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Yay 39's !! Round 1: 39 Round 2: 33 forgot Rachel's surname momentarily too, got it a heartbeat after the clanger ended, and one year out. 3 in 10: What Is Love, Things Can Only Get Better, Pearl In The Shell, Hide & Seek

Thanks Cody for the smooth hosting, navigating the new format and for putting Singerpurear up first, that makes it a stress-free read for me 😀!! Thanks anyone who voted for German Film Star, and condolences to these we lost from our votes: 12 points: Q 10 points: Q 8 points: Q 7: Macromia • Q 6: Cheiron • Rodriguez - Rich Folks Hoax 5: Ajanaeda • Q 4: Eastovka • Armin Van Buuren & Natalie Gioia - Viva L'Opera (Mixed) 3: Wholune • Scowl - Not Hell, Not Heaven 2: Yehesi • Q 1: Kylienips • Kim Wilde - Hourglass Human (feat. Scarlett Wilde) Rodriguez is always worth a listen, vintage act who never made it, Viva L'Opera I wonder if the single edit would have done better, Scowl were boppy, and I would have gone for Lighthouse off the album for Kim as a classy ballad entry, but I do love Kim and Scarlett seen them many times! It just got knocked down the points a bit by the competition. J00p I'm sorry you feel a bit despondent at the mo, my first 12 entries or so were all DNQ's till I got a feel for what would get points, but then I decided to just enter songs that I loved to bits, or thought were unusual and interesting, and not worry about which clicked and which didn't. One fan of one song is still a win! And you get to say "I told you so" when it gets to be a hit 😄I generally like your entries, some I love, and some get edged out of the points, sometimes it's just down to being in the wrong semi, which you have no control over and can make all the difference. I bet everybody remembers my last entry TRUCKS for years even if they didn't like it and didn't vote for it, so that makes me very amused 😂

lots of stuff to re-learn, not just spoilers. I seem to be posting stuff on one thread and it appears on the next thread down, doh, dont know how I keep managing that! Had a go at TTTT last few days, I'm def not as good as that one. So back to Ken: round 1: 36 Kim Wilde - trying to work out how to do spoilers, not paying attention. That's my excuse! (There is no option for them that I can find) round 2: 39 3 in 10: 7

Cliff had a huge fanbase going back 30 years by 1988 and had remained dropping mature classy singles into 1987, and I know young 20-something-ish people like me and my (then-teenage) mate were buying his singles, so he was always going to be a risk of an occasional biggie outside of his usual synth-pop core audience. Sadly, it was M&W rather than Wired For Sound that did it as it brought back the older lapsed fan! I didn't buy it! Kylie & Jason was the better track. Good Life is fab, a great production. Angel Of Harlem is good, but I preferred Desire, and pretty much every single since Pride, New Years Day and Fire. Burning Bridges was good, and I hadnt yet switched to full-price CD singles, but I would have been tempted by the bonus ex-singles if I didnt already have them. A lot of 90's hits, once the price of CD singles started dropping, became chart hits because they were essentially mini-greatest-hits even if the lead new track was a bag of shite. A quick hi to Rod Stewart, Rolling Stones and many others for no reason 😇

78 (NEW) WADE IN THE WATER - Ramsey Lewis Mid-60's jazz-blues instrumentalist Ramsey Lewis had some great hits around 1966 like The 'In' Crowd, but this bop never made the charts. The track was much-used as background filler to DJ's on Radio One at the time, so that won't have hurt its chances as a Revived-45, as they used to say, and neither would the burgeoning Northern Soul scene based around Wigan which threw all manner of hits and non-hits into the UK charts through to around 1976. I rated this track, but as it peaked just outside the UK top 30 it was ineligible for my top 20's of the time - despite liking it enough for it to easily be a top 10 fave around the Spring-time. It was nice to see it hit the charts though, and 50 years on it gets a rating it would likely get for 1966 if I ever rate that year properly. So until that happens it can stay as part of the 1972 music scene, and new in at 78 here, and ignore the 1972 date on this youtube link - it might have been released that year as a single but it dates from 1966. The original song, incidentally, dates from 1901 and is a semi-traditional African-American cover.

