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01 (01) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (01) (07) (3 weeks) 02 (03) PVA - Okay (02) (05) 03 (02) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (02) (05) 04 (07) Metric - Victim of Luck (04) (05) 05 (10) The Orielles - Tears Are (05) (04) 06 (08) James Blake - Death of Love (06) (06) 07 (04) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (09) (2 weeks) 08 (05) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (05) (07) 09 (15) American Football - Bad Moons (09) (03) 10 (17) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (10) (06) 11 (06) Daughter - Not Enough (03) (09) 12 (09) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (09) 13 (11) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (11) (06) 14 (25) Damon Albarn feat. Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags (14) (02) 15 (20) Art School Girlfriend - Doing Laps (15) (04) 16 (18) Milky - Just The Way You Are (Mall Grab Remix) (16) (04) 17 (12) Robyn - Talk To Me (06) (09) 18 (38) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - I Danced With Another Love In My Dream (18) (02) 19 (13) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (10) (2 weeks) 20 (24) James Blake - I Had a Dream She Took My Hand (20) (03) 21 (30) Temples - Jet Stream Heart (21) (02) 22 (14) Anna Prior - Silence (14) (06) 23 (21) SAULT - Chapter 1 (13) (08) 24 (27) Nothing - Cannibal World (24) (03) 25 (16) Harry Styles - Aperture (10) (08) 26 (28) Pulp - Begging for Change (26) (04) 27 (34) Young Fathers - Don't Fight The Young (27) (02) 28 (**) Metric - Time Is a Bomb (28) (01) 29 (19) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (11) (07) 30 (23) Charli XCX - Always Everywhere (22) (04) 31 (44) Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee (31) (01) 32 (35) Whitelands - I Am No God, An Effigy (32) (02) 33 (22) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (03) (11) 34 (50) Lykke Li - Lucky Again (34) (01) 35 (31) Jessie Ware - Ride (31) (03) 36 (26) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (14) (3 weeks) 37 (**) Lava La Rue - Scratches (37) (01) 38 (32) Dapnhi - Hang (26) (05) 39 (29) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (13) 40 (36) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (16) (2 weeks)

77 - 17/04/2006 The Flaming Lips - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song Chart Run: 01-02-06-10-09-11-10-17-18-20-22-28-32-39 (14 weeks) The Flaming Lips had a big early hit on my chart, featuring on The Golden Path with The Chemical Brothers, and followed it up with another #1 single when they returned. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song became their 6th, final, and highest charting UK hit at #16 (going one place higher than The Golden Path (#17), which had also gone one place higher than Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - Part 1 (#18)). It was a fun indie bop which I enjoyed a lot for a brief period, and was rare in being a song of theirs I did, their Yoshimi album is good but they're not a band I've got into much. They had three more minor solo hits for me, and one more top 10 in 2017 with Vessels. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song isn't something I listen to very often now, but it was a nice enough reminder of it, they're just not a band I've ever got into much. 2026 Rating: 7/10 Songs kept from #1: Infernal - From Paris to Berlin The big Eurodance hit of the summer gets an unlikely runners-up spot here, surprised myself in checking! It was another all new top 3 with Australian rock band Wolfmother rounding it out with Dimension. Without having checked all the future ones, probably what I'd now consider to be the weakest top 3 of the year.

76 - 03/04/2006 Gnarls Barkley - Crazy Chart Run: 01-01-04-03-04-04-04-05-07-16-17-18-24-29-36-40 (16 weeks) The second of three #1 singles shared with the UK Chart comes in the form of smash hit Crazy by the duo Gnarls Barkley. I was definitely caught up in the hype and absolutely loved the song, how it came from nowhere, set history for being the first song to reach #1 on downloads alone and was the longest running #1 for a good few years! Cee-Lo Green had such a good voice suited to this type of music and worked really well with Danger Mouse's production. I did buy the album at the time and definitely had a period of loving it. It feels like Gnarls Barkley were very much a thing that was of their time, given how huge Crazy was it didn't feel like I heard it in the years that passed as much as other stuff, and this song aside there have been very few times I've felt compelled to listen to them since. It's still a great song, but I don't love it as much as I did back in '06. 2026 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen, Islands - Rough Gem A pair of absolute bangers here. Franz Ferdinand had a hugely successful debut album campaign, but struggled to follow it with their second album. I do really like You Could Have It So Much Better, but it was a poor choice of singles. Do You Want To (#11) and Walk Away (#15) both towards the bottom of it and neither close to matching the peaks of their previous singles, but the album's best song was still to come. Released as a double A side with L Wells The Fallen was unlucky to arrive on the same week as Crazy, I'd rank it #2 behind Take Me Out in their back catalogue. It was a big couple of weeks for releases, with the first week being an entirely new top 5, with #3-5 consisting of Belle and Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue after getting into their album of that year, a blast from the past with the self-titled single Wigwam by Wigwam, a short lived duo consisting of Blur's Alex James and Betty Boo! The Zutons rounded it off with the lead single from their second album, Why Won't You Give Me Your Love. Other great entries into the top 10 were Death Cab for Cutie - Crooked Teeth, and The Fratellis first ever entry, Creeping Up The Backstairs.

