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51 (115) THE GUITAR MAN - Bread Like John Denver, Bread had way more US success than in the UK, but also like Denver other acts jumped on the cover-version bandwagon in all sorts of genres, David Gates ballads having that quality-something that gives them the ability to not-be a gentle lush folk-ballad, even though that's when they are at their best. Bread had 4 hits, though, and this was the 3rd, and second one of 1972. Guitar Man is probably the band's darkest and most-credible-to-rock-critics due to the lyrics and guitar work, because in the early 70's what was known as Easy Listening had become unfashionable to the cool and trendy, and in their eyes deserved to be dismissed as over-produced pap. Some do undoubtedly still think that, but not me. Carpenters, Bread, Denver all proved popular because of the quality of the recordings and songs and singers, not because it was cool or uncool. David Gates, as part of that trio of linked acts, had an equally angelic vocal style. This is the 3rd of 4 1972 singles inside my top 100, and the biggest UK hit of 1972 for Bread isn't one of them as that's in my 1971 list. It almost made my year-end, but just fell short at 115. So it's fair to say Bread has risen over the years for me. Must be all that yeast in the grooves.

52 (NEW) I LIKE IT THAT WAY - The Tremeloes The Trems had had a consistent run of hits from around about 1963 through to 1970, with some great little pop gems along the way, and then the new decade caused them to re-evaluate their sound towards a less-pop more-rock basis in time with the changing sales of the time, which worked out for 2 or 3 tracks and then that was it, the End. I Like It That Way was an attempt to go back to their old likeable, catchy pop single era, and I really loved this song. Had it been a hit it would definitely have ended up in my top 20 of the year. sadly, it was very out of step with the 1972 music scene, though Alan Freeman played it a lot on his Sunday show, and I recorded it off the radio. I still say it should have been a hit, but teenagers are fickle things when it comes to pop music buying-habits (50p was a lot of money back in those days, especially when it was competing in my case with DC Comics in newsagents!) so they never did make the comeback despite a number of good attempts into the mid-70's. Chip Hawkes' son Chesney would be the one to get the next Trem-related big hit in 1991, and these days tours occasionally with them (I caught them back in the cabaret 80's) and more crucially Chesney is on his 3rd great record in a row in the current music scene, well worth digging them out.

53 (NEW) ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH - John Denver I didn't know much about John Denver in 1972, he'd had a hit song recorded by Peter, Paul & Mary in Leavin' On A Jet Plane and he was starting to crop up on UK TV variety shows, his laid-back folk-country ballads fitting in with the vibes of the time. Rocky Mountain High I was aware of in early 1973, but never really got to hear it properly that I recall, and Denver wouldn't really break into the UK market until 1974, though Take Me Home Country Roads would also hit - for Olivia Newton-John - in 1973. His homely blend of sweet ballads never really caught on in the UK as a singles artist, but in the US it was hit after hit, none of them bar 2 particularly favourites of mine. Half a century on, though, and his very-mid-west songs seem to have lasting resonance, Rocky Mountain High especially - Lana Del ray name-checked the song in her recent lyrics. So I've gone from barely being aware of the song, to being a big fan of it and Denver generally. Turns out his pure vocals and landscape imagery have a lasting pathos and quality. I still don't care for the more yee-ha Country Boy songs, but those ballads, Mmm-mmm.

54 (NEW) SILVER MACHINE - Hawkwind Lemmy of Motorhead fame is lead singer on this Prog-Rock-ish Metal anthem, and fit in beautifully with the Glam/Goth mood of Alice Cooper and rock-Glam of much of the charts. Silver Machine was one I liked at the time, but didn't love - by 1978, when it came out again, and charted, Lemmy was in the hyperactive Motorhead and I had gone full on-board with this record being terrific. I bought it, it hit my number one (and peaked at 31st fave for 1978) and was very a much a one-off, chartwise and for Hawkwind. Part of the excitement of the track is it was recorded live, and that comes over on the recording - Hawkwind carried on for decades, minus Lemmy, but they never came close to Silver Machine in success. So, 54th is about right for an under-estimated track of 1972, and a nostalgia-inflated 31st in 1978. Somewhere in between the two.....

