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Another one I'd forgotten, and again I like the pounding club vibes and vocal bits, though there isnt much of a song in evidence. I'd be quite happy to have sticky trainer soles watching the video on a big screen. I bought the previous album, but didnt bother with this one. Me of the time liked it even more, number 8 and 18 weeks enjoyment. I mean, one wouldnt put it on just before one went to bed, but it sounds fine in a club setting or to perk you up. Not as great as Turn It On, but easily one of my top 100 singles of the year. David def didnt do it in one take though.

Wild Thing is fabulous, as is The Goodie's cover (and B side of Nappy Love, which I bought for that version)😄"Hold me! Tight! ---- Not. Quite. That. Tight!" RIP Tim Brooke-Taylor. Hey Girl I've never heard before. Quite raw sounding but not as epic as The Troggs. S'alright though, quite upbeat and chirpy! Ken Dodd as per usual in 1920's/30's mode. Not as good as the Diddymen and tickling stick. Missus! Dylan goes New Orleans Marching Band 19th century stylee, the title has always been annoying as it gives no clue to the hook which is "They Stone You" The more I hear Dylan lyrics the more I see a direct line from Walt Whitman's Leaves Of Grass in structure. I knew that American Literature part of my Uni course would in handy one day.... This is fun. Yes Dylan actual fun! A one-off! Hank Locklin another one I dont know, very 50's-ish singalong version of Country which would be about to get way more sophisticated in the late 60's. It's OK but forgettable. The Phil Upchurch Combo I have never heard of and I have read through the Guinness Book Of Hit Singles in the 80's and 70's! This sounds like the sort of background upbeat instrumetal jazz-soul sound they used to bung in 60's films and TV because they couldnt afford copyright on actual hit records, on scenes showing young people dancing at discotheques to bland stuff they wouldn't really dance to. Only this is much better. Jazzy and smooth and street-cred. Frank disliked Strangers In The Night (the outro Doobie Doobies are reputedly because he couldnt be bothered to sing any more of the lyrics), but his sales had been declining for years and this one did the trick. Me, I love it, one of his most accessible hits with a proper tune. Which leaves Monday Monday as the best track of the 3 top tracks here, those harmonies, the wistful sadness, what a classic!

Yesterday's James & Bobby Purify question had just been cheekily referenced in Deacon Blue's Feargus Sings The Blues played immediately before the quiz by Ken. Everyone listening live but the contestant had a clue - he would have been busy! round 1: 33 Roxette! round 2: 36 1 year out 3 in 10: The Power, Rhythm Is A Dancer, Oops Up

Iron Maiden's final Bruce hit would have given me cause for feelings of relief and hope that I wouldnt have to listen to anymore new songs from them. I prefer Bruce's solo output of the two afterwards, at least he covered All The Young Dudes.

Every Breath You Take is a classic, albeit overplayed and badly re-written in the 90s by he who shall remain unmentionable, stalker-y male obsession being a first for a lyric of a pop record pretty much 10/10. Flash & The Pan should have had a hit in the 70's with Down Among The Dead Men, a forgotten gem by the duo from 60's Aussie hitmakers The Easybeats (Friday On My Mind) so Waiting For A Train was much-deserved very-80's hit 9/10. Shipbuilding an affecting Falklands War commentary, nice to see Robert Wyatt still grabbing a hit too in his 40-odd year career, a pioneer example for those dependant on wheelchairs following his early 70's accident 9/10. Nobody's Diary written by Alison Moyet, and almost as good as Vince's hits at that time so not that surprising they would morph into two succesful acts for the next decade or 2. 8/10. Countdown I have no memory of, unlike the actual space shuttle - I was glued to the TV recording it all on my betamax video recorder. In A Big Country is their best record, I reckon, and as rousing as The Skids run of hits 9/10. Bad Boys is great fun, though it was more of the same formula - or the final of the trio of laddy pop, depending on how you view it 8/10. Money Go Round a bit of a disappointment amongst their other 1983 gems, but it was OK 6/10. Just Got Lucky an upbeat Northern Soul-ish pop goodie 8/10. Love Town was a club biggie and pretty decent 7/10, Lady Love Me at this stage sounding like identikit George Benson 3 years into his formula pleasant jazz-flavoured funk and if it sounds like Toto could have recorded it thatll be cos two of 'em wrote it rather than the whizz Rod Temperton. 6/10. No cover of Feel The Need In Me is as great as the original Detroit Emeralds, and that includes their own 1977 hit re-recording, Forrest's was very 80's 6/10. Juicy Fruit a low-key sultry soul outlier, I quite like it 6/10. I had no idea it was naughty, I just had images of tropical fruit...! Mornin' I don't recall at all, but Al jarreau was always laid-back smooth jazz. Mercifully I have erased the Man U hit out of existence. much as I found I have REM's Drive in the music round of a pub quiz last night. Those brain cells have long gone.

