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Here is my top 50 of the year 2025, based on a points system awarding 40 points for each week spent at #1, down to 1 point for each week at #40. Taylor Swift tops the 2025 chart with The Fate Of Ophelia, which spent 4 weeks at #1 in October / November, one of her all time best songs I think. In 2nd place is Chappell Roan with The Subway, which also spent 4 weeks at #1 in August / September. This has to be my favourite Chappell song so far now. Benson Boone has 2 songs in the top 5 - Mystical Magical at #3 and Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else at #5. Both tracks spent multiple weeks at #1 and come from his brilliant American Heart album. Lewis Capaldi made his comeback in July with Survive, becoming the only song in 2025 to spend 5 weeks at #1. Lewis has another 2 in the top 40 - Something In The Heavens at #23 and current top 5 The Day That I Die at #30. Tom Grennan also has 3 songs in the top 20 - Shadowboxing at #6, Full Attention at #11 and Somewhere Only We Go at #13. All were #1s and are on his album Everywhere I Went Lead Me To Where I Didn't Want To Go. Ed Sheeran also has 3 tracks in the top 20 which are all from his latest album Play - Azizam at #9, Sapphire at #14 and Camera at #18. Sienna Spiro's Die On This Hill is still in the top 20 this week, and topped the charts in November. The song ends up at #7 for the entire year. Honourable mention also goes to James Marriott whose I Don't Want To Live Like This is the highest placing non-top 3 hit at #29, and Olly Murs whose Save Me peaked at #6 in the weekly charts but is at #38 of the year. Number Ones Of The Year 03-Jan Robbie Williams - Forbidden Road (1 week - 3 in total) 10-Jan Coldplay - All My Love (4 weeks) 07-Feb Dean Lewis - With You (2 weeks) 21-Feb Tom Grennan - Shadowboxing (3 weeks) 14-Mar James Bay feat Jon Batiste - Sunshine In The Room (1 week) 21-Mar Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else (4 weeks) 18-Apr Cian Ducrot - Little Dreaming (1 week) 25-Apr Ed Sheeran - Azizam (3 weeks) 16-May Tom Grennan - Full Attention (3 weeks) 06-Jun Benson Boone - Mystical Magical (3 weeks) 27-Jun Ed Sheeran - Sapphire (2 weeks) 11-Jul Lewis Capaldi - Survive (5 weeks) 15-Aug Sophie Ellis Bextor - Dolce Vita (1 week) 22-Aug Chappel Roan - The Subway (4 weeks) 19-Sep Cian Ducrot - Book Of Love (2 weeks) 03-Oct Lewis Capaldi - Something In The Heavens (2 weeks) 17-Oct Tom Grennan - Somewhere Only We Go (1 week) 24-Oct Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia (4 weeks) 21-Nov Sienna Spiro - Die On This Hill (1 week) 28-Nov Lewis Capaldi - The Day That I Die (3 weeks) 19-Dec Kylie Minogue - XMAS (2 weeks) Pos Points High Weeks Song 1 413 1 12 Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia 2 391 1 13 Chappel Roan - The Subway 3 384 1 12 Benson Boone - Mystical Magical 4 383 1 12 Lewis Capaldi - Survive 5 363 1 11 Benson Boone - Sorry I'm Here For Someone Else 6 357 1 12 Tom Grennan - Shadowboxing 7 344 1 10 Sienna Spiro - Die On This Hill 8 342 1 12 Coldplay - All My Love 9 341 1 11 Ed Sheeran - Azizam 10 331 1 11 Dean Lewis - With You 11 323 1 10 Tom Grennan - Full Attention 12 313 2 11 Guy Sebastian - Maybe 13 310 1 11 Tom Grennan - Somewhere Only We Go 14 309 1 10 Ed Sheeran - Sapphire 15 304 2 10 Bryan Adams - A Little More Understanding 16 293 1 10 Cian Ducrot - Little Dreaming 17 282 2 10 Robbie Williams - Pretty Face 18 282 2 10 Ed Sheeran - Camera 19 281 2 10 Sam Ryder - White Lies 20 280 2 10 Amy MacDonald - Can You Hear Me? 21 272 2 10 Cian Ducrot - Shalalala 22 270 2 7 Kings Of Leon - To Space 23 269 1 9 Lewis Capaldi - Something In The Heavens 24 268 2 10 Bryan Adams - Roll With The Punches 25 266 2 9 James Bay - Hope 26 265 3 9 Robbie Williams - Spies 27 265 1 9 Sophie Ellis Bextor - Dolce Vita 28 263 3 10 Benson Boone - Mr Electric Blue 29 253 4 10 James Marriott - I Don't Want to Live Like This 30 253 1 6 Lewis Capaldi - The Day That I Die 31 252 3 9 Cian Ducrot - Who's Making You Feel It 32 252 3 7 Katy Perry - Bandaids 33 251 3 9 Dermot Kennedy - Let Me In 34 251 3 10 James Bay feat Sheryl Crow - You And Me Time 35 250 2 9 Sophie Ellis Bextor - Taste 36 248 1 9 Cian Ducrot - Book Of Love 37 246 4 9 Amy MacDonald - Is This What You've Been Waiting For? 38 246 6 10 Olly Murs - Save Me 39 246 3 9 Tors - Scared 40 245 4 9 Blossoms - The Honeymoon 41 244 6 10 Maroon 5 feat Lisa - Priceless 42 242 3 9 Elton John & Brandi Carlile - Who Believes In Angels 43 241 2 9 Lady Gaga - Abracadabra 44 238 3 9 Dermot Kennedy - Melodies 45 237 5 10 Tom Walker - You'll Get There In The End 46 236 2 8 Bryan Adams - Never Ever Let You Go 47 236 1 9 James Bay feat Jon Batiste - Sunshine In The Room 48 236 6 9 Teddy Swims - God Went Crazy 49 236 3 9 Tom Odell - Ugly 50 236 5 9 Deacon Blue - People Come First

