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Hi DaTilt! 🙂 Glad you rate Inspiral Carpets and Haircut 100, always liked them both and the new stuff is great. I went to see Haircut 100 a couple of months back and they were like a brand new energetic band taking up where they left off! cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Hope things have been better! More fun at any rate! Big turnover in both charts at any rate, mine too this week getting a kick up the arse. Fabulous charts and needing to hear some I dont know! Cheers! 😎

Hi AH! 🙂 Thanks for all the picks and comments as always! Sadly Lulu postponed with sciatica, till next Spring. Plus side I can hear the new album before I see her 🤞I nearly went to see Leo Sayer again instead but I did my back in again, tch. Common annoyance. Glad you got one day free from Olivia Dean and co - I mean, she's quite mildly pleasant in an "eating too many Mars Bars" way, but I can do without hearing any of her singles TBH. Dannii has never topped my charts so you have one up on me - her biggest as lead act is I Begin To Wonder, a Gold track (500k chart sales). Ooh Cher would be a great collab with Madonna. They should invite Lulu along if it's true! 🙂 yes a bit late on Sauna, I dont like getting hot and sweaty like Jessie seems to😇 Cheers! 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 Great chart as always. Lots of faves, good to see Patient Zero on top, Miley still at 2. Ashe, more Miley and Holly H all climbers. Cheers! 😎

Hey Seltin, Thanks for the picks! Glad you like Jungle and Carly Rae. Poor Stupid Song, yes I reached saturation point with it, but it had a decent run 🙂 cheers! 😎

Hi Jordan! Hope all is fab! Great chart, loads of hot new entries I rate and I quite like the Bailey Zimmerman video too, even though its not on the list above - just playing it now! 😄 cheers! 😎

Hi Jordan! Thanks for the picks and comments as always! Steve Lacy's is a grower, sounds good in the film spot, and yes he has 2 or 3 tracks in the US Hot 100! God Only Knows, being recent, sounds fresher than Dolly's famous oldies, plus it's a great song and Dolly showing she still had it even in her 70's. almost monday I generally like anything they do, they have a real knack with ear-worms! Sandcastle Disco yes sounds like a banger, and it's one I must have missed at the time! 😮 cheers! 😎

Hi BGood! 🙂 great chart, good seeing almost monday on top. Emerald Eyes still sounding good though it's just dropped in mine. Most of the rest I dont know yet sadly apart from the Paloma Faith oldies which are all faves. cheers! 😎

Hi BGood! 🙂 Thanks for the picks! Glad you like them 🙂 cheers! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Great chart as always, and these are my faves of the climbers and newies this week: 1 RE 1(×1) 9 Olivia Rodrigo ft. Chappell Roan – "expectations" growing on me this one.. 8 16 8 4 Taylor Swift – "Patient Zero" 29 100 29 8 Alex Warren – "EMERALD EYES" 32 NE 32 1 Justice, Tame Impala, SZA, & King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard – "Flower In A Hurricane" 45 98 45 12 Martin Garrix & U2 – "Fireflies" 63 63 3 21 Ariana Grande – "hate that i made you love me" 64 69 17 12 Ella Langley & Morgan Wallen – "I Can't Love You Anymore" 65 97 5 19 Mark Medlock – "Back Into The Sun" 72 96 70 2 Morten Harket & Tomine Harket – "Hold Me" 73 NE 73 1 Sugababes – "Ghost" 75 92 75 3 Faouzia – "UNETHICAL" 82 NE 82 1 The Rolling Stones – "Mr Charm" 85 NE 85 1 Kolter – "Hey Everybody (Back In The Dance)" quite a lot of fave fallers this week! 😎

Hi Sergej! 🙂 Thanks for all the picks! Glad you like Redlights! Cheers! 😎

Hey James! 🙂 Some of me faves from your chart: 01 01 Carly Rae Jepsen - Don't Leave Me On The Dancefloor | 31-17-08-04-01-01-05-01-01 | 9 wks still ruling yay! 06 03 Ariana Grande - Hate That I Made You Love Me | 06-07-03-09-05-04-04-05-05-04-04-06-09-09-08-07-03-06 | 18 wks still sounds sweet though it had departed my chart now 08 23 Taylor Swift - Patient Zero | 23-08 | 2 wks growing on me fast now, and oops at that sudden drop from 1 in the UK chart! 16 04 Rose Gray - Club To Your Arms | 17-01-01-01-01-03-09-05-05-07-08-05-05-06-04-16 | 15 wks pretty much snap! this week! 19 18 Miley - Bass Persuades | 34-27-21-18-19 | 5 wks 30 24 Ella Langley - Be Her | 31-22-16-11-03-19-24-30 | 8 wks Ella on her second chart wind for me now 32 NE Carly Rae Jepsen - In Pure Faith | 32 | 1 wk not heard this yet or the other tracks 35 RE Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia | 12-03-01-01-01-01-02-01-01-03-04-04-02-02-02-01-01-06-04-xx-30-29-29-19-20-28-31-37-xx-35 | 28 wks great charts!😎

