"Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" comes in at #2 for the week in the UK.

[reformist2]

http://www.officialcharts.com/music-charts/

http://www.apple.com/euro/itunes/charts/top10songs.html

[Dawson Leery]

1. kick

[Spirochete]

2. Followed closely by

"Don't Cry For Me, Argentina"

[malaise]

7. Did you see the response from the Argentine Foreign Minister?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/11/argentina-responds-thatcher-funeral-snub
<snip>
The Argentinian government has broken its official silence and shrugged off news that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will not be invited to the funeral of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.

"What do I care if I'm not invited somewhere that I wasn't planning on going?" said the foreign minister, Héctor Timerman. "It's just another provocation."

Argentina's aspirations to regain the islands it calls Las Malvinas had remained largely dormant until current President Kirchner and her foreign minister, Timerman, started a campaign at international forums such as the UN. They have also been giving incendiary speeches at home demanding sovereignty for Argentina, which claims it inherited the islands from Spain when it became independent in 1816.

Timerman also dismissed the idea that the capital of the islands, Port Stanley, be renamed Port Margaret. "I don't care if they want to call it Port Margaret, Margarita or Margarona, neither Argentina or the United Nations recognise it," he said. "They keep violating resolutions of the United Nations. Then they use the same resolutions to go bomb other countries."

[MrSlayer]

3. Of course it is.

That thing was hated a great deal.

[DLnyc]

4. Awesome! Brits seem to have a sharper sense of history then Yanks.

[reformist2]

5. It's actually a profound statement about how badly democratic governments are failing the people.

Also, it reveals the huge disconnect between the sycophantic press that praises national leaders, and the reality of a declining standard of living.

[malaise]

6. BBC to play Ding Dong in chart show despite anti-Thatcher Facebook push

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/11/bbc-ding-dong-thatcher-facebook
<snip>
BBC Radio 1 is planning to play Ding Dong the Witch is Dead, the Wizard of Oz track being bought by anti-Thatcher protesters in the wake of the former prime minister's death, on its chart show on Sunday.

However, in what is thought to be a first for the BBC chart show, the corporation is considering having a Newsbeat reporter explain why a song from the 30s is charting to Radio 1's target audience of 16- to 24-year-olds – none of whom will remember Margaret Thatcher's controversial premiership.

The Official Charts Company said on Thursday morning that Ding Dong the Witch is Dead was on course to reach number four, up from 10 the previous day.

The Daily Mail has been leading the charge against Facebook and Twitter campaigners trying to push the song, which has become the anthem of anti-Thatcher protesters.
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[reformist2]

8. Go this website Sunday afternoon to find out whether it makes it to #1 for the week!

http://www.officialcharts.com/music-charts/

[Hayabusa]

10. I'll have to look for it

and "ChaChaLaLa" as well.

[Warren DeMontague]

9. it could be a coincidence

okay maybe not

[malaise]

11. Big confusion now- Ding dong, the … BBC to cut Thatcher protest song short

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/bbc-caves-thatcher-song-ding-dong
<snip>
The new BBC director general, Tony Hall, appears to have caved in to pressure during the first major test of his tenure, deciding not to play the song Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead in full on Radio 1 after a furious reaction from Tory MPs and rightwing newspapers.

In a fudge likely to satisfy Lady Thatcher's supporters but criticised by anti-censorship campaigners, the BBC will play a five-second clip of the track – which is being pushed up the charts by anti-Thatcher protesters – in a news item during the Radio 1 Chart Show on Sunday.

The BBC has taken the unprecedented step of deciding to insert a news story into the show to explain to younger viewers why a track from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz has suddenly leapt into the top 10. Radio 1 has a target audience of 16- to 24-year-olds, none of whom will recall Thatcher's premiership first hand.

[reformist2]

12. Comes in at #2 for the week.

http://www.officialcharts.com/music-charts/