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Sorry struggled with the both incredibly broad and narrow theme and didn't get round to putting any thought into it before the weekend when I then wasn't around, so will sit out.

01 (02) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (01) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (07) (2 weeks) 03 (07) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (04) (03) 04 (03) Daughter - Not Enough (03) (07) 05 (09) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (05) (05) 06 (05) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (07) 07 (17) PVA - Okay (07) (03) 08 (04) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (08) (2 weeks) 09 (06) Robyn - Talk To Me (06) (07) 10 (13) James Blake - Death of Love (10) (04) 11 (10) Harry Styles - Aperture (10) (06) 12 (11) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (11) (05) 13 (08) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (03) (09) 14 (20) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (14) (04) 15 (26) Metric - Victim of Luck (15) (03) 16 (21) Anna Prior - Silence (16) (04) 17 (12) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (12) (3 weeks) 18 (27) The Orielles - Tears Are (18) (02) 19 (15) SAULT - Chapter 1 (13) (06) 20 (23) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (20) (04) 21 (14) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (11) 22 (29) Charli XCX - Always Everywhere (22) (02) 23 (32) Milky - Just The Way You Are (Mall Grab Remix) (23) (02) 24 (19) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (19) (06) 25 (34) Art School Girlfriend - Doing Laps (25) (02) 26 (28) Dapnhi - Hang (26) (03) 27 (**) American Football - Bad Moons (27) (01) 28 (16) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (08) 29 (18) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (12) 30 (42) James Blake - I Had a Dream She Took My Hand (30) (01) 31 (38) Pulp - Begging for Change (31) (02) 32 (25) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (14) (2 weeks) 33 (41) Jessie Ware - Ride (33) (01) 34 (22) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (08) 35 (24) TVAM - The Words (17) (05) 36 (**) Nothing - Cannibal World (36) (01) 37 (31) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (09) 38 (36) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (08) 39 (30) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (10) 40 (33) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (25) (06)

72 - 06/02/2006 Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down Chart Run: 01-03-11-23-28-35 (6 weeks) The popularity of emo was something that I wasn't that bothered with, enjoyed some of the main hits to chart them (My Chemical Romance highest position #11, Panic! At The Disco #10), but largely thought it was annoying and whiny, and I listened to less music each year that could be included somewhere within the main 'rock' genre. But Sugar, We're Goin Down was one exception. Fall Out Boy had built up a significant fanbase with their 2003 debut album, but this was the first song of theirs I was aware of. I remember Zane Lowe loving it upon original release, which was only a few months before, and I'd enjoyed it enough at that point to give it a chart run of 15-24-40, but I heard it a lot in the coming months as it gained in popularity, and started to enjoy it more. At the beginning of the year it had started to get more exposure and charted in the UK on downloads from its previous release, spending four weeks climbing before its re-release saw it spend three weeks in the top 10. It was only a short chart run, largely down to me having been listening to it for a long while by this point, but certainly wasn't an undeserved number one. Perhaps surprisingly, I have continued to enjoy Sugar, We're Goin Down over the years, and think Fall Out Boy have a good trio of fairly big hits - looking back I'd say I undercharted 2007s 'This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race' (#34) and 'Thnks Fr Th Mmrs' (#26) as I've continued to listen to and enjoy them for the past 20 years. I'd definitely say this is the best example of an emo song of this period. 2026 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: The Go! Team - Ladyflash Entering at #3 the week before, Ladyflash joined Bottle Rocket in giving The Go! Team a pair of #2 hits from their debut album, still a song I enjoy a lot but probably still just about say this top 2 was the right way round.

Thanks Jade, yes I loved that about the Sony ad, it was a really brilliant advert - don't think it'd be possible to have one make an impact like that nowadays! Glad you approve so far!

Edu has been an unmitigated disaster at Forest. Fell out with the most successful manager we'd had in decades causing him to not want to be here and get himself the sack, and signed a load of absolute dross at high expense. I've thought for a while that West Ham will finish above us, praying that Tottenham can get relegated, the game at WHL in a fortnight is absolutely massive. Just hoping to scrape 17th in this disaster of a season.

