Posted December 22, 20231 yr 17th December 2023 It's a quiet week with a sprinkling of Xmas oldies sneaking in, The Moody Blues hanging on to the top spot for a second week, and a cover of an old Suzi Quatro and Chris (Smokie) Norman debuting at 74. Yesterday I had my final day in the office at work, very sad and surreal for me after working there since the 80's, so not really been doing too much music-wise. That said Paloma gets her 2nd top 10 of the year, Sophie Ellis-Bextor also gets her 2nd top 10 of the year, while co-singer Robbie Williams is on his first top 10 in 8 years! That gives him a span of 26 years solo, 30 years including take That. Cher goes top 40 52 years on since Gypsies Tramps & Thieves, and The Jesus & Mary Chain also last went top 40 nearly 30 years ago. Christmas classics from the 70's (Greg Lake being the best Xmas record of all) 80's (Waitresses) and 90's (Pet Shop Boys). maybe more will come next week after the event... 1 1 1 3 GO NOW - The Moody Blues 361000 2 2 1 4 SEBASTIAN - Cockney Rebel 570000 3 4 3 7 RADIOPHONIC - Pet Shop Boys 229900 4 3 1 5 GOOD AT BREAKING HEARTS - Jungle featuring JNR Williams & 33.3 520000 5 5 2 10 STORY - Kylie Minogue 531900 6 8 4 7 LOOK AT YOU NOW - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 320400 7 20 7 4 BAD WOMAN - Paloma Faith 81700 8 6 4 7 SAVOUR THE MIRACLE OF LIFE - Dario G 271300 9 23 9 3 IMMORTAL - Lufthaus feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Robbie Williams 70850 10 10 4 11 VERUSCHKA - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark 349200 11 7 7 7 ALREADY KNOW - Gustaph 220300 12 9 1 13 HOLD ON TO NOW - Kylie Minogue 834900 13 28 13 3 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? - MisterWives 55500 14 11 1 8 NOW AND THEN - The Beatles 806000 15 26 15 6 HOUDINI - Dua Lipa 97400 16 13 4 10 AEIOU - PNAU & Empire Of The Sun 378800 17 12 12 7 OVERDRIVE - Ofenbach featuring Norma Jean Martine 185750 18 14 14 8 HASS HASS - Diljit Dosanjh X SIA 158200 19 22 19 3 ARIA - Argy & Omnya 59250 20 15 7 9 DOPAMINE - Mehro 249500 21 18 1 12 SURE ENOUGH - Two Door Cinema Club 730000 22 19 19 9 SKIPPING LIKE A STONE - Chemical Brothers featuring Beck 129600 23 27 23 7 WE’RE GONNA GET THERE IN THE END - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds 80750 24 17 17 8 STILL BELIEVE IN LOVE - Mary J. Blige featuring Vado 117050 25 21 18 7 SUPER GRAPHIC ULTRA MODERN GIRL - Chappell Roan 129300 26 30 26 7 LOVE VOUDOU - Duran Duran 80200 27 31 27 5 OWNER OF A LONELY HEART - Trevor Horn & Rick Astley 70600 28 24 1 15 SOMETHING ON MY MIND - Purple Disco Machine x Duke Dumont x Nothing But Thieves 895300 29 64 29 4 ANGELS CRY TOO - Lucia & The Best Boys 33300 30 16 3 8 KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU - ABBA 355000 31 33 31 5 I’VE BEEN IN LOVE - Jungle featuring Channel Tres 72950 32 29 29 7 EVERY NIGHT - Jungle 117800 33 34 33 6 HELLO LOVE - Jesse Ware 74100 34 25 13 12 MOONLIGHT - Bimini x Girls Of The Internet 250650 35 38 35 7 PROBLEMZ - Jungle 85250 36 56 36 9 DJ PLAY A CHRISTMAS SONG - Cher 85900 37 39 37 7 ALARM CLOCK - Sheryl Crow 64950 38 74 38 2 JAMCOD - The Jesus And Mary Chain 22400 39 43 39 2 THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME - ABBA 30600 40 42 40 5 CAN’T CATCH ME NOW - Olivia Rodrigo 54250 41 46 41 5 GIRL - The Beatles 58000 42 49 42 3 SOMETIMES (I’M ALONE) - The Kiffness 30050 43 47 43 5 TK421 - Lenny Kravitz 51700 44 37 7 12 RAGAZZO SOLA - Annalisa 287950 45 50 45 6 I KEEP THEM ON THE FLOOR BESIDE MY BED (THE CHRISTMAS EDITION) - Agnetha Faltskog 49900 46 54 46 6 CARE - Lucia & The Best Boys 53650 47 61 47 5 WRAP ME UP - Jimmy Fallon & Meghan Trainor 38200 48 51 48 5 THIS BOY - The Beatles 50750 49 52 49 7 FEEL THE LOVE - Bananarama 58600 50 36 30 7 TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE - Stefanie Joosten featuring Giorgio Moroder 111000 51 58 51 3 WONDER EYE - Little Moon 25750 52 32 13 8 SOS - ABBA 155750 53 44 10 11 MIRAGE - OneRepublic, Assassin’s Creed, Mishaal Tamer 222800 54 59 54 5 HEY BULLDOG - The Beatles 41100 55 60 55 6 RAINY DAYS IN JUNE - Barbara 41000 56 41 35 7 WORLD ON FIRE - Dolly Parton 87200 57 40 40 8 MESS IT UP - The Rolling Stones 79200 58 62 58 5 MICHELLE - The Beatles 31600 59 71 59 3 PRADA - Casso, D-Block Europe and RAYE 19300 60 67 60 3 LOVE ME/HATE ME - Mari Bella 21000 61 72 61 2 ONE OF US - ABBA 13100 62 55 3 22 I BETTER LOVE YOU - Will Heard 747800 63 63 63 3 WORTH IT - RAYE 19000 64 65 64 5 LEAVING NEW YORK - Micky Dolenz 27900 65 73 65 2 ONE ON ONE - The Knocks & SOFI TUKKER 12400 66 66 20 23 HERE THERE AND EVERYWHERE - The Beatles 274650 67 70 67 2 WALKED IN THE ROOM - Channel Tres 12600 68 68 68 3 WE CAN HAVE IT ALL - Danny Byrd 18400 69 35 28 11 LOVE IS BLUE - Army Of Lovers featuring Olya Polyakova 146350 70 NEW 70 1 I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS - Greg Lake 6000 71 NEW 71 1 CHRISTMAS WRAPPING - The Waitresses 5800 72 NEW 72 1 IT DOESN’T OFTEN SNOW AT CHRISTMAS - Pet Shop Boys 5600 73 75 73 3 SANTA BABY - Madonna 14000 74 NEW 74 1 STUMBLIN’ IN - CYRIL 5200 75 NEW 75 1 BLOODLINES - Fay Wildhagen 5000 DROP OUTS 45 32 8 YOU KNOW ME BETTER - Roisin Murphy 96300 48 40 6 WONDERFUL WONDER - Tom Speight featuring Ward Thomas 66750 53 1 15 YOUR SIDE OF TOWN - The Killers 860450 57 4 10 HOW YOU LEAVE A MAN - Paloma Faith 251500 69 69 5 CHE T’O DICO A FA - Angelina Mango 21400
December 22, 20231 yr Hi John! Nice to see the big gains for "Houdini", "Prada" and "One Of Us" and the debut for "Stumblin' In". Great chart! Take care.
December 23, 20231 yr Hey John. Oh that's a good #1 from Moody Blues. I think I missed the reason it's back at 1 here as it's a great track and tbh I didn't know that was them that did it haha. Paloma and Kylie doing fab in the top 10, not heard new Omd but they have a lot of classics. Great to see the legend that is Cher climbing up too. Fab for her to nab a top 20 peak :wub: Some Christmas greats lower down at the bottom for the magnificent 'I Believe In Father Christmas' and the shoulda be top 40 official chart peak by now for Waitresses, sigh lol. Brill chart as usual and have a happy Christmas! :cheer:
December 23, 20231 yr Hey John! Look at story sticking around :cheer: That's a huge clinb for bad woman this week. Very good! Hold on to now will hopefully not fall too fast here. Worth It is definitely great. I actually discovered a song she release a few weeks ago as well called mother nature which was great. Christmas wrapping is such a fun song. Yay for that entering. Great chart and Marry Christmas John :)
December 23, 20231 yr Moody Blues for # 1 again :D New peak positions for Lufthaus, Dua Lipa, Trevor Horn, Kiffness and Barbara :D Also good seeing new debut for Cyril :D
December 24, 20231 yr Hey John, Nice Top 5 :cheer: Paloma Faith and Lufthaus/Sophie/Robbie Top 10 :dance: Kylie´s "Hold On To Now" and The Beatles "Now And Then" dropping :angry: Dua Lipa Top 20, Rick Astley/Trevor Horn Top 30, Cher, Olivia Rodrigo and one of the greatest ABBA oldie tracks "The Day Before You Came" Top 40 :yahoo: Agnetha Fältskog still climbing :cheer: "Mess It Up" dropping fast :o Merry Christmas !!!!