I'm not sure I'd choose to listen to any of these, so hard to know how to play this, however I'd probably say Jack Penate is the best of the bunch so will vote to save it.

An Honest Mistake by miles. Maybe Tomorrow is fine, but it's not up with their best work, and even of their slower more mellow (boring) songs they have better to choose from. An Honest Mistake is a true underrated gem of the era.

75 - 27/03/2006 Kanye West feat. Lupe Fiasco - Touch The Sky Chart Run: 02-02-02-01-06-08-12-15-20-24-25-30-32-37 (14 weeks) Each of Kanye West's first five singles charted at a higher position than the previous one, briefly broken by Heard Em Say falling short of the top 10 at the end of 2005, before Touch The Sky took him to the top spot for the first time. His Late Registration album was one I had purchased when it came out, but like a lot of rap albums I never really got into it and thought it was overly long and quite boring, but it had a great set of singles on it, with Touch The Sky being the final one of them, a song definitely amongst the most catchy and accessible of Kanye's, with Lupe Fiasco providing a great chorus to it, and after three weeks of being the runner-up made it to the top before a bumper release week which saw new entries in the whole top 5. It's safe to say my listening to Kanye West has reduced with each passing year, still some great (largely early) songs, but a somewhat odious character I haven't given him much time for a while now. Touch The Sky is fine and still catchy but not a top tier song of his. 2026 Rating: 7/10 Songs kept from #1: The Kooks - Naive Naive was the fourth single from The Kooks debut album to chart for me, and entering at #2 it became comfortably their biggest hit, they would chart twice more from their Inside In/Inside Out album but never again. That initial run of singles are still ones which I listen to, I think Naive was definitely overplayed in various settings over a period of a couple of years, but I do think it's great now.

74 - 27/02/2006 Stellastarr* - Sweet Troubled Soul Chart Run: 01-01-01-01-03-07-07-07-10-12-13-15-16-14-20-22-25-27-39 (19 weeks) 74 entries in to find one which was totally influenced by a member of this site, and as explained in his Q&A thread about the asterisk, @dandy*. Stellastarr* had charted once previously for me, a solitary week at #36 in early 2004 with My Coco, but neither the song or the band really registered with me, I probably heard it once and saw it had been released. With the impending release of their second album Harmonies For The Haunted, Dandy* was singing of their praises and the comparisons with the likes of Editors and contemporaries of Interpol they were an easy sell to me. I listened to their debut album a lot in 2006, never fully got into their second as much but Sweet Troubled Soul was an excellent anthemic single that was deserving of its run at the top. They're a band I've held a lot of fondness for over the last 20 years, their self-titled debut is still brilliant and I'd be more likely to listen to something from that, but Sweet Troubled Soul is still a great song - I probably listen to its follow-up Lost In Time more now, though didn't chart that at the time (maybe it wasn't actually released?) 2026 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice, ? - ? Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is a blast from the past. They were hugely hyped online and I was very much caught up in that in the early part of the year, their album hit the UK top 40 and its still something I have a fondness for, In This Home On Ice is a great single. The other three weeks the top 2 was the same, and the runner-up would move to the top and replace Stellastarr* at the end of March. The week it was released it was one of 10 songs that entered in the top 20, and it was a superb week for releases. The top 4 were all new and songs I still enjoy to some extent - Graham Coxon following up an album that produced a #1 for me with Standing On My Own Again and UK indie band of minor success The Rakes with All Too Human, one of two songs of theirs I still love to listen to all knocking Goldfrapp down 1-5, with #6 being Better Together by Jack Johnson, which had been a favourite of his 2005 album, which rounds out a rare top 6 of songs I still really enjoy. In the other three weeks highlights were Pendulum - Hold Your Colour, Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists, KT Tunstall - Another Place To Fall and Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion falling short at #3, and I'd prefer to be discussing that next.

73 - 13/02/2006 Goldfrapp - Ride A White Horse Chart Run: 01-01-05-04-05-06-09-13-13-15-19-23-29-30 (14 weeks) Replacing Fall Out Boy after just a week at the top were Goldfrapp with the third single from their album Supernature. Ooh La La reached #2, and Number One followed it at #3, so the set of top 3 positions was completed with their next entry. Supernature was an album I remember buying in the January sales as I'd enjoyed the first two singles from it. In the first few listens Ride A White Horse was comfortably my favourite song on it, so was delighted it was picked as the next single and was an easy #1. The second half of the noughties was definitely my peak Goldfrapp listening years, and I've struggled to care about much they released after that (one charting hit post-2008, 11 entries until 2008) but there are still a few of their earlier songs which I like, and Ride A White Horse is certainly towards the top of that. (also remembered the poster on here that got really bitchy about Goldfrapp being sell-out rubbish following their first couple of albums). 2026 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: The Magic Numbers - I See You, You See Me & We Are Scientists - It's A Hit A couple of other 'third singles from 2005 albums now' with The Magic Numbers getting another high charting entry with I See You, You See Me - a much more mellow single than their others that I still absolutely love. Like Supernature, the We Are Scientists album was one I'd only recently got, and It's a Hit became the biggest hit from it. The second of these two weeks was the first big release week of the year with comfortably the most charting songs towards the top with positions #4-6 taken by Corinne Bailey Rae, Maximo Park and Madonna with debut Put Your Records On, the fifth charting single from A Certain Trigger, I Want You To Stay, and the UK #1 Sorry.