79 (69) I DIDN'T KNOW I LOVED YOU (TILL I SAW YOU ROCK 'N' ROLL) - Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band Gary Glitter's follow-up to the largely-instrumental monster Glam smash, lots of 50's influences, and that double-drumming pumping from the Glitter Band (who didn't get credited at the time, but became their own chart force from 1974 onwards, so they credit from me as they were a key part of the sound of Glitter records, along with producer/writer Mike Leander). This one had a stomping answer-call-back structure that set up the laddy appeal of Paul Gadd, failed 60's popstar, for 1973 when he was unstoppable in the UK. I can vouch this one sounds great in a concert setting, being as his annual Christmas/New Years concert in Bournemouth was a must-attend back in the 80's and early 90's. Of course in those days nobody was aware of his tendencies for underage girls, and more than one jail sentence later he has been firmly erased from history as far as the media is concerned. Some of the records still sound great though, and for the sake of the Glitter Band who seem to have suffered media collateral damage for something that they were not guilty of, and despite 3 years of solo hits, and also for the sake of the great Mike Leander, ex-Beatles arranger (and I think the real brains Glitter, given the early Glitter Band records sound pretty similar despite Mr. Gadd having nothing to do with them), I am not pretending they don't exist, and in this case sound just as good as the record did in 1972.

80 (51) YOU WEAR IT WELL - Rod Stewart Rod's second UK number one, and it's Maggie May part 2, but at the time I much preferred You Wear It Well. 50-odd years on and it's Maggie that has the edge, but I still love the folk feel to this one, violin included. It would chart again in later years, firstly as B side to Maggie May, notably, in 1976 and has accumulated enough chart-points to make my all-time top 1000, but it's dropped from 51st of 1972 to 80th and likely wouldn't make a top 1000 based on these re-worked charts, but would definitely make a top 1000 of the 1970's.

15th February 1975 It's back up for a 3rd week on top with January in February from Pilot, and Jim Gilstrap and Dean Parrish go top 10. Michael Jackson gets 2 in the top 20, and a cornerstone in the development of popular music arrives at 18: Kraftwerk were hugely influential with their brand of industrial synth music, and it all began here with Autobahn. They may not have had the first synthpop hits, but they showed electronic music could be used outside of traditional pop formats. It certainly sounded unusual at the time, but more of a one-off novelty in the tradition of Telstar, Son Of My Father or Popcorn - technically 3-off in the case of Chicory Tip/Giorgio Moroder at this time. It would take David Bowie in Berlin to borrow the inspiration from Kraftwerk, and Giorgio Moroder to return with a jaw-dropping advance in dance music, while Jean-Michel Jarre and Space underpinning Europe as the focus of the change coming in popular music in 1977. Punk got the headlines, New Wave got the pop stars, but Electronic music won the long race. Talking of Bowie, he borrows Luther Vandross on backing vocals and abruptly changes to plastic-soul, as he called it on the Young Americans album and single, to the disbelief of his Glam fans. Me, I thought it was the best thing he'd done since Aladdin Sane, and was quite happy with the genre-hop. 50 years on, yes it's not really Rebel Rebel but good in it's own way. Peter Skellern returns after a 3-year-gap, on the unusual Hold On To Love, which I always found hard to categorise - a sort of breathy, sorta-synthy, MOR croon. Gladys Knight charts in the USA with a soul ballad I've never heard before, playing it this week the intro was oddly familiar, then it came to me - it's a slower version of the intro to Eels' Susan's House! Never knew they borrowed it from Love Finds Its Own Way! Hello follow-up Tell Him with Games Up, plugging it on ITV kids music shows. It's OK. Which just leaves Odia Coates doing a soul cover of ELO's Showdown, which was itself a sort of homage to I Heard It Through The Grapevine. 1 ( 2 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 2 ( 1 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 1 3 ( 3 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 4 ( 4 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW - Olivia Newton-John # 2 5 ( 5 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 5 6 ( 17 ) SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap # 6 7 ( 13 ) I’M ON MY WAY - Dean Parrish # 7 8 ( 7 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 9 ( 6 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 10 ( 10 ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 10 11 ( 9 ) ONLY YOU AND ROCK AND ROLL - Redbone # 9 12 ( 8 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 13 ( 14 ) MY ELUSIVE DREAMS - Charlie Rich # 13 14 ( 12 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 12 15 ( 11 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 16 ( 33 ) WE’RE ALMOST THERE - Michael Jackson # 16 17 ( 22 ) BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears # 17 18 ( NEW ) AUTOBAHN - Kraftwerk # 18 19 ( 16 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 20 ( 20 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE - The Glitter Band # 9 21 ( 23 ) THEN I CHANGE HANDS - Mick Robertson # 21 22 ( 25 ) THE BARGAIN STORE - Dolly Parton # 22 23 ( 24 ) DISCO-TEKIN - Reunion # 23 24 ( 27 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 24 25 ( 21 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 26 ( 19 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 27 ( 18 ) HOW DOES IT FEEL - Slade # 10 28 ( 15 ) THERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF LOVING - Guys & Dolls # 7 29 ( 29 ) L-O-V-E (LOVE) - Al Green # 29 30 ( 55 ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 - Neil Sedaka # 30 31 ( 34 ) DOWN DOWN - Status Quo # 5 32 ( 30 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN - Lulu # 7 33 ( 38 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC - Dave Jordan # 33 34 ( 37 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 35 ( 32 ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE - Sweet Sensation # 28 36 ( NEW ) YOUNG AMERICANS - David Bowie # 36 37 ( 47 ) THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP - Mud # 37 38 ( 35 ) WALKING IN RHYTHM - The Blackbyrds # 4 39 ( 36 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 40 ( 70 ) FELICITA TA TA - Raffaella Carra # 40 41 ( 31 ) I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU - ABBA # 1 42 ( 42 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 43 ( 52 ) WE LOVE EACH OTHER - Charlie Rich # 43 44 ( 44 ) DRACULA’S DAUGHTER - Thunderthighs # 12 45 ( 40 ) FLY NOW - Brian Protheroe # 40 46 ( 39 ) I’LL TAKE A MELODY - The Hues Corporation # 39 47 ( 57 ) NOW I’M HERE - Queen # 47 48 ( 64 ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 - Paper Lace # 48 49 ( 26 ) BAD BLOOD - Neil Sedaka featuring Elton John # 10 50 ( 58 ) SUPERNATURAL THING - Ben E. King # 50 51 ( 43 ) YOU’RE THE FIRST THE LAST MY EVERYTHING - Barry White # 2 52 ( 45 ) YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 1 53 ( 28 ) SO LONG - ABBA # 4 54 ( 59 ) I JUST CAN’T SAY GOODBYE - The Philly Devotions # 54 55 ( 50 ) THIS MONDAY MORNING FEELING - Tito Simon # 50 56 ( 53 ) BEACH BABY - The First Class # 1 57 ( 48 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 58 ( 46 ) ALL I WANT IS YOU - Roxy Music # 1 59 ( 66 ) SHINING STAR - Earth, Wind & Fire # 59 60 ( 56 ) ANGIE BABY - Helen Reddy # 1 61 ( 51 ) MS GRACE - The Tymes # 15 62 ( NEW ) HOLD ON TO LOVE - Peter Skellern # 62 63 ( 49 ) LADY MARMALADE - LaBelle # 8 64 ( 41 ) SHA LA LA (MAKE ME HAPPY) - Al Green # 4 65 ( 54 ) I CAN HELP - Billy Swan # 9 66 ( 60 ) HOW LONG - Ace featuring Paul Carrack # 1 67 ( 80 ) SOUTH AFRICAN MAN - Hamilton Bohannon # 67 68 ( 72 ) LOVE GAMES - The Drifters # 68 69 ( 74 ) LEGO SKANGA - Rupie Edwards # 69 70 ( 79 ) I’M HER FOOL - Billy Swan # 70 71 ( NEW ) LOVE FINDS ITS OWN WAY - Gladys Knight & The Pips # 71 72 ( NEW ) GAMES UP - Hello # 72 73 ( 75 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - Smokey 007 # 73 74 ( 78 ) SWEET MUSIC - Showaddywaddy # 74 75 ( NEW ) SHOWDOWN - Odia Coates # 75

