jimwatts

Voted Skye Newman though even that's just OK for me

Amelie Lens this week

Basically the 3rd-6th lists in this post: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/222177-most-weeks-in-total-in-the-uk-singles-top-100-75-50-40/page/2/#findComment-6590572

Chart #82 17/05/2025 01 01 Yndling - As Fast As I Can [01-01] 02 03 MØ - Keep Møving [25-02-02-01-01-01-03-02] 03 04 Avalon Emerson - Treat Mode [23-11-07-06-04-03] 04 02 Dexndre - 100 wings [02-04] 05 29 Blondshell - Event Of A Fire [29-05] 06 05 Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not [22-19-12-07-07-06-05-04-05-06] 07 06 Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music [16-07-01-01-01-01-01-02-02-03-06-07] 08 07 Litku Klemetti - Tour de France [07-07-08] 09 11 LALA HAYDEN - beast [21-14-12-11-09] 10 15 Haute & Freddy - Shy Girl [22-15-10] 11 08 Lana Del Rey - Henry, come on [05-03-02-08-11] 12 10 Divorce - Lord [33-27-20-15-12-08-06-05-10-12] 13 17 Suki Waterhouse - On This Love [17-13] 14 09 Miley Cyrus - End Of The World [05-03-04-08-09-14] 15 12 goneMUNE - AMNESIA [09-12-15] 16 13 KASHIWA Daisuke - Ice [11-13-16] 17 16 Remember Monday - What The Hell Just Happened? [24-21-17-16-16-16-16-16-16-17] 18 14 Blanck Mass - You [04-03-03-03-02-03-02-03-03-03-04-08-10-14-18] 19 25 Lady Gaga - How Bad Do U Want Me [37-37-34-30-30-30-30-25-19] 20 19 Arcade Fire - Year Of The Snake [22-21-19-19-20] 21 NE ROSÉ - Messy [21] 22 18 Lana Del Rey - Bluebird [10-13-18-22] 23 NE Eelke Kleijn, Emily Roberts - Watching Over Me [23] 24 21 Messa - At Races [21-21-24] 25 NE HEALTH, Chelsea Wolfe - MEAN [25] 26 22 H3rizon - Soul Ties (Don't Give It Up) [23-22-26] 27 NE akiaura, LONOWN, Baby Jane - Deathwish [27] 28 26 Patrick Wolf - Dies Irae [35-31-31-31-31-27-26-26-26-26-28] 29 27 Patrick Wolf - Hymn Of The Haar [31-27-27-29] 30 20 Lady Gaga - Zombieboy [21-18-11-08-09-10-11-15-20-30] 31 28 Jorja Smith - The Way I Love You [28-31] 32 NE Calvin Harris, Clementine Douglas - Blessings [32] 33 34 Suki Waterhouse - Think Twice [34-33] 34 24 Willow Kayne - Zenosyne [03-02-04-06-09-12-17-24-34] 35 31 FKA twigs - Striptease [09-08-07-06-05-04-05-06-07-12-13-15-18-24-31-35] 36 NE yeule - Evangelic Girl Is A Gun [36] 37 32 Sharon Van Etten - Trouble [03-03-02-02-02-03-04-07-08-11-14-18-20-29-32-37] 38 NE SONIKKU - Talk 2 Me [38] 39 23 Paul Webster, Bo Bruce - Holding The Light [30-15-06-05-04-05-04-07-09-14-23-39] 40 NE Perfume Genius - Clean Heart [40] Dropping out XX 30 Lady Gaga - Garden Of Eden [08-08-06-10-11-12-13-20-30-XX] XX 33 Green Day - Ballyhoo [33-XX] XX 35 Lady Gaga - Abracadabra [06-01-01-01-01-02-04-05-06-10-14-15-25-35-XX] XX 36 Lorde - What Was That [36-XX] XX 37 Momma - I Want You (Fever) [28-37-XX] XX 38 Arcade Fire - Pink Elephant [38-XX] XX 39 CRUSH3d - a way out / angel [39-XX] XX 40 NewDad - Entertainer [40-XX]

