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Hi DaTilt! 🙂 Good chart, my faves are: Liv Del Estal – Cœur Titane (1) 4w this is very sweet! Ellysse Mason – Price You Pay (2) 3w Mollie Elizabeth – Run Rabbit (5) 2w quirky! Lola Young – From Down Here (10) 2w Ella Langley; Morgan Wallen – I Can’t Love You Anymore (21) 6w Sienna Spiro – Material Lover (17) 5w I hear this a lot on the radio its very nice Olivia Rodrigo – Drop Dead (27) 7w Cigarettes After Sex – Twizzler (46) 2w Charlotte MacInnes – Struck (28) 12w Nathan Dawe; Tion Wayne – Cola (NEW) Shakira; Burna Boy – Dai Dai (59) 3w Anotr; 54 Ultra – Talk To You (39) 8w Freya Ridings – Euphoria (NEW) Conan Gray – Vodka Cranberry (38) 7w Ariana Grande – Hate That I Made You Love Me (NEW) Ella Langley – Bottom Of Your Boots (50) 8w The Chemical Brothers – Go (53) 4w Dara – Bangaranga (56) 3w Jungle – The Wave (NEW)🥰 Demi Lovato – Low Rise Jeans (51) 7w Madonna; Sabrina Carpenter – Bring Your Love (52) 5w Anne Hathaway – My Mouth Is Lonely For You (67) 9w cheers! 😎

Hi DaTilt!🙂 Thanks for the comments and picks, 11 weeks is a good run for a track, mine tend to take longer as I only hear them when I'm out in my car or play them once a week on the big stereo loudly, unless radio has picked up on them - which is why ANOTR has taken a while, not really heard it much! Cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 The high turnover in your charts always interesting, and I like that new number one from The Kolors, always happy to hear some catchy reggae! My fave climbers and entries this week: 1 2 1(×2) 9 The Kolors – “ROLLING STONES” 2 3 1(×1) 6 Lana Del Rey – “First Light” 4 1 1(×1) 2 DARA – “Bangaranga” 8 8 8 6 ANOTR & 54 Ultra – “Talk To You” 9 5 5 3 The Chemical Brothers ft. Q-Tip – “Go” 12 14 2 15 Ella Langley – “Be Her” 15 80 11 13 Bruno Mars – “Risk It All” 16 19 16 6 sombr – “Potential” 20 NE 20 1 Jovanotti & Alfa – “Buon Vento” 23 59 23 7 Delta Goodrem – “Eclipse” 34 38 1(×5) 30 Michael Jackson – “Billie Jean” 38 NE 38 1 Niall Horan – “End of an Era” 55 57 30 11 Tame Impala & JENNIE – “Dracula (Remix)” 63 NE 63 1 Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta – “Save Me Tonight” 65 RE 46 3 Madonna & Sabrina Carpenter – “Bring Your Love” 71 NE 71 1 Olivia Rodrigo – “the cure” 80 RE 1(×3) 28 Michael Jackson – “Beat It” 89 90 1(×2) 31 Huey Lewis and The News – “The Power of Love” 95 93 93 2 JONAS LOVV – “Ya Ya Ya” Fab charts! Take care 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thank for the picks! Glad you like quite a few spread across the chart! Hope all is great with you! Take care & cheers! 😎

Thanks Jade and yay Rollo, those 39's coming thick n fast!🤩 round 1: 39 round 2: 39 Jigsaw the first band I saw in concert! tiebreaks: yes 3 in 10: Itchycoo Park, How Can I Love You More, Moving On Up

Diana Vickers very much forgottent these days, sadly. Including by me as this is a great pop song, went top 5 for me and a much-more apreciative 16 week chart run, with those songwriter credentials I was bound to appreciate it. I havent heard it in 16 years though, and same for the follow-ups, The Boy Who Murdered Love went top 10 and 12 weeks, My Wicked Heart number 12 for 5 short weeks though. I was watching X Factor around this time, at least the last few episodes of each series, so that might have coloured my support for Diana as doing something different. She did pop back in 2013 with Cinderella to bother the lower end of my charts but nothing since - a shame!

Billie's is the best ahead of Skyfall, which is classic Bond theme. Another Way To Die is oddly fun, and I like the rest to some degree bar Writing On The Wall. Yes, I'll take Madonna's squelchy synth melody-lite effort over that one. Lana Del Ray's new one is good too. It is a Bond theme - just not a film theme!

love the late 60's design of the Lemon Jelly (see Banana Splits :) ). I bought the Sufjan Stevens CD at the time, great little album that no-one has heard of (annoyingly).

Tell Me Why is one of the best of this group, but Layo & Bushwacka are among the 3 lesser tracks I will be focusing on next. I liked Love Story but it peaked quite low in my charts, just that bit lower than the other 2.

