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America was an old album track to promote their Greatest Hits and very nice too doing surprisingly well but considering pretty much every Bridge Over Troubled Water track is brilliant and didnt get to be a hit bar 2 i was nonplussed about it on the whole 8/10. Donna was an instant amusing 50s pastiche as 10cc start their essential artrock era. Predictable records and song structures not a thing! Loved it at the time 9/10 these days. In A Broken Dream a 1970 flop cashing in on Rod's hits but a worthy one. Great song and fractured vocal 9/10. Junior Campbell under rated outside Marmalade and Hallelujah Freedom has worn well 9/10. All Fall Down is sweet and fairly obscure then and now 7/10. Goodbye To Love and that classic guitar solo is a perfect record and the Carpenters at their very best 10/10. Burning Love is Elvis' first gutsy single since Suspicious Minds and pretty decent 7/10. I love Bread and i love Guitar Man. Wistful gentle plaintive beautiful with a great ending. 10/10. Johnny Nash's follow up is nice enough 6/10. Elected is a timeless vitriolic political commentary one of Vince's best 8/10. Back stabbers is a classic early Philly soul song with socially aware lyrics and still rated. Number one for me then and now adore it and nicked nicely by the late Angie Stone 10/10. Elmo James has a nice 1930s gangster vibe to it and i like story songs and the band 8/10. The Pearls had already had chart success in other guises Sue and Sunny, Brotherhood of Man and would soon also get a lineup change as these things tended towards on the UK pop scene of the time and id never heard The Ronettes version until 2019! I like both but The Ronettes cant be beaten great song 8/10.

Thanks both and well done backatacha! Off on another holiday shortly - Sitges, Spain - so will be absent (I expect, but the weather is looking dodgy all week so you never know) till a week tomorrow 👍

Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer Prince And The Revolution - Let's Go Crazy / Take Me With U

Get Lucky would be top 5, fab track, it's all done beautifully, Royals I never quite got, more midtable for me I think. Great rundown Jaz!

Thanks Rollo, well done on the 39 too, and back from a pub quiz last night music round didnt recognise a Nickelback intro. I forgive myself. Their current single is better than most of their hits, bar 3. Round 1: 39 Round 2: 39 tiebreak: beat me to Heather Small, A Night To Remember 😶 3 in 10: Ain't It Funny and blanked. It all went tits up from the tiebreak onward..😄

Children Of The Revolution was the T.Rex number-one-run-breaker thanks to David Cassidy but it really should have topped the charts, ominous and assertive, 9/10. John I'm Only Dancing was my early fave Bowie track, so exciting and wouldnt be beaten until Life On Mars got to be a hit in 1973. Still love it, plus John is a cool name 😇10/10. It will be back in two different versions in 1979, though one was very similar to confuse reviewers... Mouldy Old Dough's old-timee piano instrumental was fun, and having your mum in the band was very Partridge Family/Cowsills but I dont love it quite as much as I did at the time 7/10. Honky Cat was nice enough but it's nothing compared to the singles either side of it and an odd choice of single given some of the album tracks so far that weren't singles. 6/10 Burlesque was OK, but I never liked Roger Chapman's voice much and Family are one of my meh bands of the period 5/10. Suzanne Beware Of The Devil is delightfully singalong and upbeat reggae 7/10. Glitter's was his first proper singing hit and had a bit more guts than later singalong anthems, the frantic pace suited it and I still rate it 9/10 ignoring who sang it and pretending it's the great producer/writer Mike Leander who gets the credit instead. Because Glam-bandwagon-jumping Gadd was going nowhere for a long time till Leander stepped in. You're A Lady I liked a bit, then got bored with, then came back to it in later years. It's quite old-fashioned brass band nice 7/10. Wig Wam Bam was the monet The Sweet became Glam Rock, putting aside the TOTP imagery which every kid played in those days - Cowboys and Indians was always a thing since the silent era, but by 1972 it was the Indians who were the good guys, cue this dress-up record, following Soldier Blue and Indian Reservation. It still bangs as a singalong 8/10. I love the Dusty version, the original version, but the first version I heard was Darlin' David's so that's my original - Despite being pissed he kept T.Rex off the top, I liked it at the time, but the French vibes really kicked in by the 80's and I found this was one of my go-to singalong-when-low classics, and I still think it's a 10/10. Love it and Cassidy's best vocal on a powerful ballad. Maybe I Know not quite up to peak Leslie Gore, but it was nice the song got an audience 7/10. Who Was It? was a Gilbert O'Sullivan album track and the Beatles back-scenes man was better on his own songs, and is too jaunty for the man that did Don't Let It Die. 6/10. Even thinking of covering Nat King Cole was so obviously a bad idea for a pre-pubescent this could only ever come out badly. Where I rather liked Puppy Love, this one quickly bored me at the time and always has. 3/10. Light Up The Fire I liked the singalong bits and the Christian message passed me by un-noticed, I just liked the tune, but it hasnt aged well 4/10.

