Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!EDDIE.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: mod.music.gaffa Subject: Chart Effects Message-ID: <12496.8612051324@aiva.ed.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 08:24:10 EST Article-I.D.: aiva.12496.8612051324 Posted: Fri Dec 5 08:24:10 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Dec-86 20:48:44 EST Sender: daemon@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds Organization: Love-Hounds Anonymous Lines: 26 Approved: nessus.mit.edu Really-From: Jeff DaltonThis tuesday's Gallup Music Week/BBC/BPI LP chart has: 1 (-) Now That's What I Call Music 8 -- Various 2 (1) Hits 5 -- Various 3 (2) The Whole Story -- Kate Bush 4 (3) Every Breath You Take - the Singles -- The Police 5 (4) Original Soundtrack "Top Gun" -- Various 6 (5) True Blue -- Madonna ... ! 15 (56) Different Light -- Bangles 16 (-) Notorious -- Duran Duran 17 (16) Brothers in Arms -- Dire Straits 18 (12) Revenge -- Eurithmics 19 (11) Live/1975-1985 -- Bruce Springsteen et al 20 (15) Disco -- Pet Shop Boys As you can see, the Christmas Variation has begun, filling the chart with Hits collections (there are three more in the "...") even though the Christmas Single race doesn't seem to have started. Kate is still the highest non-various in the chart, but Madonna still has the highest LP that isn't a singles package (and the the two people in front of me at Edinburgh Virgin both bought it). Bruce is still falling, but Dire Straits refuses to go away. And, for some reason, the Bangles have come back. Good news, say I.