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Went for “Appetite” and “Punk Rocky”

Week 3: 1 1 Olivia Dean The Art Of Loving 51,000 330,000 2 2 Sabrina Carpenter Man's Best Friend 27,000 330,000 3 4 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop 25,000 1,850,000 4 3 Taylor Swift The Life Of A Showgirl 24,000 670,000 5 5 The Weeknd Highlights 21,000 1,610,000 6 8 Ed Sheeran +-=÷x (Tour Collection) 18,000 530,000 7 7 Tate McRae So Close To What 18,000 280,000 8 6 Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet 17,000 910,000 9 9 Michael Jackson The Essential 17,000 2,120,000 10 10 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 16,000 3,570,000 11 13 Alex Warren You'll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1) 16,000 320,000 12 12 EsDeeKid Rebel 16,000 90,000 13 - Blue Reflections 16,000 14 11 ABBA Gold 16,000 6,160,000 15 15 Oasis Time Flies... 1994-2009 15,000 2,430,000 16 14 Elton John Diamonds 15,000 1,940,000 17 17 Noah Kahan Stick Season 14,000 740,000 18 16 Arctic Monkeys AM 14,000 2,340,000 19 20 Linkin Park Papercuts 14,000 410,000 20 18 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory 14,000 5,630,000 21 19 Sam Fender People Watching 12,000 290,000 22 22 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits 12,000 3,550,000 23 21 Sombr I Barely Know Her 12,000 100,000 24 24 50 Cent Best Of 50 Cent 11,000 780,000 25 26 Olivia Rodrigo Sour 11,000 1,260,000 26 23 Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft 11,000 610,000 27 25 Olivia Rodrigo Guts 11,000 710,000 28 - Zach Bryan With Heaven On Top 10,000 29 29 Queen Greatest Hits 9,000 3,220,000 30 31 Oasis Definitely Maybe 9,000 3,020,000 31 32 Maroon 5 Singles 9,000 1,000,000 32 27 George Michael Twenty Five 9,000 1,900,000 33 28 Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department 9,000 1,000,000 34 38 David Bowie Legacy 9,000 1,160,000 35 30 Charli XCX Brat 9,000 540,000 36 35 Pitbull Greatest Hits 9,000 630,000 37 34 Drake Take Care 9,000 1,010,000 38 36 Chappell Roan The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess 8,000 570,000 39 37 SZA SOS 8,000 730,000 40 42 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 8,000 500,000 44 - The Cribs Selling A Vibe 8,000 47 49 Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits 8,000 2,320,000 49 52 The Smiths The Sound Of The Smiths 8,000 460,000 50 53 OneRepublic The Collection 8,000 60,000 57 91 Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans 7,000 2,440,000 66 67 Katy Perry Teenage Dream 7,000 2,040,000 74 75 Britney Spears The Singles Collection 6,000 730,000 75 79 Eminem Curtain Call 2 6,000 510,000 76 80 Green Day Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band 6,000 750,000 80 81 Avicii Avicii Forever 6,000 80,000 88 90 Fred Again… USB 001 EP 6,000 180,000 89 93 Dua Lipa Dua Lipa 6,000 1,230,000 90 92 Little Mix Between Us 6,000 670,000 92 97 Sade The Best Of Sade 6,000 860,000 93 98 Phil Collins The Singles 6,000 890,000 95 - Skye Newman SE9 Part 1 6,000 97 - Djo The Crux 6,000 - 86 Radiohead The Bends 6,000 1,460,000 - 94 Geese Getting Killed 6,000 - 100 The Beatles 1962-1966 5,000 1,110,000 - 89 Lady Gaga Mayhem 5,000 200,000 - 96 Michael Bublé Christmas 4,000 3,490,000