Well done Jade on the 39 and snap! all round, and double top full house congrats Rollo! 🤩 round 1: 36 Swing The Mood. round 2: 36 beat me to Love Song 3 in 10: Blockbuster, Hellraiser, Teenage Rampage

Have to say, apart from D:Ream, still a banger albeit overplayed, none of the new entries are familiar old faves I enjoy revisiting, more like hits of the day I tolerate hearing. Bitty McLean and Tori Amos are the best of the newies, I dont mind them but dont get to hear them much to get more enthusiastic about them.

Over Under is one of those song titles that never rings any bells until I hear the track - the middle-eastern-ish intro riff is very familiar, the rest of the song not so much, but as a whole the track is rather cool, one of those I'd like to hear more of. Pretty sure I have it on a Yardbirds multi-track CD single/EP somewhere, but if not I need to download it. Twinkie-Lee I have no memory of but the backing Sax-ish rhythms are lifted from other 60's hits, but sounding weedier. Even the melody sounds like something nicked from somewhere. Stop Her On Sight I will have heard in 1969 when it became a hit in the UK, but I really noticed it when mum and dad's younger RAF friends Pete & Jill gave me a copy of it (and Magical Mystery Tour EP!) when we visited them in Lincolnshire after we all got back from a now-closed-down RAF Changi, sometime in 1972. As usual I always dived straight into everyone's record collections when visiting, started doing that when I was around 9 years old. It's a great Motown/soul track, and Edwin Starr seemed to get more appreciation in the UK - he moved here. Vince's Eurovision cover is a new one on me - had no idea! I knew Vince in '67 from Idle Vice, a fave at the time. This is OK, and yes I can see the You'll Never Walk Alone vibes too. Quite nice but wouldnt rush to play it again. Geno Washington I'd never heard of until I picked up the first edition of the Guinness Book Of Hit Singles, and especially Dexy's chart-topper, but Water is fine. Low-key funk-soul with roots in Blues. The early Dexy's sound is already there ready and waiting.. Chris Andrews seemed to be running out steam generally around this time, but there's nothing bad about Watcha Gonna Do as such - it's just lacking the monster hooks and melodies of previous hits, and this has a Big Band/Blues-funk vibe to it as seen through English Producers eyes. I like it. Didnt realise Dont Bring Me Down was Goffin & King! In line with everything else at this time, I really wasnt get my pop music fixes while dad was in Aden and I really don't know this one very well, not one that gets a lot of attention on oldies radio even though it's classy. I like it but it's Edwin Starr for me this week.

A huge bit of fun at the time - I'd not heard of Electropop until after this one had been and gone, but I like the genre, I liked Caro Emerald and appreciate recycling genres for a modern audience, Doop aside. To me it was more in the vibe of previous European essential party hits like Asereje aka Ketchup Song. "Fun" has always been a dirty word to some music critics looking for Beethoven or Shakespeare, but I'd just comment they had mass appeal too, and Shakespeare wasnt above bunging out fluff. I know I enjoyed it in pubs and clubs at the time, even if it's a challenge to shuffle along to with a pint in your hand if you don't want to annoy those nearby....

everyone on a par yesterday! Pub quiz last night still kicking myself for not saying "that looks like Becky Hill" in a picture round photo I wasnt entirely sure about - it was Becky Hill. And for being unable to remember the title to an "all summer" lyric quote from Lush Life. I had the tune, I had the artist, but the title just wouldnt come. Tch! 😄 Round 1: 39 Round 2: 36 Rick Astley missed the Heart bit 3 in 10: Father Figure, Freedom, Faith. In an FFFF mode there.

well knock me down with a feather!! To France is a forgotten oldie goodie, well done whoever sent that in ! 🤩

Good rundown Da Tilt, well done, and good top 2, I probably wouldnt have placed them at the top at the time with D:Ream, East 17, Stiltskin getting a bit more love then, but these days those are the 2 I most enjoy hearing again, never over-played and under-appreciated on oldies radio.

round 1: 30 one year out, Franz Ferdinand. FFS slightly more memorable (for me) that album with Sparks. round 2: 33 Depeche Mode 3 in 10: Wishing I Was Lucky, Angel Eyes, Love Is All Around

