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#94 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Points: 597 Date first charted: 17/10/2011 Number of entries: 12 Total weeks on chart: 108 Most Successful Year: 2020, 8th J2Uc-BVrIZo A bit of a surprising inclusion now, with the only act in the top 100 who's never reached the top 5, Orlando Higginbottom AKA Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, who makes it having racked up a significant number of decent sized hits in recent years. Garden was a solid electronic indie dance single over a decade ago, and its follow up Tapes & Money was ok, but TEED went pretty quiet after that and what he did release or appear on wasn't anything on my radar, until 2018 when a trio of singles appeared which I enjoyed, with Body Move being the one which returned him to the chart. The beginning of 2020 saw a 18 month run of prolific features and remixes alongside similar sounding artists, with Amtrac, Bonobo and Porter Robinson all calling upon him and reaching the top 20, as each single had a similar run and peak. The standout of that batch though, is Dawn with Bronson, 7 minutes of superb chilled out dance music. Since then he's put out a lot of solo work, with three of those charting in the last 15 months, A Dream I Have returning him to the top 10 for a third time and being his standout solo work. Much of what he's put out has been a bit less dancey, but plenty of decent singles. His position in the top 100 was cemented recently with the standout remix on Confidence Man's remix EP, Re-Tilt. Chart History: 17/10/2011 Garden 32-23-14-09-08-06-12-23-38 (9 weeks) 02/04/2012 Tapes & Money 26-22-18-24-35 (5 weeks) 17/09/2018 Body Move 32-28-23-22-18-18-16-15-17-24-27-33-37 (13 weeks) 25/01/2020 Radical (w/ Amtrac) 24-15-10-09-12-17-22-30-36 (9 weeks) 25/07/2020 Dawn (w/ Bronson) 32-27-18-14-13-12-15-22-28-33-39 (11 weeks) 03/10/2020 Beginning (Remix of LA Priest) 35-27-19-14-15-21-30-36 (8 weeks) 31/10/2020 Heartbreak (w/ Bonobo) 30-24-19-14-13-16-28-31-36-38-39 (11 weeks) 15/05/2021 Unfold (w/ Porter Robinson) 28-22-16-17-21-31-40 (7 weeks) 30/10/2021 A Dream I Have 26-23-24-20-16-10-12-16-19-30-37-39 (12 weeks) 30/04/2022 Blood In The Snow 39-33-29-34 (4 weeks) 21/05/2022 Crosswalk 38-31-29-26-28-33-32-38 (8 weeks) 22/10/2022 Luvin U Is Easy (Remix of Confidence Man) 35-29-28-25-21-18-16-18-22-31-39* (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Dawn 02 Heartbreak 03 A Dream I Have 04 Garden 05 Unfold

#95 Santigold Points: 587 Date first charted: 28/04/2008 Number of entries: 11 Total weeks on chart: 91 Most Successful Year: 2012, 22nd mIMMZQJ1H6E Arriving in most people's consciousness in 2008, I enjoyed Santigold right from the off with her blend of genres being a huge hit and her debut album being an excellent collection of songs deservingly highly rated among many end of year lists. The three singles all just stalled outside the top 10, L.E.S. Artistes is the pick of them, but the more pop influenced Lights Out not too far behind. The likes of Creator and You'll Find A Way are huge favourites too. I actually preferred her second album to her debut, although I took a while to come round to lead single Big Mouth, and I'm not quite sure what I was thinking with Disparate Youth, I thought I'd always loved it but it only reached a peak of #22, and listening to these again now is her best and deserving of it being her biggest and most well known song, The Keepers got the run it deserved as it became her biggest shortly after. The Karen O collab Go! is also (unsurprisingly) incredible. Since then, hits have been more sporadic but each campaign seems to produce at least one song which hits the spot, with her two other top 10 hits both coming more recently in the form of Chasing Shadows and Coo Coo Coo, and a string of decent singles released last year with High Priestess being the pick of them. Chart History: 28/04/2008 L.E.S. Artistes 37-28-19-12-17-18-21-24-29-34-37-35-40-36-40 (15 weeks) 28/07/2008 Lights Out 33-25-17-12-12-12-15-17-23-24-30 (11 weeks) 01/12/2008 Say Aha 21-15-11-17-28-34 (6 weeks) 01/08/2011 Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (w/ Beastie Boys) 36-31-17-12-20-26-34 (7 weeks) 30/01/2012 Big Mouth 38-33-36-35 (4 weeks) 16/04/2012 Disparate Youth 33-28-22-23-34 (5 weeks) 11/06/2012 The Keepers 39-35-34-29-15-06-02-03-08-13-21-29-37 (13 weeks) 23/11/2015 Can't Get Enough of Myself (feat. BC Unidos) 32-20-14-19-39 (5 weeks) 01/02/2016 Chasing Shadows 24-16-08-03-08-18-25-32-38 (9 weeks) 26/01/2019 Coo Coo Coo 26-21-15-09-08-10-18-26-34-38 (10 weeks) 18/06/2022 High Priestess 36-29-23-20-20-32 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Disparate Youth 02 L.E.S. Artistes 03 The Keepers 04 GO! 05 Chasing Shadows