55 (13) WIG-WAM BAM - The Sweet The Sweet had already had a string of hits by mid 1972, mostly bubblegum pop hits like Funny Funny, Co-Co, Poppa Joe and the previous Glam-moving Little Willy, but writers/producers really hit the formula big-time when Wig-Wam Bam came out and they all moved into over-drive from this point on. Catchy, rock-bopping, and now they were going full-on Glam in the presentation - as can be seen from this rare surviving Top Of The Pops footage - including full-on Cowboy-movie Native Indian gear. Most people by this time were pro-Indian - cowboys had dominated pop culture in the US media for over 20 years as the USA tried to continuing to rewrite history (as they did at the time) and turn the cowboys into the goodies and the Indians the baddies. Errr, the white settlers were very much the (unintentional, perhaps) baddies invading and taking over a whole continent, and treating the original "land-owners" terribly overall. Indigenous rights were a topic of the day, and Soldier Blue had just come out, a pro-First Nation Hollywood movie. And then this sort of jumped on the bandwagon - it's not going to get any plays these days, obviously, but at the time it was seen as a bit of Glam fun that set up the the next big single nicely. For me, it was the first Sweet number one in my charts. Retrospectively, pretty much all the Sweet early singles have dropped a bit in my favours, and Wig-Wam Bam is no exception, but it still musters up a top 60 slot, down from 13th of the year.

56 (5) IF YOU'RE GONNA BREAK ANOTHER HEART - Cass Elliot The fabulous Mama Cass left for a solo career after The Mamas & The Papas split in 1971, having had late 60's success already solo on top of her timelessly wonderful band career. This great ballad from hit songwriter Albert Hammond sank without trace in the USA when it came out in 1972, and wasn't even released in the UK that year. Albert started having hits, though, including one to come later and this single was dropped in the UK in the summer of 1974 as Cass came over on a promotion tour. I was a big fan, had the Greatest Hits album, recorded her reviewing new singles on the Emperor Rosko Roundtable show on Radio 1 (I met him in the 2010's) and this single hit the top of my charts. Then, out of nowhere, a couple of weeks later my mate Ian was round the house enjoying my record collection in my bedroom at RAF Innsworth and dad shouted up the stairs "Mama Cass is dead!". That came out of the blue as a shock for me, I was stunned and upset, I'd never had to react to the loss of a young pop star hero before. Sadly, Cass was just the first of many, and this track always takes me back to feeling sad as I played it a lot when I got hold of a copy soon after. So, it's year-end chart position is actually 5th in 1974, but it came out first in 1972, and so it ends up 56th overall, probably a more realistic position than my emotional response at the time.

