New Order: One more week at number one on 5th September 1987The Smiths: One more week at number one on 12th September 1987Here the record buyers go again, ruining the natural cut and flow of my blog with their historical purchasing decisions. As we've seen before, rebound number ones are very common in the NME Indie Chart - sometimes because a record doesn't immediately realise its full potential and has a second or even third wave of mainstream support ("Blue Monday"), sometimes because a limited edition single only offers a short-term threat to the top spot and allows its predecessor to take back the prize, and occasionally just because two extremely competitive singles are out at the same time. And that's essentially what happened here - "True Faith" and "Girlfriend In A Coma" were two huge alternative singles in September 1987, and while in most indie charts "True Faith" held the top spot confidently, that wasn't the case in the NME.There's nothing more to say beyond that, so…
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