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17 - 06/10/2003 The Strokes - 12:51 Chart Run: 01-01-02-02-03-07-09-16-19-23-28-28-29-31-35-40 (16 weeks) I remember hearing The Strokes a lot on Radio 1 after the release of their debut album. I liked their singles but hadn't really got into them, and truth be told never really did - they're good, I enjoy listening to them, but have never been a band I turned to a lot. 12:51 isn't the immediate song you'd think of for them, but was taken in by the hype of the time. It's still good, but I'd rather I were talking about one of their other two hits that charted highly for me (Repitilia - #6, Juice Box - #4). 2025 Rating: 7/10 Nothing else released in these two weeks was a top 10 hit.

30 Bastille - Good Grief 29 Chase & Status (feat. Tom Grennan) – All Goes Wrong 28 xx – On Hold 27 Blossoms - Charlemagne 26 1975 - Somebody Else 25 Christine And The Queens - Tilted / Christine 24 Hannah Diamond - Fade Away 23 Mystery Jets - Bubblegum 22 Röyksopp (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Never Ever 21 Christine And The Queens - Saint Claude 20 Kungs vs. Cookin On 3 Burners – This Girl 19 Porter Robinson & Madeon – Shelter 18 1975 - The Sound 17 Bon Iver - 8 Circle 16 Car Seat Headrest - Fill In The Blank 15 Jorja Smith – Blue Lights 14 CHVRCHES (feat. Hayley Williams) - Bury It 13 Little Mix - Shout Out To My Ex 12 Two Door Cinema Club - Bad Decisions 11 Mike Posner – I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) 10 Black Honey - All My Pride 9 Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom 8 Sheer Mag - Nobody’s Baby 7 Paradis - Toi Et Moi 6 Sia - Unstoppable 5 DNCE - Cake By The Ocean 4 Ariana Grande - Into You 3 Jain - Makeba 2 Mitski - Your Best American Girl 1 Dua Lipa - Hotter Than Hell

01 (02) Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics (01) (06) (1 week) 02 (01) White Lies - In The Middle (01) (07) (2 weeks) 03 (03) Wolf Alice - White Horses (03) (05) 04 (04) Tame Impala - End of Summer (04) (06) 05 (07) Wolf Alice - The Sofa (05) (08) 06 (05) FKA twigs - Perfectly (02) (08) 07 (06) Self Esteem - Cheers To Me (01) (09) (2 weeks) 08 (14) Sprints - Beg (08) (03) 09 (22) Ninajirachi - Infohazard (09) (03) 10 (08) The Hives - Legalize Living (08) (07) 11 (11) Baxter Dury - Schadenfreude (11) (04) 12 (09) Ebbb - Manners (09) (05) 13 (17) Idlewild - It's Not The First Time (13) (04) 14 (19) Wisp - Black Swan (14) (03) 15 (16) Little Simz feat. Yukimi - Enough (15) (05) 16 (10) Cerrone feat. Christine and the Queens - Catching Feelings (01) (12) (1 week) 17 (28) Metronomy - Heartbreaker (SHERELLE's Bed Shaking With Metronomy Remix) (17) (02) 18 (13) HVOB - Abyss (04) (12) 19 (12) Soulwax - Run Free (09) (08) 20 (21) Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be (20) (04) 21 (27) The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives (21) (03) 22 (15) Blankenberge - What You Know (15) (05) 23 (31) Tourist - Outside (23) (02) 24 (18) Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussuf Dayes - Lotus (01) (14) (4 weeks) 25 (35) Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (25) (02) 26 (26) Alison Goldfrapp - Strange Things Happen (26) (04) 27 (44) Chalk - Pain (27) (01) 28 (20) Hot Chip - Devotion (13) (07) 29 (23) Mount Palomar feat. Karla Chubb - L'Aliment (02) (11) 30 (34) SG Lewis feat. London Grammar - Feelings Gone (30) (03) 31 (42) Slow Crush - Covet (31) (01) 32 (38) The Temper Trap - Lucky Dimes (32) (02) 33 (24) Jamie XX - Dream Night (20) (06) 34 (45) Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers - MOTHER (34) (01) 35 (25) Panic Shack - Pockets (07) (08) 36 (32) Young Fathers - Lowly (11) (11) 37 (30) Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay (01) (20) (7 weeks) 38 (37) TTSSFU - Call U Back (25) (06) 39 (47) Oliver Sim - Obsession (39) (01) 40 (33) Ethel Cain - f*** Me Eyes (17) (08)

Delighted to have made it in, and great set of results for the songs I voted for too, with only my 1 pointer missing out!

