Popchartfreak

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.

Interesting to see your order! 👍

Tears For Fears loved em then love em now still great. Rule The World may be my top track of the decade and saw roland TFF in the 90s and reformed TFF recently. Pity they fall short of the 40. Elton 40 sounds about right given sacrifice sold in 90 not 89 but that and healing hands snd im still standing all topped my charts in the 80s. Saw Elt at Wembley when his albums were "going cardboard" in sales as he quipped circa 1988. And just before his voice went. Prince should be higher in terms of influence but he was never a mass sales icon bar the Purple Rain soundtrack which is classic. Saw him twice at Wembley Arena and when Doves Cry Sign O The Times i wish U Heaven all top motch classics among many many greats.

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The only one of these i knew at the time was gene pitneys and thats the best track here though i knew the partridge family hit better. the supremes is a drop in standard but i still like it and first heard it in 1970 on a hits album. The other 4 are all new and not that fussed about any of them. Connie Francis can claim Pretty Little Baby as a sales hit in 2025 happily with her around to appreciate it. Stingray the TV theme is ten times more exciting than The Shads song. In fact one of the most exciting tv themes of all time up there with Doctor Who Thunderbirds Hawaii 5-0 in the 60s.

Yes 21st century really and so far i agree with the reviews and scores. I might be a bit more generous with a couple of 4s but thats about it!

Thanks for mondays congrats both. Catching up on tues wed and me not quite so consistent 😯 the frank Sinatra 3 coins in the fountain answer was inspirational. 36 alsonearly there again! Tues round 1 27 missed will young title year and cardigans title oops Round 2 39 3 in 10 same 3 as Jade. Wed Round 1 36 Beautiful liar not lies! Round 2 39 3 in 10: mystify need u tonight suicide blonde

Will catch up soon with tues wed as im in London again for Sparks concert. They were great but i caught today's on catchup di im jot peaking st them just yet A very quick double 39 and a 3 in 10 repeating my Odyssey faves from the 1980 100 biggest acts thread 👍

Abba justifiably top 50, and on a par with Whitney is pretty impressive considering they had just 8 singles and that was that - including one 70's track. They are clearly a timeless all-time great and exactly how I rated them at the time. I was at ABBA Voyage for the 3rd time a week ago, with added 3 hits nowadays. 3 years and still running with packed houses. As I never caught them at the time (they rarely toured) it's about as good as one can make it for a "live" experience. Speaking of Whitney, she had the vocal range but rarely used it any significant emotional effect until the late 90's. Saving All My Love was her best 80's record by a long shot. Simple Minds did well here, and were consistently good, I loved all the phases, including stadium rock, and they are still good and great in concert. Jason Donovan's slot is predictable but flattering. When You Come Back is his best track, but he had a couple of other decent singles. I saw him in Priscilla, clearly flagging after a long West End run. We had taken a bargain-priced royal box, cheap as chips on the day. As it turned out because you get the piss taken out of you... I reviewed Bad manners for Record Mirror in 1981 - they were great fun in concert, as long as you avoid the pints of beer flinging about. Just A Feeling is their best track but how can anyone not love Ne Ne Na Na Nu Nu!! A-ha were fab, Sun Always Shines is a total classic, and they deserve to be in the top half, caught them twice in concert, fab. Rod Stewart Ive never seen live, but I saw the godawful Tonight's The Night musical. Rod is great when he writes his own songs, and very dull when he doesn't. Baby Jane is easily his best track of the 80's. Saw Billy Joel last year at cardiff, his classically-influenced back catalogue is impressive and varied, but he'd be much lower without Uptown Girl. We Didnt Start The Fire is my top 80's Billy tune.

ooh just one question away both rounds there Jade, so close, both of us missed out on Thin Lizzy, but Roxette 3 in 10 beats mine 😎 round 1: 39 - though the clue from Ken got me Fine Young Cannibals round 2: 39 3 in 10: My Way, Strangers In The Night, I Will Drink The Wine

round 1: 39 round 2: 36 (thin Lizzy, opted for Rosalie oops) 3 in 10: It Must Have Been Love, Joyride, Queen Of (The) Rain so technically just 2 as the "the" was superfluous, doh! 😄

U2 outside the top 50 is a surprise, even given their fan base appeal and a low-selling Desire chart-topper. At least 4 of those singles sales were due to me starting with Fire. The Specials were great, but the fans swapped to Fun Boy Three by and large (as I did), and another 5 sales from me. Shalamar were big for a while in the UK, not so much in the USA, along with anything remotely sounding like disco - even though it wasnt really disco, but I still wouldnt have put them ahead of U2! Erasure is also lower than I'd have guessed, Sometimes was my first chart-topper from Vince n andy. Rick Astley was always going to do well with a big-seller debut, but Howard Jones is also a bit higher than I'd expected, and I also bought a handful of his singles - best one is Hide & Seek, though What Is Love is up there too.

catching up again, out in the thunderstorms yesterday. round 1: 39 nearly didnt get Spandau too, but Tony was on yesterday's so it had to be Hadley! round 2: 30 (freddie mercury, 1 year out and i knew it was 1 year out after id plumped for 2005 😄) 3 in 10: if you let me stay, wishing well, delicate

Odyssey were always bigger than they seemed to be, but only in the UK, not so much in the USA - their best tracks def Native New Yorker and Going Back To My Roots. Billy Ocean's heyday is the 70's for me, big fan of his obscure On The Run from 1974 under the name Scorched Earth (note later version under his own name not nearly as classic), and his 2 still-popular Red Light and Love Really Hurts, but Caribbean Queen and Loverboy are very good too. Sheena Easton should really be over 2 million with her uncredited Prince hit, and her 101 song gifted by the man was criminally ignored. That's her best record bar none, but U Got The Look is up there, and I also rate Machinery and Sugar Walls, which was not really broadcast-able on the BBC. Thompson Twins had a run of good hits, so not surprising they feature around about here, but they mostly have been forgotten these days, even their best record You Take Me Up. Five Star ditto, and Rain Or Shine. Imagination were hot for 2 or 3 years, and of course I always mention I got a hug from Leee in a club when I gushed about my fave Imagination records, Just An Illusion, Body talk, Flashback. My mate who didnt feel like going out that night remains a huge Imagination fan, so I like to remind him of it as often as possible, as Leee turned up randomly as a holiday punter, not as an advertised PR thing. He was also in Doctor Who, true fact, though they had to tone down the sci fi costumes from his stage show 😄

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