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29TH JUNE Euro 96 fever truly gripped the country last week with England qualifying out of the group stages and then beating Spain in the Quarter Finals to set up a meeting with Germany in the semi-finals this week. What has this to do with the charts? Well it is responsible for a 69% surge in sales for “3 Lions” which pushes the single back up 4-2 (85,000) and should the national team win that Semi-Final then it may yet return to No 1. For now though it is still a long way off with sales of the Fugees “Killing Me Softly” only slightly off at 160,000 (-7%) sending the song platinum, we’ll see where in the YTD it places next week. gRxhp6fuir4 The rest of the top 5 line up like this: Peter Andre drops back 2-3 (58,000), Mariah Carey similarly drops one place 3-4 (53,000) and Celine Dion holds at No 5 (46,000). The rest of the charts are awash with Euro 96 inspired hits including BBC Orchestra (No 45) Collapsed Lung (No 37), Rod Stewart/ Scottish Euro 96 squad (No 36) and the official theme from Simply Red (No 12). We can now add Black Grape’s “England’s Irie” which features Joe Strummer and Keith Allen and is new at No 6 (38,000). It’s featured on the same album that “3 Lions” appears namely “Beautiful Game” which has surprisingly only made No 10 on the compilation chart. It gives the group a 4th top 10 hit, double the sum achieved as part of Happy Mondays. 37Ols0J74V4 Everything But The Girl score a third top 10 single on the trot with “Wrong” arriving at No 8 (33,000). They’ve returned to the man who masterminded their overhaul Todd Terry for the remix of this single which comes up trumps, the album responds 18-12 and is already their biggest seller album ever in just 7 weeks. mRypKR2oDNU Queen continue to rack up the hits post Mercury’s death, “Let Me Live” is a fourth single to be taken from “Made In Heaven” and was originally recorded with Rod Stewart way back in 1983. It was re-recorded as part of the recent project and is now new at No 9 (30,000) to register their 24th top 10 single placing them 8th on the all time list. yZg7uWcU7Dk Livin’ Joy continue their step by step descent down the charts 6-7 (34,000) and Ocean Colour Scene dip 9-10 (25,000) but “Moseley Shoals” advances 6-2 to equal its best ever showing. 1- KILLING ME SOFTLY- The Fugees (160,000) 2- THREE LIONS- Baddiel/ Skinner/ lightning Seeds (85,000) 3- MYSTERIOUS GIRL- Peter Andre Ft Bubbler Ranx (58,000) 4- ALWAYS BE MY BABY- Mariah Carey (53,000) 5- BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME- Celine Dion (46,000) 6- ENGLAND’S IRIE- Black Grape Ft Joe Strummer/ Keith Allen (38,000) 7- DON’T STOP MOVIN- Livin Joy (34,000) 8- WRONG- Everything But The Girl (33,000) 9- LET ME LIVE- Queen (30.000) 10- THE DAY WE CAUGHT THE TRAIN- Ocean Colour Scene (25,000)