8th March 1975 It's another week, another 1975 personal chart number entering the fray - the entire top 5 did it at the time, 3 of them spread out later in the year - as Ray Stevens drops his cover of Johnny Mathis' signature ballad Misty, and he does it upbeat country stylee with fab slide guitars and suchlike. To me at the time, it was like Country music just got a much-needed kick up the arse, and Ray Stevens got his second number one then and now since Everything Is Beautiful in 1970 did it in my retro and original charts. It's a bit early for the UK, as Misty was the sound of the scorching summer of '75. Popular memory has 1976 as the long, hot summer - as indeed it was, right into August from an early start and droughts galore - but 1975 was also a hot one, albeit not for as long. Meanwhile John Lennon's Stand By Me is up to 4 as 9 Dream drops out of the top 10, The Sweet get their biggest since Teenage Rampage at 6, Hot Chocolate make it a 7th top 10 at 7, and the fun Northern Soul original Skiing In The Snow is at 8 for Wigans Ovation. Lower down Lulu joins herself in the chart with low-key disco vibe Take Your Mama For A Ride underlining her genre-hopping from Bowie Glam, Bond blockbuster, to this - Lulu survived as a music icon by morphing, you name it she'd do it: Soul, funk, Beat Music, movie ballad, pop, Country, 90's Boyband and back to her main love, Soul-dance, for most of her career since the mid 90's. Roger Whittaker gets an early start with his The Last Farewell, now charting in one of the global charts of this week then, but his UK comeback will wait until the autumn, Earth, Wind & Fire join themselves with the title track of their new album (and future single) That's The Way Of The World, Diana Ross is sounding a bit Country ballad on Sorry Doesn't Always Make It Right, T.Rex drop Bolan's Zip Gun album a bit late after the two singles underperformed, but there was one track that should have been the single instead of Zip Gun Boogie: Think Zinc. George McCrae continues to make hay while the chart shines in the UK, Sing A Happy Song, and there's a bunch of follow-up minor tracks from Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes, Helen Reddy, Lynsey De Paul, Tony Orlando & Dawn and The Javells featuring Nosmo King. The Lynsey & Nosmo tracks are not on Spotify so Youtube it is then... 1 ( NEW ) MISTY - Ray Stevens # 1 2 ( 3 ) EL BIMBO - Bimbo Jets # 2 3 ( 2 ) REACH OUT I’LL BE THERE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 4 ( 29 ) STAND BY ME - John Lennon # 4 5 ( 1 ) PHILADELPHIA FREEDOM - Elton John Band # 1 6 ( 18 ) FOX ON THE RUN - The Sweet # 6 7 ( 14 ) YOU SEXY THING - Hot Chocolate # 7 8 ( 33 ) SKIING IN THE SNOW - Wigans Ovation # 8 9 ( 7 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 10 ( 6 ) SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap # 4 11 ( 4 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 1 12 ( 9 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 13 ( 11 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW - Olivia Newton-John # 2 14 ( 12 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 15 ( 17 ) I CAN DO IT - The Rubettes # 15 16 ( 8 ) BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears # 8 17 ( 24 ) FELICITA TA TA - Raffaella Carra # 17 18 ( 5 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 19 ( 10 ) SAVE ME - Silver Convention # 10 20 ( 15 ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 8 21 ( 16 ) YOUNG AMERICANS - David Bowie # 16 22 ( 19 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 19 23 ( 35 ) SLOW DOWN - Shabby Tiger # 23 24 ( 13 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 5 25 ( 20 ) AUTOBAHN - Kraftwerk # 18 26 ( 21 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 12 27 ( 23 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 28 ( 37 ) THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP - Mud # 28 29 ( 22 ) MY ELUSIVE DREAMS - Charlie Rich # 12 30 ( 38 ) LOVE ME LOVE MY DOG - Peter Shelley # 30 31 ( 26 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 32 ( 25 ) WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITH YOU - Barry White # 25 33 ( 31 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 34 ( 32 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 35 ( 36 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 36 ( 34 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE - The Glitter Band # 9 37 ( 30 ) L-O-V-E (LOVE) - Al Green # 22 38 ( 27 ) I’M ON MY WAY - Dean Parrish # 7 39 ( 52 ) BYE BYE BABY - Bay City Rollers # 39 40 ( 28 ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 - Neil Sedaka # 28 41 ( 39 ) ONLY YOU AND ROCK AND ROLL - Redbone # 9 42 ( 42 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 43 ( 43 ) HOW DOES IT FEEL - Slade # 10 44 ( 44 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN - Lulu # 7 45 ( 45 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 46 ( 51 ) SHINING STAR - Earth, Wind & Fire # 46 47 ( 47 ) LET ME BE THE ONE - The Shadows # 47 48 ( 48 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 49 ( 65 ) DON’T BE CRUEL - MIke Berry # 49 50 ( 57 ) PLAY ME LIKE YOU PLAY YOUR GUITAR - Duane Eddy & The Rebelettes # 50 51 ( 53 ) DRACULA’S DAUGHTER - Thunderthighs # 12 52 ( NEW ) TAKE YOUR MAMA FOR A RIDE - Lulu # 52 53 ( 46 ) SUPERNATURAL THING - Ben E. King # 46 54 ( 50 ) THERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF LOVING - Guys & Dolls # 7 55 ( 40 ) WE’RE ALMOST THERE - Michael Jackson # 16 56 ( 56 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 57 ( 55 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC - Dave Jordan # 33 58 ( 61 ) WILDFIRE - Michael Murphy # 58 59 ( 49 ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE - Sweet Sensation # 28 60 ( 62 ) HOLD ON TO LOVE - Peter Skellern # 58 61 ( NEW ) THE LAST FAREWELL - Roger Whittaker # 61 62 ( NEW ) THAT’S THE WAY OF THE WORLD - Earth, Wind & Fire # 62 63 ( 41 ) THE BARGAIN STORE - Dolly Parton # 22 64 ( 58 ) DOWN DOWN - Status Quo # 5 65 ( 67 ) FEELINGS - Morris Albert # 65 66 ( 64 ) REMEMBER THE DAYS OF THE OLD SCHOOL-YARD - Linda Lewis # 64 67 ( 73 ) BLUE NIGHT - Hot Chocolate # 67 68 ( NEW ) SORRY DOESN’T ALWAYS MAKE IT RIGHT - Diana Ross # 68 69 ( NEW ) THINK ZINC - T.Rex # 69 70 ( NEW ) SING A HAPPY SONG - George McCrae # 70 71 ( NEW ) LOVIN’ YOU IS EASY - The Javells featuring Nosmo King # 71 72 ( NEW ) BAD LUCK PART 1 - Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes # 72 73 ( NEW ) HE DON’T LOVE YOU (LIKE I LOVE YOU) - Tony Orlando & Dawn # 73 74 ( NEW ) MY MAN AND ME - Lynsey De Paul # 74 75 ( NEW ) FREE AND EASY - Helen Reddy # 75