I don't find any of this comment surprising :D I get why people would think that about The Coral, but do think at their best have a certain charm.

#96 How To Dress Well Points: 579 Date first charted: 31/03/2014 Number of entries: 7 Total weeks on chart: 103 Most Successful Year: 2014, 2nd sbOCLEIKZOo The second of two acts making it in with just 7 chart entries is US musician Tom Krell AKA How To Dress Well. The first I heard of HTDW was as a small feature on an Active Child album, then someone on here (10 years ago so I forget who) posted about Ocean Floor For Everything as being one of the best songs of 2012, I enjoyed it a lot but didn't investigate further. A year later he returned with his third album and the lead single Words I Don't Remember was stunning, a beautiful piece of music bringing together so many genres into something incredible and so chilled. What Is this Heart? was comfortably my album of the year and he was a staple in my chart that year, adding a pair of #2s to the debut #1. Reminder was the final one of those, as a he provided vocals for producer RL Grime, although it wasn't much of a departure from his usual sound. Two more albums have since followed, the first was again excellent although lead single Lost Youth / Lost You was the only hit off it, my favourites not necessarily being singles, Anxious in particular is a wonderfully uplifting anthem. The most recent album was more experimental and I didn't really get into it, but it did produce a couple of excellent singles, Hunger in particular. Chart History: 31/03/2014 Words I Don't Remember 34-24-11-04-01-01-01-01-02-04-07-09-12-15-21-29-37 (17 weeks) 12/05/2014 Repeat Pleasure 27-18-15-14-19-29-40 (7 weeks) 28/07/2014 Face Again 28-21-13-06-04-02-03-05-07-14-19-30-39 (13 weeks) 06/10/2014 Reminder (w/ RL Grime) 25-16-12-06-04-03-02-02-02-05-04-03-04-05-08-11-18-24-33-39 (20 weeks) 15/08/2016 Lost Youth / Lost You 33-22-13-10-08-07-04-05-06-08-11-13-19-24-33-40 (16 weeks) 16/07/2018 The Anteroom 38-28-21-16-10-05-07-11-14-20-27-32-38 (13 weeks) 08/10/2018 Hunger 28-20-15-10-07-04-04-02-02-04-07-08-13-20-26-34-39 (17 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Words I Don't Remember 02 Lost Youth / Lost You 03 Anxious 04 Face Again 05 Hunger

Despite this I'm aware of knowing very few of these so far, so have added 10 songs onto my playlist of random stuff to listen to whilst working today!