Thanks Severin, nice to have you on board. I imagine it would be satisfying to learn 7 Nation Army even if it is simple, just such a good riff. I will give those two Jane's Addiction songs a listen

14 - 18/08/2003 The Libertines - Don't Look Back Into The Sun Chart Run: 01-01-01-03-04-07-08-10-09-10-11-13-17-16-22-25-30-36-36-35-39 (21 weeks) Nearly a year after the release of their debut album Up The Bracket, The Libertines returned with their biggest chart hit to date, narrowly missing out on the UK top 10 for the first time. There was definitely more hype about this one and it sounded good on the radio. I'd enjoyed what I'd previously heard but it wasn't until this release that I really had any investment into The Libertines. Over the years, there aren't many bands I've listened to as much as The Libertines. They're rightly so influential of this period of music and really helped pave the way for the domination of this sound in years to come, their 2002-04 output all stands up so well, and Don't Look Back Into The Sun is as good as they get. 2025 Rating: 10/10 Songs kept from #1: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Stop The top 3 was all new and remained unchanged for three weeks, with Good Charlotte at #3 with The Anthem. Stop is an absolute belter, and BRMC have gone on to become a big favourite, if it had been a #1 it would rank high in my end of year list for 2003 but with the way I did my chart at the time three weeks behind The Libertines is ultimately a correct outcome.

3 listens completed, voted. Got to be a contender for my earliest ever!

+30 Tame Impala - Let It Happen 29 Everything Everything - No Reptiles 28 Big Moon - Sucker 27 Jamie xx & Romy - Loud Places 26 Wolf Alice - Silk 25 Everything Everything - Distant Past 24 Chemical Brothers (feat. Q-Tip) - Go 23 Maccabees - Spit It Out 22 Grimes - Flesh Without Blood 21 Muse - Psycho 20 Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better 19 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Ballad of the Mighty I 18 Everything Everything - Spring / Sun / Winter / Dread 17 CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue 16 Taylor Swift - Style 15 Skrillex & Diplo (with Justin Bieber) – Where Are U Now 14 Grimes - Kill V. Maim 13 CHVRCHES - Leave a Trace 12 Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams 11 Jamie xx (feat. Popcaan & Young Thug) - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) 10 Disclosure - Magnets (feat. Lorde) 9 Coldplay - Adventure of a Lifetime 8 Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk 7 Walk The Moon - Shut Up And Dance 6 Little Mix – Black Magic 5 Calvin Harris (feat. HAIM) - Pray To God 4 Florence & The Machine - What Kind of Man 3 David Zowie - House Every Weekend 2 Lost Frequencies - Are You With Me 1 Mumford & Sons - Believe

I'm sure the Fastest Lap point would have had an effect on Max's Grand Slam record as that was in place for his domination period but not for other drivers. There were plenty of races over the last few years where a driver with a gap has pitted with two laps to go and successfully gained it, wouldn't be surprised if there were at least a couple that prevented one from Max.

13 - 04/08/2003 Funeral for a Friend - Juneau Chart Run: 03-01-01-04-04-05-07-11-15-16-19-23-26-27-28-33-37-40 (18 weeks) Another lesser known act now, Funeral for a Friend were a Welsh rock band and Juneau was their debut hit, reaching #19 in the UK, it being their first of 9 UK top 40 hits, a few of which would also enter my chart but they wouldn't trouble the top 10 again. I listen to this now and think it's just bang average UK rock - kind of surprised at how this appears here as there's really not much to it, not an act I can say I've thought of for a long time. 2025 Rating: 5/10 In its fortnight at the top only Kings of Leon entered the top 10 with Molly's Chambers, a good song but they went on to release better and have bigger hits.

You can probably add not flagging for Bortoleto's damage too.