22ND JUNE Another week passes and another week nothing can come close to the sales juggernaut that is the Fugees “Killing Me Softly” which sold another 173,000 copies in shops to raise its 21 day tally to 525,000 which sets it on course to a million seller. Its nearest challenger does change however with Peter Andre rising 3-2 but his sale of 65,000 shows just how far he’s lagging behind The Fugees. 0qcXxXxZvnU Highest new entry of the week comes in at No 3 (64,000) for Mariah Carey with “Always Be My Baby”- this is her 11th straight top 10 single and means that the last time she missed the top flight was all the way back in early 1992. That’s impressive but not a patch on her US success where this song became her 11th No 1 tying her with Madonna and Whitney Houston in the all time list. 55Oe4Lk38HE Written off by some boyband Let Loose prove they have more sticking power than most. After a hugely successful debut period they released “Everybody Say, Everybody Say” penned by 80s popstar Nik Kershaw which only made No 29 and caused the delay of the second album. They’ve plumped for a cover of Bread’s 1970 No 5 hit “Make It With You” to resurrect their career and it’s done the trick coming in at No 7 (34,000) to become the third top 10 single for them in 2 years. SN5gX-rGr9k Baddiel/ Skinner/ Lightning Seeds drift 2-4 (50,000) outpacing the fast rising Celine Dion 8-5 (46,000) as the “Up Close & Personal” movie from which it’s taken got its UK premiere. Livin Joy get pushed out 5-6 (38,000), Pianoman drifts 6-8 (31,000), Ocean Colour Scene fall 4-9 (30,000) with Tony Rich Project slipping 9-10 (27,000). 1- KILLING ME SOFTLY- The Fugees (173,000) 2- MYSTERIOUS GIRL- Peter Andre Ft Bubbler Ranx (65,000) 3- ALWAYS BE MY BABY- Mariah Carey (64,000) 4- THREE LIONS- Baddiel/ Skinner/ Lightning Seeds (50,000) 5- BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME- Celine Dion (46,000) 6- DON’T STOP MOVIN- Livin Joy (38,000) 7- MAKE IT WITH YOU- Let Loose (34,000) 8- BLURRED- Pianoman (31,000) 9- THE DAY WE CAUGHT THE TRAIN- Ocean Colour Scene (30,000) 10- NOBODY KNOWS- Tony Rich Project (27,000)

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Just to briefly mention (as I had previously) the last 8 set of votes were an interesting finish with the below points being allocated to the eventual top 10 acts Queen 164 The Beatles 161 Abba 136 Pet Shop Boys 118 Spice Girls 37 Little Mix 36 Sugababes 31 Killers 29 Steps 6 Girls Aloud 0

Thanks to everyone who voted and commented on the results- 4 months flew by! :D

NO 1- GIRLS ALOUD ( 3)- 643 POINTS Voters: Leonardo- 28pts, Vibe- 18pts, Scene- 3pts, Josh!- 9pts, Darrenjames- 20pts, Gezza- 29pts, Electroboy- 30pts, JosephBoone- 29pts, Spiceboy- 27pts, Jade- 18pts, AaronTM- 27pts, Lukuzz- 30pts, Padamic Tension- 25pts, Bris29- 29pts, ..Ready For It- 16pts, Lillanv273- 25pts, Jay- 29pts, AH Gold- 24pts, GreyAsh- 15pts, Quartonworks- 25pts, Jordanlee- 30pts, jra1989- 22pts, Mango- 6pts, Lee_His_Cheeks- 23pts, Rogue- 30pts, Jason- 28pts, One_For_Sorrow- 21pts, Gooddelta- 27pts 22 UK TOP 40 HITS BIGGEST HIT: THE SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND (#1, 2002) I’LL STAND BY YOU (#1, 2004) WALK THIS WAY (#1, 2007) THE PROMISE (#1, 2008) 2FF-emkNQC4

