What Was The Battle Of Britpop? Source List
· Official Charts Company: UK Singles Chart — Week Ending 20 Aug 1995
· Music Week — 19 Aug 1995 (PDF)
· Music Week — 2 Sep 1995 (PDF)
· BBC Programme Index — Radio 1, 20 Aug 1995 (Official Chart with Mark Goodier)
· BBC Programme Index — Top of the Pops, 24 Aug 1995
· Top of the Pops Archive — Episode guide (search 24 Aug 1995)
· Top of the Pops Rewind — Episode Guide, 24 Aug 1995
· The Guardian (archive), 17 Aug 1995: Blur and Oasis do battle for number one spot
Broadcast & video credits
· The BRITs — Blur at the BRITs: 1995–2012
· IMDb — Blur: Country House (1995)
· IMDb — Oasis: Roll With It (1995)
· IconicPix — ‘Roll With It’ Video Filming (King’s Cross) Gallery
· Top of the Pops — Blur “Country House” (24 Aug 1995) — viewing clip(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdttHWafdSQ)
Label, artwork & discography (catalogue verification)
· Discogs — Blur: “Country House” (Master)
· Discogs — Blur: “Country House” (CDFOOD 63 — Release)
· Discogs — Oasis: “Roll With It” (Master)
· Discogs — Oasis: “Roll With It” (CRESCD 212 — Release)
· Microdot Boutique — “Roll With It” Sleeve Session (Brian Cannon)
· Michael Spencer Jones / Snap Galleries — “Roll With It” Session
Official / industry data & rankings
· Official Charts Company — Official Top 40 Best-Selling Songs of 1995
· Official Charts Company — Official Top 20 Biggest-Selling Oasis Songs
Interviews & press (incl. management voices)
· NME — Blur and Oasis’ Big Britpop Chart Battle: The Definitive Story
· NME (scan) — Damon Albarn interview, 16 Sept 1995
· The Guardian — How Jo Whiley and Steve Lamacq Made the Evening Session (2013 piece)
· The Guardian — Oasis Battle Blur for the Britpop Crown (2011)
· Alan McGee — Creation Stories (book, Pan Macmillan)
Retrospectives & analysis
· Dig! — Country House: The Full Story Behind the Blur Song That Beat Oasis to No.1
· MusicRadar — How the Oasis vs Blur Chart Battle Marked Britpop’s Peak
· Radio X — Blur vs Oasis: The True Story of the Battle of Britpop
· Louder — Oasis at the 1996 BRIT Awards: ‘Shite-life’
· Far Out — Liam and Noel Gallagher Switch Places on Top of the Pops (1995)
· BBC Four / BBC Genome — The Britpop Story (2005)
· Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop (2003) — Wikipedia
International charts & coverage
· IrishCharts.ie — Blur: “Country House”
· IrishCharts.ie — Oasis: “Roll With It”
· Rolling Stone Australia — ‘Roll With It’ (1995) Capsule
· Wikipedia — “Roll with It” (Oasis song)
· Wikipedia — “Country House” (Blur song)
Methodology
· Official Charts Company — How the Charts Are Compiled
· Wikipedia — UK Singles Chart (Millward Brown era; three-format rule)
Additional references
· Chart Watch UK — James Masterton: Blur v Oasis — The Result
· The Times — Blur v Oasis: Not a New Era but the End of an Old One
· Pitchfork — The 50 Best Britpop Albums (context)
· Consequence — Damon Albarn & Noel Gallagher Perform “Tender” (2013)
· The Guardian (2017) — Albarn & Gallagher Record Together on Gorillaz’ “We Got the Power”
· ITV West Country — Photographer Reveals Story Behind Weston‑super‑Mare Oasis Cover
· NME — Oasis Album Artwork by Michael Spencer Jones (Photo Feature)
