Posted July 20, 20204 yr 19th July 2020 It's Harry Styles on top some 8 months after debuting with Watermelon Sugar and peaking at 3 first-time round, the first topper for any member of One Direction solo or together. Such a great record, and it's rare these days that it takes that long to top my charts from debut (excluding obviously oldies years later), a few that have managed it in the past being A Girl Like You (Edwyn Collins) in 1995 and I'll Never Be (Maria Magdalena) from Sandra in 1986. Dua Lipa meanwhile makes it a 6th top 10 from the same album as Hallucinate do a leaper to 3, and only Physical has fallen short of the top 3, that's how on fire she is in 2020 - it's a veritable Greatest Hits already. It's also her 11th top 10 in total. The S.L.P. gets a 2nd top 10, as Kasabian lose their singer - the solution seems Sergio, I mean obvious... Meanwhile Foster The People grab a 3rd top 20 with a huge climb to 12, and Callum Beattie a first with a slightly-less big climb. Bright Light Bright Light grabs a 3rd top 40, and LEON a 4th. Highest new entry is Katy Perry, who is smiling at making it close to 30 chart entries in 12 years, a good hit ratio, while Jubel chart the former 1999 chart-topper for Toploader, Dancing In The Moonlight, with the original 1973 hit version by King Harvest getting a chart run when I re-do my original charts in 2023 to compensate for all those non-UK-top-30 tracks that were excluded due to stupid chart rules I had at the time. Kygo is back, bringing Tina Turner with him as his 11th collaboration charts - a remix of Tina's 1984 other signature song, bringing her back into my charts after a decade away. What's Love Got To Do With It made my top 10 first time round. The Big Band Collective looks like a Lockdown collab, and is to support struggling musicians I think, but it features new vocals from Rick Astley, still back in vogue 32 years on, and also Jimmy Somerville who's been away since his last track in 2015 - a chart-topper with Some Wonder after a 20-year-gap followed by another 5-year gap, and it extends his chart run to 36 years since Bronski Beat debuted. Faithless are also back after a 5-year break, and the first new material since 2007 excluding versions of Insomnia in the interim, but extends their chart run to a quarter of a century give or take. Talking of 90's remixes, Sun Is Shining is back again in remix form from Robin Schulz (recent chart-topper still in the top 10), and Bob Marley is back 4 years since his last remix, while the 1999 chart-topping mix of Sun Is Shining is itself a remix of a track that appeared on 3 Marley albums and dates from 1971, a jaw-dropping 50 years old now give or take. Bob popped his clogs 39 years ago, and still seems relevant. Not least, the new entry is adjacent to his old band's new track which features his daughter and grandson, so you can say a 45-year-span for Bob Marley & The Wailers in my charts since No Woman No Cry went top 10. 1 2 1 4 WATERMELON SUGAR Harry Styles 364500 2 7 2 2 HOW LONG Ace featuring Paul Carrack 165000 3 38 3 3 HALLUCINATE Dua Lipa 103800 4 1 1 5 SPINNING OVER YOU REYKO 690000 5 3 3 4 MALIBU Kim Petras 258000 6 5 5 5 FADED Izzy Bizu 172400 7 6 6 4 SHOULD I GIVE IT ALL UP (DEMO) James Blunt 178200 8 4 1 10 IN YOUR EYES Robin Schulz featuring Alida 811300 9 11 9 7 ((TRANCE)) The S.L.P. 163000 10 12 10 5 SAVIOUR (EXTENDED MIX) Dimension & Sharlene Hector 152750 11 9 5 9 SUMMER FEELINGS Lennon Stella featuring Charlie Puth 320350 12 50 12 2 THE THINGS WE DO Foster The People 47000 13 8 8 4 HUSAVIK