Love KLF, they were just perfect dancepop in 1991 and act of the year for me then and now. 3a.m. is fab top 3 for me, though the genius single of all is Justified & Ancient, should have been a number one, and quite possibly top single of the year for me. I'm going to blow my own horn and say I bought Kylie Said To Jason in the 80's before they took off under that guise, so I had already been won over with that and Doctorin' The Tardis and Jimmy Cauty's stint in Brilliant, their run of singles was under-rated. Still wish they had given it another couple of singles, they had plenty of life left in them to produce some more money to burn.

Thanks Jade! Just one off, and well done Rollo on the 39. Round 1: 39 I think nerves got the better of the contestant! I pulled Blur out of half-deleted brain-cell somehow as I dont remember On Your Own as a song at all! Looking at discographies helps after all... Round 2: 39 and same for this contestant. Oops! 6 points for a win! 3 in 10: stop your sobbing, Kid, brass in pocket

5th October 1976 It's 7 weeks on top for Dancing Queen, and there are suddenly a lot of Motown oldies slipping over from the Oldies chart as they make the UK sales chart, Diana Ross' I'm Still Waiting dropping from 4 on that chart to 6 on this chart illustrating the new chart is marginally more competitive at the top end, witness Tears Of A Clown up just one to 12, This Old Heart Of Mine dropping to 17 (having already gone top 3 twice before), Behind The Painted Smile down from 17 to 22, Touch Me In The Morning 19 to 28, but Tracks Of My Tears debuting at 48 with the longer chart benefitting it, having charted in 1969 already. Smokie finally get a top 10 with I'll Meet You At Midnight, Mike Batt aka Wellington Womble confirmed to me in a message this week that Rainmaker deliberately was written towards the end of the long hot, dry summer, so we can all thank him for the much-needed wet autumn. It should be re-issued immediately for 2026! Up to 26. Kiki Dee's 1974 flop and lead EP track Loving And Free belatedly joins the other 2 on the chart at 33, and the 1972 song She's Gone finally charts in the UK as it has in the USA for the wonderful Daryl Hall & John Oates. A classic soulful ballad, still, even if they aren't speaking, and one that under-performed at the time. Should have been a chart-topper. In at 38. Paul Nicholas gets his 2nd chart hit to continue his pop diversion for another year or so, Dancing With The Captain a bit of jolly fun at 43, and the fab Lowdown gives Boz Scaggs a debut at 49, another Blue-Eyed soulster as they used to say, Boz bordering slightly more on disco than ballad though, as compared to Hall & Oates. At the moment. That will all change down the line. 1 ( 1 ) DANCING QUEEN ABBA 2 ( 3 ) MISSISSIPPI Pussycat 3 ( 2 ) BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Manfred MannŐs Earthband 4 ( 4 ) DISCO DUCK Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots 5 ( 7 ) DANCE LITTLE LADY DANCE Tina Charles 6 ( 4 ) I'M STILL WAITING Diana Ross 7 ( 10 ) BEST DISCO IN TOWN The Ritchie Family 8 ( 11 ) CAN'T GET BY WITHOUT YOU The Real Thing 9 ( 24 ) I'LL MEET YOU AT MIDNIGHT Smokie 10 ( 8 ) YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO The Chi-Lites 11 ( 9 ) I WANT MORE Can 12 ( 13 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 13 ( 13 ) I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Bay City Rollers 14 ( 16 ) IT'S O.K. the Beach Boys 15 ( 5 ) AMOUREUSE Kiki Dee 16 ( 6 ) BENNIE AND THE JETS Elton John 17 ( 11 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 18 ( 25 ) HOWZAT Sherbet 19 ( 15 ) BABY WE'D BETTER TRY TO GET TOGETHER Barry White 20 ( 14 ) I CAN'T ASK FOR ANYMORE THAN YOU Cliff Richard 21 ( 12 ) YOU'LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER LOVE LIKE MINE Lou Rawls 22 ( 17 ) BEHIND THE PAINTED SMILE The Isley Brothers 23 ( 19 ) HEAVEN IS IN THE BACK SEAT OF MY CADILLAC Hot Chocolate 24 ( 18 ) AFTERNOON DELIGHT Starland Vocal Band 25 ( 32 ) BABY I LOVE YOUR WAY Peter Frampton 26 ( 33 ) RAINMAKER Wellington Womble aka Mike Batt 27 ( 17 ) SAILING Rod Stewart 28 ( 19 ) TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING Diana Ross 29 ( 21 ) THE PRICE OF LOVE Bryan Ferry 30 ( 22 ) YOU SHOULD BE DANCING The Bee Gees 31 ( 28 ) WHAM BAM Silver 32 ( 36 ) STILL THE ONE Orleans 33 ( NEW ) LOVING AND FREE Kiki Dee 34 ( 47 ) GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND Elvis Presley 35 ( 27 ) LET 'EM IN Wings 36 ( 30 ) HERE I GO AGAIN Twiggy 37 ( 29 ) BREAKAWAY Gallagher & Lyle 38 ( NEW ) SHE'S GONE Daryl Hall & John Oates 39 ( 23 ) LOVING ON THE LOSING SIDE Tommy Hunt 40 ( 20 ) DOINA DE JALE Gheorghe Zamfir 41 ( 31 ) SUNRISE Eric Carmen 42 ( 34 ) THAT'LL BE THE DAY Linda Ronstadt 43 ( NEW ) DANCING WITH THE CAPTAIN Paul Nicholas 44 ( 39 ) WHAT I'VE GOT IN MIND Billie-Jo Spears 45 ( 26 ) (I'VE GOT THE) MUSIC IN ME The Kiki Dee Band 46 ( 46 ) I'D REALLY LOVE TO SEE YOU TONIGHT England Dan & John Ford Coley 47 ( 35 ) UPTOWN UPTEMPO WOMAN Randy Edelman 48 ( NEW ) TRACKS OF MY TEARS Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 49 ( NEW ) LOWDOWN Boz Scaggs 50 ( 40 ) NICE 'N' SLOW Jesse Green THE OLDIES RE-ISSUES CHART It's 2 weeks on top for Nathan Jones and a Supremes top 3 and half the top 10, helped by a number of Motown oldies making the official chart and transferring over to my main personal chart to continue their chart runs. Stop! In The Name Of Love makes the top 10 for the first time. New entries include Greyhound's fabulous Black And White, charting again 5 years on at 15, and four Gary Glitter tracks as Bell/Arista bung out an EP of them, Rock & Roll Part 2 still being the Gary-free (mostly) best at 18, Hello Hello at 23, Touch Me at 24, and Leader at 30. The Pioneers form part of the Trojan re-issue with Greyhound and their nearly-as-fabulous Let Your Yeah Be Yeah gives Jimmy Cliff's song a second run too at 19. That leaves just Buddy Holly's 50's classic It Doesn't Matter Anymore to get a second run from debuting in my 1974 charts, in at 28. 1 ( 1 ) NATHAN JONES The Supremes 2 ( 2 ) STONED LOVE The Supremes 3 ( 3 ) I'M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations 4 ( 6 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 5 ( 7 ) YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY Stevie Wonder 6 ( 9 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 7 ( 10 ) YOU'RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 8 ( 5 ) MAKE IT WITH YOU Bread 9 ( 12 ) BABY LOVE The Supremes 10 ( 14 ) STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE The Supremes 11 ( 8 ) MONDAY MONDAY The Mamas & The Papas 12 ( 15 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye 13 ( 16 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 14 ( 18 ) RUN RUN RUN Jo-Jo Gunne 15 ( NEW ) BLACK AND WHITE Greyhound 16 ( 20 ) GET READY The Temptations 17 ( 22 ) MOCKINGBIRD Carly Simon & James Taylor 18 ( NEW ) ROCK AND ROLL PART 2 Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 19 ( NEW ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH The Pioneers 20 ( 24 ) REACH OUT I'LL BE THERE The Four Tops 21 ( 28 ) WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED Jimmy Ruffin 22 ( 23 ) DANCING IN THE STREET Martha & The Vandellas 23 ( NEW ) HELLO HELLO I'M BACK AGAIN Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 24 ( NEW ) DO YOU WANT TO TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 25 ( 27 ) I'LL PICK A ROSE Marv Johnson 26 ( 21 ) CREQUE ALLEY The Mamas & The Papas 27 ( 26 ) DAYDREAM BELIEVER The Monkees 28 ( NEW ) IT DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE Buddy Holly 29 ( 25 ) 1, 2, 2003 Len Barry 30 ( NEW ) I'M THE LEADER OF THE GANG (I AM) Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band So what was I doing this week 50 years ago? Back from the Lake District Geography school field trip, picked up by my Uncle Tony on Friday as mum and dad, my Aunty Eileen and the 2 kids had all been away holidaying without me until Sunday. It was stunning scenery, rained a bit, and involved a lot of walking, though the sun came out here and there it was mostly overcast. Watched Harry O on TV, bought a second had copy of ELO's first album, mainly for 10538 Overture, and also a load of DC comics, in the aviary a new baby chick hatched. On Monday back to school, a "hilarious" (so I say!) English Lit lesson featuring Milton's similes. I didn't like Milton's Paradise Lost much, too pretentious for me. Started developing some photos. Relatives dropped in in the evening, mum's nephew-in-law and 2 kids, Wilf, Ricky, Joanne.

