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Angelo 2. Oh Boy (The Mood I'm In)* 3. Kisses For You I think, I'm afraid. I liked Kiss Me Kiss Your Baby too. A "write-in" from me because I like Tony Romeo songs, he used to write hits for Partridge Family/David Cassidy. :)

Batdance was a bit of a patchwork quilt! I can see how it annoys some people, though I rather liked the record and the film. That said, if it tops the chart when 7 years of classics didnt, there will be sulking in some quarters. All I Want Is You just a bit dull for me, and Song For Whoever just a bit too sweetly MOR, Caravan Of Love or Happy Hour anyday!

Back To Life is a soul shuffle classic and upgraded the genre for the 90's, and it was great to see Cyndi Lauper back in the top with a great lively cut that went top 10 in my charts too, but I really would have preferred the first hit version to be the second hit version of I Drove All Night (had I been aware of it). The Big O can sing like no-one else, and much love to Cyndi but she's more of an appealingly quirky singer.

Ferry Cross The Mersey is an anthem, but especially in the original version. I love Merseyside. Roxette were great, one gem after another gem single for the most part, and The Look is an attention-grabbing debut. Every Little Step is one of Bobby Brown's great records - has at least 2! Top dance choon. Manchild was a nice follow-up, Electric Youth is OK, and Me Myself & I engagingly quirky. Swing out sister was a goodie, loved the 60's vibes, and Donna Summer's SAW follow-up was pretty good too - maybe not up there with her 70's classics, but good enough for the music scene of 89. And then the sublime (Express Yourself should have been a chart-topper) to the ridiculous (not a Cell Block fan). Jason's cover of Brian Hyland's 60's classic (and summer of 75 top 10 hit again) is a bit formulaic but at least a new generation get to know the song. Cliff made the wrong choice, the title might have been appealing but The Best Of Me remains a bit dull. Guns n Roses classic Sweet Child O Mine remains their jewel in the crown for me, a chart-topper pour moi. The original Maxine Nightingale song is fabuloustastic, Sinitta's was not in the same league but it wasnt too bad.

1 2 1 4 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 417100 2 1 1 6 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 602600 3 4 3 8 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 392000 4 3 1 6 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 433900 5 8 5 6 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 151500 6 7 6 5 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 179750 7 14 7 7 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 145750 8 6 6 6 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 182550 9 5 5 9 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 307550 10 15 10 7 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 154250 11 13 11 11 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 221650 12 9 1 11 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1046400 13 11 1 16 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1124000 14 26 14 3 ATOMIC - Blondie 61250 15 23 15 5 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 86800 16 12 7 11 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 301950 17 10 2 13 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 652400 18 19 18 9 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 125350 19 31 19 3 GOOD BOYS - Blondie 51900 20 27 20 7 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 87500 21 38 21 3 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 41550 22 24 22 8 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 111700 23 30 23 6 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 85250 24 16 2 14 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 608400 25 17 5 10 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 342650 26 18 4 12 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 375650 27 20 8 10 HALO - KEiiNO 212900 28 35 28 2 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 35800 29 49 29 4 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 42300 30 21 10 13 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 310550 31 29 1 13 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 834250 32 22 17 8 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 137850 33 40 33 8 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 85050 34 42 34 5 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 54300 35 37 35 7 CONFESSION - Louise 74100 36 33 1 23 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1518150 37 36 5 12 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 414300 38 44 38 7 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 75700 39 52 39 4 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 44400 40 65 40 2 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 24000

