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  1. Hi Sergej!🙂 Lots to love here, Azizam, Ordinary and Next Summer top 10, and Benson up in the 20. Quite a few afves dropping, but lower down climbers, Grennan, Springsteen, Ravyn Lenae, PDM & Alison, Lana Del Ray & Nelly Furtado. great charts!😎
  2. Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for all the picks! Glad you like quite a few! cheers! 😎
  3. Oh I'd forgotten that Mari Wilson track, I do like it I think, but it's been over 40 years now!
  4. I always quite liked Richard Marx in a forgettably pleasant fashion, so it was nice he finally got a big ballad, though I don't rate Right Here waiting as much as I did at the time. Fingers crossed he will do a classic before too long! The Best is Tina's iconic driving solo classic, way over-used in pop culture, sports and the like, but hey she deserved grabbing one and it's still brilliant. The third album was much better than the follow-up to Private Dancer and set her up for the 90's. That said, I'll stick with River Deep and Nutbush as her greatest recordings. Alison Limerick was fine dance, and Time Warp is cheesy fun but the movie version is the definitive - 50 years old now, and still sounding great, and you get Biggins in the video to boot.
  5. A (probable) current Doctor Who villain topping your chart in 1989 - Anita Dobson! - deposed by a Dusty Springfield cover!
  6. wow a triple 39 there, well done Jade & Rollo and thanks for the congrats. Triple winners is always a treat! 🥰 and back down to earth with a bump appropriately for the first theme....😄.... round 1: 33 (2 years out, missed off Sleeping from the Satellite) round 2: 39 lots of oldies questions just for me! 3 in 10: you dont have to say you love me, son of a preacher man, what have i done to deserve this
  7. round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: blockbuster hellraiser ballroom blitz
  8. I dont know the Ivy League song, it's quite sweet actually. I dont know Tom's hit either, and I quite like it but the Ivy League track is better. Everly's do Holly and as you say, don't improve on it, a tad plodding actually. Marianne Faithfull gets my Record Of The Week but the link is for Everly's again, oops! Thought I was going mad for a second 😄 The Clapping Song you would think I would have happy childhood memories of - I do remember it, but I don't remember ever especially favouring it, it was more of a chant and I like a tune, by the time The Belle Stars covered it I found it very annoying and still do!
  9. I liked the Jason single, it had a good tune, always enjoy a good tune. Numero Uno has been wiped from my memory though. A quick play reminds me why I wasnt fussed. It's no Ride On Time!
  10. catching up on yesterdays.. 33's all round. That Yes track actually stumped me but it sounded like Jon anderson so plumped for Yes round 1: 39 yes I can name all the Blue members it turns out :) round 2: 33 (Crowded House) 3 in 10: september, fantasy, after the love has gone
  11. thats a big ambition, but good luck, mine is to redo the old ones and get the others all online! 🙂
  12. I'm in agreement about Written In The Stars, Weller could occasionally bung out a gorgeous ballad, and this was his best since Wild Wood, 9/10. Underworld popped briefly into my chart for a 4/10, and so did The White Stripes for the same, but Jurgen Vries more to my taste, a solid 8/10 bop. Appleton got off to a good start, 8/10, yet I have never heard it on the radio since, which is a shame, as I expect I will still rate it, I usually did with Appleton and anything All Saints/Shaznay. Weezer are another act I generally rate, from mid-90's Buddy Holly through to 2022's A Little Bit Of Love. Keep Fishin' was a more modest offering though, 4/10. N Trance and Kelly Llorenna grabbed a decent-ish 7/10, Forever. 4 Strings also rated a 4/10 and The Tweenies failed to go where the much-better Blair went first. A generous 2/10. I don't know how I missed Death In Vegas' but I did. Hands Around My Throat rings no bell, but it's good. Certainly worth a 5 or 6 out of 10 based on one play. N.O.R.E. too MIA, so I may well have been in Florida as N.O.R.E. charted 2 years later and I generally liked The Neptunes stuff. Sean Paul ditto absent underlining the theory, though Sarah Whatmore does a spoiler by popping in for a 4/10. Scooter also grab a very surprising 7/10 from me, and their highest-placed track ever. It really must have been good! Song of the week is the decent Liberty X mantronix cover, though, 8/10. Kelly Osbourne's Madonna cover also decent enough 7/10, though neither of them match the originals. Ronan's pop rollercoaster ride is preferable to his ballads, and I really didnt mind this chirpy choon, 7/10. Anastacia doing the biz in gay bar background music of the time, her blasting vocals not to everyone's taste though, but I liked this one for yet another 7/10. Nothing classic this week though, nor even "great".
