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I would love for Ariana to finally hold top 10 and the Ronettes to make top 20! Stick Season has indeed really stuck around through December, with the Christmas songs about to fade away and his physicals coming out on the 5th it would be nice if he got a few weeks at number 1.

Taylor was my top artist with 6,178 minutes putting me in top 1%. 4.Cruel Summer 5. Anti Hero 11. Snow on the Beach 15. Vigilante 19. Bejewelled 23. Hits Different 41. The Great War 45. Snow on the Beach (More Lana) 49. Mastermind 53. You're On Your Own Kid 57. Maroon 61. Midnight Rain 65. Paris 69. Anti Hero (with Bleachers) 73. Glitch 77. Karma (Ice Spice) 81. Karma 85. Lavender Haze 89. Sweet Nothing 95. Welcome To New York (Taylor's Version) Although I have been listening to a lot of Evermore the last few weeks since it feels like the season for it, I will need to look at my Last.fm at the end of the year to see where the numbers land by the end of December.

That was quite the ordeal! After waiting in the lounge for 40 minutes the server threw me out. I gave up but then decided to try going on my phone and got through instantly and managed to get to seated tickets for Glasgow.

Nothing like OCC clarity and consistency!

The new rules for the singles chart published in August didn't include casettes on the list of eligible formats. So I would have said that was right, however Billie Eilish and Dupa Lipa's casettes were clearly counted on each of their weeks at number 1 in August (which also came after the new rules were published) so who knows.

Maybe she's saving the fifth one that's not named for an announcement and music video?

It's very unique in that it's a two minute long instrumental. It became very popular on Tik Tok and charted in the top 100 as a result.

+30 Klingande – Jubel +29 Lorde – Team +28 Charli XCX – Boom Clap +27 Zedd (feat. Hayley Williams) – Stay The Night +26 Rita Ora – I Will Never Let You Down +25 Cash Cash (feat. Bebe Rexha) – Take Me Home +24 Taylor Swift – Blank Space +23 Taylor Swift – New Romantics +22 Faul & Wad vs. Pnau – Changes +21 Zhu – Faded +20 Taylor Swift – Out of The Woods +19 Professor Green (feat. Tori Kelly) – Lullaby +18 Mr. Probz – Waves (Robin Schulz Remix) +17 Ella Henderson – Ghost +16 G.R.L – Ugly Heart +15 Avicii (feat. Dan Tyminski) – Hey Brother +14 Clean Bandit (feat. Jess Glynne) – Rather Be +13 Labrinth – Jealous +12 Pitbull (feat. Kesha) – Timber +11 Katy Perry (feat. Juicy J) – Dark Horse +10 Iggy Azalea (feat. Charli XCX) – Fancy +09 Cheryl (feat. Tinie Tempah) – Crazy Stupid Love +08 Tove Lo – Habits (Stay High) (Original / Hippie Sabotage Remix) +07 Vance Joy – Riptide +06 George Ezra – Budapest +05 Lilly Wood and The Prick – Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) +04 Ten Walls – Walking With Elephants +03 Ariana Grande (feat. Zedd) – Break Free +02 Idina Menzel – Let It Go +01 Ariana Grande (feat. The Weeknd) – Love Me Harder

It now appears the restock has now sold out as well, I wonder how many copies have been produced. Due to them not being shipped until Thursday we'll need until after the chart is published to find out!

I agree, it definitely looks like the trend the last few weeks is that Dua has been catching up and is due to overtake on streaming this week or maybe next. In saying that, if the casettes nudge Billie to number 1 on Friday the publicity could hypothetically give her a small boost on streaming. Since her and Dua are so close it could make the difference next week.

Anti Hero 272 Snow on the Beach (Ft Lana Del Rey) 173 Vigilante Shit 96 Bejeweled 93 Anti Hero (Ft Bleachers) 89 You're on You're Own Kid 81 Mastermind 66 Midnight Rain 59 Maroon 55 The Great War 49 Lavender Haze 44 Hits Different 41 Karma 40 Snow On The Beach (Ft More Lana Del Rey) 33 Question... ? 29 Sweet Nothing 29 Glitch 28 Paris 28 Would've, Could've, Should've 28 Karma (Ft Ice Spice) 24 High Infidelity 23 Labyrinth Bigger Than The Whole Sky 22 Dear Reader 16

I think so! I got a code for Tickemaster and my friend got one for AXS, I went in 30 mintues early and she 5 mintues early. She got the tickets in 6 mintues when I still had a few thousand in front of me in my queue.

Although recent events certainly won't have helped, to be honest I 100% believe she was sincere she is resigning for personal reasons. After eight years in the top job (and seven before that as deputy first minister) she probably is just totally burnt out at this point and figured she would go now while she is still relatively popular. The question is what happens now with no obvious successor. I imagine there will be plenty of candidates, many of who will be relative unknowns. It will be a genuinely interesting contest to watch. The SNP certainly has internal factions, pobably most notably in the last few years along gender self ID lines but also radical/gradual independence strategy and the more classic typical left/centrist/right as well. Depending on which candidates stand and are accepted it could be quite a divisive contest.

Dear Readee felt like the obvious choice here since I don't dislike it but it's probably the worst. It was far harder to choose the second one but I decided on Hits Different for not being available for most people (I've only managed to hear sped up versions so I don't know what it really sounds like!).

Personally, I don't think any of the songs are bad but I voted for You're On Your Own, Kid (Strings Remix) and Sweet Nothing (Piano Remix) as I don't feel they add much to the album. My last vote was close between Glitch and Dear Reader, I decided to go with the latter as I find it a bit less memorable.