The general public can read this particular character X-ray, given that Gingrich's unfavorable rating is off the charts, higher than any other major politician's.
Their version peaked at number three on the pop charts, higher than the original.
"But a few months later, the number of juveniles was off the charts — higher than we'd ever seen — as much as 300 times normal".
That said, it's sure to chart high.
Also charting high this week are two megaselling classics.
Three new rock albums are expected to chart high next week, by Neil Young, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Korn.
The runner-up this week is a surprise: Tina Turner's "All the Best" (Capitol), a two-disc anthology, sold 121,000 copies, beating her previous chart high of No.3 for "Private Dancer" in 1984.
Labels want their records to chart high in the first week of release, and history shows that this can almost only be accomplished by about six weeks of pre-release radio spins.
Yet the problem is not that this case marks a low point in this country's racial history it's that, after two centuries of common history, we're still obligated to chart high points and low ones.
Ironically, Diesel and Dust, by far Midnight Oil's most specifically Australian album, became their biggest global hit; Beds are Burning did notably well in countries which had also acquired their territory at gunpoint, charting high in the United States, Canada and South Africa.
