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Winter In July the biggest loss so far, just gorgeous. Plenty of great tracks too, though, Wordy Rappinghood is fun though radio hammering it for weeks on end can cause annoyance, unlike Genius Of Love. Soul Asylum is great always takes me back to a Florida holiday where it was getting blanket plays on XL106.7, Cyndi's version I loved until I heard Roy's original and while I love Cyndi's vocal quirkiness, nobody can sing like Roy. Start Me Up is the Stones still being great, something we wouldnt see much more of, bar Undercover Of The Night, Ghost Town and a couple of decent tracks off their recent album. Mostly they were "OK, but nothing special" going forward. Twin Peaks I loved, but the instrumental is even better, and I preferred her follow-up, in a minority there though. Madonna's is good, but she's had much better records flop since then, like Ghostown, Medellin f'rinstance.

well the cess pit that is X has roused the masses up for Vance's speech, all of the deluded nutters convinced that he's speaking up for the downtrodden masses who dont have free speech, free elections, and would love to have all that totally-not-propaganda from Trump, his stooges and Putin and his stooges. They are basically trying to tell foreigners what to do because they have succeeded in pushing the US far right into autocracy where the US constitution doesnt matter a shit to them and they get more and more brain-addled with propaganda on a daily basis from all the truth-denying US/state media that supported the convicted felon and attempted democracy overthrower. Trump is now trying to destabilise western democracies around the world, blatantly. The world needs to learn from Canada and say "f*** you" to Trump, and sadly, to America until the grown-ups get back in charge if and when that can happen, cos I'm not convinced there will ever be a fair election again given the speed he is ripping up the basis of law and order with only responsible judges at the moment standing up - and they are next on the chopping block, as Trump's cronies start to target them. This is the greatest threat to global freedom, stability and democracy in 65 years and I get f***ing frustrated that the West aren't reacting fast enough. We are all obviously going to be worse off, financially (so what the f*** else is new the last 20 years), and if that is the case then we have two choices: accept it, deal with it, work collectively and excommunicate the USA in terms of trade until they see their own well-being plummeting and revolt against Trump cos he sure as shit has no intention of supporting old allies any more and is already starting up the "I can run two terms cos the Constitution doesnt say "consecutive". He's in with the tyrants. Alternatively, you give in, risk democracy aided by Musk and his propaganda machine spreading the misery world-wide in order to get cheap imports from the USA and some subsidies on NATO (cos those are def coming up next in terms of saying "bye bye NATO or else cough up cash"). Happy days.

