Just now, DanielCarey said:

Quite representative of the general public's taste in music x

Tea otherwise mother Rexha would be on her fourth week at #1

Sorry if I confused anyone here.. it's just I'm putting the charts into a context of the outside world, as if I have to explain this to people who didn't live through it like I did.

Just now, 777666jason said:

Poor do when sombr is the one to make the chart upbeat 😅

You say that but I'd argue only one of his top 40 hits has been particularly slow!

33 | 14 | 12th week

Bruno Mars

I Just Might

1st single from The Romantic

Released: 9th January 2026

Label: Atlantic Records

Chart Statistics

NE (22/01/2026) | 6-5-6-8-9-6-8-6-12-12-14-33

Sales: 300,000+

Certification: Silver

Status: Accelerated Chart Ratio

01 Sales

07 Audio Streaming

06 Video Streaming

Video

Biography

Bruno Mars has a good story about Prince: Mars is hanging out at an awards show, during a commercial break. The crowd is filled with celebrities. Suddenly, Mars feels the room shift, people part, and there he is, Mars told Apple Music in a 2016 interview—Prince, “just floating by, levitating by.” Prince catches Mars’ eye and gives him a thumbs-up, and Mars—stunned—gives Prince a thumbs-up back. “And that’s it,” Mars said. “What more can you ask?” More than a Prince cosign? How about a stack of multiplatinum records? The privilege of being able to entertain people the world over? Mars has those too. But you get the sense that the nod from Prince was affirmation of a higher order. Even when he was living on instant ramen noodles and trying to find his way into the industry, Mars knew he didn’t just want to be a songwriter or a singer or a producer, but—like Prince, or maybe Michael Jackson—a total pop package, the kind of artist who’s as powerful in the studio as they are onstage. Those records, though: “Uptown Funk,” “Locked Out of Heaven,” “That’s What I Like.” Fun, omnivorous, generation-bridging. The kind of stuff that Mom will be pulling you onto the dance floor for. Mars could do old-fashioned showmanship, could credibly play the crooner with a live band to boot. But he also had an ear for hip-hop and R&B, could—like all great pop—collapse the distance between then and now, Black music and white. Most of all, he knew how much retro was retro enough: Music that made you think about the past, not pine for it. Born Peter Hernandez in Honolulu in 1985, Mars took the stage early, famously doing Elvis impersonations with a family revue at a local hotel before he even hit kindergarten. (In one formative moment, young Mars wet his jumpsuit during “Can’t Help Falling In Love,” but finished without flinching.) As a teenager, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a deal with Motown Records. The deal went nowhere, but Mars kept himself afloat by writing and producing with a team called The Smeezingtons, which he helped found. In 2010, he released his debut, Doo-Wops & Hooligans. By 2012’s Unorthodox Jukebox, the image had gotten a little grittier, the sound a little more diverse, and the retro affectations—goodbye, pompadour—a little less pronounced. Leaning on the slick bounce of ’80s and ’90s funk and R&B, 24K Magic followed in 2016, sweeping its nominations at the Grammys. A confessed perfectionist, Mars pushes on. “All the statues or Time magazine—that s**t is beautiful and made my parents and my family proud and all that,” he told Apple Music. “But there’s this battle within—that you always wanna. You got this fighter’s spirit. I still feel like I’m chasing to prove something to myself, that I got a better song in me.” - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

2010 01 Nothin' On You (B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars)

2010 03 Billionaire (Travie McCoy feat. Bruno Mars) MILLIONAIRE

2010 97 It's Better If You Don't Understand -EP-

2010 01 Just The Way You Are (Amazing) -1- MILLION SELLER

2011 01 Grenade -2- MILLION SELLER

2011 11 Marry You -4- MILLIONAIRE

2011 01 The Lazy Song -3- MILLIONAIRE

2011 10 Lighters (Bad Meets Evil feat. Bruno Mars)

2011 78 Count On Me -AT-

2011 19 Runaway Baby -AT-

2011 14 It Will Rain -OST-

2011 17 Mirror (Lil Wayne feat. Bruno Mars)

2011 44 Young, Wild & Free (Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa feat. Bruno Mars)

2012 02 Locked Out Of Heaven -1- MILLIONAIRE

2013 02 When I Was Your Man -2- MILLIONAIRE

2013 12 Treasure -3- MILLIONAIRE

2013 62 Gorilla -4-

2014 83 Young Girls -5-

2014 01 Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars) MILLION SELLER

2016 05 24K Magic -1- MILLIONAIRE

2016 79 Chunky -AT-

2017 12 That's What I Like -2- MILLIONAIRE

2017 59 Versace On The Floor (Bruno Mars vs. David Guetta) -3-

2018 05 Finesse (feat. Cardi B) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2018 65 Wake Up In The Sky (Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars & Kodak Black)