thanks for the 39 congratses Jade n Rollo, and backatcha Rollo, and 30's pretty good Jade. I think Ken should have said David & ?? aka songwriters/popstars Roger Cook & Roger Greenaway of Blue Mink and hit number one songwriters for many acts. Not that it would have helped anyone get it, but I believe credit where it's due 🙂 round 1: 36 (Kinks! got cocky and blurted Being Alone, doh!) round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 And She Was, Road To Nowhere, Once In A Lifetime

2 years!! Seems like a few months 😮 Well, coming back with 2 major classics in Lenny K and Pet Shop Boys, love 'em to bits. Joan Osborne I liked more at the time (top 5 I think) than now, but it's still classy, and Luniz is a great track too, love those riffs.

Land of Make Believe, just over My Camera Never Lies. Making Your Mind Up lower than almost all of their singles, oops!

Round 1: 39 Round 2: 39 3 in 10: to my eternal shame i rattled off 8 in a row.....😇

57 (72) MOON RIVER - Greyhound If there's one theme I wasn't expecting before I reviewed 1972 songs, it was how much I missed the reggae hits of the day - largely, it must be said, because radio never plays them. Never. My fave reggae group was very much Greyhound, and this cover of Henry Mancini's Moon River was always going to register with me - their previous hit is a classic to me, and this song is one of those bullet-proof songs. Audrey Hepburn started the ball rolling in Breakfast At Tiffany's, but any version will do fine for me. Such a great song. The original hit version is the one attached and sounds just fine - but it has been replaced on record with a vastly inferior annoying version with upfront girlie vocals which just make the record sound a bit cheesy and must be avoided - sadly everytime I tried to buy it on CD compilations or EP's it's always the alternate version and I've never gotten hold of a copy of this one. I don't like it when my teen years get re-written and I was constantly outraged by CD compilations in the late 80's and early 90's claiming "original" in the titles or sleeves when they were blatantly inferior cheap re-recordings by some of the original acts. I suspect Moon River might just have had an album version and a single version, but I'm not sure. Lead singer Glenroy Oakley remains an under-rated and under-appreciated vocalist even if they had just the 3 hits. I was a fan! He was still singing gigs a few years back which I was happy to read about, including one in Spain for ex-pats and tourists. This one has actually gone up on the rundown, even though it did hit 2 in my charts at the time.

