Maestro

One week Fame is a Gun will actually enter

Looks like Rein Me In will take it. Hope So Easy can get there too, fan of both

“Love the Way You Lie” was #1 on the 2010 YE despite never making #1

Based on Spotify it declined for 6 straight weeks between 20/11 and 25/12

Great numbers from Charli Withering Heights by Kate Bush re-enters at #199. Feel like not a coincidence

I am once again nominating 'Fame is a Gun' to enter this week, is up to #57 on Spotify YTD. No idea what drops out tbh. Maybe 'Turn the Lights Off' or 'I Think We're Alone Now'.

Oh it’s close

#82 (re) Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me You love to see it

Will the second version of Just the Way You Are be combined with the original do we think?

Will almost certainly be surpassing it next week

I’m very surprised that I’m in a minority of thinking Rein Me In is an amazing song. My favourite hit from last year probably

Excluding Christmas songs what is the biggest climb to #1? Perfect? Could Rein Me In beat that?

Looks like Dracula is combined today

Man I Need by miles

Very kind of you to take a holiday so that I could catch up with my predictions

wow, have been crazy busy so only just caught up fully with week 4 and 5, thankfully Julian hasn't done week 6 just yet. Out of week 5's entries, only 'One Dance' has made a year end before (#1 in 2016 and #80 in 2017). Given its poor ratio, I can't see 'Boys Don't Cry' holding on for the whole year, even though I would love it too. Been a bit out of touch with the charts, but I still think 'Fame is a Gun' is a good shout to enter in week 6, which is asof week 5 the highest song on the Spotify YTD not in the OCC list following 'One Dance' and 'Boys Don't Cry' now entering here. That said we'll probably get some random old song instead.

Wow

This is literally ACR

If new songs aren’t able to chart with all the restrictions already against old songs then they don’t deserve to be there. Simple.

That’s really poor from BPI given the album was released in 2017

How many weeks in a row over 50k now for Man I Need

Wasn’t expecting this to reach 5x for a while. Love to see it, one of my favourite songs

It can go to ACR and get reset on the same week. Has happened before

With the exception of Christmas, Man I Need has been #1 since last August basically. ACR is just distorting things to make the chart appear more interesting

Forgot to do my overview on last week's entries' year end history. Midnight Sun has obviously never made a year end chart before. Sex on Fire has made five previous year end's including last year (2008: #7, 2009: #18, 2023: #100, 2024: #70, 2025: #89) Dakota was #40 in 2005 and most likely #101 last year. Dakota is also yet to chart on audio streaming this year, joining A Bar Song, Mystical Magical and the two Sam Fender songs in that category Let's see what next week brings