Posted December 15, 20231 yr 10th December 2023 It's up to the top spot for The Moody Blues, as the late Denny Laine fronts the classic Go Now! It's never charted before for me (though I did know it at the time, in 1964, exactly 59 years ago and therefore that now takes the record for the oldest record to get to number one in my charts, pipping Gigliola Cinquetti who took it last year, also from 1964. That means Denny Laine has been part of 2 chart-topping groups - he wasn't in the Nights In White Satin line-up that topped my chart in 1979 as an oldie on it's 3rd chart run, but he was in Wings who topped my charts 4 times, so it's his 5th in total. He doesn't, though, beat The Beatles' span of number one hits at 55 years. Pet Shop Boy's add another top 5 to their very long list, Radiophonic at 4, Paloma Faith rockets into the top 20 for 2 in a row this year, while MisterWives get the highest climber at 28. For some reason ABBA singles from the 80's made the UK sales chart last week, and two of the best ones have never had a second chart run for me, so I've kicked out some ABBA songs that have had several runs, and entered Day Before You Came from 1982 at 43, which had a 6 week run on top for me. It spoke to me a lot at the time, but was amazingly not a big hit, everyone was moaning about how dull it was (wrongly). Blancmange agreed with me and had a bigger hit with an uptempo synth version in 1984. The other is One Of Us, topping my charts in December 1981 as we had a massive snow-bound sub-zero frozen blitz in Mansfield as I was frantically buying up as many classic 60s and 70's singles as I could afford from a big sale in our local record store, as they had a huge clear-out of more obscure stuff that hadn't sold-out. One Of Us is also under-rated, as sad as their best records, but their final big hit. As unemployment was touching 3million, and times were gloomy (I was on the dole still too) it didn't go with the synth/New Romantic upbeat music of the time but did well anyway. Channel Tres gets a solo entry to add to his collab with Jungle on the chart, the low-key beats/rap are good despite the obligatory usual swear-words, The Knocks & SOFI TUKKER have a collab that's nicely poppy and catchy, and The Jesus And Mary Chain are back! Jamcod is their first new entry in nearly 30 years and extends their run to 38 years. Nice to have some more grunge-y distorted guitar (and synths) as well as Corinne Bailey-Rae who was recently doing the punk thing on Jools Holland. 1 19 1 2 GO NOW - The Moody Blues 191000 2 1 1 3 SEBASTIAN - Cockney Rebel 455000 3 3 1 4 GOOD AT BREAKING HEARTS - Jungle featuring JNR Williams & 33.3 455000 4 14 4 6 RADIOPHONIC - Pet Shop Boys 144900 5 2 2 9 STORY - Kylie Minogue 471900 6 4 4 6 SAVOUR THE MIRACLE OF LIFE - Dario G 223300 7 8 7 6 ALREADY KNOW - Gustaph 183300 8 6 4 6 LOOK AT YOU NOW - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 265400 9 5 1 12 HOLD ON TO NOW - Kylie Minogue 799900 10 9 4 10 VERUSCHKA - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 307200 11 7 1 7 NOW AND THEN - The Beatles 777000 12 12 12 6 OVERDRIVE - Ofenbach featuring Norma Jean Martine 162750 13 16 4 9 AEIOU - PNAU & Empire Of The Sun 353800 14 17 14 7 HASS HASS - Diljit Dosanjh X SIA 136200 15 11 7 8 DOPAMINE - Mehro 229500 16 10 3 7 KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU - ABBA 337000 17 23 17 7 STILL BELIEVE IN LOVE - Mary J. Blige featuring Vado 98050 18 15 1 11 SURE ENOUGH - Two Door Cinema Club 710250 19 24 19 8 