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Back above 1 million for 'The Fate of Ophelia'!

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Great to see the surge in support for the Greens under Zack. I just watched his interview with Piers Mor(g)an and found it so refreshing to watch someone being prepared to stand up for their beliefs and principles when faced with tired, overused and entirely unserious questions. I'm in contrast brought to mind of ppl like Penny Mordaunt, who is clearly a decent and fair person with fairly progressive views (for a Tory) throwing trans people under a bus in order to improve her leadership bid in 2022. What I'm basically saying is, to quote the late great Tony Benn: he's a signpost man. <3

So just more manipulation of an already distorted chart! Taking Christmas songs out entirely and having a seperate chart would be the better option imo.

I was planning for Wednesday indeed but I think I'd prefer to do it tomorrow actually if you don't mind delaying the next 80s session by a week - can maybe go for a 7pm start instead of the usual 8pm to account for the longer runtime. (Will be doing the listenthrough for The Best Song Contest In The World... Ever! on Monday for anyone who hasn't seen x)

Praying for a Bea Hamill return 😍

New peak (#94) for 'The Less I Know The Better'!

As predicted, Taylor Swift claims the biggest week of the year (and third biggest non-Christmas week of all time) on Spotify with 'The Fate of Ophelia'. She also claimed the 2nd, 3rd and 4th biggest weeks of the year so far with 'Opalite', 'Elizabeth Taylor' and 'Father Figure'. In fact seven of the 10 biggest weeks of the year are from this week: Additionally, 'The Life of a Showgirl', 'CANCELLED!' and 'Eldest Daughter' were the 11th, 12th and 13th biggest weeks of the year respectively, meaning this week's top 10 are all within the 13 biggest weeks of the year. Even including Christmas songs, 'The Fate of Ophelia' claims the 6th highest weekly Spotify total of all time (excluding remixes). It becomes the 12th different song to record a week over 7 million streams and seventh to record a week over 8 million streams: *Combining multiple versions did not affect position compared to highest individual version In non-Taylor Swift news, 'Messy' dropped below 1 million weekly streams this week, leaving just 'Beautiful Things' above that threshold on every week this year.

Plot twist... That IS the signature Lindsey wanted!

