Thursday, August 24, 2000
Posh didn't chart cheat
Posh Spice has been cleared of accusations that someone tried to rig a number one hit for her new single.
The London Sun reported that a woman was seen buying 34 copies of "Out of Your Mind," Victoria Beckham's debut solo single as the U.K. chart race was on, Q Online reports.
The paper went on to say that Richard Desmond, a "magazine mogul" and a friend of Victoria's, gave his staff money and ordered them to buy the single.
But CIN, the company the compiles the U.K. charts, issued a statement saying that no top 40 entry rules were broken.
"We had a call from a newspaper last week saying they had reports from someone who had witnessed multiple copies of the Truesteppers single being purchased," it said. "We have investigated the claims and we can find no evidence of chart-hyping having occurred. We have sophisticated methods of preventing any kind of chart-hyping and if we had found any irregularities, that store's sales would have automatically been discounted from the chart. We are confident that nothing untoward took place."
Legitimate promotion or not, Posh was denied the top chart slot by Spiller's dancefloor anthem "Groovejet (If This Ain't Love)".
-- AllPop
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