John V's 24th May 2026 charts - Eurovision at number one....the 21st ever. - Personal Charts

Posted Thursday at 16:274 days

24th May 2026

It's the 21st Eurovision entry to top my charts in 56 years, though the oldest remains Gigliola's Cinquetti's 1964 winner, and the first to do in 1970 was Dana with All Kinds Of Everything. Kudos to JONAS LOVV who gives Norway another one on the list, after Fairytale was the first for Alexander Rybak in 2009. Co-incidentally Dana's best record by far is a different song called Fairytale from 1976. For now that means Reverend & The Makers have to satisfied with a runner-up slot with album track Crying Over You. Must be the next single, surely...?

The highest new entry is by way of tribute to the late Clarence Carter and his show-stopping tale of struggle and poverty, Patches, from 1970 - I didnt hear it much at the time, knew it better in 1975, but it peaked at 5 anyway and returns at 81. Katy Perry also returns with The One That Got Away, which topped my chart in 2012, her 2nd. I must say it's satisfying seeing tracks I really rate enough to top my personal charts (see Black Eyed Peas recent comeback with Rock That Body) but which underperformed in the charts of the time become the ones that hit again for them. "Told you so!"

Robin Schulz returns for a 12th year-span of charting, his 8th, at 92 with Better Times, a good dance tune, Kylie's also back adding to her huge list of chart entries related to her 3-part career retrospective on Netflix - Light Up at 94. That'll be 38 years of non-stop charting then. The Script havent done much chart-wise for a while, but drop a Hall Of Fame-styled newie at 97, Man In The Arena, for a first chart entry in 9 years and increasing their chart span to 18 years. ANOTR debuts at 98 with Talk To Me, and In Color ditto at 99 with Headlights.

1 3 1 2 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV

2 5 2 2 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers

3 4 3 3 LIFE'S TOO SHORT - The Lightning Seeds

4 2 1 4 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner

5 6 5 4 YOU'LL ALWAYS BE A FRIEND - Hot Chocolate

6 7 6 5 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato

7 9 7 4 EMMA - Hot Chocolate

8 10 1 8 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer

9 11 9 8 SUGAR - Simien & Akon

10 13 10 6 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez

11 1 1 3 LOVE IS LIFE - Hot Chocolate

12 8 3 9 PHOENIX - Marshmello x Portugal. The Man

13 17 13 3 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill

14 12 2 5 ONE BAD APPLE - The Osmonds

15 34 15 4 RUMOURS - Hot Chocolate

16 16 5 15 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan

17 19 17 8 CARRY ON - Jungle

18 20 18 5 FOCU 'RANNI - ROSALIA

19 31 19 7 BEAUTY PAGEANT - Holly Humberstone

20 25 20 6 THEME FROM 'HARRY'S GAME' - Clannad

21 15 1 15 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li

22 18 1 4 I BELIEVE (IN LOVE) - Hot Chocolate

23 29 23 6 I FEEL SO FREE - Madonna

24 26 24 7 HOT DAMN - Dadi Freyr

25 28 25 5 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims

26 14 12 10 5 AM - Michael Schulte

27 23 2 10 YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR - Take That

28 40 28 3 THEME FROM THE ONEDIN LINE (SPARTACUS: ADAGIO OF SPARTACUS AND PHRYGIA) - Vienna Philharmonic & Aram Khachaturian

