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

Anyway, nice to make it three Qs in a row - 2023 the year of Utopia success continues (though really I need a short or very long turnaround to 153 enter) Nicely hosted, uhsting - good work! :D

If you like Thelonia's entry then you've directly caused by 12 & 10 to go out :kink:

Thelonia was my 12, easily my favourite in the semi. Must have been close given other comments here :(

Controversial perhaps, but I didn't find that there were any more good songs in here than normal, was deciding which mediocre song I don't really care to listen to again gets my 1 point Campaign for minimum 1 week voting period rule begins here

No one predicting what was comfortably my favourite song in Semi 2 to go through! :drama:

If still allowed! +25 Blur - The Universal 24 Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate 23 The Primitives - Crash 22 Snow Patrol - Run 21 Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box 20 The Cure - Lullaby 19 The Prodigy - Out Of Space 18 Beastie Boys - Intergalactic 17 The Bucketheads – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) 16 Ash - Goldfinger 15 The Kooks - Naive 14 Moby - Porcelain 13 Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies 12 Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams 11 Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke 10 Madness - Our House 9 The KLF - What Time Is Love? 8 Wankelmut & Emma Louise - My Head Is A Jungle 7 David Gray - Babylon 6 Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy 5 Reel 2 Real featuring The Mad Stuntman - I Like To Move It 4 Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone 3 Dua Lipa - Levitating 2 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Joan Of Arc 1 Glass Animals - Heat Waves

The relegation picture is certainly interesting, it's been a while since the teams at the bottom have been this competent. In the last seven seasons the points tallies at the bottom has been 17, 24, 31, 16, 21, 23 & 22, with 4/7 19ths and 1/7 18ths also getting 28 or fewer. This season they're all capable of hitting 30+.

Finally able to move on to something else, definitely Avril the weakest of those 3 though I only really care for Fallin'

I discounted Ice Cream Man after one listen on my playlist I put together of this week's new music, but it is the best song here by some distance :manson:

01 (01) Daughter - Be On Your Way (01) (05) (2 weeks) 02 (04) Young Fathers - Rice (02) (04) 03 (06) Heartworms - Retributions of An Awful Life (03) (04) 04 (02) Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups (02) (07) 05 (08) Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention (05) (06) 06 (03) Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (01) (10) (4 weeks) 07 (14) Little Simz - Gorilla (07) (05) 08 (05) Yunè Pinku - Fai Fighter (04) (10) 09 (19) Libianca - People (09) (03) 10 (10) Samia - Sea Lions (10) (06) 11 (07) Gorillaz - Skinny Ape (02) (09) 12 (09) Heartworms - Consistent Dedication (03) (12) 13 (15) Dutch Uncles - Tropigala (2 to 5) (13) (04) 14 (28) Thus Love - In Tandem (14) (02) 15 (11) Hatchie - Nosedive (01) (14) (3 weeks) 16 (22) Slowthai - Selfish (16) (03) 17 (17) Miley Cyrus - Flowers (17) (04) 18 (30) The Hold Steady - Sideways Skull (18) (03) 19 (12) Nia Archives - So Tell Me... (02) (12) 20 (31) Italia 90 - Leisure Activities (20) (02) 21 (20) Somebody's Child - I Need Ya (20) (05) 22 (13) ATRIP feat. niina - In The Booth (06) (09) 23 (25) M83 - Oceans Niagara (23) (03) 24 (16) The Go! Team - Whammy-O (04) (10) 25 (23) Kevin de Vries - Dance With Me (07) (14) 26 (44) Overmono - Is U (26) (01) 27 (34) U.S. Girls - Futures Bet (27) (02) 28 (18) HighSchool - Only a Dream (09) (12) 29 (27) Goat - Do The Dance (27) (06) 30 (41) The Go! Team - Gemini (30) (01) 31 (36) DMA's - Fading Like a Picture (31) (02) 32 (21) Joshua Amour - In My Mind (11) (09) 33 (26) PinkPantheress - Take Me Home (21) (06) 34 (42) Future Utopia feat. Kae Tempest - We Were We Still Are (34) (01) 35 (24) Dizzy - Barking Dog (13) (08) 36 (32) Sprints - Literary Mind (01) (19) (5 weeks) 37 (45) Yune Pinku - Night Light (37) (01) 38 (29) Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle (08) (11) 39 (33) Belle and Sebastian - I Dont Know What You See In Me (31) (05) 40 (37) Minuit Machine - Follower (16) (07)

