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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! 😎

Hi SSP, thanks for the picks, and sorry fo the delay, catching up now! cheers! 😎

Hi Seltin, sorry I missed a week - been away in London without a laptop! Voted, and faves in the chart aplenty - pretty good top 6 in fact! Great high entry from Sabrina, and a whole year on the chart from Birds Of A Feather, and what a classic it is too, one of the great records of 2024 ❤️ fab charts!😎

Hey Seltin! Thanks for the picks and comments, sorry Ive been away and missed a vote I think! Poor Benson missing out on the number one spot. I blame being so late with my charts! 😄

Hi Sergej! 😎 Sorry for the delay in replying and new charts, back home now and catching up! Catchy chart-topper still, and a good high new entry for Suzanne - it's growing on me now that one. Manchild, Zombie Lady and Bloodline all great new top 10 choices too. Sapphire high nw entry last week, Easy Lover and Neverender doing well, and good to see Damiano David topping your album chart, I make it 4 great tracks that I've bought so far, and not heard any of the others. great charts! 😎

Hi Sergej! 😎 Thanks for the picks and comments, sorry for the late reply, back home with my laptop now! cheers!

round 1: 39 got the forgettable Eternal song which I've failed to forget eek! round 2: 36 Suede, eek! 3 in 10: joybringer, davy's on the road again, blinded by the light

Still away from my laptop so a frozen chart sorry! 1 17 1 3 RUN WITH U - Mamagama 210000 2 4 2 3 BROKENHEARTED - Gabry Ponte & Train 199750 3 3 3 5 VOICES - Damiano David 286400 4 5 4 7 BLUEBIRD - Lana Del Ray 202200 5 2 2 6 MYSTICAL MAGICAL - Benson Boone 365500 6 1 1 7 I GUESS U NEVER REALLY CARED ABOUT ME - Artemas 560700 7 7 1 12 SUNSET BLVD - Selena Gomez & Benny Blanco 818900 8 6 2 9 END OF THE WORLD - Miley Cyrus 438550 9 12 9 4 TIME WAITED - My Morning Jacket 106500 10 9 1 10 SHINE - Mondo Cozmo 969100 11 13 11 6 HEART BY HEART - Joe Jonas 153150 12 18 12 3 VOYAGE - Zoe Me 68500 13 19 13 8 FEEL IT - d4vd 130350 14 10 1 12 HOW BAD DO U WANT ME - Lady Gaga 627500 15 8 8 8 APOCALYPSE - Pete Tong, MoBlack & Max Zotti featuring Monolink 247000 16 24 16 7 MARRIAGE - Nelly Furtado 102200 17 11 11 8 YOU KILLED THE MUSIC - Debbii Dawson 172700 18 16 16 6 NEXT SUMMER - Damiano David 107750 19 48 19 2 BALENCIAGA COVERED EYES - Agnes 33300 20 49 20 3 DON’T SPEAK - Loaded Honey 38900 21 14 3 10 RAGDOLL - The Lottery Winners featuring Chad Kroeger 313050 22 22 1 17 ORDINARY - Alex Warren 1230400 23 47 23 2 OH OK - Sam Ryder 31750 24 26 24 5 FIND XANADU - Alison Goldfrapp 68800 25 25 25 5 I’M FREE (7TH HEAVEN RADIO EDIT) - Donna Summer 61100 26 29 26 5 ANGELA - Benjamin Ingrosso 84000 27 15 9 8 SPIKE ISLAND - Pulp 212200 28 23 6 12 SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN - Avalan Rokston 339100 29 20 11 9 ALL I KNOW - Rudimental x Khalid 187200 30 21 14 12 IT’S NOT RIGHT BUT IT’S OK - Felix Jaehn & Whitney Houston 212500 31 39 31 6 PETITE ETOILE - Polo and Pan featuring Beth Ditto 70000 32 27 24 11 SORRY I’M HERE FOR SOMEONE ELSE - Benson Boone 164350 33 38 33 8 AZIZAM - Ed Sheeran 104700 34 44 34 6 MIND OF A WARRIOR - Alan Walker & Sorana 66250 35 30 1 12 LIFE IN A NORTHERN TOWN - Justin Hayward & Mike Batt 811100 36 50 36 4 MAN ON THE MOON - Fitz & The Tantrums 45300 37 46 37 3 ME & YOU - Ella Henderson 34050 38 31 5 13 LOVE IS LOVE - Kim Wilde 332600 39 36 1 29 LATE NIGHT PHONE CALL - Reverend And The Makers 1623850 40 34 26 10 RELENTLESS LOVE - Sophie Ellis-Bextor 149900

Sounds very educational! I had to google it! It was quite a mixed age audience which for a band their age is pretty impressive! Im guessing the Sparks Brothers Edgar Wright doc has pushed awareness of their impressive back catalogue and history. Russell can still perform and some of the new stuff sounds as good as the classics. Rifftastic and quirky as ever! I would say "go!" To Wolverhampton if the journey there isnt an issue from the South Coast but get a seat not standing! You will def enjoy it 👍

If it helps to get over missing Sparks Hammersmith was well into the 30s Centigrade. I walked from Putney started suffering then enjoyed standing for 90 minutes with no support act before another 90 mins standing by which time i needed water and a sit down to soothe every aching muscle and bone in my body. The 2 70-somethings on stage did way better than me!

As always never organised enough to get this in in time but i came 2971st in the ITV7 today😄

Band Aid obv flattered By virtue of huge charity sales including me. John lennon ditto as i went into a state of shock and mourning at news that seemed to throw us into an alternate universe where a Beatle could be murdered. That was the point the miserable 80s started for me. Musically fabulous but the decade was socially and politically falling apart. Ultravox i saw in 1981 and again in the 2000s. Midge was musically behind Visage Fade To Grey Yellow Pearl solo number one and Band Aid so one might argue he should be way higher. The George Martin era is my fave maybe esp Reap The Wild Wind but Vienna and If I Was are classics as is Fade To Grey. Dexys were passionate and had 2 classic chart toppers. I never caught them in concert but when Dexys Mark 1 split off to form The Bureau i caught them supporting Pretenders in 1981 Mansfield. Mansfield now has more potholes than Lennon sang about in A Day In The Life. Soft Cell had a fabulous run of singles and would be higher if Marc's solo career was included. OMD i loved too right from buying Messages onwards. Still love them and entered a contemporary dnq into bjsc way back. One they wrote for Britney who couldnt recognise a good record when she heard one - if she actually did. OMD i saw in the 90s and 2010s. Fabulous. Still have personal chart toppers in the 21st century.