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#06 The Chemical Brothers Points: 1284 Date first charted: 15/09/2003 Number of entries: 19 Total weeks on chart: 210 Most Successful Year: 2015, 10th BC2dRkm8ATU There are four acts who've hit the top spot at least 5 times, and The Chemical Brothers are the first of those to appear at #6. Four of those five were in their first 5 entries, including a number one debut for The Golden Path in 2003, perhaps an odd choice for being the song with the second longest chart run ever! The lead single for their first singles collection, it made me buy the album and it was something I listened to huge amounts, being a bit young to know a lot of their older stuff, it was only really Hey Boy Hey Girl that I was properly familiar with, so they were a band I begun to get really into and as a song it stuck with me for ages - it's still a delightful song, Wayne Coyne's vocal really adding to it. They broke the run of indie number ones in 2005 with Galvanize spending three weeks at the top, Q-Tip's vocals on it making it a great anthem, before Believe went close and the very underrated Boxer made it a third. A fourth song hitting their top soon followed with their next release Do It Again making it in 2007, and I enjoyed their We Are The Night album much more than I did Push The Button, The Salmon Dance is absolutely iconic and Saturate is up there with their finest instrumental work, and deservedly still makes their live sets. After six consecutive top 3 singles they then missed the top 10 a few times but still releasing decent stuff with their Oasis remix, lead from GH and the 12 minute single from their next album Escape Velocity. Swoon has gone on to become such a favourite of mine, a shame it's not one of their 5 to hit the top, and their 2015 return was with a bang as they teamed up with Q-Tip again after 10 years for Go! to return them to the top 3 again, before that 5th number one came later that year as Beck provided vocals on Wide Open, a brilliant understated track that builds to great effect with a vocal that compliments the music so well. The singles from their 9th album gave them three more decent hits, Got To Keep On felt about as big as a Chemical Brothers song is likely to get these days and feels like its peak is way too low. The Darkness That You Fear a couple of years later eclipsed them all though and got them into the top 5 for a 9th time. They're comfortably a top 5 act of all time for me, so much of their pre-2003 work is great, Exit Planet Dust and Dig Your Own Hole both exceptional albums, and their live set at Glastonbury one of the greatest experiences of live music I've ever had. The crediting of guests is all over the place depending on where you look - I'd add Q-Tip, Fatlip etc. but the ones I've missed off are all ones who've not really had any other chart success. Chart History: 15/09/2003 The Golden Path (feat. The Flaming Lips) 01-01-01-02-02-01-01-02-03-04-04-06-06-10-10-10-13-14-16-19-23-25-28-28-31-32-33-36-38-39 (30 weeks) 17/01/2005 Galvanize 01-01-01-03-04-09-14-17-22-27-30-31-35 (13 weeks) 02/05/2005 Believe 03-07-09-17-23-31-35-40 (8 weeks) 11/07/2005 The Boxer (feat. Tim Burgess) 01-03-03-02-03-07-10-15-18-21-27 (11 week) 07/05/2007 Do It Again 31-06-04-01-01-02-03-04-05-07-12-13-22-26-36 (15 weeks) 27/08/2007 The Salmon Dance 36-28-05-02-02-05-10-16-20-23-35 (11 weeks) 11/08/2008 Midnight Madness 36-23-19-22-24-29-38 (7 weeks) 29/09/2008 Falling Down (Remix of Oasis) 33-28-23-27-25-30-32-35-37 (9 weeks) 19/04/2010 Escape Velocity 31-24-15-11-14-26-34-38 (8 weeks) 10/05/2010 Swoon 36-29-20-16-12-07-04-04-05-08-14-17-24-36 (14 weeks) 09/08/2010 Another World 34-32-29-25-20-11-10-17-30-39 (10 weeks) 02/05/2011 Container Park 26-26-40 (3 weeks) 06/08/2012 Theme For Velodrome 29-24-18-18-36 (5 weeks) 25/05/2015 Go 23-15-07-04-02-02-03-04-09-17-35 (11 weeks) 23/11/2015 Wide Open (feat. Beck) 25-18-11-06-03-01-01-01-04-06-06-07-06-13-19-25-34 (17 weeks) 26/01/2019 MAH 37-33-26-20-16-22-30-40 (8 weeks) 16/02/2019 Got To Keep On 36-31-29-27-29-35-39 (7 weeks) 13/07/2019 Eve of Dubstruction 35-30-25-19-13-12-12-14-17-24-35 (11 weeks) 22/05/2021 The Darkness That You Fear 27-20-12-04-03-04-05-07-10-14-23-38 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Wide Open 02 Swoon 03 The Golden Path 04 Saturate 05 Galvanize

I'd have thought the highest placed indie/rock song will be Green Day, can see that being top 3/5.

