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1 3 1 10 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 573900 2 1 1 6 TOKYO RAIN - Loaded Honey 408000 3 2 2 6 OVER - Loaded Honey 340750 4 6 4 9 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 363300 5 8 5 9 GLAD - Saint Etienne 285100 6 5 1 10 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 835000 7 11 7 6 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE - The Beach Boys 183950 8 13 8 8 ZOMBIE LADY - Damiano David featuring Dove Cameron 154900 9 10 9 6 DAYDREAMING - Elliot James Reay 202100 10 4 1 6 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 787000 11 7 1 19 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1162900 12 12 7 15 FEEL IT - d4vd 411350 13 15 13 10 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 162150 14 14 2 14 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 693500 15 9 2 10 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 846750 16 16 16 6 CALIFORNIA GIRLS - The Beach Boys 116400 17 34 17 5 ROCK THAT BODY - The Black Eyed Peas 67800 18 62 18 2 HARD TO BE HAPPY - Rob Thomas 29400 19 26 19 9 LOVER - Richard Ashcroft featuring Joan Armatrading 129650 20 17 9 11 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 303500 21 21 21 6 RUNAWAY TRAIN - Sam Feldt featuring RuthAnne 95750 22 22 22 9 CHEMICAL REACTION - Debbii Dawson 138800 23 18 1 17 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 1133350 24 24 24 6 EASY LOVER - Miley Cyrus 105400 25 23 2 16 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 655550 26 47 26 6 MANCHILD - Sabrina Carpenter 71100 27 25 12 10 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 223650 28 32 28 8 LET’S RIDE AWAY - Avicii featuring Elle King 95600 29 19 3 12 VOICES - Damiano David 570600 30 20 5 6 GOOD VIBRATIONS - The Beach Boys 179000 31 31 3 17 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 440700 32 27 1 14 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 762900 33 45 33 2 BROKEN GAME - Finn Forster 30700 34 43 34 5 GOLD - Myles Smith 58400 35 28 11 13 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 315450 36 30 22 12 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 212750 37 NEW 37 1 JUPITER - almost monday featuring Jordana 17300 38 NEW 38 1 WALK OF FAME - Miley Cyrus featuring Brittany Howard 17200 39 36 16 14 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 242750 40 40 1 19 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 762600

Justin Bieber gets an 8th Number One single and Alex Warren gets a first number one album Simon est en vacances, Bon Voyage Simon! Meanwhile in the UK, Dior almost hung on for a 3rd week at Number One (other fashion brands are available) for MK featuring Chrystal, though at the weekend a mere 800 copies were between Justin Biebers’ Daisies rising to 2 and Alex Warren’s Eternity entering at 3. In the event Justin scored his 8th number one with Daisies ten years on from his first and his first this decade. I’m hearing it for the first time right now, and it’s rather pleasant - and I’m thankful it’s not the other Daisy song I know, as sung by the malfunctioning computer HAL in 2001: A Space Oddysey as it was being lobotomised after committing murder. Justin’s other 2 album tracks dropped this week along with the album, while Alex Warren possibly might have been setting a new singles chart-record had Ordinary not been knocked down to 7 due to ACR. His new album track, Eternity enters at 3, Bloodline, also on the new album, re-enters at 19 with Jelly Roll. The latter has more oomph to it than Eternity, which was last troubling the top end of the charts as a lacklustre song title from Robbie Williams in 2004. Mk and Chrystal are at 2. Sabrina Carpenter drops to 5 with Manchild and the KPop movie Demon Hunters cast alongside HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI on Golden climb to 4. My Great Niece loves that movie and the songs. Makes a change from the fab APT I guess, (which coincidentally is back in at 40) but anyone older than 6 may have other views, or they may not! Your Idol, from the same film, climbs to 14 and the 3rd title from the film is replaced by another track this week: Soda Pop new in at 17. The Latter two tracks have the official marathon billing: Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast, Uncle Tom Cobbley & All. Outside the top 5 Ed Sheeran’s Sapphire also drops a tad to 9 as Lewis Capaldi survives one more week at 10, leaving Fred Again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax taking that Victory Lap a little too soon at 8, dropping along with the PlaqueBoyMax may wish to change his toothpaste and just go by Max as he goes on. At 6, Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas drop from 3. Other tracks peaking include Disco Lines & Tinashe up to 12, which take me back to the 70’s when discos had lines and I had a Tache. ‘Taches are back in fashion, if Benson Boone is any guide, and his Beautiful Things up to 11 feels like it’s been around since the late 70’s while his fabulous Mystical Magical is sadly dropping out much too soon. The chart rules are often mysterious. Oasis are affected by the 3-track-rule as Wonderwall returns at 27 after many previous chart runs dating back to 1995 and increasing the number of unique years it has appeared inside the top 75 to 6. Acqiuesce exits after 2 weeks on the chart. Funny old chart rule as tracks come and go then come back again. Some Might Say it’s nonsense, but some might Roll With It. I just stress The Importance Of Being Idle. There is one other re-entry this week, as Sammy Virji & Skepta take Cops & Robbers back to its previous peak of 39. Finally, Ozzy Osbourne passed away this week, the original voice of Black Sabbath coming back to global celebrity in the early 2000’s with his family reality show. Loveable to many, and a rapscallion to some, Ozzy always did things his own way right to the end and his final Home-ground concert 2 weeks ago despite not being at all well. There could be no better tribute than seeing Paranoid rapidly enter the top 40 for a third time, first in 1970 when it peaked at 4 for the Sabbath, then again in 1980 hitting number 14, and now a hat-trick at 32 55 years on from debuting as a monster Metal anthem. The Ultimate Black Sabbath meanwhile re-enters at 22 on the album chart, just 2 places lower than its previous peak of 20. R.I.P. Ozzy. Alex Warren has released an extended version of his long-running 2024 EP You’ll Be Alright Kid Part 1. So it is now essentially a double album with new tracks to add to the hits from the EP, giving it the push it needed to get a serious attempt at the top spot. Job done? By Wednesday it was holding off the triple Oasis threat remaining in the top 5 as last weeks new entries tumble, and the new album from Tyler The Creator. It was a close thing, but in the end it was Alex Warren that edged out on top. Tyler got his 8th top 40 album with Don’t Tap The Glass not quite able to get a second number one album following on from Chromakopia in 2024, new in at 2 in his decade-long chart career. That leaves Time Flies at 3, and the first two studio albums for Oasis at 4 and 5. It’s amazing what a reunion can do for back catalogue sales! Elsewhere in the top 40, Joe Bonamassa is on his 10th solo top 40 studio album in 16 years, and 20th overall including live albums and collaborations as Breakthrough enters at 38, which is pretty consistent for an act that is largely based on word of mouth and live tours, not troubling singles charts or radio or television that much. Lower down new entries for Welsh Band Panic Shack on their debut album of the same name at 32 and Lewisham rapper Jim Legxacy on afrobeats Mixtape black british music (2025) new at 29. See you next week!

