John_Squire

I prefer Shakira, so I voted for Nelly. If it had been any other of the 'Loose' singles I would've wanted Nelly F to win.

1 (1) Nicole Scherzinger Don't Hold Your Breath 2 (3) Adele Someone Like You 3 (4) Jessie J ft BOB Price Tag 4 (2) The Wanted Gold Forever 5 (6) Wiz Khalifa Black and Yellow 6 (5) Rihanna S&M 7 (9) Dr Dre ft Eminem/Skylar Grey I Need A Doctor 8 (7) Lady Gaga Born This Way 9 (8) Adele Rolling In The Deep 10 (15) Black Eyed Peas Just Can't Get Enough Bonus 1: Diddy Dirty Money - Coming Home Bonus 2: 5 Bonus 3: The Strokes - Angles

Maneater. Be nice for Gnarls Barkley to win.

At the same point last year (Mar 09 - Mar 10), what was the average for #1? I know there was that long run of the #1s selling over 100k, which included Cheryl Cole and RATM, so I'm guessing it could have been close to 100k?

Oasis :o 299 is amazing - I doubt we'll get any more 300s (maybe 1 or 2) as there are far more #1s in the remaining years than from 90-95. I wouldn't be surprised if 150 is enough to get some through - certainly for 1999 (unless the number of voters rockets!) 15 Olive ‘You’re Not Alone’ 12 No Doubt ‘Don’t Speak’ 10 The Verve ‘The Drugs Don’t Work’ 08 White Town ‘Your Woman’ 06 Various Artists ‘Perfect Day’ Best CIN song 05 The Chemical Brothers ‘Block Rockin’ Beats’ 04 Blur ‘Beetlebum’ 03 Eternal feat. BeBe Winans ‘I Wanna Be The Only One’ 02 Teletubbies ‘Teletubbies Say Eh-Oh!’ :P 01 Spice Girls ‘Too Much’ -2 R Kelly ‘I Believe I Can Fly’

Oops, my bad! I guess Take That will just have to do without their solitary point from me!!!

I'm more surprised how well Babylon Zoo is doing! It always seems to get hate along the lines of 'I bought it because of the advert but it turned out to be some grungy rock dirge'! I personally like the dirgy rock part :)

Maneater.

Patience...I'd be happy for Nelly F to go though, I prefer 'Promiscuous', 'All Good Things...' and 'Say It Right' by far.

First tough round! 1996: 15 Babylon Zoo 'Spaceman' Full version please! 12 Fugees 'Killing Me Softly' 10 Oasis 'Don't Look Back in Anger' 08 The Prodigy 'Breathe' 07 Spice Girls 'Say You'll Be There' Best of their 1996 singles by far! 06 Gina G 'Ooh Aah... Just a Little Bit' 05 The Prodigy 'Firestarter' 04 Spice Girls '2 Become 1' 03 George Michael 'Fastlove' 02 Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds 'Three Lions' Prefer 3 Lions 98 01 Take That 'How Deep Is Your Love' -2 Robson and Jerome 'What Becomes of the Brokenhearted / Saturday Night at the Movies / You'll Never Walk Alone'

Pink this time.

Baby D :wub: 15 Michael Jackson 'Earth Song' 12 Livin' Joy 'Dreamer' 10 Coolio featuring LV 'Gangsta's Paradise' 08 Simply Red 'Fairground' 06 Oasis 'Some Might Say' 05 Take That 'Back For Good' 04 Take That 'Never Forget' ^ All of these could have scored at least 8 in previous years. After this, it starts to get tougher though... 03 Rednex 'Cotton Eyed Joe' 02 Blur 'Country House' 01 The Outhere Brothers 'Boom Boom Boom' Very close between this and Shaggy for the final point. -2 Michael Jackson 'You Are Not Alone' I dislike this track, I dislike the two R&J singles more but can't decide between them so I'll give this the -2.

