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THIS WEEK'S TOP 40 01 (03) ANOTR ft. 54 Ultra: Talk To You (10-4-3-1) 02 (10) Chris Stussy and Tom Did It: Wide Awake (18-10-2) 03 (04) Sonny Fodera ft. Chrystal: My Loving (17-5-3-4-3) 04 (02) Fisher: Rain (40-10-7-2-1-1-1-2-4) 05 (35) Alok & Khalid: Dive Into Me (35-5) 06 (24) FLO: Leak It (24-6) 07 (09) Ella Langley: Choosin' Texas (21-15-12-9-7) 08 (01) Rosalía ft. Björk & Yves Tumor: Berghain (37-23-33-30-xx-10-3-2-1-8) 09 (08) Taylor Swift: Elizabeth Taylor (28-xx-21-10-8-9) 10 (36) Jungle: Carry On (36-10) 11 (13) LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER: Eins, Zwei, Drei (36-25-13-11) 12 (05) Turnstile: DREAMING (31-8-6-5-12) 13 (06) Dominic Fike: White Keys (23-6-5-6-13) 14 (18) Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta: Save Me Tonight (28-28-18-14) 15 (07) Harry Styles: American Girls (34-9-8-7-15) 16 (16) Ewan McVIcar: Share The House (32-13-11-14-4-14-16-16) 17 (NE) Prospa ft. Cloonee: Free Your Mind (17) 18 (22) Muse: Be With You (22-18) 19 (NE) Lady Gaga & Doechii: Runway (19) 20 (11) Bella Kay: iloveitiloveitiloveit (21-12-4-2-7-11-20) 21 (12) Alex Warren: Fever Dream (27-11-7-9-12-21) 22 (14) Gorillaz ft. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar: Orange County (38-xx-19-11-14-22) 23 (NE) CMAT: The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station (23) 24 (15) Feng: Cali Crazy (22-15-15-24) 25 (31) Jessie Ware: Automatic (35-31-25) 26 (21) Olivia Rodrigo: The Book of Love (20-26-21-26) 27 (NE) Kacey Musgraves: Dry Spell (27) 28 (RE) kwn: hopeless romantic (31-x-28) 29 (NE) RAYE ft. Hans Zimmer: Click Clack Symphony (29) 30 (23) Robyn: Blow My Mind (24-23-30) 31 (RE) Tame Impala: Dracula (10-8-4-4-10-12-26-xx-31) 32 (NE) Paris Paloma: Miyazaki (32) 33 (30) Fcukers: L.U.C.K.Y. (15-6-7-17-30-25-x-33-21-30-33) 34 (29) Thundercat ft. Mac Miller: She Knows Too Much (32-29-34) 35 (25) Zara Larsson: Lush Life (37-25-35) 36 (NE) Mclusky: As A Dad (36) 37 (NE) Kancelled West ft. Andre Troutman: ALL THE LOVE (37) 38 (28) U2: Song Of The Future (35-30-28-38) 39 (32) Holly Humberstone: Cruel World (39-32-38) 40 (17) Milky x Mall Grab: Just The Way You Are (27-4-2-1-3-3-11-13-17-40) OUT 19 (16) Calvin Harris x Kasabian: Release The Pressure (17-2-1-2-1-2-14-16-19) 20 (20) Lana Del Rey: White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter (38-22-23-20-20) 26 (17) MUNA: Dancing On The Wall (37-18-17-26) 27 (22) twenty one pilots: Drag Path (26-22-27) 33 (29) sombr: Homewrecker (23-8-6-8-5-13-29-33) 34 (19) Charlotte Day Wilson & Saya Gray: Lean (37-18-8-16-19-34) 37 (23) Madonna: Into The Groove (18-12-23-37) 38 (27) James Blake: Death of Love (29-21-18-13-7-17-27-38) 39 (36) Arlo Parks: Get Go (36-39) 40 (RE) Fatboy Slim & The Rolling Stones: Satisfaction Skank (40-13-xx-40) Quick plug for the YouTube channel!

The sound of Rein Me In is starting to ring like tinnitus.

Drop Dead seems to have had mixed reviews so far but I like it. Can't wait to see it rein Rein Me In in!

I have just spent an hour or two compiling a load of 2010s songs that didn't quite make my Alternative Now volumes 75 - 104 either because I couldn't quite fit them in and/or the artist had a better song out in that Now 'era', or I didn't realise how good it was when I complied the originals. It's split into five discs with a big old bomb blast sound effect between each 'CD' and may be subject to change if new ideas come into my head over coming months/years/decades. But for now, here is 'ALTERNATIVE NOW 2010s'.

