Chart for stowaways – May 2021

May saw some reissues piling into the album chart – here’s the chart for 22 May:

1. Erasure – Chorus
2. The Human League – Octopus
3. The Future Sound of London – Cascade 2020
4. New Order – Education Entertainment Recreation
5. Pet Shop Boys – Discovery
6. Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune
7. Air – Love 2
8. Pet Shop Boys – Concrete
9. Erasure – Tomorrow’s World
10. Voodoo Child – The End of Everything

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Chart for stowaways – March 2021

March saw limited movement on the charts, with The Future Sound of London close to claiming half a year at the top spot on the album chart. Hopefully as the lockdown ends, things will start to liven up again, but here are the albums from the last week in March:

1. The Future Sound of London – Cascade 2020
2. Front Line Assembly – WarMech
3. Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
4. Pet Shop Boys – Battleship Potemkin (OST)
5. Étienne de Crécy – Super Discount 3
6. Deep Forest – Essence of the Forest
7. The Radiophonic Workshop – Burials in Several Earths
8. Apollo 440 – Millennium Fever
9. Sarah Nixey – Night Walks
10. Olive – Trickle

Chart for stowaways – February 2021

The singles have barely changed since Christmas, except for a slight peppering of oldies, but here they go anyway:

1. Tiësto – The Business
2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Enola Gay
3. Riton/Nightcrawlers/Mufasa – Friday
4. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
5. The Future Sound of London – Cascade
6. David Bowie – Mother
7. Jean-Michel Jarre – Oxygène (Part 10)
8. Grace – Not Over Yet
9. Depeche Mode – Master and Servant
10. Sparks – The Number One Song in Heaven

Chart for stowaways – January 2021

This may change soon, but the charts were a little slow during 2020, probably due to the seemingly never-ending lockdowns. Since January is always slow, so it was at the start of this year, but the albums are still a little different to how they looked the last time you saw them:

1. The Future Sound of London – Cascade 2020
2. Sarah Nixey – Night Walks
3. Front Line Assembly – WarMech
4. Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot
5. Jean Michel Jarre – Welcome to the Other Side
6. Camouflage – Relocated
7. Goldfrapp – Black Cherry
8. Air – Pocket Symphony
9. Honeyroot – Sound Echo Location
10. Röyksopp – Melody am

Chart for stowaways – Albums 2020

Here are the top albums for last year:

1. Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot
2. The Beloved – Where it Is
3. The Future Sound of London – Cascade 2020
4. Sparks – Past Tense – The Best Of (climbing from number 5 in 2019)
5. The Beloved – Happiness
6. Sparks – Gratuitous Sax & Senseless Violins (climbing from number 7 in 2019)
7. Sparks – A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip
8. Erasure – The Neon
9. Caribou – Suddenly
10. Sarah Nixey – Night Walks
11. Depeche Mode – Spirits In The Forest
12. Kraftwerk – 3-D Der Katalog (number 5 in 2017)
13. Hot Chip – A Bath Full Of Ecstasy (falling from number 1 in 2019)
14. Front Line Assembly – WarMech
15. The Human League – The Essential
16. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (falling from number 12 in 2019)
17. Joy Division – Closer
18. Pet Shop Boys – PopArt
19. The Orb – Abolition Of The Royal Familia
20. David Bowie – I’m Only Dancing (The Soul Tour ’74)

Chart for Stowaways – Singles 2020

I meant to post these last week, but managed to forget (sorry!) but here are the top Singles for stowaways, from 2020:

1. Pet Shop Boys – West End girls (primarily driven by the New Lockdown Version)
2. The Future Sound of London – Cascade (primarily driven by the new versions on Cascade 2020)
3. The Beloved – Grin
4. Pet Shop Boys – Will-o-the-wisp
5. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Crying at the Discotheque
6. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Enola Gay
7. Pet Shop Boys – Happy people
8. Sparks – Lawnmower
9. The Beloved – Forever Dancing
10. New Order – Be A Rebel
11. Pet Shop Boys – I don’t wanna
12. Kylie Minogue – Magic
13. Pet Shop Boys – Monkey Business
14. The Beloved – If Only
15. Frances Barber & Pet Shop Boys – Musik (Original Cast Recording) – EP (falling from number 2 in 2019)
16. Tiësto – The Business
17. David Bowie – Alabama Song
18. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Almost (falling from number 7 in 2019)
19. Pet Shop Boys – My beautiful laundrette
20. Scotts/Travis Scott/Kid Cudi – The Scotts

Chart for stowaways – Christmas 2020

Christmas charts the world over are showing some strange entries this year, and the Chart for stowaways is no exception. Here are the singles:

1. The Future Sound of London – Cascade
2. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Enola Gay
3. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
4. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Crying at the Discotheque
5. New Order – Be A Rebel
6. Tiesto – The Business
7. Saint Etienne – I Was Born on Christmas Day
8. Kylie Minogue – Magic
9. Erasure – Crackers International EP
10. Röyksopp – Le Cantique de Noël

Chart for stowaways – November 2020

November saw The Future Sound of London firmly lodged at the top of the single and album charts for stowaways with their wonderful Cascade 2020 album and track. The rest of the chart saw relatively little movement, but here are the albums from the third week in the month:

1. The Future Sound of London – Cascade 2020
2. Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot
3. The Beloved – Happiness
4. The Beloved – Where it Is
5. Faithless – All Blessed
6. Pet Shop Boys – PopArt
7. Depeche Mode – The Best Of – Vol 1
8. Depeche Mode – Spirits In The Forest
9. Depeche Mode – The Singles 86-98
10. Various Artists – The Best of “O” Records, Vol. 2

Chart for stowaways – October 2020

Both charts in October was dominated by the return of The Future Sound of London, with Cascade 2020 holding the top spot on the album chart for the whole month, and the single Cascade finally knocking Pet Shop Boys‘ West End girls off the top of the singles half way through the month.

There was some back catalogue drama on the albums meanwhile, as demonstrated by this top ten from October 24th:

1. The Future Sound of London – Cascade 2020
2. Pet Shop Boys – Hotspot
3. The Beloved – Happiness
4. The Beloved – Where it Is
5. Kraftwerk – Die Mensch-Maschine
6. Various Artists – The Best of “O” Records, Vol. 1
7. Depeche Mode – Spirits In The Forest
8. Various Artists – The Best of “O” Records, Vol. 2
9. Kraftwerk – Computerwelt
10. Kraftwerk – Techno Pop

Chart for stowaways – September 2020

September started with Pet Shop Boys retaking the top of the singles chart with their lockdown version of West End girls, who then held onto the top slot for the whole of the month. The albums, meanwhile, belonged again to The Beloved, who held the top with their reissued Happiness for the whole month too.

Here are the top singles from September 19th:

1. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
2. The Beloved – Your Love Takes Me Higher
3. New Order – Be A Rebel
4. Sparks – Self-Effacing
5. Kylie Minogue – Say Something
6. Erasure – Shot A Satellite
7. Sparks – Onomato Pia
8. Jean-Michel Jarre – The Heart of Noise
9. Sparks – Please Don’t Fuck Up My World
10. Pet Shop Boys – My beautiful laundrette