Borza

Still not enough chart movement, lets hope Noizu and Fred Again & Blessed Madonna reach the top 40. It is so odd that the album chart is more interesting almost every week. Years ago it was the opposite.

A very disappointing chart once again. If I had been told years ago that there would be a week in which the only new entries to the charts in the top 40 were all from Justin Bieber and that over a quarter of the top 100 were there for 20 weeks and over, I would not have believed it. And this is not an unusual phenomenon. We have only had 2 No1s in 2021 and this week apart from Bieber again there is limited movement. A friend has 2 teenagers and neither of them are even aware there are music charts anymore. To survive into the future, music charts have to be relevant (so have more variety) and promoted on tv. A show with a mixture of singles and album charts would be best. The BBC are a national broadcaster which have a remit to cater for everyone and so should have to broadcast the national charts even if viewing figures are low. But to be interesting there has to be actual turnover. Without ACR the charts would be dead, lets be honest they are on life support at the moment!

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

The singles chart still needs a bit of refining. Dance monkey, Someone you loved, Shallow, Perfect, Baby Shark, Mr Brightside preventing other songs from charting. Jessie Ware with "Remember where you are" could stay top 100 and Duncan Laurence could get a new peak only for those tracks. If streaming an album counts towards the individual track as well, then buying an album should also contribute to an individual track also. Fair is fair.

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

Hoping that Bicep can stay in the top 40 with the highly original "Apricots". Does anyone know why 2019 Eurovision winner Duncan Laurence has been in the top 100 for the last 2 weeks again?

The Kings of Leon released 2 songs this week. I notice "The Bandit" is at 55 but no sign of the other track "100,000 people" which I prefer. Is there any chance it will also make the top 100 by Friday?

If Wham miss out by a few sales due to the lack of information from the UK Chart company that will be a disgrace. We should be better informed to know how close this race actually is today.

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.

Is there any chance the excellent Songhoy Blues from Mali can score a top 100 hit in the album chart this week?

Sorry to ask a query about last week's chart. How come the Spanish girl group Hinds with "The Prettiest Curse" were showing at No24 in the album midweeks but then failed to stay in the top 100 by the time of the official weekly chart. Surely even with no sales in the second half of the week it would stay at least top 100 having been 24? Was it removed from the charts?

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.

Great to look at a chart when there was still variety and actually new entries!

I have subscribed to Music Week for 25 years and for a large portion of that time, singles were used as a vehicle to bring music consumers to albums eventually. Singles were regularly deleted or stock not replaced in the past. "Love is all around" by Wet Wet Wet is just one famous example but it went on all the time. In the 1980's the lower end of the charts, singles were removed from the countdown, I think in the positions 75-100. So it has been done before. In this era, there needs to be a happy medium because the general public has lost interest in the chart and who can blame them when it is so stale. The dominance of streaming which is influenced by playlists set up by Spotify means it is not a level playing field. I know it never was but at least there was variety. Anyway, I still think it would be interesting to see what the singles chart would look like if songs were removed once they reach 27 weeks. I don't think any of us would miss "Uptown funk" or "Thinking out loud" at this stage, it is not as if it they are actually a single anymore in the strict sense of the original concept but are now a catalogue item which hangs around forever because of the current rules. What I am proposing would not bring "hyped" songs to No1 either!

"Free" deserved to chart higher than No 4 and I thought it would. I was a huge fan of Ultra Nate and bought her earlier singles. "Is it love?" is a great gospel tinged house track. Is it love? "A Deeper Love (Missing you)" also deserves your attention. "Blue notes from the basement" a classic dance album and much underrated.

I am one of those people that think the Singles chart is too slow these days and no longer serves part of its purpose which is to promote music to new consumers who then go onto listen/buy albums from artists. Even if that is no longer a valid reason it still isn't really a singles chart anymore but a song chart and as we know album tracks from a big release and songs from over a year ago are now clogging it up preventing artists getting any entry. In fact many weeks there are as little as three entries into the entire top 100! It also makes it difficult to compare to previous eras as so many songs now total a huge amount of weeks on the chart. This week there are 30 songs in the top 100 over 26 weeks or half a year. Can Buzzjack publish what the top 100 chart would look like if any track is removed after 26 weeks. Would this allow a greater flow to and fro and make it slightly more interesting?

You have missed out the following from the Norwegian chart acts list. Carl Espen Born 1982. Eighth in 2014 Eurovision Song Contest. 24-05-2014 Silent storm 94 1wk

A couple more acts to add. Outlandish, multinational hip hop trio who formed in Denmark 31/05/2003 Guantanamo 31 2 wks A Friend in London, a 4 piece rock band from Denmark. Tim Schou, Esben Svane, Sebastian Vinther Olsen, Aske Damm Bramming. 5th in 2011 Eurovision 28/05/2011 A new tomorrow 78 1 wk

Some great underrated acts and songs, in particular Lucas and "Lucas with the lid off", quirky rap, DJ Duke "Blow your whistle" a toon, Medina "You and I" should have been major hit, Emmelie De Forest with two fab songs and Raveonettes "That great love sound", a hidden gem.

Just a correction Leila K had two further solo top 75 hits, one of which "Open sesame" got to UK no23 and was a huge hit around Europe. Her other was a over of "Ca plane pour moi" both charted in 1993. This is a great list, but I am disappointed Adventures of Stevie V "Dirty cash" is not on it.

They are definitely going to be posting the 76-100 positions for the period April 1991- 1994 which has always been missing up to now. So that is very exciting news.

Don't forget apart from beating up Rihanna, he brawled with Frank Ocean and has used anti gay language on numerous occasions.

Does anyone know what the changes of the Eurovision songs outside of the top 40 are staying in the top 100 for the Sunday chart? It would be nice to see some of them make it. Pollaponk, Twin Twin, Firelight, Aram MP3, Sebalter, Softengine and Emmelie De Forest. Do they stand any chance? I don't think Ruth Lorenzo or Andras Kallay Saunders can now make it.

I reckon that it is very rare for a Non UK or Ireland non winning entry to chart in the UK top 40. I think it has happened on five previous occasions. They are Domenico Modugno Sep 1958 No 10 Volare Domenico Modugno Mar 1959 No 29 Ciao Ciao Bambina (Piove) Gigliola Cinquetti May 1974 No 8 Go (Si) Mouth & MacNeal May 1974 No 8 I see a star Verka Serduchka May 2007 No 28 Dancing Lasha tambai Hope this answers your question. Come on Common Linnets, Sanna and Basim to join them. I am also hopeful some of the other entries can hold onto top 100 by Sunday. It is going to be close so please download Eurovision 2014 songs. I would like to see Sebalter, Twin Twin, Softengine, Pollaponk and the interval song from Emmelie De Forest hold onto top 100!