Dior is one of my faves this year. Incredibly catchy

39

Ed Sheeran

Azizam

1st single from Play

Released: 4th April 2025

Label: Gingerbread Man Records / Atlantic Records UK

End of Year Chart Run

NE (2025) | 39

Chart Statistics

NE (17/04/2025) | 3-3-3-4-5-6-6-8-8-10-11-13-17-15-41-48-54-52-43-52-58-69-67-x

Sales: 600,000+

Certification: Platinum

01 Sales

05 Audio Streaming

07 Video Streaming

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Biography

In a scene from Apple Music’s Songwriter documentary about Ed Sheeran, the singer-songwriter straggles out into a garden in Malibu at dawn. Jet-lagged and carrying a cup of tea, he sits down at his laptop and begins writing a song about the moment right in front of him: the crisp air, the birdsong, the hot tea, the day ahead. Sheeran gets a full verse in, melody and all, and then pauses. “Songs are weird things,” he says. “How so?” an interviewer asks. “They just come and go,” Sheeran says, smiling. “And they never give you any warning.” For Sheeran, songs have come rather reliably since he started writing in his youth. Born in 1991 in Halifax, he started out gigging on the pub circuit before releasing his first studio album, +, in 2011. Sheeran kept up the mathematical theme on subsequent album titles as he became one of the most unstoppable singer-songwriters in music, forging a light, polished blend of folk, pop and hip-hop that feels bittersweet and redemptive, intimate yet universal. Whether on his own songs (“Sing”, “The A Team”, “Shape of You”, “Perfect”) or in collaboration with artists such as Taylor Swift, Chance the Rapper and Beyoncé, Sheeran strikes a chord that feels good-natured and genuine: he’s the hopeless romantic who isn’t afraid to be vulnerable and show you his heart. Perhaps even more important, Sheeran isn’t afraid to take chances. His 2021 smash “Bad Habits” dabbled in modern dance-pop, while in 2023, he performed an Apple Music Live session in London and released two albums: −, a vulnerable album about grief and depression; and Autumn Variations, featuring collaborations with Aaron Dessner of The National. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2011 03 The A Team -1- MILLION SELLER

2011 35 Hush Little Baby (Wretch 32 feat. Ed Sheeran)

2011 04 You Need Me, I Don't Need You -2- MILLIONAIRE

2011 09 Drunk -4- MILLIONAIRE

2011 05 Lego House -3- MILLIONAIRE

2011 81 Gold Rush -AT-

2011 84 Autumn Leaves -AT-

2012 25 Small Bump -5-

2012 34 Wish You Were Here (Ed Sheeran, Richard Jones, Nick Mason, Mike Rutherford & David Arnold) -AT-

2012 07 (All Along The) Watchtower (Devlin feat. Ed Sheeran)

2012 18 Give Me Love -6-

2012 07 Everything Has Changed (Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran)

2013 13 I See Fire -OST- MILLIONAIRE

2014 18 One -IG-

2014 01 Sing -1- MILLIONAIRE

2014 08 Don't -2- MILLIONAIRE

2014 01 Thinking Out Loud -3- MILLION SELLER

2014 15 Photograph -5- MILLIONAIRE

2014 59 Afire Love -IG-

2014 49 I'm A Mess -AT-

2014 02 Bloodstream (Ed Sheeran & Rudimental) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2014 82 The Man -IG-

2014 62 Tenerife Sea -AT-

2014 46 All Of The Stars -OST-

2014 57 Nina -AT-

2014 71 Runaway -AT-

2014 85 Take It Back -AT-

2014 38 Make It Rain -OST-

2015 69 I Will Take You Home -B-SIDE-

2015 88 Dreams (Krept & Konan feat. Ed Sheeran)

2015 92 Dark Times (The Weeknd feat. Ed Sheeran)

2015 12 Lay It All On Me (Rudimental feat. Ed Sheeran)

2017 01 Shape Of You -1/2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 02 Castle On The Hill -1/2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 02 How Would You Feel (Paean) -IG-

