Posted February 28Feb 28 23rd February 2025Teddy Swims is back on top for week 2, as Alex Warren leads a top 10 clear-out up to 2, both are emotional, epic-sounding gems. Alan Walker is no stranger to the top 10, and hasn't been since topping my charts in 2016 with Faded, Who I Am is as good as his usual best at 4. Doves have been absent from the top 10 for 20-odd years and Black & White Town, Cold Dreaming has a great epic, string-driven vibe to it at 6, and Topic tales afrobeats to 7, very compelling that one as is Jazzy at 11. Some old Eurovision faves return with new material, Mans Zelmerlow at 49 with Revolution, KEiiNO at 75 with Halo, Marina is diamond-less but back again after a break away, The Lottery Winners follow-up their chart-topper for number 2 in the chart, and The Weekend adds to the 2 already in the chart. That leaves tribute entries from Roberta Flack, and the only one her classics that hasnt already re-charted for me - Killing Me Softly With His Song returns for the first time in 52 years, and The Jam lost Rich Buckler so Eton Rifles is back for a 4th run, great drumming on it. The Jam singles had at least 3 charts runs in the 70's and 80's for the most part, but Eton Rifles never made the top 10, peaking top 20 only. 1 2 1 5 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 533750 2 19 2 3 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 141400 3 1 1 8 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 420000 5324504 36 4 4 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 92800 5 3 1 9 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 635000 6 18 6 7 COLD DREAMING - Doves 124000 7 16 7 5 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 117400 8 4 4 6 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 191400 9 5 5 4 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 231000 10 12 10 7 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 131650 11 14 11 6 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 123400 12 8 8 9 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 195300 13 10 10 5 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 146000 14 9 1 15 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 621900 15 7 7 5 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 192500 16 28 16 4 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 67800 17 6 2 12 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 510850 18 13 1 15 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1360800 19 20 19 7 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 103400 20 31 20 2 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 37900 21 26 21 4 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 63150 22 27 22 4 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 61700 23 35 23 4 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 50250 24 11 1 15 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1230250 25 15 7 15 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 340000 26 17 1 14 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 797850 27 22 20 7 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 113100 28 24 5 8 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 236300 29 30 29 4 FANCY - Artemas 77700 30 21 21 12 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 169000 31 25 18 12 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 167000 32 23 11 13 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 271050 33 38 33 4 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 57000 34 49 34 4 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 47700 35 37 35 8 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 103850 36 43 36 4 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 48100 37 51 37 3 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 36550 38 56 38 3 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 33800 39 40 39 4 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 56200 40 29 14 11 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 173650 41 32 1 22 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1077200 42 33 1 25 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1150000 43 47 43 3 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 31200 44 50 44 8 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 73500 45 39 3 14 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 742350 46 46 46 5 MESSY - Lola Young 54650 47 34 16 12 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 214850 48 48 48 5 FOLLOW ME - Special Interest featuring Amanda Lear 52300 49 NEW 49 1 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 12100 50 55 50 3 REVELATION - The Knocks & Dragonette 33600 51 73 51 2 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 17150 52 42 4 16 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 529100 53 44 13 19 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 347700 54 59 54 5 NO ONE NOTICED - The Marias 41500 55 53 4 44 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1116050 56 57 1 25 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 1037700 57 63 10 28 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 469250 58 45 20 12 ANOTHER NIGHT - Grace Davies 174500 59 41 14 14 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 214450 60 62 60 4 GOOD NEWS - Shaboozey 29600 61 67 61 2 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 14100 62 65 62 3 LUTHER - Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA, Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn 20200 63 54 1 25 HEART LIKE MINE - Sam Feldt featuring Rosa Linn 1102950 64 61 52 5 THE KILLING MOON - Echo & The Bunnymen 41500 65 NEW 65 1 BUTTERFLY - Marina 7000 66 NEW 66 1 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 6800 67 52 44 9 HURT - OneRepublic featuring Jelly Roll 90350 68 74 68 3 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 16000 69 75 64 5 CRIMINALS - Meghan Trainor 31500 70 71 68 6 BUILD IT UP - Franz Ferdinand 35600 71 76 71 3 NEW YORK MINUTE - Dion 14600 72 78 72 2 VICE - Rizzle Kicks 10000 73 NEW 73 1 WAKE ME UP - The Weeknd featuring Justice 5400 74 NEW 74 1 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 5200 75 NEW 75 1 HALO - KEiiNO 5000 76 77 76 3 SWEET SISTER SORROW - The Primitives 14000 77 64 64 7 HEY YA! - Tom Speight featuring Lydia Clowes 37400 78 79 78 2 THE ABYSS - The Weeknd & Lana Del Ray 8600 79 NEW 79 1 ETON RIFLES - The Jam 4200 80 72 72 4 ARM’S LENGTH - Sam Fender 19600 drop outs 58 10 12 TRUCKS - Cars On The Road Cast 235300 60 4 18 FANTASY - JADE 551050 66 8 15 DISCO WITCH - LEXXE 352400 68 38 8 NIGHT OR DAY - Franz Ferdinand 99850 69 1 15 SCREAMLAND - Father John Misty 656850 70 8 14 NOW OR NEVER (IT’S MY LIFE) - Bon Jovi x Pitbull 315950 80 79 2 HOT FOR YOU BABY - Tina Turner 8200
February 28Feb 28 Hi there John!Nice to see "Control Of Me" reaching the top 10, the big gains for "Born With A Broken Heart", "Busy Woman" and "Last Night I Dreamt I Fell In Love" and the debuts for "Revolution", "Wake Me Up" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song".Great chart!Take care.
