Popchartfreak

Hi SSP! 🙂 Ooh glad you rate Elenore, thought it was just me left a fan of it! 🥰 thanks for the climbers picks and new entries! cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope Break Part 2 is relaxing/fun/delete as appropriate 🙂 Great chart as always though there's a chunk of mid-top 40 tracks I havent heard yet. Now, if we can just get Radio 2 to playlist Saint Etienne's Brand New Me - if they can do Wolf Alice and Chappell Roan, they can do Saint Etienne as well, there should be pent-up goodwill amongst a lot of the listeners, and it has Confidence Man on board for newer music fans. Have a great holiday! 😎

Thanks Jade, well done Rollo on the 39, and I see we all fell for Perry Como 😄I thought it was For The Good Times, but TBH it's difficult to stay awake long enough on his 1973 hits to recognise a clip 😇 round 1: 36 Take That doh! Every bloody time I draw a blank on that one 😆 round 2: 39 3 in 10: caribbean queen, red light spells danger, love really hurts without you

Hi AH! 🙂 Ooh another week off well done! Hope its more interesting than mine, painting walls with primer to hide water stains which didnt work, need oil-based primer it seems, doh! Oh, and our airport has announced a strike the day I'm off to Spain in 13 days, so thats up in the air (or not!), tch! Glad you know Elenore after all, my inner 10-year-old still adores it! 😄Glad you like Haircut, I love the Rev, and this one is more upbeat than usual (hence the radio 2 playlisting), and I'm sure lyrically relateable to many😇hope it peaks higher than mine, everything is peaking too low in a crowded chart - it feels more like a top 10 to me but couldnt quite get there. Brand New Me is fab, a delightful track with a fab video taking me back to my beloved Archies and Josie & The Pussycat TV show videos, very hanna-barbera! We need a mainstream pop show that will play new videos and plug stuff that hasnt been in the charts for 2 years! The album is quite good too. I hope they make a comeback sometime 🥺 Golden is a song of two halves, the intro is great and the chorus which will always remind of a 6-year-old singing it and loving the movie, so I'm feeling kindly towards it, hah! It would have had no chance without the film though. Not heard that other sombr track yet! thanks as always for the in-depth analysis and comments! ❤️ cheers! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Good to see Golden at 1, and Chappell not far behind climbing! Olivia rocketing up, I prob need to pay more attention to her stuff, it's always pleasant. sombr up and Tears new in high, are highlights, Soda Pop is fun and in the Breakers faves from Gaga, Olly, Loaded Honey ❤️ The 90's seem a longer time ago now, I used to think they felt quite recent! Faves include 7 Seconds, Shine, Kiss From A Rose, and Enigma's, all number ones for me, but also goodies from Big Mountain, Prince, B52's and Regulate. fab charts! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Thanks for the picks and glad you like the newies from Gaga and Saint Etienne 🤩 cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Surprise new number one there! its all over for the long-run on top 😯Just heard Wolf Alice on Radio 2, seems nice, and Olivia Dean rocketing up ditto. 12 to 12 up and Tears holding, Damiano David up to 50 and Gaga nice high new entry in, I love the verse more than the chorus on that one. 🤩Cyril holding and fun to see Soda Pop pop in 🙂 great chart! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for all the picks, nice to see oldies amongst your fave climbers too, yay! 🙂 cheers! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Drake knocks off Manchild oops! Chappell Roan doing well at 4, she's gone all the way in mine, hooray! Cascada top 5 too for a great top 5 👍Dior up, 12 to 12 almost top 10, so close! Golden hanging in there and Olivia going 20 is nice, so to speak 🙂the other 2 sombr tracks are my tops of the bottom 20, great chart! 😎

Hello James! 🙂 The Subway may well be Chappell's best record to date, its a shame its not had a post-number-one boost up the charts yet! I must check out that Steve Aoki revamp of Cascada 👍Manchild still seems the best track on the album (at least what Ive heard so far) and I'm not fed up of it so far which is always a good sign long-term, I'm still playing it. Golden still creeping up slowly, it's fun, though I'm not target audience 😄undressed may pop into my charts in a few weeks, I do like it. thanks for the comments and picks! 😎

welcome back Jade, hope the hol was fab! 🙂 round 1: 36 (boyzone not drum) round 2: 33 (perry como wrong song) 3 in 10: tonight, hangin tough, you got it

Lose Yourself is a powerful track, but I prefer t'other Eminem number one of the year, and Stan.

Reptilia is my top Strokes track, love it, a chart-topper for me. Never liked Lostprophets that much, they never made my top 40 and this one didnt chart at all.

Colourblind never really registered with me, as I didnt watch the show, so that would sadly be quite a lot lower for me, a shame as Darius was a lovely person and much missed, while Aaliyah was a tragic loss, and this was nice to see following George to the top spot, It would be around or just outside the top 10 I think. Liberty X doing so well was nice to see, and I like the biggie, prob just inside of the top 10 behind Aaliyah. Holly Valance, great sound to it but I found the novelty wore off quite quickly but would still be top 20.

