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I'm not quite sure why autoplay would be so annoying to turn it off. It can get a bit repetitive but it's only short-term and always songs I'd normally listen to anyway, it's not like it adds loads of plays of songs from people that would never come across and play it themselves.

01 (06) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (01) (08) (1 week) 02 (09) Elbow - Good Blood Mexico City (02) (04) 03 (05) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (03) (05) 04 (01) The Blinders - All I Need (01) (09) (3 weeks) 05 (02) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (02) (09) 06 (14) Bob Vylan - Reign (06) (04) 07 (11) Chelsea Wolfe - House of Self-Undoing (07) (04) 08 (03) Anna Prior - Fall Back (03) (06) 09 (04) English Teacher - R&B (01) (11) (4 weeks) 10 (12) Overmono x The Streets - Turn The Page (10) (03) 11 (07) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (05) (10) 12 (22) Ruel feat. DMA's - We're A Pair of Diamonds (12) (03) 13 (08) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (04) (07) 14 (18) Fontaines DC - Starburster (14) (04) 15 (17) St. Vincent - Flea (15) (05) 16 (13) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (12) 17 (25) DEADLETTER - Mere Mortal (17) (02) 18 (10) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (08) (08) 19 (24) Dead Pony - IGNORE THIS (19) (04) 20 (15) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (12) (06) 21 (27) Third Wife - Feel For You (21) (03) 22 (41) Fat Dog - Running (22) (01) 23 (16) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (06) (08) 24 (29) Rinse feat. Hatchie - Kiss Me (Kill Me) (24) (02) 25 (37) Pip Blom - Get Back (Tom Sharkett Remix) (25) (02) 26 (**) Elbow - Things I've Been Telling Myself For Years (26) (01) 27 (19) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (07) (08) 28 (21) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (11) 29 (23) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (23) (05) 30 (34) Bat For Lashes - Home (30) (02) 31 (28) Otha - I Hate You In The Morning (28) (03) 32 (42) Cults - Crybaby (32) (01) 33 (20) Vampire Weekend - Classical (17) (05) 34 (26) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (16) (07) 35 (47) Richard Hawley - Prism In Jeans (35) (01) 36 (32) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (15) (3 weeks) 37 (31) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (13) 38 (43) Swim School - Seeing It Now (38) (01) 39 (35) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (09) 40 (38) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (10)

Leicester are likely to start on minus points and need to sell before they can buy, they seem to have messed up FFP way more than Everton or Forest have. I don't think they're certs to stay up at all. Maresca is worse than Kompany for being Pep-lite, there's no way he can play like that in the league above with that squad. I think there's another good case for all three promoted teams to come back down again, Ipswich's style won't translate when they concede that many chances and goals and I don't rate any of the play-off teams that much. Brentford have suffered massively from injuries this season, Forest's team can be very good and their first XI is way better than where it is in the table, and no one else looks close to dropping to <35 points, Everton maybe because of finances.

Thanks for you comments, Dandy! Great to see you like the Heartworms track ^_^ I've been very similar with The National. I think I'd found them one album too many, but it was their previous album that pulled me back in, I felt the collaborations with variosu female voices worked and made it different enough. Any new release of theirs always comes up on my Spotify new releases playlist, so will always listen and most singles from this year were fine but that's it, both albums were pretty dull listens throughout, but there was the one song I ended up loving!

OXh2IYTy6M 06 Yuné Pinku - Blush Cut (3, Night Light - #37, 2023) Points: 578 Preference Rank: 6th Listening Rank: 9th Chart performance Rank: 10th 05 Temples - Meet Your Maker (2, Paraphernalia - #100, 2020) Points: 583 Preference Rank: 9th Listening Rank: 5th Chart performance Rank: 6th Just outside the top 5 is Yuné Pinku, the highest placed song by a female and the highest placed song that didn't reach my chart #1, spending four weeks at #2 behind The Snitching Hour. Following up from two big hits last years Fai Fighter and then Night Light, Blush Cut is wonderful piece of chilled electronica and completed a trio of excellent singles, along with a few other decent ones too. Temples gave me one of my best ever BJSC performances, finishing 4th with Paraphernalia in 2020, which was the first song of theirs I really got into. Their fourth album Exotico was released last year but Meet Your Maker is pure perfection. As with some of their output, it's very Tame Impala in both its vocal style and production, a great riff and a catchy hook, it was my sound of the late summer.