This is an album I did listen to a lot and enjoyed very much, very consistent all the way through, and it was definitely their best work, and whilst I do still occasionally listen to them, it's more passively on shuffle from playlists that I haven't removed them from than actively choosing to listen to them, largely because of who they are. I'm somewhat surprised they're still deemed as acceptable as they are given some of what they've admitted to and charges they've faced (sleeping with 14 year olds, sexual assault), maybe it's just a product of the time they're from given more recent acts get cancelled for far less, and some of the songs they've made in the past like Around The World and Catholic School Girls Rule existing is almost quite extraordinary really.

Oh lord near record entries and don't even get a full week :drama: will probably be needing to harshly drop some after one listen

#22 Ash Points: 1021 Date first charted: 03/05/2004 Number of entries: 21 Total weeks on chart: 155 Most Successful Year: 2010, 1st O0gcp6LWlY0 Despite Ash's heyday being before I started recording a personal chart, they perhaps surprisingly end here just outside the top 20, having racked up over 1,000 points. This was largely down to their unique A-Z series in 2009-10, where they released a new single every fortnight for a year, giving each one both a title and letter of the alphabet, each one made the UK chart (between 65 & 176) and 14 of the 26 made my personal chart after I'd bought each one on iTunes. Only five other acts have managed to chart with at least 20 different songs, and the rest are all comfortably inside this top 10. Before A-Z they did have an excellent run in 2004 with their 4th album Meltdown, hitting the top 2 spots with the excellent rocky Orpheus and more mellow Starcrossed, which is still an underrated gem, reaching #2 & #1. Had I been recording as far back as their Free All Angels album, they'd be following up some similar sized hits. Onto the A-Z songs, they were preceded by Return of White Rabbit which was a huge return to form after their 2007 album disappointed, and it makes for a good collection of varied songs (well the 14 here anyway) which show off all sides of Ash. Arcadia, The Dead Disciples and Dionysian Urge are brilliantly anthemic, Pripyat and Insects are beautifully understated gems, Spheres is a more experimental track which builds up superbly, and then Sky Burial the surprise of the lot - a 10 minute instrumental which doesn't really fit into anything else of theirs. In the past decade they have released another couple of albums which have produced three further top 40 hits, Machinery being the pick of the bunch but the other two being closer to their early rockier sound. Arcadia may be my favourite of this period but their best are from their earlier work - 1) Girl From Mars 2) Burn Baby Burn 3) Walking Barefoot. Chart History: 03/05/2004 Orpheus 02-03-04-07-08-08-12-15-17-19-25-31-34-39 (14 weeks) 19/07/2004 Starcrossed 01-01-01-03-04-05-11-11-18-22-24-28-27-35 (14 weeks) 06/12/2004 Renegade Calvacade 16-21-23-27-34 (5 weeks) 25/05/2009 Return Of White Rabbit 32-18-11-09-17-38 (6 weeks) 26/10/2009 Joy Kicks Darkness (B) 36-25-21-18-15-18-23-31-38 (9 weeks) 16/11/2009 Arcadia [C] 32-18-08-02-02-02-05-05-10-15-27-36-40 (13 weeks) 07/12/2009 The Dead Disciples [D] 35-29-21-15-21-35 (6 weeks) 21/12/2009 Pripyat [E] 39-35-26-30 (4 weeks) 04/01/2010 Ichiban [G] 28-18-32-39 (4 weeks) 18/01/2010 Space Shot [H] 25-19-24-35-37 (5 weeks) 22/03/2010 Dionysian Urge [L] 36-27-25-34-37 (5 weeks) 10/05/2010 Insects [P] 31-27-17-12-10-12-17-21-32-40 (10 weeks) 24/05/2010 Binary [Q] 36-27-20-23-31-36-40 (7 weeks) 21/06/2010 Spheres 35-30-26-24-22-18-13-16-17-25-35 (11 weeks) 02/08/2010 Carnal Love [V] 39-37 (2 weeks) 16/08/2010 Embers [W] 35-30-29-29-23-23-31-38 (8 weeks) 13/09/2010 Sky Burial [Y] 22-13-11-10-12-20-35 (7 weeks) 27/09/2010 There Is Hope Again [Z] 33-31-36 (3 weeks) 07/04/2015 Cocoon 23-17-15-17-33 (5 weeks) 05/10/2015 Machinery 35-27-16-12-06-05-06-07-12-18-31-36-40 (13 weeks) 26/02/2018 Buzzkill 38-36-30-33 (4 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Arcadia 02 Orpheus 03 Starcrossed 04 Spheres 05 Sky Burial

