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Rodgers would not have gone down well as an appointment, Dyche got almost universal approval from the fanbase. That wouldn't have happened as a direct Nuno replacement but given the circumstances we've ended up in...

Their backups are significantly better than previous years when they'd be bringing in a Kiwior or Zinchenko. Raya has made 9 saves since the Man Utd opener, 12 SoT conceded in 8 matches. How sustainable that is will determine just how few goals they can concede, but it feels fairly sustainable, and I find it hard to see them losing it from here.

39 - 04/10/2004 Jimmy Eat World - Pain Chart Run: 01-01-01-05-05-09-13-14-18-22-20-18-19-22-28-34-35-37 (18 weeks) Sticking with US pop-punk type stuff here, as Jimmy Eat World returned in 2004 to follow-up 2001s Bleed American, an album which seemed to be hugely popular amongst my age group and I absolutely loved. The Middle and Sweetness were UK top 40 hits and are songs I still rate highly today. It scraped into the UK top 40, but I was enjoying it as much as their earlier stuff. A slightly bizarre 01-01-01-05 chart run sums up following the UK release schedule, as it immediately fell behind four releases in the same week, a couple of follow-ups to songs that had reached #1 over the summer, a member of a 2003 number one going solo, and a band who would become one of the world's biggest, but which would prevail at the top....? When I first looked at the list of number ones from 2004, I figured this would probably rank as one of the bottom 3 or so, but it's the song of 39 so far that's surprised me the most. It isn't something I've given a huge amount of listens or thought to in the past few years, the occasional shuffle play and that's it, but it's still really good. It's not quite on the level of some of their Bleed American album, but fully deserving of an appearance on this list. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: The Zutons - Don't Ever Think (Too Much) A couple of weeks for American Idiot before The Zutons entered at #2 with something I barely remember. Mylo - Drop The Pressure and Kasabian - Processed Beats the pick of other new entries that hit the top 10.

38 - 13/09/2004 Green Day - American Idiot Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-02-04-08-06-08-10-10-14-14-15-17-14-17-24-30-32-35-40 (22 weeks) Over those early teenage years, Green Day had become a massive band amongst certain parts of my generation, but I had never really been bothered, aside from what I'd describe as "the Big 2" in Basket Case and Good Riddance, but along came American Idiot and it catapulted the band to be one of the biggest in the world for a time. I've probably gone on to play Franz Ferdinand and The Libertines more, but at the time I'd say American Idiot was the album of 2004 that I played most, and I loved its title track from the first play. It was deserving of becoming their biggest UK hit at #3, and the whole album was superb. Green Day were very much an 'at the time' band, I never got into their earlier stuff as a result of loving American Idiot, and their chart history following this is very small, 5 singles from this album and then absolutely nothing since. The album isn't something I've listened to much in the last decade or so, but this single is always good enough to get occasional plays where it sounds great, and listening always takes me back to a time when I absolutely loved it. 2025 Rating: 9/10 Songs kept from #1: Razorlight - Vice Unlucky to release at the same time as a monster hit again, Razorlight spend weeks 4-6 at #2 this year, with one of my favourites from Up All Night, Vice. It was a decent three weeks for songs I've gone on to love but didn't quite enough at the time, with the beautiful Into The Fire by Thirteen Senses (#5), The Streets - Blinded By The Lights (#7), one of Muse's best in Butterflies and Hurricanes (#8), and Interpol - Slow Hands (#10) all entering whilst Green Day were at the top.

37 - 30/08/2004 The Killers - All These Things That I've Done Chart Run: 01-01-03-03-05-04-05-09-13-12-16-21-24-29-31-34-31-30-32-38 (20 weeks) I said in Mr Brightside's entry how much I'd listened to Hot Fuss in this summer, half of the album was decent whilst the other half was exceptional. If their follow-up single was from the latter half then it was always likely to follow it to the top, and thankfully it was. All These Things That I've Done was an equally anthemic and brilliant song, but whilst being completely different too, a real standout from the album. Unlike its predecessor, I've never really begun to fall out of love this All These Things. I'm not sure if this would be my go-to Killers tune now, but it's certainly competing for that title with about 3 others of their earlier hits. 2025 Rating: 9/10 Songs kept from #1: Jet - Cold Hard Bitch Jet made it a pair of #2 hits with the follow-up to Are You Gonna Be My Girl, still a decent song. The other most notable higher entry of this point was Jesus Walks, the first of many big hits for Kanye West, which spent 5 weeks between #4 and #6.