December 28, 20231 yr Hi John. Merry Christmas! Hope you had a great one. My faves: 1 1 1 3 GO NOW - The Moody Blues 361000 2 2 1 4 SEBASTIAN - Cockney Rebel 570000 3 4 3 7 RADIOPHONIC - Pet Shop Boys 229900 4 3 1 5 GOOD AT BREAKING HEARTS - Jungle featuring JNR Williams & 33.3 520000 5 5 2 10 STORY - Kylie Minogue 531900 7 20 7 4 BAD WOMAN - Paloma Faith 81700 8 6 4 7 SAVOUR THE MIRACLE OF LIFE - Dario G 271300 9 23 9 3 IMMORTAL - Lufthaus feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Robbie Williams 70850 12 9 1 13 HOLD ON TO NOW - Kylie Minogue 834900 13 28 13 3 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? - MisterWives 55500 14 11 1 8 NOW AND THEN - The Beatles 806000 15 26 15 6 HOUDINI - Dua Lipa 97400 16 13 4 10 AEIOU - PNAU & Empire Of The Sun 378800 17 12 12 7 OVERDRIVE - Ofenbach featuring Norma Jean Martine 185750 19 22 19 3 ARIA - Argy & Omnya 59250 21 18 1 12 SURE ENOUGH - Two Door Cinema Club 730000 22 19 19 9 SKIPPING LIKE A STONE - Chemical Brothers featuring Beck 129600 25 21 18 7 SUPER GRAPHIC ULTRA MODERN GIRL - Chappell Roan 129300 27 31 27 5 OWNER OF A LONELY HEART - Trevor Horn & Rick Astley 70600 28 24 1 15 SOMETHING ON MY MIND - Purple Disco Machine x Duke Dumont x Nothing But Thieves 895300 30 16 3 8 KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU - ABBA 355000 34 25 13 12 MOONLIGHT - Bimini x Girls Of The Internet 250650 36 56 36 9 DJ PLAY A CHRISTMAS SONG - Cher 85900 :cheer: still surprised this has become a genuine hit! And yes, you are quite right - Petula Clark still holds the record of being the oldest artist to get a No.1 in my chart, but Cher is now the 2nd. As for how many number ones, she's only had 3 believe it or not :o 37 39 37 7 ALARM CLOCK - Sheryl Crow 64950 39 43 39 2 THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME - ABBA 30600 40 42 40 5 CAN’T CATCH ME NOW - Olivia Rodrigo 54250 41 46 41 5 GIRL - The Beatles 58000 43 47 43 5 TK421 - Lenny Kravitz 51700 45 50 45 6 I KEEP THEM ON THE FLOOR BESIDE MY BED (THE CHRISTMAS EDITION) - Agnetha Faltskog 49900 49 52 49 7 FEEL THE LOVE - Bananarama 58600 50 36 30 7 TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE - Stefanie Joosten featuring Giorgio Moroder 111000 52 32 13 8 SOS - ABBA 155750 53 44 10 11 MIRAGE - OneRepublic, Assassin’s Creed, Mishaal Tamer 222800 57 40 40 8 MESS IT UP - The Rolling Stones 79200 58 62 58 5 MICHELLE - The Beatles 31600 59 71 59 3 PRADA - Casso, D-Block Europe and RAYE 19300 60 67 60 3 LOVE ME/HATE ME - Mari Bella 21000 61 72 61 2 ONE OF US - ABBA 13100 63 63 63 3 WORTH IT - RAYE 19000 65 73 65 2 ONE ON ONE - The Knocks & SOFI TUKKER 12400 68 68 68 3 WE CAN HAVE IT ALL - Danny Byrd 18400 69 35 28 11 LOVE IS BLUE - Army Of Lovers featuring Olya Polyakova 146350 70 NEW 70 1 I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS - Greg Lake 6000 71 NEW 71 1 CHRISTMAS WRAPPING - The Waitresses 5800 72 NEW 72 1 IT DOESN’T OFTEN SNOW AT CHRISTMAS - Pet Shop Boys 5600 73 75 73 3 SANTA BABY - Madonna 14000 74 NEW 74 1 STUMBLIN’ IN - CYRIL 5200 Fantastic chart as always :wub:
