The Only Chart That Counts

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Stoopid me only just realised that this image changes every week (how else could it be??)
Amy Diamond - What's in It for Me 5
Destiny's Child - Check On It (Beyonce Feat. Slim Thug) 5
Johnny Boy - Fifteen Minutes 5
Belle and Sebastian - Funny Little Frog 5
Robyn - Konichiwa bitches 4
Rachel Stevens - Funny How 4
Robyn - Eclipse 4
Girls Aloud - Wild Horses 4
The Chirpy Chappies - Girl, You Know It's Shrewsbury 4
Ashlee Simpson - L.O.V.E. 4


Amy still in the big writing at the top, but it's a joint #1 Joint places look like they are alpha sorted so my prediction that Bouncey would be this weeks #1 sort of came off. EXCEPT SORT OUT YR METADATA PPL - this is clearly not Density's Child, but Bouncey on her ownsome (well apart from that feat. there). Bad mp3 tags withstanding (naughty mp3 sharers in not caring about metadata shoXoR), Bouncey Knowles would not sort any higher than Amy Diamond i spose.

Anyway... *scans down the top 10 tracks*, Robyn, yup, Rachel, sure , The Chirpy Chappies, Ashlee, right... HANG ON

The Chirpy Chappies "Girl, You Know It's Shrewsbury". Not only is this transparently a "comedy record" only played 4 times by poptimists - but lastFM sez that only 5 ppl have listened to it ever. I SMELL A CHART FIX. Own up whoever you are.

Maybe when the UK charts first started in '52, Al Martino's agents spotted a flaw in the low sample size, that only 20 people were buying records anyway, and quickly went round and bought 5 copies of his smash "Here in My Heart" thus assuring an early sensation for the strange-haired crooner. This does not make it right.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Beyoncé track is credited officially to Beyoncé, but it's a bonus track on the new Destiny's Child best-of. It's produced by Swizz Beatz, which means this is his first entry into the Billboard Top 5 since... whenever he was last in the Billboard Top 5; it's not been ecent. 2001, maybe?

Frank Kogan