Charting 1996: 7th July: Bush make a sticky "Glycerine" arrival to the top ten

So okay this week doesn't feel all that interesting if you were just to look at our relatively stable four where for a third week 'Killing Me Softly" by Fugees keeps the number one spot ahead of Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" and really I don't see that changing for awhile. "Killing Me Softly" has a lock on number one for awhile, it has margins that "Because You Loved Me" isn't making inroads into.

"Theme from Mission Impossible" by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen wasn't able to bridge the gap to Celine so it stays at number three.and it was the same case for The Tony Rich Project's "Nobody Knows" at number four.

But from number 5 it does get interesting as Bush jump seven places to reach the top 5 at number with "Glycerine" and it's arrival pushed everything behind it down with "Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit" by Gina G back to number 6, "X-Files Theme (Version Dance)" by Triple X back to number 7, "Children" by Robert Miles back to number eight, "Fastlove" by George Michael slipped to number nine and Max-A-Million might finally be headed out of the top ten aftet they dropped to number ten with "Sexual Healing"

Gains

So the biggest gain of the week belongs to Mark Snow's "The X-Files" which jumped a massive thirteen places to number 27.

Mark Morrison is set for a massive hit in Australia with "Return of the Mack", it jumped eleven places to 26, I expect this song to be in the top ten pretty damn soon.

Good gain for "Just A Girl" by No Doubt it went to number 12 up from 18 last week.

Losers

Not too many big losers this week with the biggest being the nine place drop to number 39 for "California Love" by 2pac feat. Dr Dre but really most of the other losses were pretty small.


New Entries

All the new entries are in the 40s this week with the best of them being "Theme From S-Express (The Return Trip)" at number 44. A very much ramped up electronic dance version of theme from 1988.

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony have finally turned up at number 47 with their US smash hit "Tha Crossroads". It's spending it's 8th week at number one in the US. Could it do the same here?

oan Osborne is back number 48 with the follow up to her number one hit "One of Us" called "St Teresa".

Canadian pop rocker Amanda Marshall has her first ARIA singles chart entry with "Let It Rain" debuting at number 49 with "Let It Rain"

Finally to wrap up Charting 1996 for this week, the Manic Street Preachers are back with "A Design for Life" at number 50.