Songs 1(2) Girls Aloud Singapore (2025 mixes) (9 weeks) (10-4-4-3-4-5-5-2-1-) ^^PEAK POSITION^^ 2(1) Sophie Ellis-Bextor Vertigo (12 weeks) (14-11-11-13-8-7-7-6-6-2-1-2-) 3(-) Girls Aloud Naked In The Shower **HIGHEST NEW ENTRY** 4(3) Sophie Ellis-Bextor Stay On Me (4 weeks) (10-3-3-4-) 5(4) The Divine Comedy The Last Time I Saw The Old Man (6 weeks) (16-13-12-6-4-5-) 6(13) Girls Aloud You Go Too Fast (Demo) (2 weeks) (13-6-) ^^PEAK POSITION^^ 7(-) The Divine Comedy The Man Who Turned Into A Chair **NEW ENTRY** 8(8) The Divine Comedy Invisible Thread (3 weeks) (15-8-8-) 9(5) Sophie Ellis-Bextor Relentless Love (6 weeks) (19-16-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-18-12-5-9-) 10(15) Kesha Boy Crazy (21 weeks) (4-1-1-1-1-4-6-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-2-1-2-1-1-15-10-) 11(-) Kylie Padam Padam (Live From The Tension Tour) **NEW ENTRY** 12(7) Rihanna Friend Of Mine (3 weeks) (14-7-12-) 13(9) Soft Cell Martin (The Hacker 2025 Remix) (3 weeks) (16-9-13-) 14(10) Kylie Tension (Live From The Tension Tour) (4 weeks) (20-4-x-10-14-) 15(12) Kylie Lights Camera Action (Live From The Tension Tour) (2 weeks) (12-15-) 16(19) JADE FUFN (2 weeks) (19-16-) ^^PEAK POSITION^^ 17(20) Patrick Cowley Hellfire (2 weeks) (20-17-) ^^PEAK POSITION^^ 18(RE) Amy Macdonald Is This What You've Been Waiting For? (3 weeks) (15-12-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-18-) ^^RE-ENTRY^^ 19(-) Kesha Joyride (K-Popped Version) **NEW ENTRY** 20(16) Confidence Man and JADE Gossip (6 weeks) (17-9-3-4-16-20-) OUT The Divine Comedy Achilles (2 weeks) (13-6) Girls Aloud Watch Me Go (We're Disco) (1 week) (11) Kylie Shocked (Live From The Tension Tour) (1 week) (14) JADE Unconditional (3 weeks) (9-10-17) BLACKPINK Jump (12 weeks) (5-3-1-1-1-1-1-2-1-5-17-18) Albums 1(1) Girls Aloud Chemistry (20th Anniversary Edition) (2 weeks) (1-1-) 2(3) The Divine Comedy Rainy Sunday Afternoon (3 weeks) (1-3-2-) 3(2) Kylie Live From The Tension Tour (2 weeks) (2-3-) 4(4) Sophie Ellis-Bextor Perimenopop (4 weeks) (4-3-4-4-) 5(6) JADE That's Showbiz Baby (4 weeks) (2-4-6-5-) 6(5) Buckingham Nicks (3 weeks) (2-5-6-) 7(-) K-Popped 8(7) Kesha . (14 weeks) (1-2-2-2-3-2-2-2-3-4-5-7-7-8-) 9(8) Marina Princess of Power (18 weeks) (1-2-3-2-3-5-6-6-5-4-4-5-5-5-6-8-8-9-) 10(9) David Byrne and Ghost Town Orchestra Who Is The Sky? (3 weeks) (10-x-9-10-) OUT Soft Cell Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing (Super Deluxe Edition) (15 weeks) (1-3-4-3-3-4-2-3-3- 4-4-3-3-5-10) Comments Girls Aloud manage a #1 for the 2nd year in a row after I'll Stand By You (Sarah's version) last November. They've also done the chart double courtesy of the Chemistry reissue. Not a mean feat for a group who as good as split up 12 years ago. They are, however, 1 of this week's unprecedented 3 casualties of the 3 tracks per artist album rule, along with The Divine Comedy and Kylie, who all have 3 tracks that have outperformed the outgoing tracks from last week's chart.

Hi James! Olivia being #1 the same week as the UK was just a coincidence 😅 I like 'The Subway' but don't love it like her other songs I just prefer her upbeat songs I guess! 'Where Is My Husband' is still growing on me and should climb a lot next time, definitely glad to see how well it's doing! Thanks for commenting Hi Sergej! Thanks for commenting The Megan version was actually the first one I heard and Shazamed back when it was new, but the non-Megan version has overtaken now 💔 Gaga just barely missed #1 this time, hoping she can be my next #1 cos it'd be perfect for October! Thanks for commenting Hi Seltin! I haven't had a Sombr #1 yet but a #2 and two #3s is still impressive. His album is amazing and the singles should do very well in my EOY. Thanks for commenting

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Xmas songs aren’t exempt - they’re on permanent ACR. The fresh Christmas songs struggle to compete in spite of having a big advantage but that’s down to the public.

I've decided to postpone tomorrow's session, because of a combination of absences and the extended BJSC final. We will resume 1981 at 4pm on Sunday 19 October (the quadruple dose of Taylor in the bonuses will have to wait until then too). The polls will remain open until then - this week's is currently a three-way tie, and there's only one vote in last week's tiebreaker as it stands!

Miley??? Tyler??? MK??? 5SOS??? Oskar Med K and Khalid??? Demi??? Madison??? PinkPantheress with her remix songs??Remember Monday???? Maisie Peters???? Surely all those deserve at least a spot on the playlist

I suspect it had a bigger drop than that on Amazon. Its combined sales are down by 1,360.

