richy67

I find it hard to vote in this poll, because both options are true in certain circumstances. For example, take Eamon's 'f*** You I Don't Want You Back' - in this record the swearing seems to be a genuine expression of hurt feelings at the end of a relationship (and probably many of us have said similar in those circumstances!), At the other extreme, Enrique Iglesias's 'Tonight I'm f***ing You' - seems really out of place, really a 'how can I get a bit of street cred' and is consequently really sad (the radio edit 'Tonight I'm Loving You' seeming much more genuine) Others, like Cee Lo Green's 'f*** You' seems somewhere between the two

I seem to recall there being a lot of fuss about the notion of '% increase' having been the deciding factor given they were tied in terms of the sample units they used to do the charts in these - and as the media pointed out, Dee-Lite being effectively punished for being no.4 the previous week when the Steve Miller Band were no.6. Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but wasn't there a period afterwards where ties weren't seperated resulting in the occasional 'joint no.26's' or whatever in the early 90s? Quite agree about the pointlessness of buying a record to try to change it's chart place, even though it be nice to see an artist you've supported do well in the charts. Personally, I'm very sad and buy all top 40 singles the week they enter the chart. Only record I couldn't bring myself to buy in the last few years was the 4'33" : what a rip off! Suddenly started having warm feelings towards Simon Cowell afterwards...!

glee cast?

Don't find Reggie personally annoying, but sometimes the mistakes he makes really indicates a dis-interest in the chart. I recall that for several weeks he referred to a record which only reached number 3 as a 'former number 1' : although no doubt a script error, if you can't even remember whether a record reached number one on your own show a few weeks back why do it? I agree the skipping of particular records is irritating - 'Tops of the Pops' used to have almost fanatical rules over what to play and not and the top 40 should do likewise, not that it isn't possible to include all 40 records Given all the plugging of their website, couldn't text messages simply be displayed online rather than read out (on a forum like this for R1 perhaps)?

looks like the early/mid 90s sales downgrades have been completely reversed - Think Twice and Gangsta Paradise both much higher than I expected - be interesting to see where Wet Wet Wet and Robson and Jerome end up!

agreed - someone who can get a full 40 records into 3 hours with a few interesing fact as well ...and no irritating non-entities popping in to warble about how wonderful it is getting to number 27 and how grateful they are to the public for 10 minutes!!

seem to remember the interesting bit of 'rivers of babylon' run was 21-2-1-1-1-1-1-2-3-6-10-18-20-18-10-6-5-4-3-2......(can't remember after that , but think it was quite a swift decline) did any other number 1 record occupy all of the top 6 positions? also, any better symmetry than the 6-10-18-20-18-10-6 bit ever?