By my calculations, there is now A LOT of stuff tanking at the bottom of the top 100 with very little to replace it.

I do think Shake It to the Max makes it next week at the expense of Prada as Julian alluded to last week.

Also in trouble soon:

Arm's Length

Indigo

Red Wine Supernova

Shut Up and Dance

Belong Together

Capaldi's reign of terror should continue for a while longer as I think Someone You Loved is doing better than all of the above currently.

Agreed that “Someone You Loved” isn’t budging any time soon given the weakness of the bottom end and all the ones you mentioned are struggling more. Of course there’s something tanking much harder than anything else that may not even make the half year point too.

“Another Love” sounds like a good shout for a return and maybe “Don’t Stop Me Now” by default. Otherwise not sure.

22 minutes ago, Julian_ said:

Agreed that “Someone You Loved” isn’t budging any time soon given the weakness of the bottom end and all the ones you mentioned are struggling more. Of course there’s something tanking much harder than anything else that may not even make the half year point too.

“Another Love” sounds like a good shout for a return and maybe “Don’t Stop Me Now” by default. Otherwise not sure.

Ah yes, was only looking at the bottom 10 when writing the comment so forgot about 'Who' (and to a lesser extent 'Defying Gravity').

'Wonderwall' is also very likely to re-enter whenever the Oasis tour starts I'd imagine, my rough current estimate has it on ~180k.

I had 'Running Around' in contention to make it in a few weeks, but that seems to have collapsed now, so I think 'Don't Stop Me Now' might return in two weeks by default as you say.

Is hairdresser not close?

5 minutes ago, Liam Sota said:

Is hairdresser not close?

Not particularly - I have it on 125k. Wasn't really doing significant numbers until the last three weeks

Can't see any other "current" hits other than Shake It... entering before week 27, next closest with a shot is probably Blessings (on 111k). Would've said Here In Your Arms (166k) or Steve's Lava Chicken (151k) were also on the way a couple weeks ago but both are fading away now.

"Ordinary" is definitely gonna be the #1 biggest song this year.

When was last time the end of year number 1 was female just out of curiosity

4 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

When was last time the end of year number 1 was female just out of curiosity

Miley’s ‘Flowers’ in 2023!

7 minutes ago, Jade said:

Miley’s ‘Flowers’ in 2023!

Cheers I knew it was something obvious but couldn't put my finger on it 😅

And before that it was Adele in 2011 (aside from the Calvin & Dua collaboration in 2018), so it’s actually not been a pop girl that often.

So it really is a rare feat then 😮

7 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

So it really is a rare feat then 😮

Solo female EOY #1s:

1985: Jennifer Rush - The Power Of Love

1992: Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

1998: Cher - Believe

1999: Britney Spears - …Baby One More Time

2007: Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love

2008: Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah

2009: Lady Gaga - Poker Face

2011: Adele - Someone Like You

2023: Miley Cyrus - Flowers

A good little run at the end of the 2000s but yeah has slowed down a lot in recent years!

7 hours ago, DanielCarey said:

"Ordinary" is definitely gonna be the #1 biggest song this year.

Sadly this was established a while ago now 😞

Shake It To The Max in this week, Prada finally out! Might be another week without any new/re-entries next week but if Who is doing really badly I can see 505 re-entering.

4 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Shake It To The Max in this week, Prada finally out! Might be another week without any new/re-entries next week but if Who is doing really badly I can see 505 re-entering.

Wouldn’t rule out Another Love either.

I think Don’t Stop Me Now is out of the picture now, dropped to #7 on the metal chart this week. Difficult to know how many sales that actually is but I’d guess no more than 6.5k

I guess we don’t know yet whether “Shake It To The Max” is silver. It will need to be there or very close to enter.

“Arm’s Length” is gone I think, meaning there’s a small chance “Prada” could survive. They might both be out though.

1 hour ago, Julian_ said:

I guess we don’t know yet whether “Shake It To The Max” is silver. It will need to be there or very close to enter.

“Arm’s Length” is gone I think, meaning there’s a small chance “Prada” could survive. They might both be out though.

Arm's Length got a boost on Spotify this week cos of Sam's tour, might be enough for it to hold on?

Week 24:

1	2	Alex Warren	Ordinary	980,000
2	1	Lola Young	Messy	946,000	1,120,000
3	3	Rosé and Bruno Mars	APT.	891,000	1,250,000
4	4	Gracie Abrams	That's So True	785,000	1,220,000
5	5	Chappell Roan	Pink Pony Club	746,000	1,190,000
6	6	Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars	Die With A Smile	725,000	1,360,000
7	7	Chrystal	The Days	637,000	800,000
8	8	Billie Eilish	Birds Of A Feather	606,000	1,830,000
9	9	Benson Boone	Beautiful Things	601,000	2,390,000
10	10	Chappell Roan	Good Luck, Babe!	584,000	1,790,000
11	11	Gigi Perez	Sailor Song	546,000	1,140,000
12	12	Sabrina Carpenter	Espresso	528,000	2,280,000
13	13	Teddy Swims	Lose Control	527,000	2,360,000
14	14	Sabrina Carpenter	Taste	525,000	1,320,000
15	15	Teddy Swims	Bad Dreams	496,000	740,000
16	17	Tate McRae	Sports Car	482,000
17	16	Teddy Swims	The Door	480,000	1,150,000
18	18	Myles Smith	Nice To Meet You	469,000	580,000
19	19	Shaboozey	A Bar Song (Tipsy)	442,000	1,780,000
20	20	Myles Smith	Stargazing	439,000	1,450,000
21	24	Ravyn Lenae	Love Me Not	438,000
22	21	Kendrick Lamar	Not Like Us	430,000	1,050,000
23	22	Hozier	Too Sweet	423,000	1,890,000
24	23	Lady Gaga	Abracadabra	411,000
25	25	Alex Warren	Carry You Home	407,000	710,000
26	26	Noah Kahan	Stick Season	401,000	2,920,000
27	27	Sabrina Carpenter	Please Please Please	394,000	1,540,000
28	28	Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D.	Somedays	383,000	850,000
29	29	Sabrina Carpenter	Bed Chem	375,000	770,000
30	32	WizTheMc & Bees & Honey	Show Me Love	375,000
31	30	Sabrina Carpenter	Busy Woman	371,000
32	31	Doechii	Anxiety	362,000
33	33	Chappell Roan	Hot To Go!	354,000	1,010,000
34	34	Kendrick Lamar & Sza	Luther	347,000	440,000
35	36	The Killers	Mr Brightside	346,000	6,410,000
36	35	Gracie Abrams	I Love You, I'm Sorry	345,000	830,000
37	37	The Weeknd and Playboi Carti	Timeless	331,000	560,000
38	39	Sam Fender	People Watching	328,000	430,000
39	38	Kendrick Lamar & Sza	All The Stars	327,000	2,240,000
40	41	Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen	I Had Some Help	325,000	1,240,000
47	48	Ed Sheeran	Azizam	307,000
52	59	Sombr	Undressed	277,000
62	70	Sombr	Back To Friends	248,000
71	74	Morgan Seatree featuring Florence + The Machine	Say My Name (Remix)	228,000
78	82	Benson Boone	Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else	219,000
82	84	Sonny Fodera & Clementine Douglas	Tell Me	217,000

And the new and re-entries are…

Nothing! 😮

A lot of new songs beginning to hold stronger now so I imagine the new entry exodus will hopefully be short lived