Brett-Butler

Go team Nebraska! Will be interesting to see how this plays out, I do think we'd see a good variety of songs in this, would probably get a lot more country music than you'd see in Eurovision courtesy of the southern states, plus a few more rap artists as well.

The new series will be filmed in a ruined castle, which means it can be filmed in the UK. Will be interesting to see how it changes the tone of the series.

I actually bought a game for the first time in years so I could play this. It's great fun, although I've only got past the 1st round once in two days, so I've gone out and bought a games controller (have been using the keyboard so far) so I can see if it helps.

This one took me by surprise. The Vegaboys' hit "Sha La La La La" was a cover of a 1973 track by Danish glam-rock band The Walkers - TzNKVoeft6A

I imagine that they would have to go into a "bubble" together prior to the show if they can, but for those with a greater number of members, they may have to be more creative with how they present themselves, which might be easier for a choir to perform in separate places, less so for a dance act.

Ooh, lovely. Will get my thinking hat on for this.

Looking forward to seeing what ends up closer to the top on this, although I have to admit I do enjoy a lot of the songs that have already gone, Against All Odds aside ("Saturday Night" is naff but cheesy fun, albeit obviously not the best song of that name). "Ready or Not", alongside "I Don't Wanna Know" by Mario Winans are one of the few times that two completely different songs that sample the same song have reached the top spot, both of which sample "Boadicea" by Enya.

A lot of people who would normally be sympathetic to the Tories have been particularly aghast at Claire Fox being awarded a peerage, due to her defending the IRA bombing of Warrington (which I don't think she ever apologised for), as well as being affiliated with a with a Revolutionary Communist Party who denied the Bosnian genocide. I've said before that I want the House of Lords reformed, although I wouldn't want it as an elected chamber (at the moment, although it's not as well known, a good lot of the members that join the House of Lords are elected), instead I would want its membership to be decided by random from any interested person that wants to join the HoL, with anyone successful in the ballot serving for a 10 year period. That way it would be more representative of the population of the UK, and allows it to fulfill what I perceive to be its main function, which is to be a chamber for scrutiny.

"Sunchyme" is one of my favourite songs of the 90s, and I haven't been a fan of Clean Bandit since "Rather Be", but I can't complain about potentially seeing the former getting their first chart credit in nearly 20 years. I see they had to transpose it a few semitones to make it fit though.

StopCOVID NI. Up to 19,000 downloads so far. Not sure how many people need to use it for it to be of really useful benefit, although I imagine getting to 6 figures would be a good start.

Northern Ireland has just released its Track & Trace app. Was able to get it installed just as it went live, although the website's now rather slow. 2,000 people have downloaded the app already.

Northern Ireland has now gone 15 days without a COVID death.

Went for "Music Is My Radar" to start, one I was never keen on when I first bought the compilation. Is there a reason why "Charmless Man" & "She's So High" haven't been included in this?

When you download a song from iTunes, YOU DO NOT OWN THE DOWNLOAD. You are merely buying the license to listen to it. It's been known for many years that this is the case (here's an article dating from 2011 about this.!), but it isn't well known by the public in general, hence why they have the right to remove your download at a later date. Say what you want about physical media, but 5 years down the line HMV doesn't come into your home and take your CDs once a licensing term is up.

The song that saved 6music :D

Fun(ish) fact - there are the same amount of songs that have Joy Division in their titles that have been UK Top 75 singles than have been hits for the band (just the two so far). I doubt that will change this week, but would love to see it happen.

They shouldn't.

I had it in my head that "Don't Panic" charted in the lower reaches of the Top 40, but I must have got it mixed up with "Shiver". It's probably their most well known "album track" due to its use in films & TV shows over the years.

What's caused The Lightning Seeds to enter?

Just bought a flat so was literally a week too late to take advantage of the stamp duty changes. I'm hoping that Subway is included in the 50% food discount.

There was a vote on it once, in 1973 (admittedly long before either of us were born), with Remain winning 99% of the vote (due to a nationalist boycott).

-0.03, 0.61 Puts me on the "Left-wing, conservative" side of the scale, as I expected.

He's not running. (Says the fellow who confidently stated in 2015 that Donald Trump was only running for president as a publicity stunt to promote his latest series of The Apprentice).

When was the last time that Radio 1 playlisted a Eurovision track? I don't even think Queen Loreen got that honour.

The Rolling Stones could squeak into the top 40 based on those midweeks, although it will very much be touch and go.