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It wasn't a song I was familiar with, but listened to the full 50 songs together to try and rank them all in order. You'll See and Self Control were both so dull I just put them as the last two, I don't hate the Britney song (my 3 pointer) enough to feel they were worth putting above it.

I would say the table is deceptive but the other way around. Arsenal on Saturday is their 12th consecutive game against one of the 11 teams above them, an insanely unlucky run to have in which they have got some decent draws in. Mix the fixtures a different way and they're no where near being part of the relegation battle. 19 points from 10 games against sides in the bottom half, still all 8 below them to play, 5 of them at home. This is prime candidate for a new manager bounce which is no such thing, just down to variance.

#11 Coldplay Points: 1166 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Number of entries: 16 Total weeks on chart: 187 Most Successful Year: 2008, 8th d020hcWA_Wg Coldplay had been in my all-time top 10 since 2008 but were kicked out at the last minute, with just a fortnight left of 2022. They are fourth and final act to appear who were present in my first ever chart. They were always a band I enjoyed, their debut was an album I got when I would've been 11 or 12 which isn't exactly the music people of that age would usually enjoy. They did have an incredible knack of picking singles, with their best songs usually getting released which for a long time meant high charting positions for me. They kicked off here with The Scientist and Clocks which would've been a pair of #1s if I'd got the formers full chart run from 2002. A Rush of Blood To The Head and Viva La Vida are the two albums I'd still listen to all the way through now, the latter probably my favourite album of theirs after X&Y which I found little too dull. Speed of Sound was hugely hyped and I was caught up in that to some extent with it charting at #3, the singles which followed each went one higher - Fix You is a superb anthem and Talk has to be up there with their most underrated tracks. X&Y showed some excellent variation and different sounds for them. Looking back, Violet Hill doesn't deserve to have charted that much lower than all of their others with its odd chart run of double #10 peak, but Viva La Vida fully deserving of its success. The end of 2008 saw some Coldplay plus rap, with Jay-Z being a welcome addition to Lost and a mashup with Lil Wayne's A Milli, something I enjoyed for about a fortnight and probably never listened to again. They continued to be a great singles band considering Mylo Xyloto is somewhat poor with some more excellent hits, before they bowed out (or so I thought) with Midnight, using an unreleased Jon Hopkins backing track to sound Bon Iver esque, it was no wonder I adored it and I'm surprised it wasn't more successful for me. As with other bands that have been in here, there comes a time when enough Coldplay exists and it's been hard to care about anything new they release when you know they have 30+ better songs. That was until 2021, despite my usual lack of any expectation was blown over by Coloratura, a 10+ minute epic that's definitely amongst their best songs. A fully deserving band to kick off the top 10! Chart History: 06/01/2003 The Scientist 08-10-12-14-18-18-21-24-27-35-39 (11 weeks) 24/03/2003 Clocks 01-01-01-02-03-04-06-07-09-09-13-15-19-23-24-27-33-36-39 (19 weeks) 23/05/2005 Speed of Sound 03-04-04-06-11-15-15-21-28-32-35 (11 week) 05/09/2005 Fix You 02-03-06-10-11-13-13-16-17-21-27-25-29-38-39-40-37-39 (18 weeks) 19/12/2005 Talk 02-01-01-03-07-06-09-13-16-19-32 (11 weeks) 05/05/2008 Violet Hill 22-10-13-22-34-38-20-10-16-24-27-37 (12 weeks) 12/05/2008 Viva La Vida 20-14-13-20-10-02-02-02-03-05-07-09-14-15-16-21-29-39 (18 weeks) 10/11/2008 Lost+ (feat. Jay-Z) 38-31-24-15-10-09-09-11-12-22-31 (11 weeks) 29/12/2008 Viva La Milli (w/ Lil Wayne) 26-26 (2 weeks) 19/01/2009 Life in Technicolor ii 21-07-05-02-03-04-11-22-33 (9 weeks) 07/06/2011 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall 33-30-20-08-02-02-02-02-05-08-13-18-28-39 (14 weeks) 12/09/2011 Paradise 36-25-18-13-13-13-09-13-19-29-38-X-21-16-13-16-21-34 (17 weeks) 06/02/2012 Charlie Brown 36-25-23-22-21-32-38 (7 weeks) 05/11/2012 Hurts Like Heaven 27-21-13-09-14-25-33-38 (8 weeks) 03/03/2014 Midnight 30-17-11-05-09-12-22-29-37 (9 weeks) 31/07/2021 Coloratura 28-18-09-04-03-05-11-15-23-33 (10 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Clocks 02 Midnight 03 Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall 04 Fix You 05 Coloratura

I was surprised to see that get so far, great to see it make the final, an iconic hit still sounds great 20 years on. Katy on a Mission is magnificent, that and Perfect Stranger two exceptional hits of that genre from that time :wub: The less said about Wow the better, surprised but pleased to see so many give it 1

Tempted to change to something I'm utterly obsessed with, however is far too cheap for me to enter, and I would probably be included in the below if I did (if someone else isn't already).

Fred Again.. my clear favourite. MK, Zara and j-hope all decent enough too so voted them also.

A shame to see Up so low, would agree it's their best along with Ego. It was definitely my preferred noughties female pop song in this final.