36 - 09/08/2004 The Libertines - Can't Stand Me Now Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-03-07-07-09-11-11-16-22-22-23-26-27-33-34-38-36-34-36 (22 weeks) And now we reach the first act to have a #1 in multiple years, as well as the first person to have two number ones in the same year with different acts, as Can't Stand Me Now entered at the top for The Libertines, following frontman Pete Doherty's guest vocal on For Lovers earlier in the year. Such was the interest in The Libertines as a band, and Pete Doherty as a celebrity by this stage, that this became one of indie's first big charting hits in the UK, entering at #2. It felt like it was always an easy #1, but is another track that came out in the same week as another of the years best, so it was a close-run thing. I still think they're great, and this is one of their best songs. A song fully deserving of all its successes, and one I've continued to listen to a lot in the two decades since. 2025 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Kasabian - LSF, Lostprophets - Last Summer Again, what reaches the top is purely down to the release schedule - LSF would have breezed to the top in the previous month, but has to settle for a fortnight as runner-up here, the first I really got into Kasabian after the more minor hit in Club Foot. This will be the final mention of Lostprophets in here, as they didn't bother the top 10 again after this, but another where the better song doesn't reach the top - I've always enjoyed Last Summer more than their two #1 hits. Also charting, Franz Ferdinand followed a #1 and #2 with a #3 with Michael, whilst Goldie Looking Chain debuted in the top 10 with Guns Don't Kill People, Rappers Do.

01 (02) Of Monsters and Men - Dream Team (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (01) Ninajirachi - Infohazard (01) (09) (2 weeks) 03 (03) Slow Crush - Covet (03) (07) 04 (07) The Cribs - Summer Seizures (04) (06) 05 (15) Jenny on Holiday - Every Ounce of Me (05) (03) 06 (05) Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics (01) (12) (4 weeks) 07 (06) Big Thief - Words (06) (06) 08 (12) Hatchie - Lose It Again (08) (04) 09 (05) Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (02) (08) 10 (16) Olivia Dean - Man I Need (10) (03) 11 (08) Burial - Comafields (08) (06) 12 (10) Honeyglaze - Turn Out Right (10) (05) 13 (20) Samia - Cinder Block (13) (03) 14 (09) Metronomy - Heartbreaker (SHERELLE's Bed Shaking With Metronomy Remix) (05) (08) 15 (27) Lianne La Havas - Disarray (15) (02) 16 (30) Of Monsters and Men - Fruit Bat (16) (02) 17 (13) Wolf Alice - White Horses (02) (11) 18 (28) Tame Impala - Dracula (18) (03) 19 (11) Sprints - Beg (03) (09) 20 (14) Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - MOTHER (11) (07) 21 (26) Little Simz - Don't Leave Too Soon (21) (04) 22 (18) Pale Blue Eyes - New Boots (18) (04) 23 (33) HAAi - Voices (23) (02) 24 (17) Rhydian Dafydd - Make The Sign (17) (04) 25 (38) Fred Again.. feat. Amyl & The Sniffers - You're a Star (25) (02) 26 (**) Witch Fever - SAFE (26) (01) 27 (23) Deftones - Infinite Source (23) (06) 28 (41) Dry Cleaning - Hit My Head All Day (28) (01) 29 (19) White Lies - In The Middle (01) (13) (2 weeks) 30 (24) TTSSFU - Forever (24) (05) 31 (36) Howling Bells - Unbroken (31) (02) 32 (21) Chalk - Pain (15) (07) 33 (**) The Maccabess - Koya (33) (01) 34 (22) Wisp - Black Swan (06) (09) 35 (31) clipping. - Mirrorshades, Pt. 1 (27) (05) 36 (25) Mount Palomar feat. Makeshift Art Bar - Pass The Parcel (18) (06) 37 (43) DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man - The Right (37) (01) 38 (29) The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives (10) (09) 39 (35) Art School Girlfirend - L.Y.A.T.T. (32) (04) 40 (32) Tame Impala - End of Summer (04) (12)

35 - 19/07/2004 Ash - Starcrossed Chart Run: 01-01-01-03-04-05-11-11-18-22-24-28-27-35 (14 weeks) As mentioned earlier when their previous single reached #2, Ash had become a favourite of mine. Their 2001 album Free All Angels was one I played a lot, and a follow-up was always going to interest me, and whilst I was less bothered overall by 2004's Meltdown, it did have a couple of decent singles which were very different in sound - Starcrossed being from their more mellow side following the rocky Orpheus. If this chart had started a couple of years earlier, there's no way Starcrossed would be their only number one. It's a nice song but that's all, not something that remained a staple of my listening for much after that. Some of their earlier work I still love, and their 26 singles project at the start of the next decade was largely decent, but this is the weakest chart topper of the year so far. 2025 Rating: 6/10 Spitting Games was runner-up for each of its three weeks at the top. Now, it feels frankly bonkers that Dry Your Eyes charted 03-04-05 in these weeks, it's now comfortably my standout from this top 3.

