Earl Purple

Since 1999, my chart of the year has been compiled by points, and the winner on points is not always the real winner. I will list both. 1998 and before I just compiled the chart of the year based on what I felt at the end of the year. 2012: On points, "World's End" by Army Navy. Actual #1 was "Dave" by Missing Andy which also would have been #1 on points but for the fact it spent 2 weeks in the chart in 2011 which didn't count towards its 2012 total. 2011: "Sunny Side Of The Street" by Sonic Boom Six, also the correct #1 of the year, albeit the weakest of all "#1 of the year" awards. 2010: "Sex With An X" by Vaselines, also correct #1 of the year. 2009: "Other Too Endless" by Polly Scattergood, also correct #1. 2008: "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay. This was very close with "The Day That Never Ends" by Metallica in its "points" battle and it's difficult to know which was my real #1 of the year. The songs are just so totally different. 2007: "Rise" by Ben's Brother. This was in the chart for ages and is a great song but not sure it was the song of the year, which was either "I Wish That I Could See You Soon" by Herman Dune or "Me & You" by Slow Club. 2006: "Loaded" by Idle Hands. But actual #1 was "Start Wearing Purple" by Gogol Bordello, which on points only came about 8th. 2005: "Beautiful Son" by Without Gravity. Runaway #1 of the year and the decade. Good timing to release a song called "Beautiful Son" one week before my son was born. 2004: "Akira The Don's Drinking Song" by Akira The Don. Actually track 2 of their EP, but at the time clearly more popular than track 1. 2003: "Just The Way I'm Feeling" by Feeder. In the chart of the decade this was nowhere near the #1 from that year though, as "This Is The Last Time" by Keane finished 2nd of the decade having had a second chart run in 2004. 2002: "Watching Xanadu" by Mull Historical Society on points, but in reality heavily beaten by "Sell Out" by Reel Big Fish. The chart was weak while MHS was #1. Reel Big Fish was only two #1s later (with Buffseeds in between) but the chart had got a lot stronger by that point. 2001: "Health & Efficiency" by Cinerama. 7 weeks at #1 but not sure why this ended up their biggest hit, I think "Superman" from earlier in the year was better than it. 2000: "Manhattan" by Cinerama, and loads of weeks in the chart but the actual #1 of the year was "Do What You Do (The Earworm Song)" by the Clint Boon Experience with Fran Healy. 1999: "You Can't Keep A Good Man Down" by Clint Boon Experience. They definitely had the #1 of the year but disputed with which song, this one, "White No Sugar" or "Comet Theme Number One". 1998: "I'll Show You Mine" by Ultrasound. Strange choice with the epic "Stay Young" being the better known song, but this was the one I picked at the time.

Tich - Breathe In Breathe Out. Nowhere. But it was part of Candlelight EP released just before Christmas. Maybe her new single Dumb will chart. EP was listed in top 200 in iTunes. Bombskare - Do All Dogs Go To Heaven. Nowhere. Listed nowhere as far as I know. Akira The Don - One More Pope To Go. Nowhere. He once had a dream and it lasted for a decade, but in all this time has never troubled the UK chart compilers. Not sure if he ever reached the top 200, possibly in the earlier days. Hefner - The Day That Thatcher Died. Nowhere but was top 100 on some of the download charts at one point, behind Ding Dong and the Elvis Costello song. Hefner had 3 top 75 hits during their time, "Good Fruit" being the highest peaking. The last #1 in my chart to reach the UK top 75 was actually a UK #1: Robbie Williams with Candy.

Note: my chart dates back to 1977 and there have been charts every week since then. However I will be doing most of my stats as 1998 and beyond, although on occasion I may go back further. I have a 7 rule maximum and no #1 has ever exceeded that. In the earlier days 7 week #1s were more common, but are very infrequent. Perhaps the most surprising 7 week NM #1 is "Stan" by Eminem because he's pretty much flopped with everything else he's ever released. Since 1998 that is one of only 3 singles to have topped for 7 weeks, the others being "Health & Efficiency" by Cinerama in 2001 and "Beautiful Son" by Without Gravity in 2005. Since 1998 the following have spent 6 weeks at #1: 1998: Cinerama - Kerry Kerry 2000: Ooberman - Shorley Wall 2003: Feeder - Just The Way I'm Feeling 2006-7: Fratellis - Whistle For The Choir 2008: Coldplay - Viva La Vida 2010: Eliza Doolittle - Pack Up 2013: Tich - Breathe In Breathe Out 5 week number ones have been a lot more common. Prior to 1998, most of what was what was also in the UK chart. That is why I tend to split the eras here. During the britpop era, Pulp and Oasis both had 7 week #1s, Pulp with "Babies" and Oasis with "Whatever". It was common at the time for me to listen to whole EPs (or singles with their B-sides). Pulp was therefore "The Sisters EP" and Oasis's EP also contained "Half The World Away" among its other tracks. The presence of the other tracks kept Oasis at #1 for so long, or Scarlet would have taken over with "Independent Love Song" after about 4 weeks of Oasis. (It entered at #4 on the 3rd week of Whatever then was #2 on weeks 4, 5 and 6).

