Popchartfreak

Whigfield a monster, but just makes your top 10, it's a guilty pleasure for me 😄 Prob not quite top 10 though. Olivia is always a treasure!

Ah well, a rest is still a rest, even if it's at home! 😄

That's rather nice actually, the Rubic version 👍Crikey that's a Who's Who of 70's pop hit writers, Des Dyer wrote and sang Jigsaw hits and also Who Do You Think You Are, which Saint Etienne covered. Jigsaw were the first pop stars I saw live in concert! Those were the days when the UK made an actual effort to get proper songwriters on board! Granted they were a few years behind the times in 1983, but songwriting was still needed for some acts.

I love Dear Jessie, one of my fave Madonna tracks, it's just a delight - old-style melody and classical touches, and it fit totally in with Christmas and kids and presents. None of the other tracks off Like A Prayer would have been as good a single for Xmas, though I still think Keep It Together should have been a January single. Obviously Jessie's not "serious" like some of the other non-singles, but Oh Father was over-rated and also only scraped a middling slot in the UK when it eventually came out. Let's Party was the best of the Bunny singles, the Joe Loss riff is iconic for 60's kids and any single that got Wizzard a number one slot belatedly it one I'm going to get behind. It's annoying it doesnt count as Roy Wood's 4th number one, he wrote and recorded one third of the hit! The original version is still available to play in Spain, heard it last christmas more than once in a British bar. Band Aid, err, not as good as the original. It's fun to see who's on it on all remakes, but none of them bear annual listening ever again, and I would be happy not to hear the original for a few years. I did it buy it though, for charity. Tina Turner's was pleasant, and has songwriter pedigree on its plus side, but it's not in the same league as The Best. That leaves the kiddie song, I knew Donald Where's Your Troosers from way back in the misty vaults of time but Andy Stewart was never really a fave as such trotted out at New Years Eve on telly, and this new assault did nothing to endear it with me. I'll stick with Windmill In Old Amsterdam thanks for early 60's kiddie novelty gems :)

Vincent is a classic, but oddly never topped my charts, oops! Leeds United had a reputation for having rough fans in later days, but I was very much Chelsea Blue Is The Colour in 1972, and Everton in the 60's, mainly cos I like the colour Blue and lived in Liverpool - you had to be red or blue there was no other option😄

catching up yesterdays and well done both on the 39's that makes it a triple round 2🤩 round 1: 36 (M People) we all got that one wrong, no memory of it! round 2: 39 3 in 10: Paranoid Android, Creep, There There and todays! round 1: 39 round 2: 39 bonuses: yes, whoopee 3 in 10: In Dreams, Crying, Pretty Woman

PUSSYCAT DOLLS 1 (8 16) BEEP Pussycat Dolls/ will i. am 347650 2006 2 (8 19) JAI HO! (YOU ARE MY DESTINY) A R Rahman/Pussycat Dolls/Nicole Scherzinger 335900 2009 3 (12 12) DON'T CHA Pussycat Dolls/ Busta Rhymes 266700 2005 4 (21 10) REACT Pussycat Dolls 143150 2020 5 (34 8) STICK WIT U Pussycat Dolls 109300 2005 6 (35 7) BUTTONZ Pussycat Dolls/ Snoop Dogg 81450 2006 7 (26 5) I DON'T NEED A MAN Pussycat Dolls 70000 2006 8 (39 4) WHEN I GROW UP Pussycat Dolls 53050 2008 9 (44 4) WATCHA THINK ABOUT THAT Pussycat Dolls 45150 2009 10 (47 5) HUSH HUSH (I WILL SURVIVE) Pussycat Dolls 41300 2009 11 (68 5) I HATE THIS PART Pussycat Dolls 30400 2008 12 (51 3) WAIT A MINUTE Pussycat Dolls/ Timbaland 23550 2007

yay 1000!! well done everyone who has put so much effort into the chart currently and over the years! It's always an essential read! 1 2 1 5 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 335700 2 7 2 4 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 190500 3 1 1 10 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 556500 4 3 2 7 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 335550 5 4 1 8 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 882100 6 6 1 10 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 718900 7 8 7 3 VOICES - Damiano David 116400 8 11 8 6 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 172000 9 10 9 6 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 166800 10 5 3 8 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 264300 11 14 11 7 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 149000 12 29 12 5 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 77200 13 16 13 6 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 112700 14 21 14 10 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 174750 15 19 15 4 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 84150 16 12 1 15 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1191400 17 9 7 11 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 232500 18 23 18 4 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 59750 19 13 1 10 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 775600 20 18 6 10 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 301550 21 NEW 21 1 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 19750 22 65 22 2 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 26500 23 15 5 11 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 297500 24 25 24 9 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 128150 25 30 25 6 FEEL IT - d4vd 77350 26 35 26 8 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 115300 27 22 1 20 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1204650 28 39 28 5 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 58200 29 17 3 12 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 523200 30 24 5 13 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 396050 31 33 1 27 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1589350 32 40 32 3 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 47300 33 26 26 8 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 116800 34 36 34 5 COME BACK AND SHAKE ME - Clodagh Rodgers 69200 35 20 7 11 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 247250 36 28 28 7 HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE - Blondie 94050 37 37 37 7 BOYS DON’T CRY - Tom Grennan 86700 38 NEW 38 1 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 17200 39 34 2 16 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 725100 40 46 40 6 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 69800

