From: hid009@cent1.lancs.ac.uk (James Masterton)
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Subject: CHART: UK Top 40 Analysis - Week Ending December 26th 1992
Date: 21 Dec 92 13:29:56 GMT
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Preamble:
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And so here we are, the Christmas chart 1992. As expected all is fairly
quiet with few great surprises. 5 new entries, 13 go up, 5 non-movers

Analysis:
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No. 40: NEW ENTRY. Brand New Heavies - Stay This Way. The Brand New
Heavies have been making subtle impressions upon the chart during the
year, and this track to round of the year is a typical example of their
recreation of the best aspects of Philadelhia Soul. In the current chart
climate they tend to lose out sales wise, but for what they do there are
few that do it better than this.

No. 39: NEW ENTRY. Uncanny Alliance - I Got My Education. Hey, a rap
record with a social conscience for Christmas. Radio One have loved this
record and have been playing it to death. As a result it way well be a
substantial new year hit.

No. 38: NEW ENTRY. Louie Louie - The Thought Of It. A Rockwell for the
nineties I suppose, the American smash finally makes an impression on
the UK 40 helped in part I suppose by his guest appearance on the
televised 'Smash Hits Awards' a few weeks ago.

No. 34: NEW ENTRY. Darlene Love - All Alone On Christmas. 'Ere, lads. I
got a great idea. As it's Christmas lets release a Phil Spector
Christmas record again', 'Yeah great idea Harry, why not Sleigh Ride?'.
'Nah, everyone knows that, pick a really obscure one that nobody has
ever heard of before - who knows? It might just stand a chance of being
the only record in the Christmas chart that is actually ABOUT Christmas.'

No. 28: FALLER. East Side Beat - Alive And Kicking. Suffering perhaps
from being a) not a patch on the original and b) being released so soon
after the reissue of the original it is not a patch on.

No. 23: CLIMBER. Boyz II Men - Motownphilly. The highest climber this
week, but watch next week for a slight surge again for the evergreen
'End Of The Road' which is still hanging around, down this week at 27.

No. 19: NEW ENTRY. Michael Bolton - Drift Away. The only people I have
ever heard admitting to liking the American soulsters music are the two
assistants in my local off-licence. Elsewhere in Britain his music is
regarded (perhaps a little unfairly) as MOR tripe. Here then is the
second single off the 'Timeless' album which follows the first into the
Top 20. Incredibly, although the song is a standard, Dobie Gray's
original never made the UK charts....

No. 11: CLIMBER. Lisa Stansfield - Someday I'm Coming Back. I would have
expected this to make the 10 this week given all the promotion she has
been doing. It is still selling well though, top 3 in the new year is a possiblity.

No. 10: FALLER. Madonna - Deeper and Deeper. Down from 6, this means
that there is a strong possibility this will become the first Madonna
single for 5 years to miss the Top 5. Not quite the tragedy it seems
though - of all the singles Madonna has ever released in Britain, only
'Lucky Star' has never made the Top 10 and even this is made up for by
the fact that 'Holiday' has been there 3 times with 'Crazy For You'
coming in twice.

Top 3: Well, in actualy fact it is exactly the same as last week.
Charles and Eddie at 3, Michael Jackson at 2.

No. 1: 4th WEEK. Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You. The single
that apparantly will not stop selling. Last Saturday it became only the
second single in the last 6 years to sell over 1 million copies. So far
it has sold 4.5 million around the world, is No.1 in 9 countries and in
the US is the second biggest selling single ever. Ironically when first
released bookmakers only gave it a 33-1 outside chance of being No.1 for
Christmas. Latest offer now is odds of 10-1 on that it will beat Bryan
Adams' record of 16 consecutive weeks at the top. With sales on an
upward spiral at the moment it would be folly to rule that out at present.
Who said the 7" single was dead?

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And that is that for Christmas. Thankyou to all those who have mailed me
over the past few months for the encouragement and thanks for these
articles. I may not have the chance to post one on next weeks chart but
I will make some reference to it in the analysis of the first chart of 1993.
		James Masterton - 21/12/92
		*** HAPPY CHRISTMAS ***
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