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It was rare to pick up picture sleeves in the 70s at all until the late 70s. They were mainly early incentives to buy a new single but the big retailers like Woollies were more into being a bit cheaper than proper record shops and generic label sleeves prob helped with their mass sales and margins. I'm guessing! I have quite a few picture sleeves from around 1974 but they were mostly flop singles that ended up in the bargain bin of a specialist store. My first treasured picture sleeve was gatefold Wizzard and their xmas classic. Its also the original version not the 1981 re record that charts every xmas. So i am glad i bought that one early as a Roy Wood fan. I also bought Forever his solo hit but that was generic Harvest label sleeve so i suspect they were just hoping to outdo Slade with the cover helping Wizzard. Another reason was demand for stock running out on popular hits suddenly popular so they imported from France with generic sleeves where the uk printing was picture or coloured vinyl. Im still bitter about the tattier sound quality of a Rat Trap imported copy that i bought which turned to be a French printing logo. Pah! Really enthusiastic to see these results im still baffled by sales lists for this decade outside the big ones. 🤩 I base my own "sales chart" ratios on a 1976 top 50 chart printed in a book about the uk music industry. They didnt give song or artist info but what i presume were based on panel sales data also mentioned previous week chart positions so i worked out it was one of the weeks that Fernando was at the top end. So i have that data i could repeat if i dig out the book. I doubt it would make much difference to your figures though!

Thanks Simon and well done on Pride and Prejudice and in France still to boot - hope you are refreshed!. Very haute culture and i am obviously a fan of long sentences! 😇 I'm looking forward to the regular quiptastic Suedehead commentary service again!

1 2 1 4 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 350200 2 1 1 7 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 890000 3 4 3 7 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 239900 4 3 1 6 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 418500 5 7 5 9 LOVE SENSATION/AFTERHOURS RADIO EDIT - Madonna/Madonna & Kylie Minogue 217400 6 19 6 8 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 136900 7 14 7 5 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 113700 8 12 8 12 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 214800 9 15 9 3 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 84300 10 18 10 8 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 142600 11 17 11 2 THE LOVE BOAT - Lowdii Beats 60000 12 5 1 6 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 543000 13 6 2 11 THE WAVE - Jungle 723650 14 8 5 7 TANGERINE - Damiano David 291450 15 10 7 11 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 260150 16 9 5 6 SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) - Bobby Goldsboro 180400 17 13 1 13 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 871000 18 21 18 4 SUNRISE - Simply Red 58650 19 11 3 13 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 507650 20 29 20 5 I'M ALIVE - Imael Angel 84150 21 26 21 7 FIREBALL - Pitbull featuring John Ryan 82750 22 45 22 3 TONIGHT - The Rubettes 40000 23 NEW 23 1 SLEEPING WITH MY BOOTS ON - Lily Meola 19250 24 32 24 6 DANCETERIA - Madonna 76750 25 16 8 9 HOWL - Carly Simon 264150 26 20 1 10 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 507700 27 31 27 7 DANCING WITHOUT YOU - Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor 68300 28 24 1 16 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 830600 29 36 29 8 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 90150 30 27 27 8 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 125200 31 28 1 19 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 1036800 32 40 32 7 ON MY SOUL - Bruno Mars 73650 33 34 33 8 BOOGIE'S IN MY SOUL - Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg 93150 34 52 34 4 THINK I'M GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - The Dooleys 36900 35 33 33 7 CHICAGO - Michael Jackson 100950 36 22 4 7 FATE - Alan Walker & Ava Max 273400 37 23 6 12 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 275650 38 25 14 8 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 160250 39 42 39 4 WANTED - The Dooleys 46650 40 46 40 6 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 54550

