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01 (01) The Blinders - All I Need (01) (08) (3 weeks) 02 (02) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (02) (08) 03 (06) Anna Prior - Fall Back (03) (05) 04 (03) English Teacher - R&B (01) (10) (4 weeks) 05 (11) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (05) (04) 06 (13) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (06) (07) 07 (05) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (05) (09) 08 (04) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (04) (06) 09 (14) Elbow - Good Blood Mexico City (09) (03) 10 (08) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (08) (07) 11 (18) Chelsea Wolfe - House of Self-Undoing (11) (03) 12 (23) Overmono x The Streets - Turn The Page (12) (02) 13 (07) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (11) 14 (21) Bob Vylan - Reign (14) (03) 15 (12) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (12) (05) 16 (09) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (06) (07) 17 (20) St. Vincent - Flea (17) (04) 18 (26) Fontaines DC - Starburster (18) (03) 19 (10) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (07) (07) 20 (17) Vampire Weekend - Classical (17) (04) 21 (15) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (10) 22 (31) Ruel feat. DMA's - We're A Pair of Diamonds (22) (02) 23 (24) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (23) (04) 24 (28) Dead Pony - IGNORE THIS (24) (03) 25 (42) DEADLETTER - Mere Mortal (25) (01) 26 (16) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (16) (06) 27 (37) Third Wife - Feel For You (27) (02) 28 (33) Otha - I Hate You In The Morning (28) (02) 29 (43) Rinse feat. Hatchie - Kiss Me (Kill Me) (29) (01) 30 (19) I.JORDAN - Close To You (07) (09) 31 (22) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (12) 32 (27) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (14) (3 weeks) 33 (29) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (22) (05) 34 (41) Bat For Lashes - Home (34) (01) 35 (32) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (08) 36 (30) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (10) 37 (**) Pip Blom - Get Back (Tom Sharkett Remix) (37) (01) 38 (35) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (09) 39 (25) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (09) 40 (36) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (14) Out: 32 (21) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (21) (04) 38 (27) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (09) 39 (32) Real Estate - Airdrop (30) (05) 40 (37) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (13)

+5 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso +4 Artemas - i like the way you kiss me +3 Hozier - Too Sweet +2 Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone - Fortnight +1 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -1 Taylor Swift - Down Bad -2 Taylor Swift - I Can Do It With a Broken Heart -3 Teddy Swims - Lose Control -4 Dasha - Austin -5 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)

01 (01) The Blinders - All I Need (01) (07) (2 weeks) 02 (03) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (02) (07) 03 (02) English Teacher - R&B (01) (09) (4 weeks) 04 (04) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (04) (05) 05 (12) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (05) (08) 06 (10) Anna Prior - Fall Back (06) (04) 07 (05) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (10) 08 (09) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (08) (06) 09 (06) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (06) (06) 10 (07) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (07) (06) 11 (17) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (11) (03) 12 (15) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (12) (04) 13 (14) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (13) (06) 14 (26) Elbow - Good Blood Mexico City (14) (02) 15 (08) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (09) 16 (19) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (16) (05) 17 (23) Vampire Weekend - Classical (17) (03) 18 (30) Chelsea Wolfe - House Self-Undoing (18) (02) 19 (11) I.JORDAN - Close To You (07) (08) 20 (25) St. Vincent - Flea (20) (03) 21 (35) Bob Vylan - Reign (21) (02) 22 (13) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (11) 23 (**) Overmono x The Streets - Turn The Page (23) (01) 24 (28) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (24) (03) 25 (16) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (08) 26 (38) Fontaines DC - Starburster (26) (02) 27 (20) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (13) (3 weeks) 28 (34) Dead Pony - IGNORE THIS (28) (02) 29 (22) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (22) (04) 30 (18) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (09) 31 (42) Ruel feat. DMA's - We're A Pair of Diamonds (31) (01) 32 (21) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (21) (04) 33 (41) Otha - I Hate You In The Morning (33) (01) 34 (24) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (07) 35 (31) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (08) 36 (29) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (13) 37 (47) Third Wife - Feel For You (37) (01) 38 (27) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (09) 39 (32) Real Estate - Airdrop (30) (05) 40 (37) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (13)

