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2nd August 2026 It's back on top for a 3rd week for Rose Gray's Club banger, holding off a close challenge from New Radicals and Michelle Branch's cover of their own 2000's personal chart-topper (for Santana) at 2, The Game Of Love almost doing it a second time, it's very rare that new versions of the same song by the same artist return a song to my top, but Michelle not far off. Honeybee needs to be an official single, up to 4 for Olivia Rodrigo as her other 2 songs are on hold, The Cure leapfrogged by a fast-climbing Rubettes' oldie and a new entry for a 1970's US fluff TV show, The Love Boat, which was pure cheese, but this cover (looking a bit AI-ish) has a fab vocal to go with the punchy new arrangement, by who knows who (if it's actually anyone real) other than the mystery label Lowdii Beats. It would have charted earlier if I could have downloaded it, but it's annoyingly not available, so I've had to listen to it from streaming sites via blutooth mono speaker, which is nowhere as good as widescreen-sounding fancy stereo in my car or stack system. I dont know how anyone can listen to music that loses the depth and subtlety proper speakers, but then I dont put convenience ahead of my enjoyment. In a modest week for new entries, Jim Gilstrap passed away a couple of weeks ago, and his 1975 soul hit Swing Your Daddy pops back at 91. Jim might well be best known as the intro vocalist on Stevie Wonder's You Are The Sunshine Of My Life. Or not. Freddy Cannon meanwhile gets a 3rd posthumous entry with his biggest UK hit in at 99. Dai Dai almost made the UK top-spot and has belatedly given Shakira another chart hit, post-World Cup, for the first time as lead act in 12 years, and extends her chart run to 24 years. Burna Boy has only ever charted as a "featuring" before. Haircut 100 have their first new album in 44 years out, with some good singles on it, very much carrying on where they left off, the third one debuts at 98: Dynamite, is their 7th, though Nick Heyward has had many many others over the decades. That leaves a chart debut by newcomers Charlie Jair and Simone Ashley sounding So Good at 100. 1 3 1 6 CLUB TO YOUR ARMS - Rose Gray 775000 2 6 1 3 THE GAME OF LOVE - New Radicals & Michelle Branch 180200 3 1 1 5 DON JUAN - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 353500 4 8 4 6 HONEYBEE - Olivia Rodrigo 154900 5 2 1 5 ZABADAK! - Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich 508000 6 4 2 10 THE WAVE - Jungle 691650 7 9 7 8 LOVE SENSATION - Madonna 157400 8 7 5 6 TANGERINE - Damiano David 262450 9 5 5 5 SUMMER (THE FIRST TIME) - Bobby Goldsboro 155400 10 12 7 10 MOVIN' TO THE SUN - HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Nate 233150 11 11 3 12 FOREVER - Reverend and The Makers 486650 12 15 12 11 TALK TO YOU - ANOTR featuring 54 Ultra 166800 13 14 1 12 CRYING OVER YOU - Reverend and The Makers 848000 14 18 14 4 SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE - Jungle 63700 15 48 15 2 BABY I KNOW - The Rubettes 39300 16 13 8 8 HOWL - Carly Simon 245400 17 NEW 17 1 THE LOVE BOAT - Lowdii Beats 23000 18 24 18 7 SUMMER FUNK - Francesco Gabbani 100600 19 19 19 7 THE CURE - Olivia Rodrigo 81900 20 20 1 9 READY TO BEGIN - Appleton 489200 21 52 21 3 SUNRISE - Simply Red 36650 22 10 4 6 FATE - Alan Walker & Ava Max 256000 23 16 6 11 BETTER TIMES - Robin Schulz featuring BARBZ 258350 24 17 1 15 LOVE CONTROLLER - Demi Lovato 812300 25 21 14 7 UNDER THE RHYTHM - Adam Lambert 143050 26 32 26 6 FIREBALL - Pitbull featuring John Ryan 63000 27 33 27 7 MACHINE GUN - The Commodores 107200 28 23 1 18 CLICK CLACK SYMPHONY - RAYE featuring Hans Zimmer 1018900 29 35 29 4 I'M ALIVE - Imael Angel 64150 30 30 1 12 YA YA YA - JONAS LOVV 686250 31 47 31 6 DANCING WITHOUT YOU - Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor 49900 32 44 32 5 DANCETERIA - Madonna 57750 33 36 33 6 CHICAGO - Michael