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The Jam were pretty good, I even went to see them at a banging concert in Bingley Hall, Stafford, in 1981, standing on a coke can to be able to see. I do still get annnoyed by tall people shuffling and squeezing in front of you and making sure you cant see anything when you picked your spot early so you could see. That said, I've seen Weller twice since and he's self-indulgent and on the dull side, too much of an "artist" to want to do a Greatest Hits set. He's had his classics in all guises, but I prefer the Style Council era, so that makes one of me. Best Jam track: Going Underground. Culture Club were popular across the board (my mum was a fan), and their influence on popular culture shouldnt be ignored. Colour by Numbers is a great album and tracks like Miss Me Blind and Church Of The Poison Mind top notch pop. The Jam only topped my charts once, but CC did it 4 times - and then drugs came in and the pop fizziness was replaced by blandness and it was all over. Saw Culture Club in the 90's return when someone pissed George off throwing a coin, and a glitter ball fell on him. Oops. that was still better than his Jesus Loves You era gig, hippy trippy, terminally long jams that had people leaving to catch the last bus home. Great back catalogue, but not that exciting in a live setting. Adam & The Ants were huge in 1981, kiddies at the Youth Club I helped at were into Shaky, Bucks Fizz, Madness, Birdie Song, but Adam most of all. Tribal drums and costume changes what's not to like! Saw Adam maybe 20 years ago now, and I dont recall much about it, but it's fair to say Adam was past his best by 1984 and has just popped up infrequently since. My fave track is Antrap. Yes, someone has to be a fan of it, and it's me. Stand & Deliver is the one that topped my chart though. Macca is a living legend, and of course the 60's was the decade for The Beatles (who had re-issued and revamped hits in the 80's too) and the 70's for classic Wings, but the 80's had it's moments as Paul dabbled with synths pretty early on, Coming Up, Waterfalls are fab, Temporary Secretary mad, before he settled into collabs, MOR hits, frogs, classical, dance anything that took his fancy. I caught him in a fab concert at Wembley Arena in 1989. Hey Jude was such a moment a woman further down passed out and interrupted the otherworldly vibes. I took my mum to see him, not shamed at all. He might be here for the big ballad hits, but his best stuff is the lesser known: Tug Of War, Here Today, Take It Away, This One. And the Frog Chorus. That TV video cartoon is still heart-warming and life-affirmingly sweet. Paul had one chart-topper for me in the 80's: My Brave Face. Phil Collins is surprisingly low. Add albums and he'd be way up the top end. I saw Phil once - sat down the row from me at Elton John's Wembley Arena show in 1989-ish. Never saw in concert, I'd prob nod off with all the ballads. When he wanted to be he could brilliant (In The Air Tonight), fun (You Can't Hurry Love) or nostalgically touching (Groovy Kind Of Love) or soulful (Take Me Home) but most of the time it was ballad overdrive. Frankie were as expected higher than their back catalogue justified. 4 brilliant singles is not a substantial career, but what a great 1984 they had, like a mallet on the pop industry, a year of huge single sales. 3 eternal singles in Relax, Two Tribes and The Power Of Love, with Welcome To The Pleasuredome not far behind, and a good version of Born To Run to boot. Take away Trevor Horn, though, and there wasn't much left, sadly.

Games Without Frontiers is Peter Gabriel's first classic single, ever relevant, and a 9/10. Underpass I bought the EP, gatefold sleeve and all, and John Foxx was a bit of a pioneer in the footsteps of Kraftwerk, but TBH I preferred the Midge Ure Ultravox. I affectionally sang along to this track as "UNDERPANTS!" 7/10. Michael Jackson as the Quincy Jones icon arrived with the Off The Wall album, and Heatwave's UK Rod Temperton gifted Rock With You to MJ after Karen Carpenter allegedly turned it down. The album is great the singles are great, 9/10. The Tourists single wasnt as good as their previous 2, but it was OK. 6/10. The Chords didnt make much of an impression at the time, so 3/10 sounds about right, and All Night Long really wasnt as good as Since You've Been Gone, which had the advantage of being a fab Russ Ballard song whereas this one is basically a Deep Purple song, but it still had the heavy bonus of Graham Bonnet (ex-Marbles lead singer) and Cozy Powell (glam-era hit drummer) in the band. They left shortly after this song and Rainbow were never this good again. 8/10. Carrie is one of Cliff's great singles, still haunting, 9/10. Riders In The Sky is a great oldie, knew it as a kiddie, and was happy to see The Shads charting it, but it's not the best version ever, 8/10. Dance Stance is fab, loved it sounding like nothing else, played loud it's exciting and I used to annoy my friend Bev in Uni digs upstairs playing stuff like this loudly. 9/10. Captain beaky annoyed me at the time, as do most novelty songs when you hear them too much, but these days in small doses it's quite sweet. 6/10. Keith Michell's 1971 hit I'll Give You The Earth was preferable to me at the time. Or his Morecambe & Wise appearances. Elvis' cover, I also found it less essential than his previous New Wave hits, though it was OK if over-rated chart-wise: 6/10. Brass Construction is also OK, 5/10, but AC/DC's Touch Too Much was a New Wave Of Metal track that made me like the band 8/10. Then they reissued their best track coming soon and Bon Scott died and it was all over for me, not even with recruiting the Geordie singer enticed me back beyond 1980 singles by and large. Singing The Blues was a decent cover from Dave Edmunds, I remain predisposed to like Dave, but the song was never much cop in the first place, so 5/10 is about right.

