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Hey James! 🙂 7 weeks on top for Jade, you must be a fan! Golden hanging in there, it is quite catchy! Chappell Roan top 20, Cascada nearly there, Tom Grennan and sombr climbing, and Dior new in are my picks. great chart!

If they read this thread maybe they will do it on the road and re-assess it, I mean it's not a bad track as such! - I don't recall hearing it at any gigs since it was new (and Ive been to a lot of em) but Being Boring is almost a cert these days...

Eb Goode is a great-sounding track but the chorus isn't great, a curious mixture of appearing to be gimmicky for kids but pushing drug use while being annoying. I realise it was and is rife in the clubbing world culture (seen it myself), but really it had dodgy plausible deniability to avoid getting banned at the time so I will stick with Move Any Mountain and other Shamen tracks.

round 1: 39 round 2: 36 missed a Shania word out "for" from the title. 3 in 10: You Can Call Me Al, Me & Julio Down By The Schoolyard, Take Me To The Mardi Gras. Poor contestant : Kodachome was a big US hit but couldnt be released in the UK as it was advertising and the BBC couldnt play adverts! See Cherry Cola in Lola.

15 1 25 HOLD ON HOPE - Glen Campbell & Eric Church 1021100 Glen Campbell's final 2011 album got the duets treatment a few years after he passed away battling Alzheimer's for years, and in some cases it shined a spotlight on tracks that slipped by like this one with contemporary Country star Eric Church. Hold On Hope was optimistically sad and like much of the album sort of related to Glen's condition. I find it very moving and Eric added a new pathos to it. Glen first made my year-end top 100 in 1969 with 2 tracks. And in 1970. And still in the 2000's and 2010's.

16 1 16 BLAME YOU - Nero featuring Alana Watson 898000 Talking about passe, most old-skool dubstep/drum'n'bass exciting dance tracks struggle these days too, like Blame You did. Alana is actually part of the band, but I like to give credit for a nice vocal and this chugs along nicely. Play loud and dream of finding a club that would play it like it was 2011, when Promises topped the charts.

17 1 17 BURNING IN FLAMES - Kaiser Chiefs 839900 The new album Kaiser Chief's Easy 8th Album had a number of great singles on it, as Kaiser Chiefs turned out the best crop of tracks since their 2000's heyday when they could do no wrong. The 4th of 5 singles and they still struggled to get noticed bar the odd Radio 2 play, annoyingly, as this may well have been a hit in, say, 2006 or thereabouts. Poprock is SO passe to modern ears.

18 1 18 DANCING STAR - Pet Shop Boys 769200 2nd single off the new album, and typically unusual subject matter as they write about Rudolph Nureyev's escape from the USSR during a ballet tour in the 60's, which gives it a sort of 60's nostalgia mixed with mid-80's Pet Shop Boys production nostalgia, enough for them to grab the top slot on my charts until the album dropped a week or two later, Nonetheless.

19 4 34 BIRDS OF A FEATHER - Billie Eilish 756650 Only peaked at 4 in my chart but hung around for most of the year cos it's just fabulous. Achingly low-key and beautifully sad-happy, and this video came out late in the chart run as it turned into a hit from the album from day one, as opposed to an advance single. One of her greatest records (although credit should include Bruv Finneas Eilish as a main creator/co-creator). What an absolute gem and radio-friendly in a way some of her singles aren't.

20 3 15 DISCO AT THE STRIP CLUB - Reve 753850 Great dancepop track in a very Dua Lipa retropop vibe, cool and lots of great bits within the track to hook into. A complete flop of course, but if Dua Lipa had recorded it, an obvious hit.

Never that much of a fan of Deeply Dippy, over-familiarity at the time came on quite quickly, though it was good natured enough. Don't Talk Just Kiss or a later minor hit or two were better tracks. I can see the Divine Comedy vibe.

Step back In Time is a fab homage to 70's soul and disco music, and Kylie's quality ratio continues to be high for the 3rd album. Belinda's remix is right up there with her best tracks - the biggest surprise is it wasnt single 2, given other obviously less commercial tracks beat We Want to it. Great to see The Righteous Brothers get a second chart-topper 25 years on. In terms of chart spans that must have been the longest wait for a second number one, and the longest gap between number ones.