58 (44) CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION - T.Rex Marc Bolan dropped this single after he hit peak glamrock with Metal Guru, and just as he was promoting his Born To Boogie movie, with Ringo Starr on board. It was more ominous/threatening than previous singles, a bit more attitude, and a slower rhythm, maybe that's why it spoilt his (official) run of 4 number ones (though Jeepster hit 2 in between while he was changing from Fly Records to EMI) - or maybe it was just bad timing as Partridge Family man David Cassidy was peaking with teenage girls on a track I rate higher than this. Anyways, a number 2 is still pretty good, and the record still maintained the run of top-notch quality T.Rex singles. That said, I needed a dash of nostalgia 10 years on from Bolan's tragic early death in 1977 and a remix to get it all the way to the top of my charts.

59 (NEW) HEART OF GOLD - Neil Young Neil Young had been around since the 60's, first with Buffalo Springfield and then Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and suddenly he had his commercial breakthrough as a solo act with the Harvest album in 1972 and this song especially. Heart Of Gold was plain, authentic and wistful, no fancy dressing in sight at all, but the few instruments supporting do the job. At the time I found his voice a bit offputting, and the song nice-but-plodding - though I did like it. By the time of the follow-up in mood (1993's Harvest Moon) I was well into Harvest Moon the single and this original fabulous ballad. Given Young's tendency to change style and genre album to album, which in theory I should like, I never really did get into much of his back catalogue, bar the synth-use era a bit, other than the ballads. I do, however, tend to agree with him a lot, not least his view that the sound of CD's was not up that of vinyl, and steadfastfully refusing to release his back catalogue on CD or any other format until he could approve the sound quality. So, this one, I under-rated and have now given it a more realistic year-end position.

60 (40) HAPPY XMAS. WAR IS OVER - John & Yoko & The Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir Note this is the original version with the whispering greetings to Julian & Kyoko, their kids from a previous. I cant be doing with amended updated versions if they change the most-charming bit of the original - which I bought just before Christmas of 1972, Apple Records with a label showing a rainbow of merging faces from John's to Yoko's. This is one of the greatest Christmas records ever made, as important today as it was almost 55 years ago, and the sentiment remains sadly eternal. Most Christmas songs get on your nerves from overplay, but not this one, helped no end by the Harlem Community Choir and John's sincere song. So why is it so low on this chart? It came out in 1971 in the USA, so that is the year it has its big run in my retro charting - this is a second run, and more limited, but even so it's still rated 60, down from 40 in 1972. It only had such a low rating in 1972 due to its short-ish chart run: it peaked at 4 in the UK charts, a year after flopping in the then-not-that-keen-on-Christmas-Records US charts, but it dropped as per normal for post-season hits. there's nothing deader than a Christmas song in January!

Tariffs are economic suicide, thats why sane nations done do them. Trump is hoping to cause the chaos of the 20's which led to the global depression of the 30's which led to fascists heaven, as it inevitably always. Ironically, the US wont be there this time to help save the world from invading fascists. because while everyone is obsessing about trade wars, and threats of invasion - which might come down the line, but not just yet - Trump and his cronies have moved to Phase 2, which is to attack the media that doesnt bow the knee, to personally attack democratic pillars like Marc Elias, who keeps all governments from destroying democracy via legal action, and of course he's started attacking the judges and courts claiming he has the powers of a God and anyone who is against him is guilty of exactly what he is trying to do. Straight out of Mein Kampf and every other Fascist How To book. Meanwhile democrats are still just moaning and bleating about the 2026 midterms as if that is going to do anything. Trump & Musk have control of the strings of government with no Senate or House oversight, refusing to comply with court orders to show exactly what they are up to, and Musk on twitter is now attacking the families of judges who try to save the Constitution. As always with Trump, they dont have a f***ing clue how to deal with him. To believe there will be a free and fair election is very naive, and as i have said before having the moral highground is a waste of time if you just sit back and watch democracy dying feeling morally superior that you are right and trying to get the truth through a quagmire of incessant daily lies and propaganda. That's also part of the fascist playbook. Americans are going to have to ask themselves how bothered they are about having a democracy, and a lot of my friends in the USA (and Canada) loathe the Orange "Jesus", and what you are willing to stand up for. Bear in mind the Maga's stood up for what they wanted (the end of democracy, whether they were too stupid to realise or not) and got rewarded with Trump taking control 4 years later. When you see your grandparents, forces veterans, kids struggling to survive illness and poverty in the not-too-distant future and all branches of the US state under the control of a maniac, and oppositions getting targeted under fake charges and imprisoned it might be too late to do anything about it. Europe meanwhile, has to face life as the frontline of global democracy, and adjust to that and put a stop to any lies and propaganda spewing out of Russia, China and the USA. If it ain't a provable actual fact, then it's a lie intent on undermining democracy. Am I being histrionic? Well, it's been 2 months, and it's happening in front of our eyes on a daily basis, and Democrats are like a bunch of headless chickens thinking "good, by 2016, everyone will be suffering and will turn on Trump" which in terms of a strategy is no strategy at all, much like the last election relying on old-fashioned "just tell the truth and that'll work". The internet has changed everything, time to accept that and do something about it.

