Popchartfreak

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.....

ooh well done again Rollo and nearly there Jade! 🎉 missed the beginning again tch, mate popped round and still thinking about the new Universal Studios UK hooray, and watching youtube videos on Florida Epic Universe since it opened 😄 🎊: more 2000's questions today though! round 1: 30 round 2: 27 one year out, The Proclaimers, Paul Weller eek! 3 in 10: Whiskey In The Jar, Boys Are Back In Town, Dont Believe A Word, Killer On The Loose, Rosalie

Sadly the Beeb banned any records that mentioned products - that's why we got Paul Simon's Take Me To The Mardi Gras instead of the USA's Kodachrome as a single, and The Kinks had to re-record Lola to omit Coca-Cola :) That said advert songs to coke and pepsi became hits minus the brand reference, like I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing and Hello Summertime, and later First Time. Jeans On was a big hit, but they had to change the lyrics to omit Brutus Jeans. Oddly, film song theme tunes were fine to have in the title.....😮 The Bandwagon got away with Blame It On The Pony Express as they weren't actually sending letters and parcels by horse anymore, and by the mid-70's some sneaked in like A Glass Of Champagne - Sailor, probably cos that wasn't treated like a brand name, more of a copyright of the companies in that region!

Yay Rollo! Top marks well done🏆! This is going to look like I did the same just to keep up 😆 round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: promised you a miracle, belfast child (topical in the threads today), dont you forget about me

Stop is an epic ballad, I bought it in 1988 so had a bonus new chart-topper as it peaked at 1 for me around this time. I've seen Sam in concert with her dad, they are both fab in a live setting. Leave Me Alone had a great video, and the nutty Jacko stories were getting annoying by this time, but I refused to buy the track as I'd bought Bad on vinyl pretty much day of release and was pissed that vinyl buyers got screwed. The sound on vinyl was still better than CD on full-price albums. Singles and budget albums - including Now vinyl - less good though. Deliberately in my opinion as time went on. I still think it's not as good as the rest of Bad, bar Just Good Friends. Speed Demon should have been a double A with it. Rick's single was pretty bad, he really needed a co-write with a proper hit songwriter, it's not as if there weren't loads around at the time....

I've been intrigued by the Hawaiian Wedding Song title for decades but dont recall hearing it before. I really like The Wedding, childhood memories attached, but no nostalgia here but I do know that tune a bit. Wikipedia google, ah it's an Elvis cover song from Blue Hawaii of an old standard. That'll be why. I'll stick with Elvis. The Animals cover is also one I know through other versions, Rod Stewart's is the first I knew and didnt like it much, and this passed me by at the time too. Sam Cooke's is the version I know best, and I'll stick with that one. The Bachelors is another one I have no memory of, but I was watching them last night on a fab Youtube post of a new Years Eve Top Of The Pops 60's review from 1969 that has never been broadcast since, and never will (thanks to SaVile) but it's amazing. This track is dull but they did a great live version of Diane - I was struck how even not-great pop stars of the 60's could cut it live. I have Dionne's Greatest Hits CD but this aint on it, the irony is the bulk of her US hits are on it, including the way better non-hits from the next 3 years. It's an attempt to move away from the lush Bacharach ballads, I suppose, but this sounds much older than they do. It's the best of the options so far though. Peter & Gordon then, the song is a bullet-proof Buddy Holly classic, it topped my charts a few years back in a London Philharmonic orchestral version of Buddy's, and to be fair this is a pretty good cover and is most probably where my love of the song comes from as I seem to have always known it without remembering that I liked it at any particular time. So, a quick catch up on my life back then: yes Doctor Who ruled my life, of course. It was April Fool's Day and I forgot to play a fool on my friends, none of whom I remember. It must have been classmates and a schoolday. Hey, we went on a day out visit to another school, and I don't remember this either, nor a nursery rhyme song called Little Blue Ben - it's on Youtube and I swear I never heard it in my life :) Here Comes Grannie? Not even on Youtube. Who Built The Ark? Noah. There is a whale mentioned here so maybe that was the inspiration for Noah & The Whale. It's telling that the stuff I was being force fed to sing by the school made no impression on me at all, yet the top pop records of 1965 I could get excited by.... Johnny Todd seems to be a folk song from waaayyyyy back in Liverpool's 19th Century British Empire majesty days, Bob Dylan covered it, and the tune was used in the then-famous Mersey police TV show Z-Cars. Great theme tune that one. Liverpool in 1965 was a shadow of it's former self, (my grandma lived there) but the buildings remain grand in the City Centre. And then I did some drawings of a camel, a car, and a cap. Pretty good I think, if I say so myself. I have a car, I have a cap shaped like that, and I have yet to see a camel with it's hump fallen down under it's belly. I know we went to London Zoo in 1965 because Goldie The Golden Eagle escaped and made news headlines, and we went to see him some time after they got him back that March, so I'm guessing I got the camel hump bug there in May.