01 Yndling - As Fast As I Can [01-01] 02 MØ - Keep Møving [25-02-02-01-01-01-03-02] 03 Avalon Emerson - Treat Mode [23-11-07-06-04-03] 04 Dexndre - 100 wings [02-04] 05 Blondshell - Event Of A Fire [29-05] 06 Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not [22-19-12-07-07-06-05-04-05-06] 07 Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music [16-07-01-01-01-01-01-02-02-03-06-07] 08 Litku Klemetti - Tour de France [07-07-08] 09 LALA HAYDEN - beast [21-14-12-11-09] 10 Haute & Freddy - Shy Girl [22-15-10] 11 Lana Del Rey - Henry, come on [05-03-02-08-11] 12 Divorce - Lord [33-27-20-15-12-08-06-05-10-12] 13 Suki Waterhouse - On This Love [17-13] 14 Miley Cyrus - End Of The World [05-03-04-08-09-14] 15 goneMUNE - AMNESIA [09-12-15] 16 KASHIWA Daisuke - Ice [11-13-16] 17 Remember Monday - What The Hell Just Happened? [24-21-17-16-16-16-16-16-16-17] 18 Blanck Mass - You [04-03-03-03-02-03-02-03-03-03-04-08-10-14-18] 19 Lady Gaga - How Bad Do U Want Me [37-37-34-30-30-30-30-25-19] 20 Arcade Fire - Year Of The Snake [22-21-19-19-20] 21 ROSÉ - Messy [21] 22 Lana Del Rey - Bluebird [10-13-18-22] 23 Eelke Kleijn, Emily Roberts - Watching Over Me [23] 24 Messa - At Races [21-21-24] 25 HEALTH, Chelsea Wolfe - MEAN [25] 26 H3rizon - Soul Ties (Don't Give It Up) [23-22-26] 27 akiaura, LONOWN & STM - Baby Jane [27] 28 Patrick Wolf - Dies Irae [35-31-31-31-31-27-26-26-26-26-28] 29 Patrick Wolf - Hymn Of The Haar [31-27-27-29] 30 Lady Gaga - Zombieboy [21-18-11-08-09-10-11-15-20-30] 31 Jorja Smith - The Way I Love You [28-31] 32 Calvin Harris, Clementine Douglas - Blessings [32] 33 Suki Waterhouse - Think Twice [34-33] 34 Willow Kayne - Zenosyne [03-02-04-06-09-12-17-24-34] 35 FKA twigs - Striptease [09-08-07-06-05-04-05-06-07-12-13-15-18-24-31-35] 36 yeule - Evangelic Girl Is A Gun [36] 37 Sharon Van Etten - Trouble [03-03-02-02-02-03-04-07-08-11-14-18-20-29-32-37] 38 SONIKKU - Talk 2 Me [38] 39 Paul Webster, Bo Bruce - Holding The Light [30-15-06-05-04-05-04-07-09-14-23-39] 40 Perfume Genius - Clean Heart [40]

Excluding the UK, my votes would be: 12 Denmark 10 Luxembourg 8 Sweden 7 Austria 6 Albania 5 Germany 4 Iceland 3 Netherlands 2 Latvia 1 San Marino

and you were right not to: Teddy Swims - Bad Dreams now extends its record of having the most runs in the Top 10 within the same chart run, now at 6! [15-8-6-12-22-22-74-x-] 7-9-9-11-9-11-15-14-16-10-9-11-9-11-13-9-10-12-12-9... In terms of total runs in the Top 10, it has 7 and is one short of the record of 8 (so far) amassed by Michael Bublé - It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas without reaching the Top 5.

+5 Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not +4 Calvin Harris & Clementine Douglas - Blessings +3 Sombr - Undressed +2 Ed Sheeran - Azizam +1 Teddy Swims - Bad Dreams -1 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club -2 Alex Warren - Ordinary -3 WizTheMc & bees & honey - Show Me Love -4 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -5 Myles Smith - Nice To Meet You

'Show Me Love' potentially going to ACR before the 5 other songs in the Top 10 I mentioned in the Sales thread is bonkers.

OK, aside from the UK song which I've known and liked for months, this from Denmark is easily my favourite of the contest so far.

Fri-Wed comparisons to last week (of course Thursdays aren't used): Ordinary +1.55% Pink Pony Club +3.64% Beautiful Things +2.49% My feeling is the streaming total for 'Ordinary' will have a small decline tomorrow and the other two will have increased, but we'll see.

Shakespeare's been awfully quiet since N Dubz gave us "I've been searching all over Facebook" - still that's no match for the lyrical drivel of the Ordinary Boys song, so that can go next.

Has that Simon and Garfunkel album even charted before? Can't find anything about it on Wikipedia!

I think 'Birds Of A Feather' should have a peak of #2 as per the first chart on page 25.

Siberiaaaaa!

My favourites since I last commented: all 3 Dua Lipa songs in the top 30 30. Felix Jaehn & Leony - "Waking Up" 55. Alice Merton - "Run Away Girl" 61. Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - “Die With A Smile” 81. Rosé & Bruno Mars - “APT.” I gave your #1 song a listen and it sounds quite catchy!

As well as 'undressed', new peaks for 'Shake It To The Max' and 'Let Down'. Fri-Mon totals compared to last week's: Ordinary +1.7% Pink Pony Club +3.8% Beautiful Things +2.7% Still time for change and of course other platforms aren't factored in, but it's looking like another week where everything that's been around for a while increases.

