Posted March 28, 20223 yr 27th March 2022 It's a first week on top for ODESZA and Bettye LaVette, and the magnificently dramatic and passionate club track, The Last Goodbye. The EDM US duo sample Bettye LaVette's jaw-dropping vocals from her 1965 US hit Let Me Down Easy, and my word it tarts up beautifully. Bettye is still garnering Blues awards at the tender age of 78. Wonderful! Up 49 place Florence grabs her biggest single since Queen Of Peace topped my charts for 7 weeks, 7 years ago, as My Love extends her top 10's to 13 years, and close behind is the UK's best Eurovision entry since Molly, Sam Ryder's Space Man, the UK's best hope to do well since Andrew LLoyd-Webber volunteered his and Diane Warren's services. Highest new entry at 7 is Purple Zone, as Pet Shop Boys join Soft Cell for the first time ever, giving Marc Almond his first top 10 in 15 years, and Soft Cell's Dave Ball a first in 38 years! That extends Soft Cell's run of top 10's to 41 years, and Pet Shop Boys to 37 years. The Undertones 1979 minor hit, You've Got My Number, was under-appreciated by both me and the UK public during a classic year for multiple pop genres all peaking and on fire, so many great records got forgotten. So this is getting a deserved second run, just because. New at 23. Seth Lakeman has never made my charts - that changes with Make Your Mark catching my folkie/prog tastebuds, sort of, at 70, and tate McRae is back with a ballad, and she's a bit chaotic after 2021's massive duet with Troye Sivan (in my charts at least, if not the real world) on Regard's fabulous You. Regard are at 17 with a leap featuring Years & Years. 1 2 1 3 THE LAST GOODBYE - ODESZA featuring Bettye LaVette 322000 2 51 2 3 MY LOVE - Florence + The Machine 137750 3 21 3 3 SPACE MAN - Sam Ryder 123250 4 1 1 6 AM GOLD - Train 434850 5 6 5 6 FUNNY GIRL - Father John Misty 205300 6 4 1 10 WISHFUL THINKING - LEON 1012400 7 NEW 7 1 PURPLE ZONE - Soft Cell & Pet Shop Boys 50000 8 3 1 10 SHOW ME LOVE - Tove Styrke 640100 9 10 9 5 WEST COAST - OneRepublic 138800 10 5 2 12 LESS THAN ZERO - The Weeknd 711000 11 27 11 4 PLEASE STAY - The Cryin’ Shames 81500 12 13 12 5 WONDROUS PLACE (STRING AND TINS REMIX) - Billy Fury 120550 13 28 13 4 HELLO WORLD - Alan Walker & Torine 66400 14 8 8 5 SAME AIR - The Rocket Summer 179000 15 17 15 7 WALKING IN THE RAIN - The Ronettes 121100 16 39 16 4 RUN - Becky Hill & Galantis 56900 17 38 17 6 HALLUCINATION - Regard and Years and Years 71100 18 7 5 9 LOST - Tinlicker featuring Run Rivers 360750 19 12 12 10 SHADOWS - Bonobo featuring Jordan Rakei 225700 20 23 20 7 DADDY COOL - LIZOT x Boney 109300 21 14 3 11 BETTER DAYS - Neiked, Mae Muller & Polo G 556550 22 11 4 7 THE JOKER AND THE QUEEN - Ed Sheeran featuring Taylor Swift 243600 23 NEW 23 1 YOU’VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT!) - The Undertones 19250 24 18 7 12 NO CHOICE - Tame Impala 370150 25 15 15 8 EVERYTHING’S ELECTRIC - Liam Gallagher featuring Dave Grohl 160100 26 16 16 8 GOOD NIGHT ON EARTH - Eels 125900 27 33 27 5 WIND OF CHANGE - AWOLNATION featuring Brandon Boyd of Incubus & Portugal. The Man 73550 28 32 28 12 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 152800 29 30 29 8 ANYONE FOR YOU (TIGER LILY) - George Ezra 103200 30 40 30 6 BEG FOR YOU - Charli XCX featuring Rina Sawayama 77000 31 19 5 10 WE STAND ALONE - George Cosby 374900 32 25 1 9 