By Roger Nead
October 28, 2003
OLDIES BUT GOODIES:
The old is new again, as several artists who first made the album chart back in the ‘60s have new debuts this week.
BARBRA STREISAND, who first charted back in 1963 with the #8 peaking THE BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM, debuts at #5 this week with THE MOVIE ALBUM, her highest ranking album since the #1 HIGHER GROUND, back in 1997.
SIMON & GARFUNKEL are next on the chart at #27, with THE ESSENTIAL SIMON & GARFUNKEL, ranking one spot below the new re-mix collection from MARIAH CAREY. S&G first graced the album chart back in January of 1966, with WEDNESDAY MORNING, 3 AM, which peaked at #30.
LIVE & SWINGIN’: THE ULTIMATE RAT PACK COLLECTION, is new at #38, for Rat Packers FRANK SINATRA, DEAN MARTIN & SAMMY DAVIS JR. All three of these artists have charted albums pre-dating the rock era (1955) so my info won’t go back that far!
Welsh legend TOM JONES first charted in 1965 with: IT’S NOT UNUSUAL. Now, RELOADED: GREATEST HITS debuts at #171, his first album on the Top 200 chart since 1981!
Incidentally, as PAUL SIMON enjoys the #27 debut of his latest, his wife, folk-rocker EDIE BRICKELL, also makes her own comeback this week, with the #188 debut of VOLCANO.
DRIFTING ON AND ON AND ON AND ON:
Call it the “song that wouldn’t go away,” as “Drift Away” by UNCLE KRACKER Featuring DOBIE GRAY logs it’s record breaking 22nd week at #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart this week.
“Drift” snatches the record from CELINE DION’S “A New Day Has Come” which held onto the top for 21 weeks, back in 2002.
Hey Adult Contemporary radio listeners! Change the station, there’s other good music out there...somewhere!
THIS WEEK’S CHARTS:
U.S. Singles Chart:
Here are this week’s Top 15 singles:
1) Baby Boy by BEYONCE Featuring SEAN PAUL
2) Stand Up by LUDACRIS Featuring SHAWNNA
3) Get Low by LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ
4) Damn! by YOUNGBLOODZ Featuring LIL JON
5) Shake Ya Tailfeather by NELLY, P. DIDDY & MURPHYLEE
6) Here Without You by 3 DOORS DOWN
7) Holidae In by CHINGY Featuring LUDACRIS & SNOOP DOGG
8) Right Thurr by CHINGY
9) Rain On Me by ASHANTI
10) Why Don’t You & I by SANTANA Featuring ALEX BAND Or CHAD KROEGER
11) Suga Suga by BABY BASH Featuring FRANKIE J
12) The Way You Move by OUTKAST Featuring SLEEPY BROWN
13) Step In The Name Of Love by R. KELLY
14) Unwell by MATCHBOX TWENTY
15) P.I.M.P. by 50 CENT
Album Chart:
Here are this week’s Top 15 albums:
1) Measure Of A Man by CLAY AIKEN
2) Chicken*N*Beer by LUDACRIS
3) Hard by JAGGED EDGE
4) Speakerboxxx/The Love Below by OUTKAST
5) The Movie Album by BARBRA STREISAND
6) Life For Rent by DIDO
7) Elvis: 2nd To None by ELVIS PRESLEY
8) Sacred Love by STING
9) Metamorphosis by HILARY DUFF
10) Some Devil by DAVE MATTHEWS
11) The R. In R&B Collection: Volume One by R. KELLY
12) The Long Road by NICKELBACK
13) Heavier Things by JOHN MAYER
14) Results May Vary by LIMP BIZKIT
15) Jackpot by CHINGY
Top 10 Most Downloaded Tracks:
Here are this week’s top 10 Hot Digital Tracks:
1) Hey Ya! by OUTKAST
2) Stacy’s Mom by FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE
3) Fallen by SARAH McLACHLAN
4) Angel by SARAH McLACHLAN
5) Answer by SARAH McLACHLAN
6) Building A Mystery by SARAH McLACHLAN
7) White Flag by DIDO
8) Aida by SARAH McLACHLAN
9) Here Without You by 3 DOORS DOWN
10) WHere are The Love by BLACK EYED PEAS
Modern Rock Tracks:
Here are this week’s top 10 Modern Rock tracks:
1) Weak And Powerless by A PERFECT CIRCLE
2) So Far Away by STAIND
3) Faint by LINKIN PARK
4) Someday by NICKELBACK
5) Still Frame by TRAPT
6) (I Hate) Everything About You by THREE DAYS GRACE
7) Going Under by EVANESCENCE
8) Feeling This by BLINK 182
9) The Hardest Button To Button by THE WHITE STRIPES
10) Show Me How To Live by AUDIOSLAVE
Top Rap Tracks:
Here are this week’s top 15 Rap tracks:
1) Stand Up by LUDACRIS Featuring SHAWNNA
2) Damn! by YOUNGBLOODZ Featuring LIL JON
3) Holidae In by CHINGY Featuring LUDACRIS & SNOOP DOGG
4) Get Low by LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ
5) Right Thurr by CHINGY
6) The Way You Move by OUTKAST Featuring SLEEPY BROWN
7) Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop by YOUNG GUNZ
8) Shake Ya Tailfeather by NELLY, P. DIDDY & MURPHY LEE
9) Pass That Dutch by MISSY ELLIOTT
10) Wat Da Hook Gon Be by MURPHY LEE Featuring JERMAINE DUPRI
The U.K. Top 10:
Here are this week’s top 10 singles in the U.K.:
1) Hole In The Head by SUGABABES
2) Turn Me On by KEVIN LYTTLE
3) Where Is The Love? by BLACK EYED PEAS Featuring JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE
4) Superstar by JAMELIA
5) P.I.M.P. by 50 CENT
6) Maybe by EMMA BUNTON
7) Mixed Up World by SOPHIE ELLIS BEXTOR
8) Bad Day by R.E.M.