Rankings.. Voted top 4. TV Girl Calvin Miley-River Mae - D-Block ArrDee Miley-Jaded NF Megan Digga D

Girls & Boys is one of a few Blur songs I'd never really choose to listen to, just quite annoying and of all their big pop hits I prefer all the others. Street Spirit is fine... for Radiohead. Looking back at my votes they were the two songs I ranked just below The Saturdays :kink:

It's a huge shame that Pej Solntse isn't on the streaming playlists. One to go onto my small YT only list.

01 (01) Italia 90 - Leisure Activities (01) (07) (3 weeks) 02 (04) Squid - Swing (In a Dream) (02) (04) 03 (03) U.S. Girls - Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo) (03) (03) 04 (02) Thus Love - In Tandem (02) (07) 05 (09) Yune Pinku - Night Light (05) (06) 06 (07) Thus Love - Repetitioner (06) (05) 07 (03) Young Fathers - Rice (02) (09) (1 week) 08 (05) Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention (01) (11) (1 week) 09 (06) Overmono - Is U (06) (06) 10 (12) The Go! Team - Gemini (10) (06) 11 (11) Django Django feat. Self Esteem - Complete Me (11) (05) 12 (17) Softcult - Dress (12) (04) 13 (08) Heartworms - Retributions of An Awful Life (03) (09) 14 (19) Nabinah Iqbal - This World Couldn't See Us (14) (03) 15 (23) Daughter - Swim Back (15) (03) 16 (10) The Hold Steady - Sideways Skull (06) (08) 17 (20) Wunderhorse - Purple (17) (04) 18 (13) Slowthai - Selfish (07) (08) 19 (16) Piri & Tommy - Updown (16) (05) 20 (14) Daughter - Be On Your Way (01) (10) (2 weeks) 21 (27) Fontaines DC - Cello Song (21) (02) 22 (30) Das Koolies - The Condemned (22) (02) 23 (22) DMA's - Fading Like a Picture (18) (07) 24 (26) Vitesse X - Right Now (24) (03) 25 (31) Pine Barons - Frantic Francis (25) (03) 26 (18) U.S. Girls - Futures Bet (11) (07) 27 (33) Beabadoobee - Glue Song (27) (02) 28 (44) Temples - Cicada (28) (01) 29 (25) Yves Tumor - Echolalia (25) (04) 30 (37) Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Ultimate Hammer (30) (02) 31 (21) Libianca - People (06) (08) 32 (**) Slowthai - Sooner (32) (01) 33 (24) Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (01) (15) (4 weeks) 34 (43) Tame Impala - Wings of Love (34) (01) 35 (28) ATRIP - All Night (23) (05) 36 (29) M83 - Oceans Niagara (15) (08) 37 (**) Phoenix feat. Clairo - After Midnight (37) (01) 38 (36) Yunè Pinku - Fai Fighter (04) (15) 39 (32) Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups (02) (12) 40 (34) Heartworms - Consistent Dedication (03) (17)

Regulate is absolutely immense, definitely one of the defining songs of the genre, easy top placing for me. Think it's done well to be that high here.

