Sunday, 10 March 2019

Charting 1996: March 3rd. How Bizarre! One of Us goes top 5.

This provided plenty of intrigue as new entries from last week made considerable jumps and a potential number one has definitely made it's move so let's get stuck into that top ten where for another week "Boombastic" by Shaggy explodes at number one but with songs lower down gaining traction, its becoming a matter of how long it can hang onto number one.

The challenge won't come from Oasis "Wonderwall" stuck at number 2, Deep Blue Something's "Breakfast at Tiffany's" remaining at number three and La Bouche's "Be My Lover" (thankfully) stuck at number four.

The big challenge for Shaggy could come from American singer song-writer Joan Osborne's song "One of Us" which has climbed five places this week to land at number five. It has some serious traction right now.

Bjork's "Its Oh So Quiet" climbed one place to number six while "Give Me One Reason" by Tracy Chapman unfortunately fell two places to number seven.

Remaining steady inside the top ten is TLC's "Diggin' On You" at number eight while we have two songs spending their first week inside the top ten with "Missing" by Everything But the Girl jumping from 14 to 9 and "Get Down On It" by Peter Andre feat. Past to Present jumping five places to number ten off it's debut last week!.

Gains

The big stories lie in what gained this week especially with "Spaceman" by Babylon Zoo rocketing from 30 to 15 and looks a likely contender to shove weaker songs out of the top ten soon.

The Presidents of the United States of America also have a big hit on their hands with "Peaches" up ten to 18 wbile Eternal's "Power of A Woman" up 5 to 14.

"Falling into You" by Celine Dion jumped from its debut slot of 27 to 23. Looks set to be a hit for her!

3T's "Anything" was also a big gainer this week, jumping from 47 to 31 this week. It's an okay song. but not anything that I really remember. Just saying.

Ace of Base's "Beautiful Life" broke into the top 40 this week at number 37 as did "I Feel it" by DJ Darren Brian vs. PeeWee Ferris

Losers

So let's run through the big losers this week, former chart topper "Jesus to a Child" by George Michael got dumped from 17 all the way to 34.  "Lump" by Presidents of the United Styates of America discovered the chart road lumped them down six places to 19.

Whitney Houston's pretty god awful "Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" is down from 25 to 32 (the sooner this crap is gone the better.

New Entries

So like last week, we have a whole slew of new songs that arrived this week and let's begin with the highest debuter of the week as normal and that is New Zealand group OMC's "How Bizarre" whiich has turned up as the week's highest debut at number 24, now this song could well be a huge hit given the melodies and harmonies in this song. It's okay.

London based dance act Definition of Sound have a ARIA charting hit with "Pass the Vibes" in at number 39.

Everclear turn up at 43 with "Santa Monica (Watch the world Die)" wbile Sepultura find themselves planting their seed at number 44 with "Roots Bloody Roots".

The last two new entries are from British boyband Boyzone who arrive at 49 with their cover of Cat Stevens hit "Father and Son" while Sophie B. Hawkins new single "Right Beside You" jumps in right beside the number 50.

I have no legit idea what is going to happen next week and whether Shaggy can be challenged but hey, we'll find out!



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