9) I Believe In A Thing Called Love by THE DARKNESS
10) Sweet Dreams My L.A. Ex by RACHEL STEVENS
My Own Personal Top 30 Chart:
Tired of the same old crappy pop radio? Click here to listen to my Weekly Top 30!
It’s Free!
1) Somebody Loves You by EELS
2) Landslide Baby by BEULAH
3) Lie Down by YEAR OF THE RABBIT
4) Oh! Ellin by GOB
5) About You by STARFIGHTER
6) Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Folcault In Paris, 1961) by THE WEAKERTHANS
7) Not Gonna Be Alone Tonite by EVE 6
8) One Horse Town by THE THRILLS
9) Such Great Heights by THE POSTAL SERVICE
10) No One’s Safe From Goodbye by CARLY HENNESSY
11) Tunnel by THE DINING ROOMS
12) King Krab Battle by ESTRADASPHERE
13) Suburban Homeboy by SPARKS
14) The Golden Path by THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS Featuring THE FLAMING LIPS
15) Look Who’s Crying Now by JACYNTHE
16) Live On by SLOAN
17) Loosen Your Hold by SOUTH
18) Crystal Village by PETE YORN
19) Space by SOMETHING CORPORATE
20) Hey Driver by LUCKY BOYS CONFUSION
21) Rabbit Hole by YEAR OF THE RABBIT
22) I’m Shakin’ by ROONEY
23) As You Sleep by SOMETHING CORPORATE
24) Boycott by THE MOOD ELEVATOR
25) I Need More Love by ROBERT RANDOLPH & THE FAMILY BAND
26) Stay Loose by BELLE & SEBASTIAN
27) Anywhere With You by SAVES THE DAY
28) Special by WILSHIRE
29) Get Up by BLEU
30) Dynomite by IMA ROBOT
#1 ON BILLBOARD’S CHARTS
Here’s a look at what topping all the pop charts this week:
#1 on the R&B Singles Chart = Stand Up by LUDACRIS Featuring SHAWNNA
#1 on the R&B Albums Chart = Hard by JAGGED EDGE
#1 on the Country Singles Chart = Tough Little Boys by GARY ALLAN
#1 on the Country Albums Chart = Greatest Hits Volume II And Some Other Stuff by ALAN JACKSON
#1 on the Latin Singles Chart = Hoy by GLORIA ESTEFAN
#1 on the Latin Albums Chart = 33 by LUIS MIGUEL
#1 on the Dance Music Club Play Chart = Lei Lo Lai by THE LATIN PROJECT
#1 on the Dance Music Singles Sales Chart = Rubberneckin’ (Paul Oakenfold Remix) by ELVIS PRESLEY
#1 on the Mainstream Rock Chart = So Far Away by STAIND
#1 on the Adult Contemporary Chart = Drift Away by UNCLE KRACKER Featuring DOBIE GRAY
#1 on the Top Jazz Albums Chart = North by ELVIS COSTELLO
#1 on the Top Internet Album Sales Chart = Measure Of A Man by CLAY AIKEN
#1 on the Top DVD Rentals Chart = THE ITALIAN JOB
#1 on the Top DVD Sales Chart = LION KING (Platinum Edition)
FUN & GAMES:
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This week: Hear the official weekly Billboard Top 50 chart from 21 years ago, October 28th, 1982!
TOP O’ THE CHARTS:
Let’s go through time and see what was at #1 this week on the various popular music charts!
