The Wildhearts

Just come across a site called http://www.everyhit.com where you can search the UK top 40 database. After putting in our boys I got reults of every hit (that bit really shocked me!! ) that they have had with chart position and date. I know there is the history but dont think it covers this so thought someone may be interested!


Position Artist Title Date
31 Wildhearts Caffeine Bomb Feb 1994
38 Wildhearts Suckerpunch Jul 1994
31 Wildhearts If Life Is Like A Love Bank I Want An Overdraft / Geordie In Wonderland Jan 1995
16 Wildhearts I Wanna Go Where The People Go May 1995
28 Wildhearts Just In Lust Jul 1995
14 Wildhearts Sick Of Drugs Apr 1996
30 Wildhearts Red Light - Green Light (EP) Jun 1996
21 Wildhearts Anthem Aug 1997
26 Wildhearts Urge Oct 1997
26 Wildhearts Vanilla Radio Oct 2002
17 Wildhearts Stormy In The North Karma In The South Feb 2003
22 Wildhearts So Into You May 2003
26 Wildhearts Top Of The World Nov 2003

If you expand it a bit, it spits out...

6 Wildhearts P.H.U.Q. Album Jun 1995
16 Wildhearts Fishing For Luckies Album Jun 1996

...too.

Don't know what happened to the others though - or TV Tan?

Are you sure it made the top 40?

(I have no idea myself)

For some reason I always though I Wanna Go got to number 2

Some chart positions outside top 40 (+ FFL):

46 Earth vs. (released 9/93)
53 TV Tan (11/93)
16 Fishing For Luckies (5/96)
41 Endless Nameless (10/97)

Arabiandisco wrote:Are you sure it made the top 40?

(I have no idea myself)

You can change the chart size to pretty much any number you want - They officially count the top 200, but whether that site has access to anything outside the top 40 is open to question after fiffiff's post.

Ean wrote:If you expand it a bit, it spits out...

6 Wildhearts P.H.U.Q. Album Jun 1995
16 Wildhearts Fishing For Luckies Album Jun 1996

...too.

Don't know what happened to the others though - or TV Tan?

OK so I just did the singles rather than the albums! Should have known one of you smart arses would outdo me!

I thought "I wanna Go.." reached number 12. Not bad really, all of them clearly deserve higher but that's an old complaint.

Number 6 for PHUQ is a great achievement, I remember being so happy when I saw it that high up in the charts. I'd like to know how many copies each sold, that would be interesting.

The early singles would have placed higher if they had done the 3 formats thing too.

Jason_scorching_past wrote:The early singles would have placed higher if they had done the 3 formats thing too.

I doubt it - everyone else would have been doing the multiformat thing too, so it probably wouldn't have made much of a difference.

Ean wrote:

Jason_scorching_past wrote:The early singles would have placed higher if they had done the 3 formats thing too.

I doubt it - everyone else would have been doing the multiformat thing too, so it probably wouldn't have made much of a difference.

But wasn't everyone else doing it at the time? I just remember The WIldhearts made a big thing about having the same b-sides on whatever format you buy, so you only had to buy the single once. Maybe that was more around the 'I Wanna Go..' era though, that they were fairly unique in doing that.

Some bands were doing it, but I think it was possibly just to pre-empt the changes to the singles chart rules that they all knew were coming - When the eligible format and running time was dropped from: up to 4 tracks/25 minutes, down to: up to 3 tracks/20 minutes, thus essentially killing the EP as a chart bothering entity.

This rule has fairly recently been rescinded (to 4 different tracks & any number of remixes of the lead track/25 minutes) in an attempt to bring back the EP and revive the singles chart - so back to the EP, 7", 12" versions hopefully .

The great thing for me at the time (of IWGWTPG, etc.) was The Wildhearts where delivering new recorded songs and the same ones where available over all the formats. So as somebody said you only needed to buy one CD (unless you where a dedicated collector of the formats). I've always bought all the songs, and not been bothered about the formats.

Most other bands at the time released b-sides of remixes, radio edits, album versions, live versions of popular older songs, cover versions, etc. Therefore to collect all the songs meant buying all the formats. So this non multi-formatting was fairly unique to The Wildhearts.

Saying that on later WH single releases the evil multi-formatting came in on 'Vanilla Radio', 'Stormy...', etc. And at the time we didn't know that a compliation B-side CD was on the cards 'Coupled With', so that's probably why some of later ones did quite well on the charts.

I think the internet has more or less killed this practice of record companies getting the most money out of fans as possible, but maybe I'll wrong as I mostly download my music, although I still love CDs of my favourite artists.