71 - 23/01/2006 The Shortwave Set - Repeat To Fade Chart Run: 01-01-03-06-08-21-25-31-33-38 (10 weeks) And now onto that 'more niche stuff' that would hit the top spot in 2006, as move to a band that came nowhere near making the UK charts, or anywhere else for that matter. The Shortwave Set were a London-based alternative pop act with shared male/female vocalists, although most of their songs were sung by Ulrika Bjornse, and I typically mainly like the songs on which she was the vocalist on. Repeat To Fade was a much slower, ballad than their other work which was more upbeat. I can't say I remember where I discovered them, but I listened to them fairly regularly for a three year period. They also had #2 hits in 2007 & 2008 with 'Casual Use' (my first ever BJSC entry!) and 'Now Til '69', the latter being from their second and final album Replica Sun Machine which was one I had on CD. This isn't a song I'd listened to much in the last decade at all. When I still largely listened to music from my iTunes mp3 collection it was something I had at some point removed from my main favourites playlist, and this was one of about half a dozen songs that weren't on Spotify when I put together my #1s playlist - looking at the listens figures of their two albums I think their debut was added at a later date as it's on there now. It was nice to hear it again, I enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to, nothing special but simply a nice song to listen to. 2026 Rating: 7/10 Songs kept from #1: Will Young - All Time Love Two more weeks as runner up for Will. Only one other song charted in this fortnight that I'd still listen to, and it climbed to #2 so will be discussed on a future entry.

I think Back To You is both my last iTunes purchase, and the song purchase I've listened to least.

They had a great first half of 2023, but not sure Aston have really shown much that their predecessor Force India team didn't despite Stroll's money into it. I find it quite funny that one team who've got it hopelessly wrong to start with are them tbh, I wonder what Alonso is thinking, hasn't stayed in F1 this long at this age to be retiring from the slowest car on the grid! Looking at F1 from a betting perspective, I like Stroll to beat Alonso over the season at 7/2. Was tempted by a flutter on Leclerc world champion but the odds have shortened a little too far now.

70 - 16/01/2006 Arctic Monkeys - When The Sun Goes Down Chart Run: 01-03-04-04-09-13-20-24-27-28-33-38 (12 weeks) A fairly predictable #1 single, as like in the UK When The Sun Goes Down follows I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor in entering at the top for Arctic Monkeys. It feels like a remarkably short chart run where it fell down and out of the chart quite fast, but that was just down to how much I'd already listened to them, and this song (or 'Scummy' as it had then been known) for the previous 4 months. An obvious number one, but one which would probably have been in my chart for about 3 months already had I not stuck to the official UK release schedule. There were a bunch of early recordings of Arctic Monkeys songs from their Beneath The Boardwalk demo album that had exploded in the late summer of 2005, most of which would end up re-recorded either on their debut album or the 'Who The f*** Are The Arctic Monkeys?' EP, some for the better and some worse (I'd always though their re-recordings of Riot Van and Cigarette Smoke were big downgrades), but the change from Scummy to When The Sun Goes Down, and becoming much more polished, was definitely one which got much better. Sung about the red light district area of Neepsend in Sheffield, it was as catchy as their debut single but showed a different side to them with their lyrical content. Over the years this has gone on to become my go-to Arctic Monkeys song. I've not stopped loving their early stuff, infact I probably enjoy Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not as much as I ever have done, and I'd definitely rank this as one of my top 5 UK number one singles. 2026 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Will Young - All Time Love All Time Love spent three weeks at #2, one of the more random high charting entries I've had, as it's not something I've really listened to in the intervening 20 years and it's not like I was a fan of Will's! I've had to re-visit it too as part of this, and it kind of passed me by as 'perfectly acceptable background music' - interested into what my thinking was around it.

