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Haha Christ, just read the list of the year end chart. Glad I didn’t waste hours of my life listening to that. So many ancient things. I wonder why they even bothered broadcasting that? Easy schedule filling I suppose but not worth anyone’s time really. Does anyone have a top 100 of songs that were actually released this year?

I’m not sure as Spotify and Apple probably won’t playlist it as it has been an Amazon exclusive and Amazon probably won’t push it as much as irs no longer an exclusive to them. It will probably get good radio airplay though

There were rumours of something Christmassy coming from Taylor. Maybe her Christmas EP (Taylor’s Version). If true, something from that could be a contender

Ah ok thanks so this is inaccurate? https://x.com/chartupdate/status/1723838943...YUv0CmZFl6o6wpQ

This weeks sales thread implies that cassette sales are no longer eligible

Do we know if Dua has physical sales added yet?

Does the 7,837 figure for Dua include her CDs and cassettes or are they yet to be added

I wish they had combined the Taylor’s versions with the originals for this list

Finally someone said it :lol: I’ve often wondered this, so bizarre

It would be interesting to choose random chart weeks from previous years to compare how many songs of those top 40s have samples too

I read on Popjustice that Claire Richards said at her signing that she had dropped to number 2 in the charts today

Yep I’m the same, never heard it either. It’s bizarre to have 10 week number ones with so little impact on the general public nowadays

Olivia’s cassettes and CDS are now showing as being dispatched tomorrow (brought forward from 8th September) so I’m sure that may change things at the top

Olivia Rodrigo should bring her CDs and cassettes forward

Out of all the rules they could choose to change, they choose to work against the only thing that makes the singles chart vaguely exciting

I’ve definitely never even heard of Lovely. Bad Guy on the other hand was unavoidable

She was clearly very drunk and I don’t think she was actually scheduled to appear. It was a spontaneous appearance. In my opinion, the blame lies with whoever decided it would be good to put her on air in that state

That’s not really a fair comparison though as Westlifes popularity peak was far behind them by the time Hello My Love came out. They are now aimed at a much older audience. . Streaming doesn’t support Boy bands now because they simply aren’t “in” right now but late nineties and early noughties were the peak boyband phase. Kids and teenagers of the late nineties would have been streaming Westlife during their peak of 1999 to 2001 I’m sure One Direction would have had a few big streaming hits if streaming had kicked in properly a bit earlier

This came on my Spotify DJ. Some bits remind me of ET by Katy Perry and another bit reminds me of Walk Away by Four of Diamonds

Does this sample From Paris To Berlin or just some similarities?

Yes I thought it was just me but glad someone else noticed

Intrigued to try this but I have a feeling my 6yo sons listening habits whilst on my account will not quite give me the listening experience I desire!

Yeah I just looked them up now to see if I recognised them but can’t say I’ve ever heard them. The only one of his I think I recognise is Location. Not really my thing to be honest but I guess it’s good for there to be a change at number 1 next week

Wait. Dave has already had 2 number 1 singles that completely passed me by? I guess he might get number 1 with his new one next week after all then

Olivia Rodrigo has hinted for 30th June