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#81 The Vaccines Points: 642 Date first charted: 22/11/2010 Number of entries: 13 Total weeks on chart: 104 Most Successful Year: 2011, 4th 6z6wMZAYaxE Forming at the start of the previous decade, The Vaccines burst onto the scene with an album full of sing-a-long indie anthems that would surely have been so much bigger had they come 5 years earlier. Debut Single Wreckin' Ba (Ra Ra Ra) was a risk at less than 90 seconds, but it's an incredible song, followed by a bunch of singles in a similar vein. A total of 5 top 10 singles for them feels quite low. Their second and third albums were both ok despite not hitting the same heights as their debut, and they have continued to produce hit singles, I Always Knew being the standout from them. Despite not charting it or listening to it much when it was released, Dream Lover has grown a lot in recent years, particularly after seeing them perform it live, and sneaks a place in my current top 5. Their 2018 return was something of a real return to form, the only album of theirs following their debut which I've had a lot of time for, and I Can't Quit became their highest charting and longest running single, again it was properly anthemic and something I still listen to a lot, and I do now rank it as my favourite. Last years 5th album included a couple of songs that I listened to a bit, but nothing worthy of continuing their run, and they did kick it off with Headphones Baby, which is comfortably the worst song they've ever released. Chart History: 22/11/2010 Wreckin' Ball (Ra Ra Ra) 39-29-24-16-16-27-37-40 (8 weeks) 24/01/2011 Post Break-Up Sex 37-37 (2 weeks) 21/03/2011 If You Wanna 34-20-10-07-06-08-11-17-29 (9 weeks) 07/06/2011 All In White 37-27-22-20-15-19-28-40 (8 weeks) 01/08/2011 Nørgaard 28-22-14-10-05-04-02-05-09-16-27-37 (12 weeks) 12/12/2011 Wetsuit / Tiger Blood 35-28-25-21-16-12-09-24-35 (9 weeks) 09/07/2012 No Hope 31-23-19-16-19-26-37 (7 weeks) 03/09/2012 Teenage Icon 30-26-26-34-39 (5 weeks) 29/10/2012 I Always Knew 34-34-40-X-27-23-17-11-10-11-23-36 (11 weeks) 09/02/2015 Handsome 36-34-33-38 (4 weeks) 15/06/2015 20/20 38-31-27-25-30-40 (6 weeks) 22/01/2018 I Can't Quit 31-22-14-12-06-03-02-03-04-06-08-11-17-22-28-35 (16 weeks) 25/06/2018 Your Love Is My Favourite Band 31-23-22-19-18-26-35 (7 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 I Can't Quit 02 Wreckin' Ball (Ra Ra Ra) 03 Nørgaard 04 If You Wanna 05 Dream Lover

#82 Bicep Points: 632 Date first charted: 04/09/2017 Number of entries: 9 Total weeks on chart: 105 Most Successful Year: 2020, 3rd gjftPjEROSM The first songs I heard by Bicep were Just and Celeste, from a 2015 EP which I enjoyed, but they weren't huge favourites. They were on my radar though for when they begun the campaign for their debut album in 2017, and I began to enjoy each release, Aura, Glue and Vale, with each one being preferred to the last. The addition of vocals to Vale gave them their first big hit, but it's Aura which has ended as my favourite from that era, the real standout track from an excellent debut album which became one of my most listened to in the period between that and their second, Isles. It was always likely that I'd enjoy their next release, and Atlas was another superb instrumental which rose all the way to the top, before Apricots also hit the top 5, manging to sound like it was definitely Bicep but its use of samples and loops like nothing they'd released before. Isles easily ended 2021 as one of my favourite albums of the year, and all 5 singles were at least top 20 hits. Meli (II) had become a live favourite and saw them get a 5th top 10 last summer. My favourite song of theirs is Saku, the first song of a fruitful partnership with vocalist Clara La San. Their instrumentals are continually excellent but the addition of her vocals takes their tracks to new levels, they complementstheir music so well and Saku is one of the most beautiful dance tracks I've heard. X, the final single from Islas, gave them a second hit and recent single Water has made it 3/3, the natural follow-up to Saku, it almost went all the way but settled for #2. Unlike other songs, the instrumental is also available in the form of Waterfall, but again perfectly displays how she elevates them. By the time Water exits the chart, Clara will be on the verge of the top 350 purely through her providing vocals on three of these singles. Chart History: 04/09/2017 Glue 31-23-21-22-32 (5 weeks) 18/09/2017 Vale 31-20-13-10-07-11-19-29-39 (9 weeks) 11/04/2020 Atlas 29-17-08-04-03-02-01-01-03-05-10-15-20-28-35-39 (16 weeks) 24/10/2020 Apricots 25-18-13-11-09-06-05-05-08-14-17-21-28-37 (14 weeks) 05/12/2020 Saku (feat. Clara La San) 31-20-12-06-02-01-01-02-01-02-03-04-07-09-13-18-26-35-39-39 (20 weeks) 30/01/2021 Sundial 35-29-21-16-14-12-11-13-21-30-40 (11 weeks) 01/05/2021 X (feat. Clara La San) 32-28-27-24-21-18-27-36 (8 weeks) 09/07/2022 Meli (II) 34-23-14-08-06-08-07-11-14-19-33-40 (12 weeks) 22/10/2022 Water (feat. Clara La San) 33-21-11-06-03-02-02-04-05-09-14* / -18- (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Saku 02 Atlas 03 Water 04 Aura 05 Apricots

