Tim's Top 20 Songs and Top 10 Albums (w/e 27th March 2025)

Songs

1(1) Lady Gaga Abracadabra (8 weeks) (1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-)

2(3) Lady Gaga Garden Of Eden (2 weeks) (3-2-) PEAK POSITION

3(5) The Darkness I Hate Myself (3 weeks) (9-5-3-) PEAK POSITION

4(6) Remember Monday What The Hell Just Happened? (3 weeks) (15-6-4-) PEAK POSITION

5(4) Lady Gaga Vanish Into You (2 weeks) (4-5-)

6(7) Charli xcx & Ariana Grande Sympathy Is A Knife (20 weeks) (13-8-8-7-19-x-x-x-x-10-9-9-9-20-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-20-9-18-x-4-3-3-3-5-7-6-)

7(8) Charli xcx & Billie Eilish Guess (31 weeks) (10-4-2-2-2-3-6-9-x-18-7-11-11-19-x-x-x-18-10-3-2-10-10-8-4-4-3-4-3-2-2-2-3-8-7-)

8(12) Sugababes Jungle (2 weeks) (12-8-) PEAK POSITION

9(10) Cynthia Erivo & Ariana Grande Defying Gravity (14 weeks) (8-5-1-1-6-7-16-16-13-13-16-13-10-9-)

10(11) Dolly Parton If You Hadn't Been There (3 weeks) (19-11-10-) PEAK POSITION

11(19) The Darkness Walking Through Fire (2 weeks) (19-11-) PEAK POSITION

12(-) The Darkness Rock 'n' Roll Party Cowboy HIGHEST NEW ENTRY

13(9) Coldplay I Am A Mountain (4 weeks) (11-11-9-13-)

14(18) Tight Fit Own The Universe (4 weeks) (12-17-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-18-14-)

15(20) Charli xcx & Julian Casablancas Mean Girls (16 weeks) (12-7-13-x-x-x-x-x-18-13-14-17-14-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-15-8-6-6-6-10-20-15-)

16(RE) Rosé and Bruno Mars APT. (4 weeks) (15-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-19-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-14-x-16-)

17(RE) Coldplay All My Love (5 weeks) (12-7-9-7-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-17-)

18(2) Marina Butterfly (5 weeks) (9-4-2-2-18-)

19(13) Alok & Kylie Last Night I Dreamt I Fell In Love (4 weeks) (14-6-13-19-)

20(15) Andy Bell Don't Cha Know (2 weeks) (15-20-)

OUT

Louise Confession (2 weeks) (18-14-OUT)

Sophie Ellis-Bextor Freedom Of The Night (7 weeks) (16-18-15-17-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-13-8-16-OUT)

Ariana Grande Popular (2 weeks) (20-x-x-x-x-17)

Albums

1(RE) Cher Forever (4 weeks) (8-8-7-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-1-) PEAK POSITION

2(1) Lady Gaga MAYHEM (3 weeks) (1-1-2-)

3(2) Charli xcx brat (42 weeks) (3-1-1-1-2-4-4-3-3-2-1-1-1-1-1-3-9-9-1-1-1-1-3-3-3-4-4-5-4-5-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-2-3-)

4(3) Tight Fit Forever (3 weeks) (4-3-4-)

5(4) Franz Ferdinand The Human Fear (11 weeks) (7-2-2-2-2-2-3-3-5-4-5-)

6(5) Wicked OST (12 weeks) (7-5-4-4-3-3-4-4-5-7-5-6-)

7(6) Coldplay Moon Music (25 weeks) (2-3-5-4-8-7-6-8-7-8-8-10-10-9-8-8-8-8-8-5-5-4-6-6-7-)

8(7) Divorce Drive To Goldenhammer (3 weeks) (10-7-8-)

9(8) JENNIE Ruby (3 weeks) (9-8-9-)

10(9) Olly Alexander Polari (7 weeks) (4-3-2-2-8-9-10-)

OUT

Rosé Rosie (14 weeks) (7-4-1-1-6-9-10-9-9-9-9-7-7-x-10-OUT)

So, Abracadabra remains the biggest song, with an 8th week at the summit, making it the longest chart-topper since "yes, and" this time last year, and keeping the tally of #1s in 2025 to a modest 4 (The Corrs' Breathless (2024 mixes) (1 week), Cynthia & Ariana's Defying Gravity (2 weeks) and Franz Ferdinand's Night and Day (2 weeks) being the other 3 so far.

On the albums front, while MAYHEM remains the most streamed album for the tracking period, new chart rules allow albums bought during the previous 7 days to automatically receive a week on top regardless of stream counts (and ties due to multiple album purchases during the week are broken by streams). This is to mitigate lost recorded streams where tracks have been played from the purchased source, and to acknowledge the album meant enough for me to want to buy in the first place, particularly when I may have streamed pre-album release singles to the point I don't play them so much after the album's release meaning they can't count towards the album streams if the album wasn't out at the time of the individual song plays, if that makes sense. As a result of this rule change, and Amazon's lovely Spring deals, Cher's Forever singles compilation, re-enters and jumps to the top of the chart. Expect some toasted dreams to replace her this time next week following the purchase of 13(!) iterations of the new Darkness album, released today!