Michael Jackson’s The Essential is still sitting at the top of the UK albums chart this week.
It is the fifth week that the two disc compilation is number one in the chart, having previously replaced another Jackson collection, Number Ones.
Surprisingly, debuting at number five are 80s boy band A-Ha with ‘Foot On The Mountain’.
The top ten albums in full:
1. (1) Michael Jackson: ‘The Essential’
2. (2) Florence and the Machine: ‘Lungs’
3. (8) Black Eyed Peas: ‘The E.N.D.’
4. (4) Paolo Nutini: ‘Sunny Side Up’
5. (-) A-ha: ‘Foot Of The Mountain’
6. (3) Lady GaGa: ‘The Fame’
7. (5) La Roux: ‘La Roux’
8. (7) Michael Jackson & The Jackson Five: ‘The Motown Years’
9. (10) Kasabian: ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’
10. (9) Noisettes: ‘Wild Young Hearts’
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Foot of the Mountain is the best album of this Year. The title track single is a powerful hit track! Listen to The Bandstand, an instant classic, a perfect song! A-ha is back! A great return!
Boy band ?
Not quite:
1. they were not boys, but already in their 20’s when they had their first hit.
2. they were not a manufactored group, put together by some producer.
3. they wrote all their own music and played their own instruments.
4 .they never did any (synchronised) dancing.
So: not a boyband by any definition.
objection to the term boy band:
1. they were not boys, but already in their 20’s when they had their first hit.
2. they write all their own music and play their own instruments.
3. they never did any choreographed dancing.
4. they were not a manufactored group put together by some producer or manager.
So: not a boy band by any definition.