Popchartfreak

Round 1: 33 ( - not Ay Ay Moosey at all. they all sounded the same...thats my excuse :lol: ) Round 2: 33 ( and the contestant beat me to another before my brain clicked) 3 in 10: 3 ( )

I wasnt a huge fan of I Owe You Nothing, but it's OK pop. Sabrina's was very very annoying, got on my nerves very quickly and still does. On the one hand I was happy to see Chubby Checker back twisting again, it had already been 13 years since his previous top 10 revival and another 13 years before when he broke through in the UK - on the other hand, I wouldnt say The Fat Boys improved on the original. Wild World is a great song, it's one of those songs that I regard as bulletproof - whoever sings it it's always going to sound good, and Maxi's version is no exception. I still prefer Cat's original or Jimmy Cliff's, but it's one of the best tracks in the top 10. The Pasadena's was Philly/Motown referencing retro-sounding soul-dance track, so what's not to love! I hope they cover one of my BJSC entries in the future! In The Air Tonight is a genuine classic, haunting and powerful. This remix doesn't improve on the original, but nor does it ruin it. UB40 and Chrissie Hynde were touring together in the mid-80's (I caught them together, my 3rd time for the Pretenders) and Breakfast In Bed is much more repeat-play than I Got You Babe, and has Dusty class dusted over it. Should have been a single for Dusty in 69/70. Dusty In Memphis a great album.

double 39 jade! :yahoo: :cheer: out the house this morning, hopefully catch-up when it gets posted online...

Ouch! electricity off is worse than this mornings internet down. Virgin costs a fortune too. Using my phone... 36s all round :cheer: Round 1: 36 one year out Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3

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1 3 1 5 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 310000 2 6 2 11 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 292900 3 7 3 8 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 232850 4 1 1 10 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 664350 5 2 1 11 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1059250 6 4 1 11 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1232800 7 8 7 11 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 228250 8 5 5 4 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 139000 9 9 9 8 DON’T TAKE AWAY THE MUSIC - Tavares 248200 10 15 10 9 TRUCKS - Cars On The Road Cast 184900 11 16 11 9 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 181000 12 12 3 11 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 674500 13 13 13 15 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 285800 14 28 14 7 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 84450 15 19 15 10 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 142100 16 21 16 8 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 140750 17 14 1 18 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1007400 18 27 18 4 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 60000 19 NEW 19 1 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 21000 20 29 20 8 ANOTHER NIGHT - Grace Davies 113000 21 11 4 15 FANTASY - JADE 509150 22 NEW 22 1 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 19500 23 10 4 12 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 467550 24 17 5 8 HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL - Tavares 291800 25 NEW 25 1 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 18750 26 32 26 9 LATE ’88 - Deacon Blue 98850 27 33 27 8 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 93000 28 24 1 21 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1083150 29 49 29 5 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 52300 30 20 8 12 DISCO WITCH - LEXXE 321750 31 18 8 11 NOW OR NEVER (IT’S MY LIFE) - Bon Jovi x Pitbull 280150 32 22 1 12 SCREAMLAND - Father John Misty 619550 33 37 33 8 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 90150 34 30 1 21 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 990200 35 48 35 3 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 36900 36 38 15 18 HEAVY IS THE CROWN - Linkin Park 282400 37 31 25 15 SHOULDA LEFT YA - Kylie Minogue 214100 38 46 38 5 NIGHT OR DAY - Franz Ferdinand 59350 39 34 15 12 BACK AT YOUR DOOR - Orville Peck & Debbii Dawson 203300 40 40 40 8 YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS - Simple Minds featuring Sarah Brown 85200

