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26 year-old Tahliah Barnett gets a second week atop the chart with "Video Girl"; the stunning second single from her debut LP1, an autobiographical account of her career when she first broke into the record industry as a dancer in 2010. The track is her second to hit to the #1 spot in 2014 giving her a 100% strike rate, and a total of 4 weeks at the top so far, though she will struggle to extend her good fortune into December as several strong tracks line-up inside the Top 5. Climbing for the seventh consecutive week, "B a noBody" the debut single by Soak (Derry's Bridie Monds-Watson) improves 3-2. She has recently made the BBC's longest for the Sound of 2015, an annual event which takes into account the new acts most likely to break, as predicted by influential UK music industry experts. At number 3, Ellery James Roberts returns to the upper echelons with new musical project LUH. "Unities" is the acts debut single and follows previous mega-hit "Kerou's Lament" which spent six weeks at the top back in October/November 2013 and with a 9-3 jump this week, is showing itself to be a strong contender for the Christmas number one.

Three entirely different sounding tracks debut in the Top 10 this week providing the first Top 10 hits for Danny L Harle, a prolific London electronic musician who has composed numerous scores for film, television and sound installations - "Broken Flowers" broke in 2013 but was brought into the limelight this Autumn in BJSC. It jumps 14-7 this week. The other two top tier debutants are singer-songwriters but from totally different edges of the pop spectrum. Swedish pop singer Tove Styrke is the second act with the first name of Tove to make the Top 10 in 2014 (following Tove Lo's "Habits (Stay High)" which soared to #3 earlier in the summer). A contestant in Swedish Idol 2009, Tove achieved brief success in her home country with 2010s "White Light Moment", but "Borderline" is an altogether different sound, which has some ska influences and a punchy chorus - it moves slowly 11-8 and arrives just ahead of Kate Tempest's "Circles"; an off-beat spoken word track narrating the frustrations of being single, backed by a killer beat. "Circles" ascends 13-10 and rounds out the Top 10.

There are six new entries to the chart, and all but one are from acts who return to the chart. Leading the charge is the collaboration by Kindness and Robyn, both acts who have made the Top 10 in 2014 and hope to achieve a joint hit with the wonderful "Who Do You Love?" in at No.36. The only new act is Ghost Culture, 24 year-old James Greenwood who worked on "Drone Logic"! and released a couple of singles this year that I totally overlooked - "Giudecca" is a house music jam that deserves a second chance and gets one at No. 49. The first of the Christmas tracks charts for Welsh group Los Campesinos! and "When Christmas Comes" taken from their forthcoming Christmas EP at No.42. Public Service Broadcasting return with their first track from new forthcoming 2nd LP The Race For Space, "Gagarin", a disco funk track inspired by Yuri Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut and first man in space. Shura (who appears in the Blogger's Sound of 2015 longlist) returns after her No. 2 smash "Touch" with "Indecision" at No. 48 and finally alt-J return with "Left Hand Free" at No.46.

The full chart follows:


Danny's Chart: 30th November 2014




TW - LW / Artist / "Song" / Chart Run (Wks On Chart)

01 - 01 FKA twigs "Video Girl" *2 weeks at #1* 50-36-26-16-07-02-01-01 (8 weeks)
02 - 03 SOAK "B a noBody" 50-38-26-13-06-03-02 (7 weeks)
03 - 09 LUH. "Unites" 38-18-09-03 (4 weeks)
04 - 02 Caribou "Our Love" 46-33-21-06-02-01-01-01-01-01-02-04 (12 weeks)
05 - 05 Breach ft. Kelis "The Key" 40-26-18-14-08-07-05-05 (8 weeks)
06 - 04 Elliphant ft. MØ "One More" 47-33-15-05-02-02-03-04-06 (9 weeks)
07 - 14 Danny L Harle "Broken Flowers" 39-25-17-12-14-07 (6 weeks)
08 - 11 Tove Styrke "Borderline" 36-29-22-15-11-08 (6 weeks)
09 - 06 Black Rivers "Voyager 1" 34-19-13-09-05-06-09 (7 weeks)
10 - 13 Kate Tempest "Circles" 40-31-24-13-10 (5 weeks)