14 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) 13 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero 12 LF SYSTEM - Afraid To Feel 11 Harry Styles - As It Was 10 Dave - Starlight 9 Wham! - Last Christmas 8 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) 7 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me 6 Sam Smith & Kim Petras - Unholy 5 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I’m Good (Blue) 4 Adele - Easy On Me 3 GAYLE - abcdefu 2 Encanto Cast - We Don’t Talk About Bruno 1 Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You 0 LadBaby - Food Aid

#83 Alpines Points: 630 Date first charted: 04/04/2011 Number of entries: 11 Total weeks on chart: 101 Most Successful Year: 2012, 6th Ir9Izm0XLXk I remember hearing Alpines for the first time when NME TV played the music video for Drive, and I immediately thought it was excellent, Catherine Pockson's voice being stunning on it and some amazing synths, and it soon hit the top 10. Their early career saw a number of support slots for big acts and their songs were used on soundtracks and adverts, but unfortunately never really built a profile to gain commercial success despite releasing an excellent string of singles and EPs ranging from the beautiful (Cocoon) to the banging (Hidden Love). A commercial breakthrough of sorts did come in the form of a UK #12 as they teamed up with Sub Focus on Tidal Wave, but that was their only entry on either chart. Their three full albums have all been decent and varied with some incredibly big sounding poppy singles on the first, No Other Lover and Zero especially. Full Bloom off their recent album has gone on to become on of my favourites, and I hope they return again with a fourth album. Chart History: 04/04/2011 Drive 34-18-13-10-08-09-09-12-19-31-37 (11 weeks) 22/08/2011 Cocoon 33-19-09-06-04-04-04-03-07-14-20-27-35 (13 weeks) 09/04/2012 Gold 40-31-21-11-06-04-02-02-03-05-11-13-22-27-31-40 (16 weeks) 24/09/2012 Early Hours EP 33-20-12-05-04-04-14-27-38 (9 weeks) 05/11/2012 Tidal Wave (w/ Sub Focus) 29-22-16-19-23-32-39 (7 weeks) 21/01/2013 Lights 29-19-11-08-10-17-34 (7 weeks) 17/02/2014 Oasis 35-27-27-35 (4 weeks) 05/05/2014 No Other Lover 33-26-23-23-28-23-17-13-18-25-36 (11 weeks) 04/08/2014 Zero 33-25-30-39 (4 weeks) 12/09/2016 Heaven 36-29-21-15-11-16-30-40 (8 weeks) 19/11/2018 Full Bloom 38-33-29-28-23-22-18-18-23-32-40 (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Drive 02 Gold 03 Empire 04 Cocoon 05 Full Bloom

Good idea this, Bre. I listen to so few songs that actually chart so will try and keep up with it, the two Taylor tracks were the only ones I'd listened to previously. I gave the playlist a listen this afternoon, these were my rankings and voted for my top 3, will give at least the top 5 more listens. 1. Taylor - Bejeweled - one of the better songs on Midnights 2. Coi Leray - I enjoyed this but a bit short 3. Interworld - this was good, however felt it was going to offer more than it did 4. Sub Focus/Dimension - good enough but both have better 5. Libianca - a nice song, decent voice 6. Taylor - You're... - not one from the album I'm likely to go back to much 7. Miguel - boring 8. oneheart - this isn't something I was expecting to listen to, pleasant enough but wouldn't ever listen out of choice 9. Metro Boomin - poor, though better than that dross in the top 10 with the Weeknd 10. Jengi - really annoying

#84 Belle and Sebastian Points: 626 Date first charted: 17/11/2003 Number of entries: 13 Total weeks on chart: 82 Most Successful Year: 2006, 9th Rgb8am3NQU0 Belle and Sebastian are certainly beneficiaries of having lots of quantity, as they're the first act to appear with more than a dozen chart entries, just two points ahead of Little Boots with five fewer. In the early days of this chart they'd have charted on the back of songs I probably only heard on the Chart Show, but they're all excellent songs which deserved way higher, particularly the first two from Dear Catastrophe Waitress, which is an excellent album. 2006s The Life Pursuit was the first time I really took notice of them, a magnificent album full of beautiful and dreamy indie pop, and it gave them a trio of top 10 singles here, I think I belatedly charted Funny Little Frog as I missed it when it was originally released three months previous but loved it. It's still an album I go back to from time to time and gives me a lot of joy when I do. Following that I then paid much more attention to their career and both of their next two albums (their 8th and 9th) were also home to three hits, including their biggest two, I Want The World To Stop and Nobody's Empire, the latter of which remains my favourite song of theirs. Since then I've tended to work backwards in their career rather than forwards, so just the one hit from their last two albums, although their next new music is out this week so a chance to continue charting into 2023. Chart History: 17/11/2003 Step Into My Office, Baby 31 (1 week) 16/02/2004 I'm A Cuckoo 25-32 (2 weeks) 21/06/2004 Your Cover's Blown 39 (1 week) 03/04/2006 The Blues Are Still Blue 03-04-06-11-16-20-21-31-34 (9 weeks) 08/05/2006 Funny Little Frog 07-16-32 (3 weeks) 26/06/2006 White Collar Boy 04-04-04-06-10-17-23-28-30-36 (10 weeks) 18/10/2010 Write About Love 36-31-24-19-23-25-31-39-37 (9 weeks) 31/01/2011 I Want The World To Stop 30-19-14-10-04-03-07-10-17-25-39 (11 weeks) 21/06/2011 Come On Sister 24-24-35 (3 weeks) 05/01/2015 The Party Line 26-21-17-15-19-32 (6 weeks) 07/04/2015 Nobody's Empire 35-30-26-36-34-23-12-06-05-04-08-13-18-29 (14 weeks) 22/06/2015 Allie 37-34-38-40 (4 weeks) 21/08/2017 We Were Beautiful 29-24-22-26-18-14-16-23-35 (9 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Nobody's Empire 02 Funny Little Frog 03 The Blues Are Still Blue 04 I'm a Cuckoo 05 I Want The World To Stop

