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Lola Young finally makes it to the top of the singles chart with Messy. Robbie Williams has his fifteenth number one album. A close race at the top of the singles chart. Robbie Williams gains a fifteenth number one album. There was a tight contest at the top of the singles chart with Lola Young and Rose & Bruno Mars aiming to replace Gracie Abrams. Abrams herself was also in the running. With Gracie Abrams in third place in Wednesday’s update, she was always likely to miss out on a ninth week at the top, and so it proved. We, therefore, get our first completely new number one since Abrams hit the top last November. That’s So True is down to number three. The race has been won by Lola Young who gets her first number one single with Messy. It has spent the last three weeks at number three, having been pushed down to number 33 by the flood of festive songs. After last year’s dearth of number one singles by British artists, it is good to see one nice and early this year. We are therefore spared from having the pretty dismal Apt by Rose and Bruno Mars as the number one single. That is at number two again. Chrystal’s The Days is up one place to number four. It swaps places with Gigi Perez’s Sailor Song which is now at number five. There are just two new entries this week. One of them isn’t great; the other is worse. The one that at least reaches the heights of “not great” goes by the name of DtMF and has been released under the name of Bad Bunny. Bad Bunny made his chart debut in 2018 as a featured artist on Cardi B’s I Like It. His first hit as a lead artist came later the same year. This is only his second hit as the lead artist. The title may, but probably doesn’t, stand for Dance The Morning Fandango. That brings us to the worse of the two new entries. Sadly, another Central Cee track has been inflicted on us and GBP, which features the equally dismal 21 Savage, enters at number six. Let’s hope this isn’t the first of a series of singles named after the international abbreviations for currencies. The race at the top of the albums chart wasn’t even slightly close with a new Robbie Williams collection finishing well ahead of all competitors.Better Man is the soundtrack album from the film of the same name, a biopic in which Williams is played by a CGI-generated monkey. Obviously. The soundtrack album contains a mixture of rerecorded versions of some of Robbie Williams’ solo hits with featured vocalists, a Take That song (Relight My Fire) and some songs written specifically for the film. It becomes Williams’ fifteenth number one album. His combined total of 22 number one singles and albums (excluding those with Take That) match the numbers achieved by Ed Sheeran, Eminem, the Rolling Stones and, erm, Westlife. Only Elvis Presley, The Beatles and Madonna have had more. Those number ones have occupied the top spot for 49 weeks, putting him twelfth on the all-time list. For the third time this month, thanks to Colin for that information. Better Man is not the only biopic about a musician in cinemas at the moment. A Complete Unknown, starring Timothee Chalamet as a young Bob Dylan, is also doing the rounds. That has helped a 2013 collection The Very Best Of Bob Dylan return to the chart at number 30. Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n’ Sweet is at number two for a sixteenth week. Gracie Abrams’ The Secret Of Us jumps eleven places to number three. Sza’s SOS stays at number four and The Weeknd’s Highlights collection is back up to number five. While Robbie Williams is still able to have number one albums, David Gray's most successful years are long behind him. His first hit (and fourth release) album White Ladder, released in 2000, spent two weeks at number one the following year. It was in the top ten for a total of 40 weeks and spent 124 weeks in the top forty. His thirteenth studio album enters at number 25 and will probably be well outside the top forty next week.

