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Also really enjoying this! One of the best dance songs to enter the chart in quite some time.

Go on, I'll do my first-half-of-the-year stats! (artists only as there would be way too many ties in songs ) Jonathan Ogden (92) Nathan Evans (48) Dan Stirling (40) Seafret (40) Tors (37) NEEDTOBREATHE (34) Limoblaze (33) Strings & Heart (24) Praise Lubangu (19) Gen Zeal (18) Kate Flanders (17) Steph Macleod (17) Living Again (16) Lukas Graham (15) Son Mieux (15) John Allan (14) Rend Collective (13) Tom Speight (13) Jamie Pritchard (11) Mumford & Sons (11) =20. Stuart Townend (11)

18th July 2026 1 [1] Kodaline - We Were Only Young 2 [2] Amistat - light up 3 [3] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 4 [6] Lukas Graham - Second Chance 5 [5] DI-RECT - Won't Fall 6 [7] Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai 7 [4] Ásgeir - Against The Current 8 [9] Jonathan Ogden - Remember 9 [10] overpass - Is This Real? 10 [11] We Are Messengers - Lay It All On You 11 [8] Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS 12 [12] Leléka - Ridnym 13 [15] NEEDTOBREATHE - Last Drink 14 [NEW] Switchfoot - Beautiful Life 15 [13] Wendy Shay - One Goal 16 [16] Major Lazer, Nelly Furtado & Davido - No Place Like Home 17 [42] Beach Chapel - Woke Up 18 [14] Hopeful. - Like I Am Yours 19 [21] Kadzoura - and then? 20 [26] Walk off the Earth - Knock 'Em Down 21 [NEW] The High Kings - The Irish Roar 22 [17] COSMÓ - TANZSCHEIN 23 [18] Limoblaze - Super Power 24 [19] LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei 25 [25] Martin Garrix & Ed Sheeran - Repeat It 26 [20] THIAGO & DC3 - Valley 27 [22] Terra - Musik for alla 28 [27] Limoblaze & Elle Limebear - JOY 29 [23] Stanleys - Pass The Time 30 [28] Lights - COME GET YOUR GIRL 31 [24] Antigioni - JALLA 32 [29] Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love 33 [34] Tors - Always You 34 [NEW] HUGEL, Imael Angel & Ultra Naté - Movin' To The Sun 35 [30] Dan Stirling - Bones 36 [31] Satoshi - Viva, Moldova! 37 [33] LOVKN - Reaching for the Light 38 [35] Tors - All I Know 39 [37] Caro Fux - Aff im Kopf 40 [38] The Sherlocks - In Your Hands 41 [50] De'Borah Powell & The Benefactors - Beautifully Holy 42 [36] The Red Clay Strays - Demons In Your Choir 43 [32] Stormzy, Fridayy & Angel - Blessings 44 [41] Tors - Wait For Me 45 [45] Living Again - Cynical and Jaded 46 [47] Zoe Me - Jamais Été (Cool) 47 [39] Jonathan Ogden - Again And Again 48 [54] Booshle G. & Jake Isaac - I WOULD LOSE IT ALL 49 [49] The Bausa - Magnetic 50 [NEW] The Molotovs - Rhythm of Yourself 51 [40] Tors - What If 52 [44] Lukas Graham - To Know A Girl 53 [52] Birdland - Hold Me Tight 54 [43] Tors - Must Confess 55 [66] Nothing But Thieves - Evolution 56 [46] Kensington - Livin' For 57 [48] Folabi Nuel - Happy Song 58 [51] JONAS LOVV - Ya Ya Ya 59 [59] Kodaline - Without You 60 [53] Sheppard - Sayonara 61 [55] Living Again - Dive Into 62 [56] CalledOut Music - Everything and More 63 [69] Dan Stirling - Peace And Truth Shall Reign 64 [57] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - Milarrochy Bay 65 [60] U2 - Yours Eternally (ft. Ed Sheeran & Taras Topolia) 66 [NEW] Embrace - Stop 67 [61] John Michael Howell - Missing Piece 68 [58] Rend Collective - Evergreen 69 [NEW] The Snuts - Defibrilator 70 [NEW] Saintz - Heavenly Melody 71 [62] The Script - Man In The Arena 72 [63] Delta Goodrem - Eclipse 73 [65] Tors - Run On Empty 74 [64] NEEDTOBREATHE - Say It Now 75 [67] NEEDTOBREATHE - Take Me Dancing 76 [70] Elections in the Deaftown - Dlhy rok 77 [68] Twenty One Pilots - Drag Path 78 [71] The Snuts - Summer Rain 79 [NEW] Joker Out - Odsevi Sonca 80 [78] Dermot Kennedy - Funeral