Looks interesting... I'll have 30 please

01 (01) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (06) (2 weeks) 02 (08) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (02) (04) 03 (05) Daughter - Not Enough (03) (06) 04 (02) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (07) (2 weeks) 05 (04) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (06) 06 (10) Robyn - Talk To Me (06) (06) 07 (22) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (07) (02) 08 (03) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (03) (08) 09 (15) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (09) (04) 10 (12) Harry Styles - Aperture (10) (05) 11 (16) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (11) (04) 12 (07) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (11) (3 weeks) 13 (20) James Blake - Death of Love (13) (03) 14 (06) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (10) 15 (13) SAULT - Chapter 1 (13) (05) 16 (09) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (07) 17 (29) PVA - Okay (17) (02) 18 (11) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (11) 19 (19) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (19) (05) 20 (27) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (20) (03) 21 (26) Anna Prior - Silence (21) (03) 22 (14) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (07) 23 (24) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (23) (03) 24 (17) TVAM - The Words (17) (04) 25 (18) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (13) (2 weeks) 26 (36) Metric - Victim of Luck (26) (02) 27 (41) The Orielles - Tears Are (27) (01) 28 (33) Dapnhi - Hang (28) (02) 29 (47) Charli XCX - Always Everywhere (29) (01) 30 (21) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (09) 31 (23) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (08) 32 (46) Milky - Just The Way You Are (Mall Grab Remix) (32) (01) 33 (25) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (25) (05) 34 (**) Art School Girlfriend - Doing Laps (34) (01) 35 (28) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (14) (06) 36 (31) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (07) 37 (34) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (17) (4 weeks) 38 (**) Pulp - Begging for Change (38) (01) 39 (30) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (10) 40 (32) Joji - Last of a Dying Breed (29) (04)

69 - 09/01/2006 José González - Heartbeats Chart Run: 01-03-04-05-05-05-07-13-15-23-23-17-21-23-27-30-35-35-34-39 (20 weeks) We kick the year off with a cover, of The Knife's 2003 single Heartbeats. Popularised by being the soundtrack to Sony's 'Bouncy Balls' TV advert, it proved it was still a source of creating hits, as Heartbeats hit the UK top 10 and didn't leave the chart until September, although the majority of this was in the lower reaches of the top 75. For me, it was a great discovery - I'd not long become aware of The Knife but at that stage hadn't fully got into them, so like most people didn't particularly see this as a 'cover', but that it was simply a beautiful song with a great vocal. Within the next year or so, I'd purchased the CDs of The Knife's Deep Cuts and Silent Shout, and José González' album Veneer. Veneer was ok but not something I've given much attention to since 2006. We kick off the year in the most perfect way, with a bona fide 10/10. It's hard to think of many, if any, other songs where the original and a cover version are both so perfect, but also so different. Combine the two and Heartbeats will have been one of my most listened to songs of the previous 20 years, the Jose version is just absolutely gorgeous. 2026 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Richard Ashcroft - Break The Night With Colour I have very little memory of the Ashcroft song, and he's not someone who's music I particularly enjoy listening to - call it a beneficiary of early year release scheduling where there still wasn't much coming out. The Kooks - You Don't Love Me is the other song from this weeks releases that I might still listen to, but it isn't one of their best.

On to 2006 then... After 2005 saw me find music from a much bigger range of sources, particularly moving to online, 2006 took that to a new level. After the end of the CoolClarity forum, I was part of its successors (BuzzJack & CHC Music) as well as spending more time on its similar, more 'competitor' sites (Haven & Moopy), whilst radio listening moved more away from Radio 1, the Zane Lowe show was still a huge influence but in the daytime I was far more likely to put on the likes of XFM or 6 Music, and as a result the stuff that made my chart was even more indie focussed. In 2005, the majority of songs at and near the top of my chart could be found somewhere within the UK chart, whilst 2006 there is a bit more niche stuff that made it that was getting nowhere near the UK top 40. That being said, there are still 3 UK number one singles which I shared so it certainly wasn't a full departure, and whilst I still went by the UK release schedule for when things charted, there were more songs that climbed to their peak than in previous years and by the end of the year it was pretty much impossible to continue with it it. But despite all the new sources for music and different genres and styles being discovered, we kick off the year with a song that was popularised in a classic way, soundtracking an advert...