#97 The Mysterines Points: 578 Date first charted: 04/01/2020 Number of entries: 8 Total weeks on chart: 102 Most Successful Year: 2020, 6th ZCUDyr-SQIc Sneaking in by 20 points are quite comfortably the newest act to make the top 100, The Mysterines. I had heard a couple of their early singles without getting into them but that changed when I heard Who's Ur Girl?, a short and punchy indie anthem which spent 6 weeks in the lower half of the top 10. Singles were being released at short intervals, and both Love's Not Enough and I Win Every Time made the top 3 and ended 2020 in the top 10 of my EOY countdown, the latter was like being taken back 20 years with a pure garage rock sound, and the former showed off the varied songwriting talents of Lia Metcalfe, a song that defied her teenage years. Their 2019 EP was on full rotation for me now, with Take Control being another top 3 worthy song. They seemed to be going places pretty quickly with a sold out tour and 6 Music A-listings before the pandemic, but the lack of ability to tour and their drummer leaving meant it was over a year before anything was released from the campaign for their debut album, Reeling. Both In My Head and Hung Up were more great efforts, reminiscent of their early EP and stalled just outside the top 10, before they released the first track of theirs I never fully got into, Dangerous, swiftly followed by the one which became my favourite of theirs, The Bad Thing which went further than previous and right to the top at the beginning of last year. As an album, Reeling is ok but I felt a tad disappointed, but half of it is excellent and most of those tracks have been released as singles, all of them peaking at at least #13. Chart History: 04/01/2020 Who's Ur Girl? 25-18-08-07-06-07-07-08-14-18-24-32-38 (13 weeks) 22/02/2020 Love's Not Enough 28-19-14-10-06-04-03-03-04-06-07-11-19-29-38-40 (16 weeks) 30/05/2020 I Win Every Time 33-22-14-07-02-04-03-03-05-06-09-13-18-26-35-39-40 (17 weeks) 24/07/2021 In My Head 32-24-16-13-11-13-19-29-38 (9 weeks) 23/10/2021 Hung Up 28-21-15-13-18-21-28-36-39-38 (10 weeks) 18/12/2021 The Bad Thing 25-14-06-01-01-01-01-02-03-04-06-09-12-15-19-25-35-39 (18 weeks) 23/04/2022 Life's A Bitch (But I Like It So Much) 25-17-11-08-07-09-11-15-23-35 (10 weeks) 24/09/2022 All These Things 31-23-17-13-12-15-22-33-39 (9 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 The Bad Thing 02 I Win Every Time 03 Take Control 04 Love's Not Enough 05 Hung Up

Hey Dr B, of that first half, there are just the three which I've not enjoyed enough to at least be on regular rotation. My favourite is of course Doomscroller :wub: Great to see that here, and Widow, BOTA, I Saw and Levitation were all massive hits for me too and be in our top 40. I did like that Charlotte and Bolis song, however much preferred the Soulwax remix of it, 'Cliché'

#98 HEALTH Points: 574 Date first charted: 11/05/2015 Number of entries: 10 Total weeks on chart: 106 Most Successful Year: 2015, 14th 6W2E6jNXzBE HEALTH are the first of I think four acts to appear who I first discovered through being entered to the Unknown Pleasures song contest on BuzzJack when USA Boys was entered by the US industrial band. But it was a few years before they released any more music, with their chart debut coming in 2015 with the release of their third album, with New Coke soon followed by Stonefist, which remain their only two top 5 singles. 2018s Slaves of Fear produced another couple of sizable hits, with Feel Nothing hanging around the bottom half of the chart for 3 months, no song has ever spent longer on the chart without reaching the top 20. Their chart history is split 50/50 between solo singles and ones where they’ve collaborated with similar acts, all coming from other styles of experimental rock, on recent remix albums Disco 4 parts 1 & 2. Delicious Ape with Xiu Xiu is a song which builds incredibly throughout to a great climax before slowing right down, and the two Perturbator tracks manage to be both similar but very different, with Excess now being my preferred of them. It was no real surprise that they worked with industrial Godfathers Nine Inch Nails for Isn’t Everyone, Health + Trent Reznor’s vocals are a winning combination and I’m amazed I didn’t chart this in the top 10. Chart History: 11/05/2015 New Coke 25-14-10-07-06-05-07-12-18-27-33-40 (12 weeks) 06/07/2015 Stonefist 34-24-17-10-05-04-05-05-06-08-12-16-21-34 (14 weeks) 27/03/2017 Euphoria 34-32-29-32-38 (5 weeks) 29/10/2018 Body/Prison (w/ Perturbator) 30-23-15-09-06-07-10-14-19-27-35 (11 weeks) 05/01/2019 Slaves of Fear 31-21-14-09-08-07-06-09-15-22-32-37 (12 weeks) 09/03/2019 Feel Nothing 25-22-22-21-23-28-29-28-30-34-37-39 (12 weeks) 04/01/2020 Delicious Ape (feat. Xiu Xiu) 34-27-23-20-16-16-14-18-25-32-40 (11 weeks) 29/05/2021 Isn't Everyone (feat. Nine Inch Nails) 29-20-14-11-11-13-17-21-23-26-30-35-38 (13 weeks) 25/09/2021 Excess (w/ Perturbator) 34-32-25-18-14-16-28-36 (8 weeks) 20/11/2021 Dead Flowers (feat. Poppy) 29-23-20-17-18-20-31-38 (8 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Isn’t Everyone 02 Stonefist 03 Fear Nothing 04 Delicious Ape 05 Excess