  13. Ms Dy-na-mi-hee-tee is more memorable than my 7/10 might suggest at the time. I presume Tweet just got the one chart show play, as it's single week at 75 in my charts suggests I never heard it again. 3/10 based on that alone but it could easily be better. Mint Royale did one better, 2 weeks on my chart and peaked at 44, so it's likely a 6/10 for me too. Ash, though, tickled my fancy enough for an 8/10 and the top track so far. Atomic Kitten's cover, yeah a 5/10 and not as good as the original/hit version. There's a traditional 3/10 for Nickelback, but my top marks go to Enrique, I was an early adopter of Snr Iglesias before he properly caught on in the UK, and his latin-tinged upbeat pop went down well in Florida and in my charts, so 9/10. 3SL also did pretty well for me too, 7/10, though I dont remember it.
  14. aww thanks Sergej, I'm loving your charts - I dont think Ive ever seen original personal charts of that era apart from mine!🥰 My fave track of all from the most-recent top 40 is a tough call! Phil Collins and Kim Carnes peaked at 2 for me, at the time, but both have aged like fine wines and sound even better as they got older. George Harrison topped my chart but it was a grief thing for John Lennon and to have the 3 Beatles together agin, and ditto Roxy's Jealous Guy. Both are lovely but not in the same league as Kim and Phil. That leaves fade To Grey and One Day In Your Life. I love the arrangement in Michael's dreamy romantic ballad, but as it's really 1975 I will discount it. So it's a tough split between In The Air Tonight, Bette Davis Eyes and Fade To Grey... and I think Visage has the edge!
  15. Two classics: in Ride On Time, the re-record swiftly bunged out under copyright infringement (Heather Small) was not as good, and I agree with Gezza, dance music needs to be heard in clubs, that's where it makes sense. I have friends not into dance music, never have been, and they dont do clubs and dont understand it, preferring to listen to lyrics or songs in a concert setting. From my point of view they miss out on the sheer euphoria of hearing a loud brilliant recording and losing yourself in the genius of the construction beats and tunes. At it's best! Also classic in Tears For Fears, it was retro-referring The Beatles 1967 and was fabulous, bought the CD single in New York City on a North West tour of the USA and Canada with 2 mates in September. Liza/Pet Shop Boys also fabulous, love Losing My Mind, and so happy to see Liza hit a new generation, already iconic by this time. The album I also bought, it's fabulous, the best tracks are the new songs PSB's wrote for Liza, like If There Was Love. Big Fun were cheese, SAW or otherwise, and not a patch on The Jacksons cover, at this stage I didnt see myself ever buying anything they were involved in. I would be proven wrong, actually! Cliff's SAW effort was decent enough, nice to see him do something uptempo and current-sounding. Betty Boo did a banger the other month in Barbarella, best thing she's done since the 90's, and she is always welcomed from me, from beatmasters onward.
  16. Kylie's latest number 2 is pleasant enough, but in the long run fairly forgettable. Toy Soldiers sounded powerful at the time, and Eminem liked it obv as a lad, it's the best of the newies in these 2 weeks. Poison I was big on at the time, so happy to have Alice Cooper back in the top 10, but to be honest the first 4 top 10's from 1972/73 are way better and I'm not too fussed about Poison nowadays. I still blame Vince for turning the decibels up to 11 on the 10 scale and damaging my hearing in one ear. It was so loud it hurt and I had to put my fingers in my ears and leave before the end of the concert.