24th January 1981 It's 2 weeks on top for Woman, but John's 1969 peace anthem is back new at 5, Give Peace A Chance getting a 2nd run after topping my charts in the summer of '69, as Bryan Adams might say, not long before we moved to Singapore. So that's 5 number one tracks in the top 10 for the late great John Lennon. Fastest-rising new to the top tier is Blondie's Rapture for an 8th top 5 at 3, and ahead of Phil Collins' masterpiece at 4. Another masterpiece also climbs to 10 - Ultravox's Vienna. I may well go to see Midge Ure next week plugging his new album as I type in May 2026. They topped my chart with Babe, but Styx havent done much since until this week, The Best Of Times new in at 34. It's not straying too far from their Soft Rock harmony formula. New at 47, Sheila Hylton gets her only chart moment with a reggae cover of The Police's recent hit Bed's Too Big Without You - a Sly & Robbie cool fresh production, and sadly forgotten these days, I havent heard it in 4 decades and it still sounds good. Odyssey return with Hang Together, a minor hit for them compared to then-recent form, and another I havent heard in decades. I prefer it to any single they did since Use It Up And Wear It Out. Jane Kennaway never had a hit, but IOU I still recall, so how does it sound 45 years on? A sort of New Wave rock vibe, not bad and 64 is about right I think. I don't even remember Frankie Valli's Soul existing and yet here it is at 68, Frankie in disco-soul territory 2 or 3 years too late for that train I think but it's OK, nicely produced and anything Frankie sings is automatically improved. Andy Gibb is reaching the tail-end of his hits on Time Is Time, a co-write with big brother Barry so it's not going to be bad as such, and it isn't. Sadly, the Bee Gees/Disco Sucks movement included Andy's career collapsing along with his brothers'. It all ended tragically for Andy. Spandau's The Freeze was not up to the standard set by To Cut A Long Story Short, but turns up at 70 anyway, ahead of another flop from M, aka Robin Scott, on Keep It To Yourself. A bit more Peter-Gabriel-sounding than upbeat synth dance charm of Pop Muzik. At 73, 60's soul legend James Brown is back with Rapp Payback, sounding as funky as always. I assume the double-p on Rapp is to make it more rap "to talk" than Rap "the new music form", but who knows! He's done worse tracks. He's done better tracks. He's always sounded like this, bar some ballads, when it comes to singing/rapping style. Finally the goodie While You See A Chance gives 60's frontman Steve Winwood a solo career boost for the 80's, very nicely too, still sounds very good and vocally on form. 1 ( 1 ) WOMAN John Lennon 2 ( 2 ) IMAGINE John Lennon 3 ( 19 ) RAPTURE Blondie 4 ( 9 ) IN THE AIR TONIGHT Phil Collins 5 ( NEW ) GIVE PEACE A CHANCE The Plastic Ono Band featuring John Lennon & Yoko Ono 6 ( 6 ) (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER John Lennon 7 ( 3 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko & The Harlem Community Choir 8 ( 8 ) I AIN'T GONNA STAND FOR IT Stevie Wonder 9 ( 5 ) ANTMUSIC Adam & The Ants 10 ( 24 ) VIENNA Ultravox 11 ( 14 ) DON'T STOP THE MUSIC Yarbrough & Peoples 12 ( 18 ) TWILIGHT CAFE Susan Fassbender 13 ( 21 ) RETURN OF THE LOS PALMAS SEVEN Madness 14 ( 26 ) SAILING Christopher Cross 15 ( 7 ) SUPER TROUPER ABBA 16 ( 16 ) GANGSTERS OF THE GROOVE Heatwave 17 ( 4 ) DO NOTHING The Specials 18 ( 30 ) YOUNG PARISIANS Adam & The Ants 19 ( 28 ) FADE TO GREY Visage 20 ( 11 ) FLASH Queen 21 ( 23 ) I AM THE BEAT The Look 22 ( 13 ) EMBARRASSMENT Madness 23 ( 10 ) TOO NICE TO TALK TO The Beat 24 ( 15 ) DE DO DO DO DE DA DA DA The Police 25 ( 12 ) LOVE ON THE ROCKS Neil Diamond 26 ( 20 ) STOP THE CAVALRY Jona Lewie 27 ( 35 ) SCARY MONSTERS David Bowie 28 ( 22 ) LORRAINE Bad Manners 29 ( 37 ) RUNAROUND SUE Racey 30 ( 66 ) ROMEO AND JULIET Dire Straits 31 ( 27 ) LIES/ DON'T DRIVE MY CAR Status Quo 32 ( 17 ) WHO'S GONNA ROCK YOU The Nolans 33 ( 50 ) A LITTLE IN LOVE Cliff Richard 34 ( NEW ) THE BEST OF TIMES Styx 35 ( 25 ) RUNAWAY BOYS The Stray Cats 36 ( 31 ) HARD TO BE HUMBLE Mac Davis 37 ( 39 ) POOR BOY Split Enz 38 ( 48 ) I SHOT THE SHERIFF Light Of The World 39 ( 63 ) IT'S MY TURN Diana Ross 40 ( 32 ) THIS WRECKAGE Gary Numan 41 ( 34 ) THE TIDE IS HIGH Blondie 42 ( 42 ) THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL Abba 43 ( 33 ) BANANA REPUBLIC The Boomtown Rats 44 ( 59 ) COLD LOVE Donna Summer 45 ( 45 ) ASHES TO ASHES David Bowie 46 ( 29 ) LADY Kenny Rogers 47 ( NEW ) BED'S TOO BIG WITHOUT YOU Sheila Hylton 48 ( 55 ) HEY NINETEEN Steely Dan 49 ( 49 ) FASHION David Bowie 50 ( 75 ) BURN RUBBER ON ME The Gap Band 51 ( 41 ) DO YOU FEEL MY LOVE Eddy Grant 52 ( 43 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 53 ( 36 ) GUILTY Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb 54 ( 38 ) OVER THE RAINBOW/YOU BELONG TO ME Matchbox 55 ( 46 ) DECEMBER WILL BE MAGIC Kate Bush 56 ( 53 ) BAGGY TROUSERS Madness 57 ( 57 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I'M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 58 ( 47 ) HUNGRY HEART Bruce Springsteen 59 ( 69 ) SGT. ROCK IS GOING TO HELP ME XTC 60 ( NEW ) HANG TOGETHER Odyssey 61 ( 40 ) DAYS ARE OK The Motels 62 ( 51 ) KISS ON MY LIST Daryl Hall & John Oates 63 ( 60 ) DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME The Police 64 ( NEW ) IOU Jane Kennway 65 ( 65 ) ELEPHANT'S GRAVEYARD The Boomtown Rats 66 ( 44 ) DON'T WALK AWAY E.L.O. 67 ( 74 ) LONELY HEART U.F.O. 68 ( NEW ) SOUL Frankie Valli 69 ( 56 ) THERE'S NO-ONE QUITE LIKE GRANDMA St. Winifred's School Choir 70 ( NEW ) TIME IS TIME Andy Gibb 71 ( NEW ) THE FREEZE Spandau Ballet 72 ( NEW ) KEEP IT TO YOURSELF M 73 ( NEW ) RAP PAYBACK James Brown 74 ( NEW ) WHILE YOU SEE A CHANCE Steve Winwood 75 ( 58 ) WHAT YOUR MAMA DON'T SEE Gary Glitter

