Oh No Patrol!
On this years Annual Between Christmas And New Year Pub Crawl on the 20th December in the Borough region we saw a poster. A giant, huge poster for Snow Patrol’s Eyes Open saying it was the biggest selling album of 2006. Pshaw, pooh pooh, we pooh-poohed.
Well it was. Eyes Open sold more albums than anything else last year, even the reformed Take That. And its managed to do this by dipping completely below my radar, to the extent that I don’t even get really annoyed by ver Patrol as I might have done with Coldplay. It just seems really bizarre.
Not as bizarre as this little titbit leaked by Popjustice: Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol is the best track OF ALL TIME, according to Virgin Radio listeners. You can see the list here and then marvel at the fact that the second best song of ALL TIME is Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls.
How can there be a top 500 peaked by two songs I don’t even know? Have I lost it or is Virgin Radio broadcasting some sort of parallel universe? And can the inhabitants get stuck there like Rose did in Doctor Who. Preferably with Cybermen?
Pete Baran in FT • 652 views
if you watched any freeview music channels any time during the year you would have seen that cars song video about 500x every day. never heard of the other one tho
IRIS? it’s about 10 years old, and not terrible or obscure, but very of-it’s-time. I suspect the hand of ads in this.
Even more than James Blunt?
Great. That helps me like them a bit more.
Iris was covered by Ronan Keating this year.
That may be the worst list I’ve ever seen – and the whitest. Almost all male, and Bob Marley and Tracy Chapman (!) are the only non-white acts in the top 100.
It is a hideous list. Blondie is the only woman in the top 50!If it were a parallel universe, one would imagine it would die out very quickly due to lack of genetic stock and, er, women.
The album cover says it all. BEIGE AND GREY.
Altho Blunt’s album cover was a multicoloured dreamcoat so theory doesn’t really hold.
Ashes to Ashes is Virgin listerners’ favourite Bowie song too!