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Full list of hits covered today, (w/e of Top 40 new entries in bold), all are on Spotify: 26/05/1984 Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go The Style Council - Groovin' (You're The Best Thing / Big Boss Groove) Howard Jones - Pearl In The Shell Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark Helen Terry - Love Lies Lost 02/06/1984 The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now David Sylvian - Red Guitar Elton John - Sad Songs (Say So Much) Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You Ozzy Osbourne - So Tired Madness - One Better Day Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dazzle Sade - When Am I Gonna Make A Living 09/06/1984 Spandau Ballet - Only When You Leave Michael Jackson - Farewell My Summer Love Bananarama - Rough Justice Rod Stewart - Infatuation The Art Company - Susanna Nick Heyward - Love All Day Change - Change Of Heart 16/06/1984 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes Nik Kershaw - I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me Scritti Politti - Absolute Grandmaster And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It) Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Talking Loud And Clear Elvis Costello - I Wanna Be Loved / Turning The Town Red 23/06/1984 The Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love) Lionel Richie - Stuck On You Ollie And Jerry - Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time Lloyd Cole And The Commotions - Perfect Skin 30/06/1984 Gary Glitter - Dance Me Up Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection The Human League - Life On Your Own Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon / Leave A Tender Moment Alone The Bluebells - Young At Heart Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It Votes welcome for up to five of your favourites, with the song with the most votes played at the start of the next session! My votes are on the previous page.

The full list of hits covered today are on the next page - here are my votes (reluctantly had to leave out The Smiths again) Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark Sister Sledge - Thinking Of You Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy Grandmaster And Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Do It) Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time

It's been at #3 on Spotify before. Could be on for a new OCC peak though

Added for posterity - a high-scoring tiebreak in the end

Best of Week 31 poll results 9 Propaganda - Dr Mabuse 8 Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes 5 Queen - I Want To Break Free 4 New Order - Thieves Like Us 3 Bob Marley And The Wailers - One Love / People Get Ready 3 Duran Duran - The Reflex 3 Jocelyn Brown - Somebody Else's Guy 3 The Cure - The Caterpillar 3 The Pointer Sisters - Automatic 2 Cocteau Twins - Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops 2 Evelyn Thomas - High Energy 2 Nik Kershaw - Dancing Girls 2 Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now) 2 Sandie Shaw - Hand In Glove 2 Womack And Womack - Love Wars 1 Billy Joel - The Longest Time 1 Blancmange - Don't Tell Me 1 Break Machine - Breakdance Party 1 Cameo - She's Strange 1 Deniece Williams - Let’s Hear It for The Boy 1 Hazell Dean - Searchin' (I Gotta Find A Man) 1 Kenny Loggins - Footloose 1 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Locomotion 1 Shannon - Give Me Tonight 1 The Gap Band - Someday 1 The Human League - The Lebanon 1 The S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good To Me Best of Week 30 tiebreak 8 Depeche Mode - People Are People 6 Rufus And Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody Wall of fame Week 1: John Foxx - Underpass Week 2: Blondie - Atomic Week 3: The Cure - A Forest Week 4: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Week 5: David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Week 6: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay Week 7: Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry Week 8: Visage - Fade To Grey Week 9: The Teardrop Explodes - Reward Week 10: Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes Week 11: The Specials - Ghost Town Week 12: Soft Cell - Tainted Love Week 13: Laurie Anderson - O Superman Week 14: Ultravox - The Voice Week 15: The Stranglers - Golden Brown Week 16: Associates - Party Fears Two Week 17: Yazoo - Only You Week 18: Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra Week 19: Duran Duran - Save A Prayer Week 20: Tears For Fears - Mad World Week 21: A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) Week 22: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Week 23: New Order - Blue Monday Week 24: Heaven 17 - Temptation Week 25: Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow Week 26: Depeche Mode - Everything Counts Week 27: Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance Week 28: The Smiths - This Charming Man Week 29: Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax Week 30: Depeche Mode - People Are People Week 31: Propaganda - Dr Mabuse Depeche Mode belatedly are the first group to win two of these polls - I thought Ultravox would simultaneously become the second, but Propaganda stole in instead! This week's poll also saw a new record 27 songs receiving at least one vote.

First thing to say is I thought there was an obvious winner to this rate even before votes started coming in, so the top position would always be more of a coronation than a contest. I had done most of my vote and realised I had almost one exactly of every score, so didn't take much to distribute everything from 2 to 10 in 0.5 increments and still have room for an 11 plus one more vote. Nothing seemed worthy of less than 2 even with this calibration of scores, but the only song I could justify is the one which was going to win anyway so it would make no difference - so I had 1 to balance the 11 and keep a 6.0 average. I suppose in reality I'd rate it similarly to 'Biology' which I gave 6.5, but it made little difference as it's still had the highest average in any of these rates. It's just one of these songs that I don't exactly get what it is about it as a song (iconic video imagery aside) that makes it held in quite as high regard as it is, and it doesn't shift '...Baby One More Time' as her magnum opus for me - I even prefer 'Everytime' from that album - but I'm obviously wrong and that's fine. Thank you Jade for running and presenting these three rates!

Coming up at 4pm, another 41 songs from the next 6 weeks of 1984! https://sync-tube.de/room/2gHBerpI

Rose Gray and Slayyyter both have their first multichart top 10 hits this week, and in both cases those were their first top 20s too! Slayyyter's multichart history was posted here - Rose's is below: Rose Gray: 2022 73 Cupid 2022 66 Promise Me 2023 40 Ecstasy 2023 59 Happiness 2024 68 Girls (TSHA & Rose Gray) 2024 49 Tidal (Ben Hemsley feat. Rose Gray) 2025 28 ATTENTION! (Kesha, Slayyyter & Rose Gray) 2025 25 April 2025 24 Lotus 2025 69 I Don't Speak French 2025 50 Angel Of Satisfaction (Rose Gray feat. JADE) 2026 08 Club To Your Arms

On a related note, 'I Believe' had 22 weeks at #1 if you combine both versions, so 'Rein Me In' has some way to go to match that!

+5 Oasis - Wonderwall +4 David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions +3 Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me +2 Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song +1 ANOTR feat. 54 Ultra - Talk To You -1 Shakira & Burna Boy - Dai Dai -2 Prospa & Cloonee - Free Your Mind -3 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In -4 Ella Langley - Choosin’ Texas -5 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You

This week's new peaks on the Audio Streaming chart for songs either on ACR or starred out (new entries in red): 80 The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony 90 Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen

Shakira, Shakira!

'Angel In Lothian' is my second favourite Sam Fender song after 'Seventeen Going Under'

#42 is still the 8th highest that 'Mr Brightside' has ever been. Just #41 & #44 missing now for a 41-100 clean sweep!

At this moment in time, there has been at least one #1 in chart history for every number of weeks from 1 to 18!