Posted February 14, 20223 yr 13th February 2022 It's LEON with her first chart-topper following several top 10's over the last few years, but Wishful Thinking really pays off. Newcomer George Cosby goes top 10 with his fab We Stand Alone, Tove Styrke replaces Tove Lo in the top 10, and Tinlicker also get a debut top 10 along with Run Rivers. ABBA are back! It's the lowest-charting track on Voyage for me (peaked at 15) but ABBA yet again demonstrate the knack of picking the wrong track for singles that they often used to do. OK it's upbeat, but it's not as good as When You Danced With Me. Here's hoping they are holding that one back for the opening of the hologram tour! Highest actual new song is from Ed Sheeran on his 5th in 6 months, this time with a help from Taylor Swift on The Joker and The Queen. Good thing he didn't ask Elton John to do this one, which enters at 55 as Merry Christmas drops out. The Shires are back with a new song, I See Stars at 60. Lauren Spencer-Smith debuts with her tender Fingers Crossed at 62, Emeli Sande is also back with Brighter Days extending her run to well over a decade, and Simple Minds enter at 72 with Act Of Love making it 40 years of charting, after 4 years away. Finally, LIZOT revamps Boney M's debut hit Daddy Cool, still their best record, over 45 years on from it topping my charts, The Ronettes debut with the wonderful Walking In The Rain, which was charting for The Partridge Family for me 49 years ago, but the original finally gets a look-in following BBC2's Ronnie Spector tribute programme, followed by a Carole King at 80 special which got It's Too Late selling on itunes over 50 years on from me getting it for Christmas 1971 as part of a list of singles I loved but had never managed to record on tape. Carole King IMHO is the greatest female professional song-writer, along with her husband lyricist Gerry Goffin. Diane Warren might have written more hits, and all on her own, but Carole's are timeless classics, and she then went on to be a star in her own right with the classic album Tapestry, which this is taken from. Helping on the album? Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, 2 of the other big singer-songwriters of the time. 1 3 1 4 WISHFUL THINKING - LEON 297400 2 1 1 3 EVERLASTING LOVE - Love Affair 455000 3 4 3 5 BETTER DAYS - Neiked, Mae Muller & Polo G 265800 4 5 4 6 LESS THAN ZERO - The Weeknd 279000 5 6 4 7 DANCING AWAY IN TEARS - Yola 341000 6 12 6 4 WE STAND ALONE - George Cosby 139000 7 9 7 6 NO CHOICE - Tame Impala 163150 8 8 6 6 BRAVE - Ella Henderson 259750 9 14 9 4 SHOW ME LOVE - Tove Styrke 89100 10 26 10 3 LOST - Tinlicker featuring Run Rivers 73750 11 7 1 15 WHEN YOU DANCED WITH ME - ABBA 1332000 12 11 5 6 NOTHING’S EVER GONNA BE GOOD ENOUGH - Miles Kane featuring Corinne Bailey Rae 275000 13 13 3 15 BUMBLEBEE - ABBA 788000 14 10 1 14 GIVE IT ALL UP - Duran Duran featuring Tove Lo 1276000 15 15 15 5 OH MY GOD - Adele 107300 16 20 16 4 YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH - Meat Loaf 76550 17 25 17 8 PAPA GENE’S BLUES - The Monkees 128100 18 21 18 3 I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR - Scarlett Johansson & Bono 60750 19 38 19 3 NEW LOW - Nightlife 49450 20 16 1 15 ODE TO FREEDOM - ABBA 1094400 21 RE 15 10 NO DOUBT ABOUT IT - ABBA 164700 22 31 22 4 SHADOWS - Bonobo featuring Jordan Rakei 55700 23 17 17 6 SACRIFICE - The Weeknd 118250 24 24 24 6 WHERE ARE YOU NOW - Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott 96300 25 18 18 7 MY HERO - Westlife 123650 26 32 