Hey James! 🙂 Thanks for the comments and compliments. I think Madonna vs Kylie is the collab we've been waiting 30 years for! 😄Carly is now a holiday hit for me, takes me back to a Bar in Sitges 🤩Sauna I quite liked but it wasn't as good as Ride for me, though both are naughty, but again another holiday hit for me now 😄 Cheers! 😎

Not one of their great latter-day singles, and it came over as a bit bandwagon-jumping with the Olympics in full pelt, though it did get playlisted on Radio 2 I think. It's quite pleasant but there were better tracks on the album like Axis, Love Is A Bourgeois Construct, and Memory Of The Future and the non-album fab bonus track cover of The Bee Gees' I Started A Joke was best of all. Lovely.

Havent heard Grimly Fiendish in decades but it was a fave at the time. Nice to hear it again, it had mid-60's vibes to me, still charming 8/10. Life In A Northern Town is classic 10/10 loved it then love it more now. Love Is A Battlefield is Pat Benatar at her very best and I'd already bought the single first time round 10/10. Rocks with passion. Love the sci-fi Rah Band single too, bound to appeal to me really, and a nice tune too 9/10. Not quite The Crunch quality but good anyway. The Smiths single came and went fairly quickly without making much of an impression on me. My chartfile says it peaked at 65 for me so that'll be a 4/10 then. China Crisis always welcome to me, but earlier hits and later flops were more enjoyable than mellow Black Man Ray. 7/10. REO Speedwagon more of a self-parody by this time, Keep On Loving You is much better, 6/10. Somebody is nicely singalong without being anything special 6/10. One More Night is quite sweet, but it never did that much for me either, just pleasant 6/10. Be Near Me was big in the USA but compared to The Lexicon Of Love, or even 2nd album's SOS minor hit ballad it was more just stylishly pleasant. 7/10. Foreigner losing the edge by this time on non-ballads, That Was Yesterday run of the mill 5/10. I dont recall the Change single at all but my trusty chart-file assures me I rated it a 5/10. Billy Connolly's best record was Irish Heartbeat in 1990. Everything else was pretty much novelty 2/10. We Are The World demonstrating Americans tendency to wallow in self-congratulatory emotion. I bought it because it was a worthy cause, and the star-spotting video was interesting to see who could be arsed to turn up and who couldn't and trying to guess who some of them were. 6/10.