Jackson 83450 34 45 34 7 BOOGIE'S IN MY SOUL - Chaka Khan & Snoop Dogg 75450 35 22 18 11 LIGHT UP - Kylie Minogue 168250 36 43 36 7 WHITE NOISE - Holly Humberstone 71950 37 31 15 15 MR KNOW IT ALL - Teddy Swims 279250 38 38 5 25 DRIVE SAFE - Myles Smith & Niall Horan 672050 39 25 25 10 DRAG THE BAG - Inspiral Carpets 130750 40 53 40 6 ON MY SOUL - Bruno Mars 55850 41 37 1 14 NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - The Jackson 5 517800 42 60 42 3 WANTED - The Dooleys 29550 43 29 19 14 BRING YOUR LOVE - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter 199550 44 39 1 14 BROTHER LOUIE - Hot Chocolate featuring Alexis Korner 658400 45 61 45 2 TONIGHT - The Rubettes 20500 46 58 46 5 NO MORE REGRETS - almost monday 37550 47 26 20 10 RIPPLES IN A POND - Paul McCartney 148500 48 54 48 4 SHATTERED DREAMS - Johnny Hates Jazz 38400 49 55 49 4 I FEEL HOPE COMING - Alabama Shakes 36100 50 41 8 13 STRUCK - Charlotte MacInnes 282800 51 40 4 16 CHUCK THE MONEY - Stephen Sanchez 436600 52 74 52 3 THINK I'M GONNA FALL IN LOVE WITH YOU - The Dooleys 19300 53 49 6 18 SUGAR - Simien & Akon 487350 54 75 54 4 BIZARRE - Madonna & Martin Garrix 23600 55 42 5 13 MASTER JACK - Four Jacks And A Jill 386150 56 27 15 11 PATCHES - Clarence Carter 165050 57 59 57 10 BOSTON - STELLA LEFTY 60100 58 46 42 12 POTENTIAL - sombr 111650 59 67 59 4 STAND UP - Howard Jones 22900 60 86 60 2 FIREFLIES - Martin Garrix & U2 13300 61 85 61 2 BLUE DREAM - Holly Humberstone 10500 62 62 62 4 STREET OF DREAMS - U2 20200 63 70 63 5 MEET ME IN LOVE - Blossoms featuring Maya Jama 25400 64 65 64 5 CHEMISTRY - PNAU featuring Master Peace 25200 65 68 65 7 SELF AWARE - Temper City 26900 66 66 1 25 LUCKY AGAIN - Lykke Li 924100 67 56 17 12 GO - The Chemical Brothers featuring Q-Tip 169700 68 50 17 9 ON THE FLOOR - Jennifer Lopez featuring Pitbull 113850 69 78 69 4 THERE'S A BETTER WAY - Inspiral Carpets 14400 70 76 70 4 TAKE ME BACK - Kygo & Max McNown 18400 71 77 71 4 THESE ALARMS - Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue 13700 72 71 71 4 STUPID SONG - Olivia Rodrigo 18400 73 72 4 22 AMERICAN GIRLS - Harry Styles 461600 74 79 74 3 IT FEELS SO GOOD - Sonique 11000 75 81 75 6 WATCH IT BURN - Katy Perry 15400 76 83 76 2 YOU'RE THE REASON WHY - The Rubettes 8200 77 34 17 12 AIN'T NO SUNSHINE - Shaggy featuring Sting 189050 78 84 78 4 MY BODY ISN'T READY - sombr 13000 79 51 1 14 EMMA - Hot Chocolate 684700 80 88 80 5 HATE THAT I MADE YOU LOVE ME - Ariana Grande 11200 81 28 28 10 MORE! MORE! MORE! - Becky Hill 119900 82 57 40 11 HEADLIGHTS - In Color 68300 83 82 82 4 IT'S A HEARTACHE - Bonnie Tyler 12800 84 89 84 2 BUZZ BUZZ A-DIDDLE-IT - Freddy Cannon 5400 85 93 85 3 WATCHING YOU WATCHING ME - The Shires 6100 86 94 86 2 DES FLEURS - Tove Lo & Stromae 4400 87 95 87 3 ON WIRES - Carly Rae Jepsen 5200 88 90 88 6 READ MY LIPS - Madonna & Feid 9300 89 91 89 5 PASSENGER - Alex Warren 8600 90 96 90 2 JUST DRIVE - Natalie Imbruglia 3400 91 NEW 91 1 SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap 1900 92 98 92 2 TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE - Orville Peck 3000 93 87 87 5 JEALOUS LOVER - The Rolling Stones 10000 94 92 92 4 LOST IN FRANCE - Bonnie Tyler 6400 95 100 95 1 PALISADES PARK - Freddy Cannon 2500 96 NEW 96 1 DAI DAI - Shakira featuring Burna Boy 1400 97 99 97 2 BLUE SHADOWS - The Avalanches featuring Karen O 2400 98 NEW 98 1 DYNAMITE - Haircut 100 1200 99 NEW 99 1 WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS - Freddy Cannon 1100 100 NEW 100 1 SO GOOD - Charlie Jeer & Simone Ashley 1000 DROP OUTS 63 61 10 MAN IN THE ARENA - The Script 51000 64 63 9 FAVOURITE KIND OF IDIOT - Paul Heaton featuring Rianne Downey & Ian Broudie 52800 69 10 14 FREE TO LOVE - Duran Duran featuring Nile Rodgers 235950 73 3 18 PHOENIX - Marshmello x Portugal. The Man 442700 80 66 6 (BABY BABY) CAN I INVADE YOUR COUNTRY - Sparks 23000 97 67 8 ROLLING STONES - The Kolors 30100