#75 with about 1.5k last week

Week 3: 1 1 Olivia Dean Man I Need 162,000 1,260,000 2 2 Taylor Swift The Fate Of Ophelia 132,000 880,000 3 5 Djo End Of Beginning 126,000 1,310,000 4 3 Raye Where Is My Husband! 126,000 730,000 5 4 Huntr/x, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Golden 121,000 1,450,000 6 6 Dave featuring Tems Raindance 115,000 350,000 7 7 Alex Warren Ordinary 99,000 2,280,000 8 8 Olivia Dean So Easy (To Fall In Love) 89,000 460,000 9 9 Sam Fender and Olivia Dean Rein Me In 84,000 770,000 10 10 Olivia Dean Nice To Each Other 72,000 850,000 11 12 Zara Larsson Lush Life 72,000 3,110,000 12 11 Disco Lines and Tinashe No Broke Boys 66,000 790,000 13 13 Sombr 12 To 12 66,000 590,000 14 14 Haven featuring Kaitlin Aragon I Run 64,000 15 16 Sienna Spiro Die On This Hill 63,000 230,000 16 15 Sombr Back To Friends 57,000 970,000 17 17 Taylor Swift Opalite 54,000 460,000 18 18 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Soda Pop 50,000 770,000 19 19 Sabrina Carpenter Manchild 49,000 860,000 20 21 Ravyn Lenae Love Me Not 48,000 1,190,000 21 22 Kate Bush Running Up That Hill 47,000 2,920,000 22 20 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 46,000 1,860,000 23 23 Esdeekid and Rico Ace Phantom 46,000 24 28 Olivia Dean A Couple Minutes 45,000 230,000 25 25 The Police Every Breath You Take 45,000 2,840,000 26 27 The Killers Mr Brightside 44,000 6,840,000 27 24 Tyla Chanel 43,000 28 31 Sombr Undressed 43,000 920,000 29 26 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 43,000 2,970,000 30 30 Esdeekid Century 43,000 31 32 Fleetwood Mac Dreams 43,000 3,980,000 32 35 Olivia Dean Let Alone The One You Love 43,000 220,000 33 34 Goo Goo Dolls Iris 42,000 4,600,000 34 38 Olivia Dean The Hardest Part 41,000 760,000 35 37 Olivia Dean Dive 41,000 710,000 36 33 Lola Young Messy 27,000 1,650,000 37 68 Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain 40,000 1,820,000 38 45 Esdeekid 4 Raws 40,000 39 46 Olivia Dean Baby Steps 39,000 220,000 40 40 Gracie Abrams That's So True 39,000 1,650,000 42 49 Sonny Fodera, D.O.D. and Poppy Baskcomb Think About Us 38,000 44 56 Kehlani Folded 37,000 290,000 53 54 Billie Eilish Birds Of A Feather 35,000 2,260,000 54 58 Olivia Dean I've Seen It 35,000 56 62 Fleetwood Mac Landslide 34,000 1,630,000 58 59 Tate McRae Tit For Tat 34,000 250,000 60 78 PinkPantheress Stateside 33,000 61 63 Gigi Perez Sailor Song 33,000 1,490,000 62 73 Olivia Dean OK Love You Bye 33,000 65 67 Radiohead Creep 32,000 2,620,000 66 69 Chappell Roan Good Luck, Babe! 31,000 2,210,000 67 70 The Kooks Naïve 31,000 3,770,000 68 71 Noah Kahan Stick Season 31,000 3,280,000 70 83 Lady GaGa & Bruno Mars Die With A Smile 31,000 1,760,000 71 90 Sienna Spiro You Stole The Show 31,000 73 - Bruno Mars I Just Might 31,000 79 81 Kato featuring Jon Turn The Lights Off 29,000 83 85 Gunna & Burna Boy WGFT 28,000 84 87 Olivia Dean Lady Lady 28,000 260,000 87 92 She & Him I Thought I Saw Your Face Today 28,000 89 96 Alex Warren Carry You Home 27,000 1,070,000 91 95 Myles Smith Nice To Meet You 27,000 4,770,000 92 93 Billy Joel Piano Man 26,000 1,820,000 93 - Tate McRae Just Keep Watching 26,000 490,000 94 98 Vance Joy Riptide 26,000 4,770,000 97 - Sam Fender People Watching 26,000 710,000 98 100 Sam Fender Seventeen Going Under 26,000 2,680,000 99 - The Neighbourhood Sweater Weather 26,000 2,530,000 - 55 Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You 24,000 6,070,000 - 66 Brenda Lee Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree 22,000 3,400,000 - 91 The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl Fairytale Of New York 19,000 4,760,000 - 97 Kelly Clarkson Underneath The Tree 18,000 2,440,000