EVERLASTING LOVE - Love Affair 697550 33 9 5 4 THAT’S NOT MY NAME - The Ting Tings 170700 34 22 10 16 NO DOUBT ABOUT IT - ABBA 345800 35 20 20 12 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER - Sam Fender 180100 36 47 36 5 BEDS ARE BURNING - AWOLNATION featuring Tim McIlrath 60700 37 71 37 2 OUT YONDER - Elle King 23100 38 34 1 21 WHEN YOU DANCED WITH ME - ABBA 1455200 39 50 39 2 BRING BACK THE TIME - New Kids On The Block featuring En Vogue, Rick Astley & Salt ‘n’ Pepa 29100 40 43 40 11 BABY I LOVE YOU - The Ronettes 107400 41 24 15 9 NEW LOW - Nightlife 178200 42 35 1 21 GIVE IT ALL UP - Duran Duran featuring Tove Lo 1551650 43 44 43 5 LUMINESCENT - The John Williams Syndicate with Petula Clark 53350 44 68 44 3 BONES - Imagine Dragons 25450 45 75 45 2 KICK - Def Leppard 18000 46 52 46 7 IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 76600 47 59 47 5 IMPOSSIBLE - Royksopp & Alison Goldfrapp 40100 48 42 1 21 ODE TO FREEDOM - ABBA 1192450 49 53 49 5 NIGHT AND DAY - Johnny Marr 41350 50 29 19 8 ORIGINAL SIN - Sofi Tukker 124800 51 26 15 11 WON’T STAND DOWN - Muse 189550 52 48 1 30 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1734950 53 49 1 30 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 1454850 54 54 54 4 FORGIVE ME - Sofi Tukker & Mahmut Orhan 39200 55 31 12 9 I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND WHAT I’M LOOKING FOR - Scarlett Johansson & Bono 188450 56 56 56 5 TELL SOMEBODY - Yemi Alade, Yaba Buluku Boyz & Effyzzie Music 48100 57 60 57 5 KING - Florence + The Machine 39000 58 37 6 12 BRAVE - Ella Henderson 379950 59 36 36 7 I SEE STARS - The Shires 90400 60 62 60 6 TROUBLE - Troye Sivan & Jay Som 41600 61 46 3 21 BUMBLEBEE - ABBA 886350 62 63 62 4 LONG, LONG, LONG TIME - Tears For Fears 26000 63 55 1 14 HELLO IT’S ME - Todd Rundgren 754150 64 64 64 4 BLACK SUMMER - Red Hot Chili Peppers 23600 65 65 65 3 FROZEN - Madonna 19600 66 61 61 5 CONQUISTADOR - Procol Harum 36100 67 67 67 5 A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - Procol Harum 29400 68 45 5 12 NOTHING’S EVER GONNA BE GOOD ENOUGH - Miles Kane featuring Corinne Bailey Rae 379000 69 72 69 3 ESCAPE - Kx5 (Kaskade & Deadmau5) featuring Hayla 16000 70 NEW 70 1 MAKE YOUR MARK - Seth Lakeman 6000 71 74 71 2 A LITTLE BIT OF LOVE - Weezer 11000 72 41 4 13 DANCING AWAY IN TEARS - Yola 485600 73 73 73 3 GIMME SOME LOVIN’ - The Spencer Davis Group 15200 74 69 5 21 KEEP AN EYE ON DAN - ABBA 632050 75 NEW 75 1 CHAOTIC - Tate McRae 5000 DROP OUTS 57 55 6 BRIGHTER DAYS - Emeli Sande 53800 58 56 6 FINGERS CROSSED - Lauren Spencer-Smith 61200 66 17 8 FINISH LINE - Elton John & Stevie Wonder 107800 70 70 4 PANDORA’S BOX - Procol Harum 19200
March 29, 20223 yr Hey John! Loft that climb for My Love :wub: I'm glad it's finally hit you. Such a gorgeous song. The video is fantastic as well. Oo that's a nice climb for run. Hopefully it'll keep heading in this direction. That would be good. That's a nice new peak for beg for you. About time 😜 Chaotic is lovely so I'm glad to see it enter. It's quite reminiscent of You Broke Me First, I think? But I also find it more palatable to my ears. Nice chart! ^_^
March 29, 20223 yr Hi John! Nice to see "My Love" and "Space Man" in the top 3, the big gains for "Run", "Hallucination", "Beg For You", "Bring Back The Time", "Bones" and "Kick" and the debut for "Chaotic". Great chart!