Hi Sven! 🙂 Hope all is fine! These are my faves this week: good top 5! - - SHAKIRA & BURNA BOY - DAI DAI ⚽ / - (5x@🥇) / - (The Official Dutch Top 40 - 6x@🥇 week 31) 02 02 02 - 08 - Ariana Grande - Hate That I Made You Love Me -PP❤️ / - (2x@🥇) 03 03 03 - 07 - Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew It 04 06 19 - 05 - Hugel & Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin´ To The Sun 05 07 12 - 05 - Bruno Mars - On My Soul -PP❤️ 06 04 04 - 05 - Olivia Rodrigo - Stupid Song 08 09 20 - 04 - Sombr - My Body Isn´t Ready 09 08 05 - 19 - Bebe Rexha & Faithless - New Religion / - (2x@🥇) 12 11 10 - 18 - Anotr & 54 Ultra - Talk To You 13 12 11 - 15 - Teddy Swims - Mr. Know It All 14 13 09 - 20 - Hugel & Solto - Jaimaican, Bam Bam 16 16 22 - 06 - Bebe Rexha & David Guetta - Sad Girls -PP❤️ 20 20 24 - 05 - Alex Warren - Passenger 23 21 14 - 11 - Sienna Spiro - Material Lover 27 18 17 - 30 - Michael Jackson - Billie Jean -PP❤️1983 / - (2x@🥇1983) / - (12 weeks ´26) 29 28 30 - 04 - Madonna - Love Sensation 30 26 25 - 13 - Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter - Bring Your Love -PP❤️ 33 22 15 - 08 - Olivia Rodrigo - The Cure 36 NE xx - 05 - Temper City - Self Aware / - (tip02) / - (week 20 ´26 - 4 weeks - peak no 35 - 15 points) 40 NE xx - 01 - The Rolling Stones - Jealous Lover / - (tip08) ============================================================================= 🎵🎵 ** POWER TIP 20 ** 🎵🎵 -- WEEK 31 2026 -- BUBBLING UNDER -------------> ============================================================================= -PP❤️ = PowerPlay : --------------> MARTIN GARRIX & U2 - FIREFLIES -PP❤️ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 02 11 - Silva Bumpa - On 2Nite 03 20 - Madonna - Danceteria 05 06 - Tove Lo & Stromae - Des Fleurs 06 07 - Jungle - The Wave 07 NE - Teddy Swims - Break Up In Reverse 08 15 - Katy Perry - Watch it Burn 09 10 - Bakermat & Rani - I Love Life 12 16 - Rose Gray - Club To Your Arms 13 14 - Chaka Kahn & Snoop Dogg - Boogies In My Soul 14 18 - Marshmello & Kelsea Ballerini - Another Drink 16 NE - Aitch & Anita Ward - RMB (Ring My Bell) / - (orig. 1979 Anita Ward - 12 weeks - peak no 02 - 349 points) 19 NE - Madonna & Martin Garrix - Bizarre 20 NE - U2 - Street Of Dreams ============================================================================= 🎵🎵 ** POWER TOP 30 ** 🎵🎵 -- WEEK 31 1987 -- 🎵🎵 -- https://www.radioveronica.nl 🛳️ 91.6 FM -- 🎵🎵 ============================================================================= 🎼 https://www.192radio.nl 🚢 🎼 The Official Old Dutch Top 40 & Tipparade 🎼 Every Saturday 13:00-18:00 CET 🎼 ============================================================================= - PET SHOP BOYS - IT´S A SIN / - (2x@🥇) -SS📡 classic! 02 04 06 - Heart (USA) - Alone -AS🔔 03 05 04 - Madonna - Who´s That Girl 04 02 08 - George Michael - I Want Your Sex -PP❤️ / - (2x@🥇) -AS🔔 05 03 09 - Herb Albert & Janet Jackson - Diamonds -AS🔔 06 07 04 - A-Ha - The Living Daylights -PP❤️ -AS🔔 08 06 11 - Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody -PP❤️ / - (5x@🥇) 10 10 12 - Crowded House - Don´t Dream It´s Over -PP❤️ classic! 11 14 04 - Janet Jackson - The Pleasure Priciple (remix) 13 11 04 - Donna Ellen - Serious 14 20 02 - Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Head To Toe 15 09 08 - Mel & Kim - F.L.M. -SS📡 17 13 07 - ABC - When Smokey Sings 18 17 07 - 5 Star - The Slightest Touch 21 19 09 - Prince - If I Was Your Girlfriend 22 30 02 - Alexander O´Neil - Fake 23 NE 01 - Fleedwood Mac - Seven Wonders -PP❤️ 24 NE 01 - Boy George - Sold -AS🔔 27 NE 01 - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine - Rhythm Is Gonna Get You 29 NE 01 - Curiosity Killed The Cat - Misfit -PP = PowerPlay : -----------------> Michael Jackson & Siedah Garrett - I Just Can´t Stop Loving You -PP❤️ -AS = AlarmSchijf : ----------------> Bruce Willis - Under The Boardwalk -AS🔔 / - (Radio Veronica - NL) -PP = ParadePlaat : ----------------> Desireless - Voyage Voyage / - (State Radio 3 - TROS Thursday - NL) 1987 charts full of golden oldies there! Great charts! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Hope all is great! My faves this week: 01 02 Katy Perry - Watch It Burn | 35-03-02-02-02-01 | 6 wks ooh she got there in the end! 02 08 Carly Rae Jepsen - On Wires | 29-09-07-08-02 | 5 wks growing on me nicely now 03 01 Rose Gray - Club To Your Arms | 17-01-01-01-01-03 | 6 wks ah, I take up the number one slack as she vacates it here 04 13 Alan Walker & Ava Max - Fate | 19-17-13-04 | 4 wks snap! 4 peak in my charts 05 04 Ariana Grande - Hate That I Made You Love Me | 06-07-03-09-05-04-04-05 | 6 wks 06 07 Olivia Rodrigo - The Cure | 04-01-02-05-08-08-07-06 | 8 wks 07 06 Stella Lefty - Boston | 01-05-06-08-06-06-06-07 | 8 wks 09 10 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide | 40-37-xx-22-23-23-18-12-10-10-09 | 10 wks 10 05 Olivia Rodrigo - Drop Dead | 13-11-08-11-04-05-05-10 | 8 wks 11 18 Sombr - My Body Isn't Ready | 38-38-39-26-18-11 | 6 wks nearly top 10! 12 09 Anne Hathaway - My Mouth Is Lonely For You | 19-15-02-11-14-09-12 | 7 wks 14 25 Pupsies - Misery | 30-25-14 | 3 wks 15 14 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You | 05-04-05-13-18-15-14-15 | 8 wks 21 03 Olivia Rodrigo - Stupid Song | 25-06-03-03-03-21 | 6 wks 22 21 Harry Styles - American Girls | 12-17-13-16-16-11-21-22 | 8 wks I still love this, its been around almost 6 months! 23 29 Disco Bambino, Nile Rodgers & Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Dancing Without You | 37-29-23 | 3 wks 24 33 Tove Styrke - Song And Dance Man | 35-33-24 | 3 wks 25 19 Harry Styles - Aperture | 30-07-04-02-xx-18-09-10-11-10-09-19-25 | 12 wks 26 20 Tove Lo - I'm Your Girl Right? | 14-08-09-15-23-18-20-26 | 8 wks 27 NE Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas | 27 | 1 wk hooray, Ella sneaks in! 🤩 28 26 Becky Hill - More! More! More! | 07-03-07-12-17-19-26-28 | 8 wks 29 28 Rose Gray - Just Be Bodies | 28-29 | 2 wks 30 35 Sombr - Potential | 35-30 | 2 wks 31 24 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun | 02-02-01-07-15-16-24-31 | 8 wks 32 39 Carly Rae Jepsen - After All | 39-32 | 2 wks 33 40 Jessie Ware - Sauna | 40-33 | 2 wks 34 30 The Fizz - A Crazy Shot In The Dark | 20-21-04-25-27-30-34 | 7 wks 35 38 Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart | 39-38-35 | 3 wks❤️ 37 31 Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia | 12-03-01-01-01-01-02-01-01-03-04-04-02-02-02-01-01-06-04-xx-30-29-29-19-20-28-31-37 | 26 wks 40 NE Demi Lovato & Rose Gray - Joshua Tree | 40 | 1 wk not heard this one either, I like it. great charts! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 You are so right about Club To Your Arms not going anywhere - must have read my mind, its back on top 😄Fate, I found I love the intro and the rest of the song not quite so much on repeat, but it's still a good one 👍The Cure is a bit of an epic build, def one of her best - vampire and oddly the lovely Honeybee are my faves I think, I'm glad that has made the UK 40. I havent heard Misery I just assumed it was a kiddie-TV track from the name Pupsies 😄playing it now. well that's very early 80's retro synth blippity blop sounds! Unexpected but she sells it well vocally and I like the fuzzy guitar. cheers! 😎

