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Pure Shores a classic chart-topper for me too, and the other highlight is Cartoon Heroes. As a lifelong fan of animated TV and movies and comic books I liked the topic and it's a great record.

Never been that much of a fan of The Script, pedestrian ballads by and large for me in the early days, but they do chuck out the odd goodie, and Hall Of Fame was the one for me, it had more going for it than the usual singles, will.i.am prob helped with that side of it. I also like their recent single which has similar vibes - Man In The Arena - and they've had a few decent singles over the last 15 years too, I've bought 3 others too since this came out!

Ken Lee was hideous, but at least Mariah had some gems in Fantasy, Dream Lover and that Xmas classic to compensate for hogging so many singles sales through the 90's. The BoyzIIMen duet also not forgiven for what it did to the US top 40, a veritable Rein Me In of the time (But not as good).

White Lines may be the greatest rap record of all-time, discuss, sounds like an exam question... I would still argue it is I think, notwithstanding later essentials. 10/10. Two Tribes is also epic, the first epic trilogy to get the number one hat-trick from debut. Never happened again 10/10. Nik Kershaw is often under-rated, and this 2nd-time-lucky track was a jolly singalong despite the lyrics, but I prefer Wouldnt It Be Good and The Riddle. 8/10. Jump has proven more popular than Automatic in the long run, but I still think the record-buying public got it the right way round in 1984, but it is anyway a great pop track 9/10. Talking Loud & Clear better than Locomotion but not as big, another 9/10 from me here, lovely & tuneful. I Wanna Be Loved and that effective video is just gorgeous, quite probably my fave Costello track and the closest he ever got to topping my chart (number 2) 9/10. Susanna is OK, but there were better European smashes not charting in 1984, like Major Tom (Peter Schilling), so I found this one a bit on the dull side 6/10. Absolute s Wood Beez part 2, not quite as good, but still worthy 8/10. Farewell My Summer Love would have been a minor early to mid 70's single with a bit of airplay, but it only really hit thanks to Thriller bounce, and isnt in the same league as One Day In Your Life 7/10. Love All Day has a nice tune, not one I got a copy of - unlike most of the singles of this era - and I still enjoy tuneful Nick now he's back doing Haircut 100 songs and an album that's funkier than most of his solo material 7/10. Rough Justice was a bold attempt to get serious, but it didnt really suit their more shambolic style 6/10. Change Of Heart is a good club track, and was very much heralding the huge pop dance Jam & Lewis as they were dabbling with Change ahead of Janet Jackson and Alexander O neal, along with the SOS Band, but not quite as strong a song and on point as those acts with the retro disco vibes 8/10. Stuck On You is imprinted on my mind as I was full-on mentally unwell with physical side-symptoms and banging my head on the wall. I still can't bear hearing it 1/10. Infatuation was quite exciting to start with, for a while, but didn't have long-term repeat appeal and wasn't as big as it might have appeared it was going to be. That said I still quite like it 7/10.

Thanks Simon, I also didnt expect to see the record broken with ACR being a thing, though Wham has to be a serious contender if Rein Me In ever drops to ACR, and yes even I wasnt around when that record was set, though I did know the song as a kiddie 😄 Goodo on the decisions about travelling, good choice!