26th October 1976 It's a leap to the top for the first (and last) chart-topper for Chicago, the mellow If You Leave Me Now, with Tavares hitting the top 3 with the soaring disco goodie Don't Take Away The Music. Climax Blues Band funky Couldn't Get It Right powers in at 7, and the even funkier discorock classic from Wild Cherry climbs to 8 for a fairly 50% disco top 10. After the top 5 disco cover, the original Star Trek theme tune gets an issue on single and pops in at 15 10 years on from debuting as a US TV Show, and bigger than ever. Leo Sayer is also back, and Leo goes disco pretty well with the part flsetto You Make Me Feel Like Dancing new at 18 as he enters a 3rd year of chart hits. Leo is playing Poole tonight as I write this, I really ought to go! Average White Band get a 3rd chart entry with the delcious Queen Of My Soul, classy soul from the Scottish lads at 24. Demis Roussos gets his follow-up to his chart-topper with the similar When Forever Has Gone at 38, Stephen Spielberg's blockbuster Jaws movie soundtrack spawns a disco cover from US TV theme tune staple Lalo Schifrin at 46 and Dana returns with her best single since All Kinds Of Everything in 1970, and probably her best record of all, Fairytale, at 49, with Hot Blood debuting Soul Dracula at 50, one I've forgotten entirely. A quick Youtube google showcases a novelty horror disco track, essentially an instrumental with Dracula and backing girls talking or whooping over it. Quite catchy. I like it. German band, apparently, just beating a forthcoming German disco band about to rule the global music charts. 1 ( 24 ) IF YOU LEAVE ME NOW Chicago 2 ( 2 ) DANCING QUEEN ABBA 3 ( 7 ) DON’T TAKE AWAY THE MUSIC Tavares 4 ( 4 ) MISSISSIPPI Pussycat 5 ( 3 ) GIRL OF MY BEST FRIEND Elvis Presley 6 ( 1 ) I’M STILL WAITING Diana Ross 7 ( NEW ) COULDN’T GET IT RIGHT Climax Blues Band 8 ( 21 ) PLAY THAT FUNKY MUSIC Wild Cherry 9 ( 5 ) BEST DISCO IN TOWN The Ritchie Family 10 ( 14 ) RUBBERBAND MAN The Detroit Spinners 11 ( 13 ) DANCING WITH THE CAPTAIN Paul Nicholas 12 ( 11 ) HOWZAT Sherbet 13 ( 12 ) I’LL MEET YOU AT MIDNIGHT Smokie 14 ( 6 ) DISCO DUCK Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots 15 ( NEW ) THEME FROM STAR TREK Alexander Courage 16 ( 17 ) I’D REALLY LOVE TO SEE YOU TONIGHT England Dan & John Ford Coley 17 ( 8 ) BLINDED BY THE LIGHT Manfred Mann’s Earthband 18 ( NEW ) YOU MAKE ME FEEL LIKE DANCING Leo Sayer 19 ( 9 ) WITHOUT YOU Nilsson 20 ( 10 ) TEARS OF A CLOWN Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 21 ( 16 ) SHE’S GONE Daryl Hall & John Oates 22 ( 25 ) SUMMER OF MY HEART Simon May 23 ( 15 ) I WANT MORE Can 24 ( NEW ) QUEEN OF MY SOUL Average White Band 25 ( 44 ) COMING HOME David Essex 26 ( 30 ) HURT The Manhattans 27 ( 18 ) DANCE LITTLE LADY DANCE Tina Charles 28 ( 19 ) LOVING AND FREE Kiki Dee 29 ( 34 ) LOWDOWN Boz Scaggs 30 ( 22 ) BENNIE AND THE JETS Elton John 31 ( 23 ) YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO The Chi-Lites 32 ( 38 ) BEAUTIFUL NOISE Neil Diamond 33 ( 48 ) REMEMBER YESTERDAY John Miles 34 ( 32 ) SAILING Rod Stewart 35 ( 35 ) HOLD TIGHT Liverpool Express 36 ( 26 ) UPTOWN UPTEMPO WOMAN Randy Edelman 37 ( 29 ) DISCO MUSIC (I LIKE IT) J.A.L.N. Band 38 ( NEW ) WHEN FOREVER HAS GONE Demis Roussos 39 ( 27 ) CAN’T GET BY WITHOUT YOU The Real Thing 40 ( 20 ) TOUCH ME IN THE MORNING Diana Ross 41 ( 31 ) AMOUREUSE Kiki Dee 42 ( 28 ) LASER LOVE T.Rex 43 ( 40 ) UNDER ONE ROOF The Rubettes 44 ( 39 ) MR. MELODY Natalie Cole 45 ( 33 ) AFTERNOON DELIGHT Starland Vocal Band 46 ( NEW ) JAWS Lalo Schifrin 47 ( 37 ) I CAN’T ASK FOR ANYMORE THAN YOU Cliff Richard 48 ( 36 ) YOU’LL NEVER FIND ANOTHER LOVE LIKE MINE Lou Rawls 49 ( NEW ) FAIRYTALE Dana 50 ( NEW ) SOUL DRACULA Hot Blood 26th Oct 1976 THE MOTOWN PLUS OLDIES CHART The Isley Brothers Behind The Painted Smile tops my oldies charts, still one of the most exciting passionate and emotional records of all-time, adore it, and This Old Heart Of Mine isnt far behind waiting to claim a second Isley brothers number one. That leaves Stevie Wonder sandwiched at 2, Glen Campbell's timeless Wichita Lineman at 6 and The Pioneers getting a belated deserved top 10 with Let Your Yeah Be Yeah, a great Jimmy Cliff song. 1 ( 5 ) BEHIND THE PAINTED SMILE The Isley Brothers 2 ( 4 ) YESTER-ME, YESTER-YOU, YESTERDAY Stevie Wonder 3 ( 6 ) THIS OLD HEART OF MINE The Isley Brothers 4 ( 1 ) I’M GONNA MAKE YOU LOVE ME Diana Ross & The Supremes & The Temptations 5 ( 2 ) NATHAN JONES The Supremes 6 ( 13 ) WICHITA LINEMAN Glen Campbell 7 ( 8 ) BLACK AND WHITE Greyhound 8 ( 3 ) BOTH SIDES NOW Judy Collins 9 ( 7 ) STONED LOVE The Supremes 10 ( 14 ) LET YOUR YEAH BE YEAH The Pioneers 11 ( 10 ) RUN RUN RUN Jo-Jo Gunne 12 ( 9 ) I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE Marvin Gaye 13 ( 21 ) ERNIE (THE FASTEST MILKMAN IN THE WEST) Benny Hill 14 ( 11 ) STOP IN THE NAME OF LOVE The Supremes 15 ( 12 ) BABY LOVE The Supremes 16 ( 15 ) YOU’RE SO VAIN Carly Simon 17 ( 22 ) IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE Buddy Holly 18 ( 16 ) YOU ARE EVERYTHING Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye 19 ( 24 ) CATS IN THE CRADLE Harry Chapin 20 ( 17 ) MAKE IT WITH YOU Bread 21 ( 18 ) ROCK AND ROLL PART 2 Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 22 ( 27 ) LITTLE CHILDREN Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas 23 ( 19 ) DO YOU WANT TO TOUCH ME (OH YEAH) Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 24 ( 20 ) HELLO HELLO I’M BACK AGAIN Gary Glitter & The Glitter Band 25 ( 28 ) W.O.L.D. Harry Chapin 26 ( 23 ) MONDAY MONDAY The Mamas & The Papas 27 ( 30 ) SEND IN THE CLOWNS Judy Collins 28 ( 25 ) MOCKINGBIRD Carly Simon & James Taylor 29 ( 29 ) GET READY The Temptations 30 ( 26 ) WHAT BECOMES OF THE BROKEN-HEARTED Jimmy Ruffin In my life of the week back then, Aunty Eileen came round and I gave her a b&w photo of my two little cousins I took and developed at school. Still a nice photo now they are in their 50's! Helped some classmates with photo tutoring. Classmate Suzanne told the other two of us in Emglish Lit class she was leaving! Now I look back I hope it wasnt the laughing last week! Enjoyed an episode of "Phyllis" sitcom starring the wonderful Cloris Leachman, something about a psychic.

