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That Beatles question was clearly a trick question 😄 Monday's 3 in 10 would have been no prob as I saw Billy Joel last year. Not that that means anything really. I recently glanced at my list of concerts of the 90's and found out I'd forgotten I saw Pulp. Happily now back hooray! 🤓 round 1: 39 thanks to giving me half the Shayne Ward song title in the question 🙂 round 2: 36 (bedingfield. I blame the tedious song 😇 ) 3 in 10: 2 brain freeze: Overload, Round Round and that one that sampled Tubeway Army what's it called, bloody 'ell, you're wasting time think of another track, oops too late. 😆

Simply Red's cover was a fairly pedestrian, if polished, version of the much better Harold Melvin/Teddy Pendergrass vocals. Mick is a great soul singer, but it's his upbeat stuff I prefer. Like A Prayer is classic, but repeating myself here, sad memories attached to it so it never topped my chart like it otherwise would have. Deadpool & Wolverine doing a favour refreshing it recently. Transvision Vamp was fun, and Holly Johnson was the better of his two hits, but neither has aged that well, I liked them much more at the time than now. It's still good though.

5th April 1975 It's up 3 to the top spot for the best new record to come out of the British Northern Soul movement: Wigan's Ovation's Skiing In The Snow - well there would be come the heavy snows over Winter 1975/76, I've got the photos to prove it was perfectly possible to ski down our road in Mansfield. If you didn't mind hitting traffic. It's a bop of a record with a great intro, it's a great shame it's been forgotten by all. There are also another 2 of my original 1975 number ones debuting courtesy of the US charts - at this rate there will be none left for the summer! Van McCoy's classic disco smash therefore drops in early at 8, for the Hustle, while Captain & Tennille's cover of Neil Sedaka's Love Will Keep Us Together is in at 13. Both tracks topped my chart over the early hot summer, and also did so in the USA. Meanwhile Disco Tex with added Sir Monti Rock III, comes back with another fun disco wheeze, I Wanna Dance Wit' Choo in at 18, having peaked at 2 in my charts of the time, one slot lower than Get Dancin'. In a quiet week there are just 2 lower-end entries: Stephanie De Sykes gets a third chart entry, including her Rain stuff, with ballad We'll Find Our Day - this song anticipates her future Eurovision entries as a songwriter for other acts. Finally, Mr Bloe is back and still Groovin' 5 years on from his UK hit, with a similar-sounding cover of Wilson Pickett's Land Of A Thousand Dances, one I don't recall hearing at the time but it's pretty good. 1 ( 4 ) SKIING IN THE SNOW - Wigans Ovation # 1 2 ( 2 ) MISTY - Ray Stevens # 1 3 ( 1 ) GET DOWN TONIGHT - KC & The Sunshine Band # 1 4 ( 5 ) THE TIME WARP - Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, Charles Gray & Cast # 4 5 ( 10 ) BAD TIME - Grand Funk Railroad # 5 6 ( 3 ) FOX ON THE RUN - The Sweet # 3 7 ( 6 ) HONEY - Bobby Goldsboro # 3 8 ( NEW ) THE HUSTLE - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony # 8 9 ( 7 ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 10 ( 9 ) BYE BYE BABY - Bay City Rollers # 9 11 ( 13 ) A LITTLE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING - Gilbert Becaud # 11 12 ( 11 ) JIGSAW GIRL - Clifford T.Ward # 11 13 ( NEW ) LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER - Captain and Tennille # 13 14 ( 8 ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM - Elton John Band # 1 15 ( 12 ) THAT’S THE WAY OF THE WORLD - Earth, Wind & Fire # 12 16 ( 19 ) WONDERFUL BABY - Don McLean # 16 17 ( 16 ) EL BIMBO - Bimbo Jets # 2 18 ( NEW ) I WANNA DANCE WIT’ CHOO (DO DAT DANCE) - Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes featuring Sir Monti Rock III # 18 19 ( 35 ) LIFE IS A MINESTRONE - 10cc # 19 20 ( 22 ) SWEET TRANSVESTITE - Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon & Barry Bostwick # 20 21 ( 14 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 22 ( 18 ) LET ME BE THE ONE - The Shadows # 18 23 ( 21 ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 