its not just social security numbers. its tax details, health details, X details, tesla car buyer details, government worker details and he is busy collaborating with fascist-leaning groups across Europe and America and his billionaire Tech bros are arm in arm, so it would be wise to consider they are all sharing stuff, God knows the Steele Dossier showed Trump was in it with Putin years back, Johnson did his best ti gloss over Putin cash influencing British politicians and Brexit, notably Farage and his crew, fresh off a hard-on boner cos his fascist-leaning hero actually mentioned him by name. Nothing much complimentary, but at least he and Truss mutual fanboy worship of Trump has produced something concrete the batshit nutters are desperate for, as opposed to actually doing the jobs they were elected to do. BTW, my long-term is a major Tory volunteer, and asked me for my opinion on Truss as she was about to be elected (not by the general public) PM. I said she's a total moron, a nutjob, no idea what she's doing, at least Sunak is sane. I'm saving my "I Told You So" for a special occasion as it's blatantly not needed currently. And it was a useful lesson for me, that relatively intelligent people who you'd think would be able to assess people's ability and suitability in a fairly logical rational way are in fact just as random as nutty fanatics and make emotional choices based on preconceived conceptions and grudges. But feel free to ignore inconvenient facts to support your bias. We are not a totalitarian state and most of the private companies and every online tom dick & harry are selling your personal details to all and sundry already. I know this is a fact courtesy of the lying bast*rds who ring my phone everyday from India and try to con me out of money, having managed to get money out of my late dad with fraudulent IT bollocks and lies and blocking laptops demanding ransom money. I told/tell them to f*** Off and bought a new one. Now THAT is a global problem that needs sorting as older people get targeted and nobody seems to give a toss. If one doesn't already think one's personal choices and info on you arent being shared already every time one logs on and browses Youtube, post on X or anywhere else, one might be interested in some guaranteed Get-rich-scheme I have, just send me 250 pounds and I will send out the details.....

