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Cheerleader. But, both are a liiiiitle bit on the naff side. Do You Really Like It was a big school playground anthem back in the day.

The Taylor thing is really ridiculous. She may as well just have sent out 10k physicals a week for four weeks and have a nice extra extended con, I mean, run at the top.

It’s not new music though, it’s a release of some songs they produced for an Alan Turing Prom over a decade ago. It’s comparable only to something like The Most Beautiful Thing which missed the top 50. I actually did buy it as it’s very moving throughout.

It’s the wonderful Wonderful Life for me. Atmospheric, moody, classy, I love it.

Just to comment on the rest of these episodes, for some reason Day & Night never gelled with me much, I think it felt too Britney-esque and forced for me somehow compared to Billie's first era. Sure, music moved on in two years and she had grown up, but it felt a little bit of a copy. I preferred Something Deep Inside. Masterblaster 2000 is just ok for me, Luvstruck a nice trance instrumental but not incredible, I had no memory of the Charlatans or Bentley Rhythm Ace songs but they were decent. Madasun's Walking On Water was naff really and a big step down from Don't You Worry, the former probably shouldn't have been anywhere near the top 10 and that hype guy didn't work with the style of track. Don't You Worry should have been top 10 for weeks, like it was in Australia. A couple of interesting entries lower down - the theme tune to Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (!) and Don't Play That Song Again, the Steps-esque Eurovision entry from Nicki French, as we turned the page for a new century at the start of our flop era that we never really recovered from aside from the odd entry here and there. I like Reach probably a little bit more than It Feels So Good, but both are classics. I also liked It's My Life due to Tommy and Gina and the talk box return, it felt like a sequel and had great production for me. Gutted we didn't hear I Don't Smoke by DJ Deekline at No.11, such a great use of samples in that. The Belle and Sebastian song was fun, they have so many songs that should have been hits. And down at No.82, Misunderstood by Kick Angel should have charted!

Slowly but surely we are finally granted fresh music in the top 40 and some of the ancient revivals are leaving. Hopefully we won’t have too many more now before the Christmas influx. Happy to see I’ve Seen It enter for Olivia! That was always my favourite album track from the first listen ❤️it’s been viral on TikTok for ages so I’m surprised it took this long.

I like the Fierce cover, I don't know why we never heard of them again after this. Dayz Like That should have been a huge hit, so good. I have to vote honestly and go with Chasing Cars, which I never really loved and it has been in these plenty. I always forget the Chris Cornell song does badly whenever it pops up on anything in here, I thought it was good, a very diverting kind of Bond theme.

My local stopped earlier this year but they were getting so crap anyway at putting them out that I stopped bothering going there to get them. Friday releases wouldn't go on the shelf until Monday earliest, even if you asked them they'd say the delivery "hadn't turned up yet". In my previous retail management days I used to manage the Home & Leisure department (including the entertainment desk) at Asda in Brighton from 2008-2010, admittedly when the music section was a focal point of the store and not just one sad rack. The labels would send the CDs in up to a week in advance so staff can get them ready/put security tags on etc. Although I appreciate how short staffed they must be these days and it's no mean feat having to dig through boxes upon boxes of deliveries out the back to find something, so they probably just pretend it's not there sometimes. On that note, I got Yearbook '71 Extra from Amazon today. Nice to see Nathan Jones on here by The Supremes and If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot is such a classic, unbelievable how low it peaked. Looking forward to listening through.

The Man is not bad, nice soul and has lovely verses and bridge but the chorus interpolation is too corny for me. I loved Bang Bang at the time, all three play off each other well on it, even though I'd rather not listen to Nicki nowadays. Rita's track is pretty good, great production, especially in the chorus. Certainly my second favourite of hers to that point, after Radioactive, but she'd have better to come.

Swedish pop trivia is the only thing I know more about than the act I sent… or is it?

He was runner up in Swedish Idol in 2004! Funny story - they actually did a Big Band week and he sang When I Fall In Love. In the end he finished two places higher than Loreen (!). Agnes won the show the following year.

He looks a good decade younger but Darin is actually touching 40.

I might get this as they’ve had plenty of good singles since the last one that I don’t have elsewhere. Seems pretty comprehensive although the track sequencing doesn’t make a lot of sense.

Paris and her Kingston Town influenced number.

I miss the days when multiple classic singles were released on the same week, but that's what we have in It Feels So Good/Reach/It's My Life. I wonder why Universal didn't stagger them, as Reach could have got past Billie a week earlier, it had been played on the music channels since late April so was ready to go. I don't recall being surprised at the outcome though, in the weeks leading up to release I remember thinking Reach was going to be beaten and wondering why they had gone up against Sonique (whereas, e.g. the No.1 for Madison Avenue did surprise me a little a couple of weeks earlier). Is always funny to think that Sia's first top 10 hit is that long ago, although 20k isn't a hugely impressive sale for 2000.

This whole era is so to my taste too. She's The Best was instant love, Party hasn't left my head for weeks. The album is sonically so lush in parts. Le Boy <3 Gives me strong Air vibes indeed, that outro melody is very dreamy and reminds me of Make It Right by Christian Falk. FF is decent, my least favourite of the three singles so far but I can see why he's gone with it after criticisms for the 'talky' songs.

Loved We Are Done, glad it will be back on streaming (it has been on and off under The Madden Brothers name since release). It deserved to be a wider hit. I believe Joel was a judge on The Voice there in 2014 so had good promo that he lacked elsewhere. Depends on your definition of notable. Chicane's radio edits and remixes have all gone up in the last few weeks, including the 'correct' hit mix of Saltwater from 1999 and not the re-record from around 2008. Also the 2000 No.24 hit You Put Me In Heaven With Your Touch by Rhythm Of Life has gone up this week - notable to me as I love it so much and apparently willed it into existence when I mentioned it in the TOTP thread in the Retro forum last week. Kylie's Christmas No.1 from last year XMAS is now up everywhere, Maria Rubia's Say It too, the No.40 follow up to Everytime You Need Me that I bought on single at the time. Also, Chiara's Angel, which finished 2nd for Malta in Eurovision 2005. So a good few weeks for my taste.

At least he would come top on Big Band week.

Special D! Absolutely loved that.

Rontvian Semi 1 votes are in. I really enjoyed it, despite it not being the billed big bloodbath of the other semi. The back end of the semi was great. Shame to have to leave a couple out as I enjoyed 12 songs a fair bit here, but I expect both of those to get in safely.

This is great, hopefully a finalist, the kind of rock with a character vocal that I enjoy.

Song 4 Lovers on the setlist pls (and the radio edit on Spotify).

In the Rontvian halcyon days a long time ago, I remember sending this song as an AQ after three wins in five contests and being told that it would be last for anyone else haha. It finished 8th, so maybe they were right.

Ok yeah that’s more of a sell. Liberty X as a five would be nice to see again, I enjoyed seeing them at The Big Reunion.

Joining in with Kelly, but it’s ok. The worst single from the era for me though as I liked Train On A Track after it.