  17. Especially For You a good run on top there, and good new entries from Darling Buds, Will To Power too!
  18. ooh happy 600th chart Alex! Glad to see Pearls had a long run on top, and Juliana Hatfield in your chart. we used to say Yaki-dar when we lived in Wales in the 1960's 😄
  19. 33 is pretty fine! yesterdays catch up time for both shows: Popmaster 39 and 30 (one year out and the Clash) and 3 in 10 Follow You Follow Me, mama, Invisible Touch (of course it had to be). TTTT: I always leave the joker till last question, all or nothing. As it turned out, round got one word wrong in the Starship title, and round 2 one year out, and said Shirehorses (the Mark & Lard comedy version of Seahorses) before I realised. So, still cant get top marks! 😄
  20. Just did Ken Fridaycatchup thanks for the congrats! Busy bank holiday! The consistency all roundin the 30s is still impressive given contestants tend to do less well - due to nerves on live radio i am sure! Friday 36 and 39. I said gangsta style then corrected myself to gangnam immediately but Ken would have said Computer Says No. First answer! Wets: goodnight girl wishing i was lucky with a little help
  21. Ooh now im inspired to check i still dont get 10 out of 10 right 😄
  22. 1 1 1 5 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 587100 2 4 1 7 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 548900 3 5 3 7 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 236500 4 2 1 7 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 667600 5 10 5 8 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 214250 6 3 3 9 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 447000 722800 7 6 6 6 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 229750 599800 8 14 8 4 ATOMIC - Blondie 109250 9 8 6 7 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 227550 10 7 7 8 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 187750 11 12 1 12 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1083400 12 29 12 5 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 77300 13 9 5 10 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 339550 14 21 14 4 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 70550 15 20 15 8 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 114500 16 19 16 4 GOOD BOYS - Blondie 76900 835950 17 13 1 17 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1147000 92095 18 43 18 4 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 54000 19 40 19 3 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 45000 20 22 20 9 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 131700 21 23 21 7 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 105000 22 17 2 14 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 671900 23 16 7 12 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 321200 24 28 24 3 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 54800 25 15 15 6 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 105550 26 11 11 12 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 240150 27 33 27 9 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 103450 28 38 28 8 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 94000 285550 29 39 29 5 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 62600 30 35 30 8 CONFESSION - Louise 92100 31 34 31 6 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 72200 32 31 1 14 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 852050 33 36 1 24 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1535850 34 25 5 11 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 360250 35 27 8 11 HALO - KEiiNO 230400 36 NEW 36 1 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 17400 37 68 37 2 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 23700 38 24 2 15 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 625600 39 45 39 8 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 90350 40 48 40 3 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 36700
  23. 27th April 2025 It's 2 weeks on top for the Reacher feature as Selena rebounds to 2 and Kim Wilde gets her highest-placed track in a few years at 5. Joe Jonas is the highest new entry, leap-frogging himself and his brothers to boot, in at 36. Benson Boone makes it another quirky new entry for 2 on the chart, and ditto Damiano David, while Alan Walker is back with another fighting tuneful track after just dropping out with the previous. Beth Ditto is guesting on some dance, Springsteen has two at the bottom end of the list and Cascada return after a long break, with another cover of a dance cover of a Gordon Lightfoot classic. 