vVP8KPVvHyM 15 553 Dead Pony - COBRA 14 555 Slowdive - Andalucia Plays (2, Star Roving - #28, 2017) 13 559 Sprints - Up and Comer (2, Literary Mind - #10, 2022) 12 562 Antony Szmierek - How Did You Get Here? 11 564 Underworld - Denver Luna (4, Two Months Off - #7, 2002) Some more BJSC representation here, for Scottish rock band Dead Pony who debuted for me with COBRA. They came to my attention in 2022 with Bullet Farm and then I didn't come across anything of theirs for ages, but COBRA is infectious and soon grew on me enough to be a chart topper. They're joined here by fellow new female-fronted band Sprints, who finish 3 places lower than they did last year (with another Utopia BJSC entry!). Up and Comer not quite as punky as some of their songs, but another song which they excel on. They sandwich something completely different from Slowdive, Andalucia Plays being so understated and gorgeous. I've really enjoyed their two albums since re-forming and getting to know some of their older work, but this is probably now my favouirte of theirs. Antony Szmierek had a few minor hits and song I'd listened to over the last couple of years, I really enjoy his mix of spoken word and singing over some good beats, but nothing banged quite like How Did You Get Here? which is such a catchy bop, which spent 4 weeks atop my chart towards the end of the year. Rounding out this five is Underworld, who reach my end of year for the 4th time with Denver Luna, which continues their 100% top 20 success rate after Two Months Off (#7), Caliban's Dream (#14) and Nylon Strung (#19). At 8 minutes long, it builds really quickly and doesn't feel like it lasts anything like that long. One of four songs in the top 15 to not reach #1 for me, held off by a song still to come.

t5fm1pGVuK8 20 539 VLURE - This Fantasy 19 541 Young Fathers - Rice (7, In My View - #2, 2018) 18 541 Another Sky - Psychopath (3, Sun Seeker - #68, 2021) 17 546 The Chemical Brothers feat. Halo Maud - Live Again (15, The Golden Path - #7, 2003) 16 552 Public Service Broadcasting w/ Jules Buckley & The BBC Symphony Orchestra - Broadcasting House (8, Blue Heaven - #7, 2021) Kicking off the top 20 with VLURE, who'd had a few previous singles I liked but This Fantasy took them to another level as it hit the top spot in April, its sound being typical of their synth heavy indie-rock with a highly pronounced Scottish accent in the vocal. Young Fathers' Heavy Heavy was probably the album I enjoyed most of 2023, the first two singles were in my top 40 of 2022, and Rice goes better this year, another great single from them. Another Sky's album Beach Day is the only one of 2024 that's grabbed enough of my attention to give significant time to so far, Psychopath is a superb vocal performance from Catlin, and deservedly their biggest hit. I saw The Chemical Brothers live for the second time last summer, as they headlined Wilderness Festival where I was working, and it was once again an incredible show to experience, Live Again had just come out and whilst I already thought it was great, it took it to a whole new level. It's amazing how good they still are 30+ years into their career. They follow Robyn and Arctic Monkeys to become the third act to have 15 End of Year entries for me. These two are the songs in the top 20 with the biggest differences in where their points came from, as both rank comfortably in my top 10 favourites (AA #7, CB #4). Rounding off this set is Public Service Broadcasting's 8th total entry, Broadcasting House. Taken from an entirely original live performance from the BBC Proms to celebrate the organisation, it showcases as well as anything how clever they are in their use of sampling and creating great songs from them, the way it builds is spectacular and I've watched the performance on YouTube a lot. Here is that full history of The Chemical Brothers 15 hits: 2002, #18 - Star Guitar 2003, #7 - The Golden Path 2005, #90 - Galvanize 2005, #45 - The Boxer 2007, #67 - The Salmon Dance 2007, #12 - Do It Again 2010, #93 - Escape Velocity 2010, #66 - Swoon 2015, #45 - Go! 2015, #12 - Wide Open 2019, #92 - Eve of Dubstruction 2019, #49 - Got To Keep On 2021, #45 - The Darkness That You Fear 2023, #36 - Skipping Like a Stone 2023, #17 - Live Again