Justin Bieber gets an 8th Number One single and Alex Warren gets a first number one album Simon est en vacances, Bon Voyage Simon! Meanwhile in the UK, Dior almost hung on for a 3rd week at Number One (other fashion brands are available) for MK featuring Chrystal, though at the weekend a mere 800 copies were between Justin Biebers’ Daisies rising to 2 and Alex Warren’s Eternity entering at 3. In the event Justin scored his 8th number one with Daisies ten years on from his first and his first this decade. I’m hearing it for the first time right now, and it’s rather pleasant - and I’m thankful it’s not the other Daisy song I know, as sung by the malfunctioning computer HAL in 2001: A Space Oddysey as it was being lobotomised after committing murder. Justin’s other 2 album tracks dropped this week along with the album, while Alex Warren possibly might have been setting a new singles chart-record had Ordinary not been knocked down to 7 due to ACR. His new album track, Eternity enters at 3, Bloodline, also on the new album, re-enters at 19 with Jelly Roll. The latter has more oomph to it than Eternity, which was last troubling the top end of the charts as a lacklustre song title from Robbie Williams in 2004. Mk and Chrystal are at 2. Sabrina Carpenter drops to 5 with Manchild and the KPop movie Demon Hunters cast alongside HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI on Golden climb to 4. My Great Niece loves that movie and the songs. Makes a change from the fab APT I guess, (which coincidentally is back in at 40) but anyone older than 6 may have other views, or they may not! Your Idol, from the same film, climbs to 14 and the 3rd title from the film is replaced by another track this week: Soda Pop new in at 17. The Latter two tracks have the official marathon billing: Saja Boys, Andrew Choi, Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast, Uncle Tom Cobbley & All. Outside the top 5 Ed Sheeran’s Sapphire also drops a tad to 9 as Lewis Capaldi survives one more week at 10, leaving Fred Again.., Skepta & PlaqueBoyMax taking that Victory Lap a little too soon at 8, dropping along with the PlaqueBoyMax may wish to change his toothpaste and just go by Max as he goes on. At 6, Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas drop from 3. Other tracks peaking include Disco Lines & Tinashe up to 12, which take me back to the 70’s when discos had lines and I had a Tache. ‘Taches are back in fashion, if Benson Boone is any guide, and his Beautiful Things up to 11 feels like it’s been around since the late 70’s while his fabulous Mystical Magical is sadly dropping out much too soon. The chart rules are often mysterious. Oasis are affected by the 3-track-rule as Wonderwall returns at 27 after many previous chart runs dating back to 1995 and increasing the number of unique years it has appeared inside the top 75 to 6. Acqiuesce exits after 2 weeks on the chart. Funny old chart rule as tracks come and go then come back again. Some Might Say it’s nonsense, but some might Roll With It. I just stress The Importance Of Being Idle. There is one other re-entry this week, as Sammy Virji & Skepta take Cops & Robbers back to its previous peak of 39. Finally, Ozzy Osbourne passed away this week, the original voice of Black Sabbath coming back to global celebrity in the early 2000’s with his family reality show. Loveable to many, and a rapscallion to some, Ozzy always did things his own way right to the end and his final Home-ground concert 2 weeks ago despite not being at all well. There could be no better tribute than seeing Paranoid rapidly enter the top 40 for a third time, first in 1970 when it peaked at 4 for the Sabbath, then again in 1980 hitting number 14, and now a hat-trick at 32 55 years on from debuting as a monster Metal anthem. The Ultimate Black Sabbath meanwhile re-enters at 22 on the album chart, just 2 places lower than its previous peak of 20. R.I.P. Ozzy. Alex Warren has released an extended version of his long-running 2024 EP You’ll Be Alright Kid Part 1. So it is now essentially a double album with new tracks to add to the hits from the EP, giving it the push it needed to get a serious attempt at the top spot. Job done? By Wednesday it was holding off the triple Oasis threat remaining in the top 5 as last weeks new entries tumble, and the new album from Tyler The Creator. It was a close thing, but in the end it was Alex Warren that edged out on top. Tyler got his 8th top 40 album with Don’t Tap The Glass not quite able to get a second number one album following on from Chromakopia in 2024, new in at 2 in his decade-long chart career. That leaves Time Flies at 3, and the first two studio albums for Oasis at 4 and 5. It’s amazing what a reunion can do for back catalogue sales! Elsewhere in the top 40, Joe Bonamassa is on his 10th solo top 40 studio album in 16 years, and 20th overall including live albums and collaborations as Breakthrough enters at 38, which is pretty consistent for an act that is largely based on word of mouth and live tours, not troubling singles charts or radio or television that much. Lower down new entries for Welsh Band Panic Shack on their debut album of the same name at 32 and Lewisham rapper Jim Legxacy on afrobeats Mixtape black british music (2025) new at 29. See you next week!

