Philip

Do you have the same issue when trying to reply to a blog or sending someone a PM?

Looks to be old versions of safari not doing well. Can you try a different browser? There might be options of a simpler editor, will explore

is it possible to upgrade Safari to the latest and greatest or would that crap out the laptop?

🤣 can you find out what version of safari you're on?

and this was working before with the same browser setup, but now stopped?

thanks, does this always happen?

what browser / phone? and refreshing the page has no effect?

does this happen after you press submit in both the post and edit or before that?

sorry didnt understand, can you give an example or expand on this

thanks are you able to visit other pages and its just the editor after you post thats the issue?

yessss!! Great to be involved

can you paste what this looks like + the topic you are trying this in. Assuming here you are posting from a desktop?

i will upgrade the search tech in a couple of days and review

not able to re-produce 🤣 Whats an example keyword? For example if I am here and search for test and then change the forum to the lounge it works

any issues with searching now?

Thanks can you clear your cache and try again?

yeah almost certain the lag is due to search. It locks the table. Made a change earlier and will see if this happens again. Should be absolutely no lag for us

search is on the list. Ive just updated the table engine - can you try this again? Can you also let me know what you are searching for in which forums? If this is not quick enough - should never timeout - i will add a seperate search service.

Instagram doesn’t work yet, in the list. Will have a look next week

let us know what URL you are trying and we will check

excellent, very useful 😁

Kendrick Lamar tops the UK singles chart for the first time, well into the second decade of his career. Sabrina carpenter returns to the top of the albums chart. Kendrick Lamar gets his first UK number one single. Sabrina Carpenter returns to the top of the albums chart. Kendrick Lamar had his first top forty hit in 2013 when he was the featured artist on Robin Thicke’s Give It 2 U. Since then he has amassed a total of 29 top forty hits with twelve of them reaching the top ten. It is, therefore, somewhat surprising that the rise of Not Like Us to number two last week saw him gain a new highest position in the UK singles chart. This week it climbs one more place to give him his first number one single this side of the Atlantic to add to his two chart-topping albums. The song has taken 25 weeks to reach the top. It dropped out of the chart altogether last October before returning two weeks ago. Before last week, its peak position was number six in May last year. Kendrick Lamar is also at number five with All The Stars (with help from Sza) and at four with Luther (also with Sza). The top of the chart is, therefore, no longer Messy as Lola Young slips back to number two after four weeks at the top. Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club is at number three. When the Official Charts Company (OCC) introduced the rule restricting to three the number of songs by a single artist that would be allowed in the singles chart, it was a response to every track from a new Ed Sheeran album landing in that week’s top twenty. I speculated at the time that a new Sheeran album might contain tracks credited to Elvis Presley featuring Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift featuring Ed Sheeran, etc. That didn’t happen, but this week we did get what looked like it might be an attempt at getting around the rule. A new album by Partynextdoor and Drake contained a mix of tracks credited to Partynextdoor featuring Drake and others to Drake featuring Partynextdoor. Sure enough, Monday’s singles chart update included three songs for each combination. However, one reason for compiling the updates is to allow the OCC to spot any blatant attempt to bend the rules. They acted accordingly and this week’s new entries include three from the relevant album. CN Tower is at number 22, one place behind Gimme A Hug. Nokia is at number nineteen. Drake is cited as the lead performer on the latter two songs, Partynextdoor on the first. They are all predictably bad. Last Friday a new deluxe version of Sabrina Carpenter's Short ‘n’ Sweet album (a version that is less short than the original; its sweetness is a matter of taste) was released. Predictably enough, tracks from the album enter this week’s top forty. The continued popularity of Bed Chem (up to number eighteen this week), and the three-song rule referenced above, limits the number of new Carpenter songs to two. Busy Woman is at number ten. Please Please Please re-enters at number nine, helped by a new version of the song featuring the living legend who is Dolly Parton. It dropped out of the chart (from number five) last October as a result of the three-song rule. That leaves just one new entry that is not the result of a new album release. AJ Tracey’s latest rubbish has made it into the chart without an album to help it. Crush, which features Jorja Smith, is at number 23. As already mentioned, a new version of Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n’ Sweet was released last week. It has generated enough new sales to see it return to the top of the albums chart this week with almost half of its sales coming from actual physical sales and a small number of downloads. It is its third week at the top following a week last summer and another in December. The unlucky losers behind Sabrina Carpenter who get a fifth number two album with Critical Thinking. The album is not much of a departure from their usual style which means there are several highly political tracks. There4 is also Dear Stephen, a song directly aimed at one Stephen Patrick Morrissey. Its lyrics hint at disappointment with Morrissey’s political statements rather than the rage we often see in Manic Street Preachers songs. Manic Street Preachers might have thought that their toughest competition at the top of the chart would be from the Partynextdoor / Drake collaboration. However, to the nation’s relief, Drake’s popularity is waning and the horribly-titled $ome $exy $ongs 4 U is at number three. If its “sales” were halved for each crime against the English language in the title, it would have been much closer to its deserved position. In singles terms, The Wombats reached their peak with songs from their debut UK release A Guide To Love, Loss And Desperation which came out in 2007. However, the album itself stalled just outside the top ten. While subsequent singles made little impact on the chart, each album since then has reached the top ten with 2022’s Fix Yourself Not The World going to number one. The follow-up Oh! The Ocean is at number four. Central Cee completes the top five with Can’t Rush Greatness at number five. Singer-songwriter Louis Dunford is at number right with his debut album Be Lucky. He is the son of Linda Robson who has been acting since before she was a teenager. Albums of cover versions by a seemingly random group of musicians don’t make the chart very often. Sadly, one of the exceptions this century has been a series of albums recorded by young children. That project seems to have gone away for now (fingers crossed). In its place we have Punk Rock Factory who have released a number of albums of covers of well-known songs. Mist of the songs they cover are not exactly ones you would expect to be given the punk treatment. Their latest album All Hands On Deck includes Boom Shake The Room, C’est La Vie and Bring It All Back. Their previous releases have failed to chart, but this one is at number 22. Their only previous chart success was a number 40 hit with their version of God gave Rock And Roll To You in 2021. M Huncho is at number with his new mixtape U2opia, the follow-up to Utopia.