9th August 2026 It's back on top for Michelle Branch singing The Game Of Love over decades on from doing it with Santana - but this time it's with New Radicals aka Gregg Alexander, who wrote the song, giving Gregg a second number one 27 years on from his previous and only a third charting hit, though his songs have topped my charts for Ronan Keating and Texas as well. Kylie & Madonna make the UK top 10 with a mix of Madge's Love Sensation, so they have been combined for chart purposes here and climb to 5. Olivia Rodrigo gets 2 top 10's off her latest album as The Cure climbs to 6, Jungle replace themselves in the top 10 for a 6th time as Someday, Somewhere climbs to 7, ANOTR and 54 Ultra get a first top 10, Francesco Gabbani also gets a first top 10, and The Rubettes take 1977's Baby I Know back into the top 10. Highest new entry and a chart debutante is Lily Meola at 23 with the cracking Sleeping With My Boots On, while in at 43, Etta James' version of Stormy Weather popped up in a TV series sweet spot and debuts with class and style, 14 years on from At Last topping my charts, the standard 1933 song was recorded by Etta definitively on the same At Last album in 1961, so only 65 years late! Lulu had a hit as a teen sensation with Shout in 1964 and is still going - I have my ticket for Salisbury in October - and the musical chameleon has been absent from new material for quite a while (11 years) but has charted for me in every decade since her chart debut I'm A Tiger in 1968. Her new dance track I'm In Love Again enters at 72, and makes it 7 consecutive decades of charting for my personal charts. No other female singer can claim that. William Orbit sadly died a short while ago, so his 1990 chart-topper Fascinating Rhythm is back at 79 in tribute, Shed Seven are back again with another banger, Stand Together new at 89 for 32 years of charting, Empire Of The Sun join themselves (sort of - PNAU) in debuting another FIFA song, the third on the chart, Llego at 90, for a 17th year of charting while Rev & The Makers grab another track off the new album at 95, in D Minor. Madonna is scattered across the chart, and drops another album track in at 97 with Fragile, and Ariana Grande gets a second off her new album Petal, at 98. That leaves Brandon Flower's solo Tiger's Blood at 100 to become his first solo entry since 2015. Sadly I was too late to get tickets to hear him perform (hopefully) the three fab chart-toppers in my charts in the 2010's. That's more than The Killers. 1 2 1 4 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 350200 2 1 1 7 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 890000 3 4 3 7 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 239900 4 3 1 6 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 418500 5 7 5 9 LOVE SENSATION/AFTERHOURS RADIO EDIT - Madonna/Madonna & Kylie Minogue 217400 6 19 6 8 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 136900 7 14 7 5 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 113700 8 12 8 12 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 214800 9 15 9 3 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 84300 10 18 10 8 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 142600 11 17 11 2 THE LOVE BOAT - Lowdii Beats 60000 12 5 1 6 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 543000 13 6 2 11 THE WAVE - Jungle 723650 14 8 5 7 TANGERINE - Damiano David 291450 15 10 7 11 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 260150 16 9 5 6 SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) - Bobby Goldsboro 180400 17 13 1 13 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 871000 18 21 18 4 SUNRISE - Simply Red 58650 19 11 3 13 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 507650 20 29 20 5 I'M ALIVE - Imael Angel 84150 21 26 21 7 FIREBALL - Pitbull featuring John Ryan 82750 22 45 22 3 TONIGHT - The Rubettes 40000 23 NEW 23 1 SLEEPING WITH MY BOOTS ON - Lily Meola 19250 24 32 24 6 DANCETERIA - Madonna 76750 25 16 8 9 HOWL - Carly Simon 264150 26 20 1 10 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 507700 27 31 27 7 DANCING WITHOUT YOU - Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor 68300 28 24 1 16 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 830600 29 36 29 8 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 90150 30 27 27 8 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 125200 31 28 1 19 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 1036800 32 40 32 7 ON MY SOUL - Bruno Mars 73650 33 34 33 8 BOOGIE'S IN MY SOUL - Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg 93150 34 52 34 4 THINK I'M GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - The Dooleys 36900 35 33 33 7 CHICAGO - Michael Jackson 100950 36 22 4 7 FATE - Alan Walker & Ava Max 273400 37 23 6 12 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 275650 38 25 14 8 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 160250 39 42 39 4 WANTED - The Dooleys 46650 40 46 40 6 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 54550 41 30 1 13 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 700250 42 48 42 5 SHATTERED DREAMS - Johnny Hates Jazz 52150 43 NEW 43 1 STORMY WEATHER - Etta James 13500 44 44 1 15 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 671650 45 41 1 15 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 530800 46 61 46 3 BLUE DREAM - Holly Humberstone 23250 47 49 47 5 I FEEL HOPE COMING - Alabama Shakes 48600 48 62 48 5 STREET OF DREAMS - U2 32500 49 55 5 14 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 398250 50 35 18 12 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 180250 51 72 51 5 STUPID SONG - Olivia Rodrigo 30150 52 38 5 26 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 683550 53 57 53 11 BOSTON - STELLA LEFTY 71350 54 54 54 5 BIZARRE - Madonna & Martin Garrix 34600 55 59 55 5 STAND UP - Howard Jones 33700 56 37 15 16 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 289850 57 60 57 3 FIREFLIES - Martin Garrix & U2 23700 58 65 58 8 SELF AWARE - Temper City 37100 59 63 59 6 MEET ME IN LOVE - Blossoms featuring Maya Jama 35500 60 47 20 11 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 158500 61 43 19 15 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 207050 62 64 62 6 CHEMISTRY - PNAU featuring Master Peace 32600 63 50 8 14 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 290000 64 69 64 5 THERE'S A BETTER WAY - Inspiral Carpets 21500 65 39 25 11 DRAG THE BAG - Inspiral Carpets 137750 66 51 4 17 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 443400 67 71 67 5 THESE ALARMS - Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue 20300 68 53 6 19 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 493750 69 76 69 3 YOU'RE THE REASON WHY - The Rubettes 14400 70 70 70 5 TAKE ME BACK - Kygo & Max McNown 24400 71 66 1 26 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 929900 72 NEW 72 1 I'M IN LOVE AGAIN - Lulu 5600 73 91 73 2 SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap 7300 74 90 74 3 JUST DRIVE - Natalie Imbruglia 8600 75 75 75 7 WATCH IT BURN - Katy Perry 20400 76 58 42 13 POTENTIAL - sombr 116450 77 78 77 5 MY BODY ISN'T READY - sombr 17600 78 67 17 13 GO - The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip 174100 79 NEW 79 1 FASCINATING RHYTHM - Bass-o-matic featuring William Orbit 4200 80 86 80 3 DES FLEURS - Tove Lo & Stromae 8400 81 87 81 4 ON WIRES - Carly Rae Jepsen 9000 82 84 82 3 BUZZ BUZZ A-DIDDLE-IT - Freddy Cannon 9000 83 85 83 4 WATCHING YOU WATCHING ME - The Shires 9500 84 73 4 23 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles 464800 85 97 85 3 BLUE SHADOWS - The Avalanches featuring Karen O 5400 86 92 86 3 TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE - Orville Peck 5800 87 96 87 2 DAI DAI - Shakira featuring Burna Boy 4000 88 88 88 7 READ MY LIPS - Madonna & Feid 11700 89 NEW 89 1 STAND TOGETHER - Shed Seven 2200 90 NEW 90 1 LLEGO - Empire Of The Sun, Danny Ocean & FIFA Sound 2000 91 98 91 2 DYNAMITE - Haircut 100 3100 92 80 80 6 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME - Ariana Grande 13000 93 89 89 6 PASSENGER - Alex Warren 10300 94 95 94 3 PALISADES PARK - Freddy Cannon 4100 95 NEW 95 1 D MINOR - Reverend and The Makers 1500 96 99 96 2 WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS - Freddy Cannon 2500 97 NEW 97 1 FRAGILE - Madonna 1300 98 NEW 98 1 PETAL - Ariana Grande 1200 99 100 99 2 SO GOOD - Charlie Jeer & Simone Ashley 2100 100 NEW 100 1 TIGER'S BLOOD - Brandon Flowers 1000 DROP OUT 74 74 3 IT FEELS SO GOOD - Sonique 11000 56 15 11 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 165050 68 17 9 ON THE FLOOR - Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull 113850 77 17 12 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 189050 79 1 14 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 684700 81 28 10 MORE! MORE! MORE! - Becky Hill 119900 82 40 11 HEADLIGHTS - In Color 68300 83 82 4 IT'S A HEARTACHE - Bonnie Tyler 12800 93 87 5 JEALOUS LOVER - The Rolling Stones 10000 94 92 4 LOST IN FRANCE - Bonnie Tyler 6400

