10th August 2025

It's Miley Cyrus rising to the top for a 5th time, this one being stomping album track Walk Of Fame, which really should be a huge hit, poor Miley is being unfairly under-rated with this album. Brittany Howard grabs her first chart hit, the former singer of Alabama Shakes going solo since the band split in 2018. Armin van Buuren meanwhile is on his third top 10 of the year, with Seafret getting a first, and KT Tunstall her first in 20 years or so. The late Avicii has already had a posthumous number one, Let's Ride Away adding to his total of top 10's and emotional dance bangers with the help of Elle King, who has already had solo top 10's and previous collabs.

Doechii finally gets a late entry with Anxiety, her Gotye sampling hit, after I heard it a few times on holiday in the Canaries last week. I always liked it but never got round to buying it till now, entering at 71 with runner-up entering being Rita Ora's new dance tune Joy at 80 for 13 years of charting. Louise is showing no sign of letting up on her run of new chart entries, as new goodie Only Dancer is her 3rd of 2025. Her 32 years of charting makes Rita look like a young upstart. Veteran Cascada make it two in 2025, in a collab with YouNotUs on Beautiful Odyssey. Meanwhile Michael Buble doesn't usually trouble my charts much, but Higher sounded good on Radio 2 the other day, it's off his 2022 album, and Bryan Adams sneaks a 4th track of the year into the bottom end - A Little More Understanding has some nice guitar riffs, and it's over 40 years since Run To You debuted. Contrary to popular opinion, I still think that's his best record in a long career.

1    2    1    4    WALK OF FAME    -    Miley Cyrus featuring Brittany Howard    362200

2    1    1    9    TOKYO RAIN    -    Loaded Honey    808000

3    4    3    11    ZOMBIE LADY    -    Damiano David featuring Dove Cameron    359900

4    5    3    5    HARD TO BE HAPPY    -    Rob Thomas    239400

5    3    1    9    OVER    -    Loaded Honey    655750

6    6    1    13    DON’T SPEAK    -    Loaded Honey    748900

7    7    7    3    RAG DOLL    -    The Four Seasons    150000

8    15    8    7    LET IT BE FOR LOVE    -    Armin van Buuren featuring JAI RYU    115600

9    20    9    4    FIVE MORE SECONDS    -    Seafret featuring KT Tunstall    86250

10    18    10    11    LET’S RIDE AWAY    -    Avicii featuring Elle King    178250

11    17    11    5    BROKEN GAME    -    Finn Forster    111700

12    8    5    12    GLAD    -    Saint Etienne    416100

13    16    13    4    JUPITER    -    almost monday featuring Jordana    92800

14    10    1    13    RUN WITH U    -    Mamagama    951000

15    14    1    22    SUNSET BLVD    -    Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco    1255900

16    9    9    13    I SAW THE MOUNTAINS    -    Noah Cyrus    274150

17    19    17    3    DAWN (GO AWAY)    -    The Four Seasons    61400

18    32    18    3    C’MON MARIANNE    -    The Four Seasons    57000

19    23    19    8    GOLD    -    Myles Smith    117250

20    46    20    3    12 TO 12    -    sombr    35150

21    28    21    5    NO TIME TO TALK    -    The Jonas Brothers    73950

22    26    22    4    POISON VINE    -    Cast featuring P.P. Arnold    61000

23    11    7    9    WOULDN’T IT BE NICE    -    The Beach Boys    272200

24    12    1    9    GOD ONLY KNOWS    -    The Beach Boys    870000

25    21    20    9    MANCHILD    -    Sabrina Carpenter    129600

26    13    7    18    FEEL IT    -    d4vd    488850

27    39    27    9    BLOODLINE    -    Alex Warren featuring Jelly Roll    112600

28    38    28    8    SWEETNESS    -    Elliot James Reay    88600

29    24    16    9    CALIFORNIA GIRLS    -    The Beach Boys    173350

30    25    2    19    END OF THE WORLD    -    Miley Cyrus    711450

31    27    2    13    BROKENHEARTED    -    Gabry Ponte & Train    902300

32    31    2    17    MYSTICAL MAGICAL    -    Benson Boone    748700

33    36    33    9    RUNNING UP A TAB AT THE HOTEL FOR THE FAB    -    Sparks    99350

34    22    4    12    BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES    -    Agnes    435400

35    47    35    4    HAIRCUT    -    Reverend And The Makers featuring Vicky McClure    40000

36    50    36    7    ON MY MIND    -    Alex Warren & ROSE    56100

37    35    1    20    SHINE    -    Mondo Cozmo    1186350

38    33    9    9    DAYDREAMING    -    Elliot James Reay    260000

39    49    39    8    SAPPHIRE    -    Ed Sheeran    59600

40    53    40    4    SHOOK    -    Sugababes    38750

41    41    41    4    BETTE DAVIS EYES    -    Kim Carnes    44600

42    37    5    9    GOOD VIBRATIONS    -    The Beach Boys    228050

43    30    30    13    SPORTS CAR    -    Tate McRae    132550

44    42    42    5    DON’T PUT IT ALL ON ME    -    Noah Cyrus featuring Fleet Foxes    50300