Full results No 2- Spice Girls- 613 pts No 3- Abba- 590 pts No 4- Sugababes- 531 pts No 5- Little Mix- 498 pts No 6- Steps- 498 pts No 7- Queen- 494 pts No 8- Beatles- 455 pts No 9- Pet Shop Boys- 448 pts No 10- Killers- 414 pts No 11- Coldplay- 400 pts No 12- Destiny's Child- 352 pts No 13- Saturdays- 342 pts No 14- Oasis- 329 pts No 15- All Saints- 327 pts No 16- Take That- 299 pts No 17- Fleetwood Mac- 286 pts No 18- S Club 7- 274 pts No 19- Blondie- 273 pts No 20- Radiohead- 266pts No 21- Muse- 229pts No 22- Blur- 222 pts No 23- Arctic Monkeys- 206 pts No 24- Erasure- 196pts No 25- Depeche Mode- 193 pts No 26- Bananarama- 190pts No 27- Linkin Park- 188pts No 28- Pussycat Dolls- 186 pts No 29- Green Day- 183 pts No 30- Paramore- 183 pts No 31- One Direction- 182 pts No 32- Manic Street Preachers- 181 pts No 33- Maroon 5- 177pts No 34- Bon Jovi- 169 pts No 35- Atomic Kitten- 164 pts No 36- No Doubt- 161 pts No 37- Daft Punk- 157 pts No 38- Imagine Dragons- 156 pts No 39- Cure – 155 pts No 40- Snow Patrol- 150 pts No 41- Black Eyed Peas- 149pts No 42- Florence + The Machine- 149 pts No 43- Fifth Harmony- 148 pts No 44- HAIM- 147pts No 45- REM- 146 pts No 46- Chemical Brothers- 143 pts No 47- St Etienne- 143 pts No 48- Supremes- 133 pts No 49- U2- 132 pts No 50- Beach Boys- 122 pts No 51- Arcade Fire- 121 pts No 52- TLC- 121 pts No 53- Wham!- 120pts No 54- Red Hot Chili Peppers- 120 pts No 55- Backstreet Boys- 119pts No 56- Busted- 119 pts No 57- Foals- 118 pts No 58- Corrs- 116pts No 59- Onerepublic- 114pts No 60- Prodigy- 112 pts No 61- Nirvana- 111 pts No 62- Roxette- 110 pts No 63- CHVRCHES- 108 pts No 64- McFly- 107 pts No 65- Massive Attack- 103 pts No 66- Pulp- 101 pts No 67- Years & Years- 101 pts No 68- Smiths- 100 pts No 69- Keane- 97 pts No 70- Pink Floyd- 94pts No 71- Texas- 91pts No 72- Clean Bandit- 88pts No 73- New Order- 87 pts No 74- 1975- 85pts No 75- Foo Fighters- 80 pts No 76- Guns N Roses- 80pts No 77- Everything Everything- 77pts No 78- Suede= 77pts No 79- Aerosmith- 75 pts No 80- Scissor Sisters- 74 pts No 81- Wanted- 74 pts No 82- Gorillaz- 74 pts No 83- The Vamps- 74 pts No 84- Westlife- 73 pts No 85- Creedence Clearwater Revival- 72pts No 86- Outkast- 71 pts No 87- Blue- 70 pts No 88- Bee Gees- 70 pts No 89- Bastille- 68 pts No 90- Royksopp- 68pts No 91- Sigur Ros- 67 pts No 92- London Grammar- 67 pts No 93- Twentyonepilots- 66pts No 94- Clash- 66 pts No 95- Human League- 65 pts No 96- Duran Duran- 64pts No 97- Garbage- 64 pts No 98- Eternal- 63 pts No 99- Carpenters- 63 pts No 100- A-ha- 62 pts No 101- 62pts OMD No 102- 61 pts Eurythmics Cranberries Simon & Garfunkel No 105- 60pts N-Sync Mis-Teeq Liberty X No 108- 59pts Five No 109- 58pts Bring Me The Horizon No 110- 57pts Beautiful South No 111- 56pts My Chemical Romance ELO Rolling Stones No 114- 55pts Heart No 115- 54 pts Blink 182 10CC Delirious? No 118- 53pts Honeyz No 119- 52 pts Placebo Kinks No 121- 51pts Genesis 5 Seconds Of Summer Tears For Fears Blackpink No 124- 50pts Stereophonics Slade No 126- 48 pts Nico & Vinz No 128- 47 pts Sparks Swedish House Mafia JLS Talking Heads No 132- 46 pts Vaccines Kraftwerk Chase & Status No 135- 45 pts Crowded House Wombats No 137- 44pts XX A1 No 139- 43 pts Simply Red Alphabeat Portishead Def Leppard No 143- 42 pts Bon Iver Savage Garden Belle & Sebastian No 146- 41pts Script Ace Of Base No 148- 40pts Biffy Clyro No 149- 39pts Culture Club Mamas & Papas No 151- 38 pts Kooks Vengaboys No 153- 37 pts Sleeper Jonas Brothers Sheppard No 156- 36 pts Sade No 157- 35pts Fall Out Boy Dead Or Alive Cardigans No 160- 34 pts Bucks Fizz Jesus & Marychain No 162- 33pts Booty Luv FLO Maneskin No 165- 32 pts Bloc Party Police Ash Train Joy Division Doors No 171- 31 pts Vampire Weekend B*Witched Boyzone Boney M Veronicas No 176- 30 pts Goldfrapp AC/DC Disturbed Killing Joke Lukas Graham Ocean Colour Scene No 182- 29 pts Travis Five Star Iron Maiden Showtek No 186- 28pts Yes Rudimental Mumford & Sons Nickelback Kaiser Chiefs En Vogue Orbital Siouxsie & The Banshees Super Furry Animals No 195- 27pts Elbow Marillion Santana Sisters Of Mercy Yardbirds Ween No 201- 26pts Skunk Anansie MGMT Big Brovaz Black Sabbath Cramps Mobb Deep Monkees No 208- 25pts Catfish & The Bottlemen Dire Straits Roots They Might Be Giants No 212- 24 pts Embrace D-12 Sex Pistols Stone Roses The Go! Team No 217- 23 pts Kings Of Leon Evanescence Dubstar L7 Maccabees N Dubz T Rex No 224- 22 pts Supergrass Moody Blues Fratellis Lynyrd Skynyrd Mercury Rev Pharcyde Pointer Sisters Status Quo No 232- 21 pts East 17 Thompson Twins Wu-Tang Clan Judas Priest Led Zepplin NO 237- 20 pts Tribe Called Quest Cocteau Twins Jamiroquai Bob Marley & The Wailers Fairport Convention Last Dinner Party M83 Pop Will Eat Itself Rogue Traders Scouting For Girls No 247- 19pts Ultravox Cascada James Disclosure 2 Unlimited Air Bad meets Evil Basement Jaxx De La Soul Dead Kennedys Eagles Procol Harum No 259- 18pts Madness Pogues Alice Deejay Clipse Kodaline Pendulum No 265- 17pts Libertines Panic! At the Disco All About Eve Soft Cell Faithless G-Unit Lady Antebellum Peter Bjorn & John No 273- 16pts Pixies Chainsmokers Avalanches Jam Aqua Glasvegas Lindisfarne LZ7 Toto No 282- 15pts Guillemots Fugees Specials Dollar Godley & Crème Doobie Brothers Everything But The Girl Hot Chocolate Krept & Konan levellers Madison Avenue Shed Seven Kiss No 295- 14 pts System Of A Down Underworld Hole White Stripes Who No 300- 13pts XTC Sweet T'Pau Zero 7 Bangles Alcazar Jane's Addiction M2M NWA No 309- 12pts LCD Soundsystem Hard- Fi ABC Housemartins Cream Damned Jimi Hendrix Experience Jungle Pigeon Detectives No 318- 11pts Art Of Noise Last Shadow Puppets HIM Axwell/Ingrosso D-Block Europe Earth, Wind & Fire Eiffel 65 Hear'Say Limp Bizkit Motorhead Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Voice Of The Beehive Cake No 331- 10 pts Of Monsters & Men Friendly Fires Prefab Sprout KLF Chiddy Bang Feeder Meduza Travelling Wilburys Walk The Moon No 340- 9pts Two Door Cinema Club Delays Bros Gym Class Heroes Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood Public Enemy Scooter Stooshie No 348- 8 pts Adam & The Ants BTS Cheat Codes Shakespear's Sister Bluetones Boston Dave Dee Dozy Beaky Mick & Tich Nolans NSG Ramones Selena Gomez & The Scene No 359- 7pts S Club 8/Juniors Moloko Cleopatra Air Supply Echo & The Bunnymen Justice Lonely Island Ben Folds Five No 367- 6pts Sister Sledge Catatonia Mike & The Mechanics Bauhaus CNCO JJ72 Milky Chance Nero Sash! Space Brothers Village People No 378- 5pts Scorpions Kasabian Bellefire Frankie Goes To Hollywood Glass Animals Move Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Planet Funk Silk Sonic Wings Roxy Music No 389- 4pts Strokes Queens Of The Stone Age Red Box Pipettes Animals Boyz II Men Editors Eric B & Rakim Florida Georgia Line Ghost Neon Jungle Psychedelic Furs Union J No 402- 3pts Interpol Empire Of The Sun Same Difference All American Rejects Wilson Phillips Audio Bully's Beastie Boys Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Gin Blossoms GRL Portugal. The Man Jimmy Eat World Feeling No 415- 2pts Yeah Yeah Yeah's Bill Haley & The Comets Four Seasons Fun Lightning Seeds My Life Story Terror Squad Sonic Youth No 423- 1pt Primal Scream Maximo Park Karmin Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Less Than Jake Madcon Shadows Starsailor Thirteen Senses Three 6 Mafia Wonderstuff Deacon Blue

