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New York City seemed like a deliberate re-tread of going for the gay disco anthem route, and I can see why it was regarded as the catchiest track on the album, but not for me - I much preferred other tracks and singles, and still do. Great to pump out at a concert though, goes down well. A Red Letter Day is one of their least-remembered tracks that hit number one in my charts for the boys in the 90's. It's nice and all that, but they've done better classical-adjacent incorporations, and I'm surprised this is so high compared to Single and some other tracks. How Can You Be... is another I thought would be lower, and a very wise decision not to release it stand-alone, it really isnt in the same class as the U2 piss-take - it doesnt even stand out on the album as single-worthy, and is very 1990 in sound. Nor is it as brilliant as Jealousy or Being Boring. Not one of my fave PSB singles, though it's perfectly pleasant.

a-ha - The Sun Always Shines On T.V. Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls Dee C Lee - See The Day Madonna - Dress You Up Wham! - I'm Your Man tiebreak: Take On Me - a-ha

Rather Be is one of the top singles of the year, still sounds good and maybe top 10 for me, but short of the top 5. At the time though I only rated it a number 17 peak, as compared with Rock A Bye's 3, so maybe it's aged better than I gave it credit for!

Ooh dont get me going on Jet2...hearing that on hold trying to get money back for a holiday that wasnt available but paid twice for! Got one payment back, waiting for the other one to turn up before I resort again to listening to Hold My Effing Hand again 😐 I suggest they replace that song with Money On My Mind....😇

No memory of Secondcity. Very rave-retro sounding, and have never been aware it's Toni Braxton sampled onto a chart-topper. I like the rhythm vibes but it's a too repetitive for me to latch onto it, I can't hear any variation thoughout. So what did I think of it at the time? Not much, I didnt bother to chart it. Route 54 is a step-up, more subtlety in the production, but I have the same basic problem with the repititive vocals. The arrangement around the vocals is nicer though. If Jess gets a feature credit, surely Toni should have as well on Secondcity? This did much better in my charts though - peaked at 70! Sorry, but both of these would be lower half tracks for me! Pleasant but there are others I like more.

Thanks and well done on the 39 Rollo!🤩 round 1; 36, as usual I forgot Ricky Wilson's surname. I've seen them live and watched The Voice back then too! 🙄 round 2: 39 Tiebreak: yes 3 in 10: Saving All My Love for you, One Moment In Time, I Will Always Love You.

The late Andrew Gold getting a belated 4th top 40 hit nearly 50 years after his first, not including Wax records with mate Graham Gouldman. Graham did Bridge To Your Heart a couple of months ago in concert in poole. Oddly Andrew's most famous song is Thank You For Being A Friend, borrowed theme for the Golden Girls sitcom but it never went top 40.

Proper classic, top 5 of the year for me and potential number one. Paloma was never going to get a chart-topper on her own, though she's had loads in my charts, always quirky and offbeat - just don't murder her in plain sight in Traitors unless you want to incur her indignant wrath! 😄

well done Jade! 🤩

Thanks Jade! We didn't win the music round last night at the pub quiz, so that bodes well for today, oops 😄 round 1: 33 world party round 2: 39 3 in 10: 2: A Little Time, Perfect 10. You Keep It All In - got that out just after the time limit, tch.

bit of a forgotten fave this one, the rhythms are infectious and upbeat and won't have hurt their appeal in the Latin countries - I went to see them in barcelona on the day of Michael Jackson's funeral and I reckon they were a younger crowd. They even did a cover of Viva La Vida, Coldplay. I say "they", I read somewhere that Chris was ill at one Barcelona gig and they had a double stand-in, so I hope it wasnt that amazing gig I was at! It was a highlight for me, set in an Italianate courtyard outdoor venue Poble Espanyol. Even better it was cheaper than the O2, I was standing at the front not high on an indoor mountain top, and there was no re-sale of tickets: you picked them up at the show on the day on presentation of you credit card and passport!