01 (02) The Blinders - All I Need (01) (06) (1 week) 02 (01) English Teacher - R&B (01) (09) (4 weeks) 03 (04) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (03) (06) 04 (12) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (04) (04) 05 (03) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (09) 06 (08) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (06) (05) 07 (10) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (07) (05) 08 (05) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (08) 09 (15) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (09) (05) 10 (18) Anna Prior - Fall Back (10) (03) 11 (07) I.JORDAN - Close To You (07) (07) 12 (13) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (12) (07) 13 (06) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (10) 14 (19) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (14) (05) 15 (24) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (15) (03) 16 (11) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (07) 17 (29) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (17) (02) 18 (09) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (08) 19 (21) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (19) (04) 20 (14) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (12) (3 weeks) 21 (27) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (21) (03) 22 (25) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (22) (03) 23 (34) Vampire Weekend - Classical (23) (02) 24 (17) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (06) 25 (37) St. Vincent - Flea (25) (02) 26 (41) Elbow - Good Blood Mexico City (26) (01) 27 (16) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (08) 28 (32) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (28) (02) 29 (20) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (12) 30 (**) Chelsea Wolfe - House Self-Undoing (30) (01) 31 (22) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (07) 32 (30) Real Estate - Airdrop (30) (04) 33 (33) How To Dress Well - No Light (20) (06) 34 (50) Dead Pony - IGNORE THIS (34) (01) 35 (43) Bob Vylan - Reign (35) (01) 36 (28) RINSE feat. Caroline Loveglow - Stranger (28) (04) 37 (26) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (12) 38 (**) Fontaines DC - Starburster (38) (01) 39 (31) The Holy - Any Given Day (09) (10) 40 (36) The Holy - The Incredible Ibex (01) (14) (3 weeks)

Thanks for continuing to comment Jim, really pleased to see you've been checking some out. I had entered The Joy Formidable to Nuggets, about 3 years ago probably, with another of their longer songs The Leopard & The Lung, they have a few 6+ minutes ones and they're a real favourite band of mine. Share My Heat was certainly a contender for BJSC entry at one point.

nYU0haEcly4 25 520 Dead Leaf Echo - Call 24 522 Bob Vylan - Dream Big (2, He's a Man - #40, 2023) 23 532 Squid - Swing (In a Dream) (2, The Blades - #42, 2023) 22 534 Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention 21 536 DJ Seinfeld feat. Confidence Man - Now U Do (3, Feels Like a Different Thing - #50, 2022) All five of these songs were the first charting hit for the artist in question for me. US Shoegaze kick off this section in the form of Dead Leaf Echo. Bob Vylan and Squid's debut entries appeared almost side-by-side and their second entries do, around 20 places higher for the punk and post-punk acts, with more of the same following for Special Interest, whose Cherry Blue Intention became a number one early in the year. Now U Do was also a chart topper, aided from seeing Confidence Man perform it on the festival circuit, as they knocked it out the park once again.

I'm not sure what other options he'll have. I don't realistically see any of the current top 5 ever going for him as an option. It'll be good to see the grid shake up a bit. I guess it makes K Mag more likely to stay, depends on how Haas see rookie vs. experience again - think it's likely Bearman will take on of the seats. If Audi replace both drivers I'd be trying everything to get Bottas if they want an experienced driver.

3wy19ZEQZ0A 30 513 Yard Act - The Trench Coat Museum 29 513 Hak Baker - Doolally 28 516 Ellis - Forever (2, Shame - #31, 2020) 27 518 Baby Queen - We Can Be Anything (2, Dream Girl - #53, 2023) 26 519 Daughter - Be On Your Way (7, Poke - #1, 2019) For Yard Act, see comments on Squid. To say I didn't take to their first album would be an understatement, but an 8 minute long ode to trench coats pulled me in. Hak Baker is the first of 4 songs I entered to BJSC last year in the top 30, The Streets but from London was an accurate description of Doolally. Ellis was a song contest discovery a few years ago with Shame, and lead single for her next record goes three places higher for the singer-songwriter. Baby Queen's Dream Girl follow-up made it an incredible pair of pop songs, and Daughter's long-awaited full return got them a second number one hit after Poke.

