Posted December 2, 20186 yr 2nd December 2018 Buddy Holly finally tops my chart almost 60 years since he died, with the song that he recorded in his final recording session in 1958 along with his two other best tracks, True Love Ways, It Doesn't Matter Anymore and Raining In My Heart. All were released posthumously, True Love Ways in 1960, and indicate he was an artist just getting into his creative stride. The new version is pristine, it sounds like it was recorded yesterday and does away with my problem with most 50's tracks: they sounded old even when I was a kid such was the improvement in recording techniques by the late 60's. It's not actually the oldest release to top my chart - that's Neil Sedaka's Oh Carol which topped my chart in 1972, a mere 13 years later. That's the equivalent of a 14-year-old getting into a reissue of, say, Scissor Sisters, Britney Spears or Gwen Stefani right now - acts who topped my chart in 2004! It is, though, the oldest recorded record to top my chart, and only the second track from the fifties. Highest new entry is track selling on itunes right now following a Proclaimers programme on BBC4, the gorgeous Sunshine On Leith, 30 years on from first making top 10, but well under-appreciated chart-wise in the UK at the time. Now it's a movie title based on Proclaimers songs! Highest new track is Mark Ronson back, giving him 11 years of chart entries, while Miley Cyrus joins her sister in my chart, 10 years after starting her chart career with a trio of top 10's before becoming less consistent. Don Diablo returns, along with Emeli Sande, who is making it a 7-year-run. The Crystals bring their 60's Christmas classic back for the 3rd time in 5 years, and 44 years since Da Doo Ron Ron made my charts a decade late, Aerosmith's 70's track Dream On finally charts 40 years late as for some reason it's selling on itunes and I've never charted it. Return of the week, though, are The O'Jays, huge faves of mine in the early 70's with Philly classics topping my chart like Backstabbers in 1972 and Love Train in 1973. Now a duo, they return with new social-minded material, as their best stuff was, and get a first appearance in my chart since 1984, a whopping absence of 34 years. To put that in dark perespective, Eddie Levert's two sons had a chart career as Levert in the interim, and both died in the noughties, while Eddie is still recording and touring with The O'Jays 50 years since starting his chart career. 1 7 1 2 TRUE LOVE WAYS Buddy Holly & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 220000 2 4 2 7 DIAMOND HEART Alan Walker & Sophia Somajo 459500 3 1 1 4 DRIVE (SYMPHONIC VERSION) The Cars 595000 4 5 4 7 STARFISH Rhys featuring FELIX SANDMAN 261000 5 3 1 5 SHADOWS Black Atlass 495000 6 8 6 4 THANK YOU, NEXT Ariana Grande 162800 7 11 7 5 BRAZILIAN SOUL The Knocks featuring Sofi Tukker 194000 8 2 2 3 GOOD NIGHT The Beatles 278000 9 17 9 2 RISE Raaginder 68000 10 19 10 2 IT’S FOR YOU Cilla Black with The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra 63000 11 6 3 4 ARREST THE PRESIDENT Ice Cube 237000 12 18 12 3 KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE The Fizz 75500 13 15 13 5 BABY Clean Bandit featuring Marina & The Diamonds & Luis Fonzi 106900 14 9 4 8 JOY. for KING & COUNTRY 310500 15 10 10 4 I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS (SYMPHONIC VERSION) Foreigner 120000 16 12 12 5 FRENCH CLASS HalfNoise 143500 17 24 17 2 YOU’RE GONNA MISS ME Connie Francis 42000 18 NEW 18 1 SUNSHINE ON LEITH The Proclaimers 22000 19 13 8 7 HEAVEN LET ME IN Friendly Fires 196850 20 22 20 5 LOVE Boyzone 83550 21 16 3 8 NEED YOU TONITE Mylo featuring Judie Tzuke 279450 22 14 14 4 SMALLTOWN BOY (SYMPHONIC VERSION) Bronski Beat 85600 23 27 23 3 DON’T START WITHOUT ME The Fizz 54850 24 20 1 10 TOOGOODTOBETRUE Gallant featuring Sufjan Stevens & Rebecca Sugar 620000 25 28 25 6 HOW LONG WILL THIS LAST? Blossoms 89550 26 47 26 2 THIS FEELING Chainsmokers featuring Kelsea Ballerini 31000 27 29 27 4 39 Queen 71300 28 49 28 3 BREATHE Camelphat & Cristoph featuring Jem Cooke 41400 29 30 29 4 ALGORITHM Muse 64000 30 34 30 6 BURN Super8 & Tab featuring Hero Baldwin 80450 31 40 31 4 JAPAN Plastician 59500 32 21 12 8 ALL I AM Jess Glynne 173150 33 33 33 8 POLAROID Jonas Blue, Liam Payne & Lennon Stella 118600 34 23 7 8 GRAVITY Paul Weller 276150 35 31 2 11 NOTHING BURNS LIKE THE COLD Snoh Aalegra featuring Vince Staples 562900 36 45 36 4 SHELTER Monkey Safari 47600 37 43 37 5 THE GREATEST SHOW