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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.

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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-)

Hey Sven! :) I didnt realise Hammer To The Heart had had a release of sorts last year, New Zealand it was a sorta hit too it turns out, so I'm a bit late on it and surprised they didnt push it as a single - I thought it was better than the 1st single off the new album and Guilty has passed me by so far. :o Thanks for all the picks! :dance: cheers! B-)

Hi Sergej! :) Thanks as always for the picks and hoep all is fab! B-)

Totally agree. My earlier comments about having preconceived opinions and people trying to change facts to support that worldview apply here when anybody tries to blame this on the EU. Nobody forced Putin to invade Ukraine in 2014, he chose to do it, and when the EU and USA did f*** all, that was the just the go-ahead he needed to go ahead and grab another huge chunk of Ukraine. Presumably someone who believes that first "do nothing" was the right thing to do will also believe that "do nothing" will apply until Putin really feels secure by playing Risk. I mean, when could that fantasy ever happen!!? It's never happened before!! Never ever! Not in 1939, not in 1914, and not once in the whole history of humanity. Oh hang on, that's right, tyrants invade all the f***ing time, always have always will, and if you dont want to live under a tyrant you have to stand up to them. Note to Americans, Trump just issued a declaration that only HE and HE ALONE has the right to make laws. If that isn't proof that democracy is about to end in the USA you really are a moron and deserve everything you have coming to you. Those who would rather they have a say in their future are really going to have to do more than moan on social media and wave some flags on a nice walk for a couple of hours. The judges currently the only ones trying to hold back on the deluge of attacks and respect the Constitution are going to be targeted next in the forthcoming coup. Don't believe me? Believe Trump: "in four years, you don't have to vote again. We'll have it fixed so good, you're not gonna have to vote."

Ooh both on 36's, must be due another batch of 39's I predict! :dance: Gran canaria contestant, 5 weeks on holiday, I'm jealous, sunshine and pub quizzes and beaches. Maybe I should do another break soon! Round 1: 39 helped by getting the movie song title right this time after getting it slightly wrong for that act's 3 in 10 last week. Yes I rushed to the Guinness Book Of Hit Singles to double check, I am that sad :lol: Round 2: 36 (beat me to ) 3 in 10: 3 (

Yazz's newie was OK, not as good as the previous 2 nor some of her later solo stuff but not a bad record. The cover of Kiss was quite chunky in comparison to prince's more delicate original, but I think it gave a bit of oomph to it and Tom some street-cred setting up his move to become more relevant musically, ably assisted by his son/manager. I thought the previous album singles were weaker than the monster hits and his early stuff, but Robert's She Makes My Day is quite nice, a change of pace that might well pay dividends in the 90's...

voted. Good semi 1, there were some that we had no room to vote for but hope they qualify along with the 10. There are some obvious easy qualifiers and quite a few good/interesting ones that might be more more borderline, but cherrypicking 2 a bit of hype from us for Gusgus and driia just because.

Most people don't search for facts and data. I was in the USA at election time and most information on the old media was in the form of short adverts, and now people are bombarded with online propaganda and huge media outlets owned by billionaires. Large swathes of the human race suffer from self-delusion: as in, they have pre-existing beliefs and twist everything to support their own personal delusions, from flat-earthers and aliens to religion. None of these things have any logic or science or facts to them but people cling to them. Anti-vaccers like Kennedy is another symptom of this. I am happy for anybody to believe anything they want to - AS LONG IT DOESN'T HARM SOMEONE ELSE. At which point I jump off. old diseases from my childhood are now cropping in the USA so anti-vaccing is now causing harm so it needs to be called out for what it is. If people choose not to vaccine and die that's their own choice, but once kids start dying because measles and TB are spreading they lose that right in my opinion. Meanwhile, Musk just literally fired crucial Nuclear weapon operators because the kids he hired had no idea what these people do - keep the nuclear weapons safe! - and blocked their accounts instantly. Oops. Once they realised they had no way of contacting these experts they had to put out a request for them to get back in touch. Me, I would refuse to come back without a tripling in wage or say f*** Off I have transferable skills, I will transfer them elsewhere, as any guarantees they offer about job security have been proven to be worthless. They have ignored due process and the law. Reap what you sow if you hire people who dont know anything about shit. See previous comments from me on external hirings in local government, paying people more than the staff who end up doing their job for them so they can collate bollocks to sell bollocks to provide the outcome bollocks to idiots without skills or knowledge who get elected by people who have no idea what they or anyone else does. You might say I'm cynical, but that is the only sane way to approach humanity, baseless optimists are dangerous to the rest of us.

Thanks Jade! :) Fashionably late today again, missed the first few questions got the rest right Round 1: 20-something I lost count :lol: Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 (a gift to me, I can rattle off 20 or 30 no prob, albeit longer than 10 seconds :lol: )

If there's one thing we know for certain, it's that laws and agreements and telling the truth are concepts totally alien to the lying Abbott & Costello of global politics. You can't believe a word that comes out of their mouth and they have been mutually supporting each other for over decade. Trump was visiting Russia on invitation way before he was a TV reality star and shit cameo in Christmas movies and head of numerous bankrupt corrupt businesses. When people show you who they are, you believe that's what they are and only a moron would think otherwise, except for those making conscious decisions who are supporting the aims of the Dynamic Duo to end democracy. The only difference is one already has total control by murdering and the other one is in the process of converting the nation to that point. We will see in 2 years how successful that has been to that aim. If you think this is hyperbole, you really are naiive.

Kylie's first single that I proper rated after liking then getting fed up with Lucky, and the best track on the album. Never heard that B side though..... Milli Vanilli - The record was pretty good at the time, not so fussed now though. Odd how there's a lot of European models popping up fronting European acts around this time..... :teresa: Frank Farian of course vocally behind the male bits on Boney M records, mimed to by former model Bobby Farrell.

two tracks, one in each semi that I rate and have charted: that'll be Viva L'Opera and Kiss Them For Me, hopefully they will make the final :dance:

Enya's was a very unique-sounding lush track at the time, and fabulous, and second only to Kim Wilde's Never Trust A Stranger, one of her greatest (if not the actual greatest) hits, it needs to be better remembered as in a concert setting it's easily the most euphoric track in her catalogue, so exciting. The Christians did a great version of Harvest For The World, so good they still get radio play for it when The Isley Brothers original is drop-dead brilliant. Saw Garry in concert 2 years ago, giving it a good go. And then there's one of those highly annoying tracks, which might have been cool to the acieeeeeeeeeeed crowd but as I did neither drugs nor clubbing then it was mostly a sort of novelty record. Thankfully never gets played as an oldie. :teresa:

Ahh Kasey Kasem/Shaggy from Scooby Doo, big fan of his I was back then and always caught the US top 40 when I could get the signal, or was in the States. failing that Paul Gambaccini on Radio 1 for his US chartshow :cheer: I have a letter from Gambo, almost spoke to him at a Comics fair once, and saw him last year interviewing Madeline Bell of Blue Mink at her concert.

Thanks Jade and hope you like the Youtbe Rollo! Round 1: 33 (I got one word wrong: , tut) Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 2 )