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No problem, I’m amazed you’re able to keep track of all these stats in the first place! As you say it’s a great song and at least it’s meant I’ve been listening to it, and the Beastie Boys in general again, after not hearing it/them for a while. Really enjoying the results so far though, thanks for your great work!

So hard to choose, so I went for my favourite song for each artist to be able to fit more in. Also it’s great to be able to put in a Beach Boys song in tribute to the genius of Brian Wilson. +30 Let It Happen - Tame Impala +29 Something Good Can Work - Two Door Cinema Club +28 I Follow Rivers - Lykke Li +27 Fade Into You - Mazzy Star +26 Where Is My Mind? - Pixies +25 Come And Get Your Love - Redbone +24 Mardy Bum - Arctic Monkeys +23 The Sound Of Silence - Simon And Garfunkel +22 King Kunta - Kendrick Lamar +21 Sabotage - Beastie Boys +20 Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses +19 Figure It Out - Royal Blood +18 Intro - The xx +17 Straight Outta Compton - N.W.A +16 Ride - Twenty One Pilots +15 In My Life - The Beatles +14 Acquiesce - Oasis +13 For What It’s Worth - Buffalo Springfield +12 One Way Or Another - Blondie +11 Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman +10 Changes - David Bowie +9 A-Punk - Vampire Weekend +8 To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra +7 What’s The Difference - Dr Dre Eminem Xzibit +6 Psycho Killer - Talking Heads +5 Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones +4 Wouldn’t It Be Nice - The Beach Boys +3 Pink And White - Frank Ocean +2 Space Song - Beach House +1 Perfect Day - Lou Reed

What a great idea for a rate! Just got back from my hols so will sort out my votes ASAP.

New Pulp is fantastic! 2 from 2 so far. Great to have them back.

Best single released this week, the fantastic Georgie & Joe, getting better with every single!

Two songs that made my SOY lists back in the day Soldier Girl - Polyphonic Spree - the original single version (the best version) I’m Leaving - Lodger

New Lorde! Sounds pretty good on first listen, any chance of chart success do you think?

That’s brilliant , thanks very much for your help! Yes you’re right, I forgot to remove pre 2024 sales from the totals. A top 40 looks much better as it takes in more recent releases ……but Mr Brightside has snuck in too I notice 🤣

Thanks for the positive feedback! Yes, I would love to do it regularly. When I looked at a rolling chart more frequently I realised that movement in rankings was almost glacial (like the end of year chart is by December) so felt that quarterly was the most useful, I don’t know if you’d agree? I agree ‘Espresso’ was the most interesting example, in fact the reason I did the chart in the first place! The 2 million sales in 12 months is impressive too! Thank you! Yes help would be very welcome especially with some of the week to week sales as songs fall down the charts )eg my error with ‘Fortnight’ as below) or maybe in expanding to a top 40 Ah, that’s the one I was most unsure about. So what would you estimate sales up to week 13 to be? Would maybe put it at 19th or 20th. I can edit the list with your help if so?

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in looking at this (or maybe it’s just me)? In the streaming era the EOY chart has appeared heavily biased towards songs released/peaking in the first half of the year, especially Q1. In the physical eras the Q4 sales tended to be so much higher that it often compensated for the lack of weeks in the chart so that even a December release could place high at EOY. So I’ve been trying to estimate a ‘rolling’ 12 month best sellers chart to reduce some of the bias and highlight some bestsellers that would not reach the very top of any EOY chart. I apologise for errors but from my (very) rough estimates, with the help of some of the brilliant data from this thread (so thanks to Julian and many others) I think the top 20 chart for the 12 months from the beginning of Q2 2024 to the end of Q1 2025 would look something like this:- 1 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso 2.064m 2 Hozier - Too Sweet 1.711m 3 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things 1.697m 4 Shahboozy - A Bar Song (Tipsy) 1.586m 5 Billie Eilish - Birds Of A Feather 1.574m 6 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe 1.554m 7 Lose Control - Teddy Swims 1.532m 8 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please 1.389m 9 Noah Kahan - Stick Season 1.366m 10 Dasha - Austin 1.314m 11 Myles Smith - Stargazing 1.257m 12 Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars - Die With A Smile 1.100m 13 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste 1.100m 14 Post Malone Ft Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help 1.089m 15 Gracie Abrams - That’s So True 0.950m 16 Gigi Perez - Sailor Song 0.940m 17 Teddy Swims - The Door 0.940m 18 Rose and Bruno Mars - APT 0.920m 19 Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us 0.910m 20 Taylor Swift Ft Post Malone - Fortnight 0.890m It isn’t massively different from the EOY 2024 but positions of the top songs have shuffled, and differences will develop more as we work through Q2 and Q3. Any comments, corrections (especially with sales accuracy) and criticisms welcome (even if it’s just to say you think it’s a waste of time), and if anyone has already done something like this I apologise!

