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PC_yyjfUyCU 60 408 HEALTH - Ashamed (9, Stonefist - #26, 2015) 59 414 SHEE - Win Your Love 58 417 DMA's - Get Ravey (12, For Now - #1, 2018) 57 421 Gabriels - Glory (2, Love and Hate in a Different Time - #50, 2021) 56 427 Daughter - Swim Back (6, Poke - #1, 2019) 55 432 Enola Gay feat. Mount Palomar - Terra Firma 54 433 Heartworms - May I Comply (3, Consistent Dedication - #54, 2022) 53 434 Baby Queen - Dream Girl 52 437 Blur - The Narcissist (5, Under The Westway - #1, 2012) 51 440 The Orielles - Tableau 002 (4, Beam/s - #9, 2022) A couple more BJSC entries here, from Enola Gay and SHEE. Win Your Love is the second best song I discovered from the Electronic Tracks polls, and both were entered into the competition at a later date. HEALTH returned with another album this year, and the standout Ashamed gets a standard end of year spot, Demigods not far off the list to give them a 10th overall entry. DMA's follow The Drums in getting a 12th entry, they're one of three here to have their 2nd of 3 entries, with Daughter and Heartworms also having bigger hits to come, the latter reaching the same position as last year. Gabriels and Baby Queen are also still to appear, and it's Blur and The Orielles who just miss out on the top half, the latter's Tableau EP representing a different sound to the one I first loved by them a few years ago.

Thanks for commenting Jim, good there are some you like and really glad when people make discoveries from me! :D

JFHRlqOzwhw 70 386 The Drums - Obvious (12, Ambulance - #9, 2021) 69 386 Fred Again.. feat. The Streets & Dermot Kennedy - Mike (Desert Island Duvet) (3, Stay High Again - #73, 2021) (9, Weak Become Heroes - #2, 2002) 68 389 Palace - When Everything Was Lost (4, Shame On You - #25, 2022) 67 390 Pale Blue Eyes - Takes Me Over (2, Heating's On - #83, 2023) 66 391 Django Django feat. Self Esteem - Complete Me (4, Default - #41, 2012) (6, I Do This All The Time - #2, 2021) 65 393 Overmono - Is U 64 393 The Big Moon - 2 Lines (4, Wide Eyes - #16, 2022) 63 394 Graywave - Blur Into One 62 403 The Go! Team - Gemini (8, Buy Nothing Day - #2, 2011) 61 403 Romy - She's On My Mind (5, Loud Places (feat. Jamie xx) - #1, 2015) The first acts to get a second entry of the year appear now, The Drums with a 12th overall becoming the 12th act to reach that milestone, The Streets are back with Fred Again.. who goes to a new peak, 2023 was really the year I got properly into Fred, and Pale Blue Eyes whose album is a lot of fun, and one of the best acts I saw live last year who have tonnes of energy. Palace seem to release a single off each album that I love and that continued, Django Django and Self Esteem collaborated for a second time with great effect again. Overmono and Graywave both debut, the latter's heavy shoegaze sound I discovered seeing them as a support act. The Go! Team's last album was their best in ages and Gemini followed Whammy-O as being a great song from it, and Romy's standout banger rounds this bunch off.