2017 02 Galway Girl -3- MILLIONAIRE

2017 01 Perfect -4- MILLIONAIRE

2017 05 New Man -AT-

2017 06 Happier -5- MILLIONAIRE

2017 08 Dive -AT- MILLIONAIRE

2017 08 Supermarket Flowers -AT- MILLIONAIRE

2017 09 What Do I Know? -AT-

2017 12 Barcelona -AT-

2017 13 Nancy Mulligan -AT-

2017 14 Eraser -AT-

2017 15 Hearts Don't Break Around Here -AT-

2017 18 Bibia Be Ye Ye -AT-

2017 19 Save Myself -AT-

2017 52 Boa Me (Fuse ODG feat. Ed Sheeran & Mugeez)

2017 49 End Game (Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran & Future)

2017 01 River (Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran) MILLIONAIRE

2019 01 I Don't Care (Ed Sheeran & Justin Bieber) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 04 Cross Me (feat. Chance the Rapper & PnB Rock) -2-

2019 01 Beautiful People (feat. Khalid) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2019 01 Take Me Back To London (feat. Stormzy) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2019 04 South Of The Border (feat. Camila Cabello & Cardi B) -5- MILLIONAIRE

2019 01 Own It (Stormzy feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy) MILLIONAIRE

2020 12 Those Kinda Nights (Eminem feat. Ed Sheeran)

2020 02 Afterglow -NAS-

2021 01 Bad Habits -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 05 Visiting Hours -IG-

2021 01 Shivers -2- MILLIONAIRE

2021 04 Overpass Graffiti -3-

2021 02 Peru (Fireboy DML & Ed Sheeran) MILLIONAIRE

2021 01 Merry Christmas (Ed Sheeran & Elton John) -4-

2021 01 Sausage Rolls For Everyone (LadBaby feat. Ed Sheeran & Elton John)

2022 02 The Joker And The Queen (feat. Taylor Swift) -5-

2022 07 Bam Bam (Camila Cabello feat. Ed Sheeran)

2022 96 Sigue (J Balvin & Ed Sheeran)

2022 09 2step (feat. Lil Baby) -6-

2022 18 For My Hand (Burna Boy feat. Ed Sheeran)

2022 47 Are You Entertained (Russ & Ed Sheeran)

2022 06 My G (Aitch & Ed Sheeran)

2022 06 Celestial -OST-

2023 50 F64 -NAS-

2023 85 Who We Love (Sam Smith & Ed Sheeran)

2023 01 Eyes Closed -1-

2023 15 Boat -IG-

2023 16 Curtains -AT-

2023 29 Life Goes On -AT-

2023 27 American Town -1-

2023 49 Magical -AT-

2023 84 England -AT-

2024 55 Under The Tree -OST-

2025 03 Azizam -1-

2025 17 Old Phone -2-

2025 05 Sapphire -3-

2025 49 Drive -OST-

2025 18 A Little More -IG-

2025 16 Camera -4-

2025 75 Symmetry (feat. Karan Aujla) -AT-

14 x #1 | 31 x Top 5 | 43 x Top 10 | 61 x Top 20 | 67 x Top 40 | 91 x Top 100

Social Media

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2 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

Dior is alright I guess

Hopefully we'll have Chanel in the new year.

Azizam is still a bop 🙌

Ooh Azizam is a bit lower than I thought. So glad radio airplay isn't in the chart, this would've spent all spring at number 1

Azizam was a great comeback from Ed! A really fresh sounding song.

i fw azizam

Is this week’s top ten being announced during the show?

Im not Azizam fan but at least is not his atrocius Old Phone. 😅

The format of bop, followed by Magic FM ballad didn't really work in this era for him. Shame. Azizam is great.

38

Sam Fender and Olivia Dean

Rein Me In

4th single from People Watching

Released: 21st February 2025 / 20th June 2025

Label: Polydor Records

End of Year Chart Run

NE (2025) | 38

Chart Statistics

NE (03/07/2025) | 86-6-12-10-12-15-17-15-13-11-10-11-12-10-12-13-15-13-10-14-12-8-7-5-7-9-14-...