The late Quincy Jones' was a good track, but I have to admit the other 4 passed me by without noticing them at the time, bar Air Supply's which was a bit of a disappointment after the fabulous 2 singles previous, Lost In Love and All Out Of Love. Top end of the chart top notch still :cheer:

catching up with INXS' greatest single, loved Need You Tonight first time round and had been a fan since 86's Kiss The Dirt, Kick the album is one of the 80's greats and in concert they were stunningly good, Michael especially knew how to work an audience. Long overdue this big hit. Pet Shop Boys still on peak quality with Left To My Own Devices, a monster epic, and not your typical chart hit. I always think of it driving through North Dorset into Wiltshire and Somerset, like yesterday, when I see roadsigns, left to your own Devizes, I probably will. Missing You remains a dirge, never liked it, Twist & Shout it's The Beatles any day of the week, but at least it was a very different version, Iron maiden the usual metal clone single (rubbish), Bros go Glum and it didnt work for me, Cat was passable. Two Hearts is a great 60's pastiche, it could easily be an early Supremes song or Four Tops. The Holland Dozier Holland vibes most appropriate (see Phil's You cant Hurry Love and another flop so far from Buster for the Tops, Fun In Acapulco). Mistle Toe And Wine sounded mildly passable as a one-off Xmas record as long as we didnt have to endure it for the next 37 years, so we are fine I expect :teresa: Smooth Criminal was a highlight of the excruciating Moonwalker film. I actually paid to see it at the cinema, and it was torture. I wanted to turn into the Incredible Hulk and wreck the place after optimistically hoping something good would come along any minute now. Shame as the Bad album is a classic and the record great. Bomb The Bass still good, albeit not quite as good as the other singles to date, Kylie & Jason what a tune, what cheese, and Neighbours was unavoidable, no matter how hard I tried to avoid it. Still love the record. Angry Anderson was another TV-pushed dreary crappy TV-tune that got on my nerves. Still does. Stop is fun enough, I'd place it ahead of a later number 2 hit of the same name, but behind the 60's triple epizeuxis from the Hollies which peaked at 2. Rick Astley's I dont even remember. That's not a compliment.

Thanks Jade, congrats both on nearly there :dance: Sorry missed Friday, driving 8 hours to Birkenhead, closed roads and lanes roadworks everywhere, time to convert the motorways into car parks, I can literally fly to Florida in 8 hours, or to The Canaries and back. :huh: I see Kim was the 3 in 10, another gift to me that one :) Round 1: 39 Round 2: 39 considering I feel jet-lagged and aching back this morning this score is miraculous, the questions just fell into place! 3 in 10: 3 ( )