Hi Sergej! 🙂 My faves this week from the climbers and new entries: 1 1 1(x3) 11 Olivia Rodrigo & Chappell Roan – 'expectations' 3 6 3 5 Holly Humberstone – 'Too Cute To Be Lonely' 5 100 5 2 Zach Bryan ft. Lana Del Rey – 'Lies' ooh big climb! 10 17 10 3 Justice, Tame Impala, SZA, & King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – 'Flower In A Hurricane [from GTAVI]' 13 20 13 3 Tate McRae – 'Housewife' 21 24 12 10 Ashe – 'Stop The Wedding!' 25 29 12 9 Miley Cyrus – 'Bass Persuades' 32 33 32 5 Faouzia – 'UNETHICAL' 36 NE 36 1 Fontaines D.C. – 'Japan' 52 74 52 6 Jamie Miller – 'Babydoll' 68 RE 18 9 Jess Glynne – 'Don't Be So Hard on Yourself' 76 81 76 4 Morten Harket & Tomine Harket – 'Hold Me' 79 RE 64 2 Harry Styles - 'Coming Up Roses' 99 RE 25 15 Teddy Swims - 'Mr. Know It All' 100 RE 52 5 Bruno Mars - 'Dance With Me' great chart! 😎

9th November 1976 It's 3 weeks on top for Chicago as Leo Sayer gets his first runner-up track (and last!) with You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, with Rock making top 5 headway with Wild Cherry and Steve Miller both getting a first. Neil Diamond goes top 10 for the first time since 1972, his 5th, and Average White Band make it a second top 10 with Queen Of My Soul. The highest new entry is a good cover of Bill Withers' 1972 number one Lean On Me at 29, an unexpected and different cover showing it is so strong a song it can be done any way and come up smelling of roses. It'll be back in the 80's too, with other covers. In at 36, ELO show they are getting better and better with each year, with Livin' Thing easily as good as Evil Woman, Showdown and 10538 Overture (all number ones for me), and Diana Ross follows her oldie classic and a newie I've forgotten - it's not even close to being as classic as recent new hit Love Hangover - One Love In My Lifetime at 37. Playing it 5 decades on, it's not bad actually, a throwback to the heavily orchestral soulful ballads of 70/71 and a big improvement on the turgid ballads of 74/75 and the Capitol years in the 80's and 90's. Dr. Hook are back again with a follow-up quirky hit, If Not You at 39, I always thought it was a bit tongue-in-cheek and the better for that, and Steve Harley follows up his Beatles cover with Love's A Prima Donna, and a bit of a disappointment compared to Sebastian, Judy Teen, and Make Me Smile. Or even compared to Mr Raffles. In at 44, one ahead of Yvonne Elliman's gorgeous cover of The Bee Gees' Love Me, melodic and giving me the emotional vibes I got watching her sing I Don't Know How To Love Him, and Could We Start Again in the Jesus Christ Superstar movie at the cinema in 1973. Peter Frampton gets his 3rd of 1976 with Do You Feel Like We Do at 47 vibing Santana in the intro, and the instrumental Spinning Rock Boogie debuts for Hank C. Burnette at 48. Despite the name, and authentic 50's rockabilly sounds, Hank was from 1976 Sweden and this is great fun, sounds effects included. 1 ( 1 ) IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW Chicago 2 ( 5 ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCING Leo Sayer 3 ( 2 ) COULDN’T GET IT RIGHT Climax Blues Band 4 ( 6 ) PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC Wild Cherry 5 ( 17 ) ROCK ‘N’ ME The Steve Miller Band 6 ( 3 ) DON’T TAKE AWAY THE MUSIC Tavares 7 ( 4 ) DANCING QUEEN ABBA 8 ( 7 ) MISSISSIPPI Pussycat 9 ( 14 ) BEAUTIFUL NOISE Neil Diamond 10 ( 12 ) QUEEN OF MY SOUL Average White Band 11 ( 11 ) THEME FROM STAR TREK Alexander Courage 12 ( 19 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 13 ( 13 ) COMING HOME David Essex 14 ( 9 ) GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND Elvis Presley 15 ( 10 ) I’M STILL WAITING Diana Ross 16 ( 25 ) LOVE AND AFFECTION Joan Armatrading 17 ( 8 ) RUBBERBAND MAN The Detroit Spinners 18 ( 24 ) JAWS Lalo Schifrin 19 ( 27 ) REMEMBER YESTERDAY John Miles 20 ( 30 ) SUBSTITUTE The Who 21 ( 18 ) I’LL MEET YOU AT MIDNIGHT Smokie 22 ( 15 ) DANCING WITH THE CAPTAIN Paul Nicholas 23 ( 23 ) LOWDOWN Boz Scaggs 24 ( 16 ) BEST DISCO IN TOWN The Ritchie Family 25 ( 26 ) BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Manfred Mann’s Earthband 26 ( 32 ) I WANT MORE Can 27 ( 47 ) LOST IN FRANCE Bonnie Tyler 28 ( 20 ) SUMMER OF MY LIFE Simon May 29 ( NEW ) LEAN ON ME Mud 30 ( 50 ) SAVE ME Clodagh Rodgers 31 ( 21 ) DISCO DUCK Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots 32 ( 39 ) I CAN’T LIVE A DREAM The Osmonds 33 ( 22 ) HOWZAT Sherbet 34 ( 41 ) STONEY GROUND Guys & Dolls 35 ( 44 ) UNDER THE MOON OF LOVE Showaddywaddy 36 ( NEW ) LIVIN’ THING Electric Light Orchestra 37 ( NEW ) ONE LOVE IN MY LIFETIME Diana Ross 38 ( 49 ) FAIRYTALE Dana 39 ( NEW ) IF NOT YOU Dr. Hook 40 ( 28 ) I’D REALLY LOVE TO SEE YOU TONIGHT England Dan & John Ford Coley 41 ( 45 ) MAKE YOUR OWN SUNSHINE Neil Sedaka 42 ( 33 ) SHE’S GONE Daryl Hall & John Oates 43 ( 34 ) DANCE LITTLE LADY DANCE Tina Charles 44 ( NEW ) LOVE’S A PRIMA DONNA Steve Harley 45 ( NEW ) LOVE ME Yvonne Elliman 46 ( 29 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 47 ( NEW ) DO YOU FEEL (LIKE I FEEL) Peter Frampton 48 ( NEW ) SPINNING ROCK BOOGIE Hank C. Burnette 49 ( 38 ) YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO The Chi-Lites 50 ( 36 ) BENNIE AND THE JETS Elton John THE OLDIES RE-ISSUES CHART In the re-issues chart, Wichita Lineman goes one higher than it did first time round in 1969, giving Glen Campbell his 4th number one since Honey Come Back first did it in 1970. Greyhound make it a triple set of number 2's as Black & White goes where Moon River and I Am What I Am went in 1972, and Billy J. Kramer goes top 10 where he 100% would have gone had I been charting 12 years earlier. That leaves two more Trojan re-issues as Double Barrel and Monkey Spanner is re-issued as a double-A side at 20 and 19 having both gone top 5 in 1975, with The McCoys mid 60's catchy Hang On Sloopy debuting at 18. 1 ( 2 ) WICHITA LINEMAN Glen Campbell 2 ( 4 ) BLACK AND WHITE Greyhound 3 ( 5 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH The Pioneers 4 ( 6 ) ERNIE (THE FASTEST MILKMAN IN THE WEST) Benny Hill 5 ( 3 ) BEHIND THE PAINTED SMILE The Isley Brothers 6 ( 1 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 7 ( 10 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 8 ( 11 ) IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE Buddy Holly 9 ( 7 ) NATHAN JONES The Supremes 10 ( 14 ) LITTLE CHILDREN Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 11 ( 9 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations 12 ( 8 ) YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY Stevie Wonder 13 ( 19 ) SEND IN THE CLOWNS Judy Collins 14 ( 17 ) W.O.L.D. Harry Chapin 15 ( 12 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 16 ( 13 ) STONED LOVE The Supremes 17 ( 20 ) A TEENAGER IN LOVE Dion & The Belmonts 18 ( NEW ) HANG ON SLOOPY The McCoys 19 ( NEW ) MONKEY SPANNER Dave & Ansel Collins 20 ( NEW ) DOUBLE BARREL Dave & Ansel Collins In the real world back then, several badminton games on Wednesday with the usual crowd, English was Othello minus Simon who was away playing football fixtures - so I presume just me in the class! It was foggy weather. Lunchtime Thursday games of cards with Chris and Sean, and Library work with various folk, lots more mixing with Lower 6th kids which was pretty good given how few were in the lessons for some English, less so Geography. At home, Aunty Eileen, Uncle Tony & 2 little cousins were round for Bonfire Night fireworks in the back garden and Sunday dinner. Showed Billy my record collection when he popped round Saturday, bought some more singles (Earthband and Can), and on TV that week watched Carry On Cowboy, Goldfinger, The Muppet Show.

