Popchartfreak

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! 👍😎

The Cooper Temple Clause passed me by without noticing. Sounds like Liam Gallagher going 90's grunge. It's not bad. The Hives I liked, that's a 6/10. I didnt have a hundred reasons to chart Silver. I didn't even have one reason, apparently! Rock The Boat was doubly sad as it was the video she was flying back from filming when she died, I may have over-rated it a bit as a result 8/10. It's nice though. Lost Witness whoosh, over my head, Bellefire I have zero recollection of, but I appear to have liked them and the U2 cover got a pretty decent 7/10 considering I wasn't that much of a fan of the original. P.O.D. made my chart once. This wasn't it. H & Claire's DJ I rather liked, it was a borderline 9/10 for me (but prob really an 8/10 or a bit less). Pop Dancefloor y'see... Someone Like You is a decent enough 6/10 but Russell's theme to Star Trek: Enterprise should have been the hit, Diane Warren and all, Trek-fans hated it as they were used to instrumentals and this was pushing the boat too far for some of them. My mum loved it so they are wrong. Ronan sadly not recording Gregg Alexander material anymore. This single was so boring I couldnt be arsed to give it even a single week at 75 in my charts. I remember it got on my nerves, though. Follow Da Leader was a bit naff, indeed, but that didn't stop me liking it enough for a 7/10 at the time. I'm sure that's being generous though....

yay at Gene getting his record wait for a chart-topper with new material - i dont really count posthumous oldies as an indication of career longevity, even if the song was an old one too. Legend! Roachford I liked Cuddly Toy but I never regarded it as a classic, and it was great to have Holly back. The next single is the better one, but I liked Love Train at the time enough for a top 10 slot in my charts. It's not, however, in the same league as the O Jays song of the same name, nor the first 4 Frankie singles.

catching up with friday.... round 1: 39 round 2: 39 bonus questions both right 3 in 10: somebody told me, mr brightside, human 33's is nearly there though! today's were suitably up my street, even the Muppet one: Mah na Mah na was the B side to halfway down the stairs and the real reason it sold so well (the original version also went top 10 for Piero Umiliani). I bought both, sorry not sorry 😄

was out yesterday and got a phone call today so resorting to the web version for yesterday's! round 1: 39 round 2: 36 (screwed up Fun Boy 3 title, only a classic fave and everything 😮) 3 in 10: 3 Needles & Pins, When You Walk In The Room, What Have They Done To The Rain Well done on the double 39 Jade, top player! 🥰 and again yesterday another 39 and getting 3 Searchers tracks is pretty good! Thanks for the congrats both, and 36 is good Rollo! I havent looked at fridays yet in case they bung it on tomorrow's Hits link...

I can't listen to Living Years, not even these days, my grandma died in April and was ill from New Year onwards, so some tracks just bring it all back to me and that's one of them. Boy Meets Girl is quite pleasant, I'm glad they did it themselves, Whitney would have ruined it blasting it out, though Belinda could have done a decent version. I loved seeing childhood fave Gene Pitney back, with Marc Almond on board, and re-doing a fave from when I was 10. Not that I preferred it, I didn't, but it was great to see him back big. Even better, because we'd just lost Roy, was Jeff Lynne's gift to Roy going out on a highpoint with the Mystery Girl album and You Got It, in particular. Probably my 2 biggest enduring loves amongst male singers of the 60's was Gene and Roy, flawless singers who knew how to emote on powerful ballads that built to a climax. See In Dreams, Crying, It's Over, Runnin' Scared, I'm Gonna Be Strong, 24 Hours From Tulsa, Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart, and many others and weep along with me if I try and sing along. You Got It topped my charts.

Shifter DNC for me, just as well as typing the title too fast can have an unfortunate result. Attention needs paying! Moby's hit passed me largely, I much preferred ancient sample-era Moby, a 3/10. He has a track coming, though, that topped my charts in a massive remix over Xmas/New Year a few months ago. Shakedown I loved , another clubbing-era gem that one, deserves to be better remembered. 9/10. Cosmic Gate and 4 Strings troubled my chart not at all, but Mary J topped my chart, a classic soul ballad and a 10/10. Kiss Kiss was huge, and a bit of Turkish-styled fun, and an 8/10. Sunglasses at night is worth a 4/10, Oops as per with r'n'b of the time, tickled my taste buds and scraped into my top 10, but it's an 8/10. The other two mean nothing to me but sound like I would not enjoy them!

