Chart Watch David Bowie‘s domination of the album chart continues, with Blackstar holding on for a second week at number 1 and compilation sales split between Best of Bowie (up 15 to number 3) and Nothing Has Changed which drops … read more
Chart Watch As predicted, David Bowie dominates the first album chart since his passing. His swansong release Blackstar was expected to top the chart even before the news of his death broke, but it does so today with sales of … read more
How will we remember David Bowie? For most, the defining image of Bowie will be one of his many guises in the 1970s: Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, the Thin White Duke. More recent converts may point to his innovative, often … read more
Chart Watch The campaign to mark Lemmy’s passing by getting Motörhead‘s Ace of Spades to number 1 didn’t quite achieve its aim, but the song re-enters the singles chart at number 13 this week, two places higher than it reached … read more
You might have thought that by 1982 old-fashioned analogue music would be dead and the entire chart would be computer generated. Of course that scenario was still a good 25 years away. In fact synthpop was struggling, with the likes … read more