If you want loads of new entries, come back next week as there's a tonne of things bubbling under. In the meantime, please check out my new YouTube channel How Did They Get So Big? if you haven't already. It's my last-ditch attempt at returning to my old income after AI took a massive 5hit on my 15-year content writing career. I was getting more and more views every day until I added the Harry Styles and Taylor Swift ones, then they weirdly dried up. Thought those would make it better if anything! Way in the lead is How Did Ed Sheeran Get So Big? That was just going up, up, up until Styles and Swift weirdly cooked my progress! And don't forget I recently interviewed the man who may well be the next Radio 2 breakfast host if he actually wants the job - click here. Plus I just made this after realising I had loads of great 2010s tunes missing from my Alternative Nows. THIS WEEK'S TOP 40 01 (02) Rosalía ft. Björk & Yves Tumor: Berghain (37-23-33-30-xx-10-3-2-1) 02 (01) Fisher: Rain (40-10-7-2-1-1-1-2) 03 (04) ANOTR ft. 54 Ultra: Talk To You (10-4-3) 04 (03) Sonny Fodera ft. Chrystal: My Loving (17-5-3-4) 05 (06) Turnstile: DREAMING (31-8-6-5) 06 (05) Dominic Fike: White Keys (23-6-5-6) 07 (08) Harry Styles: American Girls (34-9-8-7) 08 (10) Taylor Swift: Elizabeth Taylor (28-xx-21-10-8) 09 (12) Ella Langley: Choosin' Texas (21-15-12-9) 10 (18) Chris Stussy and Tom Did It: Wide Awake (18-10) 11 (07) Bella Kay: iloveitiloveitiloveit (21-12-4-2-7-11) 12 (09) Alex Warren: Fever Dream (27-11-7-9-12) 13 (25) LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER: Eins, Zwei, Drei (36-25-13) 14 (11) Gorillaz ft. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar: Orange County (38-xx-19-11-14) 15 (15) Feng: Cali Crazy (22-15-15) 16 (14) Ewan McVIcar: Share The House (32-13-11-14-4-14-16) 17 (13) Milky x Mall Grab: Just The Way You Are (27-4-2-1-3-3-11-13-17) 18 (28) Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta: Save Me Tonight (28-28-18) 19 (16) Calvin Harris x Kasabian: Release The Pressure (17-2-1-2-1-2-14-16-19) 20 (20) Lana Del Rey: White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter (38-22-23-20-20) 21 (26) Olivia Rodrigo: The Book of Love (20-26-21) 22 (NE) Muse: Be With You (22) 23 (24) Robyn: Blow My Mind (24-23) 24 (NE) FLO: Leak It (24) 25 (37) Zara Larsson: Lush Life (37-25) 26 (17) MUNA: Dancing On The Wall (37-18-17-26) 27 (22) twenty one pilots: Drag Path (26-22-27) 28 (30) U2: Song Of The Future (35-30-28) 29 (32) Thundercat ft. Mac Miller: She Knows Too Much (32-29) 30 (21) Fcukers: L.U.C.K.Y. (15-6-7-17-30-25-x-33-21-30) 31 (35) Jessie Ware: Automatic (35-31) 32 (39) Holly Humberstone: Cruel World (39-32) 33 (29) sombr: Homewrecker (23-8-6-8-5-13-29-33) 34 (19) Charlotte Day Wilson & Saya Gray: Lean (37-18-8-16-19-34) 35 (NE) Alok & Khalid: Dive Into Me (35) 36 (NE) Jungle: Carry On (36) 37 (23) Madonna: Into The Groove (18-12-23-37) 38 (27) James Blake: Death of Love (29-21-18-13-7-17-27-38) 39 (36) Arlo Parks: Get Go (36-39) 40 (RE) Fatboy Slim & The Rolling Stones: Satisfaction Skank (40-13-xx-40) OUT 31 (NE) kwn: hopeless romantic (31) 33 (NE) Shakira: Zoo (33) 34 (30) MK & Illyus Barrientos: Never Let You Go (27-39-29-36-30-34) 38 (NE) Odeal & Wizkid: Nights In The Sun (38) 40 (24) Robyn: Talk To Me (26-23-5-5-4-5-6-9-6-12-24-40)

Welcome to Hadjiworld. Anyway, you have done a great job and I wish these were real companion volumes! Would be great if you could do the 80s and remaining 90s ones but I understand if you've run out of steam!