I really enjoyed watching us last year, thought it was exciting to move the ball forwards so quickly and with so much success, he'd done an incredible job with what we had. Our one sale was for probably the player that made that work most in Elanga. I think any change is coming from above, Nuno wanted Adama Traore who would have been a good short-term option for playing the Elanga role who wouldn't have taken much bedding in, but refused to be sanctioned from Edu who's the new main man across Marinakis' whole network of clubs. It's clearly annoyed Nuno as he's said in his press conferences about the relationship being worse than it was.

There is clearly something wrong with Nuno at Forest at the moment. There's an attempt to evolve our style to be higher pressing and more possession, it worked against Brentford (but they were missing so many players hard to know just how bad they were in Andrews first game) but was absolutely shocking yesterday, nothing at all of note created, tonnes of crosses which kept getting cleared, no real plan B or use of our new expensive subs, and a shambolic capitulation at the end. That performance, how weird he's been in the press and added to the collapse at the end of last season there's a lot more fans who are questioning whether he should stay than there normally would be just from the results. Personally think there's too many strains on the relationship between manager, owner and director that it's hard to see it being repaired and him leaving at some point is looking inevitible, in which case you might as well not delay it. With a season in Europe where we're more likely to struggle with the Thursday-Sunday routine, you couldn't have picked a better three fixtures to start the season with - 4 points is a very poor return from them.

12 - 14/07/2003 Jane's Addiction - Just Because Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-02-05-06-08-09-12-16-18-21-25-28-31-37-40 (18 weeks) US Rock band Jane's Addiction released a couple of albums in the late 80s and early 90s before splitting up and properly reformed for a 3rd album in 2003. That, and its lead single Just Because, both became their highest peaking chart entries across most of the world. They weren't a band I'd ever heard of before but this return got a fair amount of airplay at the time and was of a sound I was quite into and took over from Metallica at the top. They're the first One Hit Wonder to appear, as any further releases I either didn't care for or didn't hear. Whilst this does sound somewhat of its time it is something I've continued to listen to over the years unlike some of the songs from 2003 appearing here, and still something I enjoy a lot. Having said that, they're not a band I've ever felt it necessary to listen to more of, with Been Caught Steeling (their biggest hit from their early days) the only other song of theirs I'm familiar with. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Songs kept from #1: The Coral - Pass It On, Stereophonics - Maybe Tomorrow Both of those are ok songs which I definitely would have enjoyed more at the time than I would do now, though Maybe Tomorrow definitely an improvement on Madame Helga. Other standout songs to reach the top 10 in these three weeks were Goldfrapp - Strict Machine and more from Sean Paul who'd end the year as one of my most successful acts, Breathe with Blu Cantrell was another UK number one I enjoyed quite a bit.

Glad you like, still do really like that Dandy's track - Hotel Yorba definitely another of the Stripes songs I did really like, but apart from one more to be discussed in a later year there's not a lot I love. I did play By The Way a lot, there were definitely better songs on it that could have been released, Dosed definitely one of those - also loved Minor Thing.

