Uneasy Listening

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Mean Moomin sez

What are they playing at this lot? Well pop world cup still winning the day, with expert commentary catching some extra listeners in its sinister (ho) indie web. Well done The Presets then. Outside the top 3 there is another spread of tracks with a reach of 4 and a surprise reappearance for The Stevens, and The Knife Band continuing to bubble under like some malevolent haunted presence....

1 The Presets - Girl And The Sea [Cut Copy RMX] 7
2 Cansei de Ser Sexy - Let's make love and listen death from above 5
2 m-flo - Reeeewind ! (ft. Crystal Kay) 5

reach of 4
Rachel Stevens - So Good
Girls Aloud - Biology
Smoosh - Rad
Torgny Melins - Cobrastyle
Grupa 4'33'' - Ave Maria Laudata
The Knife - Neverland
The Knife - Like a pen
The Knife - Marble house
The Knife - The captain
The Knife - We share our mother's health
The Knife - silent shout
The Knife - Na na na

Moomin continues: But the real story this week is in the artists chart for the week, let's have a look shall we...

1 Girls Aloud 9
2 Madonna 8

Good so far, a fair showing for the scantily Top Shop clad young popsies and the past it granny who really should put some clothes back on...

3 The Presets 7
3 Belle and Sebastian 7

OK veering off track a little

3 Sonic Youth 7

*SPLUTTER*

6 Annie 6
6 The Knife 6
6 Rachel Stevens 6

THANK HEAVENS FOR THAT, much more like it

6 Pavement 6
6 Radiohead 6

*KEELS OVER DEAD* Poptimists have killed the poor mean moomins with his weak heart.

Comments

[steviespitfire.livejournal.com]

How is this calculated?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

it is the REACH of the tracks/artists submitted by members of the poptimists group, i.e. the number of people in our 37 strong clan who play that track, or that artist

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i.e. just like real chartses, you buys a single and no matter how many times you spin it on the dansette, that's one sale, and all the other one-sales are added up, and the chart magic happens.

One question (really), has anyone here ever bought more than one copy of a single/album in the same week (i.e. not to replace old copies/formats)?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this community does not yet include me as i am too SONIC YOUNG to understand ver technology of ver kids today

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

SONIC YOUTH ARE POP!

it's true you know it is

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No excuse ever for Pavement.

Vindication of sorts for the Lex I'd say, is "Rad" the only PWC track to get two weeks on the charts.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i think this may well be the case.

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

More like "indiekids lastfm" chart amirite. Pavement, Sonic Youth, Smoosh, Radiohead all the indie chestnuts are in here.

Watch for Ballboy to be in the artists list next week.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

ballboy did pop up on poptimists radio for me the other day!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

SONIC YOUTH NOT INDIE ftb THEY ARE GOOD

yr pal the lexend! master

[umlauts.livejournal.com]

I own two Sonic Youth albums. Unfortunately, one of them is A Thousand Leaves. They're still indie though.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes, all the Sonic Youth I've heard is good so they definitely can't be indie.

[juror8.livejournal.com]

BALLBOY FTW!

Apart from the third album, that was gack.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

That is horribly indie apart from Smoosh, but not quite as indie as when Robyn kept topping it every week.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

BONZER! At least we won something ;)