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2009 +10 Marmaduke Duke - Rubber Lover +09 The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition +08 MGMT - Kids +07 deadmau5 & Kaskade - I Remember +06 Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People +05 Metro Station - Shake It +04 A.R. Rahman & The Pussycat Dolls feat. Nicole Scherzinger - Jai Ho! (You Are My Destiny) +03 Kid Cudi vs Crookers - Day N Nite +02 Mini Viva - Left My Heart In Tokyo +01 Agnes -Release Me 2010 +10 Rumer - Slow +09 Brandon Flowers - Crossfire +08 Gramaphonedzie - Why Don't You +07 Mike Posner - Cooler Than Me +06 K'naan - Wavin' Flag +05 Sidney Samson ft Wizard Sleeve - Riverside (Let's Go) +04 Yolanda Be Cool & D Cup - We No Speak Americano +03 Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand +02 Edward Maya ft Vika Jigulina - Stereo Love +01 Fyfe Dangerfield - She's Always A Woman 2011 +10 Mann ft 50 Cent - Buzzin' (Remix) +09 Martin Solveig & Dragonette - Hello +08 Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks +07 Delilah - Go +06 Yasmin - Finish Line +05 Lloyd feat. Andre 3000 & Lil' Wayne - Dedication To My Ex (Miss That) +04 Modestep - Sunlight +03 Diddy-Dirty Money feat. Skylark Grey - Coming Home +02 Lucenzo & Qwote feat. Pitbull & Don Omar - Danza Kudero (Throw Your Hands Up) +01 Alexandra Stan - Mr Saxobeat

Pleased to see Jerk It Out, Are You Gonna Be My Girl and An Honest Mistake all make it through

2006 +10 Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends +09 Hi-Tack - Say Say Say (Waiting 4 U) +08 The Ordinary Boys vs Lady Sovereign - Nine2Five +07 David Guetta vs The Egg - Love Don't let Me Go (Walking Away) +06 Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On +05 Rogue Traders - Voodoo Child +04 James Dean Bradfield - That's No Way To Tell A Lie +03 Bodyrox ft Luciana - Yeah Yeah +02 Sharam - PATT (Party All The Time) +01 Nerina Pallot - Everybody's Gone To War 2007 +10 Peter Bjorn & John ft Victoria Bergsman - Young Folks +09 The Holloways - Generator +08 Unklejam - What Am I Fighting For +07 Junior Jack ft Shena - Dare Me (Stupidisco) +06 Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch Me +05 Samim - Heater +04 Mutya Buena - Real Girl +03 The Cribs - Men's Needs +02 Amy MacDonald - Mr Rock & Roll +01 Camille Jones vs Fedde le Grand - The Creeps 2008 +10 Lupe Fiasco ft Matthew Santos - Superstar +09 Sam Sparro - Black And Gold +08 Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor +07 Guillemots - Get Over It +06 Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You +05 Iglu & Hartley - In This City +04 Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked +03 Flobots - Handlebars +02 Mark Brown ft Sarah Cracknell - The Journey Continues +01 The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement

2004 +10 Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl +09 Delays - Long Time Coming +08 Wolfman ft Pete Doherty - For Lovers +07 Steriogram - Walkie Talkie Man +06 Ice Cube ft Mack 10 & Ms Toi - You Can Do It +05 LMC vs U2 - Take Me To The Clouds Above +04 The Pirates ft Enya, Shola Ama, Nalia Boss & Ishani - You Should Really Know +03 Oceanlab - Satellite +02 Fountains Of Wayne - Stacy's Mom +01 Shaznay Lewis - Never Felt Like This Before 2005 +10 The Bravery - An Honest Mistake +09 Phantom Planet - California +08 Les Rythmes Digitales - Jacques Your Body (Makes Me Sweat) +07 Nizlopi - JCB Song +06 Caesars - Jerk It Out +05 The Tears - Refugees +04 Bodyrockers - I Like The Way +03 Herd & Fitz ft Abigail Bailey - I Just Can't Get Enough +02 Bobby Valentino - Slow Down +01 Love Bites - You Broke My Heart