Gracie Abrams remains at the top of the singles chart for an eighth non-consecutive week. Chappell Roan climbs back to the top of the albums chart. Gracie Abrams remains at number one in the singles chart. Chappell Roan returns to the top of the albums chart. Gracie Abram’s second run at the top of the singles chart enters a third week, giving her a total of eight weeks at the top with That’s So True. The last song to spend exactly eight weeks at the top, again in two separate runs, was Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding’s Miracle in spring 2023. Rose and Bruno Mars are still at number two with Apt. Lola Young is still at number three with Messy. Gigi Perez remains at number four with Sailor Song.Chrystal’s The Days moves back up to number five, one week after vacating that slot. Myles Smith’s Nice To Meet You enters the top ten for the first time, at number six. He performed the song on Graham Norton’s show last Friday (10 January). Once again, new entries are few and far between. Good quality new entries are even more of a rarity. The highest new entry is rather unusual. Radio 1’s Live Lounge, where artists generally record a version of one of their own songs plus a cover version, has been a feature on that radio station for many years. However, we don’t usually see recordings from that show turn up in the singles chart. It is even more odd to see such a song turn up over a decade after it was recorded. However, that has happened this week. Hozier recorded a version of Arctic Monkeys’ Do I Wanna Know back in September 2014, around the time Take Me To Church gave him his first big hit. It is a new entry this week at number 26. The next “new” entry is even older. Imogen Heap released Headlock in October 2006 and it spent a week at number 74. It became her second chart hit of 2006, bringing her total number of chart entries to three, seven years after her debut.. Headlock returned to the chart last year and now becomes her first top forty hit at number 37. It has apparently been used in the game Mouthwashing, a game of which I was previously unaware. At number 34 there is another irritating Disney song in the form of I Always Wanted A Brother, credited to Braelyn Rankins, Theo Somolou, Aaron Pierre and Kelvin Harrison Jnr. At least they’ve got several people to share the blame for this thing from Mufasa: The Lion King. Still, it’s better than Let It Go. Singer-songwriter Sam Barber entered the chart at number 46 two weeks ago with Indigo.Last week, it rose just five places, thereby ending up just outside the top forty. This week it is just inside the broadcast chart at number 39. It is Barber’s debut hit and also gives a chart debut to the featured artist Avery Anna. The song isn’t great but I still welcome its appearance in the chart. It allows me to mention that indigo was named by Isaac Newton. When he was working on the separation of white light into the colours of the rainbow, he could have stuck with just six colours. After all, there isn’t a great deal of difference between indigo and blue. However, Newton had a thing about the number seven, so insisted that there should be a separate colour between blue and violet. Who said this commentary wasn’t educational? Alex Warren returns at number 25 with Carry You Home. It has achieved a new peak, having got to number 32 last autumn. Chappell Roan returns to the top of the albums chart with The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess. Its sales have been boosted this week by the release of a limited edition vinyl version. The album originally took ten weeks to reach the top ten and finally topped the chart seven weeks later. It hasn’t left the top ten since it got there last June. Sabrina Carpoenter’s Short ‘n’ Sweet spends a fifteenth week at number two. It has spent the whole of its 21-week chart life in the top three with two of them at number one. Sza’s SOS is at number four while Ed Sheeran’s mathematics Tour Collection is at five. Franz Ferdinand have the highest new entry with The Human Fear, their first new album since Always Ascending in February 2018. While it doesn't sound as fresh as their earlier work, it maintains their 100% record of top ten albums and gives them a highest chart position since Tonight reached number two in 2009. Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny gets into the top forty albums chart for the fist time with his sixth release DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS. The album’s title means I Should Take More Photos, or perhaps i sHOulD tAke MOrE phOtOS. Brighton punk band Lambrini Girls also make their chart debut, at number sixteen with Who Let The Dogs Out. Thankfully, their highly political album does not contain a cover of “song” by Baha Men. The fact that two of the tracks are called Bad Apple and Filthy Rich Nepo Baby should give an indication of the political stance taken by the band. There are other titles which I would prefer not to repeat here.

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1 week and its gone

managed to block some bad citizens. Let me know if things improve

will have this fixed in 1 week. Very timely upgrade

This looks to be when the browser is auto changing the protocol Change the URL at the beginning from https to http and try and load the page. This will be fixed in a couple of weeks.

thanks all - try visiting buzzjack.com/forums until we move to the new server ~ eta 3 weeks

we will have a fix for this in a couple of weeks

DONE :D now to buy the christmas tree!!

Sorry guys, hardware failure and had to rebuild the box. Looking at options currently to stabilise and improve performance. Note from the engineer:

sorry guys, Christmas smileys now ON I am on business in lands far away and some things are blocked. All setup now. Love the enthusiasm :dance:

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still receiving?

this will happen with the new site.

good idea, first I want to get draft posts out of the way. Once done scheduling might be something to look at :D

sorry backing up the site. We move to new servers and site soon so this is in maintenance until then.

I see users connecting 10 minutes before we came back but it might have been unusable before this time. Apologies all :)

looks like one malicious IP address flooding the server - 10 minutes outage

thanks removed :D

sorry guys now done :D

hi guys, quick update. The designs were done on the 06 July and the developer gave me a 2 week timescale to complete cutting the designs into a webpage. This has been delayed and only today I have been sent the final pages which I am looking over! I then need to take these and put them into the site which will take another 3 weeks max. We are close :D

can you give me an example of a video tweet?

This August :dance: Mobile designs already completed and desktops will be done in the next 2 weeks then they will be cut up into a webpage! The whole website is already on AWS without the new design and works really well so don’t foresee any surprises... it will be August realistically as there are a couple of features that are new and will need some review before we go live! Long time coming ^_^