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Oooh after saying this felt like it would all be quite close to my own ranking, 2 of my likely top 3 both drop out early! At the end of 2010 I ranked Telephone as my song of the year, I don't rate it anywhere near that highly now and don't go back to it loads, but I'd still have it as my favourite Gaga song - Just Dance and Born This Way the only others of hers I ever really listen to now. Forget You is absolutely magnificent, loved it from the very first listen and never really tired of it, you're definitely right about it working just as well with the clean version and not really needing f*** You,

Of the most recent few, Dynamite is definitely the best song to have appeared so far, a simple and incredibly effective example of this type of party song. Just The Way You Are is a great song for the huge radio friendly hit that it is, though it's not something I've chosen to listen to for a long while now, think Promise This is probably the one we'd have furthest apart so far, definitely right towards the bottom for me, scraping into the top 30.

01 (09) Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Nosedive (01) (04) (1 week) 02 (02) Future Islands - Find Love (02) (07) 03 (01) Chalk - Béal Feirste (01) (07) (2 weeks) 04 (16) Blossoms - Joke About Divorce (04) (03) 05 (08) Gretel - Squish (05) (05) 06 (03) Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not (03) (08) 07 (04) Sharp Pins - Popafangout (04) (06) 08 (17) BALTHVS - Shakedown Street (08) (03) 09 (05) Lauren Auder - No Outline (02) (08) 10 (14) Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (10) (04) 11 (07) Genesis Owusu - STAMPEDE (07) (08) 12 (06) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Slumber Party (01) (08) (3 weeks) 13 (10) Muse - Be With You (10) (08) 14 (23) Tomora - I Drink The Light (14) (03) 15 (27) The Maine - Quiet Part Loud (15) (02) 16 (22) Temples - Vendetta (16) (04) 17 (11) Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee (02) (10) 18 (20) Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love (18) (04) 19 (12) Baby Queen - Feel Something (12) (06) 20 (32) Boards of Canada - Prophecy At 1420 MHz (20) (02) 21 (13) Metric - Victim of Luck (01) (14) (2 weeks) 22 (25) Eaves Wilder - Hurricane Girl (22) (03) 23 (31) Palace - Kid (23) (02) 24 (19) Model/Actriz - Glassman (16) (06) 25 (36) Genesis Owusu - Life Keeps Going (25) (02) 26 (43) Antony Szmierek - Chalk (26) (01) 27 (15) Tom Misch - Echo From The Flames (13) (07) 28 (18) Pond - Two Hands (15) (05) 29 (49) Future Islands - One Day (29) (01) 30 (21) The Orielles - Tears Are (03) (13) 31 (47) Yard Act - Redeemer (31) (01) 32 (24) Courteeners - The Luckiest Man Alive (20) (05) 33 (29) Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (09) (08) 34 (30) DMA's - My Baby's Place (22) (06) 35 (**) Mystery Jets - Black Sage (35) (01) 36 (28) Damon Albarn feat. Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags (05) (11) 37 (26) Lykke Li - Lucky Again (07) (10) 38 (46) Gretel - The Perfect Body (38) (01) 39 (34) The Strokes - Going Shopping (27) (05) 40 (33) PVA - Okay (02) (14)