She Drives Me Crazy is a great single and kickstarts a peak year for FYC as they break the States proper. The Duran track is a decent one, though their classic years seemed behind them, and they had better minor hits in 1989. New member Warren quite happy to get his kit off it turned out, which is not necessarily a negative. These days it's obligatory 😇

Just going with the previous week is much easier than risking breaking copyright with another internet grab, and I'm very risk averse 😄

the Bucks Fizz original is a classic chart-topper for me, Lucky also topped my charts, and the Steps runner-up is one of their better records, and I also rated the Sinead Quin winner - I think it was a top 5! Well done on doing the run though, lots I love in it!

I'm with the voters I'm afraid, Stop! In The Name Of Love is peak Holland-Dozier-Holland/Motown and topped my charts as a reissued oldie, one I was vaguely aware of at the time, I started to love it when we borrowed the neighbours' Supremes Greatest Hits vinyl in 1970 and cherry picked tracks onto reel to reel tape. Classic after classic. The Kinks track is sub-par and one I dont recall on my Kinks Greatest Hits collection! The Barron Knights were always mildly amusing first time, and then extremely annoying 2 weeks on from hearing. Nowhere To Run is a great record, not my top Martha Reeves, but worthy anyway. Francoise Hardy's is a lovely tune, it's a melody that mildly takes me back to that era but not one I actively remember knowing until the 80's.

round 1: 39 round 2: 36 (I got beat to Dancing In The Moonlight so I'm being strict😄) 3 in 10: 3 Sweet Dreams, Who's that girl, there must be angel, love is a stranger, angel

Kim staying strong, so many classics in this chart/era 🥰 good to see George climbing, that was a number one for me, being as it was the surviving Beatles singing a George song about John. One Day In Your Life another number one for me, and Elton's Nobody Wins was under-rated, should have been a hit. Pure Prairie League and Jesse Winchester are two US hits I dont recall though!