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It's a 21st for Rein Me In as The Reytons climb the album pinnacle Boosted by all the media articles, the record-breaking keeps on going for Rein Me In with a 21st non-consecutive week on top of the single-track chart, and that 6 months total for Sam Fender and Olivia Dean is looking increasingly likely week on week. That the only serious contender continues to be the World Cup song after the competition has ended underlines how difficult other tracks find it to get the ball in the back of the net. Dai Dai sticks at 2 for Shakira and Burna Boy still clear of two contenders for runner-up in Movin' To The Sun at 4 (HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate would make a great number one!) and Choosin' Texas at 3 again - the fixture ruling the US Charts has only 2 or 3 tracks ahead of Ella Langley's for total weeks on top there. That leaves Olivia Rodrigo's Stupid Song at 5 again. The highest new entry is trying to do its' best to hang onto a top 10 slot with varieties of purchase options - I've download the 59p radio mix version - but falls short of the top 5, but it's still great to see Madonna and Kylie Minogue revamping one of the best tracks off Confessions II in Love Sensation, giving Her Madgeness 3 top 40 tracks off an album, something she's not done since 2008's Hard Candy, and not to mention her 2nd top 10 of the 2020's and first top 10 as lead act since 2009 and her 61st top 10. Phew! Princess Kylie has her second of 2026 including the XMAS hangover from number one. Madonna is on 42 years of hits and Kylie a mere 38 years and 37 top 10's. I guarantee most people in the Eighties would not have put any money on that happening, and not even me. Well, maybe a pound on Madonna in 1989 on long-odds. Sienna Spiro climbs to a new peak of 7 with Great Expectation, Silva Bumpa keep that gradual climb ongoing as On 2nite sneaks in to the top 10 at 10. Stella Lefty (upper case name ignored here) goes back up to a new peak of 9 with the sweet Boston. I like to imagine it's about the town in my old stomping ground Lincolnshire, but the accent isn't quite right. 'Iyah Bostun! 'Iyah Lincun! Ey yup Nework! Malcolm Todd hangs his earrings up at 15, Temper City are up to 24 with Self Aware, and Tame Impala's Loser is up to a new peak of 14, great to see, and Alyssa Grace is up another few spots at 18 with Bloodstream. At 28 Ella Langley's Be Her at last breaks into the top 40 after 19 weeks of trying, a great song and record that one, and her 2nd top 40. Alex Warren has yet another new track debuting at 39 with Rescuer, he's been bunging 'em out at pace but Ordinary is still refusing to vacate the 40. This is his 10th top 40 since Carry You Home in 2024. Ella and Alex are not the only ones getting a second top 40 this week as HUGEL joins the club, with SOLTO (FR) on board - more shouty text please! - new at 34 with Jamaican (Bam Bam), and Steve Lacy is in at 23 with oh yeah? Chalk Spiderman: Brand New Day up for a second hit on top of Tame Impala. US musician Steve had a number 8 hit in 2022 with Bad Habit, so this is his 2nd top 40 in an Indie-style that seem to be getting better at cracking the charts. I like it! Sabrina Carpenter gets an anniversary vinyl boost to add to the swarm of oldies clogging up the chart 2 and a half years after first topping, with the fab Espresso back in at 26. I love seeing a classic oldie returning to the chart after years away. 2 years is the same as never leaving the chart though, and it's like getting nostalgic for that minty bar of chocolate you enjoyed a few weeks back. A sprinkling of a new peak for Audrey Hobert (Sue Me) at 29 among a sea of perma-charters, the award for this week's "Surely It's Out The Chart Now!" trophy is given to Midnight Sun, Zara Larsson for indirectly costing us 45 quid winnings in a pub quiz Monday cos I couldnt remember the title from the 2 lines of lyrics quoted from it. Doh! Brain-freeze is a terrible thing... Over in albums, it's a comfortable new entry at 1 for The Reyton's new album A Love Letter To A Broken Town, that is presumably home-town Rotherham, which I've been acquainted with over the years, along with Sheffield. The band have charted 2 EP's, a live album, and this is their 2nd studio number one from 4 in 5 years. I'm guessing a lot of the sales are from fans following their huge live gig at Clifton Park in 2024 playing to 20,000. FLO is nearest new runner-up at 5, with Therapy At The Club, the British Girl Group's previous album peaked at 3 (Access All Areas), and is pipped to 2 by Essential Michael Jackson, Olivia Rodrigo still seeming pretty sad at 3, and Ariana's Petal wilting already at 4. Role Model is another all caps singer, as is all the vogue these days, the US singer-songwriter is from Maine, not traditionally a deep well of famous male singers, and Chuck Timely & The Hourglass is the first of his 3 albums to crack the UK top 10 at 6, though he's been making more waves in the US for the last couple of years since his first album under his current name in 2022. There's a rush of new albums from little-known acts scattered throughout the top 40, starting with Overmono dropping in at 12 on Pure Devotion, Welsh brothers Tom & Ed Russell brand of electronic music previously peaked at 11 in 2023 with Good Lies. Kylie Minogue has brought out a batch of vinyl editions of several albums this week, one of them, X, has not previously been available in that format and duly enters the highest at 26. The other 3 fall short of the 40. Man/Woman/Chainsaw sound like a Rock Band, that'll be cos they are, the London schoolchum collective chart with their second album Cannonball at 33. Liverpool band Keyside debut at 38 with their eponymous album, having only previously dropped EP's, and have a buzz for their brand of jangle-indie-pop going on. Sounds promising! Finally a quick shout-out to Electric Callboy who just fell short of the top 40 at 62, annoyingly, with TANZNEID - the shouty hardcore-punk-ish German band have a fun sense of humour and appeared at Download this summer - my nieces and nephews were there - and Ive bought a couple of fun singles with The Offspring and Babymetal. That should be all from me for a bit, if my calendar-keeping is correct, as Suedey has a welcome return next week, raging wildfires across the nation permitting - it currently takes up to 2 hours to get from Poole to Southampton via back-roads after the New Forest caught fire and the main dual carriageway is still closed until at least next Thursday. Simon is near the seaside though so fingers-crossed all will be well. Yay!

