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'Man I Need' ends 2025 with the 5th most days at #1 to date. The 4 songs above it have spent a combined 50 weeks at #1 officially: Wham! - Last Christmas (136 days) Alex Warren - Ordinary (128) Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance (101) Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter (87) Olivia Dean - Man I Need (83) Tones and I - Dance Monkey (81) Noah Kahan - Stick Season (78) Post Malone & 21 Savage - rockstar (77) Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (76) Drake - God's Plan (75)

And yes was hoping for 'Algorithm'!

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New peaks in the top 50: #21 Every Breath You Take #33 Upside Down #45 I Think We're Alone Now #46 CHANEL

A fantastic top 3 which as I mentioned are the same songs I'd have. '...Baby One More Time' is still Britney's best song for me - when I first heard it on the radio, I thought she was a young R&B singer, her vocals are on point as well as the dramatic, slick production with that three note piano motif, but most of all it's a great song - verses, pre-chorus, chorus, middle eight, middle eight reprised over the last chorus: all are among the best of pop. I first heard 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' just before going to Spain for two weeks in August 1999, and when I got there it was everywhere - so infectiously catchy with the blue theme and piano-driven riff, but with an undercurrent of sadness. It was little surprise to see it follow Lou Bega into the UK Top 40 as an import, and then storm to the top, instantly becoming my favourite #1 of the year, as it has remained to this day. And '9PM (Till I Come)' was one of the first big songs to soundtrack that summer with that irresistible bendy guitar line. I don't think I appreciated at the time that it was the first trance #1, but what a neat song to do it, condensing many of its best elements into less than 3 minutes in what's still the best edit for me. My top 10 possibly: Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) Britney Spears - ...Baby One More Time ATB - 9PM (Till I Come) Blondie - Maria Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!! Shanks & Bigfoot - Sweet Like Chocolate The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) Fatboy Slim - Praise You Steps - [Heartbeat/]Tragedy Thanks Rich for the detailed commentaries and starting off this series! Look forward to seeing where it goes next.

yay a clean sweep of appearances! Pleased to see 'crystallized' in there too.

Yes not much to disagree with in the results so far. I do like the original 'Baby's Coming Back' by Jellyfish after I heard the McFly version first, so credit to them for that but their version doesn't add anything to make me go back to it, and I haven't sough out 'Transylvania' much - it's fine, but feels too much of a fanbase heavy concern for a #1.

Unlucky for Fontaines - last year 50 Cent made #41 with Dua holding on at #40, but he went one better this time.

'÷' makes the top 40 for a 9th year in a row, can it make it 10/10 next year...

Also a new peak for 'You Stole The Show' at #83 Only 3 Christmas songs left: Wham #79, Mariah #138, Brenda #199

New peaks in the top 50: #22 Every Breath You Take #35 A Couple Minutes #36 Upside Down #49 Chanel

OK I'll have a guess: Cher - Believe Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You Robbie Williams - Let Me Entertain You Madonna - Frozen

In terms of resets to songs which had only recently gone to ACR, it appears resets have been given to almost everything whose last week on SCR was the chart of 28 November (which includes 'Dracula', 'Folded' and 'WGFT') or later - of which those not in the update are: Ed Sheeran - Camera Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance Lewis Capaldi - Something In The Heavens Sabrina Carpenter - House Tour Taylor Swift - Elizabeth Taylor It's possible that they all have been reset but are either still not high enough or (in the case of 'House Tour' and 'Elizabeth Taylor') are now starred out by other songs by those artists.

As well as 'I Think We're Alone Now', it looks like 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' has been given a reset! I guess it's still possible that 'Upside Down' could get a reset by Friday if it shows enough of an increase by then to make the Top 40? It's unclear what the reset decisions are based on for these older songs.

Adele's 'Easy On Me' also climbed 38-1

Your top 3 is the same as mine Rich! Not sure about the order, they're all pretty close for me but I do have a favourite... 'Genie In A Bottle' is a very good pop song and Christina's best for me on the first couple of albums - the only of song of hers I prefer is 'Hurt' which resonates in very different ways. However 'Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)' is such a unique #1 which, although it wouldn't be something I'd have on rotation to listen to 20 times a year or anything, does have a special place for me. First of all, it reminds me very much of the time, and I clearly remember leaving the last of my preliminary exams in June 1999 with the instrumental and some of the words in my head - I realised even then that those were times I'd look back on fondly in years to come. The advice itself is comforting and certainly some of it hits differently all these years later - "the race is long, but in the end it's only with yourself" is one of the lines that's stuck the most. Also I credit this song in getting me to floss regularly!