I cant believe December Will Be Magic isnt on Spotify - that must be a choice made by Kate! I've got it on Xmas compilations of the 80's and 90's so that seems a bit random. I wonder if Ken is on Spotify?! That's a comedy track that is fab! It's an 8/10 for me, and a Xmas tune that should get played in the mad season for a change. Havent heard The Call Up in decades, and dont have a lot of memory about it, so I'm guessing it's a 5 or 6/10. This Wreckage ditto but I was disappointed with it at the time, after the run of top singles it was a bit of a 6/10. Rabbit just annoys me, always has 3/10. Didnt like Maggie's Farm in any version but Do Nothing was the airplay hit, a much better track, 8/10. Too Nice To Talk To a good Beat effort, another 8/10 from me, Lorraine my least fave Bad Manners single to date 7/10. I realise the point of De Do Do Do but that doesn't stop it being a bit annoying, and The Police's least hit single so far, the album had way better tracks on it like Canary In A Coalmine. That should have been the single. 7/10 de da da da. Who's Gonna Rock You still better than the big hit in my eyes, though not a memorable hit. 6/10. Matchbox's was a weird choice of single, purely for Xmas I reckon, shoulda waited till the new year and another rockabilly cover. 4/10. Racey's cover not as good as the original but worth a 5/10. The Barron Knights were mildly amusing on the first listen and excruciating after that 2/10. Blue Moon is Showaddywaddy feeling a bit tired and samey compared to the new Rockabilly acts 5/10. Mike Berry needed another decent old song, this was a tad dull 5/10. Mac Davis, In The Grotto oops! I love In The Ghetto! His 1972 hit is also decent enough, Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me, but Hard To Be Humble is a novelty song pretty much. 4/10.

I Feel Love to get us in the mood, what a timeless game-changer, still cant believe its almost half a century old. round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: 2: doctor doctor, hold me now, you lift me up and I stopped at this point job done I thought, Oops, You TAKE Me Up. Shoulda gone Lies.

Aww that's nice, Jeff is a personal legend and I hope he gets back on his feet soon. I saw his last performances on Youtube and I wish he'd postponed or cancelled a bit earlier, fans will understand, I'd rather have a healthy Jeff not touring than an ill one overdoing it! I may go see the ELO Experience who are always a worth a look-in, other alternative ELO tribute bands are also available.

I agree, Stop The Cavalry is a festive semi-regular that never gets wearisome, what a gem. 10/10, though I still think of it as his 4th hit as Terry Dactyl is really a pseudonym plus mates. I think that it's very not-christmassy in the WW1-styled video helps. Antmusic is Adam's first throbbing classic 9/10. Stray Cats were fab courtesy of the Dave Edmunds production, very clean-sounding and modern for such a retro track. 9/10. Madness drop their first "serious" song as a single, and it works very well, proving they weren't one-trick ponies. I bought the album around this time, which was fab. 9/10. Looking For Clues is an upgrade in sound for Robert Palmer to an 80's synth-sound, and away from the annoyingly non-top-40 classic sound of Every Kinda People and the rock romp of Bad Case Of Loving You (Doctor Doctor) which were both US smashes 7/10. Do You Feel My Love is throbbing Eddy Grant reggae as he reinvents himself for the 80's after the brill Living On The Frontline. A kiddie fave in The Equals in the 60's, it was great having him back and this is a 9/10, my bias has nothing to do with Eddy giving me a follow on X after I was heart-ing Equals Bandcamp re-issues, it's high time they were re-evaluated as a notable band of the 60's and early 70's, they were more than just Baby Come Back. Kiss On My List was my fave Hall & Oates track since She's Gone criminally fell short of the top 40. That's a 10/10 classic and this new dance-soulpop direction was on point 9/10. I'm doing a lot of 9/10's here... I know what you mean about the dialogue lifts from the OTT camp sci-fi cult film, but there wouldnt be much to the track without them, more of uncompleted song waiting for more lyrics. 8/10, I liked it more at the time when it was shiny and new and colourful. Don't Walk Away was possibly my least-fave ELO single since Ma Ma Ma Belle at the time, or in other words my least-fave single ever by ELO. 7/10. Love On The Rocks plugged The Jazz Singer movie as Neil moved into movies, but I longed for classic Diamond by this point. Dreary. As Americans tend to pronounce Rocks as Racks, that's an appropriate misheard lyric 5/10. Don't Drive My Car sounded a bit menacing for a Quo track, and may well be their last good single till 1986 7/10. AC/DC proving a huge disappointment to me post-Bon Scott and an unintentional ironic title... 3/10. Lady indeed sounding like a Commodores off-cut, I quite liked it in comparison to his annoying chart-toppers, but it's not a patch on his First Edition era classics. 6/10. Grandma wasn't as loveable to me as Grandad had been for Clive Dunn, it was more sickly than olde-world charming, and my grandma didnt rate it, either 4/10. Better than AC/DC tho. Dr Hook I barely recall, and the novelty was wearing off as the music scene moved on. 3/10.