Hi SSP! fab charts as always, my faves this week of the climbers: 01 02 Questions - Maisie Peters 7 1(1) 03 04 Passenger - Alex Warren 8 3 06 11 Read My Lips - T'Pau 5 6 10 12 Don't Give Up Yet - Semisonic 5 10 14 25 The Game Of Love - New Radicals / Michelle Branch 2 14❤️ 21 23 Tangerine - Damiano David 8 21🤩 23 30 My Mouth Is Lonely For You - Anne Hathaway 5 23 24 29 Howl - Carly Simon 7 24❤️ 29 32 Watching You Watching Me - The Shires 10 29 31 34 Street Of Dreams - U2 4 31 33 36 Spin - Johnny Marr 7 33 34 42 Boston - Stella Lefty 3 34 39 43 Bottom Of Your Boots - Ella Langley 6 39 40 50 Fireflies - Martin Garrix / U2 2 40 42 48 Des Fleurs - Tove Lo / Stromae 7 42 45 51 Watch It Burn - Katy Perry 5 45 46 47 Father Figure - Taylor Swift 4 46 47 52 Stand Up - Howard Jones 3 47 48 53 Salesman Saint - Paul McCartney 4 48 58 --- Animal - Katseye 1 58 59 --- Another Drink - Marshmello / Kelsea Ballerini 1 59 67 83 Take Me Back - Kygo / Max McNown 3 67 69 --- These Alarms - Snow Patrol / Kylie Minogue 1 69 72 82 Break Up In Reverse - Teddy Swims 3 72 73 90 Just Be Bodies - Rose Gray 2 73 83 92 After All - Carly Rae Jepsen 2 83 86 --- Just Drive - Natalie Imbruglia 1 86 89 --- I Can't Love You Anymore - Ella Langley / Morgan Wallen 1 89 92 --- Burn It Down - Shaboozey / Leon Bridges 1 92 97 --- Freakin' Out - Dexter & The Moonrocks 1 97 fab charts! 😎