So the week after Chirstmas and Kylie holds on for a 2nd week at #1 with XMAS. Sophie Ellis Bextor rises to #2 with Time, possibly the first #1 of 2026? Lewis Capaldi slips a place to #3, as does Amy MacDonald to #4. Cast go up 5 to #5 with Free Love, their best in a while I think. Olly Murs & Ordinary Boys climb to #6 with their festive offering Christmas Starts Tonight. Sigrid gets another top 10 hit with Hush Baby, Hurry Slowly, up 6 to #9. Better Joy's Steamroller is the week's non-festive highest climber, up 7 to #11 this week. Richard Ashcroft has the highest new entry with Heavy News at #14, one of the highlights on his Lovin' You album. Sam Clegg shoots up 9 to #19 with Angel On The Tree and Cher up 8 to #21 with Christmas Is Here, both festive songs of course. Jack Savoretti has a 2nd hit of 2025 with Only Gonna Cry For You, with Steph Fraser. Another seasonal climber is Christmas All Over Again by Bryan Adams & co at #28. One Republic enter at #29 with Give Me Something, newcomer Dove Ellis debuts at #32 with Love Is. TW LW Wks Song 1 1 3 Kylie Minogue - XMAS 2 4 4 Sophie Ellis Bextor - Time 3 2 6 Lewis Capaldi - The Day That I Die 4 3 5 Amy MacDonald - I'm Done (Games That You Play) 5 10 2 Cast - Free Love 6 11 3 Olly Murs & Ordinary Boys - Christmas Starts Tonight 7 9 4 Inhaler - Hole In The Ground 8 5 6 Robyn - Dopamine 9 15 2 Sigrid - Hush Baby, Hurry Slowly 10 6 7 Katy Perry - Bandaids 11 19 2 Better Joy - Steamroller 12 7 7 Kings Of Leon - To Space 13 8 6 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) 14 NE 1 Richard Ashcroft - Heavy News 15 14 5 Leony - Don't Worry 16 20 4 Matt Cardle - Drinking Dreams 17 12 5 Bastille - Save My Soul 18 13 10 Sienna Spiro - Die On This Hill 19 28 3 Sam Clegg - Angel On The Tree 20 16 6 Ellie Goulding - Destiny 21 29 2 Cher - Christmas Is Here 22 NE 1 Jack Savoretti feat Steph Fraser - Only Gonna Cry For You 23 17 7 Bon Jovi feat Robbie Williams - We Made It Look So Easy 24 18 7 Rag n Bone Man - Time To Love 25 23 3 Mika - Immortal Love 26 22 4 The Fray - Songs I'd Rather Not Sing 27 21 12 Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia 28 34 2 Bryan Adams feat Sheepdogs, Alan Doyle & Barenaked Ladies - Christmas All Over Again 29 NE 1 One Republic - Give Me Something 30 24 8 Freya Ridings - Wicker Woman 31 25 7 Lottery Winners - Your Last Song 32 NE 1 Dove Ellis - Love Is 33 27 8 KT Tunstall - Cancerian 34 30 5 Tate McRae - Nobody's Girl 35 26 3 Blue - Beautiful Spiritual 36 33 8 Madison Beer - Bittersweet 37 31 7 Tors feat Jade Bird - Time 38 32 10 Ed Sheeran - Camera 39 35 9 Charlie Puth - Changes 40 38 6 Mumford & Sons with Hozier - Rubber Band Man