XdF8BBlBu5c 08 U.S. Girls - Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo) Points: 573 Preference Rank: 15th Listening Rank: 8th Chart performance Rank: 7th 07 DEADLETTER - The Snitching Hour Points: 578 Preference Rank: 12th Listening Rank: 10th Chart performance Rank: 3rd Half of the songs in the top 8 are debut end of year entries, and two of them appear together here. The first is the 2nd of three solo female entries in the top 10, coming for Meghan Remy and her project U.S. Girls. I'd come across her previously with 4 American Dollars and big BJSC hit So Typically Now, which were both decent but I didn't chart either, her debut coming in early 2023 with Futures Bet, a middling hit (rank #131 here) before this disco inspired banger climbed its way to the top for a fortnight in April. An interesting concept for a song, sung from the perspective of a no-longer-used tuxedo, and a great video to go with it. Also debuting are DEADLETTER, they're pure 6 Music and their playlist was where I discovered The Snitching Hour. Instantly I was drawn in by its brass intro and it only took a couple of listens before its catchy post-punk hook was whirling round my head. It's the only song of '23 to spend more than 4 weeks at the top of my chart, 5 weeks across June and July, but still only enough to be ranked 3rd by chart performance. I entered this as part of my post-punk UP/Nuggets double last year and was slightly disappointed by its poor performance, but the other half made up for it, and is still to be discussed... I've not been anywhere near as fussed with other tracks I've listened to, although current single Mere Mortals is something I'm enjoying a lot and has this week given them a second hit.

Right, will get this finished over the next couple of days... thC-C_Bk8H0 10 The National - Space Invader (10, Conversation 16 - #2, 2010) Points: 570 Preference Rank: 11th Listening Rank: 7th Chart performance Rank: 15th 09 Heartworms - Retributions Of An Awful Life (4, Consistent Dedication - #54, 2022) Points: 571 Preference Rank: 1st Listening Rank: 2nd Chart performance Rank: 29th :| We begin the top 10 with regulars The National, who rack up their 10th EOY hit with Space Invader, the third to go top 10 following Conversation 16 and Day I Die. I was late to The National, with them having already released four albums by the time I discovered them, but since then they've been perennial hit makers. This year wasn't their strongest, with two albums released and neither of them are close to being towards the top of their output, a few decent singles but Space Invader, the lead for their second album of the year, hit the spot, a song right up there with their most beautiful, with great vocals and lyrics from Matt Berninger. Coming into 2023, following the previous years Consistent Dedication, I was fully hyped for more Heartworms songs, and she didn't disappoint when Retributions Of An Awful Life was released in January. By the end of the year, I'd listened to only one song more and when I ranked them it was my favourite. Unfortunately, a top 10 chart run of 06-03-03-03-05-08 in Feb/Mar lets it down and it settles for 9th. Incredible synths from the off and crunching guitars, it's a great listen and a year later I'm still hyped for any future releases. She's definitely in my 'to see live' list too.