The Plastic Age is a goodie, as is the sweet Paradise Bird, I'd go along with 8/10 for both of those. The Letter not as good as the original, more of a 6/10. Someone's Looking At You sounded better at the time when it was a firm 9/10 for me, but again prob more of an 8/10 now. Strange Little Girl Ive not heard in decades, that was a 7/10 last time I heard it. I never knew Save Me was about Freddie but I found it a bit plodding for Queen, a generous 7/10 but I suspect I'd knock it down to 6/10 if I listened to it again. And The Beat Goes On still sounds good, so much so that it was sampled for the recent Celine Dion hit remix of I'm Alive, the riff edges it into a 9/10. Mama's Boy another I've not heard in aeons, but it's Suzi so that's a 7/10 from me, and again her recent Cyril revamp of Stumblin' In almost became a hit. Her cover of Goldfrapp's Strict Machine is better than Mama's Boy though. Buzz Buzz A Diddle It is great fun, I never knew Freddy Cannon did it first! It was a romp at the time and I'm still fond of the rockabilly vibe, so 9/10. three Minute Hero isnt as good as the two Selecter singles on either side of it, but it's worth a 6/10. Pauline is still doing good stuff and touring. Jefferson Airplane never made it in the UK, it took a morph into histrionic rock to get them airplay on radio 1, and Jane fit quite well into the Rainbow/Toto/Lizzy rock vibes of the time. Still my fave Starship track, better than the hideous overblown nonsense of the mid-80's. 8/10. Grace, though, will drop an anthem in a few months in Dreams, utterly brilliant 10/10 but didnt make the top 40. (see my my BJSC DNQ entries). Too Hot I agree is quite pleasant, and I find it less annoying than Ladies Night, the irony is their huge early 70's funk tracks never hit in the UK, they had to do bland disco to get the hits. 6/10. The buzz around Baby I Love You was getting legendary Phil Spector to produce it - he had done the original classic Wall-of-sound Ronettes version, and then Dave Edmunds did an even bigger wall-of-sound self-produced version in 1973. this sounded very limp in comparison and is nowhere near as good as their 2-minute punk romps, nor as good as their later 80's retro catchy songs and covers. 5/10. Got To Love Somebody I rediscovered about 5 years ago, it's not up there with their monster multiple-hit classics, but it's pretty decent, maybe a 7/10. Coward Of The County I never liked, as a passive sort of bloke I took offense at the notion that you had to get violent to prove yourself to be a man. Those sort of stereotypes should be dead and buried. The realistic sequel where the "hero" goes to jail for GBH and leaves his tormented abused girl to cope on her own is waiting to be written. 3/10. Wonderland I don't recall much, so let's say 4/10 for being The Commodores.

No shifting Bette davis Eyes yet! Will Michael's oldie get on top from 4? Still love it. Interesting to see a fair sprinkling of country tracks in the chart, the UK seemed a bit more resistant in 1981, though rockabilly was big. Kim & Adam making nice strides 🥰Slow Hand a nice high entry, I alwasy liked that, I'd been aware of the Pointer Sisters for almost a decade, so it was nice to see them getting more consistent breakthroughs in Europe. The Commodores I also charted but the Roseanne Cash and Jim Photoglo singles are unknown to me! When I get round to reviewing the 80's I will be using your chart to revamp my charts to include stuff I dont know so thanks in advance 😄

aww poor Solid Gold Easy Action, the forgotten one in a run of classic glam singles from T.Rex. 36's again!! So close both but plus side so regular of late. round 1: 39 round 2: 36 (less and less!! How could I say more and more!)😮 3 in 10: 2: Wild World, Close To You...then I struggled when I shouldnt have...

streaming obviously dominated by the Americas in these figures. I expect UK only would be vastly different, Robbie & Atomic Kitten for example much higher. The Westlife song is there prob due to popularity in the Far East, it's a karaoke classic there.

still high scoring going on, I reckon potential winners all round on most days of the week on popmaster - if it wasn't for minds going blank under pressure in my case😄, and like the first contestant - I feel for him, know what it's like when sheer panic takes over and listening skills vanish! round 1: 39 round 2: 33 (wet wet wet - forgot the song, like most people I'm guessing!) 3 in 10: I Should Be So Lucky, Step Back In Time, Can't Get You Out Of My Head etc!