8 24 ( 20 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 25 ( 23 ) LOVE ME LOVE MY DOG - Peter Shelley # 19 26 ( 15 ) YOU SEXY THING - Hot Chocolate # 7 27 ( 17 ) DING-A-DONG - Teach-In # 17 28 ( 29 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 29 ( 25 ) I CAN DO IT - The Rubettes # 9 30 ( 24 ) HANG ON SLOOPY - The McCoys # 24 31 ( 31 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 32 ( 26 ) STAND BY ME - John Lennon # 4 33 ( 39 ) TAKE YOUR MAMA FOR A RIDE - Lulu # 33 34 ( 32 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 35 ( 28 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 36 ( 33 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 37 ( 37 ) IT’S ONLY ME YOU’VE LEFT BEHIND - Cliff Richard # 37 38 ( 38 ) ONLY YESTERDAY - Carpenters # 38 39 ( 52 ) SISTER GOLDEN HAIR - America # 39 40 ( 27 ) SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap # 4 41 ( 34 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 1 42 ( 41 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 43 ( 36 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 12 44 ( 44 ) BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears # 8 45 ( 45 ) WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH YOU - Barry White # 25 46 ( 30 ) AUTOBAHN - Kraftwerk # 18 47 ( 49 ) THE LAST FAREWELL - Roger Whittaker # 47 48 ( 53 ) BILLY PORTER - Mick Ronson # 48 49 ( 55 ) DON’T BE CRUEL - Mike Berry # 46 50 ( 54 ) ONLY WOMEN BLEED - Alice Cooper # 50 51 ( 57 ) I DREAMED LAST NIGHT - Justin Hayward & John Lodge # 51 52 ( 40 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 5 53 ( 60 ) 99 MILES FROM L.A. - Albert Hammond # 53 54 ( 61 ) HITCHING A RIDE IN THE MOONLIGHT - Middle Of The Road # 54 55 ( 50 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 56 ( 46 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 57 ( 51 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 58 ( 48 ) YOUNG AMERICANS - David Bowie # 16 59 ( 63 ) DYNOMITE - Tony Camilla’s Bazuka # 59 60 ( 42 ) SLOW DOWN - Shabby Tiger # 23 61 ( 62 ) THE TEARS I CRIED - The Glitter Band # 61 62 ( 43 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE - The Glitter Band # 9 63 ( 47 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW - Olivia Newton-John # 2 64 ( 64 ) IF - Yin & Yan # 63 65 ( 65 ) TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF - The Three Degrees # 65 66 ( 66 ) THE FILM OF MY LOVE - 10cc # 66 67 ( 58 ) SAVE ME - Silver Convention # 10 68 ( 70 ) WHERE IS THE LOVE - Betty Wright # 68 69 ( 56 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 70 ( 72 ) YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND - Don Williams # 70 71 ( 67 ) TRY TO REMEMBER/ THE WAY WE WERE - Gladys Knight & The Pips # 67 72 ( 76 ) I FORGOT TO SAY I LOVE YOU TILL I’M GONE - The Chi-Lites # 72 73 ( 73 ) (YOU DON’T KNOW) HOW GLAD I AM - The Kiki Dee Band # 73 74 ( 69 ) DIAL ‘L’ FOR LOVE - Polly Brown # 69 75 ( 78 ) CALL ME ROUND - Pilot # 75 76 ( 80 ) I’LL BE HOLDING ON - Al Downing # 76 77 ( NEW ) WE’LL FIND OUR DAY - Stephanie De Sykes # 77 78 ( 71 ) SWINGING ON A STAR - Spooky and Sue # 71 79 ( 79 ) HASTA LA VISTA - Sylvia # 79 80 ( NEW ) LAND OF A THOUSAND DANCES - Mr Bloe # 80 12th April 1975 Van McCoy gets that number one spot with a disco classic - "Do it", but Disco Tex isnt far behind at 3, as ABBA drop a single in some European territories, going for an MOR vibe on what I still consider to be their least-fabulous single of all. It's singalong but they can and did better. The B side also charts, that's catchy too. Mud say bye bye to RAK and Mickie Most with a 50's Buddy Holly cover, War enter a year early for the UK, and Maria Muldaur's Gringo is issued with her US single on the B side. 1 ( 8 ) THE HUSTLE - Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony # 1 2 ( 3 ) GET DOWN TONIGHT - KC & The Sunshine Band # 1 3 ( 18 ) I WANNA DANCE WIT’ CHOO (DO DAT DANCE) - Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes featuring Sir Monti Rock III # 3 4 ( 2 ) MISTY - Ray Stevens # 1 5 ( 1 ) SKIING IN THE SNOW - Wigans Ovation # 1 6 ( 6 ) FOX ON THE RUN - The Sweet # 3 7 ( 13 ) LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER - Captain and Tennille # 7 8 ( 5 ) BAD TIME - Grand Funk Railroad # 5 9 ( 4 ) THE TIME WARP - Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, Charles Gray & Cast # 4 10 ( 11 ) A LITTLE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING - Gilbert Becaud # 10 11 ( 12 ) JIGSAW GIRL - Clifford T.Ward # 11 12 ( 9 ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 13 ( 10 ) BYE BYE BABY - Bay City Rollers # 9 14 ( 17 ) EL BIMBO - Bimbo Jets # 2 15 ( 29 ) I CAN DO IT - The Rubettes # 9 16 ( 15 ) THAT’S THE WAY OF THE WORLD - Earth, Wind & Fire # 12 17 ( 23 ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 8 18 ( 14 ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM - Elton John Band # 1 19 ( 19 ) LIFE IS A MINESTRONE - 10cc # 19 20 ( NEW ) I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO, I DO - ABBA # 20 21 ( 39 ) SISTER GOLDEN HAIR - America # 21 22 ( 21 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 23 ( 24 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 24 ( 16 ) WONDERFUL BABY - Don McLean # 16 25 ( 25 ) LOVE ME LOVE MY DOG - Peter Shelley # 19 26 ( 20 ) SWEET TRANSVESTITE - Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon & Barry Bostwick # 20 27 ( 22 ) LET ME BE THE ONE - The Shadows # 18 28 ( 7 ) HONEY - Bobby Goldsboro # 3 29 ( 28 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 30 ( 35 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 31 ( 38 ) ONLY YESTERDAY - Carpenters # 31 32 ( 33 ) TAKE YOUR MAMA FOR A RIDE - Lulu # 32 33 ( 26 ) YOU SEXY THING - Hot Chocolate # 7 34 ( 27 ) DING-A-DONG - Teach-In # 17 35 ( 30 ) HANG ON SLOOPY - The McCoys # 24 36 ( 31 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 37 ( 36 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 38 ( 37 ) IT’S ONLY ME YOU’VE LEFT BEHIND - Cliff Richard # 37 39 ( 40 ) SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap # 4 40 ( 51 ) I DREAMED LAST NIGHT - Justin Hayward & John Lodge # 40 41 ( 50 ) ONLY WOMEN BLEED - Alice Cooper # 41 42 ( 43 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 12 43 ( 49 ) DON’T BE CRUEL - Mike Berry # 43 44 ( 41 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 1 45 ( NEW ) OH BOY - Mud # 45 46 ( 52 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 5 47 ( NEW ) WHY CAN’T WE BE FRIENDS - War # 47 48 ( 42 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 49 ( 32 ) STAND BY ME - John Lennon # 4 50 ( 34 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 51 ( 45 ) WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH YOU - Barry White # 25 52 ( 54 ) HITCHING A RIDE IN THE MOONLIGHT - Middle Of The Road # 52 53 ( 46 ) AUTOBAHN - Kraftwerk # 18 54 ( 47 ) THE LAST FAREWELL - Roger Whittaker # 47 55 ( 53 ) 99 MILES FROM L.A. - Albert Hammond # 53 56 ( NEW ) GRINGO IN MEXICO - Maria Muldaur # 56 57 ( 57 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 58 ( 56 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 59 ( 61 ) THE TEARS I CRIED - The Glitter Band # 59 60 ( NEW ) ROCK ME - ABBA # 60 61 ( 59 ) DYNOMITE - Tony Camilla’s Bazuka # 59 62 ( 65 ) TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF - The Three Degrees # 62 63 ( 64 ) IF - Yin & Yan # 63 64 ( 44 ) BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears # 8 65 ( 55 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 66 ( 48 ) BILLY PORTER - Mick Ronson # 48 67 ( NEW ) PAPA OOM MOW MOW - The Sharonettes # 67 68 ( 72 ) I FORGOT TO SAY I LOVE YOU TILL I’M GONE - The Chi-Lites # 68 69 ( 76 ) I’LL BE HOLDING ON - Al Downing # 69 70 ( NEW ) LET ME TRY AGAIN - Tammy Jones # 70 71 ( 77 ) WE’LL FIND OUR DAY - Stephanie De Sykes # 71 72 ( 73 ) (YOU DON’T KNOW) HOW GLAD I AM - The Kiki Dee Band # 72 73 ( NEW ) YOU BABY - John Holt # 73 74 ( NEW ) MIDNIGHT SKY PART 1 - The Isley Brothers # 74 75 ( 58 ) YOUNG AMERICANS - David Bowie # 16 76 ( 80 ) LAND OF A THOUSAND DANCES - Mr Bloe # 76 77 ( 71 ) TRY TO REMEMBER/ THE WAY WE WERE - Gladys Knight & The Pips # 67 78 ( NEW ) ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY - Ian Hunter # 78 79 ( 75 ) CALL ME ROUND - Pilot # 75 80 ( NEW ) LOVE - Lyn Paul # 80