1 3 1 15 LOVE SENSATION/AFTERHOURS RADIO EDIT - Madonna/Madonna & Kylie Minogue 732400 2 1 1 6 SUNSHINE - Jungle 813000 3 2 1 10 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 1065200 4 7 4 6 REWARD - The Teardrop Explodes 238750 5 8 5 6 WHERE ARE YOU NOW? - Jungle 164200 6 9 6 6 MESMERIZED - Freemasons featuring Faith Evans 205700 7 4 4 7 SLEEPING WITH MY BOOTS ON - Lily Meola 340250 8 6 1 13 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 1363000 9 5 5 9 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 419300 10 12 10 7 STORMY WEATHER - Etta James 195500 11 13 11 6 RAIN - Dagny 108000 12 14 12 6 TAKE IT SLOW (BULLIT) - Robin Schulz & Watermat 120650 13 10 10 12 DANCETERIA - Madonna 243750 14 19 14 10 WANTED - The Dooleys 173300 15 16 15 11 STUPID SONG - Olivia Rodrigo 149350 16 11 8 10 THINK I'M GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - The Dooleys 234650 17 22 17 9 BLUE DREAM - Holly Humberstone 137450 18 28 18 9 FIREFLIES - Martin Garrix & U2 123100 19 25 19 7 FRAGILE - Madonna 79250 20 23 20 6 OH YEAH? - Steve Lacy 89150 21 15 7 9 TONIGHT - The Rubettes 258750 22 20 20 12 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 166250 23 29 23 11 BIZARRE - Madonna & Martin Garrix 137800 24 18 2 17 THE WAVE - Jungle 869650 25 24 1 12 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 684750 26 27 26 12 MEET ME IN LOVE - Blossoms featuring Maya Jama 132900 27 36 27 5 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - Dolly Parton 68100 28 21 12 10 SUNRISE - Simply Red 224700 29 43 29 5 GOD ONLY KNOWS - for KING AND COUNTRY featuring Dolly Parton 52500 30 NEW 30 1 REDLIGHTS - Miley Cyrus 18000 31 26 10 14 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 275000 32 38 32 14 SELF AWARE - Temper City 123400 33 34 33 9 YOU'RE THE REASON WHY - The Rubettes 106950 34 72 34 2 DIRTY DIRTY DISCO - Rogue Traders & Dannii Minogue 23200 35 50 35 6 LOADED - Primal Scream featuring The Emotions 51400 36 41 36 11 THERE'S A BETTER WAY - Inspiral Carpets 98300 37 31 5 11 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 312900 38 47 38 5 JOLENE - Dolly Parton 56300 39 51 39 5 DOWN FROM DOVER - Dolly Parton 41150 40 48 40 7 I'M IN LOVE AGAIN - Lulu 69500

