Stephen Emmett

More accurately, streaming and of course, the Radio 1 playlist relies partially on the slightly recent.

We're about to enter the 40 biggest selling singles of the year for sure...

Dot, I see dead people. (We're into Not Like Us)

I'll be preparing to use my cassette tape for the really big higher ends of the year end chart, as the CDs are used for the bottom end (the tunes I don't even care about)...

Sounds more like it would be the theme tune to a sitcom about a couple who run a diner and people would be coming in to help.. "Help Wanted" would be the name of the sitcom.

Uh oh... A friend of someone on Buzzjack contributed the terrible voice note that Jack would play with this on the chart show a lot. Do listen to the Moonstone version of it, it's leagues better.

Mitch Benn needs to get brought up here for number 54: "And now the chorus gets all massive, what a big surprise.."

Is it me that alongside what you'd expect to be censored from it, Radio 1 often censors "kill" from "you sent someone to kill me" in this, even if it's metaphorical?

But the chart run that Sapphire was usually odd numbers - 9-5-7-11-9-7 etc.

But in the case of this, remember when they mispronounced it often as "Bad Chem"? 🤨

Blame the biggest rule of Matthew Bannister's change for that: no music recorded and released before 1990 allowed!

Probably due to the fact that their playlists are focused more on younger acts...

Top 60 of the year now, and hopefully a brief pit stop to announce the last weekly chart of 2025..

Now in come the 1tros if necessary...

Shame she's a one hit wonder tragically as far as the charts go... She had huge success on country radio and social media as well as festivals..

The transition music in Todd in the Shadows' 10 Worst Hit Songs of 2025 video...

1 hour 20 mins down, 2 hrs 40 mins left to go...

"One of the best basslines of 2025"? Yeah, I guess so.. but the xylophone/marimba is too much a bit of a sound alike Hard Times..

Of course Skye's being heavily hyped a lot...

At least it allowed me to change from one CD to another disc....

Somebody That I Used to Know guilt tripping in effect...

Am I having a guilt trip in hearing the more superior 2002 hit from The Calling, "Wherever You Will Go" over this?

Ughh, flashbacks to 2019... I'm reminded of being a 18 going on 19 year old student in secondary school (mostly 18 for the majority of the year)...

Nokia though... Seriously, the beat slaps but the flow and raps are utterly crap..

I'm preparing at anytime to change the discs during the 3pm hour..