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

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

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

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

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

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

Tubthumping easily, though both are loads better than Aqua

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12 Freya Ridings - Weekends 10 beabadoobee - Glue Song 8 P!nk - TRUSTFALL 7 Linkin Park - Lost 6 Paramore - Running Out Of Time 5 RAYE - Ice Cream Man. 4 Niall Horan - Heaven 3 Lana Del Rey - A&W 2 Rita Ora - You Only Love Me 1 Sam Smith, Calvin Harris and Jessie Reyez - I'm Not Here To Make Friends

#20 Muse Points: 1028 Date first charted: 15/01/2007 Number of entries: 18 Total weeks on chart: 145 Most Successful Year: 2006, 11th EzCKrwOme2U Muse are a slightly odd case where I've generally liked a lot of what they've put out but really they're mainly a singles band. Origin of Symmetry is their only album I've really got into enough to say I thought was great, and The Resistance the only other that I've ever listened to much. It's also quite odd looking back at the chart history I'd given them compared to what I think of them. For a long time I've had a clear Muse top 3 of New Born, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Map of the Problematique, so to see the latter two with peaks of 8 & 23 with only five weeks each is quite disappointing, though Map... can be explained by the fact I'd been listening almost a year by the time it became a single, there are no excuses for Butterflies... They kicked off here with the first singles from their third album in 2003, both songs were once I loved at the time and heard them on Radio 1 a lot, Time Is Running Out was an instant hit whereas Hysteria was a slower burn I did love it by the time it was released and it became their first, and only, number one hit. All 5 of their singles from their 4th album charted but they were a real mixed back of success, starting with two more big hits of which I'd say Starlight is the pick of now, a real impressive change of sound for them. Knights of Cydonia always seemed to be popular but I never really took to it, it was way too overblown and not something I've listened to for a long time. Uprising was a hugely impressive lead for their 5th album and one I got into a lot more than their previous two. That and Resistance have remained two of my favourites of theirs and songs I still listen to a fair amount, the 80s influence on the latter was always one of my favourites of theirs and I was delighted they picked it for a single release. Madness was comfortably the pick of the bunch from their next album and of their more recent work, they did get a three further top 20 singles, Psycho is something I've gone on to like and listen to more than its #15 peak would suggest, but their most recent singles don't usually get more than a couple of listens. Chart History: 08/09/2003 Time Is Running Out 02-03-06-06-09-10-12-14-16-23-24-30-31-37 (14 weeks) 01/12/2003 Hysteria 01-01-04-03-02-05-06-10-13-16-18-21-23-24-26-28-33-37-40 (19 weeks) 17/05/2004 Sing For Absolution 07-15-20-29-39 (5 weeks) 20/09/2004 Butterflies And Hurricanes 08-11-16-20-34 (5 weeks) 19/06/2006 Supermassive Black Hole 02-03-07-12-14-16-19-21-24-27-29-37 (12 weeks) 04/09/2006 Starlight 04-08-14-22-24-33-39 (7 weeks) 27/11/2006 Knights Of Cydonia 25-40 (2 weeks) 02/04/2007 Invincible 33-40 (2 weeks) 18/06/2007 Map Of The Problematique 36-27-23-26-27 (5 weeks) 10/08/2009 Uprising 37-24-14-09-02-02-02-02-08-12-17-23-30-38 (14 weeks) 16/11/2009 Undisclosed Desires 39-33-32-27-37 (5 weeks) 25/01/2010 Resistance 23-13-07-03-05-10-14-18-22-28-36 (11 weeks) 24/09/2012 Madness 30-24-21-15-08-08-08-12-15-20-34 (11 weeks) 03/12/2012 Follow Me 33 (1 week) 25/02/2013 Supremacy 29-30-38 (3 weeks) 31/03/2015 Psycho 39-36-35-36-29-22-19-15-22-31 (10 weeks) 02/04/2018 Thought Contagion 23-16-12-09-05-04-04-06-09-17-25-35 (12 weeks) 13/08/2018 Something Human 27-24-21-19-20-27-33 (7 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Butterflies and Hurricanes 02 Map of the Problematique 03 Uprising 04 Hysteria 05 Resistance

