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RabbitFurCoat Ranks the 2012 #1s
another track that has dropped from my memory in will.i.am. The intro isnt bad, the build is fine and then it disappoints a bit till the next build - and then it disappoints again. It's not a dance banger it's too disjointed, a real patchwork quilt with no centre to it, so the overall effect is also patchy. So what did I make it at the time? Number 27 peak. That's about right, bits of it are good but overall it's not cohesive enough to be memorable. So better than Impossible, and one other, but behind the rest so far for me.
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PopMaster & Ten To The Top II
Thanks Jade and well done on getting 3 Gary Barlow's, hardest 3 in 10 ever for me 😄 round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: Paranoid Android, Creep, Karma Police
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Top 100 Best Selling Singles Acts of the 1990s
Vengaboys, well thats a shock, I see them as a novelty act that had a brief career oops. Cliff at 86th would have been more appropriate for everything he released (still largely decent) until the albatross that is Millennium Prayer. Bon Jovi a bit flattered by Always selling well, but then again Jon Bon Jovi solo is pretty much Bon Jovi anyway, so it evens out. Can I link my lunchtime with Jon backstage at the Radio One Roadshow again? Thanks. This is my video...
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The UK Top 40 singles of the 1980s: listening sessions + polls: next session 26 July
The Style Council - You're The Best Thing Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes Grandmaster And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It) Elvis Costello - I Wanna Be Loved The Bluebells - Young At Heart
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RabbitFurCoat Ranks the 2012 #1s
James Arthur's career has been fairly consistently bad in terms of output. For a start his constipated-vocal style of singing really grates on me, I can't take anything he does seriously - some might call it over-emoting to the point of ridicule in a Michael Bolton fashion but at least he could hold a tune and restrain himself now and again. Impossible really got on my tits, but it's still the best thing he did as the original song isn't too bad. Peaked at 54 but a 3 week run for me, so I'm nominating it as my new worst-number-one of the year. Maroon 5 can be brilliant (Moves Like Jagger) but they can also be bland and formulaic, and Payphone falls nicely between the two as a proper good pop single, top 5 chart-peak worthy and best track to go out so far, this would be much higher for me. Rent A Rapper not really needed, as per the norm in those days and beyond.
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Top 100 Best Selling Singles Acts of the 1990s
Gabrielle did well, and earned that sales total pretty much, though oddly her best year was 2000 for me. 2 Unlimited did well to extend a couple of good singles into a long run of hits, but few are memorable these days, Ace Of Base also seemed like a short-run band but came big in the later end of the decade with their best stuff, so good to see them in the top 40. Pop is not a dirty word to me, when done well.
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Julian rates every Top 40 hit: the 1980s edition
I Want To Break Free is great fun, and Freddie dropping hints in the great video - bound to be his idea and helping to end their US singles chart career to boot. 9/10. The Caterpillar was a new Cure highlight for me at the time, playful and original 9/10 and Dr Mabuse was epic in every way, just brilliant 10/10. Against All Odds not a huge Phil fave but it is a good example of that sort of film theme slushy ballad in the 80's 8/10. It's been so long since I heard Heaven I have no clear memory of it, so I'm having a guess it's more of a 6/10. S.O.S. Band dropping the new dance-pop sound of the 80's in Just Be Good To me as forthcoming from Janet Jackson and Alexander O'Neal, and a classic production too from Jam & Lewis 9/10. Dancing Girls not quite up to previous singles off the first Nik album, but not bad 7/10. Locomotion getting that railway train rhythm nicely for a bit of light fun but not quite as great as most previous singles 8/10. Give Me Tonight a decent follow-up but not as memorable as the ground-breaking debut 8/10. Baby You're Dynamite another I dont recall much, because it was a double A and ballad Ocean Deep got all the airplay, that was more of a 6/10 for me. Don't Tell Me keeping the big Blancmange sound but not as classic as 1983 singles 8/10. I'm Falling was a nice debut for The Bluebells, quite melodic 8/10. She's Strange was unusual at the time, and under-rated chart-wise so it got a second run after Cameo broke through proper after or just before THAT Larry Blackmon TOTP performance cod-piece, I really love the vibes on this one 9/10. Kool & The Gang keeping that formula going 6/10, and the Gap Band comeback is one I've mostly forgotten too so vaguely offering up 5/10 as a likely rating.
