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I demand you retroactively add my vote for Cavetown for week 1 xx Will try to be more timely this week x

#6 is a pretty good start for Zach, hopefully should stay top 10 since it won't be as frontloaded as the physical-driven albums. Fingers crossed Dry Cleaning can remain top 10 too after their last album fell just short at #11! Intrigue to see the sales for Blue x

It wasn't only Kate in 2022, Metallica's 'Master Of Puppets' also went top 40 and Journey's 'Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)' went top 100!

On global Spotify 'I Just Might' has dropped to #10 but 'Locked Out Of Heaven' is all the way up to #14...! (That is still a great tune tbf whereas the new song isn't making much of an impression on me so far from hearing it in the background on the radio a couple of times x) Think there has been a lot of social media posts saying he's just been releasing the same song over and over so maybe that is driving people to just revisit the classics lol

Ok decided to very quickly slap a list together for this again. I know I tutted on SyncTube earlier at the idea of a tactical +30 but I found there was a song that was very near the top of my ranking that, from what I can see, only has one previous vote so... why not, let's put the finger on the scale for a jungle classic xx (I think it'd be about my +26 otherwise, I'm not totally sure 'Guilt' will be safe either but I'm not going to comb through the votes again for that, I just figured it was unlikely 'Incredible' would have got many votes at all). As ever I reserve the right for my votes in later rounds to only roughly resemble this list. +30 Incredible +29 Smack My Bitch Up +28 Guilt +27 Back To Black +26 Fade To Grey +25 The Pretender +24 I Miss You +23 Smooth Criminal +22 In The End +21 Live Forever +20 Sultans Of Swing +19 Enola Gay +18 Bad Habit +17 Untouched +16 Family Affair +15 Sk8er Boi +14 Violet Hill +13 The Irish Rover +12 Hounds Of Love +11 Yesterday [The Beatles, not Matt Monro, obvz] +10 Bat Out Of Hell +9 PATT (Party All The Time) +8 One Love +7 Star Guitar +6 Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' +5 Rent +4 Trap Queen +3 Lovelight +2 Love Story (Vs. Finally) +1 Ooh Stick You! Hotel California

Each week (aiming for Sunday evenings) I'll post one of these polls and ask you all to select your favourites from the week's new entries in the UK Singles Chart top 100. Unlike the similar polls in the genre forums, this poll is multiple choice - I'll leave it to your discretion how you want to give votes, if you want to just vote for your favourite each week then go for it, if not you can vote for as many songs as you feel deserve a vote (I will encourage people to make sure they've actually listened to all of the songs before voting but I can't enforce that obviously x). There's also a 'none of the above' option if you want to put in a protest vote. And then feel free to post in the thread any rankings/ratings or general thoughts. The song with the most votes at the end of the week will be the winner. The winner of week 1, to the surprise of no one, is Swedish singer Zara Larsson's 'Midnight Sun', which finally entered the chart months after release amidst her current career resurgence which has also seen 'Lush Life' return to the top 10 and her remix of PinkPantheress' 'Stateside' taking off and lifting that song into the top 40. 'Midnight Sun' picked up 29 votes out of 49 total poll voters (I feel like that's better turnout than these polls usually had the first time around so yay, we'll see if that keeps up). Full week 1 results 1 29/49 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun (#91) 2 19/49 Sabrina Carpenter - Such A Funny Way (#37) 3 10/49 Shakira - Zoo (#92) [5/49 none of the above] This week's contenders: Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (#20) James Marriott - California Rain (#22) KATSEYE - Internet Girl (#24) Lil Uzi Vert - What You Saying (#61) Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas (#78) Doechii - girl, get up. (feat. SZA) (#79) Djo - Basic Being Basic (#81) Djo - Delete Ya (#95) She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today (#97) ROLE MODEL - Writing's On The Wall (#98) A more expansive list of options for week 2 as the 2026 release schedule kicks in... well sort of, technically only 2 of these 10 songs were actually released in 2026 and the list includes one from 1975 and another from 2008, but shh. We'll get there. Hall of Fame: Week 1: Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun [29/49]

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The Clash - Rock The Casbah Dexys Midnight Runners & The Emerald Express - Come On Eileen A Flock Of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird Yazoo - Don't Go Not the most major highlights this week and all songs I already knew (A Flock Of Seagulls just missed out on points from me in their semi-final when the song was in BJSC but it makes the cut here, I perhaps did underrate it at the time but it was nowhere near qualifying so not much more I could have done for it xx) - best discoveries of the week were Pigbag, Dollar (need to remember this song exists!!), Donna Summer and Stevie Wonder, next best songs I already knew were Irene Cara and Steve Miller Band.

