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  1. The problem is if you make NI progressive you might as well just combine it with IT and have a single flat tax rate. Which would actually be a great thing to do in terms of simplifying the tax system, unfortunately the government are so damn insistent on using NI contributions to gatekeep benefits they won't do it.
  2. #6 Ray Martin - Blue Tango Debut: 14 November 1952 Peak #8 WoC: 4 Runs: 8 / 12-12-10 Ra6j83Gsugk Ray Martin’s version of Leroy Anderson’s orchestral composition is the first of many instrumentals to feature in the charts in the 1950s, although the popularity of this style of music would wane over the subsequent decades. Throughout the 1950s no less than 9 instrumental tracks would reach the top spot. In the 2010s and 2000s that would be 1 and 2 tracks respectively. Ray Martin himself would write many songs and compositions throughout his career, however he liked a good pseudonym so the exact extent of his prolific work is unknown, although estimated to be in excess of 2,000 works. There would be three chart singles credited to ‘Ray Martin’ though - ‘Blue Tango’ (1952), Swedish Rhapsody (1953) and The Carousel Waltz (1956) Unfortunately for Blue Tango, it wouldn’t ascend to the chart summit, it would however enjoy 4 weeks on the chart in two separate runs in 1952, with it’s opening position of #8 also being its peak.
  3. Adding work OAPs to NI will be a bit complicated but is long overdue to be honest. The caps on social care costs not tax.
  4. The money's clearly going to be used to pay for Covid, so why not just come out and say that's what it's for? Surely that would be more electorally palatable than saying it's for care? Or is this so they can announce another tax hike in 6 months that's to pay for Covid, and is much more significant - if nobody says anything about 1.25% on NI, whatabout 3-5% on IT?
  5. #44 ABBA - Don't Shut Me Down Looks like it'll drop out the top 50 this week. #49 Elton John, Dua Lipa - Cold Heart Would have thought it might have got a bigger boost from being added to top 50
  6. I'm sure songs about that are out their somewhere, as a surprising amount of women having the same illogical fantasy - there's definitely songs about a woman turning gay men straight which as about as logical. The point of fantasies is they don't need to exist in reality or make much sense....
  7. Yet if a woman writes the same song about a man, it would be 'female sexual empowerment' :rolleyes:
  8. It isn't.
  9. Whilst the song is distasteful, the target audience for Drake is teenagers, who probably are quite into the whole fantasy of a lesbian - straight man threesome - which is the main focus of the song. They're probably not sat their contemplating the sexual harassment undertones,
  10. Chartfridays posted a post in a topic in Pop and Country
    You get ISHFIY and DSMD straight away if you buy the album digitally don't you, so there wasn't really any reason to buy the singles unless you were buying it physically and how many people still buy physical singles? We need a break down of how many pre-orders are physical vs digital tbh.
  11. NI is already too much, putting it up is deeply unfair on the low paid. How hard would it have been to put this on income tax.
  12. Ah of course. Think I was deliberately forgetting that's a thing....
  13. Where's the increase in streams for Butter coming from? Is this due to their live lounge performance?
  14. Chartfridays posted a post in a topic in Pop and Country
    Presumably a hell of a lot - they were 9 and 11 on the Sales Chart for last week from 6 hours of sales.
  15. Chartfridays posted a post in a topic in Pop and Country
    I don't think they'd be doing quite as well without the Mamma Mia film - in fact I don't think they'd have done quite as well even if Mamma Mia had been made but Here We Go Again hadn't.
  16. Their mums and dad's generally won't though when they hear the song playing. :lol:
  17. Not on second week sales. I really hope Adele does release 5th November. That would be the most covered album chart battle in years, surely.
  18. Interestingly in the recent Radio 1 interview with the bloke who runs it - which was posted here - he was talking about their new music shows and younger audiences being receptive to a much greater range of music as a result of streaming rather than just current pop trends, so I wouldn't be suprised if something like ABBA reforming (god knows what would even came close to that though - ) happened again it might actually feature on the future sounds show or something
  19. It's got Dua Lipa on, so probably more relevance to younger generations than ABBA - even though they have a lot of young fans
  20. #5 Vera Lynn - The Homing Waltz Debut: 14 November 1952 Peak: #4 WoC: 3 Run: 9-11-9 SpJy1OKuHac Quite honestly, I challenge anyone to find or enlighten me with a great deal of info on this particular track. Yes, it’s a love song quite clearly about two lovers meeting at a dance. It was written by Johnnie Reine and Tommie Connor, the latter of whom wrote a few Christmas songs, including a minor hit by the name of ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus’. Of course a lot could be written about Vera Lynn if this was her only track in this week, but we’ve already covered her status as a legend of popular culture in her previous write up. In trying to search up what a homing waltz actually was, I just came across various versions of this song. My mind immediately conjures up images of the end of WW2 such as VE day, but that may have more to do with the singer being Vera Lynn than any relevance to the song itself. The song was a bit of summer/autumn 1952 - spending a total of 9 weeks at the top of the British sheet music chart. Unfortunately, like a few songs on this list, it had arrived towards the end of it’s run as the sales chart came in and would spend 3 weeks on the chart were following, peaking at #9. A version by Alma Cogan was also released.
  21. Nice to see Spotify finally recognising their popularity in the UK, even if it's been somewhat forced by the track hovering around the Top 50 - which they didn't particularly expect going by NMF treatment.
  22. By Stereophonics low standards that's actually a pretty good song.
  23. They've never particular been ones for waiting between albums anyway, especially in the early years when they weren't such big names. I'd imagine not having to do a massive tour between albums has probably helped in getting this out so fast, allowing them to go onto it more quickly.
  24. Chartfridays posted a post in a topic in Pop and Country
    The physicals are unlikely to lose their value between first look and Friday in the same way that high-powered streaming artist might do so as well so that could bode really well for them getting high entries.
  25. #41 Don't Shut Me Down #51 I Still Have Faith In You Starting to slip unfortunately but still holding up pretty damn well considering the Drakeover, might genuinely see these in Top 20-30 on Friday.