I was watching a Youtube thingy on Graham Gouldman songs he wrote for others only this afternoon, so many great songs before he even hit 21. Heart Full Of Soul is great, but the jangly Byrds classic is even greater, what a classic. Mr Tambourine Man sounding fabulous in a way Dylan's own Maggie's Farm doesn't. Never liked it, ever. She's About A Mover is good fun, always worth catching it if it ever crops up briefly somewhere, which is getting rarer and rarer these days. The Byrds' is the only song I actually knew at the time, but I would have been likely to like Kenny Lynch's too. If it had been memorable. Ah well, never mind.

ah, 2 more to review - my long-time concert-going mate is a Spandau fan, so I've seen them several times, the last one on high on a mountain side known as the O2 in London, sat at the back, where I might as well have been in a different continent, frightened of moving and tumbling down hundreds of steep levels and Through The Barricades. To cut a long story short, the tiny figures in the far distance could have been anyone, and after they'd got together after acrimoniously splitting just after the heyday 80's before splitting acrimoniously again. TBH I always went cos my mate is a fan, and he went to stuff I was a fan of, like Pet Shop Boys, but time has not made Spandau any more endearing to me, quite the reveres as I'm sick to death of hearing Gold and True. Set Adrift On Memory Bliss any day! Best track? Chant No. 1, far and away the Spands at their jazz-funk coolest, in between New Romantic clothes-horses and besuited gloss-pop, and Tony's often-in-ya-face vocals weren't over-powering the groove. Queen one would expect to be right up the top end, though perhaps a little bit higher than this. Mad on 'em the gang the moment I saw them on Top Of The Pops doing Seven Seas Of Rhye, and 3 chart-toppers for me inside 18 months at the start off their career, less so into the 80's apart from Flash, Another One Bites The Dust and Under Pressure, at least until their Works comeback and the Live Aid gig. Radio Gaga is as good as anything they did, I Want To Break Free fabulous, and the addition of synths and other genres I felt rescued them a bit. Sadly, I never did get to see Queen in concert, though I tried for Live Aid tickets. I especially loved the way Queen have remained popular 35 years after they last existed properly, always fun to watch music critics eat their words.

The Police could do no wrong from 1979 to 1983 and then it imploded badly cos, let's be honest, Sting was the songwriter extraordinaire, and the pin-up, but he was never as good solo as when Andy & Stewart were giving the music some edge. Should be higher in the list were it not for losing out on big 1979 sales. Best track: Invisible Sun or Every Breath You Take, but they had 6 chart-toppers on my charts and I saw them in their prime in Leeds in 1983. I'm enjoying Sting's recent drift back to reggae with his Shaggy collaborations. Bucks Fizz totally justified being this high, they had a long string of classy pop to take over as ABBA vacated the throne, courtesy of ex King-Crimson chappie and the other one - Hill/Sinfield were a great writing/production team and moved on to Celine, Cher and others as the Fizz hits got smaller. Saw them 3 times in concert, topped my charts 5 times in the 80's and once last decade as The Fizz, still good (minus Bobby G). Someone should do a documentary or drama about their career, it has a bit of everything! Quo's longevity was amazing, they were there in the 60's when I was a kid, and they were still there in the 90's as I pushed 40. They had some great singles along the way, but from 1981 onwards they became more of a Quo tribute act, just with new songs/new old songs, bar the odd departure from the formula - most of all the fabulous In The Army Now. Not surprising they are so high, but a bit flattered to say the least. Great fun in concert though, and that I suspect is the reason for the longevity. Bananarama are another act I've seen 3 times, always put on a fabulous show, and they are have quite the ongoing back catalogue, though they never actually topped my charts in the 80's - but have done since then. Cruel Summer, Venus & I Heard A Rumour are my faves of the 80's and Soibhan's You're History was great too after she jumped ship mid-flow. Kylie's slot was always going to be top end, despite just 2 years of sales, so she should also be higher career-wise, though she didnt top my charts till the 90's when she matured, got smart, took musical risks, and became one of the most unexpected pop disco diva icons of the last 35 years. Nobody would have taken a bet she would have lasted and been top quality. Seen her many times, topped my charts regularly over the last 32 years, and as good now as she has ever been, one of my charts all-time greats as she never really takes much of break, a workaholic! Until Pet Shop Boys came along, Human League filled the gap in between ABBA fading away and Chris & neil stepping in as my fave pop band, one classic album (from start to finish) in Dare, and a string of fabulous singles from 1981 through to 1986 with the odd revival after that. Like Pet Shop Boys, they have become one of the great live draws of the last 35 years, having essentially being studio-based prior to that. Well worth catching a Christmas show, always jam-packed with hits and quality, Phil is a great frontman. Best track? Everything from Dare and singles through to Human, plus the Moroder collab hit for Phil. Diana Ross so high is a surprise, as I tend to focus on her great records of the 80's - Upside Down, Chain Reaction, My Old Piano, Missing You - and forget she chucked out loads of dross along the way. I turned from a huge, huge Supremes fan in the 60's and 70's, to a Diana solo fan up to 1973, worshipped Love Hangover in 1976, and then watched bemused as she took the move from Motown to mediocrity in 1981 until her recent joyful movie theme collab with Tame Impala, best thing she's done in 40 years. Koole & The Gang is a shocker. They were mostly just part of the furniture with production-line inoffensive disco-pop, after morphing from a major early 70's funk outfit, when they were cool, and the gang. I never hated them, but I never especially ever got excited by anything they did. Best track? Celebrate probably.

can't say as I do, sadly!