Goddammit, rein Rein Me In in! Songs that were released as singles in the summer shouldn't be peaking nearly a year later (and it's not like this has been 're-issued' or whatever the modern equivalent of that is). ACR is making absolutely no difference now, these charts are just as stale as those of 2016 before it was introduced. Made a video about it and the slow as heck chart in general as you may have seen, sorry about using AI for the artwork, it's a temporary thing whilst I work out what the bloody hell I'm doing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvKUbQL4C4E&feature=youtu.be

I wonder if there's a hope in hell that R1 will playlist the new Muse single, eight years after they were last on the playlist. If that was by a younger band they would be all over it, it sounds fine for R1. Fits R1 more than R2, who actually have playlisted it. They let that Gorillaz* whistling thing on for a few weeks and Damon is pushing 60! *And that was a 15.5 year gap!

THIS WEEK'S TOP 40 01 (01) Fisher: Rain (40-10-7-2-1-1-1) 02 (03) Rosalía ft. Björk & Yves Tumor: Berghain (37-23-33-30-xx-10-3-2) 03 (05) Sonny Fodera ft. Chrystal: My Loving (17-5-3) 04 (10) ANOTR ft. 54 Ultra: Talk To You (10-4) 05 (06) Dominic Fike: White Keys (23-6-5) 06 (08) Turnstile: DREAMING (31-8-6) 07 (02) Bella Kay: iloveitiloveitiloveit (21-12-4-2-7) 08 (09) Harry Styles: American Girls (34-9-8) 09 (07) Alex Warren: Fever Dream (27-11-7-9) 10 (21) Taylor Swift: Elizabeth Taylor (28-xx-21-10) 11 (19) Gorillaz ft. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar: Orange County (38-xx-19-11) 12 (15) Ella Langley: Choosin' Texas (21-15-12) 13 (11) Milky x Mall Grab: Just The Way You Are (27-4-2-1-3-3-11-13) 14 (04) Ewan McVIcar: Share The House (32-13-11-14-4-14) 15 (22) Feng: Cali Crazy (22-15) 16 (14) Calvin Harris x Kasabian: Release The Pressure (17-2-1-2-1-2-14-16) 17 (18) MUNA: Dancing On The Wall (37-18-17) 18 (NE) Chris Stussy and Tom Did It: Wide Awake (18) 19 (16) Charlotte Day Wilson & Saya Gray: Lean (37-18-8-16-19) 20 (23) Lana Del Rey: White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter (38-22-23-20) 21 (33) Fcukers: L.U.C.K.Y. (15-6-7-17-30-25-x-33-21) 22 (26) twenty one pilots: Drag Path (26-22) 23 (12) Madonna: Into The Groove (18-12-23) 24 (NE) Robyn: Blow My Mind (24) 25 (36) LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER: Eins, Zwei, Drei (36-25) 26 (20) Olivia Rodrigo: The Book of Love (20-26) 27 (17) James Blake: Death of Love (29-21-18-13-7-17-27) 28 (28) Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta: Save Me Tonight (28-28) 29 (13) sombr: Homewrecker (23-8-6-8-5-13-29) 30 (35) U2: Song Of The Future (35-30) 31 (NE) kwn: hopeless romantic (31) 32 (NE) Thundercat ft. Mac Miller: She Knows Too Much (32) 33 (NE) Shakira: Zoo (33) 34 (30) MK & Illyus Barrientos: Never Let You Go (27-39-29-36-30-34) 35 (NE) Jessie Ware: Automatic (35) 36 (NE) Arlo Parks: Get Go (36) 37 (NE) Zara Larsson: Lush Life (37) 38 (NE) Odeal & Wizkid: Nights In The Sun (38) 39 (NE) Holly Humberstone: Cruel World (39) 40 (24) Robyn: Talk To Me (26-23-5-5-4-5-6-9-6-12-24-40) OUT 25 (09) Mitski: WHERE'S MY PHONE? (20-8-5-5-7-9-25) 27 (13) Danny L Harle & Dua Lipa: Two Hearts (34-14-9-13-27) 29 (27) Holly Humberstone: To Love Somebody (38-16-20-27-29) 31 (06) Josh Baker, Silva Bumpa & Paige Cavell: Feel This Way (31-11-3-4-4-6-31) 32 (15) Fred again.. & Jamie T: LightsBurnDimmer (21-7-3-5-15-32) 34 (32) Ladytron: A Death in London (38-x-32-34) 37 (NE) 1-800 GIRLS ft. Council: eye contact (37) 38 (NE) Caleb Laurenson: Beautiful Thing (38) 39 (16) J. Cole: Two Six (30-9-8-10-16-39) 40 (NE) Because of Art & Stephen Weston: To The Heart (40)

Lykke Li in 2026! Did shock me when they played her the other afternoon. Didn't have that on my bingo card, not complaining though.