SKIPPING LIKE A STONE - Chemical Brothers featuring Beck 110100 20 61 20 3 BAD WOMAN - Paloma Faith 31700 21 18 18 6 SUPER GRAPHIC ULTRA MODERN GIRL - Chappell Roan 110550 22 25 22 2 ARIA - Argy & Omnya 38250 23 67 23 2 IMMORTAL - Lufthaus feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Robbie Williams 25850 24 20 1 14 SOMETHING ON MY MIND - Purple Disco Machine x Duke Dumont x Nothing But Thieves 877000 25 21 13 11 MOONLIGHT - Bimini x Girls Of The Internet 233050 26 26 26 5 HOUDINI - Dua Lipa 70400 27 34 27 6 WE’RE GONNA GET THERE IN THE END - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 61500 28 74 28 2 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? - MisterWives 23500 29 29 29 6 EVERY NIGHT - Jungle 100000 30 36 30 6 LOVE VOUDOU - Duran Duran 61700 31 37 31 4 OWNER OF A LONELY HEART - Trevor Horn & Rick Astley 52200 32 13 13 7 SOS - ABBA 144250 33 39 33 4 I’VE BEEN IN LOVE - Jungle featuring Channel Tres 55050 34 38 34 5 HELLO LOVE - Jesse Ware 56400 35 28 28 10 LOVE IS BLUE - Army Of Lovers featuring Olya Polyakova 140150 36 30 30 6 TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE - Stefanie Joosten featuring Giorgio Moroder 99000 37 27 7 11 RAGAZZO SOLA - Annalisa 274700 38 44 38 6 PROBLEMZ - Jungle 67750 39 51 39 6 ALARM CLOCK - Sheryl Crow 47650 40 50 40 7 MESS IT UP - The Rolling Stones 68800 41 35 35 6 WORLD ON FIRE - Dolly Parton 76600 42 47 42 4 CAN’T CATCH ME NOW - Olivia Rodrigo 37250 43 NEW 43 1 THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME - ABBA 13500 44 33 10 10 MIRAGE - OneRepublic, Assassin’s Creed, Mishaal Tamer 211550 45 32 32 8 YOU KNOW ME BETTER - Roisin Murphy 96300 46 48 46 4 GIRL - The Beatles 44000 47 52 47 4 TK421 - Lenny Kravitz 38200 48 40 40 6 WONDERFUL WONDER - Tom Speight featuring Ward Thomas 66750 49 79 49 2 SOMETIMES (I’M LONELY) - The Kiffness 16300 50 56 50 5 I KEEP THEM ON THE FLOOR BESIDE MY BED (THE CHRISTMAS EDITION) - Agnetha Faltskog 36900 51 59 51 4 THIS BOY - The Beatles 38450 52 54 52 6 FEEL THE LOVE - Bananarama 46500 53 42 1 15 YOUR SIDE OF TOWN - The Killers 860450 54 58 54 5 CARE - Lucia & The Best Boys 40900 55 46 3 21 I BETTER LOVE YOU - Will Heard 740400 56 64 53 8 DJ PLAY A CHRISTMAS SONG - Cher 68500 57 43 4 10 HOW YOU LEAVE A MAN - Paloma Faith 251500 58 81 58 2 WONDER EYE - Little Moon 14000 59 63 59 4 HEY BULLDOG - The Beatles 30100 60 68 60 5 RAINY DAYS IN JUNE - Barbara 30200 61 65 61 4 WRAP ME UP - Jimmy Fallon & Meghan Trainor 25700 62 70 62 4 MICHELLE - The Beatles 21400 63 77 63 2 WORTH IT - RAYE 11800 64 80 64 3 ANGELS CRY TOO - Lucia & The Best Boys 15100 65 73 65 4 LEAVING NEW YORK - Micky Dolenz 20800 66 71 66 4 HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE - The Beatles 22000 67 78 67 2 LOVE ME/HATE ME - Mari Bella 11000 68 72 68 2 WE CAN HAVE IT ALL - Danny Byrd 12000 69 76 69 5 CHE T’O DICO A FA - Angelina Mango 21400 70 NEW 70 1 WALKED IN THE ROOM - Channel Tres 6000 71 83 71 2 PRADA - Casso, D-Block Europe and RAYE 9200 72 NEW 72 1 ONE OF US - ABBA 5600 73 NEW 73 1 ONE ON ONE - The Knocks & SOFI TUKKER 5400 74 NEW 74 1 JAMCOD - The Jesus And Mary Chain 5200 75 82 75 2 SANTA BABY - Madonna 8600 DROP OUTS, back to a top 75 hooray! 22 22 6 LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME - ABBA 96050 31 15 6 CHIQUITITA - ABBA 124900 41 2 6 EAGLE - ABBA 253250 45 15 11 PARADISE - Idina Menzel featuring Nile Rodgers 183800 49 6 11 BLACK MOONLIGHT - Duran Duran 303800 53 20 10 THERE FOR YOU - Emeli Sande 147650 55 8 14 TENSION - Kylie Minogue 251850 57 9 14 CARE ABOUT ME - Anish Kumar featuring Chaka Khan 326300 60 1 19 VAMPIRE - Olivia Rodrigo 836000 62 1 21 NEW YORK TRANSIT QUEEN - Corinne Bailey Rae 1258700 66 3 14 GIMME LOVE - SIA 484100 69 69 4 IS IT LOVE - Loreen 21800 75 75 1 FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK - The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 5000 84 84 1 SAY YOU DON’T MIND - Denny Laine 3200 85 85 1 GIRLS IN LOVE - Grungerman x Andreas Dorau 3000