Tony Mansfield was behind the Captain Sensible track, and he was indeed the frontman/writer/producer of New Musik and their fabulous first album. Because it was catchy pop it's been forgotten these days, but it was a part of setting up the pure synth pop of the 80's along with other late 70's acts and Tony was always class. Hooray I dont have to check out what I charted for the early 80's, i should know them all well! Jon & Vangelis a chart-topper for me and a 10/10, love it, an unexpected collab from the Progrock Aphrodite's Child bloke and the Progrock Yes frontman, just lovely. New Musik, I love the entire album, but this was the single that broke them 8/10, but I had already bought the previous flop single Straight Lines which was even better. Azymuth was a good track, Brazilian jazzfunk not quite in the Ipanema league style and class but 7/10. Too Much Too Young was a relevant social comment that is still a relevant social comment, but it was also a fun live ska romp, 7/10. Joe Jackson was always classy, but It's Different For Girls was just a tad too slow for my tastes 7/10. My Girl was more like it, a third winning cheeky London lads single in a row and a 9/10, I reckon. Always rated Madness. Sara is a 10/10 gorgeous classic for me, Fleetwood and Stevie at their best - the way the melody keeps you waiting to break out into fabulousness hook-time keeps me yearning for the climax, it's basically a long tease which makes the ending all the better. Spirits Having Flown is another 10/10 for the Bee Gees, and better than 2 of the previous singles off the album, yet it underperformed. The Gibbs gift is for melody, and this one has another emotional, tasteful tune to die for, with added harmonies. Very under-rated. UFO never impressed me much - if it isn't already obvious, I go for melody over basic rhythm and attitude, and if I felt like a loud rock romp it would have been Rainbow, Quo or Motorhead around this time. 3/10. Positive Force was funk-disco by the numbers, not bad, but not outstanding, an average 5/10. Escape was an American holiday hit that finally made the UK charts, and I held affection for Rupert dating back to his USA national anthem rewrite into amusing social commentary in 1974 that I bought and no-one else did (Our National Pastime). In its own way this is also a social commentary, and the two made-up protagonists totally deserve each other. I rated it a 9 at the time, but not quite so much these days, 7/10, and ever-popular due to the mild humour people get from it - and the unlikely happy ending! The Regents came and went quickly, they were quite engaging on Top Of The Pops as part of the new vibe in the 1980 music scene, but 7 Teen was never really more than a 7/10, though it takes me back to the time - when I got hold of a cassette player while my reel-to-reel was out of action, and taped off the chart show onto cassette for the first time ever while I was in 3rd year uni digs at Lincoln, just cruelly demolished only last year!! They should have had a blue plaque on the wall for me, for services to personal charts, I was already 11 years into them in 1980! 😄 The Inmates I've largely forgotten, but that 50's retro vibe was all the rage in hometown Mansfield then. 4/10. Babe was one big ballad I went big on, it topped my charts for one week, and remained a fave for quite a while, but it doesn't quite have the same appeal these days. Styx had been big in America for half of the 70's but never troubled the charts here till this one. Mr Roboto is the interesting one though, come back in 3 years... 7/10. Dr Hook started the 70's as a quirky country Shel Silverstein song vehicle, quite charming and amusing, then they got more MOR as the 70's went on, still melodic and worthwhile, but it all got a bit production-line from here-on. 5/10 for Better Love Next Time, as Dennis Locorriere, lead singer, is always good, and has lived in the UK for years, touring around with new solo stuff and a selection of Dr. Hook stuff - the 80's hits get short-shrift and his banging newer stuff went down well enough without them.

crikey 39's coming thick and fast well done! 😍 Round 1: 39 Round 2: 39 3 in 10: Orange Crush, Losing My Religion, Everybody Hurts