26 5 WON’T STAND DOWN - Muse 70300 27 19 1 8 HELLO IT’S ME - Todd Rundgren 681400 28 22 8 12 HOLIDAY - Confidence Man 332000 29 37 29 3 WINTER KILLS ME - Markus Schulz featuring Lady V 47500 30 36 1 24 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 1369450 31 23 5 15 KEEP AN EYE ON DAN - ABBA 570650 32 27 27 6 LET’S ALL DANCE - Donny Osmond featuring Charlie Wilson 100500 33 28 18 8 SWEET TALKER - Years & Years + Galantis 131500 34 33 1 24 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1649100 35 46 35 6 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER - Sam Fender 68750 36 39 36 4 GHOST - Justin Bieber 56600 37 41 37 4 SWEET YOUNG THING - The Monkees 56150 38 34 1 16 LITTLE THINGS - ABBA 735900 39 42 39 3 C’MON PEOPLE (WE’RE MAKING IT NOW) - Richard Ashcroft featuring Liam Gallagher 41650 40 50 40 5 FLAMES - NERVO featuring Salena Mostroianni 46600 41 47 41 3 NEW TRICK - CXLOE 32100 42 53 42 3 SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS - Bastille 31400 43 45 43 6 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 54600 44 30 1 8 YOU JUST MAY BE THE ONE - The Monkees 478000 45 2 2 5 BE MY BABY - The Ronettes 300000 46 35 35 5 WILDER DAYS - Morgan Wade 69950 47 48 47 5 BILLY GOODBYE - Franz Ferdinand 53200 48 54 48 3 BREAKUP RITUALS - Mishcatt 30400 49 57 49 3 FINISH LINE - Elton John & Stevie Wonder 28300 50 60 50 3 THE BEST MISTAKES - The Divine Comedy 28000 51 55 51 5 PLANET IN THE SKY - Klingande x Merk & Kremont featuring MKLA 41950 52 58 52 2 BLOOR STREET - Kiefer Sutherland 21700 53 59 53 3 I ENGINEER - Animotion 31450 54 71 54 2 RIBBON ROUND THE BOMB - Blossoms 16800 55 NEW 55 1 THE JOKER AND THE QUEEN - Ed Sheeran featuring Taylor Swift 10800 56 73 56 2 ORIGINAL SIN - Sofi Tukker 16000 57 63 57 2 EVERYTHING’S ELECTRIC - Liam Gallagher featuring Dave Grohl 17600 58 65 58 2 BREAK THE MAN - Tears For Fears 17200 59 49 49 5 PAINT THE RED ROSE BLUE - Elvis Costello & The Imposters 46200 60 NEW 60 1 I SEE STARS - The Shires 10000 61 NEW 61 1 IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 7500 62 NEW 62 1 FINGERS CROSSED - Lauren Spencer-Smith 7400 63 66 63 5 BABY I LOVE YOU - The Ronettes 33000 64 74 64 2 GOOD NIGHT ON EARTH - Eels 12300 65 68 65 3 WE DON’T TALK ABOUT BRUNO - Encanto Cast 18600 66 70 66 2 ANYONE FOR YOU - George Ezra 12800 67 67 67 3 ABCDEFU - GAYLE 19800 68 NEW 68 1 WALKING IN THE RAIN - The Ronettes 6400 69 69 69 3 DOWN UNDER - Luude featuring Colin Hay 17800 70 72 70 3 MORNING OF MY LIFE - John Holt 16600 71 44 10 14 WORLD WE USED TO KNOW - Alan Walker & Winona Oak 321700 72 NEW 72 1 ACT OF LOVE - Simple Minds 5600 73 NEW 73 1 BRIGHTER DAYS - Emeli Sande 5400 74 75 74 2 THE POWER OF LOVE - Jennifer Rush 10200 75 NEW 75 1 DADDY COOL - LIZOT x Boney 5000 DROP OUTS 29 29 2 LOVE GROWS (WHERE MY ROSEMARY GOES) - Edison Lighthouse 35200 40 13 12 EVERYWHERE - Niall Horan & Anne-Marie 278650 43 25 6 WHEN I’M GONE - Alesso & Katy Perry 90650 51 15 12 OVERPASS GRAFFITI - Ed Sheeran 189400 52 31 5 LOVE CAN’T TURN AROUND - Pete Tong, Riton & Vula featuring Jules Buckley & The Heritage Orchestra 71400 56 19 7 LISTEN TO THE BAND - The Monkees 119150 61 14 10 MERRY CHRISTMAS - Elton John & Ed Sheeran 145350 62 9 12 SOMEBODY TO USE - Alesso 236650 64 16 12 SWEET DREAMS & DYNAMITE - Seeb & Nina Nesbitt 142800
February 15, 20223 yr Hi there! Nice to see the big gains for "Seventeen Going Under" and "Shut Off The Lights", the debuts for "The Joker And The Queen" and "Brighter Days" and the return for "No Doubt About It". Great chart!
