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  1. 43 points Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose Written by Bacharach and David, this was the second of four top 10 hits for Dionne Warwick. It won her a Grammy award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
  2. 42 points Eminem - The Way I Am Charli XCX featuring Rita Ora - Doing It Pet Shop Boys - Se a vida é (That's The Way Life Is) The Pet Shop Boys have five number 8 singles of which three received votes and this is the first one to drop out. It was the second single taken from their 1996 album 'Bilingual'. In 2000, 'The Way I Am' was sandwiched by two number 1 singles for Eminem, 'The Real Slim Shady' and 'Stan'. Charli XCX has one song still to come.
  3. Tears For Fears - Mad World Abba - The Day Before You Came Ultravox - Reap The Wild Wind Chicago - Hard To Say I'm Sorry Mari Wilson - Just What I Always Wanted Kid Creole just misses out Tie-break: Save A Prayer And here's Simon Cowell as Wonderdog being interviewed:
  4. I have voted now. I enjoyed the diversity of genres that people came up with.
  5. West Ham United 1-1 Sunderland Burnley 1-2 Tottenham Fulham 2-2 Brighton Manchester City 2-0 Wolves Bournemouth 1-2 Liverpool Brentford 3-1 Nottingham Forest Crystal Palace 1-2 Chelsea Newcastle 2-1 Aston Villa Arsenal 2-0 Manchester United Everton 1-1 Leeds United
  6. Please don't leave us, you are one of a kind.
  7. 41 points Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Catch You Maroon 5 - One More Night Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From Unkle featuring Ian Brown - Be There This is the only top 30 single by the British alternative group, if you can call them a group, as it's really just James Lavelle and whichever musicians he is working with at any time. I haven't heard the single version for a while as it's just an instrumental on the 'Psyence Fiction' album with a different title, 'Unreal'. Ian Brown is part of this poll as well with his band, the Stone Roses. Right Back Where We Started From was one of two top 20 hits for the British singer Maxine Nightingale in the mid 70s.
  8. 40 points Christina Aguilera - Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You) Blancmange - Don't Tell Me Cast - Sandstorm Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only Mr. President - Coco Jamboo Sugababes - Caught In A Moment From 1984, this was the last of three top 10 hits for Blancmange. Sheena Easton's theme to the 1981 James Bond film is here along with the only top 40 single by the German group Mr. President. Sandstorm was the first of six consecutive top 10 hits for Cast. Sugababes lose the last of their three songs.
  9. 39 points Mabel featuring Kojo Funds - Finders Keepers Run DMC - Walk This Way Mark Ronson featuring Lily Allen - Oh My God Reverend and The Makers - Heavyweight Champion Of The World Walk This Way was a 1975 single by Aerosmith which didn't reach the UK charts. Run DMC's 1986 cover featured Steven Tyler and Joe Perry from the group. A further cover by Sugababes vs. Girls Aloud took the song to number 1 in 2007. Also from that year, Heavyweight Champion Of The World was one of just two top 40 hits for Reverend and The Makers. Lily Allen has one song of her own still left in.
  10. 38 points Brownstone - If You Love Me Katy B - Broken Record DJ Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince - Summertime K-Ci & JoJo - All My Life From 1991, this was the second top 40 hit for the duo, five years after their first one, 'Girls Ain't Nothing But Trouble'. There is some 90s R&B from both Brownstone and K-Ci & JoJo. Katy B's stay of execution is now over, she is definitely out this time.
  11. Round 1: 39 💥 Round 2: 36 Lose You/Fight 3 in 10: 3 Geno, Come On Eileen, Jackie Wilson Said
  12. 36 points The Beautiful South - You Keep It All In Jason Donovan - Hang On To Your Love Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid Erasure - Breath Of Life Billy Joel - An Innocent Man When I reviewed 'Uptown Girl' on my 1983 number 1 singles ranking recently, I said that this was my favourite track from the album it's on so it's good to hear it now. The other four songs are all from 1988 to 1992. We have the Beautiful South's follow-up to their number 2 hit 'Song For Whoever', the first of three top 10 hits by Deacon Blue, the last of seven consecutive top 10 singles by Jason Donovan and Erasure's eleventh top 10 hit.
  13. 35 points Kylie Minogue - Come Into My World Nicki Minaj - Pound The Alarm Simply Red - Stars From 1991, this was Simply Red's third top 10 single and also the title track from their fourth album which was the UK's best selling album in both 1991 and 1992, the first time this had been achieved since 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' did the same thing in 1970 and 1971. Kylie Minogue and Nicki Minaj both have one song left.
  14. 34 points Cascada - Miracle Pulp - Help The Aged Presidents Of The United States Of America - Peaches Sash! featuring Shannon - Move Mania Texas - I Don't Want A Lover We had The Stranglers on five points with Peaches and now another song called Peaches comes along. The Seattle band had four top 40 hits from 1995/96 with this one giving them their highest chart position. Also from the mid 90s, comes Help The Aged, the last of five top 10 hits by Pulp. I Don't Want A Lover from 1989 was Texas' debut single. They would have to wait another eight years for their next top 10 hit, 'Say What You Want'.