Rein Me In gets that record 19th week on top, Charli xcx gets a 4th album number one Sam Fender and Olivia Dean do the seemingly impossible and take the chart record by a slender margin. Rein Me In was trailing in the first two chart updates, by a declining margin as memories of the World Cup half-time show fade, but Shakira couldnt quite get that second chart-topper with Dai Dai. Burna Boy's flame therefore has been extinguished too. Ah well, maybe in four years time then. With thanks to Simon for the info, Rein Me In is also only the 3rd track to hold the most-weeks record and the first by British acts. Is any other summer record drop going to challenge Rein Me In hanging on at the top until the end of the decade and increasing on its historic 19 weeks? Tune in next week! Ella Langley, ANOTR featuring Ultra 54 and Olivia Rodrigo continue to tussle over the 3, 4 and 5 slots, with this week Ella coming out on top with the still-classy Choosin' Texas up to a new peak of 3 on its 30th chart week. For those looking for a UK version there's always Choosin' Wessex, done Bardcore Medieval stylee by Hildegarde von Blingin' which is lovely and amusing and references Coventry and Glastonbury instead of the USA place-names. Talk To Me still bangs for me at 5, and Olivia's stupid song is good at 4. French EDM DJ/producer HUGEL meanwhile climbs to 7 with the fab Movin' To The Sun, aided and abetted by Imael Angel, UK EDM House producer who has a similar-sounding goodie out in I'm Alive, and 90's hitmaker Ultra Nate. The pair of producers had already collaborated on a remix of Ultra's classic Free, so thoughtfully drafted her in for the vocals on their new song, meaning she gets her first top 10 since Found A Cure peaked at 6 in 1998, and third in total since Free hit 4 in 1997. STELLA LEFTY, as she likes to shouty-text stylize, moves to a new peak of 14 as the very catchy and upbeat song finds new fans week on week with Boston. I once got bumped from a flight from Logan Airport and ferried to a hotel at 4am by a manic taxi driver playing Jimi Hendrix on 11, after 24 hours in the airport and on a faulty plane. Consequently my theoretical song about Boston would be pre-date Stella's by 37 years and be much less fun. Cats' eyes save huge numbers of lives annually, thanks to Percy Shaw and his 1934 road reflector invention. KATSEYE are another shouty-text act, based in L.A. I also have an anecdote about being stranded at L.A. Airport, but it's not as thrilling as the last one. Hooray! The global-origined girl group are another reality show creation and are on their 5th top 40 track in just over a year, with Animal entering at 16. Sadly it's not a cover of the Def Leppard song. Sienna Spiro has had to modify her Great Expectation, just up the four spots to 15, but her first name always gives me huge Tuscany-rooted nostalgia as a postage stamp reddish-brown descriptor back in the days when my exciting youth lifestyle involved collecting stamps. I really knew how to live it up! Another hobby was taking photographs on my camera. Charli XCX has a new single, Camera, in at 22 which I count as her 27th top 40 hit in the 14 years since I Love It got the ball rolling with Icona Pop. One has to admire her work ethic and album chart placing (see below). The rather good Temper City climb one place to a new peak of 27 with Self Aware, meanwhile, as Katy Perry reaches a new second-time-around peak of 24, and Bloodstream is up to 20 and a new peak for Alyssa Grace. Robyn's Dancing On My Own smash from 2010 makes it's first top 40 re-appearance since, one of several others of late after the World Cup ended, though her newer stuff struggles a bit to chart sadly. Noah Kahan is up 4 spots to 36 with Orbiter, and finally, in at 40 it's Audrey Hobert with Sue Me. Very kind offer, but I'll pass. Friend of Gracie Abrams and a co-writer and her first ever hit, and a surprise entry for me! In the albums chart it's an easy 4th-in-a-row chart-topper for Charli XCX with Music, Fashion, Film and her second of the year following Wuthering Heights. As intimated above, she's quite prolific. Snow Patrol meanwhile enter with their 20th anniversary expanded edition of Eyes Open. It may or may not count as a new album, I will wait until the OCC makes its' mind up as there isn't necessarily a guaranteed well-defined rule for this. It is, however, Charli XCX's 7th top 40 album from 8 releases. Or 9 from a lot more if you include EP's mixtapes live remixes hits and anything else I've missed. Essential Jacko is at 2, and pretty sad Olivia Rodrigo at 3 and Olivia Dean as per usual at 5. Shania Twain is back, come on over Little Miss Twain! The Canadian 90's country star, Eileen to her family, is on her 7th top 40 studio album in well over 30 years, which is about half as prolific as Charli XCX on average. It is, though, her 6th top 10 album in a row going back to 1995, but falls short of a 4th number one at 7 as Charli XCX grabs that stat instead. Reality Awaits is the latest album from The Strokes, new at 8, as they struggle to get any headline pre-plays these days ahead of release-dates bar the fan-base, but have a 24-year span of chart success anyway. I can't claim to have seen them in concert, but I have seen guitarist Albert Hammond Jr's British dad locally. In another spooky "7th studio album" coincidence that's the same as Shania Twain in a decade less. British road-rapper/Hip hop acts Nines is back again. Any hooray he is also on a 7th album charter since 2017 which is out-prolific-ing even Charli XCX, but Lost Tapes so far is download only and falls short of the top 10 at 14 and is listed as a Mixtape not a studio album." That concludes the album news and various filler anecdotes. Stay away from heathland and woodland, and stay safe! And with that best wishes to Simon in France and hoping the raging fires are not anywhere nearby!

sorry for any future amendments to the album comments, the OCC isnt playing gme and I need to go out to a concert right now, sorry!