December 15, 20231 yr Hi there John! Nice to see "Mess It Up", "Worth It" and "Prada" gain big and the debut for "One On One". Great chart! Take care.
December 16, 20231 yr Hey John! :hi: Story still top 5 :cheer: yay. Brilliant result so far. That remix of hold on to now has really turned things around for the song. It's superb. Woweeee that's a fantastic climb for bad woman. I really enjoy it but yes she's sadly past the days of having a hit which is a shame. Much like you said though, it's rare this far into your career to remain relevant. The main artist that does spring to mind is Taylor Swift but then that begs the question, his long dies she have ik the tank? She works tirelessly apparently. Houdini peaking at #26 then? Maybe? Not bad I guess though I think I expected a little more. Fab chart ^_^
December 16, 20231 yr Hi John. Hope all has been good with you. Have you been feeling all Christmassy yet? :lol: I've done the bare minimum myself. Apologies for missing last week's chart. Work have been very selfish and inconsiderate by driving me to sheer exhaustion, and they're not done yet! Anyway, my faves this week: 1 19 1 2 GO NOW - The Moody Blues 191000 oh I had no idea Denny Laine recently passed away :o This is a fabulous record. 2 1 1 3 SEBASTIAN - Cockney Rebel 455000 3 3 1 4 GOOD AT BREAKING HEARTS - Jungle featuring JNR Williams & 33.3 455000 4 14 4 6 RADIOPHONIC - Pet Shop Boys 144900 :yahoo: :cheer: 5 2 2 9 STORY - Kylie Minogue 471900 6 4 4 6 SAVOUR THE MIRACLE OF LIFE - Dario G 223300 9 5 1 12 HOLD ON TO NOW - Kylie Minogue 799900 11 7 1 7 NOW AND THEN - The Beatles 777000 12 12 12 6 OVERDRIVE - Ofenbach featuring Norma Jean Martine 162750 13 16 4 9 AEIOU - PNAU & Empire Of The Sun 353800 16 10 3 7 KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU - ABBA 337000 18 15 1 11 SURE ENOUGH - Two Door Cinema Club 710250 19 24 19 8 SKIPPING LIKE A STONE - Chemical Brothers featuring Beck 110100 :yahoo: Yes Top 20!!! Can't quite see this topping your chart for 7 weeks like it did in mine though :lol: 20 61 20 3 BAD WOMAN - Paloma Faith 31700 21 18 18 6 SUPER GRAPHIC ULTRA MODERN GIRL - Chappell Roan 110550 22 25 22 2 ARIA - Argy & Omnya 38250 23 67 23 2 IMMORTAL - Lufthaus feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Robbie Williams 25850 24 20 1 14 SOMETHING ON MY MIND - Purple Disco Machine x Duke Dumont x Nothing But Thieves 877000 25 21 13 11 MOONLIGHT - Bimini x Girls Of The Internet 233050 26 26 26 5 HOUDINI - Dua Lipa 70400 28 74 28 2 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? - MisterWives 23500 32 13 13 7 SOS - ABBA 144250 33 39 33 4 I’VE BEEN IN LOVE - Jungle featuring Channel Tres 55050 35 28 28 10 LOVE IS BLUE - Army Of Lovers featuring Olya Polyakova 140150 36 30 30 6 TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE - Stefanie Joosten featuring Giorgio Moroder 99000 :wub: 39 51 39 6 ALARM CLOCK - Sheryl Crow 47650 40 50 40 7 MESS IT UP - The Rolling Stones 68800 42 47 42 4 CAN’T CATCH ME NOW - Olivia Rodrigo 37250 43 