3rd January 2016

 

Oh yes it can, all stay as they were, a 4th week for Hurts on top and a million seller, as Florence is now inside the all-time top 80 and Coldplay leap 3 of their own inside the all-time 400. Coldplay, Florence and Hurts just can't stop being greedy as they are also 4, 7, and 20 respectively with newer tracks, while Adele is 6 and 17. As the chart is cut back down to a Top 75 at last there is a mass exodus of 2015 tracks and christmas songs, and still there are 18 new entries, headed by Anastacia and her Army Of Me at 27. The sad deaths of Lemmy and Natalie Cole, give some comeback chart hits for Motorhead, Natalie, and Hawkwind, while other oldies from childhood fave Billy Fury and recent musical theme tune wot I saw, Beautiful, the Carole King story.

 

The Turtles get their first top 10 since 1968 with Minions track Happy Together - that seems a record to last! - as Kim Wilde gets her latest actual new top 10 stretching hers to 35 years. Lower down, new for Nero, Olly, Andy Grammer, Taylor, Foxes and The Weeknd, all having been there before on more than one occasion. Coldplay meanwhile enter with Tove Lo for a bit of Fun, as they also climb to 45.

 

1 1 1 8 WINGS Hurts 1140000

2 2 1 18 QUEEN OF PEACE Florence + The Machine 2140000

3 3 1 9 ADVENTURE OF A LIFETIME Coldplay 1250000

4 5 4 5 HYMN FOR THE WEEKEND Coldplay featuring Beyonce 204000

5 7 5 17 THE RAIN THE PARK AND OTHER THINGS The Cowsills 422800

6 4 3 7 WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE Adele 358200

7 10 7 5 DELILAH Florence + The Machine 153600

8 6 6 3 CHEAP THRILLS SIA 126000

9 27 9 3 ISOBEL’S DREAM Kim Wilde 66400

10 12 10 25 HAPPY TOGETHER The Turtles 388500

 

11 8 3 11 HEAVEN Shaun Frank & KSHMR featuring Delaney 649000

12 14 12 3 NEED UR LOVE Charli XCX 82400

13 21 3 7 LITTLE MAN Sonny And Cher 371750

14 13 9 7 THE GIRL IS MINE 99 Souls featuring Destiny’s Child and Brandy 186400

15 11 5 7 HOT POWERS 300000

16 23 15 6 GIVE IT ALL Foals 98850

17 19 17 6 SEND MY LOVE (TO YOUR NEW LOVER) Adele 113400

18 24 18 3 SHUT ‘EM UP The Prodigy featuring Public Enemy and Manfred Mann 43600

19 34 19 3 ALL MY FRIENDS Snakehips featuring Tinashe and Chance The Rapper 45800

20 44 20 2 WISH Hurts 33250

 

21 16 6 6 WHAT A DIFF’RENCE A DAY MADE Dinah Washington & Belford Hendrick’s Orchestra 223750

22 22 22 5 BANG MY HEAD David Guetta featuring SIA and Fetty Wap 65200

23 17 6 8 ONE STEP AT A TIME Jeff Lynne’s ELO 294250

24 15 10 7 FAST LANE Rationale 196200

25 41 25 16 GEE WHIZ (LOOK AT HIS EYES) Carla Thomas 177700

26 31 26 21 MELLOW YELLOW Donovan 252500

27 NEW 27 1 ARMY OF ME Anastacia 18400

28 9 9 3 DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS Chris Rea 80600

29 29 29 3 WHO KNOWS Protoje featuring Chronixx 53600

30 37 30 3 LAZARUS David Bowie 36300

 

31 39 31 8 DON’T GIVE UP (ON LOVE) Blinkie 75950

32 NEW 32 1 UNFORGETTABLE Natalie Cole and Nat ‘King’ Cole 17800

33 33 33 3 MAIN TITLE AND THE ATTACK ON THE JAKKU VILLAGE (Star Wars: The Force Awakens Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) John Williams 40800

34 28 4 12 HEY BOY Take That 353400

35 18 18 7 SUGAR Loud Places featuring Francesco Yates 102450

36 51 36 7 FOCUS Ariana Grande 57550

37 NEW 37 1 INTO THE NIGHT Nero 17300

38 26 15 6 1/M/T Mirror Talk 122950

39 NEW 39 1 SILVER MACHINE Hawkwind 17100

40 40 40 3 SWEET LOVIN’ Sigala featuring Bryn Christopher 51000

 

41 52 41 3 DON’T LEAVE TKDJS featuring AYER 37000

42 38 38 7 CONFIDENT Demi Lovato 61350

43 43 43 3 YOU BELONG TO ME Bryan Adams 37000

44 25 6 9 COMING HOME Sigma & Rita Ora 288000

45 75 45 5 A HEAD FULL OF DREAMS Coldplay 25800

46 70 46 2 BAZAAR (Sunburn Goa 2015 Anthem) KSHMR and Marnik 18750

47 NEW 47 1 ACE OF SPADES Motorhead 12500

48 50 11 9 SAX Fleur East 187250

49 54 49 3 I WAS BORN ON CHRISTMAS DAY Saint Etienne 34100

50 20 20 3 ONE MORE SLEEP Leona Lewis 35200

 