20th April 2025 It's Mondo Cozmo up to the top spot fresh from the Reacher season finale, it's had a bit of a boost as a result, it's sort of a folk-gospel rousing Bob Dylan-ish upbeat vibe to it, and a bit spiritual. I missed it in 2017, so better late than never. David Guetta increases his massive tally of top 10's and ditto Sia, while Kim Wilde makes a second top 10 off the Stronger album 44 years on from Kids In America debuting. Clodagh Rodgers sadly passed away this week, probably best known for Eurovision 1971, but I was an instant fan as a kid in 1969, and have re-charted the first two hits, as they mean more to me: Come Back And Shake Me and Goodnight Midnight both went top 3 for me. Artemas isnt changing the formula, but it's still bop number 4 in at 68, as Nelly Furtado gets a first solo entry for who knows how long to extend her chart career to 25 years or so. Marriage is pretty good. Purple Disco Machine and Alison Goldfrapp seems like a collab guaranteed to please, and so it does, Alison must be on over 20 years of charting now. Two very 60's vibed tracks drop in, Natalie Bergman's Gunslinger and Lana Del Ray's Bluebird, while an actual 90's out-take drops in from Bruce Springsteen, very Streets Of Philadelphia-era. 1 2 1 4 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 417100 2 1 1 6 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 602600 3 4 3 8 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 392000 4 3 1 6 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 433900 5 8 5 6 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 151500 6 7 6 5 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 179750 7 14 7 7 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 145750 8 6 6 6 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 182550 9 5 5 9 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 307550 10 15 10 7 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 154250 11 13 11 11 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 221650 12 9 1 11 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1046400 13 11 1 16 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1124000 14 26 14 3 ATOMIC - Blondie 61250 15 23 15 5 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 86800 16 12 7 11 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 301950 17 10 2 13 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 652400 18 19 18 9 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 125350 19 31 19 3 GOOD BOYS - Blondie 51900 20 27 20 7 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 87500 21 38 21 3 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 41550 22 24 22 8 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 111700 23 30 23 6 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 85250 24 16 2 14 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 608400 25 17 5 10 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 342650 26 18 4 12 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 375650 27 20 8 10 HALO - KEiiNO 212900 28 35 28 2 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 35800 29 49 29 4 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 42300 30 21 10 13 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 310550 31 29 1 13 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 834250 32 22 17 8 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 137850 33 40 33 8 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 85050 34 42 34 5 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 54300 35 37 35 7 CONFESSION - Louise 74100 36 33 1 23 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1518150 37 36 5 12 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 414300 38 44 38 7 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 75700 39 52 39 4 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 44400 40 65 40 2 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 24000 41 25 25 9 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 142800 42 28 7 11 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 274850 43 48 43 3 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 32000 44 34 16 12 FANCY - Artemas 232700 45 46 43 7 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 73250 46 41 1 23 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 761750 47 39 8 17 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus & Andrew Wyatt 394100 48 62 48 2 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 19700 49 51 49 5 STEREOQUEEN - Stela Cole 48800 50 55 50 7 HIGHER - Tom Speight 60400 51 47 7 23 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 469300 52 57 52 4 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 48300 53 56 53 6 LOUD! - Chesney Hawkes 48650 54 43 28 11 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 129400 55 69 55 2 LOVE ME TO HEAVEN - Jonas Brothers 17000 56 32 32 7 TURN UP YOUR RADIO - Deacon Blue featuring Lorraine McIntosh 96950 57 59 57 3 HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE - Blondie 27700 58 60 58 3 BOYS DON’T CRY - Tom Grennan 26800 59 63 59 2 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 17300 60 70 60 2 FEEL IT - d4vd 16000 61 61 4 52 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1192600 62 64 62 3 TWILIGHT ZONE - Ariane Grande 18700 63 NEW 63 1 COME BACK AND SHAKE ME - Clodagh Rodgers 7200 64 77 64 2 THE MESSAGE - Turin Brakes 11700 65 53 53 4 STILL BAD - Lizzo 34850 66 66 66 4 JUMP IN THE LINE - Ash 25000 67 67 67 4 MAKE UP YOUR MIND - Bryan Adams 24200 68 NEW 68 1 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 6400 69 71 69 2 ETERNAL LIFE - Robin Schulz & Oswald 12000 70 NEW 70 1 GOODNIGHT MIDNIGHT - Clodagh Rodgers 6000 71 76 71 3 DREAMING - Blondie 15000 72 79 72 2 BLINK TWICE - Shaboozey & Myles Smith 9800 73 NEW 73 1 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 5400 74 78 74 2 LOVERS AND STRANGERS - A Flock Of Seagulls 9600 75 NEW 75 1 DREAM MACHINE - Purple Disco Machine & Alison Goldfrapp 5000 76 NEW 76 1 GUNSLINGER - Natalie Bergman 4800 77 80 77 3 LEARN TO LET GO - The Doobie Brothers 12600 78 NEW 78 1 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 4400 79 NEW 79 1 BLIND SPOT - Bruce Springsteen 4200 80 45 18 16 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 200900 DROP OUTS 75 75 3 BAR LONELY - Franz Ferdinand 14000 50 11 13 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 267900 54 10 12 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 309000 58 2 11 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 360500 68 65 5 FIDA KNOWN - Gloria Gaynor 28800 72 31 7 WANT U - Hayley May 89700 73 64 5 THE GIVER - Chappell Roan 28500 74 74 5 MANDINGO - Wu-Tang Clan & Mathematics featuring Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Method Man & Cappadonna 25000