Lola Young's Messy remains at the top of the singles chart for a fourth week. Taylor Swift gets a record-breaking thirteenth number one album. Lola Young stays at the top of the singles chart. Taylor Swift gets another number one album with a late release. Lola Young’s Messy extends its run at the top to four weeks. It is the longest running new song at number one by a British act since Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding spent a total of eight weeks there with Miracle in spring 2023. Her song with Tyler The Creator, Like Him, is a re-entry at number 38. Kendrick Lamar soars 25 places to number two with Not Like Us. For an explanation why, see the albums section. Lady Gaga’s Abracadabra climbs three places to number three. Chrystal falls to number five with The Days. The stream of solo singles by members of K-Pop bands continues with the arrival of Born Again by Lisa, Doja Cat and Raye at number thirteen. It’s not very good. Chappell Roan was among the performers at last weekend’s Grammy Awards ceremony. That has helped Pink Pony Club to jump to a new peak of number four nearly five months after it made its top forty debut. Roan’s Red Wine Supernova returns at number 32. It spent ten weeks in the top forty last year, but got no higher than number 31. Singer-songwriter Alex Warren gets his first top ten hit with this week’s highest new entry Ordinary at number seven. While it is not a masterpiece, it is still better than just ordinary. Warren reached number 35 last autumn with Burning Down. Its top forty run lasted just two weeks, but it is back this week at a new peak of number 34. Sza and Kendrick Lamar have been hanging around the lower reaches of the singles chart since the start of the year with 30 For 30. This week it climbs into the top forty for the first time at number 39. In an age when the cricket authorities keep inventing ever shooter versions of the game, the title seems like a bizarre score from a new version scheduled to last even longer than a five-day Test match. Unfortunately, the song is so boring that it seems to last a lot longer than a Test match. Taylor Swift continues to be in the phase of her career when even an album released part way through the week can go straight to number one. Lover (Live From Paris) was released in a limited edition in 2023. Now, in time for Valentine’s Day, it has been given a wider release including a heart-shaped vinyl edition (pass the sickbag). It is not available on streaming sites, so it is the first album to reach number one purely on sales for eight years The last album to top the chart on sales alone was Taylor Swift’s own Reputation. That is one of Swift’s thirteen number one albums. She is now ahead of Madonna as the female solo artist with the most number one albums. She and Elvis Presley have had more chart-topping albums than any other non-British act. Eight of Swift’s number ones have come in the 2020s. Before the release of Lover (Live From Paris), Dublin band Inhaler were leading the pack with their new album Open Wide. The band is still probably best known for featuring the vocal talents of Elijah Hewson, son of Paul, or Bono to use his stage name. Unless he is keeping it very quiet (which would be understandable) his bandmate Robert Keating is not related to Ronan. Open Wide ends up at numbertwo. Last weekend Kendrick Lamar performed at half-time in a glorified version of catch which Americans like to call a sport. His album GNX climbs back up to number three. After continuing to use the name Years & Years for his solo career, Olly Alexander has now released Polari, his first album under his own stage name. The album takes its name from a slang language used by gay men at a time when homosexual acts between men were illegal in the UK. The language enjoyed a raised profile when it was used by two characters in the 1960s radio comedy Round The Horne, The album of the same name is at number seventeen. Dream Theater get an eighth top forty album with Parasomnia at number 23. They are one place (and seven top forty albums) ahead of Block 33 who make their debut with The Promised Land at number 24.