Thank you for replying. I was worried my chart was going to disappear off the page with no replies. Given all the others have people replying to them I'd probably have disappeared off these forums for another year had that happened. The problem I find with combined charts is that it's the well known songs that get to the top because the others are simply ones nobody knows. The only thing that differs from the regular UK chart is the ordering, and occasionally there's a non-chart song that has obviously been played enough that enough people know it and it gets in anyway. The real purpose of publishing ones own chart should be partly to introduce people to new music. I am hoping people will subscribe to my spotify chart list or my releases playlist. I build the playlist with 2 others. If you like Kodaline you might like the new entry by Dirty Reds which is a similar genre. 1. Hefner: This song dates back to 2000 so was written during Tony Blair's time as Prime Minister and during the "happier" period before the Gulf War that made him less popular. Hefner were played regularly at the time by John Peel. The lead singer Darren Hayman now records solo. 2. Wonder Stuff: a great pop band from the Madchester period, whose best known song is probably "The Size Of A Cow" although they did get to #1 with Vic Reeves on "Dizzy". They have released a retrospective "best of" with this as a new song (commonly done with best-ofs). 3. Freedom Fry: little known act. Sort of Human League like.. 4. Kodaline. Familiar to you - indie ballad. 5. Vampire Weekend: American alternative rock band, fairly well known, inspired by a few before them, remind me a bit of Pavement. 6. Parry Gripp: comic songwriter who writes very short songs which he releases for free. This one last just over 1 minute. 7. Touchy Feelies: Just up-tempo power pop-rock with a nice melody. It surprises me that this genre isn't more popular. 8. Strypes: Irish alternative pop-rock 60s influenced. 9. Akira The Don: rapper from Liverpool, more in the genre of the Streets type rapping. Has been around a while, had previous #1s in my chart in 2004 and 2005. 10. Rio Callahan: More uptempo pop-rock.

I'm not sure if it was the BBC who arranged the robot. The sound though, the monotonic voice of "I am your automatic lover, automatic lover" is on the record.

I am enjoying watching the TOTP episodes, they were ones I watched at the time in my youth, and did remember some of the 1977 ones I had recorded at the time. In 1978 I didn't record TOTP episodes. I did used to often tape from the top 20 countdown. That's all they counted down back then and the whole thing was packed into an hour which meant many songs were truncated to fit. And of course it was mono, had a DJs voice often over the intro and was in general poor quality. That's what home-taping was like and so buying the single was the option if you wanted the whole thing in better quality. Perhaps why there wasn't the outrage that occurred that subsequently happened in the download era. TOTP played what was being charted at the time, and always had a policy of preferring artists who could perform "in the studio". Punk acts often did come to do just that, which is why we get a fair amount of it. Just because there was none in last week's episode didn't make it that bad. The full episode had "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty in it, and Suzi Quatro one more time, and Chic. And Genesis with "Follow You Follow Me", a good song and we saw what Phil Collins looked like in 1978 (yes he had hair). I know you lot probably hate ballads but "Too Much Too Little Too Late" is a good song, and Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams were both great singers, especially the former. Automatic Lover is a good song, I don't care what people thought. "Do It Do It Again" is a fun song. I even quite like Matchstalk Men & Matchstalk Cats & Dogs. Alan Price was ok. The only ones I really didn't like were Child's boring cover of the Searchers and that guy who did that disco song near the end with Legs & Co on stage dancing with him. Bonnie Tyler wasn't particularly good either. Don't worry, there is a really golden era just around the corner BUT not all the music in it is great, and the Smurfs spent 6 weeks at #2.