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope all is well and work mellow!😎 Fab chart as always 😎

Hi Seltin, yay, Miley on top!! 🥰 Jonas Brothers getting a high new entry, so catchy, and off to vote just now cheers! Great chart 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 Thanks for the picks and glad you love Miley, I hope it's a hit! 🥰 cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Hope things are going well and Belgium was a good visit, havent been there for almost 20 years I think now 😯 Will comment on the post-Belgium chart when it's up 👍

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for the picks! I like to think Mans Zelmerlow will see the top 5 slot as small consolation for not getting the Swedish pick 😄 Probably not though! cheers! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Great top 5 and number one, two exciting high new entries from Ed Sheeran and Ariana Grande, and lower down Miley Cyrus too! In the Breakers, Jonas Brothers, Sugababes, Alok/kylie, Doobie Brothers, Lizzo, Felix Jaehn/Whitney and Ravyn are my top faves. Back in 1975, ABBA, Gloria gaynor, Sweet, Steve Harley, Rubettes, Teach In, 10CC, Roger Glover, Donna Summer, Quo, Pilot, and great to see the late Mike Berry get a hit in the Netherlands which flopped in the UK! Always an interesting read and fab charts!😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Hope all is great! Thanks as always for the picks! 😎

Hi SSP! 🙂 Great chart! If You Could Read My Mind is a great song, always loved it. Nice version actually. itunes basket I think! Kim Wilde, Waterboys Gaga climbing 🥰 New entries from Stereoqueen and All I Know, and a host of great tracks down the lower end climbing ready to head towards the top end. 😎

Hi Cody! Ed Sheeran and Anxiety new in (and the Gotye flashback call) and great to see Selena on top!😎

Hi SSP! 🙂 Thanks for the picks! 😎

Hi Cody, great Golden Flashback, not actually seen the video I think! Miley and Sabrina in new! 🥰 Top tunes! Great chart! 😎

Hi Cody! Ooh no I wasnt even aware of Coachella, I must dig that out if it's on youtube! 👍I am really liking the new energised Gaga, I was huge on Fame Monster days but been a bit cool last few years. Cheers! 😎

Hi Jordan! 🙂 7 months for Pink Pony to hit the top, I reckon that must be a new record for your charts!🤓 There's a few I dont know down the bottom end but pretty much a top top 20! Great chart! 😎

Hi Jordan! 🙂 Hope all is fab! Thanks for all the picks and comments! Yes Split-Enz only peaked in the 30's in the UK and it took two goes to make the charts at all. None of their other singles were hits either, though I rated them pretty much too. Even Crowded House's Dont Dream It's Over underperformed in the 20's! Miley's great, she's turned into a fab mature artist from unexpected Hannah origins! And Yes Soak Up The Sun was always good, but I actually prefer the revamp and it's not often I say that! And yes, with Ed, when he's upbeat I really don't mind his records at all getting mass airplay. thanks again! 😎

Hi both, big apologies for my absence and well done on the consistency 30+'s and 39! 🥰 todays: round 1: 33 (Catatonia) round 2: 39 3 in 10: dedicated follower of fashion, waterloo sunset, lola.