#1 Song on Billboard’s Modern Rock Chart, October 28, 1997:
Tubthumping by CHUMBAWAMBA
#1 Song on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart, October 28, 1992:
End Of The Road by BOYZ II MEN
#1 Song on the U.K. Chart, October 28, 1987:
You Win Again by BEE GEES
#1 Song on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Chart, October 28, 1982:
Dirty Laundry by DON HENLEY
#1 Song on Billboard’s Adult Contemporary Chart, October 28, 1977:
Just Remember I Love You by FIREFALL
#1 Song on Billboard’s R&B Chart, October 28, 1972:
I’ll Be Around by THE SPINNERS
#1 Song on Billboard’s Country & Western Chart, October 28, 1967:
I Don’t Wanna Play House by TAMMY WYNETTE
#1 Album on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart, October 28, 1962:
Peter, Paul & Mary by PETER, PAUL & MARY
#1 Song on the Pop Music Charts, 56 Years Ago; October 28, 1947:
Near You by FRANCIS CRAIG
#1 Song on the Pop Music Charts, 106 Years Ago; October 28, 1897:
On The Banks Of The Wabash by GEORGE J. GASKIN
REMEMBER THESE?:
Here are the official Top Ten Charts, 7, 17, 27, and 37 years ago this week:
OCTOBER 28, 1996:
1) Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) by LOS DEL RIO
2) It’s All Coming Back To Me Now by CELINE DION
3) No Diggity by BLACKSTREET Featuring DR. DRE
4) I Love You Always Forever by DONNA LEWIS
5) Twisted by KEITH SWEAT
6) Where Do You Go by NO MERCY
7) Mouth by MERRIL BAINBRIDGE
8) This Is For The Lover In You by BABYFACE Featuring LL COOL J, HOWARD HEWETT, JODY WATLEY & JEFFREY DANIELS
9) Un-Break My Heart by TONI BRAXTON
10) Change The World by ERIC CLAPTON
OCTOBER 28, 1986:
1) True Colors by CYNDI LAUPER
2) Typical Male by TINA TURNER
3) I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On by ROBERT PALMER
4) Amanda by BOSTON
5) Human by THE HUMAN LEAGUE
6) True Blue by MADONNA
7) When I Think Of You by JANET JACKSON
8) Sweet Love by ANITA BAKER
9) Take Me Home Tonight by EDDIE MONEY
10) All Cried Out by LISA LISA & CULT JAM With FULL FORCE
OCTOBER 28, 1976:
1) If You Leave Me Now by CHICAGO
2) Disco Duck (Part 1) by RICK DEES & HIS CAST OF IDIOTS
3) Rock’n Me by STEVE MILLER
4) The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald by GORDON LIGHTFOOT
5) A Fifth Of Beethoven by WALTER MURPHY & THE BIG APPLE BAND
6) Love So Right by BEE GEES
7) She’s Gone by DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
8) Play That Funky Music by WILD CHERRY
9) Muskrat Love by THE CAPTAIN & TENNILLE
10) Magic Man by HEART
OCTOBER 28, 1966:
1) 96 Tears by ? (QUESTION MARK) & THE MYSTERIANS
2) Last Train To Clarksville by THE MONKEES
3) Reach Out I’ll Be There by FOUR TOPS
4) Poor Side Of Town by JOHNNY RIVERS
5) Walk Away Renee by THE LEFT BANKE
6) Dandy by HERMAN’S HERMITS
7) What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted by JIMMY RUFFIN
8) Hooray For Hazel by TOMMY ROE
9) Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? by THE ROLLING STONES
10) See See Rider by ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS
ROCK & ROLL TRIVIA QUESTION:
Test your rock I.Q. and answer my question!
LAST WEEK’S QUESTION:
It doesn’t happen very often, but once in a while a TV commercial jingle inspires a big pop hit!
Below are six products whose commercial jingles were adapted into hit songs. Match the products with the artist who sang the hits!
THE ANSWERS:
1) ALKA SELTZER = F) “No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In)” #3, 1966 by THE T-BONES
2) BENSON & HEDGES CIGARETTES = A) “The Dis-Advantages Of You” #36, 1967 by THE BRASS RING
3) BRUTUS JEANS = C) “Jeans On” #17, 1977 by DAVID DUNDAS
4) BUDWEISER BEER = E) “When You Say Love” #32, 1972 by SONNY & CHER
5) COCA-COLA = D) “I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)” #7, 1972 by THE NEW SEEKERS (this song was also a #13 hit for THE HILLSIDE SINGERS, whose only other chart hit was based on a McDonalds jingle, the same year!)
6) THE CROCKER CITIZENS BANK = B) “We’ve Only Just Begun” #2, 1970 for THE CARPENTERS
THIS WEEK’S QUESTION:
All of the hits listed below peaked at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, but they also share another dubious chart fact in common. What is it?
1) “Teen Angel” by MARK DINNING
2) “Michael” by THE HIGHWAY MEN
3) “Go Away Little Girl” by STEVE LAWRENCE
4) “The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia” by VICKI LAWRENCE
5) “When A Man Loves A Woman” by PERCY SLEDGE
6) “Can’t Help Falling In Love” by UB40
Answer next week!
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