2002 +10 Tim Deluxe ft Sam Obernik - It Just Won't Do +09 X-Press 2 ft David Byrne - Lazy +08 Liam Lynch - United States of Whatever +07 Truth Hurts ft Rakim - Addictive +06 Puretone - Addicted To Bass +05 Shakedown - At Night +04 Timo Maas - To Get Down +03 Rhianna - Oh Baby +02 Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles +01 Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising 2003 I thought this list was much stronger, headed by two of my favourite number 1s of all time, had to leave out Lumidee, XTM, Lee Cabrera, Siobhan Donaghy +10 Michael Andrews ft Gary Jules - Mad World +09 Tomcraft - Loneliness +08 Royksopp - Eple +07 Turin Brakes - Painkiller +06 Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather for Ducks (maybe my opinion of this single is boosted by my favourite LJ track Soft being the 2nd track on the CD single) +05 The Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It 2003 +04 The Androids - Do It With Madonna +03 Jane's Addiction - Just Because +02 Ainslie Henderson - Keep Me A Secret (don't think this track has aged well, very much a nostalgia pick) +01 Obie Trice - Got Some Teeth

2000 +10 Spiller ft Sophie Ellis Bexter - Groovejet (If This Ain't Love) +09 ODB ft Kelis - Got Your Money +08 Scott and Leon - You Used To Hold Me +07 Kandi - Don't Think I'm Not +06 Black Legend - You See The Trouble With Me +05 Delerium ft Sarah McLachlan - Silence +04 Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 +03 Black Box Recorder - Facts Of Life +02 Q-Tip - Breathe And Stop +01 Marc et Claude - I Need Your Lovin' (Like The Sunshine) 2001 +10 I Monster - Daydream In Blue +09 PPK - Resurrection +08 Jean Jacques Smoothie - 2 People +07 Musique vs U2 - New Years Dub +06 Rui Da Silva ft Cassandra - Touch Me +05 Chocolate Puma - I Wanna Be You +04 Par-T-One vs INXS - I'm So Crazy +03 Bubba Sparxxx - Ugly +02 Andrew WK - Party Hard +01 Spiritualized - Stop Your Crying

Since the Global Release Day is all about protecting the album market, I'm not sure why the singles chart *has* to change as well. OA/OS singles are now and presumably in the future would be released any time during the week. Back in 86/87 the five-days old R1 Top 40 countdown was already being made to look staid by the Network Chart, it would be so much worse now. Under the new schedule the iTunes chart on Friday evening would give a good indication of the following week's chart (as is the case on a Sunday now) but R1 wouldn't be playing that chart in full until 9 days later? The Sunday top 40 show just couldn't stay in its current slot, Friday evening would restrict on the dance programming, I guess a top 10 reveal in Friday drive time with the full top 40 on Saturday morning might be a good fit option if the singles chart compilation day has to move.

The independents spokesman in the Music Week article doesn't like the idea, but surely they can stick to a Monday release if they wanted to, and get some benefit from being the only new physical releases on a Monday, and get some chart position advantage assuming the charts are still compiled on a Sunday-Saturday basis. Shops that sell books, games, DVDs and CDs will be used to stocking different new releases on different days during the week so could cope with having new music batches on both Mondays and Fridays? I quite like the chart unpredictability you'd get from Friday releases in a Sunday-Saturday chart week.

+5 Hozier - Take Me To Church +4 Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk +3 Philip George - Wish You Were Mine +2 Taylor Swift - Blank Space +1 Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud -1 Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass -2 Olly Murs ft Demi Lovato - Up -3 Tchami ft Kaleem Taylor - Promesses -4 Alesso ft Tove Lo - Heroes (We Could Be) -5 Ben Haenow - Something I Need

First time voter on the reshuffle chart to mark probably my favourite top 10 since the Elbow/Kate Bush one post-Olympics +5 Shift K3Y- Touch +4 Sigma- Nobody To Love +3 Tove Lo ft. Hippie Sabotage - Stay High +2 Pharrell Williams- Happy +1 Duke Dumont ft. Jax Jones- I Got U -1 Aloe Blacc - The Man -2 Kiesza - Hideaway -3 John Legend - All Of Me -4 Iggy Azalea ft. Charli XCX - Fancy -5 Route 94 ft. Jess Glynne - My Love

One unfortunate conclusion I am coming to is that the purity of a singles sales chart which I have enjoyed following for 30 years is going to become unviable, so either streams/airplay etc come in, or it remains a purchased sales chart and looks as ridiculously out of touch as the French singles chart was when it kept on excluding downloads even with minuscule physical sales.

When I was thinking of revenue I was only considering physical sales, downloads and streams but the other elements you mention make it intriguing- the airplay revenue is probably trackable and calculable, PPS type public plays less so. Most of the licensing revenue from film use, samples etc would be commercially private deals but that would certainly be one easy but costly way for the big media conglomerates to rig the chart!

