Posted March 20Mar 20 19th March 2025Alex Warren makes it 3 weeks on top, chased by Topic at 2, one a big hit, t'other not. Charts are weird. Tennis make it a second top 10 lush ballad, and Labi Siffre brings his 1972 top gem back into the top 10. Highest new entry is a Mike Batt creation - Justin Hayward's first headline credit since not long after he topped my chart with Forever Autumn in 1978, so welcome back Justin, and that's a 53-year chart span including Moody Blues tracks & various other collaborations. Life In A Northern Town is the fabulous Dream Academy song, much sampled, and Mike has organised a lovely version here, his second chart entry of the year, and replied to one of my Tweets about his 1974 Pans People record to boot. I just bought 1974 album track The Orinoco Kid the other week, and Mike has been Wombling personal chart hits for 51 years now, working with artists galore.Selena Gomez is back with a great dancepop track, with Benny Blanco. I prefer it to her chart hit at the moment, and Felix Jaehn has a good go at one of Whitney's greatest records, remixing It's Not Right But It's Ok. It's much better than OK! Gaga's new album dropped, and I have cherry-picked a Taylor-Swift-alike track to give her 3 current charting tracks 16 years on from debuting. I'm not saying Ms. Swift is doing backing vocals, but if she isn't we may be in another Madonna situation, where one old Gaga hit was not entirely unlike a Madonna even-older hit to the peeve of Ms. Ciccone.Avalan Rokston are apparently happening on Tik Tok. So I'm told. It's quite good anyway, so that's a debut, while in veteran territory we have Wu-Tang Clan back with some cool 70's retro video and a 90's style rap track, which underlines how much more I used to like rap than I do now, give or take 2 or 3 acts. The Tang's topped my chart with Texas in the late 90's, and it's been at least 20 years away I reckon. Chappell Roan doesnt quite get the number one spot with her Pink Pony, but she slips The Giver in for a bit of yee-haw Country. Chesney Hawkes makes a hat-trick of good comeback singles, and announcement coming - the Disco Queen, the original one, is back with her first new track to chart here in 40 years, I think. Fida Known is pretty decent, and Gloria topped my charts twice 50 years ago and again in 1979, so that's quite a chart gap, ignoring remixes since I Yam What I Yam. Or was that Popeye?1 1 1 6 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 6514002 6 2 8 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 3524003 3 1 12 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 8650004 2 2 9 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 4264005 5 5 5 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 2079006 7 1 8 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 7237507 12 7 6 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 1398008 9 8 7 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 1831509 18 9 7 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 13320010 11 8 12 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 29930011 31 11 3 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 6700012 25 12 4 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 8355013 10 10 7 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 18380014 19 14 6 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 10495015 13 10 8 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 23700016 4 2 7 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 29780017 8 8 10 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 22240018 15 1 11 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 50400019 21 11 9 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 20190020 14 5 7 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 32500021 17 1 18 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 142555022 24 22 5 HALO - KEiiNO 5550023 28 23 7 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 10275024 27 24 7 FANCY - Artemas 13410025 20 20 7 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 10850026 23 7 8 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 25000027 30 27 7 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 10240028 29 7 18 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 39525029 33 29 11 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 12340030 34 30 6 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 8390031 16 6 10 COLD DREAMING - Doves 19590032 26 20 7 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 11800033 22 1 18 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 68310034 38 34 4 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 5485035 48 35 3 WHIRLWIND - Lainey Wilson 3700036 36 36 5 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 6545037 45 37 4 BUTTERFLY - Marina 4740038 32 32 6 REVELATION - The Knocks & Dragonette 8640039 39 18 15 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 21820040 53 40 3 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 3865041 35 35 6 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 10490042 40 1 18 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 127920043 52 43 6 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 5120044 60 44 2 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 2325045 47 45 3 WANT U - Hayley May 3550046 37 2 15 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 56015047 41 5 11 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 28010048 61 48 2 TURN UP YOUR RADIO - Deacon Blue featuring Lorraine McIntosh 1980049 65 49 3 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 2570050 44 1 25 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 111610051 43 1 17 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 84070052 54 52 5 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 4740053 56 53 4 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 3415054 57 54 3 WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU - Angie Stone 2840055 59 55 2 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 2090056 NEW 56 1 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 1060057 NEW 57 1 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1040058 55 1 28 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 106930059 58 10 31 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 49695060 51 