February 19, 20223 yr Hi John, The Weeknd, Yola and Tame Impala climbing and Tove Styrke entering the Top 10 :cheer: Scarlett Johansson & Bono (Vox) Top 20 :dance: "No Doubt About It" re-entering and Markus Schulz climbing in the Top 30 :yahoo: Other great new entries bubbling under: Ed Sheeran/Taylor Swift, Lauren S-S, Emeli Sandé, Lizot/Boney M and Simple Minds :dance:
February 20, 20223 yr Hi John, my faves this week: 1 3 1 4 WISHFUL THINKING - LEON 297400 a Leon track doing much better here than in my chart? :o 2 1 1 3 EVERLASTING LOVE - Love Affair 455000 3 4 3 5 BETTER DAYS - Neiked, Mae Muller & Polo G 265800 4 5 4 6 LESS THAN ZERO - The Weeknd 279000 5 6 4 7 DANCING AWAY IN TEARS - Yola 341000 8 8 6 6 BRAVE - Ella Henderson 259750 9 14 9 4 SHOW ME LOVE - Tove Styrke 89100 :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: Hope this climbs further. Reminds me of an Ian Broudie/Lightning Seeds written song for some reason - probably just me :lol: 10 26 10 3 LOST - Tinlicker featuring Run Rivers 73750 11 7 1 15 WHEN YOU DANCED WITH ME - ABBA 1332000 12 11 5 6 NOTHING’S EVER GONNA BE GOOD ENOUGH - Miles Kane featuring Corinne Bailey Rae 275000 13 13 3 15 BUMBLEBEE - ABBA 788000 14 10 1 14 GIVE IT ALL UP - Duran Duran featuring Tove Lo 1276000 15 15 15 5 OH MY GOD - Adele 107300 16 20 16 4 YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH - Meat Loaf 76550 20 16 1 15 ODE TO FREEDOM - ABBA 1094400 21 RE 15 10 NO DOUBT ABOUT IT - ABBA 164700 23 17 17 6 SACRIFICE - The Weeknd 118250 24 24 24 6 WHERE ARE YOU NOW - Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott 96300 26 32 26 5 WON’T STAND DOWN - Muse 70300 27 19 1 8 HELLO IT’S ME - Todd Rundgren 681400 28 22 8 12 HOLIDAY - Confidence Man 332000 29 37 29 3 WINTER KILLS ME - Markus Schulz featuring Lady V 47500 30 36 1 24 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 1369450 31 23 5 15 KEEP AN EYE ON DAN - ABBA 570650 32 27 27 6 LET’S ALL DANCE - Donny Osmond featuring Charlie Wilson 100500 33 28 18 8 SWEET TALKER - Years & Years + Galantis 131500 34 33 1 24 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1649100 35 46 35 6 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER - Sam Fender 68750 :cheer: Top 40 at last! :lol: 36 39 36 4 GHOST - Justin Bieber 56600 38 34 1 16 LITTLE THINGS - ABBA 735900 41 47 41 3 NEW TRICK - CXLOE 32100 42 53 42 3 SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS - Bastille 31400 43 45 43 6 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 54600 45 2 2 5 BE MY BABY - The Ronettes 300000 ouch at this drop! :o Is this a record? 