Popchartfreak

84 10 13 NEVER BE ALONE - Becky Hill & Sonny Fodera 244750

85 10 10 UNDECIDED - RONDE 241900

86 9 10 NO STRINGS - X Ambassadors 230900

87 14 12 RANSOM - Alesha Dixon 222900

88 29 18 DIRTY LITTLE SECRET - Artemas 222900

89 10 10 ALONE - Cat Burns 215750

90 15 13 BACK AT YOUR DOOR - Orville Peck & Debbii Dawson 215050

91 12 10 LOSE CONTROL - Teddy Swims 213600

92 13 12 DADDY KEEPS CALLING - Kaleena Zanders & Tchami 211350

93 17 14 FREEFALL - HAYLA 210750

94 30 16 SET MY HEART ON FIRE (I’M ALIVE X AND THE BEAT GOES ON) - Majestic x The Jammin’ Kid x Celine Dion x The Whispers 209800

95 16 13 HOMETOWN OF JUPITER - The Vaccines 209750

96 11 12 PRADA - Casso, D-Block Europe and RAYE 209000

97 14 10 UNFORGETTABLE - Marcus & Martinus 206150

98 15 12 SLOW IT DOWN - Benson Boone 203250

Rules: Tracks from 2023 can feature if they peaked in 2024, but nothing from before that, they get moved into the year of release or charting originally. As I'm feeling lazy, no commentary, just assume I love 'em all, and the higher the more I love 'em. Position/Peak chart pos/wks on chart/TITLE-Artist/chart sales: 100 23 14 I ADORE YOU - HUGEL, Topic & Arash featuring Daecolm 198850 99 24 13 EVERYBODY WILL DANCE - Pet Shop Boys 201950

R KELLY 1 (4 12) HAPPY PEOPLE R Kelly (410900) 2004 2 (6 17) STEP IN THE NAME OF LOVE R Kelly (408200) 2004 3 (3 12) DO WHAT U WANT Lady Gaga featuring R Kelly (393950) 2014 4 (10 9) SATISFY YOU Puff Daddy/ R. Kelly (171900) 2000 5 (16 9) FIESTA R Kelly/ Jay-Z (144500) 2001 6 (20 7) I WISH R Kelly (78950) 2000 7 (36 5) WONDERFUL Ja Rule/ R Kelly/ Ashanti (58400) 2004 8 (48 5) IGNITION R Kelly (42400) 2003 9 (55 5) THE WORLD'S GREATEST R Kelly (37200) 2002 10 (64 4) SNAKE R Kelly (28300) 2003 11 (58 2) THE STORM IS OVER NOW R Kelly (17300) 2001 12 (72 1) I'M A FLIRT R Kelly/ TI/ T Pain (5600) 2007 How embarrassing to have 12 entries from the incarcerated felon in the 21st century, especially number 4. The only one I actually remember is the number one, Ignition and Gaga's - hopefully she has a solo version she can bring out if she ever does a Hits album. Plus side, there has been no solo Kelly since 2007 and that scraped in for one week.

Thanks Rollo 🙂 Shame that Moroder Three Degrees not being well-known, and Midnight At The Oasis, ditto. that's a great song in Maria Muldaur form. round 1: 39 topical Blondie, I literally just commented on Julian's thread. Question setters obv Moroder fans. Yay at Black Slate getting a bit of a play on radio, forgotten reggae gem. Ken playing Black Velvet to rub in people bombing out on the "Paint It Black" questions 😄 round 2: 39 yay PSB's yay Bernard Cribbins getting a play too! 3 in 10: Whole Again, he beat me to Tide Is High and then I blanked 😮

