Ugh at that Meghan dross actually being a top 5 hit.

Oliver Tree top 3 :cheeseblock:

I noticed Jack said there is A Christmas song in the chart - so Wham! haven't made it yet.

Last Christmas is at #42 today, so it wasn't far off!

I'd love to see Miss You at number 1 before Mariah/Wham! or Three Lions make it.

Last Christmas is at #42 today, so it wasn't far off!

The top 100 is not yet on OCC site. :o

Sadly this version is now doing far far better than the superior original and growing on me very slightly as hearing it everywhere. Still stream Southstar personally though.

The top 100 is not yet on OCC site. :o

Indeed, but they posted its position on their website already (which also reveals that Brenda Lee is at #92)

"Robin Tree" in the Top 3.

 

All these songs climbing the Top 10 but I'm not fussed about any of them except for Calm Down.

Indeed, but they posted its position on their website already (which also reveals that Brenda Lee is at #92)

Oh, thank ya. :)

Awww Mark Goodier such a nice man!

Hearing Mark Goodier means there must be a new Now Thats What I Call Music album out - and there is !!

Bring back Mark Goodier to do this every week!

Nice to hear Mark again too, really enjoyed hearing all these presenters coming back on the show!

 

"Robin Tree" in the Top 3.

And Oliver Schulz, of course!

02 | 02 | 8th week

 

Sam Smith and Kim Petras

Unholy

 

 

2nd single from Gloria

Released: 22nd September 2022

Label: Capitol Records UK / EMI

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (06/10/2022) | 1-1-1-1-2-2-2-2

 

Sales: 300k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

03 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

04 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Sam Smith

It’s hard to think of many artists in 21st-century pop who could match the vulnerability of Sam Smith. “I’ve never shied away from telling the truth in my music,” the singer told Apple Music in 2020. “Music is literally my best friend; it’s a release, a form of diary and therapy.”

 

Born in London in 1992 and raised in Cambridge, Smith first began gaining significant traction in 2012 with a pair of dance hits—Disclosure’s “Latch,” and Naughty Boy’s “La La La” the following year. They revealed that elastic falsetto, but didn’t quite hint at the sadness that would define the outrageous success to come. That arrived with 2014’s Grammy-winning In the Midnight Hour, an exquisite meditation on unrequited love, and its followup, the heartbreak-inspired The Thrill of It All. This second album saw Smith—by then an Oscar winner for 2015’s Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall”—open up about instant fame and embrace their status as a gay role model, against a backdrop of stirring, gospel-infused balladry. It has always been clear that Smith’s power lies as much in that voice as in an unwavering bravery to put their innermost feelings—loneliness, confusion, desperation, desire—on full public view.

 

By the run-up to album three, however, Smith was also ready to have a little more fun. The aching melancholy of love, loss, and yearning for someone to spend their days with was still present, but this time, it was all being mined for invigorating music to help dance the blues away. That third LP should have arrived in early 2020 in the form of To Die For, but, amid the global pandemic, it was delayed, reworked, and renamed with the more sensitive title Love Goes. The album, Smith said ahead of its release, allowed them to heal after their first true breakup. But it also heralded freedom. “I felt at one point that I was going to be trapped onstage wearing a suit and singing ballads for the rest of my life,” said Smith. “When I look back at Love Goes, it reminds of the courage it took. A lot of my life, probably because of a lot of internalized queerphobia, and queerphobia around me, I felt ashamed of myself and not being able to fully be myself through my music. Each time I make an album, I learn to like myself a little more. The more I make music, the closer to myself I feel.” - Apple Music

 

