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That earlier post saying as of now, in late July, just 20 songs released this year have made the Top 10... As someone who got into the charts in the late 90s, I find that staggering. You'd have hit 20 by early/mid February back then. I understand the argument that the charts are meant to reflect what's popular. But if everyone in Britain wanted to listen to Wonderwall in 1999, they'd play their Wonderwall single or What's The Story CD (that they bought in 1995) a few times. And those plays wouldn't count for any chart. Now they do count. And it's killing the top 40 stone dead. I think they have to change the rules somehow to narrow the time window of what music qualifies for the chart (just like physical availability did for decades pre streaming). Otherwise a few years from now it's hard to see where any new chart songs or artists are going to come from.

+5 Stupid Song +4 3 Lions +3 Free Your Mind +2 Hate That I... +1 I Knew It... -1 Wonderwall -2 Talk To You -3 Dai Dai -4 RMI -5 Choosin Texas

I agree that people should listen, and always have listened, to old music at least as much as whatever's come out in the last couple of months. At the same time, I want the top 40 to reflect whatever's come out in the last couple of months. That feels like its main job to me. A pretty static list of the songs across the whole history of music that people are listening to the most is... I don't know, just not very interesting or relevant. Certainly doesn't need presented every week. Once a year would do.

This! Brilliant post. I fear the notion of the "top 40 fan" is dwindling to near-zero given what the top 40 has become. I'm about 90% less interested than I used to be. 100% already for November and December.

+5 The cure +4 free your mind +3 stupid song +2 american girls +1 I knew it,... -1 drop dead -2 hate that I... -3 RMI -4 Billie Jean -5 Choosin Texas

Listening on a delay, first time listening to the chart in a couple of months (have largely lost interest given how stale it is) Sadly not many of the new ones are making much impression on me. Earrings and Anotr / 54 Ultra are dull as dishwater

Everyone overlooking a shock Swiss win here. Get Celine's Eurovision song back in the chart!

Is it though? I've barely heard it anywhere despite watching most England games in the pub and loads of the world cup on TV. If England do win, can't see Wonderwall being inextricably linked with it in years to come ala RUTH with Stranger Things or 3 Lions with Euro 96.

I love songs like Common People (one of my all time faves), Bittersweet Symphony, Tender, Children etc... But in my head they are #2 singles forever. (Same as Paranoid Android, Hey Boy Hey Girl etc are #3s) I don't want them to have a random chart run 30 years later that bumps their chart history up to being #1. Unless they truly have a cultural phenomenon moment ala Running Up That Hill, which makes their second coming as relevant as the first time round. It just wouldn't feel very authentic to me.

Next week could see England winning a world cup quarter final and semi final and getting built up for the final... so a football song could do enough for #1?

Drop Dead beating The Cure is an... interesting... take Buzzjack! I like the new song in the top 10, quite 90s. +5 The cure +4 Free your mind +3 American Girls +2 Stupid song +1 I knew it... -1 Drop dead -2 Hate that I... -3 RMI -4 Billie Jean -5 Choosin texas

This would have been a mighty chart week in the naughties! Madonna, Kylie, Take That, Snow Patrol, Celine

Sombr's new song is his best since the first album, so it can keep climbing. Usually hate ancient songs getting reset, but it's such an injustice that Robyn peaked lower than the atrocity by Callum whoever it was that I'm all for it getting a reset, a week a #1, then retreating to ACR before it gets overplayed. Can't imagine anything played in a hydration break is going to go big on Spotify - they're causing nothing but rage among most fans!

Very close results from last week. One other person voting could have swapped everything around from 1 to 6. +5 the cure +4 American girls +3 stupid song +2 drop dead +1 I knew you... -1 hate that I made you... -2 beat it -3 Rein me in -4 Billie jean -5 choosing texas

+5 the cure +4 midnight sun +3 drop dead +2 stupid song +1 beat it -1 ariana -2 Billie Jean -3 rmi -4 Taylor swift -5 dracula

Do we know how RMI has avoided? Midweek posts on here suggested it was well down on streams for the week, while the market was up?

Between Taylor Swift doing whatever nonsense has stolen her the #1, and RMI avoiding ACR, this has got to be up there with worst chart weeks of all time

+5 the cure +4 go +3 hate that I... +2 I knew you... +1 midnight sun -1 beat it -2 Janice -3 Rein me in -4 Billie Jean -5 dracula

The Who and Led Zep for me. Seemed a slam dunk that bands that big in the 60s and 70s got a couple of #1s. I was shocked when I first heard neither had (though later found out Led Zep didn't really do singles).

+5 The cure +4 Go +3 Midnight Sun +2 Hate that I... +1 Beat It -1 RMI -2 Janice stfu -3 Billie Jean -4 Lush Life -5 Dracula

Amen to all of this

Pleaseeeee tell me someone on this forum who's got sensible ideas how to sort ACR and rescue the November / December charts also happens to be a data analyst and influential communicator with a perfect CV for this job...

I've fully escaped it and didn't even realise they were doing yet another Toy Story until just now 🙈 (They really should have stopped at 3, that film was the perfect ending)

The best new song of the year lifting this top 10 out of the rut it's been in recently... +5 the cure +4 drop dead +3 go +2 midnight sun +1 beat it -1 rein me in -2 janice stfu -3 billie jean -4 lush life -5 dracula