1 minute ago, mrpopquiz said:

How many retro songs will we hear on the show today I wonder !

I think the ancient track Lush Life and possibly 1 or 2 more max

The Cure confirmed AHHHHH *.*

40 | 33 | 16th week

Tate McRae

TIT FOR TAT

5th single from SO CLOSE TO WHAT???

Released: 26th September 2025

Label: RCA Records

Chart Statistics

NE (09/10/2025) | 6-11-14-14-20-23-19-17-19-45-48-54-x

RE (08/01/2026) | 25-33-33-40

Sales: 200,000+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

42 Sales

07 Audio Streaming

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Biography

A style-shifting pop star who got her start as a teen dance prodigy, Tate McRae is every bit a dynamic multi-hyphenate. Born in 2003 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she worked her way up to the finals on So You Think You Can Dance at age 13, following other impressive milestones as a live performer. McRae answered her overnight TV success by uploading a series of singles that showcased the preternatural depth of her singing and songwriting. Signed to a major label when she was 16, she struck gold globally with 2020’s “you broke me first,” adding ominous trap beats to an intimate lament. But rather than be pigeonholed by weepy ballads, McRae quickly showcased her full range with convincing forays into dreamy alt-rock and purring R&B on 2022’s i used to think i could fly. Coming off even more emboldened on 2023’s THINK LATER, she greets her entry into her twenties with a well-earned sense of confidence on tracks like the chirping kiss-off “exes.” Echoing her penchant for inhabiting a deep bench of musical styles without breaking her stride, she seems just as much at home in the role of a nonchalant heartbreaker as in the role of the one at home nursing a broken heart. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2020 03 you broke me first -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 46 You (Regard, Troye Sivan & Tate McRae)

2021 82 that way -1-

2021 52 feel like shit -1-

2022 14 she's all i wanna be -2-

2022 36 chaotic -PS-

2022 84 what would you do? -3-

2022 76 uh oh -NAS-

2022 08 10:35 (Tiësto & Tate McRae)

2023 03 greedy -1- MILLIONAIRE

2023 12 exes -2-

2023 55 run for the hills -AT-

2024 14 It's ok I'm ok -1-

2024 08 2 hands -2-

2025 03 Sports car -3-

2025 09 Revolving door -4-

2025 25 I know love (feat. The Kid LAROI) -AT-

2025 30 What I Want (Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae)

2025 06 Just Keep Watching -OST-

2025 06 TIT FOR TAT -5-

2025 16 NOBODY'S GIRL -6-

2025 25 ANYTHING BUT LOVE -AT-

0 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 8 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 16 x Top 40 | 22 x Top 100

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Tate McRae

Ooh get in! I think only the 80s version of Boys Don't Cry went top 40 so this will be the first time in for the original ❤️

I think they'll skip Midnight Sun because it was played on Radio 1 some minutes ago.

Oof is Taylor back ahead of Raye..

Justice for Nobody's Girl!

Just now, Jason said:

I think they'll skip Midnight Sun because it was played on Radio 1 some minutes ago.

that was the remix

1 minute ago, JosephStyles said:

40 | 33 | 16th week

Tate McRae

TIT FOR TAT

5th single from SO CLOSE TO WHAT???

Released: 26th September 2025

Label: RCA Records

Chart Statistics

NE (09/10/2025) | 6-11-14-14-20-23-19-17-19-45-48-54-x

RE (08/01/2026) | 25-33-33-40

Sales: 200,000+

Certification: Silver

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

42 Sales

07 Audio Streaming

xx Video Streaming

Video

Biography

A style-shifting pop star who got her start as a teen dance prodigy, Tate McRae is every bit a dynamic multi-hyphenate. Born in 2003 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she worked her way up to the finals on So You Think You Can Dance at age 13, following other impressive milestones as a live performer. McRae answered her overnight TV success by uploading a series of singles that showcased the preternatural depth of her singing and songwriting. Signed to a major label when she was 16, she struck gold globally with 2020’s “you broke me first,” adding ominous trap beats to an intimate lament. But rather than be pigeonholed by weepy ballads, McRae quickly showcased her full range with convincing forays into dreamy alt-rock and purring R&B on 2022’s i used to think i could fly. Coming off even more emboldened on 2023’s THINK LATER, she greets her entry into her twenties with a well-earned sense of confidence on tracks like the chirping kiss-off “exes.” Echoing her penchant for inhabiting a deep bench of musical styles without breaking her stride, she seems just as much at home in the role of a nonchalant heartbreaker as in the role of the one at home nursing a broken heart. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2020 03 you broke me first -1- MILLIONAIRE