Wow, not a fan of our current democracy, one of the least-bad systems in world history..... That explains a lot. OK, apart from being totally impractical to just ask everybody an opinion on everything based on no information about the thing they are being asked about lets consider that you can people to say any old bullshit by manipulating how you phrase the question, and frankly everyone would get pissed off with it almost immediately. But OK, yes for a start lets' go with: "Do you want to rejoin the EU?" and see where that goes. After all democracy is not a fixed thing. Opinions change all the time. If we were part of the EU the cost of increasing military spending would be presumably shared and just like NATO, we'd get blanket insurance. Attack one attack all. There's safety in numbers. How about this Question: "Bearing in mind over the last 35 years Russia has invaded: Republic of Tatarstan 1994–present Chechen Republic 2000–present Republic of CrimeaA 2014–present Donetsk People's RepublicAB 2022–present Luhansk People's RepublicAB 2022–present Kherson OblastAB 2022–present Zaporizhzhia OblastAB 2022–present Do you believe that rewarding Russia giving them Ukraine will be a deterrent to consistent liar, deal-breaker and propagandist Putin coming back for more, or going for small Baltic nations that irritate him? If not, should the UK re-arm itself back to the standards we had ion the 20th century for our own future well-being and safety, bearing in mind it's within living memory that we were very nearly wiped out by fascist forces from the East?" I hope those questions are helpful. That you can sweepingly lump all of the EU together as "simpletons" suggests you are not perhaps the best judge of character (see Trump, now opting for "King" as his new title, which I suspect will annoy Musk who is more of "Emperor". Both of them in stylistic terms, more The Emperor as in The Empire in Star Wars, and Trump as King, more in the sense of King George III, only not quite as stable and charming.). I can at least see some sane Republicans. All former Presidents for a start, who know exactly what Trump is. Or how about re: UKraine, Putin has hired in North Koreans to do his fighting for him - to avoid the upper middle classes having to sacrifice their sons, the richer ones might get a bit testy about Sonny- boy buggering about as cannonfodder, but who cares about brainwashed Asians eh? So why don't we have a vote on whether we can hire the North Koreans in for more money? Job sorted! Putin would have no choice but to kill his fellow richer folk or see reason. The reason Russia doesnt attack anyone with Nuclear missiles is because of a thing called Mutually-Assured Destruction. Even evil dictators kind of realise that would be insane and self-destroying. Nobody surviving would be very happy with him. The whole point of NATO is to have that back-stop. If the USA f***-off, which is looking likelier by the day, then it's down to the UK and France to become the key figures. Given Trump's foreign-born Muskrat just sacked a load of staff paid to keep his own country safe, the lunatics are really taking over the asylum. But here's another vote they could have in the UK, but not in the USA - because that is not currently a democracy and the 2 Houses voted in to run the the country policies basically talk a bit, have a coffee-break, talk a bit more, then go for lunch, then talk a bit more and go home after kneeling-down in servitude to the Grand Overlord - could be this one: "Given the anger over immigrants coming into the country and taking all the jobs and Trumps desire to chuck out any (non-white) people born in the USA, should the former "model" Mrs Trump (current job unclear) and South-African racist Elon Musk be deported? Consider that shutting down his ego-project-with-no-scientific validity to get some poor sucker dead on Mars costs you all a staggering 5 billion dollars (along with his other government contracts) and the savings would be huge. Sending robots spaceships would be a tiny tiny little insignificant ickle bitty part of the cost of that still-vague idea to go to Mars, in much the same way that the 60's Apollo programme cost a fortune and was shut down due to that. Note: Musk still having issues with exploding rockets landing all over islands in the Pacific, but happily he just discontinued the people tasked with making sure they are safe, so we can look forward to lots of Musk souvenirs becoming more available globally in the future, except his satellites in Ukraine, because he wants to use them elsewhere - on his likely forthcoming global media platform Good Morning Nazis, or GMZ for short. Seig heils optional unless attending a rally." Personally, I think those surveys would do quite well in getting 50% votes in any country with a democracy.

First off im not claiming democracy is perfect and neither are elected politicians all they are is less bad and democracy is the least bad system. This tit for tat view of history is utterly pointless. Go back 2000 years and jews were in the middle east and islam didnt exist and atrocities have been committed by everyone in thst region and beyond ever since. Not to mention waves of invasions and atrocities. Plenty of blame for all concerned to go round including the UK. The key objective is HOW DO YOU STOP FURTHER ATROCITIES AND VIRTUAL ENSLAVEMENTS OF POPULATIONS. You do that by making sure people who hate democracy and love themselves dont get into power because the idea of a benign dictator is a contradiction in terms. You also look into the future and assess whatever action you take us likely to lead to whatever consequences and most people as i explained at length are shit at this. Or they just dont care - which is the human race and its history in a nutshell. I have a zero tolerance for killing. But i equally recognise that rolling over is also not a solution. And prople currenyly tolerating seig heils from the architects of Trumps elections following Russian propaganda over a decade are not the honest brokers some deluded people think they are. And my view has been proved right by events. I try not to say I Told You So cos nobody likes a smart arse. Propaganda is distortion and lies. Democracy is the open availability of facts. The internet has caused the alternstive facts and one sidedness to be the norm. In a sane democracy you can provide facts about anything. Thats the point of it. Once you lose that its not a democracy and all you pump out is selected propaganda with enough facts to mske it look real and the masses just blindly swallow it. Putin is a murderer and mass killer. He is not a trustworthy man thats a fact. Supported by actual deaths. Russia is not a democracy and he aint going anywhere. At least in a democracy you can get rid of the twats who f*** up and who dont speak for everyone doing whatever they do. Putin only spesks to the oligarchs who dont force him out. This system is being currently developed and organised in the USA. 2 years time we will see how successful it is looking to be. 4 years it will be done so its not as we have long to wait and see if democrats can successfully dump the wannabe tyrant or if he gets what he has always wanted. Note: ifvhe doesnt retain power he Musk and all his cronies have committed acts against the constitution and will all go to prison barring self pardons so they kind of have a self interest to not have democracy now. Note: using death as an excuse to give into aggressors is totally playing into their hands. Defending yourself from military invasion is not aggression. The invader is the aggressor. I would say irs not rocket science but of course these days it is rocket based.