#12 Foals Points: 1139 Date first charted: 20/08/2007 Number of entries: 18 Total weeks on chart: 176 Most Successful Year: 2010, 7th eYoINidnLRQ Onto the two just falling short of the top 10, and first up are Foals, whose career splits perfectly in half, an excellent one and a good one, with nine of their first ten entries reaching the top 10, but just two of their next eight managing the same. Mathletics was my introduction to them, a fun and quirky single which separated them from most indie bands of the time, with Balloons and Cassius being of a similar vein, and their single prior to those Hummer has gone on to be a massive favourite. Their debut album Antidotes was very much in the same style of those singles, very dance orientated with significant math-rock influences, and it's gone on to be one of my favourite albums of all time. If I made a top 10 of Foals songs, the majority would be from that era. But whilst 00s Foals might make up 6/7 of my top 10, my top 2 aren't from that era and are well clear of the rest. One of them got the chart run it deserved, but safe to say that Spanish Sahara didn't really, although 5 weeks in the top 3 and 13 weeks in total is hardly a flop. Gone was the sound of previous work, as they progressed to something so beautifully atmospheric that kept building towards a stunning crescendo. At nearly 7 minutes long it was a significant risk leading with that following a fairly successful debut era, but it absolutely worked and helped them get even bigger, as it's deservingly gone on to be one of their most popular hits and a live staple. Blue Blood feels very similar in style and the next best thing on the album, which whilst not hitting the same heights as Antidotes, is still great. Returning with something completely different but also excellent was something they soon did again, with Inhaler being their most rocky song so far, and this time it got a worthy chart run, five weeks at the top and almost half a year on the chart in total. They followed it up with another pair of top 5 hits, My Number easily their biggest and most popular song but Bad Habit the one that I continue to listen to most, really up there with their best. I'd actually rank fourth album What Went Down as my 2nd favourite of theirs, but the singles success didn't really match it, the title track I probably underappreciated at the time but I've never been that big on Mountain at My Gates, but it seems to be a comfortable 2nd of theirs for popularity so it's done something right. It did at least supply their last top 5 hit in the beautiful under-appreciated Albatross. In recent years it feels like quantity has been prioritised over quality, with three albums in the last four years, on which only Exits really stands up to previous work. Most of the singles I've enjoyed enough to playlist, but few I've properly cared for and in the case of 2am got bored of quicker than it grew on me. As much as I've enjoyed listening to them in the last 15 years, they are quite honestly the most boring live act I've ever seen. Twice at festivals I've seen them, and both times I've left before the end of their set, given how utterly uninteresting they were. At last years Glastonbury when they headlined the Other Stage on Friday, I think there were about 10 acts on at the same time I'd have gone to over them. Chart History: 20/08/2007 Mathletics 16-08-03-03-08-14-18-20-24-35 (10 weeks) 10/12/2007 Balloons 37-36-19-10-10-12-15-21-26-30 (10 weeks) 25/02/2008 Cassius 24-06-05-08-10-15-17-25-33-40 (10 weeks) 05/04/2010 Spanish Sahara 30-17-08-03-02-02-03-02-04-09-15-24-35 (13 weeks) 03/05/2010 This Orient 31-23-16-08-05-06-08-16-25-33 (10 weeks) 05/07/2010 Miami 31-31-40 (3 weeks) 08/11/2010 Blue Blood 25-18-08-04-04-04-07-12-16-29-36 (11 weeks) 12/11/2012 Inhaler 25-14-07-04-02-01-01-01-01-01-02-03-03-02-03-04-07-10-13-16-22-27-34-40 (24 weeks) 11/02/2013 My Number 31-19-12-08-05-07-12-20-32 (9 weeks) 15/07/2013 Bad Habit 26-16-13-12-07-05-06-11-16-22-29-38 (12 weeks) 13/07/2015 What Went Down 38-26-22-16-22-32 (6 weeks) 17/08/2015 Mountain at My Gates 35-31-32-38-39-40-36 (7 weeks) 18/01/2016 Birch Tree 33-24-20-14-11-15-24-36 (8 weeks) 11/07/2016 Albatross 25-15-09-05-03-05-08-12-19-28-39 (11 weeks) 09/02/2019 Exits 34-24-17-12-11-08-07-08-14-23-32-39 (12 weeks) 08/06/2019 In Degrees 36-27-22-16-13-17-28-36 (8 weeks) 31/08/2019 Black Bull 32-25-23-21-31-40 (6 weeks) 26/02/2022 2am 38-25-15-12-14-31 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Spanish Sahara 02 Inhaler 03 Hummer 04 Cassius 05 Mathletics