#23 Bombay Bicycle Club Points: 1014 Date first charted: 13/04/2009 Number of entries: 14 Total weeks on chart: 159 Most Successful Year: 2011, 8th oDuif301F-8 Bombay Bicycle Club have gone on to be one of the more consistently successful acts, with 10 of their 14 singles reaching the top 5, as well as a #6 and #7. I enjoyed their folk influenced indie when they first emerged, and their debut album I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose was something I listened to a lot and produced three top 10 hits and minor one, but overall I preferred their second album Flaws which was much more acoustic throughout, including a new stripped back (and better) version of previous single Dust on the Ground. Lead single Ivy & Gold gave them a first top 3 hit before Rinse Me Down went one better and they'd had four successive singles peak in each of the positions #2 to #5. They released music thick and fast, with their third album released barely two years after their first, but showed no slow down in quality as its lead single Shuffle went one better, such a joyous, catchy and happy song, it spent a dozen weeks in the top 3, four in each of the three positions, and half a year on the chart in total. I'd say that album was their last really good one, with another couple of top 5 singles. I was delighted they eventually released How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep as it was always my favourite after Shuffle on it. Whilst I've not got into albums 4 & 5 as much, they still produced three big singles and two of them make my overall top 5, with Carry Me not far off it. Luna felt like the natural successor to Shuffle with its excellent array of instrumentation, and gave them a hit for a sixth consecutive year before they went on hiatus. Eat, Sleep, Wake was exactly what was needed when they returned five years later, another excellent lead single continued their run of all of them being a hit. A sixth album is currently being recorded, so here's hoping for another one in the future. Chart History: 13/04/2009 Always Like This 19-09-06-06-08-10-16-28-37 (9 weeks) 29/06/2009 Dust On The Ground 36-36 (2 weeks) 14/09/2009 Magnet 39-30-26-19-13-08-05-04-08-14-23-34 (12 weeks) 22/02/2010 Evening/Morning 25-14-07-05-05-08-12-22-33 (9 weeks) 28/06/2010 Ivy & Gold 32-23-19-16-09-07-03-04-06-11-16-24-31-36 (14 weeks) 06/09/2010 Rinse Me Down 31-21-09-03-03-02-02-05-09-15-26-37 (12 weeks) 04/07/2011 Shuffle 30-23-12-09-06-02-03-03-02-01-01-01-01-02-02-03-03-04-06-09-13-16-24-32-38-39 (26 weeks) 17/10/2011 Lights Out, Words Gone 28-15-10-07-07-08-10-17-27-37 (10 weeks) 26/12/2011 Leave It 29-17-11-07-05-04-08-12-15-20-32 (11 weeks) 27/02/2012 How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep 29-22-13-08-04-04-07-09-17-30-40 (11 weeks) 25/06/2012 Beg 32-24-20-18-21-37 (6 weeks) 25/11/2013 Carry Me 25-15-10-05-05-06-10-15-21-27-32-34-40 (13 weeks) 03/02/2014 Luna 30-18-11-05-03-04-05-07-11-17-26-30 (12 weeks) 14/09/2019 Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing On You) 26-18-11-10-05-05-07-12-17-23-31-38 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Shuffle 02 How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep 03 Ivy & Gold 04 Luna 05 Eat, Sleep, Wake (Nothing On You)