YA6HD9DkdQs 80 360 Glimji & Elphi - Blush 79 360 Art School Girlfriend - Heaven Hanging Low 78 360 Slowthai - Selfish (3, Doorman (feat. Mura Masa) - #48, 2019) 77 361 The Streets - Troubled Waters (8, Weak Become Heroes - #2, 2002) 76 366 The Hold Steady - Understudies (7, Stuck Between Stations - #5, 2007) 75 366 Heartworms - 24 Hours (2, Consistent Dedication - #54, 2022) 74 370 Confidence Man feat. Daniel Avery - On & On (Again) (2, Feels Like a Different Thing - #50, 2022) (2, Knowing We'll Be Here - #92, 2014) 73 375 The Goa Express - Good Luck Charm 72 377 George Clanton - I Been Young 71 383 Thus Love - Repetitioner Another batch mixed of debutants and previously successful acts. Mike Skinner's recent career has been hit and miss but Trouble Waters was a good return single from a first proper album in a while. Confidence Man continued to grow in my affections after getting to them a bit late, and The Hold Steady came back in their classic sound with a couple of top 10 singles. At the start of the year Heartworms was probably who I anticipated music from the most in 2023, and she didn't disappoint with what she released, 24 Hours being the first song to chart. I'm sure Selfish would've ended up much higher (and Sooner charted) but I stopped listening to Slowthai because y'know. Art School Girlfriend was close to three entries but in the end has to settle for just one with her best song of the year Heaven Hanging Low, Blush was an earworm I listened to loads, Good Luck Charm is a bit indie-by-numbers but is great fun, George Clanton the first of a few BJSC entries to appear, and Thus Love were a big favourite of mine in the early part of the year.

4DrpW_xaJfo 90 333 Daughter - Dandelion (5, Poke - #1, 2019) 89 335 Real Lies - Shirley Road (9, Late Arcades - #3, 2021) 88 340 blink-182 - One More Time (5, Bored To Death - #3, 2016) 87 341 Everything Everything - Cold Reactor (7, A Fever Dream - #1, 2017) 86 342 Softcult - Dress 85 346 The Drums - I Want It All (11, Ambulance - #9, 2021) 84 351 Nitin Sawhney feat. Hak Baker - Ancestral 83 353 Pale Blue Eyes - Heating's On 82 357 Hatchie - Jai Alai (8, This Enchanted - #4, 2021) 81 357 Barry Can't Swim feat. Somedeadbeat - Deadbeat Gospel A significant number of previously successful acts in this set of 10, with 3 of them having recently peaked in 2021, The Drums still on top form with recent output, Real Lies with another song typical of their successful sound and Hatchie getting an 8th entry in 7 years with her version of a DMA's track. Two previous #1 acts appear too, Daughter with the first track from their long awaited return and Everything Everything with easily the best song of their current era. Four debutants from Pale Blue Eyes' indie-pop, the shoegazey Softcult, the best track I've heard from Barry Can't Swim and an interesting collab from the multi-talented Nitin Sawhney and some interesting lyrics from Hak Baker.

All entries include total number of entries for that act, plus previous peak. Anything without are all the first time the act has appeared. k0tjzVgrybQ 100 308 Wunderhorse - Purple 99 309 Skream - Thinking Of You 98 309 James Blake - Tell Me (12, Radio Silence - #12, 2016) 97 315 The Joy Formidable - Share My Heat (7, Whirring - #4, 2011) 96 315 DMA's - Fading Like a Picture (11, For Now - #1, 2018) 95 319 Cassö feat. RAYE & D-Block Europe - Prada 94 319 Ben Howard - Walking Backwards (14, Keep Your Head Up - #5, 2011) 93 322 Fontaines DC - Cello Song (9, Boys In The Better Land - #3, 2019) 92 323 The Hives - Bogus Operandi (4, Hate To Say I Told You So - #16, 2002) 91 324 The Sherlocks - Going Nowhere (2, Was It Really Worth It? - #95, 2017) A lot of previously successful acts in this first 10, including a long awaited Hives comeback, a Fontaines DC Nick Drake cover/tribute and James Blake moving into the top 10 acts with the most amount of entries. Skream gets a debut 12 years after a first chart entry, sneaking in along with Wunderhorse. One of the very few UK charting hits to appear being one featuring D-Block Europe would've seemed absolutely shocking a year ago, but such was the job Cassö did turning them into a banger, here they are. The longest song to feature is a 15 minute epic from The Joy Formidable, an expert band in long songs they went a step further and appear for a 7th time.