December 28, 20231 yr Author Hi John! Nice to see the big gains for "Houdini", "Prada" and "One Of Us" and the debut for "Stumblin' In". Great chart! Take care. Hi Sergej! Happy New Year (I wont get the New Year chart up by then I expect!) Thanks as always! Take care John B-)
December 28, 20231 yr Author Hey John. Oh that's a good #1 from Moody Blues. I think I missed the reason it's back at 1 here as it's a great track and tbh I didn't know that was them that did it haha. Paloma and Kylie doing fab in the top 10, not heard new Omd but they have a lot of classics. Great to see the legend that is Cher climbing up too. Fab for her to nab a top 20 peak :wub: Some Christmas greats lower down at the bottom for the magnificent 'I Believe In Father Christmas' and the shoulda be top 40 official chart peak by now for Waitresses, sigh lol. Brill chart as usual and have a happy Christmas! :cheer: Hey Rob! :) Merry Xmas and Happy New Year! Glad you like the Moody's, bit of a goodie. Yes, fab to see Cher grabbing her 7th decade of charting, what an icon! One day The waitresses will go top 40, but not even the Guardians Of The Galaxy Xmas Special managed to boost it so far! Thanks for the wishes and comments! :)
December 28, 20231 yr Author Hey John! Look at story sticking around :cheer: That's a huge clinb for bad woman this week. Very good! Hold on to now will hopefully not fall too fast here. Worth It is definitely great. I actually discovered a song she release a few weeks ago as well called mother nature which was great. Christmas wrapping is such a fun song. Yay for that entering. Great chart and Marry Christmas John :) Hey James! Happy New Year! :) Story still not shiftin in my chart :D Bad Woman is another Paloma banger, 2 in a row! Worth It back on Radio 2 again now, sounding good and I will download next week so expect it to go up. Xmas Wrapping needs to become a streaming headline track for one christmas so it can become a long overdue hit! Thanks as always james have a fab 2024!
December 28, 20231 yr Author Moody Blues for # 1 again :D New peak positions for Lufthaus, Dua Lipa, Trevor Horn, Kiffness and Barbara :D Also good seeing new debut for Cyril :D Hi SSP! :) Happy New Year! Thanks for the picks! B-)
December 28, 20231 yr Author Hey John, Nice Top 5 :cheer: Paloma Faith and Lufthaus/Sophie/Robbie Top 10 :dance: Kylie´s "Hold On To Now" and The Beatles "Now And Then" dropping :angry: Dua Lipa Top 20, Rick Astley/Trevor Horn Top 30, Cher, Olivia Rodrigo and one of the greatest ABBA oldie tracks "The Day Before You Came" Top 40 :yahoo: Agnetha Fältskog still climbing :cheer: "Mess It Up" dropping fast :o Merry Christmas !!!! Hey Sven! :) Happy New Year! Thanks for the picks, sorry about the Beatles and Kylie dropping :lol: (they've got others on the rundown though) Glad you like others going up too though! cheers as always! B-)
December 28, 20231 yr Author Bloodlines nyasssss!! :yahoo: thought you might approve :lol: Happy New Year!