1 NEW 1 1 RAINBOW VALLEY - Love Affair featuring Sunny And Sue 170000 2 NEW 2 1 EVERLASTING LOVE - Love Affair 115000 3 2 2 6 JIMMY MACK - Martha & The Vandellas 327200 4 3 1 7 REDLIGHTS - Miley Cyrus 793000 5 1 1 12 WHERE ARE YOU NOW? - Jungle 794200 6 4 3 6 (LOVE IS LIKE A) HEATWAVE - Martha & The Vandellas 364000 7 9 7 5 WORLD’S GREATEST! - Lil Nas X 123700 8 8 8 12 LEAVE ME BEHIND - Nickelback 197400 9 11 9 8 FEEL MY LOVE - Take That & Michael Patrick Kelly 219800 10 10 1 16 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 1369200 11 16 11 2 CALYPSO - John Denver 62000 12 12 12 8 TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE TOO FAR - Inspiral Carpets 165200 13 6 1 12 SUNSHINE - Jungle 1115000 14 7 1 20 LOVE SENSATION/AFTERHOURS RADIO EDIT - Madonna/Madonna & Kylie Minogue 1204400 15 13 8 13 FRAGILE - Madonna 305250 16 18 16 3 RIGHT DOWN THE LINE - Gerry Rafferty 69000 17 5 3 12 REWARD - The Teardrop Explodes 591750 18 14 1 19 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 1559000 19 23 19 16 BE HER - Ella Langley 196800 20 17 12 12 TAKE IT SLOW (BULLIT) - Robin Schulz & Watermat 255650 21 15 6 12 MESMERIZED - Freemasons featuring Faith Evans 376450 22 22 22 12 LOADED - Primal Scream featuring The Emotions 166150 23 27 23 8 MARRY YOU AGAIN - Dan + Shay 111900 24 35 24 5 AMALFI COAST - Carly Rae Jepsen 52800 25 20 9 8 DIRTY DIRTY DISCO - Rogue Traders & Dannii Minogue 180100 26 26 26 8 BASS PERSUADES - Miley Cyrus 100900 27 25 25 10 DON’T LEAVE ME ON THE DANCEFLOOR - Carly Rae Jepsen 117550 28 19 4 13 SLEEPING WITH MY BOOTS ON - Lily Meola 538550 29 21 10 12 OH YEAH? - Steve Lacy 264100 30 33 30 8 SANDCASTLE DISCO - Freemasons featuring Solange 104150 31 24 5 15 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 552200 32 51 32 3 ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD - The Avalanches featuring Rivers Cuomo, Vegyn & Baby Marlboro) 33750 33 37 33 7 COOL YOU DOWN - Chaka Khan & Sia 70950 34 30 30 13 I’M IN LOVE AGAIN - Lulu 174900 35 29 29 14 DYNAMITE - Haircut 100 148250 36 34 34 7 FADE TO GREY - Midge Ure 73200 37 38 37 10 ONE STEP AWAY - Madonna 85150 38 32 8 12 RAIN - Dagny 313000 39 45 39 8 WATCHIN’ U - Sigma & America Foster 65400 40 40 1 18 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 784550