A reminder of 100-21 before I post the top 20... 100 - Fontaines DC 99 - The Coral 98 - HEALTH 97 - The Mysterines 96 - How To Dress Well 95 - Santigold 94 - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 93 - Phoebe Bridgers 92 - Lily Allen 91 - Snow Patrol 90 - Animal Collective 89 - Guillemots 88 - Mystery Jets 87 - Beyoncé 86 - Jamie xx 85 - Little Boots 84 - Belle and Sebastian 83 - Alpines 82 - Bicep 81 - The Vaccines 80 - The Shins 79 - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 78 - Editors 77 - Bloc Party 76 - CHVRCHES 75 - The Naked and Famous 74 - Jamie T 73 - Feeder 72 - alt-J 71 - London Grammar 70 - Sleigh Bells 69 - Christine and the Queens 68 - Noah and the Whale 67 - M.I.A. 66 - George FitzGerald 65 - Basement Jaxx 64 - The Fratellis 63 - Poliça 62 - Public Service Broadcasting 61 - Grimes 60 - The Maccabees 59 - Crystal Castles 58 - Goldfrapp 57 - Calvin Harris 56 - Slaves 55 - iamamiwhoami / ionalee 54 - The Horrors 53 - The Go! Team 52 - The Joy Formidable 51 - Vampire Weekend 50 - Blood Red Shoes 49 - Caribou / Daphni 48 - The Streets 47 - White Lies 46 - LCD Soundsystem 45 - School of Seven Bells 44 - Jessie Ware 43 - Jay-Z 42 - Hatchie 41 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 40 - Everything Everything 39 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 38 - Courteeners 37 - Dizzee Rascal 36 - Metronomy 35 - Stereophonics 34 - Tame Impala 33 - Bon Iver 32 - Foo Fighters 31 - Real Lies 30 - Los Campesinos! 29 - Gorillaz 28 - The National 27 - Franz Ferdinand 26 - Biffy Clyro 25 - Kings of Leon 24 - Death Cab for Cutie 23 - Bombay Bicycle Club 22 - Ash 21 - Röyksopp

Thanks for continuing to comment Jim, glad you're liking some of them, pleased you're getting into Hatchie, she is great! :D

Should probably get back to posting this... Got a bit behind with listening/writing. 3 weeks posting one a day to finish hopefully. #21 Röyksopp Points: 1023 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Number of entries: 16 Total weeks on chart: 175 Most Successful Year: 2014, 7th h4rZE_J1beA Röyksopp are an act who I've never been massively into, I've never been overly taken by any of their albums, but have generally always released some decent singles along the way, which has given them reasonable success, and with four absolutely incredible number ones on top of that, each of those being collaborations with Scandinavian female vocalists. Their career started in the first week I compiled my chart, as the tail end of Poor Leno's chart run appears, likely would've entered either in or towards the top 5, before Eple did get there, it feels under-charted but 10 weeks in the top 10 is significant for a great instrumental track. The lead single to their next album, Only This Moment, went higher but it doesn't rank quite that highly for me now, unlike What Else Is There? which ended the year at the top, featuring vocals from The Knife's Karin Dreijer, the original is a thing of beauty and the Thin White Duke remix of it turns it into a dancefloor stomper, both versions are exceptional. 2009s Junior was the album I've listened to most, and its three singles all did relatively well, Happy Up Here was fun and chilled before The Girl & The Robot became a second number one for both them and Robyn, simply a stunning pop song which still sounds superb today. Their next chart entry was also a massive number one, this time with Susanne Sundfør, who's vocals really shine on Running To The Sea. Their fourth single that hit the top followed 18 months later, as their partnership with Robyn grew with another stomper in Do It Again, I wasn't overly fussed on the EP they made together but that and Monument were both great. I thought last years big Profound Mysteries project was going to end without a hit as most of it disappointed me, but they did eventually return with The Night alongside Alison Goldfrapp, which climbed to give them a 9th top 10. Chart History: 06/01/2003 Poor Leno 16-20-24-27-28-31-33-38 (8 weeks) 24/02/2003 Eple 05-05-06-07-07-07-07-08-09-10-15-18-20-22-27-30-35-40 (18 weeks) 27/06/2005 Only This Moment 02-04-05-10-11-11-14-17-21-30-32-34-34 (13 weeks) 26/09/2005 49 Percent 27-37 (2 weeks) 05/12/2005 What Else Is There? 01-01-01-02-02-04-04-05-07-06-07-09-14-20-20-17-18-17-20-24-26-32-39-35-38 (25 weeks) 26/06/2006 Beautiful Day Without You 29 (1 week) 26/01/2009 Happy Up Here 24-13-08-05-07-18-28-38 (8 weeks) 08/06/2009 The Girl And The Robot (feat. Robyn) 21-10-04-02-02-01-01-01-02-06-09-13-18-21-22-28-31-34-34-36-39 (21 weeks) 02/11/2009 This Must Be It 29-18-13-14-21-29-34-37 (8 weeks) 10/12/2012 Running To The Sea (feat. Susanne Sundfør) 20-13-07-03-03-02-01-01-01-01-04-07-11-13-19-22-26-34-40 (19 weeks) 09/12/2013 Something In My Heart (feat. Jamie Irrepressible) 36-33-36 (3 weeks) 05/05/2014 Do It Again (w/ Robyn) 23-11-02-01-01-01-01-01-02-02-05-08-12-15-21-31-36 (17 weeks) 15/09/2014 Monument (w/ Robyn) 33-24-18-11-09-08-12-21-36 (9 weeks) 10/11/2014 Sordid Affair 31-21-16-17-27-27-30 (7 weeks) 18/05/2015 I Had This Thing (feat. Jamie Irrepressible) 26-17-14-15-27-40 (6 weeks) 29/10/2022 The Night (feat. Alison Goldfrapp) 31-25-22-16-12-09-12-17-22-31* / -37 (10 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 What Else Is There? 02 The Girl & The Robot 03 Running To The Sea 04 Do It Again 05 Eple