8th February 1975 It's the late Steve Harley taking over the top spot for a second Retro chart-topper - Sebsatian had a long run in my 1973 revamp - as the timeless Make Me Smile gets a first week at 1. Redbone get a 3rd top 10 with the obscure (but fab) Only You And Rock And Roll which is a terrible title, they should have gone with one of the song hooks instead, clearly not learning from their previous mistake with Come And Get Your Love, which wasn't called that when it first came out and flopped. Graham Bonney's 1966 top tune, Supergirl, flies up to 10. I must do a Super-hero chart one of these days, there's loads of great songs about super-heroes, or by acts that sound like or steal names of superhero-related characters. It's a hobby I've had for decades! Highest new entry is Jim Gilstrap's falsetto sway-funk goodie Swing Your Daddy at 17, with Mud under-achieving at a mere 47 with their Valentines Day hit, The Secrets That You Keep. After a run of 7 top 5's in a row, this sweet ballad falls a bit short for now. Neil Sedaka will be having a US chart-topper by the end of 1975, with Bad Blood, but sadly in the UK his 3-year run of great new records is drawing to a close, as we were early on him, being as he was signed to a UK label, and recorded at 10cc's studio, with their assistance, and Elton John giving him a leg-up in the States. So all he has left, pretty much, is the Queen Of 1964, an amusing light-hearted take on an ex-groupie. It's a story-song so for any younger folk reading, It's not real! It's fiction, it doesn't mean anything. She's not real, she didn't die! Songs don't always have to be literal "this is what I feel right now" replacement psychiatrists. Paper Lace's songwriter/producers Murray/Callander seem to have run out steam creating new hits for Paper Lace, so they opt for one of their older minor hits as a cover, Hitchin' A Ride, one of my fave records of 1970 at the time. This version is a bit punchier but it ended their hit-streak, and it was all over for them now. In the Italian top 10 this week is a record I've never heard in my life, but I like Rafaella Carra so checked it out. Felictata Ta Ta turns out to be a fun, cinematic, quirky little ditty so she gets a debut 3 years earlier than her 1978 hit. Showaddywaddy seem to be alternating good records with lesser tracks, Sweet Music being a lesser example, but not to worry they have a solution towards becoming more consistent with the next one. Billy Swan's follow-up to I Can Help is almost a novelty record by the end of it, but I'm Her Fool just about stays on the good side, which leaves Hamilton Bohannon's dance breakthrough, South African Man, which I havent heard in decades, a pleasant enough funk groove but it's not one you can really sing along to, being largely instrumental. 1 ( 3 ) MAKE ME SMILE (COME UP AND SEE ME) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel # 1 2 ( 2 ) JANUARY - Pilot # 1 3 ( 1 ) ONE DAY IN YOUR LIFE - Michael Jackson # 1 4 ( 4 ) HAVE YOU NEVER BEEN MELLOW - Olivia Newton-John # 2 5 ( 10 ) YOUR KISS IS SWEET - Syreeta # 5 6 ( 8 ) #9 DREAM - John Lennon # 1 7 ( 6 ) LOVIN' YOU - Minnie Ripperton # 1 8 ( 5 ) JACKIE BLUE - The Ozark Mountain Daredevils # 4 9 ( 11 ) ONLY YOU AND ROCK AND ROLL - Redbone # 9 10 ( 15 ) SUPERGIRL - Graham Bonney # 10 11 ( 13 ) CHILD OF LOVE - Caston & Majors # 1 12 ( 14 ) MY HEART’S SYMPHONY - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 12 13 ( 17 ) I’M ON MY WAY - Dean Parrish # 13 14 ( 23 ) MY ELUSIVE DREAMS - Charlie Rich # 14 15 ( 7 ) THERE’S A WHOLE LOT OF LOVING - Guys & Dolls # 7 16 ( 18 ) BE MY BABY - The Ronettes # 1 17 ( NEW ) SWING YOUR DADDY - Jim Gilstrap # 17 18 ( 16 ) HOW DOES IT FEEL - Slade # 10 19 ( 9 ) CAN’T GET IT OUT OF MY HEAD - Electric Light Orchestra # 1 20 ( 12 ) GOODBYE MY LOVE - The Glitter Band # 9 21 ( 21 ) WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO? - Diana Ross & The Supremes # 3 22 ( 38 ) BLANKET ON THE GROUND - Billie Jo Spears # 22 23 ( 36 ) THEN I CHANGE HANDS - Mick Robertson # 23 24 ( 24 ) DISCO-TEKIN - Reunion # 24 25 ( 39 ) THE BARGAIN STORE - Dolly Parton # 25 26 ( 22 ) BAD BLOOD - Neil Sedaka featuring Elton John # 10 27 ( 30 ) ROLL ON DOWN THE HIGHWAY - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 27 28 ( 19 ) SO LONG - ABBA # 4 29 ( 32 ) L-O-V-E (LOVE) - Al Green # 29 30 ( 25 ) THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN - Lulu # 7 31 ( 26 ) I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU - ABBA # 1 32 ( 35 ) PURELY BY COINCIDENCE - Sweet Sensation # 28 33 ( 29 ) WE’RE ALMOST THERE - Michael Jackson # 29 34 ( 20 ) DOWN DOWN - Status Quo # 5 35 ( 27 ) WALKING IN RHYTHM - The Blackbyrds # 4 36 ( 33 ) THE ORINOCO KID - The Wombles # 15 37 ( 28 ) SINCE I FOUND MY BABY - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose # 15 38 ( 34 ) STREET CORNER MUSIC - Dave Jordan # 34 39 ( 48 ) I’LL TAKE A MELODY - The Hues Corporation # 39 40 ( 49 ) FLY NOW - Brian Protheroe # 40 41 ( 31 ) SHA LA LA (MAKE ME HAPPY) - Al Green # 4 42 ( 37 ) I GET A KICK OUT OF YOU - Gary Shearston # 1 43 ( 43 ) YOU’RE THE FIRST THE LAST MY EVERYTHING - Barry White # 2 44 ( 44 ) DRACULA’S DAUGHTER - Thunderthighs # 12 45 ( 42 ) YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET - Bachman-Turner Overdrive # 1 46 ( 53 ) ALL I WANT IS YOU - Roxy Music # 1 47 ( NEW ) THE SECRETS THAT YOU KEEP - Mud # 47 48 ( 41 ) NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE - Gloria Gaynor # 1 49 ( 46 ) LADY MARMALADE - LaBelle # 8 50 ( 50 ) THIS MONDAY MORNING FEELING - Tito Simon # 50 51 ( 45 ) MS GRACE - The Tymes # 15 52 ( 56 ) WE LOVE EACH OTHER - Charlie Rich # 52 53 ( 52 ) BEACH BABY - The First Class # 1 54 ( 54 ) I CAN HELP - Billy Swan # 9 55 ( NEW ) THE QUEEN OF 1964 - Neil Sedaka # 55 56 ( 58 ) ANGIE BABY - Helen Reddy # 1 57 ( 64 ) NOW I’M HERE - Queen # 57 58 ( 69 ) SUPERNATURAL THING - Ben E. King # 58 59 ( 67 ) I JUST CAN’T SAY GOODBYE - The Philly Devotions # 59 60 ( 51 ) HOW LONG - Ace featuring Paul Carrack # 1 61 ( 59 ) MAGIC - Pilot # 20 62 ( 57 ) GONNA MAKE YOU A STAR - David Essex # 13 63 ( 66 ) ONLY ONE WOMAN - Nigel Olsson # 63 64 ( NEW ) HITCHIN’ A RIDE ’75 - Paper Lace # 64 65 ( 47 ) IRE FEELINGS (SKANGA) - Rupie Edwards # 10 66 ( 71 ) SHINING STAR - Earth, Wind & Fire # 66 67 ( 55 ) DREAMER - Supertramp # 15 68 ( 68 ) I WON’T MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN - Gary Lewis & The Playboys # 68 69 ( 73 ) ONCE YOU GET STARTED - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan # 69 70 ( NEW ) FELICITA TA TA - Raffaella Carra # 70 71 ( 40 ) FOOTSEE - Wigans Chosen Few # 18 72 ( 74 ) LOVE GAMES - The Drifters # 72 73 ( 60 ) PICK UP THE PIECES - Average White Band # 28 74 ( 77 ) LEGO SKANGA - Rupie Edwards # 74 75 ( 80 ) NEVER ENDING SONG OF LOVE - Smokey 007 # 75 76 ( 76 ) I WON’T DANCE - John Henry # 76 77 ( 78 ) MY LAST NIGHT WITH YOU - Arrows # 76 78 ( NEW ) SWEET MUSIC - Showaddywaddy # 78 79 ( NEW ) I’M HER FOOL - Billy Swan # 79 80 ( NEW ) SOUTH AFRICAN MAN - Hamilton Bohannon # 80