#99 The Coral Points: 568 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Number of entries: 10 Total weeks on chart: 77 Most Successful Year: 2003, 4th gOOgUuNPS9I Just about clinging on to a place in the top 100 are The Coral, with 50% of their ten entries (and 53% of their points) coming from the first year of recording, in 2003. Dreaming of You kicked them off here, it's their most well known song by some distance and really launched them properly, it perfectly showcased their sound of short jangly pop songs, they managed to sound like they belonged in that era but also unique to it. It had already been released three months by the beginning of '03 so only ends up as one of their smaller hits here but it's always been amongst their best. Their second album came soon after and gave them a UK number one, and produced a string of hits of varying sizes, Pass It On being a song classic to their sound and Bill McCai going right to the top - it's a song I've always loved and still adore, would definitely still put it in my top 5 from that year, their brilliance at making such an upbeat and joyous sounding song but actually singing about a depressed man killing himself. In 2005, In The Morning was a highly anticipated lead single, but I always found it slightly dull and not near their best, and a couple of smaller singles soon followed and that was almost it for them. They continued to release music fairly regularly, but I didn't pay any attention to them until the end of 2015, by which time they were about to release their 8th album. There were a couple of decent singles which I listened to but didn't quite chart, however Miss Fortune was the one that really grabbed me and became another massive hit for them, a song that really took me back over a decade, superbly catchy and brilliant. It wasn't a one off return either as they got another top 5 two years later with Sweet Release, not quite as good and more of a grower, but still a cut above other songs they were putting out. Chart History: 06/01/2003 Dreaming of You 26-30 (2 weeks) 03/03/2003 Don't Think You're The First 07-11-13-15-16-18-21-24-27-34-37 (11 weeks) 14/07/2003 Pass It On 02-03-04-05-06-09-13-20-23-29-33-36-39 (13 weeks) 06/10/2003 Secret Kiss 28-38 (2 weeks) 24/11/2003 Bill McCai 01-02-02-05-06-08-10-09-13-14-15-21-27-31-36 (15 weeks) 09/05/2005 In The Morning 14-23-36 (3 weeks) 22/08/2005 Something Inside Of Me 16-31 (2 weeks) 23/07/2007 Who's Gonna Find Me 37-37-36-37 (4 weeks) 08/02/2016 Miss Fortune 31-21-14-06-02-02-02-04-08-10-16-27-37 (13 weeks) 14/05/2018 Sweet Release 36-30-23-16-14-08-05-05-07-14-20-31 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Bill McCai 02 Dreaming Of You 03 Miss Fortune 04 Pass It On 05 Sweet Release

#100 Fontaines D.C. Points: 558 Date first charted: 08/06/2019 Number of entries: 7 Total weeks on chart: 97 Most Successful Year: 2020, 2nd TNXrKBt76zI Kicking off the main countdown are Ireland's sole entrant, Fontaines D.C. I was somewhat late to the party with them, with their debut album already a few weeks old before I liked anything I heard by them. I heard Lauren Laverne play Boys In The Better Land on 6 Music and was instantly hooked, it shot to the top in just three weeks and spent 7 weeks there, as I became utterly obsessed with their album Dogrel over the summer, helped by catching one of their four(!) sets at that years Glastonbury. The song and album would both end 2019 at the top of my end-of-year lists, and the re-release of Liberty Belle in the new year gave them a second top 3 hit. There was barely a year between their first two albums, with A Hero's Death becoming my first vinyl pre-order album, which felt like a big commitment given it had been such a long while since I paid for an album prior to hearing it. Whilst not hitting the same heights as Dogrel, it was another excellent album and gave them another #1 and top 3 single, A Lucid Dream being a comfortable second best song of theirs, whilst Televised Mind was also something I grew to love and showed some progression from the more raw sounding punk of their debut. A third album came almost three years exactly since the first, whilst I've not been able to get into it much, its title track Skinty Fia became a 5th top 3 hit and gives them enough points to finish in the top 100. Chart History: 08/06/2019 Boys In The Better Land 23-09-01-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-04-05-08-12-16-23-27-34-37 (19 weeks) 11/01/2020 Liberty Belle 29-16-06-04-03-04-03-04-07-11-17-22-28-37-40 (15 weeks) 23/05/2020 A Hero's Death 27-20-14-15-15-17-21-32-33-36-40 (11 weeks) 18/07/2020 Televised Mind 26-17-12-08-05-03-02-02-05-09-13-20-28-36 (14 weeks) 17/10/2020 A Lucid Dream 32-22-20-16-10-06-05-02-01-01-02-04-05-07-11-17-23-34 (18 weeks) 22/01/2022 Jackie Down The Line 26-18-13-11-11-13-19-31 (8 weeks) 02/04/2022 Skinty Fia 27-17-09-03-04-04-04-08-11-19-33-40 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Boys In The Better Land 02 A Lucid Dream 03 Liberty Belle 04 Hurricane Laughter 05 Skinty Fia