22nd March 1975 It's a first week on top for KC as the exciting funk disco classic Get Down Tonight gives KC a second band chart-topper after Queen Of Clubs: a US number one this huge fave of mine under-performed in the UK, peaking outside the top 20, though I felt justified in the 2000's when it was seriously chopped up and sampled for a big UK dance hit Bamboogie. The highest new entry is from Grand Funk Railroad, a great song called Bad Time, later covered in the 90's by The Jayhawks, neither version a UK hit, annoyingly. New at 42, while America return with Sister Golden Hair, at 61 a future US chart-topper, and needless to say not a UK hit, America didn't make the UK charts again until 1982. I have the vinyl Greatest Hits even if no-one else in the UK does... Making the club charts in New York it's future minor UK hit Dynomite, a funk goodie that was forgotten soon as it dropped out the charts never to be played again. Pity. Tony Camillo's Bazuka is new at 62, while a few places lower Albert Hammond is back yet again a great song - the non-hit (of course) 99 Miles From LA, later covered by Art Garfunkel around 1979, and a better version than Albert's, but hey he wrote it! Gladys Knight in concert is amazing, flawless vocally, so it's fair enough she grabbed at long last a big UK hit with The Way We Were, a live cover of the Barbara Streisand movie theme song, coupled with an intro Try To Remember, where every word remains relevant to every generation. New at 67 and retro charting since 1967. Justin Hayward & John Lodge take a Moody Blues break for a new album, the first single off it flopped sadly, but it's rather nice and in at 69, I Dreamed Last Night. Justin has a great version of Life In A Northern Town out at the moment, with Mike Batt doing the production honours and backing vocals. Behind it at 70 Barry Mann, of Missus Mann & Weil hit songwriters and Who Put The Bomp hitmaker, returns with a good track I've never heard of, written & produced by a couple of the then-current-line-up of The Beach Boys, Nothing Goods Comes Easy. Clearly it doesn't as it sank without trace. Robert Knight continues his mini-comeback with a great new track, The Outsider, which not only sank without trace, it seems to be pretty unavailable anywhere in a decent version, Alice Cooper drops his UK flop ballad, Only Women Bleed, which was a hit in the US, but a later hit in the UK for Julie Covington, a much better version told from a female point of view. Betty Wright returns after the Shoorah with Where Is The Love, Polly Brown drops another solo flop, sadly, but it's OK, ditto The Pioneers, and ditto The Hues Corporation. All of them will be dropped by record labels before too long, as was the reward for flopping in those days. OK, just for a bit of fun - who in this chart have I seen live? Brian Connolly's Sweet, Elton John, Michael Jackson, Mary Wilson of The Supremes, 10cc minus Godley & Creme, and also minus Eric Stewart three times, Lulu, Olivia Newton-John, Cliff Richard, David Bowie twice, Albert Hammond, Les Gray's Mud, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Moody Blues, Alice Cooper, The Chi-Lites minus Eugene Record, and I had tickets for Steve Harley but sadly he died after having to postpone the tour. 1 ( 2 ) GET DOWN TONIGHT - KC & The Sunshine Band # 1 2 ( 1 ) MISTY - Ray Stevens # 1 3 ( 3 ) HONEY - Bobby Goldsboro # 3 4 ( 4 ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 5 ( 5 ) SKIING IN THE SNOW - Wigans Ovation # 5 6 ( 11 ) FOX ON THE RUN - The Sweet # 6 7 ( 6 ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM - Elton John Band # 1 8 ( 8 ) THE TIME WARP - Richard O’Brien, Patricia Quinn, Little Nell, Charles Gray & Cast # 8 9 ( 10 ) I CAN DO IT - The Rubettes # 9 10 ( 12 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 11 ( 7 ) YOU SEXY THING - Hot Chocolate # 7 12 ( 9 ) EL BIMBO - Bimbo Jets # 2 13 ( 14 ) STAND BY ME - John Lennon # 4 14 ( 15 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 15 ( 17 ) JIGSAW GIRL - Clifford T.Ward # 15 16 ( 18 ) WONDERFUL BABY - Don McLean # 16 17 ( 16 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 18 ( 30 ) BYE BYE BABY - Bay City Rollers # 18 19 ( 42 ) THAT’S THE WAY OF THE WORLD - Earth, Wind & Fire # 19 20 ( 23 ) A LITTLE LOVE AND UNDERSTANDING - Gilbert Becaud # 20 21 ( 24 ) AUTOBAHN - Kraftwerk # 18 22 ( 29 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 12 23 ( 21 ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 8 24 ( 13 ) SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap # 4 25 ( 25 ) BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears # 8 26 ( 36 ) HANG ON SLOOPY - The McCoys # 26 27 ( 19 ) LOVE ME LOVE MY DOG - Peter Shelley # 19 28 ( 33 ) SWEET TRANSVESTITE - Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon & Barry Bostwick # 28 29 ( 20 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 30 ( 22 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 1 31 ( 32 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 32 ( 28 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 5 33 ( 26 ) SAVE ME - Silver Convention # 10 34 ( 38 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 35 ( 40 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 36 ( 44 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE - The Glitter Band # 9 37 ( 34 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 19 38 ( 43 ) LET ME BE THE ONE - The Shadows # 38 39 ( 53 ) LIFE IS A MINESTRONE - 10cc # 39 40 ( 45 ) TAKE YOUR MAMA FOR A RIDE - Lulu # 40 41 ( 27 ) SLOW DOWN - Shabby Tiger # 23 42 ( NEW ) BAD TIME - Grand Funk Railroad # 42 43 ( 48 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 44 ( 35 ) FELICITA TA TA - Raffaella Carra # 17 45 ( 52 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 46 ( 31 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW - Olivia Newton-John # 2 47 ( 39 ) WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH YOU - Barry White # 25 48 ( 41 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 49 ( 60 ) IT’S ONLY ME YOU’VE LEFT BEHIND - Cliff Richard # 49 50 ( 67 ) ONLY YESTERDAY - Carpenters # 50 51 ( 56 ) THE LAST FAREWELL - Roger Whittaker # 51 52 ( 57 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 53 ( 37 ) YOUNG AMERICANS - David Bowie # 16 54 ( 46 ) DON’T BE CRUEL - Mike Berry # 46 55 ( 58 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 56 ( 59 ) DRACULA’S DAUGHTER - Thunderthighs # 12 57 ( 51 ) HOW DOES IT FEEL - Slade # 10 58 ( 49 ) ONLY YOU AND ROCK AND ROLL - Redbone # 9 59 ( 47 ) SHINING STAR - Earth, Wind & Fire # 46 60 ( 54 ) I’M ON MY WAY - Dean Parrish # 7 61 ( NEW ) SISTER GOLDEN HAIR - America # 61 62 ( NEW ) DYNOMITE - Tony Camilla’s Bazuka # 62 63 ( 69 ) IF - Yin & Yan # 63 64 ( NEW ) 99 MILES FROM L.A. - Albert Hammond # 64 65 ( 76 ) BILLY PORTER - Mick Ronson # 65 66 ( 55 ) THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP - Mud # 28 67 ( NEW ) TRY TO REMEMBER/ THE WAY WE WERE - Gladys Knight # 67 68 ( 50 ) PLAY ME LIKE YOU PLAY YOUR GUITAR - Duane Eddy & The Rebelettes # 50 69 ( NEW ) I DREAMED LAST NIGHT - Justin Hayward & John Lodge # 69 70 ( NEW ) NOTHING GOOD COMES EASY - Barry Mann # 70 71 ( 74 ) THE FILM OF MY LOVE - 10cc # 71 72 ( 75 ) HE DON’T LOVE YOU (LIKE I LOVE YOU) - Tony Orlando & Dawn # 72 73 ( NEW ) THE OUTSIDER - Robert Knight # 73 74 ( NEW ) ONLY WOMEN BLEED - Alice Cooper # 74 75 ( NEW ) WHERE IS THE LOVE - Betty Wright # 75 76 ( 79 ) I FORGOT TO SAY I LOVE YOU TILL I’M GONE - The Chi-Lites # 76 77 ( 80 ) SWINGING ON A STAR - Spooky and Sue # 77 78 ( NEW ) DIAL ‘L’ FOR LOVE - Polly Brown # 78 79 ( NEW ) SWEET NUMBER ONE - The Pioneers # 79 80 ( NEW ) LOVE CORPORATION - The Hues Corporation # 80