1 4 1 4 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 268500 2 1 1 4 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 448000 3 2 1 5 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 605000 4 3 2 9 THE WAVE - Jungle 636650 5 16 5 4 SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) - Bobby Goldsboro 110400 6 58 6 2 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 65200 7 6 5 5 TANGERINE - Damiano David 214450 8 24 8 5 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 89900 9 27 9 7 LOVE SENSATION - Madonna 107400 10 5 4 5 FATE - Alan Walker & Ava Max 236500 11 7 3 11 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 449650 12 10 7 9 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 191150 13 8 8 7 HOWL - Carly Simon 220400 14 11 1 11 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 816000 15 19 15 10 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 131800 16 9 6 10 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 239100 17 12 1 14 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 793300 18 64 18 3 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 34700 19 33 19 6 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 60900 20 13 1 8 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 469200 21 14 14 6 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 124300 22 18 18 10 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 150750 23 23 1 17 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 1000600 24 29 24 6 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 78600 25 28 25 9 DRAG THE BAG - Inspiral Carpets 113650 26 20 20 9 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 136100 27 15 15 10 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 154450 28 32 28 9 MORE! MORE! MORE! - Becky Hill 116100 29 21 19 13 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 187050 30 25 1 11 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 668250 31 26 15 14 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 261950 32 45 32 5 FIREBALL - Pitbull featuring John Ryan 44500 33 35 33 6 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 88800 34 22 17 11 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 184450 35 38 35 3 I'M ALIVE - Imael Angel 45950 36 37 36 5 CHICAGO - Michael Jackson 65750 37 31 1 13 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 503800 38 36 5 24 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 654850 39 44 1 13 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 645150 40 41 4 15 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 424850