Nice to see Pidcock climb up to fourth yesterday with his breakaway attack! Let's see how long he can stay there.

Delighted to see this in the Top 5! My favourite Top 10 single this year by quite a way and the first time in ages I've genuinely rooted for a song to keep climbing up the chart.

I'm sure we'll all enjoy watching Spain versus American Samoa in not too long then!

So the four teams in the semi-finals are the four teams FIFA planned to be there all along. Boring!

11th July 2026 1 [3] Kodaline - We Were Only Young 2 [12] Amistat - light up 3 [1] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 4 [2] Ásgeir - Against The Current 5 [5] DI-RECT - Won't Fall 6 [6] Lukas Graham - Second Chance 7 [8] Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai 8 [4] Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS 9 [7] Jonathan Ogden - Remember 10 [9] overpass - Is This Real? 11 [13] We Are Messengers - Lay It All On You 12 [10] Leléka - Ridnym 13 [11] Wendy Shay - One Goal 14 [15] Hopeful. - Like I Am Yours 15 [25] NEEDTOBREATHE - Last Drink 16 [22] Major Lazer, Nelly Furtado & Davido - No Place Like Home 17 [14] COSMÓ - TANZSCHEIN 18 [17] Limoblaze - Super Power 19 [16] LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei 20 [20] THIAGO & DC3 - Valley 21 [21] Kadzoura - and then? 22 [29] Terra - Musik for alla 23 [23] Stanleys - Pass The Time 24 [18] Antigioni - JALLA 25 [33] Martin Garrix & Ed Sheeran - Repeat It 26 [37] Walk off the Earth - Knock 'Em Down 27 [24] Limoblaze & Elle Limebear - JOY 28 [27] Lights - COME GET YOUR GIRL 29 [28] Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love 30 [19] Dan Stirling - Bones 31 [32] Satoshi - Viva, Moldova! 32 [26] Stormzy, Fridayy & Angel - Blessings 33 [39] LOVKN - Reaching for the Light 34 [35] Tors - Always You 35 [45] Tors - All I Know 36 [42] The Red Clay Strays - Demons In Your Choir 37 [38] Caro Fux - Aff im Kopf 38 [55] The Sherlocks - In Your Hands 39 [31] Jonathan Ogden - Again And Again 40 [50] Tors - What If 41 [49] Tors - Wait For Me 42 [NEW] Beach Chapel - Woke Up 43 [34] Tors - Must Confess 44 [41] Lukas Graham - To Know A Girl 45 [63] Living Again - Cynical and Jaded 46 [30] Kensington - Livin' For 47 [44] Zoe Me - Jamais Été (Cool) 48 [40] Folabi Nuel - Happy Song 49 [56] The Bausa - Magnetic 50 [NEW] De'Borah Powell & The Benefactors - Beautifully Holy 51 [47] JONAS LOVV - Ya Ya Ya 52 [57] Birdland - Hold Me Tight 53 [36] Sheppard - Sayonara 54 [73] Booshle G. & Jake Isaac - I WOULD LOSE IT ALL 55 [43] Living Again - Dive Into 56 [NEW] CalledOut Music - Everything and More 57 [59] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - Milarrochy Bay 58 [48] Rend Collective - Evergreen 59 [61] Kodaline - Without You 60 [46] U2 - Yours Eternally (ft. Ed Sheeran & Taras Topolia) 61 [78] John Michael Howell - Missing Piece 62 [NEW] The Script - Man In The Arena 63 [52] Delta Goodrem - Eclipse 64 [54] NEEDTOBREATHE - Say It Now 65 [51] Tors - Run On Empty 66 [NEW] Nothing But Thieves - Evolution 67 [53] NEEDTOBREATHE - Take Me Dancing 68 [58] Twenty One Pilots - Drag Path 69 [60] Dan Stirling - Peace And Truth Shall Reign 70 [NEW] Elections in the Deaftown - Dlhy rok 71 [79] The Snuts - Summer Rain 72 [62] CalledOut Music - My Love 73 [64] Andrew Ripp & Jervis Campbell - Hold Me Up 74 [65] Jonathan Ogden - Brighter Day 75 [66] Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not 76 [76] NEEDTOBREATHE - Strangeness Of It All 77 [67] Essyla - Dancing on the ice 78 [69] Dermot Kennedy - Funeral 79 [68] The Fray - A Light That Waits 80 [75] Jonathan Ogden - Day By Day

