Posted October 27, 20213 yr 24th October 2021 It's not ABBA on top! Fellow Swedish music contest winner Agnes has grabbed her 3rd chart-topper, following on from Release Me in the noughties, I Trance in the teenies, and now a 3rd in the twenties. I should note that ABBA have topped my charts in every decade since the 70's, either with oldies, unreleased album tracks, or recharting albums with uncharted album tracks and B sides, so that's twice as many decades, but only 3 with new material. ABBA meanwhile drop the unreleased Just a Notion from 1978, new in at 16 - I can see why it seemed out of place in the year they released mighty tracks like Eagle, Summer Night City and Thank You For The Music, 2 of them not even UK singles!! It's cute though. Frida, of ABBA, does backing on Harpo's 1975 flop Moviestar, a Swedish pop star and European hit. The UK finally warmed to it a year after I'd charted it and bought it, so it's back for a 3rd top 10 run. So that makes 6 ABBA-related tracks in the chart. Joy Crookes climbs bigly into the 20, Texas make it an unbelievable 4th top 30 of the year, and Gorillaz decade-old flop finally gets the chart placing it deserves. I must say I prefer it to recent stuff. Kylie grabs Ollie for some duet Disco-prodding, without actually improving on the original album, Ed Sheeran gets a second charter of 2021, Shivers, and Miles Kane is back for some solo action for a 7th chart entry in a decade - not including his 6 Last Shadow Puppets side project charting tracks with Alex Turner. 1 2 1 4 HERE COMES THE NIGHT - Agnes 367800 2 1 1 8 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1195000 3 3 1 8 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 970000 4 4 3 9 BITTER TASTE - Billy Idol 482300 5 6 5 22 DON’T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYING - Gerry & The Pacemakers 414350 6 8 6 4 DOPAMINE - Purple Disco Machine featuring Eyelar 125600 7 5 5 5 HEAT ABOVE - Greta Van Fleet 237100 8 NEW 8 1 MOVIESTAR - Harpo featuring Frida 48000 9 10 9 5 MY UNIVERSE - Coldplay x BTS 180000 10 7 7 8 ALIBIS - Sneaker Pimps 246600 11 11 9 5 ANNIVERSARY - Duran Duran 149200 12 9 4 9 ON THE WRONG SIDE - Lindsey Buckingham 434000 13 13 13 5 SPIRIT POWER AND SOUL - Johnny Marr 93250 14 14 14 7 CARE FOR - Blossoms 112000 15 15 15 7 HEAT WAVES - Glass Animals 126600 16 NEW 16 1 JUST A NOTION - ABBA 25000 17 16 3 14 WAVES OF BLUE - Majid Jordan 649700 18 32 18 2 WHEN YOU WERE MINE - Joy Crookes 39800 19 23 19 7 DUM DUM DIDDLE - ABBA 125200 20 12 12 3 NO TIME TO DIE - Billie Eilish 87000 21 29 21 4 BACK TO OZ - Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine 60700 22 37 22 4 FUEL TO FIRE - Agnes Obel 52300 23 17 17 7 HANGING ON YOUR HINGES - Stereophonics 106100 24 18 10 9 SUNSHINE - Liam Payne 225450 25 22 7 11 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) - Elton John & Dua Lipa 365750 26 21 4 9 A NIGHTINGALE SANG IN BERKELY SQUARE - Tori Amos 271150 27 58 27 2 UNBELIEVABLE - Texas 28600 28 54 28 3 ALL OF THE TIME - Jungle 34500 29 31 29 7 AS GOOD AS NEW - ABBA 101350 30 46 30 2 SORRY - Emma Steinbakken 30750 31 19 19 7 LOVE UNDER PRESSURE - James Blunt 113500 32 26 3 11 DIRT - Keane 510700 33 38 33 4 TALAMANCA - BURNS 52300 34 24 8 9 GOODBYE - LP 243800 35 68 35 2 ON MELANCHOLY HILL - Gorillaz 23900 36 48 36 5 THAT’S WHAT I WANT - Lil Nas X 49300 37 20 20 12 GOOD 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo 177100 38 27 28 8 ETERNAL LOVE - JLS 115550 39 47 39 5 JUSTIFIED - Kacey Musgraves 54600 40 25 19 7 BETTER DAYS - Dermot Kennedy 112350 41 28 28 6 ON MY WAY - Natalie Imbruglia 75250 42 34 