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The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

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by DiS News
You can almost smell that it’s half-term and people have broken up for study leave. DiS tackles this week's charts, so you don't have to.

Angry 20-something lager swiggers look away now (you can turn back next week when Oasis comes out!). This week the number 1 single is that friggin’ annoying ringtone Crazy Frog which has nothing to do with Eric Cantona. And sitting atop the album chart is Damon Albarn and his Gorillaz. What this means, we’re not quite sure, but it made for a good headline. And that we can pass on this link.

Coldplay are probably suffering the same grey suburban emo feelings today that they had the day they were first dumped. Their comeback single ‘Speed of Sound’ despite all the hype, only manages number two. DiS is sure they might sell some albums, so all is not lost for EMI shareholders. Other notable new entries are Black Eyed Peas in at 7 with their oh-so clever swearing but not swearing ‘Don’t Phunk With My Heart’; Nancy Sinatra being done up the wrongen by Audiobullies is in at 9, and the average Magic Numbers wander in at 15 with ’Forever Lost’.

Outside the top 20: Arcade Fire continue their meteoric rise, in at 26 with 'Power Out'; not the new Nirvana (poor lambs, such a big load of hype for them to leap) Nine Black Alps slip in at 31; British Sea Power, whose set at Chelsea Flower Show was apparently only attended by 15 grannies, in at 34 with ’Please Stand Up’ and don't-forget-to-mention-that-they're-Franz's-bessie-mates Sons and Daughters drop in at 40 with their summer indie anthem in waiting 'Dance Me In'.

The Bravery, who topped our What Not to Watch 2005 list, fail - despite a Duran Duran rip-off video, thousands of pounds of marketing and attempted media saturation - to get in the top 40 and enter at 43 with ‘Fearless’ (shameless, more like). And nearly as musically horrendous, The Glitterati trail closely behind at 45. Doherty’s ol’ mucker Wolfman returns at 60 with ’Ice Cream Guerilla’ and that’s about it for the ’hit parade this week.

In albums The Coral skiffle in at 3, the overblown rock of Audioslave at 5, Alkaline Trio return at 34 with ’Crimson’ and that’s about it.
Goodbye.

DiScuss: Do you love Crazy Frog really? Does Coldplay failing to hit Number One mean anything? If you were in the Bravery wouldn't you do the good thing and go back to being a Ska-punk band?


The Chartoons! Is this'a weird week for pop?

hehehe. If only that link wasn't so close to the truth :-(

The Chartoons! Is this'a weird week for pop?

The Bravery outside the top 40? GENIUS.

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and Daniel Bedingfield is also outside the top 40 as well, Mcdonalds might also look for him soon.

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What with his accident and having a sister, hasn't he got enough to worry about than indie kidz poking fun at him?

The Chartoons! Is this'a weird week for pop?

Magic Numbers are as shit as they are ugly.

so there

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Finally, people start slagging off the Magic Numbers. I've been sick of everyone bumming them for absolutely ages.
They'll be huge purely because they're shite.
As for Coldplay, number 2 doesn't exactly surprise me. Though I would propose corporal punishment for anyone who bought that Crazy Frog shit.

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Magic Numbers aren't *that* bad.
They're harmless enough.

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The Magic Numbers are indeed a fantastically overrated bunch of boring folkie throwbacks.
Ok if you like that sort of thing but horrendously retro and not exactly pushing the envelope...

Mind you this is their only decent song (from what I heard when they supported Bloc Party at Reading) and it sounds like Stereolab doesn't it?

I am amazed that The Bravery didn't make the top 40 - they are OK - but it serves them right for putting a guitar solo on a single!


The Chartoons! Is this'a weird week for pop?

im so happy that the bravery missed out on top 40 sucess. muwahahahaahaaaaa what arses

The Chartoons! Is this'a weird week for pop?

Why does the Crazy Frog have such a big wanger? And why doesn't it swing as he goes round corners? Don't they know anything about gravity?

The Chartoons! Is this'a weird week for pop?

I fucking hate that frog.
Though, I wouldn't mind being the person who made it. mm, money.

The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

The Crazy Frog is the reason I wake up in the morning, I love him. TOO MUCH.

(seriously)

The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

you get what you deserve in this life.. and the british public deserve the friggin frog and all the utter shite that gets signed these days..the king is dead.. long live the king!!

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that sums it up beautifully.

The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

i just realised today. everytime an advert makes me want to destroy something its associated to a company called JAMSTER. who are these wankers?! promoting fuckin frogs and acorns like theres no tomorrow! from today i have lost my last flake of faith in british society.

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JAMSTER are the lovely people who try to trick retarded teenagers into giving them about £4 a week in exchange for some shite ringtones.


The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

At last, the good old charts are getting back to their former glory! Remember these previous fantastic novelty hitsters? Timmy Mallet, Mr Blobby, The Tweenies, Bob The Builder, Star Trekkin with The Firm, Jive Bunny, Terry Wogan, Spitting Image, Rolf Harris, The Flying Pickets, Mr Oizo. I could go on...

So when some old punk at the bar tells you music used to be good in his day, tell him to piss off.

The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

I think its great that a silly ring tone has beaten that smug git Martin to the top.

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me too. The fact it kept coldplay off number one is the reason i'm not going to go on a rant about the death of music.
I still fucking hate it though.

The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

hehe.
yeh, but they had AC/DC and we have AC/DC rip-offs, which is worse?

im in process of creating the greatest ringtone.
"Latisha the dancing teenage chav who is pregnant"

basically she dances to this tune ala crazy frog, does some hand gestures, then has a miscarriage.

its great

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I'd buy that for a dollar

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nah its two dollar, what with the ever inlating cost of White Lightning and Huggies

The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

FUCK. THAT. FROG.

The Chartoons! Is this a weird week for pop?

OMFGZ!!!!1! DA CRAZY ARCTIC MONKEYZZ!!!!!11!!!1




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