18th May 2025 It's up to the top spot for Artemas' banging dark I Guess U Never Really Cared For Me, 4th time lucky in terms of singles, and holding off Benson Boone's fab new track Mystical Magical at 2. It was Eurovision this week and some great tracks underperformed: Gabry Ponte had a good entry for San Marino, but it's his new track with long-time faves Train that is the highest new entry at 21 - Brokenhearted is Gabry's first chart entry, but Train have been hitting for 25 years, pretty much regularly over the years with many great tracks. The best track to fail to get to the final was Azerbaijan's Mamagama on the great pop track Run With U - I think the unusual lead vocal put most people off, but I enjoy unusual and the record is well-constructed. New at 38, just 8 spots behind the runner-up in the Sweden qualifications: Mans wuz robbed, I really didnt enjoy Kaj much. That leaves the judges' 2nd fave Switzerland, an old-fashioned melodic ballad, classy and no fusses or frills to distract one from the less good songs. Voyage is new at 52, but got nul points from the public, as did the UK despite a spirited performance of a bit of a mash-up of a song. Half the songs this year were more snatches of genres than actual songs, hence the low number of entries in my chart. Jungle sort of enter at 66 with Don't Speak - or rather it's J Lloyd and Lydia Kitto from Jungle under the name Loaded Honey with a great new pop track. Regular Chilean fave Javiera Mena is back with a new album, a bit low-key this one but the track Absurda has a great classic melody, reminds me a bit of the 1964 Eurovision winner in places, Non Ho L'Eta Per Amarti. Noah Cyrus joins her sis in my chart, not for the first time, on the Americana-ish I Saw The Mountains, she's always interesting Noah and it fits well with Lana Del Ray's John Denver-ish Bluebird in my chart. That leaves Tate McRae finally getting Sports Car into my chart 3 months late, and Ella Henderson back with another catchy track Me & You, it must be 11 years of charting or so for Ella now, not bad for a TV singing show start. 1 2 1 5 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 335700 2 7 2 4 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 190500 3 1 1 10 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 556500 4 3 2 7 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 335550 5 4 1 8 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 882100 6 6 1 10 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 718900 7 8 7 3 VOICES - Damiano David 116400 8 11 8 6 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 172000 9 10 9 6 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 166800 10 5 3 8 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 264300 11 14 11 7 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 149000 12 29 12 5 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 77200 13 16 13 6 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 112700 14 21 14 10 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 174750 15 19 15 4 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 84150 16 12 1 15 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1191400 17 9 7 11 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 232500 18 23 18 4 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 59750 19 13 1 10 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 775600 20 18 6 10 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 301550 21 NEW 21 1 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 19750 22 65 22 2 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 26500 23 15 5 11 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 297500 24 25 24 9 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 128150 25 30 25 6 FEEL IT - d4vd 77350 26 35 26 8 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 115300 27 22 1 20 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1204650 28 39 28 5 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 58200 29 17 3 12 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 523200 30 24 5 13 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 396050 31 33 1 27 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1589350 32 40 32 3 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 47300 33 26 26 8 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 116800 34 36 34 5 COME BACK AND SHAKE ME - Clodagh Rodgers 69200 35 20 7 11 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 247250 36 28 28 7 HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE - Blondie 94050 37 37 37 7 BOYS DON’T CRY - Tom Grennan 86700 38 NEW 38 1 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 17200 39 34 2 16 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 725100 40 46 40 6 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 69800 41 32 20 12 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 182750 42 50 42 5 GOODNIGHT MIDNIGHT - Clodagh Rodgers 49800 43 38 38 11 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 138250 44 53 44 3 FIND XANADU - Alison Goldfrapp 31300 45 58 45 4 PETITE ETOILE - Polo and Pan featuring Beth Ditto 35000 46 45 45 6 ETERNAL LIFE - Robin Schulz & Oswald 62250 47 52 47 4 MIND OF A WARRIOR - Alan Walker & Sorana 35400 48 41 36 6 LOVE ME TO HEAVEN - Jonas Brothers 74450 49 44 7 15 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 360300 50 70 50 3 I’M FREE (7TH HEAVEN RADIO EDIT) - Donna Summer 23600 51 43 5 14 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 403100 52 NEW 52 1 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 11500 53 27 6 9 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 304400 54 31 8 7 ATOMIC - Blondie 161150 55 55 55 6 THE MESSAGE - Turin Brakes 54300 56 57 56 5 BLINK TWICE - Shaboozey & Myles Smith 47200 57 59 57 5 GUNSLINGER - Natalie Bergman 37500 58 66 58 3 TEARS DRY TONIGHT - CYRIL & James Blunt 22200 59 71 59 2 MAN ON THE MOON - Fitz & The Tantrums 15900 60 60 60 5 DREAM MACHINE - Purple Disco Machine & Alison Goldfrapp 37200 61 47 1 17 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 889150 62 61 7 27 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 502000 63 75 63 2 TASTE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 12200 64 68 64 3 BARBARIAN - AWOLNATION 19500 65 63 4 56 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1221400 66 NEW 66 1 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 6800 67 NEW 67 1 ABSURDA - Javiera Mena 6600 68 69 68 4 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Cascada 22800 69 49 15 9 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 141150 70 51 30 11 CONFESSION - Louise 123100 71 72 71 4 RAIN IN THE RIVER - Bruce Springsteen 20200 72 64 1 27 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 793450 73 NEW 73 1 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 5400 74 73 73 7 LEARN TO LET GO - The Doobie Brothers 34200 75 78 75 3 I DON’T WANNA TALK - Dadi Freyr 13800 76 48 27 12 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 139350 77 77 77 3 DROWNED IN A SEA OF TEARS - Sparks 13800 78 79 78 2 BORDERLINE - Louise 8600 79 NEW 79 1 SPORTS CAR - Tate McRae 4200 80 NEW 80 1 ME & YOU - Ella Henderson 4000 DROP OUTS 42 16 6 GOOD BOYS - Blondie 110650 54 28 10 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 118500 56 47 8 STEREOQUEEN - Stela Cole 83900 62 8 13 HALO - KEiiNO 249050 67 11 14 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 259500 74 50 9 LOUD! - Chesney Hawkes 75850 76 59 6 TWILIGHT ZONE - Ariana Grande 43700 80 79 2 MY DEVOTION - Sparks 8200

