1st September 2019

 

It's 5 weeks on top for Agnes, the longest run since Panic! At The Disco's Look Ma did 5 weeks last year, and it's 50 years ago today that I flew on an RAF VC-10 plane to Singapore to live. My first view of life outside England & Wales was coming in to land on a stop-over in the Indian Ocean - the RAF island base of Gan, a tropical paradise, shimmering green, a sea of blue, sunshine, and tropical reefs from the air. Just gorgeous. Still my idea of paradise. My fave song was In The Year 2525 by Zager & Evans - always looking to the future, me!

 

The top 9 songs jostle places, still loving them all, Emeli Sande gets a big climb into the 20 with Nana Rogues, Walk Off The earth shoot into the 30, as do Jonas Brothers and Sufjan Stevens, while OMD tick off another top 40 - I havent counted but they have probably averaged well over one a year over 40 years. Highest new entry is from The Makemakes, I'd rather be on The Beach actually, myself. At 61, a Kasabian member side-project is a goodie, Yves V helps Icona Pop back into the charts after a break, Black Atlass belatedly follows-up his chart-topper form late 2018, Ariana adds another to her total, and John Newman gets a second of the year.

 

 

1 1 1 5 I TRANCE Agnes 850000

2 2 2 3 THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV a-ha 345000

3 3 3 4 NO GOODBYE Paul Kalkbrenner featuring Chiara Hunter 241600

4 5 4 3 ONE OF US Liam Gallagher 175000

5 6 5 3 SLIDE AWAY Miley Cyrus 163000

6 7 6 2 BIRD SONG Lene Lovich 105000

7 9 7 2 LONDON BOY Taylor Swift 95000

8 4 2 6 PEACE OF MIND Avicii featuring Vargas & Lagola 368100

9 8 1 16 FREE TO GO Seeb & Highasakite 1479500

10 11 10 2 CRUEL SUMMER Taylor Swift 79000

 

11 16 11 5 TIME WON’T GO SLOWLY Snow Patrol 129400

12 19 12 5 COUNT ON Shallou & Colin 93700

13 15 13 5 FRIENDS Dido 117100

14 10 10 5 THE WAYFARER Bruce Springsteen 134500

15 12 3 14 THE HUMAN STONE KDA featuring Angie Stone 719000

16 39 16 2 I DON’T KNOW Nana Rogues & Emeli Sande 42100

17 26 17 4 LOOKING FOR AMERICA Lana Del Ray 64400

18 22 18 5 DAYS GO BY (CAMELPHAT REMIX) Dirty Vegas 88300

19 24 19 7 FORGIVE OR FORGET Ina Wrolsden 100900

20 27 20 5 I’M GOOD Wafia 81400

 

21 13 4 16 SOLID GOLD PNAU featuring Kira Divine & Marques Toliver 623650

22 14 9 10 SUNFLOWER Post Malone & Swae Lee 269250

23 17 8 10 MAD LOVE Mabel 256700

24 45 24 2 I’LL BE THERE Walk Off The Earth 32000

25 20 20 5 EMOTION Purple Disco Machine featuring The Emotions 89000

26 28 26 5 GREYHOUND Collard 82700

27 54 27 2 VISIONS OF GIDEON Sufjan Stevens 29400

28 18 10 8 PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO LOVE ONE ANOTHER The Kaiser Chiefs 187000

29 34 29 5 FAVORITE SOUND Audien & Echosmith 82500

30 43 30 4 ONLY HUMAN The Jonas Brothers 40900

 

31 21 1 11 LIVIN’ THING Electric Light Orchestra 1129650

32 35 32 5 BABY BLUE P.P. Arnold 76200

33 33 33 5 FALLING LEON 72000

34 37 34 4 LOVE TOO MUCH Keane 49600

35 38 35 5 ONLY WHEN YOU’RE AROUND The Dualers 69700

36 23 23 8 YOUR GIRLFRIEND Blossoms 119650

37 46 37 2 TEETH 5 Seconds Of Summer 30050

38 68 38 2 DON’T GO Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 23600

39 50 39 3 SHOOT ME DOWN Fiona Walden 39700

40 29 5 15 DROP TOP Keith Urban featuring Kassi Ashton 465650

 

41 32 1 10 TITANIUM David Guetta featuring Sia 433350

42 25 3 12 SAIL ON Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 590000

43 78 43 2 THE GREATEST Lana Del Ray 17900

44 30 18 12 YOU NEED TO CALM DOWN Taylor Swift 208650

45 31 12 10 DON’T LET ME BE LONELY Mark Ronson featuring YEBBA 224700

46 47 46 5 TRUE LOVE Ariana & The Rose 48250

47 44 1 17 ARCADE Duncan Laurence 998000

48 40 7 15 RECORD COLLECTION The Kaiser Chiefs 387950

49 36 6 13 MOTHER’S DAUGHTER Miley Cyrus 375750

50 55 50 5 TWO NIGHTS PART II Lykke Li, Skrillex & Ty Dolla $ign 42400

 

51 52 51 5 YOUNG AND IN LOVE Ingrid Michaelson 41950

52 41 5 9 I DARE YOU The Regrettes 297500

53 NEW 53 1 THE BEACH The Makemakes 11250

54 42 23 9 GOOD AS HELL Lizzo 140500

55 56 55 5 HIGHER LOVE Kygo & Whitney Houston 44800

56 NEW 56 1 EVERY NIGHT YOU’VE GOT TO SAVE ME Mass Gothic 10600

57 51 10 17 3 NIGHTS Dominic Fike 337900

58 60 58 5 SILHOUETTES Friendly Fires 38400

59 66 59 4 LITTLE HELP The BossHoss featuring Mimy & Josy 25500

60 62 60 3 BORN TO RUN Bruce Springsteen 24000

 

