Fredrik's album chart



Welcome to my album chart. The chart has nothing to do with any sales of the records. My chart shows every week what is my favourite albums at the moment. The main criteria are for be on the chart is that I have the album on CD or tape. The only thing that matters is my feelings about the record. The chart is purely based on my personal taste. Important is if I been listening to the album lately. If I also like it surely will rise on the chart. Sometime ago this chart was nominate as site of the day on the Swedish newspaper 'Expressen' site. You can check it out here.

At the moment I about to rearrange how this page a bit. I hope that it will in the end be a better page than it was.

Sometimes you might notice that albums that are not that new are high on the chart. One example is Sheryl Crow with her second album, the reason that Sheryl took over 52 weeks to reach the top position is that it took me sometime to discover what a great album it really was.

14/2 1998 Week 7 #231

 
 
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There have been over 250 charts since the first one back in 1991. The first chart #1 one the chart was Rainbirds with their third album "Two faces". It only stayed one week at number one before Rainbirds second album went to the #1 as a new entry. Over the years Rainbirds have had 7 number ones on my chart. The artist that has spent most week with one album is Sarah McLachlan. Her album "Fumbling towards ecstasy" stayed 12 weeks at #1 back in 1996. This year Heather Nova has with her third album "Siren" been the longest at #1 with 8 week (w.23-30).

 
 
The Merrymakers

#1 this weeks

This week I will only include a brief comment. For the third week Merrymakers stay on the #1 position. The question is if they will be #1 next also. If I look at their contenders for the #1 position there not much that would argue against Merrymakers staying there. In the rest of the chart, Fra lippo lippi makes a recovery after last weeks dropl.

News

This week there are a new feature on my chart. The feature is that every album with a raise or drop of more than two chart points have been shown in column IDAG (Red raise and blue means drop). Another new feature is that every album outside the top 75 that have a rise with over 2 charts points are shown in the section Just under the chart.



IDAG = today FV = last week 2V = two weeks ago

BP = peek position on the chart ANT.V. = number of weeks on the chart

Red = New entry (NY) Green = Re entry (RE)Bold = a climber on the chart (in IDAG)

