New entries and new peaks outside the top 40:

#43 Tyler, The Creator & Pharrell Williams ft. Sk8brd - Big Poe (NEW)

#46 Tyler, The Creator - Sugar On My Tongue (NEW)

#49 Justin Bieber - GO BABY (NEW)

#50 Skye Newman - Out Out (NEW)

#51 Sonny Fodera & Jazzy - All This Time (NEW)

#55 Teddybears ft. Iggy Pop - Punkrocker (NEW)

#58 Tyler, The Creator - Sucka Free (NEW)

#62 WizTheMC & bees & honey - Take My Mind (+15)

#64 Marino - Devil In Disguise (NEW)

#72 Jim Legxacy & Dave - 3x (NEW)

#76 Denon Reed & Cru2 - Let Him Go (NEW)

#79 Black Sabbath - War Pigs (NEW)

#93 Black Sabbath - Iron Man (NEW)

#98 Yungblud ft. Nuno Bettencourt, Frank Bello & Adam Wakeman - Changes (NEW)

Point of interest:

#56 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (RE)

Not a fan of Alex but so glad he stopped Tyler getting the number 1 album

Well done Alex, just champion.

1 hour ago, Jo' said:

Which one ?

The Grey remix

A little disappointed that Tyler missed out on both the #1 album and any top 40 singles - I was kind of anticipating it with how sharply he dropped off on streaming but aw 'Big Poe' coming so close, most likely a rare example of a song that will actually be missing its only chance to go top 40 due to being a midweek release. Nevermind, album is a banger anyway, that's the general public's loss x (and was fun to hear the title track of the album getting the clip during the top 5 albums rundown as that is my initial favourite song from it!) Can't begrudge Alex Warren the #1 album though as much as I've found his hits to mostly be middling at best, just a shame Tyler missed out because of his proclivity for midweek album drops.

Excellent to see 'Paranoid' making the top 40 though ❤️ did hope it would be safe to do so considering it was already streaming pretty well after the farewell concert, hopefully can stick around next week too. 'Crazy Train' coming close to its original peak (maybe a chance it could still beat it next week?) and 2 more Sabbath classics making their top 100 debuts is all good stuff too, quite a week for 20th century rock with Iggy Pop also having a top 100 entry plus the lingering Oasis hits.

Beautiful Things still not on ACR yet… ARE WE NOT TIRED YET

It seems it's no longer possible to listen to the show after it airs. 😟
It didn't work for me, even when using a VPN.

On 25/07/2025 at 16:20, JosephBoone said:

32 | | 31st week

Black Sabbath

Paranoid

1st single from Paranoid

Released: 7th August 1970

Label: Warner Records

Chart Statistics

NE (29/08/1970) | 47-47-37-28-19-8-4-5-5-6-10-13-26-30-42-46-38-38-x

RE (16/08/1980) | 71-37-27-24-17-14-19-19-30-39-58-70-x

RE (31/07/2025) | 32

Sales: 1,600,000+

Certification: 2x Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

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xx Video Streaming

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Biography

It’s simple, really: no Black Sabbath, no heavy metal. The Birmingham quartet may have risen from the British blues-rock boom of the late ‘60s, but their sledgehammer riffs and bulldozer rhythms exuded an apocalyptic aura that spawned a whole new kind of devil’s music. The doomy tritone riff that opens their 1970 self-titled debut pried open the crypt leading to rock’s netherworld, summoning the inimitable voice of Ozzy Osbourne, who traded the chest-puffing, girl-crazy machismo of the typical hard-rock frontman for the dread-ridden delivery that could only come from a working-class kid raised in a no-hope industrial town. Black Sabbath’s bleak outlook was ultimately a reflection of the world around them: The blistering title track to 1970’s Paranoid provided an unflinching admission of mental illness that was virtually unheard of in rock music at the time, while the immortal “War Pigs” was a more damning indictment of the Vietnam War than anything coming out of the hippie movement. But guitarist Tony Iommi and bassist Geezer Butler packaged these dark thoughts in the sort of riffs that were so infectious, they practically qualify as pop earworms—the most tone-deaf hesher could blurt out “duhn-duhn DUH-NUH-NUH” and you’d instantly recognize it as the intro to eternal stoner anthem “Sweet Leaf.” After Ozzy’s substance-abuse issues forced his ousting in 1979, Sabbath recruited glass-shattering vocalist Ronnie James Dio for two albums (Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules) that anticipated both the fearsome velocity and theatrical flamboyance of ‘80s metal—and presaged decades of rotating members, reunion tours, and parallel line-ups. But in 2013, Ozzy teamed up with Iommi and Butler for their first album together in 35 years, 13, a chart-topping, Grammy-winning comeback that proved, for all their imitators and offshoots, there can be only one Black Sabbath to rule them all. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1970 04 Paranoid -1- MILLIONAIRE

1978 21 Never Say Die -1-

1978 33 Hard Road -2-

1980 22 Neon Knights -1-

1980 41 Die Young -2-

1981 46 Mob Rules -1-

1982 37 Turn Up The Night -2-

1989 62 Headless Cross -1-

1989 81 Devil And Daughter -2-

1990 79 Feels Good To Me -1-

1992 33 TV Crimes -1-

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 6 x Top 40 | 11 x Top 100

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Black Sabbath

I always would have like to have heard this amongst the chart music of 1970 to see how amazingly different it must have sounded!!

On 25/07/2025 at 16:21, JosephBoone said:

This is one of those songs I didn't think I knew but I recognised straight away when it started playing, testament to its impact!

Yeh, just goes to show the cultural impact when you hear a song you’ve known along time but never knew who it was!