So I will begin counting this down properly tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some stats: Male led: 71 Female led: 29 Band/Duo: 74 Solo: 26 I have seen live: 43 Haven't: 57 Country of Origin: 51 England 23 USA 6 Scotland 4 Wales 4 Canada 3 Australia 3 Northern Ireland 2 Sweden 1 France 1 Ireland 1 New Zealand 1 Norway Year first charted: 19 2003 8 2004 9 2005 5 2006 7 2007 8 2008 7 2009 7 2010 6 2011 9 2012 2 2013 2 2014 5 2015 1 2016 1 2017 1 2018 1 2019 2 2020 I said initially I would post two a day. I've done the full write-ups for 56 so far including 28 of the first 30, so will be fine hitting that for a while but I might have to slow down for the top 20-30 if I don't get into gear!

01 - Sugababes Points: 687 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Entries: 12 If I didn't combine acts to make forums Sugababes would still be top of this list, ending at #113, but the total by adding Mutya's solo work too means they smash this countdown and gives them a total that would elevate them to #73. Like both Girls Aloud and Robbie Williams, they were present on my first ever chart as 2002 Stronger was just about holding on, and they racked up double figures in 5 years, the highlights being In The Middle, Push The Button and About You Now, though the latter was a long runner rather than a high peaker, and had a bit of a bizarre chart run, aided by it being pretty much the biggest song around during my first year of uni. The real highlight of this section though is Song 4 Mutya, an absolute stomper of a dance-pop anthem that rose all the way to the top. Chart History: 06/01/2003 Stronger 27 (1 week) 10/03/2003 Shape 30-40 (2 weeks) 13/10/2003 Hole In The Head 14-17-19-24-31-39 (6 weeks) 15/12/2003 Too Lost In You 07-05-04-06-08-11-15-17-19-22-25-27-33-40 (14 weeks) 22/03/2004 In The Middle 03-04-05-10-11-13-18-23-26-28-33-38 (12 weeks) 23/08/2004 Caught In A Moment 11-20-25-34-40 (5 weeks) 26/09/2005 Push The Button 06-07-11-14-20-19-22-26-31-39 (10 weeks) 05/12/2005 Ugly 23-28-34-38-40 (5 weeks) 06/03/2006 Red Dress 13-12-08-12-19-24-35 (7 weeks) 19/03/2007 Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control) (Mutya Buena w/ Groove Armada) 27-18-09-06-03-02-02-01-01-05-05-10-11-12-15-19-22-23-26 (19 weeks) 14/05/2007 Real Girl (Mutya Buena solo) 24-15-08-12-20 (5 weeks) 24/09/2007 About You Now 29-20-21-30-X-30-21-15-19-26-29-28-20-21-24-31-36 (16 weeks) FY5NYBRMurk

Thanks for such a detailed comment Bre. I do think that lyrically Prioritise Pleasure is great, but I've never enjoyed hearing that screechy synth in it - it grew on me a bit and I don't skip it, but it's one of maybe 3 on the album that I never put on out of choice. Definitely agree with all of that on Taylor, even going back I do seem to have to go through a lot of poor stuff to find the great ones, although they are great, whereas recent albums are the complete opposite, both only have a couple of skips, and that's more cos they're too boring rather than outright bad like some of her other stuff.

Oh I still really like One Week, but can definitely see why it'd annoy. I'd defo be up for joining in Dr B's countdown, but the 1st is my delayed Christmas day this year, so unlikely to make much (if any) of it! :(

Thanks Chez, I look forward to hearing your thoughts, and I'll get round to checking our your End of Year thread too! :D