Thanks Jim - good to see some love for Jesus of Suburbia! 2006 hopefully beginning later this week

01 (02) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (01) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (06) (2 weeks) 03 (06) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (03) (07) 04 (09) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (04) (05) 05 (11) Daughter - Not Enough (05) (05) 06 (03) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (09) 07 (04) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (10) (3 weeks) 08 (15) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (08) (03) 09 (07) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (06) 10 (13) Robyn - Talk To Me (10) (05) 11 (05) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (10) 12 (16) Harry Styles - Aperture (12) (04) 13 (18) SAULT - Chapter 1 (13) (04) 14 (08) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (06) 15 (25) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (15) (03) 16 (24) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (16) (03) 17 (20) TVAM - The Words (17) (03) 18 (12) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (12) (2 weeks) 19 (22) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (19) (04) 20 (28) James Blake - Death of Love (20) (02) 21 (10) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (08) 22 (**) Fred Again.. & Jamie T - Lights Burn Dimmer (22) (01) 23 (14) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (07) 24 (32) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (24) (02) 25 (27) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (25) (04) 26 (38) Anna Prior - Silence (26) (02) 27 (34) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (27) (02) 28 (17) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (14) (05) 29 (44) PVA - Okay (29) (01) 30 (19) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (09) 31 (21) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (06) 32 (29) Joji - Last of a Dying Breed (29) (03) 33 (**) Dapnhi - Hang (33) (01) 34 (23) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (16) (4 weeks) 35 (26) White Lies - Juice (02) (15) 36 (48) Metric - Victim of Luck (36) (01) 37 (30) FAUZIA - The Way (15) (07) 38 (31) Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast (24) (06) 39 (35) Jenny on Holiday - Good Intentions (06) (13) 40 (33) PVA - Send (11) (08)

01 (01) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (01) (05) (2 weeks) 02 (05) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (02) (04) 03 (02) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (02) (08) 04 (03) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (09) (3 weeks) 05 (04) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (09) 06 (10) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (06) (06) 07 (11) Howling Bells - Melbourne (07) (05) 08 (09) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (08) (05) 09 (13) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (09) (04) 10 (06) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (07) 11 (17) Daughter - Not Enough (11) (04) 12 (08) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (11) (2 weeks) 13 (16) Robyn - Talk To Me (13) (04) 14 (07) Oklou - Dance 2 (05) (06) 15 (26) Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night (15) (02) 16 (21) Harry Styles - Aperture (16) (03) 17 (14) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (14) (04) 18 (23) SAULT - Chapter 1 (18) (03) 19 (12) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (08) 20 (31) TVAM - The Words (20) (02) 21 (20) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (20) (05) 22 (27) Arlo Parks - 2SIDED (22) (03) 23 (15) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (15) (4 weeks) 24 (35) Tom Misch - Sisters With Me (24) (02) 25 (38) pôt-pot - 22° Halo (25) (02) 26 (18) White Lies - Juice (02) (14) 27 (30) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (27) (03) 28 (44) James Blake - Death of Love (28) (01) 29 (32) Joji - Last of a Dying Breed (29) (02) 30 (19) FAUZIA - The Way (15) (06) 31 (25) Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast (24) (05) 32 (43) Paris Paloma - Good Girl (32) (01) 33 (22) PVA - Send (11) (07) 34 (47) Apparat - Hum of Maybe (34) (01) 35 (28) Jenny on Holiday - Good Intentions (06) (12) 36 (24) Boko Yout - Gusto (02) (11) 37 (34) The Maccabess - Koya (01) (17) (3 weeks) 38 (**) Anna Prior - Silence (38) (01) 39 (29) Clark - Janus Model (07) (10) 40 (37) Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl (04) (14)

Fix You is certainly a worthy choice of favourite Coldplay song! Can see why you'd think that about X&Y - on its own it's absolutely fine as an album, but just not the one of theirs I go back to. I'd rank Viva La Vida, A Rush of Blood, Parachutes, X&Y, Mylo Xyloto. I haven't paid enough attention to full albums after that.