1st November 2026 It's a big turnover week for new entries, including the top 2 as 2 1968 classics debut for Love Affair following the sad death of lead singer Steve Ellis. Steve was 8 years older than me and a teen pop star in 1968/9 when I got big into the UK charts, notably on the UK classic version of Everlasting Love which topped my charts in 2022 and is now on its 3rd top 5 run, not to mention also charting for the original version by Robert Knight. The follow-up to that smash was also a Robert Knight cover, Rainbow Valley, and if anything I love it as much or more than Everlasting Love, but it has never charted before, missing my first charts by a few weeks. So it deservedly debuts on top, with significant vocal assistance in a solo from Sunny and Sue - two sisters who appeared on multiple key UK pop hits of the era by T.Rex, Bowie, Joe Cocker, Dusty, Mott The Hoople, Tom Jones, Cerrone, Giorgio Moroder, Frank Zappa and Elton John, and solo, and together in the original Brotherhood Of Man and The Pearls, and on stage backing Lulu and Vikki in Eurovision. Phew! Totally deserve label credit for my new number one, Love Affair's 2nd and at 58 years old one of the oldest tracks to top my charts for the first time. Elsewhere Love Affair debut with One Road at 86, one I did know at the time but didn't chart, and two that did chart in 1968 and 1969: A Day Without Love went top 20, and Bringing On Back The Good Times hit 6, now back at 97 and 91. This is all bad news for Jimmy Mack which is denied the top spot dropping to 3, and Take That grab another top 10 - their 18th in 33 years, and 2nd of the year, with another up to 41. New at 70, Primal Scream debut belatedly with the 2009 track Miss Lucifer, their 2nd oldie on the list. Another oldie returns at 85 for Chairmen Of The Board, Give Me Just A Little More Time last troubling my chart 56 years ago, as it is getting download sales of late. New tracks start with Lainey Wilson getting a 3rd year of hits and a 4th in Kinda Love It at 83, nothing to do with the 80's Doctor Who episode Kinda. Armin van Buuren is never far away from a new hit, and sure enough he's back with singer Bob Douwe on What If I Told You at 84, 13 years of charting at least a dozen tracks. Holly Humberstone is Too Cute To Be Lonely on her 4th of 2026, in at 87 with her 5th in total since 2021. Delta Goodrem is on her 3rd of the year, Warrior at 92 giving her 7 chart entries in 25 years. Not bad and Eurovision to boot too. Tate McRae's good new single Housewife debuts at 92, only her 3rd charter in 5 years, Madonna gets yet another Confessions II album track, the closer L.E.S. Girls, on the rundown at 95 and James Blunt is the 2nd Traitors Celebrity star on the chart (see Maya Jama) with Circles at 96 - James has had 25 chart hits here since You're Beautiful in 2005 but never hit the top spot. Harry Styles grabs a 3rd chart entry off the current album as he is Coming Up Roses at 97, that makes 20 solo hits since Sign Of The Times in 2017, including 5 number ones. Fontaines D.C. get a second on the 100 with Japan at 99, their 3rd in total, and Saint Etienne are at 100 with another track off their final album, Sweet Melodies. That'll be over 25 hits, not including solo projects in 34 years. 1 NEW 1 1 RAINBOW VALLEY - Love Affair featuring Sunny And Sue 170000 2 NEW 2 1 EVERLASTING LOVE - Love Affair 115000 3 2 2 6 JIMMY MACK - Martha & The Vandellas 327200 4 3 1 7 REDLIGHTS - Miley Cyrus 793000 5 1 1 12 WHERE ARE YOU NOW? - Jungle 794200 6 4 3 6 (LOVE IS LIKE A) HEATWAVE - Martha & The Vandellas 364000 7 9 7 5 WORLD’S GREATEST! - Lil Nas X 123700 8 8 8 12 LEAVE ME BEHIND - Nickelback 197400 9 11 9 8 FEEL MY LOVE - Take That & Michael Patrick Kelly 219800 10 10 1 16 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 1369200 11 16 11 2 CALYPSO - John Denver 62000 12 12 12 8 TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE TOO FAR - Inspiral Carpets 165200 13 6 1 12 SUNSHINE - Jungle 1115000 14 7 1 20 LOVE SENSATION/AFTERHOURS RADIO EDIT - Madonna/Madonna & Kylie Minogue 1204400 15 13 8 13 FRAGILE - Madonna 305250 16 18 16 3 RIGHT DOWN THE LINE - Gerry Rafferty 69000 17 5 3 12 REWARD - The Teardrop Explodes 591750 18 14 1 19 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 1559000 19 23 19 16 BE HER - Ella Langley 196800 20 17 12 12 TAKE IT SLOW (BULLIT) - Robin Schulz & Watermat 255650 21 15 6 12 MESMERIZED - Freemasons featuring Faith Evans 376450 22 22 22 12 LOADED - Primal Scream featuring The Emotions 166150 23 27 23 8 MARRY YOU AGAIN - Dan + Shay 111900 24 35 24 5 AMALFI COAST - Carly Rae Jepsen 52800 25 20 9 8 DIRTY DIRTY DISCO - Rogue Traders & Dannii Minogue 180100 26 26 26 8 BASS PERSUADES - Miley Cyrus 100900 27 25 25 10 DON’T LEAVE ME ON THE DANCEFLOOR - Carly Rae Jepsen 117550 28 19 4 13 SLEEPING WITH MY BOOTS ON - Lily Meola 538550 29 21 10 12 OH YEAH? - Steve Lacy 264100 30 33 30 8 SANDCASTLE DISCO - Freemasons