1 22 YOU - Regard, Troye Sivan & Tate McRae 1251100 43 30 8 9 I DON’T MIND - Lindsey Buckingham 222400 44 33 33 6 SEASIDE - Diane Warren, Rita Ora, Sofia Reyes & Reik 84050 45 52 45 3 THE TIPPING POINT - Tears For Fears 30100 46 35 12 11 IF SOMETHING’S GONNA KILL ME (IT MIGHT AS WELL BE LOVE) - The Stranglers 223400 47 51 47 9 HONKY TONK WOMEN - The Rolling Stones 76850 48 66 48 2 FAMILY - Emeli Sande 19100 49 36 5 11 YOU CAN CALL ME - Texas 373850 50 59 50 2 HUMANKIND - Coldplay 22100 51 39 9 11 PSYCHO - Maisie Peters 258900 52 56 52 7 BROKEN LAND - The Adventures 57200 53 40 40 6 IF IT’S LOVE - Sting 62050 54 42 4 14 MOVE WITH ME - Mad Circuit 362350 55 63 55 2 WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW? - James Morrison 18000 56 NEW 56 1 A SECOND TO MIDNIGHT - Kylie Minogue & Years & Years 10600 57 61 57 4 TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD - Ewan McVicar featuring Rufus & Chaka Khan 29700 58 50 1 23 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME - Marshmello x Jonas Brothers 1358050 59 71 59 2 UNDENIABLE - Kygo featuring X Ambassadors 15900 60 60 60 6 WHO - Donny Osmond 44000 61 44 44 9 FANTASY - Mariah Carey 76850 62 45 10 14 KISS MY (UH-OH) - Anne-Marie & Little Mix 271700 63 65 63 8 MISTY BLUE - Dorothy Moore 44600 64 64 64 4 DON’T BREAK THE HEART - Tom Grennan 24400 65 41 29 9 FLASHBACK (COLLRBONE REMIX) - Javiera Mena featuring Collrbone 109500 66 70 66 2 BURNING BRIDGES - Sigrid 12800 67 67 67 3 ANGEL FACE - The Glitter Band 19000 68 43 22 11 FLY AWAY - Tones And I 163800 69 73 69 2 GET TOGETHER - Belinda Carlisle 11600 70 72 70 3 LET’S GET TOGETHER AGAIN - The Glitter Band 16600 71 74 71 2 EASY ON ME - Adele 11000 72 NEW 72 1 SHIVERS - Ed Sheeran 5600 73 75 73 2 STARLIGHT - Westlife 5400 74 69 1 22 GYPSIES, TRAMPS AND THIEVES - Cher 745500 75 NEW 75 1 SEE YA WHEN I SEE YA - Miles Kane 5000 DROP OUTS 49 21 9 YOU & I - Navos & HARLEE 114100 53 13 10 HOPE - Sigma & Carla Marie 204200 55 8 14 I AM WHAT I AM (COPENHAGEN 2021 WORLDPRIDE ANTHEM) - Aqua 283200 57 18 13 BELIEVE - Anna Of The North 195750 62 29 9 WILD HEARTS - Keith Urban 104900
October 29, 20213 yr Hey John! :hi: Sadly I'm not a fan of your #1 but Agnes has always proved herself to be great regardless. A new peak for My Universe :wub: yass slay queen. Such a good song! Just a notion is quite good. Nowhere near as instant as their last two singles but I love it. Ach not better days proper flopping :( that's upsetting. A second to midnight is quite catchy! Kylie and Olly have amazing chemistry. They work well together and their voices mesh so well. I'd really appreciate a collaborative album from the pair. Shivers finnaly entering :wub: this makes me very very happy! What a song! Great chart!
October 30, 20213 yr Hey John! Nice to see "When You Were Mine", "All Of The Time", "Sorry", "That's What I Want" and "Undeniable" gain huge, as well as the debuts for "Just A Notion", "A Second To Midnight" and "Shivers". Great chart!
October 30, 20213 yr Hi John, No ABBA on Top ^_^ Agnes is a nice new no 1 :cheer: But "Just A Notion" already Top 20 :yahoo: All the ABBA tracks you mentioned were Top 10 hits in the Netherlands! Didn´t know that Frida was the backing vocalist on "Moviestar". Fun fact. And Harpo reached the no 2 position in the Dutch Top 40 in 1975 ! Other great new entries: Kylie & Olly and Ed Sheeran :yahoo:
October 31, 20213 yr Hi john! Is it me that it has been a recent thing to see new songs bolded? :thinking: Either way, it is a great feature to look for new releases ;) Not a lot I could recall sadly but great week nonetheless!
