Charts – 30 March 2014
The parade of plugs continues – once again, I direct your attention to the post about the upcoming live show, and where to buy tickets!
Coming up sooner or later, a look at Marvel Knights: X-Men, but first…
33. Haim – “If I Could Change Your Mind”
Charts – 23 March 2014
Charts – 16 March 2014
Since the UK music industry likes promoting records for weeks before they’re released, but doesn’t much care for promoting records over Christmas or the early new year, it’s round about this time that we start seeing a deluge of new releases. And lo and behold, there’s a lot of very forgettable stuff out this week…
39. One Direction – “Midnight Memories”
Charts – 9 March 2014
Charts – 2 March 2014
A quiet week for new releases, coupled with a surprise number 1 that breaks a few records…
35. Kid Ink featuring Chris Brown – “Show Me”
Rebounding from last week’s number 75 to get a third run in the top 40. Not sure what’s going on here. It’s certainly hung around a while for a song that never made it above 23.
26. Starship – “We Built This City”
Charts – 23 February 2014
It’s time for the annual Brit Awards chart. This has become a regular feature of the download era, as the primetime awards show reminds people of records they’d forgotten to buy, or actually allows them to download live performances that duly propel songs back into the chart. Even though the ratings were the lowest in years, they’re still enough to have some impact on the lower half of the top 40.
For example…
39. The Arctic Monkeys – “Do I Wanna Know”
Originally a number 11 hit last June. The Arctic Monkeys won Best British Group. Oddly, this isn’t the song they performed on the show – that was 2012’s “R U Mine?”, which re-enters at 55.
Charts – 16 February 2014
An interesting day for the charts, as the BBC has just announced that streaming services are going to be incorporated into the top 40. There are obvious questions of weighting here, but the basic idea of counting audiences on streaming services is plainly right. Judging from the OCC’s existing streaming chart, the main impact will be to slow the charts down; it’ll be interesting to see how they do the weighting.
As for this week’s chart, we may be a first – a top 40 with two records deemed completely unbroadcastable by the Radio 1 chart show.
40. Nina Nesbitt – “Selfies”
Charts – 9 February 2014
Charts – 2 February 2014
As we enter February, the release schedules are back to something approaching normal. Of course, there’s always something odd going on.
40. Dappy – “No Regrets”
This was the only solo number one for the N-Dubz bozo, back in 2011. He was last in the chart in September 2012, and the only apparent reason for “No Regrets” to suddenly reappear now is his recent stint on Celebrity Big Brother, the once-mighty Channel 4 ratings titan now eking out a living in reduced circumstances on Channel 5.
34. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – “Young Blood”