26th January 2025 It's been a 50-year wait but The Osmonds finally get to the top spot with their Four Seasons cover, The Proud One. Easily their best ballad and one of the longer waits to get to number one. The Osmonds first charted in 1972, but never got higher than runners-up, not even with Crazy Horses. Sam Fender gets runners-up spot with the Sprinsteen-esque People Watching, which is a hobby that never gets boring. Sit on a beach and watch people walking by. TRUCKS goes top 10, from the mini-series Cars On The Road, and the musical number for kids has a fabulous video. Kids will love it if they get to watch it. Highest new entry is from Kygo and OneRepublic, Chasing Stars leapfrogs OneRepublic's already-charting Hurt, in at 19, and makes it 15 years of top 20 tracks and over 20 charting tracks to date, including a number one with Love Runs Out in 2014. Kygo is on 10 years of charting so far, and is also on at least 20 chart entries. Good Neighbours grab a 3rd top 40 at 22 as Ripple sounds like a 3rd top 10 based on 2 plays in 24 hours, and Teddy Swims is on for a 4th charter with new album track Hammer To The Heart sounding like a future single at 25. Glass Animals have been about since before that monster 2021 hit Heatwaves - which they haven't followed-up for me until this week - as they get a 4th chart entry with A Tear In Space at 50, 9 years on from debuting. Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club finally wriggles into my brain after being out for ages, for a 5th chart track inside 2 years. The BBC not really sticking their neck out with that Sound Of 2025 award thing. Might as well have picked any global-seller, considering they didn't go for her for Sound of 2024 before she went big. We at Buzzjack had already been charting her by then so they have no excuse! Artemas grabs a 3rd (rude) track, Topic & Daecolm are back with less collabs in tow for a 2nd chart entry together, Meghan Trainor keeps up the hit-years with Criminals making it a dozen spread out over most of the last 12 years, and The Marias enter their lovely No One Noticed for a second chart track. That leaves current UK number one Messy to debut for Lola Young, keeping up the "young female songwriter fed up with boys/men" theme of the last few years. Just dump 'em if they are that bad and get on with your life! 1 3 1 5 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 310000 2 6 2 11 PEOPLE WATCHING - Sam Fender 292900 3 7 3 8 THE DARK END OF THE STREET - Pet Shop Boys 232850 4 1 1 10 APT. - ROSE & Bruno Mars 664350 5 2 1 11 EXTREME WAYS - Armin van Buuren & Moby 1059250 6 4 1 11 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1232800 7 8 7 11 ALL YOUR FAULT - Gwen Stefani 228250 8 5 5 4 EUPHORIA - Armin van Buuren, Norma Jean Martine & LAWRENT with Alok 139000 9 9 9 8 DON’T TAKE AWAY THE MUSIC - Tavares 248200 10 15 10 9 TRUCKS - Cars On The Road Cast 184900 11 16 11 9 CAN’T SLOW DOWN - almost Monday 181000 12 12 3 11 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 674500 13 13 13 15 TABOO - Kylie Minogue 285800 14 28 14 7 BARBARELLA - Betty Boo 84450 15 19 15 10 MIDNIGHT TRAIN - Kim Wilde 142100 16 21 16 8 NIGHTMARE - Geowulf 140750 17 14 1 18 YOU AGAIN - The Lottery Winners featuring Reverend And The Makers 1007400 18 27 18 4 MORE THAN A WOMAN - Tavares 60000 19 NEW 19 1 CHASING PARADISE - Kygo & OneRepublic 21000 20 29 20 8 ANOTHER NIGHT - Grace Davies 113000 21 11 4 15 FANTASY - JADE 509150 22 NEW 22 1 RIPPLE - Good Neighbours 19500 23 10 4 12 WITHOUT YA - Bakermat featuring Gladys Knight 467550 24 17 