#07 The Futureheads Points: 1235 Date first charted: 26/07/2004 Number of entries: 18 Total weeks on chart: 194 Most Successful Year: 2008, 1st awjE92YZeEQ Despite pre-dating most of their contemporaries of the mid 00s indie scene, first hitting the UK chart in 2003, The Futureheads never quite managed to 'make it' in the same way as many others did. It did take their cover of Kate Bush for me to properly get into them, but from there there was no turning back. Their style made them really stick out as they explored harmonies and different vocalists in ways that was rarely heard, and Hounds of Love provided them the perfect song to display that. Their cover of it remains my favourite of theirs, my favourite cover of all time, and would be a cert in my top 5 of noughties indie tunes. It entered at #1 ahead of fellow North East boys Maximo Park, and started a run of 9 consecutive top 5 singles, ending the year with Area entering there too, a superb and punchy standalone single. Albums came thick and fast, and whilst the quality wasn't always running through them, they continued a knack of making killer singles with 9 with the likes of Skip To The End and Beginning of The Twist, which should have really been that era's #1 over Walking Backwards. Their fourth album in barely 5 years in 2010 probably completed the law of diminishing returns but it still had its worthy standouts and was better than most of their type were making by album 4. They then bowed out for a while with an entire a capella album, comprising of new versions of some of their songs, some old folk and sea shanty songs (if only that trend had kicked off a decade earlier) and covers of well known mainstream hits from the likes of Black Eyed Peas, Sparks and Kelis. It might have been an album I only listened to a few times but it was a great effort to do something new, which most bands wouldn't dream of doing. After a few years away where the band all went and got real jobs, they reformed to make another album and tour in 2019, and came back with Jekyll, something so in their classic and signature sound. The album was good, but I probably rated it higher at the time just because it was great to have them back. Overall, a fully deserving place well inside the top 10. Chart History: 26/07/2004 Decent Days and Nights 20-24-29-38 (4 weeks) 18/10/2004 Meantime 27-40 (2 weeks) 21/02/2005 Hounds of Love' 01-01-02-02-02-02-03-04-06-06-07-10-11-14-19-19-22-25-27-28-31-35-34-38-40 (25 weeks) 09/05/2005 Decent Days and Nights [Re-issue] 05-07-13-15-21-28-32-37-38 (9 weeks) 28/11/2005 Area 01-03-04-04-03-04-05-10-14-14-18-18-26-31-37 (15 weeks) 22/05/2006 Skip to the End 03-03-07-08-05-07-12-17-23-29-35-39 (12 weeks) 14/08/2006 Worry About It Later 04-02-05-11-18-22-27-32 (8 weeks) 03/03/2008 The Beginning of the Twist 18-10-05-02-05-10-13-17-23-30 (10 weeks) 19/05/2008 Radio Heart 25-20-16-16-09-05-03-05-06-12-16-18-28-37 (14 weeks) 04/08/2008 Walking Backwards 16-05-03-01-01-02-04-05-09-11-18-24-30-39 (14 weeks) 01/12/2008 I Wouldn't Be Like This If You Were Here 40-21-05-01-03-09-13-20-33 (9 weeks) 28/12/2009 Struck Dumb 34-23-17-17-24-37 (6 weeks) 12/04/2010 Heartbeat Song 31-22-23-19-12-09-12-24-32-39 (10 weeks) 21/06/2010 I Can Do That 29-20-19-26-39 (5 weeks) 02/04/2012 Meet Me Halfway / The No. 1 Song In Heaven 18-16-15-20-38 (5 weeks) 11/06/2012 Beeswing 30-20-14-14-13-15-30 (7 weeks) 11/05/2019 Jekyll 35-26-18-14-07-04-04-06-09-13-18-24-31-40 (14 weeks) 27/07/2019 Good Night Out 30-22-18-18-25-33-38 (7 weeks) 07/09/2019 Listen, Little Man! 24-15-11-14-15-26-36 (7 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Hounds of Love 02 The Beginning of the Twist 03 Area 04 Decent Days and Nights 05 Jekyll

Thanks Jim, glad you're enjoying still. I do like both of those Coldplay songs too, and surprised looking back I didn't chart A Sky Full of Stars really. There are some decent Royksopp songs in there, I've thought most of the singles from Profound Mysteries have been OK and nice to listen to, but haven't made me want to listen to the full thing.