1 NEW 1 1 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 170000 2 2 2 5 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 429750 3 1 1 5 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 465000 4 20 4 5 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 123900 5 3 3 7 VOICES - Damiano David 431400 6 4 4 9 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 322200 7 5 2 8 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 475500 8 8 2 11 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 534550 9 19 9 4 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 99300 10 7 1 14 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 910900 11 13 11 10 FEEL IT - d4vd 199350 12 6 1 9 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 650700 13 9 9 6 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 183500 14 11 11 8 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 219150 15 12 12 5 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 130500 16 16 16 9 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 152200 17 NEW 17 1 GOOD VIBRATIONS - The Beach Boys 23000 18 47 18 4 GLAD - Saint Etienne 52100 19 10 1 12 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 1032100 20 14 1 14 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 676500 21 23 21 4 OH OK - Sam Ryder 70750 22 26 22 7 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 122000 23 24 23 7 FIND XANADU - Alison Goldfrapp 107050 24 21 3 12 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 351800 25 18 16 8 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 148500 26 15 8 10 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 292500 27 36 27 6 MAN ON THE MOON - Fitz & The Tantrums 81100 28 25 25 7 I’M FREE (7TH HEAVEN RADIO EDIT) - Donna Summer 98150 29 31 29 8 PETITE ETOILE - Polo and Pan featuring Beth Ditto 106100 30 22 1 19 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1267900 31 37 31 5 ME & YOU - Ella Henderson 69250 32 NEW 32 1 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE - The Beach Boys 17800 33 28 6 14 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 375100 34 54 34 4 CHEMICAL REACTION - Debbii Dawson 46700 35 17 11 10 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 213200 36 27 9 10 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 248000 37 29 11 11 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 222700 38 33 33 10 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 139600 39 35 1 14 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 845700 40 30 14 14 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 247500

