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'Heart Of Glass' would have quite easily trumped 'Amazing' for me! In fact I think 'Heart Of Glass' is so iconic that it would have beaten anything by George, with the possible exception of 'Freedom' - that would have been a very close battle for me!

► 1 (1) Alex Warren - Fever Dream (4 wks / HCP 1) [1-1-1-1] ► 2 (2) Danny L Harle feat. Dua Lipa - Two Hearts (5 wks / HCP 2) [25-9-2-2-2] ► 3 (3) Michael Schulte - 5am (5 wks / HCP 3) [27-14-4-3-3] ▲ 4 (6) Sombr - Homewrecker (5 wks / HCP 4) [31-18-11-6-4] *** 2nd TOP 5 HIT *** ► 5 (5) Melanie C - What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (6 wks / HCP 5) [31-18-11-8-5-5] ▼ 6 (4) A*Teens - Iconic (6 wks / HCP 2) [29-11-2-3-4-6] ▲ 7 (11) Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter (4 wks / HCP 7) [32-20-11-7] *** 14th TOP 10 HIT *** ▲ 8 (9) Leigh-Anne feat. Valiant & Rvssian - Most Wanted (7 wks / HCP 8) [35-30-24-20-14-9-8] ▲ 9 (10) Fred again.. & Jamie T - LightsBurnDimmer (4 wks / HCP 9) [29-16-10-9] ▼ 10 (7) Louis Tomlinson - Imposter (8 wks / HCP 4) [28-15-6-4-5-5-7-10] ▲ 11 (16) Maisie Peters - My Regards (4 wks / HCP 11) [35-24-16-11] ▲ 12 (18) U2 - Song Of The Future (3 wks / HCP 12) [30-18-12] ▼ 13 (8) Dermot Kennedy - Funeral (8 wks / HCP 5) [30-19-11-5-6-6-8-13] ▲ 14 (28) Olivia Rodrigo - The Book Of Love (2 wks / HCP 14) [28-14] *** HIGHEST CLIMBER *** ▲ 15 (22) 3Quency - Telephone (3 wks / HCP 15) [33-22-15] ▼ 16 (13) Zak Abel - Hallelujah (6 wks / HCP 13) [33-28-24-18-13-16] ▲ 17 (23) Holly Humberstone - To Love Somebody (5 wks / HCP 17) [36-34-29-23-17] ▲ 18 (25) Charli XCX - Always Everywhere (3 wks / HCP 18) [36-25-18] ▲ 19 (24) Zayn - Die For Me (4 wks / HCP 19) [36-31-24-19] ▼ 20 (14) Myles Smith & Niall Horan - Drive Safe (5 wks / HCP 14) [33-26-17-14-20] ▲ 21 (32) Harry Styles - American Girls (2 wks / HCP 21) [32-21] ▼ 22 (12) Stephen Sanchez - Sweet Love (10 wks / HCP 1) [26-9-1-1-1-1-3-7-12-22] *** LONGEST RUNNER *** ▼ 23 (15) Danny L Harle feat. Julia Michaels - Raft In The Sea (7 wks / HCP 10) [33-23-17-12-10-15-23] ▲ 24 (27) Twenty One Pilots - Drag Path (3 wks / HCP 24) [35-27-24] ● 25 (-) Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor (1 wk / HCP 25) [25] ▼ 26 (17) Noah Kahan - The Great Divide (6 wks / HCP 17) [35-30-25-21-17-26] ▲ 27 (29) Freya Ridings - Wild Horse (3 wks / HCP 27) [34-29-27] ▲ 28 (35) Jessie Ware - Ride (2 wks / HCP 28) [35-28] ● 29 (-) Kygo, Khalid & Gryffin - Save My Love (1 wk / HCP 29) [29] ▲ 30 (34) RAYE - Nightingale Lane (2 wks / HCP 30) [34-30] ● 31 (-) Bebe Rexha - New Religion (1 wk / HCP 31) [31] ● 32 (-) Ava Max - Kill It Queen (1 wk / HCP 32) [32] ● 33 (-) Jennifer Lopez feat. David Guetta - Save Me Tonight (1 wk / HCP 33) [33] ▼ 34 (19) Appleton - Falling Into You (9 wks / HCP 2) [30-15-3-2-2-4-9-19-34] ▼ 35 (20) JP Cooper feat. Gabrielle - Sad Song (7 wks / HCP 10) [29-17-12-10-13-20-35] ● 36 (-) YUNGBLUD - Suburban Requiem (1 wk / HCP 36) [36] ▼ 37 (26) mgk - Times Of My Life (9 wks / HCP 6) [29-18-11-8-6-8-15-26-37] ▼ 38 (21) Mika - Immortal Love (9 wks / HCP 3) [27-14-4-3-3-7-12-21-38] ▼ 39 (30) Calvin Harris x Kasabian - Release The Pressure (4 wks / HCP 30) [38-32-30-39] ▼ 40 (31) Robbie Williams - All My Life (7 wks / HCP 23) [36-32-29-27-23-31-40]