My chart is compiled every week but is rarely posted on this forum. I should because it then reaches a larger audience. This is the current top 100: 1 ( 1 ) The Day That Thatcher Dies - Hefner < 2nd week at #1 > 2 ( 2 ) On No! - Wonder Stuff 3 ( 15 ) Friends And Enemies - Freedom Fry 4 ( 4 ) High Hopes - Kodaline 5 ( 21 ) Diane Young - Vampire Weekend 6 ( -- ) Poobrador - Parry Gripp 7 ( 23 ) Happy Tuesday - Touchy Feelies 8 ( 7 ) Blue Collar Jane - Strypes (#7) 9 ( 3 ) One More Pope To Go - Akira The Don (#1[3]) 10 ( 10 ) Glamorous - Rio Callahan 11 ( 12 ) What I Could've Been - Eron Falbo 12 ( 14 ) Bound For Glory - Black Star Riders 13 ( 6 ) Katy Don't Worry - Nevertones (#3) 14 ( 28 ) Finders Keepers - Audacity 15 ( 5 ) Tightrope - Walk The Moon (#2[2]) 16 ( 16 ) All Around The World - BMX Bandits 17 ( -- ) Don't Forget Who You Are - Miles Kane 18 ( 33 ) Irish Pub Song - High Kings 19 ( 8 ) Purely Automatic - Brendan Benson (#6) 20 ( 9 ) Zeroes - Blue Van (#8) 21 ( 20 ) Grace for Saints and Ramblers - Iron And Wine (#20) 22 ( 13 ) Army of Two - Olly Murs (#13) 23 ( -- ) Live Your Life in the Sun - Dirty Reds 24 ( 38 ) "It's Alright It's Ok" - Primal Scream 25 ( 11 ) Love Is Gone - Oxford & Co. (#9) 26 ( -- ) Recovery - Frank Turner 27 ( 42 ) Building a Wall - Singing Adams 28 ( 26 ) It's Over - Rod Stewart (#26) 29 ( -- ) Say You Love Me - Attic Lights 30 ( 46 ) Downtown - Lady Antebellum 31 ( 18 ) Blindsight - Friends (#18) 32 ( 17 ) Let Me Back In - Rilo Kiley (#16) 33 ( 29 ) Not Worthy - Jack Savoretti (#29) 34 ( 49 ) Pickle - Army Navy 35 ( -- ) Lost in the Music - Smiley Mikey 36 ( 31 ) Controlled - Skumdum (#31) 37 ( 52 ) Big Red Dragon - Little Green Cars 38 ( -- ) Hand Me A Ticket - Sam Gray 39 ( 36 ) Waste of Time - Colorblindrb (#36) 40 ( 25 ) A Baby Got Back On Its Feet - House Of Love (#25) 41 ( 57 ) Dance With Me - Ra Ra Riot 42 ( -- ) How Can I Tell You - Madness 43 ( 60 ) Friday Is Forever - We The Kings 44 ( -- ) Ordinary Girls - English Singles 45 ( 41 ) In Your Car - Big Deal (#41) 46 ( 22 ) Little White Lies - Sports Fan (#13) 47 ( 19 ) Tripis - Porretas (#3) 48 ( 30 ) Borrowed Time - Athletes in Paris (#29) 49 ( 63 ) How Lonely Is You - Best of Friends 50 ( -- ) LoverBoy - Billie 51 ( 44 ) Running - Eric Himan (#44) 52 ( 67 ) Don't Play With Guns - Black Angels 53 ( -- ) Beautiful Girl - Wendy Hackett Band 54 ( 48 ) Who Do We Think We Are - Michael Castro (#48) 55 ( 24 ) Free Radical Radio Fever - Mischief Brew (#7) 56 ( 35 ) Flexin - Masters In France (#32) 57 ( -- ) Stay Out - Nina Nesbitt 58 ( 72 ) Never Wanted Your Love - She & Him 59 ( 53 ) Go Easy - We Cut Corners (#53) 60 ( -- ) Glorious - Bogdan & the Frogs 61 ( 27 ) Right As Rain - Face To Face (#8) 62 ( 39 ) All In - Monty (#35) 63 ( 76 ) Sid & Nancy - Sizzy Rocket 64 ( -- ) To Be Heard - Caroline Luxton White 65 ( 56 ) Last Desire - Coves (#56) 66 ( 32 ) Clear Your Browser History - Jarinus (#15) 67 ( -- ) Breakfast At Sylvia's - Skint & Demoralised 68 ( 80 ) Fertile Nerd Alert - Future Fridays 69 ( 34 ) I Wanna Get Drunk - Dakota Park (#19) 70 ( 61 ) Shrapnel - Monique Lanham (#61) 71 ( 82 ) Carnaby Street - Village Green 72 ( -- ) Travelling Is Living - Christian