02 - Robbie Williams & Take That Points: 543 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Entries: 12 Erm... Robbie Williams overall position of 155 puts him as the third lowest act to have got to double figures in chart entries, ahead of both Haim (167) and Lykke Li (174), however both of those acts I still listen to a fair amount, whereas from this list the only one I've listened to in years is Rule The World. I did like Robbie a lot when I was younger, his early work was pretty good pop music and I was a child, and his latter albums continued to have most of his singles charting in some capacity. Feel and Trippin I'd probably give a listen to now, half of these I don't even remember how they go. As for Take That, I've always been very meh about their comeback songs, they're all fine but nothing special, Rule the World aside which is still a fantastic song. Chart History: 06/01/2003 Feel 15-18-21-22-27-30-31-36-40 (9 weeks) 14/04/2003 Come Undone 13-17-20-28-32-36 (6 weeks) 03/11/2003 Sexed Up 36 (1 week) 04/10/2004 Radio 10-12-21-32 (4 weeks) 06/12/2004 Misunderstood 13-17-21-23-31 (5 weeks) 03/10/2005 Trippin 04-09-08-10-11-13-18-20-26-39 (10 weeks) 12/12/2005 Advertising Space 10-16-19-20-23-28-32-35-39 (9 weeks) 22/05/2006 Sin Sin Sin 33-40 (2 weeks) 04/09/2006 Rudebox 16-29-37-X-35-31-32 (6 weeks) 13/11/2006 Lovelight 19-27-37 (3 weeks) 20/11/2006 Patience 34 (1 week) 19/11/2007 Rule The World 36-23-17-18-27-16-06-13-22-34-40 (11 weeks) KII1ruAfvsg

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

Looking forwards to this, suspect there will be some I'm unfamiliar with which I will definitely give a listen to.

03 - Girls Aloud Points: 524 Date first charted: 12/01/2009 Entries: 10 For individual acts, Lady Gaga would be second in this countdown, but combining totals to make Forum totals mean two overtake her, the first of which is Girls Aloud. They started brightly with a couple of top 10 hits but would only reach it twice more. I did find their singles quite hit and miss, and I never got into some of their most popular hits (Biology/Something Kinda Oooh) at all, but their were bright moments in here, The Show and Love Machine were probably a tad underrated, although those two covers certainly aren't songs I'd listen to now! Their final album was the only one I listened to in full, which I really enjoyed and in The Loving Kind and Untouchable, produced the two songs of theirs I listen to most still - not quite sure why I made one a 16 week #1 and the other a 5 week #21. Nicola Roberts debut single is the only solo single I've charted, although Four Tet's BACK2THESTART did reach number one in 2015, and did use some of the lyrics of Fight For This Love... Chart History: 06/01/2003 Sound of the Underground 05-13-15-18-22-25-27-32-35 (9 weeks) 12/05/2003 No Good Advice 09-11-17-20-24-29-36-38 (8 weeks) 17/11/2003 Jump 22-34 (2 weeks) 28/06/2004 The Show 14-18-28-36-40-32-33-34-38 (9 weeks) 13/09/2004 Love Machine 15-21-28-38 (4 weeks) 21/02/2005 Wake Me Up 08-07-10-14-24-23-26-29-37 (9 weeks) 18/12/2006 I Think We're Alone Now 36-32-37-27-39 (5 weeks) 29/12/2008 The Loving Kind 15-06-01-01-01-02-04-04-05-06-14-20-27-29-32-39 (16 weeks) 27/04/2009 Untouchable 28-24-24-21-31 (5 weeks) 07/06/2011 Beat Of My Drum (Nicola Roberts solo) 36-16-15-39 (4 weeks) 8om0iqqjMOU

+12 Magnetic Man feat. Katy B - Perfect Stranger 10 Chase & Status feat. Mali - Let You Go 8 David Guetta feat. Kid Cudi - Memories 7 Plan B - Prayin' 6 Coldplay - Christmas Lights 5 Marina and the Diamonds - Hollywood 4 B.o.B feat. Rivers Cuomo - Magic 3 Tim Berg - Seek Bromance 2 Ellie Goulding - The Writer 1 Devlin feat. Yasmin - Runaway -2 will.i.am feat. Nicki Minaj - Check It Out