Hi JSG, Good to see Bandaids continuing to climb for Katy Perry. Will need to get around to listening to Hilary Duff and Diana Vickers songs. Will also need to listen to Jade's new ones, only one I've really liked so far is Angel Of My Dreams, Plastic Box was ok though. Of course Tom Grennan still in the top 10 is great to see too.

T'was the week before Christmas so appropriate for Kylie Minogue to go to #1 with XMAS, meaning The Day That I Die slips to #2 for Lewis Capaldi. Amy MacDonald also slips 1 to #3 with I'm Done. Sophie Ellis Bextor rises 5 to #4 with Time and Robyn leaps up 7 to reach #5 with Dopamine. Inhaler get their first top 10 this week with Hole In The Ground up 6 to #9. Cast get the highest new entry at #10 with their Free Love, return to form I think with this one. Olly Murs & Ordinary Boys climb 6 to #11 with their Christmas Starts Tonight. Sigrid has a 4th top 20 hit from her latest album as Hush Baby, Hurry Slowly debuts at #15. Newcomer Better Joy come in at #19 with their track Steamroller, just saw them supporting Amy MacDonald. Matt Cardle has the highest climber moving 28-20 with Drinking Dreams. Cher's 2nd festive entry Christmas Is Here is here at #29. Last but not least is newcomer Dove Ellis, debuting at #34 with Love Is. TW LW Wks Song 1 8 2 Kylie Minogue - XMAS 2 1 5 Lewis Capaldi - The Day That I Die 3 2 4 Amy MacDonald - I'm Done (Games That You Play) 4 9 3 Sophie Ellis Bextor - Time 5 12 5 Robyn - Dopamine 6 3 6 Katy Perry - Bandaids 7 4 6 Kings Of Leon - To Space 8 6 5 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) 9 15 3 Inhaler - Hole In The Ground 10 NE 1 Cast - Free Love 11 17 2 Olly Murs & Ordinary Boys - Christmas Starts Tonight 12 7 4 Bastille - Save My Soul 13 5 9 Sienna Spiro - Die On This Hill 14 21 4 Leony - Don't Worry 15 NE 1 Sigrid - Hush Baby, Hurry Slowly 16 10 5 Ellie Goulding - Destiny 17 11 6 Bon Jovi feat Robbie Williams - We Made It Look So Easy 18 13 6 Rag n Bone Man - Time To Love 19 NE 1 Better Joy - Steamroller 20 28 3 Matt Cardle - Drinking Dreams 21 14 11 Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia 22 20 3 The Fray - Songs I'd Rather Not Sing 23 26 2 Mika - Immortal Love 24 16 7 Freya Ridings - Wicker Woman 25 18 6 Lottery Winners - Your Last Song 26 33 2 Blue - Beautiful Spiritual 27 19 7 KT Tunstall - Cancerian 28 35 2 Sam Clegg - Angel On The Tree 29 NE 1 Cher - Christmas Is Here 30 24 4 Tate McRae - Nobody's Girl 31 22 6 Tors feat Jade Bird - Time 32 23 9 Ed Sheeran - Camera 33 25 7 Madison Beer - Bittersweet 34 NE 1 Dove Ellis - Love Is 35 27 8 Charlie Puth - Changes 36 30 6 Jack Johnson & Hermanos Gutiérrez - Hold Onto The Light 37 29 10 Robbie Williams - Pretty Face 38 34 5 Mumford & Sons with Hozier - Rubber Band Man 39 31 7 Westlife - Chariot 40 32 8 Teddy Swims - You've Got Another Thing Coming

Hello Sergej, Great to see Amy MacDonald as high as #3 for you, as well as Leony climbing into your top 10. Die On This Hill climbing as far as #27 is great to see too, as is your new entry for Lewis.