The gap between 5th and 6th this season is quite unique, so certainly would add some excitement to it. The continued greater reliability of cars also makes it worth it, the average retirements in 2010 when it was introduced was about double what it is now (3.35 per race vs 1.67 for 23-24), so would make sense from that respect. I think 12 is perfect, wouldn't want to go much further as you're getting towards points for finishing.

01 (01) English Teacher - R&B (01) (08) (4 weeks) 02 (04) The Blinders - All I Need (02) (05) 03 (02) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (08) 04 (07) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (04) (05) 05 (06) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (05) (07) 06 (03) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (09) 07 (08) I.JORDAN - Close To You (07) (06) 08 (14) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (08) (04) 09 (05) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (07) 10 (16) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (10) (04) 11 (11) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (06) 12 (19) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (12) (03) 13 (15) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (13) (06) 14 (09) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (11) (3 weeks) 15 (25) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (15) (04) 16 (10) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (07) 17 (18) Caroline Polachek - Coma (17) (05) 18 (27) Anna Prior - Fall Back (18) (02) 19 (23) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (19) (04) 20 (12) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (11) 21 (21) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (21) (03) 22 (13) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (06) 23 (20) How To Dress Well - No Light (20) (05) 24 (34) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (24) (02) 25 (31) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (25) (02) 26 (17) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (11) 27 (37) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (27) (02) 28 (30) RINSE feat. Caroline Loveglow - Stranger (28) (03) 29 (**) The Mysterines - Sink Ya Teeth (29) (01) 30 (32) Real Estate - Airdrop (30) (03) 31 (22) The Holy - Any Given Day (09) (09) 32 (42) Maximo Park - Favourite Songs (32) (01) 33 (28) Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Rae Morris - Better Now (28) (07) 34 (43) Vampire Weekend - Classical (34) (01) 35 (24) The Libertines - Shiver (10) (10) 36 (26) The Holy - The Incredible Ibex (01) (13) (3 weeks) 37 (**) St. Vincent - Flea (37) (01) 38 (29) Four Tet - Daydream Repeat (15) (09) 39 (36) Ellis - What I Know Now (22) (07) 40 (38) MGMT - Mother Nature (01) (19) (4 weeks)

BI74yoqkXzQ 35 490 Chase & Status feat. ArrDee & Hedex - Liquor & Cigarettes (3, Program - #60, 2019) 34 493 Headache - The Beginning of the End 33 501 Thus Love - In Tandem (2, Repetitioner - #71, 2023) 32 508 Vegyn feat. Lauren Auder - Halo Flip 31 509 Nabinah Iqbal - This World Couldn't See Us Chase & Status kick this 5 off with just their third end of year entry, Control & Program a quite random pairing of previous hits and certainly an act who I like far more than the credit I've given them here. Big hit Baddadan wasn't something I was able to get into but its follow-up is quite superb, and is the highest placed "hit" song here. The Beginning of the End was the best 2023 song I discovered in BJSC last year, slightly odd considering it was entered in the one contest I didn't take part in! Its uniqueness really hits hard and its lyrical content is superb. It was produced by Vegyn, who also appears in this 5 with his hit Halo Flip. Thus Love get a second entry with a big hit from early in the year, containing some excellent guitar work and This World Couldn't See Us gives Nabinah Iqbal an entry and makes this a BJSC heavy grouping.

