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And people are saying the legal issue is that AI was used to make the vocalist sound like Jorja Smith but I'm just speculating.

They may well do, but if AI is involved I feel this is a very slippery slope and it's being normalised. I don't want to live in a world where even one AI song is in the charts, nevermind a load of them.

I already had this on my Alternative Now 122 playlist as one of my token non-R1 songs because 6 Music were on it and it's a right banger (I normally just copy R1 but if something from elsewhere is good enough, it's getting on). I'm so cool and ahead of the curve, and almost 43 years old. I'd like to imagine they pronounce it as "f***ERS!!!!!!". May need to move it to AN123 if R1 are on the cusp of properly getting behind it! Not sure what I'd replace it with. Probably won't be Camera off of Ed Sheeran, which I reckon he thought would be #1 for 10 weeks, They may well do, but if AI is involved I feel this is a very slippery slope and it's being normalised. I don't want to live in a world where even one AI song is in the charts, nevermind a load of them. And people are saying the legal issue is that AI was used to make the vocalist sound like Jorja Smith but I'm just speculating.

I'm no fan of AI but I asked ChatGPT to clean up the lyrics, here are the highlights. "Duane Reade bag with the handles tied Fun games and puzzles inside Hundreds of chocolates, you're so well-stocked How'd I get caught up in your busy world? And that's when I realised Something don't feel right I didn't know it was your fussy palace, fussy palace, fussy palace, fussy palace I always thought it was a dojo, dojo, dojo So am I looking at a busy keeper, busy keeper, busy keeper, busy keeper? Talk about a low blow, oh no, oh no" So maybe she should go with that. Or not.

I wonder if one of these will ever go to #1. Then again, they'd immediately make it a single anyway if so.

So Pussy Palace is faring better in the chart than the track that's been sent to radio and is therefore the single (that's the rules), Madeleine. Has this ever happened before? I presume she'll release a more radio-friendly version than the lol edit we've heard on the chart show at some point. Fussy Palace here we come.

Must be hard keeping up the initial energy, passion and anger when your life has changed beyond all recognition, for the better. You could also accuse it of being Seventeen Going Under and The Borders with different lyrics! He probably needs to retire that War on Drugs drumbeat for a bit. But his recent slower songs are a bit of a drag too. His current status is a classic problem for working-class artists who don't have to live that life anymore. It's also why rappers like Stormzy now struggle to find anything new or interesting to say.

Once I know or strongly suspect something is AI, I'm done with it.

Yes, it should. It's been removed from streaming and the chart for a reason, which is very likely because it's AI slop. Feel this is blatant trolling at this point.

Is C-OUT a new record? I hope it's been banished because of AI. I hate AI.

Excited about the adds from Tate Mc Rae, KETTAMA, Robyn and ROSALIA this week. Didn't get Holly Humberstone four years ago and still don't, but someone seems determined to make her a thing. Always felt like she was being pushed as a British Billie Eilish but I always struggled to remember what any of her tunes went like. Good luck to her though, looks like she has quite a few fans on here. Is C-OUT a new record? I hope it's been banished because of AI. I hate AI. Yes, it should. It's been removed from streaming and the chart for a reason, which is very likely because it's AI slop. Feel this is blatant trolling at this point.

And it was! Good to see R1 focusing on the sound of the song rather than the age of the artist!