Hi SSP! My faves this week from your 100 climbers and holders: 01 01 Gary - Stephen Wilson Jr. 10 1(2) sounds good! The song referencing the name popularity is true, once Gary Cooper was a movie hero, and kids were named after him, not so much now! 04 05 Passenger - Alex Warren 7 4 17 19 Take Me Home, Country Roads - Outliers 4 17 21 26 Stone - Prince 5 21 23 32 Tangerine - Damiano David 7 23 25 --- The Game Of Love - New Radicals / Michelle Branch 1 25🤩love this one 29 33 Howl - Carly Simon 6 29 ❤️ 30 34 My Mouth Is Lonely For You - Anne Hathaway 4 30 32 37 Watching You Watching Me - The Shires 9 32 34 52 Street Of Dreams - U2 3 34 36 50 Spin - Johnny Marr 6 36 39 41 Sad Girls - Bebe Rexha / David Guetta 8 39 42 53 Boston - Stella Lefty 2 42 43 55 Bottom Of Your Boots - Ella Langley 5 43 46 60 Danceteria - Madonna 3 46 47 58 Father Figure - Taylor Swift 3 47 48 54 Des Fleurs - Tove Lo / Stromae 6 48 50 --- Fireflies - Martin Garrix / U2 1 50🤩 51 62 Watch It Burn - Katy Perry 4 51 52 70 Stand Up - Howard Jones 2 52 53 64 Salesman Saint - Paul McCartney 3 53 55 66 Club To Your Arms - Rose Gray 3 55 57 68 Mexico Honey - Kacey Musgraves 6 57 68 76 On Wires - Carly Rae Jepsen 3 68 75 85 Fate - Alan Walker / Ava Max 3 75 82 92 Break Up In Reverse - Teddy Swims 2 82 83 94 Take Me Back - Kygo / Max McNown 2 83 90 --- Just Be Bodies - Rose Gray 1 90 92 --- After All - Carly Rae Jepsen 1 92 great chart! 😎