18 (41) BACK STABBERS - The O'Jays Another classic I loved at the time and still bloody love even more, what a classic Philadelphia production, great lyrics, Back Stabbers is as eternally relevant as a message for a song as it has always been (in general terms, even if this is strictly about girlfriend-stealers, I have always seen it as a general message for life where some people are concerned). This hit was also the announcement of the arrival of two song-writing teams that would drop classic after soul classic in the 70's - Leon Huff of Gamble & Huff (the producers/main songwriter/owners of Philadelphia International), and Mcfadden/Whitehead who would end the decade with their own classic soul hit as artists as well as songwriters. As for The O'Jays, Gamble & Hugg rescued them from a decade of underwhelming recordings and launched them properly with Back Stabbers, the trio were among the top soul/harmony vocalists who were equally fabulous in solo vocal spots, on this record Eddie Levert and Walter Williams are basically sharing lead vocal duties with back-up from 3rd member William Powell and assorted others. William tragically died aged only 35 in 1977 from cancer. Eddie and Walter have kept on going, though sadly not as a recording act beyond the 80's - though Eddie's kids had hits as Levert. I really can't pick between Eddie and Walter's vocals here, both are amazing singers. What could be better than opening your hit career with a classic - see the late Angie Stone's sample for her great I Wish I Didn't Miss You in the early 2000's - would be to have another classic ready and waiting. No, not the follow-up, 992 Arguments (that's 123 in the list), the one that's on the album that they held back for 1973 single release. That will be popping up here, as year of release.

19 (15) SOLID GOLD EASY ACTION - T.Rex Marc Bolan had been the top singles popstar for 2 years as this gem of Glamrock single popped out just before Christmas of 1972. My family had just moved house - down the road at RAF Swinderby from a 2-bedroom house to a 3-bedroom as one became available, so I didnt have to share with my brother anymore and Marc Bolan helped get the family record-player into my bedroom as Solid Gold Easy Action was too much for my dad to sit through, along with The Jean Genie (Bowie). Mum told me to take it upstairs to avoid arguments. Result! I actually bought this at the same time as I bought Happy Xmas (War Is Over) from John Lennon & Yoko Ono, and I was gutted that I had had to deal with the loss of 2 pop heroes within 8 years, and I have bizarrely found myself at the scene of both of their deaths years later, both of them unplanned - Marc's in Putney, a suburb in London where some comic-book-store owner friends ran a comic shop I visited frequently, and John's at the Dakota Building where 2 friends of mine and I were just walking to Central Park. I crossed the road, I think, to avoid it as much as I could. Back to the record, though, I hadnt loved Children Of The Revolution and Telegram Sam quite as much as previous T.Rex singles (58 and 109 respectively on this list) but this one I raved on, exciting and manic, Hey! Hey! Hey! Clap, clap, clap and rousing guitar, chanting, Bolan at his best again. Annoyingly, Kimmy Osmond kept this from hitting the number one spot, I feel deprived! But there's one more T.Rex still to come in 1972...

20 (82) YOU'LL ALWAYS BE A FRIEND - Hot Chocolate In the early days of Hot Chocolate co-songwriter Tony Wilson was the lead vocalist, and singles like Love Is Life and I Believe (In Love) bring back gushing waves of love and nostalgia for me, I absolutely-bloody-loved Hot Chocolate (and this stayed throughout their recording career), and a lot of that is down to the songs with co-writer and future frontman Errol Brown, who gave the band a winning focus as they moved more into soul and funk and hit the heights in the USA, bald-head and moustache and all. For me, though, I find Tony Wilson's vocals effortlessly emotive and sweetly-sad. You'll Always Be A Friend was supposedly written for a band member saying goodbye - as Tony Wilson ironically would in 1975, having been sidelined by producer Mickie Most as frontman just ahead of the monster hit that is You Sexy Thing - and I always found it touching. The percussive shuffle was essentially Love Is Life part 3, I Believe In Love being part 2, in terms of sound and mood, and all 3 remain huge faves - notably obvious here as it was my 82nd fave hit at the time, and I love it all the more these days as I get increasingly more sentimental with age. I wish Tony Wilson had stayed with Hot Chocolate, much as I loved some later hits as much as these, if only for the odd chance of more vocals from Tony and more royalties for him as co-writer, and me not liking to see people fall out and leave bands.

Kylie's Hand On Your Heart is a good SAW single, whether it's better than It's No Secret...hmmm probably not! Ferry Cross The Mersey was for a good cause so prob should have taken priority. Requiem was a great single, bordering on cheese, but a fine cheese. A bit of a sad title for the lads these days. Always had time for Natalie Cole, but not a great fan of Miss You Like Crazy, a bit dull. Carole King would have done a better tune for the lyric. Beds Are Burning is another that I charted first-time round, so I was glad to see it a hit at last. Chaka Khan, classic original, not sure if the remix was an improvement but I still liked it. I Want It All, I wasnt that bothered with, Queen treading water I thought, though I didn't dislike it as such (pretty much everything they released made my charts).