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My name is Onika you can call me Nicki... and 'Onika' being censored on radio.

I feel like Rein me In cannot Rein in Swift's streaming numbers this week.

"He can be my jailor/Burton to this Taylor in Taylor Swift - Ready For It also (Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew on the recent 1983 listening sessions. ABC - The Look Of Love mentions the singer Martin Fry in 'all my friends might ask me, they say Marty, maybe one day you'll find true love'

Kevin and Jennie obviously on the two Tame Impala Dracula versions.

"She says Skye, you're too kind" one of the standout ones along with the Ariana track Jade posted. Big Brovaz did it too on Nu Flow!

If I could afford to holiday on the French Riviera I would definitely want a more vibrant radio station to listen to.

It's a good week, the Meduza/RANI is very good too, the Alesso/OneRep is quite good but could be a bit more energetic. The Nia Archives song is quite good too.

@fans for hilson Its pitched up though so sounds like one of Nathan Dawe's singers in the song.

Herbie Hancock - Autodrive Depeche Mode - Love In Itself 2 Public Image Ltd - This Is Not A Love Song Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance ___________ The Alarm - 68 Guns The Rocksteady Crew - (Hey You) The Rocksteady Crew The Cure - The Love Cats Howard Jones - New Song 'Autodrive' is basically rather like a piano house song 3 years ahead of time, even more than Rockit! Depeche Love In Itself 2 also has some interesting production. I like the title and video for the Public Image Ltd song. I should dislike Tracey Ullman for her sentimental 60s bubblegum retro style when there was such innovative new music in the early 80s but They Don't Know is too strong a song as Kirsty MacColl wrote it. The Safety Dance has a very monotone vocal but it goes with the cynical theme of the lyrics and the medieval baroque style production and video are good. The Alarm song sounds a bit like a 90s Britpop band like the Boo Radleys. The Rocksteady Crew have a good early break-dancing song. 'The Lovecats' with one of the most iconic basslines. The Howard Jones song is more poppy than previous 80s synthpop songs, and not as innovative as it tries to portray but still quite good.

Jodie Connor's only other low top 40 hit 'Bring It' is even more 00s Clubland sounding.

Went with Marlon x Southstar It makes me wish that brief 2023 UK chart commercial trance revival with Miracle/Billy Gillies/Good Love/0800 Heaven would have lasted longer.

That very Cascada 2000s Clubland style chorus and production! Didn't like it much at the time but do now! Is it better than Green Light - yes!

Mine was probably the BSE Mad Cow Disease crisis and my family avoided eating beef at that time! Not the start of it though (was born in 1992) but it was an ongoing news story through most of the 90s.

Chris Cornell definitely.

This Ain't A Love Song was a bit of a surprise number 1. Nice song but not the most interesting #1. It sounds like it could be a hit now, its very Tiktok indie pop friendly.

This looks like it might make top 40 eventually. Nice vocal but the production is boring in places (the drop) and they kinda copied the Calvin Harris -Summer riff but much less euphoric.

'Power of Love' is cheesy and overblown in either version, but I still rather like it. I remember it and other ballads as shopping centre music in the 90s. Still not much of a warning that Celine was going to be massive in 1995-6! I am sad the thread is over!

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A lot of similarities between this video and Bebe/Guetta's one.

Those songs are only a few years old but are already quite nostalgic, like they come from a different era, commercial dance like that doesn't chart top 40 any more.

DaBaby of course is back with the interesting Miami Bass production of 'Pop That Thang' (awful lyrics though).

Oh I really liked this at the time and I have a memory about it. At the time I saw it on the music channels for quite a few weeks, looked at the top 40 chart and it wasn't there. I thought it had left top 40, which was a shame. It entered at #1 the following week. The held back release confused me!

'Return to Innocence' such a nice song.

I only remember the 'whyyyyy' bit from the Glee version!

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