The US are sharing sensitive personal information with the richest unelected man in the world. They are in no position to moan about data security. Just saying....

Your "exaggerated" views are just that. Your views. I prefer to deal with facts and previous. Putin: ended democracy in Russia, turned adjacent countries into vassel states, invaded Crimea then got away with it and went back for more. Talk of NATO is just n excuse, NATO armies can get to Russia from any where they want to, it's irrelevant whether they attack from Ukraine or other countries within NATO - which they/we never will if he would just f*** off and mind his own business, because we believe in democracy. So did the USA before Trump turned them into the baddies who also want to end democracy in the USA and everywhere else. If you can't see that is reality then your opinion isn't based on reason and observation, it may be based on youtube propaganda videos, which is the main problem with the MAGA loonies, who know zero about the real world and are fed "facts" that can be traced back to Putin who is polluting and capturing large parts of the West by using people's own stupidity against them. Just watched one myself. They love Putin. They are morons. They have no idea how to research actual facts. Meanwhile previously: Afghanistan was invaded by Russia long before the USA went there (and not for any reason, other than they just could) and found out that reality is a bitch, and withdrew to leave a mess that attacked the USA, in much the same way as Hamas attacked Israel, and both were courses of action that were nuts and led to far worse - except that the attempt in Afghanistan to remove terrorism and oppression was a failure because, guess what, Trump withdrew and left them. net result: women are now prisoners in their own country and it's busy simmering along with other extremists. Extremists do not take other people's welfare into account (they really don't care about them), they aren't logical, and they cause chaos and misery. If you don't stand up to them (as the West hasnt for a quarter of a century with Russia) they instead enrich themselves and commit blatant murders of any opposition anywhere in the world, just as they've been trying to do with Zelensky. All of my views are available to read on back-issue postings on Buzzjack, and I always take a long look at consequences, it's my favourite by-word because people by and large are myopic and look down on cynics. Cynics don't cause chaos, optmists do, largely because they are so sure of themselves that they fail to see warning signs. Working in local government I had decades of watching people make the same mistakes again and again, and failing to listen to experts and reason, and consequences..? Huge debts multiple times. Every one of 'em was caused by right-wing optimists aided and abetted by the right-wing government until they got so nutty that even The Tory Government had to step in and say "NO!!". Much like the USA where the right-wing give billionaires cash breaks and then use debts as an excuse to cut social programmes to help the poor. The biggest needy social tax-leech in the world is Musk. His fortune is mostly tax-payer paid and almost all of it has just gone towards fantasy projects and his cars. In the past it was Democrats that reduced the debt, but those days are gone now and the damage coming to everyone is going to be enormous. There is no escaping it because Trump is a f***ing fascist moron and he is going to make his own people poorer, and alienate everyone but dictators. And he doesnt give a shit how many people he kills as a by-product of his own insane greedy self-worshipping, never has, not even his supporters. The irony is the US governments created their own downfall by privatising space travel over to Musk and subsidising the bullshitter's cars. Even I didn't see that one coming..... I don't habitually swear in real life, but sometimes it's useful to underline something that is (another fave word coming) bleedingly-obvious and has been to me for the last 10 years. I've said so, repeatedly.

Thanks both and 36's all round again, and again here and well done Jade making my prediction come true! :D Round 1: 36 wrong year! Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 2 ( ) I choose to believe my miniscule street-cred goes up not remembering 3. :lol: I said dock of the bay but that peaked at 77, it appears!

Never thought much of First Time, it was a just a TV advert ditty, to me, that got lucky. I still don't enjoy hearing it. Kylie should have been the chart-topper. 1-2-3 not one of my fave Gloria tracks, she had better dance tracks, not least Dr Beat, Rhythm. Deacon Blue I never rated much at the time, either, with one notable exception: Real Gone Kid. Great record. Their current single is good, better than some of their 80's stuff.