#13 Maxïmo Park Points: 1096 Date first charted: 01/11/2004 Number of entries: 19 Total weeks on chart: 184 Most Successful Year: 2005, 3rd -Ue193sAcrE My teenage obsession with Maxïmo Park was so high that on most music forums I posted on, I signed up with the username Maxïmo Mark. In a world that was awash with British indie bands, it was a pair of middling ones (in terms of UK chart impact) from North East England that I really fell for in 2005. Paul Smith is a superb frontman with a great voice and knack for writing indie-disco bangers including some local colloquialisms. I'd heard Zane Lowe playing their earlier single at the end of 2004 but it was Apply Some Pressure that I loved straight away, one of the greatest songs of its type from that era which was unfortunately released on the same week as another of those, so it wasn't until it was re-released that it became a #1 for me. The string of singles from the album was excellent and they'd have all been in my final 10-ish purchases on CD single, Graffiti a superb follow-up in similar vein and Going Missing much more chilled and heartfelt. A Certain Trigger remains one of the albums from that period that I remain fondest of, full of great songs - Once, A Glimpse, Signal and Sign and the beautiful Acrobat the pick of the non-singles. To me, they were definitely a sufferer of the sophomore slump as I didn't care for their second album much, but it did possess a trio of superb singles, Our Velocity giving them a third number one and a UK top 10 which I was delighted by, a single close to matching the quality of Apply Some Pressure and just as anthemic and easy to sing along to. Girls Who Play Guitars is of a similar style and also remained high in my affections. All seven of their albums have had a charting single, though a couple of them only just, by album #3 I'd pretty much stopped caring which made me very sad, but The Kids Are Sick Again managed a couple of weeks towards the bottom. With much lower expectations I was more impressed by their work on The National Health and they returned to the top 10 twice, Hips and Lips is up there with their best and The Undercurrents is a long-lost twin of Going Missing. Leave This Island would return them to the top 10 once more a couple of years later, but the album following their debut I've got into most was 2017s Risk To Exist, with its two main singles falling just short. Last year they released Great Art which took me back to their early work, it felt like a real throwback, and gave them a first top 5 in 15 years. It was to promote a Singles tour which was well worth attending, they're a great live act and it was good to finally see them outside of a festival, and showed a collection well worthy of their #13 position. Chart History: 01/11/2004 The Coast Is Always Changing 33-39 (2 weeks) 21/02/2005 Apply Some Pressure 02-05-04-07-10-14-17-23-29-34-40 (11 weeks) 02/05/2005 Graffiti 02-04-06-11-13-15-13-14-17-19-23-29-31-32-36 (15 weeks) 18/07/2005 Going Missing 01-01-01-01-02-04-10-15-20-22-31-33-32-34-38-39 (16 weeks) 24/10/2005 Apply Some Pressure [Re-issue] 02-01-01-02-03-02-05-11-15-16-17-21-26-29-29-25-28-33 (18 weeks) 20/02/2006 I Want You To Stay 05-08-11-15-19-24-32-40 (8 weeks) 26/02/2007 Our Velocity 13-04-02-01-01-05-05-08-13-22-30-39 (12 weeks) 21/05/2007 Books From Boxes 33-20-13-10-08-11-14-16-22-31-40 (11 weeks) 20/08/2007 Girls Who Play Guitars 30-09-07-07-18-27-34 (7 weeks) 03/12/2007 Karaoke Plays 34-31-30-33 (4 weeks) 04/05/2009 The Kids Are Sick Again 39-37 (2 weeks) 11/06/2012 Hips And Lips 35-23-15-08-07-07-07-07-12-18-23-32-39 (13 weeks) 27/08/2012 The Undercurrents 39-34-28-21-19-17-15-09-12-16-19-23-33 (13 weeks) 26/11/2012 The National Health 36-31-33 (3 weeks) 06/01/2014 Leave This Island 27-23-18-11-07-08-12-19-24-37 (10 weeks) 01/12/2014 Give, Get, Take 37-38 (2 weeks) 21/02/2017 Risk to Exist 38-33-29-26-25-20-18-13-20-30-39-40 (12 weeks) 29/05/2017 What Equals Love? 32-24-18-16-13-13-18-33 (8 weeks) 07/11/2020 Baby, Sleep 39-36-35-34-38 (5 weeks) 09/04/2022 Great Art 33-25-21-14-10-11-06-05-08-14-27-37 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Apply Some Pressure 02 Our Velocity 03 Graffiti 04 Girls Who Play Guitars 05 Hips and Lips

My Kylie vote makes it 1 each. Decent top 4, usually still voting for something much worse than Love at First Sight at this stage