5 8 HEAVEN MUST BE MISSING AN ANGEL - Tavares 291800 25 NEW 25 1 HAMMER TO THE HEART - Teddy Swims 18750 26 32 26 9 LATE ’88 - Deacon Blue 98850 27 33 27 8 LIVE FOREVER - Chesney Hawkes 93000 28 24 1 21 NEVER GOING HOME TONIGHT - David Guetta & Alesso featuring Madison Love 1083150 29 49 29 5 BEAUTIFUL THAT WAY - Miley Cyrus 52300 30 20 8 12 DISCO WITCH - LEXXE 321750 31 18 8 11 NOW OR NEVER (IT’S MY LIFE) - Bon Jovi x Pitbull 280150 32 22 1 12 SCREAMLAND - Father John Misty 619550 33 37 33 8 BOUQUET - Gwen Stefani 90150 34 30 1 21 THE GIRL THAT I CALL HOME - Tears For Fears 990200 35 48 35 3 KEEP ME SATISFIED - Jungle 36900 36 38 15 18 HEAVY IS THE CROWN - Linkin Park 282400 37 31 25 15 SHOULDA LEFT YA - Kylie Minogue 214100 38 46 38 5 NIGHT OR DAY - Franz Ferdinand 59350 39 34 15 12 BACK AT YOUR DOOR - Orville Peck & Debbii Dawson 203300 40 40 40 8 YOUR NAME IN LIGHTS - Simple Minds featuring Sarah Brown 85200 41 35 26 8 SUPERSCAR - Adela 134850 42 57 42 4 GIMME LITTLE SIGN - Brenton Wood 37750 43 39 39 8 MISERERE - Pet Shop Boys 105600 44 41 4 17 HIGHER - Tom Grennan 499850 45 45 1 21 HEART LIKE MINE - Sam Feldt featuring Rosa Linn 1058100 46 67 46 2 NO BAD VIBES - Jazzy & KILIMANJARO 19250 47 64 47 3 I’M IN LOVE... - Andy Bell featuring Dot Allison and Michael Rother 26600 48 53 48 5 HURT - OneRepublic featuring Jelly Roll 46250 49 25 12 14 THE FEELING - Rudimental, 1991, PNAU & AR/CO 297200 50 NEW 50 1 A TEAR IN SPACE (AIRLOCK) - Glass Animals 12000 51 36 36 8 TANGERINE RAYS - Zedd featuring Bea MIller & Flood 93250 52 43 2 17 EVIL WOMAN - Duran Duran 545800 53 63 53 7 VIVA L’OPERA - Armin van Buuren featuring Natalie Gioia 46250 54 42 12 12 I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES - The Jackson Sisters 255050 55 55 4 40 FEEL - Pet Shop Boys 1071500 56 50 20 12 SOMEONE FOR ME - Kylie Minogue 174400 57 NEW 57 1 PINK PONY CLUB - Chappell Roan 10400 58 44 16 13 ALL THE YOUNG DUDES - Pet Shop Boys 199700 59 62 59 8 NICE TO MEET YOU - Myles Smith 59900 60 59 10 24 DIE WITH A SMILE - Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars 430900 61 56 4 34 BIRDS OF A FEATHER - Billie Eilish 756650 62 66 62 4 LOVE ME FOR A REASON - The Osmonds 25000 63 69 63 3 LET ME IN - The Osmonds 18400 64 68 64 3 COLD DREAMING - Doves 18800 65 NEW 65 1 FANCY - Artemas 7000 66 NEW 66 1 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 6800 67 73 67 2 BLOODSHOT - Enter Shikari 12000 68 70 68 3 HEY YA! - Tom Speight featuring Lydia Clowes 18000 69 NEW 69 1 CRIMINALS - Meghan Trainor 6200 70 74 70 2 BUILD IT UP - Franz Ferdinand 11200 71 NEW 71 1 NO ONE NOTICED - The Marias 5800 72 NEW 72 1 MESSY - Lola Young 5600 73 71 71 4 BUG - Fontaines D.C. 21800 74 NEW 74 1 THE KILLING MOON - Echo & The Bunnymen 5200 75 NEW 75 1 FOLLOW ME - Special Interest featuring Amanda Lear 5000 DROP OUTS 23 4 13 LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES - Pet Shop Boys 487050 26 1 10 WHAT HAVE I DONE (TO DESERVE THIS) - Pet Shop Boys and Dusty Springfield 527000 47 47 4 SAY HELLO WAVE GOODBYE - Soft Cell 47100 51 34 11 YOUNG LION - Sade 142450 52 19 13 DISEASE - Lady Gaga 166600 54 8 21 WALK AWAY RENEE - The Four Tops 419600 58 1 19 LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDOWS - The Jackson 5 842350 60 31 9 SAY GOODBYE TO MUM AND DAD - Tears For Fears 122000 61 19 14 GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF - Chesney Hawkes 185650 65 36 8 RISK IT ALL - Shy FX featuring Maverick Sabre 97450 72 70 3 YES I CAN - Bonnie Tyler 17000 75 66 7 WINTER SONG - Mike Batt featuring Paul Carrack 40400

