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Come on Capital, playlist Georgia Ku.

Northern Line - Love On The Northern Line

Yesss. I loved it when Rhythm Is A Dancer became a viral hit in 2008, due to some advert IIRC. It would be cool if something that wasn't huge here the first time did it, like La Bouche's Be My Lover or Ice MC's Think About The Way.

Can't understand why Little Runaway didn't smash.

Radio 2 proving once again it's the best radio station in the world. And wow, all female top 11.

I believe Loreen and Jax Jones are on the ITV1 thing too!

Great work! Sad to see the official list virtually meaningless now. This is much more interesting.

Can anyone do an edited list of the songs released in 2023 please? :)

I suppose to begin with it was in order to compete with the commercial charts on at the same time. They probably found that they were losing a certain number of listeners who were just used to listening to the charts on a Sunday. I think it’s always been true that a lot of people aren’t too bothered whether the chart itself is official, hence the once huge figures for the Network Chart. They could probably lose it now but if they get the info cheaply from OCC they probably think they might as well stick with it. I don’t think they would get higher ratings doing something different.

So what's now the best-selling single of all time not to make #1 (on pure sales)

Way to kill the suspense by saying we're going to talk to Andrew Ridgely.. obviously Sam wasn't going to be #1

Good to see Sam at least top 2 - especially as all the know-it-alls at the start of the week said he'd be nowhere near! :P

4 or 5 days left of big Christmas streams to count though, and Thursday's ones will be largely fake ones!

I've actually just watched him do it on his live stream, he's bought it 3 times in a row and it seemed to work, confirming the purchase. I wonder if it's actually charging him again though. And I think on the confirmation page you have to click Download to actually download the track. Does it count if you don't download?

Does anyone know if it's possible to buy multiple copies from Amazon? I would've thought you could only do it once per account, but he seems to think it's possible to download more than one

I think it's technically a better slot this year though really. And I think if they didn't want to do it at all they'd just stop.

He seems to think he's going to find out whilst he's on Zoe Ball's show tomorrow morning. I wonder if he's going to accidentally break the embargo haha. Don't think the figures come in till later in the morning though.

A bit Smash Hits Poll Winners Party isn't it? They showed the Summertime one earlier in the year too.

A Christmas #1 is more special though isn't it. I like his you only live once attitude. He's seen he's in with a shot of getting a Christmas #1 and decided why not go all out to try get it? And even if he doesn't, he's had some good press about it and it's something to tell the grandkids innit?

He's done it with a nice positive attitude though. He's done 26 shows around the country in 6 days. I'm rooting for him even if the odds are long! He's saying they're 5,000 behind, I'm guessing that will be on today's update. (I know, missing data blah blah)

I guess they know how many people have used their referal link, but yeah it doesn't mean all of those would've gone through with paying the 99p for the download. A lot of people don't understand how it all works and are asking "why isn't it on Spotify".

Don't get why he's moaning when it is as simple as that to download

It must be getting played somewhere :o :P

I Hope You Find It was playlisted by Radio 2 and she also did it on Graham Norton.