30/10/2006 Bodyrox feat. Luciana - Yeah Yeah Chart Run: 01-01-01-04-04-06-04-04-06-09-13-16-17-28-31 (15 weeks) Time for another big UK hit now, as we move to Yeah Yeah by electro house duo Bodyrox, with vocals provided from Luciana. It is also of course the D. Ramirez edit which became popular and which I also loved. For a brief period this type of song was a popular and familiar sound, I put it in the same bracket as the likes of Mason - Exceeder and Fedde Le Grande - Put Your Hands Up For Detroit, which climbed to the UK #1 in the week Yeah Yeah was #2. Whilst I liked most of this type of track to some extent, Yeah Yeah was comfortably the standout of them for me, largely down to the bolshy, shouty vocal provided by Luciana which elevated it from a good song to a great one. It was certainly something I loved being such a big hit. I definitely don't like this as much as I did back in 2006, but it's definitely nice to hear whenever I do, Luciana's vocal still definitely elevating it. 2026 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: Air Traffic - Never Even Told Me Her Name, The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Herculean, Snow Patrol feat. Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar A trio of excellent songs kept off the top here. Air Traffic were a short lived indie pop band who had a few good singles in 2006-7, Never Even Told Me Her Name the one of these I'd still listen to most and got a long 13 week stint in the top 10 as it bounced up and down within it until the end of January. The Good, The Bad & The Queen were a Damon Albarn fronted 'supergroup' made up of various successful musicians and released a self-titled album I loved for a time in 2007, Herculean was the standout of this but all of the singles from it made the top 10. Finally, the best of the three and one of the songs of 2006 I still listen to the most, Set The Fire To The Third Bar by Snow Patrol with Martha Wainwright as a guest vocalist. It's the song of Snow Patrol's I'd now call a career highlight, a phenomenal beautiful duet by both vocalists - it's the one of this trio I'd now change, especially as Yeah Yeah already had a fortnight at the top. It was a huge week for releases when Yeah Yeah entered, with it being one of were 18 new entries in the chart, and there were 15 that made the UK top 40 (though a couple were already in there from downloads only prior to their 'official' release), the main highlight (although took a while to get going for me) is Gossip - Standing In The Way of Control. A lot of mine were fairly small indie bands following up previous songs I'd liked - The Sunshine Underground, Young Knives, Peter, Bjorn & John - or ones which were just starting and would have more success, for me and in the UK, later on - The Horrors, Panic! At The Disco, Klaxons. In the latter fortnight Beyonce got her biggest hit (so far) with Irreplaceable, and CSS, a very 2006/7 indie disco band, got their first hit with Alala.

We got an apology thought so it's alright

90 - 09/10/2006 TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me Chart Run: 35-24-12-06-04-01-01-01-07-17-24-30-29-31-36-40-39-38-40 (19 weeks) In an era of held-back releases we find a first genuine slow-burning climber, presenting a run that would look fairly typical now, although the swift fall down the chart is somewhat less common and a product of still going by a release schedule which have loads of excellent songs released in the same week. TV On The Radio were a brand new discovery for me at the end of summer that year, their second album Return To Cookie Mountain and single Wolf Like Me were both released in July. I first heard of them through previous single I Was a Love which is fine, but I wasn't overly bothered by it. Wolf Like Me, however, was something much more special. I charted it as soon as I heard it and it grew on me over the next few weeks to hit the top, a phenomenal anthemic indie-rock song. They've gone on to become a band I enjoy a lot, and each of the three albums of theirs that followed produced one fairly big hit for me. TV On The Radio aren't a band I still listen to loads, but they have half a dozen or so brilliant songs that I absolutely love to hear every now and again, and Wolf Like Me is one of those - 20 years on it still sounds incredibly fresh and stands out amongst other indie-rock music of the time. 2026 Rating: 9/10 LDN was #2 in each of the three weeks it was at #1. It was a relatively quiet period for releases, Scott Matthews - Elusive climbed back to #3 for two of these weeks before a re-release of The Rifles - Peace and Quiet charted there in its final week at the top, a good song but nothing special or standout for the bands of the time. The Holloways - Generator, The Knife - Like a Pen, and Jamie T - If You Got The Money were the three standouts from these three weeks, though none of them would reach higher than #9. A mammoth 29 songs would enter the chart over the next fortnight, so plenty to discuss on the next entry,

The Roll Deep pair were absolutely class, loved them being big hits during my uni years and still sound good, though definitely have them the right way round. Start Without You is iconic, just felt quite unique and unlike what I'd expect from an XF act, but did really enjoy it, haven't heard it in a looong time now though, so might not look on it so favourably. Olly... meh, he definitely had much better later on.

Star Guitar for me, always thought it was great but seeing them live definitely made me appreciate that one more. Would agree with the general consensus of It Began in Afrika being the weakest. 01 Star Guitar 02 Setting Sun 03 Go 04 Hey Boy Hey Girl 05 Block Rockin Beats 06 Galvanize 07 Let Forever Be 08 It Began in Afrika

Can't really argue with the last three, feels like this ranking will be fairly similar to mine, all of them ok but nothing amazing - probably not top 20 worthy. Would probably rank Beautiful Monster as the best of the three but all much of a muchness,