Hello Seltin, Good to see Taylor at #1 for you and also Katy Perry at #2, think Bandaids is much better than anything from Katy's last album. Robyn's new entry is great to see too, loving Dopamine just now. Also good to see Die On This Hill going up, albeit just 1 place.

Hello JSG, Good to see double Taylor and double Tate in your top 4, the 3 songs in your chart are my favourite 3 from Taylor's album. Also good to see Sugar On My Tongue reach your top 5, I'm not a fan of Tyler The Creator but I do love that track. Loving Changes by Charlie Puth so good to see that enter for you. Also good to see your climb for Katy Perry's Bandaids.

Lewis Capaldi gets a 3rd week at #1 with The Day That I Die, ahead of a 3 place climb for Amy MacDonald, getting another top 3 hit here with I'm Done (Games That You Play). Katy Perry moves up another place with Bandaids to #3. Kings Of Leon's To Space and Sienna Spiro's Die On This Hill slip 2 to #4 and #5 respectively. Olivia Dean has her 2nd top 10 hit with So Easy (To Fall In Love) up to #6, following from #5 hit Man I Need. Bastille and Sophie Ellis Bextor both get another top 10too. Kylie is the week's highest new entry and one of 3 festive new entries with XMAS at #8. Robyn is the highest climber, up 7 to #12 with Dopamine. Olly Murs & Ordinary Boys team up for Christmas Starts Tonight in at #17. Highest of 2 regular new entries comes from Mika, his new one Immortal Love debuts at #26. Blue return to this chart with Beautiful Spiritual at #33. Sam Clegg gets a 2nd hit with festive song Angel On The Tree at #35. TW LW Wks Song 1 1 4 Lewis Capaldi - The Day That I Die 2 5 3 Amy MacDonald - I'm Done (Games That You Play) 3 4 5 Katy Perry - Bandaids 4 2 5 Kings Of Leon - To Space 5 3 8 Sienna Spiro - Die On This Hill 6 11 4 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) 7 12 3 Bastille - Save My Soul 8 NE 1 Kylie Minogue - XMAS 9 13 2 Sophie Ellis Bextor - Time 10 9 4 Ellie Goulding - Destiny 11 7 5 Bon Jovi feat Robbie Williams - We Made It Look So Easy 12 19 4 Robyn - Dopamine 13 6 5 Rag n Bone Man - Time To Love 14 8 10 Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia 15 21 2 Inhaler - Hole In The Ground 16 10 6 Freya Ridings - Wicker Woman 17 NE 1 Olly Murs & Ordinary Boys - Christmas Starts Tonight 18 16 5 Lottery Winners - Your Last Song 19 14 6 KT Tunstall - Cancerian 20 23 2 The Fray - Songs I'd Rather Not Sing 21 27 3 Leony - Don't Worry 22 18 5 Tors feat Jade Bird - Time 23 15 8 Ed Sheeran - Camera 24 28 3 Tate McRae - Nobody's Girl 25 17 6 Madison Beer - Bittersweet 26 NE 1 Mika - Immortal Love 27 20 7 Charlie Puth - Changes 28 35 2 Matt Cardle - Drinking Dreams 29 22 9 Robbie Williams - Pretty Face 30 26 5 Jack Johnson & Hermanos Gutiérrez - Hold Onto The Light 31 25 6 Westlife - Chariot 32 24 7 Teddy Swims - You've Got Another Thing Coming 33 NE 1 Blue - Beautiful Spiritual 34 32 4 Mumford & Sons with Hozier - Rubber Band Man 35 NE 1 Sam Clegg - Angel On The Tree 36 29 9 Dermot Kennedy - Melodies 37 31 6 Florence & The Machine - Sympathy Magic 38 30 8 Jack Savoretti - Do It For Love 39 34 8 Jake Bugg - Oblivious 40 33 7 Cast - Calling Out Your Name

Hello Sergej, Great to see Freya Ridings Wicker Woman rise to #2 for you. Nice to see Taylor's Fate Of Ophelia still top 5 and Raye still top 10 for you. Nice climb for Olivia's So Easy. Glad to see Bandaids entering for Katy Perry, prefer it to anything from her last album for sure.