47 48 47 5 BILLY GOODBYE - Franz Ferdinand 53200 48 54 48 3 BREAKUP RITUALS - Mishcatt 30400 50 60 50 3 THE BEST MISTAKES - The Divine Comedy 28000 53 59 53 3 I ENGINEER - Animotion 31450 :cheer: a small climb, but at least it's climbing :kink: 54 71 54 2 RIBBON ROUND THE BOMB - Blossoms 16800 55 NEW 55 1 THE JOKER AND THE QUEEN - Ed Sheeran featuring Taylor Swift 10800 56 73 56 2 ORIGINAL SIN - Sofi Tukker 16000 57 63 57 2 EVERYTHING’S ELECTRIC - Liam Gallagher featuring Dave Grohl 17600 61 NEW 61 1 IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 7500 62 NEW 62 1 FINGERS CROSSED - Lauren Spencer-Smith 7400 63 66 63 5 BABY I LOVE YOU - The Ronettes 33000 65 68 65 3 WE DON’T TALK ABOUT BRUNO - Encanto Cast 18600 66 70 66 2 ANYONE FOR YOU - George Ezra 12800 67 67 67 3 ABCDEFU - GAYLE 19800 68 NEW 68 1 WALKING IN THE RAIN - The Ronettes 6400 69 69 69 3 DOWN UNDER - Luude featuring Colin Hay 17800 70 72 70 3 MORNING OF MY LIFE - John Holt 16600 73 NEW 73 1 BRIGHTER DAYS - Emeli Sande 5400 74 75 74 2 THE POWER OF LOVE - Jennifer Rush 10200 75 NEW 75 1 DADDY COOL - LIZOT x Boney 5000 ooh not heard this, will check this out Fantastic chart as always :wub:
February 21, 20223 yr Author Hi there! Nice to see the big gains for "Seventeen Going Under" and "Shut Off The Lights", the debuts for "The Joker And The Queen" and "Brighter Days" and the return for "No Doubt About It". Great chart! Hi Sergej! :) Thanks for the picks ! B-)
February 21, 20223 yr Author Hi John, The Weeknd, Yola and Tame Impala climbing and Tove Styrke entering the Top 10 :cheer: Scarlett Johansson & Bono (Vox) Top 20 :dance: "No Doubt About It" re-entering and Markus Schulz climbing in the Top 30 :yahoo: Other great new entries bubbling under: Ed Sheeran/Taylor Swift, Lauren S-S, Emeli Sandé, Lizot/Boney M and Simple Minds :dance: Hi Sven! :) Thanks for the picks! Glad you like some of the upwardly mobile tracks :D cheers! B-)
February 21, 20223 yr Author Hi John, my faves this week: 1 3 1 4 WISHFUL THINKING - LEON 297400 a Leon track doing much better here than in my chart? :o 2 1 1 3 EVERLASTING LOVE - Love Affair 455000 3 4 3 5 BETTER DAYS - Neiked, Mae Muller & Polo G 265800 4 5 4 6 LESS THAN ZERO - The Weeknd 279000 5 6 4 7 DANCING AWAY IN TEARS - Yola 341000 8 8 6 6 BRAVE - Ella Henderson 259750 9 14 9 4 SHOW ME LOVE - Tove Styrke 89100 :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: Hope this climbs further. Reminds me of an Ian Broudie/Lightning Seeds written song for some reason - probably just me :lol: 10 26 10 3 LOST - Tinlicker featuring Run Rivers 73750 11 7 1 15 WHEN YOU DANCED WITH ME - ABBA 1332000 12 11 5 6 NOTHING’S EVER GONNA BE GOOD ENOUGH - Miles Kane featuring Corinne Bailey Rae 275000 13 13 3 15 BUMBLEBEE - ABBA 788000 14 10 1 14 GIVE IT ALL UP - Duran Duran featuring Tove Lo 1276000 15 15 15 5 OH MY GOD - Adele 107300 16 20 16 4 YOU TOOK THE WORDS RIGHT OUT OF MY MOUTH - Meat Loaf 76550 20 16 1 15 ODE TO FREEDOM - ABBA 1094400 21 RE 15 10 NO DOUBT ABOUT IT - ABBA 164700 23 17 17 6 SACRIFICE - The Weeknd 118250 24 24 24 6 WHERE ARE YOU NOW - Lost Frequencies & Calum Scott 96300 26 32 26 5 WON’T STAND DOWN - Muse 70300 27 19 1 8 HELLO IT’S ME - Todd Rundgren 681400 28 22 8 12 HOLIDAY - Confidence Man 332000 29 37 29 3 WINTER KILLS ME - Markus Schulz featuring Lady V 47500 30 36 1 24 