Oh that's a much higher debut than I expected for Fontalía! At least it definitely has a chart position locked in even if it gets 3 track ruled next week. ROSALÍA's 7th top 100 hit, actually currently the lowest peaking of those surprisingly (for now she's had songs peaking at #53, #55, #56 and #57)! Fingers crossed it does stay one of the top three Fontaines songs next week and jumps at least 23 places to become ROSALÍA's highest peak instead x

19 minutes ago, Hadji said:

This was Jamie and Ashe’s last chance of going number 1 as I can see Olivia & Chappell getting it next week

Lol this was the first of probably many, many 'chances' for Jamie Miller.

Always great to hear 'Sure Thing' on an cloudy 14 degrees October evening.

1 hour ago, maggotsforbrains said:

not really, she's just released the piano and physical versions from the physical singles onto streaming - they won't make much of a difference to her overall streams

Thank god. I got scared for a moment

Let's hope she's done from dropping variants for this song

 

57 minutes ago, Stephen Emmett said:

Turns out Showgirl is definitely being successful even in deluxe edition form for a supposed trainwreckord era.

She can literaly fart and the physicals would send it to #1

47 minutes ago, Bror said:

Lewis just saying he 'wrote several hit singles' is underselling how pervasive he is in the industry in recent years - first off he's more well known as a producer than a writer (though they go hand in hand). If you've been into any mainstream-but-sort-of-vaguely-alternative music in the last few years there's a strong chance Antonoff was behind it. For better or worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Antonoff_production_discography

So looking at that huge table for the tracks that made the UK Top 40 I think it's as follows:
2011 - fun

2012 - fun

2016 - Zayn/Taylor Swift

2017 - Lorde; Taylor Swift x2; P!nk

2019 - Taylor Swift x2

2021 - Taylor Swift x2; Olivia Rodrigo; Lorde

2022 - Taylor Swift x3

2023 - Taylor Swift x6

2024 - Taylor Swift x4; Kendrick Lamarr x3; Sabrina Carpenter; Gracie Abrams; Lana del Rey & Quavo

2025 - Sabrina Carpenter x6; Doja Cat x2

2026 - Taylor Swift; Phoebe Bridgers

So he had involvement somewhere along the lines with 42 UK Top 40 hits, though literally half of them are Taylor Swift (who lets face it is going to keep getting hits whoever is producing her or writing for her), and two more are the band that he came to fame in. Or if we look at the big hits there are 28 Top 10 hits, of which 17 (so roughly 2/3 of the total) are Taylor Swift, and 2 more are fun. Admittedly the Sabrina Carpenter tracks are alright and fairly successful.

Edited Friday at 18:033 days by DanChartFan

1 hour ago, Hadji said:

This was Jamie and Ashe’s last chance of going number 1 as I can see Olivia & Chappell getting it next week

If they do I'm not sure if it's a real crossover hit though? One week wonder.

Jamie is also performing on Strictly next weekend so that might give him another boost.

6 hours ago, JosephStyles said:

Right version being played!

Is there really a "right version" of Mi Chico?

Is Coming Up Roses the next single for Harry Styles or is it just randomly charting?

On 16/10/2026 at 17:02, gasman449 said:

Didn't realise Pink would get a reset, boo at them not giving one to Macklemore

That’s a choice!

Babydoll will be #1 for 89789718926 non-consecutive weeks, even has the same rhythm and tempo as Rein Me In and is much poppier and more upbeat so more commercial appeal.

This time in six months you'll all loathe it.

You heard it here first.

 

2 hours ago, Steve201 said:

That’s a choice!

So now not only are the charts as slow and boring as feck, they're politically partisan!

Maybe it is time to follow the made-up Official Big Top 40 from Global that has zero historical status, value or credibility after all.

DISCLAIMER: I'm just messing, not intentionally tuned into that since the equivalent of it in the Dr Fox days.

Younger Buzzjackers may be unaware of this but when he was presenting the made-up chart (apart from the top ten which was the same as the official one, the rest was airplay) he had a jingle that went "GET YOUR KNOB! YANK IT, CRANK IT, RIP IT OFF!", which was quite something.

He was talking about the buttons on your stereo obviously.

God, I'm old.

Edited yesterday at 01:451 day by HiyaLuv!