11 - 07 Mr Twin Sister "In the House of Yes" 44-32-21-13-07-03-03-03-04-07-11 (11 weeks)
12 - 16 Henry Krinkle "Stay" 34-25-16-12 (4 weeks)
13 - 08 AlunaGeorge "Supernatural" 39-25-18-14-11-08-13 (7 weeks)
14 - 21 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds "In The Heat Of The Moment" 46-34-21-14 (4 weeks)
15 - 10 TĀLĀ "Alchemy" 45-31-16-09-06-05-05-08-10-15 (10 weeks)
16 - 12 The Drums "I Can't Pretend" 44-34-26-17-12-16 (6 weeks)
17 - 23 Josef Salvat "Open Season" 39-28-23-17 (4 weeks)
18 - 26 Bombay Bicycle Club "Home By Now" 38-26-18 (3 weeks)
19 - 29 CHVRCHES "Get Away" 40-29-19 (3 weeks)
20 - 27 Marina and the Diamonds "Froot" 49-37-27-20 (4 weeks)

21 - 31 Great Good Fine Ok "You're The One For Me" 40-35-43-XX-43-31-21 (6 weeks)
22 - 15 Paradis "Garde Le Pour Toi" 38-28-17-12-08-03-02-04-04-09-15-22 (12 weeks)
23 - 33 Shamir "On The Regular" 42-33-23 (3 weeks)
24 - 37 George Maple "Vacant Space" 37-24 (2 weeks)
25 - 19 Banks "Beggin For Thread" 42-29-22-19-25 (5 weeks)
26 - 28 Clean Bandit & Jess Glynne "Real Love" 40-33-28-26 (4 weeks)
27 - 17 Young Fathers "Low" 40-30-23-13-08-06-10-17-27 (9 weeks)
28 - 20 Kasabian "Stevie" 47-33-21-20-28 (5 weeks)
29 - 22 iamamiwhoami "Blue Blue" 33-18-04-01-01-02-04-06-10-14-22-29 (12 weeks)
30 - 18 Prides "Out Of The Blue" 40-29-21-16-13-18-30 (7 weeks)

31 - 41 Lxury "Pick You Up" 41-31 (2 weeks)
32 - 24 High Contrast & Clare Maguire "Who's Loving You (Part 2)" 37-23-17-11-08-08-07-11-16-24-32 (11 weeks)
33 - 36 BYRTA "Í tínum eygum" 47-36-33 (3 weeks)
34 - 43 Lorde "Yellow Flicker Beat" 43-34 (2 weeks)
35 - 25 Royal Blood "Ten Tonne Skeleton" 44-35-29-25-35 (5 weeks)
36 - NE Kindness ft. Robyn "Who Do You Love?" *Highest New Entry*
37 - 42 Bonobo "Flashlight" 50-42-37 (3 weeks)
38 - 50 Made In Heights "Panther" 50-38 (2 weeks)
39 - 45 Röyksopp ft. Ryan James "Sordid Affair" 45-39 (2 weeks)
40 - 30 Kleerup ft. Susanne Sundfør "Let Me In" 38-19-11-09-12-19-30-40 (8 weeks)

41 - 48 Kero Kero Bonito "Build It Up" 48-41 (2 weeks)
42 - NE Los Campesinos! "When Christmas Comes" *New Entry*
43 - NE Public Service Broadcasting "Gagarin" *New Entry*
44 - 44 Blossom "Regeneration" 48-44-44 (3 weeks)
45 - 32 The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart "Kelly" 35-30-24-20-32-45 (6 weeks)
46 - NE alt-J "Left Hand Free" *New Entry*
47 - 38 Ben Howard "End Of The Affair / I Forget Where We Were" 45-31-19-11-06-01-01-01-02-04-06-09-15-21-31-38-47 (17 weeks)
48 - NE Shura "Indecision" *New Entry*
49 - NE Ghost Culture "Giudecca" *New Entry*
50 - 39 Röyksopp & Robyn "Monument" 36-24-20-17-12-06-03-03-04-07-11-20-30-39-49 (15 weeks)

NEW ENTRIES


36 - NE Kindness ft. Robyn "Who Do You Love?" *Highest New Entry*


42 - NE Los Campesinos! "When Christmas Comes" *New Entry*


43 - NE Public Service Broadcasting "Gagarin" *New Entry*


46 - NE alt-J "Left Hand Free" *New Entry*


48 - NE Shura "Indecision" *New Entry*


49 - NE Ghost Culture "Giudecca" *New Entry*