1 [3] Kodaline - We Were Only Young 2 [12] Amistat - light up 3 [1] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 4 [2] Ásgeir - Against The Current 5 [5] DI-RECT - Won't Fall 6 [6] Lukas Graham - Second Chance 7 [8] Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai 8 [4] Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS 9 [7] Jonathan Ogden - Remember 10 [9] overpass - Is This Real? 11 [13] We Are Messengers - Lay It All On You 12 [10] Leléka - Ridnym 13 [11] Wendy Shay - One Goal 14 [15] Hopeful. - Like I Am Yours 15 [25] NEEDTOBREATHE - Last Drink 16 [22] Major Lazer, Nelly Furtado & Davido - No Place Like Home 17 [14] COSMÓ - TANZSCHEIN 18 [17] Limoblaze - Super Power 19 [16] LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei 20 [20] THIAGO & DC3 - Valley 21 [21] Kadzoura - and then? 22 [29] Terra - Musik for alla 23 [23] Stanleys - Pass The Time 24 [18] Antigioni - JALLA 25 [33] Martin Garrix & Ed Sheeran - Repeat It 26 [37] Walk off the Earth - Knock 'Em Down 27 [24] Limoblaze & Elle Limebear - JOY 28 [27] Lights - COME GET YOUR GIRL 29 [28] Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love 30 [19] Dan Stirling - Bones 31 [32] Satoshi - Viva, Moldova! 32 [26] Stormzy, Fridayy & Angel - Blessings 33 [39] LOVKN - Reaching for the Light 34 [35] Tors - Always You 35 [45] Tors - All I Know 36 [42] The Red Clay Strays - Demons In Your Choir 37 [38] Caro Fux - Aff im Kopf 38 [55] The Sherlocks - In Your Hands 39 [31] Jonathan Ogden - Again And Again 40 [50] Tors - What If

Not sure if I'm going insane, but I was convinced Do You Mind used to be credited to 'Crazy Cousinz & Kyla'? Or am I just misremembering things?

Oh gosh that's awful.

Four minutes for Belgium to get something in! Anything to stop the semi-finals just being the four 'seeded' teams...

This is terrifying - didn't cross my mind at all when I saw she had passed away.

Sigh... well I guess this Tour is won already with 15 stages still to go I think Traen would still have been in the top 10 had he not crashed but hey ho.

Big breakaway day today, with Torstein Traen taking the yellow with almost 8 minutes over Pogacar have they let it go out a bit far? Let's see how long he can keep it for...

I'm a lot happier that Belgium won that game than I was with them beating Senegal!