Hi SSP! 🙂 Yay Have You ever Seen The Rain on top! Benson Boone top 10, Kim Wilde, Whitney & Anxiety all top 20 climbers, The Giver, Make Up Your Mind, azizam all doing well, End Of The World a high new entry, and Ravyn Lenae up. Lower down the chart my faves are AWOLNATION, Babs & Hozier, Nelly Furtado, Cyril & James Blunt, Benson Boone, damiano David, and Morgan Wallen. Lots to love! Great charts 😎

Hi SSP! 🙂 Thanks for the picks! cheers! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Great top 7 with Azizam nestling nicely on top! Claude gave a nice performance at Eurovision too. Ariana almost top 10, and Ravyn top 20. Blink Twice, Mystical magical, Next Summer, Whitney & Felix, my other top 40 faves. In the Bubblers, Kaj, Doobies, Lizzo, Morgan Wallen, Pulp and Donna Summer are my faves! Back in 1979, sweet 21, and I loved Garfunkel, Eruption, M, ELO, Lene Lovich, Dooleys, Wings, Earth Wind & Fire, Bee Gees, Real Thing, Gloria Gaynor, Patrick Hernandez, Abba, and Milk & Honey. Quite a lot then! 🥰 Great charts! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Thanks for the picks and comments, I'm glad you like My Morning Jacket, that's a goodie I never heard of before! cheers! 😎

Hi Cody! 🙂Miley on top, hooray! 🥰 Benson at 2, Topic top 5, I just adore that track, Ariana top 10 and Anxiety nearly there, The Giver top 20 and Busy Woman, Azizam almost there, great chart! 😎

Hi Cody! 🙂 Thanks for the comment and popping in! 😎

Hello Jordan! 🙂 Hope you have holiday anecdotes when you get back! Fab chart as always, always good for tips for me to buy. 🙂 cheers! 😎