featuring Solange 104150 31 24 5 15 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 552200 32 51 32 3 ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD - The Avalanches featuring Rivers Cuomo, Vegyn & Baby Marlboro) 33750 33 37 33 7 COOL YOU DOWN - Chaka Khan & Sia 70950 34 30 30 13 I’M IN LOVE AGAIN - Lulu 174900 35 29 29 14 DYNAMITE - Haircut 100 148250 36 34 34 7 FADE TO GREY - Midge Ure 73200 37 38 37 10 ONE STEP AWAY - Madonna 85150 38 32 8 12 RAIN - Dagny 313000 39 45 39 8 WATCHIN’ U - Sigma & America Foster 65400 40 40 1 18 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 784550 41 48 41 3 HIGHER - Take That 36800 42 36 8 24 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 422500 43 82 43 2 IF I EVER SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN - Morten Harket 14100 44 59 44 2 WHERE IS GONE - Fontaines D.C. & ROSALIA 23350 45 53 45 5 SUGAR BABY LOVE - The Rubettes 31850 46 58 46 3 TRAINING SEASON - Dua Lipa 26350 47 39 39 7 ENJOY THE RIDE - almost monday 57500 48 28 10 13 STORMY WEATHER - Etta James 333850 49 63 49 3 SEX & DRUGS - Temper City 21200 50 31 10 18 DANCETERIA - Madonna 354650 51 57 51 3 CRUEL TO BE KIND - Nick Lowe 29650 52 42 17 15 BLUE DREAM - Holly Humberstone 240400 53 60 53 3 PATIENT ZERO - Taylor Swift 28650 54 49 12 16 SUNRISE - Simply Red 299050 55 52 1 18 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 655500 56 72 56 5 WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN - Carpenters 23600 57 46 18 15 FIREFLIES - Martin Garrix & U2 222400 58 43 43 10 TREASON (IT’S JUST A STORY) - The Teardrop Explodes 91200 59 71 59 5 HAWAII FIVE-O - The Ventures 20900 60 47 8 16 THINK I’M GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - The Dooleys 330450 61 55 2 23 THE WAVE - Jungle 935500 62 70 62 3 FINAL CREDITS (LOADED HONEY VERSION) - The Avalanches featuring Loaded Honey 18200 63 67 60 7 ONE NIGHT ONLY (BREAK LOOSE BREAK FREE!) - New Radicals 33900 64 50 27 11 I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU - Dolly Parton 146050 65 88 65 2 LONELY BY ANOTHER NAME - Albin Lee Meldau 9400 66 74 66 3 STOP THE WEDDING! - Ashe 15000 67 76 67 3 SPECTRAL EYES - Blondie 12900 68 64 1 25 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 1031950 69 85 69 3 FLOWER IN A HURRICANE - Justice, Tame Impala, SZA & King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard 11200 70 NEW 70 1 MISS LUCIFER - Primal Scream 6000 71 87 71 2 ANOTHER WAY TO CRY - Texas 8400 72 80 72 3 FEATHERS IN A STORM - Linda Perry 12000 73 73 1 27 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 635900 74 100 74 2 LET’S GET MARRIED - Miley Cyrus 6200 75 61 10 20 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 345300 76 90 76 2 TIME AFTER TIME - Cyndi Lauper, CYRIL & Tones And I 6800 77 91 77 3 JOY. - RAYE, Absolutely & Amma 7800 78 92 78 3 GHOST - Sugababes 7400 79 44 19 18 MEET ME IN LOVE - Blossoms featuring Maya Jama 226050 80 62 20 18 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 241650 81 68 68 7 FORGETTING YOUR KISS - Stephen Sanchez 23800 82 89 82 2 MAKE ME LOVE YOU - Nickelback 5800 83 NEW 83 1 KINDA LOVE IT - Lainey Wilson 3400 84 NEW 84 1 WHAT IF I TOLD YOU - Armin van Buuren & Douwe Bob 3200 85 NEW 85 1 GIVE ME JUST A LITTLE MORE TIME - Chairmen Of The Board 3000 86 NEW 86 1 ONE ROAD - Love Affair 2800 87 NEW 87 1 TOO CUTE TO BE LONELY - Holly Humberstone 2600 88 95 88 3 BABYDOLL - Jamie Miller 6000 89 69 69 8 CALLING OUT YOUR NAME - Cast 35000 90 96 90 3 SILENCIO - U2 4800 91 NEW 91 1 BRINGING ON BACK THE GOOD TIMES - Love Affair 1900 92 NEW 92 1 WARRIOR - Delta Goodrem 1800 93 NEW 93 1 HOUSEWIFE - Tate McRae 1700 94 94 94 5 SAUNA - Jessie Ware 7600 95 NEW 95 1 L.E.S. GIRLS - Madonna 1500 96 NEW 96 1 CIRCLES - James Blunt 1400 97 NEW 97 1 A DAY WITHOUT LOVE - Love Affair 1300 98 NEW 98 1 COMING UP ROSES - Harry Styles 1200 99 NEW 99 1 JAPAN - Fontaines D.C. 1100 100 NEW 100 1 SWEET MELODIES - Saint Etienne 1000 DROP OUTS 41 22 10 GOD ONLY KNOWS - for KING AND COUNTRY featuring Dolly Parton 143250 54 7 14 TONIGHT - The Rubettes 338400 56 14 15 WANTED - The Dooleys 255650 65 25 14 YOU’RE THE REASON WHY - The Rubettes 187950 66 49 12 D MINOR - Reverend and The Makers 87100 75 1 21 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 626850 77 1 27 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 943550 78 20 19 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 223050 79 5 18 TANGERINE - Damiano David 433700 81 5 16 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 365250 83 5 25 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 459950 84 1 26 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 735150 86 3 18 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 513950 93 89 7 BABY KOOL (EVELYN) - Nothing But Thieves 12500 97 97 1 NO SCRUBS - TLC 1300 98 73 7 ISLANDS IN THE SUN - Al Jardine 23600 99 75 10 FREEDOM BUS - Sheryl Crow featuring Jesse Welles 24700