B. Hougaard 73 ( 45 ) Recover - Chvrches (#40) 74 ( -- ) A Geek Like Me - Simple Carnival 75 ( 86 ) Christiana Obey - Republica 76 ( 50 ) My Girl - Willy Moon (#45) 77 ( -- ) Einstein's Theory - Sunset Strip Club 78 ( 40 ) Fallen - City Shakeup (#22) 79 ( 89 ) Boomerang - Barenaked Ladies 80 ( -- ) Plastic Bags in Trees - Fred Blankenburg 81 ( 69 ) The Factory - Bear Language (#69) 82 ( 43 ) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration - Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones (#25) 83 ( 37 ) Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? - Bombskare (#1[5]) 84 ( 71 ) The Escape - Friendly Savages (#71) 85 ( 55 ) Walking In Your Footsteps - Shout Out Louds (#49) 86 ( -- ) I Want Her - Blind Fury ft Georgia Harris 87 ( 95 ) The Words Don't Work - Orange Peels 88 ( -- ) Long Night - Reversals 89 ( 59 ) The Fire and the Flame - Blood Music (#53) 90 ( 97 ) Delete Me - Jody Has A Hitlist 91 ( -- ) Too Happy - Mikko Pettinen 92 ( 99 ) Backyard Skulls - Frightened Rabbit 93 ( -- ) Yours Sincerely - Mustangs 94 ( 79 ) Pickup Truck - Willy Mason (#79) 95 ( 64 ) There Will Come A Time - Noah And The Whale (#57) 96 ( 47 ) Caught By Surprise - Postelles (#11) 97 ( -- ) Sticks & Stones - Heart Set 98 ( 54 ) Blue Sweater - Mike Fore (#30) 99 ( 84 ) Rain - Peter Kidd (#84) 100 ( -- ) I'm In Love With Margaret Thatcher - NotSensibles ____________________________________________________________ -- ( 51 ) Queen Of The Dagger - Baboon Show (#6) -- ( 58 ) Rhythm of the Road - Robert Jon & the Wreck (#34) -- ( 62 ) The Spirit of Bradford City - Simon Crabtree (#5) -- ( 65 ) Moth Into Your Flame - Golden Troubadours (#9) -- ( 66 ) My Heart Skips A Beat - Toy (#20) -- ( 68 ) Back to Hackney - Great Cynics (#37) -- ( 70 ) Mr. Crow - Keith Spinney (#60) -- ( 73 ) Easy - Sheryl Crow (#63) -- ( 74 ) This Is Not A Game - Skunk Anansie (#44) -- ( 75 ) Fictional Reasons - Boho Dancer (#23) -- ( 77 ) Fight For Everyone - Leisure Society (#66) -- ( 78 ) Kite Flyers Club - Sligh Brothers (#47) -- ( 81 ) Amy - Beggars (#50) -- ( 83 ) Famous - Fanny Leeb (#12) -- ( 85 ) Whiskey Please - Wheeler Sisters (#26) -- ( 87 ) Thunder in Your Heart - Stan Bush (#73) -- ( 88 ) Rollin With the Sound - Old North State -- ( 90 ) One Night Stand - Sam Gray (#2[2]) -- ( 91 ) Happiness - First (#31) -- ( 92 ) Better Man - Robert Webb -- ( 93 ) If It Were up to Me - Stamps -- ( 94 ) Still Into You - Paramore (#78) -- ( 96 ) Magical - Skies (#81) -- ( 98 ) When the Money's Gone - Super Robertson (#57) -- ( 100 ) Four Walls - Crowns (#84) ____________________________________________________________ -- ( -- ) Fox You - Pointless Hour -- ( -- ) Who Do You Love? - New Spring -- ( -- ) Is This What You Waited for? - Cry Before Dawn -- ( -- ) Creep the Creeps - Kids On A Crime Spree -- ( -- ) Eventually - Me You & Thomas ____________________________________________________________ I rarely chart old songs. Very rarely in fact, and Hefner getting to #1 was a one-off. The chart is based on playlists compiled each week with searches on spotify and iTunes. Most of the songs that reach the chart are available on spotify, and I usually make a playlist of it there.