Thanks Rollo, yes I caught that on Radio 2, it's fab to see Kevin and Graham back together for a short while. It's on Youtube too, you can see the orchestra and all. I loved the GG05 project they did, they still play that at gigs, so it was nice to see they wrote a song together especially for Radio 2, considering they both had Lol & Eric as their other songwriting halves by and large. I still rate them not that far behind Abba, ELO, Bowie and Bee Gees amongst the 70's greats, but sadly they tend to be listed much further down, whimsy, creativity and wit is often looked down on! Round1: 36 (he beat me to ) Round2: 39 bit of a Macca fan me... 3 in 10: 3 ( )

Desire is a departure for U2, it's their first semi-FUN record, Bo Diddley-stylee and I rate it. OK it's not angst-ridden Pride or epic Joshua Tree, but it was a sign that they were going to avoid repeating themselves. I went to see Albert hammond a few years back, quite the back catalogue he has as songwriter, but Whitney's overblown Olympic song did nothing to endear her to me as she became more and more a cartoon version of herself. The song might be rescued in a substantially different treatment, though. My reaction to Rick's first self-written hit song was "oh dear oh dear, he needs to go back to SAW!" He did nothing to change my mind for the next 30 years, but got there in the end and is now a mini-national-treasure.

It didnt even make the final and I didnt get to hear it as I was in t'other semi, so I remain blame-free :teresa: :lol: Lourdes. Not big hits, but cult monsters like Run Boy Run, and yes I'm going to plug a Singerpurear semi flop (again) In Hell I'll Be In Good Company, The Dead South the video currently on 433 million views and they were on UK TV New Years Eve, it popped up in Umbrella Academy and been touring globally ever since. I'm taking that as a hit. :D

yay 39 Rollo :cheer: Round 1: 36 ( ) Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 ( )

Domino Dancing was obv an instant chart-topper for me, loved the rhythms and the video - which was essentially a homo-erotic wrestle in Florida, in line with the sound fitting in with the dance scene there (see Miami Sound Machine and many others). Being as neither PSB was out yet, it was a culture shock to some, including musically. Rick turned down Jason's hit? Well, can't blame him, but that was the end of Rick getting the top SAW songs then.... Inner City had cool dance grooves, they still sound good.

Trump hs always been Putin's pawn, always hated Ukraine since they wouldnt get involved in smearing his opponents, and being petty and vindictive like everything with Trump - who says what he is going to do before lying about what he's going to do - it was entirely bleedingly obvious this was on the cards. Unless Europe is willing to step in and support Ukraine with zero input from the USA it's a done deal. And I don't see Europe being able to agree the extra cost involved financially and politically, given the West has had blinkers on when it comes to Putin for 25 years and allowed this to happen by not taking action early on as he tested the waters bit by bit on what he could get away with. Trump and Putin are peas in a pod. The Mein Kampf obsession was exposed by Trumps first wife, but nobody listened to her (I did) when it became obvious that he was going to use the same techniques to end democracy in the USA. If you don't fight tyrants you shouldnt be surprised when they take over, and I mean fight them legally and if that fails illegally - because they dont give a shit about taking illegal action and taking the moral highground is no consolation if the cost is the end of democracy. People never learn, new generations new suckers for con-men.

1 5 1 3 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 248750 2 3 2 10 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 432850 3 1 1 13 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 547900 4 2 1 7 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 490000 5 9 5 2 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 126000 6 7 6 6 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 165000 7 4 1 13 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1174250 8 8 8 3 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 115500 9 17 9 4 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 78400 10 30 10 3 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 72000 11 6 1 12 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 756350 12 16 12 7 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 112300 13 10 1 13 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1306800 14 11 7 13 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 294250 15 15 14 9 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 138450 16 12 5 6 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 199000 17 19 16 10 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 184750 18 29 18 10 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 130350 19 13 11 11 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 234000 20 28 20 5 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 75200 21 27 21 4 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 57400 22 25 22 10 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 131250 23 14 14 12 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 190350 24 24 1 20 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1045400 25 35 25 5 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 54650 26 38 26 3 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 42500 27 36 27 5 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 62400 28 20 20 10 ANOTHER NIGHT - Grace Davies 151300 29 18 10 11 TRUCKS - Cars On The Road Cast 225100 30 21 3 13 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 712250 31 22 13 17 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 323200 32 26 4 14 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 503850 33 33 1 23 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1118550 34 56 34 5 COLD DREAMING - Doves 47000 35 40 35 3 FANCY - Artemas 41500 36 61 36 2 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithful 24900 37 41 37 6 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 69050 38 67 38 2 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 23800 39 62 39 2 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 24500 40 39 38 7 NIGHT OR DAY - Franz Ferdinand 93450