March 2Mar 2 Hey John,Alex Warren, Topic and Alan Walker entering the Top 10 👍Sabrina Carpenter Top 20 and Kim Wilde Top 30 💋Best new tracks bubbling under : The Weeknd/Justice and the EuroSong from Mans Zelmerlow ⚡And of course Roberta Flack ❣️
March 2Mar 2 Hi John. How have you been this week? Toothache has gone you'll be pleased to know, but now I have a blocked ear to take its place 😄. Getting older is great fun! But enough of my woes, my faves this week: 2 19 2 3 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 141400 3 1 1 8 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 420000 5324505 3 1 9 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 635000 8 4 4 6 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 191400 9 5 5 4 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 231000 10 12 10 7 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 131650 11 14 11 6 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 123400 12 8 8 9 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 195300 14 9 1 15 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 621900 ah yes I see this did hit No.1 here! Don't know how I missed that!16 28 16 4 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 67800 ❤️ this did take a while to hit me but I adore it now. Should have been a hit17 6 2 12 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 510850 18 13 1 15 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1360800 19 20 19 7 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 103400 20 31 20 2 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 3790021 26 21 4 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 63150 23 35 23 4 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 50250 24 11 1 15 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1230250 26 17 1 14 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 797850 27 22 20 7 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 113100 28 24 5 8 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 236300 29 30 29 4 FANCY - Artemas 77700 30 21 21 12 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 169000 32 23 11 13 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 271050 33 38 33 4 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 57000 34 49 34 4 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 47700 35 37 35 8 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 103850 36 43 36 4 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 48100 ❤️ 40 29 14 11 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 173650 41 32 1 22 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1077200 42 33 1 25 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1150000 43 47 43 3 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 31200 44 50 44 8 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 7350 45 39 3 14 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 742350 46 46 46 5 MESSY - Lola Young 54650 47 34 16 12 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 214850 48 48 48 5 FOLLOW ME - Special Interest featuring Amanda Lear 52300 still stuck I see!51 73 51 2 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 17150 52 42 4 16 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 529100 53 44 13 19 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 347700 54 59 54 5 NO ONE NOTICED - The Marias 41500 55 53 4 44 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1116050 57 63 10 28 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 469250 59 41 14 14 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 214450 61 67 61 2 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 14100 63 54 1 25 HEART LIKE MINE - Sam Feldt featuring Rosa Linn 1102950 64 61 52 5 THE KILLING MOON - Echo & The Bunnymen 41500 65 NEW 65 1 BUTTERFLY - Marina 7000 ❤️ fantastic comeback and her best in years! 68 74 68 3 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 16000 69 75 64 5 CRIMINALS - Meghan Trainor 31500 71 76 71 3 NEW YORK MINUTE - Dion 14600 74 NEW 74 1 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 5200 sad news about her passing. Although.....I've never liked this song. In any version! I know, shocker. Like First Time Ever I Saw Your Face though 79 NEW 79 1 ETON RIFLES - The Jam 4200 80 72 72 4 ARM’S LENGTH - Sam Fender 19600 Fantastic chart as always! ❤️
March 4Mar 4 Good seeing new peak positions for Damiano David, Andy Bell, Jet Trouble, The Waterboys, Lady Gaga and Alok 🙂
March 7Mar 7 Author On 28/02/2025 at 22:49, Sergej said:Hi there John!Nice to see "Control Of Me" reaching the top 10, the big gains for "Born With A Broken Heart", "Busy Woman" and "Last Night I Dreamt I Fell In Love" and the debuts for "Revolution", "Wake Me Up" and "Killing Me Softly With His Song".Great chart!Take care.Hi Sergej! Hope all is good! Thanks for the picks and comment! 🙂
March 7Mar 7 Author On 01/03/2025 at 17:08, plaugher said:Yay! Doves moving up!Thanks and oops! dropping this week, sorry 😲🙂
March 7Mar 7 Author On 01/03/2025 at 17:19, Last Dreamer said:John, which Marina song was the most successful in your chart ?Hi Alex, I'm really enjoying her new one but my Diamonds-era faves would be:Primadonna (4)Oh! No! (16)Hollywood (28)Radioactive (28)Power & Control (29) the new track is her 9th overall to chart for me. cheers! 🙂
March 7Mar 7 Author On 02/03/2025 at 10:18, Sven10 said:Hey John,Alex Warren, Topic and Alan Walker entering the Top 10 👍Sabrina Carpenter Top 20 and Kim Wilde Top 30 💋Best new tracks bubbling under : The Weeknd/Justice and the EuroSong from Mans Zelmerlow ⚡And of course Roberta Flack ❣️Hey Sven! 🙂Thanks for the picks! I didn't know Mans had entered that for the Swedish entry competition!cheers! 🙂
