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I think I might have banned myself from entering the USA for a while. An anti-Trump post on Threads now has 13,800 likes

Another week at number one fot Olivia, then.

Well done to @Rooney for an emphatic win! And thanks to @Houdini fot your hard work in running the competition.

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Saxophonist Dick Parry has died aged 83. I love a sax part, so we really should mark this in the RIP slot. He worked with Pink Floyd, including playing on Us And Them on Dark Side Of The Moon.

A penalty shoot-out awaits

This week's meanderings can be found from the Blogs page or the Forums Index page.

San Fender and Olivia Dean’s Rein Me In remains at the top of the singles chart. It has now spent twelve of the last fourteen weeks at the summit. With one of Rein Me In’s three runs at the top having been ended by Olivia Rodrigo, there has been an Olivia at the top of the chart for the last eleven weeks. Olivia Newton-John still holds the record for the longest continuous run at number one by a single Olivia. Last Friday (15 May), Drake released not one, but three new albums. It is fair to say that some people were rather more enthusiastic about this development than others. With a total of 43 tracks between the three albums, Drake songs could have swamped the singles chart if the three-song limit for a single artist had not been introduced. When his popularity was at its peak, he could have occupied almost the entire top forty. In recent years, Drake’s singles have been rather less successful than earlier in his career. Even when his songs have achieved high peak positions, they haven’t always stayed in the chart for very long. The three songs from Drake’s new albums to be allowed into the chart all come from Iceman. Janice STFU is at number two, one palace ahead of national treasures. Make The Cry is at number six. Drake has now accumulated 102 top forty singles since his debut in 2009. Fifty of them have reached the top ten. If he has three songs in next week’s top forty he will have notched up 700 weeks in the broadcast chart. There have been approximately 850 charts since Drake’s first hit. Michael Jackson's Billie Jean is at number four. Tame Impala is at number five with Dracula. Jackson is also at number eight with Human Nature and number nine with Beat It. Apart from the Drake songs, there are just two other new entries. The first is by Gracie Abrams. She made her chart debut in 2023 but didn’t enter the top forty until the following year. Her biggest hit to date came later in 2024 when That’s So True went to number one. The song spent a total of eight weeks at the top, having made way for Wham for three weeks part-way through its run. Hit The Wall, a new entry at number eighteen, is her sixth top forty hit. . Last weekend the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Vienna. The UK entry came last (again) and is nowhere to be seen in this week’s top 100. The only Eurovision song in the top forty is the winner, Bangaranga by Dara at number 21. The Bulgarian entry sounds a little like two songs mashed together. It starts of as a fairly pleasant song until it is spoilt by the Bangaranga bits. One of the highlights of last week’s chart was the departure of the K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Golden. It spent the latter half of last year in the top forty (including ten weeks at number one), dropped out in the week of the most Christmas-heavy chart, before returning for another long run. However, it just won’t go away. It is back this week at number 39. And so we return to Drake and those three albums. Multiple releases of new albums by a single artist are rare. The most famous examples in the past are those by Bruce Springsteen and Guns ‘n’ Roses who both released two new albums on the same day. On both occasions, they occupied the top two positions in the albums chart the following week. Would Drake be able to top that by taking the top three positions? Thankfully, the answer to the above question is No. That said, one of them, Iceman, is at number one. It was clear by Wednesday’s update that “sales” of Iceman would be more than double the combined sales of the other two albums, Maid Of Honour and Habibti. Those two albums finished at numbers six and seven respectively. Drake has now had seventeen top ten albums, including seven number ones. The Essential Michael Jackson slips to number two. Olivia Dean climbs back up to number the wih The Art Of Loving. Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is at number five. Returning to Eurovision, Freya Skye (now sixteen years old) represented the UK in the junior version of the contest in 2022.She won the public vote but a fifth place finish from the jury meant that she came fifth overall. She has now released her debut album Stardust. It is a new entry at number 35 and is at number one in the Vinyl Albums chart. London band The Karma Effect get their second top forty album with Intentions at number 39.

I've just booked a few days in Dieppe, so I'm happy to skip Sunday. I will definitely be keeping a close eye on the Premier League scores, so that's another reason to miss a week.

Brighton also came within one game dropping out of the league in 1997.

Depending on what happens tomorrow night, Bournemouth and Brighton could be competing for a possible place in the Champions League on Sunday. Who would ever have thought that was possible?

Such a satisfying run for me as a mathematician

Liam Rosenior is looking for a job

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This week's ramblings in chartland can be found from the Blogs page or the Forums Index page.