Thanks Jade, doh at just missing out on Jason Donovan, and Rollo on Mott, almost there! round 1: 36 1 year out round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 wont get fooled again, substitute, my generation

Doves is a good track 7/10, though top Doves track is yet to come. They have a great single out right now, Cold Dreaming is lush and epic-sounding. The Chemical Brothers DNC for me, Sugababes was a classic 10/10 number one great sample choice. New Order a good 8/10 but not heard that one since. Drowning Pool also a DNC. Pulp a decent 7/10 and their last track to chart for me 😯 Push DNC, Idlewild a good 6/10, and their biggest track, *NSYNC n Nelly a strong 8/10 with Girlfriend. Kosheen's Hungry was their first top 10 for me, they were improving with each release as each did worse in the charts, tch. 9/10. Oasis I recently played Time Flies and was pleassntly surprised by a lot of 00's stuff, Hundu Times included on a good 8/10. S Club Juniors, it's a 3/10. Haven's hit I have forgotten, but I liked it enough for a 7/10 rating. The Streets never really got that much, DNC. The 2 garage tracks DNC, Wheels On The Bus was my introduction to that nursery rhyme, it was amusing for 3 weeks and then done. 6/10 at best. LFO, oddly, I wasnt a fan of the cheesier tracks but this one a 7/10.

Oops I Did It was a chart-topper for me I think, and love Cant Speak french, Sitting Down Here, I Kissed A Girl, No Good Advice, and Somethin Stupid, though as Ive mentioned before Nancy Sinatra's original (and her 60's career) are massive faves of mine. Christina's, See The Day (again I prefer the original), H & Claire are all decent, and the rest I don't know/remember well. Russell Watson sang a great TV theme around 2002, Star Trek Enterprise. Should have been a hit.

