50 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Is Florence + The Machine a solo project now or is Jack just referring to the band as "her"?

It’s a solo project now based on press releases, and the Spotify bio says it’s the “stage name of Florence Welch”.

'Bohemian Rhapsody' #72

New peaks and new entries outside the top 40:

#50 MK & Clementine Douglas - Come Find Me (+10)

#51 ROSALÍA ft. Björk & Yves Tumor - Berghain (NEW)

#56 Haven - I Run (NEW)

#58 David Guetta, Teddy Swims & Tones And I - Gone Gone Gone (+1)

#62 Florence + The Machine - Sympathy Magic (NEW)

#64 Mumford & Sons & Hozier - Rubber Band Man (+6)

#91 Yeat - Come N Go (NEW)

Other points of interest:

#82 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (RE)

#96 Wham! - Last Christmas (RE)

20 minutes ago, danG said:

6-7

it’s a fairly meaningless record anyway

more interesting would be number of years in between two runs in the top 10 which I believe must be held by the GRANDMOTHER OF CHRISTMAS herself Brenda Lee

55 years to the week between that track's second of two original weeks in the top 10 in the Xmas/NY week of 1962/3 and its return to the Top 10 in the same week in 2017/8. Hard to imagine that anything else could have beaten that.

Edited Friday at 17:585 days by DanChartFan

53 minutes ago, JosephBoone said:

ALBUMS

01 Florence + the Machine - Everybody Scream

02 Lily Allen - West End Girl

03 Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl

04 Olivia Dean - The Art of Loving

05 Cat Burns - How to Be Human

Four British females in the top five (if indeed we count Florence as solo), wow! Also all of the top three being women that have been active since the 00s is great to see, because female longevity hasn't always been easy to achieve sadly, especially for British women.

Loving Lily's rise to No.2, very unusual indeed for a top five debuting album to climb in its second week in this day and age, but then I suppose if it's a digital only release still gaining momentum then it figures. We might see more of it in the future.

'Blinding Lights' back at #90, that's the 77th different Top 100 position for it, and the two Christmas songs tick off new positions too.

21 minutes ago, DanielCarey said:

New peaks and new entries outside the top 40:

#56 Haven - I Run (NEW)

Wow! It looks like this is going to be top 10 next Friday thanks to TikTok. :o

Edited Friday at 18:145 days by Jason

Lily Allen officially more popular than Taylor Swift!

Damn. If the chart was based off of pure sales alone, "Bohemian Rhapsody" would've been #1 this week.

I just heard Kylie's xmas track pretty catchy, could be an early contender for #1 ha ha

4 hours ago, Sour Candy said:

Lily Allen officially more popular than Taylor Swift!

And gaga too who of thought it when she released Sheezus 🤭

22 hours ago, gasman449 said:

My brain is so rotted I thought instead of "sex addict" she was saying "6-7" please send help

Never unhearing this

On 07/11/2025 at 17:00, 777666jason said:

Yeah only reason. I can think off to omit them and as @gasman449 said not wanting to play a week later

I really don’t see the issue with playing them as they are mostly the type of songs that can be played at any time.

4 minutes ago, Steve201 said:

I really don’t see the issue with playing them as they are mostly the type of songs that can be played at any time.

If it was me id of played them but hey ho Radio 1 logic we will never know, but I bet a lot of the christmas songs get their multiple chart week plays 😅

On 07/11/2025 at 17:10, jimwatts said:

New peak for 'Thriller' on its 62nd chart week, 42 years after it debuted!

I’d imagine ‘Thriller’ is one of them songs (like much of the classic album it’s from) that most people who don’t follow the charts believe was a number one record.