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It almost happened last year with the Ed & Elton song, so it will happen at some point. I think it's more likely to happen these days actually, because more new Christmas songs are recorded these days. Plus the new ones get an advantage from not being on ACR. So we'll probably get another one like that Ellie Goulding one sneaking it by being top of the Amazon playlist.

The idea that everybody who has ever voted Tory, or Brexit, or whatever, cannot possibly care about poor people is ridiculous. And whilst clearly it is beneficial to their "career" to continue with these singles, that doesn't mean that they don't care about the charity they support. It doesn't have to be one or the other. I mean, all celebrities who ever do anything for charity are partly doing it for their career. And if everyone who ever started a charity or arranged a fundraising event and wasn't in someway partly doing it for their own ego then there wouldn't be much charity work done.

It's just lookalikes of famous popstars with them in the video - and Martin Lewis. Obviously the song is awful, but I don't really mind. I find the self-righteousness of people getting upset about a charity record quite ludicrous. And I can't believe we're now cancelling people because they might have once voted for Boris Johnson in an election.

Don't care what anyone says - Ed's Perfect is a classic love song and was a worthy Christmas #1 Rockabye was also excellent. Would really like to see decent pop hits have a chance again. Raye or Lewis Capaldi for #1 this year would've been nice.

I Wanna Dance With Somebody (The Movie: Whitney New, Classic and Reimagined) out tomorrow

new Måneskin single https://www.facebook.com/maneskinofficial/p...xMeiDq61Q87jjzl

Better safe than sorry I reckon. He might be quite frontloaded.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CmCZ_FLIiFA/?hl=en This could be an indicator that Sam Ryder is off to a good start this week?

That Darin EP has been brought forward a week now to the 9th

Same reason Ellie Goulding got to #1 a couple years back. "Alexa play Christmas songs".

That's quite common now though Reckon he'll be #2 behind Sam Fender re-issue

Seeing as how well TOTP does for BBC Two and Four, I don't know why they haven't brought back TOTP2 - it would fit quite nicely in their Saturday night music night line-ups. And would be cheap as chips to make.

I reckon if he has another decent video like the last one that will get it going. And if not, there's always January.

There hasn't been a new episode of TOTP2 since 2017. What I mean about going for a Radio 2 audience in a hypothetical reboot - a recent show might look like this It'd be a blend of top 40 hits (but easy on the grime/hip-hop), and artists who are on Radio 2 playlist as well, and the odd new performance of an old song - something that was #1 30 years ago this week, or someone who's got a new best of out Meghan Trainor Dermot Kennedy Kaiser Chiefs Callum Beattie Joel Corry & Tom Grennan Paolo Nutini Pink Sam Ryder Dean Lewis Taylor Swift at #1

I like both the Raye and Lewis Capaldi tracks so would be happy to see either of them nab the Christmas #1 over bloody Mariah (though could live with Wham!) Reckon Lewis will take off when the video comes out. Hopefully he's done something fun and festive.

Hah that'll annoy a few people. I love Perfect though.

I think if they were mad enough to try bringing back TOTP though, there'd be no point in aiming it at a younger audience, because they aren't going to sit down and watch it in large enough numbers. So going for the nostalgia angle and aiming it at your average Radio 2 listener would be the route to go down I think. But of course it's not going to happen anyway... And I think those who reckon the show is going to be a clip show may well be right. It's on at 22.40 on Christmas Eve, which doesn't suggest to me they're going to bother doing a proper show. An outside chance there might be one or two new performances recorded in the Live Lounge or something, which would be a logical place to film it?

I think there's a format that could work. If I had anything to do with it, I'd put it on Saturday evenings, go for a family audience rather than try to be too cool for school like SLFN did. But finding that perfect recipe that worked would still be very difficult

Hope not. It would be very odd to announce it as one of the festive highlights if it was a glorified clip show.

No, there's still time. In fact many recent years TOTP hasn't been mentioned at all in the end of Nov press release, and it was only confirmed the following week. Usually filmed first or second week of Dec.

Well, it doesn't say that it won't be the usual format or that it won't be on Christmas Day? The press office says "Top of the Pops returns for a Christmas special"

Darin - My Purple Clouds (EP) now out 16 Dec

Run was released on CD in Germany :)

Think I've got about 300 on CD single. I still like to buy a lot of the ones released now, especially if they're signed. "As It Was" is my most recent one.

Weird to see that Peter Andre song so high. It's one of the more forgettable number 1s but by no means one of the 20 worst. It's a perfectly serviceable pop song.