#14 Bat For Lashes Points: 1081 Date first charted: 13/04/2009 Number of entries: 17 Total weeks on chart: 182 Most Successful Year: 2012, 4th 9yEjT_pIkhU The first half of this countdown was quite varied, but the top 40 has turned to largely male fronted indie of some sort, so at #14 Natasha Khan AKA Bat For Lashes is the 3rd highest act with predominantly female vocals. I got into the latter singles from her first album, probably through beginning to listen to 6 Music, as she climbed into the top 10 with her first charting single Prescilla, and when Fur and Gold was nominated for the Mercury Prize it made me buy it, I've always quite liked it but never hugely, earlier single Horse & I very much being the best thing on it. When she returned 18 months later with Daniel I was hooked fairly quickly, and was absolutely delighted she made the UK Top 40, as it went all the way to the top for me. It was a more accessible song than she'd released before, much more synthy, and still her most perfect song. The whole of the Two Suns album is magnificent, Pearl's Dream also made the top 5 and both Glass and Two Planets are amongst her very best. A third album came in 2012 and once again returned with a #1 single that was just a Christian name, Laura. Much more stripped back and typical 'singer-songwriter' song, it's hauntingly beautiful and still stops me in my tracks, a fully deserving pair of number one singles. She followed it up with another couple of top 10s, but Lilies and Horse of the Sun are my other standouts from The Haunted Man. A couple of collaborations followed as she featured on songs with electronic musician Jon Hopkins and indie band Toy, before releasing an EP with the latter as Sexwitch, their take on old songs of Iranian and Moroccan heritage, the lead single Helylos reaching the top 10 again. Both her fourth and fifth album also produced a pair of top 10 hits, The Bride's story of a woman who's fiance dies in a car crash on the way to their wedding, an interesting concept, it's another great album and Joe's Dream is the pick from it. Kids In The Dark gave her a third number one single in 2019, reminded me of her earlier work and is just beautiful, with Jasmine becoming just her second top 5 hit that didn't go all the way to the top. Her cover of the Carpenters We've Only Just Begun, used to advertise Lloyds Bank, snuck a few weeks as her last entry. Chart History: 19/03/2007 Prescilla 33-15-13-10-18-25-35 (7 weeks) 18/06/2007 What's A Girl To Do? 39-32-17-14-15-23-38-38-39 (9 weeks) 02/03/2009 Daniel 39-25-17-08-03-02-01-01-03-03-07-09-13-15-16-19-23-31 (18 weeks) 22/06/2009 Pearl's Dream 25-14-10-08-06-04-05-04-07-11-17-28-35 (13 weeks) 07/09/2009 Sleep Alone / Moon And Moon 32-28-31-40 (4 weeks) 23/07/2012 Laura 31-10-03-02-01-01-01-04-05-07-10-17-23-27-29-36-39 (17 weeks) 01/10/2012 All Your Gold 26-23-13-09-10-09-08-08-12-12-16-22-25-32-38 (15 weeks) 31/12/2012 A Wall 33-26-17-12-07-07-13-21-31 (9 weeks) 22/07/2013 The Bride (w/ Toy) 26-24-16-12-13-16-21-31 (8 weeks) 30/09/2013 Garden's Heart (w/ Jon Hopkins) 34-29-24-16-14-17-30 (7 weeks) 12/10/2015 Helelyos (w/ Toy as SEXWITCH) 25-17-14-08-07-09-15-28-39 (9 weeks) 11/07/2016 Sunday Love 35-28-20-15-12-10-09-11-15-23-36 (11 weeks) 10/10/2016 Joe's Dream 25-15-07-07-09-13-17-20-26-36 (10 weeks) 19/12/2016 If I Knew 36-31-28-24-19-21-28-39 (8 weeks) 29/06/2019 Kids in the Dark 36-28-19-10-04-02-01-02-03-05-08-10-12-17-21-26-32-36-40 (19 weeks) 07/09/2019 Jasmine 36-29-22-15-13-09-07-05-06-09-15-26-34 (13 weeks) 17/10/2020 We've Only Just Begun 35-33-32-36 (4 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Daniel 02 Laura 03 Kids In The Dark 04 Horse & I 05 Glass

Listened to all of these in one playlist to determine the order, overall a good listen. Had expectations that a couple of songs I didn't recognise would be good or a well remembered song I just simply didn't recognise, but they're both so dull I can't even bring myself to put them above Britney Spears! Anything to Katy B-Crying I'd choose to listen to, and only the bottom 6 I'd skip. 50 Metallica - Enter Sandman 49 Blur – The Universal 48 Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate 47 Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent 46 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You 45 Katy B - Katy On A Mission 44 Chase and Status featuring Liam Bailey - Blind Faith 43 Snow Patrol - Run 42 Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box 41 New Radicals - You Get What You Give 40 The Prodigy - Out Of Space 39 The Kooks - Naive 38 Moby - Porcelain 37 Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 36 The Bucketheads – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) 35 Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies 34 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf 33 The Monkees - Daydream Believer 32 Pink - Who Knew 31 Aaliyah – Try Again 30 David Gray - Babylon 29 Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love 28 Daft Punk - Around The World 27 Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke 26 Kelis - Acapella 25 The Saturdays - Up 24 Blur - Girls & Boys 23 Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out) 22 Texas - Summer Son 21 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love) 20 Dua Lipa - Levitating 19 Katy B - Crying For No Reason 18 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky 17 September - Cry For You 16 Tina Turner - The Best 15 Blondie - Rapture 14 Kate Bush - Babooshka 13 Will Young - Jealousy 12 Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight 11 Nelly Furtado – I'm Like a Bird 10 Whitney Houston - How Will I Know 9 Lily Allen - Not Fair 8 Avril Lavigne – My Happy Ending 7 Kelly Clarkson – Since U Been Gone 6 Kylie Minogue - Wow 5 Cher - Strong Enough 4 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No... 3 Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy 2 Laura Branigan - Self Control 1 Madonna - You'll See

Unfamiliar with almost all of your new entries this week, so have added them to my new playlist for the week, along with Desire Marea's entry which I'd also missed. Am enjoying the Vitesse X song though, much more than her last release. Good to see some songs within my own top 10 - Slowthai, Heartworms, Young Fathers - climbing up your chart, that U.S. Girls song has entered my top 40 this week too, and nice to see Swing in the top 10, not been taken by anything of Squid's before but loving that currently, definitely a potential future top 3 for me.