15th June 2025 It's a hectic chart after having to roll-over a previous chart, so there's 2 weeks-worth of entries starting with one of the greatest records ever made on top in tribute to the late, troubled, Brian Wilson. The term "genius" is flown around too often, sometimes, but for his work in the 1960's it's a fair assessment of Brian, just ask his contemporaries, not least Paul McCartney. I saw a great musician-analysis of God Only Knows, an intricate, melodic, complex work of art which owes as much to J.S. Bach as rock 'n' roll. It shouldn't work as a cohesive whole, and yet it does, and is one of the most-beautiful perfect love songs ever written. It's returns for a third run on top of my charts, for a 5th week in total. Elsewhere, the game-changing Good Vibrations first topped my chart in 1976, and also returns - for a fourth chart run. Wouldn't It Be Nice was the original US A side to God Only Knows - that frightened the record company too much to make an A side - whereas in the UK that was the B side and a belated chart hit in the late 80's, when that topped my chart. Two other Beach Boys classics have never charted before for me, so also entering are California Girls and I Get Around. That means for now Train and Gabry Ponte are held at 2, with Loaded Honey leaping up to 4 with Don't Speak. As good as Jungle, and the new album is just lovely, two tracks entering lower down, Tokyo Rain at 50 and the more sombre Over at 53. All the tracks have linked videos, which are fab. Agnes makes it 3 decades of top 10's in a row, Saint Etienne leap into the 20 for the first time in years, and Debbii Dawson is literally beside herself, the Dolly Parton-alike overtaking the Abba-alike. Versatile! Elliot James Reay is a new act on me, just caught 4 good videos and have charted the two most-recent, Daydreaming at 49, and Who Knew Dancing Was A Sin. Genre? Think Roy Orbison, Chris Isaak, only he's young and British and these aren't covers. Miley Cyrus is back with another good track, Easy Lover, despite not being flavor of the month for some bizarre reason, Sam Feldt follows-up his chart-topper with guest RuthAnne, Sabrina Carpenter is back with a lead on the next album, the good Manchild, Alex Warren makes it 2 on the chart, Alesha Dixon is back with her continuing jaunt into roots reggae/toasting and dat, and sounding great. Keeping the flag flying for the genre and I'm happy about that. I saw Sparks in concert last week - they were fabulous, and better than most bands 40 years younger, the new stuff as fresh as the cherry-picked old tracks, which means I can add an extra track in the amusing Running Up The Tab At The Hotel For The Fab, which sounded banging live. Singer Russell Mael is incredibly almost 77, and his songwriter brother Ron is stunningly 80 in August. You really wouldnt believe it, and the audience was a very mixed age range, 70's to 20's. Sly Stone sadly passed away 2 weeks ago, so the classic Sly & The family Stone track Family Affair is back for a third run 53 years on. I caught the band in the 2000's on a one-off UK date that turned out to be the most disastrous gig I ever went to: Sly was in a neck-brace; only did a few songs then disappeared; they didnt come on stage until gone 10.30pm; the microphones of the Family Stone didnt work so you couldnt hear anything; back-stage substances suspected; crowd was booing due to the microphones but the band had no clue about it; people queued to demand money back, though I found it all hilariously bad and didn't. I still love 'em, funk pioneers. David Byrne's been quiet chart-wise for about 20-odd years, since he topped my charts with Lazy, and now extends his chart career to 44 years with his catchy new one. Meanwhile Tom Grennan makes it 2 on the list, Bryan Adams adds to his recent run, and Elton joins Brandi to get his first new entry in a while, name-checking Little Richard - that means Elton has been charting for 54 years, and Brandi Carlyle hasn't. 1 NEW 1 1 GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys 170000 2 2 2 5 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 429750 3 1 1 5 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 465000 4 20 4 5 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 123900 5 3 3 7 VOICES - Damiano David 431400 6 4 4 9 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 322200 7 5 2 8 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 475500 8 8 2 11 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 534550 9 19 9 4 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 99300 10 7 1 14 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 910900 11 13 11 10 FEEL IT - d4vd 199350 12 6 1 9 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 650700 13 9 9 6 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 183500 14 11 11 8 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 219150 15 12 12 5 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 130500 16 16 16 9 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 152200 17 NEW 17 1 GOOD VIBRATIONS - The Beach Boys 23000 18 47 18 4 GLAD - Saint Etienne 52100 19 10 1 12 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 1032100 20 14 1 14 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 676500 21 23 21 4 OH OK - Sam Ryder 70750 22 26 22 7 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 122000 23 24 23 7 FIND XANADU - Alison Goldfrapp 107050 24 21 3 12 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 351800 25 18 16 8 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 148500 26 15 8 10 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 292500 27 36 27 6 MAN ON THE MOON - Fitz & The Tantrums 81100 28 25 25 7 I’M FREE (7TH HEAVEN RADIO EDIT) - Donna Summer 98150 29 31 29 8 PETITE ETOILE - Polo and Pan featuring Beth Ditto 106100 30 22 1 19 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1267900 31 37 31 5 ME & YOU - Ella Henderson 69250 32 NEW 32 1 WOULDN’T IT BE NICE - The Beach Boys 17800 33 28 6 14 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 375100 34 54 34 4 CHEMICAL REACTION - Debbii Dawson 46700 35 17 11 10 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 213200 36 27 9 10 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 248000 37 29 11 11 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 222700 38 33 33 10 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 139600 39 35 1 14 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 845700 40 30 14 14 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 247500 41 32 24 13 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 196150 42 38 5 15 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 363550 43 39 1 31 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1654450 44 42 1 24 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1262900 45 NEW 45 1 CALIFORNIA GIRLS - The Beach Boys 13000 46 58 46 5 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 45850 47 34 34 8 MIND OF A WARRIOR - Alan Walker & Sorana 96350 48 48 48 4 LOVER - Richard Ashcroft featuring Joan Armatrading 43400 49 NEW 49 1 DAYDREAMING - Elliot James Reay 12100 50 NEW 50 1 TOKYO RAIN - Loaded Honey 12000 51 51 51 5 ABSURDA - Javiera Mena 52050 52 NEW 52 1 EASY LOVER - Miley Cyrus 11500 53 NEW 53 1 OVER - Loaded Honey 11250 54 53 53 7 TEARS DRY TONIGHT - CYRIL & James Blunt 66500 55 52 52 6 TASTE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 56400 56 NEW 56 1 RUNAWAY TRAIN - Sam Feldt featuring RuthAnne 10600 57 41 7 