This is my sort of thread! Some thoughts / replies: Agree that most of the records you mentioned will take some doing to be broken. For those above, as Bjork pointed out 'Last Christmas' should grab the record of most weeks at #1 (barring any drastic rule changes, it's a case of when not if) and then keep adding to it as 'Mr Brightside' is doing for the Top 100 (and now the Top 75, currently at 197 weeks). The most weeks at #2 without going to #1 is one I could see changing hands or at least being tied, given (as Mango mentioned) the recency of MOTD and 'APT.' which have come close - the latter of these would in fact now have the record at 10 weeks had there been no ACR. That is indeed Idina Menzel - Let It Go, with 45 weeks. It will be tough to break that now with ACR - a Christmas song could eventually get there, but none are close (I think Bublé's 'Holly Jolly Christmas' is nearest with 22 weeks). I think 'Last Christmas' could eventually move ahead here too as it's only 3 weeks behind and was higher for the entirety of their last two Top 10 runs, but I can't see anything else catching them. (Unless 'Beautiful Things' stays on SCR until the end of September!) The problem I now have increasingly with most of these kind of longevity records is that there are a small group of songs which now or inevitably soon will dominate them - obviously Christmas songs will continue to be streamed heavily every year, while 'Mr Brightside' has been immovable for the rest of the year for some time now. In the last few years, other older songs like 'Iris' and 'Riptide' have latched on to similar levels of inertia such that they rarely leave the Top 100 now and are eclipsing the total weeks accrued by newer songs such as 'Blinding Lights', 'Heat Waves' and 'Shotgun' which now appear to have had their time in the chart and eventually fizzled out. I'm not sure how I feel about that - those last three songs were hugely long-running hits, and while they still have impressive consecutive weeks tallies to show for it, the effect of Christmas songs has damaged that as a metric (e.g. 'Stick Season' dropping out for a week). Still it was already the case that the digital era obliterated the once-impressive longevities of the likes of 'Blue Monday' and 'White Lines (Don't Do It)' so perhaps this is just another step in the evolution. I just prefer the kind of records where a few new songs can come along and challenge for a while, and then let something else have a go!

Funnily enough, I was just about to mention that rate! https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/258022-worst-number-one-ever-the-grand-final/page/16/#findComment-7223127 All three songs made the top 50, 'I Feel You' highest at 16. Personally I think that precludes all of them from being ordinary - as Jay said in the other thread, describing a song as "dull and boring" skews it towards negative, whereas to be ordinary it would be more straight down the middle. For me, the test would be: if you took the #1 song and mixed it with 4 songs from the same year which peaked lower down the Top 10 (or perhaps lower), and played them to 100 people, then asked them all to guess which one was the #1, how many of them would get it right? I suggested Cover Drive - Twilight in the other thread as literally the first thing that came into my head (a few people liked / agreed by the way, so I think it should be added if there is a bigger poll), but it struck me as the sort of song where if it had entered and peaked at #6 instead, would anyone be surprised then or now? Sure it still has its fans, and it's certainly not a bad song, but perhaps more of an inoffensively passable one than a classic of its time. Though of course these things will always be subjective!

Interesting to see the interpretation of an ordinary #1 being a song that's dull and boring. Here's how my Oxford dictionary & thesaurus defines 'ordinary': "normal or usual"; "standard, conventional, typical, common, commonplace, customary, habitual, everyday, regular, routine, established, run-of-the-mill, unremarkable, unexceptional" I agree with this, and wouldn't choose 'Forever Love' for this reason (the first solo single from a member of Take That was quite a big deal at the time), as well as that I wouldn't say it sounds like a typical big hit of around that time.

Voted for 'Deathwish', 'Feel The Rain' and 'Energy Angels (On Earth)' in the main poll. Tiebreak vote for 'Treat Mode' which is shaping up to be one of my favourites of the year so far!

Here's another, although it's the same song remixed: 28/11/1998 Scott Grooves Title: Mothership Reconnection Peak: 55 Chart run: {55}->1 21/08/1999 Scott Grooves Title: Mothership Reconnection {1999} Peak: 55 Chart run: {55}->1

Going by the exact artist billing, here's an exact match between Top 75 runs of consecutive songs! 02/01/2021 LadBaby Don't Stop Me Eatin' Peak: 1 Chart run: {1}->1 31/12/2022 LadBaby Food Aid Peak: 1 Chart run: {1}->1

That is an impressive find! Can't find anything to match it from consecutive songs for the same artist, but Robson & Jerome's first two singles started 1-1-1-1... Gina G's first 3 singles all entered at #6 with the second and third opening 6-10... and although not consecutive, Sash!'s first and third singles opened 2-4-4-5...

Ronan whitewash incoming - annoyingly it blocked Brandy - Afrodisiac from making it a record 8 new entries in the Top 10 when it dropped 2-10 in week 2.