Hello JSG, Good to see triple Taylor in your top 3, the album is good but not as good as her last few for me. Great to see Freya Ridings debut with Wicker Woman, loving that one. Also good to see Raye climb into your top 10 with Where Is My Husband, liking that one too. Great chart as usual.

We have a new #1 with Sienna Spiro climbing to the summit with the brilliant Die On This Hill in her 5th week. After 4 weeks at #1, Taylor Swift slips to #2 with The Fate Of Ophelia. Kings Of Leon rise 3 to #3 with To Space, taken from their new EP. Ed Sheeran slips 2 to #4 with Camera. Highest new entry comes from Lewis Capaldi who is straight in at #5 with The Day That I Die, contender for future #1? Freya Ridings #7, Rag n Bone Man #9 and Katy Perry #10 all climb into the top 10 with their respective tunes. Ellie Goulding is back with her new single Destiny, coming in at #19 this week. Olivia Dean makes her 5th appearance in total here with So Easy (To Fall In Love) debuting at #23. Robyn makes her return after a few years away with catchy new single Dopamine, entering at #29. Last but not least, Mumford & Sons enter at #36 with their Hozier collaboration Rubber Band Man, the 6th hit in total for both acts. TW LW Wks Song 1 3 5 Sienna Spiro - Die On This Hill 2 1 7 Taylor Swift - The Fate Of Ophelia 3 6 2 Kings Of Leon - To Space 4 2 5 Ed Sheeran - Camera 5 NE 1 Lewis Capaldi - The Day That I Die 6 5 3 KT Tunstall - Cancerian 7 11 3 Freya Ridings - Wicker Woman 8 4 6 Robbie Williams - Pretty Face 9 13 2 Rag n Bone Man - Time To Love 10 16 2 Katy Perry - Bandaids 11 7 4 Charlie Puth - Changes 12 8 4 Teddy Swims - You've Got Another Thing Coming 13 18 3 Madison Beer - Bittersweet 14 9 6 Dermot Kennedy - Melodies 15 10 5 Jack Savoretti - Do It For Love 16 14 4 Cast - Calling Out Your Name 17 23 2 Bon Jovi feat Robbie Williams - We Made It Look So Easy 18 22 3 Westlife - Chariot 19 NE 1 Ellie Goulding - Destiny 20 12 5 Jake Bugg - Oblivious 21 20 3 Florence & The Machine - Sympathy Magic 22 15 5 Victor Ray - Contagious 23 NE 1 Olivia Dean - So Easy (To Fall In Love) 24 30 2 Lottery Winners - Your Last Song 25 17 9 Tom Grennan - Somewhere Only We Go 26 19 6 James - Wake Up Superman 27 32 2 Tors feat Jade Bird - Time 28 21 4 Declan J Donovan - This Must Be Love 29 NE 1 Robyn - Dopamine 30 34 2 Jack Johnson & Hermanos Gutiérrez - Hold Onto The Light 31 25 6 Florence Road - Break The Girl 32 24 7 Mia Wray & Gabrielle Aplin - Ghost In My Machine 33 28 5 David Guetta feat Teddy Swims & Tones & I - Gone Gone Gone 34 26 8 Sam Ryder - Better Man 35 27 9 Lewis Capaldi - Something In The Heavens 36 NE 1 Mumford & Sons with Hozier - Rubber Band Man 37 29 8 Myles Smith - Stay (If You Wanna Dance) 38 31 10 Benson Boone - Mr Electric Blue 39 33 7 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun 40 35 7 Tame Impala - Dracula

No problem at all, sounds like you had a great time in Berlin! 🥰

Hello Seltin, Loving all of your top 7, especially Taylor at #1. Great debuts for Bottersweet and So Easy, think I will be charting the latter soon too.

Hello Sergej, Great chart as ever, happy to see Taylor at #3 along with Man I Need and Where Is My Husband top 10. Also loving Freya Ridings debut for you, very good song. Quite the climb for Guetta / Teddy / Tones, loving that too.

Hello JSG, Great top 3, with double Taylor and Ordinary climbing to #3 (better late than never I guess). Man I Need,12 To 12 and Where Is My Husband are all great, so pleased to see those tracks climbing for you. Both of Tate's songs are good as new entries too.