Will Ferrell & My Marianne 99800 14 14 14 9 I FLY Galantis featuring Faouzia 182000 15 13 7 10 WHILE WE’RE YOUNG Huey Lewis & The News 359400 16 10 1 7 A CHANGE IS GONNA COME Sam Cooke 607000 17 51 17 2 SALAMANDER STREET Callum Beattie 34750 18 22 18 5 HALLUCINOGENICS (SEEB REMIX) Matt Maeson 76900 19 19 19 7 A GHOST Travis 89100 20 16 1 17 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 1218100 21 15 1 10 VIOLENT THING Ben Dolic 909750 22 18 18 4 OH WHAT A FEELING Walk Off The Earth 77450 23 24 23 4 DIDN’T WANT TO BE THIS LONELY Pretenders 59250 24 17 3 10 TEARS GETTING SOBER VICTORIA 517000 25 21 17 9 WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (LEBROCK REMIX) Boston Manor featuring LeBrock 150100 26 45 26 3 I USED TO BE COOL Bright Light Bright Light 33000 27 28 27 6 LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN The Sweet 93900 28 57 28 2 AND IT BREAKS MY HEART LEON 28700 29 20 10 10 ALL THAT Sparks 256000 30 30 30 4 RIDE (EDIT) Lenny Kravitz 58400 31 25 2 13 THE LAKE Galantis & Wrabel 655400 32 23 3 10 MOVE The Mamas 481050 33 26 2 10 ALL OF MY LOVE Destiny & B.O.K. 618200 34 37 34 10 BIG LOG Robert Plant 95150 35 33 7 13 SECRETS Regard & Raye 320750 36 32 23 9 FET HOUSE MODE Rebecca & Fiona 132950 37 40 37 6 THE SIX-TEENS The Sweet 74950 38 29 22 7 DREAM GIRL Anna Of The North 109600 39 27 16 8 BLAME IT ON ME Melanie C 151000 40 47 40 5 THE WRITER Four Of Diamonds & Mr Eazi 57200 41 31 31 5 BREATHE Marilyn 62800 42 43 42 10 ISN’T SHE LOVELY Stevie Wonder 92750 43 46 43 10 FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH Buffalo Springfield 92800 44 44 1 21 SAY SO Doja Cat 1042150 45 36 10 10 LEFT OUT IN THE COLD Sparks 265800 46 48 46 4 OLD ME 5 Seconds Of Summer 34750 47 35 35 7 POMEGRANATE deadmau5 & The Neptunes 84250 48 52 48 7 GOODBYE STRANGER Supertramp 61900 49 34 9 11 PEOPLE ON THE HIGH LINE (RICHARD X RADIO EDIT) New Order 264800 50 39 7 10 UNIVERSO Blas Canto 295900 51 56 51 5 FIRE AND FURY Overcoats 50650 52 63 52 4 MARCH MARCH The Chicks 28700 53 54 53 3 ORDINARY WORLD Duran Duran 29050 54 71 54 4 HEAVEN ON MY MIND Becky Hill & Sigala 22900 55 65 55 6 TAKE CARE OF YOU Ella Henderson 34800 56 60 56 4 ARISTOCRATS Raleigh Ritchie 28600 57 62 57 4 MY HURRICANE Jamie Scott 28600 58 41 34 5 MY OWN SOUL’S WARNING The Killers 64100 59 84 59 2 NATALIE DON’T RAYE 13300 60 64 60 6 ACTION The Sweet 32700 61 70 61 4 KARAOKE BooDaBash & Alessandra Omaroso 18200 62 72 62 5 PYRAMIDS Noonie Bao 28600 63 NEW 63 1 SMILE Katy Perry 7200 64 58 1 11 THE MODEL Kraftwerk 392850 65 59 29 10 BE KIND Marshmello & Halsey 124350 66 81 66 2 FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE Miranda Lambert featuring Maren Morris, Elle King, Ashley McBride, Tenille Townes, and Caylee Hammack 10600 67 67 58 6 LEARN TO FLY Surfaces & Elton John 44400 68 73 68 4 WHERE I’M COMING FROM Lila Ike 17100 69 74 69 6 BREAKING ME Topic & A7S 28000 70 76 70 3 THOUSAND FACES Don Diablo & Andy Grammer 12500 71 42 12 10 FAI RUMORE Diodato 202050 72 53 18 11 CHIQUITITA (SPANISH VERSION) Cher 170850 73 80 73 2 PURE The Lightning Seeds 9400 74 83 74 2 MAKE YOU DANCE Meghan Trainor 8600 75 78 75 4 SQUARES Raleigh Ritchie 14000 76 49 26 8 ALICE Lady Gaga 104500 77 75 75 6 HIGH ON YOU Sigma & John Newman 25400 78 69 69 5 CAN’T START OVER AGAIN Dion featuring Jeff Beck 27800 79 NEW 79 1 DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT Jubel featuring NEIMY 4200 80 86 80 4 THE TIME IS NOW Moloko 9700 81 NEW 81 1 WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT Kygo & Tina Turner 