2005 Review There were a number of contributing factors, but it's fair to say that 2005 was my favourite year of music to that point. The list of songs I've discussed is so much better than the lists of 2003 & 2004 (average ratings /10 of 7.3, 7.9 & 8.4 so far), but it wasn't just a case of the highs being higher, the other songs mentioned as runners-up and charting are considerably better too. 2005 was the first full year where I was discovering music in any volume outside of previous main sources of the top 40, Radio 1 daytime playlist and what friends at school were into. Whilst the internet had become a big thing for me in 2002-4 for music, that was largely just using the likes of WinMX and Limewire to download songs that were popular, 2005 was the first time where I would've used it to properly discover music through forums and the likes of MySpace. Properly listening to Zane Lowe's show in the evenings opened up a whole new world of artists and genres, and put simply the charts reflected what I enjoyed listening to most more than any other period had, and probably has since. The amount of British indie music in the top 40 was phenomenal, and at this point we hadn't reached the 'landfill' phase, even the lesser known, less successful, poorer stuff of 2005 was better than some of what ended up coming. Probably helped by being a bit older and having my first small income (plus EMA!) it was comfortably the most music I'd purchased as well, at least 2-3 of albums each month and then a long list at gift-receiving times too. The albums released by Arcade Fire, Maximo Park, Nine Inch Nails, Editors, Bloc Party, The Go! Team, Gorillaz, We Are Scientists, Sufjan Stevens, Elbow and Death Cab for Cutie are all ones I still love listening to today. The amount of music I've been able to find and discover has risen pretty much every year, there may end up being years where my #1 singles are ones I rank higher, or have stood the test of time better, but not where they will also be as in sync with what the UK (or indeed any country) was charting. Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) The Futureheads - Hounds of Love Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure Stereophonics - Dakota Royksopp - What Else Is There? Nine Inch Nails - The Hand That Feeds Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc. The White Stripes - Blue Orchid Maximo Park - Going Missing Doves - Black and White Town The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize Arcade Fire - Wake Up The Killers - Somebody Told Me Scissor Sisters - Filthy/Gorgeous Gorillaz - DARE The Futureheads - Area Stereophonics - Superman The Chemical Brothers feat. Tim Burgess - The Boxer Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain't No Easy Way The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost Oasis - The Importance of Being Idle Coldplay - Talk Feeder - Feeling a Moment Louis XIV - Finding Out True Love Is Blind

68 - 26/12/2005 Coldplay - Talk Chart Run: 02-01-01-03-07-06-09-13-16-19-32 (11 weeks) We come to the end of a third calendar year, and for the final week of 2005 and first of 2006 is Coldplay, getting their second number one with Talk, meaning each single from X&Y charted one position higher than the previous one. It was always one of my favourite tracks on X&Y and was a worthy third single release, it felt interesting and upbeat for a Coldplay song, certainly having more 80s synth influences than you'd typically find in their work, and it was great to hear them move in a different direction. However, as was often the case with this time of the year, there's an element of taking advantage of a lack of competition to hit the top, as after the Christmas chart week there would often be a 2-3 week lull before releases picked up again. Talk was one of three entries in the week it was released, with just three more following in the two weeks after where it reigned at the top. Talk isn't something I revisit particularly often now, perfectly fine and enjoyable but not towards the top of my favourites of theirs. 2026 Rating: 7/10 What Else Is There? was #2 for the two weeks this was at the top, a couple of top 10 entries came from Louis XIV's follow-up to their #1 with Pledge of Allegiance, and Editors re-issue of Munich, which I didn't chart as highly as I did the first time around, but was worthy of another good run as I'd begun to enjoy it, and them, more following me buying their excellent debut album The Back Room.

67 - 05/12/2005 Röyksopp 'What Else Is There?' Chart Run: 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) For December 2005, the Christmas number one single is one which is essentially two separate songs and entries. What Else Is There? was the third single from Röyksopp's album The Understanding, and became what was their final UK top 40 single, but it was largely promoted in the UK with the Thin White Duke / Jacques Lu Cont remix, and it was certainly a remix which turned the song into something completely different. The remix was what I was mainly listening to at its time of release, mainly the full 8:30 version rather than the radio edit of it and helped it enter at #1, reaching where previous big singles Eple and Only This Moment couldn't quite manage. The remix turned it into a much bigger dance anthem and was something I loved at the time, really taken to the repetition of the chorus lyrics. Over time, I begun to get more familiar with the original, and it definitely helped extend its chart run - a week shy of half a year in the chart, and 12 weeks in the top 10. The original is stunningly beautiful with the vocal provided by Karin Dreijer (AKA Fever Ray) of The Knife, a band who will be mentioned again in this thread very soon. To 2026, if I were to listen to the remix I'd go for the radio edit now, the full version feels like it drags a bit over 8 and a half minutes, whereas it remains a bit of a banger when more compact. However, the original would be what I'd listen to most and what I've continued to love more, it's incredibly atmospheric and I still adore Karin's vocal. Röyksopp have released some exceptional singles, and this is definitely one of them. 2026 Rating: 10/10 (Remix: 8/10) Songs kept from #1: Guillemots - Trains To Brazil, The Subways - No Goodbyes, ? - ? Three different songs would enter at #2 behind What Else Is There? Two of the indie bands of the time who'd reached the lower reaches of the UK top 40 a couple of times but didn't have huge success in Guillemots and The Subways, and then one which would switch places on the last chart of the year. Guillemots had a great run of singles and I loved them very much for a brief period, and The Subways are still a fine occasional listen, but No Goodbyes isn't the track of theirs that's worthy of being their most successful. Of other new entries in these weeks, The Strokes provide my favourite of them with Juice Box (#4), whilst the big UK hit at the time Nizlopi - JCB (#5) was something I admired briefly but haven't really listened to at all in the intervening 20 years, and Fairytale of New York hit #3 after it was re-released.

