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It weirdly doesn’t show up on her Spotify page, but there was actually a revamp of Bangaranga released on Thursday. Shame everyone is going to stream the wrong version. https://open.spotify.com/album/0bkhV18o7Z8MJ5zzA53bHc

The only two I can come up with are their 2016 artist Poli Genova who reached #200, and Lucy Diakovska as a member of the otherwise German girl group No Angels, who reached #89 in 2001 with Daylight In Your Eyes.

December 10 are on too according to their Insta

Will Be Yours was originally going to be the next single, with No Matter What as the second A side. Bit surprising that they'd playlist it before it was serviced though.

ACR should be on a sliding scale rather than on/off. I don't care if it makes it more complicated to understand.

Yeah, I wish they'd stop quoting total units for singles. It's fine for the weekly chart, but it's made a mockery of the all-time charts. Let's have one all-time sales chart and one all-time streaming chart, with total streams rather than converted to sales.

Good to see Flo still top 100. I'm not seeing it in the individual streaming charts. Does anyone know where it's doing well / how it's managing to make the OCC chart?

‘Slow Lightning’ Conner Reeves & Joss Stone out 13th March

God, it's so sad. Yeah there's the odd megastar kids can still follow, but wasn't the whole world of pop just so wonderful? I thumb through my old issues of Smash Hits and wonder where it all went.

Yeah, I guess again it also depends on how much work the person put into it - did they spend hours playing around to get what they wanted, or did they just click a few buttons and take all the credit.

If you're into a bit of 90s pop, check out my Mixcloud show Back 2 The 90s! I've just uploaded my first show of 2026. 2 hours of smash hits and forgotten gems from Haddaway, En Vogue, Five, Annie Lennox, Robyn, Deuce, Boyzone, Alanis Morissette and many more.

December 10 single Run My Way Jan 30 https://www.instagram.com/reels/DTsyow8iHIR/

Oh and yes, Frankie's sales did go up from 5379 (panel sales) to 7291. https://www.ukmix.org/forum/chart-discussion/chart-analysis/10895472-uk-singles-charts-1984-including-chart-panel-sales/page25

Wet Wet Wet's Love Is All Around's sales went up a lot the week Whigfield knocked it off the top. A lot of people think it went down because the single was deleted, but actually the publicity around its deletion led to people rushing out to buy it (which I suspect was the real reason the label did it). It just wasn't enough to stop Whiggy.

If it's notable enough for you, A*Teens will release their potential Eurovision entry "Iconic" on 30 Jan.