01 (05) Italia 90 - Leisure Activities (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (01) Young Fathers - Rice (02) (07) (1 week) 03 (02) Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention (01) (09) (1 week) 04 (04) Thus Love - In Tandem (04) (05) 05 (03) Heartworms - Retributions of An Awful Life (03) (07) 06 (06) The Hold Steady - Sideways Skull (06) (06) 07 (08) Slowthai - Selfish (07) (06) 08 (07) Daughter - Be On Your Way (01) (08) (2 weeks) 09 (10) Overmono - Is U (09) (04) 10 (17) Thus Love - Repetitioner (10) (03) 11 (12) U.S. Girls - Futures Bet (11) (05) 12 (09) Libianca - People (06) (06) 13 (21) Django Django feat. Self Esteem - Complete Me (13) (03) 14 (23) Yune Pinku - Night Light (14) (04) 15 (16) The Go! Team - Gemini (15) (04) 16 (11) Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (01) (13) (4 weeks) 17 (26) Squid - Swing (In a Dream) (17) (02) 18 (19) DMA's - Fading Like a Picture (18) (05) 19 (15) M83 - Oceans Niagara (15) (06) 20 (29) Piri & Tommy - Updown (20) (03) 21 (30) Softcult - Dress (21) (02) 22 (13) Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups (02) (10) 23 (24) ATRIP - All Night (23) (03) 24 (14) Little Simz - Gorilla (07) (08) 25 (36) Wunderhorse - Purple (25) (02) 26 (**) Nabinah Iqbal - This World Couldn't See Us (26) (01) 27 (33) Yves Tumor - Echolalia (27) (02) 28 (22) Heartworms - Consistent Dedication (03) (15) 29 (**) Daughter - Swim Back (29) (01) 30 (28) Future Utopia feat. Kae Tempest - We Were We Still Are (28) (04) 31 (18) Yunè Pinku - Fai Fighter (04) (13) 32 (41) Vitesse X - Right Now (32) (01) 33 (20) Samia - Sea Lions (10) (09) 34 (27) Hatchie - Nosedive (01) (17) (3 weeks) 35 (25) Dutch Uncles - Tropigala (2 to 5) (13) (07) 36 (**) U.S Girls - Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo) (36) (01) 37 (32) Kevin de Vries - Dance With Me (07) (17) 38 (**) Pine Barons - Frantic Francis (38) (01) 39 (37) Goat - Do The Dance (27) (09) 40 (34) Nia Archives - So Tell Me... (02) (15)

#15 Ben Howard Points: 1080 Date first charted: 26/09/2011 Number of entries: 15 Total weeks on chart: 182 Most Successful Year: 2012, 1st ADP65wbBUpc Although I was never that into any the wave of singer-songwriters to emerge from the mid 2000s onwards, Jack Johnson's In-Between Dreams being comfortably my favourite album of that type, that changed when Ben Howard came onto the scene in 2011. I loved Keep Your Head Up straight away, so uplifting and anthemic, and it became a big number one hit for me, with parent album Every Kingdom being truly brilliant and something I was excited to purchase on its day or release. A string of excellent singles, with a nice variety in style, all reached the top 10, and it was my favourite album of the year, something I ranked in my top 10 of the decade and still love now. The tracks on the extended version and the Burgh Island EP didn't disappoint a year later. It was brilliant to see him get such mainstream success, watching it build to a pair of BRIT Awards I couldn't have been more delighted about. The first release of 2014s follow-up was something a little different, End of the Affair going with a bit of a darker sound and at almost 8 minutes long was a surprise but an excellent one, a brilliant single that builds to a stunning crescendo, an easy second number one and I couldn't wait to hear the rest. It was another accomplished album, taking the sound of Every Kingdom and tweaking it a bit, it was every bit as good as I'd hoped and in the title track and Conrad helped him hit 9 consecutive top 10 hits. Later albums have been a bit more hit and miss, but those hits have been excellent, again coming back with a long lead single in A Boat To An Island on The Wall, and following it up with Nica Libres at Dusk, which went on to become a third number one. What a Day was reminiscent of earlier work and was something I grew to love, and Sorry Kid feels very under-charted. His other project A Blaze of Feather has produced a few decent singles too, with Six Years being another top 5 hit in 2017. Chart History: 26/09/2011 Keep Your Head Up 33-23-15-05-01-01-01-01-01-01-03-06-09-10-14-18-23-30-34 (19 weeks) 28/11/2011 The Fear 33-25-18-08-05-02-02-03-04-06-11-14-19-25-34 (15 weeks) 13/02/2012 The Wolves 29-20-12-03-03-02-02-03-05-07-13-23-34 (13 weeks) 07/05/2012 Only Love 35-22-12-06-04-04-07-10-20-28-37 (11 weeks) 13/08/2012 Old Pine 30-20-09-08-11-13-23-34 (8 weeks) 05/11/2012 Burgh Island EP 15-09-06-04-02-04-05-06-05-04-06-09-10-14-18-26-34-40 (18 weeks) 25/08/2014 End of the Affair 16-05-01-01-02-02-02-05-07-10-13-16-15-22-30-36 (16 weeks) 08/09/2014 I Forget Where We Were 25-14-12-07-09-08-11-14-20-18-24-30-38 (13 weeks) 01/12/2014 Conrad 24-17-10-09-10-15-20-28-40 (9 weeks) 02/03/2015 Rivers in Your Mouth 33-26-25-34-40 (5 weeks) 08/06/2015 Small Things 35-29-24-26-31-37 (6 weeks) 23/04/2018 A Boat to an Island on the Wall 29-21-15-10-10-07-12-13-15-19-22-30-37-40 (14 weeks) 21/05/2018 Nica Libres at Dusk 36-27-19-10-02-01-01-02-03-04-05-09-16-26-36-40 (16 weeks) 13/02/2021 What a Day 35-30-22-17-18-17-15-11-06-05-06-11-20-33 (14 weeks) 24/04/2021 Sorry Kid 28-23-22-24-36 (5 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Keep Your Head Up 02 End of the Affair 03 I Forget Where We Were 04 The Wolves 05 Nica Libres at Dusk

Tubthumping easily, though both are loads better than Aqua

Have confirmed what I think is my first ever fully instrumental entry.