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SUBMISSIONS: Songs Multichart #1060
1 1 1 3 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 405000 2 8 2 2 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 163000 3 2 2 7 THE WAVE - Jungle 486650 4 7 4 3 FATE - Alan Walker & Ava Max 134500 5 10 5 3 TANGERINE - Damiano David 109450 6 11 6 8 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 169100 7 18 7 7 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 115150 8 9 8 5 HOWL - Carly Simon 140400 9 3 3 9 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 362650 10 4 1 6 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 417200 11 6 1 12 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 735300 12 5 1 9 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 750000 13 15 1 15 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 962100 14 23 14 4 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 75550 15 14 8 10 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 238800 16 12 1 11 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 468600 17 22 17 9 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 147350 18 52 18 2 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 33500 19 24 19 11 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 149100 20 13 5 10 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 344000 21 28 21 8 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 109050 22 17 1 9 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 631500 23 19 15 12 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 225550 24 21 4 13 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 393850 25 20 6 15 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 446900 26 30 26 7 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 96600 27 31 27 8 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 109250 28 57 28 3 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 22900 29 39 29 8 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 83800 30 62 30 2 SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) - Bobby Goldsboro 25400 31 16 7 11 RUMOURS - Hot Chocolate 343150 32 37 32 6 ON THE FLOOR - Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull 72450 33 54 33 4 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 41400 34 44 34 7 DRAG THE BAG - Inspiral Carpets 76600 35 25 5 22 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 620250 36 50 36 7 MORE! MORE! MORE! - Becky Hill 80000 37 55 37 5 LOVE SENSATION - Madonna 44000 38 56 38 3 CHICAGO - Michael Jackson 31050 39 43 39 4 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 53600 40 27 14 11 CAN'T SIT STILL - Lainey Wilson 197900
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John v's w/b 12th July 2026 charts - Rose Gray vs a 60's nonsense lyric
12th July 2026 It's two weeks on top for Rose Gray and the fabulous Club To Your Arms, as Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich rise to 6 with their 1967 fave Zabadak! That was pre-personal-chart but had I been scribbing my fave songs in a notebook Zabadak would have topped my charts. No actual lyrics, it's purely melody, harmonies, production and emotion from vocals with no real meaning. As an exercise in what they can do, it worked pretty well for this 9-year-old. Alan Walker rises to 4 and his 7th top 5 track since number one Faded first did it in 2016. In a good week for DJ producers Robin Schulz is up to a Coldplay-sampling 6 with Better Times, a second top 10 on from 2020's number one In Your Eyes, and 12 years from debut Prayer In C, and HUGEL is up to 7 with the insistent Movin' To The Sun, his second, and Ultra Nate's 4th top 10. Imael Angel, meanwhile gets a second chart hit with highest new entry I'm Alive at 53, all solo this time. Alabama Shakes have never charted before, but lead singer Brittany Howard lended vocals