Hi SSP! Thanks as always for the picks, much appreciated! cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂, have a great restful weekend for the leg! I'm off to Weymouth for an Elton tribute act shortly, so just a few comments along the way. Fab charts both of course!! Spagna having quite the run on top! The Retro chart has 4 major classics entering and some fab ones too fab charts! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Sorry to hear about the ongoing antibiotics and soreness what a palaver! Time you had a bit of good luck! Busy ol week here ta, hospital with my nephew sorting problems he developed, watched the eclipse got some good photos, pub quiz won the music round again 😄if i had a bigger conscience I would get some wrong on purpose and give other teams a chance...! 😇 Records getting a 2nd run on top arent that common for me in the same run but it does happen every few years or so - have to admit I cant remember the last one to do it though! 😄Yes that Tina Turner first version was an oddity, though it prob sounds OK too. Bubbling under is good enough for me😄, and Michelle Branch is great🤩 I'm still hoping Kylie n Madge hang on to the top 40 slot today, but yes its mostly actual sales not streaming I think. I love that Love Boat track, it's the vocal that makes me suspect AI, as it very much isnt Jack Jones or the TV version, but its a proper 70's sounding soul crooner hitting all the notes perfectly in a Lou Rawls-ish fashion, but the arrangement is way better than any previous versions. Forgetting to chart some tracks is easy when one's chart is chock a block all the time! 🙂 Rein Me In has the record now so it should do the decent thing and let Dai Dai grab a week on top - but it aint going to happen! thanks as always for the pciks and comments! cheers! 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 great charts as always, great to see madonna on top, hooray! 🤩still a great top 5, and climbers from Boston, Ain't In LA and new entry Petal. Kasey Musgraves too lower down. good stuff! 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 The Cure can indeed climb back a bit more, watch this space! 🤩Thanks for the picks! cheers! 😎

