* NM Top 100 singles, 24 June 2006 *

[Earl Purple]

Now let's see if we can all start replying to each other's charts again. I will try to respond to a few charts this week. Especially come Wednesday when I finally have a break from the football.

1 ( 2 ) Don't Mention The World Cup - First Eleven ft John Cleese < 1st #1 hit >
2 ( 1 ) Country Girl - Primal Scream (#1[2])
3 ( 8 ) Monster - Automatic
4 ( 5 ) Sing It For England - Young Stanley
5 ( 3 ) Everybody's Gone To War - Nerina Pallot (#3)
6 ( 26 ) Don't Go - Dualers
7 ( 14 ) England My England - Dead Poets Society
8 ( 7 ) Fill My Little World [RE] - Feeling (#7)
9 ( 10 ) My Burning Sun - Sons Of Jim
10 ( -- ) Valerie - Zutons

11 ( 4 ) Loaded - Idle Hands (#1[5])
12 ( 34 ) Who Says You Can't Go Home - Bon Jovi
13 ( 20 ) Savva Nuvva (The Lions Roar) - English Pride
14 ( 6 ) Manchester - Beautiful South (#2[1])
15 ( 15 ) Girlshapedlovedrug - Gomez
16 ( 24 ) Standing Together - Signal 1 Signal 2
17 ( 43 ) On The Radio - Concretes
18 ( 11 ) Nine2Five - Ordinary Boys vs Lady Sovereign (#9)
19 ( 9 ) Mary Jane - Wire Daisies (#6)
20 ( 16 ) Scotland Scotland ... Jason Scotland - Trinidad & Tobago Tartan Army (#16)

21 ( 12 ) Always There - Hazey Janes (#10)
22 ( 18 ) Is it Any Wonder? - Keane (#18)
23 ( 28 ) The Youngest Was The Most Loved - Morrissey
24 ( 49 ) Diva Lady - Divine Comedy
25 ( 30 ) World At Your Feet - Embrace
26 ( 35 ) Not Ready To Make Nice - Dixie Chicks
27 ( 32 ) Scissors In The Sand - Echo & The Bunnymen
28 ( 52 ) Henrietta - Fratellis
29 ( 23 ) Night & Day - 747  (#23)
30 ( 25 ) Visit From the Dead Dog - Ed Harcourt (#25)

31 ( 40 ) Breaking The Ice - Mojave Three
32 ( 57 ) Jive Ace Boogie Woogie - Jive Aces
33 ( -- ) This Week's No 1 - Inigo
34 ( 19 ) What What You Got - Little Man Tate (#15)
35 ( 44 ) Dianne - Needles
36 ( 13 ) Capital - Ghostly Man (#2[2])
37 ( 29 ) Joy - Temposhark (#29)
38 ( 62 ) Run For Our Lives - Morning After Girls
39 ( 41 ) Stand Up 4 England - Koopa
40 ( 31 ) Father And Daughter - Paul Simon (#31)

41 ( 22 ) Hide & Seek - Eighteenth Day Of May (#17)
42 ( -- ) It's The Time For England - JK Krew
43 ( 17 ) Black & White - Upper Room (#5)
44 ( 71 ) Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
45 ( 38 ) Again and Again - Jewel (#38)
46 ( 27 ) Upside Down - Jack Johnson (#21)
47 ( -- ) We Are England - Ricky
48 ( 55 ) Hard Rock Hallelujah - Lordi
49 ( 21 ) Lloyd I'm Ready To Be Heartbroken - Camera Obscura (#10)
50 ( 79 ) Children - Battle

51 ( 59 ) Superman 2 - Astrid Williamson
52 ( 33 ) The Otherside - Breaks Co-Op (#27)
53 ( 61 ) Maneater - Nelly Furtado
54 ( -- ) Lips Are Unhappy - Lucky Soul
55 ( 82 ) Army Of One - Cass Fox
56 ( 46 ) Lillian Egypt - Josh Ritter (#46)
57 ( 64 ) Party 7 - Big Boss Man
58 ( 86 ) Devil In A Midnight Mass - Billy Talent
59 ( 50 ) & It Feels Like - Leann Rimes (#50)
60 ( 39 ) Sin Sin Sin - Robbie Williams (#32)

61 ( 88 ) Wrong Upstairs - On Offs
62 ( -- ) Fly The Flag For England - Martin Kershaw ft Keith Nelson & The Hilton Crowd
63 ( 69 ) Never Went To Church - Streets
64 ( 92 ) The Fastest Man Alive - Sound Team
65 ( -- ) Billy Bird - Finlay Morton
66 ( 72 ) The Hard Times - Research
67 ( 58 ) The Ride - Joan As Police Woman (#58)
68 ( 95 ) 16 16 6 - Drips
69 ( 74 ) John The Revelator - Depeche Mode
70 ( 47 ) Girlfriend - Darkness (#39)