04 - Lady Gaga Points: 518 Date first charted: 12/01/2009 Entries: 8 Some significant similarities with Rihanna here, like her Lady Gaga has 8 entries in total, hasn't charted since 2011 so has been gradually falling ever since, and her best song is a collaboration with an act who does feature so will talk about in much more depth later. It was rare she missed at the beginning of her career, as I tended to at least like everything she released, with four consecutive top 6 hits from The Fame and Monster editions following the debut of Just Dance, and the beginning of the next era was decent enough too, and I'd listen to Born This Way over any of The Fame singles nowadays. After that I've struggled to care, even her really big hits just haven't hit the spot with me. It was a great three years which amassed 518 points which puts her 120th overall. Chart History: 12/01/2009 Just Dance 35-23-19-17-22-35-40 (7 weeks) 02/03/2009 Poker Face 30-21-12-06-13-18-21-22-26-32 (10 weeks) 15/06/2009 Paparazzi 23-12-07-06-07-13-20-38 (8 weeks) 16/11/2009 Bad Romance 25-12-05-09-07-15-10-16-22-34 (10 weeks) 08/03/2010 Telephone (feat. Beyoncé) 39-30-26-01-01-01-01-02-03-04-07-09-10-11-16-19-23-28-34-37-36 (21 weeks) 28/06/2010 Alejandro 28-21-16-20-37 (5 weeks) 14/02/2011 Born This Way 34-34-25-18-11-06-12-27 (8 weeks) 16/05/2011 Judas 27-16-13-11-19-32 (6 weeks) EVBsypHzF3U

01 (02) Hatchie - Nosedive (01) (06) (1 week) 02 (01) Sprints - Literary Mind (01) (11) (5 weeks) 03 (06) Confidence Man - Heaven (Triple J Like a Version) (03) (05) 04 (03) Young Fathers - I Saw (02) (09) 05 (13) Nia Archives - So Tell Me... (05) (04) 06 (10) Self Esteem - The 345 (Choose You Edit) (06) (05) 07 (04) Rina Sawayama - Frankenstein (04) (07) 08 (14) Wolf Alice - In The Bleak Midwinter (08) (03) 09 (05) Bicep feat. Clara La San - Water (02) (10) 10 (11) Arctic Monkeys - I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am (10) (06) 11 (07) Kevin de Vries - Dance With Me (07) (06) 12 (08) PVA - Hero Man (08) (05) 13 (16) Heartworms - Consistent Dedication (13) (04) 14 (09) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Wolf (01) (11) (2 weeks) 15 (15) Leftfield feat. Grian Chatten - Full Way Round (15) (05) 16 (21) Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle (16) (03) 17 (19) HighSchool - Only a Dream (17) (04) 18 (26) The Go! Team - Whammy-O (18) (02) 19 (12) Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (05) (08) 20 (24) Romy feat. Fred Again.. - Strong (20) (04) 21 (30) Yunè Pinku - Fai Fighter (21) (02) 22 (17) Royksopp feat. Alison Goldfrapp - The Night (09) (09) 23 (27) ENOLA - Metal Body (23) (03) 24 (36) Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (24) (02) 25 (41) Gorillaz - Skinny Ape (25) (01) 26 (18) Hot Chip - Broken (06) (09) 27 (33) White Lung - If You're Gone (27) (02) 28 (43) Young Fathers - Tell Somebody (28) (01) 29 (20) LCD Soundsystem - New Body Rhumba (05) (12) 30 (25) DMA's - Everybody's Saying Thursday's The Weekend (25) (05) 31 (22) Confidence Man - Luvin U Is Easy (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix) (16) (10) 32 (**) ATRIP feat. niina - In The Booth (32) (01) 33 (23) The Comet Is Coming - CODE (10) (08) 34 (32) Elder Island - Additions Attachments (29) (05) 35 (28) The Orielles - Beam/s (01) (15) (3 weeks) 36 (47) Joshua Amour - In My Mind (36) (01) 37 (31) Antony Szmierek feat. Yemi Bolatiwa - Working Classic (16) (08) 38 (29) White Lies - Trouble In America (03) (13) 39 (34) Florence + The Machine - Heaven Is Here (IDLES Remix) (19) (07) 40 (35) Adwaith - Sudd (21) (08)