Lola Young spends a third week at number one with Messy. The weeknd gets a fourth number one album. Lola Young remains at the top of the singles chart. The Weeknd gets the number one album. Lola Young gets a third week at number one in the singles chart with Messy. This means that new songs by British artists have already spent as long at number one in 2025 than in the whole of last year. There is a familiar look to the rest of the top five. It contains the same songs as last week, and the week before, and in the same order. Apt by Rose and Bruno Mars gets a sixth successive week, and seventh in total, at number two. It is one of the longest runs in the runner-up spot for a song that hasn’t topped the chart. Gracie Abrams is at number three with That’s So True. Chrystal stays put at four with The Days and Gigi Perez’s Sailor Song is still at five. How exciting. Lady Gaga, or her record company, chose to release her new single Abracadabra in the middle of the chart week rather than on the customary Friday date. That being so, it has done very well to enter as high as number six. Will it become her seventh number one in the coming weeks? It would be an impressive achievement for someone so far into their career. The Weeknd released his latest album last week which means that tracks from it enter the singles chart this week. Sao Paulo, which reached number 22 last November, is at number 21. Cry For Me is at number eight. Timeless, featuring Playboy Carti, climbs back up to number seven. The Weeknd has now had 39 top forty singles with eighteen of them reaching the top ten. The Gorillaz song Feel Good Inc is fabulous, Raving In The Studio by Aitch and Bou, which samples Feel Good Inc is not. It’s not truly terrible, but it is closer to that end of the scale than the fabulous end. Nonetheless, it is a new entry at number 40 to give Aitch a twentieth top forty hit. BVou was last seen as one of the featured artists on Chase & Status’s Baddadan in 2023, a song that managed to be both awful and quite good at the same time. Sabrina Carpenter’s Taste re-enters at number 39. Benson Boone’s Beautiful Things returns at number 33. Charli XCX and Billie Eilish return at number 31 with the mess that is Guess. Kendrick Lemar’s awful Not Like Us returns like a bad smell at number 27. Any artist who releases a critically acclaimed album then has the problem of trying to maintain the same quality for subsequent albums. Not many artists succeed. Among those who has yet to match his finest work is Abel Tesfaye, better known as The Weeknd. His 2020 album After Hours was rightly lauded for its high quality, including the excellent singles Blinding Lights, Save Your Tears and In Your Eyes. The Weeknd’s follow-up Dawn Fm was a bit of a disappointment. Now we have Hurry Up Tomorrow to assess. Any album whose full-length version extends to 22 songs is likely to have some dud tracks, and this is no exception. At its best Hurry Up Tomorrow is great. Other tracks are less good, although there was only one that was bad enough for me to skip it part way through. As expected, it has followed After Hours and Dawn FM in topping the chart. His Highlights collection is at number four. Central Cee’s Can’t Rush Greatness falls one place to number two. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n’ Sweet is back up to number three. Ed Sheeran’s Tour Collection is at number five. Forty-year-old RØRY enters at number ten with her debut album Restoration. The rather more experienced Kim Wilde is at number 27 with her eighth top forty album Closer. English duo Maribou State reach their highest ever chart position with Hallucinating Love at number nine. It is only their third studio album in a fourteen-year career.

