (54) 7 Animals - Silent War
-- (55) 10 Buzzkill - Ash
-- (56) 2 You Don't Walk Away From Love - Peace
-- (58) 1 Young Guns - violet night
-- (59) 2 Liverpool Revisited - Manic Street Preachers
-- (60) 5 Vivacious Crush - Buddie

[Earl Purple]

"Wise Up" was a top 10 hit in my chart last year, peaking at #9 the last week of June. Their latest single in my chart is "Messed Up Feeling" although that isn't doing so well, nearer the bottom end of the chart.