A bit late starting this in April, but I've only just finalised it so thought I'd post it for a change. In the last few weeks I've listened to (in a rough ascending order) the 868 songs I put on regular rotation which I first discovered in 2023, the majority are from that year and anything that's been considered for a year-end chart is with the occasional late 2022 straggler. I have ranked the songs by preference, by how much I've listened to them from my last.fm and how they performed on my Personal chart, awarding points to the top 200 from each, 200-1, so 600 points being the maximum. Where there is a tie, I have awarded the higher position to the one I ranked higher by preference. Before starting, here are my number 1 single from each of the previous years I have done an end of year chart. 2002: Doves - There Goes The Fear 2003: The Libertines - Time For Heroes 2004: Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 2005: The Futureheads - Hounds of Love 2006: Stellastarr* - Sweet Troubled Soul 2007: Robyn feat. Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat 2008: Elbow - One Day Like This 2009: Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes 2010: Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce - Telephone 2011: Bon Iver - Holocene 2012: Blur - Under The Westway 2013: Jagwar Ma - The Throw 2014: Tokyo Police Club - Argentina (Parts I, II, III) 2015: Jamie xx feat. Romy - Loud Places 2016: Japandroids - Near to The Wild Heart of Life 2017: Everything Everything - A Fever Dream 2018: DMA's - For Now 2019: Daughter - Poke 2020: Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End 2021: Wolf Alice - The Last Man on Earth 2022: Metric - Doomscroller

The singles off Khruangbin's album have been streamed more than those from VW's too, not huge WW numbers but still 8m, 6m, 4m vs 5m, 2m, 2m. Father of the Bride was overly long and full of absolute dirge, became the third year in a row where a previous massive favourite act of mine released what was comfortably the worst album I listened to that year, following Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys

Can only assume Vampire Weekend lost fans after the abysmal Father of the Bride. It's certainly not at the top of my 'to listen' list

I think with Perez he's previously fallen to pieces after winning a couple of races and being talked up for the title and spoken about how he wants to beat Max, probably putting too much pressure on himself. It now feels a bit like he's realised and admitted his place and more at peace with it, in which case he might be more consistent in doing what Red Bull want him to do. At the moment it's looking close to 0 chance he gets replaced by Ricciardo, so RB may as well get Lawson in early after his performances last year. As for Sargent, I've become convinced he only got a second season because of Antonelli. Mercedes will want him in F1 next year and that's the likely seat lined up for him whilst he's not yet ready for the main team, Williams probably thought it was pointless having a different driver for this in-between season, especially as no other drivers became available. They've proven they're not really behind him with the Aus decision and he's not exactly done anything in Japan to make them think they might have got it wrong.

The only reason you have one of the oldest drivers on the grid in the Red Bull second team is because there's a chance he'll soon be in the main team, and there was so much talk pre-season about whether Ricciardo would replace Perez. At the moment, Perez has done what Red Bull want him to do in 3 of 4 races, whilst all Ricciardo is doing is proving his McLaren form wasn't unlucky or unrepresentative.

Surprised to see my 14 points being the second lowest score for SOS. I find it one of their better songs TBH, just don't really care for them at all! A magnificent top 3, ranked them all in my top 10. Hopefully my 50 pointer wins :wub:

+5. Prada - casso, RAYE & D-Block Europe +4. Murder On The Dancefloor - Sophie Ellis-Bextor +3. Stick Season - Noah Kahan +2. Beautiful Things - Benson Boone +1 yes, and? - Ariana Grande -1 Lovin' On Me - Jack Harlow -2. Cruel Summer - Taylor Swift -3. greedy - Tate McRae -4. Lose Control - Teddy Swims -5. TEXAS HOLD 'EM - Beyonce

What a horrific list this is. Calvin's worst song for me.

Luton haven't won in 9, Everton haven't won in 12 with another deduction likely, Forest have one win in 9. Burnley are now unbeaten in 4 and are only four points off safety, I don't see how anyone can say they're definitely gone. I think there's a high possibility of a Burnley vs Forest final day shootout to survive.