Monday's still not up so straight back into Tuesday's. Jade outdoing me and Rollo on a Beatles question, and I have no excuses....😮 round 1: 39 round 2: 36 (Duffy) 3 in 10: Boom Bang A Bang, Im A Tiger, Shout

Eternal Flame is great, but again sad memories for me. Kon Kan is more upbeat, eccentric and all over the place, but it samples the fab Rose Garden so I was bound to like it. 🙂

Diddy wasnt that great, even with Christina on board, but Alphabeat were worse for me.

The rubbish batch: Light My Fire is head n shoulders ahead of the rest, 9/10 largely because Will Young copied Jose Feliciano's 1968 fabulous version and didn't actually ruin it at all. Orbital's original Chime grabbed a 5/10 from me, but not this time round, Goldenballs for a novelty footie track got a remarkable 5/10 too, and Ozzy also grabbed a modest 5/10 for Dreamer. DJ Otzi was a shite cover of an early 60's goodie, 2/10 and highly irritating, and the rest made zero impression on me at all except for the 1/10 Ant & Dec. week 25 was an improvement! Southern Son I dont actually remember but it's a 9/10 in my charts (top 5)! Sounds nice n chill-out, maybe I popped into the Trance dancefloor one night after all :) Hella Good was a hella good 7/10 for No Doubt and Elvis' remix a whopping 9/10 and his best "new" song (as a remix) since, ooh, Way Down, just before he died. Hero was a decent power-ballad, 8/10, almost certainly helped by being in Spiderman. Sophie's Get Over You was a big pop number 2 for me, 9/10 though I didnt get to hear t'other side, and Kylie's a big chart-topping fab fave, 10/10. Layo & Bushwacka's Love Story was an OK 4/10 from me, Moony's Dove did the biz on the pop dancefloor for an 8/10 from , as was Puddle Of Mudd's Blurry, albeit obv not on the pop dancefloor - more likely on rotation on US radio. Badly Drawn Boy was a pleasant 7/10, while Peaches I usually quite like and did so here, 6/10. Scooter, well what can anyone say about taking a former number one fve of mine and turning it into dance cheese? 4/10 and that's for the sampled bits. Aggi and Nelson's remix I liked though, 6/10. The Libertines I never liked and never got, and for once I'm rating a club track much higher than Julian: maybe I liked the familiar vibes, but Starchaser grabbed a 9/10 from me. Ludacris one can generally rely on to be tosh and the rest are DNC's.