Lola Young bags a second week at number one. Central Cee scores a second number one album. Lola Young gets a second week at the top of the singles chart. Central Cee has the number one album. After climbing to the top of the pile last week, Lola Young gets a second week at number one with Messy. It is the first new song by a British act to spend a second week at the top since Chase & Status and Stormzy’s Backbone last August. The rest of the top five is also unchanged (an all too common occurrence these days). Rose and Bruno Mars get a fifth successive week at number two (and sixth in total) with APT. Gracie Abrams is still at number three with That’s So True and Chrystal remains at number four with The Days. Gigi Perez stays put at number five with Sailor Song. Two of this week’s new entries are by Central Cee following the release of his new album. The higher of the two, by some distance, is CRG at number six. CRG stands for Can’t Rush Greatness which is the title of the album. If Central Cee’s output improves slowly, he should achieve greatness somewhere around the year 2158. Truth In The Lies, which features Lil Durk, is at number thirteen. He has now had 31 top forty hits. Why? How has this been allowed to happen? Tate McRae enters at number eight with Sports Car. That new song seems to have revived interest in It’s Ok I’m OK which reached number fourteen last September. It returns this week at number 37. Continuing with the car theme, Travis Scott enters at number 25 with 4 × 4. It is, of course, similar in quality to his previous 22 top forty hits. Yes, it’s rubbish. Still on cars, at least in the USA, Sam Fender enters at number fourteen with Arm’s Length, his latest single from his new album People Watching which is released next month (February). In car terms, he might be considered to be the equivalent of Paul McCartney’s band Wings. Judging by the songs released so far, the album should be a good one. The title track from the album climbs one place to number eighteen. Some people allow themselves to get incredibly het-up about whether the eighth letter of the alphabet should be called aitch or haitch. While I have always used the former pronunciation, I really don’t care if people want to say haitch. Another in the former camp (and, possibly, more passionate about his choice than I am) is Harrison Armstrong who performs under the moniker Aitch. He gets his first top forty hit since 2022 with A Guy Called ? at number 25. A guy called ?, along with the Mysterians, had a minor hit with 96 Tears in 1966. I don’t think this song is about him. Her biographical notes describe Sexyy Red as a spitter. Is spitting a musical genre now? She makes her chart debut this week at number 32 with Fat Juicy And Wet which may be the first hit single about a tomato. She is joined by Bruno Mars who gets his third hit in recent months after an absence of a few years. It is his 23rd top forty hit. All the others have reached the top twenty. Four of this week’s top five albums are new entries, starting with the one at the very top. That honour goes to Central Cee whose Can’t Rush Greatness, already mentioned above, becomes his second chart=topper. He reached number one with his mixtape 23 in 2022. The early front-runner in the albums chart was Teddy Swims’ I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 2). Part 1 has been a bit of a slow-burner. It entered at number 24 last January, climbed three places the following week and then slipped slowly out of the top forty. It has returned to the top forty a number of times since then and reached a new peak of number twelve last Christmas. EUSEXUA is not the name of a campaign to rejoin the body the UK left five years ago this week. It is the name of FKA Twigs’ album celebrating the Prague rave scene. Tahliah Barnett (to give her real name) reached number sixteen with her debut set LP1 in 2014. This is her highest charting album since then. It is number one in the vinyl albums chart. While Scottish band Mogwai have spent precisely one week in the top forty singles chart, their albums consistently do make the top forty. Their latest, The Bad Fire, is at number five to give them a fourth top ten entry. Its immediate predecessor, As The Love Continues, went all the way to number one in 2021. The top five is completed by Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n’ Sweet at number four. It drops out of the top three for the first time after a run of 22 weeks, sixteen of them at number two. Outside the top five, there is just one other new entry. It comes from Matt Berry who is probably better known for his rather surreal comedy. He enters at number 22 with Heard Noises. His debut album was a rather bizarre collection of old television theme tunes.