The Beautiful South - Carry On Up the Charts: The Best of The Beautiful South | BUTTERBOY

K SPECIAL The Beautiful South - Carry On Up the Charts: The Best of The Beautiful South 

(30th Anniversary Remastered Expanded Deluxe Edition) [2024] (17 x CDs - count ’em )

A ‘K’ SPECIAL

In celebration of 30 years since the multi-million selling Carry On Up the Charts compilation by The Beautiful South was first released on 7 November 1994, here is my fully remastered and expanded 30th anniversary deluxe edition which now features every single release of their entire career from 1988 to 2007.

Also includes the original 1994 bonus CD with an added bonus track.

Carry On Up the Charts: The Best of The Beautiful South is an album by English alternative pop rock group The Beautiful South. It is the group's fifth album and their first greatest hits collection. It was a major commercial success, reaching number one in the UK Albums Chart and going on to become the second biggest selling album of 1994. 

Carry On Up the Charts was released in November 1994, the same year as the band's previous album Miaow, with its only single, "One Last Love Song", being released in October 1994, only two months after "Prettiest Eyes"; the last single to be taken from Miaow. "One Last Love Song" reached number 14 in the UK Singles Chart.

The album includes all of the single releases from the band's first five years in order of their release. Its title is a reference to the Carry On film series. A two-disc Limited Edition version was also released, with the bonus disc containing Non-LP/CD B-sides from the singles. 

 

Released at a time when the group's album sales had been waning, it proved to be a surprise success. The album reached no. 1 on the UK Albums Chart on 3 December 1994 and went on to become the second biggest selling album of 1994.

By the summer of 1995 it was certified as 5× platinum in the UK. Such was the album's popularity, it was claimed that one in seven British households owned a copy.

The cover painting by Matthew Radford is my personally autographed original CD sleeve by Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway.

All original CD booklet paintings credited to Matthew Radford, courtesy of Houldsworth Fine Art.

A staggeringly thorough seventeen disc set!