^ Strokes only had 1 #1, First Impressions of Earth (think it sold 60-70k at #1?); their second album was #2 behind Dido's Life For Rent so probably sold well, but not tremendously. There's been five years to wait for Angles so it should sell reasonably well first week but IMO no more than 80-85k at most.

'Second Chance' was really good but, yes, very 2001 (or possibly 2005).

Christmas #1 2011?

I'm not sure if I like the charts at the moment or not. I quite like a mix of the 2000-style fast movement and the 2008-style slow charts, which to some extent we do have now (except the fast movement is at #1 and the slow stuff is everywhere else). Before 2006/07 songs spending 20 weeks top 40 was very very rare - I can only think of Atomic Kitten 'Whole Again' and 50 Cent 'In Da Club' between 2000 and 2006. Nowadays, there's probably 3 or 4 (at least) every week. It's obviously downloads that have made the difference - and if the songs are still popular then fair enough, they should still be charting. But it's often a shame sometimes to have the charts clogged up with stuff from six months ago. The charts now are obviously bad for some genres (like rock/indie, and often dance music too) but what bothers me more is that it's a lot harder for new acts to chart well unless they're American or hyped by BBC Sound Of/Brits/etc, and it's harder for many established acts to have as big/as many hits from each album - for example U2, Shakira, Take That, REM, Kylie, Morrissey...

Top 5. It would be nice for her to come back with a #1 though, after a long time and without major success from her last project. Sort of like Nelly Furtado in 2006 (or even Cher in 1998!)

Could go low top ten on a low sales week. I quite like it, I wasn't a massive fan of the original.

I suppose Ronan Keating could clear 100k on Mother's Day week, but he's probably not as popular now as he was with previous releases. In any case, Adele will probably still be around 100k even then.

Until Gaga releases. The Strokes and Britney are the only real possible challengers IMO and I can't see either of them doing over 80k - Adele will probably dip below 100k in the next 2-3 weeks but not by that much. So, 11-12 weeks!

12 Dr Dre ft Eminem & Skylar Grey/ I Need A Doctor 11 Tinie Tempah ft Ellie Goulding/ Wonderman 10 Adele/ Rolling In The Deep 09 Martin Solveig ft Dragonette/ Hello 08 Jessie J/ Do It Like A Dude 07 Jessie J ft B.O.B/ Price Tag 06 Rihanna ft Drake/ What's My Name 05 Black Eyed Peas/ Just Can't Get Enough 04 Noah & The Whale/ L.I.F.E G.O.E.S O.N 03 Diddy Dirty-Money ft Skylar Grey/ Coming Home 02 Nicki Minaj ft Drake/ Moment 4 Life 01 Ke$ha/ We R Who We R Can you give multiple minus 1s? If so, -1 for all of these: -1 Adele/ Someone Like You -1 Pink/ F***in Perfect -1 Avril Lavigne/ What The Hell -1 David Guetta ft Rihanna/ Who's That Chick?

:cheer: CC finally gone. Pink this time.

I'm pleased with this too. I'd have given it 10 or 12 (Ace of Base would've had my 15 though!)

Very surprised MCR lasted that long! CC again, please can we get rid of it this time?!?!?!?!

Actually harder than 1992, because a lot of these are average or crap. Pleased with most of the 1993 results! 1994: 15 Baby D 'Let Me Be Your Fantasy' Best song here by a mile 12 Whigfield 'Saturday Night 10 Stiltskin 'Inside' 08 D-Ream 'Things Can Only Get Better' Still good although a bit spoiled by New Labour 06 Doop 'Doop' 05 Toni Di Bart 'The Real Thing' 04 Wet Wet Wet 'Love is All Around' Expect it to get the minus, but it's not bad! 03 Prince 'The Most Beautiful Girl In The World' Used to hate this but it's actually decent 02 East 17 'Stay Another Day' 01 Take That 'Everything Changes' -2 Manchester United Football Squad 'Come On You Reds' Close between this and Chaka Demus