wcAxir5G4NQ 40 481 Bob Vylan - He's a Man 39 481 Gabriels - Great Wind (3, Love and Hate in a Different Time - #50, 2021) 38 485 The Blinders - Always 37 487 Yuné Pinku - Night Light (2, Fai Fighter - #80, 2022) 36 488 The Chemical Brothers feat. Beck - Skipping Like a Stone (14, The Golden Path - #7, 2003) (4, Wide Open - #12, 2015) One act get their second of two hits, whilst three more get their first of two. Gabriels album last year is absolutely magnificent, and Great Wind is such a feelgood anthem, delighted they got as much mainstream attention as they did last year. Bob Vylan were an act I'd heard of and seen mentioned but never actually checked out until last year, He's a Man the second great song packing a lyrical punch, Yuné Pinku followed up a good 2022 with some more bangers earlier in the year, Night Light being the first of two top 5 singles, and The Chemical Brothers and Beck teamed up once more after doing so to great success with Wide Open a few years ago. I liked some of The Blinders' second album in 2020, but Always was their first big hit for me - I think I can safely say they'll beat a #38 peak in 2024s list.

yzGQc6sFHkg 45 464 Fred Again.. feat. Obongjayar - Adore U (4, Desert Island Duvet - #69, 2023) 44 466 Cleo Sol - Miss Romantic (3, Woman (feat. Little Simz) - #19, 2021) 43 466 Lovejoy - Portrait of a Blank Slate 42 470 Squid - The Blades 41 473 The Hold Steady - Sideways Skull (8, Stuck Between Stations - #5, 2007) Kicking off here with Fred Again.. with another entry, peaking once more. Adore U sounded great when he performed it in his Glastonbury set and its release didn't disappoint, it's comfortably my favourite big hit of 2023. Cleo Sol gets a solo entry after two Little Simz collabs, her album last year was great and Miss Romantic is a lovely song from the SAULT singer. Lovejoy managed to hit the UK chart last year, not with this song but a couple of others that are decent. I was never fussed with what I'd heard from Squid previously but theirs was definitely an album of the year contender, The Blades the second great single from it. The Hold Steady's lead single, much more upbeat and rocky than their other entry, just misses the top 40 as this becomes the first year since their debut 2007 they score multiple top 100s.

qMbiRjjTWj0 50 441 Swim School - Bored 49 444 Pendulum - Anti-Hero (Triple J Like a Version) (4, Propane Nightmares - #10, 2008) 48 457 Dry Cleaning - Kwenchy Kups (3, Strong Feelings - #43, 2021) 47 458 The Cost of Loving - Strings (Attached) 46 463 Jamie T - Hippodrome (5, The Old Style Raiders - #5, 2022) Into the top half, beginning with Swim School who have been compared to Wolf Alice, and Bored is probably the song that sums that up most. Australian radio station Triple J's Like a Version is an equivalent of the radio 1 live lounge, where acts perform a song of their own and a cover, some of which have become incredibly popular over the years. A few have made my own chart but Pendulum have by far the most successful one, with Anti-Hero becoming my first new number one of 2024 and they take it 18 places higher than Taylor Swift did here last year, it's exactly as you'd expect it to sound and it works quite brilliantly, everything a cover version should be. Dry Cleaning reach the chart for the third consecutive year, and The Cost of Loving are comfortably the least known act to appear, after discovering them supporting Real Lies in 2022. Jamie T rounds this 5 off with Hippodrome, released just before his big Finsbury Park gig which I went to, and how much I enjoyed that certainly elevated that in my affections. It's surprising it's only his 5th top 100 entry, should have far more and there are some notable omissions.