NEW 43 1 THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME - ABBA 13500 :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: my second all time favourite Abba song, narrowly behind Knowing Me Knowing You. 44 33 10 10 MIRAGE - OneRepublic, Assassin’s Creed, Mishaal Tamer 211550 45 32 32 8 YOU KNOW ME BETTER - Roisin Murphy 96300 46 48 46 4 GIRL - The Beatles 44000 47 52 47 4 TK421 - Lenny Kravitz 38200 50 56 50 5 I KEEP THEM ON THE FLOOR BESIDE MY BED (THE CHRISTMAS EDITION) - Agnetha Faltskog 36900 51 59 51 4 THIS BOY - The Beatles 38450 52 54 52 6 FEEL THE LOVE - Bananarama 46500 53 42 1 15 YOUR SIDE OF TOWN - The Killers 860450 56 64 53 8 DJ PLAY A CHRISTMAS SONG - Cher 68500 ok, I'm now FULLY on board with this! And so so close to hitting the Top 40 officially, which I never imagined this would do. Have you heard the extended version? It has added strings in it. Glorious! 57 43 4 10 HOW YOU LEAVE A MAN - Paloma Faith 251500 62 70 62 4 MICHELLE - The Beatles 21400 66 71 66 4 HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE - The Beatles 22000 67 78 67 2 LOVE ME/HATE ME - Mari Bella 11000 68 72 68 2 WE CAN HAVE IT ALL - Danny Byrd 12000 71 83 71 2 PRADA - Casso, D-Block Europe and RAYE 9200 72 NEW 72 1 ONE OF US - ABBA 5600 :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: a chart topper twice for me! 73 NEW 73 1 ONE ON ONE - The Knocks & SOFI TUKKER 5400 75 82 75 2 SANTA BABY - Madonna 8600 I also see Grungerman made your chart last week! :o As Bre pointed out to me when I entered Girls In Love for BJSC, it appears there's the wrong credit on this. (As in, 'Grungerman & Forever Sweet' did a separate remix of it but doesn't appear to have anything else to do with this track. It's just Andreas Dorau on his own. I've no idea if that's available on itunes, but it would explain why you couldn't find it. I should change the credit on my chart, but I can't be bothered :lol: Fantastic chart as always :wub:
December 17, 20231 yr Hey John, Pet Shop Boys Top 10 :cheer: Mary J Blige/Vado and Paloma Faith Top 20 :cheer: Lufthaus and Duran Duran Top 30, The Rolling Stones Top 40 :yahoo: Christmas Agnetha Fältskog climbing :w00t: Best new entries bubbling under: ABBA oldies 2x :heart: and The Knocks/Sofi Tukker :dance:
December 18, 20231 yr Moody Blues for #1 :D Good to see new peak positions for Lufthaus, Duran Duran, Trevor Horn, Jungle, The Rolling Stones, The Kiffness, Barbara and Mickey Dolenz :D
December 22, 20231 yr Author Hi there John! Nice to see "Mess It Up", "Worth It" and "Prada" gain big and the debut for "One On One". Great chart! Take care. Hi Sergej! :) Thanks for the picks n comment n wishes! B-)
December 22, 20231 yr Author Hey John! :hi: Story still top 5 :cheer: yay. Brilliant result so far. That remix of hold on to now has really turned things around for the song. It's superb. Woweeee that's a fantastic climb for bad woman. I really enjoy it but yes she's sadly past the days of having a hit which is a shame. Much like you said though, it's rare this far into your career to remain relevant. The main artist that does spring to mind is Taylor Swift but then that begs the question, his long dies she have ik the tank? She works tirelessly apparently. Houdini peaking at #26 then? Maybe? Not bad I guess though I think I expected a little more. Fab chart ^_^ Hey james! :) Story has done as well as some chart-toppers this year for me, so pretty good overall. Taylor Swift fans are immensely loyal, she seems like a long-termer to me, maybe with ups and downs of chart fortune but she's very adaptable! Houdini was just pausing, Dua's back on the up again, expect that'll rebound in the New Year in the UK charts too, thanks for the comments! B-)