#16 DMA's Points: 1077 Date first charted: 25/01/2016 Number of entries: 17 Total weeks on chart: 197 Most Successful Year: 2018, 1st _kbD61y6oWU The top 20 is largely taken up by acts who've been around since the early years of my chart, but DMA's are a huge outlier at #16. Since they first debuted in 2016, they're #1 above Hatchie by a massive margin of 268 points, having amassed 17 hits during that time, all but three hitting at least the top 20. Their debut album Hills End produced three hit singles, and I listened to the album a couple of times, but I considered them just a typical decent indie band, my love for them didn't begin properly until the day their second album was released. Lead single Dawning had become their biggest hit, and In The Air was a grower of a beautiful slower song before they released For Now which I begun to like more. In the week leading up to the album's release I saw they were playing my home city on the Friday it came out, so bought myself a ticket and spent most of that day listening to it and them. I had no idea they were popular enough to sell out a 2500 capacity venue, and they were incredible, without doubt one of the best live bands I had ever seen and I saw them a further three times in the next 15 months. I was hooked after that, and got much more into their older stuff, Feels Like 37 is a superb indie anthem and Delete deservedly their most popular song, without a doubt a top 5 all time live song. Following that, For Now climbed to number one and spent 5 weeks there. Do I Need You Now? was in a similar vein to In The Air, but Emily Whyte is their standout slow song. The lead from their third album, Silver, also climbed to the top, with it too producing another couple of top 10s, title track The Glow being my favourite of them. Life Is a Game of Changing was a decent change of sound for them, nicely accessible away from their standard sound, but still being great but it took be a while to properly get into. They had two further hits with their 2021 EP, before their fourth album campaign started last year with I Don't Need To Hide, which is typically and brilliantly anthemic. Since the end of the year, current single Fading Like a Picture gave them a chart entry for an 8th year in a row, and its points would put them up to #13 on a to-date chart. Looking at just how much they've dominated my listening since getting into them, from the beginning of 2018 they're the top act on my last.fm with about 50% more listens than second place. Chart History: 25/01/2016 Delete 25-15-17-26-39 (5 weeks) 25/04/2016 In The Moment 36-32-23-18-14-09-11-17-28-38 (10 weeks) 11/07/2016 Too Soon 31-26-25-30-40 (5 weeks) 30/10/2017 Dawning 34-30-28-23-15-13-10-07-06-06-08-09-13-23-30 (15 weeks) 05/03/2018 In The Air 37-32-28-22-21-17-14-13-14-19-30-37-33-31-37 (15 weeks) 16/04/2018 For Now 33-18-03-01-01-01-01-01-02-04-06-09-10-12-16-20-22-26-31-33-35-39 (22 weeks) 25/06/2018 Do I Need You Now? 37-30-21-15-09-07-06-08-13-26-37 (11 weeks) 30/07/2018 Are You Here? (w/ The Presets) 30-21-18-16-14-12-13-19-24-27-34-40 (12 weeks) 22/10/2018 The End (Channel Tres Remix) 29-25-24-22-26-31-40 (7 weeks) 09/11/2019 Silver 36-24-12-05-03-03-02-02-01-01-05-08-12-18-23-30-39 (17 weeks) 22/02/2020 Life Is a Game of Changing 35-28-26-26-23-20-16-14-13-15-21-30-37 (13 weeks) 18/07/2020 Criminals 38-30-24-17-12-08-08-14-23-30-39 (11 weeks) 02/05/2020 The Glow 31-22-10-06-02-02-02-02-04-07-10-11-13-18-25-31-36-40 (18 weeks) 04/09/2021 We Are Midnight 26-17-11-08-07-12-16-26-39-40 (10 weeks) 08/01/2022 Junk Truck Head Fuck (feat. MAY-A) 29-22-16-19-24-33 (6 weeks) 27/08/2022 I Don't Need To Hide 33-24-15-04-02-02-03-05-08-13-19-28-35-40 (14 weeks) 26/11/2022 Everybody's Saying Thursday's The Weekend 36-29-25-25-30-32* -35-36-40 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 For Now 02 Feels Like 37 03 Delete 04 Emily Whyte 05 Silver

She won the BBC's Sound of 2009. This was the 15 act longlist, a lot have gone on to have bigger and longer careers http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7758169.stm