Avril Lavigne, I didnt chart it, and have no memory of it so I'm playing it now. I think I will stick with her fabulous duet with Yungblud, I'm A Mess, way better song.

thanks Rollo and Jade, just beat me to post todays :) 36 is great, both, matches my round 1 & 2 today round 1: 36 (I also said Ed Sheeran) round 2: 36 one year out 3 in 10: You Make Me Feel Like dancing, When I Knee'd You, One Man Band, Show Must Go On, Moonlighting, Orchard Road

29th March 1975 It's 2 weeks on top for KC as The Sweet climb up to look like the closest threat, as Fox On The Run is at 3. Bay City Rollers get a first top 10 since Manana in 1972, and Grand Funk Railroad's Bad Time leaps up to 10 from outside the top 40, sounding great on repeat. The highest new entry is the Eurovision winner, it was the track I went big on on the night, much as I liked The Shadows' runner-up, which appropriately enough climbs to 18 as The Netherlands' Teach-In debut Ding-A-Dong at 17. It's cheese, but it topped my chart in 1975 and it's still fun. Old faves Middle Of The Road continue to be ignored by UK radio but Europe still likes them, and so did I, as their final decent single Hitchin' A Ride In The Moonlight pops in at 61, just ahead of a sound-alike follow-up for The Glitter Band, The Tears I Cried being Goodbye My Love part 2, but not as good. The Three Degrees drop back into sultry lush Philly ballad groove after failing to follow-up When Will I See You Again, and are rewarded with a UK hit, Take Good Care Of Yourself at 65. In the USA Don Williams releases You're My Best Friend, which would take another 12 months to become a Country hit in the UK, but I'm as ever in early in these retro charts. Kiki Dee meanwhile covers Nancy Wilson's How Glad I Am rock-stylee, and it's decent enough, but Ralph McTell opts from a very not folk-song follow-up to Streets Of London. El Progresso was a strange choice, though I do like it. Pilot manage to do the unlikely: sabotage their own career by not re-issuing Just A Smile as the follow-up to January (that came later after the damage was done) and dropping the ordinary Call Me Round ("OK! You're Round"). Sylvia tried for another Spanish holiday hit with Hasta La Vista, Arnold Schwarzenegger was taking notes, baby. Lastly Al Downing enters with a song I've never heard before. 1 ( 1 ) GET DOWN TONIGHT - KC & The Sunshine Band # 1 2 ( 2 ) MISTY - Ray Stevens # 1 3 ( 6 ) FOX ON THE RUN - The Sweet # 3 4 ( 5 ) SKIING IN THE SNOW - Wigans Ovation # 4 5 ( 8 ) THE TIME WARP - Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, Charles Gray & Cast # 5 6 ( 3 ) HONEY - Bobby Goldsboro # 3 7 ( 4 ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 8 ( 7 ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM - Elton John Band # 1 9 ( 18 ) BYE BYE BABY - Bay City Rollers # 9 10 ( 42 ) BAD TIME - Grand Funk Railroad # 10 11 ( 15 ) JIGSAW GIRL - Clifford T.Ward # 11 12 ( 19 ) THAT’S THE WAY OF THE WORLD - Earth, Wind & Fire # 12 13 ( 20 ) A LITTLE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING - Gilbert Becaud # 13 14 ( 10 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 15 ( 11 ) YOU SEXY THING - Hot Chocolate # 7 16 ( 12 ) EL BIMBO - Bimbo Jets # 2 17 ( NEW ) DING-A-DONG - Teach-In # 17 18 ( 38 ) LET ME BE THE ONE - The Shadows # 18 19 ( 16 ) WONDERFUL BABY - Don McLean # 16 20 ( 17 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 