I didn't mind Over and Over at the time, but I can't say I've really heard it for the last 20 years and wouldn't have a desire to listen to it. Probably rank a few places higher for me on the basis of it being too dull and inoffensive

#SaveOurVelocity Not a bad final 5, but easily The Script for me

Drops of Jupiter quite comfortably. Despite it being from what's essentially my least favourite genre of music (usually 00s, male fronted, predominantly US, played-to-death, AOR) I've always loved it, even remember buying the CD single.

+30 Metric - Doomscroller 29 HAAi (feat. Jon Hopkins) - Baby, We're Ascending 28 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Wolf 27 Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil 26 Let's Eat Grandma - Happy New Year 25 Caroline Polachek - Welcome to My Island 24 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) 23 Working Men's Club - Widow 22 My Chemical Romance - The Foundations of Decay 21 Fred Again - Delilah (Pull Me Out Of This) 20 Everything Everything - Bad Friday 19 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Spitting off the Edge of the World 18 yune pinku - Fai Fighter 17 Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be a Mirrorball 16 Everything Everything - Teletype 15 Wet Leg - Too Late Now 14Fontaines D.C. - I Love You 13 Gorillaz (feat. Tame Impala & Bootie Brown) - New Gold 12 Caroline Polachek - Billions 11 Charli XCX (feat. Rina Sawayama) - Beg For You 10 Fontaines D.C. - Jackie Down the Line 9 MUNA - What I Want 8 Rema (with Selena Gomez) - Calm Down 7 Beyoncé - Break My Soul 6 Florence + The Machine - King 5 Jamie T - A Million And One New Ways 4 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero 3 LF System - Afraid To Feel 2 Alvvays - Easy On Your Own? 1 Jessie Ware - Free Yourself

34 - 12/07/2004 Snow Patrol - Spitting Games Chart Run: 01-02-02-02-04-05-08-13-15-21-23-26-31-30-37 (15 weeks) After Mr Brightside's time at the top was up, it was replaced by Snow Patrol who were another band I'd been enjoying that year, with Spitting Games being able to go further than either Run (#3) or Chocolate (#7) had managed before it. Final Straw was a decent album, but it was definitely a singles album, not one of my favourites of the year. Not for the first time in 2004, a decent but unspectacular song by a newly successful band hits the top of my chart, whilst my big favourite from theirs falls short. Spitting Games is still a good song that I like, but it's nothing on Run. As far as the album goes, I'd rank Wow higher too although never released as a single. 2025 Rating: 7/10 Songs kept from #1: Morrissey - First of the Gang To Die The big UK #1 Lola's Theme entered in the top 10, but it was the former Smiths singer that went closest in an all new top 2. First of the Gang To Die was his second runner-up of the year, I can't say I listen to either now but this would be the one I'd pick.

Haha that's great! It is completely inescapable, definitely. Without giving too much away, did like some of their other HF singles a lot too...

Looking forward to this one, hoping the top end aligns to mine!

