The Guinness British Hit Singles and Albums book comes out each year, and ranks artists according to how many weeks they’ve spent on the British charts (singles and albums). The leader of the top 100 is Elvis, with 2463 weeks.
If Radiohead stays on the charts this year, they may be able to crack the top 100…if they top the fellow “closers” running alongside them…Britney Spears, Eminem, Westlife, and Iron Maiden.
Hey- the guys are on a break, what do you want? Perhaps you should play outside for a bit?
Seriously, things are slow on the Radiohead front these days, and therefore the GP news page moves a bit slow as well. As always, when something of note occurs, we’ll be right here, so keep checking in.
Month: January 2005
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$24,370 and counting.
The Politick Tsunami Fundraiser has shattered the goal of $20,000 and raised $24,370 in a little more than four days. This would not have been possible without the support of the Radiohead online community…according to what limited stats I can drag up (these are sketchy at best), I’d estimate over $15,000 worth of those donations are from Radiohead fans, $10,000 from GP readers alone.
Phenomenal. Keep it coming- nothing would make me happier than to hit $100,000, although that’s going to take some work. You game?
I’m dumbfounded. You all are amazing.
The Radiohead community is generally thought of as intelligent, thoughtful, and caring. Put generous on the list- in just 24 hours, readers of GP and At Ease (mainly GP, according to the referrer stats) have donated nearly $2000 to help the victims of the South Asian tsunamis.
Amazing.
Once again, while we’re not collecting donations ourselves, we are trying to keep a running tally of the online community’s donations. If you donate, to any organization, please send an email to donations@politick.info, inserting the amount you donated in the subject line. Please let me know if it’s pounds, euros, dollars or cents, and please spread the word. You guys and gals continue to amaze me.