jimwatts

Just to follow-up on this, and apologies for the stats dump - not counting for the first two weeks when 'I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun' was still #1 as those songs entered in 1999, for the remaining 51 weeks of 2000 there were: 42 new #1s which collectively took up 28 weeks at #2 (all on their way down except 'Can We Fix It?') 18 new #2 peakers which took up the other 23 weeks at #2 24 of those 42 #1s dropped to #2 afterwards, including 19 of the 35 which spent a single week at #1 Of the remaining 16 to spend a single week at #1, seven went 1-3, six went 1-4, and the other three went 1-5, 1-8 & 1-8 2 songs spent multiple weeks at #1 without then dropping to #2 ['Lady (Hear Me Tonight)' dropped to #3, 'Can We Fix It?' dropped to #4 in 2001] 4 of the 18 #2 peakers spent multiple weeks at #2, therefore altogether 30 of the 60 new songs to peak at either #1 or #2 spent multiple weeks in the Top 2 during 2000

I thought it highly likely my original artist had been taken by the time I saw the thread on Sunday morning. Reconfirmed for now...

I think I lost just six songs, with only 'Immigrant Song' dropping out today, and it looks like 'Ring Of Fire' would have missed the cut-off even if I'd remembered to include it. I considered '505' and it didn't quite make my top 30, but I assumed it would be safe fortunately other Arctics songs are still here. I hadn't really considered wildcards and my +30 looked safe even before I voted, but anything I might have bumped up in its place wouldn't have gone far in the next round anyway. Thanks for the write-ups so far @gasman449 !

'Illegal' at a new peak now - official Top 40 surely incoming for it! Ravyn combined is less than 3k streams behind Sabrina after being ahead in the last update, maybe she still has a shot in future weeks? I think Sabrina will be safely #1 this week anyway. Only because of ACR of course - it increasingly looks like Sabrina's vinyls two weeks ago and a decline of a few thousand streams for 'Ordinary' last week were all that kept Bryan Adams' record intact!

Confirmed, have considered this song for a while, but it felt too short for the main contest!

I think aside from the four newest songs I voted for - the Capaldi 'Forever' (not too surprised to be its only voter), 'Jerusalema', 'Canter' and 'Doin' Time' - the only other loss from my votes is 'Twist And Shout'. A couple of the Oasis casualties and Tame Impala's TLIKTB made my thinking, but I did vote for others of theirs still in. 'Ring Of Fire' is one that got away for me though - I clocked it when I first read through the list on my phone, but overlooked it when I went back over to make my shortlist! Would have been somewhere around my 15 points if I'd remembered so I fear that may have cost it advancing, but I'm glad so many of my actual votes are still in.

This was a fun way to revisit these songs and the unique variety at #1 within one single year! It's perhaps testament to the strength at the top that there were so few #2 peakers in 2000, as that spot was usually taken up by one of the #1s dropping down - very few of them crashed out of sight after a single week at #1. 'Stan' is my favourite #1 of the year - even before its single release I remember it being talked up as a standout moment on the album, and the way the story is told really takes the listener through the emotions. That and 'Groovejet' are the remaining ones I bought in their opening weeks, the latter after it had been announced as #2 on Saturday's CD:UK - I was pretty pleased with the chart conclusion the next day. I appreciate the glass of water write-in for 'Don't Call Me Baby' though that and 'Pure Shores' would be a little lower for me - the latter is the one I'm fairly indifferent to that most of Buzzjack seems to love (something of a once per decade occurrence, see also 'Take On Me', 'Frozen', 'Midnight Sky', possibly a 2010s one too but those four are the most extreme), nice production and harmonies but it just kind of drifts by for me and I'd probably rank 'Black Coffee' above it as well as keeping 'Never Ever' as their signature hit. That just leaves 'Toca's Miracle', whose wonderful musical alchemy is soured for me only by its subsequent licensing saga - the re-recording is a game attempt but clearly a different voice - but back in the early 2000s when all seemed rosy, it soundtracked the time perfectly. Thanks Rich for this thread and your write-ups, always a great read!

'Kaukes' wasn't bad at all and could have had my third vote on another day. Would have been nice to see everyone with points! Thank you to the mystery SASAMI voter

I also thought Scooter were safe Voted Kelly again, lucky to still be here, but looks like she'll see off U2 next.

Last week, 'Family Matters' and 'undressed' finished 2k ahead, but both appear to be losing ground - would be most annoying if just one of them overtook and Calvin ended up at #6! 'Now It's Gone' could be about to lose its record runs without going Top 75 & at a #76 peak too.

Sabrina needs one more week to equal the 44 weeks of Elvis Presley's G.I. Blues [OST] as the longest run in the Top 5 for any (not just studio) solo artist album.

Julian has also prepared the accompanying Spotify playlist (which is being added to in advance of future sessions) - all songs in today's session appear there except: Keith Michell - Captain Beaky/Wilfred The Weasel and Dave Edmunds - Singing The Blues.