October 31, 20213 yr Hi John, my faves this week: 1 2 1 4 HERE COMES THE NIGHT - Agnes 367800 absolutely a grower. Watch this climb in mine later :wub: 2 1 1 8 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1195000 3 3 1 8 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 970000 4 4 3 9 BITTER TASTE - Billy Idol 482300 5 6 5 22 DON’T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYING - Gerry & The Pacemakers 414350 6 8 6 4 DOPAMINE - Purple Disco Machine featuring Eyelar 125600 8 NEW 8 1 MOVIESTAR - Harpo featuring Frida 48000 :heart: criminal this DNQ'd. Sorry, I tried my best! :lol: 9 10 9 5 MY UNIVERSE - Coldplay x BTS 180000 :wub: 11 11 9 5 ANNIVERSARY - Duran Duran 149200 14 14 14 7 CARE FOR - Blossoms 112000 15 15 15 7 HEAT WAVES - Glass Animals 126600 16 NEW 16 1 JUST A NOTION - ABBA 25000 17 16 3 14 WAVES OF BLUE - Majid Jordan 649700 18 32 18 2 WHEN YOU WERE MINE - Joy Crookes 39800 19 23 19 7 DUM DUM DIDDLE - ABBA 125200 20 12 12 3 NO TIME TO DIE - Billie Eilish 87000 24 18 10 9 SUNSHINE - Liam Payne 225450 25 22 7 11 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) - Elton John & Dua Lipa 365750 29 31 29 7 AS GOOD AS NEW - ABBA 101350 30 46 30 2 SORRY - Emma Steinbakken 30750 32 26 3 11 DIRT - Keane 510700 33 38 33 4 TALAMANCA - BURNS 52300 34 24 8 9 GOODBYE - LP 243800 35 68 35 2 ON MELANCHOLY HILL - Gorillaz 23900 :heart: 36 48 36 5 THAT’S WHAT I WANT - Lil Nas X 49300 37 20 20 12 GOOD 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo 177100 38 27 28 8 ETERNAL LOVE - JLS 115550 39 47 39 5 JUSTIFIED - Kacey Musgraves 54600 40 25 19 7 BETTER DAYS - Dermot Kennedy 112350 41 28 28 6 ON MY WAY - Natalie Imbruglia 75250 42 34 1 22 YOU - Regard, Troye Sivan & Tate McRae 1251100 44 33 33 6 SEASIDE - Diane Warren, Rita Ora, Sofia Reyes & Reik 84050 45 52 45 3 THE TIPPING POINT - Tears For Fears 30100 46 35 12 11 IF SOMETHING’S GONNA KILL ME (IT MIGHT AS WELL BE LOVE) - The Stranglers 223400 47 51 47 9 HONKY TONK WOMEN - The Rolling Stones 76850 49 36 5 11 YOU CAN CALL ME - Texas 373850 51 39 9 11 PSYCHO - Maisie Peters 258900 52 56 52 7 BROKEN LAND - The Adventures 57200 getting nearer and nearer to the top 50. What's brought this back? 54 42 4 14 MOVE WITH ME - Mad Circuit 362350 55 63 55 2 WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW? - James Morrison 18000 56 NEW 56 1 A SECOND TO MIDNIGHT - Kylie Minogue & Years & Years 10600 57 61 57 4 TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD - Ewan McVicar featuring Rufus & Chaka Khan 29700 58 50 1 23 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME - Marshmello x Jonas Brothers 1358050 59 71 59 2 UNDENIABLE - Kygo featuring X Ambassadors 15900 60 60 60 6 WHO - Donny Osmond 44000 61 44 44 9 FANTASY - Mariah Carey 76850 62 45 10 14 KISS MY (UH-OH) - Anne-Marie & Little Mix 271700 63 65 63 8 MISTY BLUE - Dorothy Moore 44600 64 64 64 4 DON’T BREAK THE HEART - Tom Grennan 24400 65 41 29 9 FLASHBACK (COLLRBONE REMIX) - Javiera Mena featuring Collrbone 109500 66 70 66 2 BURNING BRIDGES - Sigrid 12800 67 67 67 3 ANGEL FACE - The Glitter Band 19000 68 43 22 11 FLY AWAY - Tones And I 163800 69 73 69 2 GET TOGETHER - Belinda Carlisle 11600 70 72 70 3 LET’S GET TOGETHER AGAIN - The Glitter Band 16600 71 74 71 2 EASY ON ME - Adele 11000 72 NEW 72 1 SHIVERS - Ed Sheeran 5600 73 75 73 2 STARLIGHT - Westlife 5400 74 69 1 22 GYPSIES, TRAMPS AND THIEVES - Cher 745500 Fantastic chart as always :heart:
November 1, 20213 yr Author Hey John! :hi: Sadly I'm not a fan of your #1 but Agnes has always proved herself to be great regardless. A new peak for My Universe :wub: yass slay queen. Such a good song! Just a notion is quite good. Nowhere near as instant as their last two singles but I love it. Ach not better days proper flopping :( that's upsetting. A second to midnight is quite catchy! Kylie and Olly have amazing chemistry. They work well together and their voices mesh so well. I'd really appreciate a collaborative album from the pair. Shivers finnaly entering :wub: this makes me very very happy! What a song! Great chart! Hey James! :) Agnes has been a little bit ABBA naughty on that track, she's nicked a snatch of the same instrumental hook Madonna nicked from Gimme Gimme Gimme, oops! :lol: My Universe turning out to have legs :) Kylie & Olly sound like a double act anyway, so they might as well do an entire album, I'd probably buy it, especially if they got Pet Shop Boys to produce - they've worked with both of them so...... :) Shivers I'm late to the party, but yes it's quite good actually! :D cheers! B-)
November 1, 20213 yr Author Hey John! Nice to see "When You Were Mine", "All Of The Time", "Sorry", "That's What I Want" and "Undeniable" gain huge, as well as the debuts for "Just A Notion", "A Second To Midnight" and "Shivers". Great chart! Hey Sergej! :) Thanks for the picks, and any batch of songs that includes ABBA is always going to get my approval :D cheers! B-)
November 1, 20213 yr Author Hi John, No ABBA on Top ^_^ Agnes is a nice new no 1 :cheer: But "Just A Notion" already Top 20 :yahoo: All the ABBA tracks you mentioned were Top 10 hits in the Netherlands! Didn´t know that Frida was the backing vocalist on "Moviestar". Fun fact. And Harpo reached the no 2 position in the Dutch Top 40 in 1975 ! Other great new entries: Kylie & Olly and Ed Sheeran :yahoo: Hi Sven! :) Thanks for the comments and picks, I didn't know Harpo got so high in the charts, it took 2 tries in the UK and it still didn't go top 20, but I loved it first time I heard it in 1975. I'm glad Eagle and Thank You For The Music went top 10 too, I'm still bitter they weren't issued as singles in 1978 oops! Epic UK needed a kick up the arse on several occasions and Benny & Bjorn were too obliging sometimes - mind you if theyd had their own way they'd have picked 2 For The Price Of One as a single, which would have been a mis-step! cheers! B-)
November 1, 20213 yr Author Hi john! Is it me that it has been a recent thing to see new songs bolded? :thinking: Either way, it is a great feature to look for new releases ;) Not a lot I could recall sadly but great week nonetheless! Hi Uhsting, Yes you're right I thought it made it easier to pick them out so it's a recent thing I started doing, the text can get a bit samey with a lot of songs :D Cheers for noticing! B-)
November 1, 20213 yr Author Hi John, my faves this week: 1 2 1 4 HERE COMES THE NIGHT - Agnes 367800 absolutely a grower. Watch this climb in mine later :wub: 2 1 1 8 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1195000 3 3 1 8 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 970000 4 4 3 9 BITTER TASTE - Billy Idol 482300 5 6 5 22 DON’T LET THE SUN CATCH YOU CRYING - Gerry & The Pacemakers 414350 6 8 6 4 DOPAMINE - Purple Disco Machine featuring Eyelar 125600 8 NEW 8 1 MOVIESTAR - Harpo featuring Frida 48000 :heart: criminal this DNQ'd. Sorry, I tried my best! :lol: 9 10 9 5 MY UNIVERSE - Coldplay x BTS 180000 :wub: 11 11 9 