posted by davidt on Sunday July 18 2004, @12:00PM
"First Of The Gang To Die" enters at #6 in the official UK singles chart.
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Andisheh writes:

Another top ten for Morrissey.

According to the fine folks at Top of the Tops, First of the Gang To Die is in at #6.

Note that Mr. Morrissey is sharing space in the top 20 this week with Elvis. Has Morrissey ever been in the charts with the star of a Smiths/Morrissey sleeve before?
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  • Number 6, very disappointing.
    I watched the bloody awful "CD-UK" on saturday and they had it in at Number 3
    Our local commercial station in Manchester, had it at Number 3 also.

    Bloody BBC Radio 1, never liked morrissey, bastards
    sirgordonzola -- Sunday July 18 2004, @12:08PM (#115517)
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  • top of the pops (Score:2, Informative)

    check out the top of the pops website for the top 40.www.bbc.co.uk/totp/top40/.the video they show is totaly different.lots of backstage shots and of fans etc AMAZING...
    farmersboy -- Sunday July 18 2004, @12:43PM (#115530)
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  • #1 on Indie chart (Score:2, Interesting)

    ok, it's only the Indie chart, but at least Morrissey has a number one somewhere :)

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart/top40/indie.shtml
    racer -- Sunday July 18 2004, @12:53PM (#115536)
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  • Hmmm (Score:2, Funny)

    I wonder how Britney likes having Morrissey on top of her?
    Sick -- Sunday July 18 2004, @01:20PM (#115542)
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  • Thanks for bringing that TOTP web page to our attention, farmersboy, and yes, Maude Lynn, it did bring back many memories, didn't it? I don't remember seeing any cameras around before the gig started, only after the show had finished, at around 2300, when nearly everyone had gone, but there you go. Thank god they didn't catch me on film for all time... Did anybody here see themselves in the promo? And who was that hugging Morrissey? Julia, I suppose... Disappointing that the video isn't the same as the one on the DVD single. Hopefully it'll turn up in better quality sometime, somewhere... I'm not feeling massively nostalgic for that wonderful May day.
    Neither one particularly appeals to me...
    • Re:Evocative by Ralf (Score:1) Sunday July 18 2004, @01:26PM
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  • Surely the fact that FOTGTD entered at #6 has to be attributed in part to a massive distribution disaster. Scores of the singles are reported to have been returned due to poor quality, resulting in entire displays being taken away from stores. Added to this, the single still hasn't reached some record emporiums, or countries for that matter. I implore everyone to buy it again, buy one as a pressie for your auntie, buy one for your dog!!! Send it to number 1!!!!!
    Anonymous -- Sunday July 18 2004, @02:20PM (#115559)
  • Well after all he is the modern day Elvis..aint that so? Sex on legs!!!!
    Anonymous -- Sunday July 18 2004, @02:55PM (#115563)
  • I am comforted... (Score:2, Informative)

    Having taken the time to actually see a bit of all the others in the chart above Morrissey, I am comforted by the fact that they are the biggest pile of what a horse's arse wouldn't bother to keep hold of. I actually feel angry by the state of popular music having heard that load of STEAMING crap. Not technically music at all. So if the distribution thing is true and has had an effect on his sales (and judging by some of these posts it sounds like there's a whole load of Morrissey fans still trying to get their copy!!) it could be a very different story next week. Start converting your neighbours, friends and vague acquaintances, and our Moz should get the recognition he deserves! :-)
    charming lass -- Sunday July 18 2004, @05:16PM (#115584)
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    this is the last song i will ever sing, oh no i've changed my mind again
  • It's 3 years ago... (Score:2, Interesting)

    It's 2001 and you're at the funfair and decide to spend a pound at the dodgy looking fortune teller stall. The old woman cackles away and tells you that Morrissey will release a single all about Anglo-Irish politics which will get to No.3 in the singles chart.
    "Ha! Away with you old crone!" you snort.
    But there's more... Looking into her ball she tells you that the new album will be received well by the press, even the NME - whom Morrissey adorns the cover of twice in two months. "They even call him The Mozfather every week and want to be, like, his best mate" says the old woman.
    "I want my pound back you silly old witch!" you cry.
    But wait - she has one more view into the future;
    The second single from the album will also enter the UK chart in the top ten, even as high as six...
    "Right, that's it, I'm telling the council this fair should be shut down... you're all frauds - very bad frauds!" you scream and storm off home.