29 35 29 7 THERE WAS SUN - Nothing But Thieves

30 39 30 4 YOU COULD'VE BEEN A LADY - Hot Chocolate

31 60 31 3 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes

32 51 32 4 CAN'T SIT STILL - Lainey Wilson

33 24 20 8 STAY - Leony & Calum Scott

34 36 34 6 FIRST LIGHT - Lana Del Ray

35 49 35 4 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5

36 43 36 5 IN MY ROOM - Linda Ronstadt

37 46 37 5 FREE TO LOVE - Duran Duran featuring Nile Rodgers

38 27 8 15 HOMEWRECKER - sombr

39 21 8 12 WHY DON'T YOU - Squeeze

40 53 40 5 JOKE ABOUT DIVORCE - Blossoms

41 30 4 12 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles

42 45 42 7 UP OUT & GONE - Ne-Yo

43 33 17 12 UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - Depeche Mode

44 44 1 24 RELIQUIA - ROSALIA

45 32 13 13 TO LOVE SOMEBODY - Holly Humberstone

46 22 5 13 VERTIGO - AVALAN ROKSTON

47 48 47 7 BE WITH YOU - Muse

48 37 1 15 DON'T WANT YOUR LOVE - Illenium & Ellie Goulding

49 62 49 3 I'LL BE THERE - The Jackson 5

50 61 50 5 YOU CAME YOU SAW YOU CONQUERED - The Ronettes

51 42 1 24 FREE LOVE - Cast

52 85 52 2 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting

53 74 53 2 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers

54 50 1 18 APERTURE - Harry Styles

55 52 37 9 BE HER - Ella Langley

56 92 56 2 BE LIKE A WOMAN - Chris Rainbow

57 91 57 2 GO - The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip

58 69 58 4 COME BACK TO ME - Haircut 100

59 38 15 9 CALIFORNIA - Jessie J

60 73 60 4 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter

61 58 58 9 LOVE IN EXILE - Charlie Puth featuring Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins

62 64 62 5 LITTLE MORE TIME - Niall Horan

63 65 63 4 FLOWERS - Blue

64 68 64 5 DO I LOVE YOU? - The Ronettes

65 41 13 25 DRACULA - Tame Impala

66 55 1 33 LOTUS - Rose Gray

67 54 1 13 I CAN'T WAIT - Bob Sinclar & Kiesza

68 56 34 9 GET WHAT YOU GIVE - Scouting For Girls

69 89 69 2 NEW HIGHS - Cerrone & Adi Oasis

70 70 70 5 F***ED UP - Reverend and The Makers featuring Robbie Williams

71 76 71 4 ELECTRIC CIRCUS - Nelly Furtado, Boi 1da & Canada Soccer

72 79 72 3 BUZZING - Tom Speight

73 80 73 3 OH NO! NOT THE BEAST DAY - Marsha Hunt

74 75 74 5 DROP DEAD - Olivia Rodrigo

75 59 7 13 PRAYER - David Guetta, Kiko & Olivier Giacomotto

76 88 76 2 UPSIDE DOWN - Natalie Imbruglia

77 83 77 4 WE GO BACK - Keith Urban featuring Michael McDonald

78 72 4 28 YOUR LAST SONG - The Lottery Winners

79 82 79 2 POTENTIAL - sombr

80 90 80 2 BANGARANGA - Dara

81 NEW 81 1 PATCHES - Clarence Carter

82 95 82 2 ECLIPSE - Delta Goodrem

83 84 83 4 (THE BEST PART OF) BREAKIN' UP - The Ronettes

84 87 84 3 CHAKZILLA - Chaka Khan featuring Sia

85 63 13 16 STARLIGHT - Cannons

86 71 10 13 RIDE - Jessie Ware

87 96 87 2 I LOVE LIFE - Bakermat & RANI

88 67 60 7 UNDEFEATED CHAMPION - Melanie C

89 93 89 2 MY SYSTEM - FELICIA

90 97 90 2 IN THE STARS - The Rolling Stones

91 98 91 2 HOME TO US - Paul McCartney & Ringo Starr

92 NEW 92 1 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ

93 94 93 3 WHAT DO I GET? - Buzzcocks

94 NEW 94 1 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue

95 99 95 2 C U DANCE - Dizzee Rascal

96 100 96 2 JIGSAW HEART - The Hoosiers

97 NEW 97 1 MAN IN THE ARENA - The Script

98 NEW 98 1 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra

99 NEW 99 1 HEADLIGHTS - In Color

100 NEW 100 1 THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY - Katy Perry

DROP OUTS

47 10 8 SIGN OF THE TIMES - Harry Styles

57 37 7 STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN - Judie Tzuke

66 24 11 WHEN YOU ARE A KING - White Plains

77 54 9 HELL ON EARTH - Squeeze

78 69 7 TOUCH BY AN ANGEL - Maxi Priest

81 37 12 FEVER DREAM - Alex Warren

86 32 11 NEW RELIGION - Bebe Rexha & Faithless

Thursday at 18:464 days

Hi there John!

Nice to see "Ya Ya Ya" at the top, "Chuck The Money" in the top 10, the new peaks for "Mr. Know It All", "First Light", "Free To Love", "Little More Time", "Drop Dead", "Potential", "My System" and "Home To Us", the big gains for "Beauty Pageant", "Struck", "I'll Be There", "Go", "Bring Your Love", "Bangaranga" and "Eclipse" and the debuts for "Better Times", "Talk To You" and "The One That Got Away".

Great chart!

Take care.

Friday at 19:263 days

Hi John,

nice climb for "Struck" - it is falling in my charts right now, because I have charted it for already 11 weeks - it had a great chart run. Nice to see ANOTR charting.