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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.

71 - 23/01/2006 The Shortwave Set - Repeat To Fade Chart Run: 01-01-03-06-08-21-25-31-33-38 (10 weeks) And now onto that 'more niche stuff' that would hit the top spot in 2006, as move to a band that came nowhere near making the UK charts, or anywhere else for that matter. The Shortwave Set were a London-based alternative pop act with shared male/female vocalists, although most of their songs were sung by Ulrika Bjornse, and I typically mainly like the songs on which she was the vocalist on. Repeat To Fade was a much slower, ballad than their other work which was more upbeat. I can't say I remember where I discovered them, but I listened to them fairly regularly for a three year period. They also had #2 hits in 2007 & 2008 with 'Casual Use' (my first ever BJSC entry!) and 'Now Til '69', the latter being from their second and final album Replica Sun Machine which was one I had on CD. This isn't a song I'd listened to much in the last decade at all. When I still largely listened to music from my iTunes mp3 collection it was something I had at some point removed from my main favourites playlist, and this was one of about half a dozen songs that weren't on Spotify when I put together my #1s playlist - looking at the listens figures of their two albums I think their debut was added at a later date as it's on there now. It was nice to hear it again, I enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to, nothing special but simply a nice song to listen to. 2026 Rating: 7/10 Songs kept from #1: Will Young - All Time Love Two more weeks as runner up for Will. Only one other song charted in this fortnight that I'd still listen to, and it climbed to #2 so will be discussed on a future entry.

I think Back To You is both my last iTunes purchase, and the song purchase I've listened to least.

They had a great first half of 2023, but not sure Aston have really shown much that their predecessor Force India team didn't despite Stroll's money into it. I find it quite funny that one team who've got it hopelessly wrong to start with are them tbh, I wonder what Alonso is thinking, hasn't stayed in F1 this long at this age to be retiring from the slowest car on the grid! Looking at F1 from a betting perspective, I like Stroll to beat Alonso over the season at 7/2. Was tempted by a flutter on Leclerc world champion but the odds have shortened a little too far now.

70 - 16/01/2006 Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down Chart Run: 01-03-04-04-09-13-20-24-27-28-33-38 (12 weeks) A fairly predictable #1 single, as like in the UK When The Sun Goes Down follows I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor in entering at the top for Arctic Monkeys. It feels like a remarkably short chart run where it fell down and out of the chart quite fast, but that was just down to how much I'd already listened to them, and this song (or 'Scummy' as it had then been known) for the previous 4 months. An obvious number one, but one which would probably have been in my chart for about 3 months already had I not stuck to the official UK release schedule. There were a bunch of early recordings of Arctic Monkeys songs from their Beneath The Boardwalk demo album that had exploded in the late summer of 2005, most of which would end up re-recorded either on their debut album or the 'Who The f*** Are The Arctic Monkeys?' EP, some for the better and some worse (I'd always though their re-recordings of Riot Van and Cigarette Smoke were big downgrades), but the change from Scummy to When The Sun Goes Down, and becoming much more polished, was definitely one which got much better. Sung about the red light district area of Neepsend in Sheffield, it was as catchy as their debut single but showed a different side to them with their lyrical content. Over the years this has gone on to become my go-to Arctic Monkeys song. I've not stopped loving their early stuff, infact I probably enjoy Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not as much as I ever have done, and I'd definitely rank this as one of my top 5 UK number one singles. 2026 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Will Young - All Time Love All Time Love spent three weeks at #2, one of the more random high charting entries I've had, as it's not something I've really listened to in the intervening 20 years and it's not like I was a fan of Will's! I've had to re-visit it too as part of this, and it kind of passed me by as 'perfectly acceptable background music' - interested into what my thinking was around it.

Looks interesting... I'll have 30 please

01 (01) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (06) (2 weeks) 02 (08) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (02) (04) 03 (05) Daughter - Not Enough (03) (06) 04 (02) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (07) (2 weeks) 05 (04) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (06) 06 (10) Robyn - Talk To Me (06) (06) 07 (22) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (07) (02) 08 (03) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (03) (08) 09 (15) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (09) (04) 10 (12) Harry Styles - Aperture (10) (05) 11 (16) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (11) (04) 12 (07) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (11) (3 weeks) 13 (20) James Blake - Death of Love (13) (03) 14 (06) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (10) 15 (13) SAULT - Chapter 1 (13) (05) 16 (09) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (07) 17 (29) PVA - Okay (17) (02) 18 (11) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (11) 19 (19) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (19) (05) 20 (27) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (20) (03) 21 (26) Anna Prior - Silence (21) (03) 22 (14) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (07) 23 (24) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (23) (03) 24 (17) TVAM - The Words (17) (04) 25 (18) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (13) (2 weeks) 26 (36) Metric - Victim of Luck (26) (02) 27 (41) The Orielles - Tears Are (27) (01) 28 (33) Dapnhi - Hang (28) (02) 29 (47) Charli XCX - Always Everywhere (29) (01) 30 (21) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (09) 31 (23) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (08) 32 (46) Milky - Just The Way You Are (Mall Grab Remix) (32) (01) 33 (25) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (25) (05) 34 (**) Art School Girlfriend - Doing Laps (34) (01) 35 (28) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (14) (06) 36 (31) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (07) 37 (34) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (17) (4 weeks) 38 (**) Pulp - Begging for Change (38) (01) 39 (30) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (10) 40 (32) Joji - Last of a Dying Breed (29) (04)