Ooh now im jealous Billie Eilish is a top star she must have been fab! Congrats on 36 and New Romantics was a good un to pick 👍

Thanks Jade, and an advanced Happy Birthday! 🥰Crikey time flies! 😮 round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: Behind The Painted Smile, This Old Heart Of Mine, Highways Of My Life

Enjoy The Silence was topping my charts when I went on my first Florida holiday and I bought the CD single and maxi-cd-single of Personal jesus from Peaches record store (RIP) on Orange Blossom Trail, Orlando, one of my regular holiday haunts. Two classics there, Depeche peaking at their absolute best. Michael Bolton, OTOH, was always a bit of a foghorn singer, though he bunged out the odd good song, subtlety was not on his palette and this one just annoyed me. It was all over Florida pop radio. He got points for saying David Cassidy was an under-rated singer in an interview though, I always thought so too. A few years back Michael appeared at Upton Country Park, just 5 mins walk from me, and I had a dream about him singing along the coast to keep shipping from getting stuck on rocks....😇

Jim Reeves is a twangy guitar mild singalong I dont know, but Jim was best on sad ballads. Billy's is a decent late-hit for my pre-school fave pop singer and he was still popping up telly at this time, but the song didnt register on me at the time. The Dave Berry I have never heard of, and had no idea it was Ray Davies - I have almost certainly heard Dave do it live back in the 80's on one of the many 60's multi-artist shows I went to, but The Crying Game is the one that stuck in my mind, not this. An easy win then for The Animals, one I knew at the time and since, and it still sounds great.

Ah yes that makes sense, just played it - the computer game intro wasnt the main appeal it was the retro vibes of Firecracker that appealed to me, very 60's tuneful and without the intro more of an 8/10. Thanks Bre!

Ah, snap, Jade I was in London Friday/weekend, hope it was a good visit and thanks for the 39-er congrats :) Those One Year Outs are always inevitable just when 39 looks do-able.😄 round 1: 36 Got the end of the Mantronix song title wrong round 2: 39 3 in 10: Here I Go Again, Is This Love, Aint No Love In The Heart Of The City

Dub Be Good To Me was good, happy to see it a hit, and Norman hip-hopping in to other genres, but it lacked the class and excitement of the SOS Band original just as Jam & Lewis were last-year's news as the UK dance scene moved on without them - despite classic tracks still getting released and huge hits in the USA. Black Box, meh, not in the same league as Ride On Time, but Lisa Stansfield proving she had a career ahead of her with another classy soul track. She very much appealed to older soul fans (like me) in a Barry White sort of vibe, but minus the White vocal style.