01 (01) English Teacher - R&B (01) (07) (3 weeks) 02 (02) MGMT feat. Christine and the Queens - Dancing In Babylon (02) (07) 03 (03) Orbital feat. David Holmes, Mike Garry & DJ Helen - Tonight In Belfast (03) (08) 04 (14) The Blinders - All I Need (04) (04) 05 (04) Bat For Lashes - The Dream of Delphi (04) (06) 06 (06) KETTAMA feat. Real Lies - Purple Hearts (06) (06) 07 (12) Benjamin Damage & Bicep - CHROMA 002 L.A.V.A (07) (04) 08 (08) I.JORDAN - Close To You (08) (05) 09 (05) Jamie Webster feat. Brooke Combe - Better Day (01) (10) (3 weeks) 10 (09) Vampire Weekend - Gen-X Cops (09) (06) 11 (15) Les Savy Fav - Guzzle Blood (11) (05) 12 (07) Another Sky - The Pain (02) (10) 13 (11) Kelly Jones - Inevitable Incredible (11) (05) 14 (20) CAIVA - Danger In Your Eyes (The Countdown) (14) (03) 15 (17) Bob Vylan - Makes Me Violent (15) (05) 16 (22) Underworld feat. KETTAMA - fen violet (16) (03) 17 (10) Squid - Fugue (Bin Song) (05) (10) 18 (19) Caroline Polachek - Coma (18) (04) 19 (30) Metronomy x Pan Amsterdam - Nice Town (19) (02) 20 (21) How To Dress Well - No Light (20) (04) 21 (27) Fred Again.. feat. Lil Yachty & Overmono - Stayinit (21) (02) 22 (13) The Holy - Any Given Day (09) (08) 23 (32) MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira (23) (03) 24 (16) The Libertines - Shiver (10) (09) 25 (29) Nia Archives - Unfinished Business (25) (03) 26 (18) The Holy - The Incredible Ibex (01) (12) (3 weeks) 27 (41) Anna Prior - Fall Back 28 (28) Bombay Bicycle Club feat. Rae Morris - Better Now (28) (06) 29 (23) Four Tet - Daydream Repeat (15) (08) 30 (35) RINSE feat. Caroline Loveglow - Stranger (30) (02) 31 (42) Two Shell feat. fka Twigs - Talk To Me (31) (01) 32 (37) Real Estate - Airdrop (32) (02) 33 (24) TR/ST feat. Jake Shears - Being Boring (03) (11) 34 (45) Richard Hawley - Heavy Rain (34) (01) 35 (25) Bob Vylan - Hunger Games (04) (14) 36 (26) Ellis - What I Know Now (22) (06) 37 (46) Marie Davidson - Y.A.A.M. (37) (01) 38 (34) MGMT - Mother Nature (01) (18) (4 weeks) 39 (33) Quiet Houses - What My Heart Is For (02) (14) 40 (36) The Blinders - Swallowing Static (20) (08)

PC_yyjfUyCU 60 408 HEALTH - Ashamed (9, Stonefist - #26, 2015) 59 414 SHEE - Win Your Love 58 417 DMA's - Get Ravey (12, For Now - #1, 2018) 57 421 Gabriels - Glory (2, Love and Hate in a Different Time - #50, 2021) 56 427 Daughter - Swim Back (6, Poke - #1, 2019) 55 432 Enola Gay feat. Mount Palomar - Terra Firma 54 433 Heartworms - May I Comply (3, Consistent Dedication - #54, 2022) 53 434 Baby Queen - Dream Girl 52 437 Blur - The Narcissist (5, Under The Westway - #1, 2012) 51 440 The Orielles - Tableau 002 (4, Beam/s - #9, 2022) A couple more BJSC entries here, from Enola Gay and SHEE. Win Your Love is the second best song I discovered from the Electronic Tracks polls, and both were entered into the competition at a later date. HEALTH returned with another album this year, and the standout Ashamed gets a standard end of year spot, Demigods not far off the list to give them a 10th overall entry. DMA's follow The Drums in getting a 12th entry, they're one of three here to have their 2nd of 3 entries, with Daughter and Heartworms also having bigger hits to come, the latter reaching the same position as last year. Gabriels and Baby Queen are also still to appear, and it's Blur and The Orielles who just miss out on the top half, the latter's Tableau EP representing a different sound to the one I first loved by them a few years ago.

