My...Tuppence!!

Mariah

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Carpenters - Yesterday Once More Paul McCartney & Wings - Live And Let Die

I can see this doing well. Fingers crossed

Crap #1

Shame APT looks to have peaked already. :(

omg THIS!

For once i'll encourage the rabid BTS stans to go ham on this one just for the hilarity of Bing Crosby showing up on a 'new' top 10 hit in 2024.

Beyonce to go

Timbaland. I actually think Diamonds From Sierra Leone is a fantastic track from Kanye so hope that survives another round.

Mariah Carey

Addison, Camelphat, All Saints & Garbage

Fantastic sales for The Cure! Abysmal singles sales

There would be album releases working the opposite way to how they actually did in this era to factor in as well. For example Phats & Small may have overtaken My Name Is on the chart dated 24/4/99 but this was also the week The Slim Shady LP was released. In the physical era this meant a certain percentage of sales were likely to be transferred from single to album but if streaming was the dominant format, this would likely be the best shot week for My Name Is to get to reach #1 with other tracks from the album charting lower down.

The Millennium Prayer would do crickets on streaming at least. Christmas/Millennium #1 would probably be Slade/Wizzard/John & Yoko. I think All Saints probably still have 2 #1s in this scenario with Never Ever and Pure Shores which were both legitimately huge.

A lot of the long running top 10 hits of the era would do so tenfold so the likes of Wonderwall, Return Of The Mack, Killing Me Softly, Mysterious Girl, I Don't Want To Miss A Thing, Un-Break My Heart etc... would spend about 30 weeks in the top 10.

Best: America - A Horse With No Name Carly Simon - You're So Vain Cher - Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves Elton John - Crocodile Rock Stevie Wonder - Superstition Worst: Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl Michael Jackson - Ben voices should be broken before we attempt to sell an excruciating screech thanks fellas x

The charts would be as terminally dull as they are today.

Pushin Diet P

Eminem. Not one of his finest moments and a fairly strong round.

Cam'ron

Biffy

The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin Elton John - Daniel The Hollies - Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress) Tom Jones - She's A Lady

Great to see The Cure charting on streaming. Hope they could make the singles top 100 this week.

The fact that tosh has overtaken APT is painful.

Louise