Sales: 600,000+

Certification: Platinum

01 Sales

09 Audio Streaming

57 Video Streaming

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Biography

Sam Fender crafts the kind of tenacious anthemic rock that punches straight at the gut. Born and raised in 1994 in the northeastern English town of North Shields, the singer/songwriter first picked up a guitar at age 10 and began playing gigs locally as a teen to help support him and his mother. But it wasn’t until he started writing music for himself—rather than what he thought others wanted to hear—that everything started to click. That’s when he wrote his 2017 debut single, “Play God”, a propulsive, politically charged slice of indie rock. It came from a place of deep desperation, “a time where I was like, ‘I need to prove myself. I need to do something that cuts through,’” he told Apple Music. The track earned him a slot on BBC’s Sound of 2018 shortlist, which led to a deal with Polydor Records and the release of his acclaimed 2019 debut, Hypersonic Missiles, an album that channels modern-day anxiety through heartfelt heartland rock. His 2021 follow-up, Seventeen Going Under, hit even harder, pumped full of soaring arrangements and bold statements that continue to prove Fender’s power as a mighty millennial voice for the working class. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

Sam Fender

2019 89 Play God -1-

2019 48 Hypersonic Missiles -2- MILLIONAIRE

2019 43 Will We Talk? -3- MILLIONAIRE

2019 59 The Borders -IG-

2021 03 Seventeen Going Under -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 48 Get You Down -2-

2021 41 Spit Of You -3-

2022 47 Getting Started -4-

2022 61 Alright -PS-

2022 71 Wild Grey Ocean -5-

2024 05 Homesick (Noah Kahan & Sam Fender)

2024 04 People Watching -1-

2025 14 Arm's Length -2-

2025 94 Wild Long Lie -IG-

2025 48 Remember My Name -IG-

2025 24 Little Bit Closer -3-

2025 78 Tyrants -PS-

2025 05 Rein Me In (Sam Fender & Olivia Dean) -4-

2025 20 Talk To You (Sam Fender & Elton John) -5-

0 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 6 x Top 20 | 7 x Top 40 | 19 x Top 100

Olivia Dean

2021 19 The Christmas Song -NAS-

2025 36 It Isn't Perfect But It Might Be -OST-

2025 17 Dive -1-

2025 04 Nice To Each Other -1-

2025 05 Rein Me In (Sam Fender & Olivia Dean)

2025 38 Lady Lady -IG-

2025 01 Man I Need -2- MILLIONAIRE

2025 03 So Easy (To Fall In Love) -3-

2025 13 A Couple Minutes -AT-

2025 21 Let Alone The One You Love -AT-

1 x #1 | 4 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 10 x Top 40 | 10 x Top 100

Social Media

Sam Fender

Olivia Dean

The worst song of the year! I'm off to prepare my dinner.

Sam Fender higher than Ed Sheeran on the chart of the year, taste wins out. Shame this is now on its way to being one of his biggest hits though, he has so much better

2 minutes ago, gasman449 said:

Ooh Azizam is a bit lower than I thought. So glad radio airplay isn't in the chart, this would've spent all spring at number 1

Ooh so could be capital EOY number 1 then 🤣

I like everything Sam puts out. If that makes me a boring nelly so be it

This sam fender track is only bearable because of Olivia tbf

Rein Me In is so unremarkable ugh

2 minutes ago, 777666jason said:

This sam fender track is only UNbearable because of Olivia tbf

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01 Michael Bublé - Christmas

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05 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

37

Fleetwood Mac

Dreams

3rd single from Rumours

Released: June 1977

Label: Warner Bros.

End of Year Chart Run

NE (2021) | 54-74-57-48-37

Chart Statistics

NE (09/07/1977) | [46-28-25-30-27-24-26-25-32-x

RE (28/05/2011) | 86-98-x

RE (08/10/2020) | 85-55-37-35-40-53-57-64-84-x

RE (14/01/2021) | 64-75-79-81-74-80-86-85-90-90-92-x

RE (08/04/2021) | 91-74-x

RE (29/04/2021) | 95-82-89-88-97-x

RE (10/06/2021) | 75-87-98-x

RE (22/07/2021) | 99-96-x

RE (02/09/2021) | 100-97-98-x

RE (04/11/2021) | 99-x

RE (13/01/2022) | 94-x

RE (28/04/2022) | 94-x

RE (30/03/2023) | 99-x

RE (13/04/2023) | 93-83-84-x

RE (11/05/2023) | 92-x

RE (17/08/2023) | 90-81-76-67-81-74-84-91-77-72-70-56-61-71-85-x

RE (11/01/2024) | 100-89-100-x

RE (21/03/2024) | 99-92-91-82-x

RE (09/05/2024) | 97-93-x

RE (30/05/2024) | 93-91-86-92-x

RE (25/07/2024) | 98-94-96-93-93-88-91-x

RE (19/09/2024) | 93-90-95-89-89-81-86-87-75-79-94-x]