71 ( 98 ) Miss Murder - AFI
72 ( 77 ) Sing It Out - Hope Of The States
73 ( -- ) Turn Into - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
74 ( 100 ) Drain Cosmetics - Sareena-Maneesh
75 ( 63 ) 4 Minute Mile - Ghears (#63)
76 ( 51 ) Adult Acne - Boyfriends (#43)
77 ( 65 ) I'll Never Fall In Love Again - Andy Bell (#65)
78 ( -- ) Circle - Journey South
79 ( 37 ) What I Say And What I Mean [RE] - Like (#15)
80 ( 68 ) Liquor - Gear (#68)

81 ( 36 ) Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers (#3)
82 ( 70 ) The Perfect Gift - Hundred Reasons (#69)
83 ( -- ) Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
84 ( 42 ) Air Guitar - Towers Of London (#19)
85 ( -- ) Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes ft Black Eyed Peas
86 ( 75 ) Who Knew - Pink (#72)
87 ( 48 ) Bright Idea - Orson (#22)
88 ( 67 ) Chariot - Gavin Degraw (#55)
89 ( 53 ) Swim - Fell City Girl (#28)
90 ( 54 ) Underdog - Atomizer (#29)

91 ( -- ) She's Attracted To - Young Knives
92 ( 81 ) Give Me A Reason - Real (#78)
93 ( 45 ) Suzie [RE] - Boy Kill Boy (#7)
94 ( 80 ) Slow It Down - Shawn Emanuel (#74)
95 ( 84 ) All Over Again - Ronan Keating & Kate Rusby (#81)
96 ( 85 ) Trouble Sleeping - Corinne Bailey Rae (#82)
97 ( -- ) Lion Shirt - Dreadzone
98 ( 60 ) Overrated (Everything Is) - Less Than Jake (#34)
99 ( -- ) True Spirit - Bluesky Research
100 ( 76 ) High Times In Middle Management - Doloroso (#59)
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-- ( 56 ) You & I - Graham Coxon (#9)
-- ( 66 ) I Should Get Up - Teddy Thompson (#15)
-- ( 73 ) Teenage Life - Daz Sampson (#6)
-- ( 78 ) Keep Us Together - Starsailor (#39)
-- ( 83 ) Deep Water - Amanda Ghost (#61)
-- ( 87 ) I Ain't Losing Any Sleep - Sunshine Underground (#44)
-- ( 89 ) Skip To The End - Futureheads (#66)
-- ( 90 ) Throw It All Away - Zero 7 (#47)
-- ( 91 ) Emotional Junkmail - Miss Black America (#19)
-- ( 93 ) Lost In You - Shelly Poole (#22)
-- ( 94 ) Hung Up - Black Wire (#49)
-- ( 96 ) Nat King Cole - Adam Green (#6)
-- ( 97 ) Hideaway - Delays (#26)
-- ( 99 ) Out Of Season - Story One (#70)
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-- ( -- ) Ghetto Ways - Scissors For Lefty
-- ( -- ) Dirty Little Secrets - All-American Rejects
-- ( -- ) Blood [RE] - Editors
-- ( -- ) Note To Self - Motormark
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Now who among you may have guessed that I would have a chart with loads of World Cup songs in it, but actually only one, Mas Que Nada is a remake and all the others are original songs. At least I think they are.

Up until this week I resisted charting any that were remakes but the temptation to give Sergio Mendes his first NM hit for 23 years was too much. He hasn't broken the record though, Jackson Browne holds that with close to 25 years absence.

Sergio Mendes is one of two near one-hit wonders (one hit 2-ders?) to make a comeback this week. His only previous hit in 1983 was the ballad "Never Gonna Let You Go" featuring vocals by Joe Pizzulo and Leza Miller and reached NM #2, as romantic ballads often did back then (I wonder how Westlife would have got on?) - it was kept out by the uptempo "It's Over" by the Funk Masters.

The other act to make a comeback having had one single peak at #2 previously are Dreadzone - Little Britain reached #2 early in 1996 - that was kept out by Michael Jackson's "Earth Song" the last week that single was #1.

If "Valerie" gets to #1 it will be the first single by the Zutons but the second called Valerie to top the chart. Steve Winwood took his Valerie to #1 in 1987. (and f**k off Eric Prydz). Other song titles to have been #1 in different songs are "The Power Of Love" (3 versions, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Huey Lewis & The News and Jennifer Rush) and "Woman" (John Lennon, Neneh Cherry). Now there have been a lot of songs called Crazy but Gnarls Barkley didn't get to NM #1 - anyone remember who did? (There has been just one NM #1 entitled Crazy).

[Admin]

How did THAT get to #1?