April 3, 20223 yr Hi John, Odesza/Bettye LaVette on top :yahoo: Soft Cell/PSB Top 10 :w00t: Alan Walker, Becky Hill/Galantis and Regard/Years & Years Top 20 :dance:
April 3, 20223 yr Hi John, my faves this week: 1 2 1 3 THE LAST GOODBYE - ODESZA featuring Bettye LaVette 322000 2 51 2 3 MY LOVE - Florence + The Machine 137750 ooh massive climb for this :o 3 21 3 3 SPACE MAN - Sam Ryder 123250 ditto :o praying this properly takes off officially 6 4 1 10 WISHFUL THINKING - LEON 1012400 7 NEW 7 1 PURPLE ZONE - Soft Cell & Pet Shop Boys 50000 I sort of wish they had done this 20 years ago as it would have been a Top 20 hit, but alas, now there's no chance sadly :( 8 3 1 10 SHOW ME LOVE - Tove Styrke 640100 9 10 9 5 WEST COAST - OneRepublic 138800 10 5 2 12 LESS THAN ZERO - The Weeknd 711000 12 13 12 5 WONDROUS PLACE (STRING AND TINS REMIX) - Billy Fury 120550 14 8 8 5 SAME AIR - The Rocket Summer 179000 15 17 15 7 WALKING IN THE RAIN - The Ronettes 121100 16 39 16 4 RUN - Becky Hill & Galantis 56900 17 38 17 6 HALLUCINATION - Regard and Years and Years 71100 18 7 5 9 LOST - Tinlicker featuring Run Rivers 360750 20 23 20 7 DADDY COOL - LIZOT x Boney 109300 21 14 3 11 BETTER DAYS - Neiked, Mae Muller & Polo G 556550 23 NEW 23 1 YOU’VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT!) - The Undertones 19250 oh well, at least we're flops together :lol: 25 15 15 8 EVERYTHING’S ELECTRIC - Liam Gallagher featuring Dave Grohl 160100 28 32 28 12 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 152800 29 30 29 8 ANYONE FOR YOU (TIGER LILY) - George Ezra 103200 30 40 30 6 BEG FOR YOU - Charli XCX featuring Rina Sawayama 77000 31 19 5 10 WE STAND ALONE - George Cosby 374900 32 25 1 9 EVERLASTING LOVE - Love Affair 697550 33 9 5 4 THAT’S NOT MY NAME - The Ting Tings 170700 34 22 10 16 NO DOUBT ABOUT IT - ABBA 345800 35 20 20 12 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER - Sam Fender 180100 37 71 37 2 OUT YONDER - Elle King 23100 38 34 1 21 WHEN YOU DANCED WITH ME - ABBA 1455200 39 50 39 2 BRING BACK THE TIME - New Kids On The Block featuring En Vogue, Rick Astley & Salt ‘n’ Pepa 29100 40 43 40 11 BABY I LOVE YOU - The Ronettes 107400 42 35 1 21 GIVE IT ALL UP - Duran Duran featuring Tove Lo 1551650 43 44 43 5 LUMINESCENT - The John Williams Syndicate with Petula Clark 53350 44 68 44 3 BONES - Imagine Dragons 25450 46 52 46 7 IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 76600 47 59 47 5 IMPOSSIBLE - Royksopp & Alison Goldfrapp 40100 48 42 1 21 ODE TO FREEDOM - ABBA 1192450 50 29 19 8 ORIGINAL SIN - Sofi Tukker 124800 51 26 15 11 WON’T STAND DOWN - Muse 189550 52 48 1 30 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1734950 53 49 1 30 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 1454850 54 54 54 4 FORGIVE ME - Sofi Tukker & Mahmut Orhan 39200 57 60 57 5 KING - Florence + The Machine 39000 58 37 6 12 BRAVE - Ella Henderson 379950 60 62 60 6 TROUBLE - Troye Sivan & Jay Som 41600 61 46 3 21 BUMBLEBEE - ABBA 886350 63 55 1 14 HELLO IT’S ME - Todd Rundgren 754150 64 64 64 4 BLACK SUMMER - Red Hot Chili Peppers 23600 65 65 65 3 FROZEN - Madonna 19600 66 61 61 5 CONQUISTADOR - Procol Harum 36100 67 67 67 5 A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - Procol Harum 29400 68 45 5 12 NOTHING’S EVER GONNA BE GOOD ENOUGH - Miles Kane featuring Corinne Bailey Rae 379000 72 41 4 13 DANCING AWAY IN TEARS - Yola 485600 73 73 73 3 GIMME SOME LOVIN’ - The Spencer Davis Group 15200 74 69 5 21 KEEP AN EYE ON DAN - ABBA 632050 75 NEW 75 1 CHAOTIC - Tate McRae 5000 Fantastic chart as always :wub:
April 3, 20223 yr I was really hoping for something spectacular from psb & soft cell, it's OK tho, a few it's a sin vibes from it! Oooh petula on your chart too, nice! Good stuff!