Aw Zach just missing out on a spot in the First Look chart - more interested to see where the album is but have to wait for tomorrow for that as per ~ Good to see Prince did get a play today! It's showed up in the top 40 in the mids a few times already I think and always dropped out by the end of the week? It's pretty much just back to around the position it was before the Christmas songs started taking over.

Oh it was Hadji. He doesn't count. x

Gonna say Wednesday?

Did anyone actually say that though? (Genuine question, maybe I missed it but I don't think I remember seeing anyone saying that x) It would have been hard for it to drop out considering it got a 23 place boost for free just from all the Christmas songs that were still charting ahead of it last week dropping out! (and it only climbed 21 places so it did actually drop relative to non Christmas songs)

Last day for any more votes in this (have set the poll to close at 9pm), new poll should be up this evening which will have a few more options than the first week! My votes: 1 Midnight Sun 2 Such A Funny Way 3 Zoo Found the Zara song to be an instant jam when I first heard it on Radio 1 months ago and I'm not normally that much of a Zara fan so very happy it's finally seeing some success now! 'Such A Funny Way' is contending with 'Tears' as my favourite charting Sabrina song to date, not that high of a bar to clear but I really do quite like the unusual song structure and emotion in this song. 'Zoo' is kind of cute and catchy (although Ed could have given her a song that actually tries to rhyme in the chorus x) and I like the Spanish section but overall it's not a song I'm rushing to listen to again.

Belatedly caught up on the thread again - I only caught a bit of the chart show this week (and even then my radio signal was spotty for some of it x) but did hear that they skipped all of Prince, Kate Bush and The Police in that time. I understand them skipping at least a few of the old songs but they really should have played more than they did - Prince and Fleetwood Mac at the very least (and if need be they could have skipped Tiffany since they played her last week). But what's new with Radio 1 having questionable song play decisions. Glad that The Clash being at #40 meant they were pretty much guaranteed to be played at least, eek at them coming so close to missing out after being comfortably in in the mids due to other songs being reset (and arguably even then being lucky that 'Silver Springs' fell short of its own reset) but at least they made it if by the skin of their teeth! I'm not super familiar with 'Landslide' (have definitely heard it so I'm sure it'll come back to me when I revisit) but it's good to see a new hit on Fleetwood Mac's list. Nice for their Greatest Hits album getting a new peak too, I'm sure it'll find its way to #1 one of these days. The rest of the oldies returning to the top 40 are certainly all classics ('Upside Down' my least favourite of them but still a good tune and happy it has got its top 40 return after all) so good job Stranger Things, was rooting for 'Purple Rain' to get that top 10 spot but not quite, unless it can still be in contention for it next week idk. I did find myself enjoying 'End Of Beginning' a bit more than I remember from 2024 when I was relistening to the chart the other day, still don't think it'll ever be a major favourite for me but cool that it has finally got its moment at #1 that a lot of people were predicting to happen two years ago. Two weeks in a row that Taylor was #1 in all the mids but #2 at the end of the week, behind two different songs! Was also wondering if there were any other songs that made their chart debut at #100 and eventually rose to #1 so thanks Jim for answering that one for me ('Dance Monkey' debuted at #82 so that isn't another one). Not keen on the James Marriott song and I've not heard KATSEYE's yet but I don't exactly have high expectations for it given everyone else's reaction to it (I've actually only just now finally heard 'Gnarly' lol, that is... quite an experience of a song x). Have also only recently heard the other two SIENNA SPIRO hits, I do like 'MAYBE.' as well but 'You Stole The Show' is a little bland for me and has some not so great vocal moments so I wish it was the former giving her a second top 40 instead but hey ho. Didn't clock until reading the thread that 'Stateside' had now matched the peak of 'Tonight'! Hmm at Radio 1 playing the solo version this week, maybe the Zara version play last week was a one-off while Jack was away lol. I do like both versions but I think the addition of Zara makes the song feel a bit more complete (and I like both versions' instrumentals about the same) so I'm team Zara version overall x Happy to see the resets for Addison and Ellie just outside the top 40 too, both would be welcome top 40 re-entries. Hope 'Midnight Sun' will makes its way in soon too.

The Diplo run was definitely excessive but it was extended by the fact it only started charting when it was already quite far into its B-List run iirc.