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- From: hid009@cent1.lancs.ac.uk (James Masterton)
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- Subject: CHART: UK Top 40 Analysis - Week Ending December 26th 1992
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 13:29:56 GMT
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- Preamble:
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- And so here we are, the Christmas chart 1992. As expected all is fairly
- quiet with few great surprises. 5 new entries, 13 go up, 5 non-movers
-
- Analysis:
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- No. 40: NEW ENTRY. Brand New Heavies - Stay This Way. The Brand New
- Heavies have been making subtle impressions upon the chart during the
- year, and this track to round of the year is a typical example of their
- recreation of the best aspects of Philadelhia Soul. In the current chart
- climate they tend to lose out sales wise, but for what they do there are
- few that do it better than this.
-
- No. 39: NEW ENTRY. Uncanny Alliance - I Got My Education. Hey, a rap
- record with a social conscience for Christmas. Radio One have loved this
- record and have been playing it to death. As a result it way well be a
- substantial new year hit.
-
- No. 38: NEW ENTRY. Louie Louie - The Thought Of It. A Rockwell for the
- nineties I suppose, the American smash finally makes an impression on
- the UK 40 helped in part I suppose by his guest appearance on the
- televised 'Smash Hits Awards' a few weeks ago.
-
- No. 34: NEW ENTRY. Darlene Love - All Alone On Christmas. 'Ere, lads. I
- got a great idea. As it's Christmas lets release a Phil Spector
- Christmas record again', 'Yeah great idea Harry, why not Sleigh Ride?'.
- 'Nah, everyone knows that, pick a really obscure one that nobody has
- ever heard of before - who knows? It might just stand a chance of being
- the only record in the Christmas chart that is actually ABOUT Christmas.'
-
- No. 28: FALLER. East Side Beat - Alive And Kicking. Suffering perhaps
- from being a) not a patch on the original and b) being released so soon
- after the reissue of the original it is not a patch on.
-
- No. 23: CLIMBER. Boyz II Men - Motownphilly. The highest climber this
- week, but watch next week for a slight surge again for the evergreen
- 'End Of The Road' which is still hanging around, down this week at 27.
-
- No. 19: NEW ENTRY. Michael Bolton - Drift Away. The only people I have
- ever heard admitting to liking the American soulsters music are the two
- assistants in my local off-licence. Elsewhere in Britain his music is
- regarded (perhaps a little unfairly) as MOR tripe. Here then is the
- second single off the 'Timeless' album which follows the first into the
- Top 20. Incredibly, although the song is a standard, Dobie Gray's
- original never made the UK charts....
-
- No. 11: CLIMBER. Lisa Stansfield - Someday I'm Coming Back. I would have
- expected this to make the 10 this week given all the promotion she has
- been doing. It is still selling well though, top 3 in the new year is a possiblity.
-
- No. 10: FALLER. Madonna - Deeper and Deeper. Down from 6, this means
- that there is a strong possibility this will become the first Madonna
- single for 5 years to miss the Top 5. Not quite the tragedy it seems
- though - of all the singles Madonna has ever released in Britain, only
- 'Lucky Star' has never made the Top 10 and even this is made up for by
- the fact that 'Holiday' has been there 3 times with 'Crazy For You'
- coming in twice.
-
- Top 3: Well, in actualy fact it is exactly the same as last week.
- Charles and Eddie at 3, Michael Jackson at 2.
-
- No. 1: 4th WEEK. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You. The single
- that apparantly will not stop selling. Last Saturday it became only the
- second single in the last 6 years to sell over 1 million copies. So far
- it has sold 4.5 million around the world, is No.1 in 9 countries and in
- the US is the second biggest selling single ever. Ironically when first
- released bookmakers only gave it a 33-1 outside chance of being No.1 for
- Christmas. Latest offer now is odds of 10-1 on that it will beat Bryan
- Adams' record of 16 consecutive weeks at the top. With sales on an
- upward spiral at the moment it would be folly to rule that out at present.
- Who said the 7" single was dead?
-
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- And that is that for Christmas. Thankyou to all those who have mailed me
- over the past few months for the encouragement and thanks for these
- articles. I may not have the chance to post one on next weeks chart but
- I will make some reference to it in the analysis of the first chart of 1993.
- James Masterton - 21/12/92
- *** HAPPY CHRISTMAS ***
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