Charting 1996: 1st September. AAAYYY MACARENA!

It finally happened, the writing has been on the wall for the past few weeks with the undeniable momentum of "Macarena" by Los Del Rio that it would go number one which it did this week leaping four places to number 1, it was a case of timing and with the dance craze to boot, I don't see how this annoying craze is going to get booted off the top spot any time soon.

It muscled its way past "Return of the Mack" by Mark Morrison which remain steady at number two this week but ahead of last week's chart topper "Because You Loved Me" by Celine Dion which fell two places to number three and I don't see it going back there given slowing sales.

Same csn be said for "Killing Me Softly" by Fugees which dropped one place to number four.

One of the biggest gainers of the week is the Los Del Mar feat Pedro Castano version of "Macarena" which leapt from 13 to 5 this week. (We do not need two versions of the same annoying song in the top five, Australia).

"I Want You" by Savage Garden and "That Girl" by Maxi Priest feat Shaggy remained stagnant at six and seven respectively.

No Doubt's "Just a Girl" tumbled four places to number eight triggered by the big rise of Los Del Mar's version of "Macarena". Same could be said for the one place fall of "Mother Mother' by Tracy Bonham to number nine.

Finally the second song making it's arrival to the top ten is "You're Making Me High" by Tonni Braxton at number ten.

Gains

Eric Clapton's "Change The World" jumped from 40 to 24 this week which is great because it's a good song, hope it goes higher in the weeks ahead.

It was also a good week for TV theme songs with The Remembrandts "I'll Be There for You" up from 43 to 25 while Bodeans "Closer to Free" went from 20 to 12.

Powderfinger's "D.A.F" rose from 46 to 39 this week. 

Losses.

Gloria Estefan's "Reach" continues it's strange run by dropping from 31 to 47 this week. Seriously. where's the consistency here?

A hit on the way out is "Mission Impossible Theme" by Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen which slipped from 36 to 22 this week. 

"You Learn" by Alanis Morissette unfortunately tumbled from 26 to 37 while Marilyn Manson's "Sweet Dreams" stumbled nine places to 41 as did The Presidents of the United States of America with "Dune Buggy" dropping to 33. 

New Entries

The biggest new entry this week arives at number 19 with George Michael's "The Spinning the wheel" ep. Not expecting this to be as big as "Fastlove" was earlier this year.

Midnight Oil are back on the charts with new single called "Underwater" at number 23, the song comes from their forthcoming album "Breathe"

It's all the way down to 43 where we find Belinda Carlisle's new single "In Too Deep". Hope this does well for her to be quite honest. It's a decent song.

Primitive Radio Gods win the award for the longest song title I have seen in some time while debuting at number 45 with "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand" (seriously!)

Bush's follow up to "Glycerine" has charted with "Comedown" arriving at 48 while rockers AC/DC turn up at 49 with "Bailbreaker"

Finally Coolio gets the last of the debuts this week with "It's All the Way Live (Now)" at number 50.