Thanks for commenting Jim, good there are some you like and really glad when people make discoveries from me! :D

JFHRlqOzwhw 70 386 The Drums - Obvious (12, Ambulance - #9, 2021) 69 386 Fred Again.. feat. The Streets & Dermot Kennedy - Mike (Desert Island Duvet) (3, Stay High Again - #73, 2021) (9, Weak Become Heroes - #2, 2002) 68 389 Palace - When Everything Was Lost (4, Shame On You - #25, 2022) 67 390 Pale Blue Eyes - Takes Me Over (2, Heating's On - #83, 2023) 66 391 Django Django feat. Self Esteem - Complete Me (4, Default - #41, 2012) (6, I Do This All The Time - #2, 2021) 65 393 Overmono - Is U 64 393 The Big Moon - 2 Lines (4, Wide Eyes - #16, 2022) 63 394 Graywave - Blur Into One 62 403 The Go! Team - Gemini (8, Buy Nothing Day - #2, 2011) 61 403 Romy - She's On My Mind (5, Loud Places (feat. Jamie xx) - #1, 2015) The first acts to get a second entry of the year appear now, The Drums with a 12th overall becoming the 12th act to reach that milestone, The Streets are back with Fred Again.. who goes to a new peak, 2023 was really the year I got properly into Fred, and Pale Blue Eyes whose album is a lot of fun, and one of the best acts I saw live last year who have tonnes of energy. Palace seem to release a single off each album that I love and that continued, Django Django and Self Esteem collaborated for a second time with great effect again. Overmono and Graywave both debut, the latter's heavy shoegaze sound I discovered seeing them as a support act. The Go! Team's last album was their best in ages and Gemini followed Whammy-O as being a great song from it, and Romy's standout banger rounds this bunch off.

YA6HD9DkdQs 80 360 Glimji & Elphi - Blush 79 360 Art School Girlfriend - Heaven Hanging Low 78 360 Slowthai - Selfish (3, Doorman (feat. Mura Masa) - #48, 2019) 77 361 The Streets - Troubled Waters (8, Weak Become Heroes - #2, 2002) 76 366 The Hold Steady - Understudies (7, Stuck Between Stations - #5, 2007) 75 366 Heartworms - 24 Hours (2, Consistent Dedication - #54, 2022) 74 370 Confidence Man feat. Daniel Avery - On & On (Again) (2, Feels Like a Different Thing - #50, 2022) (2, Knowing We'll Be Here - #92, 2014) 73 375 The Goa Express - Good Luck Charm 72 377 George Clanton - I Been Young 71 383 Thus Love - Repetitioner Another batch mixed of debutants and previously successful acts. Mike Skinner's recent career has been hit and miss but Trouble Waters was a good return single from a first proper album in a while. Confidence Man continued to grow in my affections after getting to them a bit late, and The Hold Steady came back in their classic sound with a couple of top 10 singles. At the start of the year Heartworms was probably who I anticipated music from the most in 2023, and she didn't disappoint with what she released, 24 Hours being the first song to chart. I'm sure Selfish would've ended up much higher (and Sooner charted) but I stopped listening to Slowthai because y'know. Art School Girlfriend was close to three entries but in the end has to settle for just one with her best song of the year Heaven Hanging Low, Blush was an earworm I listened to loads, Good Luck Charm is a bit indie-by-numbers but is great fun, George Clanton the first of a few BJSC entries to appear, and Thus Love were a big favourite of mine in the early part of the year.

4DrpW_xaJfo 90 333 Daughter - Dandelion (5, Poke - #1, 2019) 89 335 Real Lies - Shirley Road (9, Late Arcades - #3, 2021) 88 340 blink-182 - One More Time (5, Bored To Death - #3, 2016) 87 341 Everything Everything - Cold Reactor (7, A Fever Dream - #1, 2017) 86 342 Softcult - Dress 85 346 The Drums - I Want It All (11, Ambulance - #9, 2021) 84 351 Nitin Sawhney feat. Hak Baker - Ancestral 83 353 Pale Blue Eyes - Heating's On 82 357 Hatchie - Jai Alai (8, This Enchanted - #4, 2021) 81 357 Barry Can't Swim feat. Somedeadbeat - Deadbeat Gospel A significant number of previously successful acts in this set of 10, with 3 of them having recently peaked in 2021, The Drums still on top form with recent output, Real Lies with another song typical of their successful sound and Hatchie getting an 8th entry in 7 years with her version of a DMA's track. Two previous #1 acts appear too, Daughter with the first track from their long awaited return and Everything Everything with easily the best song of their current era. Four debutants from Pale Blue Eyes' indie-pop, the shoegazey Softcult, the best track I've heard from Barry Can't Swim and an interesting collab from the multi-talented Nitin Sawhney and some interesting lyrics from Hak Baker.