01 (04) White Lies - In The Middle (01) (05) (1 week) 02 (03) FKA twigs - Perfectly (02) (06) 03 (01) Self Esteem - Cheers To Me (01) (07) (2 weeks) 04 (14) Wolf Alice - White Horses (04) (03) 05 (11) Tame Impala - End of Summer (05) (04) 06 (03) Cerrone feat. Christine and the Queens - Catching Feelings (01) (10) (1 week) 07 (16) Water From Your Eyes - Playing Classics (07) (04) 08 (05) Wolf Alice - The Sofa (05) (06) 09 (09) Soulwax - Run Free (09) (06) 10 (06) HVOB - Abyss (04) (10) 11 (12) The Hives - Legalize Living (11) (05) 12 (07) Little Simz feat. Michael Kiwanuka & Yussuf Dayes - Lotus (01) (12) (4 weeks) 13 (08) Mount Palomar feat. Karla Chubb - L'Aliment (02) (09) 14 (13) Hot Chip - Devotion (13) (05) 15 (21) Blankenberge - What You Know (15) (03) 16 (10) Panic Shack - Pockets (07) (06) 17 (26) Ebbb - Manners (17) (03) 18 (18) Sigrid - Jellyfish (18) (05) 19 (27) Baxter Dury - Schadenfreude (19) (02) 20 (22) Jamie XX - Dream Night (20) (04) 21 (29) Little Simz feat. Yukimi - Enough (21) (03) 22 (15) Self Esteem - The Deep Blue Okay (01) (18) (7 weeks) 23 (30) Nine Inch Nails - As Alive As You Need Me To Be (23) (02) 24 (19) Young Fathers - Lowly (11) (09) 25 (32) Idlewild - It's Not The First Time (25) (02) 26 (17) Jayda G - The Shiver (06) (07) 27 (41) Sprints - Beg (27) (01) 28 (43) Wisp - Black Swan (28) (01) 29 (37) Alison Goldfrapp - Strange Things Happen (29) (02) 30 (24) Ethel Cain - f*** Me Eyes (17) (06) 31 (25) TTSSFU - Call U Back (25) (04) 32 (44) Ninajirachi - Infohazard (32) (01) 33 (20) HAIM - All Over Me (03) (10) 34 (23) Model/Actriz - Vespers (07) (13) 35 (46) The Hives - The Hives Forever Forever The Hives (35) (01) 36 (28) Car Seat Headrest - The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man) (04) (15) 37 (**) SG Lewis feat. London Grammar - Feelings Gone (37) (01) 38 (36) We Are Scientists - What You Want Is Gone (28) (08) 39 (33) For Those I Love - Of The Sorrows (02) (13) 40 (31) Fred Again... feat. Skepta & PlayBoyMax - Victory Lap (15) (07)

11 - 30/06/2003 Metallica - St. Anger Chart Run: 02-01-01-03-04-06-06-07-10-12-16-19-21-26-28-31-35-36-37-40 (20 weeks) A number one which was very much influenced by my peers at the time. Metallica were one of the most loved bands for so many kids who'd developed an interest in rock music, a new album by them was going to be absolutely huge, and I couldn't help get caught up in the adoration of its title track as it became their 4th and final UK top 10 hit. St. Anger is fine, not something I'll turn off but not something I'll likely ever put on. My liking of rock music had probably peaked at this point; new bands I rarely got into and classics of the genre haven't ever been something I've been bothered about investigating. A few older Metallica songs I'd put on over this, but it's still one that brings back some happy memories of good times. 2025 Rating: 6/10 Songs kept from #1: The Darkness - Growing On Me The Darkness were another rare climber, moving 08-06-05-02 for me as they exploded into the public's consciousness. In the UK at the time, the big single was Crazy In Love but 04-06-10... was all it could manage for me which is a bit of a shame in hindsight.

His inflexibility regarding the formation is quite frankly baffling. It's a 4-3-2-1 squad if ever I've seen one. A midfielder ahead of (any) one of those three attacking signings should have been the priority.

How can a 70m striker take the 10th penalty against a league two side? Embarrassing!

10 - 23/06/2003 Foo Fighters - Low Chart Run: 01-02-03-05-06-07-08-09-13-17-23-25-27-31-34-37-40 (17 weeks) Beginning what's very much a Rock section of chart toppers now, with the first act to appear for a second time, Foo Fighters. I spoke about how much I loved and listed to One By One in the first entry, Low was another great song from it and was always a likely contender for them to reach the top again, and it wasn't exactly a period of stellar releases they were up against. If I listed my favourite Foos tracks now, it is largely a list of their biggest and most known songs - Times Like These, Everlong, Learn To Fly, The Pretender etc. but Low would join them in the top 5. It's a song I adored at the time, and I don't feel it's any less great now - an incredibly underrated track. 2025 Rating: 9/10 It was an all new top 2 and those songs would swap places the week after...

09 - 09/06/2003 The Thrills - Big Sur Chart Run: 01-01-03-03-04-06-09-12-14-16-21-26-29-33-38 (15 weeks) The Thrills were all over Radio 1 at the time, their upbeat jangly indie-pop sound very much an 'in' thing at the time, along with the likes of The Coral and Starsailor, and Big Sur was a catchy piece of summer fun which I enjoyed a lot. It's a fine song but not much more. It does its job well but they're very much an act that I left in the mid-noughties. They had a run of fairly minor UK top 40 hits in '03 and '04, and most of them I charted too, including two of my more forgotten top 5 singles in Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far) and Whatever Happened To Corey Haim? Big Sur is certainly a cut above the rest of their output, but a slightly 'meh' entry in this list. 2025 Rating: 6/10 Songs kept from #1: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Universally Speaking Linkin Park entered at #3 in the same week with Faint and stayed there the week after, with Electric Six's follow-up Gay Bar also in the top 5. I guess what I take from this period is that there was nothing released that I'd be particularly loving and reviewing more than two decades later.