December 22, 20231 yr Author Hi John. Hope all has been good with you. Have you been feeling all Christmassy yet? :lol: I've done the bare minimum myself. Apologies for missing last week's chart. Work have been very selfish and inconsiderate by driving me to sheer exhaustion, and they're not done yet! Anyway, my faves this week: 1 19 1 2 GO NOW - The Moody Blues 191000 oh I had no idea Denny Laine recently passed away :o This is a fabulous record. 2 1 1 3 SEBASTIAN - Cockney Rebel 455000 3 3 1 4 GOOD AT BREAKING HEARTS - Jungle featuring JNR Williams & 33.3 455000 4 14 4 6 RADIOPHONIC - Pet Shop Boys 144900 :yahoo: :cheer: 5 2 2 9 STORY - Kylie Minogue 471900 6 4 4 6 SAVOUR THE MIRACLE OF LIFE - Dario G 223300 9 5 1 12 HOLD ON TO NOW - Kylie Minogue 799900 11 7 1 7 NOW AND THEN - The Beatles 777000 12 12 12 6 OVERDRIVE - Ofenbach featuring Norma Jean Martine 162750 13 16 4 9 AEIOU - PNAU & Empire Of The Sun 353800 16 10 3 7 KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU - ABBA 337000 18 15 1 11 SURE ENOUGH - Two Door Cinema Club 710250 19 24 19 8 SKIPPING LIKE A STONE - Chemical Brothers featuring Beck 110100 :yahoo: Yes Top 20!!! Can't quite see this topping your chart for 7 weeks like it did in mine though :lol: 20 61 20 3 BAD WOMAN - Paloma Faith 31700 21 18 18 6 SUPER GRAPHIC ULTRA MODERN GIRL - Chappell Roan 110550 22 25 22 2 ARIA - Argy & Omnya 38250 23 67 23 2 IMMORTAL - Lufthaus feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Robbie Williams 25850 24 20 1 14 SOMETHING ON MY MIND - Purple Disco Machine x Duke Dumont x Nothing But Thieves 877000 25 21 13 11 MOONLIGHT - Bimini x Girls Of The Internet 233050 26 26 26 5 HOUDINI - Dua Lipa 70400 28 74 28 2 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? - MisterWives 23500 32 13 13 7 SOS - ABBA 144250 33 39 33 4 I’VE BEEN IN LOVE - Jungle featuring Channel Tres 55050 35 28 28 10 LOVE IS BLUE - Army Of Lovers featuring Olya Polyakova 140150 36 30 30 6 TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE - Stefanie Joosten featuring Giorgio Moroder 99000 :wub: 39 51 39 6 ALARM CLOCK - Sheryl Crow 47650 40 50 40 7 MESS IT UP - The Rolling Stones 68800 42 47 42 4 CAN’T CATCH ME NOW - Olivia Rodrigo 37250 43 NEW 43 1 THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME - ABBA 13500 :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: my second all time favourite Abba song, narrowly behind Knowing Me Knowing You. 44 33 10 10 MIRAGE - OneRepublic, Assassin’s Creed, Mishaal Tamer 211550 45 32 32 8 YOU KNOW ME BETTER - Roisin Murphy 96300 46 48 46 4 GIRL - The Beatles 44000 47 52 47 4 TK421 - Lenny Kravitz 38200 50 56 50 5 I KEEP THEM ON THE FLOOR BESIDE MY BED (THE CHRISTMAS EDITION) - Agnetha Faltskog 36900 51 59 51 4 THIS BOY - The Beatles 38450 52 54 52 6 FEEL THE LOVE - Bananarama 46500 53 42 1 15 YOUR SIDE OF TOWN - The Killers 860450 56 64 53 8 DJ PLAY A CHRISTMAS SONG - Cher 68500 ok, I'm now FULLY on board with this! And so so close to hitting the Top 40 officially, which I never imagined this would do. Have you heard the extended version? It has added strings in it. Glorious! 