#85 Little Boots Points: 624 Date first charted: 18/08/2008 Number of entries: 8 Total weeks on chart: 89 Most Successful Year: 2009, 1st cpCF6dwD8As An entry that fills me with nostalgia and disappointment. In 2008 Victoria Hesketh AKA Little Boots was such a promising popstar, early demos seemed to be loved by most of BuzzJack including myself - the full 6 minute version of Stuck on Repeat has always been exceptional and Meddle went all the way to the top. Then 2009 came with what was supposed to be her big break but it all fell a bit flat. New In Town had the big push, but it was ok and nothing more, the Fred Falke remix elevated it up so many levels and gave her a second number one, something Remedy followed too, such a superb pop song and a deserved big hit, but the album was something of a disappointment, half of it was great but that was the half that was already out there, the rest was nowhere near as good, Symmetry the only one that came close. A fourth number one in 5 releases in just over the space of a year came with Earthquake, and her 4 number ones is only bettered by four other acts over a 20 year period, all of which are comfortably inside the top 10 here. Some reasonable songs have followed but they've been few and far between. Shake was good but that was it until 2018, a few releases were decent but Picture was a level above the others and returned her to the top 10 once more. At #85, she is the highest placed act with only 8 entries. Chart History: 18/08/2008 Meddle 18-06-02-01-02-03-07-10-13-21-33 (11 weeks) 12/01/2009 Stuck On Repeat 24-08-05-04-09-14-17-24-31-36 (10 weeks) 20/04/2009 New In Town (Fred Falke Remix) 03-01-01-02-02-02-04-08-11-15-27-39 (12 weeks) 20/07/2009 Remedy 27-13-06-01-01-01-02-04-06-08-12-13-18-26-29-35 (16 weeks) 26/10/2009 Earthquake 15-07-01-01-01-03-06-10-13-13-14-19-24-34-40 (15 weeks) 14/11/2011 Shake 31-25-20-07-03-02-03-07-12-16-29 (11 weeks) 23/04/2012 Every Night I Say a Prayer 38-33-36 (3 weeks) 09/04/2018 Picture (feat. Lauren Flax) 27-20-14-11-09-08-09-16-26-33-40 (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Stuck on Repeat 02 Remedy 03 Earthquake 04 Mathematics 05 Meddle

Right, actually have some time to properly read what people have been posting :ph34r: Thanks Dr B, glad you're enjoying it. Yes, definitely remember Santogold discussion on there, her recent singles have all been decent enough even if I haven't ended up charting them, still got it and I'll continue to check out new stuff from her. Song 4 Mutya sounds like the type of song I'd have grown tired of in the last 15 years at some point, but I definitely haven't - it still sounds great! Both of those that kept it from the top were successful for me too, more of them later maybe... Thanks Bre, you should definitely listen to Dogrel, I think it's so good and so raw. I do quite like the newer one, just didn't get into it as much. I didn't know that about Excess, I might have to listen to the original - I'd have only likely discovered it because anything new from HEALTH tends to appear on my Spotify recommendations and I do tend to listen to most of that each week. I'll add Household Goods to my 'songs to listen to' list too, as I don't recall hearing that one, as well as the Phoebe track with The Killers - not come across that one before, the Mumford one is fine but I didn't add it to regular rotation, the new SZA one is fine and I quite liked the one she did with Taylor from the re-worked Red last year. Thanks Iz, yeah a few tracks aside I don't think I'd ever listen to any AC that wasn't from MPP, it's just such a perfect album but the rest I've really struggled with and the further back in the discography I kept going the less I liked it.

