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mad world by gary jules sums up this year quite well i think.. |
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After a week of to-ing and fro-ing, The Darkness's Christmas Time (Don't Let The Bells End) was pipped to the Christmas number one spot by Michael Andrews featuring Gary Jules' Mad World. Mad World sold 227,500 units in the past week, compared to Christmas Time's 222,500 units - a margin of just 5,000. The Mad World success came after it had consistently - although marginally - lagged behind The Darkness throughout the past week. The two singles helped pushed the overall singles market to its best week of the year, with Kelly and Ozzy Osbourne's Changes also selling 144,800 units. No previous week this year has seen more than one single sell over 100,000 units. The chart marks a massive success for Sanctuary Group, who co-released Mad World with Paul and Katie Conroy's Adventures label. Sanctuary's second number one single followed a week after its first, with the Osbournes' hit. The Darkness's singles' chart disappointment is more than compensated for by the fact that their album Permission To Land jumped nine places into the Top 10, selling almost 90,000 copies in the past week. The album is on target to top 1m sales before the end of 2003. The album chart is dominated by Dido's 270,000-selling Life For Rent, which beats Will Young's Friday's Child to the summit - it sold 239,000 units in the past week. In third place, Michael Jackson's hits collection defies recent negative publicity by remaining at three and selling 222,000 units in the past week. Overall, the albums market sees all Top Eight albums selling 100,000 or more, in what is traditionally the biggest week for sales of the entire year. |
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why wasn't the single released earlier? I mean it's really good, and was featured in a movie that did good aswell (for being independent). |
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its in the donnie darko film, as is head over heels by tears for fears |
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yes I know, you didn't answer my question ;) |
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wait a minute.. 'mad world' by gary jules is number one for what?? |
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that was my 5000th post! :) yay! |
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gary jules is the best selling single in the UK this week hence it will be the "christmas" number 1. (this isn't definate but) the reason it was released as a single was partly due to 1 - roland orzabal (of tears for fears) saying he liked it a a lot 2 - getting TFF back in the public eye (they have a new single out in january follwed by a new album and a big tour) 3 - there was another version of mad world due to be released as a single by pop idol winner alex parks and i'm pretty certain it was cancelled due to TFF not wanting to be associated with pop idol (and who can blame them) nb - roland has said in the new TFF tour he will be playing a version of mad world a la gary jules roland will also be picking up the substantial part of all royalties from the sales of the record |
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aha ok... well the main thing I wondered about was why it wasn't released earlier... But I guess it might be for some of the reasons you mentioned. thanks. |
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don't know this tune at all... |
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what nice news :) |
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huh, how did this happen? a good song at number one?? |
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Sometime I wonder if TOP40-fans really ever sat down and thought about their taste in music. Because most of the TOP40 just doesn't appeal to me. It used to, and I don't know what has changed the most - but I do really feel there is more crap on the top 40 than, say, ten years ago. |
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what I mean is... there are many people who just listen to what is brought to them and never care to look for good music. They just stick to whatever is near them... And aren't open to hear music that is new to them... bah |
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I have no idea who Gary Jules is, but I fucking love the Darkness. No, fuck YOU. |
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you love the Darkness...? oh dear. HA HA HA HA HA. |
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Sometimes I wonder if TOP40-fans really ever sat down and thought about their taste in music Check out the charts for the last few years. That will answer your question. |
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sometimes i wonder if idm obsessed anally retentive arsebeaks listen to anything other than the shite that comes out on warp touche! :P |
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:D!!!! |
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Quee... i mean mean the Darkness suck, their christmas song gets boring after the first listen |
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I'm glad the pop idol song didn't do well, that was completely retarded of them to cover a Lennon anti war song and make a video where they all smile and open presents greedily. |
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ha ha.. |
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gary jules' version of mad world is too tied up with donnie darko.. so i find it hard to tell if id have noticed it so much if it didnt remind me of how good that film is. it is pretty amusing to have the most un-christmassy christmas song ever at #1 for (you guessed it) christmas. no jesus, mince pies, bad sweaters, fireplaces, gifts, friends, snow or love.. just alienation & confusion. not exactly fitting. but its a good song.. and symptomatic of how a lot of people have felt lately i think. |
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i don't know what the darkness sounds like, but i do know that mad world is the best tune of the year |
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