March 7Mar 7 Author On 02/03/2025 at 13:32, AH Gold said:Hi John. How have you been this week? Toothache has gone you'll be pleased to know, but now I have a blocked ear to take its place 😄. Getting older is great fun! But enough of my woes, my faves this week: 2 19 2 3 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 141400 3 1 1 8 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 420000 5324505 3 1 9 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 635000 8 4 4 6 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 191400 9 5 5 4 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 231000 10 12 10 7 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 131650 11 14 11 6 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 123400 12 8 8 9 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 195300 14 9 1 15 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 621900 ah yes I see this did hit No.1 here! Don't know how I missed that!16 28 16 4 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 67800 ❤️ this did take a while to hit me but I adore it now. Should have been a hit17 6 2 12 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 510850 18 13 1 15 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1360800 19 20 19 7 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 103400 20 31 20 2 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 3790021 26 21 4 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 63150 23 35 23 4 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 50250 24 11 1 15 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1230250 26 17 1 14 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 797850 27 22 20 7 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 113100 28 24 5 8 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 236300 29 30 29 4 FANCY - Artemas 77700 30 21 21 12 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 169000 32 23 11 13 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 271050 33 38 33 4 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 57000 34 49 34 4 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 47700 35 37 35 8 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 103850 36 43 36 4 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 48100 ❤️ 40 29 14 11 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 173650 41 32 1 22 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1077200 42 33 1 25 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1150000 43 47 43 3 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 31200 44 50 44 8 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 7350 45 39 3 14 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 742350 46 46 46 5 MESSY - Lola Young 54650 47 34 16 12 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 214850 48 48 48 5 FOLLOW ME - Special Interest featuring Amanda Lear 52300 still stuck I see!51 73 51 2 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 17150 52 42 4 16 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 529100 53 44 13 19 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 347700 54 59 54 5 NO ONE NOTICED - The Marias 41500 55 53 4 44 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1116050 57 63 10 28 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 469250 59 41 14 14 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 214450 61 67 61 2 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 14100 63 54 1 25 HEART LIKE MINE - Sam Feldt featuring Rosa Linn 1102950 64 61 52 5 THE KILLING MOON - Echo & The Bunnymen 41500 65 NEW 65 1 BUTTERFLY - Marina 7000 ❤️ fantastic comeback and her best in years! 68 74 68 3 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 16000 69 75 64 5 CRIMINALS - Meghan Trainor 31500 71 76 71 3 NEW YORK MINUTE - Dion 14600 74 NEW 74 1 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 5200 sad news about her passing. Although.....I've never liked this song. In any version! I know, shocker. Like First Time Ever I Saw Your Face though 79 NEW 79 1 ETON RIFLES - The Jam 4200 80 72 72 4 ARM’S LENGTH - Sam Fender 19600 Fantastic chart as always! ❤️Hi AH! 🙂Good to hear about the toothache, but I know all about blocked ears, a regular nuisance for me, I pay £50 to get them sucked out every few years. Olive oil dribbling everywhere for 2 weeks previously and then a very nice man takes over with his machine. It's a relief to hear a pin drop for a while 😄 Yeah OK ta, walking yesterday, wimbledon in a couple of hours for the weekend, then back for more chartstuff, quiz, and more meets with friends for cuppa n chat, and That'll Be The Day show with my Aunty, now 85, in Weymouth. I tell you retirement is very busy! Hope that gives hope for much much later! 😄Thanks for the picks and comments as always ❤️! Killing Me Softly, yes I can see not being a fan, I got so sick of the Fugees cover it made me get fed up with the song for quite a while too. Oddly it took me seeing Play Misty For Me (what a great film! The original warped stalker movie) to get into First Time Ever, but I love it now. It's not in my charts as it's already had 3 or 4 runs. I nearly charted Back Together Again too, but her other biggies have recharted too previously.Cheers and have a great week! 😎
March 7Mar 7 Author On 04/03/2025 at 00:24, SSP said:Good seeing new peak positions for Damiano David, Andy Bell, Jet Trouble, The Waterboys, Lady Gaga and Alok 🙂Hi SSP! Thanks for the picks! 🙂
March 7Mar 7 2 hours ago, Popchartfreak said:Hi Alex, I'm really enjoying her new one but my Diamonds-era faves would be:Primadonna (4)Oh! No! (16)Hollywood (28)Radioactive (28)Power & Control (29) the new track is her 9th overall to chart for me.cheers! 🙂My top :(Bubblegum Bitch) 1. SeventeenAfter itOh! No, Hollywood, Venus Fly Trap, Primadonna
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