9th August 2026

It's back on top for Michelle Branch singing The Game Of Love over decades on from doing it with Santana - but this time it's with New Radicals aka Gregg Alexander, who wrote the song, giving Gregg a second number one 27 years on from his previous and only a third charting hit, though his songs have topped my charts for Ronan Keating and Texas as well. Kylie & Madonna make the UK top 10 with a mix of Madge's Love Sensation, so they have been combined for chart purposes here and climb to 5. Olivia Rodrigo gets 2 top 10's off her latest album as The Cure climbs to 6, Jungle replace themselves in the top 10 for a 6th time as Someday, Somewhere climbs to 7, ANOTR and 54 Ultra get a first top 10, Francesco Gabbani also gets a first top 10, and The Rubettes take 1977's Baby I Know back into the top 10.

Highest new entry and a chart debutante is Lily Meola at 23 with the cracking Sleeping With My Boots On, while in at 43, Etta James' version of Stormy Weather popped up in a TV series sweet spot and debuts with class and style, 14 years on from At Last topping my charts, the standard 1933 song was recorded by Etta definitively on the same At Last album in 1961, so only 65 years late! Lulu had a hit as a teen sensation with Shout in 1964 and is still going - I have my ticket for Salisbury in October - and the musical chameleon has been absent from new material for quite a while (11 years) but has charted for me in every decade since her chart debut I'm A Tiger in 1968. Her new dance track I'm In Love Again enters at 72, and makes it 7 consecutive decades of charting for my personal charts. No other female singer can claim that.

William Orbit sadly died a short while ago, so his 1990 chart-topper Fascinating Rhythm is back at 79 in tribute, Shed Seven are back again with another banger, Stand Together new at 89 for 32 years of charting, Empire Of The Sun join themselves (sort of - PNAU) in debuting another FIFA song, the third on the chart, Llego at 90, for a 17th year of charting while Rev & The Makers grab another track off the new album at 95, in D Minor. Madonna is scattered across the chart, and drops another album track in at 97 with Fragile, and Ariana Grande gets a second off her new album Petal, at 98. That leaves Brandon Flower's solo Tiger's Blood at 100 to become his first solo entry since 2015. Sadly I was too late to get tickets to hear him perform (hopefully) the three fab chart-toppers in my charts in the 2010's. That's more than The Killers.

1 2 1 4 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 350200

2 1 1 7 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 890000

3 4 3 7 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 239900

4 3 1 6 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 418500

5 7 5 9 LOVE SENSATION/AFTERHOURS RADIO EDIT - Madonna/Madonna & Kylie Minogue 217400

6 19 6 8 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 136900

7 14 7 5 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 113700

8 12 8 12 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 214800

9 15 9 3 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 84300

10 18 10 8 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 142600

11 17 11 2 THE LOVE BOAT - Lowdii Beats 60000

12 5 1 6 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 543000

13 6 2 11 THE WAVE - Jungle 723650

14 8 5 7 TANGERINE - Damiano David 291450

15 10 7 11 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 260150

16 9 5 6 SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) - Bobby Goldsboro 180400

17 13 1 13 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 871000

18 21 18 4 SUNRISE - Simply Red 58650

19 11 3 13 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 507650

20 29 20 5 I'M ALIVE - Imael Angel 84150

21 26 21 7 FIREBALL - Pitbull featuring John Ryan 82750

22 45 22 3 TONIGHT - The Rubettes 40000

23 NEW 23 1 SLEEPING WITH MY BOOTS ON - Lily Meola 19250

24 32 24 6 DANCETERIA - Madonna 76750

25 16 8 9 HOWL - Carly Simon 264150

26 20 1 10 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 507700

27 31 27 7 DANCING WITHOUT YOU - Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor 68300

28 24 1 16 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 830600

29 36 29 8 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 90150

30 27 27 8 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 125200

31 28 1 19 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 1036800

32 40 32 7 ON MY SOUL - Bruno Mars 73650

33 34 33 8 BOOGIE'S IN MY SOUL - Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg 93150

34 52 34 4 THINK I'M GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - The Dooleys 36900