I bought this track immediately after seeing the film, along with another soundtrack Pharrell track, as it was pretty jolly and catchy, so I was quite pleased when the rest of the world caught on months later, then bemused at just how big it was, and then I got a bit fed up hearing it. These days I'm still OD'd on it, I'd rather hear the other track from D. Me 2 Just A Cloud Away. So maybe another mid table track for me. That midtable is pretty crowded!

round 1: 36 knocking off for saying after midnight when it's at midnight oops. round 2: 39 3 in 10: Message In A Bottle, Walking On The Moon, So Lonely

not much memory of Overdrive, it's not bad, bit of a banger and nice to see Becky Hill on top from non-TV-manipulation. Better than I rated it at the time, dated well (peaked at 71 for me) and another upper mid-tabler for me.

Ah, Backfired, memories of that new release getting accidentally included in a large batch of old singles dating back to the early 70's that were being sold off by our record store. I went mad snapping them up and the assistant made a whoopsie, I took it back later on after I got home and opened them up (after I'd taped it😇) and she was very grateful, I waited till no-one was around so she wouldnt get into trouble. I liked the Carl Carlton track, remember the Andy Gibb duo, as his career floundered with the end of disco in the USA, and a high entry for Depeche Mode. I went to see them not long after this period. Climbers for Abba, Hall & Oates, ELO and more 🤩 great chart!

well done Geraint and Rollo for the 39's! 🤩and double 36 Jade! I came last 😄plus side I did better in the charity quiz (we won a bag of chocs) my drop the mic moment was saying "tulips" to the question "what mania hit the country during the winter of 1637/8". It caused a 2008-banking-style crisis across Europe, but I was a voice in the wilderness as being winter it seemed unlikely and I wasnt sure of the year oops! 😄worth remembering that oddity I say. round 1: 39 round 2: 36 Cocktails 3 in 10: Professional Widow as the clock died, Winter and I got beat to Cornflake Girl. So 1/3 then!

Blame yet another one I'd forgotten and that the "nigh-i i-i-ite" hook just annoys me now, just stick extra words in for goodness sake! Calvin/Newman by numbers for me, all the right sounds but the melody and lyrics lacking. It got as high as 10 in my charts but the 7-week run suggests I got fed up with it pretty quickly and the chart points are in line with tracks that fall short of my top 20 in 2026, for example less than Self Aware (Temper City) which is peaking at 30 at the mo and is a better track with a much longer chart run. Mid-chart for 2014....

ooh triple 39, well done all, and also triple triple Sister Sledge, hooray! 🤩 round 1: 36 mis-spoke Horny when I meant Sex Bomb round 2: 27 one year out; said all outa love not I'm Outa Love, misheard Johnny Logan question. Doesn't bode well for a big charity quiz tonight! 😄 3 in 10: Run To You, Somebody, Heaven

a young gay contestant on House Of Games had never heard of Pet Shop Boys nor West End Girls! That seems unlikely and yet there you go, social media creates its own bubbles blissfully unaware of anything else, I'm guessing. Knew all the reality TV shows though.

I know all 3 of these, but Cilla's I got to know via her Greatest Hits, and rate, always happy to hear emotional Italian melodies, Cat's was on the B side of Matthew And Son when I bought a copy around 1977/8 and that's a goodie too, Bobby Darin's version I must have heard as the song often popped up on TV sung by someone or other - The Four Tops cover was the one I def heard. I like all 3 but will also plump for I Love My Dog.