Thanks both! Round 1: 39 Round 2: 36 love on your side not my side tch. tiebreak: yes 3 in 10: garden party, lavender and the contestant said kayleigh before i did so 2.

Better than Babe, but not nearly in the same league as Pray or Relight My Fire. Nice to see Robbie on lead, and it's a pleasant singalong with a fairly unexciting arrangement, but decent enough. Never noticed that sax solo before much. "smokin"!

Always helpful hearing a pre-announce name check on a record. Much better at the end though once you suddenly notice a good new track half way through... I've forgotten this one, like the Gaga synth riffing going on Poker Face stylee and the Zombie-referencing hook. A step up on a lot of Derulo stuff, though I'd never say I hated anything he did, they just arent that memorable mostly. So what did I think at the time? Number 40. I think thats a bit mean actually, I just quite enjoyed it. The referenced Ridin Solo hit 50 and 2 weeks on my chart, so not that impressed really. Watcha Say is his only ever top 10 for me, so I'm agreeing with the rating too. Yay!

Relight My Fire, much preferable to a weedy Gary Barlow song, and their 2nd great record after Pray. Lulu finally getting a number was a huge delight, having been a chameleon pop star that had to morph her sound and change record labels throughout to get hits to changing pop scenes. She had more hits on more labels in the olden days than any other act, I think. I'm off to see her again in a few weeks. Relax was a welcome return, 10 years is a decent gap for a classic to stay fresh. It Must Have Been Love less so, 3 years is just the other week as you get older, but it was a goodie in 1990. Very, brilliant album, another long-deserved chart-topper, Meat Loaf, nice to see him back on Steinman form, his non-Jim stuff was pretty ropey all in all, bar Rocky Horror. Talking of ropey, Stay sounded decent enough for Eternal but they outstayed their welcome with me as time went on and the drift into shrieking vocals, when over-excited, increased along with the bland ballads. Reminded me of some of the live vocals on Eurovision semi 1 Tuesday. Louise remains innocent though.

Hi Da Tilt! The new number one sounding nice, I just bought your last number one Struck so expect that in my charts. Other faves, Madonna & Sabrina up, Ella & Morgan up, Chemical Brothers new in, and dropping Jungle, Lana, Olivia Rodrigo, and Anne Hathaway. great chart!😎