Only took three days for Pogacar to take yellow! Wonder if it'll be him for the rest of the race or if he'll let it go to some others during the race. I watched the first highlights show on Channel 5, wasn't particularly emanoured by it so I've been watching the 10-minute highlights on Youtube since then.

1 [2] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 2 [1] Ásgeir - Against The Current 3 [3] Kodaline - We Were Only Young 4 [4] Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS 5 [6] DI-RECT - Won't Fall 6 [8] Lukas Graham - Second Chance 7 [5] Jonathan Ogden - Remember 8 [12] Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai 9 [7] overpass - Is This Real? 10 [10] Leléka - Ridnym 11 [11] Wendy Shay - One Goal 12 [NEW] Amistat - light up 13 [14] We Are Messengers - Lay It All On You 14 [9] COSMÓ - TANZSCHEIN 15 [13] Hopeful. - Like I Am Yours 16 [17] LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei 17 [15] Limoblaze - Super Power 18 [16] Antigioni - JALLA 19 [18] Dan Stirling - Bones 20 [19] THIAGO & DC3 - Valley 21 [20] Kadzoura - and then? 22 [61] Major Lazer, Nelly Furtado & Davido - No Place Like Home 23 [24] Stanleys - Pass The Time 24 [22] Limoblaze & Elle Limebear - JOY 25 [NEW] NEEDTOBREATHE - Last Drink 26 [21] Stormzy, Fridayy & Angel - Blessings 27 [28] Lights - COME GET YOUR GIRL 28 [26] Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love 29 [33] Terra - Musik for alla 30 [23] Kensington - Livin' For 31 [27] Jonathan Ogden - Again And Again 32 [29] Satoshi - Viva, Moldova! 33 [NEW] Martin Garrix & Ed Sheeran - Repeat It 34 [36] Tors - Must Confess 35 [52] Tors - Always You 36 [25] Sheppard - Sayonara 37 [56] Walk off the Earth - Knock 'Em Down 38 [42] Caro Fux - Aff im Kopf 39 [38] LOVKN - Reaching for the Light 40 [31] Folabi Nuel - Happy Song