#86 Jamie xx Points: 623 Date first charted: 28/02/2011 Number of entries: 11 Total weeks on chart: 112 Most Successful Year: 2015, 12th TP9luRtEqjc In my plan to post one thing a day during December, which I didn't quite manage, I was going to do acts I really thought would be top 100 but aren't. One of those was The xx, who finished well outside, however one of their members finishes comfortably within it; Jamie xx, with 11 entries racked up over the years, beginning in 2011 when he remixed US poet and vocalist Gil Scott-Heron's album I'm New Here, with it producing a big hit in I'll Take Care Of You. It's an excellent re-working which later became the base of the Drake and Rihanna smash, and the album is still a superb listen. His first solo work came three years later, as Girl became a small hit and All Under One Roof Raving became a big one, its clever use of samples of old films about rave culture making a really interesting song that was utterly infectious. His solo album arrived a year later, and it's one which I'd definitely put in my top 5 of the decade, which make it somewhat surprising it only produced one top 20 hit, albeit one which went right to the top, collaboration with xx bandmate Romy, Loud Places, the best song either of them have been involved in, such a beautiful feelgood anthem. Whilst I do rank the album incredibly highly, it is something that works so well listening in one go without anything else standing out to the same extent, so whilst I definitely did under-chart some of those songs, not by too much, Stranger in a Room aside, but plus Obvs and The Rest Is Noise are my favourites on it and remained unreleased. Since then it's been a sporadic mix of success, with the odd collaboration and solo hit, the bigger of them being his work with The Avalanches on their 2020 return Wherever You Go, which has a sound which so obviously signals his involvement. Singles released with slightly increased frequency gets me somewhat excited for another album, but happy enough for now with the odd release, from 2022 the full version of Let's Do It Again is great however Kill Dem is probably the least I've ever got into a song he's ever released. Chart History: 28/02/2011 I'll Take Care Of You (w/ Gil Scott-Heron) 34-29-22-17-14-09-04-04-04-05-08-14-22-14-22-33 (16 weeks) 26/05/2014 Girl 38-30-37 (3 weeks) 07/07/2014 All Under One Roof Raving' 29-18-11-06-04-08-11-08-04-04-06-09-12-16-22-32-40 (17 weeks) 14/04/2015 Loud Places (feat. Romy) 21-12-06-04-01-01-02-02-03-03-03-05-09-13-16-21-25-34 (18 weeks) 29/06/2015 I Know (There's Gonna Be Good Times) (feat. Young Thug & Popcaan) 31-21-21-32 (4 weeks) 17/08/2015 Stranger in the Room (feat. Oliver Sim) 39-34-29-27-24-32 (6 weeks) 25/01/2016 SeeSaw (feat. Romy) 33-27-25-23-25-36-38 (7 weeks) 23/05/2016 Come We Go (w/ DJ Koze) 31-24-18-16-13-13-17-26-39 (9 weeks) 02/05/2020 Idontknow 28-26-28-26-29-37 (6 weeks) 15/08/2020 Wherever You Go (w/ The Avalanches, Neneh Cherry & CLYPSO) 30-11-20-06-02-01-01-03-03-04-06-08-11-14-20-27-36 (17 weeks) 23/04/2022 Let's Do It Again 38-24-16-12-12-15-22-31-38 (9 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Loud Places 02 All Under One Roof Raving 03 I'll Take Care Of You 04 Wherever You Go 05 Obvs

If one of my first four were to appear with no other voters I'd have predicted Country Girl over Little L - shame to see it out so soon. 4 My People the only other song that I had in consideration.

Absolutely delighted that Frankenstein was Rina's pick :wub: I absolutely love it but it's the only one of hers I've been able to properly get into, thought she had more popular ones on there

The Captain Hollywood Project track was the one of these I liked the most, but generally my thoughts were I can see why they're at the bottom end :D I really like Born of Frustration, certainly one of my favourite James tracks. I got into them quite a bit in the 90s, largely because of Sit Down, but that remains a favourite of mine.