Love Will Tear Us Apart, acknowledged classic, and I liked it a lot when it came out, but after his death it became even darker for me. I wish there were cures for mental health problems, it's a curse for so many loved ones. 9/10. Bob Marley seemed to be alive and well when Could You Be Loved came out, and it was obviously one of his greatest tracks to that point. 9/10. I wish there were cures for all cancer too, another curse for so many loved ones. Babooshka was her most commercial single since Wuthering Heights, and the video was very popular with male students at Uni, def a big fave for me at the time, but not quite so mad on it these days 8/10. Joan Armatrading was always under-represented in the singles chart, but Me Myself I is a great catchy pop track, bangs along nicely 9/10. Wednesday Week is one of The Undertones best tracks, more wistful than they usually opt for 9/10. Yellow magic Orchestra was quite unusual at the time, it was quite good 7/10, but I dont know the other side, Firecracker. Phil's dark reference to Elvis was OK too, but preferred Lizzy, they have a real Killer coming up. 7/10. Neon Knights not exactly Paranoid, but then it set up said song for a hit re-issue so job done. 4/10. Change's double A, radio and me went for the Chic-channelling Lover's Holiday, 8/10. Glow Of Love I've never played much, and I bought the single! Emotional Rescue very much sounds like future Prince, but who influenced who?! I'm guessing earlier soul acts in both cases! 7/10. Lip Up Fatty another fun Bad Manners track, the sax is great. They were just warming up at this stage. 8/10. AC/DC's Whole Lotta Rosie is an older track finally hitting after Bon Scott died - at this point the band were more punk metal and Bon's vocals were great. 8/10. Gerard Kenny's Fantasy I never bought and recall it as a dull ballad but havent heard it in decades. 3/10. Bobby Vee had the original hit version in the UK and one of his great early 60's hits. He got his break after standing in for The Crickets when Holly died, so very appropriate he covered it, Leo's version is nice enough, but slowed down too much. 6/10. Leo is great in concert though, a bundle of enthusiastic energy. Detroit Spinners again on an un-needed mash-up, Cupid was covered reggae-style and way-better by Johnny Nash, keeping the Sam Cooke vibe. This was a little on the formulaic side. 6/10.

fridays: well done Rollo, almost a full house! round 1: 36 one year out round 2: 39 3 in 10: Too Much Too Little Too Late, Misty, I'm Stone In Love With You todays: round 1: 39 round 2: 33 (When The Heartache Is Gone is one word out, doh!) 3 in 10: MacArthur Park, I Feel love, love to love you baby

Blink 182. Never got them though family love 'em to bits. Sorry family!

Sinead was and is a classic and deserved number one, head and shoulders over the rest of the top 10. Technotronic's is catchy dance fun but not as good as Jam, Lonnie Gordon is PWL tuneful but not one of their greats, Halo James poor-man's Johnny Hates Jazz, not a fave, Yell was a formula cover of a better record, Phil Collins was starting to get a bit samey and bland compared to some of his 80's hits, and Walk On By is a flawless song but the covers get worse with time. Dionne's is an all-time brilliance, love it dearly. The Stranglers had the next best version, and Sybil's rates about 3rd amongst the hit versions.

New Amsterdam is one of Elvis' best tunes, great melody, nice lyrics, 9/10. Had a proper record sleeve, unlike one of his previous that was deliberately inside out, plain white outside, picture inside (Accidents Will Happen). Xanadu is fabulous, 10/10, an unlikely collab that worked, and my fave single and number one as I left Uni for the last time - sad it was all over, and misery awaited for the next few years. No rose-tinted spectacles for me... The film is just a bit dull, by and large, as opposed to being bad as such. Gene Kelly's last fling really. Who Wants The World is decent Stranglers, 7/10, and we had no idea about the golden brown future. I've always found Play The Game a bit dull apart from the random synth bit 6/10. Splodgenessabounds though, the anthem of anyone that's been in a packed pub and can't get bloody served, great fun and amusing social observation 9/10 for Two Pints, Simon templar's a bit of fun and 7/10. 747 is Saxon's best record, Metalpop as it should be 9/10. A bit dangerous, a bit dark, a bit threatening, but catchy riffs and vocals. Bed's Too Big Without You is largely forgotten but the single version is pretty good, uptempo and urgent, 9/10. Waterfalls I adore, moving, atmospheric, synthy, minimalist 9/10. I also love that Paul's chosen singing style is emotional not pub singer. Jump To The Beat is great disco soul and better than subsequent cover versions. 9/10. There's a lot 9's in this bunch for me! Stacy did great for 13! I'm Not Your Steppin Stone is a comedy version from The Great Rock n Roll Swindle, I think, and they were scraping the very dead barrel by this stage but at least the song became a hit at last. The Monkees B side drips venom, ironically, and is a 10/10, while the Sex Pistols' is manufactured money-grabbing cash-in 6/10. That might seem the wrong-way round to some but it's true.... Odyssey's biggie is still popular, and a firm 8/10 from me, but they had classics before and after that were better, but not better-known. B.A.'s was quite sweet, he did enjoy his word-play, much like the Bard did, but I preferred the previous 3 bangers. Nice 7/10. My Way Of Thinking was a bit of a 4/10 snoozefest, but the Randy Newman cover was better, 6/10. Let's Hang On is not as good as The Four Seasons original, but it's OK as Darts career was about to fizzle. It is however better than a future Barry manilow version. 7/10. Rod's soul cover sucks all the soul out of it in favour of tedium. It was boring at the time, and it still is. 3/10 Makes Sailing and This Old Heart Of Mine, previous inferior attempts at covers, sound positively lively in comparison.

happy holiday Simon! I will not be using multi-hyphenate or any long words as I used to work for Local Government. "Keep it easy to understand" was the motto, before using many, many words like "Silo Culture" and starting sentences with "So". The former means not talking to colleagues across the organization about stuff and the latter means an attempt to sound smart while not sounding smart. So something to look forward to!