15 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 302650 58 65 58 4 ROCKET - Robbie Williams featuring Tony Iommi 30000 59 50 50 9 GUNSLINGER - Natalie Bergman 83100 60 40 26 12 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 176900 61 45 2 20 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 772600 62 66 62 4 PINBALL - Paul Weller 25800 63 44 7 15 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 284500 64 57 57 7 BARBARIAN - AWOLNATION 54400 65 70 65 5 SPORTS CAR - Tate McRae 27600 66 NEW 66 1 MANCHILD - Sabrina Carpenter 6800 67 59 7 19 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 397700 68 69 68 4 GOT TO HAVE LOVE - Pulp 23000 69 67 67 7 I DON’T WANNA TALK - Dadi Freyr 39600 70 NEW 70 1 BLOODLINE - Alex Warren featuring Jelly Roll 6000 71 43 33 11 BOYS DON’T CRY - Tom Grennan 137200 72 77 72 3 ZOMBIE LADY - Damiano David featuring Dove Cameron 14800 73 76 73 3 LET’S RIDE AWAY - Avicii featuring Elle King 15000 74 NEW 74 1 FAMILY AFFAIR - Sly & The Family Stone 5200 75 71 71 7 DROWNED IN A SEA OF TEARS - Sparks 36000 76 NEW 76 1 RUNNING UP A TAB AT THE HOTEL FOR THE FAB - Sparks 4800 77 74 74 4 IN DAYLIGHT - Sparks 19600 78 NEW 78 1 CHARGIE - Alesha Dixon featuring Tom Moutchie 4400 79 55 51 10 THE MESSAGE - Turin Brakes 91850 80 56 56 8 RAIN IN THE RIVER - Bruce Springsteen 52100 81 NEW 81 1 WHO KNEW DANCING WAS A SIN - Elliot James Reay 3800 82 63 60 9 DREAM MACHINE - Purple Disco Machine & Alison Goldfrapp 61400 83 72 72 6 BORDERLINE - Louise 28200 84 75 75 4 CATCHING FEELINGS - Cerrone x Christine And The Queens 17200 85 NEW 85 1 I GET AROUND - The Beach Boys 3000 86 NEW 86 1 EVERYBODY LAUGHS - David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra 2800 87 78 78 3 LORD HAVE MERCY - Sparks 11400 88 NEW 88 1 FULL ATTENTION - Tom Grennan 2400 89 NEW 89 1 NEVER EVER LET YOU GO - Bryan Adams 2200 90 NEW 90 1 LITTLE RICHARD’S BIBLE - Elton John & Brandi Carlyle 2000 DROP OUTS 46 3 15 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 562450 49 5 16 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 437550 60 20 15 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 215750 61 26 11 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 145300 62 36 9 LOVE ME TO HEAVEN - Jonas Brothers 99250 64 64 7 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Cascada 44000 68 38 14 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 162050 73 53 8 BLINK TWICE - Shaboozey & Myles Smith 69250 79 79 2 CASANOVA - Nemo 8400 80 80 2 PRETTY LITTLE BABY - Connie Francis 8000 .....and for completeness here's the rolled-over chart for 8th June 2025, I was nowhere near a laptop for a week so it was never gonna get done! 1 1 1 4 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 380000 2 2 2 4 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 314750 3 3 3 6 VOICES - Damiano David 371400 4 4 4 8 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 267200 5 5 2 7 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 425500 6 6 1 8 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 615700 7 7 1 13 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 868900 8 8 2 10 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 486550 9 9 9 5 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 151500 10 10 1 11 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 1011100 11 11 11 7 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 190150 12 12 12 4 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 103500 13 13 13 9 FEEL IT - d4vd 162350 14 14 1 13 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 656500 15 15 8 9 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 274000 16 16 16 8 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 127200 17 17 11 9 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 195700 18 18 16 7 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 129750 19 19 19 3 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 54300 20 20 20 4 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 58900 21 21 3 11 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 332800 22 22 1 18 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1249900 23 23 23 3 OH OK - Sam Ryder 51000 24 24 24 6 FIND XANADU - Alison Goldfrapp 87800 25 25 25 6 I’M FREE (7TH HEAVEN RADIO EDIT) - Donna Summer 79850 26 26 26 6 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 102500 27 27 9 9 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 230600 28 28 6 13 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 357400 29 29 11 10 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 205400 30 30 14 13 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 230500 31 31 31 7 PETITE ETOILE - Polo and Pan featuring Beth Ditto 87900 32 32 24 12 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 182150 33 33 33 9 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 122400 34 34 34 7 MIND OF A WARRIOR - Alan Walker & Sorana 83850 35 35 1 13 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 828600 36 36 36 5 MAN ON THE MOON - Fitz & The Tantrums 62700 37 37 37 4 ME & YOU - Ella Henderson 51350 38 38 5 14 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 349800 39 39 1 30 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1640950 40 40 26 11 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 166900 41 41 7 14 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE - David Guetta & Sia 292250 42 42 1 23 THE PROUD ONE - The Osmonds 1249650 43 43 33 10 BOYS DON’T CRY - Tom Grennan 131400 44 44 7 14 SORROW REPLACED - Kim Wilde featuring Midge Ure 277300 45 45 2 19 CONTROL OF ME - Topic x Daecolm 765100 46 46 3 15 KEEP THE FAITH - Armin van Buuren & Bon Jovi 562450 47 47 47 3 GLAD - Saint Etienne 30100 48 48 48 3 LOVER - Richard Ashcroft featuring Joan Armatrading 31100 49 49 5 16 REVOLUTION - Mans Zelmerlow 437550 50 50 50 8 GUNSLINGER - Natalie Bergman 73000 51 51 51 4 ABSURDA - Javiera Mena 40300 52 52 52 5 TASTE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 45600 53 53 53 6 TEARS DRY TONIGHT - CYRIL & James Blunt 55500 54 54 54 3 CHEMICAL REACTION - Debbii Dawson 29100 55 55 51 9 THE MESSAGE - Turin Brakes 87650 56 56 56 7 RAIN IN THE RIVER - Bruce Springsteen 48100 57 57 57 6 BARBARIAN - AWOLNATION 47300 58 58 58 4 I SAW THE MOUNTAINS - Noah Cyrus 33200 59 59 7 18 ANDY (A GUY LIKE YOU) - The Waterboys 391100 60 60 20 15 MARIAH CAREY THROUGH DEATH VALLEY - Blossoms 215750 61 61 26 11 SOAK UP THE SUN (SURF MESA REMIX) - Sheryl Crow 145300 62 62 36 9 LOVE ME TO HEAVEN - Jonas Brothers 99250 63 63 60 8 DREAM MACHINE - Purple Disco Machine & Alison Goldfrapp 57800 64 64 64 7 IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND - Cascada 44000 65 65 65 3 ROCKET - Robbie Williams featuring Tony Iommi 19800 66 66 66 3 PINBALL - Paul Weller 18400 67 67 67 6 I DON’T WANNA TALK - Dadi Freyr 33400 68 68 38 14 CAFE DEL MAR - Pete Tong & Jules Buckley & The Essential Orchestra 162050 69 69 69 3 GOT TO HAVE LOVE - Pulp 16600 70 70 70 4 SPORTS CAR - Tate McRae 20600 71 71 71 6 DROWNED IN A SEA OF TEARS - Sparks 31000 72 72 72 5 BORDERLINE - Louise 24800 73 73 53 8 BLINK TWICE - Shaboozey & Myles Smith 69250 74 74 74 3 IN DAYLIGHT - Sparks 15000 75 75 75 3 CATCHING FEELINGS - Cerrone x Christine And The Queens 14000 76 76 76 2 LET’S RIDE AWAY - Avicii featuring Elle King 9600 77 77 77 2 ZOMBIE LADY - Damiano David 9200 78 78 78 2 LORD HAVE MERCY - Sparks 8800 79 79 79 2 CASANOVA - Nemo 8400 80 80 80 2 PRETTY LITTLE BABY - Connie Francis 8000

