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Wow only the 15th week on the charts for this considering how iconic it is!

Not nicest tribute playing barely a minute of Tina before talking all over it.

Has this been granted a reset?

Yep I gave more to Bjork than Bjork did! Her first 6 albums including 'Selmasongs' were absolutely amazing but then 'Volta' onwards she started being ahem a bit too difficult to get into, although 'Fossora' and 'Vulnicura' have great moments the rare times I play them. My favourite albums overall have to be 'Medulla' (once you're over the no instruments it's not that inaccessible although diverse and adventurous) and 'Debut' (love the second side especially the beautiful chillout ambient 'One Day', 'Aeroplane', 'Come To Me' trio, probably because I played this album to death when I was young and have such magical memories of those tracks) although I know that others would put 'Homogenic' or 'Vespertine' at the helm and that's completely understandable. Oh and the 'Triumph of the Heart' video has to be the most purrfectly bizarre video that Bjork has made - well her 'Utopia' ones were bonkers but not in such a fun way IMO.

Wonder if Florence gets less votes as many people think of FATM as a band. Love her 'Ceremonials' album especially and 'What the Water Gave Me' is one of my favourite tracks of all time- just so epic.

Really? I thought a young American lady would be, ahem, happier than ever with the highest new entry unless she was on the list last time?

Dp

I know about Franco but the change since then appeared to be incredible but guess haters gonna hate.

And moving on to Spain and it's not good news there either as the Conservatives and the Far Right Vox party did extremely well in the local elections. The Prime Minister has decided to call a snap General election to see if Spain wants to go fully fash. Really sad as Spain is a beautiful tolerant country. That said, wish Sunak called for a General Election after tanking in the local elections here but that would require honesty and character which are nowhere to be seen in these current times.

Really enjoying this thread - thanks so much for this Gezza! Seems that alternative singer songwriter females doing better this rate than last one - so expecting some good climbs and new entries from them still to come.

Anastacia has amazing singles especially 'One Day in your Life', 'Im Outta Love' and of course 'Left Outside Alone' not quite the artist I would buy an album of. Crazy that such great pop was not wanted by her home country that she only just scraped the Billboard Top 100 with her first hit then absolutely zilch. :nono:

Musically this is better than 'Make Me Feel Good' but atrocious generic lyrics!

This sounds amazing! One of her best songs too

Love 'Dancing is Healing' so much. Hope top 5 hit soon!

I was expecting something better from the hype - her vocals sound awful!

Is 'Mathematical Disrespect' the first top 40 hit to reference Wordle I wonder?

Oh we agree on something Usher related then! That's probably my favourite.

Always think they should reset an artist's back catalogue to SCR as a mark of respect when they pass away, even if over 3 years old or at least let record company nominate tracks to do so. It would make the charts more interesting and act as a way of paying tribute. The tracks would almost inevitably decline 3 weeks in a row shortly afterwards so they wouldn't be on the charts for long.

Apart from'DJ Got us Falling in , 'Love in this Club' and possibly 'Without You' all of the above are just utter bilge especially 'Yeah'. Just polar opposite of what I like in a track.

Yes de Santis is scared shitless of Trump - his attempt will fail pathetically but of course the sad news is that the anti LGBT rhetoric will ramp up massively during the period.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/05/24/targ...btq-collection/ Depressing news showing that threats of violence works in removing LGBT visibility from the public/corporate sphere - this attack on Target store of course has happened after Bud Light beer company had a huge decline in sales after a ferocious backlash to them sending trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney a single can of beer with her photo on to celebrate her one year of transition. Plus of course these far right tactics will be imported to the UK very soon (signs of it happening now).

They say that the devil's best idea was pretending that he never exists or the route to fascism is paved by people claiming that the threat exaggerated, so we have to take seriously the fact that a hard/far right cabal is taking head of the Tory party aided by the usual media suspects (Mail, Sun, Express, Telegraph) aided by a loss making but extremely well funded "news" channel GB news which are entirely unscared of regulatory sanctions and appearing to play nice. Johnson in some ways is not the best figurehead for it - not truly hard right, pissed the gammon off with the lockdown and certain green issues but they'll hype him up and use his narcissism especially as their chosen one, Liz Truss, failed so badly. Braverman also plays very badly to the public despite speaking their language and Badenoch recently annoyed a lot of Brexiters by slowing down the EU law bonfire nonsense. But yes they are gunning for Sunak and Hunt especially since the Tories lost over 1000 seats so look like losing the next election. As Starmer isn't producing radical change from Sunak's style of Government (sadly)then they'll be happy with deposing Sunak and finding a true hard right Orban, Meloni leader in the UK even if they have to wait a while. Nothing to suggest it won't work either.

Very respectable position for 'Run To You' considering it didn't do that well when originally released but def my favourite Whitney track.

Awww bet Raye would be chuffed at her high debut here! Kind of deserves it just for 'Escapism' IMO but hope she has a long career of success with stuff she believes in.

Nelly great songwriter, fantastic eclectic personality but I can't listen to her nasal voice for too long without jarring.