THIS WEEK'S TOP 40 01 (02) Artemas: Superstar (38-7-3-2-1) 02 (13) Dave ft. Tems: Raindance (24-13-2) 03 (01) Sammy Virji x Spice x Flowdan: Match My Mood (9-1-1-1-3) 04 (14) oskar med k ft. Khalid: nobody (make me feel) (26-14-4) 05 (07) PinkPantheress: Stateside (17-9-7-5) 06 (18) Lily Allen: Madeleine (34-18-6) 07 (09) EsDeeKid & Rico Ace: Phantom (10-9-7) 08 (10) Lorde: Favourite Daughter (16-10-8) 09 (15) Tkandz & CXSPER: NOW OR NEVER (14-15-9) 10 (04) Tame Impala: Dracula (10-8-4-4-10) 11 (06) Tate McRae: Tit For Tat (33-6-2-4-5-6-11) 12 (26) Prospa ft. Kosmo Kint: Love Songs (26-12) 13 (17) Sam Fender & Elton John: Talk To You (37-11-17-13) 14 (23) Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb: Think About Us (23-14) 15 (03) James Hype ft. Sam Harper and Bobby Harvey: Waterfalls (34-8-3-2-3-15) 16 (08) RAYE: WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (30-13-3-3-5-8-8-16) 17 (11) Taylor Swift: The Fate of Ophelia (25-6-2-7-11-17) 18 (05) MK with Clementine Douglas: Come Find Me (38-5-6-6-5-18) 19 (21) Fcukers: I Like It Like That (36-21-19) 20 (12) Louis Tomlinson: Lemonade (13-12-12-20) 21 (38) John Summit ft. Inéz: Crystallized (38-21) 22 (27) Robbie Williams: Pretty Face (33-27-22) 23 (40) Sleaford Mods ft. Gwendoline Christie: The Good Life (40-23) 24 (NE) Turnstile: I CARE (24) 25 (36) Culture Shock & Sarah De Warren: All The Things She Said (37-36-25) 26 (29) David Guetta, Teddy Swims & Tones And I: Gone Gone Gone (18-29-26) 27 (NE) Florence + The Machine: Sympathy Magic (27) 28 (37) Joji: PIXELATED KISSES (37-28) 29 (16) The Last Dinner Party: the scythe (32-16-7-11-13-16-29) 30 (NE) Cardi B ft. Kehlani: Safe (30) 31 (NE) Lily Allen: Pussy Palace (31) 32 (NE) Danny Brown: Copycats (32) 33 (NE) Alessi Rose: First Original Thought (33) 34 (NE) EsDeeKid: Century (34) 35 (19) Demi Lovato: Here All Night (40-23-18-16-17-21-19-35) 36 (24) Barry Can’t Swim: All My Friends (29-24-36) 37 (NE) ROSALÍA ft. Björk & Yves Tumor: Berghain (37) 38 (NE) Hayley WIlliams: Good Ol’ Days (38) 39 (NE) Pet Shop Boys: It’s A Sin (39) 40 (NE) KETTAMA: Man With The Second Face (40) OUT 20 (20) Gunna ft. Burna Boy; wgft? (39-22-17-11-16-20-20) 22 (23) Fred Again.. ft. Amyl & The Sniffers: you’re a star (32-12-23-22) 25 (28) Calvin Harris ft. Jessie Reyez: The Ocean (19-6-2-1-1-1-9-28-25) 28 (30) jaydahadadream: Bug (30-28) 30 (RE) Sub Focus x IRAH x Fireboy DML: Original Don (30) 31 (17) Art School Girlfriend: L.Y.A.T.T. (33-15-14-17-31) 32 (RE) Good Neighbours: People Need People (28-18-8-18-32-x-32) 33 (22) Jim Legxacy: sos (13-22-33) 34 (39) Manic Street Preachers: A Secret Society (39-34) 35 (19) Doja Cat: Gorgeous (34-7-4-10-19-35) 39 (27) Zara Larsson: Crush (23-27-39)

I have read through this four times and I still can't decipher it. You do you though. Are YOU AI in full hallucination mode?

I wonder how many singles Lewis has to go before he's Radio 2-only. Feels like he's dining out on 2019 at this stage, which is quite a long time ago now. What was the last REAL hit people actually streamed in their millions for several years that didn't get an artificially high chart peak from cheap CD singles or first-week curiosity streams? Forget Me? At least he ventured slightly out of his comfort zone on that one. Answering my own question here and it seems Survive did okay but nowhere near as well as Somebody You Loved, which had TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT WEEKS on the Top 100. https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/51369/lewis-capaldi/ Also, if anyone from the BBC Radio 1 Playlist is lurking here, stop sleeping on crystallized featuring Inéz off of John Summit, who they liked a lot a few years back. Pretty euphoric, yet not even on the R1 Dance Playlist for some reason!

