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If you genuinely can’t cope with listening to Lose Control once every week, there’s probably bigger than problems than the length of the chart show to consider.

Why don’t they start an hour earlier so they can play the entire top 40 in full?

Radio 2’s demographic is much younger than you think - it’s basically millennials now.

Line up for 27 March - Dark Thoughts - Lil Tecca (30), For Now - Jade (25), Nokia - Drake (19), Emergence - Sleep Token (17), Evil Jordan - Playboi Carti (7), Busy Woman - Sabrina Carpenter (6), Anxiety - Doechi (3), Ordinary - Alex Warren (1)

They should move it to Radio 2 permanently IMO.

Land of Make Believe, no question. Making Your Mind Up is very overrated IMO.

Line up for 20 March - Sailor Song - Gigi Perez (37), Like Jennie - Jennie (36), Headlock - Imogen Heap (32), Love Me Not - Raven Lenae (27), Sorry I’m Here for Someone Else - Benson Boone (25), Abracadabra - Lady Gaga (3), Ordinary - Alex Warren (2), Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan (1)

Amazing sales for Oasis! Doesn’t look like that will be bettered for the rest of 1997……..

The Millennium Prayer!

The charts still reflect popular consumption within a 7 day period, so of course they’re still real. This is a bit of a fatuous question. They’ll stop being real whenever airplay is taken into account.

Line up for 13 March - Guess - Charli XCX / Billie Eilish (24), Who - Jimin (23), Bed Chem - Sabrina Carpeneter (19), Anxiety - Sleepy Hallow / Doechii (15), Bad Dreams - Teddy Swims (10), Nice to Meet You - Myles Smith (8), Messy - Lola Young (7), Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan (1)

And we now have our full Bottom 100!

Line up for 6 March - Headlock - Imogen Heap (30), Call Me When You Break Up - Benny Blanco / Gracie Abrams / Selena Gomez (28), Raving in the Studio - Aitch / Bou (22), Ordinary - Alex Warren (8), Beautiful Things - Benson Boone (5), Abracadabra- Lady Gaga (4), Sports Car - Tate McRae (3), Not Like Us - Kendrick Lemar (1)

So Not Like Us becomes the 99th #1 with a weekly sale of less than 40K - what will be the 100th?

Line up for 27 February - Here in Your Arms - Nathan Dawe / Abi Flynn (45), People Watching - Sam Fender (26), Crush - AJ Tracey / Jorja Smith (23), Nokia - Drake (18), Die with a Smile - Lady Gaga / Bruno Mars (16), Bad Dreams - Teddy Swims (14), Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan (3) Not Like Us - Kendrick Lemar (1)

C’mon DearAlice!

Line up for 20 February - Too Sweet - Hozier (47), Indigo - Sam Barber / Avery Anna (45), Headlock - Imogen Heap (35), Espresso - Sabrina Carpenter (33), Who - Jimin (17), Born Again - Lisa / Doja Cat / Raye (13), Ordinary - Alex Warren (7), Messy - Lola Young (1)

When the 4th best selling British single of 2024 is really just Gangsta’s Paradise, you know we’re in trouble.

Line up for 13 February - Beautiful Things - Benson Boone (33), Not Like Us - Kendrick Lemar (27), Wildflower - Billie Eilish (19), Denial Is a River - Doechii (16), Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan (14), Timeless - The Weeknd / Playboi Carti (7), Abracadabra - Lady Gaga (6), Messy - Lola Young (1)

So decade end predictions? Killers around 7m Wham 6.5m Mariah 5.8m-ish? Weeknd somewhere in fourth? That sound about right?

Do you have figures for the top 100 singles of the 2020s to date?

See the OP x

Line up for 23 January - Carry You Home - Alex Warren (25), Popular - Ariana Grande (24), Dirty Cash - Pawsa / Stevie V (22), Wildflower - Billie Eilish (15), Bed Chem - Sabrina Carpenter (10), Nice to Meet You - Myles Smith (6), The Days - Chrystal (5), That’s So True - Gracie Abrams (1) Line up for 30 January - Lose Control - Teddy Swims (27), Debi Tirar Mas Fotos - Bad Bunny (26), Denial Is a River - Doechii (24), People Watching - Sam Fender (19), Do I Wanna Know - Hozier (18), Who - Jimin (7), GBP - Central Cee / 21 Savage (6), Messy - Lola Young (1) Line up for 6 February - Dreams - Fleetwood Mac (78), Craving for You - Bless / Camrin Watson (72), La La La - Naughty Boy / Sam Smith (34), Fat, Juicy & Wet - Sexyy Red / Bruno Mars (32), A Guy Called - Aitch (25), Four Times Four - Travis Scott (23), Sports Car - Tate McRae (8), Messy - Lola Young (1)

RIP Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan for the RIP slot?

If it’s Tom Walker I hope he takes that bloody wooly hat off.