to Miley Cyrus' chart-topper Walk Of Fame last year, and now the band debut with the rather nice I Feel Hope Coming. Don't we all. Calvin Hayes, formerly of Johnny Hates Jazz, passed away this week and the fab Shattered Dreams returns at 70 in tribute, still their best record and 1987 debut hit. We also lost the loveable Bonnie Tyler last week after she'd been taken ill 2 months ago in Portugal. I have charted her classic Total Eclipse Of The Heart three times already so have opted for her 50th anniversary debut hit Lost In France in at 97, and her first pop-vocal-op hit It's A Heartache from 1978, showing the change to a gruffer vocal sound. New at 87 and second-time round for both former top 10's. Jungle drop one spot with The Wave at 3, but also enter their new track and video Someday, Somewhere with the melodic laid-back dance vibes in at 72. Lower down at 84 Kygo returns with Take Me Back, his 17th chart entry in 11 years, while Madonna's Confessions II album brings another track to the chart - the 5th in the top 100 and 6th in total, and her 7th of 2026. Not bad for a soon-to-be 68-year-old - in Bizarre, a collab with Martin Garrix. I've lost count of Madge's chart entries but it's well over 100 in 42 years, while Martin Garrix is on a more modest 10 since debut chart-topper Animals in 2013. sombr can't stop dropping new tracks, at a cracking pace, and new song My Body Isn't Ready sneaks in at 88 for his 7th chart entry. Olivia Rodrigo makes a hat-trick on the chart as Stupid Song debuts at 89 to join Honeybee at 28, The Cure at 54, and replacing drop dead in my over-stuffed chart. Howard Jones had a string of hits from 1983 through the 80's and had occasional returns in the 90's, 2016 and 2022. 4 years on his latest song Stand Up hits the synths for a 17th chart entry. Who had Kylie doing a collab with Snow Patrol? No, me neither, but there you go, new at 95 it's These Alarms - Kylie's second of the year, and she must be closing in Madonna's total of chart entries, as she is also well over 100 in total since 1988. Snow Patrol are on 13, and their first in 7 years. Their chart span is 22 years now. That leaves just Inspiral Carpets getting a swift second chart entry of the year at 100 with There's A Better Way, and U2 ditto on the rather good Street Of Dreams at 96, presumably no longer being Streets with no name. It's 45 years since they debuted with the punkish Fire in my charts. 1 1 1 3 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 405000 2 8 2 2 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 163000 3 2 2 7 THE WAVE - Jungle 486650 4 7 4 3 FATE - Alan Walker & Ava Max 134500 5 10 5 3 TANGERINE - Damiano David 109450 6 11 6 8 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 169100 7 18 7 7 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 115150 8 9 8 5 HOWL - Carly Simon 140400 9 3 3 9 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 362650 10 4 1 6 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 417200 11 6 1 12 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 735300 12 5 1 9 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 750000 13 15 1 15 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 962100 14 23 14 4 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 75550 15 14 8 10 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 238800 16 12 1 11 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 468600 17 22 17 9 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 147350 18 52 18 2 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 33500 19 24 19 11 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 149100 20 13 5 10 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 344000 21 28 21 8 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 109050 22 17 1 9 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 631500 23 19 15 12 