4 47 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 115010061 67 61 3 GRANITE MILLS - Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Russell Moore 2050062 NEW 62 1 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 740063 74 63 3 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 1740064 50 1 28 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 118160065 68 65 4 WAKE ME UP - The Weeknd featuring Justice 2460066 71 66 2 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 1260067 72 67 2 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 1220068 75 68 2 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 1140069 NEW 69 1 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 620070 79 70 2 CONFESSION - Louise 1020071 49 11 16 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 30195072 73 72 5 THE ABYSS - The Weeknd & Lana Del Ray 2440073 NEW 73 1 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 540074 76 74 2 HIGHER - Tom Speight 1000075 70 70 3 LIFELINE - Jonas Blue featuring Izzy Bizu 1660076 NEW 76 1 MANDINGO - Wu-Tang Clan & Mathematics featuring Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Method Man & Cappadonna 480077 NEW 77 1 THE GIVER - Chappell Roan 460078 78 78 2 SCORPIO - Kim Wilde 880079 NEW 79 1 FIDA KNOWN - Gloria Gaynor 420080 NEW 80 1 LOUD! - Chesney Hawkes 4000DROP OUTS 42 35 10 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 135100 46 20 9 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 143250 62 21 14 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 189150 63 53 6 GOOD NEWS - Shaboozey 48050 64 14 13 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 192500 66 54 5 LUTHER - Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA, Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn 38000 69 69 3 THE ETON RIFLES - The Jam 15600 77 70 4 VICE - Rizzle Kicks 20600 80 80 2 ALONE TOGETHER - Saint Etienne 8000
March 22Mar 22 Alex Warren for #1 😁New peak positions for The Waterboys, The Weeknd and Shaggy 😁Also good seeing new debuts for Felix Jaehn, Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan and Gloria Gaynor 😁
March 22Mar 22 Hi there John!Nice to see "Ordinary" at the top, "Control Of Me" as the runner-up, the big gain for "Revolution" and the debuts for "It's Not Right But It's Ok", "How Bad Do U Want Me" and "The Giver".Great chart!Take care.
March 23Mar 23 Hey John,Alex, Chappell, Topic and Sabrina still Top 10 💋Armin v Buuren, Mans Zelmerlow and Jazzy Top 20, Lady Gaga Top 30 and Don Diablo Top 40 👏Best new tracks bubbling under : Chappell Roan, Felix Jaehn/Whitney Houston remix❣️, Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga and disco queen Gloria Gaynor ❣️
March 23Mar 23 Hi John. Hope all is good. My brief time off was very relaxing thank you - naturally already a very distant memory 😂. My faves this week:1 1 1 6 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 651400 I have FINALLY succeeded in banning Heart FM at work! Unfortunately it's now been replaced by Hits Radio which is more of the same and they LOVE this one! Luckily I'm not fed up with it just yet. 2 6 2 8 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 3524003 3 1 12 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 8650004 2 2 9 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 4264005 5 5 5 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 2079008 9 8 7 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 1831509 18 9 7 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 13320010 11 8 12 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 29930011 31 11 3 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 6700012 25 12 4 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 8355013 10 10 7 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 18380017 8 8 10 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 22240018 15 1 11 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 50400019 21 11 9 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 20190020 14 5 7 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 32500021 17 1 18 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 142555023 28 23 7 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 10275024 27 24 7 FANCY - Artemas 13410025 20 20 7 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 10850027 30 27 7 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 102400 ❤️29 33 29 11 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 12340030 34 30 6 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 8390033 22 1 18 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 68310036 36 36 5 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 6545037 45 37 4 BUTTERFLY - Marina 4740040 53 40 3 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 3865042 40 1 18 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 127920043 52 43 6 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 5120044 60 44 2 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 2325046 37 2 15 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 56015047 41 5 11 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 28010049 65 49 3 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 2570050 44 1 25 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 111610051 43 1 17 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 84070052 54 52 5 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 4740054 57 54 3 WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU - Angie Stone 2840055 59 55 2 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 2090056 NEW 56 1 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 10600 ooh an interesting choice of cover! Playing it now - I like it!57 NEW 57 1 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1040058 55 1 28 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 106930059 58 10 31 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 496950 sadly, as predicted thanks to radio over play, this has become the next Stick Season/Beautiful Things/Lose Control. I'm very much sick to death of this now 😂60 51 4 47 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 115010062 NEW 62 1 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 740064 50 1 28 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 118160066 71 66 2 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 1260067 72 67 2 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 1220068 75 68 2 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 1140069 NEW 69 1 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 620070 79 70 2 CONFESSION - Louise 10200 ❤️❤️❤️77 NEW 77 1 THE GIVER - Chappell Roan 460078 78 78 2 SCORPIO - Kim Wilde 8800Fantastic chart as always ❤️