17th January 1981 It's four consecutive number ones for John Lennon, two them oldies, and one of them returning to the spot. Woman is the second single off the album but my preference would have been for Beautiful Boy as single 2, and Woman single 3 off the comeback album. Both of the tracks were heartbreaking though, given his murder. Stevie Wonder, meanwhile, makes it two top 10's in a row, not having done that since 1977, and Phil Collins gets his first solo top 10 with the classic In The Air Tonight, and 3rd in total including Genesis. The Beat make it 3 top 10's too. HIghest new entry is from Blondie, Rapture featuring yet another genre shift from the unpredictable band - this time Rap and back more in the Heart Of Glass dance groove at 19. They havent missed the top 20 since Denis debuted. Madness also debut another instrumental, Return Of The Los Palmas Seven, the best non-single track off their album, very catchy nutty boy ska as per. Ultravox make it a 3rd charter with the grandiose synth epic Vienna, 3 places behind Madness at 24. That gives Midge Ure 5 years of hits under 4 guises to date, starting with Slik in 1976. Christopher Cross follows up his rockier hit Ride Like The Wind with the lovely ballad Sailing, not the Sutherland Brothers song as done by Rod Stewart. In at 26, while The Motels are back at 40 with Days Are OK. Light Of The World cover Bob Marley where Eric Clapton has been before, at a pleasant funky 48. Donna Summer finds the run of hits is pretty much ended with Cold Love entering at 59, but she'll be back, and Diana Ross goes turgid ballad again on the dull It's My Turn, and number 63 is generous from me. The fickle pop biz strikes again at 65 as The Boomtown's Rats' run suddenly runs aground in the UK charts, Elephant's Graveyard very much below par, but Dire Straits at 66 hit the ballad stream with the nice Romeo And Juliet. XTC have another hit with Sgt Rock Is Going To Help Me - on the one hand featuring a DC Comics character gets plus points, but on the other hand it's no Making Plans For Nigel. I found it a tad annoying after a few weeks. In at 69, as we go to one I don't recall at all - UFO's Lonely Heart. 45 years on I'm playing for the first time since as far as I recall and I find it fairly formulaic Rock. That leaves the returning Gap Band on the rather good Burn Rubber On Me at 75, funkalicious. 1 ( 3 ) WOMAN John Lennon 2 ( 1 ) IMAGINE John Lennon 3 ( 2 ) HAPPY XMAS (WAR IS OVER) John & Yoko & The Harlem Community Choir 4 ( 5 ) DO NOTHING The Specials 5 ( 8 ) ANTMUSIC Adam & The Ants 6 ( 4 ) (JUST LIKE) STARTING OVER John Lennon 7 ( 7 ) SUPER TROUPER ABBA 8 ( 15 ) I AIN'T GONNA STAND FOR IT Stevie Wonder 9 ( 29 ) IN THE AIR TONIGHT Phil Collins 10 ( 14 ) TOO NICE TO TALK TO The Beat 11 ( 9 ) FLASH Queen 12 ( 6 ) LOVE ON THE ROCKS Neil Diamond 13 ( 10 ) EMBARRASSMENT Madness 14 ( 24 ) DON'T STOP THE MUSIC Yarbrough & Peoples 15 ( 11 ) DE DO DO DO DE DA DA DA The Police 16 ( 18 ) GANGSTERS OF THE GROOVE Heatwave 17 ( 17 ) WHO'S GONNA ROCK YOU The Nolans 18 ( 34 ) TWILIGHT CAFE Susan Fassbender 19 ( NEW ) RAPTURE Blondie 20 ( 12 ) STOP THE CAVALRY Jona Lewie 21 ( NEW ) RETURN OF THE LOS PALMAS SEVEN Madness 22 ( 22 ) LORRAINE Bad Manners 23 ( 28 ) I AM THE BEAT The Look 24 ( NEW ) VIENNA Ultravox 25 ( 13 ) RUNAWAY BOYS The Stray Cats 26 ( NEW ) SAILING Christopher Cross 27 ( 19 ) LIES/ DON'T DRIVE MY CAR Status Quo 28 ( 36 ) FADE TO GREY Visage 29 ( 16 ) LADY Kenny Rogers 30 ( 73 ) YOUNG PARISIANS Adam & The Ants 31 ( 31 ) HARD TO BE HUMBLE Mac Davis 32 ( 21 ) THIS WRECKAGE Gary Numan 33 ( 20 ) BANANA REPUBLIC The Boomtown Rats 34 ( 23 ) THE TIDE IS HIGH Blondie 35 ( 56 ) SCARY MONSTERS David Bowie 36 ( 46 ) GUILTY Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb 37 ( 37 ) RUNAROUND SUE Racey 38 ( 32 ) OVER THE RAINBOW/YOU BELONG TO ME Matchbox 39 ( 48 ) POOR BOY Split Enz 40 ( NEW ) DAYS ARE OK The Motels 41 ( 25 ) DO YOU FEEL MY LOVE Eddy Grant 42 ( 40 ) THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL Abba 43 ( 26 ) MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY Slade 44 ( 30 ) DON'T WALK AWAY E.L.O. 45 ( 43 ) ASHES TO ASHES David Bowie 46 ( 27 ) DECEMBER WILL BE MAGIC Kate Bush 47 ( 35 ) HUNGRY HEART Bruce Springsteen 48 ( NEW ) I SHOT THE SHERIFF Light Of The World 49 ( 45 ) FASHION David Bowie 50 ( 59 ) A LITTLE IN LOVE Cliff Richard 51 ( 39 ) KISS ON MY LIST Daryl Hall & John Oates 52 ( 38 ) IF I COULD ONLY MAKE YOU CARE Mike Berry 53 ( 53 ) BAGGY TROUSERS Madness 54 ( 33 ) LOOKING FOR CLUES Robert Palmer 55 ( 64 ) HEY NINETEEN Steely Dan 56 ( 44 ) THERE'S NO-ONE QUITE LIKE GRANDMA St. Winifred's School Choir 57 ( 57 ) MONKEES EP (LAST TRAIN TO CLARKSVILLE/ I'M A BELIEVER/ A LITTLE BIT ME A LITTLE BIT YOU/ DAYDREAM BELIEVER) The Monkees 58 ( 41 ) WHAT YOUR MAMA DON'T SEE Gary Glitter 59 ( NEW ) COLD LOVE Donna Summer 60 ( 54 ) DON'T STAND SO CLOSE TO ME The Police 61 ( 58 ) AYATOLLAH SONG Not The 9 O'Clock News featuring Pamela Stephenson 62 ( 62 ) MY GIRL Rod Stewart 63 ( NEW ) IT'S MY TURN Diana Ross 64 ( 42 ) LONELY TOGETHER Barry Manilow 65 ( NEW ) ELEPHANT'S GRAVEYARD The Boomtown Rats 66 ( NEW ) ROMEO AND JULIET Dire Straits 67 ( 50 ) TO CUT A LONG STORY SHORT Spandau Ballet 68 ( 49 ) CELEBRATION Kool & The Gang 69 ( NEW ) SGT. ROCK IS GOING TO HELP ME XTC 70 ( 61 ) ALL OUT OF LOVE Air Supply 71 ( 55 ) WOMAN IN LOVE Barbra Streisand 72 ( 72 ) I'M IN LOVE AGAIN Sad Cafe 73 ( 63 ) DREAMER Supertramp 74 ( NEW ) LONELY HEART U.F.O. 75 ( NEW ) BURN RUBBER ON ME The Gap Band TV 17th Jan - 23rd 1 Star Trek: Elaan Of Troyius 2 M*A*S*H* 3 Barney Miller 4 Soap 5 Lou Grant 6 film: THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING 7 Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy 8 The Phil Silvers Show - Bilko 9 Top Of The Pops 10 film: CARRY ON HENRY 11 film: HOSTAGE 12 Doctor Who 13 Taxi 14 The Outer Limits 15 Sapphire & Steel (Thurs) 16 Parkinson (Wed) 17 Sapphire & Steel (Tues) 18 Beyond Westworld 19 Parkinson (Sat) 20 Happy days