Texas, great under-appreciated band of the 90's, and this Americana debut was a good'un, S Express still sounding good, Jason Donovan's was OK, but got a bit annoying after a while, and Gloria Estefan ballads are fine by me anytime, love her voice and this should have been a hit first time round - it was for me! Jason is starring in a travelling Rocky Horror Picture Show at the moment, I would pay to see him sing Sweet Transvestite, already paid to see him in Priscilla! Bananarama's Help cover was fab, loved the video: "Pete I'm a bit toppy!" Living In A Box a big chrt-topper for me, love it. Also love Like A Prayer and This Time I Know It's For Real but they take me back to March 1989 too much, it was a terrible month, my grandma was in hospital seriously ill in Liverpool and a twat crashed into my car during heavy hailstorms on the M5 driving back from the hospital, caving in the back end as I went spinning round onto the hard shoulder - which meant I didnt get back to see grandma before she suddenly died the week after these charts. Bad times never go away in the memory. Straight Up is OK, never a fan of her voice though, Paradise City is fine, Keep On Movin' a soul gem and I'd Rather Jack was the record on the radio when I got crashed into, so frankly I'd rather Fleetwood Mac.

ooh I can add a few then if Madonna, Kylie, Katie Perry, Cher, Sophie EB, Paloma have been entered 😎

missed fridays and todays again oops! catching up on fridays now so no comments on performance till I catch up todays but I'm sure everyone did well! 🙂 round 1: 30 (Beatles) 😮😯 Yes I said Daytripper. It's Day Tripper isn't it....! Then I said All For Love and changed my mind to All For One. Terrible! round 2: I tried to skip 30 seconds it went into error mode and sent me back to the start and I cant be arsed to sit through it again. They need a more user-friendly online version....😇

I got as far as F in the a to z and got a list of oldies: 10cc. Belinda carlisle. Boney M. Corrs. Dave dee dozy beaky mick and tich. David bowie. Depeche mode. The (bucks) fizz. At which point i gave up! But also Pet Shop Boys. Kim wilde. OMD. Off the top of me head.... Prob few 21st century acts unless some like la roux noisettes killers Kaiser chiefs katy perry paloma faith sophie ellis bextor hailee steinfeld turin brakes tom speight hurts scissor sisters have been entered!

Nancy Sinatra also paid tribute to Clem as a great person, friend and drummer - he was in her band back in her touring days. Dreaming is back in my charts along with 3 other Blondie tracks 3 of them drum-centred. Sadly theres already another veteran pop star who will pop in my chart too next week i bought one of his flop oldies 2 weeks ago coincidentally Dont Be Cruel: Mike Berry.

1 2 1 4 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 317600 2 39 2 2 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 132100 3 1 1 4 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 283900 4 7 4 6 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 242000 5 3 1 9 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 966400 6 4 2 11 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 587400 7 41 7 4 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 79550 8 13 8 7 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 202550 9 5 1 14 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1055000 10 9 7 9 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 241950 11 21 11 3 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 74750 12 8 2 12 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 564400 13 6 4 10 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 335150 14 10 8 8 HALO - KEiiNO 174500 15 14 5 8 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 300900 16 22 16 5 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 85250 17 15 15 9 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 152650 18 12 10 11 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 272800 19 11 7 9 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 242800 20 40 20 5 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 66750 21 16 16 10 FANCY - Artemas 201850 22 17 17 6 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 100650 23 18 18 14 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 183900 24 55 24 4 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 43500 25 38 25 3 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 40550 26 27 26 7 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 110050 27 19 1 11 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 798150 28 28 28 9 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 104900 29 20 8 15 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus & Andrew Wyatt 364500 30 26 1 21 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1483050 31 32 31 7 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 82350 32 33 32 5 TURN UP YOUR RADIO - Deacon Blue featuring Lorraine McIntosh 68550 33 35 33 6 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 73200 34 30 11 12 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 255900 35 50 35 5 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 49100 36 29 5 10 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 379600 37 48 37 4 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 48000 38 31 31 6 WANT U - Hayley May 84100 39 36 1 21 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 735000 40 24 10 11 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 298000

