FragChart Week 309 - 19 March

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= weeks at #1

Pos C LW // Title – Artist // Wks // PP
1 > 1 Your Enemy - Hazey Janes 2 1 [/color]
2 ^ 9 Standing On My Own Again - Graham Coxon 2 2
3 HN Billie Jean - Michael Jackson 1 3 **BIGGEST HIT**
4 ^ 10 Valentine - Delays 3 4
5 ^ 11 Crooked Teeth - Death Cab For Cutie 3 5
6 v 2 Alone, Jealous & Stoned - Secret Machines 5 1
7 ^ 17 Flame - Bell X1 2 7
8 v 3 Sweet Troubled Soul - Stellastarr* 5 2
9 N Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 1 9
10 v 5 It's A Hit - We Are Scientists 6 5
11 v 4 Funny Little Frog - Belle & Sebastian 9 1
12 v 7 In This Home On Ice - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 4 7
13 v 8 Why Are You Looking Grave? - Mew 7 6
14 v 6 Friend Of The Night - Mogwai 7 3
15 v 14 Munich - Editors 11 1 ;D
16 v 12 Heartbeats - José González 8 1
17 ^ 24 Wish I Never Loved You - Buzzcocks 2 17
18 N I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco 1 18 **DEBUT**
19 N Run Baby Run - Garbage 1 19
20 > 20 Ladyflash - Go! Team 7 7
21 v 18 White Russian Galaxy - Crimea 2 18
22 v 13 I Want You To Stay - Maximo Park 6 9
23 ^ 25 Here Comes The Rumour Mill - Young Knives 2 23
24 N Sæglópur - Sigur Rós 1 24
25 v 15 Lottery Winners On Acid - Crimea 10 2
26 v 21 When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys 9 1
27 N Move Along - All-American Rejects 1 27
28 v 19 Sorry - Madonna 3 19
29 v 23 To The Music - Colder 5 19
30 N 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene 1 30


Chart histories and information available on request.

[greendemon]

1 > 1 Your Enemy - Hazey Janes 2 1
2 ^ 9 Standing On My Own Again - Graham Coxon 2 2
3 HN Billie Jean - Michael Jackson 1 3 **BIGGEST HIT**
4 ^ 10 Valentine - Delays 3 4
5 ^ 11 Crooked Teeth - Death Cab For Cutie 3 5
6 v 2 Alone, Jealous & Stoned - Secret Machines 5 1
7 ^ 17 Flame - Bell X1 2 7
8 v 3 Sweet Troubled Soul - Stellastarr* 5 2
9 N Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 1 9
10 v 5 It's A Hit - We Are Scientists 6 5
11 v 4 Funny Little Frog - Belle & Sebastian 9 1
12 v 7 In This Home On Ice - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 4 7
13 v 8 Why Are You Looking Grave? - Mew 7 6
14 v 6 Friend Of The Night - Mogwai 7 3
15 v 14 Munich - Editors 11 1
16 v 12 Heartbeats - José González 8 1
17 ^ 24 Wish I Never Loved You - Buzzcocks 2 17
18 N I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco 1 18 **DEBUT**
19 N Run Baby Run - Garbage 1 19
20 > 20 Ladyflash - Go! Team 7 7
21 v 18 White Russian Galaxy - Crimea 2 18
22 v 13 I Want You To Stay - Maximo Park 6 9
23 ^ 25 Here Comes The Rumour Mill - Young Knives 2 23
24 N Sæglópur - Sigur Rós 1 24
25 v 15 Lottery Winners On Acid - Crimea 10 2
26 v 21 When The Sun Goes Down - Arctic Monkeys 9 1
27 N Move Along - All-American Rejects 1 27
28 v 19 Sorry - Madonna 3 19
29 v 23 To The Music - Colder 5 19
30 N 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene 1 30

[Earl Purple]

I haven't bothered charting the Michael Jackson singles - actually I decided to make them ineligible on the technicality that the CD audio tracks don't play on computers. That makes it a non-CD format and there has to be a CD format available in order for it to be eligible for the NM chart.