Been discussing this on another thread, was gonna just do two videos about how both artists became so popular but I'm increasingly tempted to do a 'How Did Rein Me In Get So Big?' clip and kill two birds with one stone. My God, the charts are fcuked. As much as I like Sam Fender, this very mid song by his earlier standards wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful in the physical or download days! It's been a slow year so far for big songs that people have really latched onto so it's just there by default. Hypersonic Missiles got to #48 (which seems insane now) and that's a thousand times better! #reinreinmeinin https://www.youtube.com/@howdidtheygetsobig

This will definitely be on the playlist officially in the run-up to the Big Weekend. They need something new from him to play to build momentum and what else is there? He's hardly put anything new out in the past 20 years. It might as well be there already considering how many spins it's getting! Mad that someone who played bass in an 1980s indie-pop band is headlining Radio 1's Big Weekend 2026 when you think about it, isn't it. I love it though! Satisfaction Skank might have the most spot plays for anything ever aside from Running Up That Hill (2022, I'm sure it was playlisted in 1985), which never officially appeared on their list of heavily-rotated songs on you could look at on the internet but was on a LOT!

Guessing Lizzo has been banished to Radio 2-only land forevermore now? Rather liking Don't Make Me Love U. "Don't you bullshit me, baby!"

Cheers, this is a pretty desperate situation, the latest tax year has just ended and I will be reporting about a third of what I was on before the bots came along to ruin my life. But I genuinely reckon this has legs if I commit to it! How Did Sam Fender Get So Big? definitely coming, as is an Olivia Dean episode!

Hi fellow Buzzjackers, HiyaLuv here. Hope you're well. Since 2023, my income and livelihood have crashed to the ground due to AI, because obviously most companies would rather feed a chatbot a prompt and get a blog or article for free rather than pay me even a modest bit of cash to do it. It's not been a fun three years to say the least...but there may be light at the end of the tunnel. People have been telling me that 'faceless YouTube channels' might be the way forward, and this does look like a good opportunity for me to blend my writing experience with my pop culture knowledge and hopefully make a few quid from it once momentum starts to build. So, working under the pseudonym Don Huddersfield, I finally launched my YouTube channel, How Did They Get So Big? in the early hours of this morning. Yes, I had to use AI for the visuals but that's because my knowledge of video production is limited to say the least but I am happy to team up with anyone who does have the skills for that sort of thing so we can make stuff that's much better to look at in future and will hopefully benefit both of our bank balances. It would be amazing if you could watch the first two videos (Ed Sheeran and Wetherspoons) and even better if you could subscribe, as I am really running out of ideas when it comes to making a living over coming years. I would also appreciate your suggestions for future videos. If something got really popular and you want Don Huddersfield to deep dive into why it happened, give me a shout! Ideas I have in the pipeline include McDonalds, Netflix, Adele, Oasis, EastEnders, Strictly etc etc etc.

Listening to Now 123 now and it's not a very satisfying experience. Way too many flops/album tracks that barely touched the airwaves if at all! Can't see too many people forking out for a physical version of this. Two December 10 songs FFS! If anyone's not going to be a thing, it's them.

Starting to wonder if anything will #reinmeininin over the coming months. Big Fender fan but FFS!

Eins, Zwei, Drei is ace, feels just the right time to put it into heavy HiyaLuv rotation with six weeks to go to Eurovision.