I'm old. Kids I was at school with are also now old, that includes kids of Polish immigrants, Caribbean migrants welcomed here cos we needed jobs filling and loads of people came from the winding-down British Empire because we were f***ed after the war, and they all helped rebuild the nation. People born here are not immigrants and they can be any colour. More recent waves of immigrants are no different from the previous ones, their kids will integrate bar a minority of trouble-makers, but you get those regardless of background. If you go back far enough we are all descended from successive waves of immigrants and society changes and develops along the way, from language, food, culture and much much more. British Culture in 2025 isnt the same culture it was in 1975, some ways for better, some ways for worse, but it sure as hell is nothing like it was in 1925 and 1875, so it's pointless even trying to say that the culture of any nation is static and unchanging because it isn't. The REAL problem is the total lack of housebuilding for political reasons. To keep house-owners feeling better-off, to keep landlords Tory and sponging off people who have to rent. A member of our family is having to move out because the flat is racked with damp, everything is mouldy and it gets into the lungs. I've seen the disgusting photos. But the landlord doesnt give a flying f***. The Right To Buy was and is a disaster, taxpayers sell houses set aside for those that need it at half price to people so that they vote the Tories, but increase the burden and cost on the welfare state as landlords again come into free cash from the taxpayer when children are made homeless. Adults made homeless of course walk the streets in many cases, they are in every town, so it's not exactly something you can miss. Believe or not, when I was a kid, and large swathes of the population were all mostly poor by today's standards, there were virtually no homeless people! Imagine that! So it can easily be fixed. Build more f***ing houses and stuff the NIMBYS. That means hiring immigrants because we dont have the skilled numbers needed to make a difference. It will boost the economy and make houses more affordable.

1 6 1 7 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 335000 2 1 1 4 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 363750 3 4 1 8 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 575000 4 9 4 5 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 143400 5 5 5 3 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 186000 6 2 2 11 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 487850 7 8 7 4 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 165500 8 12 8 8 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 160300 9 3 1 14 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 592900 10 10 10 4 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 114000 11 7 1 14 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1211250 12 25 12 6 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 89650 13 13 1 14 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1338800 14 21 14 5 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 86400 15 14 7 14 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 321250 16 26 16 4 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 67500 17 11 1 13 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 779350 18 34 18 6 COLD DREAMING - Doves 69000 19 73 19 2 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 26400 20 27 20 6 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 82400 21 22 21 11 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 151000 22 20 20 6 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 94700 23 19 11 12 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 253250 24 16 5 7 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 218000 25 18 18 11 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 149100 26 36 26 3 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 43400 27 38 27 3 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 42200 28 39 28 3 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 42800 29 15 14 10 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 156650 30 35 30 3 FANCY - Artemas 59500 31 NEW 31 1 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 17900 32 24 1 21 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1063200 33 33 1 24 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1136250 34 17 16 11 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 202350 35 56 35 3 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 31000 36 57 36 2 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 27800 37 37 37 7 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 86350 38 50 38 3 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 39300 39 30 3 13 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 729350 40 49 40 3 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 39100