Hello Jordan! Fab charts always, hope the heat has eased a bit there, still sweltering here, it's almost becoming the new normal! Some friends are in Nashville at the mo, it's hotter here than there though...! cheers! 😎

and Hello Jordan! Glad you like the New Radicals-isation of Gregg's classic song Game Of Love too - I always thought he should have recorded them all himself but he didnt like being a pop star and gave them all away! I hope he does some more! HUGEL is very catchy indeed, great that its gone big in the UK too, been buying some of his stuff before he finally broke through. Sugar sounds to me like it could have been a huge hit in the 90's, it has that vibe about it. Sonique had 3 massive bangers for me, Sky and Can't Make Up My Mind as well, all 3 topping my charts. I very much wasn't 8 years old in 2000 hah, thing is it still doesnt seem that long ago, yet it is! 😄 Aww glad you like Bonnie's oldie😎 I'm with you on Dai Dai, took me a lot of listens to click too, but it's fun in a way that Whenever Wherever was back in my clubbin' days. Many thanks for all the picks and comments! cheers 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Hope all is fab! My faves this week from the triple charts: - SHAKIRA & BURNA BOY - DAI DAI ⚽ / - (6x@🥇) / - (The Official Dutch Top 40 - 7x@🥇 week 32) 02 04 06 - Hugel & Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin´ To The Sun 03 02 09 - Ariana Grande - Hate That I Made You Love Me -PP❤️ / - (2x@🥇) 04 05 06 - Bruno Mars - On My Soul -PP❤️ 05 03 08 - Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew It 06 08 05 - Sombr - My Body Isn´t Ready 08 06 06 - Olivia Rodrigo - Stupid Song 10 09 20 - Bebe Rexha & Faithless - New Religion / - (2x@🥇) 13 12 19 - Anotr & 54 Ultra - Talk To You 14 16 07 - Bebe Rexha & David Guetta - Sad Girls -PP❤️ 15 13 16 - Teddy Swims - Mr. Know It All 17 14 21 - Hugel & Solto - Jamaican, Bam Bam 20 20 06 - Alex Warren - Passenger 21 36 06 - Temper City - Self Aware great move for this one 23 17 13 - Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind -PP❤️ 24 37 02 - Sienna Spiro - Great Expectations -PP❤️ 28 23 12 - Sienna Spiro - Material Lover 29 29 05 - Madonna - Love Sensation 30 40 02 - The Rolling Stones - Jealous Lover and this 32 27 31 - Michael Jackson - Billie Jean -PP❤️1983 / - (2x@🥇1983) / - (13 weeks ´26) 36 NE 01 - Teddy Swims - Break Up In Reverse / - (tip07) 37 NE 01 - Madonna - Danceteria / - (tip03) yay, great track 40 NE 01 - Martin Garrix & U2 - Fireflies -PP❤️ / - (tip01) ============================================================================= ============================================================================= 🎵🎵 ** POWER TIP 20 ** 🎵🎵 - WEEK 32 2026 - BUBBLING UNDER : ---------------> ============================================================================= -PP❤️ = PowerPlay : ----------------> ARIANA GRANDE - PETAL -PP❤️ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 04 05 - Tove Lo & Stromae - Des Fleurs 05 06 - Jungle - The Wave 06 RE - Ella Langley - Choosin´ Texas / - (week03 ´26 - 12 weeks - peak no 10 - 259 points) / - (Qmusic AlarmSchijf -AS🔔 week 32) 07 08 - Katy Perry - Watch It Burn 08 09 - Bakermat & Rani - I Love Life 10 NE - Katseye - Animal / - (Qmusic AlarmSchijf -AS🔔 week 31) 11 12 - Rose Gray - Club To Your Arms 12 13 - Chaka Kahn & Snoop Dogg - Boogie´s In My Soul 13 14 - Marshmello & Kelsea Ballerini - Another Drink 18 19 - Madonna & Martin Garrix - Bizarre 19 20 - U2 - Street Of Dreams ============================================================================= 🎼 https://www.192radio.nl 🚢 🎼 The Official Old Dutch Top 40 & Tipparade 🎼 Every Saturday 13:00-18:00 CET 🎼 ============================================================================= 1988 yay! 04 05 03 - The Pasadenas - Tribute, Right On -AS🔔 06 08 03 - George Michael - Monkey -PP❤️ classic remix for the single 07 10 03 - Inxs - Never Tear Us Apart -AS🔔 09 09 06 - UB´40 & Chrissie Hynde - Breakfast In Bed 12 23 02 - S´Express - Superfly Guy 13 11 07 - Maxi Priest - Wild World -AS🔔 14 13 06 - L.A. Mix - Check This Out 15 NE 01 - Michael Jackson - Another Part Of Me -PP❤️ -AS🔔 17 12 11 - Michael Jackson - Dirty Diana -PP❤️ / - (3x@🥇) 21 14 06 - The Eagles - Hotel California / - (orig. 1977 - 9 weeks - peak no 08) 22 17 06 - Patrick Hernandez - Born To Be Alive (remix´88) 23 18 10 - New Order - Blue Monday 1988 24 16 12 - S´Express - Theme From S-Express -PP = PowerPlay : ---------------> Kim Wilde - You Came -PP❤️ -AS = AlarmSchijf : --------------> Transvision Vamp - I Want Your Love -AS🔔 / - (Radio Veronica - NL) Fab charts as usual! cheers 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Thanks for all the picks and multiple ❣️'s! 🤩Glad you like JIm Gilstrap, been a bit forgotten these days, sadly 👍 cheers! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Hope all is fab with you! Great chart and top two even if they are lingering a bit lower in my chart 😄My faves this week: 01 04 Alan Walker & Ava Max - Fate | 19-17-13-04-01 | 5 wks O Fortuna Carl Orff 1936 movement apparently! 02 01 Katy Perry - Watch It Burn | 35-03-02-02-02-01-02 | 7 wks 04 11 Sombr - My Body Isn't Ready | 38-38-39-26-18-11-04 | 6 wks ooh well placed here for the top.. 05 05 Ariana Grande - Hate That I Made You Love Me | 06-07-03-09-05-04-04-05-05 | 7 wks 09 03 Rose Gray - Club To Your Arms | 17-01-01-01-01-03-09 | 7 wks❤️ 10 10 Olivia Rodrigo - Drop Dead | 13-11-08-11-04-05-05-10-10 | 9 wks 11 02 Carly Rae Jepsen - On Wires | 29-09-07-08-02-11 | 6 wks aww she's dropped! 12 06 Olivia Rodrigo - The Cure | 04-01-02-05-08-08-07-06-12 | 9 wks higher in my chart this week oops! 😄 13 09 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide | 40-37-xx-22-23-23-18-12-10-10-09-13 | 11 wks 14 12 Anne Hathaway - My Mouth Is Lonely For You | 19-15-02-11-14-09-12-14 | 8 wks 15 07 Stella Lefty - Boston | 01-05-06-08-06-06-06-07-15 | 9 wks 16 19 Slayyyter - Dance... | 33-31-21-14-08-xx-26-25-22-22-22-21-15-19-16 | 14 wks 17 27 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas | 27-17 | 2 wks 🤩 19 23 Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Dancing Without You | 37-29-23-19 | 4 wks so catchy! 21 29 Rose Gray - Just Be Bodies | 28-29-21 | 3 wks 22 15 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You | 05-04-05-13-18-15-14-15-22 | 9 wks 23 30 Sombr - Potential | 35-30-23 | 3 wks 24 32 Carly Rae Jepsen - After All | 39-32-24 | 3 wks 27 21 Olivia Rodrigo - Stupid Song | 25-06-03-03-03-21-27 | 7 wks 28 22 Harry Styles - American Girls | 12-17-13-16-16-11-21-22-28 | 9 wks 29 NE Audrey Hobert - Sue Me | 29 | 1 wk 30 33 Jessie Ware - Sauna | 40-33-30 | 3 wks 32 NE Ariana Grande - Petal | 32 | 1 wk 36 25 Harry Styles - Aperture | 30-07-04-02-xx-18-09-10-11-10-09-19-25-36 | 13 wks 38 35 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart | 39-38-35-38 | 4 wks 39 28 Becky Hill - More! More! More! | 07-03-07-12-17-19-26-28-39 | 9 wks 40 31 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun | 02-02-01-07-15-16-24-31-40 | 9 wks actually I like most of your chart.....! 🤩 cheers 😎