3800 82 89 82 2 CHI MAI Ennio Morricone 5800 83 NEW 83 1 I WISH YOU WELL The Big Band Collective featuring Jimmy Somerville & Rick Astley 3400 84 90 84 2 SHE SELLS SANCTUARY The Cult 5200 85 85 85 3 I’M ON MY WAY Bob Sinclar 7800 86 NEW 86 1 SUN IS SHINING Bob Marley Featuring Robin Schulz 2800 87 68 32 9 ONE WORLD, ONE PRAYER The Wailers featuring Skip Marley, Farruko, Shaggy & Cedella Marley 105700 88 NEW 88 1 THIS FEELING Faithless featuring Suli Breaks and Nathan Ball 2400 89 NEW 89 1 RETURN OF THE MACK Mark Morrison 2200 90 NEW 90 1 BACK TOGETHER AGAIN Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway 2000 DROP OUTS 55 18 9 LAWNMOWER Sparks 160550 61 44 6 SAVE A KISS Jessie Ware 61950 66 37 6 LITTLE BIT OF LOVE JP Cooper 75100 77 5 18 CAUTION The Killers 542050 79 42 6 WOMAN Andreya Triana 64400 82 35 8 FINGERTIPS Tom Gregory 80200 87 87 3 CRAZY IN LOVE Beyonce featuring Jay-Z 6900 88 35 8 X Jonas Brothers featuring KAROL G 99300
July 20, 20204 yr Hi John! Big climb for Dua! :o A potential #1 next week maybe? Bob Marley/Robin Schulz caught my eye so just given that a listen - a decent track but I still prefer the Is This Love remix from a few years back! Playing the new Foster The People song as well, very funky! Quite enjoying it. Great chart :D
July 21, 20204 yr Hi John! Nice to see "Watermelon Sugar" at #1, as well as the huge gain for "Hallucinate" into the top 3! I also like the other huge gains for "Heaven On My Mind" and "Natalie Don't" As for the debuts, I like "What's Love Got To Do With It", "Sun Is Shining" and "Return Of The Mack"! Great chart!
July 26, 20204 yr Hi John, my faves this week: 1 2 1 4 WATERMELON SUGAR Harry Styles 364500 I finally remembered to re-chart this! Must be my ever increasing old age, but I was surprised it didn't reach my Top 40 - I could have sworn it did 2 7 2 2 HOW LONG Ace featuring Paul Carrack 165000 3 38 3 3 HALLUCINATE Dua Lipa 103800 4 1 1 5 SPINNING OVER YOU REYKO 690000 5 3 3 4 MALIBU Kim Petras 258000 6 5 5 5 FADED Izzy Bizu 172400 8 4 1 10 IN YOUR EYES Robin Schulz featuring Alida 811300 9 11 9 7 ((TRANCE)) The S.L.P. 163000 11 9 5 9 SUMMER FEELINGS Lennon Stella featuring Charlie Puth 320350 13 8 8 4 HUSAVIK Will Ferrell & My Marianne 99800 14 14 14 9 I FLY Galantis featuring Faouzia 182000 16 10 1 7 A CHANGE IS GONNA COME Sam Cooke 607000 17 51 17 2 SALAMANDER STREET Callum Beattie 34750 :wub: 18 22 18 5 HALLUCINOGENICS (SEEB REMIX) Matt Maeson 76900 :cheer: 20 16 1 17 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 1218100 21 15 1 10 VIOLENT THING Ben Dolic 909750 24 17 3 10 TEARS GETTING SOBER VICTORIA 517000 25 21 17 9 WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (LEBROCK REMIX) Boston Manor featuring LeBrock 150100 27 28 27 6 LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN The Sweet 93900 28 57 28 2 AND IT BREAKS MY HEART LEON 28700 :cheer: in an ideal world she'd be an official Top 40 regular 29 20 10 10 ALL THAT Sparks 256000 31 25 2 13 THE LAKE Galantis & Wrabel 655400 32 23 3 10 MOVE The Mamas 481050 33 26 2 10 ALL OF MY LOVE Destiny & B.O.K. 618200 35 33 7 13 SECRETS Regard & Raye 320750 36 32 23 9 FET HOUSE MODE Rebecca & Fiona 132950 37 40 37 6 THE SIX-TEENS The Sweet 74950 39 27 16 8 BLAME IT ON ME Melanie C 151000 40 47 40 5 THE WRITER Four Of Diamonds & Mr Eazi 57200 42 43 42 10 ISN’T SHE LOVELY Stevie Wonder 92750 43 46 43 10 FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH Buffalo Springfield 92800 44 44 1 21 SAY SO Doja Cat 1042150 45 36 10 10 LEFT OUT IN THE COLD Sparks 265800 46 48 46 