66 - 28/11/2005 The Futureheads - Area Chart Run: 01-03-04-04-03-04-05-10-14-14-18-18-26-31-37 (15 weeks) Following the relative success of their debut album, The Futureheads got a second UK top 20 hit with a standalone single released in the runup to Christmas 2005 in Area, not featured on any of their albums. And like their other top 20 hit, it hit #1 in my own chart. They had been a favourite of mine throughout the year and a new single was always likely something I enjoyed - it was nothing new or different for them, very much 'more of the same' but their sound was still incredibly unique as far as mid-00s indie bands went. Area certainly ranks towards the top of The Futureheads discography. They're still a band I enjoy listening to every now and again, and their earlier stuff tends to be what I go to most. 2026 Rating: 8/10 Apply Some Pressure climbed back up to the runners-up spot for this week. Oasis had the highest charting other entry with Let There Be Love, reaching #5 - a good effort but some way below the ballad singles from their previous album.

65 - 14/11/2005 Arcade Fire - Wake Up Chart Run: 01-01-03-09-14-19-21-23-27-32-33-32-36-37 (14 weeks) Just three number one songs between two from the same act equals The Killers from summer of 2004, as Arcade Fire soon followed up the success of Rebellion (Lies) with the next single, Wake Up. In the previous couple of months I'd listened to Funeral a hell of a lot, and loved everything on it to some extent. There were only maybe a couple of songs that they could have chosen as the next single that wouldn't have made the top spot, but Wake Up was certainly a worthy choice, another great example of the contrast between Win and Regine's vocals, and typical of their excellent use of so many different instruments. I'd probably rank it somewhere in the middle of the 10 songs on Funeral, it's still excellent and a song I've listened to a lot, but not right towards the top of their discography - maybe just about making it if I created a 15ish song 'Best of Arcade Fire' playlist. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: Stereophonics - Rewind A week ahead of Apply Some Pressure before Stereophonics came close to making it a trio of number ones for the year with Rewind, a song more similar to their last couple of albums than the previous singles from this one. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry (#6) and Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia (#15) the highlights of other entries from this fortnight, the latter definitely feels under-charted but it was over a year old at this point.

