Just now, Highway Unicorn said:

Why did The Police get a reset?

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12 | | 20th week

Prince & The Revolution

Purple Rain

2nd single from Purple Rain

Released: 26th September 1984

Label: Warner Bros.

Chart Statistics

NE (22/09/1984) | 25-16-8-10-14-21-33-43-69-x

RE (18/08/2007) | 90-x

RE (01/11/2008) | 76-x

RE (21/11/2009) | 62-x

RE (05/11/2011) | 100-x

RE (21/04/2012) | 91-x

RE (27/10/2012) | 75-91-x

RE (28/04/2016) | 65-6-88-x

RE (15/01/2026) | 12

Sales: 1,300,000+

Certification: 2x Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

02 Sales

xx Audio Streaming

70 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

In the early 2000s, the filmmaker Kevin Smith contacted Prince to see if he could use one of Prince’s songs in one of his movies. Prince responded by asking Smith to make a documentary about him. Smith said sure, but the project never got off the ground. When Smith tried to pull out, one of Prince’s assistants explained to him that it wasn’t that simple. 'Why not?' Smith asked. After all, he wasn’t even a documentarian; he made features. 'I get it’, the assistant said—but Prince doesn’t understand reality like the rest of do. Prince… Prince calls you at three in the morning to ask if he can get a camel. He isn’t doing it to be a jerk. But he does want the camel. It’s a funny story, of course. But it also illustrates the strength and commitment of Prince’s vision. The camel is an extreme example. But imagine you told him there was no way to mix new wave and psychedelia with funk and R&B. Or that a man couldn’t explore androgyny without risking his sex appeal. Imagine, really, telling Prince there were any conventional boundaries he had to respect—and then imagine how much groundbreaking art would’ve been lost if he’d listened. Born Prince Rogers Nelson in 1958, he trained in ballet as a teenager, starting his music career just out of high school. By 24, he’d already released a body of work (including Dirty Mind, Controversy and 1999) that helped shape nearly every style of ‘80s pop music, Black and white; by 30, he was both a midnight-movie cult hero (Purple Rain) and a Beatles-level visionary (Sign o’ the Times). To read about his Paisley Park compound is to get a glimpse of a world of almost perpetual creativity—between his debut in 1978 and his death in 2016, there was barely a year he didn’t put out an album, and there were several years during which he put out two. He was one of pop music’s true universals, and yet always distinctly Black. And to listen to him mix sexual ecstasy with spiritual transcendence (“When Doves Cry”, “If I Was Your Girlfriend”) not only finished the mission Little Richard started, it delivered on rock ’n' roll’s promise that you could find heaven here on earth if you were willing to shake for it. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1980 41 I Wanna Be Your Lover -1-