#24 Death Cab For Cutie Points: 1004 Date first charted: 10/10/2005 Number of entries: 15 Total weeks on chart: 152 Most Successful Year: 2011, 15th M6wqa86TnRk Into the acts with 1000+ points then... I first heard of Death Cab for Cutie because I'd discovered the greatness of The Postal Service's 2003 album Give Up in the summer of 2005, which was just singer Ben Gibbard's electronic side-project. His main band were about to release their 5th album Plans, and lead single Soul Meets Body gave them a debut top 5 hit. It's probably gone on to be my favourite DCFC album but it's very close between that, its successor Narrow Stairs and predecessor Transatlanticism, which are all superb examples of varied indie-pop. Plans has their best known song by far, I Will Follow You Into The Dark, which is beautifully sad and gone onto be a common funeral pick. Each of the five albums with have followed Plans have had a single chart at either #1 or #2, with the first of those being I Will Possess Your Heart. The full version (which is what I've always loved) is 8 and a half minutes long, with the first half being purely instrumental. It's a song that's grown even more in the last 15 years and is my favourite of them, follow-up Cath... is also a huge favourite of mine and one which looks severely undercharted. No Sunlight and Long Division on that album are also amongst my top songs of theirs. You Are a Tourist climbed to the top as they returned with 7th album Codes and Keys, with Doors Unlocked and Open being another that could've made it that high if they'd released it. 2015s Kintsugi is probably the album of theirs I've got into least, but still had some good songs on it, with lead Black Sun hitting the top 10 and follow-up The Geese of Beverley Drive being a runner-up for three weeks. Thank You For Today was an improvement and I'm surprised I only charted one single from it, with Gold Rush putting them back at the top. Two singles charted in the same week the year later, as singer Ben provided the chorus to Chance The Rapper's Do You Remember and they released the best song from their Blue EP. Last year they made it double figures for albums, and the charting single Foxglove Through The Clearcut was something a bit different, as the song was all in spoken word, it's stunning and kept growing on me to get their customary top 2 placing. Chart History: 10/10/2005 Soul Meets Body 04-05-08-09-10-14-17-19-24-29-31-31-33-40 (14 weeks) 10/04/2006 Crooked Teeth 05-14-22-33 (4 weeks) 05/05/2008 I Will Possess Your Heart 29-18-07-03-02-04-08-11-20-25-28-38 (12 weeks) 21/07/2008 Cath... 33-24-21-24-28-36-39 (7 weeks) 13/04/2009 The Open Door EP 35-28-23-14-12-13-23-30-40 (9 weeks) 02/11/2009 Meet Me On The Equinox 32-25-23-29-40 (5 weeks) 18/04/2011 You Are A Tourist 37-32-28-16-08-04-01-01-01-01-03-06-10-14-19-26-30-37 (18 weeks) 07/06/2011 Home Is A Fire 28-23-18-13-10-08-10-14-21-34 (10 weeks) 24/10/2011 Stay Young, Go Dancing 38-33-32-38 (4 weeks) 23/02/2015 Black Sun 38-30-20-10-09-08-10-19-33 (9 weeks) 08/06/2015 The Ghosts of Beverly Drive 28-18-08-03-02-02-02-04-08-12-22-35 (12 weeks) 02/07/2018 Gold Rush 29-16-07-03-01-01-01-01-02-03-04-06-11-18-25-33-36-40 (18 weeks) 31/08/2019 To The Ground 34-21-14-08-07-08-12-21-31-39 (10 weeks) 31/08/2019 Do You Remember (w/ Chance The Rapper) 27-20-20-19-19-25-34 (7 weeks) 17/09/2022 Foxglove Through The Clearcut 34-24-16-09-03-02-02-05-09-12-19-28-39 (13 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 I Will Possess Your Heart 02 You Are a Tourist 03 Cath... 04 I Will Follow You Into The Dark 05 Gold Rush