April 3, 20223 yr I'm gagging at My Love jumping to number two :o :o :o This song is growing on me lots! :wub:
April 5, 20223 yr Author Hey John! Loft that climb for My Love :wub: I'm glad it's finally hit you. Such a gorgeous song. The video is fantastic as well. Oo that's a nice climb for run. Hopefully it'll keep heading in this direction. That would be good. That's a nice new peak for beg for you. About time 😜 Chaotic is lovely so I'm glad to see it enter. It's quite reminiscent of You Broke Me First, I think? But I also find it more palatable to my ears. Nice chart! ^_^ Hey james! :) My Love is sheer fabness, yes indeed! :heart: Run i still climbing, as is Beg For You, hope you approve :D Chaotic is much more like You broke Me First, but for some reason I never charted that one though I quite liked it, but this was just nice on one listen enough to want to buy it. Cheers! B-)
April 5, 20223 yr Author Good to see the brilliant Purple Zone off to a flying start :D Hi Simon! :D Hope all is good at the moment, have I mentioned I'm jealous of the Ed Sheeran gig yet? :lol: Glad you like Purple Zone, though it's more PSB than Soft Cell, but it's such an obvious get together one wonders why it's not happened before! Now, if Chris n Neil could just get it together with Sparks and Giorgio Moroder. Just watched the Edgar Wright brilliant documentary on Sparks on Netflix, and they make the very pertinent point that the template for EDM duos of the 80's is....Sparks. Right down to the static morose keyboard players (and more flamboyant lead singers in some cases).
April 5, 20223 yr Author Hi John! Nice to see "My Love" and "Space Man" in the top 3, the big gains for "Run", "Hallucination", "Beg For You", "Bring Back The Time", "Bones" and "Kick" and the debut for "Chaotic". Great chart! Hi Sergej! :) Glad you like the two big top 3 climbs, and t'others! Ta! :D cheers! B-)
April 5, 20223 yr Author Hi John, Odesza/Bettye LaVette on top :yahoo: Soft Cell/PSB Top 10 :w00t: Alan Walker, Becky Hill/Galantis and Regard/Years & Years Top 20 :dance: Hi Sven! :) Thanks for the picks! :dance: Cheers! B-)
April 5, 20223 yr Author Hi John, my faves this week: 1 2 1 3 THE LAST GOODBYE - ODESZA featuring Bettye LaVette 322000 2 51 2 3 MY LOVE - Florence + The Machine 137750 ooh massive climb for this :o 3 21 3 3 SPACE MAN - Sam Ryder 123250 ditto :o praying this properly takes off officially 6 4 1 10 WISHFUL THINKING - LEON 1012400 7 NEW 7 1 PURPLE ZONE - Soft Cell & Pet Shop Boys 50000 I sort of wish they had done this 20 years ago as it would have been a Top 20 hit, but alas, now there's no chance sadly :( 8 3 1 10 SHOW ME LOVE - Tove Styrke 640100 9 10 9 5 WEST COAST - OneRepublic 138800 10 5 2 12 LESS THAN ZERO - The Weeknd 711000 12 13 12 5 WONDROUS PLACE (STRING AND TINS REMIX) - Billy Fury 120550 14 8 8 5 SAME AIR - The Rocket Summer 179000 15 17 15 7 WALKING IN THE RAIN - The Ronettes 121100 16 39 16 4 RUN - Becky Hill & Galantis 56900 17 38 17 6 HALLUCINATION - Regard and Years and Years 71100 18 7 5 9 LOST - Tinlicker featuring Run Rivers 360750 20 23 20 7 DADDY COOL - LIZOT x Boney 109300 21 14 3 11 BETTER DAYS - Neiked, Mae Muller & Polo G 556550 23 NEW 23 1 YOU’VE GOT MY NUMBER (WHY DON'T YOU USE IT!) - The Undertones 19250 oh well, at least we're flops together :lol: 25 15 15 8 EVERYTHING’S ELECTRIC - Liam Gallagher featuring Dave Grohl 160100 28 32 28 12 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Gordon Lightfoot 152800 29 30 29 8 ANYONE FOR YOU (TIGER LILY) - George Ezra 103200 30 40 30 6 BEG FOR