They have so many ridiculous charts! Unfortunately so do we. Our rock chart for instance could be quite interesting if everything over a few months old was banished! But instead it's just full of songs from 87623 years ago. I wonder how many singles Lewis has to go before he's Radio 2-only. Feels like he's dining out on 2019 at this stage, which is quite a long time ago now. What was the last REAL hit people actually streamed in their millions for several years that didn't get an artificially high chart peak from cheap CD singles or first-week curiosity streams? Forget Me? At least he ventured slightly out of his comfort zone on that one. Answering my own question here and it seems Survive did okay but nowhere near as well as Somebody You Loved, which had TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY EIGHT WEEKS on the Top 100. https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/51369/lewis-capaldi/ Also, if anyone from the BBC Radio 1 Playlist is lurking here, stop sleeping on crystallized featuring Inéz off of John Summit, who they liked a lot a few years back. Pretty euphoric, yet not even on the R1 Dance Playlist for some reason!

I'm not a fan of AI topping the US country chart one little bit, we're going down a slippery slope! I'm so old I remember THIS Haven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven_(band)

Certainly didn't stop Jimmy Nail. SHE'S LYIN'! I'm not a fan of AI topping the US country chart one little bit, we're going down a slippery slope! I'm so old I remember THIS Haven. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haven_(band)

I wonder if Radio 1 will quickly bin HAVEN. off next week. It's still showing for me on Spotify. Maybe I'll give it one last spin. Could be the 2025 Precision Tunes version of Payphone.

It's an ideal choice for a single and sounds brilliant on the radio. Perfect for this time of year too. LOVE AND LIGHT!

Mad stuff! I gave it a spin earlier and thought it was quite decent but the AI rumours did put me off a little. Camelphat put a tune out a couple of months ago that they said was AI-assisted and it totally put me off it so I never played it again. Not that we know that's definitely the reason for the instant HAVEN. death.

Which is why it drives me mad when people say "why's that on the playlist, it's not a single?!!". Think at this point we can safely say anything that gets a load of daytime radio play is a single. Now that there's nothing to buy in the shops, that's literally the definition of a single! Mad stuff! I gave it a spin earlier and thought it was quite decent but the AI rumours did put me off a little. Camelphat put a tune out a couple of months ago that they said was AI-assisted and it totally put me off it so I never played it again. Not that we know that's definitely the reason for the instant HAVEN. death. It's an ideal choice for a single and sounds brilliant on the radio. Perfect for this time of year too. LOVE AND LIGHT! I wonder if Radio 1 will quickly bin HAVEN. off next week. It's still showing for me on Spotify. Maybe I'll give it one last spin. Could be the 2025 Precision Tunes version of Payphone.

THIS WEEK'S TOP 40 01 (01) Sammy Virji x Spice x Flowdan: Match My Mood (9-1-1-1) 02 (03) Artemas: Superstar (38-7-3-2) 03 (02) James Hype ft. Sam Harper and Bobby Harvey: Waterfalls (34-8-3-2-3) 04 (04) Tame Impala: Dracula (10-8-4-4) 05 (06) MK with Clementine Douglas: Come Find Me (38-5-6-6-5) 06 (05) Tate McRae: Tit For Tat (33-6-2-4-5-6) 07 (09) PinkPantheress: Stateside (17-9-7) 08 (08) RAYE: WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! (30-13-3-3-5-8-8) 09 (10) EsDeeKid & Rico Ace: Phantom (10-9) 10 (16) Lorde: Favourite Daughter (16-10) 11 (07) Taylor Swift: The Fate of Ophelia (25-6-2-7-11) 12 (12) Louis Tomlinson: Lemonade (13-12-12) 13 (24) Dave ft. Tems: Raindance (24-13) 14 (26) oskar med k ft. Khalid - nobody (make me feel) (26-14) 15 (14) Tkandz & CXSPER: NOW OR NEVER (14-15) 16 (13) The Last Dinner Party: the scythe (32-16-7-11-13-16) 17 (11) Sam Fender & Elton John: Talk To You (37-11-17) 18 (34) Lily Allen: Madeleine (34-18) 19 (21) Demi Lovato: Here All Night (40-23-18-16-17-21-19) 20 (20) Gunna ft. Burna Boy; wgft? (39-22-17-11-16-20-20) 21 (36) Fcukers: I Like It Like That (36-21) 22 (23) Fred Again.. ft. Amyl & The Sniffers: you’re a star (32-12-23-22) 23 (NE) Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb: Think About Us (23) 24 (29) Barry Can’t Swim: All My Friends (29-24) 25 (28) Calvin Harris ft. Jessie Reyez: The Ocean (19-6-2-1-1-1-9-28-25) 26 (NE) Prospa ft. Kosmo Kint: Love Songs (26) 27 (33) Robbie Williams: Pretty Face (33-27) 28 (30) jaydahadadream: Bug (30-28) 29 (18) David Guetta, Teddy Swims & Tones And I: Gone Gone Gone (18-29) 30 (RE) Sub Focus x IRAH x Fireboy DML: Original Don (30) 31 (17) Art School Girlfriend: L.Y.A.T.T. (33-15-14-17-31) 32 (RE) Good Neighbours: People Need People (28-18-8-18-32-x-32) 33 (22) Jim Legxacy: sos (13-22-33) 34 (39) Manic Street Preachers: A Secret Society (39-34) 35 (19) Doja Cat: Gorgeous (34-7-4-10-19-35) 36 (37) Culture Shock & Sarah De Warren: All The Things She Said (37-36) 37 (NE) Joji: PIXELATED KISSES (37) 38 (NE) John Summit ft. Inéz: Crystallized (38) 39 (27) Zara Larsson: Crush (23-27-39) 40 (NE) Sleaford Mods ft. Gwendoline Christie: The Good Life (40) OUT 15 (12) Pozer: Jersey King (36-31-12-12-15) 25 (22) HUNTR/X: What It Sounds Like (36-22-25) 31 (NE) Olivia Dean: So Easy (To Fall In Love) (31) 32 (20) Saint Etienne x Confidence Man: Brand New Me (29-17-20-32) 35 (38) Florence Road: Break The Girl (38-35) 38 (34) Miley Cyrus ft. Lindsey Buckingham & Mick Fleetwood: Secrets (28-34-38) 40 (21) Ayra Starr: Hot Body (40-23-21-40)