#08 Kasabian Points: 1201 Date first charted: 10/05/2004 Number of entries: 20 Total weeks on chart: 179 Most Successful Year: 2017, 3rd Gw09tAcNB0Q Kasabian are a rarity of a 00s indie band who managed to stay decent for a long time, as I enjoyed to some extent all of their first six albums with three of them being brilliant. I did listen to and enjoy some of the singles from last years seventh album, but I've found it much harder to care about them since the departure of singer Tom Meighan, and listened to them a lot less after it came out he'd been charged for assaulting his fiancé, the way the whole band handled it left a somewhat sour taste. They are the first of three acts in the top 10 who have become much more problematic in the last couple of years. Their self-titled debut album was brilliant, L.S.F. was the song that properly got me into them as it debuted at #2 behind The Libertines, and Club Foot has gone on to become a huge favourite too, Reason Is Treason and Running Battle from the album are up there with their best too. I wasn't as into the second album, but did have a few good songs on it, Me Plus One is the one I go back to most now, undercharted somewhat at the time. It was their third album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum that was their finest work, lead single Fire was huge at the time, an anthem that brought a lot of success, but it was never one of my favourites on it. That was always Underdog and after four other top 5 hits went right to the top. Both Velociraptor and 48:13 are much better albums than the chart positions they got from the singles they released from them, largely down to poor choices, but Goodbye Kiss and Stevie are both amongst their biggest and remain in my top 5 of theirs, the former being their best example of a slower song. Let's Just Roll Like We Used To, La Vee Ferte, Treat and Glass being the better songs from those two. They nailed the singles from their next album though, as 2017 went on to be their most successful year, Bless This Acid House being the most successful and Ill Ray (The King) being the one I'd rank best now. Chart History: 10/05/2004 Club Foot 19-24-34-39 (4 weeks) 09/08/2004 L.S.F. 02-02-03-06-08-16-17-19-22-22-31-39 (12 weeks) 11/10/2004 Processed Beats 03-06-12-18-20- 27-33-38 (8 weeks) 21/03/2005 Club Foot (Re-issue) 08-11-16-20-27-30-37 (7 weeks) 03/01/2005 Cutt Off 03-05-07-07-12-15-17-26-32-39 (10 weeks) 24/07/2006 Empire 18-08-10-25-29-32 (6 weeks) 06/11/2006 Shoot The Runner 37 (1 week) 29/01/2007 Me Plus One 23-16-17-29-40 (5 weeks) 17/09/2007 Fast Fuse 37 (1 week) 01/06/2009 Fire 31-19-12-10-16-22-23-26 (8 weeks) 27/07/2009 Where Did All The Love Go? 33-27-16-12-07-04-05-07-11-16-27-40 (12 weeks) 28/09/2009 Underdog 24-14-05-01-01-01-03-06-08-16-20-28-30-36 (14 weeks) 08/02/2010 Vlad The Impaler 30-21-16-11-13-21-34 (7 weeks) 26/09/2011 Days Are Forgotten 39-35-38 (3 weeks) 14/11/2011 Re-Wired 33-28-28-26-30 (5 weeks) 23/01/2012 Goodbye Kiss 23-15-09-05-03-03-04-04-07-09-14-20-28-39 (14 weeks) 15/09/2014 Stevie 26-18-15-13-11-10-04-01-02-03-07-12-18-26-34-40 (16 weeks) 03/04/2017 You're In Love With a Psycho 26-16-12-11-19-33-39 (7 weeks) 01/05/2017 Comeback Kid 28-20-15-14-13-12-20-32-40 (9 weeks) 05/06/2017 Bless This Acid House 26-14-12-07-04-03-03-05-07-13-17-21-30-36 (14 weeks) 11/09/2017 Ill Ray (The King) 32-28-30-33-39-39-24-22-16-14-15-23-29-34-38-39 (16 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Underdog 02 L.S.F. 03 Goodbye Kiss 04 Club Foot 05 Stevie