YOU - Charli XCX featuring Rina Sawayama 77000 31 19 5 10 WE STAND ALONE - George Cosby 374900 32 25 1 9 EVERLASTING LOVE - Love Affair 697550 33 9 5 4 THAT’S NOT MY NAME - The Ting Tings 170700 34 22 10 16 NO DOUBT ABOUT IT - ABBA 345800 35 20 20 12 SEVENTEEN GOING UNDER - Sam Fender 180100 37 71 37 2 OUT YONDER - Elle King 23100 38 34 1 21 WHEN YOU DANCED WITH ME - ABBA 1455200 39 50 39 2 BRING BACK THE TIME - New Kids On The Block featuring En Vogue, Rick Astley & Salt ‘n’ Pepa 29100 40 43 40 11 BABY I LOVE YOU - The Ronettes 107400 42 35 1 21 GIVE IT ALL UP - Duran Duran featuring Tove Lo 1551650 43 44 43 5 LUMINESCENT - The John Williams Syndicate with Petula Clark 53350 44 68 44 3 BONES - Imagine Dragons 25450 46 52 46 7 IT’S TOO LATE - Carole King 76600 47 59 47 5 IMPOSSIBLE - Royksopp & Alison Goldfrapp 40100 48 42 1 21 ODE TO FREEDOM - ABBA 1192450 50 29 19 8 ORIGINAL SIN - Sofi Tukker 124800 51 26 15 11 WON’T STAND DOWN - Muse 189550 52 48 1 30 DON’T SHUT ME DOWN - ABBA 1734950 53 49 1 30 I STILL HAVE FAITH IN YOU - ABBA 1454850 54 54 54 4 FORGIVE ME - Sofi Tukker & Mahmut Orhan 39200 57 60 57 5 KING - Florence + The Machine 39000 58 37 6 12 BRAVE - Ella Henderson 379950 60 62 60 6 TROUBLE - Troye Sivan & Jay Som 41600 61 46 3 21 BUMBLEBEE - ABBA 886350 63 55 1 14 HELLO IT’S ME - Todd Rundgren 754150 64 64 64 4 BLACK SUMMER - Red Hot Chili Peppers 23600 65 65 65 3 FROZEN - Madonna 19600 66 61 61 5 CONQUISTADOR - Procol Harum 36100 67 67 67 5 A WHITER SHADE OF PALE - Procol Harum 29400 68 45 5 12 NOTHING’S EVER GONNA BE GOOD ENOUGH - Miles Kane featuring Corinne Bailey Rae 379000 72 41 4 13 DANCING AWAY IN TEARS - Yola 485600 73 73 73 3 GIMME SOME LOVIN’ - The Spencer Davis Group 15200 74 69 5 21 KEEP AN EYE ON DAN - ABBA 632050 75 NEW 75 1 CHAOTIC - Tate McRae 5000 Fantastic chart as always :wub: Hi AH! :) My LOve is Florence back on form after a quiet period, and Radio 2 airplay to boot :cheer: Also fingers crossed for Space Man, I expect it will chart after the contest, regardless of how well it does on the night - if it does well, it'll get a boost, if it bombs it'll get a huge sympathy sales support! Yes, I agree about Purple Zone, though it did well on world sales charts (ie oldies like me who still pay for music). Yes, Undertones and Betty bombing together :D I knew Undertones had no chance when I heard the semi and reflected on the likely voters in the semi, but I still hoped Betty would sneak through, but like from me I think the very strong pop opposition did it in - usually it would have been a smooth sail through with the pop voters, and she was SO close to qualifying. Def deserved more than paltry 3 points I gave it, I would have placed it more around 7 or 8 normally. cheers! :heart:
April 5, 20223 yr Author I was really hoping for something spectacular from psb & soft cell, it's OK tho, a few it's a sin vibes from it! Oooh petula on your chart too, nice! Good stuff! Hi Toffo, Soft Cell haven't been spectacular for a while, sadly, so my expectations were a bit dampened, but it's def got those Always On My Mind/Imperial Phase PSB riffs to it! Petula is always welcom on my chart! Cheers! B-)
April 5, 20223 yr Author I'm gagging at My Love jumping to number two :o :o :o This song is growing on me lots! :wub: Hi Uhsting! :) Yes sometimes I get big on a song suddenly, it's always a slow climb, I love not knowing how it's going to go in advance of my chart when I play the tracks and position them as I play them :lol: Cheers! :lol:
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