Tina Cousins because my mate once got her to sign his CD as he helped her into a taxi a tad worse for wear after a fun PR in Bournemouth...

It's nice all these old songs and samples are hits for a new audience, but none of them have the quality of the originals, bar Sinead's drastic re-interpretation, which is a classic. Mantronix's is good, and the O'Jays sample is OK.

sorry been organising a new car - I hate shopping for big ticket items, so stressful! Which is why it's been 23 years since I last did it! I heard a bit of TTT this morning, I had no idea who sang Samba De Janeiro 1997 hit that I dont remember. Oops (Bellini apparently) Yesterdays quiz: round 1: 39 guessed Gary Barlow. Quite difficult though I thought, this round. round 2: 39 3 in 10: If You Had My Love, and then struggled to get Ain't It Funny in time eek Glad I wasnt the only one!

1 10 1 5 TOKYO RAIN - Loaded Honey 293000 2 6 2 5 OVER - Loaded Honey 255750 3 4 3 9 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 403900 4 1 1 5 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 745000 5 3 1 9 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 780000 6 8 6 8 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 298300 7 5 1 18 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1125900 8 9 8 8 GLAD - Saint Etienne 225100 9 2 2 9 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 819750 10 11 10 5 DAYDREAMING - Elliot James Reay 157100 11 13 11 5 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE - The Beach Boys 133950 12 7 7 14 FEEL IT - d4vd 376350 13 19 13 7 ZOMBIE LADY - Damiano David featuring Dove Cameron 106900 14 12 2 13 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 664500 15 21 15 9 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 130150 16 31 16 5 CALIFORNIA GIRLS - The Beach Boys 91400 17 15 9 10 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 283500 18 20 1 16 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 1114100 19 16 3 11 VOICES - Damiano David 552400 20 14 5 5 GOOD VIBRATIONS - The Beach Boys 161000 21 38 21 5 RUNAWAY TRAIN - Sam Feldt featuring RuthAnne 76000 22 32 22 8 CHEMICAL REACTION - Debbii Dawson 119300 23 17 2 15 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 636800 24 24 24 5 EASY LOVER - Miley Cyrus 86400 25 26 12 9 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 205250 26 35 26 8 LOVER - Richard Ashcroft featuring Joan Armatrading 108650 27 18 1 13 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 745100 28 23 11 12 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 297950 29 25 19 8 OH OK - Sam Ryder 147450 30 28 22 11 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 195350 31 36 3 16 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 422800 32 40 32 7 LET’S RIDE AWAY - Avicii featuring Elle King 77300 33 50 33 5 FAMILY AFFAIR - Sly & The Family Stone 54300 34 51 34 4 ROCK THAT BODY - The Black Eyed Peas 44800 35 30 23 11 FIND XANADU - Alison Goldfrapp 178950 36 27 16 13 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 225650 37 22 4 13 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 403500 38 29 26 10 MAN ON THE MOON - Fitz & The Tantrums 153200 39 46 39 11 TEARS DRY TONIGHT - CYRIL & James Blunt 121100 40 33 1 18 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 746600