01 (01) Tourist feat. Real Lies - Love In Silence (01) (06) (2 weeks) 02 (03) Emma Pollock - Black Magnetic (02) (06) 03 (04) Gorillaz feat. Omar Souleyman & Yaslin Bay - Damascus (03) (05) 04 (02) Holybones - These Are The Rooms (01) (08) (2 weeks) 05 (09) Sudan Archives - A Bug's Life (05) (05) 06 (14) Night Tapes - Swordsman (06) (04) 07 (17) Oklou - Dance 2 (07) (03) 08 (05) Boko Yout - Gusto (02) (08) 09 (06) Daniel Avery feat. Ellie Rowsell - Haze (01) (12) (4 weeks) 10 (07) White Lies - Juice (02) (11) 11 (11) PVA - Send (11) (04) 12 (08) Clark - Janus Model (07) (07) 13 (10) Jenny on Holiday - Good Intentions (06) (09) 14 (26) Hercules & Love Affair feat. Hips & Lips - Body and Soul (14) (02) 15 (19) Ladytron - Caught In The Blink of An Eye (15) (03) 16 (12) Dry Cleaning - Cruise Ship Designer (12) (07) 17 (23) FAUZIA - The Way (17) (03) 18 (29) The Twilight Sad - Waiting For The Phone Call (18) (03) 19 (13) Rose Gray - April (Daniel Avery Remix) (12) (07) 20 (15) The Maccabess - Koya (01) (14) (3 weeks) 21 (22) St. Lucia - Into The Sky (21) (04) 22 (30) Olivia Dean - Baby Steps (22) (02) 23 (16) Jean Dawson - Prize Fighter (04) (09) 24 (36) Howling Bells - Melbourne (24) (02) 25 (**) Matt Berninger - Blue Monday (25) (01) 26 (18) Ethel Cain - Dust Bowl (04) (11) 27 (32) Sophia Stel - All My Friends Are Models (27) (02) 28 (39) Anna von Hausswolff - Struggle With The Beast (28) (02) 29 (**) Radio Free Alice - Rule 31 (29) (01) 30 (21) Deadletter - To The Brim (11) (09) 31 (20) Getdown Services - I Want To Eat It (17) (06) 32 (45) Robyn - Talk To Me (32) (01) 33 (24) Yonaka - Hit Me When I'm Sore (24) (05) 34 (28) Elder Island - Ordinary Love (22) (07) 35 (**) Gorillaz feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson and Anoushka Shankar - Orange County (35) (01) 36 (27) The Orielles - Three Halves (07) (10) 37 (25) Hatchie - Sage (13) (08) 38 (**) Daughter - Not Enough (38) (01) 39 (31) Trudge feat. CAIVA - Shades of Hesitation (31) (04) 40 (34) Mount Palomar feat. Pip Blom - Little Fractures (11) (09)

+20 Wolf Alice - Bloom Baby Bloom 19 Ethel Cain - F*ck Me Eyes 18 Tame Impala - Dracula 17 Gorillaz (feat. Omar Souleyman & Yasiin Bey) - Damascus 16 Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream 15 Tame Impala - End Of Summer 14 Ethel Cain - Nettles 13 Wolf Alice - The Sofa 12 Ethel Cain - Amber Waves 11 Fontaines D.C. - It's Amazing To Be Young 10 Lorde - What Was That 9 Oklou - blade bird 8 Pulp - Got to Have Love 7 Sleep Token - Emergence 6 Sam Fender (feat. Elton John) - Talk to You 5 ROSALÍA (feat. Björk & Yves Tumor) - Berghain 4 Linkin Park - Up From The Bottom 3 ROSALÍA (feat. Yahritza Y Su Esencia) - La Perla 2 Lana Del Rey - Henry, come on 1 Bryan Adams & Friends - California Christmas

64 - 31/10/2005 Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure Chart Run: 02-01-01-02-03-02-05-11-15-16-17-21-26-29-29-25-28-33 (18 weeks) After a fortnight of one of the biggest acts and songs of the year being at the top, it's a fortnight for another one of them (well for me, at least!) as Maximo Park get their second number one with the best known single from their debut album, Apply Some Pressure. It was originally released in February and had also entered at #2 for me behind Dakota, it was something I really enjoyed but hadn't yet reached the levels of obsession I would do - it had a solid run for a decent sized hit, but at the time wasn't ever going to challenge the Phonics. But over the course of the year I'd begin to love it (and them) so much more, a re-release put it just three places higher in the UK (#17 after #20 in its original release) and again entered my own chart at #2 behind the Arctic Monkeys forcefield, but it would go on to get a deserved fortnight at the top. With two releases and an album I played continuously, this will without a doubt have been my most played song of the year. Apply Some Pressure is a song which completely typified the mid noughties British indie scene for me - it's nothing groundbreaking but a great, singable, danceable 3 minutes of fun. It's still a top favourite from this era, and of what you'd describe as the 'second tier' of indie bands in terms of commercial success, no one else came close to having as good a duo of signature hits as Maximo Park - the other half to come in ~18 months. 2026 Rating: 10/10 The top 4 were the same in both weeks, with Arctic Monkeys dropping a place and Rebellion (Lies) still sticking around at #4. Goldfrapp were the most significant entry within this fortnight, with Number One between them at #3. There was a top 10 debut for The Feeling with the initial release of Fill My Little World, four months before they'd enter the UK chart for the first time.