IDAG
FV
2V
BP
ANT.V
ARTIST TITEL
1
1
1
1
2
The Merrymakers Bubblegun
2
3
2
1
10
The Sundays Static & silence
3
2
3
1
7
Regina Lund Unique
4
11
4
1
49
Fra lippo lippi The best of F.L.L 85-95
5
4
7
4
5
Merril Bainbridge The garden
6
7
10
6
7
Cocteau twins Garlands
7
6
13
6
72
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega
8
13
14
1
31
Rainbirds Making memory
9
12
11
9
29
John Hiatt Stolen moments
10
9
6
1
10
'Til Tuesday Coming up close - a retrospective
11
8
9
1
18
Rainbirds Forever
12
10
8
6
7
John Hiatt Little head
13
5
5
5
5
Jewel Pieces of you
14
20
53
14
3
Marie Fredriksson Efter stormen
15
14
15
2
38
Souls Bird fish or inbeetween
16
21
22
16
4
The Mopeds The hills are alive with the sound of mopeds
17
15
12
5
13
The Pretenders Learning to crawl
18
19
18
8
85
'Til Tuesday Everything is different now
19
16
16
9
65
Aimee Mann I'm with stupid
20
17
20
1
48
Sarah McLachlan Fumbling towards ecstasy
21
27
45
21
2
Nationalteatern Greatest hits
22
18
17
1
31
Indigo girls Shaming of the sun
23
32
NY
23
1
Luscious Jackson In search of Manny
24
23
21
1
35
Prefab sprout Andromeda heights
25
22
19
4
13
Madonna Something to remember
26
24
23
1
29
Sarah McLachlan Surfacing
27
25
24
4
44
Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow
28
26
25
3
35
Honey is cool Crazy love
29
33
28
1
66
Maria McKee Life is sweet
30
30
26
4
95
Heather Nova Oyster
31
31
30
1
27
Max Sharam A million year girl
32
38
38
1
159
Aimee Mann Whatever
33
36
33
1
65
Cowboy junkies Lay it down
34
28
27
3
44
Rosanne Cash 10 song demo
35
39
44
1
158
Cowboy junkies Black eyed man
36
56
57
1
140
Suzanne Vega 99.9 F
37
29
29
29
7
Eagle-eye Cherry Desireless
38
37
35
1
164
Indigo girls Rites of passage
39
34
32
1
97
Veruca salt American thighs
40
40
37
14
16
Patti Smith Horses
41
35
31
1
30
Jill Sobule Happy town
42
41
36
1
35
Veruca Salt Eight arms to hold you
43
61
60
10
33
Fra lippo lippi The color album
44
44
40
5
87
Cocteau twins Blue bell knoll
45
43
41
8
32
The Cardigans Life
46
42
34
17
30
Stina Nordenstam Dynamite
47
46
46
2
46
Suzanne Vega Nine objects of desire
48
45
39
6
14
Lush Lovelife
49
52
51
32
67
Fra lippo lippi Songs
50
54
66
1
136
Rainbirds Two faces
51
49
54
3
103
'Til Tuesday Welcome home
52
47
50
1
58
Cocteau twins Milk & kisses
53
50
52
3
128
Indigo girls Indigo girls
54
59
61
1
131
Rainbirds Call me easy say I'm strong...
55
48
47
2
33
Sara Isaksson Walking through and by
56
57
49
12
30
Sophie Zelmani Sophie Zelmani
57
58
55
1
104
Fra lippo lippi Dreams
58
65
64
58
61
The Clash London calling
59
51
42
34
27
Black Wonderful life
60
55
43
1
16
Mutts Mutts
61
66
63
1
131
Sheryl Crow Tuesday night music club
62
60
59
50
19
The Cardigans Emmerdale
63
62
58
1
37
Cowboy junkies Studio
64
63
62
1
79
Indigo girls 4.5
65
53
48
1
13
Enya Paint the sky with stars
66
67
65
3
137
The Beatles 1962 - 66
67
69
71
7
149
Cowboy junkies The Trinity session
68
68
67
3
99
Julia Fordham Julia Fordham
69
85
96
7
25
Reeperbahn 1979 - 1983
70
70
73
5
30
Texas White on blond
71
74
76
1
79
Julia Fordham Porcelain
72
73
72
1
91
Rainbirds In a different light
73
72
70
12
116
Cocteau twins Heaven or Las Vegas
74
71
69
17
103
Cocteau twins The pink opaque
75
78
79
5
42
Heather Nova Glow stars

Big climbers outside the chart

Another new feature is that every album outside the top 75 that have a rise with over 2 charts points are shown in the section Big climbers outside the chart.

IDAG
FV
2V
BP
ANT.V
ARTIST TITEL
88
115
NY
88
1
Various artists Tom's album
113
120
118
1
91
RainbirdsRainbirds
128
140
RE
4
27
Sarah McLachlan Touch
134
149
151
1
40
Marie Fredriksson Den ständiga resan
139
152
169
1
85
Portishead Dummy
158
166
165
15
35
David Baerwald Bedtime stories
165
176
NY
165
1
Nationalteatern Livet är en fest
175
198
RE
3
31
SaltAuscultate
189
NY
-
189
0
Beverly Jo Scott Honey & hurricanes
192
RE
-
30
13
Katrina and the waves Waves

This was compiled by Fredrik Eklund ©1998. The chart shows every week what is my favorite albums. The main criteria are for be on the chart is that I have the album on CD or tape. The only thing that matters is my feelings about the record. The chart is purely based on my personal taste.

This chart was published on the internet 980215
This page was created 980923
This page was last update 980923
You are visitor on this page since 980923.

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