35 33 33 7 CHICAGO - Michael Jackson 100950

36 22 4 7 FATE - Alan Walker & Ava Max 273400

37 23 6 12 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 275650

38 25 14 8 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 160250

39 42 39 4 WANTED - The Dooleys 46650

40 46 40 6 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 54550

41 30 1 13 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 700250

42 48 42 5 SHATTERED DREAMS - Johnny Hates Jazz 52150

43 NEW 43 1 STORMY WEATHER - Etta James 13500

44 44 1 15 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 671650

45 41 1 15 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 530800

46 61 46 3 BLUE DREAM - Holly Humberstone 23250

47 49 47 5 I FEEL HOPE COMING - Alabama Shakes 48600

48 62 48 5 STREET OF DREAMS - U2 32500

49 55 5 14 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 398250

50 35 18 12 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 180250

51 72 51 5 STUPID SONG - Olivia Rodrigo 30150

52 38 5 26 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 683550

53 57 53 11 BOSTON - STELLA LEFTY 71350

54 54 54 5 BIZARRE - Madonna & Martin Garrix 34600

55 59 55 5 STAND UP - Howard Jones 33700

56 37 15 16 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 289850

57 60 57 3 FIREFLIES - Martin Garrix & U2 23700

58 65 58 8 SELF AWARE - Temper City 37100

59 63 59 6 MEET ME IN LOVE - Blossoms featuring Maya Jama 35500

60 47 20 11 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 158500

61 43 19 15 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 207050

62 64 62 6 CHEMISTRY - PNAU featuring Master Peace 32600

63 50 8 14 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 290000

64 69 64 5 THERE'S A BETTER WAY - Inspiral Carpets 21500

65 39 25 11 DRAG THE BAG - Inspiral Carpets 137750

66 51 4 17 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 443400

67 71 67 5 THESE ALARMS - Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue 20300

68 53 6 19 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 493750

69 76 69 3 YOU'RE THE REASON WHY - The Rubettes 14400

70 70 70 5 TAKE ME BACK - Kygo & Max McNown 24400

71 66 1 26 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 929900

72 NEW 72 1 I'M IN LOVE AGAIN - Lulu 5600

73 91 73 2 SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap 7300

74 90 74 3 JUST DRIVE - Natalie Imbruglia 8600

75 75 75 7 WATCH IT BURN - Katy Perry 20400

76 58 42 13 POTENTIAL - sombr 116450

77 78 77 5 MY BODY ISN'T READY - sombr 17600

78 67 17 13 GO - The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip 174100

79 NEW 79 1 FASCINATING RHYTHM - Bass-o-matic featuring William Orbit 4200

80 86 80 3 DES FLEURS - Tove Lo & Stromae 8400

81 87 81 4 ON WIRES - Carly Rae Jepsen 9000

82 84 82 3 BUZZ BUZZ A-DIDDLE-IT - Freddy Cannon 9000

83 85 83 4 WATCHING YOU WATCHING ME - The Shires 9500

84 73 4 23 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles 464800

85 97 85 3 BLUE SHADOWS - The Avalanches featuring Karen O 5400

86 92 86 3 TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE - Orville Peck 5800

87 96 87 2 DAI DAI - Shakira featuring Burna Boy 4000

88 88 88 7 READ MY LIPS - Madonna & Feid 11700

89 NEW 89 1 STAND TOGETHER - Shed Seven 2200

90 NEW 90 1 LLEGO - Empire Of The Sun, Danny Ocean & FIFA Sound 2000

91 98 91 2 DYNAMITE - Haircut 100 3100

92 80 80 6 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME - Ariana Grande 13000

93 89 89 6 PASSENGER - Alex Warren 10300

94 95 94 3 PALISADES PARK - Freddy Cannon 4100

95 NEW 95 1 D MINOR - Reverend and The Makers 1500

96 99 96 2 WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS - Freddy Cannon 2500

97 NEW 97 1 FRAGILE - Madonna 1300

98 NEW 98 1 PETAL - Ariana Grande 1200

99 100 99 2 SO GOOD - Charlie Jeer & Simone Ashley 2100

100 NEW 100 1 TIGER'S BLOOD - Brandon Flowers 1000

DROP OUT

74 74 3 IT FEELS SO GOOD - Sonique 11000

56 15 11 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 165050

68 17 9 ON THE FLOOR - Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull 113850

77 17 12 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 189050

79 1 14 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 684700

81 28 10 MORE! MORE! MORE! - Becky Hill 119900

82 40 11 HEADLIGHTS - In Color 68300

83 82 4 IT'S A HEARTACHE - Bonnie Tyler 12800

93 87 5 JEALOUS LOVER - The Rolling Stones 10000

94 92 4 LOST IN FRANCE - Bonnie Tyler 6400

New Radicals and Michelle Branch for #1 😁 excellent comeback for them both, well deserved!

Also good seeing new peak positions for Madonna, Holly Humberstone, Bruno Mars, U2, Howard Jones, Martin Garrix, Natalie Imbruglia, Sombr, Tove Lo, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Shires and Shakira 😁

Hey John,

Petal debuting!! Very good song!! ☺️

Stupid Song almost Top50!! The best song on the album!! 🤗

The Cure Top6!! A refreshing song and surprising the see a "Long song" to have success!! 😇