Charting 1996: June 23rd Fugees Killing the Chart Softly with Roberta's song.

So I didn't see this coming, we have a new number one and it's not from any of the songs that I thought were destined to challenge "Fastlove" by George Michael for the top spot, the new number one is a cover of Roberta Flack's 1973 single "Killing Me Softly" by Fugees, now this has all the potential to be a huge song because it did some fantastic sales numbers.

Had Fugees not busted in, Celine Dion would be sitting at number one with "Because You Loved Me" but that had to settle for a two place climb to number two pushing "Nobody Knows" by The Tony Rich Project back to number three.

A big climber within the top ten this week is the "Theme from Mission Impossible" by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen which jumped five places to number four.

It was a case of downward momentum for the rest of the top ten though as former number one "Fastlove" by George Michael slipped back to number five as it looks to gracefully head down, it followed Triple X "X Files Theme (Version Dance)" as that tumbled three places to number six and "Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit" by Gina G stuttered down two places to number 7.

The second cover inside the top ten "Sexual Healing" by Max-A-Million dropped two places to number eight, 'Children" by Robert Miles dropped two places to number nine and "Until It Sleeps"
 by Metallica down two places to number ten.

Gains

Everything But the Girl have one of the biggest gainers of the week with "Walking WOunded" up ten places to 36 while Madonna's "Love Don't Live Here Anymore (remix)" surged from 49 to 34.

Losses

Not too many big losses this week with a nine place fall for Mark Snow's version of "The X-Files Theme" as it went to 39 a nd the ten place dive for "Salvation by The Cranberries to 44.

The Prodigy slipped to 49 from 41 with "Firestarter"

New Entries

So outside of Fugees debuting at number one, what else new turned up this week We have to go all the way to 32 to find the latest single from "Jagged Little Pill" called "You Learn" by Alanis Morisette, a song that is pretty excellent.

Mark Morrison finally shows up on the Australian charts after dominating overseas with "Return of the Mack" at number 47.

Kadoc have arrived at station number 48 with "The Nighttrain" while Ash are pointing at numbe 50 with "Goldfinger.

All in all a pretty short wrap for this week with the new number one being the big story, will be interesting to see how much longevity it has.