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Oh this is easily Becky's best track (apart from the uncredited feature on 'Afterglow').

Thought it was already with that 4-11 fall but of course it's only in week 9. Wonder why it's fallen so much this week?

+5 Vampire +4 Sprinter +3 Dancing is Healing +2 Flowers +1 Daylight -1 Miracle -2 Giving Me -3 Dance the Night -4 Cruel Summer -5 Who Told You

I love this album so much.'Amber Waves' is a perfect opener, encapsulating the heart of the album in 3 wonderful minutes, 'Carbon' is a very emotive track supposedly about her friend's suicidal thoughts, 'Virginia' is an intriguing song with an amazing coda. 'Gold Dust' is of course one of her epic ballad masterpieces, 'I Can't See New York' relates to 9/11 and reflects the tragedy oh so well. In fact apart from a weak patch at the end of the first half 'Crazy', 'Wampum prayer', 'Don't make me come to Vegas' and 'Sweet Sangria', it's pretty much perfection. The theme of the USA becoming less liberal/welcoming post 911 resonated with me at the time and very prophetic as to the state of the world 20+ years later unfortunately.. Oh wow and 'Scarlet's Hidden Treasures' is finally out on streaming in remastered form and even better includes 'Operation Peter Pan' and this absolute masterpiece 'Mountain' first official release ever (previously only available for a very limited on her website and bootlegs) :w00t: uEwMT1TdljM

Well her previous highest album went to no. 14 so appears she's gained new fans even if some of her LGBT fans boycotted

Although I'm glad that this has happened as that was unacceptable (and also Johnson's condoning of it was one of the big factors to his exit) it's a shame that it's only this kind of sleaze scandal brings these Tories down rather than horrific ideology, divide and rule policies and cronyism. So only half a cheer. But yep better than nothing. Of course expecting the Tories to finally go down at the next election but 1) That could be as late as Jan 25, too effing long away and 2) Labour aren't going to change the system at all. They may clean up in certain areas but you just know that overall the problems in the country with inequality won't improve.

Yikes read about that. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha...go-rumored-feud Some think 'Vampire' is actually about Taylor Swift not about an ex lover. :smoke:

07 Shiver 08 Yellow 08 Trouble 07 Don't Panic 11 In My Place 08 The Scientist 09 Clocks 06 God Put A Smile Upon Your Face 03 Speed Of Sound 08 Fix You 09 Talk 10 The Hardest Part 11 Violet Hill 10 Viva La Vida 06 Lost! 09 Life In Technicolor II 09 Strawberry Swing 09 Christmas Lights 10 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall 04 Paradise 08 Charlie Brown 08 Princess of China (Ft Rihanna) 05 Hurts Like Heaven 05 Atlas (Soundtrack From The Hunger Games - Catching Fire) 11 Midnight 03 Magic 07 A Sky Full Of Stars 04 True Love 07 Ink 05 Adventure Of A Lifetime 10 Hymn For The Weekend (Ft Beyoncé) 03 Up&Up 02 A Head Full Of Dreams 07 Everglow 08 Something Just Like This (Chainsmokers Ft Coldplay) 00 Miracles (Someone Special) (Ft Big Sean) 09 Orphans 08 Arabesque 08 Lovers in Japan

So does Zack - he's great singer and definitely got more tolerant views than some of his country compatriots. Might even be the first country album I give a listen to ever!

Which is why the Tories will never touch it in a million years as that kind of world is completely alien to them. Its all about divide and rule.

'Violet Hill' and 'Midnight' I would and will give 11 to so those votes are fine in my book.

Lol that look she has in the 'Demons' video is really something! Prob not one to watch just before bedtime....

'Lost and Not Found' is easily my favourite C and S song. So epic and those strings. Not sure about this 'Baddadan' thing mind. Nice that 'Desire' is up to no.4 and would be the Official Dance chart no.1 if the OCC didn't omit it for some completely unknown reason!