Great idea for a poll! Picked my favourites: White Stripes, Pink Pantheress (JFM), Vines, Lil Nas X,, SFA’s., Liam Lynch, Rakes and obviously ‘Poland’! I know you’re highlighting charting songs from the 21st century but it got me thinking of some of my other favourites, from the 20th century and also non charting/album tracks. I think my absolute favourite short song would be The Smiths Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want but there are many other really great ones. Has anyone got other favourites, I can see a playlist developing and would love your recommendations?

A worthy winner! I find it interesting that the top 2 are a grunge anthem (maybe the ultimate grunge anthem) plus a fledgling Radiohead that were making their attempt at a ‘grungy’ song. They would go on to make, in my opinion, many other wonderful and better songs but I still love Creep, enough to give it 48 points! But Smells Like Teen Spirit is one of the greatest rock songs (if not one of the greatest songs in general) ever. My 50 pointer, so couldn’t be happier! Thank you so much Rollo for your fantastic work! This was my first ‘official’ rate as a Buzzjack member and I really enjoyed all the listening, ranking, voting, following results and most of all the commenting. Hopefully my first of many!🙏

Well the first act to make their chart debut at No. 1 was Whigfield in 1994 (if you discount the first ever one and Billy Preston with the Beatles) so it was very rare and took over 40 years of initial chart history for it to happen. Soon after it became quite common, as previously mentioned, and now rare again. I think that like most of chart history, and history in general, it goes in cycles so will probably happen again eventually. Just that it might take a very long time and maybe another change in our music consumption methods in the future for it to happen!

All my top 3 favourites are in the last 5 with 1st and 3rd to come. Wasn’t expecting that so I’m pleasantly surprised! I love both ABBA and Pulp and those two songs are among my favourites of theirs.

Thanks for the ‘hugs’, I wasn’t expecting that. To be honest I was a bit taken aback/emotional, in a good way. You have a lovely community and as a relative newbie I am glad to be a small part of it!❤️

Everybody Hurts is one of my favourite songs by probably my favourite band ever. It’s also massively important to my wife and I. It was there for us during our baby son’s long illness and, after it helped us grieve his loss, it always obvious we would choose it to be played at his funeral. A bittersweet beautiful uplifting comforting masterpiece. But I’m afraid I find it difficult to listen to these days

Enjoying End Of The World the most of the new Miley songs. Co-written by some of Alvvays, one of my favourite current ‘indie’ bands

Of course, sorry!

Loved the White Stripes but I think Seven Nation Army maybe suffers a bit from overexposure. Coincidentally they did an excellent cover version of one of our 6 remaining songs (I won’t say which one) on one of their early B sides and also a great live version, both of which are worth checking out.

Out of interest, do you know the average age of the forum? Most people seem fond of songs of their teens and twenties, so I’m guessing born in 70s to 80s maybe?

That’s a really great poll! Common People was my number 1 choice of that year at the time, and very near the top for the whole 90s. I’ve been reading about all the 30th anniversary stuff this week, special memories for me as I saw Oasis live at Sheffield Arena on 22nd April 95, the week of the release of their 1st number one single ‘Some Might Say’ my favourite of theirs, so there was an air of celebration about the concert. We were lucky as they also played Don’t Look Back In Anger live for the very first time and Pulp played Common People for one of the first times ever (prior to release later that year), it was wonderful even then. They actually stood in for the Verve, as support, at the last minute, a decision I was very happy with having been a Pulp fan for ages before they became famous. I think this concert was their real springboard at the time.

Basket Case is a great song, probably my favourite Green Day song along with ‘American Idiot’. Wow, there’s a been a few candidates for that title in the last few months! Just noticed there is a definite leaning towards the 90s in the final songs here. Half of the top ten seems quite a significant number. Were there any dominant decades in the other rates, for numbers 1 to 6?

If I’ve worked it out correctly there are 8 of my original nominated 30 from round one still around in the last 11, I’m happy with that.

Thank you! That’s fantastic, I couldn’t really argue with those results

My favourite album this week is the fantastic Patience Moonbeam by Great Grandpa.