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Oops, New Lexico the second of my votes to depart. I guess that really was in the wrong semi but I thought that was a good country tinged pop track. Shame they didn't get the AQ.

The two halves of my taste in electronic music in one post!

Bronzil robbed, it was such a unique entry and an earworm, thank you for the discovery Jim. 15 points!!

Great Qs so far, always good to see an anniversary entry make it. Delighted for Jupiter too as that's the best thing I've heard by The Aces.

I’m going for Candy here. Reach is a pop classic but I was obsessed with Candy - it topped my personal chart at the time. It was very Cheiron sound without being a production of theirs - it’s very similar to Do You Know (What It Takes) by Robyn. I was surprised the song only got to No.6 here but did so well in Australia comparatively.

Mack’s entry was really nice. Sad to see that out. Actually I really like all four of the DNQs so far.

Great mix of qualifiers so far - two personal standouts through in 9 and 10.

Listened to this again yesterday and it was so nice to relive this masterpiece the way it was intended to be heard. I also played it to my partner who had never heard it back in the day and she loved it. I can't remember hearing Fighting Spirt before but definitely remember Super Pop, so I must have come across it back in the day on an MP3 site or something. It's interesting to hear the alternative direction the album could have gone in but I think the correct choice of producer was made. The Archigram remix of Hung Up is brilliant, never heard that one before. Love the crunching electro feel to it, will definitely add that to my keepers playlist.

I love an Aussie novelty…but not that one. LeAnn Rimes gets my vote!

Sticking with McFly. Good showing for Boyzone.

Probably some Christmas market type album aimed at an older audience. Andre Rieu had one about four years ago that went 12-12-6. You're In My Heart by Rod Stewart went 3-2-1 at the end of 2019. Presumably there is something in the 2020s though.

I really like Mmmbop, a great wistful quality to that, with some lovely chord structure in the verses (a bit reminiscent to the verses of Unpretty by TLC). Never been that big on Men In Black, I think Will released better singles in 1998 that didn't get to the top.

She's on her flight to PFSC Special Best Pop of 2025, currently set to land in around two months.

It is funny to me that Sex On The Beach was deemed to be too risque to show on the main programme back in 1998, what if it had gone one place higher? Surely it was no different to playing I Wanna Sex You Up.

Great news, and I love the cover. Glad they are persisting with these as it's a good way to fill the dance song gaps from the year.

Agreed. I stepped away from the screen for five minutes when it got played on the listenthrough so it might have looked like a non reaction from me, but actually it's really solid country tinged pop, and while people say this is the alt semi, I count at least 8 pop countries here and the votes are going somewhere. Also the Bronzil song has been in my head since I first heard it, so the DNQ predix for that are something I hope doesn't come true.

Lonely is one I really disliked at the time, and I haven't mellowed much to it. I don't mind the verses and the production is nice in place, but the chipmunk chorus which started a whole trend off was more than a little annoying and was everywhere. The Elvis double a is ok. My dad was obsessed with Elvis so I knew both songs, and the majority of his material, very well, and neither is among his best or deserving of such a landmark No.1. Agreed that we missed some classic singles in that reissue series because they didn't quite get to the top originally.

Millennium was so massive at the time, especially on the radio, but I don't hear it so much anymore, clever use of sample and title (everyone was talking about the millennium at the time). Sex On The Beach I always found a bit annoying and very dated sounding, it felt like it should have been a 1996/early 97 hit, but I do remember it being everywhere at the time. Good to see Finally Found, Crush, One For Sorrow and To The Moon and Back were all hanging around. And Aerosmith on their way up although that performance they keep playing is rough quality to watch, I always forget how bad satellite streams looked back in the 90s. I was not much a fan of I Want You Back, a bit repetitive and flat as the first solo Spice No.1 for me, although parts of the production are good. I don't remember it being played a lot at the time so guess it had a lot of name power getting it to the top. Love Someone Loves You Honey. I saw a lot of people on Twitter last night saying it copied I Wanna Be The Only One by Eternal - I can hear similarities but this song was a cover of a much older song anyway as mentioned, and just produced in Lutricia's usual style, so I don't think it's as cynical as people think. The two best debuts this week for me were just outside the top ten, but both lingered around for a few weeks - The Incidentals by Alisha's Attic is such a beauty, but yet another 11-15 peaking hit for them. They were so underrated, there's no reason this shouldn't have gone top ten. You can hear the songwriting skills here that would lead Karen Poole to such success as a songwriter in the future, and Shelley has such a lovely voice. And sequenced next to it on Now 41, Deetah's lovely Relax, which I constantly forget about as it wasn't even on Yearbook or Extra '98 to remind people of it. Such a good use of sample from Dire Straits, and a cool rap reminiscent of Betty Boo, with a nice chorus - another Swedish hit from 1998.

Vitamin C, surprised it was never pushed properly in the UK, it's one of many songs with a lovely use of Canon, love the very classical middle eight too. Sure I read somewhere once that the inspiration for Whole Again came from this song, they were trying to recreate the same kind of mid-tempo plod of it. So maybe Atomic Kitten's entire post-Kerry existence can be traced back to this song. One song definitely inspired by it that was a hit here is We Dance On by N-Dubz, same sample I know but the intros are also pretty similar, they use the source material in a very similar way. Rise is great, but it's going to get every other vote here and I didn't want Vitamin C to end on zero because it's a lovely, nostalgic piece.

Entered just now, fun quiz Liam. Interested to see if there's a big range of answers for some.

Four British females in the top five (if indeed we count Florence as solo), wow! Also all of the top three being women that have been active since the 00s is great to see, because female longevity hasn't always been easy to achieve sadly, especially for British women. Loving Lily's rise to No.2, very unusual indeed for a top five debuting album to climb in its second week in this day and age, but then I suppose if it's a digital only release still gaining momentum then it figures. We might see more of it in the future.

Wow, that is a lot of new songs to add two months later, I'll remember next time to wait for a few months before buying because he pulled the same trick with the Tour Collection. Intrigued to hear them all, either way.

Just seen on Twitter someone saying it was right there to call the cat, Cat Slater 🤣 The mistaken identity of Zoe calling 'cattttt, catttt' would have also provided a bit of light relief to what is a very dark, dull and dingy time for the show right now. Bit worried about this producer's early tenure as we were spoilt last year for quality.

I don't think this song reinvents the wheel musically, nor does it need to as a Christmas novelty/exclusive, but it does something very obvious that I don't think has been done before in spelling out X M A S like a cheerleader along with the hand dance routine to spell out each letter individually, and then repeating that ad nauseum. Sometimes doing something actually very obvious that somebody hasn't yet thought of is the way to sticking in people's heads in a crowded and established market like Christmas music. Surprised Steps never did it back in their heyday.

I like it myself too, it's the first Katy single (being the operative word as I liked Wonder from 143) that I've gone back to for more listens since Daisies. I always personally liked the One of the Boys era more than any other of hers, so it figures that I'd like this as has a similar vibe.