New K's on the block massacre the classic Delfonics smooth soul track, and turn it into bland ballad, and the other side I have no memory of at all. Whitney's upbeat singalong was an improvement on her pompous overblown ballads, but that's not saying that much, and as a regular radio staple I'm still sick of hearing it 35 years on. Kinky Afro I preferred to Step On as it wasnt stepping on a classic tribal rock original. Fun. And The Righteous Brother Spector classic got a real revival thanks to Ghost. I mean Bill Medley wasnt even on it and it's still the definitive version of a massive song, accept no substitutes, what a vocal performance. Berlin, love it, but we did we need it back so big so soon! I think not!

1 1 1 5 WALK OF FAME - Miley Cyrus featuring Brittany Howard 532200 2 2 1 10 TOKYO RAIN - Loaded Honey 923000 3 5 1 10 OVER - Loaded Honey 740750 4 4 3 6 HARD TO BE HAPPY - Rob Thomas 304400 5 3 3 12 ZOMBIE LADY - Damiano David featuring Dove Cameron 419900 6 8 6 8 LET IT BE FOR LOVE - Armin van Buuren featuring JAI RYU 170600 7 9 7 5 FIVE MORE SECONDS - Seafret featuring KT Tunstall 136250 8 7 7 4 RAG DOLL - The Four Seasons 198000 9 20 9 4 12 TO 12 - sombr 80150 10 11 10 6 BROKEN GAME - Finn Forster 153700 11 13 11 5 JUPITER - almost monday featuring Jordana 129800 12 18 12 4 C’MON MARIANNE - The Four Seasons 92000 13 10 10 12 LET’S RIDE AWAY - Avicii featuring Elle King 210250 14 6 1 14 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 777900 15 17 15 4 DAWN (GO AWAY) - The Four Seasons 88400 16 22 16 5 POISON VINE - Cast featuring P.P. Arnold 86000 17 19 17 9 GOLD - Myles Smith 140250 18 12 5 13 GLAD - Saint Etienne 438100 19 21 19 6 NO TIME TO TALK - The Jonas Brothers 94950 20 14 1 14 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 971000 21 16 9 14 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 293900 22 27 22 10 BLOODLINE - Alex Warren featuring Jelly Roll 132100 23 15 1 23 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1275150 24 24 1 10 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 889000 25 47 25 3 REALLY LOVE - Loaded Honey 37850 26 30 2 20 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 729950 27 26 7 19 FEEL IT - d4vd 507250 28 28 28 9 SWEETNESS - Elliot James Reay 106900 29 25 20 10 MANCHILD - Sabrina Carpenter 147800 30 35 30 5 HAIRCUT - Reverend And The Makers featuring Vicky McClure 58000 31 29 16 10 CALIFORNIA GIRLS - The Beach Boys 191250 32 23 7 10 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE - The Beach Boys 290000 33 40 33 5 SHOOK - Sugababes 56450 34 45 34 6 I’LL BE BACK - The BossHoss featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger 56000 35 36 35 8 ON MY MIND - Alex Warren & ROSE 73600 36 39 36 9 SAPPHIRE - Ed Sheeran 77000 37 41 37 5 BETTE DAVIS EYES - Kim Carnes 61900 38 32 2 18 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 765900 39 46 39 5 NEVER LET YOU GO - Council 48050 40 31 2 14 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 919300