Also switching to Omarion now. I like the "I'm so cold, I'm so cold" hook from it, but it's not the most memorable Top 20 hit.

Full list of hits covered today (w/e of Top 40 new entries in bold; * denotes if not on Spotify): 17/04/1982 Bardo - One Step Further David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire) The J. Geils Band - Freeze-Frame Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle 24/04/1982 Shakin' Stevens - Shirley Kim Wilde - View From A Bridge Spandau Ballet - Instinction PhD - I Won't Let You Down Hot Chocolate - Girl Crazy Daryl Hall And John Oates - Private Eyes Joan Jett And The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N' Roll 01/05/1982 Scotland World Cup Squad - We Have A Dream Yazoo - Only You Queen - Body Language Rocky Sharpe And The Replays - Shout Shout (Knock Yourself Out) Barry Manilow - Stay Stutz Bearcats And The Denis King Orchestra - The Song That I Sing (Theme From 'We'll Meet Again')* Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots Sharon Brown - I Specialize In Love 08/05/1982 Nicole - A Little Peace Tottenham Hotspur F.A. Cup Final Squad - Tottenham Tottenham Junior - Mama Used To Say Tight Fit - Fantasy Island Depeche Mode - The Meaning Of Love Associates - Club Country Blondie - Island Of Lost Souls 15/05/1982 ABC - The Look Of Love Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf Candi Staton - Suspicious Minds Fun Boy Three - The Telephone Always Rings 22/05/1982 Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes Madness - House Of Fun Japan - Cantonese Boy Genesis - Paperlate (3 x 3 EP) UB40 - Love Is All Is Alright New Order - Temptation Charlene - I've Never Been To Me 29/05/1982 Soft Cell - Torch Echo And The Bunnymen - The Back Of Love Toyah - Brave New World Kid Creole And The Coconuts - I'm A Wonderful Thing, Baby Altered Images - Pinky Blue Siouxsie And The Banshees - Fire Works Week 16 Tiebreak Associates - Party Fears Two Japan - Ghosts My votes (this time the Associates and ABC songs just miss out for me): Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle Yazoo - Only You Depeche Mode - The Meaning Of Love Madness - House Of Fun New Order - Temptation Tiebreak: Associates - Party Fears Two Also a note that we're continuing on 11 January as I'm out next Sunday.

GusGus getting that second play *.*

That'll be Amazon. If there's another update tomorrow, I'm sure they'll be reversed. Looks like there'll be the first ever 40-1 climb on Friday.

It did, but only 2 of them consecutively.

Best of Week 16 poll results 7 Associates - Party Fears Two 7 Japan - Ghosts 6 ABC - Poison Arrow 5 Visage - The Damned Don't Cry 4 Monsoon - Ever So Lonely 3 Classix Nouveaux - Is It A Dream 3 Pigbag - Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag 3 Roxy Music - More Than This 2 Abba - Head Over Heels 2 Bucks Fizz - My Camera Never Lies 1 Adam And The Ants - Deutscher Girls 1 Barbra Streisand - Memory 1 Bow Wow Wow - Go Wild In The Country 1 David Bowie - Baal's Hymn 1 Dollar - Give Me Back My Heart 1 Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight (Live Version) 1 Gary Numan - Music For Chameleons 1 Imagination - Just An Illusion 1 Modern Romance - Queen Of The Rapping Scene (Nothing Ever Goes The Way You Plan) 1 Pluto - Your Honour 1 Shakatak - Night Birds 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: tbc Tie to be settled with the next poll!

The Cure - Boys Don't Cry up to a new peak of #74

The final session of 2025 will be at 4pm with 44 new songs to cover another 7 weeks of 1982! https://sync-tube.de/room/2gHBerpI

All lists updated, as I've done most weeks: Amongst the many updates: - 'Rein Me In' looks guaranteed to become the second song to spend more than 30 weeks in the Top 40 before first falling to ACR - Brenda Lee and Elton John's Christmas songs reach new peaks after the 3rd and 4th most weeks respectively in both the Top 100 and Top 40 - Dean Martin has only the seventh song to have had at least 15 new peaks in the Top 100 - Shakin' Stevens has only the fourth song to have entered the Top 10 in 8 or more different calendar years - 'Holly Jolly Christmas' becomes the first song to spend 26 weeks (half a year) in the Top 40 without going Top 20