Everything's Eventually Forgotten

Written by Simon B
Published July 21, 2003
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Dressing up as dogs has given Super Furry Animals' Golden Retriever a number eight; further down some sort of wormhole seems to have opened up with Killing Joke's first chart entry in thirty-seven years (Loose Canon, 25) and Inspiral Carpets having their first mini-hit since the birth of the little baby Jesus (Come Back Tomorrow, 43). The Cardigans will be a bit disappointed that You're The Storm can only scrape together enough pocket money to make seventy-four - okay, they'll be distraught. Maybe someone should ring them?

But this week's big single losers are Appleton - threatening to move to Canada, suggesting men check their testicles; nothing has helped shift the new single. Everything Eventually shamefacedly creaks in at 38, amid rumours of sales counter not needing a fourth figure.

Over on the albums charts, yes, of course, Beyonce is still there, like the queen of the world. Aside from the Manics's social experiment (Q. Will our fans lash out for a b-sides compilation? A. Yes - Lipstick Traces in at 11) there aren't many new entries about - indeed, the second highest is Neil Young at forty two; then Sinead Quinn, off of the telly is Ready To Run at forty-eight (run-off, more like); Nitin Sawhney's Human appears for the first time (54). Despite having had the sort of push that must have caused Paul Weller to cry tears of real blood (not only was his music used in a Ribena advert; the record company then used footage from the advert to promote the album) The Style Council's Greatest Hits suffers an entry at 67.

Late-night TV profiles never harmed anyone, as BBC2's rerun of BBC4's Jeff Buckley documentary hauls Grace back into the top 75, and the curious online campaign for Martina Topley Bird has done her enough business for a number 70.

Album loser is Lisa Marie Presley. She may wish she hadn't waited this long to launch a music career - To Whom It May Concern only concerned enough people to sneak in at number 52. And after the surprisingly positive things "ordinary people" said about the album on BBC Online, too.

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