16th February 2025 It's taken 47 years but Tavares finally get The Bee Gees cover for the monster Saturday Night Fever album soundtrack to the top spot. It peaked at 3 in 1978 for me, but the Gibb brothers did eventually get their version to number one many years later, so it's appropriate that the even-better Tavares song does it too following the death of Pooch last year. That means it's only gone and taken 49 years for them to finally get a chart-topper. Some have had to wait longer (eg The Love Affair), but not many. Miley Cyrus makes it 13 top 10's as Beautiful That Way goes up to 8, Alex Warren has a massive climb into the top 20, and the highest new entry is Sabrina Carpenter with the top bonus track off the revamped album, Busy Woman at 31. Only THumbs had charted for her before, in 2017, but she's now up to 6 if I count correctly. The Weeknd charts 2 off his current album, Cry For Me and a duet with Lana Del Ray, The Abyss. That's also the title of a great film. Ignoring all his features, The Weeknd has had 25 charted tracks in 12 years, including one number one, but loads more with other acts including a number one with Ariana Grande. Lana Del Ray has been a bit quiet lately, but she's on 32 as lead artist, including one chart-topper in 14 years. Alok meanwhile keeps Kylie busy and enters a second track on the chart for himself, and a second for Kylie, and Rizzle Kicks make it 3 in a row in their comeback charting here. 1 6 1 7 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 335000 2 1 1 4 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 363750 3 4 1 8 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 575000 4 9 4 5 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 143400 5 5 5 3 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 186000 6 2 2 11 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 487850 7 8 7 4 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 165500 8 12 8 8 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 160300 9 3 1 14 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 592900 10 10 10 4 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 114000 11 7 1 14 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1211250 12 25 12 6 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 89650 13 13 1 14 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1338800 14 21 14 5 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 86400 15 14 7 14 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 321250 16 26 16 4 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 67500 17 11 1 13 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 779350 18 34 18 6 COLD DREAMING - Doves 69000 19 73 19 2 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 26400 20 27 20 6 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 82400 21 22 21 11 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 151000 22 20 20 6 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 94700 23 19 11 12 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 253250 24 16 5 7 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 218000 25 18 18 11 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 149100 26 36 26 3 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithfull 43400 27 38 27 3 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 42200 28 39 28 3 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 42800 29 15 14 10 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 156650 30 35 30 3 FANCY - Artemas 59500 31 NEW 31 1 BUSY WOMAN - Sabrina Carpenter 17900 32 24 1 21 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1063200 33 33 1 24 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1136250 34 17 16 11 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 202350 35 56 35 3 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 31000 36 57 36 2 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 27800 37 37 37 7 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 86350 38 50 38 3 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 39300 39 30 3 13 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 729350 40 49 40 3 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 39100 41 23 14 13 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 204350 42 32 4 15 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 517600 43 55 43 3 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithfull 30700 44 31 13 18 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 336450 45 28 20 11 ANOTHER NIGHT - Grace Davies 164300 46 46 46 4 MESSY - Lola Young 41900 47 74 47 2 ABRADACABRA - Lady Gaga 17700 48 48 48 4 FOLLOW ME - Special Interest featuring Amanda Lear 40000 49 54 49 3 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 30100 50 51 50 7 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 60250 51 61 51 2 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 19250 52 44 44 8 HURT - OneRepublic featuring Jelly Roll 83750 53 53 4 43 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1105250 54 42 1 24 HEART LIKE MINE - Sam Feldt featuring Rosa Linn 1095750 55 72 55 3 REVELATION - The Knocks & Dragonette 21600 56 70 56 2 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 16600 57 45 1 24 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 1027100 58 29 10 12 TRUCKS - Cars On The Road Cast 235300 59 62 59 4 NO ONE NOTICED - The Marias 30500 60 41 4 18 FANTASY - JADE 551050 61 52 52 4 THE KILLING MOON - Echo & The Bunnymen 34400 62 66 62 3 GOOD NEWS - Shaboozey 19600 63 60 10 27 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 458850 64 64 64 6 HEY YA! - Tom Speight featuring Lydia Clowes 32800 65 71 65 2 LUTHER - Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA, Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn 12800 66 59 8 15 DISCO WITCH - LEXXE 352400 67 NEW 67 1 CRY FOR ME - The Weeknd 6600 68 40 38 8 NIGHT OR DAY - Franz Ferdinand 99850 69 43 1 15 SCREAMLAND - Father John Misty 656850 70 47 8 14 NOW OR NEVER (IT’S MY LIFE) - Bon Jovi x Pitbull 315950 71 68 68 5 BUILD IT UP - Franz Ferdinand 29600 72 75 72 3 ARM’S LENGTH - Sam Fender 15600 73 NEW 73 1 LAST NIGHT I DREAMT I FELL IN LOVE - Alok & Kylie Minogue 5400 74 78 74 2 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 9600 75 65 64 4 CRIMINALS - Meghan Trainor 25300 76 80 76 2 NEW YORK MINUTE - Dion 8800 77 77 77 2 SWEET SISTER SORROW - The Primitives 9200 78 NEW 78 1 VICE - Rizzle Kicks 4400 79 NEW 79 1 THE ABYSS - The Weeknd & Lana Del Ray 4200 80 79 79 2 HOT FOR YOU BABY - Tina Turner 8200 DROP OUTS 58 9 10 DON’T TAKE AWAY THE MUSIC - Tavares 277650 63 15 20 HEAVY IS THE CROWN - Linkin Park 302850 67 26 11 LATE ’88 - Deacon Blue 123250 69 25 17 SHOULDA LEFT YA - Kylie Minogue 232800 76 49 9 VIVA L’OPERA - Armin van Buuren featuring Natalie Gioia 63150

Hi SSP, congrats on the 20 years! That's dedication to new music and I didnt realise Maisie had had 41 chart-toppers!! :o Wow! Of the climbers this week my tops are Gaga, Sonique, Gwen, Messy, new Gaga, Scowl (good to see them in the BJSC), and 20 years ago chart Green Day and Gwen were my faves. I'm curious to see what was my fave this week then so just looking it up: Dakota (Stereophonics). great charts! B-)

Hey Sven! :) Great top 2, Indigo climbing, Euphoria climbing, Deacon Blue up and The Weeknd new in :dance: Breakers tracks, Abracadabra, Pink Pony Club, Arm;s Length, No Bad Vibes, Chasing Paradise and Say My name are all great. Ten years ago already!! :o Uptown Funk is a classic, King, Hozier & Love Me harder too, while goodies from galantis, Up a and a few others keep it good. great charts!! B-)

Hi Sergej! :) Hope all is great! I like the new number one, also great to see Luther going top 10, Gaga new in the top 10, Sam fender holding, the massive Pink Pony climb, Kendrick returning, and a load of faves all dropping this week but it's still a great chart packed with great tracks! :cheer: B-)

Hi SSP, thanks for the picks and dropping in! B-)