Ireland #1 The life of a Showgirl Taylor Swift lands her 12th Irish #1 album with The Life of Showgirl, extending her record for the most #1s in Irish chart history! The album had more cumulative streams, downloads, and purchases this week than the rest of the top 30 albums combined.

Finland #1 The life of a Showgirl #5 The Fate of Ophelia #11 Opalite #13 Elizabeth Taylor #18 Father Figure

FRANCE #1 The Life of a Showgirl (66,700 units sales) *On this Monday it will be certified GOLD (50,000 units sales)

YTD Album SPS through October 10, 2025: 1. Morgan Wallen - I'm The Problem 4,220,600 2. Taylor Swift - TLOASG 4,005,258 3. SZA - SOS - 2,198,908 Vía HDD.

You mean because of the Taylor songs falling away? They’re no more than 3% of the market anyway so if they drop by 1/3rd say it only contributes a 1% decline, and most declining songs will generally drop by more than that.

Hello! Great to see ocean hit #1 for you. I'm quite enjoying it, still not quite ready to chart it yet though. Our revival is fab, glad to see that also doing well. Where is my husband is brilliant. Took me a wee bit but I'm proper on board now. Sugar on my tongue is a bop. Tyler, the creator has well and truly appeared on my radar this year. Yass Tate. Tit for tat is amazing. This sexy Tate era has been phenomenal. Fab chart 😀

Hey Sergej! :) Surprised that 'The Fate Of Ophelia' missed out on the #1 but not complaining that '12 To 12' is there instead. I also like that 'Where Is My Husband!' enters the Top 10, along with 'Written In Stone' being the biggest climber of the week! Good chart yet again. Take care!

PAAAAAAAAAAAST Hoe Cakes picking up a certificate one week after MM..FOOD 🎂 SUPA!

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If she’s playing herself this is pretty camp and iconic! If ever there’s a movie where she can play herself I think this is it as she is very much a fashion icon! It’ll probably be very brief and even less screen time than Wednesday but I’m here for it! I wonder as well if there’s a soundtrack attached with a Gaga song new (or old) to be used as well? Our girls quite the soundtrack queen as of late ❤️

I’m a bit gutted for her and hope she’s not too upset by this it’s almost the norm in 2025 that we see albums completely drop off the chart after a high debut though. Jade was actually ahead of her on streaming last week and then with the mids position I almost expected it.

That Sam and Mark song is rubbish. I don't think I have ever heard it. I remember the kids at my school raving over that 'Babycakes' song. Looking back it was nothing special. Judging by this list, 2004 is not looking like a vintage year for Number 1 singles so far.

