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Al Green and Wild Cherry have been pretty big losses for me, both huge 70s classics that I love. There's 2 versions of Let's Stay Together on Spotify with one of them having the backing vocalists mixed quieter, it's much better. Out of the others today The Lovecats is one of the weaker Cure songs I've heard, and my first listen of Get Together was thanks to this rate and it sounded so dated to me (not in a good way) so it's only 1 of 2 songs I dislike out of the 50 here.

Pink Pony back up to 2 on Spotify, Doechii down to 5! Lil Tecca falls to 18 and WizTheMC up to 19. Jack and Doja out of the top 200.

Marc Bolan should've got a songwriter credit on Cigarettes and Alcohol, that riff is ripped straight from Get It On. One of the weaker Oasis singles of the 90s but still decent.

Way Down We Go becomes the 64th song to go multi-platinum without reaching the top 40. Obviously a more common occurrence than I initially thought!

Only new entries on Spotify are Jack and Doja at 62 and Yungblud at 192.

I probably speak for most people with this but I do just wish whoever's in charge at R1 changed their current approach to the chart show, there's so much missed potential. They've shown a clear neglect/dislike towards it over the past year. Jack is a good presenter and clearly passionate but he's obviously being held back by producers/higher ups who are completely void of it. The chart has always been about celebrating the success of artists and today they seem to have forgotten that. They play it safe to maintain a casual audience with the track selections/not bringing up chart trivia often/constant shoutouts. If someone gave the show a proper rehaul (it's been the same format mostly since June 2018) and they didn't pull things like today I'd be completely happy with it staying on Radio 1!

Why? Yes they have better presenters (imagine Mark Goodier doing it again!) but half the music would not appeal to Radio 2's audience and listening figures for the show would go way down. At this rate the Charts Company are better off just taking the reveal off the radio entirely and doing it on streaming services or something like that.

Wonder if Greedy could also make an appearance. Hometown Glory might show up pretty soon too

Always loved Flawless when it came on the radio but never knew what it was called or who it was by until this rate! Can see why it's so low though, it does get pretty repetitive.

+5 Pink Pony Club +4 Ordinary +3 Anxiety +2 Busy Woman +1 Abracadabra -1 The Giver -2 Sports Car -3 Beautiful Things -4 Rather Lie -5 Evil Jordan

It's still scheduled on BBC Sounds. Did they say it would be cancelled on air? EDIT it's no longer scheduled. They'll probably play number one and do a top 20 rundown like they did for Big Weekend

Big jumps for Lil Tecca up to 16 and WizTheMC up to 22

Oof for Let Your Love Flow, at least it didn't come last. Absolutely love the song and the ad it featured in, one of the best to hit UK TV screens! Partly inspired me to pursue my current goals too so had to give it my max points

Ended up doing one for Kendrick- GNX. Mostly accurate My ranking of GNX: 1. wacced out murals 2. reincarnated 3. man at the garden 4. heart pt. 6 5. gloria 6. tv off 7. squabble up 8. luther 9. peekaboo 10. hey now 11. gnx 12. dodger blue

WizTheMC- Show Me Love up to 42 also, would be great if that made the top 40 this week.

While yes it is morally better to pay for your music to provide more support for artists (especially up and coming ones), It's completely legal to stream for free when it's ad-funded, artists agree to this when they put their music out on streaming so you aren't wrong at all. Total overreaction from that other person. Artists get paid in crumbs from streaming no matter what

Good to see Lil Tecca's new one continue to rise, would love it to become a big hit. Feel It- D4VD continuing to rise back up at 136 too.

I'll hazard a guess at Brown Eyed Girl being the next oldie to enter. Yes it was only 197 on weekly Spotify but now it's 2 weeks deep in the audio streaming chart so must've just been under the threshold for that chart, and it will get a St Paddy's boost this week.

Didn't realise Feel It was having a second wind! Would be great to see it make top 40, loved it in Invincible.

What Is This Feeling can't be doing more than 4k a week by the looks of it. Where is Popular currently?

Looks like Chappell has it this week then! Nice rise for Sleep Token too. Carti also recovering with his album, Evil Jordan up to 7. Lil Tecca up to 39

No Busy Woman?

Bit of an oversell. The choral elements and unexpectedly good lyrics are what sells it for me. It will get old pretty fast if it gets as overplayed as Lose Control and Beautiful Things but it is a good song, easily the cream of the "straight white guy ballad with raw vocals" crop we've had over the past year.

Up with Ordinary anyway! Can take or leave his other charting stuff, it's way more generic and boring than Ordinary is made out to be. Think I finally know how Joseph feels when people talk about Beautiful Things 😂

Travis- Writing To Reach You: "Radio is playing all the usual, what's a Wonderwall anyway?"