6th April 2025 It's a new number one for Justin Hayward, grabbing his 2nd solo number one 47 years on from his previous Forever Autumn, though he has also topped the chart twice with Moody Blues classics, and Mike Batt, who goes one better as he gets his 2nd chart-topper almost 50 years on from Summer Time City. That means the chart record for a second number one with new material is snatched from Sparks. Life In A Northern Town has also never topped my chart before, though it came close in 1985. Mondo Cozmo has had a big push from the 3rd series of Reacher ending on the track Shine, and generated a lot of interest in the flop fab anthem. Shine is uplifting in dark times, even if one isn't religious. Up a whopping 37 places. Avalan Rokston also got some sales chart action, but this time thanks to Tik Tok. They sound not unlike The Weeknd in bop mode. Long-time drummer of Blondie sadly died aged 70 this week, and there are some cherry-picked drum-themed Blondie oldies (and their most recent number one Good Boys) popping back in: Atomic, Hanging On The Telephone and Picture This. Tom Grennan keeps his small run of chart entries going with Boys Don't Cry, and Rudimental are always with a chart entry when they do a good collab - such as Khalid. Miley Cyrus is feeling more musically experimental at the mo, and End Of The World drops in, leaving Ariane Grande using a century-old song as a new song, and finally The Doobie Brothers return with Michael McDonald on lead vocal - it's been, ooh, 36 years or so since they had new material chart for me. That's not a record gap, but it's still huge! 1 2 1 4 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 317600 2 39 2 2 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 132100 3 1 1 4 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 283900 4 7 4 6 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 242000 5 3 1 9 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 966400 6 4 2 11 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 587400 7 41 7 4 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 79550 8 13 8 7 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 202550 9 5 1 14 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1055000 10 9 7 9 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 241950 11 21 11 3 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 74750 12 8 2 12 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 564400 13 6 4 10 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 335150 14 10 8 8 HALO - KEiiNO 174500 15 14 5 8 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 300900 16 22 16 5 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 85250 17 15 15 9 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 152650 18 12 10 11 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 272800 19 11 7 9 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 242800 20 40 20 5 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 66750 21 16 16 10 FANCY - Artemas 201850 22 17 17 6 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 100650 23 18 18 14 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 183900 24 55 24 4 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 43500 25 38 25 3 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 40550 26 27 26 7 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 110050 27 19 1 11 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 798150 28 28 28 9 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 104900 29 20 8 15 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus & Andrew Wyatt 364500 30 26 1 21 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1483050 31 32 31 7 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 82350 32 33 32 5 TURN UP YOUR RADIO - Deacon Blue featuring Lorraine McIntosh 68550 33 35 33 6 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 73200 34 30 11 12 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 255900 35 50 35 5 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 49100 36 29 5 10 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 379600 37 48 37 4 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 48000 38 31 31 6 WANT U - Hayley May 84100 39 36 1 21 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 735000 40 24 10 11 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 298000 41 34 7 21 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 445050 42 NEW 42 1 ATOMIC - Blondie 13750 43 54 43 5 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 47500 44 23 2 10 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 350300 45 NEW 45 1 GOOD BOYS - Blondie 13000 46 25 9 10 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 193700 47 60 47 5 CONFESSION - Louise 39300 48 56 48 6 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 50500 49 37 37 6 WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU - Angie Stone 69800 50 53 50 5 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 45250 51 63 51 3 STEREOQUEEN - Stela Cole 24950 52 46 7 11 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 291850 53 61 53 3 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 22950 54 76 54 2 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 15800 55 71 55 2 STILL BAD - Lizzo 16600 56 58 56 5 HIGHER - Tom Speight 37600 57 42 33 6 WHIRLWIND - Lainey Wilson 75850 58 59 4 50 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1177600 59 64 59 4 LOUD! - Chesney Hawkes 26800 60 68 60 2 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 16400 61 47 18 18 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 255300 62 57 20 10 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 149550 63 NEW 63 1 HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE - Blondie 7200 64 70 64 4 THE GIVER - Chappell Roan 23100 65 69 65 4 FIDA KNOWN - Gloria Gaynor 22400 66 49 6 13 COLD DREAMING - Doves 232000 67 NEW 67 1 BOYS DON’T CRY - Tom Grennan 6600 68 72 68 2 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 12000 69 NEW 69 1 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 6200 70 73 70 2 JUMP IN THE LINE - Ash 11400 71 74 71 2 MAKE UP YOUR MIND - Bryan Adams 11000 72 51 36 8 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 99800 73 45 8 13 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 256600 74 75 74 4 MANDINGO - Wu-Tang Clan & Mathematics featuring Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Method Man & Cappadonna 19800 75 80 75 2 BAR LONELY - Franz Ferdinand 9000 76 52 37 7 BUTTERFLY - Marina 77700 77 NEW 77 1 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 4600 78 NEW 78 1 DREAMING - Blondie 4400 79 NEW 79 1 TWILIGHT ZONE - Ariane Grande 4200 80 NEW 80 1 LEARN TO LET GO - The Doobie Brothers 4000 DROP OUTS 44 27 10 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 133550 43 1 13 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 537250 62 32 8 REVELATION - The Knocks & Dragonette 106550 65 23 9 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 122750 66 1 20 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1297250 67 35 8 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 123000 77 52 7 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 62800 78 59 5 GRANITE MILLS - Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Russell Moore 35000 79 63 6 WAKE ME UP - The Weeknd featuring Justice 36000