9th February 2025 It's up for a first number one for Teddy Swims, as album track Hammer To The Heart out-does his previous 3 big UK hits - methinks it should have been single number one! Pet Shop Boys have to make-do with a number 2, which is quite rare for them, with their album bonus cover track. Chappell Roan gets a 3rd top 10 single with the touching Pink Pony Club, and Glass Animals leap into the top 10 with their airlock firm, and outdoes their previous 2 top 20's including global hit Heat Waves. Gwen Stefani has 2 top 20's, Doves fly into the the 40 for the first time in 16 years, and the late Marianne Faithful for the first time in a whopping 46 years. Alan Walker is back again with more collabs, and gets the highest new entry at 57 with Who I Am, his 15th in 9 years, which is pretty consistent for someone that's had about 1 UK hit. The Waterboys are back, at 61, with Andy, a song about artist Mr Warhol, done in Richard Hawley stylee, which works for me, and gets them a first chart entry with a song that isn't the ever-charting former number one The Whole Of The Moon since 1993. So welcome back, it's only been 32 years! Talking of former number one acts waiting, Tennis return 2 years late for a follow-up to Borrowed Time, a Rick and Morty spin-off which sounded exactly like the last thing you might expect from the manic, irreverent animated sci-fi show - a tender ballad, just as Weight Of Desire is. Kendrick Lamar wowed at the Superbowl this weekend, with SZA on tow, and gets his 3rd chart entry as a result, after previously topping with SZA on All The Stars. Luther samples Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn. The only reason Not Like Us didn't chart for me is I can't understand a lot of what he's saying, even with a lyric sheet, as Modern Rap wasn't available when I was at school, we had French or German. Rap stars back in the good old 20th century used to speak English and I could rap happily along to Rapper's Delight or White Lines or even as late as Gangsta's Paradise. Yes I'm aware this is being taken as some sort of racist comment on social media, but please, for older people it's just a cultural fact of life! Deebo? Amberlamps? Teezo? Jabroni-ass? Finna? John Stockton? Portuguese has a lot of words ending in O, maybe it's related! :teresa: (NB old people used to say "I can't understand a word they sing" to any modern music back in the day, so it's nothing new!) Alex Warren is back with another good single, Lady Gaga makes it 3 in a row as Abracadabra brings some old-time Bad Romance vibes back, for 16 years of charting, Empire Of The Sun keep their recent run of chart action with an unexpected collab with Fleetwood Mac backbone (for their best years) Lindsey Buckingham, who has popping around with solo stuff for 44 years, not including Fleetwood Mac stuff, in which case it's 49 years. Tina Turner has an unreleased track out getting some Radio 2 spins, so that enters and gives Tina her first chart action with new (old) material in 21 years. Dion returned last year, and he's back doowopping again on New York Minute for a rather surprising 49-year chart run, since The Wanderer re-charted as an oldie in 1976, and this makes an 8th chart entry having charted in the 80's and 90's too. Finally, The Primitives return: 4 chart hits in 1988 and 1989 and then nothing else. So, a mere 36 years on that elusive chart return happens. Sweet Sister Sorrow is pretty decent and fits their 80's vibe quite nicely, albeit not quite up there with Crash. 1 5 1 3 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 248750 2 3 2 10 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 432850 3 1 1 13 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 547900 4 2 1 7 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 490000 5 9 5 2 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 126000 6 7 6 6 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 165000 7 4 1 13 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1174250 8 8 8 3 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 115500 9 17 9 4 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 78400 10 30 10 3 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 72000 11 6 1 12 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 756350 12 16 12 7 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 112300 13 