Congratulations to the most successful band in UK chart history

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Quo

Most boggling statistics here - REM and the Manics have had over 35 hit singles EACH! Slowly declining fanbases are the limescale of the charts.

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[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

I'd sort of assumed, on no particular evidence, that REM are still rock monsters, and their singles are bought and enjoyed by many thousands of people without ever particularly impinging on me (though that one with the forwards-backward video was ace). And given a year or so, I could probably write down at least 30 of the REM singles, in marked contrast to a dozen or so Manics ones.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Their singles are bought by

i) our CEO
ii) staff of Word
iii) presumably other people of our CEO's age and mid-life-crisisity
iv) that's good for a No.24 surely?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Oh I'm not surprised that when the Manics squeeze out another single someone will buy it, I just wasn't aware that there were three dozen of them.

Er, unless you're talking about R.E.M.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I was.

I don't know who buys the Manics singles really.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

even i don't buy manics singles no more, but i could list the vast majority of them in order, with b-sides probably...

they released 7 off of gen terr remember...