Hard to argue with that lineup. Think Perez reputation has been enhanced in the last 6 months and some of his confidence will have been restored. Always feel a brand new team are better off with drivers with at least some experience, and not sure who they might have got that would be better. Ricciardo said he wouldn't go and I don't think he'd be any better anyway, Schumacher is often talked about returning but I've no idea why. KMag? Zhou? Get Yuki out of Red Bull perhaps? Not sure any would be an improvement.

I'm glad it has its fans, it really is fantastic, definitely one of their best. Singles wise Coldplay were excellent for that whole period, they never missed my top 10 until Charlie Brown. I did love X&Y a lot at the time and listened a lot but I can easily discard half of it now. Haha no not really, had some good times posting on there! Definitely be a lot of that kind of thing - it wasn't until 2004 when it became such a dominant force that I got so into it, was definitely more whatever was on Radio 1 playlist from 2001-03.

08 - 19/05/2003 Stereophonics - Madame Helga Chart Run: 01-01-01-02-04-07-08-09-13-16-20-22-24-25-31-36-39 (17 weeks) For quite some time I'd have said Stereophonics were my favourite act, I adored their previous album Performance & Cocktails and still remember going to buy their debut soon after getting into that. In 2003 I'd have taken my Year 9 SATS exams, and going to see their tour at Nottingham Arena that year was the gift from my parents for doing well. In the two years leading up to their third album I'd have listened to them so much that it was always likely they'd have returned with a first #1 single, they probably could have released any old dross and done it. And release any old dross, they certainly did! 8 songs in to get the first one where I really think "oh no, why this?!" isn't that bad going I suppose considering these were my early teenage years. I'd still say I have a soft spot for the Stereophonics, although it's been a long while since I bothered to listen to new material they put out. I have seen them a further three times and they're still a great live act - I watched and enjoyed their full Isle of Wight headline set this summer, but Madame Helga is quite far from being a song of theirs I'd willingly put on. 2025 Rating: 4/10 Songs kept from #1: It was three different songs occupying the #2 spot behind this, the Stripes to start with before a rare long-ish climb for R Kelly's Ignition (Remix) (18-10-03-02-04-...) which felt like it came from absolutely nowhere at the time. I'd say I'm glad I didn't make it number one because y'know, however it is a much better song than Madame Helga and there are much more problematic to come in the next 12 months... before Evanescence entered at #2 with Bring Me To Life, not something I listen to much now but a fully deserved UK #1 and again, better than this.

07 - 21/04/2003 The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army Chart Run: 01-01-01-01-02-04-08-10-12-15-17-19-22-25-30-33-37 (17 weeks) The White Stripes were a slightly strange band for me. On the face of it they were the type of act I should've loved, but apart from the odd single (that tended to be one per album) I just never really took to them. I'd really enjoyed Fell In Love With a Girl previously, but that was it. 7 Nation Army felt like it was huge at the time, Jack White's vocal on it was great and it was so catchy and anthemic - its UK chart run certainly doesn't befit how big a song it felt, and a 4 week run at the top for me is in no way surprising. It's one of a few songs of this era that has completely transcended its popularity of the time to become something much bigger, with it being the perfect anthem to chant along to at any kind of sporting or political occasion, but unlike others in that category hasn't reached the stage where I'm completely bored of listening to it. It isn't something I choose to listen to often as a result of how everywhere it is, but it is still great, the riff has never stopped being all kinds of incredible. A song absolutely worthy of what it has become. 2025 Rating: 8/10 Blur were knocked down to #2 and remained there for the duration of 7 Nation Army's stay at #1. Tomcraft - Loneliness, Dandy Warhols - We Used To Be Friends and Sean Paul - Get Busy the pick of the top 10 entries during its month at the top.