August 5Aug 5 Author Outside of the top 40 and these are the state of the acts:Pet Shop Boys - 5 tracks (no surprise there then!)David Guetta - 4Dua Lipa - 2Good Neighbours - 2PNAU/Empire Of The Sun - 2Purple Disco Machine - 2Place your bets who's going to come out on top after the top 40 (it's a cert, though!)
August 20Aug 20 Author 40 5 13 EDGE OF SATURDAY NIGHT - The Blessed Madonna & Kylie Minogue 426000So, 2 for Kylie and 2 for The Blessed Madonna in 2024...
August 20Aug 20 Author 39 7 18 WAITING FOR THE CATCH - Shed Seven featuring Issy Ferris 449500In which Shed 7 drop their best record since Going For Gold and Chasing Rainbows in 1996 - and it wasn't even a single.
August 20Aug 20 Author 38 5 14 DARK DAYS - Moby & Lady Blackbird 450950In which Moby drops his best new track since Extreme Ways and it wasn't even a single, but Lady Blackbird makes it a 4th year-end Top 100 listing in the 2020's.
August 20Aug 20 Author 37 4 13 BAD WOMAN - Paloma Faith 463050Paloma's 2nd 2024 top 100 track. Still got it over 15 years on.
August 20Aug 20 Author 36 2 11 SPITFIRE - WE ARE ONE 464150A rousing cowboy romp, and that's good enough for me. Nice horns. Avoid official video.
August 20Aug 20 Author 35 7 18 BABY WHEN YOU GO - Girls Aloud 48640020-odd years old, but never been in the spotlight before, so it counts for 2024. It's sweet and sad.
August 20Aug 20 Author 34 7 23 FOREVER - Loreen 488650Loreen's 4th year-ender in over a decade, 2 of 'em not even Eurovision entries, including this one...though she did sing it at Eurovision.
August 20Aug 20 Author 33 6 18 IT’S NOT A CRIME - Pet Shop Boys 493300Ever-generous, a mere bonus track off the A New Bohemia single, could easily have been on the album, and it's beats 2 of the official singles off the album, including, cough, the A side. 6th PSB track on the list.
August 20Aug 20 Author 32 4 13 LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION - Kylie Minogue 493350Kylie's 3rd on the list, all top 50. She's been doing that since the 80's. She's 57 and a marvel. Somehow an OBE doesn't seem enough....
August 20Aug 20 Author 31 4 17 HIGHER - Tom Grennan 499850Tom's had previous (collabs) do better, but just outside the top 30 is still pretty good. The chorus is the main hook.
August 21Aug 21 Author 30 10 32 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 503950only peaked at 10 but hung around for 8 months on my charts, a proper grower, love it. A great return from both acts after a lengthy chunk of time outside the year-end top 40's. Reminds me of Florida, the most-played track on radio there in October.
August 21Aug 21 Author 29 4 19 BARCELONA - Alan Walker & Ina Wroldsen 513450The best song with Barcelona in it's title to date, and I was there in September and next month again. Alan Walker has been year-ending top 100 for a decade or so, all but one not charting in the UK, but he's consistently good.
August 21Aug 21 Author 28 2 17 EVIL WOMAN - Duran Duran 545800Well this was a great idea - Duran cover ELO for Halloween, to give their Danse Macabre 2023 album a boost with extra tracks, which should have been a Halloween monster hit and wasn't. Essentially a covers album, including their own New Moon On Monday, but also new stuff like Danse Macabre, it ensures they make the year-end top 100 for 2 years in a row, Evil Woman keeping the mood of the ELO original which was a huge chart-topper for me in 1976. Best Halloween album ever, barring compilations.
August 21Aug 21 Author 27 3 13 OH NO :: HE SAID WHAT? - Nothing But Thieves 546850A debut in the top 100 for Nothing Like Thieves on this funky indie throbbing track, they sound committed to the mood and it's fab and upper register falsetto effective. Love it. Love that instrumental guitar break. The sort of exciting track that should be a hit but never is in the 2020's.
August 21Aug 21 8 minutes ago, Popchartfreak said:29 4 19 BARCELONA - Alan Walker & Ina Wroldsen 513450The best song with Barcelona in it's title to date, and I was there in September and next month again. Alan Walker has been year-ending top 100 for a decade or so, all but one not charting in the UK, but he's consistently good.Good summer song but I know a better Barcelona one from 2003!
August 21Aug 21 Author 26 2 14 RIDE - Mia Rodriguez 562850Here's another debut, and another exciting flop, a sort of yee-ha dance track with Bollywood synths and backing vocals. Great! If Chappell Roan can break through to the big time I don't see why this one can't!
August 21Aug 21 Author 25 8 23 HUMAN - Lenny Kravitz 571500Welcome back Lenny! This very 80's-sounding track is fabulous, literally his best new track since the 90's, it's frustrating when veteran acts can't get a look-in when they do a return to form, in the streaming world of today - younger folk dont search out 20th century acts and older folk have lost touch busy streaming same old same old hits.
August 21Aug 21 Author 9 minutes ago, TheSnake said:Good summer song but I know a better Barcelona one from 2003!That's one I dont know, but it's good - certainly better than Freddie & Monserrat, and George Ezra, and I quite like those ones too. Thanks for the tip!
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