51 35 13 10 LET IT HAPPEN Tame Impala 159450

52 47 1 11 HELLO Adele 565000

53 NEW 53 1 I’D NEVER FIND ANOTHER YOU Billy Fury 11250

54 45 16 8 DREAMS Life Of Dillon 115000

55 57 55 7 I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND The Beatles 56000

56 36 19 7 WHAT ARE THE CHANCES? Duran Duran 93800

57 65 57 8 RIDE-O-ROCKET The Brothers Johnson 48800

58 88 58 4 LIVERPOOL LULLABY Cilla Black 15100

59 59 3 14 BLACK SOAP Ex Cops 438900

60 NEW 60 1 STEVIE KNOWS Olly Murs 10000

 

61 NEW 61 1 FUN Coldplay featuring Tove Lo 7500

62 NEW 62 1 STRESSED OUT twenty one pilots 7400

63 63 63 3 ALIVE SIA 19600

64 68 64 3 HISTORY One Direction 17700

65 71 43 7 TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK Mumford And Sons 49800

66 64 3 17 I’M IN LOVE WITH MY LIFE PHASES 498950

67 NEW 67 1 GOOD TO BE ALIVE (HALLELUJAH) Andy Grammer 6600

68 NEW 68 1 OVERKILL Motorhead 6400

69 NEW 69 1 OUT OF THE WOODS Taylor Swift 6200

70 49 8 10 ECHOES IN RAIN Enya 257500

 

71 NEW 71 1 HOLLOW Tori Kelly featuring Big Sean 5800

72 NEW 72 1 AMAZING Foxes 5600

73 NEW 73 1 THIS WILL BE Natalie Cole 5400

74 NEW 74 1 IN THE NIGHT The Weeknd 5200

75 NEW 75 1 BEAUTIFUL Carole King 5000

 

 

DROP-OUTS

30 30 5 DOWN LOW Alex Winston 73800

32 18 7 WHITE DECEMBER Kylie Minogue 133400

42 36 4 RIVER LEA Adele 55950

46 26 3 WHEN WE WERE YOUNG Adele 49250

48 5 14 CHAMAK CHALLO CHEL CHABELI Kumar Sanu, Shreya Ghoshal & Sajid - Wajid 434100

53 20 5 HIGHLAND One More Time 88250

55 30 4 EVERY DAY’S LIKE CHRISTMAS (A STOCK AITKEN WATERMAN REMIX) Kylie Minogue 41000

56 19 8 SORRY Justin Bieber 126000

58 39 4 GLITTER & GOLD Barns Courtney 44300

60 5 10 CIRCLES Truls 346100

61 3 18 YOU DON’T OWN ME Grace featuring G-Eazy 540500

62 50 4 DIRT SLEDDING The Killers featuring Ryan Pardey & Richard Dreyfuss 27700

66 43 5 HAPPY ALONE Matrix & Futurebound featuring V. Bozeman 43800

67 51 6 I’VE BEEN SECRETLY FALLING APART Owsey Jernalism & Resotone 44750

69 69 2 THE SOUND OF SILENCE Disturbed 12400

72 24 9 GO! Postiljonen 137800

73 39 7 100 DEGREES Kylie Minogue featuring Dannii Minogue 63000

74 74 2 ECHOES OF MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE Shakin’ Stevens 10200

76 49 4 STAY Kygo featuring Maty Noyes 33500

77 32 5 NOTHING’S GONNA HURT YOU BABY Cigarettes After Sex 67100

78 10 13 EX’S AND OH’S Elle King 218650

79 79 2 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN The Crystals 8000

80 9 13 HERE FOR YOU Kygo featuring Ella Henderson 256100

81 16 10 SAME OLD LOVE Selena Gomez 169500

82 4 16 WILDEST DREAMS Taylor Swift 368500

83 2 17 CRASH AND BURN Thomas Rhett 861400

84 84 2 CHRISTMAS WITHOUT A PRAYER Sparks 5000

85 70 6 LEFT HAND FREE Alt-J 23800

86 86 2 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 5600

87 87 4 SAINT CECILIA Foo Fighters 7100

89 9 10 MUSIC TO MY SOUL CeeLo Green 203050

90 3 11 HAPPINESS IAMX 336750

91 8 17 OCEAN DRIVE Duke Dumont featuring Robert Owens 290350

92 6 15 WHEN I WAS A BOY Jeff Lynne’s ELO 250000

93 93 5 TUSK (07/19/79 VERSION) Fleetwood Mac 7100

94 27 8 BURNING LOVE Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 88200

95 57 5 TIRED OF TALKING LEON 23500

96 54 5 JESUS MADE ME BAD Lao Ra 26600

97 97 3 CAN’T GET USED TO LOSING YOU The Beat 3600

98 56 6 NEVER ENDING CIRCLES CHVRCHES 31100

99 5 15 I’M IN LOVE Noonie Bao 326100

100 100 1 STOP THE CAVALRY Jona Lewie 1000

 

 

 

Hey, John! Your chart is very good again! I like it so much and from your #Top75 I have a lot of faves! Here's my comment:

 

Very good jump for "Need Ur Luv", "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)", "Focus" and amazing debuts for Coldplay with Tove Lo, Taylor's "Out of the Woods", "History", Andy Grammer and The Weeknd's hooker-song "In The Night". That's mostly what I like from your chart.

 

Is the song at #23 spot a cover of Jordin Sparks' song? The title is the same! hah