#87 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-09/15/xin_270903150940746306382.jpg Beyoncé Points: 622 Date first charted: 20/01/2003 Number of entries: 10 Total weeks on chart: 95 Most Successful Year: 2003, 21st EVBsypHzF3U The first rarity of an absolute megastar to appear is Beyoncé, who reaches #87. Over the years she's amassed a considerable amount of excellent pop and R&B songs, getting four top 5 hits in the 00s, first entering on my third chart featuring on Jay-Z's 03' Bonnie & Clyde, before the same pairing went a place higher in the summer with Crazy In Love, a song I probably like more now than I did then, a rare massive pop hit that I've always enjoyed and never got bored of, deserving of its status as a true classic. 2003's surprise 2nd top artist, Sean Paul, helped her to a third top 40 hit in the same year. Her second solo era was a bigger hit with me overall, lead single Deja Vu being something I listen to more than most of these now and unlucky not to chart, with Irreplaceable being a stunning ballad scoring a first top 3, and Freemasons' excellent work following that up by turning a rather dull song into a fantastic dance hit. Her next album was almost entirely unrepresented, a remix I barely remember aside, but only Sweet Dreams was perhaps worthy of charting. The biggest hit of her career, a 4-week run at the top and my #1 ranked single of the year, came in 2010 as she teamed up with Lady Gaga on Telephone, it was a song I really enjoyed anyway and then the quite incredible video propelled it 26-01 in a week as I became utterly obsessed with it. Whilst I perhaps wouldn't quite rank it as highly as my favourite song of that year 12 years on, it is still a superb listen, definitely still one of the great pop singles of the decade, and the highlight of both their careers. In recent years, Apeshit, the lead single from the album with husband Jay-Z, released as The Carters, which saw them both return to my chart for the first time in a long time, and Black Parade, have been her only entries - the latter a long runner for a low peak. There were probably some Lemonade tracks worthy of charting too, I just didn't pay attention at the time of its release. Chart History: 20/01/2003 03' Bonnie & Clyde (w/ Jay-Z) 05-07-12-15-19-21-25-32-38 (9 weeks) 30/06/2003 Crazy in Love (feat. Jay-Z) 04-06-10-12-15-16-17-22-29-37 (10 weeks) 06/10/2003 Baby Boy (feat. Sean Paul) 23-31-39 (3 weeks) 06/11/2006 Irreplaceable 03-04-03-08-15-18-25-26-25-32-40 (12 weeks) 26/03/2007 Beautiful Liar (w/ Shakira) (Freemasons Remix) 30-22-15-11-03-05-09-11-12-19-24-34-40 (13 weeks) 06/08/2007 Green Light 17-06-09-20-36-40 (6 weeks) 08/03/2010 Telephone (w/ Lady Gaga) 39-30-26-01-01-01-01-02-03-04-07-09-10-11-16-19-23-28-34-37-36 (21 weeks) 23/08/2010 Why Don't You Love Me (MK Ultras Remix) 32-22-21-18-32 (5 weeks) 30/07/2018 Apeshit (w/ Jay-Z as The Carters) 38-32-25-19-16-17-24-31-39 (9 weeks) 01/08/2020 Black Parade 39-36-33-33-36-38-40 (7 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Telephone 02 Crazy In Love 03 Irreplaceable 04 Apeshit 05 Beautiful Liar (Freemasons Remix)

#88 Mystery Jets Points: 613 Date first charted: 10/03/2008 Number of entries: 10 Total weeks on chart: 100 Most Successful Year: 2019, 10th qz-FoGp3p0s Of the many indie bands that emerged in the 2004-7 period, Mystery Jets were well down the list of ones I'd want to listen to, they had 2 UK top 40s and 3 songs just miss out but none of them made any positive impression one me, but at the beginning of 2008 I was loving the debut album of Laura Marling and she'd made my top 3 with Ghosts, so my eagerness to listen to Young Love was more about her part than Mystery Hets. It was something I instantly loved and remains one of my favourite songs of the era, its follow-up Two Doors Down is a superb banger and the album Twenty One was one I enjoyed even if nothing else came close to the quality of those two. From then on it was the occasional hit which usually stalled in the bottom half of my chart, until 2019 when they begun the campaign for their sixth album A Billion Heartbeats with Hospital Radio. Inspired by the state of the NHS, it set the tone for the rest of an album dominated by protest which is by far and away their best work. Screwdriver was released only a couple of weeks later and was even better, and Pretty Drone gave it a hat-trick of top 5 hits half a year later. The album is superb, and comfortably their best work and would be in my top 10 of the last few years. Chart History: 10/03/2008 Young Love (feat. Laura Marling) 08-01-01-01-02-03-05-07-11-15-20-26-37 (13 weeks) 02/06/2008 Two Doors Down 33-19-06-03-05-09-15-21-35 (9 weeks) 25/08/2008 Half in Love With Elizabeth 34-27-22-25-40 (5 weeks) 05/07/2010 Dreaming of Another World 37-28-21-21-36 (5 weeks) 09/08/2010 After Dark (w/ The Count & Sinden) 29-23-19-16-15-33 (6 weeks) 16/04/2012 Someone Purer 39-36-34-39-33-39 (6 weeks) 02/01/2017 Blood Red Balloon 30-25-22-29-39 (5 weeks) 03/08/2019 Hospital Radio 30-27-21-14-10-06-05-05-08-12-19-24-34-40 (14 weeks) 24/08/2019 Screwdriver 31-20-16-10-07-05-01-01-01-01-01-04-04-07-12-17-21-26-33-38 (20 weeks) 08/02/2020 Pretty Drone 30-20-10-05-02-02-05-06-09-13-18-22-29-36-39 (15 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Young Love 02 Screwdriver 03 Hospital Radio 04 Two Doors Down 05 Pretty Drone

+30 Metallica – Enter Sandman 29 Blur – The Universal 28 Blur – Out of Time 27 Warren G and Nate Dogg – Regulate 26 The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You 25 Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent 24 Eminem feat. Dr Dre – Guilty Conscience 23 Katy B – Katy on a Mission 22 Happy Mondays – Kinky Afro 21 Snow Patrol – Run 20 The Primitives - Crash 19 Bloc Party – So Here We Are / Positive Tension 18 The Cure - Lullaby 17 The Prodigy – Out of Space / Ruff in the Jungle Bizness 16 Chase & Status feat. Liam Bailey – Blind Faith 15 Foo Fighters – All My Life 14 Happy Mondays – Step On 13 Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box 12 The Jimi Hendrix Experience - All Along The Watchtower 11 Beastie Boys – Intergalactic 10 Scissor Sisters – Filthy/Gorgeous 9 Blur – On Your Own 8 New Radicals – You Get What You Give 7 The Strokes – Juicebox 6 Lene Marlin – Sitting Down Here 5 Placebo – You Don't Care About Us 4 Primal Scream – Country Girl 3 The Beautiful South – Rotterdam 2 Blur – Charmless Man 1 Jamiroquai – Little L

Wout Weghorst! Jack Butland!