2019 12 Please Me (Cardi B & Bruno Mars)

2021 20 Leave The Door Open (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -1-

2021 45 Skate (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -2-

2021 12 Smokin Out The Window (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -3-

2021 49 Fly As Me (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak & Silk Sonic) -AT-

2024 02 Die With A Smile (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2024 02 APT. (ROSÉ & Bruno Mars) MILLIONAIRE

2025 32 Fat Juicy & Wet (Sexyy Red & Bruno Mars)

2026 05 I Just Might -1-

2026 15 Risk It All -AT-

2026 47 Cha Cha Cha -AT-

2026 67 God Was Showing Off -AT-

5 x #1 | 13 x Top 5 | 14 x Top 10 | 24 x Top 20 | 25 x Top 40 | 37 x Top 100

Social Media

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Now bruno really lifting the mood this is more like it 🩵🩵

Most upbeat song in the top 40 yet x

The ACR guillotine hits

It's always the most boring charts with the extended shows! The top end will be exciting but none of those songs would've been skipped anyway...

Ella coming in for that top 30

Hoping all of these songs being played means any Kanye entry will be skipped...

I think this chart is precisely the reason it will never be extended back to 3 hours - would be so dull! I wouldn’t be completely shocked to see it shortened again in the next couple of years

Just now, Dan17F1 said:

I think this chart is precisely the reason it will never be extended back to 3 hours - would be so dull! I wouldn’t be completely shocked to see it shortened again in the next couple of years

So true. It would even send the lightest of sleepers to sleep.

32 | 29 | 21st week

Madonna

Into The Groove

3rd single from Like a Virgin

Released: 15th July 1985

Label: Sire / Warner Bros.

Chart Statistics

NE (27/07/1985) | 4-1-1-1-1-2-4-7-12-20-29-37-49-71-x

RE (04/01/1986) | 96-99-x

RE (12/03/2026) | 40-18-22-29-32

Sales: 1,400,000+

Certification: Platinum

Status: Standard Chart Ratio

01 Sales

36 Audio Streaming

xx Video Streaming

Video

Biography

When Madonna Louise Ciccone was 15, she put on a black silk cape and the biggest platform shoes she owned, snuck out of her bedroom window in suburban Michigan, and hitchhiked to Detroit to see David Bowie live. The night changed her life—not just because the music was great, but because, as she put it more than 20 years later while accepting Bowie’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, “it was great theater. Here was this beautiful, androgynous man, just being so…perverse.” More than a musician, Madonna—like Bowie was—is a supreme cultural curator. She's an artist capable of combining styles and images in ways that are both novel and groundbreaking, who changes with such frequency and confidence that change has become her defining characteristic. Born in Bay City, Michigan, in 1958, she spent her childhood studying ballet, later moving to New York to try and make it as a dancer. (She was fired from a brief stint at a Times Square Dunkin’ Donuts after spraying a customer—either accidentally or on purpose, she never confirmed—with donut jelly.) After playing in a couple of New Wave bands, she went solo, exploring a simple, almost punky, almost amateurish take on dance music (“Borderline,” “Lucky Star”) that brought the grandeur of disco down to human scale. She remained more or less invincible throughout the '80s, releasing a string of albums (Like a Virgin, True Blue, and Like a Prayer) that continue to define the era. Like Prince, her music was immediate but her character was incredibly complex: She could be brassy (“Material Girl”) and sweet (“Open Your Heart”), earnest (“Papa Don’t Preach”) and playful (“Like a Virgin”), sacred and profane—a variety that widened the emotional spectrum for pretty much every female pop artist in her wake. In the ’90s, she shifted her focus more explicitly to the intersection of sex and power (Erotica, Bedtime Stories, the photo book Sex), with a sound that flirted with house, new jack swing, and late-night R&B. (Between “Vogue” and the tour documentary Madonna: Truth or Dare, it was also a moment when she leaned into her support of the LGBTQ community—a relationship that has defined her career.) Just as quickly as she’d embraced her inner sinner, she pivoted, first with a role as former Argentinian first lady Eva Perón in the 1996 film and soundtrack Evita, then with the 1998 album Ray of Light—projects that rechristened her as a mature, soul-searching artist in a chaotic world. She kept pace through the 2000s and 2010s, exploring disco, electro, and minimalistic takes on ’80s dance music, continuing to track the sound of the times while always, somehow, remaining herself. When she was a young woman pursuing a dance career in New York, she’d been given a nickname by the famed choreographer Martha Graham: Madame X, a shape-shifting woman whose identity was, as the name suggests, a variable. About 40 years later, she embraced the moniker for 2019’s Madame X, an album influenced by the yearning fado music of her adopted home of Lisbon, Portugal. - Apple Music