Even though it's P Palace doing much better! Definitely prefer Madeleine though. Either way, didn't see the Lily renaissance coming in a million years, totally here for it though.

Hi Alternative Now 122 is here, and I think it's pretty, pretty good. Listen here now! CD1 1. HUNTR/X: Golden 2. Taylor Swift: The Fate of Ophelia 3. Sabrina Carpenter: Tears 4. Lady Gaga: The Dead Dance 5. Calvin Harris & Jessie Reyez: The Ocean 6. Rossi. x Jazzy: High On Me 7. Sammy Virji, Spice & Flowdan: Match My Mood 8. James Hype ft. Sam Harper & Bobby Harvey: Waterfalls 9. PinkPantheress & Zara Larsson: Stateside 10. Sombr: 12 to 12 11. Biffy Clyro: Hunting Season 12. South Arcade: FEAR OF HEIGHTS 13. HAIM: All Over Me 14. Sam Fender with Olivia Dean: Rein Me In 15. Louis Tomlinson: Lemonade 16. Good Neighbours: People Need People 17. Demi Lovato: Here All Night 18. Artemas: superstar 19. Denon Reed & Cru2: Let Him Go 20. Luke Dean and Omar+: Make Believe 21. Sonny Fodera, D.O.D & Poppy Baskcomb: Think About Us 22. David Guetta & Cedric Gervais: A Better World 23. Katy B: Avalanche 24. Fcukers: I Like It Like That 25. BLACKPINK: Jump CD2 1. Chappell Roan: The Subway 2. RAYE: Where Is My Husband! 3. Confidence Man & JADE: gossip 4. Fred Again.. & Amyl and the Sniffers: you're a star 5. MK with Clementine Douglas: Come Find Me 6. oskar med k ft. Khalid: nobody (make me feel) 7. Lorde: Favourite Daughter 8. Wolf Alice: Just Two Girls 9. Wet Leg: mangetout 10. Reneé Rapp: Leave Me Alone 11. Hayley Williams: Parachute 12. Florence + The Machine: Everybody Scream 13. The Last Dinner Party: The Scythe 14. Tame Impala: Dracula 15. Tate McRae: TIT FOR TAT 16. Doja Cat: Jealous Type 17. Kehlani: Folded 18. Gunna ft. Burna Boy: wgft 19. Drake ft. Central Cee: Which One 20. Tkandz & CXSPER: NOW OR NEVER 21. EsDeeKid & Rico Ace: Phantom 22. Dave featuring Tems: Raindance 23. Lily Allen: Madeline 24. Robbie Williams: Pretty Face 25. Gorillaz ft. Sparks: The Happy Dictator