  15. 33 points Alexandra Burke - Broken Heels Caesars - Jerk It Out The Futureheads - Hounds Of Love Fetty Wap - Trap Queen The Sex Pistols - Holidays In The Sun Robbie Williams - Lovelight This was the Sex Pistols' fourth single and the last with John Lydon as their lead singer. The lyrics were inspired by a trip to Berlin they had taken to escape the hysteria surrounding them in London. Robbie Williams loses the last of his three songs while the other four acts here are making their one and only appearance.
  16. Well done Jade on another 39. Round 1: 36 Gabrielle Round 2: 39 💥 Tie-break : 4 out of 4 3 in 10: 3 Hotel California, One Of These Nights, Take It To The Limit
  17. Well done Jade on that 39. Round 1: 33 Stop Stop Stop Round 2: 30 You Don't Have To Be A Star, the year, L 3 in 10: 3 Killer, Crazy, Kiss From A Rose
  18. 32 points Taio Cruz featuring Kylie Minogue and Travie McCoy - Higher The Divine Comedy - National Express JLS featuring Tinie Tempah - Eyes Wide Shut The Lumineers - Ho Hey The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City National Express is the only top 10 hit for the quirky Northern Irish group. Also here is a Billboard chart topper from 1966, Summer In The City. Kylie Minogue is a regular on these polls and makes her first appearance this year as the featured singer on Taio Cruz's single.
  19. 31 points The Jesus And Mary Chain - April Skies New Order - Crystal Sharam - PATT (Party All The Time) From 2001, this was the first original New Order release since 1993. The Killers got their name from the band who play in the song's video and Brandon Flowers has subsequently performed Crystal on stage with New Order as well as Bernard Sumner performing it with The Killers. From 1987, April Skies is the highest peaking single for The Jesus And Mary Chain. Iran is represented here by Sharam with his interpolation of the Eddie Murphy song.
  20. 30 points Angel City - Do You Know (I Go Crazy) Bowling For Soup - Girl All The Bad Guys Want Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin' Down Ariana Grande - Breathin' The Human League - Human George Michael - Flawless (Go To The City) Gwen Stefani - Hollaback Girl Sugababes - About A Girl The Selecter - On My Radio Yesterday, I mentioned Bucks Fizz having their first top 10 hit for three years. In the same year, 1986, the Human League did the same thing with Human which was also a US number 1 single. Unlike Bucks Fizz, they did manage one more top 10 hit nine years later. Ariana Grande loses the last of her three songs while Sugababes lose the second out of their three. From 1979, On My Radio was the only top 10 single for 2 Tone group The Selecter.
  21. 29 points DJ Dado - X-Files Heart - All I Wanna Do Is Make Love To You Herbie Hancock - Rockit Josh Wink - Higher State Of Consciousness Herbie Hancock had been releasing music since 1962 but this was his first top 10 hit. Godley & Creme's innovative video won five MTV Video Music awards. Josh Wink's Higher State Of Consciousness has another go after the remix featured in the number 7 poll last year but once again fails to qualify for the semi-finals. A version of the X-Files theme also appearing here means that the only non instrumental on 29 points is Heart's third and final top 10 single.
  22. Sorry, but the early evening is the only convenient time for me to do the results. There is about half an hour between each post for anyone who is online at that time to comment.
  23. Yes, it should have 15 but it was too fiddly for me to adjust the scores of all the people who changed their votes after dropping Donna Summer so some song's scores might be out by one point. I've checked the scores of all the songs near the cutoff point to make sure they are correct after any adjustments to people's votes. One person just swapped I Feel Love for a new song so that one was added to the scoreboard.
  24. 28 points Cardi B, Bad Bunny and J Balvin - I Like It Jimmy Helms – Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse Jax Jones and Years & Years - Play Alicia Keys - Doesn't Mean Anything Scouting For Girls - Elvis Ain't Dead Ed Sheeran - Supermarket Flowers From 1973, this was the only solo hit for Jimmy Helms but he had some more in the late 80s/early 90s with Londonbeat, including the number 2 single 'I've Been Thinking About You'. I thought the fashions here didn't look like 1973 but I see this performance was filmed in 1984. Elsewhere, there's a 21st Century look to this list with Ed Sheeran making his second appearance of the day.
  25. 27 points Bucks Fizz - New Beginning (Mamba Seyra) Cola Boy - 7 Ways To Love Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You Kele Le Roc - My Love Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass Rage Against The Machine - Bulls On Parade Tina Turner - I Don't Wanna Lose You With one of Louis Clark's best string arrangements, this was the third single to be taken from ELO's sixth album, 'A New World Record'. The dialling tone at the start was recorded by dialling a real American telephone number which Jeff Lynne knew would not be answered. The drum heavy New Beginning (Mamba Seyra) was Bucks Fizz's first top 10 hit for three years but sadly their last. Kele Le Roc loses the second of her two songs and it's also the end for the fabulous soft rock classic, Waiting For A Like You by Foreigner.