I am aware, I always vote late for these, it's even more difficult with the new scoring. I do however have a very clear leader for the one I am going to give the top score.

My chart is weekly, not monthly... But here is the chart 4 weeks after I last posted one, so you get to see a lot of new songs you didn't see last time around. zDrejxvPw8M 1 ( 3 ) (All I Wanted Was) Danger - Milk < 1st #1 hit > 2 ( 1 ) Hired Gun - Andy Clayburn (#1[3]) 3 ( 2 ) Love Again For The First Time - Julian Velard (#2) 4 ( 6 ) My Love For Evermore - Hillbilly Moon Explosion ft Sparky Phillips 5 ( 17 ) Under Cover Of Darkness - Strokes 6 ( 8 ) The Truth That Ran Us Down - Colenso Parade 7 ( 5 ) No Match For Genevieve - Lights (#5) 8 ( 24 ) Holy Saturday Gloomy Sunday - Tigers That Talked 9 ( 11 ) I Like This One - Joe Stilgoe 10 ( 4 ) Julee - David Cope (#3) 11 ( 14 ) It Tends To Be Enough - Carters 12 ( 30 ) Violets Are Red - Like A Real Boy 13 ( 34 ) Don't Let It Happen - James Henry 14 ( 10 ) Mirrors - Draymin (#10) 15 ( -- ) Would You Say Stop - Acid House Kings 16 ( 18 ) Johnny Two Kebabs - Kieran Mc Kenna 17 ( 37 ) Jamie - Akira The Don 18 ( 7 ) Grace - View (#4) 19 ( 12 ) Sad Song - Cars (#12) 20 ( 21 ) Set The World On Fire - King Blues 21 ( -- ) Come On - I'm From Barcelona 22 ( 9 ) Queen Of Professional Single Mothers - Dirty Flags (#6) 23 ( 42 ) Memory Boy - Deerhunter 24 ( 15 ) Something In The Water - Brooke Fraser (#15) 25 ( 16 ) Dream Of The Future - Supercity (#16) 26 ( 25 ) Damaging Acts - Cute Lepers (#25) 27 ( 46 ) Hello - Baseballs 28 ( -- ) A Cameo Can't Last Forever - Brights 29 ( 13 ) If You Wanna - Vaccines (#10) 30 ( 28 ) Quiet Life - Shakinouts (#28) 31 ( 51 ) Hanging By A Thread - Cowbell 32 ( -- ) Little Surprise - Wave Pictures 33 ( 31 ) 10000 Claps / Mouthful Of Diamonds - Phantogram (#31) 34 ( 22 ) Bumpy Ride - Hoosiers (#22) 35 ( 35 ) Recharge & Revolt - Raveonettes 36 ( -- ) 1983 - Neon Trees 37 ( 57 ) Home - Thirteen Senses 38 ( 61 ) Radio - Raphael Saadiq 39 ( -- ) Chinese Walk - Amanda Lear 40 ( 39 ) The Sound Of Sunshine - Michael Franti & Spearhead (#39) 41 ( 19 ) Mr Medicine - Eliza Doolittle (#13) 42 ( 40 ) Talk - Big Deal (#40) 43 ( 65 ) Anniversary - Lagoonbird 44 ( -- ) Puzzle Piece - Drive 45 ( 45 ) Can't Quit You - Hitch Hikers 46 ( 23 ) Blackout - Anna Calvi (#16) 47 ( -- ) The Dreamer - Ryan Sheridan 48 ( 70 ) Make It Happen - Woodfield 49 ( 20 ) Penelope Jane - Jonny Dongel (#4) 50 ( 48 ) California Bound - Julia Vriend (#48) 51 ( 33 ) Brighter Greener - Emma's Imagination (#32) 52 ( -- ) OMG - Streets 53 ( 27 ) She's A Bitch And I'm A Fool - Sparks The Rescue (#19) 54 ( 74 ) Anti-D - Wombats 55 ( 53 ) Summer - Camryn (#53) 56 ( 36 ) Let Me Guide The Way - Jack Trainer (#35) 57 ( 38 ) This Is Your Song - Sick Of The Day (#38) 58 ( -- ) Who - Ukaye Ukes 59 ( 79 ) Morning Sun - Judy Mooch 60 ( -- ) Love To Life - Twenty Twenty 61 ( 82 ) Got A Girl - Erony 62 ( 43 ) Backfire (Set Them All Alight) - Paul Shevlin (#43) 63 ( 26 ) Your Dogs - Ben Folds & Nick Hornby (#1[4]) 64 ( 44 ) Lazy - Juliet Russell (#44) 65 ( 60 ) City Of Hope - Journey (#60) 66 ( -- ) Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair - Arctic Monkeys 67 ( 85 ) Sombody Save Me - Pint Shot Riot 68 ( 47 ) This Ain't No Hymn - Saint Saviour (#47) 69 ( 29 ) Shrink - Lady Indiraa (#6) 70 ( 63 ) Moving On - Soulweaver (#63) 71 ( 88 ) Without You - Reachback 72 ( -- ) This Love Of Mine - Maybe Myrtle Tyrtle 73 ( 32 ) Be My Man - Asa (#11) 74 ( 90 ) Take My Hand - Matt Berry 75 ( -- ) Lost & Found - Jukebox Collective 76 ( 93 ) Gypsy Fireflies - Liam Blake 77 ( 69 ) Weekend - Wannabeastar (#69) 78 ( 41 ) Trampoline - Aaron Wright (#28) 79 ( -- ) Gonna Get There - Tim Knol 80 ( 96 ) Shake It Up - Mars Patrol 81 ( -- ) Tolerate - Giant Steps 82 ( 56 ) Masquerade - Mojo Filters (#54) 83 ( 100 ) Follow Me - Jetson 84 ( 75 ) Bird On The Wing - Singing Adams (#75) 85 ( -- ) Animals - Morain 86 ( 77 ) Dreamer Girl (Have You Ever Heard) - Asa (#77) 87 ( -- ) If You've Ever Felt Before - Before The Impact 88 ( 80 ) Borrowed Time - Athletes In Paris (#80) 89 ( 81 ) Tonight Matthew - Secret Rivals (#81) 90 ( -- ) Somebody Loves You - Andy Clayburn 91 ( 64 ) Only Look Up When You're Down - Steve Cradock (#60) 92 ( -- ) You Got Me - Laura Tapp 93 ( 55 ) A Drowning - Pope Joan (#34) 94 ( -- ) Let The Band Play On - Broken City Skyline 95 ( 50 ) You Make Me Happy - Sophie Madeleine (#16) 96 ( 49 ) Dina Flashigaste Trosor - Wille Crafoord (#7) 97 ( 71 ) Haunting At 1300 McKinley - Black Angels (#65) 98 ( -- ) All We Wanna Do - Two Wounded Birds 99 ( 59 ) Planetary (Go!) - My Chemical Romance (#37) 100 ( -- ) Sunday Drive - Silvershock ________________________________________________________________ -- ( 52 ) I Want The World To Stop - Belle And Sebastian (#2[2]) -- ( 54 ) Red On The Inside - Project Volcano (#14) -- ( 58 ) The City - Patrick Wolf (#19) -- ( 62 ) 22-22 - Ice Black Birds (#39) -- ( 66 ) Guybrush Threepwood - Danny Fontaine & The Horns Of Fury (#22) -- ( 67 ) Hard Habit - Zoe Scott (#8) -- ( 68 ) Blow On The Fire - Contardo (#44) -- ( 72 ) Man On The Moon - Sam Roman (#3) -- ( 73 ) This Music Is Mine - Deaf Radio (#48) -- ( 76 ) First Class Fool - Gogobot (#69) -- ( 78 ) I Confess - k.d. lang And The Siss Boom Bang (#25) -- ( 83 ) Wake And Be Fine - Okkervil River (#52) -- ( 84 ) The Ballad Of Mona Lisa - Panic! At The Disco (#75) -- ( 86 ) Model Homes - In-Flight Safety (#78) -- ( 87 ) Take It Out - Call The Doctor (#58) -- ( 89 ) Wild At Heart - Kits (#82) -- ( 91 ) Monkey See Monkey Do - Showstar (#62) -- ( 92 ) City With No Children - Arcade Fire (#30) -- ( 94 ) The Realist - Operator Six (#86) -- ( 95 ) Satellite - Kills (#87) -- ( 97 ) Sorry - Catpeople (#16) -- ( 98 ) Sneaky Freak - Imelda May (#5) -- ( 99 ) Strangers - White Lies (#67) ________________________________________________________________ -- ( -- ) River Sister - Syd Matters -- ( -- ) Rubicon - Kick -- ( -- ) Focus On You - House Exit -- ( -- ) Severed Dreams - Ruarri Joseph -- ( -- ) The Weirdest Way - Sparks The Rescue -- ( -- ) Lucid Dream - Crossfire Hurricane -- ( -- ) Summer - Luke Fenlon ________________________________________________________________