Hey James! 🙂 Patient Zero holding firm on top, despite the Dancefloor rebound and Tove Lo top 5 invasion! I wouldnt discount the other two top 10 Taylor's being the ones to shift PZ! 🙂good to see Housewife and Too Cute climbing and Stop The Wedding entering, and Taylor's Cleveland song top 40 - the only other song I know is 70's Mott The Hoople singer Ian Hunter's Cleveland Rocks which was used as the theme tune to 90s/00s sitcom The Drew Carey Show - and he's not even from Cleveland, he's from rural Shropshire! 😄 great charts! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Hope all is fab! Club To Your Arms is currently 253 on my all-time top 1000 chart performers, so she is doing all right! 😄Patient Zero is very nice, still growing on me I think, I especially like the intro. Her lyrics are always spot on clever. cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope you are having another fun weekend ahead! Pub quiz tonight for me and London tomorrow for the weekend. I recently discovered some old charts in an old notepad I did in the mid-70's for 1966-68 week-by-week. Although they weren't "at the time" they do show what I liked at the time, more or less, as a lickle kiddie - as opposed to my recent 1967-75 revamped charts for what I like now I'm older and wiser (?) which are not "official". I'm mulling over adding the stats to my A to Z. Oh, the decisions (and work) I create for myself! 😄 Great charts as always! 🤩Quite a few on the oldies chart I dont recognise/remember but also a lot of new in classics that I love! cheers! 😎