05 - Rihanna Points: 471 Date first charted: 14/05/2007 Entries: 8 Rihanna takes a place inside the top 150, but hasn't charted for over a decade now so shows no signs of halting a reverse further down. Her first real smash hit Umbrella was the first I charted, although got tired of it pretty quickly, the singles prior to that I hadn't been a fan of at all (although SOS holds a certain charm) but that third era was the one that produced her big hits, with three of its later singles all reaching the top 5 as I got fully on board with her commercial success, Don't Stop The Music in particular is still great. Being at university from 2007-11 her songs were absolutely everywhere, and definitely helped me like some more than I would have, none more so than the T.I. collaboration Live Your Life, which I'm surprised at how successful I made it! We Found Love is her equal longest running hit, but didn't quite hit the same heights as others, it's certainly the song of hers I'd most likely listen to now. Of her singles which haven't charted, Diamonds and Take a Bow would be the two I'd consider to be most unlucky and probably both fit into a 2023 Rihanna Top 5. 14/05/2007 Umbrella (feat. Jay-Z) 31-24-23 (3 weeks) 13/08/2007 Shut Up And Drive 20-13-12-10-04-06-09-15-17-21-29-39 (12 weeks) 14/01/2008 Don't Stop The Music 05-04-03-05-09-10-05-12-16-20-17-21-24-29-32 (15 weeks) 04/08/2008 Disturbia 20-11-08-05-05-05-08-14-20-23-22-30 (12 weeks) 17/11/2008 Live Your Life (w/ T.I.) 13-05-06-13-18-13-16-16-20-25-35 (11 weeks) 25/10/2010 Only Girl (In The World) 40-37 (2 weeks) 14/02/2011 S&M 27-23-27-38-X-24-19-14-30 (8 weeks) 07/11/2011 We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris) 29-20-14-11-14-15-20-17-15-15-22-32-35-39-40 (15 weeks) tg00YEETFzg

I thought there were two acts in my top 100 who were popular enough on BuzzJack to have their own forum, however since I last paid attention to what Artist forums were on this site they've both been deleted, so to try and make this as site-friendly as possible, here are my Top 6 BuzzJack Artist Forums. For this exercise, I'm going by forum, so combining all acts within that for each one. 06 - Taylor Swift Points: 382 Date first charted: 01/08/2020 Entries: 6 I've said on this site previously that my Taylor gap was a bit of a shame, but in the first few years of her career everything I ever heard by her was either something that was far removed from the type of thing I'd listen to (Love Story), annoying (I Knew You Were Trouble) or just downright terrible (We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together is comfortably in my 10 worst songs of that decade), so as I reached a point where I was very rarely in a place where I would hear the likes of Taylor Swift on the radio, and stopped caring completely about the charts, I paid absolutely no attention to anything she released, in the same way I wouldn't by someone like Jessie J. Shake It Off was the only song following those that ever entered my consciousness, and whilst it was better, it's still pretty annoying and at no point has it ever been something I'd listen to by choice. That changed in 2020, not when she started working with people I actually liked, but when I'd started posting more on this site again and the AF Idol competition was ran, which I partook in and discovered the likes of All Too Well, Wildest Dreams, New Romantics, and yes, even Style and Blank Space, all of which were excellent and I started listening to some of her stuff more regularly. Then she released music with people I'd liked for ages and I became somewhat obsessed. On my last.fm, since 1st April 2020, I've only listened to three acts more than Taylor, which I find absolutely astounding. The standout is, of course, Exile which, spoiler alert, I may discuss in the top 100 too, as it shot up to the top in record time and I had a period of about a month where I listened to it as much as I'd ever listen to one song. Half of Folklore is genuinely exceptional, and the other half is generally pretty decent too. Evermore contained some songs I've listened to a lot too, and I've enjoyed Midnights on the few listens I've given so far. Exile aside, the other song that I absolutely adore is the updated 10 minute version of All Too Well. It was already the song of hers I'd listened to most, but coupled with the video/film for it, the long version has taken it to new levels. I'd definitely consider them both amongst favourite all-time songs, and think it's a real shame I ignored her for so long (though I still put more that blame on her than me!) Chart History: 01/08/2020 Exile (feat. Bon Iver) 13-02-01-01-01-01-01-03-06-08-10-14-20-26-31-35-39-40 (18 weeks) 08/08/2020 Cardigan 29-21-19-15-19-26-34-38 (8 weeks) 26/12/2020 Willow 34-24-17-13-09-08-10-14-20-30-39 (11 weeks) 13/11/2021 All Too Well (10 Minute Taylor's Version) 31-11-06-05-08-11-16-26-35-40 (10 weeks) 09/01/2021 No Body, No Crime (feat. HAIM) 30-26-27-37 (4 weeks) 05/11/2022 Anti-Hero 29-19-07-05-05-07-12* (7 weeks) osdoLjUNFnA

Currently rewatching the first two series of this in anticipation of the third. It's such a good series, definitely one of the best I've ever watched, and cannot wait for the third. Looks like they've deliberately left it a while so Ryan is older in it and the storyline moved on accordingly.