01 (01) The Blinders - All I Need (01) (08) (3 weeks) 02 (02) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (02) (08) 03 (06) Anna Prior - Fall Back (03) (05) 04 (03) English Teacher - R&B (01) (10) (4 weeks) 05 (11) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (05) (04) 06 (13) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (06) (07) 07 (05) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (05) (09) 08 (04) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (04) (06) 09 (14) Elbow - Good Blood Mexico City (09) (03) 10 (08) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (08) (07) 11 (18) Chelsea Wolfe - House of Self-Undoing (11) (03) 12 (23) Overmono x The Streets - Turn The Page (12) (02) 13 (07) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (11) 14 (21) Bob Vylan - Reign (14) (03) 15 (12) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (12) (05) 16 (09) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (06) (07) 17 (20) St. Vincent - Flea (17) (04) 18 (26) Fontaines DC - Starburster (18) (03) 19 (10) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (07) (07) 20 (17) Vampire Weekend - Classical (17) (04) 21 (15) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (10) 22 (31) Ruel feat. DMA's - We're A Pair of Diamonds (22) (02) 23 (24) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (23) (04) 24 (28) Dead Pony - IGNORE THIS (24) (03) 25 (42) DEADLETTER - Mere Mortal (25) (01) 26 (16) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (16) (06) 27 (37) Third Wife - Feel For You (27) (02) 28 (33) Otha - I Hate You In The Morning (28) (02) 29 (43) Rinse feat. Hatchie - Kiss Me (Kill Me) (29) (01) 30 (19) I.JORDAN - Close To You (07) (09) 31 (22) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (12) 32 (27) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (14) (3 weeks) 33 (29) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (22) (05) 34 (41) Bat For Lashes - Home (34) (01) 35 (32) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (08) 36 (30) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (10) 37 (**) Pip Blom - Get Back (Tom Sharkett Remix) (37) (01) 38 (35) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (09) 39 (25) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (09) 40 (36) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (14) Out: 32 (21) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (21) (04) 38 (27) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (09) 39 (32) Real Estate - Airdrop (30) (05) 40 (37) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (13)

+5 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso +4 Artemas - i like the way you kiss me +3 Hozier - Too Sweet +2 Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone - Fortnight +1 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -1 Taylor Swift - Down Bad -2 Taylor Swift - I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -3 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -4 Dasha - Austin -5 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)

01 (01) The Blinders - All I Need (01) (07) (2 weeks) 02 (03) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (02) (07) 03 (02) English Teacher - R&B (01) (09) (4 weeks) 04 (04) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (04) (05) 05 (12) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (05) (08) 06 (10) Anna Prior - Fall Back (06) (04) 07 (05) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (10) 08 (09) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (08) (06) 09 (06) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (06) (06) 10 (07) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (07) (06) 11 (17) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (11) (03) 12 (15) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (12) (04) 13 (14) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (13) (06) 14 (26) Elbow - Good Blood Mexico City (14) (02) 15 (08) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (09) 16 (19) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (16) (05) 17 (23) Vampire Weekend - Classical (17) (03) 18 (30) Chelsea Wolfe - House Self-Undoing (18) (02) 19 (11) I.JORDAN - Close To You (07) (08) 20 (25) St. Vincent - Flea (20) (03) 21 (35) Bob Vylan - Reign (21) (02) 22 (13) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (11) 23 (**) Overmono x The Streets - Turn The Page (23) (01) 24 (28) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (24) (03) 25 (16) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (08) 26 (38) Fontaines DC - Starburster (26) (02) 27 (20) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (13) (3 weeks) 28 (34) Dead Pony - IGNORE THIS (28) (02) 29 (22) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (22) (04) 30 (18) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (09) 31 (42) Ruel feat. DMA's - We're A Pair of Diamonds (31) (01) 32 (21) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (21) (04) 33 (41) Otha - I Hate You In The Morning (33) (01) 34 (24) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (07) 35 (31) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (08) 36 (29) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (13) 37 (47) Third Wife - Feel For You (37) (01) 38 (27) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (09) 39 (32) Real Estate - Airdrop (30) (05) 40 (37) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (13)