Hey James! 😎 Tom Grennan new at 4, yay 🥰 lots of good tracks here, Sabrina, Chappell, Sophie, Benson, Ariana, Alex Warren, Gaga, and PDM - it looks like you are catching up on a lot of recent stuff in your chart! Good choices!! good chart! 😎

Hey James! 😎 Hope all is fab with you! People don't like Boys Don't Cry?? How odd! It's quite a helpful message for boys n men who hold back emotion, I reckon! Fair enough to be upset if you been lied to, I say, and better than getting angry! Glad you like the track 😎

Hi AH! Sorry I missed a chart, I'm rolling over my last one (and maybe my next one if I dont get it done by Saturday), but hope you are nice n relaxed now after the social week off! I not only met lots of friends and concerts in London, I also met 2 new Eurovision friends of a friend and may well end up contributing to the Euro UK fan mag OGAE. I can always be relied on to have an opinion on music 😄 Great chart as always, quite a few I need to catch up on as they sound right up my street! Fab!!😎

Hi AH! 😎 Back at home and catching up thanks, overdoing it socially backfires in the end if you need quiet times in between, burn-out is a thing so I'm going to spread them out a bit in future! Sympathies with the exhaustion it does catch up with you, even though its lovely seeing folk! Hope you are more relaxed now 😎 Thanks as always for the in-depth picks and comments! Yes, Debbii just missed the top 10 but her new one, which is very Dolly Parton, may even do better! Saint Etienne's is fab, but I'm having to expand my chart again there's too many good new tracks, doh! So everything is lower than it should be! 😄Glad you got to see Sparks Brothers, it's a good career-overview for a still-relevant influential act, and I'm still amazed how lively they are in concert in their 70's! And it's new stuff with a selection of old tracks! There really aren't many veteran acts of their age that can say that - maybe Springsteen 😮 Cheers as always! 😎

Hey Sven! 😎 Sorry for the delays replying and late charts, catching up now! Azizam having quite the run on top! Great to see Ordinary doing so well still too. Miley holding at 3 and top 10 climbs for Benson Boone, Tommy Cash and Ravyn Lenae. Undressed, Baller, Bloodline, and other Eurovision stuff in the 40. In the Breakers, Loaded Honey, Eurovision tracks, Voices, Manchild and Mutt are my picks, while in the oldies section: New Order, The Police, Baby Jane, Eurythmics, Bowie, Jackson, Tracey Ullman, Robin Gibb (not a UK hit!), Hot Chocolate, Pigbag, Agnetha and Leo Sayer's best ballad are all faves. Fab charts!! 😎

Hey Sven! 😎 Thanks for the wishes its been a bit manic but back home now to catch up 🙂Thanks for the picks and comments! cheers! 😎

Hello Jordan! 🙂 Sorry I'm late replying to this (its almost July!) been away doing concerts in London last 2 weeks and fanzines and stuff! Well done on all the multi-chart action posting though! There's quite a few in your chart I havent heard, but Sombr doing well I see, I quite like them but havent gone full-on yet. Nice to see Ordinary top 10, it seems to have underperformed on BJ in contrast with the rest of the Western World (and me)😄 great chart! 😎

Thanks both and hooray, 39's all round! 😍loving that Jade got the 60's Manfred's and Rollo & me went mostly 70's😄 round 1: 39 round 2: 39 3 in 10: Bat Out Of Hell, I'd Do Anything For Love and by the time I'd finished that full title I ran out of time 😄should have gone for shorter ones...

Hello Jordan! Sorry for the delay replying, been in London the last week without a laptop - that'll teach me to not travel by train! 😄 It is indeed THE Train of Drops Of Jupiter Florida holiday for me fame, from way back when. Azizam is catchy, but was slow off the mark for me, indeed! Ed usually is 😄 cheers! 😎

Hi SSP! 😎 Back from a week in London laptop-free, so some catching up to do here! Stereophonics doing well! They havent topped my chart since Dakota! 😎Zombie Lady top 10, Damiano top 10 for both of us with different tracks. Undressed and Barbarian top 20, Lover & There She Goes top 40, Mystical Magical up and Manchild new in, Brokenhearted and Taste sneaking up, and Busy Woman climbing are my top faves climbing. Mercy also topped my charts back in the day, great charts! 😎