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Sienna Spiro with "Maybe"

More foreign language hits DJ Snake/ Tyga and J Balvin - Loco contigo No87 -2019 Inigo Quintero - Si no estas No90 -2023 Corinne Hermes - Si la vie est cadeau no94 1983 Amina - Le dernier qui a parle No97 1991 Deep Forest - Marta's song No26 1995 Sacred Spirit - Tor cheney nahana 1996 No 45 Sacred Spirit - Wishes of Happiness and prosperity - 1995 No37 In 2024 Jaxomy/ Raffaella Carra - Pedro No57 Floyymenor & Cris MJ - Gata only N058

The average time spent in the charts in last Week's Irish top 30 singles was 19 weeks! So that is another example of the fact the singles chart which should be vibrant is far too slow. That will not help with interest or promotion. In the past, records were removed from the lower echelons of the chart to help others gain a foothold so that should happen again. I would increase ACR even further so that older songs began to disappear from the top 100. What benefit it is to anyone wanting to engage with music to have Mr Brightside there forever? And as another poster said, certain songs could go to a Golden oldies chart and if they show a dramatic increase in popularity then they can transfer to the main chart again. And as for Christmas, that is beyond a joke every year.

Good to see six big hitters going to ACR this week and about time too for them all.

It is no 41 in Ireland this week.

David Ruffin, Melvin Franklin, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams (The Temptations), Levi Stubbs. Obie Benson, Lawrence Payton (Four Tops), Ronnie Spector, Estelle Bennett (Ronettes), Teddy Pendergrass, Jackie Wilson

Bobby Darin, Domenico Modugno, Gwen Guthrie, Kim English, Dan Hartman, Loleatta Holloway, Peter Tosh, Yvonne Fair

12 Jain - Makeba 10 Taylor Swift - Hits different 8 Weeknd - Popular 7 Nathan Dawe 0800 heaven 6 Peggy Gou - Na na na 5 Dave - Sprinter 4 Dua Lipa - Dance the night 3 Leigh Anne - Dont say love 2 Hannah Laing - Good love 1 Dave - Trojan horse

Enjoying this station, songs from The Adverts and Karl Denver I had never heard of before, songs such as Videotheque by Dollar that I haven't heard in over 30 years and some bizarre ones such as Catherine Zeta Jones. Had 3 Go West songs today which is far too much of them for one day thanks. Overall, well worth a listen for us chart fans.

The Singles chart has never been solely about accurately reflecting musical taste by numbers, it has always also been a promotional tool to sell or consume more music. So in the past records were deleted such as "love is all around" in 1994 or further down the charts, older songs were removed between 75-100 I believe. As I pointed out a few weeks ago, it is preferable for a new artist to gain a top 100 foothold and who knows from that exposure, gain a following than Babyshark have its 70th week on the chart for example. And the less interest there is from the general pubic about the charts then it will lead to its further decline and demise.

7.5 The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love 6 David Bowie - Life On Mars? 8.5 Tears For Fears - Mad World 6.5 Toto - Africa 7.5 Michael Jackson - Beat It 10 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 10 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy 5.5 Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It 9 Giorgio Moroder with Philip Oakey - Together In Electric Dreams 4.5 Madonna - Like A Virgin 6 Madonna - Material Girl 9 Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill 5 Heart - Alone 7.5 Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart 6.5 New Order - Blue Monday 1988 9.5 Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance 8 Roxette - It Must Have Been Love 10 Enigma - Return To Innocence 11 Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds 8 Oasis - Whatever 8 Everything But The Girl - Missing 5.5Jamiroquai- Virtual Insanity 10 Faithless - Insomnia 9.5 Robert Miles featuring Maria Nayler - One & One 10 Radiohead - Paranoid Android 4.5 Bryan Adams featuring Melanie C - When You're Gone 5.5 TLC - No Scrubs 0 Shania Twain - That Don't Impress Me Much 3 The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl 6 Darude - Sandstorm 10 Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan - Silence 9 Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky 4 Riva featuring Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now? -1 Kylie Minogue - In Your Eyes 4 Junior Senior - Move Your Feet 7 Outkast - Hey Ya! 8 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 9 Keane - Somewhere Only We Know 9 Anastacia - Left Outside Alone 6.5 Green Day - American Idiot 8.5 The Killers - Somebody Told Me 5 The Chemical Brothers - Galvanize 0 Mylo vs Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure 0 Rihanna - S&M 10 The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris 10 Loreen - Euphoria 5 George Ezra - Budapest 5.5 The Weeknd - Can't Feel My Face 3 Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted 2 Dua Lipa - Physical

25 points - Youssou N'Dour & N Cherry 7 seconds 24 - Loreen - Euphoria 23 - Faithless - Insomnia 22 - Goo Goo Dolls - Iris 21 - Delerium - Silence 20 - Bronski Beat - Smalltown boy 19 - Bran Van 3000 - Drinkin in LA 18 - Abba - One of us 17 - G Moroder & P Oakey 16 - Keane - Somewhere only we know 15 - Madonna - Playground 14 - Anastacia - Left outside alone 13 - PPK - Resurection 12 - Roxette - It must have been love 11 - Ike & Tina Turner - River deep 10 - Killers - Somebody told me 9 - EBTG - Missing 8 - Candy Flip - Strawberry fields forever 7 - Darude - Sandstorm 6 - Roy Orbison - You got it 5 - Nightcrawlers - Push the feeling on 4 - Whitney Houston - Its not right 3 - Toto - Africa 2 - Erasure - Blue savannah 1 - Weeknd - Can't feel my face

25 Soft Cell - Say hello wave goodbye 24 Cyndi Lauper - Time after time 23 Radiohead - Paranoid android 22 Enigma - Return to innocence 21 Neneh Cherry - Buffalo stance 20 Robert Miles & Maria Nayler - One and one 19 Tears for Fears - Mad world 18 Abba - Voulez vous 17 Kate Bush - Running up that hill 16 Oasis - Whatever 15 U2 - Pride in the name of love 14 SWV - Right here 13 Whitney Houston - I have nothing 12 Green Day - American idiot 11 Ian Van Dahl - Castles in the sky 10 Wah Band - Story of the blues 9 Franz Ferdinand - Take me out 8 Madonna - Rescue me 7 TLC - No scrubs 6 Supremes - You cant hurry love 5 Tina Turner - Whats love got to do with it 4 Beverly Craven - Promise me 3 Madonna - Material Girl 2 Michael Jackson - Dont stop til you get enough 1 Junior Senior - Move your feet

I thought the Christmas Day TOTP was excellent. There is no reason the BBC could not make this programme weekly concentrating on a mixture of singles and albums charts. The national broadcaster should be providing a platform for all genres in music. It would also provide much a needed profile to many acts.

I take your point, that would be unfair on "Stitches" at this stage. Perhaps my rule should only apply once a track leaves the top 20. I think there was a rule in the 1980's if a song had left the top 40 and had gone down for two/three weeks in a row (maybe more) it was removed. Eurovision will be coming up soon and with sales now so insignificant compared to streaming I can't see too many of the entries reaching the charts anymore. Indeed any new song reaching the top 100 is an achievement these days.