THIS WEEK'S TOP 40 01 (01) Fisher: Rain (40-10-7-2-1-1) 02 (04) Bella Kay: iloveitiloveitiloveit (21-12-4-2) 03 (10) Rosalía ft. Björk & Yves Tumor: Berghain (37-23-33-30-xx-10-3) 04 (14) Ewan McVIcar: Share The House (32-13-11-14-4) 05 (17) Sonny Fodera ft. Chrystal: My Loving (17-5) 06 (23) Dominic Fike: White Keys (23-6) 07 (11) Alex Warren: Fever Dream (27-11-7) 08 (31) Turnstile: DREAMING (31-8) 09 (34) Harry Styles: American Girls (34-9) 10 (NE) ANOTR ft. 54 Ultra: Talk To You (10) 11 (03) Milky x Mall Grab: Just The Way You Are (27-4-2-1-3-3-11) 12 (18) Madonna: Into The Groove (18-12) 13 (05) sombr: Homewrecker (23-8-6-8-5-13) 14 (02) Calvin Harris x Kasabian: Release The Pressure (17-2-1-2-1-2-14) 15 (21) Ella Langley: Choosin' Texas (21-15) 16 (08) Charlotte Day Wilson & Saya Gray: Lean (37-18-8-16) 17 (07) James Blake: Death of Love (29-21-18-13-7-17) 18 (37) MUNA: Dancing On The Wall (37-18) 19 (RE) Gorillaz ft. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar: Orange County (38-xx-19) 20 (NE) Olivia Rodgrigo: The Book of Love (20) 21 (NE) Taylor Swift: Elizabeth Taylor (28-xx-21) 22 (NE) Feng: Cali Crazy (22) 23 (22) Lana Del Rey: White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter (38-22-23) 24 (12) Robyn: Talk To Me (26-23-5-5-4-5-6-9-6-12-24) 25 (09) Mitski: WHERE'S MY PHONE? (20-8-5-5-7-9-25) 26 (NE) twenty one pilots: Drag Path (26) 27 (13) Danny L Harle & Dua Lipa: Two Hearts (34-14-9-13-27) 28 (NE) Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta: Save Me Tonight (28) 29 (27) Holly Humberstone: To Love Somebody (38-16-20-27-29) 30 (36) MK & Illyus Barrientos: Never Let You Go (27-39-29-36-30) 31 (06) Josh Baker, Silva Bumpa & Paige Cavell: Feel This Way (31-11-3-4-4-6-31) 32 (15) Fred again.. & Jamie T: LightsBurnDimmer (21-7-3-5-15-32) 33 (RE) Fcukers: L.U.C.K.Y. (15-6-7-17-30-25-x-33) 34 (32) Ladytron: A Death in London (38-x-32-34) 35 (NE) U2: Song Of The Future (35) 36 (NE) LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER: Eins, Zwei, Drei (36) 37 (NE) 1-800 GIRLS ft. Council: eye contact (37) 38 (NE) Caleb Laurenson: Beautiful Thing (38) 39 (16) J. Cole: Two Six (30-9-8-10-16-39) 40 (NE) Because of Art & Stephen Weston: To The Heart (40) OUT 19 (15) Zara Larsson: Midnight Sun (40-31-23-18-36-xx-40-21-24-11-9-10-14-19-15-19) 20 (14) Arctic Monkeys: Opening Night (7-1-1-1-4-15-14-20) 24 (19) Sleaford Mods ft. Aldous Harding: Elitist G.O.A.T. (39-30-23-19-24) 25 (NE) Sean Paul ft. Keyshia Cole: (When You Gonna) Give It Up To Me? (25) 26 (21) Harry Styles: Aperture (29-3-2-3-11-27-21-26) 28 (16) Charli xcx: Always Everywhere (18-11-16-28) 29 (17) Arlo Parks: 2SIDED (37-19-13-15-17-17-29) 30 (40) Freya Skye: Silent Treatment (40-30) 33 (26) Jessie Ware: Ride (35-26-33) 35 (23) Foo Fighters: Your Favourite Toy (40-28-23-35) 38 (NE) Elmiene: Reclusive (38) 39 (32) Zach Bryan: Plastic Cigarette (22-31-32-39) 40 (30) Pulp: Begging For Change (31-26-30-40) Listen here!

Indeed!

Feel like it's never getting reined in! It's starting to ring like tinnitus. Really can't be that good as he's the artists with the most #1s on my personal chart since I started it in 2019 yet this only got to #3 in my fantasy chartland. Bella Kay going the wrong way grrrr. Still, BTS will be at #928169817219827 in a few weeks, proper 2004-esque fanbase hit.

Weird how they were obsessed with Satisfaction Skank for like one week without officially playlisting it, guessing it will come back in the run-up to the Big Weekend unless he puts something else out, which he won't. Anyone else getting the feeling Radio 1 is nowhere near as ageist as it was a while back? Most DJs 40 or getting there, Gorillaz on the playlist etc and still sounds very youthful. This is the way it should be. Scott Mills' best R1 years were in his forties! At its best, Radio 1 is a way of life/attitude and not about an age range. Guess I'm well on my way to becoming one of those 'pop pensioners' Ben Cooper moaned about when he was in his forties himself. There are 45-year-olds who are full of life and energy and always want to hear the most exciting new stuff and 25-year-olds who aren't bothered about any of that.

People say it might go back to twice a year, I think annnually but as a 4-CD box set could be better, like a Yearbook you don't have to wait 30 or 40 years to get. If they get to the end of this year, that's 125 and that's a sensible number to end on. They're padding the numbered Nows out with stuff that wasn't even on the radio. And with the Yearbook approach it would be easier to licence a January hit in November than in March I guess.

Yeah, they're padding it out with non-singles that charted presumably because that makes the budget go further. Don't want to play devil's/album tracks' advocate but at least they were popular and lots of people were listening to them. It is a bit of a cheap approach though.