45    54    45    5    I’LL BE BACK    -    The BossHoss featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger    38400

46    60    46    4    NEVER LET YOU GO    -    Council    30950

47    67    47    2    REALLY LOVE    -    Loaded Honey    19100

48    34    18    9    RUNAWAY TRAIN    -    Sam Feldt featuring RuthAnne    147650

49    40    3    20    RAGDOLL    -    The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger    487300

50    43    9    13    TIME WAITED    -    My Morning Jacket    343000

51    51    1    17    I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME    -    Artemas    798900

52    80    52    2    SPIES    -    Robbie Williams    15500

53    61    53    4    STARLIGHT (THE FAME)    -    The Supermen Lovers & OneRepublic    29550

54    29    16    8    ROCK THAT BODY    -    The Black Eyed Peas     122000

55    73    55    4    IN IT WITH YOU    -    Craig David featuring JoJo    23800

56    71    56    2    LESSONS    -    Loaded Honey    16400

57    66    57    7    HEY HI HELLO    -    Alison Goldfrapp    33400

58    44    22    12    CHEMICAL REACTION    -    Debbii Dawson    181250

59    56    54    7    UNFORGETTABLE    -    Alok, Daecolm & Malou    64900

60    55    53    9    CHARGIE    -    Alesha Dixon featuring Tom Moutchie    78700

61    62    61    7    BLESSINGS    -    Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas    32700

62    48    12    13    VOYAGE    -    Zoe Me    261050

63    45    19    12    LOVER    -    Richard Ashcroft featuring Joan Armatrading    168150

64    68    64    5    PRETTY LITTLE BABY    -    Connie Francis    26500

65    52    11    16    HEART BY HEART    -    Joe Jonas    346700

66    59    1    39    LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL    -    Reverend And The Makers    1747400

67    81    67    2    THE FEELING NEVER WENT AWAY    -    Sam Ryder    10400

68    65    6    22    SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN    -    Avalan Rokston    464650

69    69    69    3    PARANOID    -    Black Sabbath    17200

70    70    16    16    NEXT SUMMER    -    Damiano David    227800

71    NEW    71    1    ANXIETY        Doechii    5800

72    72    72    3    CHEERS TO ME    -    Self Esteem    14800

73    78    73    2    ELECTRIC FLOWER    -    Miles Kane    9800

74    84    74    2    CISCO BAY    -    Loaded Honey    8400

75    85    75    2    THE SUBWAY    -    Chappell Roan    8000

76    76    76    5    MILK    -    Agnes    19200

77    77    77    3    SAVE ME    -    Olly Murs    13200

78    58    1    22    HOW BAD DO U WANT ME    -    Lady Gaga    788950

79    79    79    4    WHEN THE RIVER IS CALLING    -    Stonekeepers featuring Revel Day    13800

80    NEW    80    1    JOY        Rita Ora    4000

81    86    81    5    DEVOTION    -    Hot Chip    13600

82    57    24    9    EASY LOVER    -    Miley Cyrus    132400

83    NEW    83    1    ONLY DANCER        Louise    3400

84    NEW    84    1    BEAUTIFUL ODYSSEY        YouNotUs x Cascada    3200

85    88    85    2    DON’T LOOK DOWN    -    Gary Barlow featuring Becky Hill    5400

86    NEW    86    1    HIGHER        Michael Buble    2800

87    87    87    2    LONELY AVENUE    -    Jon Batiste featuring Randy Newman    5200

88    89    88    3    GONE GONE GONE (ORIGINAL DEMO)    -    Madonna    6800

89    NEW    89    1    A LITTLE MORE UNDERSTANDING        Bryan Adams    2200

90    90    90    3    SHOUT OUT    -    Kenny Thomas featuring Kim Wilde    6000

DROP OUTS

    63    22    14    ANGELA    -    Benjamin Ingrosso    232250

    64    16    16    MARRIAGE    -    Nelly Furtado    260250

    74    71    6    JUNE    -    24Goldn    24000

    75    1    31    THE PROUD ONE    -    The Osmonds    1321200

    82    55    11    ROCKET    -    Robbie Williams featuring Tony Iommi    93400

    83    65    7    SUZANNE    -    Mark Ronson & RAYE    34600

Wow, John! 😎 Some big movers and fresh entries this week. “Zombie Lady” holding strong at #3 is insane, and Avicii’s “Let’s Ride Away” is climbing nicely too. I love seeing “12 To 12” by sombr breaking into the top 20—such a vibe! New entries like Doechii’s “Anxiety” and Rita Ora’s “Joy” are exciting; curious to see how they perform in the coming weeks. Also, Alex Warren is everywhere with “Bloodline” and “On My Mind”—he’s really dominating right now. Great chart as always, can’t wait to see next week! 🔥

Hey John!

What a great climb for 12 to 12. Amazing track honestly.

Manchild unfortunately falling. I'm loving it so much despite it's run on my chart.

Better Davis eyes is of course a classic. I love it.