17th August 2025 It's two weeks on top for Miley Cyrus and Brittany Howard as sombr and Finn Forster both grab a first top 10 slot with the exciting 12 To 12, and the emotive Broken Game. The Jonas Brothers take their remake of Stayin' Alive into the top 20 as I spent last evening watching Bee Gees tribute act You Win Again get the audience moving (and it wasn't a young crowd!) to all the Saturday Night Fever era tracks of the Gibbs wonderfully long and varied career. Highest new entry goes to a Kasabian remix of G.O.A.T. at 47 - I see old fans moaning online about the new stuff not being as good as the old stuff. They're wrong. And that makes 21 years of charting including 2024's chart-topper and their best record to date in Coming Back To Me Good. Sigrid's been absent from my charts for 3 years but now extends her run to 7 years with the rather good Fort Knox at 65. Damiano David is on his 5th charting track off his latest album, Funny Little Fears, as The First Time drops by at 69, as Girls Aloud get a second archive track onto the charts for a 20th anniversary album, the good Singapore - the last song naming Singapore to chart was 1978's Manhattan Transfer's cover of the vintage On A Little Street In Singapore. The Hives are back, and it's been a jaw-dropping wait of 21 years to get a 4th charting single, extending their chart run to 23 years, and this one is as lively as the early hits, new at 76, with a debut for Charlotte OC at 80 with the good Romeo, and Cliff Richard & The Shadows at long last getting childhood obsession fave Summer Holiday into my charts. The record and the film would have easily been a long-running number one if I'd been charting in 1963! Every kid dreamed of driving around the world living in a double-decker bus. Some actually did it! Needless to say that is the longest wait of 62 years for a fave track to debut in my charts. It's in thanks to new action movie Nobody 2, who also plug Jo Jo Gunne's Run Run Run a few weeks after I said it needed to be in a film to bring it back to notice. It's as if cult film-makers read my mind, it really is! 1 1 1 5 WALK OF FAME - Miley Cyrus featuring Brittany Howard 532200 2 2 1 10 TOKYO RAIN - Loaded Honey 923000 3 5 1 10 OVER - Loaded Honey 740750 4 4 3 6 HARD TO BE HAPPY - Rob Thomas 304400 5 3 3 12 ZOMBIE LADY - Damiano David featuring Dove Cameron 419900 6 8 6 8 LET IT BE FOR LOVE - Armin van Buuren featuring JAI RYU 170600 7 9 7 5 FIVE MORE SECONDS - Seafret featuring KT Tunstall 136250 8 7 7 4 RAG DOLL - The Four Seasons 198000 9 20 9 4 12 TO 12 - sombr 80150 10 11 10 6 BROKEN GAME - Finn Forster 153700 11 13 11 5 JUPITER - almost monday featuring Jordana 129800 12 18 12 4 C’MON MARIANNE - The Four Seasons 92000 13 10 10 12 LET’S RIDE AWAY - Avicii featuring Elle King 210250 14 6 1 14 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 777900 15 17 15 4 DAWN (GO AWAY) - The Four Seasons 88400 16 22 16 5 POISON VINE - Cast featuring P.P. Arnold 86000 17 19 17 9 GOLD - Myles Smith 140250 18 12 5 13 GLAD - Saint Etienne 438100 19 21 19 6 NO TIME TO TALK - The Jonas Brothers 94950 20 14 1 14 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 971000 21 16 9 14 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 293900 22 27 22 10 BLOODLINE - Alex Warren featuring Jelly Roll 132100 23 15 1 23 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 1275150 24 24 1 10 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 889000 25 47 25 3 REALLY LOVE - Loaded Honey 37850 26 30 2 20 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 729950 27 26 7 19 FEEL IT - d4vd 507250 28 28 28 9 SWEETNESS - Elliot James Reay 106900 29 25 20 10 MANCHILD - Sabrina Carpenter 147800 30 35 30 5 HAIRCUT - Reverend And The Makers featuring Vicky McClure 58000 31 29 16 10 CALIFORNIA GIRLS - The Beach Boys 191250 32 23 7 10 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE - The Beach Boys 290000 33 40 33 5 SHOOK - Sugababes 56450 34 45 34 6 I’LL BE BACK - The BossHoss featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger 56000 35 36 35 8 ON MY MIND - Alex Warren & ROSE 73600 36 39 36 9 SAPPHIRE - Ed Sheeran 77000 37 41 37 5 BETTE DAVIS EYES - Kim Carnes 61900 38 32 2 18 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 765900 39 46 39 5 NEVER LET YOU GO - Council 48050 40 31 2 14 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 919300 41 75 41 3 THE SUBWAY - Chappell Roan 22000 42 71 42 2 ANXIETY - Doechii 195500 43 37 1 21 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 1199850 44 52 44 3 SPIES - Robbie Williams 28750 45 42 5 10 GOOD VIBRATIONS - The Beach Boys 241050 46 33 33 10 RUNNING UP A TAB AT THE HOTEL FOR THE FAB - Sparks 112100 47 NEW 47 1 G.O.A.T. (SKY25 MIX) - Kasabian 12500 48 53 48 5 STARLIGHT (THE FAME) - The Supermen Lovers & OneRepublic 41850 49 49 3 21 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 499400 50 50 9 14 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 355000 51 57 51 8 HEY HI HELLO - Alison Goldfrapp 45150 52 56 52 3 LESSONS - Loaded Honey 27900 53 55 53 5 IN IT WITH YOU - Craig David featuring JoJo 35050 54 51 1 18 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 809900 55 34 4 13 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 446200 56 43 30 14 SPORTS CAR - Tate McRae 143150 57 38 9 10 DAYDREAMING - Elliot James Reay 270400 58 48 18 10 RUNAWAY TRAIN - Sam Feldt featuring RuthAnne 157850 59 85 59 3 DON’T LOOK DOWN - Gary Barlow featuring Becky Hill 15500 60 59 54 8 UNFORGETTABLE - Alok, Daecolm & Malou 74900 61 73 61 3 ELECTRIC FLOWER - Miles Kane 17300 62 72 62 4 CHEERS TO ME - Self Esteem 22200 63 67 63 3 THE FEELING NEVER WENT AWAY - Sam Ryder 17600 64 84 64 2 BEAUTIFUL ODYSSEY - YouNotUs x Cascada 10300 65 NEW 65 1 FORT KNOX - Sigrid 7000 66 83 66 2 ONLY DANCER - Louise 10200 67 74 67 3 CISCO BAY - Loaded Honey 15000 68 64 64 6 PRETTY LITTLE BABY - Connie Francis 32900 69 NEW 69 1 THE FIRST TIME - Damiano David 6200 70 80 70 2 JOY - Rita Ora 10000 71 86 71 2 HIGHER - Michael Buble 8600 72 NEW 72 1 SINGAPORE (DEFINITIVE VERSION) - Girls Aloud 5600 73 61 61 8 BLESSINGS - Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas 38100 74 76 74 6 MILK - Agnes 24400 75 77 75 4 SAVE ME - Olly Murs 18200 76 NEW 76 1 THE HIVES FOREVER FOREVER THE HIVES - The Hives 4800 77 81 77 6 DEVOTION - Hot Chip 18200 78 79 78 5 WHEN THE RIVER IS CALLING - Stonekeepers featuring Revel Day 18200 79 60 53 10 CHARGIE - Alesha Dixon featuring Tom Moutchie 82900 80 NEW 80 1 ROMEO - Charlotte OC 4000 81 44 42 6 DON’T PUT IT ALL ON ME - Noah Cyrus featuring Fleet Foxes 54100 82 88 82 4 GONE GONE GONE (ORIGINAL DEMO) - Madonna 10400 83 87 83 3 LONELY AVENUE - Jon Batiste featuring Randy Newman 8600 84 NEW 84 1 SUMMER HOLIDAY - Cliff Richard & The Shadows 3200 85 89 85 2 A LITTLE MORE UNDERSTANDING - Bryan Adams 5200 DROP OUTS 54 16 8 ROCK THAT BODY - The Black Eyed Peas 122000 58 22 12 CHEMICAL REACTION - Debbii Dawson 181250 62 12 13 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 261050 63 19 12 LOVER - Richard Ashcroft featuring Joan Armatrading 168150 65 11 16 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 346700 66 1 39 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1747400 68 6 22 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 464650 69 69 3 PARANOID - Black Sabbath 17200 70 16 16 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 227800 78 1 22 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 788950 82 24 9 EASY LOVER - Miley Cyrus 132400 90 90 3 SHOUT OUT - Kenny Thomas featuring Kim Wilde 6000