Pixie Lott by quite some distance. Thought there are two which are nailed on to go first, but neither picked up one of the first four votes. Soulja Boy for top half

Enjoyed watching that qualifying session, an expected result but possibly closer than anticipated and built up nicely. Good work from Aston to have got a car up to that level. Think it's positive to have 5 different teams out in Q1 too, don't want to see one team well off it, have a proper battle from 5th downwards.

Don't care a great deal for the two they've released, Tropic Morning News the better of the two but they're just... fine. Was kinda getting a bit bored of them until their last album which they made quite different with all the guests, they're the only ones from this album I'm really bothered about again.

01 (02) Young Fathers - Rice (02) (06) (1 week) 02 (01) Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention (01) (08) (1 week) 03 (03) Heartworms - Retributions of An Awful Life (03) (06) 04 (05) Thus Love - In Tandem (04) (04) 05 (11) Italia 90 - Leisure Activities (05) (04) 06 (07) The Hold Steady - Sideways Skull (06) (05) 07 (04) Daughter - Be On Your Way (01) (07) (2 weeks) 08 (13) Slowthai - Selfish (08) (05) 09 (06) Libianca - People (06) (05) 10 (17) Overmono - Is U (10) (03) 11 (08) Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (01) (12) (4 weeks) 12 (20) U.S. Girls - Futures Bet (12) (04) 13 (09) Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups (02) (09) 14 (10) Little Simz - Gorilla (07) (07) 15 (21) M83 - Oceans Niagara (15) (05) 16 (22) The Go! Team - Gemini (16) (03) 17 (27) Thus Love - Repetitioner (17) (02) 18 (12) Yunè Pinku - Fai Fighter (04) (12) 19 (24) DMA's - Fading Like a Picture (19) (04) 20 (14) Samia - Sea Lions (10) (08) 21 (33) Django Django feat. Self Esteem - Complete Me (21) (02) 22 (16) Heartworms - Consistent Dedication (03) (14) 23 (32) Yune Pinku - Night Light (23) (03) 24 (30) ATRIP - All Night (24) (02) 25 (15) Dutch Uncles - Tropigala (2 to 5) (13) (06) 26 (42) Squid - Swing (In a Dream) (26) (01) 27 (19) Hatchie - Nosedive (01) (16) (3 weeks) 28 (28) Future Utopia feat. Kae Tempest - We Were We Still Are (28) (03) 29 (38) Piri & Tommy - Updown (29) (02) 30 (41) Softcult - Dress (30) (01) 31 (18) Gorillaz - Skinny Ape (02) (11) 32 (26) Kevin de Vries - Dance With Me (07) (16) 33 (43) Yves Tumor - Echolalia (33) (01) 34 (25) Nia Archives - So Tell Me... (02) (14) 35 (29) Somebody's Child - I Need Ya (20) (07) 36 (**) Wunderhorse - Purple (36) (01) 37 (34) Goat - Do The Dance (27) (08) 38 (23) Miley Cyrus - Flowers (17) (06) 39 (31) ATRIP feat. niina - In The Booth (06) (11) 40 (37) Joshua Amour - In My Mind (11) (11)

Arranged my top 18 in what I think is an order to listen to in tomorrow to finalise positions. Given 5 of my top 8 from my own semi didn't qualify, and I described my 1 pointer as mediocre, I was half expecting to be one my worst sets of votes ever, but luckily Semi 1 entrants and voters (and AQs) pulled through, although a couple of countries qualifying from that semi that get points from me more often than not have sent some right dirge.