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[Popchartfreak]

22nd January 2023

It's Avril Lavigne and YUNGBLUD topping my chart with the fab I'm A Mess, why it's not been a hit is a mystery, hey ho. Avril gets a number one finally, after 21 years of trying and brings along YUNGBLUD for his first chart hit (my niece has tickets for his concert tour). New in at 3, the fab TV show has lost it's main voice actor for reasons I won't go into, but this featured record for the band Tennis is just gorgeous, Borrowed Time. Reverend & The Makers get 2 top 5's in a row, and The Levellers have been absent from my charts for 29 years (gulp!) but bang back and then some at 6 with the fab Down By The River 'O', their biggest record by far.

Eloise Viola debuts at 19 and That Ain't Right - sounding a little bit Bond a little bit twangy guitar country. Bally Sagoo gets a 3rd top 40 some 26 years on from the last one, Armin van Buuren a 3rd top 40 in 10 years, and following his sad passing, David Crosby triggers 3 classic oldies into my chart, The Byrds' Eight Miles High, a psychedelic rock gem at 39, and Mr.Tambourine Man the classic 1965 Dylan-cover folkrock gamechanger returns for the first time in 30 years or so, and Crosby, Stills & Nash's Marrakesh Express topped my chart in 2005 as an oldie and sneaks back in.

RHODES get a 3rd chart entry 9 years on from debuting Your Soul, Loi and Darin both debut with good new tracks, Kishi Bashi charts another oldie, the 10-year-old Manchester, Richard Marx keeps his current run of new hits going, and 5 singing female legends combine for a movie soundtrack film starring 4 legendary older female stars of the 60's. Alison Goldfrapp is back again, following a recent feature, Goldfrapp, like Richard Marx, being former chart-toppers and extending her chart run to 23 years.

So that means Dolly Parton is back (and obviously the driving force on the record) as she regularly is, for 47 years of chart action, Belinda Carlisle a mere 41 years (including Gogo's tracks), Cyndi Lauper not even 40-years yet, Gloria Estefan a piffling 39 years too, and Debbie Harry a substantial 45 years. All tend to make my charts when they release something new, and Cyndi has topped my charts with Jean-Michelle Jarre in the last decade, Blondie have also last done it in the 00's, but poor Gloria has been absent 23 years or 19 if you count the Mylo Doctor Pressure revamp of Doctor Beat. Four of the quintet topped my charts previously, but Dolly, amazingly, has never had a number one in my chart! Jolene has come closest at 3.


1 3 1 12 I’M A MESS - Avril Lavigne with YUNGBLUD 576900
2 1 1 12 RELEASE - 220 KID & ASDIS 1027800
3 NEW 3 1 BORROWED TIME - Rick and Morty & Tennis 85000
4 9 4 2 YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET - Bachman-Turner Overdrive 110000
5 10 5 7 HIGH - Reverend & The Makers 197800
6 NEW 6 1 DOWN BY THE RIVER ‘O’ - The Levellers 55000
7 5 1 12 NEVER GONNA NOT DANCE AGAIN - P!nk 763400
8 14 8 7 BACK TO YOU - Lost Frequencies, Elley Duhe & X Ambassadors 117200
9 2 2 6 SENSE - The Lightning Seeds featuring Terry Hall 293500
10 4 2 12 GONE WITH THE WIND IS MY LOVE - Rita & The Tiaras 438150

11 11 1 15 WOLF - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 899400
12 7 1 16 ALL BY MYSELF - Alok, Sigala & Ellie Goulding 1064000
13 6 4 9 RANDOMIZE - Otto Knows & Alex Aris 252800
14 13 4 13 SUMMER OF ‘42 - Kishi Bashi 514000
15 15 15 9 GOLDEN HOUR - JVKE 154400
16 8 5 10 HOW 2 DANCE - Kaiser Chiefs 339000
17 17 17 3 DIFFERENT DRUM - PP Arnold 63300
18 12 7 10 YOU CAN FIND IT HERE - The Fizz 339500
19 NEW 19 1 THAT AIN’T RIGHT - Eloise Viola 21000
20 22 20 8 HOLD ME - Fleetwood Mac 124650

21 19 14 9 PEOPLE PLEASER - Cat Burns 176250
22 35 22 2 10:35 - Tiesto & Tate McRae 37000
23 23 1 18 DAYDREAMING - Harry Styles 962000
24 50 24 3 EASY TO LOVE - Armin van Buuren & Matoma featuring Teddy Swims 41000
25 60 25 2 NOORIE - Bally Sagoo 28750
26 47 26 2 GIDDY UP! - Shania Twain 31000
27 34 27 3 100% PURE LOVE - Years & Years 43100
28 26 1 14 LIONHEART (FEARLESS) - Joel Corry & Tom Grennan 905550
29 16 16 7 HERO - Martin Garrix & JVKE 84800
30 18 10 6 IT WON'T BE CHRISTMAS WITHOUT YOU - PP Arnold 200750