Sports car is brilliant. I regret not charting it now at all. She really took off this era for sure.

I'm not a fan of joy at all. If anything it's a massive step down from what for me and potentially one of her worst tracks ever.

Beautiful Odyssey is of course a banger. Absolutely smashing and really nostalgic feeling to it.

Fab stuff! 😄

Hey John,

Hope Blessings can climb more!!

Chappelle climbing a lot!! 😌

Hey John,

Miley/Brittany at the top 😃

"Tokyo Rain" unfortunately dropping and "Don´t Speak" a non mover. Maybe Loaded Honey can climb again 🙏

Armin and Avicii Top 10, Sombr Top 20, Elliot James Reay ❣️ Top 30, Ed Sheeran and The Sugababes Top 40

Best new entries bubbling under: Louise (Redknapp) and Rita Ora 👍

Miley Cyrus for # 1 😁

Also good seeing new peak positions for Damiano David, Rob Thomas, Armin Van Buuren, Seafret, Myles Smith, Sombr, Jonas Brothers, Alex Warren, Ed Sheeran, Sugababes, The BossHoss, Robbie Williams, The Supermen Lovers, Craig David, Goldfrapp, Calvin Harris, Chappell Roan and Gary Barlow 😁

New debuts for Doechii, Rita Ora, Michael Buble and Bryan Adams 😁

On 20/08/2025 at 18:42, Sergej said:

Wow, John! 😎 Some big movers and fresh entries this week. “Zombie Lady” holding strong at #3 is insane, and Avicii’s “Let’s Ride Away” is climbing nicely too. I love seeing “12 To 12” by sombr breaking into the top 20—such a vibe! New entries like Doechii’s “Anxiety” and Rita Ora’s “Joy” are exciting; curious to see how they perform in the coming weeks. Also, Alex Warren is everywhere with “Bloodline” and “On My Mind”—he’s really dominating right now. Great chart as always, can’t wait to see next week! 🔥

Hi Sergej! 🙂

Thanks for the picks and comments! It's always good when fresh songs edge out faves hanging around 😎Keeps things interesting! Alex Warren is certainly having a major year this year globally pretty much, and he seems to be able to vary his hits a bit in sound which I like to see!

cheers! 😎

On 21/08/2025 at 08:17, JSG said:

Hey John!

What a great climb for 12 to 12. Amazing track honestly.

Manchild unfortunately falling. I'm loving it so much despite it's run on my chart.

Better Davis eyes is of course a classic. I love it.

Sports car is brilliant. I regret not charting it now at all. She really took off this era for sure.

I'm not a fan of joy at all. If anything it's a massive step down from what for me and potentially one of her worst tracks ever.

Beautiful Odyssey is of course a banger. Absolutely smashing and really nostalgic feeling to it.

Fab stuff! 😄

Hey James! 🙂

Yes sombr is a great track, exciting, and Manchild is still classy, it deserved better than 20 as a peak but there's just a lot of stuff I love right now, but it's not going anywhere just yet. Ooh glad you love Bette Davis Eyes, and its not too late for Sports Car, I was about 3 months late, and Michael Buble is about 4 years old. Better late than never! 😄Joy, now I'm playing it more, is a bit schizophrenic, it has quite a low-key unmemorable verse and a major upbeat chorus. It's like it needs a facelift to properly connect, or a dance remix of the chorus with an instrumental section, or drop/bridge. Yes Beautiful Odyssey is a choon! Thanks for the recommendation 🙂

Cheers! 😎

On 23/08/2025 at 02:39, seltinpixmile said:

Hey John,

Hope Blessings can climb more!!

Chappelle climbing a lot!! 😌

Hey Seltin! 🙂

Thanks for the picks, though oops Blessings falling but plus side Chappell is rocketing up this week 😄

cheers! 😎

On 24/08/2025 at 11:03, Sven10 said:

Hey John,

Miley/Brittany at the top 😃

"Tokyo Rain" unfortunately dropping and "Don´t Speak" a non mover. Maybe Loaded Honey can climb again 🙏

Armin and Avicii Top 10, Sombr Top 20, Elliot James Reay ❣️ Top 30, Ed Sheeran and The Sugababes Top 40

Best new entries bubbling under: Louise (Redknapp) and Rita Ora 👍

Hey Sven! 🙂

Funny you should mention Loaded Honey climbing again...😄 4 tracks are this week! 😯

Thanks for the picks and comments!

cheers! 😎

15 hours ago, SSP said:

Miley Cyrus for # 1 😁

Also good seeing new peak positions for Damiano David, Rob Thomas, Armin Van Buuren, Seafret, Myles Smith, Sombr, Jonas Brothers, Alex Warren, Ed Sheeran, Sugababes, The BossHoss, Robbie Williams, The Supermen Lovers, Craig David, Goldfrapp, Calvin Harris, Chappell Roan and Gary Barlow 😁

New debuts for Doechii, Rita Ora, Michael Buble and Bryan Adams 😁

Hi SSP! 🙂

Thanks for the long list of picks! 🤩

cheers! 😎