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.

28/2 1998 week 9 #233

 
 
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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).

 
 


After 4 weeks at #1 The Merrymakers lose their top position to Regina Lund. At the moment I have no album that must make it all way. It means that in next weeks it can change a lot at the top position (maybe or maybe not). But there are albums the certainly will hit #1 position but they are not released yet. The albums that I'm thinking of are the new albums by Heather Nova (released soon) and Cowboy junkies (released in April).

If you look at the chart you will see two new entries at #23 and #25. At #23 is the latest album by Jules Shear called Between us. The album contains of 15 songs that Jules makes a duet with various people. Two of my favorite artists are among them Rosanne Cash and Margo Timmins (of Cowboy junkies). The other new entry is Tanya Donelly with her album from last year. It took a time before decided to buy it. Both these albums may make it to the top 10. In the top 10 there are two new albums the highest is Nationalteatern at #5 and the other is Luscious Jackson at #10.

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
3
3
1
9
Regina Lund Unique
2
2
2
1
12
The Sundays Static & silence
3
1
1
1
4
The Merrymakers Bubblegun
4
8
8
1
33
Rainbirds Making memory
5
16
21
5
4
Nationalteatern Greatest hits
6
4
14
4
5
Marie Fredriksson Efter stormen
7
7
6
6
9
Cocteau twins Garlands
8
9
9
8
31
John Hiatt Stolen moments
9
6
5
4
7
Merril Bainbridge The garden
10
18
23
10
3
Luscious Jackson In search of Manny
11
5
4
1
51
Fra lippo lippi The best of F.L.L 85-95
12
15
16
12
6
The Mopeds The hills are alive with the sound of mopeds
13
10
10
1
12
'Til Tuesday Coming up close - a retrospective
14
19
22
1
33
Indigo girls Shaming of the sun
15
14
11
1
20
Rainbirds Forever
16
11
12
6
9
John Hiatt Little head
17
17
15
2
40
Souls Bird fish or inbeetween
18
12
7
6
74
Suzanne Vega Suzanne Vega
19
23
33
1
67
Cowboy junkies Lay it down
20
13
13
5
7
Jewel Pieces of you
21
20
18
8
87
'Til Tuesday Everything is different now
22
21
20
1
50
Sarah McLachlan Fumbling towards ecstasy
23
NY
-
23
0
Jules Shear Between us
24
27
35
1
160
Cowboy junkies Black eyed man
25
NY
-
25
0
Tanya Donelly Lovesongs for underdogs
26
22
17
5
15
The Pretenders Learning to crawl
27
24
19
9
67
Aimee Mann I'm with stupid
28
25
24
1
37
Prefab sprout Andromeda heights
29
26
25
4
15
Madonna Something to remember
30
28
32
1
161
Aimee Mann Whatever
31
30
31
1
29
Max Sharam A million year girl
32
29
26
1
31
Sarah McLachlan Surfacing
33
37
43
10
35
Fra lippo lippi The color album
34
31
29
1
68
Maria McKee Life is sweet
35
34
30
4
97
Heather Nova Oyster
36
35
37
29
9
Eagle-eye Cherry Desireless
37
36
36
1
142
Suzanne Vega 99.9 F
38
45
56
12
32
Sophie Zelmani Sophie Zelmani
39
38
38
1
166
Indigo girls Rites of passage
40
32
27
4
46
Sheryl Crow Sheryl Crow
41
42
46
17
32
Stina Nordenstam Dynamite
42
33
28
3
37
Honey is cool Crazy love
43
40
39
1
99
Veruca salt American thighs
44
50
50
1
138
Rainbirds Two faces
45
39
34
3
46
Rosanne Cash 10 song demo
46
41
40
14
18
Patti Smith Horses
47
79
88
47
3
Various artists Tom's album
48
47
44
5
89
Cocteau twins Blue bell knoll
49
44
45
8
34
The Cardigans Life
50
57
58
50
63
The Clash London calling
51
49
42
1
37
Veruca Salt Eight arms to hold you
52
55
54
1
133
Rainbirds Call me easy say I'm strong...
53
51
48
6
16
Lush Lovelife
54
46
47
2
48
Suzanne Vega Nine objects of desire
55
48
51
3
105
'Til Tuesday Welcome home
56
43
41
1
32
Jill Sobule Happy town
57
52
53
3
130
Indigo girls Indigo girls
58
63
83
1
140
Cowboy junkies Pale sun crescent moon
59
54
52
1
60
Cocteau twins Milk & kisses
60
53
49
32
69
Fra lippo lippi Songs
61
58
57
1
106
Fra lippo lippi Dreams
62
59
63
1
39
Cowboy junkies Studio
63
60
61
1
133
Sheryl Crow Tuesday night music club
64
62
66
3
139
The Beatles 1962 - 66
65
66
72
1
93
Rainbirds In a different light
66
65
67
7
151
Cowboy junkies The Trinity session
67
61
69
7
27
Reeperbahn 1979 - 1983
68
67
68
3
101
Julia Fordham Julia Fordham
69
64
60
1
18
Mutts Mutts
70
68
64
1
81
Indigo girls 4.5
71
56
55
2
35
Sara Isaksson Walking through and by
72
70
71
1
81
Julia Fordham Porcelain
73
69
62
50
21
The Cardigans Emmerdale
74
73
75
5
44
Heather Nova Glow stars
75
76
79
75
13
The The Hanky panky

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.

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