15/1: Olivia now with 10 in the Top 50 - I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this months after an album has been released. 1 1 Man I need (1) 2 2 End of beginning (2) 3 6 Raindance (3) 4 3 The fate of Ophelia (1) 5 4 Where is my husband! (3) 6 5 Golden (1) 7 7 Ordinary (1) 8 8 So easy (6) 9 - I just might (9) 10 9 Rein me in (7) 11 11 Lush life (3) 12 16 Die on this hill (12) 13 10 Nice to each other (5) 14 14 I run (14) 15 12 12 to 12 (8) 16 13 No broke boys (3) 17 15 Back to friends (7) 18 17 Purple rain (6) 19 18 Opalite (2) 20 23 Love me not (2) 21 22 A couple minutes (21) 22 20 Manchild (1) 23 27 Let alone the one you love (23) 24 19 Running Up That Hill (1) 25 24 Every breath you take (1) 26 33 The hardest part (26) 26 25 Phantom (25) 27 31 Iris (3) 28 21 Soda pop (4) 29 35 Mr Brightside (10) 30 25 Phantom (25) 31 37 Dive (31) 32 28 Undressed (4) 33 29 Dreams (22) 34 38 Baby steps (34) 35 26 Pink pony club (2) 36 43 4 raws (36) 37 32 Century (23) 38 47 Think about us (38) 39 - Stateside (39) 40 - Folded (40) 41 30 Beautiful things (1) 42 40 That’s so true (1) 43 36 Chanel (28) 44 44 Lose control (2) 45 41 Messy (1) 46 - You stole the show (46) 47 45 Eternity (5) 48 - OK love you bye (48) 49 - I’ve seen it (49) 50 34 Landslide (34)

It was a huge moment when she unveiled “Bleeding Love” on X Factor and it was the perfect song for her at the time. These days I don’t love it though - I think it’s very of its moment, and I much prefer “Rule The World”. Your #1 is great and would be my #2 behind Robyn. I’ll do a full ranking in a bit.

Thanks Tafty for hosting and thanks for the points for Karly and Ravyn! Top half is never to be sniffed at. This wasn’t exactly my bag but still there was some stuff I really enjoyed and it was fun to take part. I’m aiming to support all non BJSC contests in 2026.

Some I certainly considered for votes like Echo and Bob. And nice to see “Rock Island Line” getting some love - that skiffle style was so groundbreaking and so dynamic compared to most of what was around at the time.

This is going to be very hard as I’m finding I like almost everything…

In a sense ACR is doing “Man I Need” a favour by stopping it becoming public enemy #1. Imagine how fed up with it we’d be if it had blocked Raye, Djo and Dave. Instead we’re feeling that it’s been hard done by.

I think one of your top two has held up much better than the other, so hoping that one wins.

“With Every Heartbeat” would be #1 for me definitely - a case of the Buzzjack love for a song being totally justified. You can feel every bit of her pain through the song. It has all the soul that most current dance pop is missing. The positions for “Grace Kelly” and “Shine” are both pretty fair. “Shine” did get overplayed but it has a great retro feel - could almost be Beatles. “Grace Kelly” is a complete one off but also an incredibly well written piece of music and his classical training shows. Shame the rest of his work wasn’t up to the same level.

Or we could play one of Siouxsie And The Banshees’ four #41 hits that won’t be getting a play otherwise. Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra Bucks Fizz - Now These Days Are Gone Dollar - Videotheque Clash - Rock The Casbah Yazoo - Don’t Go

Taio - very meh

Oof some absolutely brilliant stuff here! Went for Vengaboys.