1 2 1 2 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 285000 2 3 2 3 ONE BAD APPLE - The Osmonds 207400 3 4 3 7 PHOENIX - Marshmello x Portugal. The Man 237950 4 NEW 4 1 LOVE IS LIFE - Hot Chocolate 65000 5 NEW 5 1 LIFE'S TOO SHORT - The Lightning Seeds 60000 6 5 1 6 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 635100 7 30 7 2 YOU'LL ALWAYS BE A FRIEND - Hot Chocolate 68000 8 1 1 2 I BELIEVE (IN LOVE) - Hot Chocolate 218000 9 10 9 2 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 87000 10 12 10 6 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 132150 11 9 5 13 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 431600 12 16 12 8 5:00 AM - Michael Schulte 135050 13 11 1 13 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 746400 14 8 8 10 WHY DON'T YOU - Squeeze 187450 15 6 2 8 YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR - Take That 456700 16 7 5 11 VERTIGO - AVALAN ROKSTON 424400 17 23 17 4 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 71100 18 19 8 13 HOMEWRECKER - sombr 312800 19 27 19 3 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 49300 20 NEW 20 1 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 20000 21 20 20 6 STAY - Leony & Calum Scott 87350 22 13 13 11 TO LOVE SOMEBODY - Holly Humberstone 191900 23 15 4 10 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles 346500 24 25 24 10 WHEN YOU ARE A KING - White Plains 120350 25 18 1 13 DON'T WANT YOUR LOVE - Illenium & Ellie Goulding 747250 26 31 26 6 CARRY ON - Jungle 80750 27 33 27 5 HOT DAMN - Dadi Freyr 64600 28 17 15 7 CALIFORNIA - Jessie J 134700 29 14 10 7 SIGN OF THE TIMES - Harry Styles 142550 30 21 17 10 UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - Depeche Mode 161800 31 40 31 4 THEME FROM 'HARRY'S GAME' - Clannad 53600 32 29 13 23 DRACULA - Tame Impala 380850 33 38 33 4 I FEEL SO FREE - Madonna 51000 34 35 34 5 BEAUTY PAGEANT - Holly Humberstone 61700 35 32 1 22 FREE LOVE - Cast 1379800 36 51 36 3 FOCU 'RANNI - ROSALIA 36500 37 24 1 11 I CAN'T WAIT - Bob Sinclar & Kiesza 828300 38 45 38 4 FIRST LIGHT - Lana Del Ray 47800 39 44 39 5 THERE WAS SUN - Nothing But Thieves 42950 40 43 40 3 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 35500