NO 2- THE SPICE GIRLS ( 1)- 613 POINTS Voters: Leonardo- 26pts, Vibe- 30pts, Scene- 29pts, Josh!- 21 pts, Gezza- 4pts, JosephBoone- 18pts, Spiceboy- 30pts, Jade- 4pts, AaronTM- 30pts, xajnipi- 23pts, Lukuzz- 29pts, Padamic Tension- 23pts, Mack- 7pts, Bris29- 30pts, …Ready For It- 26pts, Lillanv273- 27pts, Jay- 30pts, Quartonworks- 27pts, Jordanlee- 29pts, jra9189- 24pts, Mango- 4pts, Lee_His_Cheeks- 28pts, Dark Horse- 23pts, Rogue- 29pts, One_For_Sorrow- 3pts, Gooddelta- 22pts, Roba- 21pts, Stonedragon- 16pts 11 UK TOP 40 HITS BIGGEST HIT: WANNABE (#1, 1996) SAY YOU’LL BE THERE (#1, 1996) 2 BECOME 1 (#1, 1996) MAMA/ WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE (#1, 1997) SPICE UP YOUR LIFE (#1, 1997) TOO MUCH (#1, 1997) VIVA FOREVER (#1, 1998) GOODBYE (#1, 1998) HOLLER/ LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY (#1, 2000) 1iyQBxSbvqg