2021 46 You (Regard, Troye Sivan & Tate McRae)

2021 82 that way -1-

2021 52 feel like shit -1-

2022 14 she's all i wanna be -2-

2022 36 chaotic -PS-

2022 84 what would you do? -3-

2022 76 uh oh -NAS-

2022 08 10:35 (Tiësto & Tate McRae)

2023 03 greedy -1- MILLIONAIRE

2023 12 exes -2-

2023 55 run for the hills -AT-

2024 14 It's ok I'm ok -1-

2024 08 2 hands -2-

2025 03 Sports car -3-

2025 09 Revolving door -4-

2025 25 I know love (feat. The Kid LAROI) -AT-

2025 30 What I Want (Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae)

2025 06 Just Keep Watching -OST-

2025 06 TIT FOR TAT -5-

2025 16 NOBODY'S GIRL -6-

2025 25 ANYTHING BUT LOVE -AT-

0 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 8 x Top 10 | 12 x Top 20 | 16 x Top 40 | 22 x Top 100

Social Media

Tate McRae

gutted this is going… tate is genuinely the best artist of this generation

39 | | 7th week

The Cure

Boys Don't Cry

Non-album single

Released: 12th June 1979

Label: Fiction

Chart Statistics

NE (03/05/1986) | 35-23-22-25-37-60-x

RE (29/01/2026) | 39

Sales: 600,000+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

22 Sales

90 Audio Streaming

xx Video Streaming

Video

Biography

Few artists have made bleakness sound quite as exquisite as Robert Smith and his cohort—and fewer still have pivoted so easily from the depths of dejection to such weightless, cotton-candied bliss. If all you knew were songs like “Friday I’m in Love”, you might never guess that The Cure had once been kohl-eyed denizens of the shadowiest bat caves in the UK. After channelling guitar-forward post-punk on 1979’s Three Imaginary Boys, they reinvented themselves as gothic spelunkers with Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography—an increasingly claustrophobic trilogy, stretching from 1980 until 1982, that invented progressively darker shades of black with every release. Having perfected the art of despair, The Cure pivoted to pop, after their own fashion. They explored both gloomy psychedelia and jangling acoustic guitars on 1985’s The Head on the Door, winning a new wave of stateside fans with “In Between Days” and “Close to Me” and blowing open the boundaries of what was becoming known as alternative rock. By 1987’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and “Just Like Heaven”, they sounded genuinely, deliriously happy—something inconceivable just a few years before. Yet there was still plenty of angst palpable in their glowering anthems and wall-of-sound production, as well as Smith’s deeply vulnerable, often wounded yelp. The band’s opposing tendencies came to a head on 1989’s Disintegration, The Cure’s masterpiece: The highs (like “Lovesong”) had never sounded more unburdened, nor the lows (“The Same Deep Water as You”) more hopeless. Their widescreen sound filled stadiums; it also influenced a generation of emo bands intent upon fusing visceral sonic power with fathomless psychological depth. In the decades since, The Cure have kept tending their patch of turf, where the intermingling of storm clouds and sunshine yields a singular harvest: intense, expressive and deliciously dramatic. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1980 31 A Forest -1-

1981 43 Primary -1-

1981 44 Charlotte Sometimes -NAS-

1982 34 The Hanging Garden -1-

1982 44 Let's Go To Bed -NAS-

1983 12 The Walk -NAS-

1983 07 The Lovecats -NAS-

1984 14 The Caterpillar -1-

1985 15 In Between Days -1-

1985 13 Close To Me -2-

1986 22 Boys Don't Cry -NAS-

1987 21 Why Can't I Be You? -1-

1987 27 Catch -2-

1987 29 Just Like Heaven -3-

1988 45 Hot Hot Hot!!! -4-

1989 05 Lullaby -1-

1989 18 Lovesong -2-

1990 24 Pictures Of You -3-

1990 13 Never Enough -1-

1992 08 High -1-

1992 44 High (Remix)

1992 06 Friday I'm In Love -2- MILLIONAIRE

1992 28 A Letter To Elise -3-

1996 15 The 13th -1-

1996 31 Mint Car -2-

1996 60 Gone! -3-

1997 62 Wrong Number -1-

2001 54 Cut Here -1-

2004 25 The End Of The World -2-

2004 39 Taking Off -3-

2008 48 The Only One -1-

2008 89 Freakshow -2-

2008 68 Sleep When I'm Dead -3-

2008 78 The Perfect Boy -4-

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 11 x Top 20 | 22 x Top 40 | 34 x Top 100