10th May 2026 It's a second number one in a row for Hot Chocolate as Brother Louie improves considerably on it's original 1973 top 10 peak by becoming their 8th chart-topper, the soul classic being a slow burner for me as the years go by. In many ways parts of the world has changed so the lyrics arent quite so relevant in 2026 - but in some places they still are, and it is at least a useful historical reminder of what life was like for some. The highest new entry at 4 is Hot Chocolate's first hit Love Is Life, former chart-topper the last time it returned as an oldie, while You'll Always Be A Friend leaps to 7 for a second top 10 run as Hot Choc dominate half the top 10. I still love them, and the late Tony Wilson's era. The Osmonds peak at 2 on a second oldie run with One Bad Apple, Marshmello get another top 3, and Portugal. The Man a first top 3, and The Lightning Seeds' 1999 number 2 is back at 5, after my choosing it for a Retro song contest. One of their top 5 tracks for sure and great video. From the same contest, Four Jacks A Jill finally debut Master Jack, a song on 16 Big Hits (of 1968) my dad bought in Singapore in early 1970 at my urging - so many classics and this song I didn't know, but it had hit in Australia where the album was imported from. Very sweet, and I now finally have an excuse to chart it 56 years late! Other entries I loved are the Theme from The Onedin Line - I wasnt especially a fan in very early 1972, but 54 years on my tastes have changed. My mum loved the TV show, me not so much, but the long form of the single edit is lovely and in at 62. Still on oldies from the contest, Marsha Hunt's 1973 track Oh No! The Beast Day is new to me, and it's great showtune funk while at 95 Buzzcocks finally chart What Do I Get, one that didnt get much airplay at the time as an early Punk track. From the Michael Jackson album of the film, I'll Be There is back for a third run, first hitting the top in 1971, in at 73, and in a sparse week for new stuff Charlotte MacInnes is the highest debut at 85, on Struck, Chaka Khan gets a Sia song gift, and they debut with an untypically-sounding Chaka debut her first in 4 years since her top 10 Woman Like Me, and a chart span of 51 years. That leaves Tom Speight, who I saw in concert, and bought 4 album CD's of his stuff since 2016, we chatted, he signed the CD's and he did the first track off his latest album amid joining us on the floor with his guitar (standing gig). Buzzing is said track at 91. 1 2 1 2 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 285000 2 3 2 3 ONE BAD APPLE - The Osmonds 207400 3 4 3 7 PHOENIX - Marshmello x Portugal. The Man 237950 4 NEW 4 1 LOVE IS LIFE - Hot Chocolate 65000 5 NEW 5 1 LIFE'S TOO SHORT - The Lightning Seeds 60000 6 5 1 6 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 635100 7 30 7 2 YOU'LL ALWAYS BE A FRIEND - Hot Chocolate 68000 8 1 1 2 I BELIEVE (IN LOVE) - Hot Chocolate 218000 9 10 9 2 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 87000 10 12 10 6 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 132150 11 9 5 13 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 431600 12 16 12 8 5:00 AM - Michael Schulte 135050 13 11 1 13 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 746400 14 8 8 10 WHY DON'T YOU - Squeeze 187450 15 6 2 8 YOU'RE A SUPERSTAR - Take That 456700 16 7 5 11 VERTIGO - AVALAN ROKSTON 424400 17 23 17 4 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 71100 18 19 8 13 HOMEWRECKER - sombr 312800 19 27 19 3 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 49300 20 NEW 20 1 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 20000 21 20 20 6 STAY - Leony & Calum Scott 87350 22 13 13 11 TO LOVE SOMEBODY - Holly Humberstone 191900 23 15 4 10 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles 346500 24 25 24 10 WHEN YOU ARE A KING - White Plains 120350 25 18 1 13 DON'T WANT YOUR LOVE - Illenium & Ellie Goulding 747250 26 31 26 6 CARRY ON - Jungle 80750 27 33 27 5 HOT DAMN - Dadi Freyr 64600 28 17 15 7 CALIFORNIA - Jessie J 134700 29 14 10 7 SIGN OF THE TIMES - Harry Styles 142550 30 21 17 10 UNIVERSAL SOLDIER - Depeche Mode 161800 31 40 31 4 THEME FROM 'HARRY'S GAME' - Clannad 53600 32 29 13 23 DRACULA - Tame Impala 380850 33 38 33 4 I FEEL SO FREE - Madonna 51000 34 35 34 5 BEAUTY PAGEANT - Holly Humberstone 61700 35 32 1 22 FREE LOVE - Cast 1379800 36 51 36 3 FOCU 'RANNI - ROSALIA 36500 37 24 1 11 I CAN'T WAIT - Bob Sinclar & Kiesza 828300 38 45 38 4 FIRST LIGHT - Lana Del Ray 47800 39 44 39 5 THERE WAS SUN - Nothing But Thieves 42950 40 43 40 3 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 35500 41 28 1 22 RELIQUIA - ROSALIA 1246800 42 42 1 31 LOTUS - Rose Gray 1499850 43 26 7 11 PRAYER - David Guetta, Kiko & Olivier Giacomotto 347400 44 57 44 2 RUMOURS - Hot Chocolate 23650 45 37 37 6 STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN - Judie Tzuke 78950 46 22 1 11 THE IMMIGRANT - Neil Sedaka 654250 47 39 1 16 APERTURE - Harry Styles 1004800 48 52 48 5 UP OUT & GONE - Ne-Yo 41000 49 41 37 7 BE HER - Ella Langley 83500 50 53 50 3 IN MY ROOM - Linda Ronstadt 29050 51 59 51 5 BE WITH YOU - Muse 39050 52 36 10 11 RIDE - Jessie Ware 259900 53 50 13 14 STARLIGHT - Cannons 214450 54 78 54 2 YOU COULD'VE BEEN A LADY - Hot Chocolate 15600 55 34 34 7 GET WHAT YOU GIVE - Scouting For Girls 80850 56 67 56 3 JOKE ABOUT DIVORCE - Blossoms 22200 57 66 57 3 FREE TO LOVE - Duran Duran featuring Nile Rodgers 22400 58 77 58 2 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 15000 59 80 59 2 CAN'T SIT STILL - Lainey Wilson 14200 60 63 60 5 UNDEFEATED CHAMPION - Melanie C 30600 61 68 61 7 LOVE IN EXILE - Charlie Puth featuring Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins 40300 62 NEW 62 1 THEME FROM THE ONEDIN LINE (SPARTACUS: ADAGIO OF SPARTACUS AND PHRYGIA) - Vienna Philharmonic & Aram Khachaturian 7400 63 48 32 10 NEW RELIGION - Bebe Rexha & Faithless 115050 64 54 54 8 HELL ON EARTH - Squeeze 62500 65 65 4 26 YOUR LAST SONG - The Lottery Winners 861400 66 47 24 11 THESE NIGHTS - Cannons 128000 67 56 37 11 FEVER DREAM - Alex Warren 128450 68 73 68 3 DO I LOVE YOU - The Ronettes 16200 69 69 69 6 TOUCH BY AN ANGEL - Maxi Priest 29600 70 64 1 21 TELL ME THERE'S A HEAVEN - Chris Rea 1225950 71 71 1 48 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 1321550 72 76 72 3 YOU CAME YOU SAW YOU CONQUERED - The Ronettes 13600 73 NEW 73 1 I'LL BE THERE - The Jackson 5 5400 74 85 74 3 F***ED UP - Reverend and The Makers featuring Robbie Williams 11800 75 79 75 2 COME BACK TO ME - Haircut 100 9200 76 72 1 34 SECRETS - Miley Cyrus featuring Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood 1437050 77 60 20 11 LOST - almost monday 163050 78 89 78 2 FLOWERS - Blue 6600 79 81 79 3 DROP DEAD - Olivia Rodrigo 12000 80 82 80 3 LITTLE MORE TIME - Niall Horan 11400 81 74 74 3 SLEDGEHAMMER - Peter Gabriel 13200 82 55 15 13 FEELS LIKE HEAVEN - Loreen 208350 83 NEW 83 1 OH NO! NOT THE BEAST DAY - Marsha Hunt 3400 84 62 37 8 JUST WORDS - Midge Ure 76600 85 NEW 85 1 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 3000 86 58 35 9 SAVE ME TONIGHT - Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta 99500 87 92 87 2 WE GO BACK - Keith Urban featuring Michael McDonald 4400 88 87 87 2 ELECTRIC CIRCUS - Nelly Furtado, Boi 1da & Canada Soccer 7000 89 91 89 2 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 4100 90 95 90 2 (THE BEST PART OF) BREAKIN' UP - The Ronettes 3500 91 NEW 91 1 BUZZING - Tom Speight 1900 92 70 70 6 HOUSE TOUR - Sabrina Carpenter 28200 93 NEW 93 1 CHAKZILLA - Chaka Khan featuring Sia 1700 94 94 83 4 GOOD NEWS - Mari Wilson 9600 95 NEW 95 1 WHAT DO I GET? - Buzzcocks 1500 DROP OUTS 46 6 12 VINCENT - Don McLean 208450 49 3 10 LAUGHTER IN THE RAIN - Neil Sedaka 440400 61 6 10 BAD BLOOD - Neil Sedaka featuring Elton John 225550 75 25 8 CLUB SONG - The Pussycat Dolls 104500 83 33 10 REIN ME IN - Sam Fender & Olivia Dean 93050 84 38 10 SLEEPLESS IN A HOTEL ROOM - Luke Combs 109550 86 8 12 MCARTHUR - HARDY, Morgan Wallen, Tim McGraw, Eric Church 258050 88 36 12 I DON'T UNDERSTAND - MT Jones 122700 90 76 6 KICK OUT THE JAMS - Suzi Quatro featuring Alice Cooper 25400 93 39 14 READY - CMAT 115350

