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by Alex Denney
A noticeable lack of high new entries in the singles chart this week, but plenty of jostling for position among the top five, the Arctic Monkeys' 'Brianstorm' valiantly doing battle with a stellar cast of pop’s elite to clinch the number two spot behind Beyoncé and Shakira...»
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by Mike Diver
Remember Bryan Adams’ sixteen-week reign at the summit of the UK singles chart back in 1991? I do: the scars remain today. I was genuinely terrified when The Fugees’ ‘Killing Me Softly’ threatened to repeat the feat in ’96. Thankfully, clever label executives deleted the ballad before it could romp to a sixth week at the top spot. As for Wet Wet Wet, don’t start. Just don’t...»
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by Mike Diver
Another Monday, another round-up of the movers and shakers in the UK singles chart. Well, we say ‘movers and shakers’, but nothing much has changed since last week to be honest...»
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by Mike Diver
Seven days may have passed since last we, DiS, delved into the charts in any detail, but little has changed: Shakira remains top of the singles pile with ‘Hips Don’t Lie’, with Rihanna’s ‘Unfaithful’ at two and Christina Aguilera just below her with ‘Ain’t No Other Man’. We’re still digging that last one; t’other two can naff off...»
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by Mike Diver
So Top Of The Pops is dead. Anyone watch the last one? I didn’t. Had better things to do. Like eat pasta and catch a train. I thought about recording it, specifically to find out what was atop the pile o’ short-play records we in the business call the ‘singles chart’, but then I remembered: the DiS round-up, this round-up, will set me straight! Not least of all ‘cause I’m the foo’ writing it...»
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by Mike Diver
Columbian songstress and certified not-all-there type Shakira is to have a likeness of herself erected in her hometown of Barranquilla...»
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by DiS News
Got a Sony Ericsson phone? Like Queen? So it seems...»