I have found a common pattern in places where I post my chart: I get responses filtering out to leave the big name acts. I didn't know Feldberg was big but obviously 2 of you know that. My hope is that people who like the general kind of music in my chart will go out of their way to check out the others. In reality I know there are very few people who will actually do that. It's always nice though to know that my chart introduced someone to something they liked and wouldn't have heard otherwise.

Has not happened for ages but these were the few: Styx: Babe and Why Me, 1980. "Why Me" is a very much underrated Styx track. John Lennon: Just Like Starting Over, Imagine and Woman, 1981. Just Like Starting Over returned to #1 after he died. Roxette: It Must Have Been Love, Listen To Your Heart, 1990. Listen To Your Heart was returning to the chart having peaked at #2 in 1989. Queen: The Show Must Go On, Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives, 1991. The Show Must Go On returned to #1 after Freddie Mercury died. Kingmaker: Ten Years Asleep, Queen Jane, 1993 Roxette hold the record for the most consecutive weeks at #1 with that sequence, 10 in total.

The following two singles spent 6 weeks at #2 in my chart: 1980 Odyssey - If You're Lookin' For A Way Out 2001 Supernaturals - Finishing Credits neither of these artists ever had a #1. The Wedding Present spent 5 weeks at #2 with "Interstate 5" at the end of 2004. They have also had many number ones. The single regarded as the closest ever to being #1 that didn't make it is "Comedy" by Shack on 10 July 1999. The single spent 3 weeks at #2 and 14 in the chart altogether and finished 5th in the chart of the year, thus beating all but 4 of the #1s including the one that kept it out.

Iron Maiden's "Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter" is the first case I know that reached #1 in the UK chart and was never put on the Radio 1 playlist although they played it in the countdown and probably in the specialist rock show they had at the time, that played some heavy metal, but they felt the general listening audience would not take to it very well.

This was the chart compiled as "chart of the year" and is done solely on points obtained in the charts of the year. Songs that chart across 2 years will be thus likely to have a lower placing. For example "December" by Melodime was Christmas #1 and had only spent 3 weeks on the chart by the end of the year, the last of which was dated as Christmas day itself. It spent a further week at #1 and a few more in the chart. 100 Philadelphia - Standard Fare 99 Tensies - Parasite 98 An Idea About Mary - Wallis Bird 97 Mayhem - Imelda May 96 Get So Low - Jont 95 You Got Yourself - Tom Mansi & The Icebreakers 94 In My Mind - Broken Vinyl Club 93 Life Design - Parlotones 92 Coffee - Josh Woodward 91 Falling Awake - Tarja 90 Christina - Boy Mandeville 89 Apple Pie Bed - Lawrence Arabia 88 Gotta Have My Java - Bryan White 87 Man Alive - Sequins 86 Emily - Absent Elk 85 Lost Souls - Eaton Park 84 This Is The Day - Fine Arts Showcase 83 Berkeley Girl - Harper Simon 82 Motif - Razzle 81 Lovers - Title Sequence 80 Rock The Boat - Big Hand 79 December - Melodime 78 Janey - Tourist Machine 77 Silent Snow - Magic Theatre 76 On A Limb - Magic Math 75 Argentina - Quails 74 We Both Say - Crissars 73 You're Somebody Even If Nobody Loves You - New Jerk Times 72 My Life As A Dog In A Pigsty - Bitter Springs 71 Who We Are - Redwood 70 Rudies Don't Care - Rude City Riot ft Jonny MacCormack 69 Bloodshot Days - Crookes 68 The Coolest Names In Showbiz - Flipron 67 Cocaine In The Mourning - Addam Scott 66 White Sky - Vampire Weekend 65 Retro Rockets - Stranglers 64 Life From The Bone - Daisy Wheeller 63 Dreaming - Allo Darlin' 62 That's The Man I'm Going To Be - Charlie Khan 61 This Is Who I Am - Vanessa Amorosi 60 Move On - Finest Hour 59 Superman Tonight - Bon Jovi 58 He's Not A Boy - Like 57 City Of Smoke - Supernovas 56 Don't Look Back - Matt Bianco 55 Sister Marie Says - Orchestra Manoeuvres In The Dark 54 Paper Thin - Betty And The Werewolves 53 F.B.I - Blue Babies 52 At The Indie Disco - Divine Comedy 51 Thankyou For Choosing - Needs Must 50 Don't Let Go - Keyz 49 Lifeline - Soldier 48 Tallulah - Stephen Hudson 47 Put It Politely - Nineninetynines 46 No Tears To Cry - Paul Weller 45 Dreams - Brandi Carlile 44 Postcard - Cedar Island Band 43 Make Love - Joe Cang 42 Missing - Warm Fuzzy 41 We Could Be The Same - Manga 40 Holey Holiness - Calliope Rose 39 In The End - Pete Lawrie 38 Futureproof - Stars & Sons 37 Synchronized Swimmers - Hafdis Huld 36 Shine On Me - Thieves Like Us 35 We Get Along - Dakota 34 The French Word For Love - Blood Oranges 33 Instinct - Ash 32 Na Na Na - My Chemical Romance 31 Try This At Home - Frank Turner 30 Come With Me - Josh's Band 29 Hollywood - Codeine Velvet Club 28 That's All I Really Want - Robinson 27 1996 - Backseat Goodbye 26 All The Pretty Girls - Fun 25 Radio - Chris Akinyemi 24 Holiday - King Blues 23 Sing Sing Sing - Least Of These 22 Won't Get Up Again - Young Rebel Set 21 Postcard From London - Ray Davies ft Chrissie Hynde 20 Light Of Love - Music Go Music 19 Swings & Roundabouts - Farrah 18 Bella Signorina - Joe Cang 17 Upside Down - Paloma Faith 16 Shame - Robbie Williams And Gary Barlow 15 Make Me Smile - Pearl & The Puppets 14 Light It Up / Cul-De-Sac - Whitman 13 Push Me To The Floor - Parlotones 12 All This Time (Pick-Me-Up Song) - Maria Mena 11 Come Out Of The Blue - Kabeedies 10 Players In Drag - Charlotte & The Co-Stars ft Ebbot Lundberg 9 In The Sun - She & Him 8 Down On The Beach (Surf Little Girl) - Sonic Surf City 7 Giving Up On Love - Slow Club 6 England's Bleeding - Robinson 5 Nightmare Day - Moons 4 Action Man - Hafdis Huld 3 G.I.R.L.F.R.E.N (You Know I've Got A) - Everybody Was In The French Resistance...Now! 2 Pack Up - Eliza Doolittle 1 Sex With An X - Vaselines

