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The Biggest Injustice In Chart Music
Regarding serious music that should have got to Number One but was robbed by a joke record.
I nominate Vienna by Ultravox being beaten by Shaddup ya Face. What do other FMs think? |
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Couldn't agree more!
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Oasis-Let There Be Love beaten by PCD-StickWitU
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Manic Street Preachers with Design for Life being held off by Mark Morrisson's Return Of The Mac.
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Coldplay - Speed of Sound
U2 - City Of Blinding Lights Both fantastic, wonderful songs - robbed of the top spot by... well, I think you might remember. (A certain cartoon frog)
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Manic Street Preachers with Design for Life being held off by Mark Morrisson's Return Of The Mac.
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what about Angels by Robbie...surely the most popular song not to get to no1
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Originally Posted by The Chief
Coldplay - Speed of Sound
U2 - City Of Blinding Lights Both fantastic, wonderful songs - robbed of the top spot by... well, I think you might remember. (A certain cartoon frog) ![]()
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angels by robbie- how that only got to no.4 is beyond me! bad day by daniel powter, will think of more but not at half midnight!
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The Biggest Injustice In Chart Music
The fact that the Crazy Frog got to number 1.
It just shows how a bit of excessive marketing and constant bombarding of viewers with adverts can turn them into drones who willingly go out to the shops and buy this crap. It amazes me who would go and spend £4 on a CD single with this drivel on. I have no problem with cheese, but the Crazy Frog is just nothing short of noise. What's worse is how Westlife or some talent show pop act manage to get to number one at Christmas. Seriously, who goes out and buys this stuff?
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All off the above pale in comparison to the injustice of The Beatles "Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane" being kept from No1 by Englebert Humperdink's "Release Me".
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Darkness - "I Believe In A Thing Called Love"
Couldn't knock Black Eyed Peas "Where Is The Love?" off No. 1. |
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what about Wonderwall by Oasis. mos tpoulour song of the 90's only got to number 2. but stuck in the top ten for ages.
or Woo Hoo. Song 2 by Blur. reached number 2. |
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The biggest injustice?? Any Westlife single that sold more than 10 copies, oh well that's all of them then. Ditto Mcfly too.
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Does it make a difference, really? Clearly everyone with any taste recognises the good over the bad. The fact that 'It didn't get to No1' is surely irrelevant?
Or do we measure the worth of music by its chart position? |
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Mr Blobby, Bob The Builder and The Firm must have all kept someone else off the top spot.
I think the biggest injustice was Deee-lite not making no.1 with Groove is in the Heart. Had something to do with a tie at no.1, but they gave it to the record which sold more the week before. |
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Originally Posted by soapboyz2005
Mr Blobby, Bob The Builder and The Firm must have all kept someone else off the top spot.
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Can't Stand Me Now by The Libertines being no.2 behind frickin Baby Cakes
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Wasn't Eminem held off the top spot twice by novelty records? I think the first one was the excellent Stan, kept off by Starlight from the Superman Lovers. Not sure what the second Eminem one was (may have been the equally excellent Cleaning Out My Closet), but I believe it charted at number two behind that recording legend Bob the Builder.
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Does it make a difference, really? Clearly everyone with any taste recognises the good over the bad. The fact that 'It didn't get to No1' is surely irrelevant?
Or do we measure the worth of music by its chart position? Last edited by gashead : 12-12-2005 at 09:47. |
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'Id like to give you one for xmas' not making top twenty last year.
a classic xmas song, in the grand traditions of British pantomime and double entendres. Such an injustice this was'nt number one. |
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Originally Posted by gashead
Wasn't Eminem held off the top spot twice by novelty records? I think the first one was the excellent Stan, kept off by Starlight from the Superman Lovers. Not sure what the second Eminem one was (may have been the equally excellent Cleaning Out My Closet), but I believe it charted at number two behind that recording legend Bob the Builder.
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Stan WAS number one, the Supermen lovers were never Number One, and the two singles were released several months apart. And let's not forget the fact that "cleaning out my closet" and Bob The Builder were released nearly 2 years apart. In reality, Bob The Builder knocked Stan off number 1. Supermen Lovers wasn't released near any Eminem single.
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Michael Jackson putting out limited edition picture discs etc of "Earth Song" for his devoted fans to buy it. It prevented the Beatles scoring their 18th number one with Free as a Bird.
Not the greatest Beatles song of all time, far from it, but it was still a lovely song. They did do a few mistakes with the anthology series which prevented them getting a number 1. 1) Released the wrong track first, as Real Love was far better. 2) Had it released to the radios way too long before its release date. But it was still Michael Jackson's tactics that prevented it from being number 1. |
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Sex Pistols - God save the queen also.
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