Panic! At The Disco 62400 38 26 2 10 MAD AT YOU Noah Cyrus & Gallant 439450 39 44 39 2 EVERLASTING LOVE The Love Affair 30350 40 53 40 4 HEY DJ CNCO, Meghan Trainor & Sean Paul 45050 41 36 36 6 LET YOU BE RIGHT Meghan Trainor 84800 42 46 42 4 LOVE OF MY LIFE Queen 48800 43 32 25 6 VENOM Eminem 86250 44 NEW 44 1 NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART Mark Ronson featuring Miley Cyrus 13250 45 48 45 4 LONELY STAR Ariana and The Rose 39400 46 50 46 2 SEE THE DAY Dee C. Lee 24750 47 42 1 24 HEY LOOK MA, I MADE IT Panic! At The Disco 1941150 48 39 3 10 IDEA The O’My’s featuring Chance The Rapper 421850 49 58 49 5 WE LIVE FOREVER The Prodigy 42300 50 37 15 7 LOST IN JAPAN (REMIX) Shawn Mendes & Zedd 131700 51 60 51 3 TINTS Anderson .Paak featuring Kendrick Lamar 27550 52 41 1 9 SHE Charles Aznavour 515900 53 63 53 2 INFINITY (MOVEMENT 6) Jean-Michel Jarre 18450 54 54 54 4 MAPACHE Cari Cari 39300 55 72 55 2 SAIL AWOLNATION 16400 56 56 56 3 HUFF + PUFF Just A Band 27200 57 64 57 2 HANDS UP Merk & Kremont featuring DNCE 17500 58 NEW 58 1 FAVELA Ina Wroldsen & Alok 10200 58 NEW 58 1 SURVIVE Don Diablo featuring Emeli Sande & Gucci Mane 10200 59 62 59 4 PARADISE Nicky Romero featuring Walk Off The Earth 31500 60 35 5 8 TIME CAN HEAL A MAN SAVEUS 279500 61 61 61 2 STREETS OF LONDON Ralph McTell 15000 62 NEW 62 1 ABOVE THE LAW The O’Jays 7400 63 65 63 3 OOH LA LA The Faces 19600 64 NEW 64 1 PUNK RIGHT NOW HYO & 3LAU 7100 65 57 57 4 CHANCES Backstreet Boys 37700 66 69 66 3 PURE SHORES All Saints 18000 67 67 67 3 SWEET BUT PSYCHO Ava Max 19600 68 70 68 2 MANIAC The Beat featuring Ranking Roger 12400 69 73 69 4 UNSTEADY (ERICH LEE GRAVITY REMIX) X Ambassadors 21800 71 NEW 71 1 TERE NAAL NACHNA Badshah & Sunanda Sharma 5800 72 NEW 72 1 SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN The Crystals 5600 73 NEW 73 1 SPEECHLESS Robin Schulz featuring Erika Sirola 5400 74 NEW 74 1 PAPER DREAMS Jamie N Commons 5200 75 NEW 75 1 DREAM ON Aerosmith 5000 DROP OUTS 25 19 3 SEVEN SEAS OF RHYE Queen 60750 38 15 5 RADIO GAGA Queen 103600 51 39 6 VOR SONNEN-AUFGANG Laibach 65150 52 9 9 MOVES Olly Murs featuring Snoop Dogg 240500 55 44 4 OUT OF OUR HEADS Take That 42950 59 59 3 STAR Kiki Dee 21700 66 5 15 PROMISES Calvin Harris & Sam Smith 450700 68 18 6 I’M STILL HERE Sia 104450 71 10 13 THE DARK SIDE Muse 236050 74 74 1 THE PIANO MAN Billy Joel 5200 75 75 1 WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER Queen 5000
December 2, 20186 yr Hello John! Good to see "Survive" and "Speechless" debut! Both are great songs right now! Great chart!
December 3, 20186 yr Hi John! Nice to see Diamond Heart at #2 - I really wasn't a fan at first but it's grown on me nicely, a great song! Don't think I've heard Sunshine on Leith before - giving a listen now, a beautiful song :o Although part of the instrumental dos sound a bit like 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas'! I see lots of BJSC here again - Favela, Punk Right Now and Tere Naal Nachna were particular faves of mine! Don't think I've heard anything of Jamie N Commons since that Kungs feature, Paper Dreams is sounding nice though Great chart :D
December 11, 20186 yr Author Hello John! Good to see "Survive" and "Speechless" debut! Both are great songs right now! Great chart! Hi Sergej, thanks and I thought you would approve! :lol: One of them is rocketing up my charts.... :cheer: cheers john B-)
December 11, 20186 yr Author Hi John! Nice to see Diamond Heart at #2 - I really wasn't a fan at first but it's grown on me nicely, a great song! Don't think I've heard Sunshine on Leith before - giving a listen now, a beautiful song :o Although part of the instrumental dos sound a bit like 'We Wish You A Merry Christmas'! I see lots of BJSC here again - Favela, Punk Right Now and Tere Naal Nachna were particular faves of mine! Don't think I've heard anything of Jamie N Commons since that Kungs feature, Paper Dreams is sounding nice though Great chart :D Hi Pete, thanks for the comments, and Diamond Heart is a real grower for me, 8 weeks on and it just tops my chart, that's quite unusual most tracks decline before 8 weeks :o I'd never noticed that xmas similarity for Leith - maybe that's why I love it so much! :lol: Yes lots of BJSC tracks in my charts, quite a few bubbling under not quite crossing over as well - I still like them but not every record i like charts if there are others I like more, oops, ruthless! cheers! John B-)
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