Caught Top Of The Pops on Friday. Geri facing away from all the girls on Viva Forever, oops! Nice song though.

some big faves in here, chart-toppers for me like Pulp, MN8, Simply Red, Whatever, Edwyn Collins, Coolio, TLC, and biggies from EBTG, Supergrass, Jam & Spoon. good list!

round 1: 33 Meatloaf round 2: 39 3 in 10: stars, fairground, sunrise

Gareths best single possibly but it would be lower down for me. Las Ketchup what a gem just so enthusiastically cheesy and fun alwsys love hearing it in pubs. Girls aloud is classicpop love the guitar twangy bits and quite the career debut. My sweet lord is a record i loved when i was 12 years old and teen loves tend to loom larger than those in ones 40s so pretty sure that would top my 2002 list - but i wouldnt count it as a 2002 fave its 1970 or 1971 depending on US or UK release date. Gotta Get Thru This is one of the dance hits of the year pretty exciting and highest rated of the newies to date prob for me.

Yay saint etienne! Bought it yesterday so i did my bit to get it top 10. Played it in car to Wimbledon today its good. Wish id seen them too!

Roberta's classic was a little slow for me at the time to fully appreciate - I was 14 - but once I saw the original stalker classic movie Play Misty For Me with Clint and the amazing Jessica Walter, it really came over beautifully 9/10. Roberta was a classy singer. Elvis' mash-up was well-sung, and is still a showstopper at any Elvis tribute concert, but ... I've never really been a fan of it in comparison to older Elvis classics I was mad on. 5/10. Rock & Roll part 2 was the A side, really. No Gary Glitter singing, just doing the Hey's along with the Glitter Band, and those riffs remain powerful and stunning mixed with the heavy drums. 10/10 I was an instant Staple Singers fan with I'll Take You There and was miffed it only scraped into the top 30 - I'm not quite so big on it as I was but at least it was a minor hit unlike Respect Yourself and others. 8/10. Tragedy, wot u said, that's my opinion too, 8/10. Jungle Fever, Radio Luxembourg played it a bit, but banned on the Beeb so I had to buy a second hand copy years later, annoyed I couldnt tape it off the chart show. Very naughty, and I was very naive. 7/10. funky though. Take Me Bak 'Ome was a departure from the more ominous previous 2 hits, this was more Glam than Stomp, and I wasnt quite as much a fan of it, but still good. 8/10. Supersonic Rocket Ship was catchy and cute, very much in the Apeman vibe, but I liked the sci-fi lyrics. Not quite as big on it these days, but fun 7/10. The Chi-Lites can't beaten for heartbreak ballads, adored Oh Girl at the time as it sailed to the top of my charts, and still do 10/10. Lush. Little Bit Of Love was my All Right Now, as I'd not got to hear that one in Singapore, so I'm guess I'm alone in viewing this as the best of the two! 8/10. Loved the Frederick Knight song, I do enjoy me some falsetto, especially in sweet soul, 8/10. Circles is a touching Harry Chapin song, and quite sombre for The New Seekers, but I've found this one has stayed the test of time for me in a way some of their jollier ones havent. 9/10. It was nice The Pearls got some more chart action under this new name, and Third Finger Left hand wasnt known in the UK - so it sounded like an old Motown record without appearing to be an old Motown record even though it was originally an old Motown record. 8/10. They would do a Sugababes by the end of the year and completely change the line-up. Mary Had A Little Lamb was Paul reacting to getting banned: a tuneful song for his kids that the BBC couldnt possibly ban. I love the melody, very sweet 8/10. Little Willy is The Sweet going Glam, and the one that broke them in the USA to boot in a year or two, along with Ballroom Blitz - I'd rather liked their calypso-pop phase but this was the sound of the future, and yes it was very annoying after a lot of plays, smutty lols for teenagers on first hearing, and it didn't get banned. 7/10.

doh! I forgot Donna Summer, she's in Suzi is out, and Carly & Joni are also fab.

Thanks Alex, Mary had 3 huge number ones for me, but I liked everything she did, and she's still around doing the odd appearance and concert on socail media (yes I follow her 😄57 years on and I'm still star-struck - I met the lovely Chloe Annett of Red Dwarf TV show last week and I was thrilled when she offered a selfie. Still star-struck!)😂If You Love Me was a lovely version of a classic old song, it was more appealing to the older music fan at the time than the singles chart buyers (like me, who were buying ABBA!) but I liked it then and love it more now. Kim Carnes is back because someone did a cover version which popped into some charts, which then boosted the original to make the UK sales chart a few weeks back, so I took that as an excuse to bring it back!)

OOh could be so many! Look forward to seeing it. Maybe Sugar Me, Here I Go Again, Angel Eyes, Sunday Girl, All Kinds Of Everything as a guess 🙂

yay 39's! round 1: 36 cornershop not cornerstone! 🙄 triple ep. question today! Simon will enjoy it 🙂 round 2: 36 Love Can Build A Bridge (half a title) 3 in 10: queen of clubs thats the way i like it get down tonight

yay I got the top 2 right 🤩 Kate Bush Diana Ross Suzi Quatro but Lynsey is up there, and Mary is more 60's for me 👍