vVP8KPVvHyM 15 553 Dead Pony - COBRA 14 555 Slowdive - Andalucia Plays (2, Star Roving - #28, 2017) 13 559 Sprints - Up and Comer (2, Literary Mind - #10, 2022) 12 562 Antony Szmierek - How Did You Get Here? 11 564 Underworld - Denver Luna (4, Two Months Off - #7, 2002) Some more BJSC representation here, for Scottish rock band Dead Pony who debuted for me with COBRA. They came to my attention in 2022 with Bullet Farm and then I didn't come across anything of theirs for ages, but COBRA is infectious and soon grew on me enough to be a chart topper. They're joined here by fellow new female-fronted band Sprints, who finish 3 places lower than they did last year (with another Utopia BJSC entry!). Up and Comer not quite as punky as some of their songs, but another song which they excel on. They sandwich something completely different from Slowdive, Andalucia Plays being so understated and gorgeous. I've really enjoyed their two albums since re-forming and getting to know some of their older work, but this is probably now my favouirte of theirs. Antony Szmierek had a few minor hits and song I'd listened to over the last couple of years, I really enjoy his mix of spoken word and singing over some good beats, but nothing banged quite like How Did You Get Here? which is such a catchy bop, which spent 4 weeks atop my chart towards the end of the year. Rounding out this five is Underworld, who reach my end of year for the 4th time with Denver Luna, which continues their 100% top 20 success rate after Two Months Off (#7), Caliban's Dream (#14) and Nylon Strung (#19). At 8 minutes long, it builds really quickly and doesn't feel like it lasts anything like that long. One of four songs in the top 15 to not reach #1 for me, held off by a song still to come.

In a year where I seem to have disliked most of what's charted highly in the UK, A Bar Song really is a new level of absolute dirge

t5fm1pGVuK8 20 539 VLURE - This Fantasy 19 541 Young Fathers - Rice (7, In My View - #2, 2018) 18 541 Another Sky - Psychopath (3, Sun Seeker - #68, 2021) 17 546 The Chemical Brothers feat. Halo Maud - Live Again (15, The Golden Path - #7, 2003) 16 552 Public Service Broadcasting w/ Jules Buckley & The BBC Symphony Orchestra - Broadcasting House (8, Blue Heaven - #7, 2021) Kicking off the top 20 with VLURE, who'd had a few previous singles I liked but This Fantasy took them to another level as it hit the top spot in April, its sound being typical of their synth heavy indie-rock with a highly pronounced Scottish accent in the vocal. Young Fathers' Heavy Heavy was probably the album I enjoyed most of 2023, the first two singles were in my top 40 of 2022, and Rice goes better this year, another great single from them. Another Sky's album Beach Day is the only one of 2024 that's grabbed enough of my attention to give significant time to so far, Psychopath is a superb vocal performance from Catlin, and deservedly their biggest hit. I saw The Chemical Brothers live for the second time last summer, as they headlined Wilderness Festival where I was working, and it was once again an incredible show to experience, Live Again had just come out and whilst I already thought it was great, it took it to a whole new level. It's amazing how good they still are 30+ years into their career. They follow Robyn and Arctic Monkeys to become the third act to have 15 End of Year entries for me. These two are the songs in the top 20 with the biggest differences in where their points came from, as both rank comfortably in my top 10 favourites (AA #7, CB #4). Rounding off this set is Public Service Broadcasting's 8th total entry, Broadcasting House. Taken from an entirely original live performance from the BBC Proms to celebrate the organisation, it showcases as well as anything how clever they are in their use of sampling and creating great songs from them, the way it builds is spectacular and I've watched the performance on YouTube a lot. Here is that full history of The Chemical Brothers 15 hits: 2002, #18 - Star Guitar 2003, #7 - The Golden Path 2005, #90 - Galvanize 2005, #45 - The Boxer 2007, #67 - The Salmon Dance 2007, #12 - Do It Again 2010, #93 - Escape Velocity 2010, #66 - Swoon 2015, #45 - Go! 2015, #12 - Wide Open 2019, #92 - Eve of Dubstruction 2019, #49 - Got To Keep On 2021, #45 - The Darkness That You Fear 2023, #36 - Skipping Like a Stone 2023, #17 - Live Again

