Carry On Up The Charts was the band's second release in 1994.  Against the band's best judgment COUTC (a greatest hits collection) was released and took the industry by storm.
With just a handful of appearances this album beat The Beatles Anthology and Sting's Greatest Hits to the Number 1 spot and it stayed there for 3 months.
This albums success (third fastest selling in UK) won comparisons for Heaton/Rotheray as the new Lennon/McCartney.
One Last Love Song was the only single released for this album and had Top20 success.		 Q Review:
Whereas Northern grit and self-possession have made New Order hip, such qualities have made The Beautiful South mistrusted, the group having to take solace in the genuine love shown them by everyone from grandmothers to football lads and in being one of the country's best live acts. The inherent contradictions in the group - Leninist boozers with equal love for close-harmony soul and communist social justice - are part of the enormous charm amply displayed in this collection of hits (real hits too, a Number 1 and a clutch of Top 10s) sung angelically by Heaton, Hemingway, Brianna Corrigan and latterly Jacqueline Abbott. Anyone concerned about the group's recent worrying flirtation with Radio Two styles is pointed towards the accompanying B-side collection, the band at their maddest and often most lovable.****(4 STARS)
Stuart Maconie

 

 
Song For Whoever, You Keep It All In, I'll Sail This Ship Alone, A Little Time, My Book, Let Love Speak Up Itself
Old Red Eyes Is Back, We Are Each Other, Bell Bottomed tear, 36D, Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud), Everybody's Talkin', Prettiest Eyes, One Last Love Song

 

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