Hi SSP! 🙂 Thanks for the comments on Freddy Cannon, and I didnt know the story behind it really, I just remember seeing adverts for Palisades Park in DC Comics in the 60's so I have this image in my head of the funfair being exciting 🙂I didnt know Bob Gaudio played organ on it either! And i never realised the UK Matchbox hit in 1980 was a cover of Freddy's! There's another entering this week 👍 Thanks for all the picks! 😎

Hi bgood! 🙂 That new number one is very nice, Frisson is sweet-sounding, and French lyrics always sound classy. Rose Gray is always good, and I like that Mexico Honey track too. LP is always good, like the guitar work on this one, and I rate Des Fleurs too, just bought that one! Blue Dream is leaping up my new chart, great charts! 😎

Hi bgood! 🙂 Thanks for dropping by and for the comments, glad you like Rose Gray and New Radicals fab singles, and Damiano's Tangerine - his solo stuff has been excellent - and Summer Funk is so catchy! I love them both! cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope the playlist-at-work is still strong, it's almost like the Florida radio oldies stations from way back where they playlisted fave oldies for a period of about 15 years of music, and change them gradually over a couple of weeks or so. 😄 Back in the 90's it was all about 1961-74 as that was target audience, then by the 10's it was late seventies and 80's, now it's the 90's early 00's! Too limiting for me, I like huge swathes of time to pick from 😄 Pub quiz for me tonight, there is a 60s to 00s clips music round I have always won with a little team help bar one freak week so I make sure I dont go too often to this one, it's annoying when the same person/team keeps winning! 😄 fabulous charts of course! cheers!😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Supreme were fab thanks, as close to freddie and the gang as one can get I think! Good you are milking the leg, so to speak 😄Good news on the anti-Heart crowd too, and pushing the personal playlist, thats my idea of heaven - a captive audience being re-educated to enjoy what I love 😇Hard to believe anyone wouldnt have heard Spagna's oldie, it's not like it hasnt been played on radio and TV since it was big! 😎Keep it up with the brainwashing spreading the love for classic oldies 😄 I'm pretty sure no-one else will be having a Dave Dee & co in a chart top 2 in the 2020's - sadly! Special circumstances, as I'd missed Don Juan at the time and didnt get to know it that well until recently, and Zabadak being pre-chart is an injustice righted 😄Santana did a version of Game Of Love with Tina Turner too!? Missed that one, it's good as I play it right now! I love the new Michelle one nearly as much as the original hooray! There is indeed truth on the Madge/Kylie new version of Love Sensation, I would love it to chart in the 75 for a 3rd madonna and another kylie in 2026. The intro of Disco Bambino's is a bit like El Bimbo to me, in vibe if nothing else 🙂I like those 2 Dooleys hits but not to quite the same extent as my top 2 Dooleys. Have you still got the 1998 taping of Sonique's? It seems odd it's not available on Spotify or as download! There looks to be at least 25 different versions on Itunes 😲 Thanks for the massive long list, comments, chat and compliment! 🤩 cheers! 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 I rate the entire top 11, but good to see On Wires leap to 8 and Boston to 11 too. Also the new entry from Adela, Becky Hanging on and Kygo climbing! Great charts! 😎