Lazy was fab, a chart-topping 10/10 from me, and another Clubbing era track that has stayed a radio staple since, Faithless/Dido oddly wasnt playlisted on the pop dancefloor, but it tickled my tastebuds anyway 9/10. Havent heard it since 2002, so the youtube link is a nice excuse to re-acquaint myself with it. Galleon So I Begin was another big track for me and a strong 9/10, and keeping up the top 10 status, 1 Giant Leap, Maxi & Robbie were also a 9/10. From one Xtreme/Talking Heads to another, Barthezz DNC, ditto Agent Sumo never got into the arena, So Solid Crew were never in with a shot, and The Vines didnt chart either but others had better luck. Garbage were always fab, that's a 9/10 and reminded me of Pretenders. Usher scraped a 4/10, and I've forgotten it, while Ryan Adams and 3SL managed a decent 7/10.

Congrats to Josh for a first win, always nice to see a regular get there! Thanks to Klumzee and Leww for the fab hosting, and thanks to all Split Enz voters, I was expecting in the 30's, but have had a 34th before (and 15 peak between 31 and 39 but never had a 35th - doh! Should have given Jim that one extra point 😄 Thanks especially to Bronze and Silver pointers, Spod Empire and Bronzil Jim - oh the irony, our top pointer losing a tiebreak as a result 😮 and our pointers Jadakiss, Danev, Persephonia, Cheiron, FARC, Nelionoir, Macromia, Cumulonimbia, Kylienips, Trifoski, Lotunia, Summericia, Mothertopia, and Lookylion!!

round 1: missed the beginning (busy hoovering after the 6-year-old usual stopover weekend), oops: 18 (def got the Joss Stone Not-Guy song title wrong) Pet Shop Boys yay! round 2: 33 (beat me to Sting) 3 in 10: 3 I Cant Go For That, maneater, She's Gone

I'm still liking some recent Tiesto collabs with other banger DJ's and guest singers, though not all of them, so curious to hear this one as I never charted it - I didnt chart anything until 2004 (Love Comes Again). I like the crowd noises for upping the excitement if one is pissed or on some substance or other but it didn't grab me as a song as such, more of a mood thing. Pop dancefloor me. I'll give it a retrospective 4. Ditto Executioners too, not one I remember. Ditto Roger Goode, that passed me by. Ditto Future Breeze. Bit of a theme going on... Great stuff alert with Del Amitri, not a band I generally rated much but this ballad was a chart-topping 10/10 for me, far and away their best record, not even close. Michelle Branch is also a good track, 7/10 with a future classic with Santana still in the wings. Elton was mostly past his sell-by date for me and I ignored Original Sin. What he needed at this time was a cool collab with a hot new band with roots in the 70's, or a synth duo combo with a great remix old or new....😇 Soak Up The Sun is OK, a 4/10, but she's done much better stuff both before and after. Aurora, she didnt have a long run (5 weeks) but hit 20 in my chart, so a likely 7/10. I've forgotten it. Playing it now, like the throbbing intro. She should try and get a cameo in the next Batman movie. Quite moody, actually, I still like it. Talking of famous brothers, Aaron Carter was teenybop appeal, and never ever charted for me, being as I was 43 at the time.... 😨 Talking of being past a sell-by date, I'll stick with The Shadows' 1975 Eurohit, Cliff did not chart for me. Britney's ballad I found a tad dull, but gifted a 5/10 anyway. Stereophonics have always been annoyingly hit and miss with me, sometimes classic, sometimes good, sometimes OK, sometimes very dull. Vegas Two Times did not chart for me, so I'll leave that one to make assumptions about. Ladies First I don't recall, but I love the Nu Shooz original to bits, so how did I feel at the time about this cover? 5/10, so I was OK about it, then!

I was sad for Lynsey too, she never really got to sort her back catalogue out for the modern world and get some sort of appreciation as a good pop songwriter, I would like her to have seen a bit of that in later life.

Now available on the Blogs section, my IT skills permitting...! cheers! John