RE (09/01/2025) | 82-83-84-79-78-88-85-88-80-83-80-81-77-75-72-80-70-76-70-74-78-76-63-53-72-78-81-58-51-53-52-50-41-47-52-52-65-69-66-62-52-49-49-58-65-62-70-97-x

Sales: 3,900,000+

Certification: 6x Platinum

14 Sales

24 Audio Streaming

52 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

Tension can be a great motivator for a band, and no group has put that maxim to the test quite like Fleetwood Mac, a ’60s British blues-rock outfit that—through a series of lineup changes, stylistic shifts and rocky internal romances—became the paragons of ‘70s Californian pop. Since the band’s formation in London in 1967, drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie have served as both the rhythmic and spiritual anchors for a group that has hosted a revolving-door procession of outsized personalities, starting with Peter Green, the budding guitar god responsible for early hits like “Black Magic Woman” (famously covered by Santana) and the tranquil instrumental “Albatross” (which The Beatles admittedly aped on their Abbey Road track “Sun King”). After Green quit in 1970, the band cycled through different frontmen—Danny Kirwan and Bob Welch among them—while their keyboardist, McVie’s wife Christine, emerged as a female vocal foil. After a relocation to L.A., they welcomed singer/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham and his musical/romantic partner Stevie Nicks into the fold, heralding Fleetwood Mac’s transition into soft-rock hitmakers on their 1975 self-titled effort. But Nicks’ star turns on “Rhiannon” and “Landslide” revealed a darker mystique at the core of their easygoing sound and, as sudden success caused the long-term relationships within the band to disintegrate, their next release effectively invented a new genre: rock album as couples therapy. On 1977’s Rumours, Fleetwood Mac dressed up the bitterest break-up songs in the smoothest, sultriest arrangements to the tune of over 40 million copies sold; the album’s appeal is so universal that it’s been both cited by Courtney Love as an influence and used to soundtrack Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign. But the band were eager to play against pop-star type—1979’s double-album colossus Tusk betrayed Buckingham’s affinity for post-punk, and though it was deemed a commercial disappointment at the time, it has since been embraced as a cult classic by discerning indie rockers. And even as more streamlined ‘80s efforts like Mirage and Tango in the Night reasserted their pop panache, Fleetwood Mac have remained a cauldron of drama and intra-band acrimony, the principal members seemingly coming and going without warning. In the wake of Buckingham’s departure in 2018, the group enlisted Crowded House singer Neil Finn and Tom Petty sideman Mike Campbell. Christine McVie, who wrote some of the band’s biggest songs, including “Don’t Stop”, “You Make Lovin' Fun” and “Over My Head”, died in November 2022 at the age of 79. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1968 37 Black Magic Woman -NAS-

1968 31 Need Your Love So Bad -NAS-

1968 01 Albatross -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

1969 02 Man Of The World -NAS-

1969 02 Oh Well -NAS-

1970 10 The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) -NAS-

1973 02 Albatross / Need Your Love So Bad -NAS-

1976 40 Say You Love Me -2^-

1977 38 Go Your Own Way -1- MILLIONAIRE

1977 32 Don't Stop -2-

1977 24 Dreams -3- MILLIONAIRE

1977 45 You Make Loving Fun -4-

1978 46 Rhiannon -1^-

1979 06 Tusk -1-

1979 37 Sara -2-

1982 46 Gypsy -2*-

1982 09 Oh Diane -3*-

1983 83 Can't Go Back -4*-

1987 09 Big Love -1-

1987 56 Seven Wonders -2-

1987 05 Little Lies -3- MILLIONAIRE

1987 54 Family Man -4-

1988 04 Everywhere -5- MILLIONAIRE

1988 60 Isn't It Midnight -6-

1988 66 As Long As You Follow -1-

1989 94 Hold Me -1*-

1989 53 Save Me -1-

1990 58 In The Back Of My Mind -2-

2009 67 The Chain -AT- MILLIONAIRE

1 x #1 | 6 x Top 5 | 10 x Top 10 | 10 x Top 20 | 17 x Top 40 | 29 x Top 100

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