1 1 1 5 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 587100 2 4 1 7 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 548900 3 5 3 7 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 236500 4 2 1 7 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 667600 5 10 5 8 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 214250 6 3 3 9 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 447000 722800 7 6 6 6 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 229750 599800 8 14 8 4 ATOMIC - Blondie 109250 9 8 6 7 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 227550 10 7 7 8 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 187750 11 12 1 12 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1083400 12 29 12 5 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 77300 13 9 5 10 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 339550 14 21 14 4 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 70550 15 20 15 8 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 114500 16 19 16 4 GOOD BOYS - Blondie 76900 835950 17 13 1 17 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1147000 92095 18 43 18 4 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 54000 19 40 19 3 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 45000 20 22 20 9 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 131700 21 23 21 7 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 105000 22 17 2 14 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 671900 23 16 7 12 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 321200 24 28 24 3 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 54800 25 15 15 6 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 105550 26 11 11 12 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 240150 27 33 27 9 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 103450 28 38 28 8 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 94000 285550 29 39 29 5 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 62600 30 35 30 8 CONFESSION - Louise 92100 31 34 31 6 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 72200 32 31 1 14 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 852050 33 36 1 24 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1535850 34 25 5 11 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 360250 35 27 8 11 HALO - KEiiNO 230400 36 NEW 36 1 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 17400 37 68 37 2 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 23700 38 24 2 15 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 625600 39 45 39 8 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 90350 40 48 40 3 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 36700 41 30 10 14 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 324550 42 55 42 3 LOVE ME TO HEAVEN - Jonas Brothers 30750 43 52 43 5 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 61800 44 57 44 4 HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE - Blondie 40950 45 69 45 3 ETERNAL LIFE - Robin Schulz & Oswald 25000 46 18 18 10 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 138100 47 49 47 6 STEREOQUEEN - Stela Cole 61300 48 58 48 4 BOYS DON’T CRY - Tom Grennan 39100 49 32 17 9 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 149950 50 53 50 7 LOUD! - Chesney Hawkes 60650 51 37 5 13 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 426050 52 46 1 24 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 773250 53 42 7 12 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 286100 54 59 54 3 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 28300 55 47 8 18 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus & Andrew Wyatt 404900 56 60 56 3 FEEL IT - d4vd 26600 57 51 7 24 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 479700 58 64 58 3 THE MESSAGE - Turin Brakes 21900 59 62 59 4 TWILIGHT ZONE - Ariane Grande 28800 60 63 60 2 COME BACK AND SHAKE ME - Clodagh Rodgers 17200 61 61 4 53 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1200100 62 78 62 2 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 11900 63 NEW 63 1 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 7200 64 73 64 2 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 12500 65 70 65 2 GOODNIGHT MIDNIGHT - Clodagh Rodgers 13000 66 66 66 5 JUMP IN THE LINE - Ash 31800 67 50 50 8 HIGHER - Tom Speight 67000 68 41 25 10 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 149200 69 NEW 69 1 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 6200 70 72 70 3 BLINK TWICE - Shaboozey & Myles Smith 15800 71 75 71 2 DREAM MACHINE - Purple Disco Machine & Alison Goldfrapp 10800 72 76 72 2 GUNSLINGER - Natalie Bergman 10400 73 74 73 3 LOVERS AND STRANGERS - A Flock Of Seagulls 15000 74 NEW 74 1 MIND OF A WARRIOR - Alan Walker & Sorana 5200 75 77 75 4 LEARN TO LET GO - The Doobie Brothers 18600 76 67 67 5 MAKE UP YOUR MIND - Bryan Adams 29000 77 NEW 77 1 PETITE ETOILE - Polo and Pan featuring Beth Ditto 4600 78 NEW 78 1 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Cascada 4400 79 79 79 2 BLIND SPOT - Bruce Springsteen 8400 80 NEW 80 1 RAIN IN THE RIVER - Bruce Springsteen 4000 DROP OUTS 26 4 12 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 375650 44 16 12 FANCY - Artemas 232700 54 28 11 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 129400 56 32 7 TURN UP YOUR RADIO - Deacon Blue featuring Lorraine McIntosh 96950 65 53 4 STILL BAD - Lizzo 34850 71 71 3 DREAMING - Blondie 15000 80 18 16 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 200900
  24. Hi Seltin, 🙂 Yay Miley still on top, wish it was a bigger hit! Pretty good top 10 all round, with Azizam, Ordinary just outside, and Ravyn new in. Just off to vote now great chart! 😎
  25. Hi AH! 🙂 Hope life is fab! You killed the music on top, oops!😄 The new number one is unlike anything else around, I'd say, which might bode well. Still quite a lot I havent heard as per usual - there's never enough hours in a day I find! Fabulous chart as always!!😎