13th July 2025 It's a new number one as Loaded Honey's Tokyo Rain leapfrogs their single up to 3 - Don't Speak - and the darker album track Over up to 2. Jungle had multiple tracks in my charts many times, especially off Volcano, and what a fab album that was, but side-project Loaded Honey go one better grabbing the entire top 3. I just love the strings and laid-back melodic vibe, not entirely unlike (as AH Gold pointed out) Avalanche's Since I Met You from back in the day. All 3 of these tracks sort of following on from Jungle's album track chart-topper Good At Breaking Hearts with Lydia Kitto and J Lloyd both upfront and looking fabulous in the themed videos for tracks so far released. How rare is it for an act to hold the entire top 3 in my charts with new material? Very! ABBA's return with Voyage gave them 6 of the top 7 bar the number one spot in November 2021, and they had the entire top 3 entering on 7th Nov 2021. So this is only the second time it has ever been done. New entries this week, the highest is from Finn Forster, who I'd never heard of a week ago - I heard his track on Radio 2 and thought it was Teddy Swims. Broken Game is fab and in at 45. Rob Thomas has been absent for some time from my charts, solo or as part of Matchbox 20 - he topped my charts twice with Santana on Smooth and also with his band on Bent - sadly they never caught on in the UK in the late 90's and early 2000's. So it's a welcome return with the very upbeat and positive-sounding Hard To Be Happy at 62. The Jonas Brothers are back again just a few weeks after leaving the charts and while Joe Jonas is still charting at 28, this time it's a severe re-writing of The Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive and it's pretty good too, No Time To Talk at 66. I'm reading a bio of The Bee Gees written very well by Bob Stanley of Saint Etienne - up to 8 this week themselves. Noah Cyrus gets a second dark ballad on the rundown, with Don't Put It All On Me entering at 75 in a collab with the AWOL Fleet Foxes, it's been a decade or so I reckon, but they suit the sombre mood of Noah Cyrus, and make it a little more melodic. I think this must be the first time that two sisters have charted 2 tracks each simultaneously in my charts! The Minogue Sisters almost certainly charted 1 each, though, many times. New at 84, The BossHoss return with added Arnold Schwarzenegger sampling and it's rather good! Yee-ha! I'll Be Back, indeed. Agnes isn't content with one top 10, she's trying for 2 with Milk. It's an odd word for song titles, and yet...Garbage, Doctor Feelgood with added Alcohol, and Milkshakes from Kelis and Go-Jo. Finally Hot Chip are also back after a layoff of a few years, extending their chart run over 20 years. 1 10 1 5 TOKYO RAIN - Loaded Honey 293000 2 6 2 5 OVER - Loaded Honey 255750 3 4 3 9 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 403900 4 1 1 5 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 745000 5 3 1 9 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 780000 6 8 6 8 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 298300 7 5 1 18 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1125900 8 9 8 8 GLAD - Saint Etienne 225100 9 2 2 9 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 819750 10 11 10 5 DAYDREAMING - Elliot James Reay 157100 11 13 11 5 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE - The Beach Boys 133950 12 7 7 14 FEEL IT - d4vd 376350 13 19 13 7 ZOMBIE LADY - Damiano David featuring Dove Cameron 106900 14 12 2 13 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 664500 15 21 15 9 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 130150 16 31 16 5 CALIFORNIA GIRLS - The Beach Boys 91400 17 15 9 10 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 283500 18 20 1 16 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 1114100 19 16 3 11 VOICES - Damiano David 552400 20 14 5 5 GOOD VIBRATIONS - The Beach Boys 161000 21 38 21 5 RUNAWAY TRAIN - Sam Feldt featuring RuthAnne 76000 22 32 22 8 CHEMICAL REACTION - Debbii Dawson 119300 23 17 2 15 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 636800 24 24 24 5 EASY LOVER - Miley Cyrus 86400 25 26 12 9 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 205250 26 35 26 8 LOVER - Richard Ashcroft featuring Joan Armatrading 108650 27 18 1 13 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 745100 28 23 11 12 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 297950 29 25 19 8 OH OK - Sam Ryder 147450 30 28 22 11 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 195350 31 36 3 16 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 422800 32 40 32 7 LET’S RIDE AWAY - Avicii featuring Elle King 77300 33 50 33 5 FAMILY AFFAIR - Sly & The Family Stone 54300 34 51 34 4 ROCK THAT BODY - The Black Eyed Peas 44800 35 30 23 11 FIND XANADU - Alison Goldfrapp 178950 36 27 16 13 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 225650 37 22 4 13 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 403500 38 29 26 10 MAN ON THE MOON - Fitz & The Tantrums 153200 39 46 39 11 TEARS DRY TONIGHT - CYRIL & James Blunt 121100 40 33 1 18 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 746600 41 37 37 9 ABSURDA - Javiera Mena 118350 42 41 6 18 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 431050 43 53 43 4 GOLD - Myles Smith 40800 44 44 1 35 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1707700 45 NEW 45 1 BROKEN GAME - Finn Forster 13000 46 54 46 5 BLOODLINE - Alex Warren featuring Jelly Roll 50850 47 52 47 5 MANCHILD - Sabrina Carpenter 52600 48 71 48 4 SWEETNESS - Elliot James Reay 27300 49 39 25 11 I’M FREE (7TH HEAVEN RADIO EDIT) - Donna Summer 161850 50 48 1 28 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1298800 51 42 9 14 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 301250 52 34 1 23 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1332600 53 58 53 9 SPORTS CAR - Tate McRae 69250 54 47 1 18 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 894700 55 61 55 5 RUNNING UP A TAB AT THE HOTEL FOR THE FAB - Sparks 37000 56 57 56 8 ROCKET - Robbie Williams featuring Tony Iommi 68400 57 62 57 5 CHARGIE - Alesha Dixon featuring Tom Moutchie 35400 58 70 58 3 UNFORGETTABLE - Alok, Daecolm & Malou 22200 59 43 16 12 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 202800 60 55 14 18 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 301100 61 73 61 4 SO LONG - ABBA 20700 62 NEW 62 1 HARD TO BE HAPPY - Rob Thomas 7400 63 77 63 5 I GET AROUND - The Beach Boys 23400 64 79 64 3 LET IT BE FOR LOVE - Armin van Buuren featuring JAI RYU 15500 65 80 65 4 SUZANNE - Mark Ronson & RAYE 18000 66 NEW 66 1 NO TIME TO TALK - The Jonas Brothers 6800 67 45 29 12 PETITE ETOILE - Polo and Pan featuring Beth Ditto 151950 68 63 63 11 I DON’T WANNA TALK - Dadi Freyr 67500 69 75 69 5 WHO KNEW DANCING WAS A SIN - Elliot James Reay 24600 70 74 70 5 EVERYBODY LAUGHS - David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra 23200 71 49 11 15 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 265200 72 65 65 8 GOT TO HAVE LOVE - Pulp 49200 73 81 73 4 I DO I DO I DO I DO I DO - ABBA 15000 74 69 7 19 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 327050 75 NEW 75 1 DON’T PUT IT ALL ON ME - Noah Cyrus featuring Fleet Foxes 5000 76 68 68 8 IN DAYLIGHT - Sparks 42400 77 56 11 14 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 251650 78 78 78 5 FULL ATTENTION - Tom Grennan 19200 79 83 79 4 SAPPHIRE - Ed Sheeran 13200 80 60 33 14 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 175100 81 86 81 3 ON MY MIND - Alex Warren & ROSE 9400 82 88 82 3 HEY HI HELLO - Alison Goldfrapp 8400 83 85 83 5 NEVER EVER LET YOU GO - Bryan Adams 14400 84 NEW 84 1 I’LL BE BACK - The BossHoss featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger 3200 85 89 85 3 JUNE - 24Goldn 7400 86 87 86 5 LITTLE RICHARD’S BIBLE - Elton John & Brandi Carlile 12600 87 67 62 8 PINBALL - Paul Weller 48800 88 NEW 88 1 MILK - Agnes 2400 89 90 89 3 BLESSINGS - Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas 6200 90 NEW 90 1 DEVOTION - Hot Chip 2000 DROP OUTS 59 8 13 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 330000 64 52 9 TASTE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 81600 66 31 8 ME & YOU - Ella Henderson 96600 72 5 18 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 385550 76 34 11 MIND OF A WARRIOR - Alan Walker & Sorana 116050 82 71 10 DROWNED IN A SEA OF TEARS - Sparks 47600 84 78 6 LORD HAVE MERCY - Sparks 21000 and last week's rollover - sorry no Millionaires in this one! 6th July 2025 1 1 1 4 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 680000 2 2 1 8 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 774750 3 3 1 8 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 720000 4 4 4 8 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 318900 5 5 1 17 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1075900 6 6 6 4 OVER - Loaded Honey 140750 7 7 7 13 FEEL IT - d4vd 341350 8 8 8 7 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 243300 9 9 9 7 GLAD - Saint Etienne 177100 10 10 10 4 TOKYO RAIN - Loaded Honey 123000 11 11 11 4 DAYDREAMING - Elliot James Reay 115100 12 12 2 12 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 635500 13 13 13 4 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE - The Beach Boys 96950 14 14 5 4 GOOD VIBRATIONS - The Beach Boys 141000 15 15 9 9 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 260500 16 16 3 10 VOICES - Damiano David 531400 17 17 2 14 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 617550 18 18 1 12 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 726700 19 19 19 6 ZOMBIE LADY - Damiano David featuring Dove Cameron 74900 20 20 1 15 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 1092100 21 21 21 8 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 103150 22 22 4 12 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 386200 23 23 11 11 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 279650 24 24 24 4 EASY LOVER - Miley Cyrus 67400 25 25 19 7 OH OK - Sam Ryder 129250 26 26 12 8 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 186500 27 27 16 12 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 208250 28 28 22 10 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 177350 29 29 26 9 MAN ON THE MOON - Fitz & The Tantrums 136000 30 30 23 10 FIND XANADU - Alison Goldfrapp 161450 31 31 31 4 CALIFORNIA GIRLS - The Beach Boys 66400 32 32 32 7 CHEMICAL REACTION - Debbii Dawson 99800 33 33 1 17 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 729600 34 34 1 22 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1321100 35 35 35 7 LOVER - Richard Ashcroft featuring Joan Armatrading 90150 36 36 3 15 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 404900 37 37 37 8 ABSURDA - Javiera Mena 104350 38 38 38 4 RUNAWAY TRAIN - Sam Feldt featuring RuthAnne 56250 39 39 25 10 I’M FREE (7TH HEAVEN RADIO EDIT) - Donna Summer 149750 40 40 40 6 LET’S RIDE AWAY - Avicii featuring Elle King 59500 41 41 6 17 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 417300 42 42 9 13 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 289500 43 43 16 11 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 192700 44 44 1 34 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1694450 45 45 29 11 PETITE ETOILE - Polo and Pan featuring Beth Ditto 145350 46 46 46 10 TEARS DRY TONIGHT - CYRIL & James Blunt 104000 47 47 1 17 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 883700 48 48 1 27 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1286800 49 49 11 14 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 259400 50 50 50 4 FAMILY AFFAIR - Sly & The Family Stone 36600 51 51 51 3 ROCK THAT BODY - The Black Eyed Peas 27200 52 52 52 4 MANCHILD - Sabrina Carpenter 40100 53 53 53 3 GOLD - Myles Smith 27300 54 54 54 4 BLOODLINE - Alex Warren featuring Jelly Roll 38100 55 55 14 17 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 281100 56 56 11 13 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 247050 57 57 57 7 ROCKET - Robbie Williams featuring Tony Iommi 57800 58 58 58 8 SPORTS CAR - Tate McRae 58000 59 59 8 13 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 330000 60 60 33 13 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 171100 61 61 61 4 RUNNING UP A TAB AT THE HOTEL FOR THE FAB - Sparks 26200 62 62 62 4 CHARGIE - Alesha Dixon featuring Tom Moutchie 25000 63 63 63 10 I DON’T WANNA TALK - Dadi Freyr 61100 64 64 52 9 TASTE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 81600 65 65 65 7 GOT TO HAVE LOVE - Pulp 43600 66 66 31 8 ME & YOU - Ella Henderson 96600 67 67 62 7 PINBALL - Paul Weller 46200 68 68 68 7 IN DAYLIGHT - Sparks 37600 69 69 7 18 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 321850 70 70 70 2 UNFORGETTABLE Alok, Daecolm & Malou 12000 71 71 71 3 SWEETNESS - Elliot James Reay 15000 72 72 5 18 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 385550 73 73 73 3 SO LONG - ABBA 13200 74 74 74 4 EVERYBODY LAUGHS - David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra 17200 75 75 75 4 WHO KNEW DANCING WAS A SIN - Elliot James Reay 18400 76 76 34 11 MIND OF A WARRIOR - Alan Walker & Sorana 116050 77 77 77 4 I GET AROUND - The Beach Boys 16200 78 78 78 4 FULL ATTENTION - Tom Grennan 14800 79 79 79 2 LET IT BE FOR LOVE Armin van Buuren featuring JAI RYU 8400 80 80 80 3 SUZANNE - Mark Ronson & RAYE 11000 81 81 81 3 I DO I DO I DO I DO I DO - ABBA 9600 82 82 71 10 DROWNED IN A SEA OF TEARS - Sparks 47600 83 83 83 3 SAPPHIRE - Ed Sheeran 9000 84 84 78 6 LORD HAVE MERCY - Sparks 21000 85 85 85 4 NEVER EVER LET YOU GO - Bryan Adams 11000 86 86 86 2 ON MY MIND Alex Warren & ROSE 5600 87 87 87 4 LITTLE RICHARD’S BIBLE - Elton John & Brandi Carlile 9800 88 88 88 2 HEY HI HELLO Alison Goldfrapp 4800 89 89 89 2 JUNE 24Goldn 4400 90 90 90 2 BLESSINGS Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas 4000