21 ( 23 ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 8 22 ( 28 ) SWEET TRANSVESTITE - Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon & Barry Bostwick # 22 23 ( 27 ) LOVE ME LOVE MY DOG - Peter Shelley # 19 24 ( 26 ) HANG ON SLOOPY - The McCoys # 24 25 ( 9 ) I CAN DO IT - The Rubettes # 9 26 ( 13 ) STAND BY ME - John Lennon # 4 27 ( 24 ) SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap # 4 28 ( 14 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 29 ( 31 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 30 ( 21 ) AUTOBAHN - Kraftwerk # 18 31 ( 34 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 32 ( 35 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 33 ( 29 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 34 ( 30 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 1 35 ( 39 ) LIFE IS A MINESTRONE - 10cc # 35 36 ( 22 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 12 37 ( 49 ) IT’S ONLY ME YOU’VE LEFT BEHIND - Cliff Richard # 37 38 ( 50 ) ONLY YESTERDAY - Carpenters # 38 39 ( 40 ) TAKE YOUR MAMA FOR A RIDE - Lulu # 39 40 ( 32 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 5 41 ( 43 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 42 ( 41 ) SLOW DOWN - Shabby Tiger # 23 43 ( 36 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE - The Glitter Band # 9 44 ( 25 ) BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears # 8 45 ( 47 ) WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH YOU - Barry White # 25 46 ( 45 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 47 ( 46 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW - Olivia Newton-John # 2 48 ( 53 ) YOUNG AMERICANS - David Bowie # 16 49 ( 51 ) THE LAST FAREWELL - Roger Whittaker # 49 50 ( 55 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 51 ( 48 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 52 ( 61 ) SISTER GOLDEN HAIR - America # 52 53 ( 65 ) BILLY PORTER - Mick Ronson # 53 54 ( 74 ) ONLY WOMEN BLEED - Alice Cooper # 54 55 ( 54 ) DON’T BE CRUEL - Mike Berry # 46 56 ( 52 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 57 ( 69 ) I DREAMED LAST NIGHT - Justin Hayward & John Lodge # 57 58 ( 33 ) SAVE ME - Silver Convention # 10 59 ( 37 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 19 60 ( 64 ) 99 MILES FROM L.A. - Albert Hammond # 60 61 ( NEW ) HITCHING A RIDE IN THE MOONLIGHT - Middle Of The Road # 61 62 ( NEW ) THE TEARS I CRIED - The Glitter Band # 62 63 ( 62 ) DYNOMITE - Tony Camilla’s Bazuka # 62 64 ( 63 ) IF - Yin & Yan # 63 65 ( NEW ) TAKE GOOD CARE OF YOURSELF - The Three Degrees # 65 66 ( 71 ) THE FILM OF MY LOVE - 10cc # 66 67 ( 67 ) TRY TO REMEMBER/ THE WAY WE WERE - Gladys Knight & The Pips # 67 68 ( 44 ) FELICITA TA TA - Raffaella Carra # 17 69 ( 78 ) DIAL ‘L’ FOR LOVE - Polly Brown # 69 70 ( 75 ) WHERE IS THE LOVE - Betty Wright # 70 71 ( 77 ) SWINGING ON A STAR - Spooky and Sue # 71 72 ( NEW ) YOU’RE MY BEST FRIEND - Don Williams # 72 73 ( NEW ) (YOU DON’T KNOW) HOW GLAD I AM - The Kiki Dee Band # 73 74 ( 70 ) NOTHING GOOD COMES EASY - Barry Mann # 70 75 ( 73 ) THE OUTSIDER - Robert Knight # 73 76 ( 76 ) I FORGOT TO SAY I LOVE YOU TILL I’M GONE - The Chi-Lites # 76 77 ( NEW ) EL PROGRESSO - Ralph McTell # 77 78 ( NEW ) CALL ME ROUND - Pilot # 78 79 ( NEW ) HASTA LA VISTA - Sylvia # 79 80 ( NEW ) I’LL BE HOLDING ON - Al Downing # 80