Sam Fender and Olivia Dean continue their reign at the top of the shingles chart, in a week that has seen both heavy rain and hail, withRein Me In. It has now been at number one for a total of eleven weeks. The last song by a British act to spend as long at number one was Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits in 2021. That song had a single eleven-week run whereas Rein Me In is now in its third run at the top. Rein Me In moves past Rihanna and Jay-Z’s Umbrella to become the longest running number one single by as male/female duo. There are three Michael Jackson songs in the top ten, thanks to the popularity of the recent biopic. Billie Jean leads the way at number two and Beat It is at number three. The third song is Human Nature. That was released as a single from the Thriller album in some countries, but not in the UK. It eventually reached number 62 immediately after Jackson’s death and when downloads meant that any song was eligible to chart. It would have been in the chart last week if the three-songs limit was not in place. It is now one of the three most popular Jackson songs of the week, so it enters at number six, giving the late singer a 45th top ten single. Tame Impala is at number three with Dracula. Olivia Rodrigo’s Drop Dead is at number four. It is the only song in the top seven that was released in 2026 . The Chemical Brothers jump fifteen places to number seven with their 2015 track Go. It is their first top ten hit since the brilliant Galvanize in 2005. Sienna Spiro enters at number 23 with Material Lover. The song comes from the soundtrack of the much-hyped film The Devil Wears Prada II. The Visitor, a number eleven hit for Spiro earlier this year, re-enters at number 33. For five years from 2008, almost every single released by Katy Perry made the top ten. Four of them reached number one. Her later singles have been less successful although she did manage a fifth chart-topper, helped by the presence of Calvin Harris and Pharrell Williams. In her early five-year run of top ten singles, one of the rare singles to peak outside the top ten was the aptly-named The One That Got Away. Maybe that is about to be changed as the song re-enters at number 30. In thirteen years of steady chart success Charli XCX has had two number one singles. Rather unusually, they were eleven years apart. Her debut single I Love It (where she played second fiddle to Icone Pop who has rarely been heard from since) topped the chart in 2013. She didn’t return to the summit until 2024 when Guess, with Billie Eilish, got there. She has a re-entry at number 36 with Rock Music, a song that would benefit from being longer than just two minutes. Strangely, some of her songs would have benefitted from being cut to two minutes. The Essential Michael Jackson remains at the top of the albums chart, giving it a ninth week at number one when added to the time spent at the top after Jackson’s death in 2009. Jackson is also at number five with Thriller, one place ahead of Bad. In the 27 years since they released their first album Dublin band Westlife have achieved a lot of chart success while also being widely criticised as being bland and predictable. One thing they were particularly good at (or, more accurately, their record label was good at) was releasing albums and singles at a time that would maximise their chances of getting to number one. That timing has given them eight number one albums and fourteen chart-topping singles. They are about to go on tour again which has given them an excuse to release another compilation album. This one has 25 songs which is the best explanation I can come up with for the title 25: The Ultimate Collection. That said, their tour is called The 25th Anniversary World Tour which suggests that someone isn’t very good at arithmetic. The album led the way in the midweek updates, but finishes the week at number two. Insert your own joke here. Noah Kahan’s The Great Divide is at number three. Olivia Dean is at number four with The Art Of Loving. Reverend And The Makers are one of many acts not to java matched the success of their earliest releases. Their fantastic debut single Heavyweight Champion Of The World remains their biggest hit. Its parent album The State Of Things is also their most successful, although they did get a second top ten album with Heatwave In The Cold North in 2023. This week their eighth studio album, Is This How Happiness Feels?, is at number seven. Rock band Basement were formed in Ipswich in 2009. From then until 2018, they released four albums, none of which sold very well. They gained a decent following in the USA, but that was not enough to sustain them. Despite being considered suitable to support Weezer and The Pixies in 2019, they disbanded the following year. The members pursued various careers outside music. Singer Andrew Fisher became a popular teaching assistant in Brighton - Hove, actually. In 2022, they decided to give things another go. This came after the release of an EP which included a great version of Suede’s Animal Nitrate. They ultimately quit their jobs to concentrate full-time on music again, not letting the fact that two members now lived in the USA get in the way. Last Friday (8 May) Basement released their fifth album Wired. Pre-release tracks had suggested that this would be slightly less rocky than previous releases, and so it has proved. There is a distinct feel of their near namesakes Pavement about the album. In Monday’s update Basement were at number eight. By Wednesday, they had fallen just one place. A probable top forty finish had turned into a possible top twenty placing. That deserved top twenty hit has duly happened. Wired is a new entry at number sixteen. As mentioned in the singles section, Katy Perry’s The One That Got Away has re-entered the singles chart this week. It is included on a new compilation The Ones That Got The Plays (see what they did there?). The album is currently only available as a playlist on streaming sites with no physical release or even a download release. That lack of anything that could be called a release in conventional terms has not excluded it from the chart. It is a new entry at number thirteen despite only landing on streaming sites on Wednesday. The Covasettes join a very long list of Manchester bands with a top forty album to their name as Honeymoon Forever lands at number 34. Chris Brown is at number seventeen.

Whereas de Pfeffel merely discussed getting a journalist beaten up.

Great to see Basement drop just one place from Monday!

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Wednesday 13th May Manchester City 2-0 Crystal Palace (20:00)

A great start for Basement. They really deserve to get their first hit album.

And two others were covers of old songs.