* NM Top 100 singles, 6 May 2006 *

[Earl Purple]

Back on course. It would be ideal to compile charts on a Monday. Then I can immediately update my mp3 player with the new songs as soon as I have them all.

1 ( 3 ) Loaded - Idle Hands < 1st #1 hit >
2 ( 1 ) The Blues Are Still Blue - Belle And Sebastian (#1[3])
3 ( 2 ) The Fallen - Franz Ferdinand (#2)
4 ( 19 ) Ain't Got No - I Got Life [RM-PRE] - Groovefinder vs Nina Simone
5 ( 6 ) You're Not Supposed To - Field Music
6 ( 10 ) Dimension - Wolfmother
7 ( 4 ) Blood Is Sharp - Lost Alone (#4)
8 ( 5 ) Wigwam - Wigwam (#5)
9 ( 7 ) Edwould - Larrikin Love (#7)
10 ( 17 ) Don't You Ever - Immediate

11 ( 16 ) Yeah Yeah Yeah Song - Flaming Lips
12 ( 35 ) Cold December - Matt Costa
13 ( 13 ) Better Do Better - Hard-Fi
14 ( 11 ) Creepin Up The Backstairs - Fratellis (#11)
15 ( 38 ) I'm Gonna Do it All - Karine Polwart
16 ( 23 ) Cosy Prisons - A-Ha
17 ( -- ) Capital - Ghostly Man
18 ( 15 ) Two Stripe Trainers - Randoms (#15)
19 ( 25 ) A Zoo Keeper's Boy - Mew
20 ( 42 ) Steady As She Goes - Raconteurs

21 ( -- ) Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
22 ( -- ) Nat King Cole - Adam Green
23 ( 9 ) Born Under A Bad Sign - Richard Hawley (#5)
24 ( 8 ) You Have Killed Me - Morrissey (#2[2])
25 ( 30 ) Everything - Jesse James
26 ( 12 ) Hang Up - Andy Abraham (#9)
27 ( 49 ) Be Gentle With Me - Boy Least Likely To
28 ( 22 ) Beyond The End - Energies (#22)
29 ( 21 ) Life - Mohair (#21)
30 ( -- ) Fly Me Away - Goldfrapp

31 ( 18 ) One - Mary J Blige ft U2 (#17)
32 ( 14 ) Steady Rollin' - Two Gallants (#10)
33 ( 26 ) Crooked Teeth - Death Cab For Cutie (#26)
34 ( 58 ) When It Comes To You - Elin Ruth
35 ( 27 ) Rough Gem - Islands (#27)
36 ( 40 ) Dance Dance - Fall Out Boy
37 ( 28 ) White Russian Galaxy - Crimea (#28)
38 ( -- ) You Are What You Love - Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins
39 ( 61 ) Reconnect - Director
40 ( 32 ) The Days That G-d Sold You - Paperlung (#32)

41 ( 65 ) Far From Home - Tiga
42 ( -- ) Broke - Captain
43 ( 69 ) Bang Bang You're Dead - Dirty Pretty Things
44 ( 39 ) Feel It - Lorraine (#39)
45 ( -- ) The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful - Hot Puppies
46 ( 51 ) Kids With Guns - Gorillaz
47 ( 73 ) This Isn't It - Giant Drag
48 ( 29 ) Always Love - Nada Surf (#24)
49 ( 24 ) Send In The Boys - Milburn (#15)
50 ( 31 ) Girls In The Back - White Rose Movement (#26)

51 ( -- ) My Patch - Jim Noir
52 ( 46 ) In Your Hands - Leya (#46)
53 ( 79 ) Shearer's Magnificent 11 - Primrose Hill
54 ( 20 ) Start Wearing Purple / Sally - Gogol Bordello (#1[4])
55 ( 57 ) Lie To Me - Daniel Powter
56 ( 37 ) Blackened Blue Eyes - Charlatans (#33)
57 ( 48 ) Let Down - Bif Naked (#48)
58 ( 60 ) Music Is Power - Richard Ashcroft
59 ( 83 ) Tennessee - Silver Jews
60 ( -- ) Kwangchow - King Biscuit Time