I do like me a bit of Lloyd-Webber but as we move into the 90's the golden years were behind him pretty much, gone from ground-breaking rock-opera and lush fantasy re-tellings with amazing arrangements and melodies and off into MOR tuneful pop with the very likeable Michael Ball. Not in the same league from here-on. Yazz showed she could do more than Big House-driven dance tunes, very nice, but the Simple Minds EP is the one, Mandela Day was a great track but Belfast Child is a key Simple Minds record. The Celtic touches were excellent and I didn't understand the Simple Minds backlash because they dared to move away from rocksynth New Wave to stadium-rock of the top-notch to global movie theme domination, and then abruptly change direction again, but they def did get slagged off from around here onwards, but the truth is they remained great (and still are, new stuff is also good). Co-incidentally Radio 2 is talking about Jim Kerr as I type.

entered!

round 1: 36 (Phil Collins) round 2: 39 tiebreaks: 2 3 in 10: 3 living next door to alice, needles & pins, oh carol, if you think you know how to love me, somethings been making me blue

OK, straight into the good: Liberty X is a stylish 9/10, though I did overdose on it eventually, and Jessica's Eurovision from the days when it still seemed like we could knock off a potential winner fairly easily, Come Back was a good 9/10 too. A1, though while not a classic pop track like Caught In The Middle, was a pretty decent sign-off, 8/10. That leaves some good singles for a 7/10: Enrique, and Fat Joe. A 6/10 as Pink treads water, The Reelists grabbed a forgotten 4/10 and I had the good taste to give R Kelly one week at 75 so a 3/10. The rest show how much my tastes and the Uk chart had diverged: DNC....

3 good dance tracks there with Ten City, Bobby Brown and Robert & Kym, the latter is my fave of the 3 but not by too much, dance music coming good again. Pretty sure Mozza would hate all three, but his single isn't that great, it's OK but not as good as Everyday Is Like Sunday. Much missed Johnny Marr will be doing better before long I'm sure. Never did catch the Smiths, but I have seen Morrissey (eventually) after he cancelled a local date from being poorly, and Johnny Marr with Suedehead and the Pet Shop Boys at the Royal Albert Hall. By that I don't mean Johnny Marr covered Suedehead, it was our Simon. By that I don't mean Simon was on stage with the Pet Shop Boys and Johnny Marr.

1 26 1 3 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 198900 2 18 2 3 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 147600 3 1 1 8 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 906400 4 2 2 10 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 532400 5 3 1 13 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1010000 6 4 4 9 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 303150 7 5 5 5 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 177000 8 6 2 11 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 529400 9 7 7 8 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 199950 10 8 8 7 HALO - KEiiNO 145500 11 9 7 8 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 221800 12 13 10 10 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 250800 13 10 10 6 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 157550 14 11 5 7 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 273900 15 25 15 8 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 129650 16 17 16 9 FANCY - Artemas 182100 17 22 17 5 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 81150 18 23 18 13 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 164650 19 12 1 10 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 779750 20 15 8 14 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus & Andrew Wyatt 346300 21 30 21 2 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 37750 22 35 22 4 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 60250 23 20 2 9 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 337050 24 16 10 10 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 281000 25 14 9 9 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 180950 26 19 1 20 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1465050 27 28 27 6 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 91550 28 39 28 8 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 86600 29 24 5 9 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 362200 30 27 11 11 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 238300 31 43 31 5 WANT U - Hayley May 66900 32 47 32 6 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 64450 33 44 33 4 TURN UP YOUR RADIO - Deacon Blue featuring Lorraine McIntosh 50750 34 29 7 20 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 431050 35 48 35 5 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 55500 36 36 1 20 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 717900 37 50 37 5 WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU - Angie Stone 57700 38 77 38 2 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 21800 39 NEW 39 1 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 17100 40 51 40 4 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 46750