20th September 2026 It's an early chart this week, as I'm off on another holiday on Monday - you wait 6 months for one and 2 come along at once - and it's a celebrity Madonna & Kylie double top, as Love Sensation climbs there on it's 15th week helped by the remix, but both versions are fab. That means Kylie's first chart-topper in 3 years and Madonna's in 7 years, giving her a number one in the last 5 consecutive decades, something only Pet Shop Boys have also done. It's Kylie's 17th chart-topper, and Madonna's 22nd, she pulls back equal with Michael Jackson 4th on the all-time list, leaving Elton dropping to 6th. Jungle have 2 top 5's, Etta James gets a second posthumous top 10, after At Last topped and charted 3 times, Stormy Weather is a great song. The highest new entry is a track off Miley Cyrus' new album, Redlights leap-frogging the climbing Bass Persuades at 74 in at 30. Midge Ure has done his own studio version of his classic Fade To Grey song and production, as hit by Visage 45 years ago, and fresh off his latest tour where it went down very well. New at 75 and Midge has been charting for me for over 50 years now, a mere snip of a boy in the teeny-bop band Slik to start with. Chaka Khan gets a second Sia hand-out following Chakzilla, and Cool You Down is the third good track off the album, kicking out the Snoop Dogg collab at 82. David Bowie gets a 4th go with 1975 number one Golden Years thanks to a TV spot on Netflix's good-but-not-enthusiastically-received The Boroughs, The Duffer Brothers of Stranger Things' latest series - possibly because of the veteran cast instead of kids, but they always pick great songs - see also Stormy Weather at 10, Bowie at 91. almost monday make it 2 on the chart as Enjoy The Ride debuts at 95, as do New Radicals at 97 on only their 4th ever chart single, taken from a forthcoming film soundtrack, One Night Only. Stephen Sanchez continues his totting up of recent new tracks with Forgetting Your Kiss at 98, having already had one number one, where New Radicals have had 2. The recent death of drummer Frank Beard from ZZ Top gives me an excuse to let another oldie in, Gimme All Your Loving back after 42 years away, not that there aren't several more oldies lined up waiting for some to exit... 1 3 1 15 LOVE SENSATION/AFTERHOURS RADIO EDIT - Madonna/Madonna & Kylie Minogue 732400 2 1 1 6 SUNSHINE - Jungle 813000 3 2 1 10 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 1065200 4 7 4 6 REWARD - The Teardrop Explodes 238750 5 8 5 6 WHERE ARE YOU NOW? - Jungle 164200 6 9 6 6 MESMERIZED - Freemasons featuring Faith Evans 205700 7 4 4 7 SLEEPING WITH MY BOOTS ON - Lily Meola 340250 8 6 1 13 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 1363000 9 5 5 9 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 