89 - 25/09/2006 Lily Allen - LDN Chart Run: 01-01-02-02-02-11-23-28-32-34 (10 weeks) Getting to a song which spent more than a solitary week at the top again, and it's Lily Allen with her second hit, LDN. Her first two singles were the reverse for me in as in the UK as it was following up #6 hit Smile, which was always nice enough but even at the time I loved LDN a lot more - it had been hanging around for a while as one of the new wave of MySpace acts, and was great fun and well written, a good tale of noughties London. I was certainly pleased she got the UK success she did in 2006, it was great to see her at the top of the UK chart. LDN had a quite bizarre chart run for me, with five weeks in the top 2 before dropping straight out of the top 10 and lasting just five further weeks in total! There were some very busy weeks for releases coming up which contributed to big falls, and as I'd been listening to it long before its actual release it wouldn't have had the longevity it perhaps deserved. I've gone through phases with Lily Allen - I liked her first couple of albums but went off them both relatively quickly, only going back to certain songs now, but have definitely enjoyed some of her latter work too, though that's No Shame much more than last years album. LDN is still a pretty good song that I enjoy, but it does feel very 2006! Looking at Lily's chart history, I do think she has been under-charted with her best songs generally - Alfie (#12) and The Fear (#14) seem criminally low peaks, and they'd be the two of hers I'd go back to most, with Back To The Start probably rounding off a top 3. 2026 Rating: 7/10 Songs kept from #1: McAlmont & Butler - Speed, Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Both of these songs rose to the #2 spot, in their fifth and third charting week respectively, after entering lower down which was becoming a bit more common but still quite rare by this stage. McAlmont & Butler were an occasional project between Suede's Bernard Butler and singer David McAlmont, whose 90s hit Yes I was a big fan of. I enjoyed Speed for a while but not something I've returned to often. After loving Jet's debut album I had high hopes for a return, but it's widely regarded as an awful album, and whilst I wouldn't go as far as some criticism I definitely consider it to be a huge comedown in quality, which wasn't unusual for bands of this era releasing a second album. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is is fine, but got nothing on earlier singles - I certainly don't rate either of these tracks anywhere near as high now. Two other highlights released within this fortnight were The Pipettes follow-up Judy (#4) and a hidden gem amongst the indie landfill for a band who had some minor success (3 top 40s all in the 30s), Happy As Annie by Larrikin Love (#15), a song of that era I've gone on to enjoy a lot over the years and still play regularly.

Both top 10 if I'd have got to this year first :D

Yes definitely no arguments with those two - certainly would be down in these bottom positions for me too!

Caught up with the last few, a good top 10 and excellent write-ups of them, don't think my rankings would look too dissimilar, but the Gaga ones would all be a few touches lower - just not really bothered about listening to any of her music as much as I once was, even Telephone which I'd always loved as my favourite still is, but overall still wouldn't rate it as highly. Killing In The Name probably my favourite number one of this year based on what it represented, if not my favourite song (though it wouldn't be far off, probably 3rd). Killing In The Name Bonkers I'm Not Alone Sexy Chick The Fear Run This Town I Gotta Feeling (about 10 places higher than I once would've, actually sounds good to hear now) When Love Takes Over Boom Boom Pow Bad Romance

When I got the PM asking if I wanted to do one of these, 2010 was an option but it had been taken before I saw it. A quick scan of the 2012 and 2014 number ones there was only one choice, so went with the former as there's a dozen or so great songs I want to write about. As with most of these countdowns, I won't remember a lot of what is to come so will be interesting to see if I curse you reading PMs before me wishing these were the songs I was writing about. When I properly looked at what I'd signed up to an initial reaction was "36 number ones?! FFS" so at least there's one angle where I can't be frustrated at not getting to have 2010. Being a huge football fan and traveller to watch England games, I probably hold more of a nostalgia for football songs than they deserve. As a result, Shout might not be as low but I can't imagine it'd hit the heights of my top 30, as football songs go it really is the pits.