Nice to see the Zutons enter high up and the automatic doing well.

Think there are around 19 songs in there that other people have charted in the combi chart as well.

[Earl Purple]

Yeah, I'm sure many have reached the combi-chart, particularly those bands that get a lot of radio airplay and make the UK top 40, generally the ones on big labels. Like Keane, for example, a band the radio stations ignored in 2003 when they were only on Fierce Panda.

Now, why the football songs are doing well is because they actually have catchy tunes, unlike so much of the dull "indie" stuff. Has anyone here even heard the song that is my #1? It didn't even make the UK top 200 whilst all those totally unoriginal ones like Tony Christie all seemed to chart high...

[Admin]

John Cleese was in the top 200 mids at one point!

[Earl Purple]

how old is John Cleese now? I'm not sure if he qualifies as oldest person to get to NM #1. He does provide some new vocals for this (apart from the quote from Fawlty Towers, which I think is re-recorded anyway).

Otherwise the oldest artist to get to #1 is Paul McCartney in 2004 (age 62). It has to be newly recorded to qualify so Elvis Presley in 2005 doesn't count.

[Earl Purple]

John Cleese is 66 years and 8 months old.

[TheThorne]

Ok here goes lets dismiss all the football records firstly because 99% of them suck and 2 ,Im Scottish hehe


1 ( 2 ) Don't Mention The World Cup - First Eleven ft John Cleese < 1st #1 hit >
4 ( 5 ) Sing It For England - Young Stanley
7 ( 14 ) England My England - Dead Poets Society
13 ( 20 ) Savva Nuvva (The Lions Roar) - English Pride
20 ( 16 ) Scotland Scotland ... Jason Scotland - Trinidad & Tobago Tartan Army (#16)
39 ( 41 ) Stand Up 4 England - Koopa
42 ( -- ) It's The Time For England - JK Krew
47 ( -- ) We Are England - Ricky
62 ( -- ) Fly The Flag For England - Martin Kershaw ft Keith Nelson & The Hilton Crowd


2 ( 1 ) Country Girl - Primal Scream (#1[2])
3 ( 8 ) Monster - Automatic
5 ( 3 ) Everybody's Gone To War - Nerina Pallot (#3)
6 ( 26 ) Don't Go - Dualers
8 ( 7 ) Fill My Little World [RE] - Feeling (#7)
9 ( 10 ) My Burning Sun - Sons Of Jim
10 ( -- ) Valerie - Zutons
11 ( 4 ) Loaded - Idle Hands (#1[5])
12 ( 34 ) Who Says You Can't Go Home - Bon Jovi
14 ( 6 ) Manchester - Beautiful South (#2[1])

Thats a better top 10 hehe although not heard Dualers

These all charted for me


15 ( 15 ) Girlshapedlovedrug - Gomez
17 ( 43 ) On The Radio - Concretes
18 ( 11 ) Nine2Five - Ordinary Boys vs Lady Sovereign (#9)
21 ( 12 ) Always There - Hazey Janes (#10)
22 ( 18 ) Is it Any Wonder? - Keane (#18)
23 ( 28 ) The Youngest Was The Most Loved - Morrissey
28 ( 52 ) Henrietta - Fratellis
30 ( 25 ) Visit From the Dead Dog - Ed Harcourt (#25)
31 ( 40 ) Breaking The Ice - Mojave Three
34 ( 19 ) What What You Got - Little Man Tate (#15)
43 ( 17 ) Black & White - Upper Room (#5)
44 ( 71 ) Better Days - Goo Goo Dolls
46 ( 27 ) Upside Down - Jack Johnson (#21)
50 ( 79 ) Children - Battle
53 ( 61 ) Maneater - Nelly Furtado
58 ( 86 ) Devil In A Midnight Mass - Billy Talent
68 ( 95 ) 16 16 6 - Drips
69 ( 74 ) John The Revelator - Depeche Mode
70 ( 47 ) Girlfriend - Darkness (#39)
71 ( 98 ) Miss Murder - AFI
72 ( 77 ) Sing It Out - Hope Of The States
73 ( -- ) Turn Into - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
76 ( 51 ) Adult Acne - Boyfriends (#43)
79 ( 37 ) What I Say And What I Mean [RE] - Like (#15)
81 ( 36 ) Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers (#3)
82 ( 70 ) The Perfect Gift - Hundred Reasons (#69)
83 ( -- ) Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
86 ( 75 ) Who Knew - Pink (#72)
87 ( 48 ) Bright Idea - Orson (#22)
89 ( 53 ) Swim - Fell City Girl (#28)
91 ( -- ) She's Attracted To - Young Knives
93 ( 45 ) Suzie [RE] - Boy Kill Boy (#7)
98 ( 60 ) Overrated (Everything Is) - Less Than Jake (#34)
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