It's an excellent set of results so far, still have 10 of my top 14 remaining, with only 4 of my bottom 18 left! I think my faves which have gone so far (Hot Chip, Metallica, Dre) have done really well to finish so high. I enjoyed Fascination a lot for about 10 listens and now consider it super annoying and I'd never want to hear it. I suspect I'll be waiting a while for the last song here I genuinely dislike to appear.

The position he plays in has something to do with it. There's been so much moaning about Henderson and Phillips in the last 2 years, and Gallagher and Ward-Prowse hardly whet the appetite, that a new young midfielder gets all the attention!

The criticism of Southgate picking out of form players is so overblown though. Phillips and Maguire (and more latterly Henderson) have been picked so often despite not playing or playing poorly for clubs because they've consistently proven themselves for England and rarely perform poorly, and there being a complete lack of competition. If he doesn't pick them who was he going for? There have been calls for Dunk (not at the level), Tomori (poor whenever he gets a chance with England), Ward-Prowse (not at the level). There's been so few realistic options to take their positions. Southgate has proven with Sterling that when England performances and club ones drop no one's place is guaranteed. Phillips England performance had certainly dipped in the last year and his move to West Ham has gone worse than if he'd stayed on City's bench, I'd rank his chance of being in Germany as tiny. The rules are back down to 23 man squads, England are only ever going to play with one striker, and Kane will play 80%+ of minutes in a tournament. I just don't see how there can be room for three out and out centre forwards, especially when others in there have played centrally for their clubs (Rashford, Bowen, Palmer, Gordon). Toney was better last night than Watkins was against Brazil, and his pens edge it for me.

Phillips will be no where near the squad. I think there are about 13 players who's places are nailed on (if fit), and the other 10 come from about 17 players. Pickford, Ramsdale Walker, Trent, Shaw Maguire, Stones Rice, Bellingham Saka, Foden, Rashford Kane Johnstone or Pope Watkins or Toney 3 of Trippier, Chilwell, Gomez, Guehi, Konsa 2 of Henderson, Mainoo, Gallagher 3 of Maddison, Bowen, Palmer, Grealish, Gordon Dunk has played himself out of contention in these two games. I think Toney is probably above Watkins.

01 (01) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (07) (3 weeks) 02 (04) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (04) 03 (02) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (07) 04 (14) English Teacher - R&B (04) (04) 05 (07) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (05) (05) 06 (05) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (07) 07 (03) The Holy - The Incredible Ibex (01) (09) (3 weeks) 08 (10) The Libertines - Shiver (10) (06) 09 (12) The Holy - Any Given Day (09) (05) 10 (15) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (10) (03) 11 (06) TR/ST feat. Jake Shears - Being Boring (03) (08) 12 (19) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (12) (03) 13 (08) Bob Vylan - Hunger Games (04) (11) 14 (09) Burial - Boy Sent From Above (08) (06) 15 (17) Four Tet - Daydream Repeat (15) (05) 16 (25) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (16) (03) 17 (27) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (17) (02) 18 (13) Quiet Houses - What My Heart Is For (02) (11) 19 (34) I.JORDAN - Close To You (19) (02) 20 (20) The Blinders - Swallowing Static (20) (05) 21 (11) Bicep - CHROMA 001 HELIUM (05) (06) 22 (29) Ellis - What I Know Now (22) (03) 23 (18) MGMT - Mother Nature (01) (15) (4 weeks) 24 (31) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (24) (02) 25 (37) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (25) (02) 26 (16) Real Estate - Haunted World (11) (08) 27 (24) Holly Humberstone - Dive (24) (04) 28 (**) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (28) (01) 29 (21) Underworld - Denver Luna (02) (15) 30 (33) Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Rae Morris - Better Now (30) (03) 31 (30) Elbow - Balu (30) (03) 32 (42) How To Dress Well - No Light (32) (01) 33 (23) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Bandung Hum (14) (08) 34 (28) Everything Everything - The End of the Contender (28) (04) 35 (45) Caroline Polachek - Coma (35) (01) 36 (22) Little Simz - Mood Swings (16) (06) 37 (26) Holly Humberstone feat. MUNA - Into Your Room (14) (09) 38 (50) The Blinders - All I Need (38) (01) 39 (32) Jamie xx - It's So Good (19) (07) 40 (40) Karma Kid - The Gates Will Open (01) (20) (4 weeks)