1983 10 1999 -1-

1983 54 Little Red Corvette -2-

1984 04 When Doves Cry -1- MILLIONAIRE

1984 06 Purple Rain (Prince & The Revolution) -2- MILLIONAIRE

1984 58 I Would Die 4 U (Prince & The Revolution) -3-

1985 02 1999 / Little Red Corvette

1985 07 Let's Go Crazy / Take Me With U (Prince & The Revolution) -4-

1985 18 Paisley Park (Prince & The Revolution) -1-

1985 25 Raspberry Beret (Prince & The Revolution) -2-

1985 60 Pop Life (Prince & The Revolution) -3-

1986 06 Kiss (Prince & The Revolution) -1-

1986 45 Mountains (Prince & The Revolution) -2-

1986 11 Girls & Boys (Prince & The Revolution) -3-

1986 36 Anotherloverholenyohead (Prince & The Revolution) -4-

1987 10 Sign 'O' The Times -1-

1987 20 If I Was Your Girlfriend -2-

1987 11 U Got The Look -3-

1987 29 I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man -4-

1988 09 Alphabet Street -1-

1988 29 Glam Slam -2-

1988 24 I Wish U Heaven -3-

1989 02 Batdance -1-

1989 14 Partyman -2-

1989 27 The Arms Of Orion (with Sheena Easton) -3-

1990 07 Thieves In The Temple -1-

1990 26 New Power Generation -2-

1991 04 Gett Off (Prince & The New Power Generation) -1-

1991 15 Cream (Prince & The New Power Generation) -2-

1991 25 Diamonds And Pearls (Prince & The New Power Generation) -3-

1992 19 Money Don't Matter 2 Night (Prince & The New Power Generation) -4-

1992 28 Thunder (Prince & The New Power Generation) -5-

1992 04 Sexy M.F. / Strollin' (Prince & The New Power Generation) -1-

1992 07 My Name Is Prince (Prince & The New Power Generation) -2-

1992 27 7 (Prince & The New Power Generation) -3-

1993 52 The Morning Papers (Prince & The New Power Generation) -4-

1993 14 Peach -1-

1993 05 Controversy -2-

1994 01 The Most Beautiful Girl In The World -1-

1994 18 The Beautiful Experience -EP-

1994 30 Letitgo -1-

1995 33 Purple Medley -NAS-

1995 20 Eye Hate U -2-

1995 10 Gold -3-

1996 36 Dinner With Delores -1-

1996 11 Betcha By Golly Wow! -1-

1997 19 The Holy River -2-

2000 65 The Greatest Romance Ever -1-

2004 43 Cinnamon Girl -1-

2006 43 Black Sweat -1-

2006 60 Fury -2-

2007 81 Guitar (Prince & The NPG) -1-

2014 90 PretzelBodyLogic (Prince & 3RDEYEGIRL) -1-

1 x #1 | 7 x Top 5 | 16 x Top 10 | 28 x Top 20 | 41 x Top 40 | 53 x Top 100

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Prince

Brush like marmite like her music or hate her music I’m hate camp

11 | 12 | 13th week

SIENNA SPIRO

Die On This Hill

3rd single from forthcoming studio album

Released: 10th October 2025

Label: Capitol Records

Chart Statistics

NE (23/10/2025) | 26-16-27-24-13-9-11-26-28-29-51-12-11

Sales: 100,000+

Certification: -

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

35 Sales

20 Audio Streaming

xx Video Streaming

Video

Biography

Like many would-be singers, Sienna Spiro has put in work interpreting songs on social media with her own soul-pop affected voice. Unlike most, though, that work has paid off into a sudden burst of success, including the minor U.K. hit “Maybe.” and the debut EP Sink Now, Swim Later. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2024 45 MAYBE. -1-

2025 09 Die On This Hill -2-

2025 37 You Stole The Show -1-

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 2 x Top 40 | 3 x Top 100

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SIENNA SPIRO

Gwon Kate keep climbing ,

Taylor if your gonna do something with opalite can you do it already it's gonna be stale before the videos even released at this rate

Aw not 'Purple Rain' skipped as well... 😭 epic song, of course. First introduced to me via queen Ruth Lorenzo on X Factor.

Just now, DanielCarey said:

So many oldies in the top 40. It feels like it's the 1980s again (I was born in 1994).

whilst it would be preferable to have fresher music in the chart, when the oldies are this good it can be forgiven

1 minute ago, Highway Unicorn said:

Why did The Police get a reset?

Just like every other oldie that's in the top 40. Stranger Things.

Can they stop skipping the old songs 😬 Haven still top ten as well damn it

Well not surprised prince was skipped 9 minutes is a tad long and they skipped everything else 🙄

Just now, gasman449 said:

Can they stop skipping the old songs 😬 Haven still top ten as well damn it

It's because they want to play newer songs to a younger audience.

Hopefully 'Purple Rain' can climb next week and join the small non-Christmas Top 10 song in 3 decades club.

1 minute ago, gasman449 said:

Can they stop skipping the old songs 😬 Haven still top ten as well damn it

I like HAVEN. tbh.

Skipping The Police, Prince and others was once in a lifetime, I would love to hear them again over other tracks that have been in chart for ages it feels like I want to chuck a bucket of cold water over Jack Saunders

The #11-#15 section is looking quite hilly

In the useless stat department: Opalite this week makes it 13 weeks at 13 for Taylor

Just now, jimwatts said:

Hopefully 'Purple Rain' can climb next week and join the small non-Christmas Top 10 song in 3 decades club.

fellow stranger things alumni ‘Running Up That Hill’ is a member of this!

Just now, DanielCarey said:

It's because they want to play newer songs to a younger audience.

well ironically it's generally speaking the younger audience who watch Stranger Things that have brought these songs back Lol

2 minutes ago, Dj Cheeky magpie said:

Brush like marmite like her music or hate her music I’m hate camp

Yeah it took a while for me to come around on her, Wuthering Heights was unlistenable to me as a kid!

They should’ve played the 5min radio edit of Purple Rain rather than skip it