Hi DaTilt! 🙂 Good chart, and enjoyed that chart of nations and acts - I had no idea Tate McRae and Faouzia are from Canada amongst some other surprises! My faves this week: 02 Haute & Freddy – Film Noir (2) 2w 05 Tate McRae – Housewife (5) 3w 06 Kacey Musgraves – Weekend In Texas (11) 2w 11 Faouzia – Unethical (3) 7w 12 Fontaines D.C. – Japan (17) 3w 21 Holly Humberstone – Too Cute To Be Lonely (13) 5w 45 Hailee Steinfeld – Magic (50) 2w not heard this one, I like it! I saw hailee in concert supporting Katie Perry in Barcelona, she was good. 56 Troye Sivan – Party (38) 7w 79 Haute & Freddy – Touch Touch (66) 10w 95 Fontaines D.C. – Marianne (84) 11w 100 Miley Cyrus – Let’s Get Married (82) 7w cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 I've been busy as always ta and no worries, I still check out your charts even if I'm dashing to get comments done! 🙂Glad you had a night out, and a laugh and got an ego boost, hooray! It's always nice to be appreciated! On the very rare occasions I got a "my mate fancies you" in my clubbing days I tried to say "it's not you, it's me" and blamed my advanced age! Too many complications 😄It was a strange mix of feeling warm about the compliment, thinking they were having me on, and embarrassed about being approached and turning them down and not wanting to hurt their feelings! Awww... Glad you like the Jungle track, the video is fab too. I hope Miley does a proper video for Redlights, it's the most immediate track on the album and she needs a proper hit off it. I like Husband but there are catchier tracks on the album, and Maya Jama doesnt even get a proper credit ahead of her Traitors fame on the track I like most! I got that Fontaines/Rosalia track from your number one slot, so thanks for that! It's very Nick/Kylie and Bond and they were very Nancy & Lee. Some Velvet Morning is the template for psychedelic gruff male sweet female duets, and Nancy Sinatra the ultimate Bond theme for me. So I rated it immediately! Cheers as always for the indepth appreciation and comments! cheers! 😎