33 - 24/05/2004 The Killers - Mr Brightside Chart Run: 01-01-01-01-01-01-01-03-04-03-03-06-08-09-12-13-17-19-21-23-24-28-31-32-31-33-36 (27 weeks) And now for the big one. Seven weeks at the top and another three hanging around the top 3. Only one song has ever spent longer than its 7 weeks at #1, only three songs have ever spent longer than its 27 weeks in the chart. After a strong start to the year for a new wave of indie bands, the summer of '04 took it to new levels - debut albums from Kasabian, Razorlight and The Killers were all released, and I was straight onto all of them. Mr Brightside felt like such an upbeat, feelgood tune, with it and its parent album Hot Fuss very much soundtracking my summer. It was about this time that I first joined BuzzJack's predecessor site CoolClarity, and for the first time was aware of midweek charts which blew my mind. I absolutely adored Mr Brightside, there was never anything going to stop it from a long run at the top. I find Mr Brightside such a conflicting song, because it is fundamentally brilliant, and the size it has become in the last two decades is fully deserved. At one point about 15 years ago I may well have said it was a top 3 single of all time, but there can't be many (if any) songs I've heard more times in my 36 years on earth, and as a result it has definitely become something I'm tired of and I just wouldn't ever choose to listen to it anymore. It's nice to hear occasionally, but with what must be close to 100% night out hearing rate, that's all that's needed. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs Kept from #1: Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl (3 weeks), Razorlight - Golden Touch (3 weeks), The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk (1 week) The differing levels of quality of music out at any given point in time can influence how well songs do on personal charts - there have definitely been occasions where I've felt the strength of a top 5/10 is significantly higher than it was a couple of months earlier, and therefore songs can feel like they've peaked either too high or low. This was even more the case when I mirrored my chart to the UK chart's release schedule, as when two of the years' best songs are released in the same week it's difficult for both to hit the top spot. At the end of the year, I compiled my favourite songs of the year and ranked them as such: 01 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 02 The Killers - Mr Brightside 03 Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl 04 Razorlight - Golden Touch At any other time, Jet and Razorlight are hitting the top and I'm thinking it's a better year for number ones than it was. As well as these, both Supergrass - Kiss of Life and Scissor Sisters - Laura charted at #3, and could quite easily have been #1s too at other times, the former in particular being an underrated gem from their large back catalogue.

Nice finish to this John, can't argue with the top 2. Would probably have Lola's Theme in the same position. Not as big on Toxic but definitely one of Britney's best and stands out in this year.

32 - 26/04/2004 The Streets - Fit But You Know It Chart Run: 01-01-01-01-04-06-06-06-08-10-14-18-23-25-25-28-33-40 (18 weeks) A lead single to follow-up one of my all-time favourite albums, in Original Pirate Material. The Streets weren't exactly my 'thing' at the time, but I was taken in by the obvious English slant to everything about Mike Skinner - the lyrical content, the accent. OPM was a top 10 all-time album and remains so. The follow-up, A Grand Don't Come For Free, was an album I enjoyed but not to the same level. Its first single was everywhere and became his biggest hit, even more laddy and whimsical then previous efforts, and was straight in at number one for me where it spent the next month. It's a song which is incredibly of its time, particularly with its lyrical content which Skinner has said wouldn't write now, yet still holds a nice wave of nostalgia. It remains decent to listen to, but towards the bottom of song choices from those first two albums. I'm please Dry Your Eyes went further in the UK and became his signature hit, it remains the best song off its parent album, but started 03-04-05 for me so won't have a re-listen and deeper dive. 2025 Rating: 7/10 Songs kept from #1: Ash - Orpheus, Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart, Keane - Everybody's Changing For its four weeks at the top, there were four different songs occupying the runners-up berth. For Lovers for the first week, then Ash with the lead single to the follow-up of one of my favourite albums of the early part of the decade Free All Angels in Orpheus, Morrissey's big solo effort came next with his most hyped return in a long while, and then Keane almost making it 2/2 at the top with a slightly odd early chart run of 03-06-02-08. Other decent hits at the time were big R&B hit Dip It Low by Christina Milian and Jay-Z with 99 Problems

A couple of passable efforts and a load of dirge. Tough choice, might as well go Rooftops get it over with. Even though I'd liked them a lot previously I thought this was a massive comedown in quality.

31 - 12/04/2004 Wolfman feat. Pete Doherty - For Lovers Chart Run: 01-01-02-04-04-05-09-11-11-14-18-22-22-26-33-37-34-40 (18 weeks) Following The Libertines big 2003, a single featuring the vocals of Pete Doherty was always going to get some interest, and it became his first top 10 hit in the UK entering at #7, along with songwriter Peter Wolfe AKA Wolfman, with a re-working of a song he wrote in the early 90s. As a big fan of The Libertines work, it's of little surprise that this entered at the top, it was something a bit different to the energy which they provided but I loved the vocal on it. Sometimes listening to something for the first time in a while really makes you remember just how good it is, and that's definitely the case here. For Lovers is absolutely superb, the lyrics are beautiful, his voice is great, and the production is fantastic. The first song in this list I've felt the need to listen again shortly after my initial re-visit. Somewhat annoyingly, this is now tagged on Spotify as being by Jake Fior, who was the producer on it. 2025 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: The Rasmus - In The Shadows, Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinée The first #2 peaks for a while as The Rasmus climbed 03-02 and then Franz Ferdinand entered there not quite equalling their previous peak. Both songs are good, but #2 peaks are worthy. At the time it wasn't an entry of note, with a 2 week chart run of 29-35 but The Rat by The Walkmen entered whilst For Lovers was at the top, and if I were to rank all songs from 2004 now, would definitely be top 10, potentially top 5.