The 2 Sophie tracks are great and I also like Maybe and Crazy Chick. Delta and Britney I dont remember that much but pleasant enough.

like the new format Jordan, much easier to read! 😎

Oops ta 😎👍

I suggest keeping a distance from kids with bow and arrows - see Ghosts 😄

singerpurear not listed as confirmed - did our entry get through?

This week is the first week in years and years that my personal chart top 2 and the actual UK chart top 2 are the same two tracks, albeit in reverse position😲Hastings band album? Does it include a cover of Callum Beatie's Something In My Eye? A Touch too Much by The Arrows? Norman Cook and Norman Vaughan material? (Normans used to be a thing round there). Too soon?

1 1 1 5 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 481400 2 6 2 8 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 361400 3 5 1 11 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 780000 4 2 2 6 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 272800 5 7 5 4 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 147900 6 4 4 7 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 237400 7 3 1 7 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 668750 8 8 8 9 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 199400 9 15 9 6 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 135150 10 10 10 6 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 151800 11 16 8 11 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 257300 12 19 12 5 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 89800 13 13 10 7 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 210000 14 9 5 6 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 305000 15 12 1 10 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 482000 16 14 6 9 COLD DREAMING - Doves 178000 17 18 1 17 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1405800 18 26 18 6 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 88200 19 27 19 5 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 75950 20 22 20 6 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 89750 21 11 11 8 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 180150 22 17 1 17 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 665400 23 21 7 7 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 231500 24 50 24 4 HALO - KEiiNO 36000 25 33 25 3 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 48550 26 20 20 6 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 100200 27 24 24 6 FANCY - Artemas 115100 28 29 28 6 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 83500 29 25 7 17 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 376950 30 31 30 6 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 84000 31 49 31 2 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 30000 32 32 32 5 REVELATION - The Knocks & Dragonette 69200 33 41 33 10 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 105200 34 39 34 5 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 65900 35 38 35 6 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 90900 36 43 36 4 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 48050 37 23 2 14 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 547400 38 44 38 3 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 37250 39 40 18 14 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 201100 40 30 1 17 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1265450