Hey Sven! 🙂 my faves! - LADY GAGA - ABRACADABRA -PP❤️ / - (4x@🥇) 02 03 06 - Alex Warren - Ordinary / - (The Official Dutch Top 40 - 2x@🥇 week 14) 03 02 15 - Lola Young - Messy -PP❤️ / - (5x@🥇) 05 11 02 - Doechii - Anxiety -PP❤️ 07 14 03 - Benson Boone - Sorry I´m Here For Someone Else 09 15 04 - David Guetta & Sia - Beautiful People -PP❤️ 13 18 02 - Chappell Roan - The Giver 14 08 07 - Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club 15 16 05 - Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman 16 10 23 - Rosé & Bruno Mars - APT. / - (10x@🥇) 19 22 03 - WizThe Mc & Bees & Honey - Show Me Love -PP❤️ 20 19 08 - The Weeknd - Cry For Me 26 24 07 - Kygo & OneRepublic - Chasing Paradise 30 26 04 - Morgan Seatree & Florence + The Machine - Say My Name (remix´24) 36 NE 01 - Sam Fender - Arm´s Length / - (tip02) 37 29 11 - Armin Van Buuren & Norma Jean Martine & Lawrent & Alok - Euphoria -PP❤️ 38 28 17 - Pawsa & The Adventures Of Stevie V - Dirty Cash, Money Talks (remix´24) breakers: 17 18 - Alok & Kylie Minogue - Last Night I Dreamt I Fell In Love 1973: I'm 15 again hooray! 02 01 05 - The Osmonds - Down By The Lazy River / - (1x@🥇) / -AS🔔 04 03 07 - Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly Whith His Song / - (1x@🥇) 06 08 05 - The Moody Blues - I´m Just A Singer In A Rock´N`Roll Band 07 07 04 - Alice Cooper - Hello Hurray 08 21 02 - Demis Roussos - Forever And Ever / -AS🔔 Took 3 years to hit the UK, I bought it in 1974! 09 12 10 - Focus - Hocus Pocus / - (7 weeks in 1971) 10 15 03 - Gilbert O´Sullivan - Get Down -TS🃏 11 17 03 - Donny Osmond - The Twelfth Of Never / -AS🔔 13 26 04 - The New Seekers - Pinball Wizzard / See Me Feel Me 15 09 05 - Slade - Cum On Feel The Noize 17 10 07 - Middle Of The Road - Yellow Boomerang 20 18 04 - Jermaine Jackson - Daddy´s Home 22 24 05 - Colin Blunstone - Andorra never heard this one! 25 27 06 - Thin Lizzy - Whiskey In The Jar 29 37 04 - The Faces - Cindy Incidentally 31 19 12 - The Sweet - Blockbuster / - (3x@🥇) / -AS🔔 32 14 08 - Gary Glitter - Do You Wanna Touch Me / -TS🃏 36 20 14 - Little Jimmy Osmond - Long Haired Lover From Liverpool -TS🃏 37 23 08 - David Bowie - The Jean Genie 39 29 07 - Timmy Thomas - Why Can´t We Live Together❤️ 42 35 06 - Electric Light Orchestra - Roll Over Beethoven 47 30 07 - Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - If You Don´t Know Me By Now 49 28 08 - The Les Humphries Singers - Mama Loo / -AS🔔 -TS = TreiterSchijf : -----------------------> David Cassedy - I Am A Clown -TS🃏 / - (Offshore Radio Noordzee Internationaal - NL - 220 meters -PP = PowerPlay : ------------------------> Geordie - All Because Of You / - (Radio Luxemburg - NL - 208 meters) -TS = TroetelSchijf : -----------------------> Stevie Wonder - You Are The Sunshine Of My Life / - (State Radio Hilversum 3 - NL - 240 meters) lots to love! 🙂