Thanks for the votes so far. Thanks also to @Julian_ for the Polyhex chart runs I'm using as each song comes up on the Synctube sessions. These will appear in his reviews thread whose link (also added to the opening post) is: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/280473-julian-rates-every-top-40-hit-the-1980s-edition

Well done Louise and CHVRCHES - particularly pleased the latter made it through! Commiserations to SASAMI's fellow exitees. So did I! Many other 70s Elton songs would have made my top 3, 'Tiny Dancer' is my favourite of his.

'The Real Slim Shady' is the song I referred to that I was pleased to have made the top 12 - understandably it was next out, but it was an important #1 as the one where Eminem truly arrived in the social conscience and threw off any remnants of the novelty tag. A few other good ones have dropped out, but the remaining two I bought in the opening week are still here. Love the Mel C anecdote, quite a claim to fame there! Wonder if the glass of water will make an appearance regarding one of the songs left 😃

Thanks all who joined today's first session! Here's the 44 hits covered today: Madness - My Girl Dr Hook - Better Love Next Time Positive Force - We Got The Funk The Inmates - The Walk Styx - Babe Bee Gees - Spirits (Having Flown) Jon And Vangelis - I Hear You Now Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls Azymuth - Jazz Carnival The Regents - 7 Teen UFO - Young Blood Fleetwood Mac - Sara Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) The Specials - Too Much Too Young (The Special AKA Live! EP) New Musik - Living By Numbers Kool And The Gang - Too Hot Matchbox - Buzz Buzz A Diddle It Kenny Rogers - Coward Of The County Sister Sledge - Got To Love Somebody Sad Cafe - Strange Little Girl Amii Stewart - Paradise Bird/The Letter Commodores - Wonderland The Boomtown Rats - Someone's Looking At You The Selecter - Three Minute Hero Queen - Save Me Jefferson Starship - Jane Suzi Quatro - Mama's Boy The Buggles - The Plastic Age Ramones - Baby I Love You The Whispers - And The Beat Goes On Keith Michell - Captain Beaky/Wilfred The Weasel The Shadows - Riders In The Sky Cliff Richard - Carrie John Foxx - Underpass Michael Jackson - Rock With You Brass Construction - Music Makes You Feel Like Dancing Dexy's Midnight Runners - Dance Stance Elvis Costello - I Can't Stand Up (For Falling Down) The Tourists - So Good To Be Back Home Again AC/DC - Touch Too Much Rainbow - All Night Long Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers Dave Edmunds - Singing The Blues The Chords - Maybe Tomorrow Votes welcome for up to five of your favourites, with the song with the most votes played at the start of next week's session! My votes: The Specials - Too Much Too Young New Musik - Living By Numbers Amii Stewart - Paradise Bird The Buggles - The Plastic Age John Foxx - Underpass

I have planned to catch up on #1 album tracks tonight, and RIPs next week.

Starting at 4pm today! https://sync-tube.de/room/2gHBerpI

Modjo's is one of those I bought - I had hoped it to be higher, but it is of a similar template to Stardust's #2 of 1998, while the best French house song of the year for me is the Daft Punk one that was held off #1 by LeAnn Rimes! 'Rise' and 'Music' I'd also take over some of the 12 which are left - the latter is probably my favourite post-1980s Madonna #1, though that's pretty much sacrilege on this site (as is my general indifference to the song which may or may not top this list, but we'll see...) though there is one left I'm particularly pleased is still here.

Most Days at #1 on UK Spotify #1 Wham! - Last Christmas - 108 Days #2 Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance - 101 Days #3 Alex Warren - Ordinary - 88 Days #4 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter - 87 Days #5 Tones and I - Dance Monkey - 81 Days

Only Ed's second ever multichart #1 Calvin narrowly missing out on his 10th, for now! Happy to see another new peak for 'Treat Mode' via that 4-way tiebreak *.*

My favourites on this page are the two rated 7/10 in the first batch - 'If You're Not The One' is a mature ballad, and 'Lonesome Day' a great post-9/11 thematic opener to the album The Rising, although the title track (which made #94 the following year) is the album's best and up there with many of Bruce's greatest songs. Here was my top 10 of the year in full (decade positions in brackets): 1 Idlewild - American English (#15) 2 The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl (#21) 3 Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke (#43) [entered the Top 75 on import in the last week of 2002] 4 The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? (#44) 5 U2 - Electrical Storm (#46) 6 Lasgo - Something (#74) 7 Doves - There Goes The Fear (#82) 8 Idlewild - You Held The World In Your Arms (#84) 9 Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising (#87) 10 The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (#93)

I had been wondering when 'The Masses Against The Classes' would come up in this, and 24th isn't bad - it came and went very quickly at the time, but I returned to it a few years ago, it was rare to hear The Manics sound so urgent. That and 'Beautiful Day' are my favourites so far - I liked the latter more at the time, though it's the album's 4th single 'Walk On' that's my favourite from it these days. Some great songs still to come, including three I bought on the week they went to #1!

SHM out of these

+5 Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not +4 Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas - Blessings +3 MK feat. Chrystal - Dior +2 Sombr - Back To Friends +1 Sombr - Undressed -1 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club -2 Ed Sheeran - Sapphire -3 Alex Warren - Ordinary -4 Skye Newman - Family Matters -5 Sabrina Carpenter - Manchild