#89 Guillemots Points: 610 Date first charted: 26/09/2005 Number of entries: 9 Total weeks on chart: 100 Most Successful Year: 2006, 7th YjrOVc8hYqU Guillemots were a breath of fresh air in the mid noughties indie scene, they were a part of it but essentially sounded nothing like any other band around at the time. Their use of different sounds and instruments was so refreshing at the time, aided by the band hailing from all corners of the world but meeting in London. They were very much a 2005 Zane Lowe favourite which is how I first got into them, Made Up Love Song #43 was lovely and Trans to Brazil is utterly infectious. The album came a year later and I ranked it as my top album of 2006. It sparked their two hits to be re-issued and made the top 40, and they both became even more successful for me too. Half of Through The Windowpane is utterly exceptional, Annie, Let's Not Wait was another brilliant single that gave them back-to-back number one hits, and the 12 minute closer Sao Paulo is epic. Their second and third albums were decent enough efforts but did feel like inferior versions of what had come before, but were home to some further strong singles and a couple of their lesser known gems such as Kriss Kross and Last Kiss. Chart History: 26/09/2005 Made Up Love Song #43 17-26-36-32 (4 weeks) 05/12/2005 Trains To Brazil 02-03-06-04-05-09-11-16-17-21-24-28-40 (13 weeks) 27/03/2006 We're Here 20-34 (2 weeks) 26/06/2006 Made Up Love Song #43 [Re-issue] 02-02-03-03-05-05-08-12-13-20-22-25-28-35-39 (15 weeks) 11/09/2006 Trains To Brazil [Re-issue] 01-02-05-08-07-06-07-16-22-26-33-35-38-39-35-33-33-33-35-39 (20 weeks) 15/01/2007 Annie, Let's Not Wait 01-01-01-01-04-07-11-19-26-39 (10 weeks) 10/03/2008 Get Over It 38-17-05-03-08-12-20-29-37 (9 weeks) 26/05/2008 Falling Out Of Reach 25-23-31-36 (4 weeks) 06/10/2008 Kriss Kross 25-14-05-04-04-03-06-14-23-34 (10 weeks) 14/03/2011 The Basket 26-20-15-13-21-25-39 (7 weeks) 27/06/2011 I Must Be A Lover 38-31-28-23-17-30 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Trains To Brazil 02 Sao Paulo 03 Made Up Love Song #43 04 Annie, Let's Not Wait 05 Kriss Kross

#90 http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/animal-maiiiin.jpg Animal Collective Points: 609 Date first charted: 26/01/2009 Number of entries: 8 Total weeks on chart: 106 Most Successful Year: 2009, 2nd GxhaRgJUMl8 Despite Merriweather Post Pavilion being Animal Collective's 8th album, its release in January 2009 was my introduction to them. My Girls wasn't really like anything I'd heard before and I soon grew to love it. The dreamy psychedelia of the album soon became a huge favourite and remains one of my all time best, with a sound I couldn't get enough of and was so strong throughout, its crowning glory being the absolute stomper that is Summertime Clothes, a song that's got to be in my 10 favourites from this last two decades. Brother Sport couldn't quite make it a hat-trick of number ones, and the 'offcuts' EP a year later contained 5 more excellent tracks including lead What Would I Want? Sky. I went backwards in their discography but wasn't overly impressed, Merriweather... certainly seemed like their most commercial sound as even I thought most of what I heard was just a wall of annoying noise, and that's often been the case with what came after too, although 2016s Painting With was also a strong effort of a similar sound and spawned two more great singles in Floridada and Golden Gal, the latter becoming their third number one. Chart History: 26/01/2009 My Girls 36-18-12-07-03-01-01-01-01-01-04-05-07-08-11-11-15-18-22-25-24-32 (22 weeks) 01/06/2009 Summertime Clothes 27-07-01-01-01-01-02-03-03-04-05-06-08-11-11-12-14-17-21-24-27-24-27-31-37-40 (26 weeks) 02/11/2009 Brother Sport 23-16-07-02-02-04-06-16-17-24-29 (11 weeks) 04/01/2010 Fall Be Kind EP 19-12-06-06-07-10-16-23-37 (9 weeks) 25/06/2012 Honeycomb 36-34-32 (3 weeks) 14/12/2015 FloriDada 21-12-08-05-04-03-07-16-23-34-40 (11 weeks) 28/03/2016 Golden Gal 31-24-20-13-01-01-02-03-05-06-07-07-11-16-21-34 (16 weeks) 07/03/2017 Kinda Bonkers 31-27-24-18-15-18-23-34 (8 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Summertime Clothes 02 My Girls 03 Brother Sport 04 Bluish 05 What Would I Want? Sky

I've submitted something, but pretty much everything I listen to that I'd consider 'pop' tends to have threads in other forums, so we'll see...