Hi SSP! Great chart, these are my faves of the climbers 👍 01 02 Elizabeth Taylor - Taylor Swift 15 1(1) 08 08 Club Song - Pussycat Dolls 7 8 11 14 Song Of The Future - U2 9 11 19 22 Save Me Tonight - Jennifer Lopez / David Guetta 8 19 20 27 Shine Again - Weezer 5 20 24 26 Undefeated Champion - Melanie C 7 24 34 39 Lonely - Crispian St. Peters 6 34 35 40 I Feel So Free - Madonna 3 35 36 45 Mr. Know It All - Teddy Swims 3 36 37 43 Raindrops - Rick Astley 3 37 38 44 You're A Superstar - Take That 3 38 41 42 Fever Dream - Alex Warren 9 41 43 47 Phoenix - Marshmello / Portugal, The Man 5 43 44 50 Club Bizarre - Alok / Sam Harper / Alex Christensen 5 44 46 52 Days We Left Behind - Paul McCartney 6 46 51 62 Electric Circus - Nelly Furtado 3 51 56 77 Up Out & Gone - Ne-Yo 2 56 80 --- Somewhere Over Laredo - Lainey Wilson 1 80 94 --- Pure Love - Gabriella Cilmi 1 94 sounding different to her old hits! 95 --- Your Favorite Toy - Foo Fighters 1 95 96 --- Cryogen - Muse 1 96 100 --- Sleepless In A Hotel Room - Luke Combs 1 100 good stuff! 😎