    Why are we bothered about a No.6 placing? AMAZING result for a second single - two higher than The More You Ignore Me -, well done Moz.
  • Moz, Erai!
    Anonymous -- Sunday July 18 2004, @08:09PM (#115602)
  • Looking at old moz on the charts, he is surrounded by artists half his age making booty music. ARTISTS HALF HIS AGE, MAKING DANCE MUSIC FOR PEOPLE WHO SHAKE THEIR BOOTIES. we should be extremely thankful that he's there at all. "first of the gang" is ridiculously at odds with anything else in the top 10, and it's an obvious testament to his cult following in the UK. there's no other way to explain how he could run with a group that includes the likes of Usher and Britney Spears, artists whose releases shoot for a much, much broader demographic and are purchased with little or no second thoughts in malls all over the country.
    Anonymous -- Sunday July 18 2004, @10:21PM (#115611)
  • does anybody know of a decent website that i can get a fotgtd ringtone from
    beni -- Monday July 19 2004, @01:33AM (#115627)
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  • 52,000 Shapeshifters (1)
    43,000 Rachel Stevens (2)

    19,000 J-Kwon (4)
    18,300 Jamelia (5)
    16,800 Morrissey (6)
    9,600 Flip & Fill (11)
    2,600 Nelly Furtado (40)

    cheers, moby
    Anonymous -- Monday July 19 2004, @05:30AM (#115660)
  • where are you, you little bugger?
    suzanne -- Monday July 19 2004, @07:18AM (#115670)
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    I scare dead people.
  • YATQ has gone back up the album chart (there has been a lot of TV advertising in the UK) to number 23 from 31 according to the BBC site. Tied in with a No. 6 placing we are living in a time of miracles.

    Can anyone remember how many weeks in the chart we are now on?
    Sonny Jim -- Monday July 19 2004, @09:29AM (#115688)
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  • Am I the only one who thinks that "First Of The Gang to Die" is a load of old tosh? It's a total rip off of Suede's "Trash", and vastly inferior at that. It almost makes Ouija Board, Ouija Board sound like a work of Wagnerian greatness, so I suppose it is an achievement of sorts.
    Deathwish -- Monday July 19 2004, @09:56AM (#115696)
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    Think of Shakespeare, think of me.
  • (the former yugoslav republic of...)

    "Antena Pet" (Radio 5) played FOTGTD today in the Republic of Macedonia, describing Mr. M as "very popular now in Europe!"

    I've been away for some years from the Western world, and these string of success is such a shock - who knows what's next...?

    Incidentally, YATQ is only available here as a pirated cd for about 1.50 euros. No, I didn't buy it! (I stole it fair and square from soulseek) Will get the real thing when I find it....

    anyway, just a shout out from the "3rd world"
    mattorefice <[email protected]> -- Monday July 19 2004, @10:31AM (#115704)
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    Leslie Towne Hope = Packy West
  • I think it is OK that he'sinnumber6,considering that it's not even here in the Philppines. (can u imagine that? his latest album is not even sld here, even in Tower records.. You have to request for it... Tangina!).. anywaqy, hi to Ara...:)

    Any Asian fan here?
    Anonymous -- Tuesday July 20 2004, @01:43AM (#115853)
  • Why I raped one just the other night. I jokingly called her a whore because she beat Moz to the top 5. Jeez, you need to lighten up.
    Anonymous -- Sunday July 18 2004, @04:36PM (#115573)
  • "It has happened once before: Viva Hate, where Suedehead & Everyday is Like Sunday both placed within the UK Top 10."

    Who made that comment, on this thread, before the user you moderated to -1 Redundant?
    Anonymous -- Sunday July 18 2004, @06:40PM (#115597)
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