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Post by webm@ster on Sept 4, 2005 11:43:22 GMT -5
In a rerun of a chart battle a decade ago, Damon Albarn has beaten the Gallagher brothers to the top spot yet again this week with ‘Dare’ by cartoon band Gorillaz.
Albarn, the mastermind behind the comic book pop stars, originally beat the Mancunian brothers to number one in the UK singles chart in 1995 when his other band Blur clinched pole position with ‘Country House’. Released on the same day as ‘Roll With It’ the two Brit Pop giants slugged it out 10 years ago sparking a North-South spat that prompted Noel Gallagher to say he hoped “Albarn caught aids and died.”
Last week’s chart had Oasis securing the top spot with ‘The Importance Of Being Idle’ but Damon Albarn will win out for the second time pushing Oasis down to number 5.
This week’s chart topping single also features the vocal skills of Baggy legend and Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder.
We’ll have to see if Noel has the bottle to ignite round two of Brit Pop Wars and drag the ‘Pills, Thrills And Bellyaches’ star into the row.
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Post by belfastdon on Sept 4, 2005 11:44:53 GMT -5
10 years on , he does it again
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Post by seven29pompeyfc on Sept 4, 2005 11:45:00 GMT -5
Feel Good Inc was ok, this is shit.
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Post by belfastdon on Sept 4, 2005 13:28:32 GMT -5
all gorillaz stuff is shit
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Post by Elias on Sept 4, 2005 13:42:46 GMT -5
Stupid media. He's hardly beaten them to no.1, Idle was released a week before.
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Post by USOasis86 on Sept 4, 2005 15:37:04 GMT -5
hey all i have to say is at least Oasis can show themselfs at a concert where The FOOK NUTS have a cartoon.....are they like ugly or something or they Pussy's can't play in concerts  ....man oasis gets walked all over and it saddens me  cause they are such a great band with talent beyond them(Gorillaz)  |
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Post by Noel's Barmy Army on Sept 4, 2005 16:00:08 GMT -5
but who sold more copies in their first week?
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Post by giggergrl on Sept 4, 2005 23:03:17 GMT -5
blur was hot, gorrillaz not ! tezzy said - hide behind yer cartoons ya weird twat - i agree.. lol !  |
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Post by Clint on Sept 5, 2005 8:18:54 GMT -5
I think Albarn's a douche, however, all you Gorillaz hated are closed minded. Gorillaz is meant to be a more artistic sort of project. A fictional band in the real world-- I think it's cool, and a lot of the Gorllaz songs on their first album were really cool.
I hate Blur though.
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Post by Wireless on Sept 5, 2005 8:39:31 GMT -5
I really like that new Gorrilaz song.
If I could, I would dance like a loony everytime I heard it.
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Post by peregrin on Sept 5, 2005 10:06:57 GMT -5
but who sold more copies in their first week? the crazy frog...  and is not better than oasis, isn't it? |
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Post by quizzy on Sept 5, 2005 13:22:33 GMT -5
but who sold more copies in their first week? In 2005, singles rarely sell in such quantities, and Oasis' latest, The Importance Of Being Idle, topped the chart last week with sales of 47,235. It suffered a 59% downturn in sales - to 19,354 - on its second week in the chart and slides to number five as a result, being replaced at number one by Blur frontman Damon Albarn's cartoon band Gorillaz' sixth single Dare - but with sales of just 26,661, less than 10% of those enjoyed by Country House, and the lowest tally for a number one since Elvis Presley's It's Now Or Never took the title 31 weeks ago with sales of 21,887. Dare is the second single from Gorillaz' second album Demon Days, and its first week sales are substantially - 20.4% - below those of Feel Good Inc, which debuted at number two in May behind Akon's Lonely with sales of 37,737. Feel Good Inc falls 34-45 this week, ending a 20 week run in the Top 40 and Demon Days slips 7-9 on the album chart, although its sales are up 1.6% week-on-week at 23,959 copies to take its 15 week cume to 460,649 - on course to surpass their eponymous debut album's sales of 716,158. |
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Post by AlexTHFC on Sept 7, 2005 2:09:08 GMT -5
Anyone who says Gorrilaz "beat" Oasis is flat out lying. They were released in different weeks. Look at the sales, the fact is if they had been released head to head, Oasis would have won, as the sales figures show.
As for Country House, it beat Roll With It to number one, but so what? How about comparing sales of The Great Escape to Morning Glory? Then tell me who really won!
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Post by Moorish on Sept 7, 2005 4:53:28 GMT -5
Stupid media. He's hardly beaten them to no.1, Idle was released a week before. Exactly! What a fuckin' NON-story. |
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....man oasis gets walked all over and it saddens me 
cause they are such a great band with talent beyond them(Gorillaz) 
and is not better than oasis, isn't it?
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