All entries include total number of entries for that act, plus previous peak. Anything without are all the first time the act has appeared. k0tjzVgrybQ 100 308 Wunderhorse - Purple 99 309 Skream - Thinking Of You 98 309 James Blake - Tell Me (12, Radio Silence - #12, 2016) 97 315 The Joy Formidable - Share My Heat (7, Whirring - #4, 2011) 96 315 DMA's - Fading Like a Picture (11, For Now - #1, 2018) 95 319 Cassö feat. RAYE & D-Block Europe - Prada 94 319 Ben Howard - Walking Backwards (14, Keep Your Head Up - #5, 2011) 93 322 Fontaines DC - Cello Song (9, Boys In The Better Land - #3, 2019) 92 323 The Hives - Bogus Operandi (4, Hate To Say I Told You So - #16, 2002) 91 324 The Sherlocks - Going Nowhere (2, Was It Really Worth It? - #95, 2017) A lot of previously successful acts in this first 10, including a long awaited Hives comeback, a Fontaines DC Nick Drake cover/tribute and James Blake moving into the top 10 acts with the most amount of entries. Skream gets a debut 12 years after a first chart entry, sneaking in along with Wunderhorse. One of the very few UK charting hits to appear being one featuring D-Block Europe would've seemed absolutely shocking a year ago, but such was the job Cassö did turning them into a banger, here they are. The longest song to feature is a 15 minute epic from The Joy Formidable, an expert band in long songs they went a step further and appear for a 7th time.

A bit late starting this in April, but I've only just finalised it so thought I'd post it for a change. In the last few weeks I've listened to (in a rough ascending order) the 868 songs I put on regular rotation which I first discovered in 2023, the majority are from that year and anything that's been considered for a year-end chart is with the occasional late 2022 straggler. I have ranked the songs by preference, by how much I've listened to them from my last.fm and how they performed on my Personal chart, awarding points to the top 200 from each, 200-1, so 600 points being the maximum. Where there is a tie, I have awarded the higher position to the one I ranked higher by preference. Before starting, here are my number 1 single from each of the previous years I have done an end of year chart. 2002: Doves - There Goes The Fear 2003: The Libertines - Time For Heroes 2004: Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 2005: The Futureheads - Hounds of Love 2006: Stellastarr* - Sweet Troubled Soul 2007: Robyn feat. Kleerup - With Every Heartbeat 2008: Elbow - One Day Like This 2009: Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes 2010: Lady Gaga feat. Beyonce - Telephone 2011: Bon Iver - Holocene 2012: Blur - Under The Westway 2013: Jagwar Ma - The Throw 2014: Tokyo Police Club - Argentina (Parts I, II, III) 2015: Jamie xx feat. Romy - Loud Places 2016: Japandroids - Near to The Wild Heart of Life 2017: Everything Everything - A Fever Dream 2018: DMA's - For Now 2019: Daughter - Poke 2020: Phoebe Bridgers - I Know The End 2021: Wolf Alice - The Last Man on Earth 2022: Metric - Doomscroller

I think with Perez he's previously fallen to pieces after winning a couple of races and being talked up for the title and spoken about how he wants to beat Max, probably putting too much pressure on himself. It now feels a bit like he's realised and admitted his place and more at peace with it, in which case he might be more consistent in doing what Red Bull want him to do. At the moment it's looking close to 0 chance he gets replaced by Ricciardo, so RB may as well get Lawson in early after his performances last year. As for Sargent, I've become convinced he only got a second season because of Antonelli. Mercedes will want him in F1 next year and that's the likely seat lined up for him whilst he's not yet ready for the main team, Williams probably thought it was pointless having a different driver for this in-between season, especially as no other drivers became available. They've proven they're not really behind him with the Aus decision and he's not exactly done anything in Japan to make them think they might have got it wrong.