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Right, so way back in 2004 I started doing a top 5 chart simply called 'Personal Top 5'. Every Sunday/Monday I would write up a new chart using Word, wordpad or Excel and this continued from Feb 2004 through to January 2006 (just 2 months before I started posting a top ten on Nowmusic.com). By 2006 though, my mam had bought us a shiny new computer to use and the charts were pretty much forgotten about and abandoned. The old PC they were saved onto was dismantled and stored in the spare room, where it's been gathering dust since

A discussion about old charts recently reminded me of those personal top 5 charts I did, so I decided (with nothing better to do) to set my old PC back up (windows 95 ftw) and see if I could find the charts

Alas, I could not as bizarrely I couldnt find any archives saved anywhere on the system. Most of the things from the computer had been wiped it seems, or saved onto floppy disks which I wasn't able to find. The only thing remaining that I was able to save and transfer over was the list of number ones (theres 49 altogether, from Feb 04 - Jan 06)

I have to admit, I was dreading opening it as I wasn't expecting much in terms of quality , but when I did open it I was actually pleasantly surprised. The odd clanger dropped here and there (Black Eyed Peas, Band Aid 20 at no.1, wtf?), but overall I was actually quite pleased with the songs i'd put at no.1

So after that long-winded life story of an introduction, here's the actual list that I want to share with you all. My current chart owes so much to this chart, and tbh I was surprised to see as much indie at no.1 as there is

<- Original logo, lmao. Worst logo ever

Snow Patrol - Run
1 week: 15th - 21st February 2004
Yeah, i'll take that. Not my favourite Snow Patrol song by any means, but a decent start to my list of number ones


Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
4 weeks: 22nd February - 20th March 2004
Much more like it. Easily my fave Keane song, was chuffed to see I put this at no.1 for a good month


Fountains Of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
2 weeks: 21st March - 3rd April 2004
Oh dear god no. Awful, really don't have any idea why the hell I put this at no.1. Shamefully, it isn't even the worst no.1 in the list


Maroon 5 - This Love
4 weeks: 4th April - 1st May 2004
They're a bit pump these days but back in 2004 I loved 'Songs About Jane'. This was the first of 3 Maroon 5 no.1s


Keane - Everybody's Changing
3 weeks: 2nd - 22nd May 2004
Keane were probably my fave band of 2004, which explains why this good-but-not-great song topped my chart, and why they have another 2 no.1s to follow