61 NEW 61 1 NOBODY ELSE The S.L.P. 7500

62 63 62 2 TURN YOUR LOVE AROUND Cedric Gervais & Chris Willis 14600

63 65 63 3 IT’S A SIN Pet Shop Boys 20200

64 59 1 20 LATE NIGHT FEELINGS Mark Ronson featuring Lykke Li 906600

65 69 65 3 HERE YOU COME AGAIN Dolly Parton 18000

66 48 48 7 CASTLES Freya Ridings 54550

67 67 67 3 HOLA (RADIO EDIT) Dario G 17200

68 76 68 2 TIME Sophia Bel 11600

69 49 49 6 FADE OUT Seeb & Olivia O’Brien & Space Primates 55800

70 70 70 4 TRUTH Mark Ronson featuring Alicia Keys & The Last Artful, Dodgr 23400

 

71 80 71 2 THINKING OF YOU Simply Red 9800

72 53 53 5 MONEY Michael Kiwanuka & Tom Misch 45450

73 81 73 2 I’M ALRIGHT Maxi Priest featuring Shaggy 9200

74 58 26 12 WISH YOU WELL Sigala featuring Becky Hill 155500

75 NEW 75 1 WE GOT THAT COOL Yves V featuring Afrojack & Icona Pop 5000

76 NEW 76 1 DANCE MONKEY Tones & I 4800

77 84 77 2 FALLING DEEP IN LOVE (JOEY NEGRO DISCO BLEND) Horse Meat Disco & Kathy Sledge 7800

78 NEW 78 1 COLD James Blunt 4400

79 79 79 3 HUNGRY HEART Bruce Springsteen 12600

80 83 80 2 COMPROMISE JeanGa & George 7400

 

81 NEW 81 1 40 DAYS PJ Brennan 3800

82 57 57 6 HOW GLAD I AM Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble 46800

83 NEW 83 1 IF THEY ONLY KNEW Black Atlass 3400

84 NEW 84 1 BOYFRIEND Ariana Grande & Social House 3200

85 NEW 85 1 WITHOUT YOU John Newman & Nina Nesbitt 3000

 

 

DROP OUTS

61 8 14 LOOKING FOR SOMEONE (RADIO MIX) Bananarama 291450

64 36 5 SOMEONE LIKE YOU (ATARI HERO REMIX) The Sugarhill Gang Grandmaster Mele Mel & SCORPIO Furious5 featuring Barshon 61900

71 71 4 MINE RIGHT NOW Sigrid 20400

72 29 8 YOUTH & LOVE Jack Savoretti featuring Mika 104500

73 48 6 SCHOOL’S OUT (572100) Alice Cooper 60300

74 74 4 MEN BEHAVING BADLY Chiedu Oraka & Deezkid featuring Jacob Aaron 19000

75 50 7 CAN WE PRETEND Pink featuring Cash Cash 56000

77 10 8 DESTINY Zero 7 featuring Sia 163700

82 3 16 MIRACLE Caravan Palace 611500

85 85 1 BECAUSE THE NIGHT Bruce Springsteen 3000

Hi John!

Nice to see "Cruel Summer" reach the top 10, one of my favourites out of "Lover"!

I also like the huge gain for "Only Human", as well as the debuts for "We Got That Cool", "Cold", "Boyfriend" and "Without You", all 4 of them are great songs!

Great chart!

Nice #1, really grown on me suddenly!

Great throwback with lene lovich as well, had forgotten that one,

That's what I like most with your chart you throw in some great classics!

Good stuff!

Hi John!

 

Giving I Trance a listen now - sounding quite nice! I like her voice.

 

Yay at my BJSC entry making the cut, such a shame it finished last in the semi :( I never seem to do well with these sorts of track.

 

Dance Monkey finally making an appearance as well, wonder how high it can get officially?

 

Great chart :D

Hi John!

Nice to see "Cruel Summer" reach the top 10, one of my favourites out of "Lover"!

I also like the huge gain for "Only Human", as well as the debuts for "We Got That Cool", "Cold", "Boyfriend" and "Without You", all 4 of them are great songs!

Great chart!

 

Hi Sergej!

 

Cruel Summer looks like it should be a future single if reception is anything to go by :)

 

Cold is doing reasonably well on the itunes chart here, which is surprising but pleasantly so

 

cheers! B-)

Nice #1, really grown on me suddenly!

Great throwback with lene lovich as well, had forgotten that one,

That's what I like most with your chart you throw in some great classics!

Good stuff!

 

Hi Toffo!

 

Glad you like Agnes :cheer: I'm surprised anyone but me knows that Lene Lovich track, and I'm glad you love it too :) I've always had oldies in my charts - even when I was 11 years old there were oldies (though none more than 10 or 15 years old in those days until laurel & hardy & Glen Miller opened up my charts to the possibility of 40-year-old music :lol: )

 

thanks for the comments B-)

 

 

Hi John!

 

Giving I Trance a listen now - sounding quite nice! I like her voice.

 

Yay at my BJSC entry making the cut, such a shame it finished last in the semi :( I never seem to do well with these sorts of track.

 

Dance Monkey finally making an appearance as well, wonder how high it can get officially?

 

Great chart :D

 

Hi Pete, glad you like Agnes too, and I can't understand at all how your BJSC flopped so badly - it's still in the itunes top 50 second week on release! Sometimes songs need more than one listen to register is the only thing I can think of.... :o

 

Dance Monkey sounds like one of those slow-burner growers - it's unusual and as folk get to hear it it'll jump out at them. I'm hoping a la 3 Nights or Feel It Still, fingers-crossed :)

 

cheers!

john