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For RMI to be replaced after 23 weeks by a song that is somehow an order of magnitude even more anodyne is not for me. Anything but Ella please

+5 the cure +4 moving to the sun +3 on 2nite +2 hate that I... +1 great expectation -1 jolene -2 rmi -3 man I need -4 boston -5 choosing texas

Fontaines and Westside Cowboy both hanging on to their respective milestones 😍😍😍

I imagine the Dolly Parton entries might narrowly deny Fontaines a Top 20 singleand perhaps Westside Cowboy a Top 5 album, but really good performances by both either way

I've been trying since the day I saw them on Jools (admittedly a bit behind the curve since I watched on iPlayer)... all their UK shows fully sold out. Even had a look at some overseas ones, also sold out! A guitar band with this much buzz around them in the 00s would have had a couple of top 10 singles by now!

Westside Cowboy 🙌🙌🙌 Not been this happy to see an album top 3 in the midweeks since Royston Club! Best new band of the year for me (not that it's a crowded field these days 😥) Also pleased to see Fontaines hold at 15 from Sunday to Monday. Bodes well for a new highest charting song.

+5 the cure +4 on 2nite +3 hate that I... +2 moving to the sun +1 great expectation -1 dai dai -2 rmi -3 man i need -4 boston -5 choosing texas

New Fontaines 😍😍😍 Love it, the last minute is sublime A bit sad they didn't go for a Friday release and push for a big first week (top 20?) but oh well

+5 stupid song +4 hate that I... +3 moving to the sun +2 on 2nite +1 great expectation -1 dai dai -2 love sensation -3 rmi -4 Boston -5 choosing texas

No-one who's ever heard it? 😅

Am I reading that table correctly - that only 4 of the top 20 biggest YTD songs for 2026 were released in 2026?? Jesus wept. It's August!

Been absolutely obsessed with Westside Cowboy (and trying unsuccessfully to get tickets for any UK show) since I saw them on Jools the other month. If there's any justice they'll be huge

+5 the cure +4 free your mind +3 stupid song +2 movin to the sun +1 dai dai -1 hate that I... -2 rmi -3 man i need -4 talk to you -5 choosing texas

Not these days but pretty much every man and woman from my parents' generation knew it. (And then it had a million selling cover in the 90s by Robson and Jerome but we don't need to talk about that)

They made the result a bit obvious with Jack's hyping and the huge amount of time left at end of the show. Pretty underwhelmed about our new record. RMI is more of a One Dance than it is an Everything I Do... or an I Believe in terms of recognition and memorability

The way Jack's been talking, he's set up the show to be a huge anticlimax if RMI doesn't get the record

Amused by the "Dai Dai will have its time again at the next World Cup" chat on the day the World Cup tears itself apart 😅

+5 the cure +4 stupid song +3 free your mind +2 hate that I... +1 I knew it... -1 Wonderwall -2 talk to you -3 dai dai -4 rmi -5 choosing texas

All down to colour variants etc

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