4 OLD ME 5 Seconds Of Summer 34750 49 34 9 11 PEOPLE ON THE HIGH LINE (RICHARD X RADIO EDIT) New Order 264800 50 39 7 10 UNIVERSO Blas Canto 295900 51 56 51 5 FIRE AND FURY Overcoats 50650 52 63 52 4 MARCH MARCH The Chicks 28700 53 54 53 3 ORDINARY WORLD Duran Duran 29050 54 71 54 4 HEAVEN ON MY MIND Becky Hill & Sigala 22900 55 65 55 6 TAKE CARE OF YOU Ella Henderson 34800 58 41 34 5 MY OWN SOUL’S WARNING The Killers 64100 :wub: 59 84 59 2 NATALIE DON’T RAYE 13300 60 64 60 6 ACTION The Sweet 32700 62 72 62 5 PYRAMIDS Noonie Bao 28600 63 NEW 63 1 SMILE Katy Perry 7200 64 58 1 11 THE MODEL Kraftwerk 392850 65 59 29 10 BE KIND Marshmello & Halsey 124350 67 67 58 6 LEARN TO FLY Surfaces & Elton John 44400 69 74 69 6 BREAKING ME Topic & A7S 28000 71 42 12 10 FAI RUMORE Diodato 202050 72 53 18 11 CHIQUITITA (SPANISH VERSION) Cher 170850 73 80 73 2 PURE The Lightning Seeds 9400 74 83 74 2 MAKE YOU DANCE Meghan Trainor 8600 76 49 26 8 ALICE Lady Gaga 104500 77 75 75 6 HIGH ON YOU Sigma & John Newman 25400 79 NEW 79 1 DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT Jubel featuring NEIMY 4200 80 86 80 4 THE TIME IS NOW Moloko 9700 81 NEW 81 1 WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT Kygo & Tina Turner 3800 82 89 82 2 CHI MAI Ennio Morricone 5800 84 90 84 2 SHE SELLS SANCTUARY The Cult 5200 86 NEW 86 1 SUN IS SHINING Bob Marley Featuring Robin Schulz 2800 89 NEW 89 1 RETURN OF THE MACK Mark Morrison 2200 90 NEW 90 1 BACK TOGETHER AGAIN Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway 2000 Fantastic chart as always :wub:
July 27, 20204 yr Author Hi John! Big climb for Dua! :o A potential #1 next week maybe? Bob Marley/Robin Schulz caught my eye so just given that a listen - a decent track but I still prefer the Is This Love remix from a few years back! Playing the new Foster The People song as well, very funky! Quite enjoying it. Great chart :D Hi Pete! :) Dua looked likely to top - until Kylie stuck out an unexpected new single this week :lol: Oops! That Foster The People track is quite oddly structured, it comes over as a more unorthodox Empire Of The Sun to me :D Cheers! B-)
July 27, 20204 yr Author Hi John! Nice to see "Watermelon Sugar" at #1, as well as the huge gain for "Hallucinate" into the top 3! I also like the other huge gains for "Heaven On My Mind" and "Natalie Don't" As for the debuts, I like "What's Love Got To Do With It", "Sun Is Shining" and "Return Of The Mack"! Great chart! Hi Sergej! Thanks for the comment, quite a batch of oldies down the bottom end of my chart! :lol: B-)
July 27, 20204 yr Author Hi John, my faves this week: 1 2 1 4 WATERMELON SUGAR Harry Styles 364500 I finally remembered to re-chart this! Must be my ever increasing old age, but I was surprised it didn't reach my Top 40 - I could have sworn it did 2 7 2 2 HOW LONG Ace featuring Paul Carrack 165000 3 38 3 3 HALLUCINATE Dua Lipa 103800 4 1 1 5 SPINNING OVER YOU REYKO 690000 5 3 3 4 MALIBU Kim Petras 258000 6 5 5 5 FADED Izzy Bizu 172400 8 4 1 10 IN YOUR EYES Robin Schulz featuring Alida 811300 9 11 9 7 ((TRANCE)) The S.L.P. 163000 11 9 5 9 SUMMER FEELINGS Lennon Stella featuring Charlie Puth 320350 13 8 8 4 HUSAVIK Will Ferrell & My Marianne 99800 14 14 14 9 I FLY Galantis featuring Faouzia 182000 16 10 1 7 A CHANGE IS GONNA COME Sam Cooke 607000 17 51 17 2 SALAMANDER STREET Callum Beattie 34750 :wub: 18 22 18 5 HALLUCINOGENICS (SEEB REMIX) Matt Maeson 76900 :cheer: 20 16 1 17 LEVITATING Dua Lipa 1218100 21 15 1 10 VIOLENT THING Ben Dolic 909750 24 17 3 10 TEARS GETTING SOBER VICTORIA 517000 