Thanks so much Simpson Fan - one video not much happens but this one which is the shorter excerpt looks really beautiful. Maybe will see it in full one day! vxQ3yHNzW8s

Hi - hope this is the best forum for it. Two of my favourite trance tracks of all time were released in the late 90s and were decent sized hits but to this day I have no idea if there were official promo videos for the tracks or how to find out. Can't find anything on YouTube or internet generally. Intrigued to watch them if they were. Tracks are: Humate - Love Stimulation (Paul van Dyk's 'Love Club' mix) No.18 in Jan 1999. Insanely beautiful instrumental track by an act with no other hits- sounds very inspired by deeply emotional classical music. I do recall a video at a dance festival in bad quality (a bit like Wink 'Higher State of Consciousness' which "may" have been the promo but that's no longer on YouTube. (By the way, be careful if doing an internet search for the video, make sure 'Safe Search' is on as I found out) :kink: Space Brothers - Shine No.23 in May 1997 and a remix called 'Shine 2000' made no.18 in Feb 2000. Gorgeous therapeutic trance track with spiritualishy warm female vocals (Joanna Law). Can't see official promos for either on YouTube (or their well remembered 'Forgiven' track) but can find videos for 'Heaven will Come' and 'Legacy (Show me Love)' and one of their many aliases Alena's 'Turn it Around'. I could try asking the band themselves as they are still going and performing but thought I'd try here first. Any ideas if there were videos, what they were like and if they're available online? Thanks :heart:

I'm in the middle, a couple of my friends do have long term symptoms (although not debilitating). One is in his 60s and was relatively fit, the other with prior conditions. But in all honesty, covid isn't really a thing in my community now, hardly anyone talks about it. Plus the appetite for any further lockdowns, for better or worse, is simply not there. There would have to be a pandemic far more deadly than Covid for it to be considered.

Think this is the first for a no.1. However,I do remember when ACR was new, it felt very quirky when a track would peak after several weeks of climbing and then suddenly plummet from its peak. An example I remember was Little Mix/Cheat Codes 'Only You' which had a run of 32-40-28-19-16-14-17-14-{13}-40 which seemed very brutal. I'm sure there were a few more but can't remember any recent examples. Anyone else know?

I did hear that he was started to get cancelled by the MAGA , oops- to be honest the song's crap anyway.

In the year to dates Morgan Wallen's 'Last Night' has finally overtaken SZA's 'Kill Bill' to be current no.2. Likely to be no.1 next week or so overcoming 'Flowers' by Miley Cyrus. Undisputed biggest single of the year by December.

I was all set to post this rather lovely chilled dance track (with the memorable giraffe video), a no.2 in 2013, in the 'One Hit Wonders' thread but then after checking found out he had a follow up no.23 with 'U Got It' (no me neither) KrMl32cuC2A

For another big US RnB/hip hop artist who's never had a UK top 75, there's Rod Wave whose had over 50 Billboard Hot 100 tracks, most of them are album tracks at the lower reaches but 4 top 20s to his name.

I voted Mark Goodier (professional yet very lovely man), Jameela (iconic) and Jack (flawed and a bit over the place but definitely a good guy and passionate too). JK and Joel the worst obvs. Useless

Love this guy especially his ultra avant garde later period stuff like 'Alice', 'Blood Money' and 'Real Gone' albums. Such a beautiful soul.

I suppose one could arguably include lots of artists who are massive elsewhere in the world but can't get top 40 hits here due to language/cultural barriers - artists like Karol G. That said several of the other ones i was going to post seem to have got a feature on a top 40 (Becky G, Maluma, Ozuna) but you get the general drift. And lots of huge country artists (although the UK firewall against that seems to be failing somewhat recently with allowing Oliver Anthony, Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs in) but likes of Kane Brown, Sam Hunt, Jason Aldean, Walker Hayes yet to score here.

For many years it would have been Led Zeppelin who released no singles period when they were together but a later release of 'Whole Lotta Love' made no.21 in 1997 (being their only official single released to celebrate their 30th anniversary). 'Stairway to Heaven' went top 40 on downloads too in 2007. Leonard Cohen was a legendary songwriter but only ever made the charts once when his original version of 'Hallelujah' made the top 40 the week Alexandra Burke went to no.1 (and the Jeff Buckley cover version was at no.2)