December 28, 20231 yr Author Hi John. Merry Christmas! Hope you had a great one. My faves: 1 1 1 3 GO NOW - The Moody Blues 361000 2 2 1 4 SEBASTIAN - Cockney Rebel 570000 3 4 3 7 RADIOPHONIC - Pet Shop Boys 229900 4 3 1 5 GOOD AT BREAKING HEARTS - Jungle featuring JNR Williams & 33.3 520000 5 5 2 10 STORY - Kylie Minogue 531900 7 20 7 4 BAD WOMAN - Paloma Faith 81700 8 6 4 7 SAVOUR THE MIRACLE OF LIFE - Dario G 271300 9 23 9 3 IMMORTAL - Lufthaus feat Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Robbie Williams 70850 12 9 1 13 HOLD ON TO NOW - Kylie Minogue 834900 13 28 13 3 WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? - MisterWives 55500 14 11 1 8 NOW AND THEN - The Beatles 806000 15 26 15 6 HOUDINI - Dua Lipa 97400 16 13 4 10 AEIOU - PNAU & Empire Of The Sun 378800 17 12 12 7 OVERDRIVE - Ofenbach featuring Norma Jean Martine 185750 19 22 19 3 ARIA - Argy & Omnya 59250 21 18 1 12 SURE ENOUGH - Two Door Cinema Club 730000 22 19 19 9 SKIPPING LIKE A STONE - Chemical Brothers featuring Beck 129600 25 21 18 7 SUPER GRAPHIC ULTRA MODERN GIRL - Chappell Roan 129300 27 31 27 5 OWNER OF A LONELY HEART - Trevor Horn & Rick Astley 70600 28 24 1 15 SOMETHING ON MY MIND - Purple Disco Machine x Duke Dumont x Nothing But Thieves 895300 30 16 3 8 KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU - ABBA 355000 34 25 13 12 MOONLIGHT - Bimini x Girls Of The Internet 250650 36 56 36 9 DJ PLAY A CHRISTMAS SONG - Cher 85900 :cheer: still surprised this has become a genuine hit! And yes, you are quite right - Petula Clark still holds the record of being the oldest artist to get a No.1 in my chart, but Cher is now the 2nd. As for how many number ones, she's only had 3 believe it or not :o 37 39 37 7 ALARM CLOCK - Sheryl Crow 64950 39 43 39 2 THE DAY BEFORE YOU CAME - ABBA 30600 40 42 40 5 CAN’T CATCH ME NOW - Olivia Rodrigo 54250 41 46 41 5 GIRL - The Beatles 58000 43 47 43 5 TK421 - Lenny Kravitz 51700 45 50 45 6 I KEEP THEM ON THE FLOOR BESIDE MY BED (THE CHRISTMAS EDITION) - Agnetha Faltskog 49900 49 52 49 7 FEEL THE LOVE - Bananarama 58600 50 36 30 7 TRYOUTS FOR THE HUMAN RACE - Stefanie Joosten featuring Giorgio Moroder 111000 52 32 13 8 SOS - ABBA 155750 53 44 10 11 MIRAGE - OneRepublic, Assassin’s Creed, Mishaal Tamer 222800 57 40 40 8 MESS IT UP - The Rolling Stones 79200 58 62 58 5 MICHELLE - The Beatles 31600 59 71 59 3 PRADA - Casso, D-Block Europe and RAYE 19300 60 67 60 3 LOVE ME/HATE ME - Mari Bella 21000 61 72 61 2 ONE OF US - ABBA 13100 63 63 63 3 WORTH IT - RAYE 19000 65 73 65 2 ONE ON ONE - The Knocks & SOFI TUKKER 12400 68 68 68 3 WE CAN HAVE IT ALL - Danny Byrd 18400 69 35 28 11 LOVE IS BLUE - Army Of Lovers featuring Olya Polyakova 146350 70 NEW 70 1 I BELIEVE IN FATHER CHRISTMAS - Greg Lake 6000 71 NEW 71 1 CHRISTMAS WRAPPING - The Waitresses 5800 72 NEW 72 1 IT DOESN’T OFTEN SNOW AT CHRISTMAS - Pet Shop Boys 5600 73 75 73 3 SANTA BABY - Madonna 14000 74 NEW 74 1 STUMBLIN’ IN - CYRIL 5200 Fantastic chart as always :wub: Hi AH! :) Happy New Year and a fab 2024! Xmas was OK ta, I might do a holiday next year as a treat for myself :lol: Hope yours was fab! Cher 2nd oldest is pretty good, and Believe it or not was a good pun :lol: 10 years since she topped my chart with the fabulous obscure I Walk Alone, but she's done 6 consecutive decades of top 40's for me, 6 number ones, and to be fair she would also have topped my hypothetical charts in the 60's with I Got You Babe if I'd started earlier, not to mention charting with Little Man and a couple of other Sonny & Cher tracks. Thanks as always for the support! B-)
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