10 1 13 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1306800 14 11 7 13 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 294250 15 15 14 9 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 138450 16 12 5 6 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 199000 17 19 16 10 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 184750 18 29 18 10 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 130350 19 13 11 11 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 234000 20 28 20 5 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 75200 21 27 21 4 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 57400 22 25 22 10 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 131250 23 14 14 12 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 190350 24 24 1 20 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1045400 25 35 25 5 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 54650 26 38 26 3 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 42500 27 36 27 5 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 62400 28 20 20 10 ANOTHER NIGHT - Grace Davies 151300 29 18 10 11 TRUCKS - Cars On The Road Cast 225100 30 21 3 13 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 712250 31 22 13 17 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 323200 32 26 4 14 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 503850 33 33 1 23 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1118550 34 56 34 5 COLD DREAMING - Doves 47000 35 40 35 3 FANCY - Artemas 41500 36 61 36 2 AS TEARS GO BY - Marianne Faithful 24900 37 41 37 6 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 69050 38 67 38 2 WAY OUT - Jet Trouble 23800 39 62 39 2 BORN WITH A BROKEN HEART - Damiano David 24500 40 39 38 7 NIGHT OR DAY - Franz Ferdinand 93450 41 31 4 17 FANTASY - JADE 541050 42 45 1 23 HEART LIKE MINE - Sam Feldt featuring Rosa Linn 1084750 43 34 1 14 SCREAMLAND - Father John Misty 650650 44 46 44 7 HURT - OneRepublic featuring Jelly Roll 72250 45 43 1 23 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 1016700 46 55 46 3 MESSY - Lola Young 29150 47 37 8 13 NOW OR NEVER (IT’S MY LIFE) - Bon Jovi x Pitbull 309950 48 57 48 3 FOLLOW ME - Special Interest featuring Amanda Lear 27700 49 60 49 2 HUNT YOU DOWN - ALT BLK ERA 22100 50 59 50 2 DO THINGS MY OWN WAY - Sparks 22100 51 52 51 6 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 48250 52 58 52 3 THE KILLING MOON - Echo & The Bunnymen 26900 53 53 4 42 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1094000 54 65 54 2 CRYING, LAUGHING, LOVING, LYING - Labi Siffre 18000 55 68 55 2 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN - Marianne Faithful 17200 56 71 56 2 LIGHTHOUSE - Kim Wilde 16400 57 NEW 57 1 WHO I AM - Alan Walker featuring Putri Ariana & Peder Elias 10400 58 23 9 10 DON’T TAKE AWAY THE MUSIC - Tavares 277650 59 42 8 14 DISCO WITCH - LEXXE 345600 60 54 10 26 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 451650 61 NEW 61 1 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 7500 62 63 62 3 NO ONE NOTICED - The Marias 20400 63 44 15 20 HEAVY IS THE CROWN - Linkin Park 302850 64 66 64 5 HEY YA! - Tom Speight featuring Lydia Clowes 25700 65 64 64 3 CRIMINALS - Meghan Trainor 20300 66 73 66 2 GOOD NEWS - Shaboozey 12200 67 32 26 11 LATE ’88 - Deacon Blue 123250 68 69 68 4 BUILD IT UP - Franz Ferdinand 23800 69 47 25 17 SHOULDA LEFT YA - Kylie Minogue 232800 70 NEW 70 1 WEIGHT OF DESIRE - Tennis 6000 71 NEW 71 1 LUTHER - Kendrick Lamar featuring SZA, Luther Vandross & Cheryl Lynn 5800 72 74 72 2 REVELATION - The Knocks & Dragonette 10800 73 NEW 73 1 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 5400 74 NEW 74 1 ABRACADABRA - Lady Gaga 5200 75 75 75 2 ARM’S LENGTH - Sam Fender 10000 76 49 49 9 VIVA L’OPERA - Armin van Buuren featuring Natalie Gioia 63150 77 NEW 77 1 SWEET SISTER SORROW - The Primitives 4600 78 NEW 78 1 SOMEBODY’S SON - Empire Of The Sun featuring Lindsey Buckingham 4400 79 NEW 79 1 HOT FOR YOU BABY - Tina Turner 4200 80 NEW 80 1 NEW YORK MINUTE - Dion 4000 DROP OUTS 48 40 9 YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS - Simple Minds featuring Sarah Brown 97500 50 26 9 SUPERSCAR - Adela 146850 51 15 13 BACK AT YOUR DOOR - Orville Peck & Debbii Dawson 215050 70 59 9 NICE TO MEET YOU - Myles Smith 65900 72 67 3 BLOODSHOT - Enter Shikari 17600