Hey seltin! 🙂 Stupid song struggling a bit at the mo getting leapfrogged, but I still like it! 😄Becky has peaked for me though, oh no! 😎 Cheers! 😎

Hi Da Tilt! 🙂 Hope all is fab! My faves this week are as per usual cherry-picked from your top 75 text! 🙂 1. Nessa Barrett – Too Fast To Live, Too Young To Die (2) 3w 2. Ariana Grande – Petal (NEW) looking like not a UK number one this time 3. Luna – Away With The Fairies (1) 5w 4. Angelina Mango; Marco Mengoni – Canto D’Amore) (3) 3w 9. Adéla – Ain’t In LA (38) 2w This might be sneaking into the UK top 40 too tomorrow not heard it before your Spotify list. Quite nice. 10. Lily Meola – Sleeping With My Boots On (12) 3w This is a goodie...👍love the strings 11. Katseye – Animal (53) 2w 20. Shaboozey; Leon Bridges – Burn It Down (34) 2w 22. Alyssa Grace – Bloodstream (NEW) 23. Olivia Rodrigo – Stupid Song (58) 8w 27. Sombr – My Body Isn’t Ready (19) 6w 36. Delta Goodrem – Hologram (26) 6w 40. Stella Lefty – Boston (51) 2w 41. Greta Van Fleet – Saw You Stand (NEW) Still Progrock quirkiness, which is great to see! 44. Muse; Ellie Goulding – Hush (17) 6w 60. Federica Abbate – Superman (42) 10w 61. Prospa; Cloonee – Free Your Mind (47) 8w

Hi DaTilt! 🙂 Thanks for the picks and liking Dave Dee & the gang. I'm still waiting for a chart space to drop Sugar Baby Love in again - it peaked at 3 in two runs back in 1974 but hasnt been back since! cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for all the picks, always appreciated, it must take ages to type out! 🙂 cheers! 😎

Thanks Rollo and here we go with huge static today on the radio. Must be the weather... Round 1: 33: contestant beat me to Love Shine A Light, oops! Boyzone 4 forgettable number one songs it turns out. Round 2: 33 blanked on the U2 title, tch. Not The Unforgettable Fire. 3 in 10: Follow Me Follow You, Mama, Turn It On Again. Obv I avoided Invisible Touch...

Part Of Me was decent, though not up with there with most of the Teenage Dream singles for me. 7 top 10's 2 number ones is the tally for Katy in my charts, this was more formulaic and peaked at 29. It's probably better than I rated it at the time though. Think it would be a bit lower down the list so far, on or around the 20 mark.

Self Control is fabulous, dramatic, classy and has current appeal too thanks to that advert, and the spiritual predecessor to Sandra's non-top-40 Maria Magdalena both tracks 10/10. Eyes Without A Face is Billy Idol's greatest track, it's sad and odd and unexpected, love it, topped my chart at the time where Laura B peaked at 2 10/10. Even better Billy's great flop UK hits got a second chance to hit big in the UK as well as the USA. Come Back was a singalong goodie. Pete Wylie always good, and occasionally brilliant (Story Of The Blues). 8/10. Seven Seas unusually jaunty for Echo & The Bunnymen, but it's not in the same class as Killing Moon 7/10. It's A Hard Life continuing the Queen comeback, in the vibe of Play The Game 1980 period singles 7/10. Hazell Dean a Boystown smash, upping the bpm's and probably her best track 8/10. The Kane Gang were always stylish and pleasantly classy, and had a run of good singles that largely fell short of the 40 later in the decade, sadly, but Closest Thing To Heaven is melodically lovely and their best moment 9/10. You Think You're A Man one of those iconic TOTP performances that brought in a clutch of complaints to the BBC. It was always a Boystown-synth bit of a tongue-in-cheek fun, Divine not the greatest singer in the world, but I loved the next hit single way more. 6/10. Hole In My Shoe brought back 60's nostalgia, but in an amusing fashion, The Young Ones being the break-out anarchic troupe of that generation. The latest Marx Brothers for anyone of a previous vintage, but less puns and more cartoon violence. Both are anti-establishment 7/10. Blancmange's cover was interesting, but it also annoyed me that it outpeaked the ABBA masterpiece original that was too dour to sell, tragically. 7/10. Windjammer is one I havent heard in 40 years, but I think I found it mildly pleasant 6/10. Everybody's Laughing another Galaxy/Phil Fearon upbeat dance tune as Phil is about to go full-on headliner 7/10. Down On The Street is Shakatak's best track for me, the melody is strong and it had a bit more oomph than earlier singles 8/10. Bill Sharpe still had one gem up his sleeve still to come in a most unexpected collab. Agadoo was everywhere and annoying at the time because it wouldnt go away, but it was half-amusing before the OD airplay ruined it. Put it on at a party with plenty of booze though, and watch people have a laugh. 4/10. On The Wings Of Love dangerously MOR for me, it could easily have been sung by name balladeers of the time, or the soon-to-break Whitney, who would shortly be gifted one of his songs but she could easily have covered this one in an alternate universe. 5/10 His best single was a 1989 duet with Dionne Warwick, Love Power, flop in the UK, annoyingly.