Goodies there from Red Wine still on top, and Pink Pony at 2, Damiano top 10, Gaga, Bonnie, Messy, Myles entering :dance: Great chart! B-)

Thanks SSP! :)

Hi Sergej! :) Hope life is still positive looking up! :dance: Thanks for the picks! B-)

Hi AH! :) How life is ticking over OK! Some old faves dropping out this week I see! My charts are also starting to move a bit now with some good new tracks out, I feel 2025 music scene is just starting now, really. Fabulous chart as ever! :yahoo: B-)

Hi AH! :) Hope the work situation remains under control! I think you'll like my new chart, :lol: and yes thanks all OK! The APT money-shots for me are the "Hold On Hold On" bit and "Like you want me baby", everything else leads up to them so it's a tease - delayed satisfaction. I always enjoy a tease :lol: Yes The Jackson Sisters totally flopped in 1973, and then got a dance-vibe cult reputation in the late 80's leading to an actual (low) chart position in the UK, before it finally became a Top 40 hit cover for The Pasadenas. I'd love it if it suddenly became a hit half a century on, remixed or otherwise! Thanks for commenting as always! :cheer: :heart:

The Son Lux chart-topper is very nice, love sweeping strings in a song. :)

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Hey Sven! :) If only the UK chart had had APt at 1 and Messy at 2 for one week! Dirty cash up, Myles holding, and Euphoria entering the 40 :cheer: I hadnt realised Luther actually featured Luther Vandross (what no credit by Kendrick!) it's quite nice. Deacon Blue, Jade in the Breakers, ASDIS sounding good too. 2010, eek 15 years ago! Ra ra ah ah ahhhhah Gaga, Jay Z/Alicia, the fab Timbaland/Nelly track, Telephone all topped my charts, and goodies from Robbie, Guetta, & BEP. great charts! B-)

Hey Sven! :) Thanks for all the picks! B-)

39 Who Hoo! :cheer: :cheer: beat me too! :yahoo: :D Round 1: 36 (he beat me to ) Round 2: 39 3 in 10: 3 (all the singles from 1971 to 1973 then I ran out of time :lol: )

Voyage Voyage is a great pop track, always a delight when a French-language track hits in the UK. I should use the past-tense I suppose, these days. Doctorin The Tardis was a total banging Glam-stomper with arguably the most innovative TV theme tune ever - I say arguably, but it isn't really, it was that far ahead of its time nothing else comes close. Not that it hadnt been a hit before (see disco Mankind in 1978), but it just blended with Blockbuster/Rock n Roll part 2 perfectly, the latter Mike Leander stomp and Glitter Band chants sample doesnt really feature that bloke by and large, when on TOTP in 72, he just pranced around like a warm-up act, like the bloke in Boney M. The Timelords/Mum Mu duo, just to rub it in that they could get a number one record without trying hard, then wrote a best-selling book about how to get a number one record and followed it up with a little short-term combo called KLF. Then burnt the cash and filmed it. I wasnt a massive fan of the Beatles original I Saw Her Standing There, oddly, it just sounded a bit amateurish compared to what came after, and Tiffany did nothing to try and improve on it, though she was 17/18 so the lyrics fit better. The three Beatles songs in the top 10, though, were all McCartney tracks really. As John once commented when he lost his bet with Elton about Whatever Gets You The Night hitting number one in the USA, and had turn up at Elton's gig and sang I Saw Her introducing it as "a song by an old estranged fiancee" - this was a B side for Elton's Philadelphia Freedom and later a single hit posthumously in 1981 for John, & Elton. That's the version I first knew as I bought Philadelphia Freedom.

