|
I built and ran this website between 2000 and 2001, combining passion for popular music and programming. It was listed by MTV's now defunct MusicNewswire as one of the then nascent web's top twenty sources, alongside Billboard and VH1. The most exciting part of it — for a 13/14-year-old excited by new music — was receiving scores of pre-release CDs from record companies. The entire project was written entirely from scratch (frameworks and libraries were not the norm back then!) in PHP linking to a MySQL database, with HTML as well as a little CSS and JavaScript for the frontend; the code is available here. |
|
|
|
  Archive        |
|
|
Hear'Say's debut album Popstars was released on Monday (26 March). Early chart
figures show that 86,000 copies were sold yesterday. The single, currently at Number One has
sold 22,000 copies meaning it will probably still be at Number One next Sunday. They are
on course for a debut album and single at Number One in the same week for the first ever time
in chart history.