Hi AH! :) Low on the new entries, but quite a few I need to hear asap! - just played them! Turns out I recognise I Follow Rivers and didn't recall! For some reason I never charted it. :o Hope all is good with you, and weekends are restful! I was in London last weekend, for a comic fanzine gathering and to see poorly Martin, this weekend Birkenhead, always busy doing stuff, me! :lol: fab chart and thanks for the tips! as always! B-)

Hi Jordan! :) Hope all is good with you, great chart, thanks for the tip on Glass Animals, I'd seen it a couple of charts prior and gave it a play from yours. Playing SZA's now, I see it's a rewrite of Boy From Ipanema! She was good with Kendrick at the Superbowl show...my oh my what he got away with....! I wouldnt want to put money on one rapper getting any more big hits... :teresa: cheers! B-)

Hi Jordan!! :) Thanks for the picks! :dance: I was late into 17 Going Under, it took a live cover by Rebecca Ferguson to make me see what a great song it was, and even this one took me a while. I think his records tend to be growers! Ooh glad you like Glass Animals, it's very different, and takes a couple of listens, but it's worth it! Yes a new The Knocks/Dragonette track, oddly they both have had a solo top 10 for me 8 years back, but not together - Darth Vader 2017 Dragonette, Classic The Knocks with Powers also 2017 - then nothing much apart from guest collabs! Meghan is always fun, I have a lot of time for her, over a dozen charted tracks but only one top 10 - Mother in 2023! thanks again always enjoy your comments! B-)

Hey Sergej! :) Hope all is fab, these are my top climbers and new entries: 9 9 9 2 Kygo & OneRepublic – “Chasing Paradise” :cheer: 10 NE 10 1 The Weeknd – “Cry For Me” 12 5 5 10 Kendrick Lamar & SZA – “luther” Ok it's dropping, but climbing for me :lol: 75 NE 75 1 The Weeknd ft. Lana Del Rey – “The Abyss” 83 79 74 5 Sam Barber ft. Avery Anna – “Indigo” 89 94 89 2 Fontaines D.C. – “Bug” There's loads of great tracks dropping though!! great chart! B-)

Hey Sergej! :) Thanks for the picks as always! Hope all is good with you! B-)

Hey Sven! :) Messy finally got there after that monster APT run!! :dance: Doh! Luther dropping just as I buy it :D Euphoria up, Deacon Blue climbing too and a few faves dropping. Bubbling under, Chappell Roan, Kygo/OneRepublic, The Weekend all good new entries. 2014 seems like a couple of years ago :o I almost entered Happy into the BJSC that's how long I've been doing it, I bought it about a year before it became a hit :lol: Hey Brother, Jubel, Strong, Rather Be, Roar were also among my top tracks of that time. fab charts! B-)

Hey Sven! :) Yes it's odd how Euphoria didnt sound quite so euphoric that quickly! :lol: Thanks for loving the oldies too! :cheer: Thanks for the picks and comments! B-)

Round 1: 36 one year out, doh! Round 2: 36 ( ) 3 in 10: 2 ( I forgot their 3rd hit :teresa:

I Quit was always a bit forgettable, but for me the rot started after When Will I Be famous and didnt stop till the top 10 hits dropped off and they got more interesting. Given the soon-to-jump-ship non-brother co-wrote his future missus' hit and ended up a music industry back-scenes manager, one guesses the screaming fan thing wasnt for him. Love Lovely Day, the original. The remix didnt ruin it, but I wouldnt say it added anything either, but it was nice to see Bill back in the charts, long a fave of mine and almost already retired from the music biz forever, pretty much, happy at home with the family in the small-town back-woods community and not a single new album released after 1986. I think he was saying goodbye with a final fling before letting the record companies creatively re-work the back catalogue on hits packages. Now Gloria/Miami Sound Machine I was a fan of throughout the lean UK years prior to Anything For You, which was one of my first CD single purchases, both for the latino dance numbers like Conga, and the ballads such as Fallin' In Love (Uh-Uh) which should have been the one to cross-over, or one which will eventually go top 10 as a follow-up out again. Oddly Bad Boy was a UK hit but isn't one of the better known early hits. Another Part Of Me missed a huge trick - I guess Disney weren't playing along though, as an early version of the song was co-centrepiece to the massive Disney Epcot Captain Eo sci-fi extravaganza musical exclusive that Jackson starred in. He is excruciating as an actor, but the SFX and the song & dance routines were great for the time. Had they let him crib part of it for a video it would have gone top 10, but that was never going to happen - you had to pay to see the 3D movie by going to Epcot/Disney! As I'd been in 1987 the record topped my chart!

Love Rik Mayall but it was never going to get any points from me, Sparks I have my ticket for June at the Apollo ahead of their new album and Amateur Hour deserved better - but Something For The Girl With Everything from that era is better, that has a new animated fan video which is brilliant. I Don't Care is too low too, and Cher way too low, vocally she was doing new things and the song is top notch. Stoned In Love is a goodie, and Madonna I didnt have enough room for but it's good.

I like Game Of Love, really like Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - it might be my fave Animals track, House included - and I bought a coloured vinyl double A of the Ivy League biggest 2 songs in the late 70's, so I especially like Funny How Love Can Be, I do like vocal harmonies. So that gets the edge I think, for me. Or maybe not! Depends on mood. :) Dont know the other one: looks like it was a Northern Soul revival track in the early 70's. It's pretty good soul with that Bacharach class and it has his stamp written on the melody for the chorus.

I think they were bigger hits due to the advert/film thing than in the early 80's, but there were always loads of covers, medleys and EPs and the like - The Monkees EP, Black Night, MASH, Paranoid, ska revival, Elvis galore, Beatles, Hollies, John Lennon etc as actual oldies. I know in the 70's and 80's I was re-discovering 60's stuff (still am!) and in the 80's Glam/Punk was very much the inspiration for New Romantic/New Wave. By the mid-80's the disco remix revival was under way but I dont recall that many oldies breaking through other than that around 83-85 other than the minor hit ongoing Beatles reissues and the odd xmas song comeback.

Forgot to mention Stevie & Julio. Now I've mentioned it I will move on. :teresa: The Race was fun, and Yello were always interesting, but I prefer a lot of their lesser hits and flops (see BJSC a few years back). The Hollies' was one I missed at the time, being out the country and all, but heard as an oldie in the 70's. I thought it was a bit dull at first, but it grew on me over the years and this re-issue was a great reason to chart it properly and to top my chart, and also the follow-up re-issue the even more classic Air That I Breathe, the Albert Hammond song that was so good Radiohead borrowed it. Creep! :teresa:

late again had a lie in...missed the beginning oops. Thanks Rollo & Jade and you were just a whisker away yourselves! :dance: Round 1: 21 ( and I said it first in my head too then changed my mind) Round 2: 36 (being strict, I actually said ) 3 in 10: 2 ( ) oops.