01 (01) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Slumber Party (01) (05) (3 weeks) 02 (03) Lauren Auder - No Outline (02) (05) 03 (06) Chalk - Béal Feirste (03) (04) 04 (09) Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not (04) (05) 05 (02) Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee (02) (07) 06 (12) Future Islands - Find Love (06) (04) 07 (04) Metric - Victim of Luck (01) (11) (2 weeks) 08 (17) Sharp Pins - Popafangout (08) (03) 09 (05) The Orielles - Tears Are (03) (10) 10 (14) Genesis Owusu - STAMPEDE (10) (06) 11 (07) Lykke Li - Lucky Again (07) (07) 12 (08) Damon Albarn feat. Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags (05) (08) 13 (15) Muse - Be With You (13) (05) 14 (20) Tom Misch - Echo From The Flames (14) (04) 15 (10) PVA - Okay (02) (11) 16 (23) Baby Queen - Feel Something (16) (03) 17 (11) Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (09) (05) 18 (13) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - I Danced With Another Love In My Dream (05) (08) 19 (27) Pond - Two Hands (19) (02) 20 (16) Jungle - Carry On (16) (04) 21 (22) MUNA - So What (21) (06) 22 (24) DMA's - My Baby's Place (22) (03) 23 (30) Courteeners - The Luckiest Man Alive (23) (02) 24 (19) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (01) (13) (4 weeks) 25 (29) Model/Actriz - Glassman (25) (03) 26 (37) Gretel - Squish (26) (02) 27 (18) Metric - Time Is a Bomb (09) (07) 28 (**) Man/Woman/Chainsaw - Nosedive (28) (01) 29 (33) The Strokes - Going Shopping (29) (02) 30 (21) Young Fathers - Don't Fight The Young (12) (08) 31 (43) Temples - Vendetta (31) (01) 32 (26) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (02) (11) 33 (28) Temples - Jet Stream Heart (14) (08) 34 (47) Angine de Poitrine - Mata Zyklek (34) (01) 35 (32) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (15) (2 weeks) 36 (25) Lava La Rue - Scratches (13) (07) 37 (31) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (08) (12) 38 (45) Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love (38) (01) 39 (34) Whitelands - I Am No God, An Effigy (22) (08) 40 (36) Nothing - Cannibal World (21) (09)

I have a playlist called BJSC Vote Potentials - once I've listened to the full playlist I transfer the ones that I thought were ok to that and then whittle it down from there - trying to have my last listen in vote order, though I always do it in reverse finishing with the best.

Bonkers is truly exceptional, would be my number one here for sure, it was so instant I loved it straight away and - I feel like some of his other big hits have really aged badly but this has stood up well - phenomenal to watch him perform it live.

88 - 18/09/2006 The Aliens - The Happy Song Chart Run: 01-03-05-05-04-06-19-24-33-37 (10 weeks) After three long running number one singles over the summer, we move to a third consecutive song to spend just a week at the top now. The Aliens came about in 2005 as a new project for three members and ex-members of cult Scottish indie act The Beta Band, who formed a new project. I definitely remember discovering them (and The Happy Song) on a corner of the internet somewhere, along with another song Only Waiting. The Happy song is well... happy and cheerful, designed to be catchy and it worked well. They'd go on to have three more hits for me over the next couple of years, each one being slightly less successful than the previous. It's still a good, fun listen, but it's not something I've gone back to loads, certainly not recently. It sound good listening to it again though, a song that certainly brings back a memory. 2026 Rating: 7/10 The other standout release of this week is the beautiful Elusive by Scott Matthews (#3), a song I've gone on to listen to a lot more than The Happy Song.

The Fear still sounds great, sure it would be top 5 for me without remembering absolutely everything that's to come. The two BEPs ones are fine for what they are, probably like them (and the other one) a bit more now than I ended up doing, all of them got a bit tired at the time - they just felt so huge. I suspect if I did this years rank that all three would be in a similar position, top half but not top quarter, probably alongside the other act with three in here.

01 (01) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Slumber Party (01) (04) (2 weeks) 02 (03) Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee (02) (06) 03 (10) Lauren Auder - No Outline (03) (04) 04 (02) Metric - Victim of Luck (01) (10) (2 weeks) 05 (04) The Orielles - Tears Are (03) (09) 06 (14) Chalk - Béal Feirste (06) (03) 07 (07) Lykke Li - Lucky Again (07) (06) 08 (05) Damon Albarn feat. Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags (05) (07) 09 (17) Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not (09) (04) 10 (06) PVA - Okay (02) (10) 11 (09) Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (09) (04) 12 (21) Future Islands - Find Love (12) (03) 13 (08) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - I Danced With Another Love In My Dream (05) (07) 14 (13) Genesis Owusu - STAMPEDE (13) (05) 15 (18) Muse - Be With You (15) (04) 16 (24) Jungle - Carry On (16) (03) 17 (26) Sharp Pins - Popafangout (17) (02) 18 (11) Metric - Time Is a Bomb (09) (06) 19 (12) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (01) (12) (4 weeks) 20 (25) Tom Misch - Echo From The Flames (20) (03) 21 (15) Young Fathers - Don't Fight The Young (12) (07) 22 (22) MUNA - So What (21) (05) 23 (32) Baby Queen - Feel Something (23) (02) 24 (30) DMA's - My Baby's Place (24) (02) 25 (16) Lava La Rue - Scratches (13) (06) 26 (19) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (02) (10) 27 (42) Pond - Two Hands (27) (01) 28 (20) Temples - Jet Stream Heart (14) (07) 29 (35) Model/Actriz - Glassman (29) (02) 30 (44) Courteeners - The Luckiest Man Alive (30) (01) 31 (23) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (08) (11) 32 (28) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (14) (2 weeks) 33 (46) The Strokes - Going Shopping (33) (01) 34 (27) Whitelands - I Am No God, An Effigy (22) (07) 35 (29) American Football - Bad Moons (07) (08) 36 (33) Nothing - Cannibal World (21) (08) 37 (**) Gretel - Squish (37) (01) 38 (34) Daughter - Not Enough (03) (14) 39 (31) James Blake - Death of Love (06) (1) 40 (36) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (05) (12)

