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ChartBlog

About Me

Welcome to the ChartBlog , a place which aims to be less another lost corner of the interwebnet and more a friend, confidante, elder sibling and musical teddy bear to anyone with a love of the most popular records in the land.

Come on over and see... www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog

Lots of love,

Fraser (Team ChartBlog)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/01/2007
Band Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog
Band Members: Team ChartBlog Are:
Fraser M ChartBlog
Steve P ChartBlog
Vicki L ChartBlog
Hazel R ChartBlog

Influences: Top of the Pops, Radio 1, Smash Hits ('80s), NME ('90s), Popworld ('00s), Kerrang!, the Onion, Top of the Pops Online, the Day Today, and most importantly, talking to grumpy teenagers about music...
Sounds Like: 1: A tree falling in the forest (onto a squeaky frog)
2: A chicken, or an egg (we can't agree which).
3: One hand clapping (on a bald man's forehead).
Record Label: BBC Radio 1
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

The Week In Blog Form

This last week has been all about going to the Brit Awards, enthusing wildly about the Ting Tings, being confused by Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and talking to Los Campesinos! about a sad horse. Next...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 04:35:00 GMT

ChartBlog At The Brits

Tomorrow night, I'll be blogging live from the press area of the Brit Awards. Which means I'll be mere feet away from Sir Paul McCartney, Amy Winehouse, the Klaxons, Rihanna and Chris Moyles. Yo...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:24:00 GMT

Blog Party - Rihanna's Studio Diary

  It's widely accepted now that 'Umbrella' is the finest example of a pop song that we have seen in many a long, Mika-riddled month. It's got poise, it's got class, it's got sadness, it's got war...
Posted by on Thu, 24 May 2007 09:21:00 GMT

A Week In Bloggery

Marshall Mathers And His Marital Matters There are times when showbiz is just the funnest place in the entire world. And not just those times when bad things are happening to people whose work is not...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:05:00 GMT

The Sounds Of Music

It seems that a professor from Salford University has been doing some research to try and find out the worst sound in the world ever. His results are very interesting, in that they sort of mirror how ...
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:46:00 GMT

FightStarter - Your Thoughts PLEASE...

Apparently, music fans are among the most passionate, the most vocal, and the most argumentitive groups of people in the whole world. And this is largely because if someone is telling you that McFly a...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:08:00 GMT

Zpelling Rools!

Pop music has always been for youthful fizz and against being boring, right? And one of the most boring things a person can do is bang on about spelling. I mean, come on, everyone knows that the best ...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:51:00 GMT

Fall Out Boy - Your Questions Answered

The task was simple. Ask a load of Fall Out Boy fans for the questions they would most like to ask Patrick Stump, the band's elasti-throated, fret-busting singer. Then compile a list of the most inte...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 00:46:00 GMT

The Prize Is Right?

There are some traditions that just never die. Halloween, Guy Fawkes night, morris dancing, forgetting the name of who won last year's X Factor (was it that Brookstein bloke? G4?), all these things ar...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:27:00 GMT

An Embarrassment Of Richies

There now follows a short lecture by Professor Madge Rich, one which you English students will find both informative and useful. Everyone else, you'll just have to enjoy it for other reasons. Now, hav...
Posted by on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:35:00 GMT