01 (02) The Blinders - All I Need (01) (06) (1 week) 02 (01) English Teacher - R&B (01) (09) (4 weeks) 03 (04) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (03) (06) 04 (12) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (04) (04) 05 (03) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (09) 06 (08) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (06) (05) 07 (10) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (07) (05) 08 (05) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (08) 09 (15) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (09) (05) 10 (18) Anna Prior - Fall Back (10) (03) 11 (07) I.JORDAN - Close To You (07) (07) 12 (13) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (12) (07) 13 (06) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (10) 14 (19) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (14) (05) 15 (24) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (15) (03) 16 (11) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (07) 17 (29) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (17) (02) 18 (09) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (08) 19 (21) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (19) (04) 20 (14) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (12) (3 weeks) 21 (27) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (21) (03) 22 (25) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (22) (03) 23 (34) Vampire Weekend - Classical (23) (02) 24 (17) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (06) 25 (37) St. Vincent - Flea (25) (02) 26 (41) Elbow - Good Blood Mexico City (26) (01) 27 (16) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (08) 28 (32) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (28) (02) 29 (20) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (12) 30 (**) Chelsea Wolfe - House Self-Undoing (30) (01) 31 (22) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (07) 32 (30) Real Estate - Airdrop (30) (04) 33 (33) How To Dress Well - No Light (20) (06) 34 (50) Dead Pony - IGNORE THIS (34) (01) 35 (43) Bob Vylan - Reign (35) (01) 36 (28) RINSE feat. Caroline Loveglow - Stranger (28) (04) 37 (26) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (12) 38 (**) Fontaines DC - Starburster (38) (01) 39 (31) The Holy - Any Given Day (09) (10) 40 (36) The Holy - The Incredible Ibex (01) (14) (3 weeks)

Thanks for continuing to comment Jim, really pleased to see you've been checking some out. I had entered The Joy Formidable to Nuggets, about 3 years ago probably, with another of their longer songs The Leopard & The Lung, they have a few 6+ minutes ones and they're a real favourite band of mine. Share My Heat was certainly a contender for BJSC entry at one point.

nYU0haEcly4 25 520 Dead Leaf Echo - Call 24 522 Bob Vylan - Dream Big (2, He's a Man - #40, 2023) 23 532 Squid - Swing (In a Dream) (2, The Blades - #42, 2023) 22 534 Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention 21 536 DJ Seinfeld feat. Confidence Man - Now U Do (3, Feels Like a Different Thing - #50, 2022) All five of these songs were the first charting hit for the artist in question for me. US Shoegaze kick off this section in the form of Dead Leaf Echo. Bob Vylan and Squid's debut entries appeared almost side-by-side and their second entries do, around 20 places higher for the punk and post-punk acts, with more of the same following for Special Interest, whose Cherry Blue Intention became a number one early in the year. Now U Do was also a chart topper, aided from seeing Confidence Man perform it on the festival circuit, as they knocked it out the park once again.

I'm not sure what other options he'll have. I don't realistically see any of the current top 5 ever going for him as an option. It'll be good to see the grid shake up a bit. I guess it makes K Mag more likely to stay, depends on how Haas see rookie vs. experience again - think it's likely Bearman will take on of the seats. If Audi replace both drivers I'd be trying everything to get Bottas if they want an experienced driver.

3wy19ZEQZ0A 30 513 Yard Act - The Trench Coat Museum 29 513 Hak Baker - Doolally 28 516 Ellis - Forever (2, Shame - #31, 2020) 27 518 Baby Queen - We Can Be Anything (2, Dream Girl - #53, 2023) 26 519 Daughter - Be On Your Way (7, Poke - #1, 2019) For Yard Act, see comments on Squid. To say I didn't take to their first album would be an understatement, but an 8 minute long ode to trench coats pulled me in. Hak Baker is the first of 4 songs I entered to BJSC last year in the top 30, The Streets but from London was an accurate description of Doolally. Ellis was a song contest discovery a few years ago with Shame, and lead single for her next record goes three places higher for the singer-songwriter. Baby Queen's Dream Girl follow-up made it an incredible pair of pop songs, and Daughter's long-awaited full return got them a second number one hit after Poke.

The gap between 5th and 6th this season is quite unique, so certainly would add some excitement to it. The continued greater reliability of cars also makes it worth it, the average retirements in 2010 when it was introduced was about double what it is now (3.35 per race vs 1.67 for 23-24), so would make sense from that respect. I think 12 is perfect, wouldn't want to go much further as you're getting towards points for finishing.