#25 Kings of Leon Points: 981 Date first charted: 21/01/2008 Number of entries: 16 Total weeks on chart: 123 Most Successful Year: 2008, 20th H1hgRDRc3ug Kings of Leon are definitely a band that got deservedly massive, and I did feel they went rapidly downhill soon after. The beginning of their career was interesting, I tended to like what I heard but not enough to want to buy an album, but both of their first two albums gave them a top 5 and a top 10 hit. It wasn't until the release of Fans, which became their 6th consecutive top 10 hit, that I wanted to investigate further. I bought its parent album Because of the Times which I loved and went backwards, Aha Shake Heartbreak also still sounds amazing and both are amongst my favourites of the decade, with great singles and some of their best ever songs hidden away on the albums - Slow Night, So Long and Knocked Up being the pick of them. Their big breakthrough hits also became their biggest hits for me, it didn't take long to get completely obsessed with Sex on Fire as it peaked at #2, before Use Somebody went one better. They have both no doubt suffered from overplay in the last 15 years, they are both still decent to listen to, Use Somebody in particular, and another of their top tracks in Crawl remained unreleased. Their follow-up album was decent enough and the two big singles are still decent to listen to, but they've very much limped to an end in their second decade, with only a couple of minor hits meaning they never quite hit four figures in points. I don't think I even bothered to listen to anything from their last album in 2021. Chart History: 11/08/2003 Molly's Chambers 05-11-15-21-27-33-39 (7 weeks) 16/02/2004 California Waiting 08-08-11-19-24-34 (6 weeks) 25/10/2004 The Bucket 02-03-07-14-19-27-33-39-40-40 (10 weeks) 10/01/2005 Four Kicks 07-14-17-18-26-33 (6 weeks) 05/03/2007 On Call 24-20-13-10-14-26 (6 weeks) 09/07/2007 Fans 20-04-04-06-11-18-24-39 (8 weeks) 29/10/2007 Charmer 30-25-33-40 (4 weeks) 01/09/2008 Sex On Fire 31-09-03-02-06-09-12-19-26-17-18-12-15-22-28-36-34-39 (18 weeks) 10/11/2008 Use Somebody 31-08-02-01-01-01-05-12-14-21-35 (11 weeks) 02/03/2009 Revelry 32-16-09-05-12-24-34-40 (8 weeks) 29/06/2009 Notion 32-30 (2 weeks) 04/10/2010 Radioactive 22-15-11-07-06-06-06-17-24-33 (10 weeks) 06/12/2010 Pyro 28-23-18-20-29-39 (6 weeks) 27/06/2011 Back Down South 30-23-17-09-06-02-01-01-04-09-12-19-29 (13 weeks) 21/04/2014 Temple 32-29-26-28-38 (5 weeks) 03/10/2016 Waste a Moment 31-24-33 (3 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Fans 02 The Bucket 03 Knocked Up 04 Crawl 05 Four Kicks

#26 Biffy Clyro Points: 956 Date first charted: 26/05/2003 Number of entries: 19 Total weeks on chart: 140 Most Successful Year: 2016, 2nd UxUb9Yzr1sE At 26 is the highest placed act not to have had a number one single, Biffy Clyro. They're probably not a band I'd have immediately thought of as being this high, but one who are here due to the volume of hits, with only 7 acts have more entries than their 19. Their early years of limited mainstream recognition were largely ok but nothing I was a huge fan of so an occasional minor hit mirrored their UK chart success, though their best early single by far Justboy predated my chart and would have been a big hit, that and Glitter and Trauma are the only early Biffy songs I ever really still listen to. The continued to release occasional singles I quite liked until the 2010s started with Many of Horror which soon became my favourite of theirs and they finally got a top 10 hit, follow-up Bubbles is a great catchy anthem I'd now rate as their best. Opposites was their first UK number one album but again, contained little I cared for and after a 15 year, 6 album career they'd not really registered that much with me. Then came Wolves of Winter, reminiscent of MOH but better and each single they released of Ellipsis I liked a lot and I actually got into an album of theirs for the first time, which is brilliant and must account for over 50% of my Biffy Clyro listens, Animal Style and Howl are bangers and Re-arrange is a stunning slower tempo song. Since then they've gone back to having sporadic chart entries, often with random releases rather than singles; the lead from their soundtrack album, the standout cover on the Frightened Rabbit celebration and their contribution to the Metallica covers project chart in 2021, though they were unlucky not to have more entries that year as the three singles from the album all bubbled under and I like them more than a lot of songs I have charted, Errors In The History of God in particular. Chart History: 26/05/2003 Questions and Answers 25-30-37 (3 weeks) 09/08/2004 Glitter and Trauma 19-25-36 (3 weeks) 20/09/2004 My Recovery Injection 24-35 (2 weeks) 14/02/2005 Only One Word Comes To Mind 30 (1 week) 12/03/2007 Saturday Superhouse 35 (1 week) 02/07/2007 Folding Stars 31-27-24-36 (4 weeks) 04/02/2008 Who's Got A Match? 27-16-16-34 (4 weeks) 18/08/2008 Mountains 32-20-23-31 (4 weeks) 08/02/2010 Many Of Horror 18-09-06-04-05-09-14-20-35 (9 weeks) 03/05/2010 Bubbles 38-33-25-15-14-18-28-38 (8 weeks) 11/04/2016 Wolves of Winter 26-15-09-06-05-05-08-12-16-13-15-22-32-40 (14 weeks) 04/07/2016 Animal Style 28-19-06-03-03-06-11-18-28-38 (10 weeks) 12/09/2016 Howl 33-20-09-03-02-03-05-08-13-20-28-34-40 (13 weeks) 07/11/2016 Re-Arrange 29-21-18-16-13-17-11-12-14-14-15-19-26-35 (14 weeks) 31/01/2017 Flammable 31-23-15-07-04-03-03-05-09-14-21-24-33-40 (14 weeks) 08/06/2019 Balance, Not Symmetry 26-20-13-07-05-04-04-05-06-09-17-22-31-39 (14 weeks) 13/07/2019 The Modern Leper 26-18-13-07-07-08-11-18-22-28-36-40 (12 weeks) 04/04/2020 End Of 37-33-33-32-35-38 (6 weeks) 21/08/2021 Holier Than Thou 31-27-31-37 (4 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Bubbles 02 Wolves of Winter 03 The Modern Leper 04 Howl 05 Balance, Not Symmetry