Kim Petras

Kim Petras has spawned an entire generation of bunheads (as her fanbase is called) with her brand of hook-heavy, hedonistic synth-pop. Born in Cologne, Germany in 1992, Petras had aspirations of international stardom from an early age, writing her first songs at 13 and inspired by pop stars like Britney Spears and Spice Girls. Though she released minor works in the late 2000s, it was 2017’s “Unlock It,” the singer’s attention-grabbing collaboration with scene queen Charli XCX, that served for many as a gateway into her world. Petras' Era 1 collection of endorphin-popping bangers, elevated by her virtuosic vocal range, solidified her status as pop music royalty. Songs like 2017’s sugar-baby anthem “‎I Don't Want It At All” and 2018’s criminally catchy “Heart to Break” showcased her singer/songwriter prowess through a neon glow of ‘80s-infused dance pop. An indie artist at heart, Petras has released the bulk of her work on her own BunHead Records imprint. Her official full-length debut, Clarity (2019), found her eschewing some of the blithe spirit of her early songs in favor of a greater vulnerability in songs like “Icy” and “Broken,” where materialism becomes an escape from the emotional void of heartbreak. The hyper-sexualized Slut Pop arrived in 2022. Petras’ success has also turned her into a role model for the broad swath of her fanbase who identify as LGBTQ, celebrating her as a pioneer for transgender representation in the genre. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Sam Smith

2012 11 Latch (Disclosure feat. Sam Smith) MILLIONAIRE

2013 01 La La La (Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith) MILLION SELLER

2013 86 Safe With Me -EP-

2013 82 Nirvana -EP-

2014 01 Money On My Mind -2- MILLIONAIRE

2014 15 Lay Me Down -1/6-

2014 01 Stay With Me -3- MILLIONAIRE

2014 03 I'm Not The Only One -4- MILLIONAIRE

2014 09 Like I Can -5- MILLIONAIRE

2014 53 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas -NAS-

2015 01 Lay Me Down (feat. John Legend) -7-

2015 13 Omen (Disclosure feat. Sam Smith)

2015 01 Writing's On The Wall -OST-

2017 01 Too Good At Goodbyes -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 26 Pray (feat. Logic) -3-

2017 63 Burning -IG-

2017 27 One Last Song -2-

2018 01 Promises (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) MILLIONAIRE

2019 63 Fire On Fire -NAS-

2019 03 Dancing With A Stranger (Sam Smith & Normani) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 07 How Do You Sleep? -2-

2019 76 I Feel Love -PS-

2020 18 To Die For -3-

2020 20 I'm Ready (Sam Smith & Demi Lovato) -4-

2020 43 My Oasis (feat. Burna Boy) -5-

2020 11 Diamonds -6-

2020 89 Kids Again -AT-

2020 72 The Lighthouse Keeper -NAS-

2022 52 Love Me More -1-

2022 01 Unholy (Sam Smith & Kim Petras) -2-

 

8 x #1 | 10 x Top 5 | 12 x Top 10 | 18 x Top 20 | 20 x Top 40 | 30 x Top 100

 

Kim Petras

2022 100 Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) -NAS-

2022 01 Unholy (Sam Smith & Kim Petras)

 

1 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 2 x Top 100

 

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01 | 01 | 4th week

 

Taylor Swift

Anti-Hero

 

 

1st single from Midnights

Released: 21st October 2022

Label: Taylor Swift

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (03/11/2022) | 1-1-1-1

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

 

01 Sales

01 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

The country world feigned surprise when, after three albums of Music Row-indebted songcraft, Taylor Swift formally embraced pop on 2012’s Red. But no one should have been shocked: Any 14-year-old capable of persuading her parents to move from suburban Pennsylvania to Nashville for her career clearly has ambition to burn. And the thrill of following Swift’s rise has been watching her execute it flawlessly, largely because her melodic intelligence is equal to that ambition. Her early, youthful love songs heralded 2010's newly self-possessed Speak Now—which showed off her scathing wit—and evolved into knowing, ironclad pop fare that held its own against boisterous Max Martin production on 1989, her fifth album, titled after her birth year. Throughout, her songwriting has blurred the lines between the public and private, burying enough real-life clues (about, say, scarves and Starbucks) to make clear that only Swift can own her narrative, thank you very much, while still retaining a lyrical elegance. Though 2017’s reputation might have been perceived as a gorgeously constructed piece of dramatic theater—its attendant heroes and villains all real-life characters from Swift's public feuds—all that spectacle proved an attention-grabbing cover for her most romantic album yet. She turned up the romance even more on 2019’s Lover, but it was 2020’s folklore and its companion, evermore—ruminative, relatively lo-fi albums written and recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic—that earned her the Apple Music Award for Songwriter of the Year. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2009 02 Love Story -1- MILLIONAIRE