419300 10 12 10 7 STORMY WEATHER - Etta James 195500 11 13 11 6 RAIN - Dagny 108000 12 14 12 6 TAKE IT SLOW (BULLIT) - Robin Schulz & Watermat 120650 13 10 10 12 DANCETERIA - Madonna 243750 14 19 14 10 WANTED - The Dooleys 173300 15 16 15 11 STUPID SONG - Olivia Rodrigo 149350 16 11 8 10 THINK I'M GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - The Dooleys 234650 17 22 17 9 BLUE DREAM - Holly Humberstone 137450 18 28 18 9 FIREFLIES - Martin Garrix & U2 123100 19 25 19 7 FRAGILE - Madonna 79250 20 23 20 6 OH YEAH? - Steve Lacy 89150 21 15 7 9 TONIGHT - The Rubettes 258750 22 20 20 12 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 166250 23 29 23 11 BIZARRE - Madonna & Martin Garrix 137800 24 18 2 17 THE WAVE - Jungle 869650 25 24 1 12 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 684750 26 27 26 12 MEET ME IN LOVE - Blossoms featuring Maya Jama 132900 27 36 27 5 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - Dolly Parton 68100 28 21 12 10 SUNRISE - Simply Red 224700 29 43 29 5 GOD ONLY KNOWS - for KING AND COUNTRY featuring Dolly Parton 52500 30 NEW 30 1 REDLIGHTS - Miley Cyrus 18000 31 26 10 14 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 275000 32 38 32 14 SELF AWARE - Temper City 123400 33 34 33 9 YOU'RE THE REASON WHY - The Rubettes 106950 34 72 34 2 DIRTY DIRTY DISCO - Rogue Traders & Dannii Minogue 23200 35 50 35 6 LOADED - Primal Scream featuring The Emotions 51400 36 41 36 11 THERE'S A BETTER WAY - Inspiral Carpets 98300 37 31 5 11 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 312900 38 47 38 5 JOLENE - Dolly Parton 56300 39 51 39 5 DOWN FROM DOVER - Dolly Parton 41150 40 48 40 7 I'M IN LOVE AGAIN - Lulu 69500 41 17 17 13 DANCING WITHOUT YOU - Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor 186050 42 45 42 11 STAND UP - Howard Jones 106200 43 37 8 18 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 326350 44 30 3 13 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 485150 45 33 1 12 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 587200 46 58 46 6 LEAVE ME BEHIND - Nickelback 34150 47 54 47 5 ANIMAL - KATSEYE 37500 48 52 48 8 SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap 58000 49 55 49 8 DYNAMITE - Haircut 100 45600 50 39 1 19 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 978150 51 40 5 13 TANGERINE - Damiano David 392900 52 42 1 16 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 594950 53 49 1 22 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 915550 54 76 54 2 FEEL MY LOVE - Take That & Michael Patrick Kelly 15800 55 67 55 2 MARRY YOU AGAIN - Dan + Shay 17400 56 85 56 2 TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE TOO FAR - Inspiral Carpets 13600 57 57 1 21 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 