The Charts Stats

[Carps1000]

I have found in my fritless efforts for charts of the Cs LPs in archive charts here in the UK This useful site. Its called Chart Stats & gives out all the Cs singles that made the UK charts from 1970 - 200---- & incldes the progress each single made during its stay in the charts here. It only gives out the last 2 LPs as I do beleive it is a rather new site & the guy running it said he hadnt gotten around to doing LPs further back than 2000 when I emailed him whineing for this info. The singles bit is fab tho & makes xcellent reading. Most of all Cs singles that charted high actually rooooooarrrred up the charts jumping very high leaps even such songs like Need 2 b in love and Santa Claus is Com.... tho unfortunately thos 2 didnt get very high here which is real strange considering in their 1st 2 or so weeks they roared up the bottom end but then suddenly stopped in their tracks & with the xception of T O T World fell out again. Post mans last 3 rises were 15- 8- 2 & most thought No1 the 4th week but it went down 1 place. Jambalayou 40 - 19 then 18 & 12 then down 1 place. Incredible!!! Just wish I could find an album chart in the same vein as this. Its worth a look & if u do look it up type in Carpenters in the lists of artists ( I no u aint gonna type in Blondie r u ) but just try it & see. Im still trying to get why SING which is one of the most requested songs played on radio over here didnt even go Top 75 here despite being so popular.Ken carps1000

[Rick Henry]

Hey... I'll check out Blondie's chart run in the UK - I love their music. I'll proabably check out David Bowie and Pretenders also - but of course after Carpenters.

In the 70's Carpenters had such a large and strong fan base that their singles would zoom up the charts in it's initial first two or three weeks - because all the die-hards would go out and buy the singles. Certain songs would phase-out quick due to lack of interest beyond the die-hard fans.

By the way you can check out Carpenters worldwide chart positions (only peak position) here on The Carpenters Online at (Scroll down to the tenth post and you'll get chart positions in Japan) : carponline.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=history&action=display&thread=1102619559