Top 100 Chart History

1984 02 Holiday -1- MILLIONAIRE

1984 14 Lucky Star -2-

1984 02 Borderline -3-

1984 03 Like A Virgin -1- MILLIONAIRE

1985 03 Material Girl -2- MILLIONAIRE

1985 02 Crazy For You -OST- MILLIONAIRE

1985 01 Into The Groove -3- MILLIONAIRE

1985 05 Angel -4-

1985 04 Gambler -OST-

1985 05 Dress You Up -5-

1986 02 Live To Tell -1-

1986 01 Papa Don't Preach -2-

1986 01 True Blue -3-

1986 04 Open Your Heart -4-

1987 01 La Isla Bonita -5-

1987 01 Who's That Girl -OST/1-

1987 04 Causing A Commotion -OST/2-

1987 09 The Look Of Love -OST/3-

1989 01 Like A Prayer -1- MILLIONAIRE

1989 99 Into The Groove / Who's That Girl?

1989 05 Express Yourself -2-

1989 03 Cherish -3-

1989 05 Dear Jessie -4-

1990 01 Vogue -1- MILLIONAIRE

1990 02 Hanky Panky -2-

1990 02 Justify My Love -1-

1991 03 Rescue Me -2-

1992 03 This Used To Be My Playground -OST-

1992 03 Erotica -1-

1992 06 Deeper And Deeper -2-

1993 10 Bad Girl -3-

1993 06 Fever -4-

1993 07 Rain -5-

1994 07 I'll Remember -OST-

1994 05 Secret -1-

1994 16 Take A Bow -2-

1995 04 Bedtime Story -3-

1995 08 Human Nature -4-

1995 05 You'll See -1-

1996 16 Oh Father -2-

1996 11 One More Chance -3-

1996 10 You Must Love Me -OST/1-

1996 03 Don't Cry For Me Argentina -OST/2-

1997 07 Another Suitcase In Another Hall -OST/3-

1998 01 Frozen -1-

1998 02 Ray Of Light -2-

1998 10 Drowned World (Substitute For Love) -3-

1998 06 The Power Of Goodbye -4-

1999 07 Nothing Really Matters -5-

1999 02 Beautiful Stranger -OST-

2000 01 American Pie -OST-

2000 01 Music -1-

2000 04 Don't Tell Me -2-

2001 07 What It Feels Like For A Girl -3-

2002 03 Die Another Day -OST-

2003 02 American Life -1-

2003 02 Hollywood -2-

2003 02 Me Against The Music (Britney Spears feat. Madonna)

2003 11 Love Profusion -3-

2005 01 Hung Up -1- MILLIONAIRE

2006 01 Sorry -2-

2006 07 Get Together -3-

2006 09 Jump -4-

2008 01 4 Minutes (feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland) -1-

2008 07 Give It 2 Me -2-

2008 39 Miles Away -3-

2009 03 Celebration -1-

2012 37 Give Me All Your Luvin' (feat. Nicki Minaj & M.I.A.) -1-

2012 68 Masterpiece -3-

2012 73 Girl Gone Wild -2-

2015 26 Living For Love -1-

2019 87 Medellín (Madonna & Maluma) -1-

2023 10 Popular (The Weeknd & Madonna feat. Playboi Carti)

2023 69 VULGAR (Sam Smith & Madonna)

13 x #1 | 44 x Top 5 | 61 x Top 10 | 66 x Top 20 | 69 x Top 40 | 74 x Top 100

Social Media

Madonna

Just now, JosephStyles said:

Hoping all of these songs being played means any Kanye entry will be skipped...

I'd imagine they want to pretend he doesn't exist as they didn't mention his new entries. I think the same happened when Vultures 1 was released, they did play Burn though (and they weren't even meant to, Jack introduced the song as "Burn (Don't Play)" 😂)

Finally. An actual upbeat song.

1 minute ago, JosephStyles said:

Hoping all of these songs being played means any Kanye entry will be skipped...

'All the Love' doesn't have any swearing in it so that may get played though ideally R1 would just not be endorsing post-2020 Kanye anyway

The charts being saved by a 40 year old song very 2026 🙌🤣

probably the last play for Into The Groove but still sounding fantastic !!

1 minute ago, Dan17F1 said:

I think this chart is precisely the reason it will never be extended back to 3 hours - would be so dull! I wouldn’t be completely shocked to see it shortened again in the next couple of years

I'd be surprised if it were shortened as they'd need something to fill the gap, and the chart works quite nicely in the pre-Newsbeat slot, but it's definitely a reminder of why I strongly believe a 3 hour countdown would not be feasible in this day and age!

 

Just now, DanielCarey said:

Finally. An actual upbeat song.

Not this after two other upbeat songs

First time hearing this on the show great for it to have a rerun!