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ultratop.be - ULTRATOP BELGIAN CHARTS
# -1 W Artist
Title
Label
Company
HP Download
115
Madonna & Justin
4 Minutes
MAVERICK
WARNER
1
229
dEUS
The Architect
UNIVERSAL
UNIVERSAL
2
3410
Duffy
Mercy
A&M
UNIVERSAL
3
4512
Moby
Disco Lies
MUTE
EMI
4
51
Katerine
Shut Your Mouth
MOSTIKO
CNR
5
669
Sandrine
I Feel The Same Way
TEG
EMI
2
7124
Estelle feat. Kanye West
American Boy
WARNER BROS.
WARNER
7
879
Flo Rida feat. T-Pain
Low
ATLANTIC
WARNER
7
91315
Colbie Caillat
Bubbly
REPUBLIC
UNIVERSAL
2
10917
Leona Lewis
Bleeding Love

SYCO
SONY BMG
1

Ultratop is the official Belgian music chart. Like the Dutch Single Top 100 it is composed solely by record sales and dowloads. But there are two versions! French and Dutch. The Ultratop 50 is for the Flemish part, the Ultratop 40 for the French part.

Despite the language overlap and geographic closeness between the Netherlands and Flanders, releases are timed completely differently. Which is good for business, at least on the short term.

Belgians also have a better taste in music...

dEUS is the first Belgian band in here. They emerged during the mid-nineties making a crazy kind of stop-go jazz infused rock music. See Suds & Soda, Hotellounge and Theme From Turnpike, which opened as a short for Trainspotting in many European countries. Towards the end of the ninetees they mellowed out a bit. The Architect is quite catchy and still manages to be smart.

Moby seems to have been released a bit late in Flanders, but he's gotten the highest position here so far. The song has a great video. Otherwise I don't really know what the point of it is. If you put the nice enough singing aside it's really the same stuff Moby has been doing for ages.

Katerine is a Belgian starlet who won one of these teevee casting shows once. The song has OK production, but she's singing too much, which ruins it.

Sandrine entered that song for Eurovision but it did not get through. She's doing fine in the charts as a consolation. The Same Way is aiming to be Amy Winehouse-like but it ends up being closer to Des'ree.

Here's the video for The Architect:

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 05:09:34 AM EST
Thanks for introducing me to dEUS! There is some Bloody Valentine in the first song you link, some U2 in the second (or maybe it's just the video), and the third is again different. (Didn't see Turnpike either.) And the Architect again.

Regarding Moby, I observe the same about Coldplay.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 02:05:10 PM EST
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Yes, I went to Youtube to hear the new Coldplay since it appeared in the UK chart this week and it was very difficult to distinguish from any other Coldplay song.
by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 03:09:21 PM EST
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Great song, great video - and a song in the charts about Buckminster Fuller.

There is no bad here.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Sun May 18th, 2008 at 10:44:17 PM EST
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