Hi Sergej! 😎 Thanks for the picks! take care! 🙂

I voted! First time 🙂

Hey Seltin! Thanks for popping in and liking Selena, I hope it gets to be a hit, but probably won't! 😎 Benson is great and Guetta/sia I always go for 🙂 cheers!

Hi AH! 😎 Hope all is great! Just playing the new number one, sounding even more like The Bangles lead singer, Susanna Hoffs, than usual. I like it! Will chart it next week after I buy it. Great to see Busy Woman top last week too, she's had a great run of tracks since Espresso started the ball rolling. Tom Grennan has clicked now, and Louise is still climbing for me. Fab chart as always! 😎

Hi AH! 😎 All OK ta, hope life is fun and not hectic! Ooh big climber for you too! Will see any second... 🙂 Love Is Holy is a great record, one of her best oldies when she sings it live, sadly forgotten mostly these days though. Rick Nowels wrote it and it has that Belinda Carlisle vibe to it. He has quite the back catalogue of great songs. Sophie's new one is decent, I've heard it 3 times so far, and it's not rocketing up my chart yet...🙂 Thanks as always for the big picks! 😎

Hi SSP, Gaga at 41, Kim Wilde, Waterboys, Anxiety, Benson, Bryan, The Giver, Guetta/Sia & The Doobies are my climber faves! good chart!

Thanks for the picks SSP, hope all is great!

great to see so many faves still doing well in your chart, not least Alt Black Era, just exiting my chart but still sounding good. 3 good new entries too, and Die With A Smile still in 6 months on. I under-rated that one first couple of months should have been a number one in my chart!

I know, I was as surprised as anyone 😄 I hope it gets a proper single release down the line with some promo, def my fave thing she's done.

Dj Shadow troubled not my charts of the time, and sadly Korn never grew in my fields, not even once. Electric Soft Parade padded in to my chart once, but not with this one, so things looking a little sparse so far. So, hooray for Eminem! Without Me top 5 and a fab video for a fine fun 9/10. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club usually got the revs from me, and Spread Your Love sneaked into my top 10 for an 8/10. Rhianna Mk 1 surprisingly also went top 5 with Oh Baby, so thats a 9/10 without me having heard it in 23 years. I can only assume I was right about it! Atomic Kitten are just asking for an obvious comment, so here I am: "It's OK!" 4/10. Ian Van Dahl as per usual passed me by without noticing, and Westlife were robbed with Bop Bop Baby, genuinely their best record to date and a shock 9/10 from me. Obviously their usual fanbase couldnt recognise a fun pop record when they heard one. I'm avoiding Starbucks and all the various USA mega-monopolies wherever possible these days. Elbows-up Canada! A? Eh? No, A. It grabbed a 7/10 though. Mine's usually a Hot Chocolate. Ms Dynah-migheetee? It Takes More, but another 7/10 from me. Baby Now That I've Found You is a great 60's pop great, and was given a completely different and wonderful take by Bluegrass act Alison Krauss in the mid 90's. Lauren Waterworth I would have thought was a made-up name until 5 minutes ago. I'm guessing it wasn't a great version. The Saw Doctors usually buzzed off quickly as far as I was concerned, and This Is Me followed that trend. Billy Bragg, meanwhile, lives locally counting his royalties in a rich area, but thankfully has been mercifully not bothering the charts for 2 decades. He did have a heyday when he made some good records, mind you: 6 months in 1991 and one classic song in the 80's for the much-missed Kirsty MacColl. Mostly his awful tuneless posturing makes Bob Dylan sound like Karen Carpenter, by and large. Doesn't attend the annual Tolpuddle Festival these days.....