So after 4 months we're ending the rate tomorrow in what amounts to a battle of the girl groups- So just who will win?.....................

A whopping 32 voters for ABBA and not a single 30 pointer!

NO 3- ABBA ( 4)- 590 POINTS Voters: Leonardo- 29pts, Scene- 18pts, Cow P- 4pts, Gezza- 15pts, Spiceboy- 29pts, Jade- 10pts, Rio309- 8pts, AaronTM- 20pts, xajnipi- 28pts, Lukuzz- 26pts, Padamic Tension- 8pts, Mack- 3pts, Lillanv273- 26pts, Jay- 15pts, AH Gold- 29pts, Jordanlee- 25pts, Jester- 12pts, jra1989- 21pts, Mango- 22pts, Lee_His_Cheeks- 8pts, smint- 10pts, Dark Horse- 21pts, Rogue- 5pts, One_For_Sorrow- 23pts, Gooddelta- 26pts, Chez Wombat- 13 pts, marcinjaro- 24pts, chartjack2- 23pts, popchartfreak- 29pts, JulianT- 29pts, Stonedragon- 27pts, Seven- 4pts 27 UK TOP 40 HITS BIGGEST HIT: WATERLOO (#1, 1974) MAMA MIA (#1, 1976) FERNANDO (#1, 1976) DANCING QUEEN (#1, 1976) KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU (#1, 1977) THE NAME OF THE GAME (#1, 1977) TAKE A CHANCE ON ME (#1, 1978) THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL (#1, 1980) SUPER TROUPER (#1, 1980) Vl7u4WwVmUo

Place your bets now for who is getting bronze position!