Hello Jordan! 🙂 About to soak up some sun? Ooh I'm jealous!! Hope it's fab! I have still not heard the Gaga album just cherry picked a few tracks in peoples charts to listen to, and How Bad was the highlight outside the singles. I need to give it a go! Miley really is great, I like that she is unpredictable and willing to try new styles. Noah's great too, in an indie stylee. Old Phone I've only heard twice, and so far it's not grabbed me, but Azizam is catchy, great rhythms and the wonderful "Mummy" star Omid Djalili is in the video. He once had to try and make the UK TV viewers believe he was about to market Omid Djalili Piccalilli - jars of yellow relish mustard-based veggie pickles. He wasn't, but it was hilarious. Thanks for the picks and commenting! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Ooh Alex Warren unlucky to peak at 2 with new Annalisa! Benson Boone and Anxiety top 10, New Damiano David, Kaj up, they almost got near the top spot in Eurovision, Ravyn top 20, big climbs for Guetta/Sia and Bluebird, and Cyril edging up are my faves! Looking forward to the Eurovision invasion! 🙂 great charts!😎

Hi Sergej!🙂 Thanks for the picks and take care too! cheers! 😎

Thanks, and ooh glad I'm not the only one foxed by those Beautiful South tracks! I've forgotten the titles already (again). round 1: 39 And of course Ken plays Invisible Touch again, just to taunt me on my national Radio 1 Pop Quiz humiliation back in 86. Haunted me for 40 years now 😄 Land Of Confusion or Turn It On Again or Mama would be acceptable alternatives! round 2: 39 3 in 10: Only You, Don't Go, Nobody's Diary

Like I Love You is a great debut track, I liked the untypical song structure and beats, and sort of carries on from the later NSync hits which added in funk/rnb into the mix. 9/10. DJ Shadow had me rushing to my A to Z: to no avail DNC. Paul Masterson ditto. Polyphonic Spree I very much liked though, Hanging Around, a quirky top 10 8/10 from me. Electrical Storm was a U2 goodie, 9/10, I still rated a lot of their singles in the early 2000's. One Love is decent Blue and a strong 8/10. Purple Haze is a Groove Armada track I missed out on, but I like the description of it so playing it now: well, that's an oddity! Toastin/rap reggae-rock, deserves a 5/10 for being different. Never would have guessed the Quo sample. Zephyr Song was during peak Red Hot Chili Peppers for me, I think I got a copy of the album off a workmate fan of them. 9/10 though I think I over-rated it a bit. More of an 8 really. I always liked Turin Brakes stuff, especially the slower tracks, 7/10 for Long Distance. Went to see them at a gig a couple of years back at the Bournemouth Firestation on a mate's recommendation, they were really kicking it, bought the previous album , downloaded the new song, and we got tickets for November. Their songs often take a while to click but they have class and musicianship on their side. The Calling, snap, 3/10. Blink got a 4/10, so marginally better.

Lambada remains well-known and fun, still enjoy that track. When You Come Back To Me is Jason's best solo record, the melody is the key to that one, as a song it's just a bit classier than his usual SAW donations. Get A Life missed Caron Wheeler from me, her vocals lifted their tracks to a higher level. Don't Know Much oddly I was never a huge fan of, though it's quite pleasant. It was nice to see Aaron Neville get a UK hit at last, and Linda had never really had a monster UK track despite 25 years of trying. Her best stuff is Stone Poneys 1960's era, the brilliant Different Drum (Mike Nesmith song just as his Monkees membership started, take that Rock critics) and that fab tune in The Last Of Us series 1 - Long Long Time. Her later 70's country-rock efforts mostly just annoyed me.

Sadly never been a fan of We Shall Overcome as a song/recording, but crucial as a political artefact of the period. Trains & Boats & Planes was a fave though, Billy J & Bacharach was a combo guaranteed to get me on side, the Burt original was more of a backing track for telly of the time, but better produced. Billy J's recent single was nicely retro in vibe. He used to live in Bournemouth back in the 80's. Marie not one of the Bachelors better songs, so that leaves me also opting for The Price Of Love - it's exciting, bit of a shame they didnt sustain the comeback. Loved the Bryan Ferry cover.

Pacific State is a golden oldie, rated that one, Stone Roses I never got - pleasant groove to listen to was my assessment for Fools Gold and still is, but I never saw them as the new gamechangers others did. Big Fun, errr, yes well. Let's move on to the fabulous Eve Of The War which went top 3 for me in 1978 - and it should say featuring Justin hayward, but he didnt get the credit he deserved then or on the remix. The remix wasnt quite as classic, but still was good.

I loved the Teach-In song, it topped my chart in 1975, but it hasn't worn as well as The Shadows' UK entry I think. I also liked Geraldine's, but the rest on your list I havent heard since the 70's and I cant remember whether I liked them or not! 😮 One day I will catch them on Youtube! Poor Norway, always famous for Nul points, but they've had some total classics amongst the forgotten stuff.