01 (01) English Teacher - R&B (01) (08) (4 weeks) 02 (04) The Blinders - All I Need (02) (05) 03 (02) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (08) 04 (07) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (04) (05) 05 (06) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (07) 06 (03) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (09) 07 (08) I.JORDAN - Close To You (07) (06) 08 (14) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (08) (04) 09 (05) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (07) 10 (16) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (10) (04) 11 (11) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (06) 12 (19) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (12) (03) 13 (15) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (13) (06) 14 (09) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (11) (3 weeks) 15 (25) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (15) (04) 16 (10) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (07) 17 (18) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (05) 18 (27) Anna Prior - Fall Back (18) (02) 19 (23) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (19) (04) 20 (12) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (11) 21 (21) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (21) (03) 22 (13) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (06) 23 (20) How To Dress Well - No Light (20) (05) 24 (34) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (24) (02) 25 (31) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (25) (02) 26 (17) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (11) 27 (37) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (27) (02) 28 (30) RINSE feat. Caroline Loveglow - Stranger (28) (03) 29 (**) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (29) (01) 30 (32) Real Estate - Airdrop (30) (03) 31 (22) The Holy - Any Given Day (09) (09) 32 (42) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (32) (01) 33 (28) Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Rae Morris - Better Now (28) (07) 34 (43) Vampire Weekend - Classical (34) (01) 35 (24) The Libertines - Shiver (10) (10) 36 (26) The Holy - The Incredible Ibex (01) (13) (3 weeks) 37 (**) St. Vincent - Flea (37) (01) 38 (29) Four Tet - Daydream Repeat (15) (09) 39 (36) Ellis - What I Know Now (22) (07) 40 (38) MGMT - Mother Nature (01) (19) (4 weeks)

BI74yoqkXzQ 35 490 Chase & Status feat. ArrDee & Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (3, Program - #60, 2019) 34 493 Headache - The Beginning of the End 33 501 Thus Love - In Tandem (2, Repetitioner - #71, 2023) 32 508 Vegyn feat. Lauren Auder - Halo Flip 31 509 Nabinah Iqbal - This World Couldn't See Us Chase & Status kick this 5 off with just their third end of year entry, Control & Program a quite random pairing of previous hits and certainly an act who I like far more than the credit I've given them here. Big hit Baddadan wasn't something I was able to get into but its follow-up is quite superb, and is the highest placed "hit" song here. The Beginning of the End was the best 2023 song I discovered in BJSC last year, slightly odd considering it was entered in the one contest I didn't take part in! Its uniqueness really hits hard and its lyrical content is superb. It was produced by Vegyn, who also appears in this 5 with his hit Halo Flip. Thus Love get a second entry with a big hit from early in the year, containing some excellent guitar work and This World Couldn't See Us gives Nabinah Iqbal an entry and makes this a BJSC heavy grouping.

wcAxir5G4NQ 40 481 Bob Vylan - He's a Man 39 481 Gabriels - Great Wind (3, Love and Hate in a Different Time - #50, 2021) 38 485 The Blinders - Always 37 487 Yuné Pinku - Night Light (2, Fai Fighter - #80, 2022) 36 488 The Chemical Brothers feat. Beck - Skipping Like a Stone (14, The Golden Path - #7, 2003) (4, Wide Open - #12, 2015) One act get their second of two hits, whilst three more get their first of two. Gabriels album last year is absolutely magnificent, and Great Wind is such a feelgood anthem, delighted they got as much mainstream attention as they did last year. Bob Vylan were an act I'd heard of and seen mentioned but never actually checked out until last year, He's a Man the second great song packing a lyrical punch, Yuné Pinku followed up a good 2022 with some more bangers earlier in the year, Night Light being the first of two top 5 singles, and The Chemical Brothers and Beck teamed up once more after doing so to great success with Wide Open a few years ago. I liked some of The Blinders' second album in 2020, but Always was their first big hit for me - I think I can safely say they'll beat a #38 peak in 2024s list.