NO 4- THE SUGABABES ( 5)- 531 POINTS Voters: Leonardo- 24pts, Vibe- 29pts, Scene- 6pts,Josh!- 15pts, Darrenjames- 9pts, Gezza- 6pts, Electroboy- 26pts, JosephBoone- 27pts, Spiceboy- 26pts, Jade- 12pts, AaronTM- 28pts, Lukuzz- 28pts, Bris29- 25pts, …Ready For It- 11pts, Lillanv273- 12pts, Jay- 26pts, GreyAsh- 24pts, Quartonworks- 12pts, Jordanlee- 26pts, jra1989- 30pts, Lee_His_Cheeks- 18pts, smint- 4pts, Dark Horse- 16pts, Rogue- 20pts, Riser- 11pts, One_For_Sorrow- 29pts, Roba- 26pts, Stonedragon- 5pts 26 UK TOP 40 HITS BIGGEST HIT: FREAK LIKE ME (#1, 2002) ROUND ROUND (#1, 2002) HOLE IN THE HEAD (#1, 2003) PUSH THE BUTTON (#1, 2005) WALK THIS WAY (#1, 2007) ABOUT YOU NOW (#1, 2007) cn1Ju0wLT_U

So I've settled on my 30- now to put them in order. This is genuinely the toughest rate I've ever done I think just in terms of narrowing it to 30 songs.

The last 8 sets of votes were interesting as there was a real drive towards acts which were not already in the top 10. I'll go into more detail once we're done but with 8 sets of votes left to add in you can see that some acts made some real big jumps Queen were 11th Pet Shop Boys were 12th The Beatles were 14th They all collected over 100 points from the last 8 voters. By contrast some collected barely anything- The Killers for example got a poor 29 points and Steps (who were in 4th) got just 6 points allowing LM to catch them at the last minute and push them out of the top 5.

In their defence (and looking at the top 30) they are the only act to make a substantial showing on this rate who also debuted in the last 15 years

NO 5- LITTLE MIX ( 6)- 498 POINTS Voter: Leonardo- 27pts, Vibe- 10pts, Josh!-30pts, JosephBoone- 20pts, Spiceboy- 1pt, AaronTM- 29pts, Lukuzz- 22pts, Padamic Tension- 7pts, Mack- 27pts, Bris29- 18pts, …Ready For It- 13pts, Lillanv273- 28pts, Jay-23pts, Quartonworks- 30pts, Jordanlee- 22pts, jra1989- 28pts, Mango- 11pts, Detonate- 26pts, Rogue- 28pts, Jason- 18pts, Riser- 6pts, Gooddelta- 9pts, LewisGT- 29pts, Roba- 12pts, Stonedragon- 24pts 33 UK TOP 40 HITS BIGGEST HIT: CANNONBALL (#1, 2011) WINGS (#1, 2012) BLACK MAGIC (#1, 2015) SHOUT OUT TO MY EX (#1, 2016) SWEET MELODY (#1, 2020) Fz39ehHNEow

Yes although i think the version on the tribute album was done by Monaco. Anyway that's what "Tragedy" was originally recorded for.

It was on the bee gees tribute album that I bought in late 98. It was released a few weeks after 911's "More than a woman" I'm sure.

I think as the track ("Tragedy") was already available on an album not much was expected of it despite the , then, recent examples to the contrary from take that and Boyzone not to mention 911.

So some facts about the top 5: There are 12 thirty pointers to be given out between four acts, meaning that 1 act left never got maximum points from any voter# All acts attracted at least 25 voters All will be revealed by the end of the week!

Well their artist forum was all over the rate from the off and they were third for a while (even led after the first set of votes thanks to Leonardo).