Call Me is a great Giorgio creation - Blondie weren't first choice for the movie dance blockbuster but it all worked out nicely. 9/10. Toccata is pretty good, and they have the musician credentials, but I've never loved it quite as much as I feel I should 7/10. Clean Clean is a hat-trick of Horn goodies 7/10. My bargain bin singles buying was in overload in 1980 and 1979 and I have the majority of top 40 singles. Talk Of The Town is a delightful Pretenders song, but not as great as the previous 3 for me 8/10. Missing Words is possibly my fave Selecter track, it seemed a bit darker than their other hits 8/10. Coming Up is full-on Macca-does-synths-and-everything-else-on-the-album, and the video is hilariously fab 9/10. The live version that topped the US charts for Wings was a total cop-out - US radio showing its shortcomings ahead of the MTV revolution which changed everything. I like to see that as Mike Nesmith's revenge on the sniffy Rock fraternity, he'd been doing solo videos for 3 years by this time. Phil Lynott was fab, married Bruce Forsyth's daughter, though his solo excursions outside Lizzy were more variable, in quality and genre, but Lonely Heart was quite pleasant. 6/10. Hi-Fidelity was also fine, but there was a better single to come 6/10. Silver Dream Machine is a great production for David, and it was nice to see him getting big hits into the 80's, but it's not quite up there with my fave Essex tracks 8/10. Night Boat To Cairo was my first Madness chart-topper, totally nutty boy, bags of fun and utterly unlike anything else in the chart then or since. I bought the EP but this was the track I played 10/10. The Groove is jazz-funk pleasant-ness, 7/10, My Perfect Cousin The Undertones' biggest hit, though not their best record - several candidates for that plus the classic minor hit that clearly is - but it's still a goodie 8/10. Staring At The Rude Boys is OK 5/10, The Ruts on the way to becoming another tragic band story, a seemingly endless theme. Him is not quite as wholesome as the MOR production might suggest, but it's still good, 7/10. Check Out The Groove fit in with the early hot summer, boogie-vibes, and one I rated, 8/10, and Don't Make Waves I much preferred to the annoying huge hit predecessor, 7/10. Wheels Of Steel wasn't that promising a start for Saxon, I was a bit meh on it, the song wasnt that strong 4/10.

+25 Woodkid- Run Boy Run +24 Fleetwood Mac- Landslide +23 Stevie Nicks- Edge Of Seventeen +22 Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell- Ain't No Mountain High Enough +21 Queen- We Will Rock You +20 The Waitresses- Christmas Wrapping +19 Ariana Grande ft. The Weeknd- Love Me Harder +18 Van Morrison- Brown Eyed Girl +17 The Beatles- In My Life +16 The Beatles- Blackbird +15 Daryl Hall & John Oates- You Make My Dreams +14 Lou Reed- Perfect Day +13 Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Heads Will Roll +12 Blossoms- Charlemagne +11 Imagine Dragons- Believer +10 Two Door Cinema Club- Something Good Can Work +9 Kiss- I Was Made For Lovin' You +8 Talking Heads- Psycho Killer +7 Oasis- She's Electric +6 Gorillaz- On Melancholy Hill +5 Rascal Flatts- Life Is A Highway +4 Alphaville- Forever Young +3 Vampire Weekend- A-Punk +2 John Denver- Take Me Home, Country Roads +1 Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here

doh! If I'd spotted this and voted Dream On would have scored highly for me...

I bought an NME or (Melody Maker) in 1972 which had a sample flexi-disc on the cover of snippets of Exile On Main Street, and then foolishly swapped it with a mate for The Faces You Can Make Me Dance etc in 1975. He got the better deal, I bet it's worth more than the actual album now!

Hey James! 🙂 It's a JADE double-top, with the good Manchild threatening at 3, yay! Blessings up to 4 too. Taste top 10 is pretty high, a bit higher than my 52-ish peak so far. My other faves dropping except Gaga's Taylor-Swifty How Bad, which is fab ❤️ great chart! 😎

Never heard that Shirl cover and its rather good, better than Bazza's. Class. Unlike Westlife's cheesy cover of a cheesy cover of a classic song called Brandy by the fab Scott English.

absolutely love You've Got Your Troubles, a fave at the time and ever since, what a melody and a half. Love The Fortunes too, under-rated pop band of the 60's and early 70's. Joan Baez, not a big fave of hers, PJ Proby my mum and Aunty were big fans, this one I have no memory of, but he always gave it his all, Adam Faith a fave act of mine, but another I dont remember, I'd put this one as my 2nd fave of the batch, decent enough. Charles Dickens was good in the 19th century, big fan of his comedy turns and social commentary. This incarnation sounds like someone doing Adam Faith, wo-ho-ho's and all.