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Back to Shakedown.

My heart will always be with Alice Deejay, as much as a classic Dog Days Are Over Is. I remember staying up late to hear the radio premiere of Back In My Life (for some reason it was premiered about 10pm, and I was young) and I wasn't disappointed!

With the current No.3 on Now 123. So Now has stake to two thirds of the current top three, just not on the current volume...

I heard the remix of Reba’s Fancy that came second for Dan a few years ago in a pub earlier. Definitely have never heard that before in public, nor expected to, but as it was my 18 that contest I was very much into it.

Fair. I haven't had chance to listen yet as not at home but I noticed Go was listed in the booklet as the 'Radio Edit', which I'm pretty sure I've never even heard as don't listen to the radio so just heard the main version on Spotify.

You checked early for an album you rated 1-star? Maybe they realised the leaked early copies were harming first week sales. I bought it today in HMV, which had loads of copies which was nice to see. Also bought Ariana's album, the Eurovision 2025 vinyl (down from £55 to a bargain £20) and the Super Mario Galaxy Blu-ray - thank goodness it was payday.

Yay… I actually like Rein Me In and Dai Dai the same amount more or less but was ready for something fresh. And Shakira at No.1 would have been a great story to tell as well.

Switching to Baha Men, it's fun and I loved the chart run at the time but it's not exactly one I love. The Cassie song is a gem.

The week that Orson beat Chico and Black Eyed Peas in 2006 was a wafer thin margin for the whole top three. 17,694 / 17,365 / 17,360 The Kate Nash one will always be the worst for me, because it spent so long at No.2 and was one of the year's defining hits. I'd have happily bought 17 copies that week if I'd known, it deserved to be a chart topper.

Yeah Luukered was an emergency placeholder that I kept in there after the drama with Fleeting. Not sure I would have sent it another time tbf, so that worked out very well (yet has cursed me ever since I fear).

I was very far back sadly but enjoyed them dancing to Wannabe.

Flops unite! I saw Avantgardey live the other day btw, they were performing at Hyper Japan. Not Work It though sadly.

Give it to the one who most recently flopped.

We need to start being more inspired I fear. -- I've gone retro with a song that I think is pretty well known in one country in a cult kind of way but nowhere else, and certainly not in the UK.

Surprised Devour is so far behind Luna, thought the former sounded like a gold plated smash!

Utterly bizarre to do this in the dying hours of Thursday when it was there very easily for the taking all week, guess the label got yesterday's figures in and panicked. As I said earlier in the week though, no way they were going to sit back and do nothing, just odd it took this long. It's a shame for me because I agree that Dai Dai is unlikely to get another chance, the World Cup is becoming more of a memory each day. It's done very well to hold up as it has but I can't see it doing so for ages.

Madonna. Lovely production on this song but I'm less enamoured by the melody/chorus.

I didn’t actually know that they sampled the same track until just now. Interesting that two songs released within 12 months by very different acts decided to sample that though.

Would be Denial for me now, love the other three although do like Denial a lot too.

Nice enough yeah. I really liked Gabrielle Aplin and bought the album this came from which was very pleasant too. Her voice sounds lovely in the middle eight. I was never into Heatwave much or really much solo output from Wiley, despite liking most of what he did with Roll Deep. The chorus on this could be stronger for me really.

Shakira, Robyn and Natasha top 40. Artists so good that they succeeded through all of the physical, download and streaming eras ❤️ Willing Dai Dai to stay at No.1 but also surprised Sam and his team aren’t putting up more of a fight here? Maybe the Lewis duet version has some legal reason it can’t be released to download (his label didn’t approve it?), but why is Sam not armed at this point with remixes ready to go or the instrumental or something? Anything? I still wouldn’t be surprised to see him take it though as Shakira’s team don’t seem to be doing anything.

I used minidisc at the time too, to record tracks off the radio and split them up so it was more like listening to a CD than a tape. -- I was always quite fond of Go Let It Out, actually I like it far more than D'you Know What I Mean and I'd have rather heard it on their reuinon tour than that, but it wasn't on the setlist as isn't considered one of their classics. The drum pattern at the start is exactly the same as Roxette's Wish I Could Fly from a year earlier.

Take That seemed pretty unstoppable in the mid 90s, yet album sales wise they bettered those highs in the 00s with three consecutive studio albums that were all gigantic. Also Dido’s Life For Rent more or less matched the sales of No Angel, which I wouldn’t have expected at all. Usual rule of thumb is the second album has a far bigger opening week due to pent up hype and then quickly drops off to a far lower total.

Voted! Some of it got a little samey especially in the second half, but a few nice discoveries and I'm very fond of my top three in particular, hope my 12 does well as it really stood out to me.