#27 Franz Ferdinand Points: 931 Date first charted: 12/01/2004 Number of entries: 15 Total weeks on chart: 134 Most Successful Year: 2004, 2nd GhCXAiNz9Jo Reaching the UK top 3 at the beginning of 2004, Take Me Out was the beginning of an onslaught on the charts of UK indie bands, and few came close to matching its brilliance, the minute long intro is great and is a fantastic singalong anthem. It was something I loved straight away and debuted at the top, spending 3 weeks there over 2 runs, sandwiching Lostprophets :mellow: Following that came a string of excellent singles which all went top 5, each one peaking a position lower than the previous. It's a shame I didn't know Darts of Pleasure at the end of 2003 as that would've made it 5/5. Almost 20 years on, I'd say This Fire is a bit of an anomaly - not up there with the quality of the others. I think their second album is just as good as their first, but they made quite poor choices of single from it, The Fallen is certainly one of their best songs, however was only a AA side with brand new song L Wells, but the others were surpassed by the likes of Outsiders and the title track, You Could Have It So Much Better. If The Fallen had been released a week earlier it'd have been a certain second number one, but was out the same weeks as Gnarls Barkley's behemoth Crazy. Tonight was a big step down, but in No You Girls and Lucid Dreams did contain two of their best tracks and got themselves back into the top 5. Twelve consecutive single releases each made my chart, however since then they've only had a couple of hits, although they have been amongst their biggest including a second number one. I don't think the singles from 2013s Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action were generally any worse than the previous album, but could all only reach 'bubbling under' status. 2015 brought about a collaboration album with 1970s pop rock band Sparks, with Piss Off being an absolute delight. Their chart history became bookended by number one singles at the end of 2017 with Always Ascending, which was a surprisingly excellent comeback. Chart History: 12/01/2004 Take Me Out 01-01-02-02-01-02-02-03-04-05-06-09-13-17-20-25-31-40 (18 weeks) 19/04/2004 The Dark of the Matinée 02-03-08-09-10-13-17-19-19-22-29-33-39 (13 weeks) 16/08/2004 Michael 03-07-10-12-20-26-30-35-38 (9 weeks) 15/11/2004 This Fire 04-08-16-21-25-25-28-33 (8 weeks) 19/09/2005 Do You Want To 11-20-23-28-28-34-32-37 (8 weeks) 05/12/2005 Walk Away 15-20-24-26-28-35 (6 weeks) 03/04/2006 The Fallen 02-03-05-07-10-11-13-20-18-23-26-32-35 (13 weeks) 03/04/2006 L Wells 09-18-28-32 (4 weeks) 17/07/2006 Eleanor, Put Your Boots On 11-17-29-29-38 (5 weeks) 12/01/2009 Ulysses 30-24-23-28-23-31 (6 weeks) 23/03/2009 No You Girls 20-09-06-04-06-09-13-16-24-30-35 (11 weeks) 06/07/2009 Can't Stop Feeling 37-35-34-35-37-40 (6 weeks) 31/08/2009 What She Came For 33-35 (2 weeks) 21/04/2015 Piss Off / Johnny Delusional (w/ Sparks as FFS) 13-07-07-09-11-14-21-29-37 (9 weeks) 20/11/2017 Always Ascending 28-16-11-05-02-01-01-01-03-05-08-12-16-24-31-38 (16 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Take Me Out 02 The Fallen 03 Always Ascending 04 Darts of Pleasure 05 Lucid Dreams

