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"Coming Up Roses" has been added to:

• #37 on Spotify's Today's Top Hits playlist
• #5 on Apple Music's Today's Hits USA playlist

Pretty, pretty good this song, can see it growing on me massively.

I was surprised when they supported him in 2022, nevermind 2026!

Imagine being the bloke at Radio 1 who sits there deciding who is and isn't relevant after 10-20 years.

Guessing it's the Head of Music who's about 52 himself, name rhymes with 'Miss Rice'.

I remember when an insider who worked on nighttime but had a say in the playlist told me that they were told The Vaccines weren't "really relevant anymore" back in 2021 yet they started a long time after Jamie T and have had quite a few very anthemic songs that would have been perfectly fine on R1 since.

Heartbreak Kid is mint, for instance.

They can't just go on chart positions with most indie acts when deciding what to playlist as the vast majority don't touch the Top 100.

It was good but very surprising when they brought my mates Everything Everything (the only band I personally know) back a few years ago as it wasn't like they were setting the charts on fire although Cold Reactor went semi-viral I was told.

But the Jamie T song is pretty fiery, powerful and has lots of R1 energy, can see why they've gone for it.

Some guitar acts sound like they can barely stand up after 40, he's definitely still got the passion he had two decades ago.

+5: Patient Zero
+4: Nicole Kidman
+3: Babydoll
+2: Stop The Wedding
+1: Great Expectation

-1: Choosin Texas
-2: Rein Me In
-3: The Cure
-4: My Body Isn’t Ready
-5: Boston

I wanted to see what formats of this exist, which lead me to his website...

Cliff's team are definitely aware of his audience. Wow.

That's the closest a Reshuffle result has ever been to my own ranking!

+5 the cure
+4 my body isn't ready
+3 stop the wedding
+2 patient zero
+1 great expectation
-1 rmi
-2 Nicole kidman
-3 choosin texas
-4 Boston
-5 babydoll