87 - 11/09/2006 Guillemots - Trains To Brazil Chart Run: 01-02-05-08-07-06-07-16-22-26-33-35-38-39-35-33-33-33-35-39 (20 weeks) Trains To Brazil charted at #2 in December 2005 for Guillemots but would go a step further when it was officially re-released. They received a lot of plays on the likes of Zane Lowe's show but their releases didn't make the UK chart. As 2006 went on they begun to get a lot more hype around them, their debut album Through The Windowpane was released in July to much critical acclaim and I absolutely loved it, one of a few albums from this summer which I played a lot. As was typical for bands of the time who begun to get more attention, they re-released their best early singles and started to chart higher, both Make Up Love Song #43 and Trains to Brazil giving them UK top 40 hits. I hadn't stopped loving Trains To Brazil since its initial release, and Through The Windowpane was such a triumph of sound and variety that it was always likely to go one further, with a really drawn out tail to its chart run over Christmas and New Year. As with many bands that broke through in this era, Guillemots had more success (well, higher chart positions anyway) with their second album, single Get Over It being their only UK top 20 and Red being their only top 10 album, but it (and any other later work) didn't stand up to their debut - this wouldn't be their only visit to the top, and there's the 12 minute closing epic Sao Paulo Through The Windowpane is still an album from this era which I love to listen to from time to time, and Trains To Brazil is such a fun song - definitely the right decision to chart its second release even if I'd made it highly successful before. 2026 Rating: 10/10 Another one week number one where the previous incumbent drops to #2, there's little to mention from elsewhere - the only other entry of note being for another hyped act of the era; Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. with The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager (part 1) (#6)

86 - 04/09/2006 Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin' Chart Run:: 01-02-05-09-09-09-16-21-38 (9 weeks) And now for the third of three UK number ones of 2006 which also hit the top for me, as Scissor Sisters get a second #1 single. Unlike other acts who'd had huge breakthroughs in recent years, the Sisters didn't disappoint when returning with I Don't Feel Like Dancin' in 2006. If you were a fan of their breakthrough debut it was hard to imagine not being a fan of this, instantly catchy and so obviously them, a real triumph of a song. It was an instant hit for me, though it did begin to grate on me a bit after a while, I think because it was SO massive it did seem to be everywhere. It's not one of theirs I've listened to much in recent years, however it was really great hearing it again. I think the time elapsed for any overexposure it had has been kind, still a great song and up there with the Scissor Sisters best. I loved watching their Glastonbury set last year, 2026 Rating: 8/10 Nothing held off as Young Folks dropped back a place to #2. The next highest new entry was Starlight at #4 for Muse, a song of theirs I do absolutely adore.

Definitely a big step up in quality for the last few, this is more what I was hoping for for 2009s list. Cheryl is perfectly good for what it is, I've grown to like Run This Town more as it's aged but do think it's great now, and When Love Takes Over is a classic - surpassed by some of his others from the same era but still sounding great.