599100 58 35 20 14 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 193650 59 75 59 2 SANDCASTLE DISCO - Freemasons featuring Solange 15100 60 63 60 7 D MINOR - Reverend and The Makers 36400 61 32 6 14 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 319200 62 64 62 10 WATCHING YOU WATCHING ME - The Shires 43600 63 65 63 5 MOVE LIKE YOU DO - Jungle 24100 64 56 56 4 ROMEO II - Jungle & Bas 27300 65 46 8 15 HOWL - Carly Simon 355200 66 71 66 4 DON'T LEAVE ME ON THE DANCEFLOOR - Carly Rae Jepsen 16200 67 44 10 8 THE LOVE BOAT - Lowdii Beats 181250 68 74 68 4 TREASON (IT'S JUST A STORY) - The Teardrop Explodes 20400 69 53 26 13 ON MY SOUL - Bruno Mars 154350 70 77 70 6 IF I LET YOU - The Womack Sisters 22500 71 59 1 25 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 1098100 72 66 1 21 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 717150 73 70 1 19 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 750450 74 89 74 2 BASS PERSUADES - Miley Cyrus 7400 75 NEW 75 1 FADE TO GREY - Midge Ure 5000 76 69 5 20 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 438150 77 78 77 7 STAND TOGETHER - Shed Seven 21800 78 81 78 4 KEN - Kate Bush 15400 79 83 79 4 ONE STEP AWAY - Madonna 9800 80 79 79 5 SOUL BELIEVER - Johnny Hates Jazz featuring Jaki Graham 14000 81 82 81 5 LOVE IS LIKE A BUTTERFLY - Dolly Parton 13000 82 NEW 82 1 COOL YOU DOWN - Chaka Khan & Sia 3600 83 86 83 2 CALLING OUT YOUR NAME - Cast 6200 84 84 84 4 EMERALD EYES - Alex Warren 8800 85 91 85 2 WATCHIN' U - Sigma & America Foster 4900 86 90 86 2 ISLANDS IN THE SUN - Al Jardine 4800 87 87 87 5 FREEDOM BUS - Sheryl Crow featuring Jesse Welles 9600 88 88 88 8 SO GOOD - Charlie Jeer & Simone Ashley 14000 89 62 7 17 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 333100 90 60 58 11 TAKE ME BACK - Kygo & Max McNown 77100 91 NEW 91 1 GOLDEN YEARS - David Bowie 1900 92 92 92 6 BERRY - Deniece Pearson 9300 93 93 93 6 TASTES LIKE SUMMER - James Blunt 8200 94 98 94 2 BABY KOOL (EVELYN) - Nothing But Thieves 2800 95 NEW 95 1 ENJOY THE RIDE - almost monday 1500 96 96 96 4 SILVER LINES - SLOWAVE 4800 97 NEW 97 1 ONE NIGHT ONLY (BREAK LOOSE BREAK FREE!) - New Radicals 1300 98 NEW 98 1 FORGETTING YOUR KISS - Stephen Sanchez 1200 99 100 99 2 UNETHICAL - Faouzia 2100 100 NEW 100 1 GIMME ALL YOUR LOVIN' - ZZ Top 1000 DROP OUTS 61 20 10 I'M ALIVE - Imael Angel 164750 68 3 18 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 567850 73 29 13 BOOGIE'S IN MY SOUL - Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg 158150 80 39 10 I FEEL HOPE COMING - Alabama Shakes 110700 94 56 8 DES FLEURS - Tove Lo & Stromae 41800 95 84 6 LLEGO - Empire Of The Sun, Danny Ocean & FIFA Sound 14900 97 67 8 JUST DRIVE - Natalie Imbruglia 26500 99 92 6 PETAL - Ariana Grande 8600