26th July 2026 It's not the first time Dave Dee & co have replaced themselves at the top of my chart, they last did it with Last Night In Soho and The Legend Of Xanadu in the early 2000's when I caught them on tour promoting a new Greatest Hits for the final time together, a few years before Dave Dee passed away, and so it happens that the uncharted Don Juan replaces the uncharted Zabadak! in my affections this week. The Spanish vibe is very much Legend Of Xanadu part 2, but it's still a cracker I missed at the time. The oldies stay strong as Bobby Goldsboro's 1973 summer ballad glides up to 5 for a second attempt at a run for the top 2. Sort of old, Gregg Alexander's re-do of his own song with Michelle Branch rockets up to 6, meaning Michelle gets to go top 10 twice with the former chart-topper from the early Noughties. Olivia Rodrigo meanwhile is rising all over the place: Honeybee is lovely, and climbs to 8 as The Cure goes top 20, and Stupid Song is up to 71. Madonna is even more mulitply successful as the first track from Confessions II goes top 10: Love Sensation at 9 is Madonna's first top 10 since Medellin topped my chart in 2019, and adds to her well-over 100 chart hits. Danceteria is up to 44, Bizarre 75 and Read My Lips 90. Jungle rise 46 places to 18 with Someday, Somewhere with The Wave still top 5, while there are some more music-related deaths this week securing some oldies returning to the chart: one of the core members of The Rubettes passed away, former session-musician Tony Thorpe, so a trio of their greatest tracks return: the gorgeous Baby I Know at 48, top 10 in 1977, You're The Reason Why at 83, a country-style gem that also went top 10 for me in 1976, and the 50's retro follow-up to Sugar Baby Love at 61 - Tonight from 1974 didn't click with me at the time, but it's sounding fab 50-odd years on. Early 60's rocker Freddy Cannon also passed away, and he's never charted for me before, not even as an oldie, so in comes his obscure original of Buzz Buzz A-Diddle-It at 89 - first charted top 10 for me in 1980 for Matchbox - and Palisades Park at 100. Holly Humberstone charts a second on the chart at 85 with Blue Dream, as White Noise closes in the top 40, for a 4th of 2026, and U2 make it 4 as well in 2026 as a good Martin Garrix collab at 86, Fireflies, enters as Street Of Dreams leaps to 62. It's not Martin Garrix's first of the year either. Tove Lo can't stay away, either, Des Fleurs at 94 with Stromae adding some French class. Natalie Imbruglia replaces herself pretty smartly, Just Drive at 96, Orville Peck keeps the ball rolling with Too Little Too Late at 98, and The Avalanches are also back at 99 with Blue Shadows, interesting musically as ever 5 years on from their last top 10 - The Divine Chord - and 25 years on from the sublime Since I Left You debuted. 1 4 1 4 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 268500 2 1 1 4 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 448000 3 2 1 5 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 605000 4 3 2 9 THE WAVE - Jungle 636650 5 16 5 4 SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) - Bobby Goldsboro 110400 6 58 6 2 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 65200 7 6 5 5 TANGERINE - Damiano David 214450 8 24 8 5 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 89900 9 27 9 7 LOVE SENSATION - Madonna 107400 10 5 4 5 FATE - Alan Walker & Ava Max 236500 11 7 3 11 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 449650 12 10 7 9 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 191150 13 8 8 7 HOWL - Carly Simon 220400 14 11 1 11 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 816000 15 19 15 10 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 131800 16 9 6 10 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 239100 17 12 1 14 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 793300 18 64 18 3 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 34700 19 33 19 6 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 60900 20 13 1 8 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 469200 21 14 14 6 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 124300 22 18 18 10 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 150750 23 23 1 17 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 1000600 24 29 24 6 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 78600 25 28 25 9 DRAG THE BAG - Inspiral Carpets 113650 26 20 20 9 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 136100 27 15 15 10 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 154450 28 32 28 9 MORE! 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MORE! - Becky Hill 116100 29 21 19 13 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 187050 30 25 1 11 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 668250 31 26 15 14 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 261950 32 45 32 5 FIREBALL - Pitbull featuring John Ryan 44500 33 35 33 6 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 88800 34 22 17 11 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 184450 35 38 35 3 I'M ALIVE - Imael Angel 45950 36 37 36 5 CHICAGO - Michael Jackson 65750 37 31 1 13 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 503800 38 36 5 24 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 654850 39 44 1 13 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 645150 40 41 4 15 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 424850 41 30 8 12 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 270800 42 34 5 12 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 375350 43 53 43 6 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 54550 44 48 44 4 DANCETERIA - Madonna 39950 45 46 45 6 BOOGIE'S IN MY SOUL - Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg 57850 46 42 42 11 POTENTIAL - sombr 101450 47 47 47 5 DANCING WITHOUT YOU - Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor 32000 48 NEW 48 1 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 12300 49 39 6 17 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 476100 50 17 17 8 ON THE FLOOR - Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull 107450 51 43 1 13 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 680500 52 73 52 2 SUNRISE - Simply Red 16900 53 56 53 5 ON MY SOUL - Bruno Mars 38850 54 60 54 3 SHATTERED DREAMS - Johnny Hates Jazz 26100 55 65 55 3 I FEEL HOPE COMING - Alabama Shakes 24000 56 52 17 11 GO - The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip 163100 57 40 40 10 HEADLIGHTS - In Color 64700 58 70 58 4 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 24800 59 62 59 9 BOSTON - STELLA LEFTY 49700 60 71 60 2 WANTED - The Dooleys 15800 61 NEW 61 1 TONIGHT - The Rubettes 7500 62 80 62 3 STREET OF DREAMS - U2 12800 63 61 61 10 MAN IN THE ARENA - The Script 51000 64 63 63 9 FAVOURITE KIND OF IDIOT - Paul Heaton featuring Rianne Downey & Ian Broudie 52800 65 72 65 4 CHEMISTRY - PNAU featuring Master Peace 18100 66 57 1 24 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 917300 67 79 67 3 STAND UP - Howard Jones 12800 68 75 68 6 SELF AWARE - Temper City 19900 69 50 10 14 FREE TO LOVE - Duran Duran featuring Nile Rodgers 235950 70 74 70 4 MEET ME IN LOVE - Blossoms featuring Maya Jama 18200 71 76 71 3 STUPID SONG - Olivia Rodrigo 12800 72 69 4 21 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles 456200 73 68 3 18 PHOENIX - Marshmello x Portugal. The Man 442700 74 87 74 2 THINK I'M GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - The Dooleys 7800 75 77 75 3 BIZARRE - Madonna & Martin Garrix 12600 76 78 76 3 TAKE ME BACK - Kygo & Max McNown 12400 77 92 77 3 THESE ALARMS - Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue 7900 78 86 78 3 THERE'S A BETTER WAY - Inspiral Carpets 8200 79 94 79 2 IT FEELS SO GOOD - Sonique 5800 80 66 66 6 (BABY BABY) CAN I INVADE YOUR COUNTRY - Sparks 23000 81 88 81 5 WATCH IT BURN - Katy Perry 10400 82 84 82 3 IT'S A HEARTACHE - Bonnie Tyler 9400 83 NEW 83 1 YOU'RE THE REASON WHY - The Rubettes 3400 84 85 84 3 MY BODY ISN'T READY - sombr 8600 85 NEW 85 1 BLUE DREAM - Holly Humberstone 3000 86 NEW 86 1 FIREFLIES - Martin Garrix & U2 2800 87 89 87 4 JEALOUS LOVER - The Rolling Stones 8300 88 90 88 4 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME - Ariana Grande 7200 89 NEW 89 1 BUZZ BUZZ A-DIDDLE-IT - Freddy Cannon 2200 90 97 90 5 READ MY LIPS - Madonna & Feid 6900 91 91 91 4 PASSENGER - Alex Warren 6400 92 93 92 3 LOST IN FRANCE - Bonnie Tyler 4800 93 96 93 2 WATCHING YOU WATCHING ME - The Shires 3100 94 NEW 94 1 DES FLEURS - Tove Lo & Stromae 1600 95 99 95 2 ON WIRES - Carly Rae Jepsen 2600 96 NEW 96 1 JUST DRIVE - Natalie Imbruglia 1400 97 67 67 8 ROLLING STONES - The Kolors 30100 98 NEW 98 1 TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE - Orville Peck 1200 99 NEW 99 1 BLUE SHADOWS - The Avalanches featuring Karen O 1100 100 NEW 100 1 PALISADES PARK - Freddy Cannon 1000 DROP OUTS 49 7 12 RUMOURS - Hot Chocolate 355250 51 51 5 SAIL ON - The Commodores 40200 54 14 12 CAN'T SIT STILL - Lainey Wilson 208900 55 33 10 UPSIDE DOWN - Natalie Imbruglia 112350 59 38 12 ELECTRIC CIRCUS - Nelly Furtado, Boi 1da & Canada Soccer 112700 81 79 5 HOLD ME IN THE DARK - Myles Smith 16000 82 74 8 SAD GIRLS - Bebe Rexha & David Guetta 23300 83 83 5 LET'S GET TOGETHER - Brother Wallace 11500 95 83 6 A CRAZY SHOT IN THE DARK - The Fizz 13300 98 78 5 ROX IN THE BOX - The Dead South 13900 100 75 8 RETURN TO BHIBO - Barry Can't Swim 25800