#09 Wolf Alice Points: 1126 Date first charted: 20/05/2013 Number of entries: 15 Total weeks on chart: 197 Most Successful Year: 2021, 1st WqxE-zppu30 Wolf Alice are a band that so rarely miss, and as a result have racked up a huge amount of hits from their three albums. They kicked off in 2013 with the original and killer version of (the reworking of it for their debut album a definite rare miss (though still decent, just a huge step down)), before their first EP was released later that year, lead song off it She getting them into the top 10 for the first time, it was a superb EP with the beautiful Blush being one of their all time standouts and Nosedive being amongst their better rockier songs. The single from their next EP Creature Songs, Moaning Lisa Smile, went even higher and became the first of six top 3 singles. As they geared up for the release of their debut album My Love Is Cool, Giant Peach went even further and hit the top spot for three weeks in 2015, another of their great rocky songs I couldn't have anticipated the album any more and it certainly didn't disappoint - latter singles You're a Germ and Lisbon were both excellent and at the more poppy end of their output, Silk wonderfully atmospheric and I'm always delighted that it remains on their live setlist. It's one of my favourite debut albums of all time, with highlights throughout - the opener The Wonderwhy and Swallowtail (as drummer Joel takes vocals for a change) are also both incredible. Their return two years later with Yuk Foo was the first time I didn't enjoy a song of theirs, and it's not something I have ever warmed to, but that didn't last long as Don't Delete The Kisses soon followed, a beautiful song about young love with Ellie Rowsell's perfect spoken vocal throughout the verses, it spent five weeks at the top and remains my favourite song of theirs. I did really enjoy the album again but I did find the latter singles weren't generally amongst my favourites from it, Space & Time Aside. 2021 saw the release of their third album, with lead single The Last Man on Earth spending even longer at the top with a six week reign at number one, I was hooked from first listen and it really showed their talent and ability to take risks. Space was fine but is pretty standard fair for them, surprised I charted it so highly, before How Can I Make It OK got a deserved release, it was always the highlight from the album. They crept into the top 10 from #12 at the end of the year with a Christmas cover of In The Bleak Midwinter. Chart History: 20/05/2013 Bros 30-20-14-11-11-11-17-23-32-40 (10 weeks) 21/10/2013 She 28-20-11-08-07-07-08-17-25-32-40 (11 weeks) 28/04/2014 Moaning Lisa Smile 40-30-19-09-05-03-05-10-15-22-31-40 (12 weeks) 16/03/2015 Giant Peach 27-16-07-02-01-01-01-02-03-06-09-12-16-19-22-28-32-34-39 (19 weeks) 27/07/2015 You're a Germ 27-21-14-13-12-14-19-17-09-08-07-09-13-17-25-35 (16 weeks) 02/11/2015 Freazy 35-30-24-19-19-27-37 (7 weeks) 30/05/2016 Lisbon 25-17-08-03-02-02-02-05-07-10-14-22-31 (13 weeks) 24/07/2017 Don't Delete The Kisses 31-22-12-08-04-03-02-01-01-01-01-01-02-05-09-17-23-30-37 (19 weeks) 18/09/2017 Beautifully Unconventional 27-16-10-08-11-19-33 (7 weeks) 19/02/2018 Formidable Cool 37-32-28-25-24-23-29-37 (8 weeks) 28/05/2018 Space & Time 29-24-17-12-07-04-04-04-07-10-15-24-35-40 (14 weeks) 06/03/2021 The Last Man on Earth 30-15-03-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-03-02-03-04-06-09-12-16-21-25-29-35-40 (23 weeks) 08/05/2021 Smile 26-20-17-12-09-08-06-05-07-12-18-26-39 (13 weeks) 31/07/2021 How Can I Make It OK? 36-24-14-09-06-03-02-04-05-06-11-19-32 (13 weeks) 11/12/2021 Delicious Things 30-23-15-10-06-06-09-14-19-26-33-40 (12 weeks) 10/12/2022 In The Bleak Midwinter 24-14-08-11* -32 (4 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Don't Delete The Kisses 02 The Last Man on Earth 03 Giant Peach 04 Silk 05 Lisbon

These type of records always favour modern drivers due to the amount of races there now are, same with the most wins in a season record. Prost got 106 in 202 GP (199 starts) across 13 full seasons, podium #100 coming in race #194. Max is likely to have a comparable record there, but his race #202 will come before than end of his 10th season.