One of my blind spots is Mr Billy 😄A singer that makes Bob Dylan sound tuneful, and on a par with my vocal skills....😇

I just did, consider myself virtually kicked - I'm not that pliable these days 😄

in a bit of a motley bunch one stands out as instant vote and it will DJ No Such Luck until it goes. There's only one easy classy winner in this little gathering of tracks for me....

Troublemaker os a middling Olly track for me, it's OK, not his best nor his worst, but it really doesnt compare to Up, Moves, Heart Skips A Beat, Please Dont Let Me Go, Army Of Two (the biggest of these and many others that were much bigger for me than Troublemaker). So it would likely rank short of the 20, I reckon. Good Feelin' is much better, thanks to the sampling, the one and only Flo-Rida lead act track to break my top 10, easily his best track and deserving of being this high, though Low and Club Cant Handle Me are pretty good too. I probably shouldnt mention that Levels peaked top 20 of the two Etta James-sampling tracks, a bit lower, oops! I did give her a credit though, quite rightly! Cheryl, meh. Just played it again as I barely remember it and I'm not that impressed on first re-listen. I didn't bother to chart it at the time, but I see several fans, so playing it a second time to see what I'm missing: the intro is annoying, but at least interesting before the backing track kicks in. The verse is OK, builds nicely but the chorus is a bit samey and lets it down, sort of We Found Love-ish Vol. 2 but not as good. I don't hate it, but I wouldnt put it top 20 either.

Happy they beat Celine, even if they had a virtual million-seller to do it, and they deserve to be top 5 for sure. I'm obv missing three obvious acts for the top 3 slots so I'm going to have to have a quick cheat to work out who they are...!

Dont know the Ken ballad, not as funny as his one-liners, not as tuneful as Happiness, pretty dreary really. Seen the Manfreds' do this in concert, it sounds better there. The Dylan version is not bad actually, has a bit more character to it. they'll do better Dylan covers than this. Nice though. Hanky Panky was not one I knew at the time, but I discovered it in the 80's and it rocks pretty well. Tommy James & The Shondells were one of those US bands that deserved way more hits in the UK, like The Turtles and The Lovin' Spoonful. I Think We're Alone Now, the gorgeous crystal Blue Persuasion, Crimson & Clover, Dragging The Line and a host of blue-eyed soul/gospel tracks all flopped. So my ROTW too.

Out yesterday so catch-up round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: Give Me The Night, Nature Boy, The Greatest Love Of all Well done Tylky and Rollo on the 39! 🤩Jade condolences on the lack of Groove, so nearly there. Almost every hit from 1976 to 1980 was called Groove or funky, just go for that in future it's 50/50😄 todays: round 1: 33 Billy Bragg round 2: 39 3 in 10: Can The Can 48 crash devil gate drive