69 - 09/01/2006 José González - Heartbeats Chart Run: 01-03-04-05-05-05-07-13-15-23-23-17-21-23-27-30-35-35-34-39 (20 weeks) We kick the year off with a cover, of The Knife's 2003 single Heartbeats. Popularised by being the soundtrack to Sony's 'Bouncy Balls' TV advert, it proved it was still a source of creating hits, as Heartbeats hit the UK top 10 and didn't leave the chart until September, although the majority of this was in the lower reaches of the top 75. For me, it was a great discovery - I'd not long become aware of The Knife but at that stage hadn't fully got into them, so like most people didn't particularly see this as a 'cover', but that it was simply a beautiful song with a great vocal. Within the next year or so, I'd purchased the CDs of The Knife's Deep Cuts and Silent Shout, and José González' album Veneer. Veneer was ok but not something I've given much attention to since 2006. We kick off the year in the most perfect way, with a bona fide 10/10. It's hard to think of many, if any, other songs where the original and a cover version are both so perfect, but also so different. Combine the two and Heartbeats will have been one of my most listened to songs of the previous 20 years, the Jose version is just absolutely gorgeous. 2026 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Richard Ashcroft - Break The Night With Colour I have very little memory of the Ashcroft song, and he's not someone who's music I particularly enjoy listening to - call it a beneficiary of early year release scheduling where there still wasn't much coming out. The Kooks - You Don't Love Me is the other song from this weeks releases that I might still listen to, but it isn't one of their best.

On to 2006 then... After 2005 saw me find music from a much bigger range of sources, particularly moving to online, 2006 took that to a new level. After the end of the CoolClarity forum, I was part of its successors (BuzzJack & CHC Music) as well as spending more time on its similar, more 'competitor' sites (Haven & Moopy), whilst radio listening moved more away from Radio 1, the Zane Lowe show was still a huge influence but in the daytime I was far more likely to put on the likes of XFM or 6 Music, and as a result the stuff that made my chart was even more indie focussed. In 2005, the majority of songs at and near the top of my chart could be found somewhere within the UK chart, whilst 2006 there is a bit more niche stuff that made it that was getting nowhere near the UK top 40. That being said, there are still 3 UK number one singles which I shared so it certainly wasn't a full departure, and whilst I still went by the UK release schedule for when things charted, there were more songs that climbed to their peak than in previous years and by the end of the year it was pretty much impossible to continue with it it. But despite all the new sources for music and different genres and styles being discovered, we kick off the year with a song that was popularised in a classic way, soundtracking an advert...

Thanks Jim - good to see some love for Jesus of Suburbia! 2006 hopefully beginning later this week

01 (02) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (01) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (06) (2 weeks) 03 (06) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (03) (07) 04 (09) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (05) 05 (11) Daughter - Not Enough (05) (05) 06 (03) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (09) 07 (04) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (10) (3 weeks) 08 (15) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (08) (03) 09 (07) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (06) 10 (13) Robyn - Talk To Me (10) (05) 11 (05) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (10) 12 (16) Harry Styles - Aperture (12) (04) 13 (18) SAULT - Chapter 1 (13) (04) 14 (08) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (06) 15 (25) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (15) (03) 16 (24) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (16) (03) 17 (20) TVAM - The Words (17) (03) 18 (12) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (12) (2 weeks) 19 (22) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (19) (04) 20 (28) James Blake - Death of Love (20) (02) 21 (10) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (08) 22 (**) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (22) (01) 23 (14) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (07) 24 (32) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (24) (02) 25 (27) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (25) (04) 26 (38) Anna Prior - Silence (26) (02) 27 (34) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (27) (02) 28 (17) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (14) (05) 29 (44) PVA - Okay (29) (01) 30 (19) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (09) 31 (21) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (06) 32 (29) Joji - Last of a Dying Breed (29) (03) 33 (**) Dapnhi - Hang (33) (01) 34 (23) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (16) (4 weeks) 35 (26) White Lies - Juice (02) (15) 36 (48) Metric - Victim of Luck (36) (01) 37 (30) FAUZIA - The Way (15) (07) 38 (31) Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast (24) (06) 39 (35) Jenny on Holiday - Good Intentions (06) (13) 40 (33) PVA - Send (11) (08)