No one is ready for the success my 100th entry will bring

01 (01) Hatchie - Nosedive (01) (08) (3 weeks) 02 (02) Nia Archives - So Tell Me... (02) (06) 03 (08) Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (03) (04) 04 (06) The Go! Team - Whammy-O (04) (04) 05 (03) Sprints - Literary Mind (01) (13) (5 weeks) 06 (10) Heartworms - Consistent Dedication (06) (06) 07 (05) Young Fathers - I Saw (02) (11) 08 (04) Confidence Man - Heaven (Triple J Like a Version) (03) (07) 09 (13) Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle (09) (05) 10 (07) Self Esteem - The 345 (Choose You Edit) (06) (07) 11 (15) HighSchool - Only a Dream (11) (06) 12 (18) Gorillaz - Skinny Ape (12) (03) 13 (09) Arctic Monkeys - I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am (09) (08) 14 (17) Yunè Pinku - Fai Fighter (14) (04) 15 (24) ATRIP feat. niina - In The Booth (15) (03) 16 (23) White Lung - If You're Gone (16) (04) 17 (12) Rina Sawayama - Frankenstein (04) (09) 18 (14) Bicep feat. Clara La San - Water (02) (12) 19 (25) Young Fathers - Tell Somebody (19) (03) 20 (28) Dizzy - Barking Dog (20) (02) 21 (29) Joshua Amour - In My Mind (21) (03) 22 (19) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Wolf (01) (13) (2 weeks) 23 (16) Kevin de Vries - Dance With Me (07) (08) 24 (21) Romy feat. Fred Again.. - Strong (20) (06) 25 (30) Circa Waves - Living in the Grey (25) (02) 26 (41) Minuit Machine - Follower (26) (01) 27 (20) PVA - Hero Man (08) (07) 28 (22) Leftfield feat. Grian Chatten - Full Way Round (15) (07) 29 (37) Confidence Man - Toy Boy (RAW SILK Remix) (29) (02) 30 (**) Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups (30) (01) 31 (34) Knife Bride - Grenade (31) (02) 32 (11) Wolf Alice - In The Bleak Midwinter (08) (05) 33 (32) DMA's - Everybody's Saying Thursday's The Weekend (25) (07) 34 (26) ENOLA - Metal Body (23) (05) 35 (42) Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul - Mantra (35) (01) 36 (27) Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (05) (10) 37 (31) Royksopp feat. Alison Goldfrapp - The Night (09) (11) 38 (43) Billy Nomates - Spite (38) (01) 39 (35) Elder Island - Additions Attachments (29) (07) 40 (33) Hot Chip - Broken (06) (11)

#91 Snow Patrol Points: 608 Date first charted: 26/01/2004 Number of entries: 9 Total weeks on chart: 95 Most Successful Year: 2004, 3rd bfa9yxCpWoA Still clinging on to a top 100 spot almost entirely from singles off a couple of albums nearly two decades ago are Snow Patrol. Like most people I'd never heard anything of their early career before their big 2004 breakthrough, when they were able to capitalise on being the 'in' sound with a string of big hits including three top 3 hits for me. Run still sounds as fantastic today as it did then, and Spitting Games is perhaps a surprising song to be their only number one but still sounds great. Set The Fire To The Third Bar with Martha Wainwright is undoubtedly my favourite song of theirs, it was something I loved from the moment I first heard it and continue to do so, the voices of Martha Wainwright and Gary Lightbody compliment each other perfectly, and now that I don't hear it so often, Chasing Cars is a genuinely excellent song. After Eyes Open there hasn't been much I've enjoyed, but Called Out The Dark is a very harsh omission looking back. Chart History: 26/01/2004 Run 03-03-04-04-04-04-08-08-10-11-15-23-25-33 (14 weeks) 12/04/2004 Chocolate 09-07-08-13-18-22-27-29-31-36 (10 weeks) 12/07/2004 Spitting Games 01-02-02-02-04-05-08-13-15-21-23-26-31-30-37 (15 weeks) 25/10/2004 How To Be Dead 03-02-04-07-07-11-12-12-14-15-19-25-29-30-33-36-38 (17 weeks) 24/04/2006 You're All I Have 12-13-23-24-36-39 (6 weeks) 24/07/2006 Chasing Cars 03-04-07-09-04-06-09-15-23-29-34 (11 weeks) 13/11/2006 Set The Fire To The Third Bar (feat. Martha Wainwright) 02-05-05-07-05-06-05-06-12-13-19-35 (12 weeks) 02/11/2009 Just Say Yes 37-35-33-39 (4 weeks) 10/12/2018 What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get? 32-29-28-29-32-38 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Set The Fire To The Third Bar 02 Run 03 Spitting Games 04 Wow 05 Called Out In The Dark