Culture | Music Robbie Williams Long 90s Tour at Dingwalls review: Britpop is a mixed bagThe new album may have some snoozefest lyrics but he’s still a turbo-charismatic entertainer Dave Hogan/Hogan Media Lisa Wright 8 hours ago 3 stars In the tiny, 600-capacity Dingwalls, at the side of Camden Market, Britain’s most decorated pop star is having a moment. “It’s 1997 again, and normally the Robbie that plays gigs throws shapes and does all the bravado, but I’d just like to sing my album to you. I wanna perform as Robert this evening.” The Robbie that plays gigs is, of course, Robbie Williams, and the gigs that he normally plays are roughly a hundred times the size of tonight’s. He’s here, with the 10.45pm stage time of a fittingly younger man, because at midnight, Williams was meant to be releasing his 16th album Britpop. But, as he later tells the crowd, Taylor Swift put paid to those plans. “Here’s the truth, I want 16 Number One albums but then Taylor decided to put hers out the same week as me so we thought, for f***s sake, let’s do it in February when no one’s got an album out,” he admits. “I’m being selfish, but how many times in your life do you get to have the most number one albums the UK’s ever had?” Dave Hogan/Hogan Media A rhetorical question, if ever there was one. But also one that turns tonight’s spectacle — a two-hour show comprising Williams’ debut Life Thru A Lens in full, and then the unreleased Britpop — into something of a fever dream. Already a global name from Take That before he released a note of solo music, Williams has never really been Robert: jobbing musician, cutting his teeth. But tonight, playing half a set of new material, he comes about as close as he’s ever likely to get. Dingwalls might not often see a slew of homemade fan signs in the front row, but even with the most receptive audience in the world (and, having won the golden ticket from 70,000 applicants, these are they), the premise is still sort of the same as any artist testing the water — to varying degrees of success. First, we go back to the beginning. Wearing the red Adidas tracksuit top he famously sported at Glastonbury ‘95, we’re transported to a time before the whistles, bangs and literal rockets of his recent stadium tour, to when Robbie Williams was a man on the cusp of f***ing it all up. Life Thru A Lens famously bombed on release until it was — poetically — saved by Angels, but tonight goes some way to giving the record some long-deserved justice. Cheeky and cocky in that particularly Nineties way, songs like Ego Agogo and Old Before I Die still stand up, while Williams’ voice is undeniable. Without his usual bombastic accoutrements, you’re left only with the same turbo-charismatic entertainer that won the world over. Then he plays Let Me Entertain You and Angels, and Camden gets truly surreal. he pairing of his first album and his 16th, released a full 29 years apart, is obviously a pointed one. Back then, Robbie wanted to be in Oasis; now, judging from the new songs he returns to play for the second half, that still remains — not least during Spies, after which he starts singing the chorus of Champagne Supernova. “Yes, totally f***ing different,” he jokes of their very audible similarities before addressing the Gallaghers: “Don’t sue me, all the f***ing things you’ve nicked…” He’s also been trying on various other guises for size. Bite Your Tongue and You suggest that Williams also wouldn’t mind being in IDLES, their spat out verses working well within the confines of a club show, however just-released new song Pretty Face’s by-numbers devotion (“She’s such a pretty face / She’s everything I love about this world”) is a lyrical snoozefest. There’s an equally iffy song about AI (Human), one that sounds remarkably like The Sweet’s 1973 stomp Block Buster (Cocky), and a genuinely great musing on fame (All My Life); solid moments interspersed with confused or confusing ones. And then we get to Morrissey: a Pet Shop Boys-style song, written, Williams tells us, with his old mucker Gary Barlow, about the troublesome former Smiths frontman. “Morrissey is talking to me in code,” goes its poppy chorus; presumably, the code did not translate to ‘This is probably a questionable premise’. Britpop, then, is a mixed bag. Tonight’s show — part of the Long 90’s tour — draws to its conclusion after two albums and an endless array of chat at 1am: appropriately way far past its natural end point. There were highs, there were lows, but what do you get the pop star who has everything? Turns out, maybe it’s the chance to go back to the hustle. Robbie Williams Long 90s Tour at Dingwalls review: Britpop is a mixed bag | The Standard

This is very Charli coded! I’m here for this album era and this style / direction of her going in a club bangers esque era but I do hope something from the album manages to do.. something!

And Rd‘Á makes the perfect antidote at just 1:41 In 25 minutes you could listen to half of the 6euroneunzig discography and throw yourself a Deutsche pussy pop rave

Full units for this era's first week, and where the songs would've charted if the 3 song rule wasn't in place: #1 The Fate of Ophelia - 132,501 units #2 Opalite - 93,017 units #3 Elizabeth Taylor - 90,636 units #4 Father Figure - 80,195 units #5 The Life of a Showgirl (ft. Sabrina Carpenter) - 72,088 units #7 Actually Romantic - 67,893 units #8 Eldest Daughter - 66,017 units #9 Wood - 66,017 units #10 CANCELLED! - 65,721 units #11 Wi$h Li$t - 65,349 units #13 Ruin The Friendship - 63,344 units #14 Honey - 53,000 units @777666jason @Tafty

Best sellers of 00s this sunday from 6-7!

Is that Everything Everything's first certified song?! If so then 'Distant Past' is an amazing one to do it with

"One Thing" is now certified Platinum in the UK! @JosephBoone @Rafael x

Spotify playlist: No Scotland 2 on here, I'm afraid x

"Be The One" is now certified 3x Platinum for 1.8 million units!