57 43 4 10 HOW YOU LEAVE A MAN - Paloma Faith 251500 62 70 62 4 MICHELLE - The Beatles 21400 66 71 66 4 HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE - The Beatles 22000 67 78 67 2 LOVE ME/HATE ME - Mari Bella 11000 68 72 68 2 WE CAN HAVE IT ALL - Danny Byrd 12000 71 83 71 2 PRADA - Casso, D-Block Europe and RAYE 9200 72 NEW 72 1 ONE OF US - ABBA 5600 :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: a chart topper twice for me! 73 NEW 73 1 ONE ON ONE - The Knocks & SOFI TUKKER 5400 75 82 75 2 SANTA BABY - Madonna 8600 I also see Grungerman made your chart last week! :o As Bre pointed out to me when I entered Girls In Love for BJSC, it appears there's the wrong credit on this. (As in, 'Grungerman & Forever Sweet' did a separate remix of it but doesn't appear to have anything else to do with this track. It's just Andreas Dorau on his own. I've no idea if that's available on itunes, but it would explain why you couldn't find it. I should change the credit on my chart, but I can't be bothered :lol: Fantastic chart as always :wub: Hi AH been a hectic busy and strange week for me, no worries about missing charts, I keep doing that too but next year no more work so I should be more regular bar holidays! So, no not feeling Christmassy at all yet, my last day in the office was quite sad and end of an era, a big change for me :o Sorry to hear you're being worked hard, it's become a stressful environment everywhere it seems, I know even more longtimers are bailing here and not being replaced. Something has to change, it's just no sustainable in the long run....! Glad you rate Go Now, poor Denny Laine was always a quiet popstar, happy to be in the background. I wouldve charted some Wings stuff if it wasn't mostly really Macca's work, bar Mull Of Kintyre and a couple of others. You wre right about Chemical Brosthers, oops, it's peaked for me! Glasd you rate The Day Before You Came so highly, me too, though I need to be in the right mood as it's quite dark and subtle - yet also it's gloriously happy, which escapes most people, normally Abba lyrics are sad and the music upbeat or soaring, this one is the reverse, which makes it very touching. Not heard the Cher extended no, but she's been plugging it admirably, she's not a young woman and works so hard! I think she now easily holds the singles chart lifespan record for a female with new material, and only just behind The Rolling Stones & The Beatles - and she's still not in the Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame, that well known Rock Muso Boys Club. Thanks for the Grungerman info (and Bre) I guess it's not a remix then as such, the original seems to be on itunes but it somehow sounded different from the BJSC version. I will have to recheck it! Thanks as always for the support and have a Merry Christmas! B-)
December 22, 20231 yr Author One on One is pretty great from The Knocks and Sofi Tukker! Thanks UHsting glad you like it - very Purple Disco machine! B-)
December 22, 20231 yr Author Hey John, Pet Shop Boys Top 10 :cheer: Mary J Blige/Vado and Paloma Faith Top 20 :cheer: Lufthaus and Duran Duran Top 30, The Rolling Stones Top 40 :yahoo: Christmas Agnetha Fältskog climbing :w00t: Best new entries bubbling under: ABBA oldies 2x :heart: and The Knocks/Sofi Tukker :dance: Hey Sven! :) Thanks for all the picks and Merry Xmas! :)
December 22, 20231 yr Author Moody Blues for #1 :D Good to see new peak positions for Lufthaus, Duran Duran, Trevor Horn, Jungle, The Rolling Stones, The Kiffness, Barbara and Mickey Dolenz :D Hi SSP! :) Thanks for the picks, nice to see some of the more unusual get a mention! B-)
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