On the one hand it's easy to see why they've made that decision. Alex is 24-0 in qualifying and 27-1 in points vs. Logan. In a season which has started with a clear gap between 5th and 6th every possible point is huge for the bottom half, and Albon is way more likely to be maximising a chance of doing that, but on the other I don't see how this helps Sargent develop in anyway, really bad for confidence and shows they have no faith in him (I mean that isn't harsh, but why give him another year?)

Well that's a good start! :kink: Got to be up there with my most disliked singing voices *shudder*

It's a relief knowing what the punishment is, no worrying about what might be and 4 seems fair, hope there isn't an appeal, just accept and get on with it... Just got to outscore Luton with what should be a much more favourable set of fixtures left.

The data for polling said 70% of U35 voters were intending Labour with the other main 4 options in single figures including Conservatives on 7%! With the age at which switches are likely getting older, and the difference between the two becoming even more pronounced, the longer the government hold out calling an election, the worse it'll get for them. With people becoming of voting age and deaths, should quite easily have at least another 100,000+ swing in 6 months just through demography.

01 (01) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (06) (2 weeks) 02 (06) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (06) 03 (02) The Holy - The Incredible Ibex (01) (08) (3 weeks) 04 (10) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (04) (03) 05 (07) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (06) 06 (03) TR/ST feat. Jake Shears - Being Boring (03) (07) 07 (13) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (07) (04) 08 (04) Bob Vylan - Hunger Games (04) (10) 09 (08) Burial - Boy Sent From Above (08) (05) 10 (12) The Libertines - Shiver (10) (05) 11 (05) Bicep - CHROMA 001 HELIUM (05) (05) 12 (18) The Holy - Any Given Day (12) (04) 13 (09) Quiet Houses - What My Heart Is For (02) (10) 14 (23) English Teacher - R&B (14) (03) 15 (24) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (15) (02) 16 (11) Real Estate - Haunted World (11) (07) 17 (21) Four Tet - Daydream Repeat (17) (04) 18 (14) MGMT - Mother Nature (01) (14) (4 weeks) 19 (27) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (19) (02) 20 (25) The Blinders - Swallowing Static (20) (04) 21 (15) Underworld - Denver Luna (02) (14) 22 (16) Little Simz - Mood Swings (16) (05) 23 (17) Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Bandung Hum (14) (07) 24 (29) Holly Humberstone - Dive (24) (03) 25 (30) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (25) (02) 26 (19) Holly Humberstone feat. MUNA - Into Your Room (14) (08) 27 (41) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (27) (01) 28 (32) Everything Everything - The End of the Contender (28) (03) 29 (39) Ellis - What I Know Now (29) (02) 30 (34) Elbow - Balu (30) (02) 31 (42) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (31) (01) 32 (22) Jamie xx - It's So Good (19) (06) 33 (37) Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Rae Morris - Better Now (33) (02) 34 (**) I.JORDAN - Close To You (34) (01) 35 (20) Sprints - Heavy (03) (10) 36 (31) The Blinders - Always (04) (13) 37 (45) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (37) (01) 38 (26) Pendulum - Anti-Hero (Triple J Like-a-Version) (01) (12) (2 weeks) 39 (28) ellis - Forever (02) (16) 40 (35) Karma Kid - The Gates Will Open (01) (19) (4 weeks)