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 225550 24 21 4 13 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 393850 25 20 6 15 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 446900 26 30 26 7 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 96600 27 31 27 8 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 109250 28 57 28 3 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 22900 29 39 29 8 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 83800 30 62 30 2 SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) - Bobby Goldsboro 25400 31 16 7 11 RUMOURS - Hot Chocolate 343150 32 37 32 6 ON THE FLOOR - Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull 72450 33 54 33 4 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 41400 34 44 34 7 DRAG THE BAG - Inspiral Carpets 76600 35 25 5 22 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 620250 36 50 36 7 MORE! MORE! MORE! - Becky Hill 80000 37 55 37 5 LOVE SENSATION - Madonna 44000 38 56 38 3 CHICAGO - Michael Jackson 31050 39 43 39 4 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 53600 40 27 14 11 CAN'T SIT STILL - Lainey Wilson 197900 41 34 1 11 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 614800 42 35 1 11 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 655250 43 26 17 9 GO - The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip 141000 44 32 10 12 FREE TO LOVE - Duran Duran featuring Nile Rodgers 217750 45 38 38 11 ELECTRIC CIRCUS - Nelly Furtado, Boi 1da & Canada Soccer 102600 46 33 33 9 UPSIDE DOWN - Natalie Imbruglia 101550 47 51 47 9 POTENTIAL - sombr 74950 48 29 27 10 OH NO! NOT THE BEAST DAY - Marsha Hunt 120850 49 63 49 8 HEADLIGHTS - In Color 37300 50 59 50 4 BOOGIE'S IN MY SOUL - Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg 33100 51 61 51 4 SAIL ON - The Commodores 28450 52 49 1 22 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 900100 53 NEW 53 1 I'M ALIVE - Imael Angel 11250 54 79 54 4 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 22200 55 70 55 4 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 29800 56 46 2 12 ONE BAD APPLE - The Osmonds 387200 57 40 32 11 FLOWERS - Blue 127900 58 42 37 11 COME BACK TO ME - Haircut 100 126800 59 53 3 16 PHOENIX - Marshmello x Portugal. The Man 430900 60 78 60 2 DANCETERIA - Madonna 14400 61 77 61 3 FIREBALL - Pitbull featuring John Ryan 13700 62 69 62 3 ON MY SOUL - Bruno Mars 17000 63 64 63 7 FAVOURITE KIND OF IDIOT - Paul Heaton featuring Rianne Downey & Ian Broudie 38500 64 67 64 8 MAN IN THE ARENA - The Script 36300 65 68 65 7 BOSTON - STELLA LEFTY 32200 66 45 16 14 BEAUTY PAGEANT - Holly Humberstone 225700 67 87 67 4 (BABY BABY) CAN I INVADE YOUR COUNTRY - Sparks 12200 68 72 68 6 ROLLING STONES - The Kolors 22200 69 NEW 69 1 I FEEL HOPE COMING - Alabama Shakes 6200 70 NEW 70 1 SHATTERED DREAMS - Johnny Hates Jazz 6000 71 71 4 19 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles 444400 72 NEW 72 1 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 5600 73 36 36 12 LITTLE MORE TIME - Niall Horan 109950 74 74 74 7 SAD GIRLS - Bebe Rexha & David Guetta 19700 75 75 75 7 RETURN TO BHIBO - Barry Can't Swim 24800 76 81 76 2 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 8600 77 88 77 2 MEET ME IN LOVE - Blossoms featuring Maya Jama 7000 78 80 78 4 ROX IN THE BOX - The Dead South 12700 79 82 79 4 HOLD ME IN THE DARK - Myles Smith 12200 80 95 80 2 CHEMISTRY - PNAU featuring Master Peace 5500 81 93 81 3 DANCING WITHOUT YOU - Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor 7000 82 90 82 4 SELF AWARE - Temper City 8500 83 86 83 5 A CRAZY SHOT IN THE DARK - The Fizz 11800 84 NEW 84 1 TAKE ME BACK - Kygo & Max McNown 3200 85 NEW 85 1 BIZARRE - Madonna & Martin Garrix 3000 86 91 86 4 LET'S GET TOGETHER - Brother Wallace 8100 87 NEW 87 1 IT'S A HEARTACHE - Bonnie Tyler 2600 88 NEW 88 1 MY BODY