Hi SSP! Thanks for all the picks! Cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope you are feeling a bit better and taking it easy! I'm going to be enjoying a knee pad to stop it clicking when I walk, that'll teach me not to walk into walls on holiday! 😄 Fab charts as always! cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 😎 No need apologise, and ooh sorry to hear about the hospital visit, it makes one feel ill just visiting them once never mind twice, I hope you are feeling OK and making the most of the time off, have some flowers belatedly! 🌹🪻🌺👍Yes all good here ta, I could do with more hours in a day as always - I will never stop thinking that, I guess, too much I want to do, so much I need to do but dont want to 😄 Thanks for all the in-depth picks, and comments of course! Emma is a good choice of fave single, very dark and haunting, and more interesting than the endlessly popular "I belive In Miracles" as many call it 😄Tony Wilson was so annoyed when he left Hot Chocolate after being told to take a back seat - despite being co-songwriter - that he told Errol to keep the sole credit for You Sexy Thing which had just been the B side to a flop single at that point. Oops! Glad you like Rumours too, it suffered from being a bit similar to Brother Louie I think, but it's great in its own right. Watch Project Hail Mary and then re-chart Sign Of The Times, it's a key moment in the film, and makes total sense in the context of it. 👍After the week you had its not surprising you forgot to chart some of the current goodies! Eek! I have to write songs down as I hear them if I want to buy them (and chart them) or I WILL forget oops! 😄 I dont see Madonna/Sabrina hanging around either but at least she gets another decade as lead act to notch up a top 40 - 5 in a row and 67 years old is pretty good. thanks as always! Take it easy 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 Drop Dead doing better than 1 week on top here, unlike the UK/US charts, hooray! Taylor, Miley hitting new peaks, Teddy Swims up, and new in for Katy's oldie and Ella Langley all good news. Niall Horan new in the 50 too, great charts! cheers! 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 Niall back up this week, but Niall & Myles down a bit, oops! 😄Yes Teddy is pretty good 👍 Thanks for the picks! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Long run on top for Alex, and my faves top 40 climbers: 03 07 07 - Bebe Rexha & Faithless - New Religion 05 15 02 - Olivia Rodrigo - Drop Dead 09 09 07 - Tame Impala & Jennie - Dracula (remix´26) 15 20 03 - Teddy Swims - Mr. Know It All 17 22 08 - Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor / - (04 weeks´26) 18 18 05 - Niall Horan - Dinner Party -PP❤️ 25 25 04 - Bob Sinclar & Kiesza - I Can´t Wait -PP❤️ 32 32 04 - Paul McCartney - Days We Left Behind 36 NE 01 - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love -PP❤️ / - (tip01) and breakers: 07 13 - Madonna - I Feel So Free 09 19 - Sabrina Carpenter - House Tour 11 12 - Ella Langley - Be Her 13 NE - Lana Del Rey - First Light 14 15 - Raye - I Know You´re Hurting 18 NE - Duran Duran & Nile Rodgers - Free To Love 19 NE - Take That - You´re A Superstar 20 NE - Chemical Brothers - Go / - (orig.2015 - NL tip1/no hit - Belgium no 24) and back in '77, early adopters of Gibson Brothers I see! Not bad, and not one I know! Ditto Hurricane Smith 5 years after his hits dried up! I like it, very 1930's sounds.. 02 04 05 - David Bowie - Sound And Vision 06 11 03 - Al Stewart - On The Border -AS🔔 08 10 05 - Tavares - Whodunit 09 12 04 - Brotherhood Of man - Oh Boy 11 16 03 - Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill 12 13 04 - Billy Ocean - Red Light -AS🔔 13 21 02 - The Eagles - Hotel California 15 30 02 - Cerrone - Love in ´C` Minor 20 33 02 - Barbra Streisand - Love Theme From ´A Star Is Born` / Evergreen 21 23 02 - Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke -PP❤️(UK) 23 09 11 - Fleedwood Mac - Go Your Own Way / - (3x@🥇) -PP❤️(UK) 24 08 07 - Boz Scaggs - What Can I Say 26 NE 01 - 10CC - Good Morning Judge -PP❤️(UK) 28 27 04 - Mr. Big (UK) - Romeo fab charts! 😎

Thanks Jade so close on both rounds yet again and another 39 Rollo! 🤩On a roll(o) these days...👍 round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: Gangsters, Rat Race, Ghost Town

Hey Sven! 🙂 Thanks for the Hot Choc compliment Sven, I do love them still. ❤️Thanks for all the picks too! cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Glad you like Hot Choc, I also love It Started With A Kiss, topped my chart in 1982 that one and came close again in the 90's! Thanks for all the picks too! cheers and take care backatcha! 😎

Hi DaTilt! 🙂, thanks for the Hot Choc appreciation, I also love both of those - they each topped my personal charts at the time, though the sultry middle eastern sounds of Put Your Love In Me are forgotten these days. Sadly! I assume it's the lyrics being offputting for radio, though it shouldnt be compared to 21st century lyrics! Errol wrote them, so maybe he was trying to say something... cheers! 😎