01 (02) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - Slumber Party (01) (03) (1 week) 02 (01) Metric - Victim of Luck (01) (09) (2 weeks) 03 (03) Adult DVD - Real Tree Lee (03) (05) 04 (04) The Orielles - Tears Are (03) (08) 05 (06) Damon Albarn feat. Grian Chatten & Kae Tempest - Flags (05) (06) 06 (05) PVA - Okay (02) (09) 07 (10) Lykke Li - Lucky Again (07) (05) 08 (07) Brigitte Calls Me Baby - I Danced With Another Love In My Dream (05) (06) 09 (16) Death Cab for Cutie - Riptides (09) (03) 10 (18) Lauren Auder - No Outline (10) (03) 11 (11) Metric - Time Is a Bomb (09) (05) 12 (08) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (01) (11) (4 weeks) 13 (20) Genesis Owusu - STAMPEDE (13) (04) 14 (24) Chalk - Béal Feirste (14) (02) 15 (12) Young Fathers - Don't Fight The Young (12) (06) 16 (13) Lava La Rue - Scratches (13) (05) 17 (28) Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not (17) (03) 18 (25) Muse - Be With You (18) (03) 19 (11) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (02) (09) 20 (14) Temples - Jet Stream Heart (14) (06) 21 (36) Future Islands - Find Love (21) (02) 22 (21) MUNA - So What (21) (04) 23 (15) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (08) (10) 24 (29) Jungle - Carry On (24) (02) 25 (32) Tom Misch - Echo From The Flames (25) (02) 26 (49) Sharp Pins - Popafangout (26) (01) 27 (22) Whitelands - I Am No God, An Effigy (22) (06) 28 (23) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (13) (2 weeks) 29 (17) American Football - Bad Moons (07) (07) 30 (41) DMA's - My Baby's Place (30) (01) 31 (19) James Blake - Death of Love (06) (10) 32 (43) Baby Queen - Feel Something (32) (01) 33 (27) Nothing - Cannibal World (21) (07) 34 (30) Daughter - Not Enough (03) (13) 35 (48) Model/Actriz - Glassman (35) (01) 36 (26) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (05) (11) 37 (33) Art School Girlfriend - Doing Laps (15) (08) 38 (34) James Blake - I Had a Dream She Took My Hand (20) (07) 39 (31) Bat For Lashes - Carried My Girl (24) (04) 40 (35) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (13)

85 - 31/07/2006 Peter, Bjorn & John feat. Victoria Bergsmann - Young Folks 01-01-01-01-01-02-04-08-11-12-13-19-19-31-30-35-36-40 (18 weeks) Following July being taken up by one song, August was too, as Swedish trio Peter, Bjorn & John had a breakthrough hit with Young Folks. Aided by some additional vocals from Victoria Bergsmann, it was an insanely catchy hit thanks to its use of whistles and easy sing-a-long chorus, and an incredibly popular hit amongst the indie scene at the time, getting an unexpected chart hit in the lower reaches of the UK top 40, and would gain in popularity a year later, getting a re-release and further promotion, with three weeks just inside the top 15 in September and October of 2007. It was a song I loved from first listen, and was overjoyed when it eventually got the recognition and popularity that it deserved. I enjoyed some of its parent album for a while, but just a couple of others that I still ever listen to now. It was a song so perfect for the summer months in which it was released. It ended 2006 as my #3 of of the year, one position ahead of the song it replaced. I've never stopped loving and listening to Young Folks, a magnificent reminder of how good some (relatively) successful indie music was at the time, and is still a great summer tune that feels like a bit of a cult classic. 2026 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: The View - Wasted Little DJs, Arctic Monkeys - Leave Before The Lights Come On, The Futureheads - Worry About It Later, Little Man Tate - House Party At Boothy's Five weeks at the top ahead of five different songs, it reads like a who's who of mid-00s mid-tier indie, The View with their debut hit, they would have a far bigger hit than Wasted Little DJs but it's comfortably their best single for me, an Arctic Monkeys standalone which was nowhere near as hyped or remembered as most of their other material of this era, The Futureheads going one higher than the previous single with Worry About It Later, again not a go-to from them. The best song of these, by far, and one I comfortably listen to more than the other three combined, is House Party At Boothy's - riding the coat-tails of Arctic Monkeys simply by being an indie band from Sheffield, Little Man Tate had five UK top 40 hits from their debut album across 2006 and 2007, the second of which was their tale of a teenage house party at Boothy's house - every lyric superbly summing up the teenagers of their time, set to an incredible riff and some of the time la la la's. Other highlights of these week include a chart debut for Metric with Monster Hospital (#5), more mid-tier indie in Young Knives - Weekends and Bleak Days (Hot Summer) (#3), a first solo single for Radiohead's Thom Yorke with Harrowdown Hill (#6) and The Fratellis follow-up with their massive smash Chelsea Dagger (#3).