This is my most recent chart. I thought I already had an account here and had posted charts here before but could not find it. 1 ( 1 ) Your Dogs - Ben Folds & Nick Hornby <4th week at #1> 2 ( 18 ) Hired Gun - Andy Clayburn 3 ( 2 ) I Want The World To Stop - Belle And Sebastian (#2[2]) 4 ( 11 ) Penelope Jane - Jonny Dongel 5 ( 3 ) Man On The Moon - Sam Roman (#3) 6 ( 10 ) Shrink - Lady Indiraa 7 ( 8 ) Dina Flashigaste Trosor - Wille Crafoord 8 ( 9 ) Hard Habit - Zoe Scott 9 ( 5 ) Sneaky Freak - Imelda May (#5) 10 ( -- ) Love Again For The First Time - Julian Velard 11 ( 4 ) Between The Lines - M.O.T (#2[2]) 12 ( 6 ) Godless Girl - Crookes (#6) 13 ( 27 ) Be My Man - Asa 14 ( 23 ) Red On The Inside - Project Volcano 15 ( 14 ) Neat Little Rows - Elbow (#14) 16 ( 16 ) Sorry - Catpeople 17 ( 33 ) You Make Me Happy - Sophie Madeleine 18 ( -- ) Julee - David Cope 19 ( 22 ) The Fighting Bravest - Jonny Dongel 20 ( 7 ) Believe It When I See It - Ron Sexsmith (#4) 21 ( 38 ) The City - Patrick Wolf 22 ( 21 ) Getting To Know You - Joe Cang (#21) 23 ( -- ) Grace - View 24 ( 41 ) Guybrush Threepwood - Danny Fontaine & The Horns Of Fury 25 ( 13 ) Pretender - Abby Travis (#13) 26 ( 44 ) I Confess - k.d. lang And The Siss Boom Bang 27 ( 25 ) Man In The Street - Kinsy Ray (#25) 28 ( -- ) Queen Of Professional Single Mothers - Dirty Flags 29 ( 15 ) You Are The One - Slate Islands (#15) 30 ( 47 ) City With No Children - Arcade Fire 31 ( 12 ) Rhythm Doesn't Make You A Dancer - Jon Fratelli (#8) 32 ( 29 ) Suitcase - Standard Fare (#29) 33 ( 51 ) (I'll Never Be) Dancing In Your Car - Lychee 34 ( -- ) If You Wanna - Vaccines 35 ( 20 ) Someone Like You - Adele (#20) 36 ( 19 ) Postcards From A Young Man - Manic Street Preachers (#19) 37 ( 55 ) Uberlin - R.E.M 38 ( -- ) Mr Medicine - Eliza Doolittle 39 ( 34 ) Cuts Like A Knife - Poodles (#34) 40 ( 59 ) Move - Woggles 41 ( 17 ) David And Goliath - Risky Heroes (#10) 42 ( -- ) Blackout - Anna Calvi 43 ( 26 ) Work - Bewitched Hands (#26) 44 ( 63 ) Virtual Boyfriend - Poly Styrene 45 ( 40 ) Two Faces - Coral (#40) 46 ( -- ) She's A Bitch And I'm A Fool - Sparks The Rescue 47 ( 67 ) Say Goodbye - Sophie Barker 48 ( 69 ) Electric Love - Lemon Sun 49 ( -- ) Trampoline - Aaron Wright 50 ( 45 ) Killing The Work - Boy Mandeville (#45) 51 ( 32 ) Velcro - Bell X1 (#31) 52 ( 48 ) July July - Any Major Dude (#48) 53 ( 73 ) Shot One - Bocs Social 54 ( -- ) A Drowning - Pope Joan 55 ( 24 ) My Radio - Abacay (#8) 56 ( 52 ) For A Day - Senses (#52) 57 ( -- ) Planetary (Go!) - My Chemical Romance 58 ( 78 ) Serotonin - Mystery Jets 59 ( -- ) 22-22 - Ice Black Birds 60 ( 56 ) Kiss So Slow - Mausi (#56) 61 ( 39 ) Moody Blues - Sinead McNally (#36) 62 ( 30 ) Jilted Lovers & Broken Hearts - Brandon Flowers (#17) 63 ( 83 ) I Will Still Be There - My Little Empire 64 ( 31 ) Follow My Feet - Polly And The Billets Doux (#18) 65 ( -- ) Blow On The Fire - Contardo 66 ( 43 ) Winter Makes You Want Me More - Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern (#40) 67 ( 87 ) Sound Of Fire - This Century 68 ( 28 ) Inside Out [Latin Mix] - Imelda May vs Blue Jay Gonzalez (#1[5]) 69 ( 62 ) Margot - Nat Johnson And The Figureheads (#62) 70 ( -- ) This Music Is Mine - Deaf Radio 71 ( 46 ) History Of Modern (Part I) - OMD (#44) 72 ( -- ) Wake And Be Fine - Okkervil River 73 ( 92 ) Hero - Scarlet Haze 74 ( 66 ) It Is The Mercy - Captain And The Kings (#66) 75 ( 37 ) Kidz - Take That (#21) 76 ( 50 ) Don't Be A Stranger - Feldberg (#47) 77 ( 94 ) Blood - Dears 78 ( -- ) Take It Out - Call The Doctor 79 ( 70 ) Pyramid - Nightbox (#70) 80 ( 96 ) Soft Insulated Days - Rumble In Rhodos 81 ( 35 ) Liar In The Room - Successful Failures (#6) 82 ( 54 ) Silver Lining - Microlip (#51) 83 ( -- ) Monkey See Monkey Do - Showstar 84 ( 98 ) Come To The Bar - Pete And The Pirates 85 ( 99 ) Delight In Temptation - Wild Palms 86 ( 42 ) Born This Way - Lady Gaga (#25) 87 ( 36 ) Monday Morning - Gerry T (#3) 88 ( -- ) Strangers - White Lies 89 ( 75 ) That's The Truth - McFly (#75) 90 ( 58 ) When To Let Go - Violens (#55) 91 ( -- ) All That You Want - Crash Coordinates 92 ( 49 ) It Must Be Love - Llum (#32) 93 ( -- ) Gather Dust - Jacksonswarehouse 94 ( 81 ) New Ceremony - Dry The River (#81) 95 ( 82 ) Rise - Josh Bray (#82) 96 ( 65 ) Little Sister - Dana Jade (#60) 97 ( -- ) Lights On - Shutdown 98 ( -- ) A Common Tale - Radio Star 99 ( -- ) Blue Elephant - Kentin Jivek 100 ( 88 ) The Night Time And The Day - Caroline Luxton-White (#88) _________________________________________ -- ( 53 ) Lucky Me - Piney Gir Country Roadshow (#8) -- ( 57 ) She's Automatic - Mercury In Summer (#18) -- ( 60 ) Surfacing - Chapel Club (#3) -- ( 61 ) Ascending - Fists (#36) -- ( 64 ) A Taste Of Freedom - Room (#14) -- ( 68 ) Shame On Me - Katrina (#40) -- ( 71 ) Hunger - Frankie & The Heartstrings (#18) -- ( 72 ) Holing Out - Yuck (#66) -- ( 74 ) 40 Winks - Marla (#45) -- ( 76 ) Animal - Neon Trees (#2[2]) -- ( 77 ) Numb - Airborne Toxic Event (#47) -- ( 79 ) Sunday Afternoon - Black Angels (#24) -- ( 80 ) Just A Little Melody - Andy (#70) -- ( 84 ) The Time Is Now - Virginia Labuat (#26) -- ( 85 ) Plans - Van Susans (#54) -- ( 86 ) Reality Bites - Emerald Park (#7) -- ( 89 ) Last Night - Good Charlotte (#56) -- ( 90 ) Ride The Tide - Neil Sturgeon & The Infomaniacs (#75) -- ( 91 ) Stop Hey! - Sunday Girl (#28) -- ( 93 ) Within You - Chicros ft Brisa Roché (#80) -- ( 95 ) Poison Picking Time - Matthew Show (#82) -- ( 97 ) Dear You - Kelsey Muse (#33) -- ( 100 ) Home Is Where Your House Is - Ludwig Van (#63) _________________________________________ -- ( -- ) Wondering - Electric Lady Lab -- ( -- ) Back To December - Taylor Swift -- ( -- ) Longing To Belong - Eddie Vedder -- ( -- ) This Is My Life - Axel Wolph -- ( -- ) Set Me Free - Sand Band -- ( -- ) Never Let Me Go - Human League -- ( -- ) Lights - Interpol _________________________________________