Hi SSP! 🙂 Lover top 3 and Davis Guetta almost top 10, Cyril, Empire Of The Sun & Celine Dion all up, Sapphire, Sam Feldt and Jonas brothers not far behind, Sabrina, sombr, Damiano another hat-trick climbing, 24Goldn, Robbie and Chappell making progress, Seafret, Rita Ora, 12 to 12, Olly Murs, Armin van Buuren, Gary barlow and a new Rob Thomas to check out down the bottom end, 2013 Capital Cities and daft Punk are both top tracks! fab charts!😎

Hi SSP! 🙂 Thanks for the long list of picks! 🤩 cheers! 😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Great top 4, as usual! 🫠The Subway climbing fast into the top 10, the First Time top 20 climbing, just bought that one thanks for the tip, and Loaded Honey new entry ❤️ Bubblers, demi lovato new, Lost frequencies, sombr, Tame Impala and my fave Loaded Honey track new in, yay! 😍 1991, Bryan Adams, Driver's Seat two years late but a hit! Unlike the UK! Extreme, Bomb The Bass, Colour Me Badd, Natalie Cole, Cher, Jazzy Jeff, all faves. fab charts!😎

Hey Sven! 🙂 Funny you should mention Loaded Honey climbing again...😄 4 tracks are this week! 😯 Thanks for the picks and comments! cheers! 😎

Hey Seltin! Ooh Golden beats The Subway to the top spot, just like the UK charts! Walk Of Fame still top 10 though falling a bit! 12 to 12 climbing and Sugababes new in. Just off to vote for them all now 😄 great chart 😎

Hey Seltin! 🙂 Thanks for the picks, though oops Blessings falling but plus side Chappell is rocketing up this week 😄 cheers! 😎