#10 James Blake Points: 1180 Date first charted: 10/01/2011 Number of entries: 19 Total weeks on chart: 195 Most Successful Year: 2013, 5th isIABK-0ohQ Starting off the top 10 now with James Blake, the only act who has had a song peak in each position within the top 10, in a career which has been remarkably consistent. It kicked off with a cover of Feist's The Limit To Your Love, nice enough but I've always preferred her version, and was soon followed by a first big hit with The Wilhelm Scream, in his typical stripped back minimal sound. It was a huge grower, and his self-titled debut album went on to become one I listened to a lot. He'd hit the top 10 again before the year was out with his first collaboration with Bon Iver. A return in 2013 gave him three hits including a first number one in Overgrown, something that sounded very much like a natural progression from The Wilhelm Scream. Both Retrograde and Life Round Here feel under-charted a decade on, definitely top 10 worthy in comparison to some of the twelve that did make it. The second half of the last decade gave a string of six top 10 hits, beginning with his take on The Sound of Silence. The Colour In Anything was the first album of his I didn't fully click with, it's way too long, but a few on it are decent and I Need a Forest Fire is the better of his two hits with Bon Iver. He was back with a bang for album #4, Mile High got him back into the top 3 before Can't Believe The Way We Flow gave him a second chart topper, it had been my standout off it from my first listen, so was pleased it got a push later in the year. Since then he's released more standalone singles but they've all been decent, You're Too Precious another that perhaps didn't quite get the peak it deserved, before Are You Even Real? returned him to the top 10. Only a couple of singles from his last album charted, Famous Last Words now one of my favourites of his, and the Slowthai version of Funeral from the special edition peaking at #4 completed the top 10 set, it's hard to say his verse is necessary but I do like it. Chart History: 10/01/2011 Limit To Your Love 37-33-39 (3 weeks) 18/04/2011 The Wilhelm Scream 30-18-10-03-03-03-06-06-07-10-15-18-26-35 (14 weeks) 21/06/2011 Unluck 27-25-17-16-24-36 (6 weeks) 29/08/2011 Fall Creek Boys Choir (w/ Bon Iver) 25-19-15-11-07-10-19-30 (8 weeks) 10/10/2011 Enough Thunder 40-40 (2 weeks) 18/02/2013 Retrograde 32-27-24-20-20-14-14-14-18-21-27-38 (12 weeks) 03/06/2013 Overgrown 29-18-09-04-01-01-01-01-02-03-06-09-12-16-23-30-38 (17 weeks) 28/10/2013 Life Round Here 37-30-25-20-17-20-25-38 (8 weeks) 07/12/2015 Sound of Silence 21-12-08-10-16-20-30 (7 weeks) 30/05/2016 Radio Silence 38-29-19-08-05-05-07-08-13-23-32-39 (12 weeks) 15/08/2016 I Need a Forest Fire (feat. Bon Iver) 26-16-09-08-09-14-23-35 (8 weeks) 18/06/2018 Don't Miss It 37-30-21-14-10-08-06-08-11-17-25-36 (12 weeks) 02/02/2019 Mile High (feat. Metro Boomin & Travis Scott) 35-30-22-14-09-04-03-02-04-07-10-13-18-22-25-32-37 (17 weeks) 04/05/2019 Can't Believe The Way We Flow 25-17-09-03-01-01-01-03-05-07-11-19-26-34-39 (15 weeks) 16/05/2020 You're Too Precious 33-28-26-25-24-21-16-13-13-16-22-31 (12 weeks) 08/08/2020 Are You Even Real? 34-26-22-17-11-10-14-18-21-30-37 (11 weeks) 07/11/2020 Before 29-22-16-15-17-23-27-35-40 (9 weeks) 09/10/2021 Famous Last Words 33-23-15-09-10-18-26-34-37-40 (10 weeks) 27/11/2021 Funeral (feat. Slowthai) 25-12-07-06-04-04-05-07-14-20-27-36 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 The Wilhelm Scream 02 Overgrown 03 Can't Believe The Way We Flow 04 Famous Last Words 05 Are You Even Real?

Natalie out of those two

Not a huge rock but Enter Sandman is comfortably one of my favourite songs from the genre, great to see it qualify in the final and then do reasonably well here

Third Wife ahead of Chemicals and Sofia. Didn't really care for any of the rest

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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