#92 Lily Allen Points: 599 Date first charted: 03/07/2006 Number of entries: 12 Total weeks on chart: 82 Most Successful Year: 2018, 3rd Sr2Grfi3lFg A slight surprise that Lily features this highly, as I forget she released a 2018 album I enjoyed and was the third most successful act in my chart that year. But she should probably have been higher if anything, given how low some of those earlier singles charted, Alfie and The Fear are both worthy of a top 5 position and charting for 3 months and are the songs of hers I'd most choose to listen to now, and Drivin' Me Wild is still a decent rap song which I still listen to and she adds brilliantly to. I had certainly been caught up in the post-Arctic Monkeys MySpace era of discovering music, and LDN was what I enjoyed of hers first. When she officially launched with Smile I always thought it was fine but not as good, however was worthy of topping the UK chart, but an official release of LDN was what I was waiting for, but not something I go back to as much as others now. I'd lost interest in her music and what she had to say, but thought Trigger Bang was a massive grower which made me get into her new stuff, with the singles that followed it making an excellent trio from a decent album, Higher in particular as it gave her an eventual second top 5 hit, and just missed out at the beginning of the next year as she added her voice to some Drum & Bass on the excellent Shy FX track. The chart history isn't all perfect though, Not Fair is probably the worst song that will feature in this whole 100, but charting just one week at #36 I will forgive myself the lapse in taste. Chart History: 03/07/2006 Smile 06-11-18-20-26-28-36 (7 weeks) 25/09/2006 LDN 01-01-02-02-02-11-23-28-32-34 (10 weeks) 11/12/2006 Littlest Things 30-29-27-31-34 (5 weeks) 19/02/2007 Alfie 36-26-12-22-35 (5 weeks) 10/12/2007 Drivin' Me Wild (w/ Common) 33-32 (2 weeks) 19/01/2009 The Fear 26-20-14-24-29-35-37 (7 weeks) 27/04/2009 Not Fair 36 (1 week) 25/11/2013 Hard Out Here 35-31-27-29-37 (5 weeks) 29/01/2018 Trigger Bang (feat. Giggs) 35-27-23-19-17-16-17-22-27-38 (10 weeks) 02/04/2018 Higher 30-18-11-07-06-05-07-16-25-37-40 (11 weeks) 30/07/2018 Lost My Mind 25-19-14-11-10-16-31-38 (8 weeks) 17/12/2018 Roll The Dice (w/ Shy FX & Stamina MC) 24-16-10-06-09-11-12-17-27-35-40 (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Alfie 02 The Fear 03 LDN 04 Higher 05 Trigger Bang

I would be quite up for a new team joining again and an expansion of the grid beyond 20 cars, as long as they can at least become competitive, which this one seems like it should have the backing to do. The additional teams in the 2011-13(?) era just never caught up with the rest of the grid and felt like a waste of time.

#93 Phoebe Bridgers Points: 698 Date first charted: 09/05/2020 Number of entries: 8 Total weeks on chart: 106 Most Successful Year: 2020, 1st WJ9-xN6dCW4 Phoebe Bridgers is the most recent debutant in the top 100, although she has been making music for considerably longer than that, and it was in 2019 when she first properly came to my attention when it was revealed her song Motion Sickness was about her former boyfriend, singer Ryan Adams, after multiple women came out with allegations against him. A year later she began the campaign for her second album Punisher with lead single Garden Song which is a nice enough song but not something that was going to turn me into a fan. That came with the next release Kyoto, more like Motion Sickness in sound and something which continued to grow and eventually climbed to spend 3 weeks at number 2 after the album's release. The standout song on the album, I Know The End, got the single treatment later in the year and went right to the top where it stayed for 6 weeks. An anthem that builds to a great crescendo, as a live performance the scream is incredible, it ended the year as my #1 ahead of Exile and Kyoto. A bunch of appearances on other people's records continued her 100% top 10 run, with Bright Eyes first charting single in 13 years, Kid Cudi's first in 11 and Muna's debut, with Silk Chiffon being one of the great pop singles of recent times giving her a second number one. Last years Christmas charity cover (of a non-Christmassy song, Tom Wait's Day After Tomorrow) eventually charted, as did Sidelines, both of which took a while to grow but became reasonable sized hits. I would be very surprised if Phoebe doesn't make considerable climbs on this list in future, Chart History: 09/05/2020 Kyoto 37-31-24-17-13-13-11-05-02-02-02-04-04-07-10-14-19-23-30-35-40 (21 weeks) 04/07/2020 ICU 28-17-10-08-07-05-06-10-16-25-35 (11 weeks) 03/10/2020 I Know the End 32-18-10-03-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-03-05-07-07-09-12-15-20-25-31-38 (22 weeks) 28/11/2020 Miracle of Life (w/ Bright Eyes) 30-22-13-11-08-08-12-17-24-30-40 (11 weeks) 16/01/2021 Lovin' Me (w/ Kid Cudi) 32-19-10-06-04-03-05-08-12-16-23-28-33-36-39-40 (16 weeks) 25/09/2021 Silk Chiffon (w/ MUNA) 31-18-09-06-02-02-01-03-08-14-22-34 (12 weeks) 15/01/2022 Day After Tomorrow 28-23-21-21-28-38 (6 weeks) 25/06/2022 Sidelines 23-16-15-16-19-30-39 (7 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 I Know The End 02 Kyoto 03 Silk Chiffon 04 Lovin' Me 05 Motion Sickness