2022: HAAi feat. Jon Hopkins - Baby, We're Ascending Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil Everything Everything - Bad Friday 2023: Bob Vylan - Dream Big Chemical Brothers feat. Halo Maud - Live Again DJ Seinfeld & Confidence Man - Now U Do MGMT - Mother Nature 2024: English Teacher - R&B Fat Dog - Running FKA Twigs - Eusexua Michael Kiwanuka - Floating Parade

+30 Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth 29 Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever 28 BICEP (feat. Clara La San) - Saku 27 Little Simz - Introvert 26 Let's Eat Grandma - Hall Of Mirrors 25 Bicep - Apricots 24 Wolf Alice - How Can I Make It OK? 23 Wet Leg - Chaise Lounge 22 MUNA (feat. Phoebe Bridgers) - Silk Chiffon 21 Coldplay - Coloratura 20 CHVRCHES (feat. Robert Smith) - How Not to Drown 19 Turnstile - MYSTERY 18 Wolf Alice - Lipstick on the Glass 17 Weeknd - Save Your Tears (Original / Ariana Grande Remix) 16 DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ - Try Not To Be Afraid 15 Fred again.. (feat. The Blessed Madonna) - Marea (We've Lost Dancing) 14 Lil Ugly Mane - Porcelain Slightly 13 Sigrid - Burning Bridges 12 Biffy Clyro - Errors In the History Of God 11 Dave - In The Fire 10 Caroline Polachek - Bunny Is A Rider 9 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under 8 Jockstrap - 50/50 7 Glass Animals - Heat Waves 6 Ewan McVicar - Tell Me Something Good 5 Coldplay - Higher Power 4 Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker 3 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits 2 Go_A - Shum 1 SZA - Good Days

30 - 29/03/2004 Basement Jaxx feat. JC Chasez - Plug It In Chart Run: 01-01-04-05-04-09-12-12-16-15-16-18-23-25-29-34-34-36-38 (19 weeks) It doesn't take long for the first act to appear twice in the year, as the follow-up to the years first chart topper equals its achievement, Basement Jaxx entering at #1 again with Plug It In, this time with vocals being provided by N-Sync's JC Chasez. It was a relatively minor hit in the UK (#20), but was something I enjoyed a lot at the time - JC provides a great vocal and it feels similar in style to some of Basement Jaxx's early singles. It's not really a favourite Basement Jaxx song of mine, not something I've listened to regularly over the years, but is still decent and enjoyable to listen to. 2025 Rating: 7/10 Once again, I Miss You was the runner up for both of these weeks. Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama and The Rasmus - In The Shadows are the pick of the top 10 new entries.

Dry Your Eyes would comfortably take my top spot in this, absolutely delighted that he was able to have a #1 single. For what it is, Cha Cha Slide is fine really.

Sorry went on holiday and hadn't been bothered to re-start, nice to see there's some demand! 29 - 08/03/2004 Jet - Look What You've Done Chart Run: 01-01-01-05-08-13-14-12-16-20-19-26-36-40 (14 weeks) Without remembering exactly all the number ones I had 20+ years ago, but thinking about which songs and albums I enjoyed the most, Australians Jet would have felt like a safe bet to be in this list, and here they are, but it's not with the song. After the minor hits (both for me and in the UK) at the end of 2003 with Rollover DJ and Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Get Born was an early purchase from this wave of indie albums, and I thought it was great. Look What You've Done is more on the Keane/Snow Patrol sound of things compared to their more common rockier output, and the mellow side of them was one I enjoyed as much. They were one of a number of acts of this era and type who really fell away after their debut, although they did follow this up with three singles to reach #2. It's not exactly a go-to two decades later, but it's perfectly pleasant and I still enjoy it. Get Born has stood the test of time really well for me. In my end of year chart for '04, this was ranked just outside the top 20 whilst Are You Gonna Be My Girl was #3, and I don't think I'd have that one much lower now, but this one probably would do. It's a shame Are You Gonna... is not the song of theirs I'm listening to again, but such was the way I did my chart it was stuck behind an absolute monster hit when it was re-released. 2025 Rating: 7/10 I Miss You was runner-up for the duration of its stay at the top, the pick of the other new entries in these weeks were excellent N*E*R*D - She Wants to Move, Outkast's Hey Ya! follow-up I Like The Way You Move, and the wonderfully-popular-for-15-year-olds Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne, which still has a nice nostalgic feel to it.