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So, what news from the battlezone?
Desperate retailers were pitching it as the biggest chart battle since Blur v Oasis in the singles charts - indeed, HMV's Gennaro Castaldo considered the release of Please Make It Stop by Oasis and U2EGO such a clash of the titans, they were ordering enormous cardboard cut-outs of Bono and Gallagher to sit by the doorway.
So, who came out top?
Erm, Westlife.
Oasis did limp in at number two, but U2 had to make do with four, behind The pointless Beatles remix album done to soundtrack some sort of circus.
That HMV thought U2 v Oasis was the key event of the week perhaps suggests how far they've lost sight of what matters to their customers. Giant Gallagher-Vox displays were about as relevant to the marketplace as if the Daily Sketch had reported the Second World War in terms of skirmishes between Italy and Canada.
2 comments:
I like the JK and Joel picture on the album chart page you linked to above, they look like they're both vomiting at the sheer hilarity of their wacky japes!
I don't suppose it's much of an excuse, but if they'd put up cardboard cutouts of Westlife nobody would recognise them. Except Westlife fans who'd be wondering why they looked so much more vivacious than usual.
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