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    1 Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia [favourite]

    2 CHVRCHES feat. Hayley Williams - Bury It

    3 A-ha - I’ve Been Losing You

    4 Avril Lavigne - Losing Grip

    5 Ellie Goulding - Figure 8

    6 Mary J. Blige - Just Fine

    7 The Saturdays - Notorious

    8 Louise - 2 Faced

    9 Christina Aguilera - Infatuation

    10 Little Mix feat. Charlie Puth - Oops

    On 23/06/2025 at 22:32, jimwatts said:

    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.

    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

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    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 o 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 !

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    '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!

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    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!

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    1 hour ago, gasman449 said:

    Good to see so many new entries at the bottom end of the top 40, hope they all hang on. Also hoping Fred and Sam overtake Calvin so he can keep his bingo!

    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.

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    '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 😃

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    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

    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.