March 27Mar 27 Author On 22/03/2025 at 19:24, SSP said:Alex Warren for #1 😁New peak positions for The Waterboys, The Weeknd and Shaggy 😁Also good seeing new debuts for Felix Jaehn, Lady Gaga, Chappell Roan and Gloria Gaynor 😁Hi SSP! cheers for the picks! 🎊😎
March 27Mar 27 Author On 22/03/2025 at 19:50, Sergej said:Hi there John!Nice to see "Ordinary" at the top, "Control Of Me" as the runner-up, the big gain for "Revolution" and the debuts for "It's Not Right But It's Ok", "How Bad Do U Want Me" and "The Giver".Great chart!Take care.Hi Sergej! 🙂Thanks for the picks, and take care backatacha! 😎
March 27Mar 27 Author On 23/03/2025 at 11:01, Sven10 said:Hey John,Alex, Chappell, Topic and Sabrina still Top 10 💋Armin v Buuren, Mans Zelmerlow and Jazzy Top 20, Lady Gaga Top 30 and Don Diablo Top 40 👏Best new tracks bubbling under : Chappell Roan, Felix Jaehn/Whitney Houston remix❣️, Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga and disco queen Gloria Gaynor ❣️Hey Sven! 🙂Thanks as always for the picks of the climbers! 😎
March 27Mar 27 Author On 23/03/2025 at 14:22, AH Gold said:Hi John. Hope all is good. My brief time off was very relaxing thank you - naturally already a very distant memory 😂. My faves this week:1 1 1 6 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 651400 I have FINALLY succeeded in banning Heart FM at work! Unfortunately it's now been replaced by Hits Radio which is more of the same and they LOVE this one! Luckily I'm not fed up with it just yet.2 6 2 8 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 3524003 3 1 12 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 8650004 2 2 9 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 4264005 5 5 5 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 2079008 9 8 7 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 1831509 18 9 7 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 13320010 11 8 12 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 29930011 31 11 3 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 6700012 25 12 4 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 8355013 10 10 7 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 18380017 8 8 10 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 22240018 15 1 11 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 50400019 21 11 9 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 20190020 14 5 7 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 32500021 17 1 18 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 142555023 28 23 7 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 10275024 27 24 7 FANCY - Artemas 13410025 20 20 7 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 10850027 30 27 7 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 102400 ❤️29 33 29 11 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 12340030 34 30 6 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 8390033 22 1 18 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 68310036 36 36 5 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 6545037 45 37 4 BUTTERFLY - Marina 4740040 53 40 3 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 3865042 40 1 18 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 127920043 52 43 6 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 5120044 60 44 2 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 2325046 37 2 15 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 56015047 41 5 11 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 28010049 65 49 3 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 2570050 44 1 25 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 111610051 43 1 17 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 84070052 54 52 5 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 4740054 57 54 3 WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU - Angie Stone 2840055 59 55 2 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 2090056 NEW 56 1 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 10600 ooh an interesting choice of cover! Playing it now - I like it!57 NEW 57 1 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1040058 55 1 28 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 106930059 58 10 31 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 496950 sadly, as predicted thanks to radio over play, this has become the next Stick Season/Beautiful Things/Lose Control. I'm very much sick to death of this now 😂60 51 4 47 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 115010062 NEW 62 1 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 740064 50 1 28 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 118160066 71 66 2 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 1260067 72 67 2 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 1220068 75 68 2 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 1140069 NEW 69 1 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 620070 79 70 2 CONFESSION - Louise 10200 ❤️❤️❤️77 NEW 77 1 THE GIVER - Chappell Roan 460078 78 78 2 SCORPIO - Kim Wilde 8800Fantastic chart as always ❤️Hi AH! 🙂Glad you got a break, and well done on dumping Heart FM, but doh! on the replacement 😄 I'm into week 4 on top for Ordinary but I feel it's just hanging on due to lack of serious competition now. Life In A Northern Town has traditional northern roots in Mike Batt's arrangement, it's really good and Mike just responded to a Wombles-related tweet from me, I keep meaning to buy his autobiography but I dont want to give Amazon any cash if I can buy it in a bookshop 😎Die With A Smile I loved, then fairly quickly I overdosed on it, then I kept hearing it in Florida and got hols memories attached to it and I've stayed faithful ever since - if anything I think it peaked too low (at 10) in my chart but the 7 month run has more than made up for it. 🙂Thnks as ever for the fab long list of picks!! 😎
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