ISN'T READY - sombr 2400 89 NEW 89 1 STUPID SONG - Olivia Rodrigo 2200 90 NEW 90 1 STAND UP - Howard Jones 2000 91 94 91 2 JEALOUS LOVER - The Rolling Stones 3500 92 96 92 3 WATCH IT BURN - Katy Perry 4200 93 99 93 2 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME - Ariana Grande 2800 94 100 94 2 PASSENGER - Alex Warren 2600 95 NEW 95 1 THESE ALARMS - Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue 1500 96 NEW 96 1 STREET OF DREAMS - U2 1400 97 NEW 97 1 LOST IN FRANCE - Bonnie Tyler 1300 98 97 97 3 READ MY LIPS - Madonna & Feid 3600 99 76 76 5 BOTTLE UP - The Backstreet Boys 13600 100 NEW 100 1 THERE'S A BETTER WAY - Inspiral Carpets 1000 DROP OUTS 41 6 9 I'LL BE THERE - The Jackson 5 158050 47 1 9 LOVE IS LIFE - Hot Chocolate 386100 48 3 9 LIFE'S TOO SHORT - The Lightning Seeds 371550 58 20 11 JOKE ABOUT DIVORCE - Blossoms 153450 60 53 8 ECLIPSE - Delta Goodrem 52050 65 56 11 DROP DEAD - Olivia Rodrigo 74500 66 60 10 WE GO BACK - Keith Urban featuring Michael McDonald 55300 73 69 8 BANGARANGA - Dara 40000 83 70 8 I LOVE LIFE - Bakermat featuring RANI 29200 84 62 5 LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL - Electric Callboy featuring The Offspring 25500 85 80 8 MY SYSTEM - FELICIA 25900 89 89 5 NIGHTSHIFT SUPERSTAR - Muse 8200 92 75 6 SALESMAN SAINT - Paul McCartney 18700 98 22 11 IN MY ROOM - Linda Ronstadt 148900
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POWER TOP 40 - WEEK 28 - 29 2026
Hey Sven! 🙂 Great charts as always, my climbing faves below, and I hope you have a fab holiday, somewhere interesting I hope! My next one is to the Baltics for the first time ever eek! - - SHAKIRA & BURNA BOY - DAI DAI ⚽ / - (3x@🥇) / - (The Official Dutch Top 40 - 4x@🥇 week 29) 03 03 03 - 05 - Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew It 04 04 12 - 03 - Olivia Rodrigo - Stupid Song 09 08 13 - 18 - Hugel & Solto - Jamaican, Bam Bam 12 19 37 - 03 - Bruno Mars - On My Soul -PP❤️ 13 15 16 - 10 - Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind -PP❤️ 19 28 36 - 03 - Hugel & Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin´ To The Sun 20 36 NE - 02 - Sombr - My Body isn´t Ready 22 24 28 - 04 - Bebe Rexha & David Guetta - Sad Girls -PP❤️ 24 27 30 - 03 - Alex Warren - Passenger 30 34 NE - 02 - Madonna - Love Sensation yay! 40 NE xx - 01 - Michael Jackson - Chicago / - (tip04) yay! ============================================================================== 🎵🎵 ** POWER TIP 20 ** 🎵🎵 -- WEEK 29 2026 -- BUBBLING UNDER -----------------> ============================================================================== 08 09 - Jungle - The Wave 09 10 - The Rolling Stones - Jealous Lover 11 12 - Bakermat & Rani - I Love Life / - (Radio 538 DanceSmash -DS🕺 week 23) 12 NE - Silva Bumpa - On 2Nite 13 14 - Alesso & OneRepublic -In Your Eyes / - (Radio 538 DanceSmash -DS🕺 week 24) 15 16 - Backstreet Boys - Bottle Up 16 19 - Chaka Kahn & Snoop Dogg - Boogie´s In My Soul 18 NE - Rose Gray - Club To Your Arms❤️ 19 NE - Katy Perry - Watch It Burn ============================================================================== 🎵🎵 ** POWER TOP 30 ** 🎵🎵 -- WEEK 29 1986 -- 🎵 🎵 -- https://www.radioveronica.nl 🛳️ 91.6 FM -- 🎵🎵 ============================================================================== 🎼 https://www.192radio.nl 🚢 🎼 The Official Old Dutch Top 40 & Tipparade 🎼 Every Saturday 13:00-18:00 CET 🎼 ============================================================================== - WHAM - THE EDGE OF HEAVEN / - (3x@🥇) -AS🔔 02 02 10 - Level 42 - Lessons In Love -AS🔔 03 03 04 - Madonna - Papa Don´t Preach -PP❤️ -AS🔔 04 16 04 - Nu Shooz - I Can´t Wait 05 12 02 - Mc Miker G & DJ Sven - Holiday Rap -PP❤️ 06 06 06 - David Bowie - Underground 07 05 12 - Janet Jackson - What Have You Done For Me Lately 09 07 07 - Jaki Graham - Set Me Free 11 04 10 - Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald - On My Own / - (5x@🥇) 16 23 02 - Janet Jackson - Nasty 17 11 09 - Jermaine Stewart - We Don´t Have To Take Our Clothes Off -PP❤️ 19 26 02 - A-Ha - Hunting High And Low 20 NE 01 - UB´40 - Sing Our Own Song 21 NE 01 - El Debarge - Who´s Johnny -PP❤️ 22 14 08 - Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes -AS🔔 24 28 03 - Solomon Burke - A Change Is Gonna Come 25 17 12 - Sam Cooke - Wonderful World 27 19 12 - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Bad Boy -PP❤️ 28 15 07 - Depeche Mode - A Question Of Lust -PP❤️ 30 NE 01 - Chris Rea - On The Beach a lot of oldies I like in the 86 chart, and love a-ha, On My Own, I Cant Wait, Papa Dont Preach and Edge Of Heaven Fab charts! 😎
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John v's 5th July 2026 charts - and the 1,499th personal number one...is Rose Gray or Jungle
Hey Sven! 🙂 Thanks as always for the picks, like the football emoji for Nelly Furtado, def my fave new footie song this year 😄 Cheers! 😎
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JSG'S Top 40, #175, 13/07/25 - it's a SORRY FATE to WATCH the CLUB BURN
Hey James! 🙂 Hope all is fab with you! Great top 6 there with Rose Gray on top, play loud, singalong and get tears in the eyes while driving to it - or is that just me? 😄Health & Safety nightmare! 😇nice seeing Carly Rae top 10, I must buy that this week, and Fate high new in at 19 🤩I also like that Cherry Bomb new entry, not heard of the Misterwives ex-singer project before. You learn something new everyday! fab charts! 😎
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John v's 5th July 2026 charts - and the 1,499th personal number one...is Rose Gray or Jungle
Hey James! 🙂 Glad you love Rose Gray's dance epic too! ❤️Ditto Fate, and Ava Max has previously been OK to decent but this is her first great record to date oops! 🙂sombr is good, very much and potential is a goodie. He needs to occasionally change the format/genre though to keep it interesting like he did with 12 to 12. The Cure is picking up a bit of steam now its been a slow grower 👍I love the intro to hate that I made you love me, the rest of the song is nice but low key but as you say prob a grower, cheers for all the comments and picks! 😎
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Riser Monthly - June 2026
Hi Jordan! Hope life is ticking along nicely! Still hot here so had some aircon for 4 hours yesterday watching The Odyssey. Good to see The Cure on top, Olivia hasnt hit my top spot since vampire, I think, but she is good. I havent heard Midnight Sun much, which cost our Pub Quiz team a point the other week for not recognising the lyric. Oops! Serves me right 😄Don't We is nice, it would be good if Morgan did better in the charts here. Fabulous chart, there's nothing I dislike, just a few that have passed me by a bit so far from one or two listens. cheers! 😎
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John v's 5th July 2026 charts - and the 1,499th personal number one...is Rose Gray or Jungle
Hi Jordan! Hope all is going well in the sweltering weather! Thanks for all the picks, and I def agree about orchestral-stuff, I'm totally in favour of strings and big sounds borrowing from the classics of the past, and Fate does it well! 🤩Headlights had a blip last week but its back up bigger this week so you might enjoy that! 😄 No I missed that Pitbull bald cap news item, that might explain why Fireball is selling on download then! As someone who wore a bald cap on stage in the 90's (I was Professor X as a helper for the costume parade competition at UKCAC, a sort of Comicon of the time 15 years before BIg Bang Theory made fandom OK to admit to) I can go with that yay Pitbull! 😄 Yes, Olivia very much into The Cure right now! 🙂It's a grower that one, I was a bit non-commital on it at first listen. Thanks again! Cheers! 😎