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Some good debuts in this chart, I still like that Manics track and Donnell Jones (enhanced by the Left Eye version), very smooth R&B track. Cool to see Scooch and Point Break taking advantage of the low sales climate to score bigger hits too, I do really like all four of the singles from that first Scooch album (When My Baby less than the following three but it's catchy and fun at least). I was also so impressed by the longevity of Alice Deejay (again), leaving the top ten to then return for another month was very unusual at that time.

Looks like my top four are still here while I like the remaining song too and it would be in my top 15. Price Tag is a good track, I did like Jessie in her debut era and B.o.B worked well on it.

Was this recorded during the B'day era? Surprised as it sounds nothing like that album. It's ok background music only for me. I ended up being quite fond of a lot of the singles, remixes and visuals from that era, it ended up generating a lot of hits in the end, but as a complete album she's definitely had better.

Work Your Magic is easily my favourite entry from Belarus, and one of my top three from that year along with Russia and Bulgaria (great year for the east). The production is very Bond, it has a big chorus, and he had a striking look (at the time people said he looked like Princess Diana's long lost son). I wouldn't say I ever really enjoyed a single one of their other entries to the point I still play it today. Maybe only My Galileo for the novelty of it being their first entry and being such a strange song straight out of the gate (in terms of that vocal anyway).

Great timing for PSB, brave week to release and finally got a top ten single off that album. I also absolutely love that song, it's hugely underrated and definitely in my PSB top ten.

Definitely Nu Generation at this point. I remember thinking the track was so short for a hit single in 2000 but now just over two minutes is fairly standard.

I do quite like Give Me Everything, more for 'club night nostalgia' than anything else. That Kodak line was amazing free marketing for them! Heart still play it constantly, but often a short edit with just Ne-Yo's part over and over again, it's quite odd really as the track is nothing without the Pitbull raps.

Savage Love (Laxed - Satie Beat) As we seek to avoid our first DNQ hat-trick since the dark days of summer 2013 (that was how you end a consecutive qualification run of 42 in some style), we turn to our old friend Swedish pop and the brilliant artist Esther with her new single Savage Love. Stockholm-based Esther (Lennstrand), who incorporates the vibraphone into her electronic pop music, launched in 2019 but only last month released her excellent debut album Fragmentality, which features a lot of lovely and unusually structured electronic pop songs. Ricardo Delta explains the choice of Savage Love: "Two and a half minutes of pop perfection, Savage Love has twinkly production almost reminiscent of Zero 7 at times, but with an urgency and quirkiness only found in Swedish indie-pop. We saw Esther supporting The Cardigans last month – the band hand-picked her as its support act so you knew she was bound to be good – and good she was; such a talent on the vibraphone, and this delightful track interpolates Satie's classical masterpiece Gymnopédie No. 1. Throw in a video full of charm and we had to take a chance on another Swedish pop entry, and to dare to dream for more than DJ Suzy achieved a few months ago. We hope you enjoy! Esther has also toured with Lykke Li, Kite, Amason, bob hund, Deportees, and Miike Snow. Savage Love hit the top of the Rontvian charts on release in June, seeing off competition from the likes of Taylor Swift and Delta Goodrem.

Yeah, it's been quite some time since they released a truly essential track for me. Probably going back to These Days. I did like Cry, Giants, Hey Boy and This Life a fair bit but they are not top tier for me.

Landslides being called already, people must have checked all the entries very swiftly!

Lest we forget Scooch's other No.5 smash Flying The Flag (For You)!

Unexpectedly funky kind of track, a definite improvement on You're A Superstar. I still wouldn't say it's setting my world alight tbh, I sound like a broken record but I'd love a big ballad.

I think it's hard to compare the periods. There were more focused channels for promotion, but the options were very narrow. If you weren't on kids TV, in magazines, on the music channels, or the radio, or had a strong existing fanbase, you didn't stand much chance of charting. And if your single wasn't available in major stores you pretty much stood no chance. And then there were only ever about 100 songs vying for buyer attention in the shops at any given time, a lot fewer in shops like Woolworths and the supermarkets. Now consumers can pick from millions of songs easily. So we had far less choice, and therefore were hungry for whatever new product that emerged, particularly when it was trailed for six weeks in advance of release.

Thanks Gezza, looking forward to it. Enjoyed the first few weeks. I need to dig out my copy of New Hits 2000 as it has a fair amount of songs covered on these episodes, some not on any other compilations, like Stand Tough by Point Break which I completely forgot how catchy it was. That Scooch song was far better than they were probably given credit at the time for too, as good as many Steps singles.

Ooh quite a swift recycle for Man/Woman/Chainsaw, hopefully you can improve on my 13th with them. A very inspired list overall, I don't think I've heard many at all so looking forward to listening.

I do like this track, and loved the follow up Friend or Foe, which flopped here. I guess at least they got one extra hit that avoided them being a one era wonder, the song definitely does sound like early Veronicas so the co-write there makes sense. Gomenasai probably deserved to be a UK hit too.

Very well although with one caveat - I ought to send more pop, which probably makes up a good third of my music listening but probably not a third of my entries. I am sending pop this time though.

Thanks Gezza, has been such a great thread to follow. Such terrible sales that week, I remember listening live and being surprised S Club 7 were still to come when they got top the top two. Shame they couldn't quite go all the way there. Glad Steps managed to avoid missing the top five too with that climb.

Be interesting to see the Three Lions boost. It took England reaching the semis for it to go stratospheric in 2018, but you could argue the shock factor of that happening at the time took it even further; the song was absolutely everywhere then in a way I haven't noticed so far this year. Since that point we've reached two Euros finals so maybe the novelty of getting so deep has worn off a touch. I think it would take England reaching the final for it to go to No.1 again.

Would love to see Paolini win personally. But Osaka was so impressive! That was a tough match up for a round of 16 for Sabalenka as Osaka's 14th seeding doesn't reflect her capability. You never really know what to expect in the women's game at Wimbeldon, the consistency of great consecutive results in this tournament seems almost non-existent in today's era.

Very Love The Way You Lie vibes with the rap/sung chorus here, although I guess that was a hallmark of the turn of the decade charts. Again, it's a track I like but don't love. Emeli's solo version was absolutely inescapable the following year.

Interesting facts about the 120BPM thing @Highway Unicorn ! And nice to hear about your associated memories with the songs @Paddington James . I'm realising that I liked but don't love the majority of 2011 No.1s. The Kesha and Olly songs are both decent but I wouldn't have ranked them any higher. Grenade, again, good, but I preferred Just The Way You Are by quite a distance.

Super impressive performance, especially with England being down to 10 for so much. Getting those two Bellingham goals in before that happened was such a boon. I wasn't able to stay up but put my phone on airplane mode and watched the replay from 7-9 on BBC2 so could avoid spoilers that way. It was a funny reminder how in this day and age spoilers are basically pushed to you left right and centre, as as soon as I turned airplane mode off about five notifications came in from various sources sent early this morning.

Ashlee's song is way better than that Mis-Teeq filler (probably the only one of their top 10 hits I don't care for). Boyfriend is another I bought at the time, I really liked Ashlee's music. The Tide Is High was a very fun cover that I've always been fond of. I liked the extra 'Get The Feeling' section.

Daz Sampson Going for One True Voice, both sides of this single were as exciting as watching paint dry.