It's a 'None of the above' for me this week I'm afraid. 'Porch Light' is probably the best of a bad bunch, but I don't like it enough to be able to bring myself to vote for it. The Sienna Spiro song is such a yawnfest, I just don't understand what people are liking about her.

I should get early voting bonus points

Oh wow at 'Yes' getting the highest number of 50 points - such a shame it drops out so soon despite that. It's right up there as one of my songs of the 90s, absolute gem of a track (btw for anyone who only just discovered 'Yes' and enjoyed it, I would highly recommend taking a listen to 'Bring It Back', another of their gems) 'Karma Police' also a bonafide classique, Radiohead do that haunting sound so well. For me it's absolutely the standout track on OK Computer and possibly second only to 'Creep' for my favourite song by them 'Sultans Of Swing' is... fine I guess, but I've never been huge on Dire Straits.

King Warren on the climb again, we love to see it Thought RAYE might be a few places higher, fully expected it to debut higher than 'Nightingale Lane' but I'm not sure that will be the case now. FLO will probably miss out on top 40 this week then and it will be touch and go for Bebe!

Do we know the 15 members who are left in so that we can try and predict who is behind each act?

Hmmm I'm not completely convinced by that snippet but I will reserve judgment until I've heard it in full

Yes forgot about that, Dan is definitely behind Nelly!

I was 100% convinced Fred Again.. was either Dan or Brer so I'm shook it was neither of them but pavi! Ace of Base being Addy though, who would ever have guessed that

Funnily enough I did consider sending Blondie at one point! Ngl I'm gutted to be out at this stage and apparently by a whisker too, but c'est la vie! The Weeknd wasn't actually my first choice - the ironic thing is that my first choice was Abba, who in fact ended up knocking my act out you couldn't make it up, could you! I then tried to confirm George Michael before Calum informed me he had literally just been taken! So The Weeknd was my third choice. I probably got some of the song choices wrong but I don't think there's anything I could have possibly sent to compete with Abba's 'Lay All Your Love On Me'! Anyway loving the contest so far, sterling job @Calum, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of it plays out!

I would've just said "because the songs aren't being streamed as much as other songs by other people"

Another three solid songs there, all very different but all classics in their respective genres!

Not you being about 4 weeks late to the party!

Poetic license indeed!

Very unexpectedly between Lizzo and Ruel for me this week, and I ended up going with Ruel!

Hey Seltin! Zayn will keep climbing yet. Maisie coming for the top 10 I'm thinking! Not sure about #1 but Sombr definitely coming for the top 5. We'll see if he can keep going! Thanks

Do you have a link?

'Hypnotized' is such a banger! I can almost forgive her for the ridiculous pronunciation of "hypnotis-ed". Almost.

Definitely sounds better in the context of the video!

I have to admit, the Scouting For Girls song is pretty catchy!

Three great songs in a row! 'Sweet Harmony' is definitely a dreamy classic, and 'Steal My Sunshine' is so much fun, the spoken parts are pretty cheesy but I love them! One of most perfect summer songs.

It's the best thing they've done FULL STOP.

Or maybe Bananarama's version leans in more to people's pop tastes rather than being to do with recency? A 40 year old song isn't really that much more recent compared to a 56 year old song!

Still snubbed by R1 as of this week. I still think they could add it next week though, especially if it looks like making the top 40 and hanging around a bit.