4th July 2026 1 [2] Tors - Time (ft. Jade Bird) 2 [1] Ásgeir - Against The Current 3 [3] Kodaline - We Were Only Young 4 [4] Daniel Zizka - CROSSROADS 5 [6] DI-RECT - Won't Fall 6 [8] Lukas Graham - Second Chance 7 [5] Jonathan Ogden - Remember 8 [12] Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai 9 [7] overpass - Is This Real? 10 [10] Leléka - Ridnym 11 [11] Wendy Shay - One Goal 12 [NEW] Amistat - light up 13 [14] We Are Messengers - Lay It All On You 14 [9] COSMÓ - TANZSCHEIN 15 [13] Hopeful. - Like I Am Yours 16 [17] LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Eins, Zwei, Drei 17 [15] Limoblaze - Super Power 18 [16] Antigioni - JALLA 19 [18] Dan Stirling - Bones 20 [19] THIAGO & DC3 - Valley 21 [20] Kadzoura - and then? 22 [61] Major Lazer, Nelly Furtado & Davido - No Place Like Home 23 [24] Stanleys - Pass The Time 24 [22] Limoblaze & Elle Limebear - JOY 25 [NEW] NEEDTOBREATHE - Last Drink 26 [21] Stormzy, Fridayy & Angel - Blessings 27 [28] Lights - COME GET YOUR GIRL 28 [26] Lewis Capaldi - Stay Love 29 [33] Terra - Musik for alla 30 [23] Kensington - Livin' For 31 [27] Jonathan Ogden - Again And Again 32 [29] Satoshi - Viva, Moldova! 33 [NEW] Martin Garrix & Ed Sheeran - Repeat It 34 [36] Tors - Must Confess 35 [52] Tors - Always You 36 [25] Sheppard - Sayonara 37 [56] Walk off the Earth - Knock 'Em Down 38 [42] Caro Fux - Aff im Kopf 39 [38] LOVKN - Reaching for the Light 40 [31] Folabi Nuel - Happy Song 41 [34] Lukas Graham - To Know A Girl 42 [39] The Red Clay Strays - Demons In Your Choir 43 [32] Living Again - Dive Into 44 [44] Zoe Me - Jamais Été (Cool) 45 [43] Tors - All I Know 46 [35] U2 - Yours Eternally (ft. Ed Sheeran & Taras Topolia) 47 [30] JONAS LOVV - Ya Ya Ya 48 [41] Rend Collective - Evergreen 49 [40] Tors - Wait For Me 50 [51] Tors - What If 51 [47] Tors - Run On Empty 52 [37] Delta Goodrem - Eclipse 53 [46] NEEDTOBREATHE - Take Me Dancing 54 [45] NEEDTOBREATHE - Say It Now 55 [54] The Sherlocks - In Your Hands 56 [58] The Bausa - Magnetic 57 [55] Birdland - Hold Me Tight 58 [48] Twenty One Pilots - Drag Path 59 [49] Nathan Evans & SAINT PHNX - Milarrochy Bay 60 [59] Dan Stirling - Peace And Truth Shall Reign 61 [NEW] Kodaline - Without You 62 [50] CalledOut Music - My Love 63 [NEW] Living Again - Cynical and Jaded 64 [69] Andrew Ripp & Jervis Campbell - Hold Me Up 65 [63] Jonathan Ogden - Brighter Day 66 [60] Soulwax - Perfect We Are Not 67 [53] Essyla - Dancing on the ice 68 [57] The Fray - A Light That Waits 69 [64] Dermot Kennedy - Funeral 70 [62] Seafret - Desert Heart 71 [65] Antytila - ВІДКОЛИ 72 [66] Xandria - The Shannon's Home 73 [NEW] Boosle G. & Jake Isaac - I WOULD LOSE IT ALL 74 [68] Rend Collective - Salt And Light 75 [67] Jonathan Ogden - Day By Day 76 [70] NEEDTOBREATHE - Strangeness Of It All 77 [71] Living Again - Let Me Be Yours 78 [74] John Michael Howell - Missing Piece 79 [77] The Snuts - Summer Rain 80 [72] Booshle G. - Not Alone 81 [78] U2 - Resurrection Song 82 [75] Johan Asgarde - Rebirth Mark 83 [73] Mumford & Sons - Badlands (with Gracie Abrams) 84 [76] Jonathan Ogden - Forever & Always 85 [79] Marc Eggers, Aditotoro & Paul Frege - Mon Amour

We get going tomorrow! The question will again be whether anyone can stop Tadej Pogacar from winning his fifth Tour - the answer is probably 'no' but anything can happen in these races, including contenders crashing out. The one major new contender is the French teenager Paul Seixas, who some people are saying might be able to challenge Tadej but he's yet to prove himself at a three-week race. Scrolling through the start list now and it looks like the usual sorts, Biniam Girmay the only black rider in the race again which is a shame.

Get in Egypt! Great to see another African nation make it into the Round of 16.

That's everyone from both groups E and F out then!

Chronologically I think it was probably 'Heavyweight Champion of the World' by Reverend and the Makers, although I can't exactly remember why I didn't like it! I quite enjoy it now. I actually made a playlist a couple of months ago of songs I used to hate Other songs on the list were: Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (it was slow and miserable - again, quite like it now!) Groove Armada - By The River (for pretty much the same reason as above, plus it was reallllly long) Jim Noir - Good Old Vinyl (the line 'Broken, I've broken all my favorite CDs / And soon I won't be able to get them no more' physically distressed me as a CD-loving child) Can Bonomo - Love Me Back (Turkey's 2012 Eurovision entry, he creeped me out a bit I think!) Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights (for the screeching!)

Why do I get the feeling we're going to get a Round of 16 filled with Europeans, South Americans and the Anglosphere again...

That was a bananas couple of minutes!