ooh not heard Blue World since I saw The Moodies live about 14 years back, I always liked their 80's stuff and felt they should have had hits. Better than I half-remembered it being 8/10. Mama is one of the great tracks of 1983 and Genesis at their very best, scary, dark, disturbing and intense 10/10. Aww I miss the Fabulous Wealthy Tarts. Paul Young's best record quite probably, Come Back And Stay 9/10. He's coming to Ringwood next year, I'm tempted. Last time I saw Paul Young was walking past me outside Wembley Stadium with a model on his arm as I listened to Kim Wilde supporting Michael Jackson on tour. I had a ticket for his last local gig but I was too ill to go though my friends got me the souvenir bag and poster. Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry is decent enough but not quite as good as previous 2 singles 7/10. Confusion, again not as good as previous, but bops along nicely 7/10. Just Outside Of Heaven, one of those "hasnt had any radio play since 1983" tracks I think it was about a 6/10 for me. Chance not as good as the previous two singles, bit of a theme developing here, but it was OK. 7/10. Dolce Vita was huge in Europe, and it's very tuneful and cheerful, but it didnt click with me as a great, just a good. 8/10. Gary Numan getting very samey by this stage, having stepped right away from anything resembling a hook. 6/10. Cliff coasting a bit with A Little Bit More, but coasting 80's Cliff is still good. 7/10. The Truth track I barely remember at all, so the comment is fairly accurate! 5/10. Johnny Friendly an odd single for the times, 5/10. Riders Of The Storm was a reasonable effort from the wannabe pop star I thought 6/10. Talking of coasting, Quo's Ol Rag Blues was pretty dull 5/10. Nice to see Stray Cats back, but She's Sexy never really grabbed me much 5/10. Peabo & Roberta is laid-back and classy, but a tad yawnsome 6/10. Roberta still had good US hits in her future, Maxi Priest duet for one that springs to mind, but she was always under-served by the UK charts - execpt for this one which was over-rated.

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dear Prudence Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know David Bowie - Modern Love Nick Heyward - Blue Hat For A Blue Day Billy Joel - Uptown Girl

Bright :Lights was my chart-topper for Cee Lo thats his best track post Crazy, but Forget You is pretty good too. I wasnt interested in the expletive version, too stark, crude and blunt for a pop song. As I have said many times on BJ, if your song creatively needs an F word in it (see title of pre-Queen excellent Adam Lambert non-radio-play single) then surely removing said word is purely for financial reasons and a watering down of the "art". In this case it absolutely wasnt needed in the first place, so maybe that was more trying to generate headlines, cynically. Cee-Lo is a great singer, and a decent animated monster in the movies, but I dont expect he will be turning up on hit records any time soon.

Five's pop gem standing well above everything top 10 wise for me, still fresh 😎

The two classic oldies are welcome additions, Meat Loaf should have gone top 10 first time round and Power Of Love would have had a longer run on top if not for two million selling charity-selling christmas classics so this is a worthy bonus for Frankie. K7 I quite liked but wouldnt say it's a radio staple these days.

