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They were much much higher than our European neighbours despite having the same circumstances - Covid, Russia/Ukraine etc.. Anyhow I bet they won't go down by much, the ghastly energy companies will be raking it in. Anyway, better news tonight, Dominic Raab is standing down as an MP at next election. Must know that he stood no chance of not being ousted by the Liberal Democrats and wanted to avoid an embarrassing humiliation. One odious bully gone! :w00t: :w00t:

Was intrigued who Ms no.24-only was and wasn't one who I voted for so looked through the Top 40s from last year, found her pretty easily in the end - and on a meh song in my opinion. Didn't realise she was that popular on Buzzjack as we are getting to the higher numbers.

Massive climb for Fiona Apple. I absolutely adore her first three albums (four if you include that excellent unofficial Jon Brion version of 'Extraordinary Machine') but do find 'Idler Wheel' and 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters' pretty difficult to get into. Favourite songs include 'Get Him Back', 'Oh Sailor', 'Sullen Girl', 'Limp', 'Paper Bag' and 'Never is a Promise'. I saw her live in London once at the Apollo Victoria- one of only 5 times she's performed in the UK. Very intense memorable performance.

Ed Sheeran deserves a clap for getting a 2nd week at no.1 with a new album. That's so rare nowadays.

I don't follow Northern Irish politics much but do know that Sinn Fein nowadays have a message of hope rather than the utterly miserable outlook of the DUP.

Was like REALLY excited for a moment but then checked and it's only the unrepresentative 'Creep' that even they don't really like anymore.

This is excellent - reminds me a bit of Within Temptation - a band that sadly never had a hit in the UK.

'Dancing is Healing' is a bit of a bop and pretty different to other dance we've had!

No Little Mabu - guess no clean version of that. Intriguing name of a song .

Is that confirmed as to the reason R1 not playing it rather than UK listeners not wanting to hear country? Just loads of artists have done bad things in past and played - Eminem obvious example. Morgan has apologised profusely.

Thankfully we're spared the version with Luke Combs. I really hope this US country rubbish doesn't seriously infect the charts here!

'Boys a Liar' seems really low even despite being on ACR. The Ice Spice version is still at no.6 on Spotify for example.

Wouldn't count on that. The thing is that even though this track has been on the charts for only 6 weeks it feels like a lifetime because all of his tracks sound exactly the same as each other, there always seems to be some identikit Drake on the charts.

Albums just aren't regarded in the same way as they were in the past where they would have buzz and gather reputation around them month after month even if you weren't a massive fan of a particular artist. You can't really get a chart to measure something that the general public aren't generally interested in - well you can but it's not going to mean much. Times change and all that sadly.

I'd check out "To Bring You My Love" album - regarded as one of her strongest especially 'Down by the Water'. If you love 'Man-Size' you'd love a lot of the rockier ones on that but it does showcase her art rock/electronica a lot too. My favourite album of hers is definitely 'Is this Desire?' - captivating and hypnotic journey into a tortured lonely soul, although it's an extremely bleak, raw album in parts so may not be the best for starters - check out the two singles 'Perfect Day Elise' (video above) and 'The Wind' though as they are fairly accessible. All of her albums are very strong though and she tends to change style for each era coming up as authentic each time. She's not really commercial (apart from maybe 'Stories from the City Stories from the Sea') but great with coming up with hooks.

Well I mean Chlamydia's bad and all that but bit of an insult to associate it with Darren "Ninth Rate Dan Wooton wannabe" Grimes. And back to Rishi apparently Brexit is a success as we may be able to get cheaper beer and sanitary products this summer. Whoopee bloody doo! :nocheer: Let's not mention the skyrocketing fuel bills compared with EU and the fact that many countries won't trade with us due to the red tape.

Lol if Darren Grimes is the answer to something, what the hell is the question?

The worst at that Nat C conference was Douglas Murray describing German Nazi rule as 'mucking up' beautiful wonderful nationalism. This whole conference though seemed to be very aggressively aimed at trying to split the Tories and basically say that any moderates shouldn't belong in the Conservative movement dismissing them as Liberals. It's not an election winning strategy so you wonder why they do that - until you realise that these people aren't "playing" culture wars. They're actual far right bigots who want to silence, harm and possibly more to minorities and those who don't measure up to their ideal citizen - an ultra nationalistic, heterosexual, child producing, "Christian", compassion free, climate destroying bigot.

Either never released in UK or didn't chart here (difficult to tell) - HIM didn't start to have hits here until 'Buried Alive by Love' made no. 30 in 2003. I absolutely love the string of HIM hits they had here and their "And Love Says No" compilation. A bit cheesy yes but great goth, melodic pop rock. 'Funeral of Hearts' is my favourite if I had to pick one. Great that they made the US only 1966 Neil Diamond hit 'Solitary Man' into a UK Top 10 too. Of course most of their hits were when UK single sales were through the floor and downloads weren't yet counted.

Oh loved 'Sour' and was hoping that Olivia would enter much higher. Really captured the second year of the pandemic for Mr.

Lol if Mae Muller doesn't make the top 10 don't blame Harry. She should have done a better performance on the night!

Yes I saw that too - I actually thought at the time that the elderly would be the worst affected as many would forget to bring ID (and not have energy to go back and return to poll station) or would have let their passports or driving licenses lapse. And even though I'd prefer a few less Tory votes, it's not nice for anyone at that age to be in that position. Although he said it for the wrong reasons, I'm glad that JRM finally said something sensible.

Looks like Sunak is now officially in the Theresa May stage of premiership (but unlike her, he has a huge majority) with no authority now following the 1000+ seat loss at the local elections. Where do you start, there was a conference filled with Johnson groupies like Dorries and Patel at the weekend making snide comments about Sunak (although their man appears to prefer his millions to actually doing any work), Liz Truss is about to start a diplomatic catastrophe as someone in Taiwan has asked her to give a speech, bear in mind the sensitivities with regard to China and finally and even worse Suella Braverman gave a speech tirading against elitists and going on about Keir Starmer and penises at some Q Anon ultra nationalist right nutjob foreign funded whackjob fest. Absolutely vile stuff from vile self obsessed charlatans.

Yep the earlier hopeful buzz tended to be a false dawn. Not good looking good for the more progressive choice - tbh not too surprised since it's Turkey but thoroughly depressing.

Wonder what happens if other Lewis tracks makes 'Forget Me' starred out but it still rises >25%. Can a track still get reset even though not eligible to chart? Then it can re-enter on SCR should it become one of his top 3 tracks again? EDIT - Having thought about this, pretty sure it must be able to be reset even though starred out. But please correct me if wrong someone. Thanks