David Guetta probably doesn't know he has anything to do with it, if we're honest.

Hey Sergej! 🙂 sorry I'm late on last weeks chart, still catching up from Spain holiday, cooking slowly on th beach under a parasol 😄 1 5 1(×1) 10 sombr – “12 to 12” yay!🤩 2 NE 2 1 Taylor Swift – “The Fate of Ophelia” oh this is good, I just bought the album to get this single - not available on download on its own! 6 14 6 3 RAYE – “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” and I just bought this too 13 17 13 4 Damiano David ft. Tyla & Nile Rodgers – “Talk to Me” 20 NE 20 1 Taylor Swift – “Opalite” 26 38 21 7 Perrie – “If He Wanted To He Would” 30 NE 30 1 Taylor Swift ft. Sabrina Carpenter – “The Life of a Showgirl” 35 NE 35 1 Sigala, Leigh-Anne, & Jonita Gandhi – “Hello” and bought this too! 69 72 56 3 JADE – “Unconditional” 76 NE 76 1 Taylor Swift – “Wood” 81 NE 81 1 Taylor Swift – “CANCELLED!” 82 NE 82 1 Taylor Swift – “Wi$h Li$t” 84 99 84 2 Seeb & JP Cooper – “Be Like That” bought this too! fab chart! 😎

Hey Sergej! 🙂 Two weeks to catch up on here - running late this week back from hols! My climbing and new entry faves!: 1 3 1(×1) 6 Olivia Dean – “Man I Need” 5 6 5 9 sombr – “12 to 12” yay turning out to hve chart legs this one 12 16 12 4 Lady Gaga – “The Dead Dance” she was good in Wednesday series 14 31 14 2 RAYE – “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” bop! 15 17 11 5 Sabrina Carpenter – “Tears” 38 40 21 6 Perrie – “If He Wanted To He Would” a bit late but this is fab and very Shout Out To My Ex 72 56 56 2 JADE – “Unconditional” 82 79 79 3 Benson Boone – “Mystical Magical” 89 NE 89 1 Olivia Dean – “Nice To Each Other” great charts! 😎

Hey Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for the comments and picks, glad you are enjoying the old and new mix, and the new Miley is very Mac - reminds me of Hold Me (never a hit in the UK) or Dreams in sound a bit. Save Me has just kept growing. Dracula has amazed me by going UK top 40 for Tame Impala! Hooray! Thanks as always! 😎

I really like Obviously, it's one of a few McFly songs (also including Star Girl and All About You) that I have a lot of time for and play willingly. I prefer it to 5 Colours In Her Hair. I think the lovely strings and backing vocals and the general wistful nature of Obviously move it well above average territory. Burn...ugh. A big step down from Yeah - this era was incredibly dull from Usher after the lead single but did so well for him. Give me the 8701 singles any day of the week. Never heard the Sam & Mark song, didn't even realise it was a double a-side. Sounds very Westlife album track to me, so it's a pass.

I think the songs I have ranked 14 - 9 are all very close and could be in any order depending on the day. I really like all of these songs tbh but it is a ranking so they have to go somewhere….!

Hi Piran! Wow, massive Taylor Swift takeover this week! “Opalite” and “The Fate of Ophelia” both debuting strong, and “The Life of a Showgirl” with Sabrina is such a standout moment. Love seeing “Talk to Me” holding at #1 too — that collab is pure funk perfection. Great mix of fresh debuts from Ella Langley, Tyler, and Kehlani as well!

Guetta/Pineapple/Tones & I, all Buzzack faves!

Certifications are always about a month behind in the search library of the BPI website.

I keep seeing Zack's name everywhere and it's a major change that being about a politician I like. He's really got the sauce. Even if a lot of it's attacking him or the Greens, it's finally a chance for the politics of good, sensible progressive things to be done in the public conversation (like ending landlordism!). Such a change from the relentless Reform-inspired negativity.