25 21 17 9 WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD (LEBROCK REMIX) Boston Manor featuring LeBrock 150100 27 28 27 6 LOVE IS LIKE OXYGEN The Sweet 93900 28 57 28 2 AND IT BREAKS MY HEART LEON 28700 :cheer: in an ideal world she'd be an official Top 40 regular 29 20 10 10 ALL THAT Sparks 256000 31 25 2 13 THE LAKE Galantis & Wrabel 655400 32 23 3 10 MOVE The Mamas 481050 33 26 2 10 ALL OF MY LOVE Destiny & B.O.K. 618200 35 33 7 13 SECRETS Regard & Raye 320750 36 32 23 9 FET HOUSE MODE Rebecca & Fiona 132950 37 40 37 6 THE SIX-TEENS The Sweet 74950 39 27 16 8 BLAME IT ON ME Melanie C 151000 40 47 40 5 THE WRITER Four Of Diamonds & Mr Eazi 57200 42 43 42 10 ISN’T SHE LOVELY Stevie Wonder 92750 43 46 43 10 FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH Buffalo Springfield 92800 44 44 1 21 SAY SO Doja Cat 1042150 45 36 10 10 LEFT OUT IN THE COLD Sparks 265800 46 48 46 4 OLD ME 5 Seconds Of Summer 34750 49 34 9 11 PEOPLE ON THE HIGH LINE (RICHARD X RADIO EDIT) New Order 264800 50 39 7 10 UNIVERSO Blas Canto 295900 51 56 51 5 FIRE AND FURY Overcoats 50650 52 63 52 4 MARCH MARCH The Chicks 28700 53 54 53 3 ORDINARY WORLD Duran Duran 29050 54 71 54 4 HEAVEN ON MY MIND Becky Hill & Sigala 22900 55 65 55 6 TAKE CARE OF YOU Ella Henderson 34800 58 41 34 5 MY OWN SOUL’S WARNING The Killers 64100 :wub: 59 84 59 2 NATALIE DON’T RAYE 13300 60 64 60 6 ACTION The Sweet 32700 62 72 62 5 PYRAMIDS Noonie Bao 28600 63 NEW 63 1 SMILE Katy Perry 7200 64 58 1 11 THE MODEL Kraftwerk 392850 65 59 29 10 BE KIND Marshmello & Halsey 124350 67 67 58 6 LEARN TO FLY Surfaces & Elton John 44400 69 74 69 6 BREAKING ME Topic & A7S 28000 71 42 12 10 FAI RUMORE Diodato 202050 72 53 18 11 CHIQUITITA (SPANISH VERSION) Cher 170850 73 80 73 2 PURE The Lightning Seeds 9400 74 83 74 2 MAKE YOU DANCE Meghan Trainor 8600 76 49 26 8 ALICE Lady Gaga 104500 77 75 75 6 HIGH ON YOU Sigma & John Newman 25400 79 NEW 79 1 DANCING IN THE MOONLIGHT Jubel featuring NEIMY 4200 80 86 80 4 THE TIME IS NOW Moloko 9700 81 NEW 81 1 WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT Kygo & Tina Turner 3800 82 89 82 2 CHI MAI Ennio Morricone 5800 84 90 84 2 SHE SELLS SANCTUARY The Cult 5200 86 NEW 86 1 SUN IS SHINING Bob Marley Featuring Robin Schulz 2800 89 NEW 89 1 RETURN OF THE MACK Mark Morrison 2200 90 NEW 90 1 BACK TOGETHER AGAIN Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway 2000 Fantastic chart as always :wub: Hi AH! :) Glad you recharted Watermelon Sugar - tell me about mis-remembering chart positions, I'm often surprised at how well or badly tracks do in my charts when I flick back through them. I bought Drake's One Dance and felt sure it must have gone top 40 when I had a quick look-through his chart catalogue this week. Uh-uh, peaked at 89. Woh! LEON is one of so many female pop acts that are essentially album acts appealing to older pop fans, the singles charts are strictly for streaming-generation internet-obsessive short-attention-span instant-gratification-sound-bite what-real-world fans these days. Basically, my nieces and nephews :D Thanks for having such good taste in music :D
July 27, 20204 yr Hi john! Hallucinate is rising quickly and that should be covered in the BBC News, if you know what I mean ;) Some interesting new entries and classics there! Great week!
July 27, 20204 yr Your #1 is growing on me slowly! Shame Malibu never topped your chart, I've only ever had two songs in my chart with this title, and they've both hit the top! Great chart!
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