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£19.99 for the 5 record Eurovision LP is the deal of the year. The Extra vinyl 1985-1989 set has halved in price very quickly, it's the only one I'm massively bothered about in that sale that I don't already have, but at the same time don't have £49.99 for it right now. I'm going to have to get Yearbook 1971 at the weekend as Amazon couldn't deliver it today.

Michael Patrick Kelly on the new single From 90s cult band of all things kitsch The Kelly Family, but now quite a respected solo star in Germany.

Not overly enamoured by this one. She performed it live at the London concert and I thought it was nice, with great vocals, but melodically and thematically too similar to Rise Up for me to get too excited by.

Trance classic Gouryella by Gouryella. In fact, it's the only word in the whole song.

It could be worse, the big memorable song of my prom in 2003 was Ignition Remix, which was No.1 at the time. And Say Goodbye by S Club was No.2 and right there thematically (we were literally saying goodbye to school for good that evening) but all of my 'cool' peers were well past S Club by that point. -- I like PJ and Duncan but agree with Jim, as a 1994 song, not 2013. Without the context of why it reappeared it looks ridiculous in the list, but on the other hand Ant & Dec have been such a cultural force for so long that it feels right they finally got a No.1 single to their name at some point, it's just a shame it didn't happen in the 90s or with We're On The Ball. Talk Dirty is not for me, in fact I can't think of a Jason Derulo song I have enjoyed post 2010. Maybe Breathing, which ended up being a flop by his standards anyway, oops.

I loved Blurred Lines at the time. It's a little marred these days but still is a bit of a groove, it just reminds me that Pharrell was everywhere in a 12 month period, on three gigantic hits. I feel like a lot of these biggest seller of the year type songs are very of their time. Obviously this was especially the case in the 00s with charity and reality stuff, but even in the 2010s, you never really hear Love The Way You Lie or Blurred Lines too much these days compared to other songs from their years. Not a fan of the 1D song so can support that being this low. They had some strong singles but this wasn't one of them, I'd even forgotten it was a mash-up with Teenage Kicks as I never really want to listen to it all the way through.

Such sad news, the queen of country, a true legend, and seemed like a thoroughly decent and very fun person. RIP.

Now have confirmed the vinyl of Yearbook '71 is delayed to 2nd October but the CD is coming out still this Friday. It doesn't affect me as I don't buy the vinyl editions of the 70s releases. It will be interesting to see how the chart position is affected as I'm not sure what the CD/vinyl breakdown is. It needs just over 3.5k to get to No.1.

Of the remixes, I really love Can't Speak French (Tony Lamezma's Radio Edit), it sounds like a mash-up with Tomcraft's Loneliness, and now I'm wishing an official mash-up existed. I had heard the Sexy! No No No... (Development Track) before because it was on the bonus disc in their singles box set which I still have (and is apparently worth over £100 now).

Very alt bloc. Liking the darkwave influence on this! Although can see how it maybe didn't fit the album.

Voted as I'm not free tonight to join the listenthrough unfortunately. This was such a good edition, my favourite yet. I loved 12 songs and sad not to be able to give anything to two of them. From the list of names in the mix, the top five that I voted for is the complete opposite of what I would have expected, so many pleasant surprises in here.

Michele is more my thing so I voted that of the two remaining. Can't promise I'd vote for it but sounds like the sort of song that might be around my lower votes or commiserations depending on competition.

I think so but was probably 'send any entry again' rather than just underappreciated flops. Obviously some countries who do well every single month would only have about four entries to choose from 🤣

We need to do a 'Let's Go Round Again' spin-off to bring back one of our old entries for another bite of the cherry. Maybe the rules could be they were either a DNQ or bottom 10 in the final. Some of these really old entries could definitely do better now, I can't remember Expialidocious but it's very charming and would definitely do better now. Just checked and seems I was in the opposite semi (so maybe didn't hear it back then).