31 32 31 13 HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE - The Beatles 157200
32 20 5 13 BIGGER THAN THE WHOLE SKY - Taylor Swift 551600
33 43 33 13 LAVENDER HAZE - Taylor Swift 157250
34 NEW 34 1 CAN’T STAY AWAY - Darin 17100
35 24 1 6 GHOST TOWN - The Specials 459500
36 40 36 6 THE LUNATICS (HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM) - Fun Boy Three 83000
37 21 17 12 ALL THE WAY OVER - Sam Ryder 196700
38 RE 33 9 SUMMER REALLY HURT US - ALMA 100100
39 NEW 39 1 EIGHT MILES HIGH - The Byrds 17100
40 45 40 3 NO PARADISE - Santigold 42750

41 28 15 14 MADE YOU LOOK - Meghan Trainor 215650
42 25 10 10 LAST CHANCE (CHRISTMAS MIX) - Soft Cell 231100
43 33 12 13 ATLANTIS - Seafret & Seeb 298400
44 48 44 3 SUPER MAGIC - Louise 36800
45 63 45 2 FLOWERS - Miley Cyrus 20200
46 37 8 15 ANTI-HERO - Taylor Swift 389400
47 53 47 6 NO BAD DAYS - Flo Rida featuring Jimmie Allen 55350
48 27 27 12 CRASH! - Propellerheads 146700
49 31 16 13 LIFT ME UP - Rihanna 223050
50 NEW 50 1 GOOD TO YOU - RHODES 12000

51 51 51 3 PARTY FEARS TWO - The Associates 34300
52 30 14 10 RIO - Mark Owen 214500
53 65 53 2 GEORGIA - Thomas Headon 18250
54 52 1 16 LITTLE DOES SHE KNOW - The Kursaal Flyers 602200
55 38 38 10 WHAT IT MEANS - Callum Beattie 123600
56 59 56 3 (IF PARADISE IS) HALF AS NICE - Amen Corner 27900
57 73 57 2 FREE (DO WHAT U WANT) - Pete Tong, Ultra Nate, LP Giobbi & Jules Buckley 15800
58 41 29 9 THE LONELIEST TIME - Carly Rae Jepsen & Rufus Wainwright 138200
59 68 59 3 THUNDER - Madison Rose 22700
60 66 60 3 HEART LIKE A TRUCK - Lainey Wilson 22400

61 42 8 14 MISS YOU - Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz 335800
62 55 1 21 LOTTA LOVE - Nicolette Larson 844950
63 NEW 63 1 BELIEVE IN ME - Richard Marx 7200
64 62 1 36 GRAPEJUICE - Harry Styles 1154600
65 NEW 65 1 GOLD - Loi 7000
66 75 66 2 NOBODY HAS TO KNOW - The Webb Brothers 11800
67 61 2 27 DANCE FOR YOU - Empress Of 856250
68 NEW 68 1 GONNA BE YOU - Dolly Parton, Belinda Carlisle & Cyndi Lauper featuring Gloria Estefan & Debbie Harry 6400
69 NEW 69 1 DIGGING DEEPER - Alison Goldfrapp & Claptone 6200
70 NEW 70 1 MR. TAMBOURINE MAN - The Byrds 6000

71 NEW 71 1 MANCHESTER - Kishi Bashi 5800
72 49 2 20 HEARTSTRINGS - M-22 & Ella Henderson 727150
73 72 1 28 ELOISE - Barry Ryan 646650
74 74 74 3 GLASS ONION - The Beatles 15400
75 NEW 75 1 MARRAKESH EXPRESS - Crosby, Stills & Nash 5000


DROP OUTS
29 3 5 GANGSTERS - The Specials 258200
36 36 8 THIS FLIGHT TONIGHT - Nazereth 91400
39 1 5 OUR LIPS ARE SEALED - Fun Boy Three 492100
44 27 11 WE ARE ALL INSANE - AWOLNATION 157950
46 46 5 SUMMERTIME - Fun Boy Three 50750
54 4 16 FEEL IT COMIN’ - Lady Blackbird 510850
56 56 5 TUNNEL OF LOVE - Fun Boy Three 40300
57 4 15 WHAT NOW - Honey. 415900
58 32 8 I HATE YOU WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK - Olly Murs 121900
64 39 8 MY WHITE BICYCLE - Nazereth 100300
67 67 2 YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING - The Real Thing 12600
69 1 29 WHEN IT’S COLD I’D LIKE TO DIE - Moby featuring Mimi Goese 1064550
70 70 2 JUMP (FOR MY LOVE) - The Pointer Sisters 11400
71 71 2 MONA LISA - Nat ‘King’ Cole 11000