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BBC - Chart blog
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Welcome to the Chart Blog, a place which aims to become less another lost corner of the interwebnet and more a friend, confidante, elder sibling and musical teddy bear to anyone with a love of the most popular records in the land.
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The ChartBlog Awards - Part 2

Get dressed! Youre about to be blessed with the best of the rest...in a vest...etc... Most Controversial Review JLS - The Club Is Alive Yknow, I still dont really get what all the fuss was about with...

20 jan 11

The ChartBlog Awards - Part 1

As promised, heres a brief stone-skip over some of the better moments of ChartBlogs four years of glory. Some of these have been nominated by ChartBlog readers on Twitter. Feel free to nominate your ...

19 jan 11

End of a ChartBlog

Hello, I have some news. Over the last four years, it has been my privilege to write daft stuff about songs; songs which have been in the charts, songs which should have been in the charts, and songs...

14 jan 11

Everything Everything - Photoshop Handsome

Look, lets not mess about. The choice is very clear. Do we want pop music to be thrilling and odd and devious and brainy and joyful and brilliant, or do we want it to be familiar and acceptable and f...

12 jan 11

Adele - Rolling In The Deep

For someone who is straightforwardly, transparently, a massive talent, Adeles records arent half troublesome at times. Her earliest successes seemed to come coated in a thick layer of brushed-on egg-...

11 jan 11

My Chemical Romance - Sing

Sometimes, when settling down to listen to a hot new waxing by a world-beating band or singer, it helps to forget that you already know and love songs theyve done before, or that you have some idea o...

07 jan 11

Bruno Mars - Grenades

Mashup fans, Ive a job for you. Someone needs to put the "na na nah" refrain from Kylie Minogues Cant Get You Out Of My Head under the verses to this song. It would please me. And best of all...

06 jan 11

The Joy Formidable - Austere

Ah, January; let the purging begin. Weve spent all of December cluttering up the house and mind with all sorts of stuff - hidden carrier bags of presents, shopping lists, wrapping paper, cards, decor...

04 jan 11

2010: End of A Year(a)

Delicious ChartBloggerers, this will be the last time we speak in the year of our Lord 2010. Youve got presents to buy, cards to write, best-of-year playlists to compile and friends to see, and so ha...

16 dec 10

Matt Cardle - When We Collide

Nothing gets in the way of the X Factor. As a TV event that becomes a real-life EVENT event, the show continues to be an unstoppable force which will either squash or absorb everything in its path. I...

13 dec 10

Alexandra Burke - The Silence

Its OK, Alexandra, you can come out now. No point in skulking around the lower reaches of the charts for weeks on end, with your download sales and your softly-softly-catchee-monkey stealth attack on...

12 dec 10

The Drums - Me And The Moon

I tell you what gets my goat about the Drums, right; nice tunes and all that, a decent, spirited attempt to re-create the spirit of 80s indie; and 80s indie was always half-obsessed with 60s surf-pop...

11 dec 10

The Pretty Reckless - Just Tonight

It might just be the festive season, it might be that goodwill to all men is seeping from every shop stereo system, and Im getting a bit soft, but maybe there is something to this Pretty Reckless mal...

10 dec 10

Hurts - All I Want For Christmas Is New Years Day

Poise and mystique are wonderful: more useful to a pop stars life than towels and hot honey drinks. Sometimes Hurts appear to have struck a deal in which they exchange everything other acts rely on -...

09 dec 10

Shakira ft. Dizzee Rascal - Loca

A confession: Im not sure if I would recognise a bad Shakira song if it came along and introduced itself, wearing a name-badge and announced that it was following me on Twitter, user name @badshakira...

08 dec 10

N-Dubz - Girls

The Story So Far: last time we heard from our intrepid threesome, they were bouncing about in front of a private jet, hoping to find that special someone; a partner for life, a soul-mate...or in Dapp...

07 dec 10

Cage Against The Machine - 433"

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06 dec 10

Kylie - Better Than Today

Had I not actually bothered to check, Id have said right away that this bears the musical fingerprint of Jake Shears out of the Scissor Sisters. Its got that Laura bounce, that slightly perkier-than-...

05 dec 10

Patrick Wolf - Time Of My Life

I wasnt supposed to be writing about this. There are singles out next week by more notable chart starts with proper pedigrees and stuff; Paolo Nutini, for example, or Plan B. Hell, the Manic Street P...

04 dec 10

Kings of Leon - Pyro

Strange things are afoot in the Followill clan. Come Around Sundown, their fifth album and the one which promised to rein in their stadium rock tendencies in favour of something more low-key and prim...

03 dec 10

Coldplay - Christmas Lights

As I write this, the majority of the country is covered in blizzard-skin; once-friendly pavements seek to up-end all but the most careful traveller and the shops are full of things which are sparkly,...

02 dec 10

Joe McElderry - Someone Wake Me Up

So, third time around, a final big push for the big time; after a spirited but slightly shaky start. Is there a victory in the offing? What weve got here is the product of a popular franchise, a hous...

30 nov 10

Willow - Whip My Hair

Fame - like sugar, saturated fat and films containing sex, violence, and swearing - is not good for young people. Its bad when youre the famous person, its bad when the famous person is a member of y...

29 nov 10

Nicole Scherzinger - Poison

Theres a latin expression which fans of the old TV show The West Wing will be aware of, and its kind of relevant here so... Its post hoc, ergo propter hoc, which means something like "after this,...

28 nov 10

Robyn - Indestructible

No-one writes as eloquently about the devastating effects of bad love as Robyn does. No-one throws out lines as tough and knowing as "I never was smart with love, I let the bad ones in and the go...

27 nov 10

David Guetta ft. Rihanna ft. Drake ft. Akon fr. Michael Jackson ft. Flo Rida

Today is a momentous day. The day in which a new art movement is named. It might not be as revolutionary as the surrealists, or the situationists, but its a LOT more common, and whats more, if youre ...

26 nov 10

Nicki Minaj - Right Thru Me

Ah good, another song featuring the unique vocal stylings of Nicki Minaj. The Nicki Minaj who clearly lives in a recording studio, speaks in rhyme all the time (just like that), and cant listen to an...

25 nov 10

Mark Ronson & the Business Intl ft. Boy George and Andrew Wyatt - Somebody To Love Me

We all like to have a wallow in the past, dont we? It feels nice to look back on things we used to do as children and then try and find a modern equivalent, either for children nowadays or within our...

24 nov 10

How To Be Good At The Internet, By Danny Script

Danny from the Script is a very clever man. Not just in everyday life, although Im sure thats true too, but also because he knows enough to realise that he doesnt know everything. And this is the key...

23 nov 10

Jessie J - Party Like A Dude

I love facts, me. Some people really like flights of fancy, feats of the imagination, bashing strange ideas against each other to see what pretty colours emerge, but I often find its reality where th...

22 nov 10

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