Sunshine Anderson again. Private Emotion is far better imo, such a lovely duet with power and control in the right places vocally and it was nice to see Meja on a top ten hit after All 'Bout The Money missed out.

Hollywood

Daria ze Śląska was most to my taste but I Got A Gun (original) sounds like the biggest hit.

All Out Of Love. Although it could have easily been a Steps single, that One For Sorrow/After The Love Has Gone kind of ABBA throwback formula always works for me. Lately is my favourite of the two Lisa singles there, but I don't listen to that or Too Far Gone very much. Electric on the other hand...

Think I'd rather Rein Me In continues than sub-30k No.1s. Where on earth are the big hits this year? That said I'd be happy to see Choosin' Texas get there, just a shame it hasn't grown a bit further. As much as it's fun to see Ultra Naté in the running for a No.1, I'm not a fan of that track.

Samson was robbed blind. One of my favourite songs.

I think you’re great at the last category so voted that. The other two may bring you more success though. Can Herbilore make my podium for a third month in a row?

I've not got time to format this with all the runs, but posting for posterity in case nobody else gets round to it: Radio 2 Playlist: 22/08/26 A List Ariana Grande - Tracks from petal Carly Rae Jepsen - Don’t Leave Me On The Dancefloor *Chaka Khan - Chakzilla James Blunt - Tastes Like Summer Jungle - Someday, Somewhere ^ KATSEYE - Animal Koe Wetzel Feat Ella Langley - Jaded Lulu - I'm In Love Again Madonna & Kylie - Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix) Sam Smith Feat The TwoCity Chorus - Oh Mother B List Alex Warren - Rescuer Brandon Flowers - Tiger's Blood Cast - Calling Out Your Name ^ Dagny - Rain *Dan & Shay - Marry You Again *Jack Savoretti - The One *James Emmanuel - Bridge Over The Tears I’ve Cried KAROL G, Bruno Mars - Still Morgan Wallen - Been By Now Shed Seven - Stand Together C List *Carly Simon - Howl *Jordan Rakei - Enemies *Natalie Imbruglia - Just Drive Stefan Mahendra - Too Late The Womack Sisters - If I Let You Record of the week: Chaka Khan - Chakzilla Album of the week: Brandon Flowers - THRASHER Out: sombr - My Body Isn't Ready [B-B-B-B-A-A-A] The Script - The Crowd Was Singing Wonderwall [B-A-A-A-A] Delta Goodrem - Hologram [B-B-B-B] Jessie Ware - Sauna [B-B-B-B] Paul Heaton Feat. Rianne Downey - Sad Songs and Lawsuits [B-B-B-B] Jess Edie - T&Cs Apply [C-C-C-C] Leon Bridges - Light The Way [C-C-C-C]

I bought all of these. Hi-Gate I'm quite surprised they didn't play. I know the others were all heavily supported on TV music channels (especially The Box darling Vanessa) so became hits that way. Well, I say hits, only two went top 10. Was the Big Brother theme playlisted?

Crazy to see something like Unfinished Sympathy come 2nd last in a semi. I agree it would have only been because people penalised it for being cheap. Oh I still love this Au Revoir Simone song, nice to be reminded of it!

I suppose as Virgin were kind enough to give Now instant access to Stop and Viva Forever, Now considered it would help to sell the albums better to have the fresher hits on there. As I recall, Viva Forever was actually at No.1 the week Now 40 was released and it was always a coup to have the current No.1 single, especially an act as big as that. It would have been nice to have both Too Much and Stop on Now 39 but maybe they were only allowed one, and by the time Now 41 came round there were no other Spice Girls songs to use at that point so they used Too Much then (I agree thought it looks out of place on that album). The Grease Megamix and The Boys Of Summer must be two of the strangest disc openers Now did, retro picks and the megamix was from 1990 anyway, it was You're The One That I Want on its own that recharted at this time. Don Henley had such a brief chart run too.