30th March 2025 It's Selena Gomez grabbing her first number one along with Benny Blanco. Sunset Blvd is tunefully fab, remember driving down it fondly back in 1979 when Selena wasn't even a twinkle in her parents eyes, who were probably at school. It's only taken about 15 years to get a chart-topper, though Benny has been there before as songwriter/producer for Katy Perry and Maroon 5. That leaves the big climb to the top spot overshadowing another leap from a duo - Justin Hayward topped my charts in 1978 while on a Moody Blues solo outing for Jeff Wayne's War Of The World - Forever Autumn - and this is his highest peak other than with The Moody Blues timeless chart-topper Nights In White Satin. Life In A Northern Town went top 5 in 1985 for Dream Academy, so the song is long a classic fave, spruced up beautifully by Mike Batt who also last had a number one in my charts in the 70's - his own TV theme tune Summertime City in 1975. Highest new entry comes from US cult musician Mondo Cozmo with a Dylan-Gospel-tinged show-stopper from 5 years or so ago that came and went unnoticed, Shine. It was featured as the run-out song to the current series of Reacher on Amazon, and is a bit of a gem. New at 39. Sophie Ellis-Bextor keeps the disco goodies coming, even if they aren't charting, Relentless Love at 68, while Lizzo returns after a gap of a couple of years with Still Bad. The Lottery Winners have a new album out with an unlikely guest vocal from Nickelback's Chad Kroeger. Hands up who saw that one coming? Me, neither, but it works - Ragdoll at 72. Ash occasionally return to my charts 30 years after their heyday, and they've gone and dropped another "who saw that one coming?" with a cover of Harry Belafonte's Jump In The Line, a rousing cover too, and a song I know from way back in my childhood as my dad had Harry Belafonte's Caribbean Greatest Hits on an album. Bryan Adams is never far away from a rocking return, and Radio 2 have been hitting Make Up Your Mind a lot, new at 74, for 40 years of charting, and Sheryl Crow's oldie Soak Up The Sun has been nicely revamped into a laid-back summertime dance vibe, it sounds pretty good, at 76 and that leaves Franz Ferdinand in the bottom slot with at least a 4th track from their new album. 1 26 1 3 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 198900 2 18 2 3 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 147600 3 1 1 8 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 906400 4 2 2 10 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 532400 5 3 1 13 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1010000 6 4 4 9 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 303150 7 5 5 5 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 177000 8 6 2 11 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 529400 9 7 7 8 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 199950 10 8 8 7 HALO - KEiiNO 145500 11 9 7 8 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 221800 12 13 10 10 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 250800 13 10 10 6 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 157550 14 11 5 7 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 273900 15 25 15 8 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 129650 16 17 16 9 FANCY - Artemas 182100 17 22 17 5 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 81150 18 23 18 13 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 164650 19 12 1 10 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 779750 20 15 8 14 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus & Andrew Wyatt 346300 21 30 21 2 I GOT YOU - Split Enz 37750 22 35 22 4 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 60250 23 20 2 9 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 337050 24 16 10 10 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 281000 25 14 9 9 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 180950 26 19 1 20 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1465050 27 28 27 6 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 91550 28 39 28 8 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 86600 29 24 5 9 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 362200 30 27 11 11 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 238300 31 43 31 5 WANT U - Hayley May 66900 32 47 32 6 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 64450 33 44 33 4 TURN UP YOUR RADIO - Deacon Blue featuring Lorraine McIntosh 50750 34 29 7 20 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 431050 35 48 35 5 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 55500 36 36 1 20 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 717900 37 50 37 5 WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU - Angie Stone 57700 38 77 38 2 WHITE LIES - Sam Ryder 21800 39 NEW 39 1 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 17100 40 51 40 4 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 46750 41 60 41 3 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 29400 42 33 33 5 WHIRLWIND - Lainey Wilson 65450 43 21 1 13 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 537250 44 31 27 9 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 133550 45 32 8 12 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 251200 46 34 7 10 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 280350 47 37 18 17 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 248000 48 54 48 3 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 30700 49 38 6 12 COLD DREAMING - Doves 225200 50 62 50 4 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 31600 51 40 36 7 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 94200 52 41 37 6 BUTTERFLY - Marina 72900 53 56 53 4 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 33250 54 57 54 4 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 34000 55 61 55 3 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 24500 56 58 56 5 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 38200 57 42 20 9 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 142150 58 66 58 4 HIGHER - Tom Speight 27000 59 64 4 49 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1167400 60 67 60 4 CONFESSION - Louise 26800 61 79 61 2 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 11700 62 46 32 8 REVELATION - The Knocks & Dragonette 106550 63 70 63 2 STEREOQUEEN - Stela Cole 13200 64 72 64 3 LOUD! - Chesney Hawkes 16700 65 45 23 9 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 122750 66 53 1 20 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1297250 67 52 35 8 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 123000 68 NEW 68 1 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 6400 69 75 69 3 FIDA KNOWN - Gloria Gaynor 15400 70 73 70 3 THE GIVER - Chappell Roan 16000 71 NEW 71 1 STILL BAD - Lizzo 5800 72 NEW 72 1 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 5600 73 NEW 73 1 JUMP IN THE LINE - Ash 5400 74 NEW 74 1 MAKE UP YOUR MIND - Bryan Adams 5200 75 76 75 3 MANDINGO - Wu-Tang Clan & Mathematics featuring Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, Method Man & Cappadonna 14600 76 NEW 76 1 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 4800 77 55 52 7 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 62800 78 59 59 5 GRANITE MILLS - Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Russell Moore 35000 79 63 63 6 WAKE ME UP - The Weeknd featuring Justice 36000 80 NEW 80 1 BAR LONELY - Franz Ferdinand 4000 DROP OUTS 49 20 8 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 130600 65 10 32 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 503950 68 2 16 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 566550 69 1 18 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 846900 71 71 6 THE ABYSS - The Weeknd & Lana Del Ray 30200 74 5 12 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 285300 78 70 4 LIFELINE - Jonas Blue featuring Izzy Bizu 21000 80 78 3 SCORPIO - Kim Wilde 12800