yzGQc6sFHkg 45 464 Fred Again.. feat. Obongjayar - Adore U (4, Desert Island Duvet - #69, 2023) 44 466 Cleo Sol - Miss Romantic (3, Woman (feat. Little Simz) - #19, 2021) 43 466 Lovejoy - Portrait of a Blank Slate 42 470 Squid - The Blades 41 473 The Hold Steady - Sideways Skull (8, Stuck Between Stations - #5, 2007) Kicking off here with Fred Again.. with another entry, peaking once more. Adore U sounded great when he performed it in his Glastonbury set and its release didn't disappoint, it's comfortably my favourite big hit of 2023. Cleo Sol gets a solo entry after two Little Simz collabs, her album last year was great and Miss Romantic is a lovely song from the SAULT singer. Lovejoy managed to hit the UK chart last year, not with this song but a couple of others that are decent. I was never fussed with what I'd heard from Squid previously but theirs was definitely an album of the year contender, The Blades the second great single from it. The Hold Steady's lead single, much more upbeat and rocky than their other entry, just misses the top 40 as this becomes the first year since their debut 2007 they score multiple top 100s.

qMbiRjjTWj0 50 441 Swim School - Bored 49 444 Pendulum - Anti-Hero (Triple J Like a Version) (4, Propane Nightmares - #10, 2008) 48 457 Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups (3, Strong Feelings - #43, 2021) 47 458 The Cost of Loving - Strings (Attached) 46 463 Jamie T - Hippodrome (5, The Old Style Raiders - #5, 2022) Into the top half, beginning with Swim School who have been compared to Wolf Alice, and Bored is probably the song that sums that up most. Australian radio station Triple J's Like a Version is an equivalent of the radio 1 live lounge, where acts perform a song of their own and a cover, some of which have become incredibly popular over the years. A few have made my own chart but Pendulum have by far the most successful one, with Anti-Hero becoming my first new number one of 2024 and they take it 18 places higher than Taylor Swift did here last year, it's exactly as you'd expect it to sound and it works quite brilliantly, everything a cover version should be. Dry Cleaning reach the chart for the third consecutive year, and The Cost of Loving are comfortably the least known act to appear, after discovering them supporting Real Lies in 2022. Jamie T rounds this 5 off with Hippodrome, released just before his big Finsbury Park gig which I went to, and how much I enjoyed that certainly elevated that in my affections. It's surprising it's only his 5th top 100 entry, should have far more and there are some notable omissions.

01 (01) English Teacher - R&B (01) (07) (3 weeks) 02 (02) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (07) 03 (03) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (08) 04 (14) The Blinders - All I Need (04) (04) 05 (04) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (06) 06 (06) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (06) (06) 07 (12) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (07) (04) 08 (08) I.JORDAN - Close To You (08) (05) 09 (05) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (10) (3 weeks) 10 (09) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (06) 11 (15) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (05) 12 (07) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (10) 13 (11) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (05) 14 (20) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (14) (03) 15 (17) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (15) (05) 16 (22) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (16) (03) 17 (10) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (10) 18 (19) Caroline Polachek - Coma (18) (04) 19 (30) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (19) (02) 20 (21) How To Dress Well - No Light (20) (04) 21 (27) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (21) (02) 22 (13) The Holy - Any Given Day (09) (08) 23 (32) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (23) (03) 24 (16) The Libertines - Shiver (10) (09) 25 (29) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (25) (03) 26 (18) The Holy - The Incredible Ibex (01) (12) (3 weeks) 27 (41) Anna Prior - Fall Back 28 (28) Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Rae Morris - Better Now (28) (06) 29 (23) Four Tet - Daydream Repeat (15) (08) 30 (35) RINSE feat. Caroline Loveglow - Stranger (30) (02) 31 (42) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (31) (01) 32 (37) Real Estate - Airdrop (32) (02) 33 (24) TR/ST feat. Jake Shears - Being Boring (03) (11) 34 (45) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (34) (01) 35 (25) Bob Vylan - Hunger Games (04) (14) 36 (26) Ellis - What I Know Now (22) (06) 37 (46) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (37) (01) 38 (34) MGMT - Mother Nature (01) (18) (4 weeks) 39 (33) Quiet Houses - What My Heart Is For (02) (14) 40 (36) The Blinders - Swallowing Static (20) (08)