Social Media

The Cure

Just now, JosephStyles said:

39 | | 7th week

The Cure

Boys Don't Cry

Non-album single

Released: 12th June 1979

Label: Fiction

Chart Statistics

NE (03/05/1986) | 35-23-22-25-37-60-x

RE (29/01/2026) | 39

Sales: 600,000+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

22 Sales

90 Audio Streaming

xx Video Streaming

Video

Biography

Few artists have made bleakness sound quite as exquisite as Robert Smith and his cohort—and fewer still have pivoted so easily from the depths of dejection to such weightless, cotton-candied bliss. If all you knew were songs like “Friday I’m in Love”, you might never guess that The Cure had once been kohl-eyed denizens of the shadowiest bat caves in the UK. After channelling guitar-forward post-punk on 1979’s Three Imaginary Boys, they reinvented themselves as gothic spelunkers with Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography—an increasingly claustrophobic trilogy, stretching from 1980 until 1982, that invented progressively darker shades of black with every release. Having perfected the art of despair, The Cure pivoted to pop, after their own fashion. They explored both gloomy psychedelia and jangling acoustic guitars on 1985’s The Head on the Door, winning a new wave of stateside fans with “In Between Days” and “Close to Me” and blowing open the boundaries of what was becoming known as alternative rock. By 1987’s Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me and “Just Like Heaven”, they sounded genuinely, deliriously happy—something inconceivable just a few years before. Yet there was still plenty of angst palpable in their glowering anthems and wall-of-sound production, as well as Smith’s deeply vulnerable, often wounded yelp. The band’s opposing tendencies came to a head on 1989’s Disintegration, The Cure’s masterpiece: The highs (like “Lovesong”) had never sounded more unburdened, nor the lows (“The Same Deep Water as You”) more hopeless. Their widescreen sound filled stadiums; it also influenced a generation of emo bands intent upon fusing visceral sonic power with fathomless psychological depth. In the decades since, The Cure have kept tending their patch of turf, where the intermingling of storm clouds and sunshine yields a singular harvest: intense, expressive and deliciously dramatic. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1980 31 A Forest -1-

1981 43 Primary -1-

1981 44 Charlotte Sometimes -NAS-

1982 34 The Hanging Garden -1-

1982 44 Let's Go To Bed -NAS-

1983 12 The Walk -NAS-

1983 07 The Lovecats -NAS-

1984 14 The Caterpillar -1-

1985 15 In Between Days -1-

1985 13 Close To Me -2-

1986 22 Boys Don't Cry -NAS-

1987 21 Why Can't I Be You? -1-

1987 27 Catch -2-

1987 29 Just Like Heaven -3-

1988 45 Hot Hot Hot!!! -4-

1989 05 Lullaby -1-

1989 18 Lovesong -2-

1990 24 Pictures Of You -3-

1990 13 Never Enough -1-

1992 08 High -1-

1992 44 High (Remix)

1992 06 Friday I'm In Love -2- MILLIONAIRE

1992 28 A Letter To Elise -3-

1996 15 The 13th -1-

1996 31 Mint Car -2-

1996 60 Gone! -3-

1997 62 Wrong Number -1-

2001 54 Cut Here -1-

2004 25 The End Of The World -2-

2004 39 Taking Off -3-

2008 48 The Only One -1-

2008 89 Freakshow -2-

2008 68 Sleep When I'm Dead -3-

2008 78 The Perfect Boy -4-

0 x #1 | 1 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 11 x Top 20 | 22 x Top 40 | 34 x Top 100

Social Media

The Cure

is this posthumous resurgence?

Delighted that 'Boys Don't Cry' is here and getting a play what a song... they're one of my all-time favourite groups. <3

Ooh actually playing an old song right after number 40 what's going on 😮

'Boys Don't Cry' finally reset my second favourite song by The Cure after 'In Between Days'

Not sure why it's doing so well but very much here for it! Think they are playing the 80s version?

OMG Cure Boys don't cry love this

Brilliant to hear The Cure on the Chart Show.

Sorry what year is it? 👴

I guess Stranger Things is the reason this is here, right? I'm sorry, I don't watch ST.

Edited January 23Jan 23 by Jason

Why is Boys Don't Cry on the chart? Stranger Things?

Yay for “Boys Don’t Cry”. I’m here for more great 80s music in the charts really - especially when it’s generally only pushing out months old deadwood.