2009 60 White Horse -AT-

2009 51 Teardrops On My Guitar -2-

2009 100 Crazier -OST-

2009 30 You Belong With Me -3-

2010 57 Today Was A Fairytale -OST-

2010 30 Mine -1-

2012 67 Safe & Sound (feat. The Civil Wars) -OST-

2012 70 Eyes Open -OST-

2012 22 Both Of Us (B.o.B feat. Taylor Swift)

2012 04 We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together -1- MILLIONAIRE

2012 30 Begin Again -PS-

2012 26 Red -PS-

2012 02 I Knew You Were Trouble. -2- MILLIONAIRE

2012 36 State Of Grace -PS-

2012 07 Everything Has Changed (feat. Ed Sheeran) -4-

2013 09 22 -3-

2013 45 Sweeter Than Fiction -OST-

2013 25 The Last Time (feat. Gary Lightbody) -5-

2014 02 Shake It Off -1- MILLIONAIRE

2014 39 Welcome To New York -IG-

2014 04 Blank Space -2- MILLIONAIRE

2015 21 Style -3-

2015 04 Bad Blood (feat. Kendrick Lamar) -4-

2015 40 Wildest Dreams -5-

2016 05 I Don't Wanna Live Forever (ZAYN & Taylor Swift) -OST- MILLIONAIRE

2017 01 Look What You Made Me Do -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 07 ...Ready For It? -2-

2017 15 Gorgeous -3-

2017 29 Call It What You Want -IG-

2017 49 End Game (feat. Ed Sheeran & Future) -4-

2018 45 Delicate -5-

2019 03 ME! (feat. Brendon Urie) -1-

2019 05 You Need To Calm Down -2-

2019 43 The Archer -IG-

2019 14 Lover -3-

2019 21 The Man -4-

2019 27 Cruel Summer -AT-

2019 44 Christmas Tree Farm -NAS-

2020 57 Only The Young -NAS-

2020 06 cardigan -1-

2020 08 exile (feat. Bon Iver) -AT-

2020 10 the 1 -AT-

2020 03 willow -1-

2020 15 champagne problems -AT-

2020 19 no body, no crime (feat. HAIM) -AT-

2021 12 Love Story (Taylor's Version) -1-

2021 52 You All Over Me (Taylor's Version) (feat. Maren Morris) -2-

2021 30 Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) -3-

2021 52 You Belong With Me (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2021 73 Renegade (Big Red Machine feat. Taylor Swift)

2021 25 Wildest Dreams (Taylor's Version) -1*-

2021 03 All Too Well (Taylor's Version) -1-

2021 18 State Of Grace (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2021 22 Red (Taylor's Version) -AT-

2022 02 The Joker And The Queen (Ed Sheeran feat. Taylor Swift)

2022 88 the lakes -AT-

2022 42 This Love (Taylor's Version) -2*-

2022 77 Don't Blame Me -AT-

2022 63 Carolina -OST-

2022 78 august -AT-

2022 01 Anti-Hero -1-

2022 03 Lavender Haze -AT-

2022 04 Snow On The Beach (feat. Lana Del Rey) -AT-

 

2 x #1 | 16 x Top 5 | 22 x Top 10 | 29 x Top 20 | 44 x Top 40 | 64 x Top 100

 

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Taylor Swift

 

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Hope there's a new number 1 next week. 4 weeks is already enough for Anti-Hero. Thank you.

No future hits this week for a number of reasons so that's your lot today x

Great that Taylor Swift has stayed at the top for a fourth week, and also glad that Snow On The Beach is still her third highest!

Bring back Mark Goodier to do this every week!

 

Yes! He was the best EVER!

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