61 ( 62 ) Broader A New Sound - Nobody & Mystic Chords Of Memory
62 ( 86 ) Get Gone - Czar Creek
63 ( 43 ) 21st Century Love Song - Wills & The Willing (#39)
64 ( -- ) Superior - Gentleman
65 ( 55 ) Stephen F***ing Spielberg - Bearsuit (#55)
66 ( 66 ) Spider's Web - Katie Melua
67 ( 45 ) Crazy - Gnarls Barkley (#41)
68 ( 68 ) La Camisa Negra - Juanes
69 ( 90 ) You're All I Have - Snow Patrol
70 ( 33 ) When You Wasn't Famous - Streets (#19)

71 ( 70 ) From Paris To Berlin - Infernal (#70)
72 ( -- ) Living The Dream - Hugh Trowsers Band
73 ( 93 ) The Temptress - Flies
74 ( 96 ) Out Of Reach - Jackson Analogue
75 ( 74 ) Do You Know What It Means - Cujo (#74)
76 ( 59 ) The Edge - Akala ft Niara (#59)
77 ( 97 ) Killing Loneliness - HIM
78 ( -- ) Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt [RE] - We Are Scientists
79 ( 76 ) Cutting At Nothing - Kalev (#76)
80 ( 99 ) White Horse - Wonderland Avenue

81 ( 52 ) Girls - Nizlopi (#44)
82 ( 64 ) Cmon Get it On - Studio B (#64)
83 ( 41 ) Alibi - David Gray (#22)
84 ( -- ) This Is My Love - Aeroplanes
85 ( 34 ) Flame - Bell X1 (#7)
86 ( 67 ) Amateur Man - Victorian English Gentlemen's Club (#67)
87 ( 56 ) Go Either Way - Cord (#47)
88 ( -- ) When The Stars Go Blue - Tim McGraw
89 ( 36 ) King Without A Crown - Matisyahu (#5)
90 ( -- ) Lost & Found - Feeder

91 ( 63 ) Do What You Want - OK Go (#53)
92 ( 75 ) Latchmere - Maccabees (#74)
93 ( -- ) Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros
94 ( 77 ) The Worst Taste In Music - Radio Dept (#76)
95 ( 44 ) Head In Your Cloud - Winter Roberts (#14)
96 ( 53 ) All Sparks - Editors (#31)
97 ( -- ) Fightin' Away The Tears - Mocky ft Feist
98 ( 80 ) Animal - Duels (#78)
99 ( 81 ) I Feel It - Urban Myth Club (#79)
100 ( 50 ) We're Here - Guillemots (#24)
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-- ( 47 ) Blood And Peanut Butter - BC Camplight (#2[1])
-- ( 54 ) We Are Not The Same - Good Shoes (#12)
-- ( 71 ) Raoul - Automatic (#37)
-- ( 72 ) Why Won't You Give Me Your Love - Zutons (#59)
-- ( 78 ) Bouncy Ball - Ladyfuzz (#23)
-- ( 82 ) Full Fat - Newton Faulkner (#65)
-- ( 84 ) The Girls Attractive - Diamond Nights (#10)
-- ( 85 ) Neon - Clearlake (#46)
-- ( 87 ) Love 80 - Lupen Crook (#25)
-- ( 88 ) Beautiful Ruin - Make Good Your Escape (#71)
-- ( 89 ) Glow - Arthur Baker ft Tim Wheeler (#49)
-- ( 91 ) Nature's Law - Embrace (#28)
-- ( 92 ) 7/4 (Shoreline) - Broken Social Scene (#73)
-- ( 94 ) Lightning Blue Eyes - Secret Machines (#52)
-- ( 95 ) Rise Up With Fists - Jenny Lewis (#6)
-- ( 98 ) Let's Get Nice - Big Strides (#80)
-- ( 100 ) Going Nowhere - Suffrajets (#57)
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-- ( -- ) Addict - Demeter
-- ( -- ) Blessed Night - Howling Bells
-- ( -- ) Drag You Down - Rattlesnake Remedy
-- ( -- ) Heart Strings - Ivories
-- ( -- ) But It's Better If You Do - Panic! At the Disco
-- ( -- ) There Was A Time - Laura Michelle Kelly
-- ( -- ) Magneto - Brigade
-- ( -- ) Nine - ¡Forward Russia!
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17 new entries, one Jenny Lewis song replacing another in the chart in the process. This time last year, her band Rilo Kiley were just losing their place at the top.