5 ANNIVERSARY - Duran Duran 149200 14 14 14 7 CARE FOR - Blossoms 112000 15 15 15 7 HEAT WAVES - Glass Animals 126600 16 NEW 16 1 JUST A NOTION - ABBA 25000 17 16 3 14 WAVES OF BLUE - Majid Jordan 649700 18 32 18 2 WHEN YOU WERE MINE - Joy Crookes 39800 19 23 19 7 DUM DUM DIDDLE - ABBA 125200 20 12 12 3 NO TIME TO DIE - Billie Eilish 87000 24 18 10 9 SUNSHINE - Liam Payne 225450 25 22 7 11 COLD HEART (PNAU REMIX) - Elton John & Dua Lipa 365750 29 31 29 7 AS GOOD AS NEW - ABBA 101350 30 46 30 2 SORRY - Emma Steinbakken 30750 32 26 3 11 DIRT - Keane 510700 33 38 33 4 TALAMANCA - BURNS 52300 34 24 8 9 GOODBYE - LP 243800 35 68 35 2 ON MELANCHOLY HILL - Gorillaz 23900 :heart: 36 48 36 5 THAT’S WHAT I WANT - Lil Nas X 49300 37 20 20 12 GOOD 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo 177100 38 27 28 8 ETERNAL LOVE - JLS 115550 39 47 39 5 JUSTIFIED - Kacey Musgraves 54600 40 25 19 7 BETTER DAYS - Dermot Kennedy 112350 41 28 28 6 ON MY WAY - Natalie Imbruglia 75250 42 34 1 22 YOU - Regard, Troye Sivan & Tate McRae 1251100 44 33 33 6 SEASIDE - Diane Warren, Rita Ora, Sofia Reyes & Reik 84050 45 52 45 3 THE TIPPING POINT - Tears For Fears 30100 46 35 12 11 IF SOMETHING’S GONNA KILL ME (IT MIGHT AS WELL BE LOVE) - The Stranglers 223400 47 51 47 9 HONKY TONK WOMEN - The Rolling Stones 76850 49 36 5 11 YOU CAN CALL ME - Texas 373850 51 39 9 11 PSYCHO - Maisie Peters 258900 52 56 52 7 BROKEN LAND - The Adventures 57200 getting nearer and nearer to the top 50. What's brought this back? 54 42 4 14 MOVE WITH ME - Mad Circuit 362350 55 63 55 2 WHO’S GONNA LOVE ME NOW? - James Morrison 18000 56 NEW 56 1 A SECOND TO MIDNIGHT - Kylie Minogue & Years & Years 10600 57 61 57 4 TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD - Ewan McVicar featuring Rufus & Chaka Khan 29700 58 50 1 23 LEAVE BEFORE YOU LOVE ME - Marshmello x Jonas Brothers 1358050 59 71 59 2 UNDENIABLE - Kygo featuring X Ambassadors 15900 60 60 60 6 WHO - Donny Osmond 44000 61 44 44 9 FANTASY - Mariah Carey 76850 62 45 10 14 KISS MY (UH-OH) - Anne-Marie & Little Mix 271700 63 65 63 8 MISTY BLUE - Dorothy Moore 44600 64 64 64 4 DON’T BREAK THE HEART - Tom Grennan 24400 65 41 29 9 FLASHBACK (COLLRBONE REMIX) - Javiera Mena featuring Collrbone 109500 66 70 66 2 BURNING BRIDGES - Sigrid 12800 67 67 67 3 ANGEL FACE - The Glitter Band 19000 68 43 22 11 FLY AWAY - Tones And I 163800 69 73 69 2 GET TOGETHER - Belinda Carlisle 11600 70 72 70 3 LET’S GET TOGETHER AGAIN - The Glitter Band 16600 71 74 71 2 EASY ON ME - Adele 11000 72 NEW 72 1 SHIVERS - Ed Sheeran 5600 73 75 73 2 STARLIGHT - Westlife 5400 74 69 1 22 GYPSIES, TRAMPS AND THIEVES - Cher 745500 Fantastic chart as always :heart: Hi AH! :) Ooh glad you like Agnes too, great dance toon and ABBA-snatch in there too - so the top 3 is basically all ABBA (sort of) :lol: Thanks for the support on Moviestar AH, much appreciated! It was never going to qualify in that semi though, it was like Invasion Of The Indie Snatchers, where all the innocent pop entrants had been taken over by indie pod doubles :lol: - even Suedey's Wire didn't appeal! I'm going pop punk next time, see how the indie block cope with that (unless something new that needs a push grabs me) :teresa: I'm not sure why The Adventures suddenly started selling again, it popped up in the itunes sales chart a month or 2 ago and then disappeared, but I thought, hey that gives me an excuse to chart it... cheers! B-)
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