World of Chig   

12.1.05
It's Over



It's hopeless. The midweek sales figures reveal that Elvis Presley's 'One Night'/'I Got Stung' is outselling all other singles this week by a humungous margin (9:1 over the Manics in some stores). This leaves Chig kicking himself that he didn't put money on it being the 1,000th number one back in early December, when he said this might happen.) As you read this, teams of reporters are being sent to the moon, Loch Ness, McDonalds in Billericay and all the other places that Elvis has been sighted since 1977, in the hope that he will give an interview on Sunday when he clinches this piece of chart history.

One for the numerologists and devil-worshippers: Did anyone notice that the two highest new entries this week, apart from both being re-issues of very old hits ('Jailhouse Rock' and Iron Maiden's 'The Number Of The Beast'), had another connection? Elvis was the 999th number one, and if you turn that number upside-down, you get....the number of the beast itself! Spooky.

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