Hey James!🙂 Hope all is afb with you! It's not often tracks go back on top for me, but it does happen maybe once every 2 or 3 years, Club To Your Arms has got legs though, still sounds great! I think its my song of the year too so far 🥰The Cure was just taking a rest as I wasnt in the right mood that day, but you will like the new chart move 😄Fate yes, bit of a quick fall really. I think I went big on the intro and the whole classical vibe but maybe that tune is just a bit too familiar long-term, been hearing it all my life - a bit of the original arrangement has literally by a quirk of fate indeed, just been played on Radio 2 as I type this! What are the chances!? 😮 Katy Perry is a good track (much better than its chart position suggests) but there's just so much good stuff around oops! The best bit is the last minute or so after the build, I'd almost have been tempted to have that up front, then slowly move back up to it, teasing, for the climax 😄 cheers! 😎

Hi DaTilt! 🙂 Petal on top, thats a good one just bought it 👍Great chart, these are my faves this week: 1. Ariana Grande – Petal (2) 2w 2. Nessa Barrett – Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die (1) 4w 5. Adéla – Ain’t In LA (9) 3w 6. Katseye – Animal (11) 3w 7. Angelina Mango; Marco Mengoni – Canto D’Amore (4) 4w 10. Lily Meola – Sleeping With My Boots On (10) 4w this is fabulous, I've been spreading the word on it 🤩 17. Shaboozey; Leon Bridges – Burn It Down (20) 3w 21. Olivia Rodrigo – Stupid Song (23) 9w 29. Kacey Musgraves – Mexico Honey (NEW) 32. Sombr – My Body Isn’t Ready (27) 7w 34. Greta Van Fleet – Saw You Stand (41) 2w 45. Anastasia; Anitta – Loca (28) 5w need to hear this one... 54. Stella Lefty – Boston (40) 3w 55. Delta Goodrem – Hologram (36) 7w 57. Audrey Hobert – Sue Me (NEW) 61. Muse; Ellie Goulding – Hush (44) 7w 65. Federica Abbate – Superman (60) 11w 72. Carly Rae Jepsen – Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor (NEW) cheers! 😎

Hib DaTilt!🙂 Thanks for the comments 🙂Ive not heard Ariana's album, just 3 tracks so far and they seem very pleasant, I bought two of them so I will prob work my way through it bit by bit as I see what other people rate 👍 Cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for all the picks, thats a long list! Good to see you like Game Of Love and Honeybee at the top end 🥰 cheers! 😎

Elbow's is a masterpiece of orchestral indierockpop, and Carly Rae's is a great pop record, that may well be the best so far to drop out, it's all so delighfully infectious, and she continues to make good records, though as you say hits elude her. Current-ish single On Wires is an interesting one, nothing like Call Me Maybe!

Thanks jade and well done everyone as well on all the 30's! training for the intro's pop round pub quiz tonight Round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: Tomorrow Never Dies, and that was all I got as contestant 1 beat me to Al I Wanna Do...

sweet nothing I dont recall as well as t'other one oddly, but I like it, I was still just able to shuffle about on a dance floor a bit at the time, so it prob popped up on holidays. Sounding good, still, and in 2012 I rated it as a number 34 - good but not a top fave. Maybe just short of the top 10 for me.

thanks Jade n Rollo, and well done on the 39 Rollo🤩and near misses Jade and Tylky, one away is worse than two away I think, it's so close....😄 round 1: 39 round 2: 33 Paul Simon eek! he's a candidate for singer-songwriter competition as well! 3 in 10: Driving Home For Xmas, Road To Hell, Fool If You Think Its Over