#17 Hot Chip Points: 1042 Date first charted: 27/02/2006 Number of entries: 17 Total weeks on chart: 161 Most Successful Year: 2019, 1st rOnMZALLQPk Hot Chip are a band who have released two albums that I absolutely love, and many others I've never really been able to get into but have usually always put out some decent singles along the way. Like many, my first exposure to them was with their 2006 album The Warning, with its three singles all having similar top 20 success before the Over and Over re-release, as the indie-disco staple went two places higher to peak in the top 10. Those three, plus Careful and the title track were all great but I wasn't that into them as a band, and that continued with their next few releases, with only their big commercial success Ready For The Floor got close to the top end of the chart, although they did also get a decent hit with their cover of Vampire Weekend's Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, alongside the man it namechecks, Peter Gabriel. In Our Heads was their fifth album, but the first one that really hit me all the way through. Lead single proper Night & Day is probably the song on it I find weakest, but the follow-ups became their two biggest hits as they reached the top 5 for the first time. The standouts though are the opener Motion Sickness and the 7-minute Flutes. The album is varied throughout but is a triumph of indie/electronica. They followed it up with decent standalone in Dark & Stormy, but their next album seemed like a huge step down and the best song Huarache Lights didn't quite manage to chart. Since then though they have only got stronger, and have become a mainstay towards the top of the chart. Next lead single Hungry Child had a quick climb to become their first number one, begins slowly but turns into another danceable song, and it remains the song of theirs I rate best, with Positive also making it as they became my top act of 2019. Spell made it a great trio of singles, and the Superorganism remix of that is great fun too. Last year came another album and three more big hits, with the upbeat Eleanor being the pick of the bunch. Chart History: 27/02/2006 Over And Over 12-14-19-24-30-39 (6 weeks) 08/05/2006 Boy From School 31-26-28-38-19-28-35 (7 weeks) 14/08/2006 Colours 16-16-24-36-40 (5 weeks) 09/10/2006 Over And Over [Re-issue] 11-10-11-25-38 (5 weeks) 21/01/2008 Ready For The Floor 35-20-09-15-22-29 (6 weeks) 12/05/2008 One Pure Thought 40-36-30-32-35 (5 weeks) 29/12/2008 Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (feat. Peter Gabriel) 25-15-12-12-12-21-33 (7 weeks) 25/01/2010 One Life Stand 35-34 (2 weeks) 10/09/2012 How Do You Do? 25-17-11-05-04-06-10-15-24-35 (10 weeks) 10/12/2012 Don't Deny Your Heart 22-16-10-07-05-04-07-12-22-32 (10 weeks) 17/06/2013 Dark and Stormy 36-33-22-19-18-15-21-37 (8 weeks) 20/04/2019 Hungry Child 31-20-09-01-01-01-02-03-05-08-09-11-13-17-21-28-32-37 (18 weeks) 15/06/2019 Melody of Love 36-30-22-19-18-14-15-16-18-24-29-35 (12 weeks) 07/09/2019 Spell 29-22-13-09-07-10-17-20-30-35-40 (11 weeks) 14/12/2019 Positive 33-22-13-06-05-01-01-03-06-08-13-18-24-32-37-40 (16 weeks) 28/05/2022 Down 30-21-13-08-05-05-07-10-16-24-34 (11 weeks) 23/07/2022 Eleanor 28-16-09-04-03-02-04-07-14-20-29-38 (12 weeks) 29/10/2022 Broken 34-23-12-09-06-07-11-18-26-33-40 (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Hungry Child 02 Flutes 03 Over and Over 04 Positive 05 Motion Sickness

I think the best hope of an interesting season is Red Bull focusing on next year due to being so far ahead and such reduced wind-tunnel time, to make it a bit like Button's championship, winning all of the early races before others close up but not enough. Easy to see Verstappen winning more than last season. Mainly pleased for Williams in the first race, good to see both drivers qualify and race well and nick a point. If Aston Martin have made it a top 4 which are well clear, going to be quite low scoring in the bottom half so all points count. Interesting to see Alfa take the Fastest Lap point away so early, too.

Didn't get round to commenting properly at the weekend, just chance to catch what the results were. Like others have said, this was a fantastic top 2, the winner grew with each listen and Voryva was superb from the first time I heard it. Really pleased to finish so high up with Kevin, 2nd best finish in the last 20 contests so great to see. Delighted it proved to be so popular, thought it might do well but I've thought that with plenty of other entries that haven't, nice to have received so many medal positions, and as many as 11 double figure scores, loved getting an Aeroche 18 :wub:

#18 The Drums Points: 1039 Date first charted: 28/09/2009 Number of entries: 16 Total weeks on chart: 166 Most Successful Year: 2010, 4th iRzkrDwEfgk Continuing in the top 20 now with The Drums, with two #1s and five #2s to their name. They emerged at the end of the 00s with their Summertime EP, 5 songs of incredible catchy indie pop I soon fell in love with, I Felt Stupid going right the way to the top at the beginning of 2010. Their debut album soon followed and it was more of the same, indie pop that I was a huge fan of and listened to a lot, Forever and Ever Amen being the pick of the singles from it and I got some full appreciation for Let's Go Surfing correcting its lowly #20 peak and 4 week run. The following year their first appearance came alongside Edwyn Collins, his one big hit A Girl Like You from the 90s being my only knowledge of him, their two styles fitted together really well and sent them back into the top 5. Album 2 Portamento came within 18 months of the first, in terms of sound it was more of the same and was just as impressive, I liked it as much as I did the first. Money wasn't a favourite of mine but the other singles had them on top form. Though How It Ended seems woefully under-charted, Days went into the top 5 again. Album 3 was another decent effort and produced two more decent sized singles, but nothing quite as good as previous. By 2017 they were essentially a solo project for singer Jonny Pierce as every other original member had departed, but was still releasing albums under The Drums moniker, and by 2020 were going by the name The Drums & Jonny Pierce. Despite looking like the best days were behind The Drums, they've still notched a further 3 top 2 hits since 2017, with Blood Under My Belt and Body Chemistry being classic Drums sound, whilst Ambulance providing a significant change of direction, returning them to the top spot and becoming my favourite Drums song. At almost 8 minutes long, it's comfortably their longest song and sounds almost nothing like anything that had gone previous. It's a song in two halves, the first one building throughout with a somewhat depressing outlook to the lyrics, before the synths kick in and the tempo is upped, with the self-reflective and more positive lyrics. It’s ok to cry, Jonny... Chart History: 28/09/2009 Let's Go Surfing 34-20-23-39 (4 weeks) 07/12/2009 I Felt Stupid 28-22-06-02-01-01-01-01-01-03-06-10-12-17-22-27-37 (17 weeks) 29/03/2010 Best Friend 30-20-09-07-04-09-19-37 (8 weeks) 31/05/2010 Forever And Ever Amen 25-15-04-02-02-02-04-05-08-11-14-21-28-34 (14 weeks) 16/08/2010 Let's Go Surfing (Re-issue) 22-16-08-02-03-08-14-24-33-39 (10 weeks) 13/12/2010 Me And The Moon 27-19-15-15-28-37 (6 weeks) 28/02/2011 In Your Eyes (w/ Edwyn Collins) 18-08-05-05-05-02-03-07-12-16-22-26-28-38 (14 weeks) 22/08/2011 Money 29-27-25-21-20-20-31 (7 weeks) 17/10/2011 How It Ended 36-29-21-17-16-15-21-28-34-32-31-34-38 (13 weeks) 06/02/2012 Days 27-20-16-15-10-07-05-07-13-17-24-34-40 (13 weeks) 18/08/2014 Magic Mountain 38-29-24-19-16-25-37 (7 weeks) 24/11/2014 I Can't Pretend 38-29-22-15-15-19-28-40 (8 weeks) 21/03/2017 Blood Under My Belt 34-21-11-05-02-02-04-07-11-16-24-31 (12 weeks) 05/03/2018 Meet Me In Mexico 34-27-25-25-31-39 (6 weeks) 02/02/2019 Body Chemistry 30-22-15-10-07-02-04-06-10-16-25-36 (12 weeks) 02/01/2021 Ambulance 30-23-12-03-03-01-02-02-02-06-08-12-19-25-38 (15 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Ambulance 02 Forever And Ever Amen 03 I Felt Stupid 04 Body Chemistry 05 How It Ended

#19 http://pilerats.com/assets/Uploads/Purity-Ring.jpg Purity Ring Points: 1031 Date first charted: 18/06/2012 Number of entries: 15 Total weeks on chart: 173 Most Successful Year: 2015, 1st jgPYnss1wMc omg a woman! :drama: Purity Ring came at a good time in that I was fully into more electronic music when they first came to attention, their debut album Shrines was one I listened to a lot and had some great songs on it, with Fineshrines being the best and spending four weeks at #1, Belispeak and Crawlersout being the other main standouts from it. I was a bit surprised to realise that remained their only song to reach the top, but they've just been a bit unlucky in what they've been out at the same time as, with them spending 16 weeks in total at #2. Four of those were with their next hit, and one of my favourite collaborations ever released, Breathe This Air with Jon Hopkins. The original is great, and appeared on his album Immunity, which I'd probably consider to be my favourite instrumental album of all time, and the single release adding Megan James vocals on to it was excellent. The next collaboration was significantly different, but almost as good, as they worked with US rapper Danny Brown on 25 Bucks, which also became a long running #2, each of its six weeks being behind Tokyo Police Club's Argentina. I rated their second album Another Eternity higher than the first, and feel it's more consistent throughout and has a bit more variation to the style of song. Push Pull was a a good lead but the three that followed all went into the top 10 where that hadn't quite managed to, the wonderful Begin Again again reaching #2 and Heartsigh #3. Their third album was a step down in quality but still had a couple of good singles, with Stardew being a great return, as was Graves last year as they put out another EP. Chart History: 18/06/2012 Obedear 30-19-13-18-30 (5 weeks) 27/08/2012 Fineshrine 30-17-08-04-02-01-01-01-01-02-03-05-10-11-17-24-30-36-40 (19 weeks) 12/11/2012 Lofticries 33-30-25-20-14-14-18-26-37 (9 weeks) 09/09/2013 Breathe This Air (w/ Jon Hopkins) 22-10-04-02-03-03-02-02-02-04-06-09-12-14-19-20-23-24-28-34-38 (21 weeks) 03/02/2014 25 Bucks (w/ Danny Brown) 27-16-05-02-02-02-02-02-02-05-07-10-11-16-21-30-36-40 (18 weeks) 22/12/2014 Push Pull 24-17-16-14-12-12-12-20-31-40 (10 weeks) 16/02/2015 Begin Again 27-19-10-03-02-02-04-06-10-17-20-27-32-39 (14 weeks) 23/03/2015 Bodyache 32-20-11-09-07-10-21-38 (8 weeks) 29/06/2015 Heartsigh 21-12-06-03-05-07-11-20-33 (9 weeks) 07/08/2017 Asido 34-24-17-12-10-11-24-36 (8 weeks) 08/03/2020 Stardew 33-22-12-10-08-04-03-04-06-10-14-21-31-38 (14 weeks) 11/04/2020 Peacefall 32-26-18-14-13-12-13-18-26-36 (10 weeks) 28/08/2021 Soshy 35-28-27-27-24-26-32-39 (8 weeks) 07/05/2022 Graves 35-26-13-06-02-02-04-06-10-14-18-22-31-38 (14 weeks) 17/06/2022 Neverend 27-21-17-24-33-40 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Breathe This Air 02 25 Bucks 03 Fineshrine 04 Begin Again 05 Crawlersout

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