9th March 2025 It's 2 weeks on top for Alex warren extra-ordinary ballad, as Pink Pony Club hits a new peak of 2 for Chappell Roan. Marianne Faithfull finally gets a top 10 track 60 years late, and 46 years since she debuted in my charts, while new entries are headed by a titanium collab between David Guetta and Sia 13 years on from their stonking massive classic, new at 59. Kim Wilde's Closer album is in my car CD and three tracks from it debut this week, including a duet with Midge Ure, to extend his chart run to a whopping 49 years, as a teenage Slik singer. Deacon Blue get a 2nd of the year, Pete Tong is back again covering dance classics, Cafe Del mar this time, Pet Shop Boys drop a live version of Love Comes Quickly from their 2-year tour, I saw it at the start, Tom Speight keeps his regular chart entries a thing with a tuneful track and Louise returns again 30-odd years since she started with Eternal, on the nice Confessions. 1 1 1 5 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 481400 2 6 2 8 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 361400 3 5 1 11 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 780000 4 2 2 6 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 272800 5 7 5 4 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 147900 6 4 4 7 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 237400 7 3 1 7 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 668750 8 8 8 9 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 199400 9 15 9 6 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 135150 10 10 10 6 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 151800 11 16 8 11 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 257300 12 19 12 5 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 89800 13 13 10 7 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 210000 14 9 5 6 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 305000 15 12 1 10 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 482000 16 14 6 9 COLD DREAMING - Doves 178000 17 18 1 17 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1405800 18 26 18 6 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 88200 19 27 19 5 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 75950 20 22 20 6 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 89750 21 11 11 8 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 180150 22 17 1 17 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 665400 23 21 7 7 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 231500 24 50 24 4 HALO - KEiiNO 36000 25 33 25 3 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 48550 26 20 20 6 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 100200 27 24 24 6 FANCY - Artemas 115100 28 29 28 6 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 83500 29 25 7 17 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 376950 30 31 30 6 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 84000 31 49 31 2 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 30000 32 32 32 5 REVELATION - The Knocks & Dragonette 69200 33 41 33 10 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 105200 34 39 34 5 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 65900 35 38 35 6 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 90900 36 43 36 4 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 48050 37 23 2 14 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 547400 38 44 38 3 TURN AROUND - The Lottery Winners 37250 39 40 18 14 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 201100 40 30 1 17 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1265450 41 37 5 10 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 267600 42 35 35 10 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 135100 43 34 1 16 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 828950 44 42 1 24 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1104100 45 59 45 3 BUTTERFLY - Marina 30100 46 36 20 9 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 143250 47 60 47 2 WANT U - Hayley May 22500 48 63 48 2 WHIRLWIND - Lainey Wilson 19500 49 45 11 15 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 296150 50 47 1 27 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1174500 51 48 4 46 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1140100 52 58 52 5 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 37700 53 57 53 2 THE WAY I ARE - Don Diablo 21650 54 55 54 4 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 35900 55 56 1 27 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 1059100 56 64 56 3 KILLING ME SOFTLY WITH HIS SONG - Roberta Flack 22900 57 65 57 2 WISH I DIDN’T MISS YOU - Angie Stone 17400 58 62 10 30 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 486850 59 NEW 59 1 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 10100 60 NEW 60 1 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 10000 61 NEW 61 1 TURN UP YOUR RADIO - Deacon Blue 7500 62 46 21 14 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 189150 63 53 53 6 GOOD NEWS - Shaboozey 48050 64 51 14 13 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 192500 65 67 65 2 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 13600 66 54 54 5 LUTHER - Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA, Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn 38000 67 68 67 2 GRANITE MILLS - Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Russell Moore 13000 68 71 68 3 WAKE ME UP - The Weeknd featuring Justice 17600 69 74 69 3 THE ETON RIFLES - The Jam 15600 70 72 70 2 LIFELINE - Jonas Blue featuring Izzy Bizu 11600 71 NEW 71 1 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 5800 72 NEW 72 1 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 5600 73 76 73 4 THE ABYSS - The Weeknd & Lana Del Ray 18800 74 75 74 2 TIL A MAWNIN - Shaggy featuring Sting 10200 75 NEW 75 1 LOVE COMES QUICKLY (LIVE AT THE ROYAL ARENA COPENHAGEN 2023) - Pet Shop Boys 5000 76 NEW 76 1 HIGHER - Tom Speight 4800 77 70 70 4 VICE - Rizzle Kicks 20600 78 NEW 78 1 SCORPIO - Kim Wilde 4400 79 NEW 79 1 CONFESSION - Louise 4200 80 80 80 2 ALONE TOGETHER - Saint Etienne 8000 drop outs 28 10 8 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 149950 52 3 15 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 753850 61 54 6 NO ONE NOTICED - The Marias 49000 66 16 13 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 221650 69 4 17 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 535300 73 46 6 MESSY - Lola Young 60050 77 48 6 FOLLOW ME - Special Interest featuring Amanda Lear 56900 78 71 4 NEW YORK MINUTE - Dion 19000 79 76 4 SWEET SISTER SORROW - The Primitives 18200

Hi AH! Hope you have another free weeknd to chill to - actually Im too old to say that - to relax to! 🙂 Popping off in a bit to That'll Be The Day in Weymouth with my Aunty - living it up! Comments on the records right by the picks! fabulous chart! 😎