ooh so close again Jade! There must be a 39 any day now... :dance: Round 1: 33 ( ) Round 2: 36 ( ) 3 in 10: 3 ( )

havent heard Check This Out in decades, but it's one I liked, but it's been forgotten by radio since, unlike My One Temptation which is still played. I still have a soft spot for Mica, no big hits beyond this one but always sounding good. Love Will Save The Day was formula Whitney, not as drearily annoying as the ballads, but nothing special for an upbeat track. Her 2 chart-toppers both made my top 10 at the time but she wouldnt have anything else good enough to do that until 1999. For me that was peak Whitney era.

westlife. Westlife. WESTLIFE! WEEEEEEESTLIIIIIFE!!!! No excuses for that double-headed monster.

91 (63) FLOY JOY - The Supremes twv90OrOBmI The new Supremes I've already mentioned with the lower-placed Automatically Sunshine, follow-up to this slightly better and slightly bigger sweet soul-pop gem. I love the shared vocals, sultry and democratic, and the song is catchy without being annoying, smooth! In the UK we hardly ever got Motown acts on Top Of The Pops in 1972 - at least on a regular basis, more one-offs for one big hit and then record a couple of others at the same time for later broadcast if they became hits. The Supremes, sadly, were not a priority for Motown by 1972 so I bet they didn't want to fork out for the expensive airplane tickets as I certainly don't recall them appearing for Floy Joy promotion. So enjoy instead this US performance which the BBC were far too cheap to fork out to pay for until around 1974 when they managed to occasionally show some Soul Train performances. Rating: marginally less than at the time, but not too much so.

92 (NEW) SWEET SURRENDER - Bread siX--bzWWEw David Gates pretty much WAS Bread, as songwriter and lead singer, with the gift of bunging out blissfully mellow, romantic and gentle ballads at the drop of a hat. I'd loved Make It With You in 1970 but back in the UK, airplay was quite random for Bread - sometimes they got picked up sometimes they didn't, and the hits were fabulous to me, the flops I didn't generally get to hear until they were covered (Ken Boothe, Telly Savalas) or until I bought a vinyl copy of their Collection. One advantage Gates' songs have is the repeat-play factor, if anything they sound better the more you hear them, and they very much grow on you. Never in ya face, always subtle and charming. That said Sweet Surrender isnt among my top-rated Bread tracks, and not one I knew at the time (but they were all US hits), but it's still good enough to land a slot in the 100.

93 (49) BACK OFF BOOGALOO - Ringo Starr BXg1AxBXN5g This marching-rhythm guitar stomper came out of nowhere for Ringo - he'd had one hit since the Beatles split in 1971, It Don't Come Easy, and this was the belated follow-up, with a great production and a touch of the Marc Bolan's, his new mate (he was in his Born To Boogie movie). Ringo was never the greatest singer in the world, so he was always going to have to be creative in the recording department, and he hit 2 in the UK charts with it, so mission accomplished! This year he outdid the other 3 in chart positions, for the last time obv, with a little help from his friend (that'll be George Harrison, who will be back with Ringo in 1973 with one of their greatest records). It's a shame it didnt grab the top spot in the UK charts, thanks to the bagpipes, as he's the only Fab not to do that outside the Beatles. How does it sound now? It's still great, still exciting played loud, but not quite as fresh as it sounded at the time.

94 (57) BETCHA BY GOLLY WOW - The Stylistics HxZ83WxhMnU Sultry soul, this one, though Russell Tomkins Jr, lead falsetto singer, was great in small doses his voice get could get on your nerves with overplay. This is their second-best record, and I saw their early stuff as classy US soul, and no less a fan than Prince did a cover of this, and good it was too. That said I seem to have liked it better at the time than 2022, but again I think that's the "play it too often over 2 or 3 months" thing knocking it back a bit. Do not expect them in my year-end again until 1975 though! It was a downward slope by and large until the hot summer of '75, though they were huge in the UK charts and sold bucketloads of Hits compilations.