Hey James! 🙂 Fab charts, lots of great stuff in there, plenty to like and love, like all these ones: 01 01 Rose Gray - Club To Your Arms | 17-01-01-01-01 | 5 wks 02 02 Katy Perry - Watch It Burn | 35-03-02-02-02 | 5 wks 03 03 Olivia Rodrigo - Stupid Song | 25-06-03-03-03 | 5 wks 04 04 Ariana Grande - Hate That I Made You Love Me | 06-07-03-09-05-04-04 | 7 wks 05 05 Olivia Rodrigo - Drop Dead | 13-11-08-11-04-05-05 | 7 wks 06 06 Stella Lefty - Boston | 01-05-06-08-06-06-06 | 7 wks 07 08 Olivia Rodrigo - The Cure | 04-01-02-05-08-08-07 | 7 wks 08 07 Carly Rae Jepsen - On Wires | 29-09-07-08 | 4 wks 09 14 Anne Hathaway - My Mouth Is Lonely For You | 19-15-02-11-14-09 | 6 wks 10 10 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide | 40-37-xx-22-23-23-18-12-10-10 | 9 wks not chrted this one but I dont dislike it, so thats the whole top 10 I rate! 13 17 Alan Walker & Ava Max - Fate | 19-17-13 | 3 wks yay upwardly mobile! 14 15 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You | 05-04-05-13-18-15-14 | 7 wks 15 21 Slayyyter - Dance... | 33-31-21-14-08-xx-26-25-22-22-22-21-15 | 12 wks 18 26 Sombr - My Body Isn't Ready | 38-38-39-26-18 | 5 wks 19 09 Harry Styles - Aperture | 30-07-04-02-xx-18-09-10-11-10-09-19 | 11 wks 20 18 Tove Lo - I'm Your Girl Right? | 14-08-09-15-23-18-20 | 7 wks 21 11 Harry Styles - American Girls | 12-17-13-16-16-11-21 | 7 wks 24 16 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun | 02-02-01-07-15-16-24 | 7 wks 26 19 Becky Hill - More! More! More! | 07-03-07-12-17-19-26 | 7 wks 28 NE Rose Gray - Just Be Bodies | 28 | 1 wk 29 37 Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Dancing Without You | 37-29 | 2 wks so catchy! 30 27 The Fizz - A Crazy Shot In The Dark | 20-21-04-25-27-30 | 6 wks 31 28 Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia | 12-03-01-01-01-01-02-01-01-03-04-04-02-02-02-01-01-06-04-xx-30-29-29-19-20-28-31 | 25 wks 34 31 Tame Impala - Dracula | 17-16-19-21-26-31-34 | 7 wks 35 NE Sombr - Potential | 35 | 1 wk good to see this enter, falling short of my top 40 but still good. 38 39 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart | 39-38 | 2 wks yay Bonnie! 39 NE Carly Rae Jepsen - After All | 39 | 1 wk 40 NE Jessie Ware - Sauna | 40 | 1 wk this is growing on me too... fab chart! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Rose is still my fave new record, but I got all filled with nostalgia for a bit 😄I dont know what Alan Walker has to do to get UK radio play, no stations ever play his great singles! Yes the cure is clicking big time now, very much a grower 👍🙂Thanks for the tips, On Wires I like better than its chart position suggests, its just a very crowded chart keeping it down at the mo but it feels like it will pick up speed, yay! Cheers! Thanks for all the enthusiastic comments! 🤩