I presume spotify, deezer etc pay a fixed price per stream to the relevant record label, rather than a fraction of each user's monthly fee depending on how many streams that individual user has "consumed", and it would be that fixed price that would be incorporated into the main chart? Don't know how robust a system could be against fixing, but there could be a limit on the number of countable streams from a single IP address? And as streaming really takes off, it might require several hundred thousand plays a week to seriously rig the chart. I wouldn't be in favour of it, but I think at some point the singles chart will need to be a revenue chart, like the movies box office chart rather than a unit sales chart.

They did do Somewhere Only We Know, and as usual a good version of it, but it was only shown on the red button extras after the main BBC1 show Btw, I saw that Keane had a guitarist on stage with them, when did they abandon the no-guitars policy?

07 Keep It Together 11 Vogue 03 Hanky Panky 09 Justify My Love 07 Rescue Me 05 This Used to Be My Playground 08 Erotica 09 Deeper and Deeper 06 Bad Girl 06 Fever 08 Rain 06 Bye Bye Baby 04 I'll Remember 07 Secret 09 Take a Bow 08 Bedtime Story 06 Human Nature 09 You'll See 06 One More Chance 07 Love Don't Live Here Anymore 05 You Must Love Me 06 Don't Cry for Me Argentina 05 Another Suitcase in Another Hall 10 Frozen 10 Ray of Light 09 Drowned World (Substitute for Love) 08 The Power of Goodbye 08 Nothing Really Matters 09 Beautiful Stranger

Today's challenge: find one single person who would classify Sandi Thom's I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker as a "holiday anthem"?

There have been plenty of different approaches over the years as to how many of the lower placed tracks got played in full, or played at all, but I think top 10 songs have always been played, the most recent top 10 hit not to get a play on the chart show might be George Michael I Want Your Sex in 1987 when it had a pre-watershed ban? Although I have some memory that they might have played the instrumental then?

twitter updates from @officialcharts seem to suggest they haven't made a final decision on Bowie eligibility yet...

Would quite like to see Bowie get to number 1 but if that can't happen then I'd be happy for the consolation of adding a new track to the trivia list of supposedly denied number 1's like Groove Is In The Heart, God Save The Queen and Stop the Cavelry.

Agree- I love "Live"

If there's a chance that this week's biggest selling track can't make number 1 then they should urgently look at a change of rules, and they did set a precedent for changing eligibility rules "on the hoof"- at the end of 2006 Fairytale of New York should have been chart ineligible as it had already had the maximum 52 chart weeks allowed following the 2005 physical re-release, and before the chart rules changed at the start of 2007 to allow all downloads regardless of a linked physical release. But it was included in the last chart of 2006 to avoid a hard to explain sudden disappearance from the chart, when it could have re-entered the following week anyway. Even in that really messy 2006 era when singles were getting deleted out if the chart at record companies' whims and downloads could only count in the week of or the week before the physical release, I don't think a non-chart eligible single was ever the week's true best seller, Gnarls Barkley Crazy was deleted after it fell from Number 1 and if I remember correctly from reports at the time it would have only gone as high as number 3 for the early weeks of download sales when it was chart inelligible?

No-one thinks Olly Murs has a chance? He did have the Christmas number 3 album last year, behind big selling Michael Buble and Amy Winehouse albums. I don't think any albums this year are going to be getting close to the Buble/Winehouse sales of last year so Olly will be close. I reckon OneDirection are going to get big sales from post-Xmas iTunes gift card sales, the pre-Christmas CD present sales will go to Rod Stewart, Olly Murs and a bit of Buble?

I was born in January 1975, I wonder if there's ever been a singles chart entirely made up of acts younger than me, if not yet then it looks like it's coming soon :( (goes to look at the album list to feel younger) Great bit of research by the way

Scrolling through Titanium, Gotye, Toxic, I would never ever have guessed Wuthering Heights as Number 1, excellent choice Buzzjack and thanks Thermo!

I'm not sure what to make of the Hillsborough single's Number 1 prospects yet. The cause, as I understand it, is to raise funds for judicial reviews and other legal challenges starting with new inquests. These are widely supported demands, but I wonder if the BBC might see it as too political and back away from much airplay/ support (which would only be on Radio 2 anyway, even if Radio 1-friendly acts appear on the record I can't see them playing any version of He Ain't Heavy). The Hillsborough group certainly has an effective marketing presence, witness the very large amount of coverage that the announcement of the plans for the record got. But, it has been quiet since that initial announcement, has the single been recorded yet, is there a possibility it might not come off, at least not in time for Xmas? Paddy Power currently has the Hillsborough single as 18/25 favourite for the Xmas Number 1.