Hi SSP! 🙂 Awolnation top 10 🙂yay! Sombr, Sabrina, Richard Ashcroft all climbing nicely, Cyril, Sapphire, Jonas Brothers ditto a bit lower down, with Busy Woman, Gabry Ponte and Mr Electric Blue also doing nicely. The name Stephen Bishop takes me back to On & On way back when! Supermen Lovers, Empire Of The Sun and david Guetta/Bonnie all doing well and welcome newies. Sam Feldt, Gold, BossHoss and Unforgettable faves down the bottom end, plus some new ones from veteran names I need to hear!! Foreigner, Men Without Hats, Offspring, Sarah McLachlan, Foo Fighters... 2014 5 Seconds Of Summer and Calvin harris were my top picks of the top 10. great charts! 😎

Hi SSP!🙂 Thanks for the picks of climbers and newies!! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope all is not Gold on Work FM! 😎I notice the Eurovision songs still remaining strong! I did enjoy them but this year had no room for most of them. Not without expanding to 100, like you have! As I play all my charts in order to slot them in position it takes me too long beyond 75! Fab chart! Hopefully Radio 2 will push some of your top faves into my charts 🙂 Fab chart!😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Well done on taking over the stereo at work, how can anyone not love saint etienne! I just bunged it on a CD of current stuff I love for one of my similar vintage friends who will prob enjoy most of it (like Loaded Honey) - I can usually guess what people will enjoy based on previous, and if they don't then they jolly well need to listen to it until they do!! 😄That's my motto, so boo on your workmates wanting the familiar but that's a common problem with ageing 😇 Talking of Loaded Honey, yes they are very like Avalanches, esp in the swirling strings/chords, and others of that era I also love. Sort of a cross between Jungle and Avalanches, with roots in 60's music thrown in to boot. Love 'em! Also fab you like Elliot, a friend put me on to him the other week, and I was very impressed, totally Chris Isaak. Roy Orbison. Yes, all very summer-sounding! Thanks as ever for the very long list of likes and comments! ❤️😎