Hi Da Tilt! Hope all is great! My faves this week from your chart: 1. Luna – Away With The Fairies (1) 4w 3. Angelina Mango; Marco Mengoni – Canto D'Amore (12) 2w 17. Muse; Ellie Goulding – Hush (17) 5w 19. Sombr – My Body Isn't Ready (26) 5w 26. Delta Goodrem – Hologram (29) 5w 42. Federica Abbate – Superman (24) 9w 45. Charlotte Cardin – Take Me Back (33) 8w 47. Prospa; Cloonee – Free Your Mind (35) 7w 51. Stella Lefty – Boston (NEW) yay new entry! 53. Katseye – Animal (NEW) 58. Olivia Rodrigo – Stupid Song (56) 7w Cheers! 😎

Hi Da Tilt! , Aww thanks for the Dave Dee comment, I do miss them. And Bobby Goldsboro too! Sonique is a re-entry really as she topped my charts in 2000 and was a monster classic but I like separate chart runs in my A to Z of chart hits library to see how many times I've charted them before and which years they hit again - I got this habit from the Guinness Book Of Hit Singles, they always showed re-entries and re-releases as new chart runs with new highest position and weeks on chart info. I always add new chart "sales" to the original run though so there's a running total of any big songs, and Sonique's is a big song moving up my all-time top 1000 as a result 👍I dont like Wikipedia combining all runs into one chart peak as the only information as it give false impressions of some tracks that take decades to reach a chart peak, though it makes more sense with streaming-era songs that never leave the chart! cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope the leg is healing up nicely and everyone is spoiling you with sympathy! I'll be juggling Suedey's chart commentary with picking up my Aunty to see a Queen tribute act later, so that will be hectic. Saw Graham Gouldman on Tuesday doing a career overview in a local big church, which was diffrent. That'll be the only place to hear Yardbirds, Hollies, Herman's Hermits, 10CC and Wax stuff these days then...! Very good too. Fab charts as always! 🤩 cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Sorry about the leg wound infection, you just arent getting a break lately! They can be very awkward in taking time to heal so hope all sorts itself out asap! No worries about commenting life is more important! I was also short on time, as I had to dash off to London mid-afternoon friday, to do some shopping and stuff for M after sudden mobility issues. Not the James Bond M! 😄 I hope everyone is giving you lots of sympathy about the bandages. Milk it for all it's worth about soldiering on regardless😇 Thanks for the congrats on the 1500th, I wouldnt even have noticed if Alex/Last Dreamer hadn't asked and I went off to count them out of curiosity. Work colleagues big on HUGEL? Well that puts them up in my estimation then it's an ear-worm 👍It's already on the decline for me though, slightly, so you might be right about getting fed up with it long-term 🙂Love Sensation I think is the best track on the album, though they are all growers for me, unusually as in the olden days Madonna singles tended to be instant for me. Good album though! Great to see Madge getting 2 top 40 tracks off it. Dancing Without You is very reminiscent of something 70's, the closest I can get to it off the top of my head is Eurodance tracks like my BJSC flop entry from 1975 El Bimbo by Bimbo Jets crossed with a hint of Modern Talking Brother Louie 80's eurocheese. ooh glad you loved Game Of Love too, also a massive chart-topper for me too, love it. Wanted was very much a great pounding Abba-esque change of direction for The Dooleys - it's a shame they never managed to keep that vibe going, but they were neck and neck with Voulez Vous in the charts at the time. Thanks as always for the comprehensive picks and comments! 🤩 cheers! 😎