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 1369450 31 23 5 15 KEEP AN EYE ON DAN - ABBA 570650 32 27 27 6 LET’S ALL DANCE - Donny Osmond featuring Charlie Wilson 100500 33 28 18 8 SWEET TALKER - Years & Years + Galantis 131500 34 33 1 24 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1649100 35 46 35 6 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER - Sam Fender 68750 :cheer: Top 40 at last! :lol: 36 39 36 4 GHOST - Justin Bieber 56600 38 34 1 16 LITTLE THINGS - ABBA 735900 41 47 41 3 NEW TRICK - CXLOE 32100 42 53 42 3 SHUT OFF THE LIGHTS - Bastille 31400 43 45 43 6 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 54600 45 2 2 5 BE MY BABY - The Ronettes 300000 ouch at this drop! :o Is this a record? 47 48 47 5 BILLY GOODBYE - Franz Ferdinand 53200 48 54 48 3 BREAKUP RITUALS - Mishcatt 30400 50 60 50 3 THE BEST MISTAKES - The Divine Comedy 28000 53 59 53 3 I ENGINEER - Animotion 31450 :cheer: a small climb, but at least it's climbing :kink: 54 71 54 2 RIBBON ROUND THE BOMB - Blossoms 16800 55 NEW 55 1 THE JOKER AND THE QUEEN - Ed Sheeran featuring Taylor Swift 10800 56 73 56 2 ORIGINAL SIN - Sofi Tukker 16000 57 63 57 2 EVERYTHING’S ELECTRIC - Liam Gallagher featuring Dave Grohl 17600 61 NEW 61 1 IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 7500 62 NEW 62 1 FINGERS CROSSED - Lauren Spencer-Smith 7400 63 66 63 5 BABY I LOVE YOU - The Ronettes 33000 65 68 65 3 WE DON’T TALK ABOUT BRUNO - Encanto Cast 18600 66 70 66 2 ANYONE FOR YOU - George Ezra 12800 67 67 67 3 ABCDEFU - GAYLE 19800 68 NEW 68 1 WALKING IN THE RAIN - The Ronettes 6400 69 69 69 3 DOWN UNDER - Luude featuring Colin Hay 17800 70 72 70 3 MORNING OF MY LIFE - John Holt 16600 73 NEW 73 1 BRIGHTER DAYS - Emeli Sande 5400 74 75 74 2 THE POWER OF LOVE - Jennifer Rush 10200 75 NEW 75 1 DADDY COOL - LIZOT x Boney 5000 ooh not heard this, will check this out Fantastic chart as always :wub: Hi AH! :) Yes, unusually LEON doing better here, I do love that melody though :wub: Tove Styrke is fab, great video too, played it in the car on way to Sainsburys and it sounded even better that it's new chart position (from yesterday) will indicate! :D It needs a wider audience :teresa: Sam Fender still on the up thanks to rebecca ferguson's live cover version - I'd chart that too if it was actually available, but it def impacted on realising the song is pretty good in it's own right. The Ronettes huge drop is pretty unusual, but less so for oldies - the Ronnie Spector at the Beeb had 3 versions of it, a bit over-egging, none of them the original perfection, so that had a negative effect, but mostly it has hit a new peak in my all-time Top 900 which is about right - after topping my charts in the 70's and 10's plus the new sales. And I wanted to chart Walking In The Rain which I'd never really noticed properly before, and is fab. Hope you enjoy Daddy Cool :) cheers for the hot picks and comments as always! B-)
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