Hi Seltin! Great charts as always, Miley fab on top, there hasnt been a 2-weeker for ages, let's hope Miley does it! Sue Me, Stop The Wedding both fun too, and Alex Warren lower down! cheers! 😎

Hey Seltin!, Thanks for the picks, Miley is def a grower, had it up loud in the car today! Rose Gray is my Record of 2026 so far, I think!! cheers! 😎

HiDatilt! Great chart! A lot of new entries in an expanded list (I know how you feel, I still cant cut it down to 75!) and wow you really do like Faouzia straight in on top! 🤩 my faves this week: 1. Faouzia – Unethical (NEW) 11. Adéla – Nicole Kidman (40) 3w 27. Natalie Imbruglia – Beautiful Love (20) 3w 32. Ariana Grande – Petal (12) 8w 33. Fontaines D.C. – Marianne (25) 5w 35. Freya Skye – Bad Taste (NEW) 40. Miley Cyrus – Let’s Get Married (NEW) I may chart this one when I buy it! 56. Marshmello; Illenium; Sacha – Close My Eyes (56) 2w 60. Lily Meola – Sleeping With My Boots On (31) 10w 73. Slayyyter – Brand New Chanel$ (47) 8w 75. Adéla – Ain’t In LA (60) 9w 88. Kacey Musgraves – Mexico Honey (59) 7w 93. Angelina Mango; Marco Mengoni – Canto D’Amore (69) 10w 95. Katseye – Animal (63) 9w 😎

Hi DaTilt! Thanks for the picks and comments, I need Faouzia to grow on me I think, it's quite unusual, but I always appreciate unusual! 🙂 cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for all the picks and comment! Cheers! 😎

Hi SSP! My fave climbers this week! 05 07 These Alarms - Snow Patrol / Kylie Minogue 7 5 08 09 Tangerine - Damiano David 14 8 16 17 Street Of Dreams - U2 10 16 17 23 Stand Up - Howard Jones 9 17 18 20 Fireflies - Martin Garrix / U2 8 18 21 25 Watch It Burn - Katy Perry 11 21 23 24 Bottom Of Your Boots - Ella Langley 12 23 24 28 Animal - Katseye 7 24 25 31 One Night Only (Break Loose, Break Free) - New Radicals 3 25 33 36 Don't Leave Me On The Dancefloor - Carly Rae Jepsen 6 33 34 67 Bass Persuades - Miley Cyrus 2 34 40 46 Oh Yeah - Steve Lacy 4 40 45 47 One Step Away - Madonna 5 45 61 76 Emerald Eyes - Alex Warren 2 61 95 --- A Rainy Night In Soho - Bruce Springsteen 1 95 97 --- Blue Dream - Holly Humberstone 1 97 great charts! 😎

Hi SSP! Thanks for the picks, glad you like Mileys new one!🤩 Cheers! 😎

Mirrors one of a good half-dozen Justin T pop classics, not even counting hosts of good singles, and contender for top track of the year with La La La...

Thanks Rollo! I'm getting your yesterday score today. Spooky! round 1: 36 one year out round 2: 30 Depeche Mode, Please Forgive Me 3 in 10: Oh Carol, Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Laughter In The Rain

A Dusty gem, give her a ballad and she's unbeatable. So let's see if she is! If anyone can beat Dusty it's The Walker Brothers doing Bacharach...but not quite managing it. Sunny was a fave at the time, and I love Georgie's vocals, but inretrospect I agree Bobby Hebb's is better. Another fave crooner is Andy Williams, but I don't know this track - it's OK. Born A Woman I know more as the B side to the 1975 re-issue of Single Girl. It's quite nice, still, but not enough to challenge Dusty. So that leaves Guantanamera - I also didnt know the name of the group but it was everywhere in the 60's and into the 70's, and def one I knew at the time. Not heard it in yonks, and what a great tune. Surprisingly fab, but Dusty has my top love.

we never did get those results?!😇

Innuendo came and went in a flash and I think it suffered from views like my own that they were trying too hard to do another Bo Rap - which at that point hadn't outstayed it's welcome and was topping all-time-greatest polls - and it struggled to compare with that as the mood and vibe was very different. Long-term though, I've come round from merely liking it to preferring it to Bo Rap. I just wish radio would give Bo Rap a break for 5 years and play this instead, it's very poignant in retrospect and still sounds fresh. It's not quite up to Sadeness and a couple of others on my list of the year, but it's top 10 for sure, possibly top 5.

Well done Jade and Rollo on the 39's! 🤩 round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: Smells Like Teen Spirit, In Bloom, Heart Shaped Box

Burn looks like Bum in lower-case with the wrong glasses on, oops! A bit like FLICKER looks like something else in upper case (thank you Niall Horan, I know what you did...!) 😇