A reasonable peformance for my own entry, plenty of placings and away from the very bottom. Pleasing top end voting for 5 of the top 6 including my 2nd-4th. Thanks for hosting Addy and congratulations Matto, good work!

Still have a bit of scepticism about how these regs will turn out, but race was good after quali - just can't get over drivers slowing down on straights for quali laps, a dreadful spectacle. The top 4 do look well clear at the moment, hard to see the rest not fighting out for the small points.

Sorry struggled with the both incredibly broad and narrow theme and didn't get round to putting any thought into it before the weekend when I then wasn't around, so will sit out.

01 (02) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (01) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (07) (2 weeks) 03 (07) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (04) (03) 04 (03) Daughter - Not Enough (03) (07) 05 (09) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (05) (05) 06 (05) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (07) 07 (17) PVA - Okay (07) (03) 08 (04) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (08) (2 weeks) 09 (06) Robyn - Talk To Me (06) (07) 10 (13) James Blake - Death of Love (10) (04) 11 (10) Harry Styles - Aperture (10) (06) 12 (11) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (11) (05) 13 (08) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (03) (09) 14 (20) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (14) (04) 15 (26) Metric - Victim of Luck (15) (03) 16 (21) Anna Prior - Silence (16) (04) 17 (12) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (12) (3 weeks) 18 (27) The Orielles - Tears Are (18) (02) 19 (15) SAULT - Chapter 1 (13) (06) 20 (23) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (20) (04) 21 (14) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (11) 22 (29) Charli XCX - Always Everywhere (22) (02) 23 (32) Milky - Just The Way You Are (Mall Grab Remix) (23) (02) 24 (19) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (19) (06) 25 (34) Art School Girlfriend - Doing Laps (25) (02) 26 (28) Dapnhi - Hang (26) (03) 27 (**) American Football - Bad Moons (27) (01) 28 (16) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (08) 29 (18) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (12) 30 (42) James Blake - I Had a Dream She Took My Hand (30) (01) 31 (38) Pulp - Begging for Change (31) (02) 32 (25) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (14) (2 weeks) 33 (41) Jessie Ware - Ride (33) (01) 34 (22) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (08) 35 (24) TVAM - The Words (17) (05) 36 (**) Nothing - Cannibal World (36) (01) 37 (31) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (09) 38 (36) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (08) 39 (30) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (10) 40 (33) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (25) (06)

72 - 06/02/2006 Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down Chart Run: 01-03-11-23-28-35 (6 weeks) The popularity of emo was something that I wasn't that bothered with, enjoyed some of the main hits to chart them (My Chemical Romance highest position #11, Panic! At The Disco #10), but largely thought it was annoying and whiny, and I listened to less music each year that could be included somewhere within the main 'rock' genre. But Sugar, We're Goin Down was one exception. Fall Out Boy had built up a significant fanbase with their 2003 debut album, but this was the first song of theirs I was aware of. I remember Zane Lowe loving it upon original release, which was only a few months before, and I'd enjoyed it enough at that point to give it a chart run of 15-24-40, but I heard it a lot in the coming months as it gained in popularity, and started to enjoy it more. At the beginning of the year it had started to get more exposure and charted in the UK on downloads from its previous release, spending four weeks climbing before its re-release saw it spend three weeks in the top 10. It was only a short chart run, largely down to me having been listening to it for a long while by this point, but certainly wasn't an undeserved number one. Perhaps surprisingly, I have continued to enjoy Sugar, We're Goin Down over the years, and think Fall Out Boy have a good trio of fairly big hits - looking back I'd say I undercharted 2007s 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race' (#34) and 'Thnks Fr Th Mmrs' (#26) as I've continued to listen to and enjoy them for the past 20 years. I'd definitely say this is the best example of an emo song of this period. 2026 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: The Go! Team - Ladyflash Entering at #3 the week before, Ladyflash joined Bottle Rocket in giving The Go! Team a pair of #2 hits from their debut album, still a song I enjoy a lot but probably still just about say this top 2 was the right way round.

Thanks Jade, yes I loved that about the Sony ad, it was a really brilliant advert - don't think it'd be possible to have one make an impact like that nowadays! Glad you approve so far!

Edu has been an unmitigated disaster at Forest. Fell out with the most successful manager we'd had in decades causing him to not want to be here and get himself the sack, and signed a load of absolute dross at high expense. I've thought for a while that West Ham will finish above us, praying that Tottenham can get relegated, the game at WHL in a fortnight is absolutely massive. Just hoping to scrape 17th in this disaster of a season.