As Idle Hands reach #1 it's back to having a "new" act at the top again. And when I mean new I mean first hit. This was part of a 4-song EP so was not eligible for the UK chart. It was priced only at £1.99 too.

I should clarify that the eligibility rules for the NM chart are not the same as for the UK chart - sometimes they are less strict and sometimes stricter. For example, there has to be a CDS available. The Michael Jackson ones are not eligible because they will not play on a PC so do not qualify as regular CDs. That not only excludes downloads in the week before their physical release but also 7" only singles like Shack. The CD may contain 4 songs but not 5 thus the Arctic Monkeys were not eligible.

Ghostly Man were incorrectly placed 3 weeks ago and were climbing nicely before it was stripped from them due to ineligibility. This week they fly straight back in and could challenge the top. Other big entries this week are by established acts - Adam Green has had 3 NM #2 solo hits but did also have a #1 with the Moldy Peaches. Red Hot Chili Peppers have never actually had an NM #1 - their biggest hit "Under The Bridge" fell one place short. Goldfrapp's relatively high entry is perhaps a bit of a surprise - they haven't done that well on the NM chart recently in spite of having had a top 5 hit with Utopia in 2001 when they weren't even considered "big" yet.

Now, looking at the movers, Ain't Got No - I Got Life was Nina Simone's biggest UK hit peaking at #2 in 1968. Last week she actually removed herself from the NM one-hit wonders list - her only previous NM hit reached #1 in 1987, that being "My Baby Just Cares For Me". It stayed one week on top and was replaced by Fairytale Of New York. Other great songs of hers have included "I Put A Spell On You" and "Feeling Good".

Wolfmother's "Dimension" is also a re-issue - it reached NM #25 last year. Heavy rock, it sounds like a classic rock song Deep Purple never got round to writing. Wolfmother are Australian and they were playing Virgin the same day that the Dirty Pretty Things were playing HMV. Well great to know rock is really back, not that it ever went away, of course.

[frag]

Decent chart - hope Mew can rise!

I should clarify that the eligibility rules for the NM chart are not the same as for the UK chart - sometimes they are less strict and sometimes stricter. For example, there has to be a CDS available. The Michael Jackson ones are not eligible because they will not play on a PC so do not qualify as regular CDs. That not only excludes downloads in the week before their physical release but also 7" only singles like Shack. The CD may contain 4 songs but not 5 thus the Arctic Monkeys were not eligible.

Interesting stance... I currently let songs in up to 3 weeks before release date, and once they're in, I keep them in. But I don't chart songs until I actually own them on some format or another, which is why some songs enter my chart unusually high...
I'm including the MJ songs, but not many of them are getting top 20. About 5 so far iirc. However, I'm limiting it so that the MJ release dates are in line with the official UK release dates, because there are so many of them.
I include 7"/12"/download only singles, as long as I can get hold of them on a computer-playable format.
When EPs come out as official EPs, I chart their lead track. With double A-sides, I chart both tracks seperately when I own both.
Re-releases? I've charted some songs twice (Subways), but am wavering over Hoppipolla and Blood, as both reached my #1 spot in previous weeks. But then again, "Apply Some Pressure" would have been a multiweek #1 for me on original release, if I had a chart... but I didn't, so there was no hesitation in including it

Ghostly Man were incorrectly placed 3 weeks ago and were climbing nicely before it was stripped from them due to ineligibility. This week they fly straight back in and could challenge the top.

Another qualm with including "Hoppipolla" is that I actually charted "Saeglopur" several weeks ago, but then it got delayed/cancelled... it's plummeting now though, so I might finally put "Hoppipolla" back in this week.

Wolfmother's "Dimension" is also a re-issue - it reached NM #25 last year. Heavy rock, it sounds like a classic rock song Deep Purple never got round to writing. Wolfmother are Australian and they were playing Virgin the same day that the Dirty Pretty Things were playing HMV.

Wolfmother entered my chart at the same position (25) this week - good song; might check them out at Reading in August...

Well great to know rock is really back, not that it ever went away, of course.

[Admin]

Hope Captain and Jim Noir will climb!