+12 Miley Cyrus - Flowers +10 Taylor Swift - Bejeweled +8 Luude and Issey Cross - Oh My (feat. Moby) +7 NewJeans - Ditto +6 FLO - Cardboard Box +5 Sub Focus and Dimension - Ready To Fly +4 Cat Burns - people pleaser +3 Fall Out Boy - Love From The Other Side +2 Mimi Webb - Red Flags +1 Bizarrap and Shakira - Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 53 +0 Skrillex, Fred again.. and Flowdan - Rumble

Actually got round to listening to this week's. Already listened to 3 of which I really like P!nk and Freya. Strandz and Baby Tate the best of the others P!nk Freya Strandz Baby Tate KSI SZA Tom Grennan Sam Smith Kid Laroi Luke Combs

01 (06) Daughter - Be On Your Way (01) (04) (1 week) 02 (05) Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups (02) (06) 03 (01) Caroline Polachek - Welcome To My Island (01) (09) (4 weeks) 04 (14) Young Fathers - Rice (04) (03) 05 (04) Yunè Pinku - Fai Fighter (04) (09) 06 (16) Heartworms - Retributions of An Awful Life (06) (03) 07 (02) Gorillaz - Skinny Ape (02) (08) 08 (12) Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention (08) (05) 09 (03) Heartworms - Consistent Dedication (03) (11) 10 (10) Samia - Sea Lions (10) (05) 11 (08) Hatchie - Nosedive (01) (13) (3 weeks) 12 (07) Nia Archives - So Tell Me... (02) (11) 13 (09) ATRIP feat. niina - In The Booth (06) (08) 14 (17) Little Simz - Gorilla (14) (04) 15 (26) Dutch Uncles - Tropigala (2 to 5) (15) (03) 16 (11) The Go! Team - Whammy-O (04) (09) 17 (23) Miley Cyrus - Flowers (17) (03) 18 (13) HighSchool - Only a Dream (09) (11) 19 (28) Libianca - People (19) (02) 20 (22) Somebody's Child - I Need Ya (20) (04) 21 (15) Joshua Amour - In My Mind (11) (08) 22 (34) Slowthai - Selfish (22) (02) 23 (20) Kevin de Vries - Dance With Me (07) (13) 24 (18) Dizzy - Barking Dog (13) (07) 25 (32) M83 - Oceans Niagara (25) (02) 26 (21) PinkPantheress - Take Me Home (21) (05) 27 (29) Goat - Do The Dance (27) (05) 28 (43) Thus Love - In Tandem (28) (01) 29 (19) Yves Tumor - God Is a Circle (08) (10) 30 (38) The Hold Steady - Sideways Skull (30) (02) 31 (41) Italia 90 - Leisure Activities (31) (01) 32 (24) Sprints - Literary Mind (01) (18) (5 weeks) 33 (31) Belle and Sebastian - I Dont Know What You See In Me (31) (04) 34 (47) U.S. Girls - Futures Bet (34) (01) 35 (25) Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul - Mantra (20) (06) 36 (48) DMA's - Fading Like a Picture (36) (01) 37 (30) Minuit Machine - Follower (16) (06) 38 (36) Frankie Rose - Anything (36) (03) 39 (27) Circa Waves - Living in the Grey (18) (07) 40 (33) Young Fathers - Tell Somebody (17) (08)

I hadn't been partaking in this one as I don't really like any of the songs in it so don't overly care, but Maroon 5 can't be making the final!