Hi DaTilt! 🙂 Thanks for the comments! Yes I do love Jungle, the last 2 albums (and Loaded Honey too) have been fab! Glad you like Texas and I still like Unethical - hope it goes UK top 40 next week! - I just like 100 other tracks a bit more 😄Faouzia topped my charts a couple or 3 years back with Tears Of Gold, cracker that one! cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej!🙂 Thanks for all the picks! cheers! 😎

Thanks Jade n Rollo and well done Jade on the 39! 🤩Rollo, I prob should also include Squeeze as a flop as I said Another Nail For My Heart when it's "In" not "for" - but as they sing my version I assumed Ken would be kind 😇 Round 1: 39 Round 2: 36 one year out 3 in 10: Shooting Star, Who Were You With In The Moonlight, Hand Held In Black & White

Integral and Sodom & Gomorrah Show were the highlights I would moved higher up the singles release, along with Numb, but they prob wouldnt have hit as instantly as I'm With Stupid.

Thanks Jade, Rollo, well done Rollo and Geraint for the 39's, and near-thing Jade🤩 round 1: 30: wrong year! Everything Must... Go not Change! round 2: 39 Tiebreak: 2 good contestant scores too! I got them all, they were both good though! Under pressure my mind would have gone blank on at least 2... 3 in 10: He beat me to all 3 before I could blurt one out! I would have gotten addicted to love, mercy mercy me, Some Guys Have All The Luck with a bit more time 😄