Hi Sergej! Sorry I'm running late this week with charts, think I missed your previous, so more picks for this one! 🙂 Not heard that HAIM track, sounds quite nice, thanks for the video links. Most of my faves are dropping or rebounding to lower peaks at the top end until we get down to Benson Boone, Ordinary, the new Neiked/Portugal collab, Niall Horan is also new to me, quite nice, Linkin Park and Eric Church. I loved his duet with the late Glen Campbell Hold On Hope, they did it very well mixing up the guest singers for Glen. Boys Dont Cry is good too. great charts! 🙂

Hi Sergej! 😎 Thanks for the picks, hope all is well! 🙂

Hey Sven! 😎 My faves: great top 3, high new entry for Anxiety, Benson Boone, Sabrina, and Beautiful in the top 40 climbers. Sam Fender & Alok/Kylie in the bubblers. And hooray for 1972! I must get back to finishing that top 100, thanks for the reminder!!😄lots of faves here, Slade, Sweet, Paul Simon, Chicory Tip, Neil Young, Hollies, marmalade, New Seekers, Don McLean, Gilbert, and especially Middle Of The Road - it wasnt even a UK single until 1973 by which time the bubble had burst. I have toyed with entering that one in BJSC just to see if anyone notices what it's about 😇 fab charts!😎

Hey Sven! 😎 Thanks for the picks as always! 😎

Hi SSP! 😎 My fave climbers and newies this week are 2 Gaga's, a bit of Anxiety, 70's disco queen Gloria, 80's synthpop queen Kim, Shaggy & Sting, Waterboys, Benson Boone, Dolly Parton, Bryan Adams, Lizzo, Chappell Roan, Guetta & sia, and the Doobie brothers back, still remember when Listen To The Music was new!!😮😎 great chart!

Hi SSP! 🙂 Thanks for the highlight picks! 👍😎