I think Dandy is right with this. I didn't get round to entering this one, but part of that is because I find it very difficult with songs pre 2000 that are relatively unknown. The first contest fell in the sweet spot of fitting likely the least known 'old' act that I'd say I listen to. Personally I've never really seen the point in finding songs specifically to send to a contest, if I don't know and like anything that fits a theme then I won't enter - was the same for the recent CB contest but I know others do. I wouldn't have thought of Future Sound of London or the Chemical Brothers (certainly not that one) for this as I'd say they were too well known for me to enter (not that they necessarily shouldn't be entered, just personal preference for what I'd send) but Roygbiv was one of my two options.

#28 The National Points: 949 Date first charted: 12/04/2010 Number of entries: 14 Total weeks on chart: 156 Most Successful Year: 2010, 3rd wg5geyUlU4Y The National are another act that are quite a bit lower than they should be, they're a much bigger favourite than 28th but that's largely to discovering them late into their career, sometime between the release of Boxer in 2007 and High Violet in 2010. Boxer is a superb and varied album with some of their best on, Mistaken For Strangers was the first I heard, and Brainy, Fake Empire, Slow Show and Gospel are also career highlights. By 2010 I was definitely highly anticipating new music from them, and they didn't disappoint, High Violet was probably my most listened to album of that year and it produced singles which peaked at #1, 3, 8 & 11. Bloodbuzz Ohio was an excellent "debut" but the two standouts on the album were elsewhere, I was delighted when Conversation 16 got a single release and it was an obvious big #1 and remains just about my favourite of theirs, England is another song of tremendous beauty and it was great to see it come to more promenence as the BBC chose it to soundtrack one of their excellent sporting montages, to England's in 2018. Their next album Trouble Will Find Me has some of their best known and highest streamed songs on it, but it's always been the album of theirs I've found weakest, and whilst the one that followed in 2017 produced some great singles, Day I Die getting them a second one at the top, I started to feel they'd become a bit samey. Luckily, for the next album they went in an entirely different direction as all tracks bar the last one featured one of a number of female vocalists. It has gone on to be my second favourite album of theirs after Boxer, and produced a pair of #2 singles in You Had Your Soul With You (Gail Ann Dorsey, long-term Bowie band member) and Rylan (about Clark-Neal, Kate Stables of This Is The Kit). The other two main highlights are I Am Easy To Find (Stables again) and Where Is Her Head (Eve Owen). Eve was a great discovery and her beautiful track She Says went on to become a number one at the beginning of 2020. Last year they hit the top 10 once more with Somebody Desperate from the Cyrano soundtrack. There's a new album with some interesting collaborations penned which I'm hoping are better than the first single from it which isn't likely to get anywhere near charting. Chart History: 12/04/2010 Bloodbuzz Ohio 35-30-22-13-07-04-03-06-07-10-12-12-15-18-23-30 (16 weeks) 21/06/2010 Anyone's Ghost 22-16-10-09-08-11-14-22 (8 weeks) 18/10/2010 Conversation 16 10-04-01-01-01-01-01-03-03-05-07-10-13-17-23-29-36 (17 weeks) 22/11/2010 Terrible Love 31-25-19-17-11-11-19-32 (8 weeks) 04/04/2011 Think You Can Wait 37-37-34-28-34-27-13-05-05-09-20-31 (12 weeks) 27/05/2013 Demons 29-23-19-24-38 (5 weeks) 24/02/2014 I Need My Girl 39-36-39 (3 weeks) 29/05/2017 The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness 28-21-13-09-06-09-14-22-30-37 (10 weeks) 24/07/2017 Guilty Party 32-27-21-15-15-11-14-22-19-21-27-36 (12 weeks) 09/10/2017 Day I Die 21-13-06-03-03-01-01-02-03-04-06-08-10-12-18-30-37 (17 weeks) 01/01/2018 Turtleneck 35-28-20-16-19-28-37 (7 weeks) 06/04/2019 You Had Your Soul With You 33-26-18-13-12-12-08-08-04-02-03-07-11-18-29-39 (16 weeks) 27/07/2019 Rylan 33-25-17-10-07-04-02-02-03-03-04-06-12-18-28-37 (16 weeks) 25/12/2021 Somebody Desperate 33-25-19-13-07-11-16-24-35 (9 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Conversation 16 02 Mistaken For Strangers 03 England 04 Fake Empire 05 Day I Die