I like the Graham Coxon one, although for me his best single was Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery, which was unlucky only to peak at NM #3 in a strong month.

So much great indie was reaching the UK top 40 at the beginning of the year but it seems to have slowed down now. There's more of it but fewer of it is going top 40.

Maybe Bell X1 will finally break. Their last single "Eve The Apple Of My Eye" reached NM #1 in 2004.

Death Cab For Cutie was a band I was championing on dotmusic back in 2002 - their first single "A Movie Script Ending" reached NM #2. Now if they could get some decent promo here and release at £1.99 they'd probably make it big.

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earlpurple said:

I haven't bothered charting the Michael Jackson singles - actually I decided to make them ineligible on the technicality that the CD audio tracks don't play on computers. That makes it a non-CD format and there has to be a CD format available in order for it to be eligible for the NM chart.

I never had the chance to chart any of them before (except for a few released around 2000), and some of them are actually genuinely good songs. But none of them will really be making much of an impact on the year-end-chart...

I like the Graham Coxon one, although for me his best single was Bittersweet Bundle Of Misery, which was unlucky only to peak at NM #3 in a strong month.

I do probably prefer his previous stuff, but for some reason he never did that well in my chart...

So much great indie was reaching the UK top 40 at the beginning of the year but it seems to have slowed down now. There's more of it but fewer of it is going top 40.

I agree... finding it very difficult to find stuff at the moment!

Death Cab For Cutie was a band I was championing on dotmusic back in 2002 - their first single "A Movie Script Ending" reached NM #2. Now if they could get some decent promo here and release at £1.99 they'd probably make it big.

I think I remember 'A Movie Script Ending' from one of your year-end CDs... for me this is their first great song.

I've actually done another chart (getting ahead of myself before I go to Australia), so I'll post that here now.

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FragChart ~ Week 309 ~ w.c. 19 March

;D = longest runner
= biggest rise
= biggest drop
= weeks at #1

Pos C LW // Title – Artist // Wks // PP
1 ^ 5 Crooked Teeth - Death Cab For Cutie 4 1 **FIRST #1**[/color]
2 v 1 Your Enemy - Hazey Janes 3 1
3 v 2 Standing On My Own Again - Graham Coxon 3 2
4 ^ 9 Gold Lion - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2 4
5 v 4 Valentine - Delays 4 4
6 HN Beat It - Michael Jackson 1 6
7 v 6 Alone, Jealous & Stoned - Secret Machines 6 1
8 ^ 18 I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco 2 8
9 v 7 Flame - Bell X1 3 7
10 v 8 Sweet Troubled Soul - Stellastarr* 6 2
11 v 3 Billie Jean - Michael Jackson 2 3
12 ^ 15 Munich - Editors 12 1 ;D
13 N Blues Are Still Blue - Belle & Sebastian 1 13
14 N Adventure - Be Your Own Pet 1 14 **DEBUT**
15 v 10 It's A Hit - We Are Scientists 7 5
16 v 13 Why Are You Looking Grave? - Mew 8 6
17 N No Way Back - Foo Fighters 1 17
18 N Cold Day In The Sun - Foo Fighters 1 18
19 ^ 21 White Russian Galaxy - Crimea 3 18
20 ^ 24 Sæglópur - Sigur Rós 2 20
21 N Another Place To Fall - KT Tunstall 1 21
22 ^ 27 Move Along - All-American Rejects 2 22
23 N All Sparks - Editors 1 23
24 v 17 Wish I Never Loved You - Buzzcocks 3 17
25 v 11 Funny Little Frog - Belle & Sebastian 10 1
26 v 14 Friend Of The Night - Mogwai 8 3
27 v 19 Run Baby Run - Garbage 2 19
28 v 12 In This Home On Ice - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah 5 7
29 v 16 Heartbeats - José González 8 1
30 > 30 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene 2 30


Chart histories and information available on request.

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The 19 March chart marks the seventh birthday of FragChart! I started it on 22 March 1999...