1st June 1976 It's 2 weeks on top for the Bellamy Brothers with Peter Frampton closing in at 3, as The Shangri-Las get a 3rd run inside 4 years in my top 10 with Leader Of The Pack up to 9. Glen Campbell meanwhile makes it 8 top 10's since Wichita Lineman debuted in 1969. There are yet even more re-issues out and trying to challenge new tracks for chart slots in the UK and my charts, led by 1971's Dave, and Ansel Collins, 2 reggae gems Monkey Spanner at 20 and Double Barrel at 25. I'm sure I wasn't alone in thinking they were two brothers with the same surname - but no, Dave was his actual popstar name, so the current title-holder is a mere copycat, so there! In at 22 The Piglets keep 1971's presence strong as Jonathan King returns to claim to be that act (he wasnt the main vocalist, so no, but he did everything else, including I will wager the opening "What's he like Mavis?" line), while simultaneously JK covers Tavares' It Only Takes A Minute to grab another pseudonymous hit label as 100 Ton & A Feather at 40. I make that his 5th to chart disguised. It's actually not a bad cover of the disco classic that floped in the UK, still keeping that pop fiddle/violin sound alive. The main problem was singing live on Top Of The Pops - guaranteed to lose sales once he had to sing live. Bob & Marcia also getting the Trojan Records double A reissue treatment along with Dave & Ansel, enter Pied Piper at 26, also 1971, as their 1970 smash classic Young Gifted & Black has a lower return at 43 as it had already gone top 10 for me in 1974. The highest actual new track is at 27, ELO going for a ballad, the rather good Strange Magic, which had a minor UK chart run where Can't Get It Out Of My Head flopped - but they get a 100% hit rate in my charts. In at 33, Maureen McGovern charted for me with the US hit from The Poseidon Adventure, The Morning After, in 1973 and now gets a UK hit with her cover of the 1930's veteran The Continental, a bit of throwback fun. Debuting at 39, it's only Adam Batman West having a go at a hit record as the hook "When you hear the squeel of the batmobile" gets him a bit of fun airplay as the 1966 super-hero sit-com is aired again early mornings (this was a major innovation in the UK, having actual TV shows in the mornings) and it made the 60's faves big all over again, both with original kids viewers now getting all the jokes that went over our heads and loving it, and new kiddies who take it at face value. Totally camp, still brilliant, most recently on Talking Pictures. The most significant new entry, though, is from The Real Thing at 44, as they finally get a UK hit with the eternal You To Me Are Everything. The Scouse brothers Chris & Eddie Amoo and their mates had being trying since 1972's Vicious Circle to get a hit without any luck, but songwriter/producer Ken Gold struck, err, gold. Meanwhile there's another great forgotten disco track at 47, Lee Garrett's You're My Everything charted but hasn't become a regular radio oldie fave, sadly. It's a goodie! 1 ( 1 ) LET YOUR LOVE FLOW The Bellamy Brothers 2 ( 2 ) MORE MORE MORE Andrea True Connection 3 ( 6 ) SHOW ME THE WAY Peter Frampton 4 ( 5 ) FERNANDO ABBA 5 ( 3 ) MY RESISTANCE IS LOW Robin Sarstedt 6 ( 8 ) LOVE HANGOVER Diana Ross 7 ( 7 ) SILLY LOVE SONGS Wings 8 ( 4 ) SHAKE IT DOWN Mud 9 ( 23 ) LEADER OF THE PACK The Shangri-Las 10 ( 12 ) DON'T PULL YOUR LOVE/THEN YOU CAN TELL ME GOODBYE Glen Campbell 11 ( 21 ) JOLENE Dolly Parton 12 ( 24 ) THIS IS IT Melba Moore 13 ( 26 ) GREEN GREEN GRASS OF HOME Tom Jones 14 ( 11 ) GET UP AND BOOGIE Silver Convention 15 ( 27 ) SEASIDE SHUFFLE Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs 16 ( 19 ) SHE'S NO ANGEL Heavy Metal Kids 17 ( 13 ) S'S'SINGLE BED Fox 18 ( 14 ) I'M MANDY FLY ME 10cc 19 ( 32 ) SOUL CITY WALK Archie Bell & The Drells 20 ( NEW ) MONKEY SPANNER Dave, and Ansel Collins 21 ( 22 ) REQUIEM Slik 22 ( NEW ) JOHNNY REGGAE The Piglets 23 ( 37 ) HEART ON MY SLEEVE Gallagher & Lyle 24 ( 9 ) SILVER STAR The Four Seasons featuring Frankie Valli 25 ( NEW ) DOUBLE BARREL Dave, and Ansel Collins 26 ( NEW ) PIED PIPER Bob & Marcia 27 ( NEW ) STRANGE MAGIC Electric Light Orchestra 28 ( 42 ) THE WANDERER Dion 29 ( 39 ) YOU ARE SO BEAUTIFUL Ray Stevens 30 ( 31 ) TVC David Bowie 31 ( 15 ) DISCO CONNECTION Isaac Hayes Movement 32 ( 10 ) DEVIL WOMAN Cliff Richard 33 ( NEW ) THE CONTINENTAL Maureen McGovern 34 ( 29 ) JUNGLE ROCK Hank Mizell 35 ( 30 ) I'M YOUR PUPPET James & Bobby Purify 36 ( 18 ) YOU'RE THE REASON WHY The Rubettes 37 ( 48 ) STAR TREK The Charles Randolph Greane Sounde 38 ( 34 ) NEEDLES AND PINS The Searchers 39 ( NEW ) BATMAN AND ROBIN Adam 'Batman' West 40 ( NEW ) IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE 100 Ton & A Feather aka Jonathan King 41 ( 25 ) REFLECTIONS OF MY LIFE Marmalade 42 ( 16 ) BABY I'M A WANT YOU Bread 43 ( NEW ) (TO BE) YOUNG, GIFTED & BLACK Bob & Marcia 44 ( NEW ) YOU TO ME ARE EVERYTHING The Real Thing 45 ( 47 ) THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN Thin Lizzy 46 ( 44 ) OVERNIGHT SENSATION The Raspberries featuring Eric Carmen 47 ( 35 ) PINBALL WIZARD Elton John 48 ( NEW ) YOU'RE MY EVERYTHING Lee Garrett 49 ( 20 ) THE GUITAR MAN Bread 50 ( 28 ) LOVE IN THE SHADOWS Neil Sedaka

a day late, hey ho! round 1: 33 Owen Paul. surname not James nor David then. round 2: 36 beat me to Ladies Night 3 in 10: Sat In Your Lap, This Woman's Work, Wutherin Heights Thanks both and just one Doobie short of a Roxette full house Jade, so close...!

Flo-Rida as main artist had only one top 10 from me - and that was 2012's Good Feeling (I liked the Etta James bits). This one was a more-by-the-numbers 22 peak and now I play it again, it bomps along nicely, there's no massive hook to speak of, and it's well-produced, I wouldnt turn it off, but I can see why it doesnt stick in my memory much 16 years on. The song is the main issue - there's not a lot to it.