Tag Archives: Fraser McAlpine

UK Chart Report: The Rehabilitation of Chris Brown

By | Posted on February 14th, 2011

Pray silence, Anglopheniacs, for a momentous pop event has occurred within the last seven days, and we should give it due reverence.

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UK Chart Report: Jessie J Makes Good on Her Awards Promise

By | Posted on February 7th, 2011

There are times when the entertainment world can be in such a hurry to honor something that they don’t even wait for the last brush strokes to be applied or the varnish to dry. The BBC’s Sound Of… poll, the Brit Awards ...

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UK Chart Report: Chase & Status Rave It Up at No. 5

By | Posted on January 31st, 2011

It’s a fairly well established fact that controversy sells records: partly because there’s something thrilling and illicit about hearing or seeing naughty stuff which the TV or radio won’t let you hear or see, and ...

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UK Chart Report: Adele’s ‘Rolling In the Deep’ at No. 2

By | Posted on January 24th, 2011

OK, no time to concoct a theory about this week’s chart, as it is all change in the Top 10, with five new entries arriving and booting everyone else down a few places. Were it not for the imperious presence of Bruno Mars at ...

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UK Chart Roundup: ‘The X Factor’ Influence

By | Posted on November 15th, 2010

This week's chart report takes the form of a lesson in TV and how to use it to promote your product. Some of the results are a little baffling at first glance, so do bear with me, won't you?

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UK Chart Roundup: Ladies Night vs Bonfire Night

By | Posted on November 8th, 2010

Katy Perry

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UK Chart Roundup: Cheryl ‘Alouettes’ Her Way To UK No. 1

By | Posted on November 1st, 2010

You know how it works with pop music: someone does something once, it’s an innovation. If someone else does it too, it’s a trend.

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The UK Charts Welcome a New Breed of Boyband

By | Posted on October 26th, 2010

Everyone knows that the age of the boyband is well and truly over, right? You couldn’t move for the blighters around here for a while, standing in a line and doing those funny synchronized kicky dance steps like the floor was ...

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The UK Pop Chart…Now with Duck Sauce

By | Posted on October 18th, 2010

This week, the UK’s charts are being dominated by an aggressive man with a shiny head and a prominent grill for the second week running. No, not Darth Vader, he’s wheezier, I mean Cee-Lo Green, whose sweary chart-topper ...

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Gnarls Barkley’s Cee-Lo Turns the Air Blue, Tops the UK Singles Chart

By | Posted on October 11th, 2010

Sometimes it doesn’t matter how much of an event release your song may seem to be, it’ll still get steamrollered by something bigger that has managed to catch everyone’s attention.

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