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01 Cult Of Venus - Algorithm [01-01-01-01-01] 02 Amelie Lens - Serenity [13-05-03-03-02] 03 LSR/CITY, Gareth Emery, Annabel - out of the sky [03] 04 Blondshell - Event Of A Fire [29-05-04-02-02-02-04] 05 Zanias - Cataclysm [22-06-04-05] 06 Avalon Emerson - Treat Mode [23-11-07-06-04-03-03-03-04-05-06] 07 Yndling - As Fast As I Can [01-01-02-04-05-06-07] 08 Remy Bond - Moviestar [29-26-16-08] 09 Grace Davies - Super Love Me [20-16-09-09] 10 Max Dean, Locky, Luke Dean - Curveball [22-18-XX(4)-12-08-10] 11 Haute & Freddy - Shy Girl [22-15-10-07-06-07-07-11] 12 Eelke Kleijn, Emily Roberts - Watching Over Me [23-14-12-14-12-12] 13 Fazerdaze - Motorway [35-29-19-13] 14 Schrotthagen - Schattenkinder [24-15-14] 15 Suki Waterhouse - On This Love [17-13-12-10-11-14-15] 16 Jax Jones, Ado - Stay Gold [16] 17 Grum - Homelands [17] 18 Etta Marcus - Wolf River [27-18-18] 19 Joon Gloom - Jinx! [25-20-19] 20 Blusher - LAST MAN STANDING [20] 21 MØ - Keep Møving [25-02-02-01-01-01-03-02-05-07-08-10-21] 22 LALA HAYDEN - beast [21-14-12-11-09-09-11-15-11-22] 23 Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not [22-19-12-07-07-06-05-04-05-06-06-08-09-13-23] 24 TDJ, Clara Kimera - On And On (You Lie) [22-24] 25 Ethel Cain - Nettles [25-25] 26 Debbii Dawson - You Killed The Music [16-07-01-01-01-01-01-02-02-03-06-07-08-09-10-17-26] 27 Pearly Drops - Ratgirl [27] 28 She Past Away - İnziva [29-28] 29 Twenty One Pilots - The Contract [29] 30 Max Dean, Luke Dean, Locky - Can't Decide [36-30-24-30] 31 TDJ - Where Is My Angel [31] 32 LSR/CITY, Gareth Emery, Coheed and Cambria - counting on you [21-15-13-21-32] 33 ILLENIUM, HAYLA - In My Arms [23-16-18-23-33] 34 Litku Klemetti - Tour de France [07-07-08-11-13-19-27-34] 35 Ummet Ozcan - Ocean's Voice [31-35] 36 Sorana - DON'T SEND ME FLOWERS [32-36] 37 ROSÉ - Messy [21-20-17-17-26-37] 38 Cameo Blush - Here [38] 39 Pangaea - Manía [39-XX(2)-39] 40 John O'Callaghan, Hailey J. - Lost In Sound [40]

This didn't get much of a 19 June boost on Spotify yesterday, even if it had counted.

Will never complain about 'APT.' getting a play!

Enjoyed all the new entries and resets so far - 'The Contract' is great!

It probably did enough for a reset last week but if I understood OCC's rationale for what gets reset and what doesn't I'd tell you - can't see any difference to 'Let Down' the previous week and that didn't get one last week.

Oh the reset finally kicked in for this! Lovely track.

Spotify has now updated for Wednesday! Fred again.. in at #9 'Ordinary' is down 33k on the previous Wednesday, therefore after being just ahead all week, it's now very slightly down across Fri-Wed by 5k (less than -0.2%)

The lack of a Spotify update is clearly down to shenanigans whereby 'Ordinary' ends up with estimated streams for Wednesday as well as Thursday that will keep it on SCR / send it to ACR (delete as appropriate)

Also starting with J-Lo. Mostly a good list with a few repeats, but one of my top favourites of the decade is here too ❤️

Welcome to the latest of our listening marathons, covering every UK Top 40 single from the start of the 1980s! I will host the listening sessions for this series, which will run from 16:00 to 19:00 UK time on Sundays (19:30 including bonus tracks). I'll be playing every song in chronological order of when it first entered the UK Top 40 over sessions of approx. 3 hours, starting in January 1980, then in the next session I'll pick up where we left off. We will be using Synctube for the sessions. Anyone is welcome to join, even if just to listen in, why not give it a go? Feel free to join for as much or as little of the session as you like, and join in the live chat if you wish. Unless otherwise stated during the thread, the Synctube link will be: https://sync-tube.de/room/2gHBerpI The first session will take place this Sunday (22 June) and will cover the first 6 weeks of 1980. I’ll plan the sessions on a year-by-year basis, so I’ll run the 7 or 8 sessions for 1980 and see how they go. All being well, I’ll carry on through 1981, 1982, and so on, with the aim to eventually cover every year of the 1980s, albeit with a few breaks along the way – so the whole project will take a few years, if it does ever get finished! Alongside these sessions, @Julian_ will run reviews of each song, as part of his project to review every Top 40 hit in chart history: the existing 20th Century thread https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/259820-julian-rates-every-20th-century-top-40-hit starts in 1952 (currently complete to the end of 1971) and the 21st Century thread https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/270110-julian-rates-every-21st-century-top-40-hit starts in 2000, so this will be a third line of approach – but it should all join up eventually. (Maybe there’ll be some 1990s sessions at some point, but I’m tentatively committing to more than enough as it is!!) Here is his 1980s thread: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/280473-julian-rates-every-top-40-hit-the-1980s-edition I will end each session with a number of bonus tracks in the following categories: New UK Top 3 singles and #1 album tracks - as we have already done listening marathons for each of #1 singles, #2 singles, #3 singles, and #1 albums, I will keep these topped up as and when there are new songs that fall into these categories! New US #1 singles - as the most recent listening marathon hosted by @Brer went through every US #1, I will play any new ones (although if they coincide with one of the above categories in the same session, they won’t get played two times over!) RIPs - whenever someone notable from the music world passes away during the week, feel free to nominate a track of theirs or relating to them to play (does not have to be a chart hit). Birthday slot - if you have a birthday on the day of a session or during the week before or after, you can PM me with a random track of your choice. Jamelia slot - when somebody thinks of a random track people want to hear for no particular reason. I’ll try and limit these this series to finish as close to 19:30 as possible though. After each session, I’ll share the list of songs played in the main session, which will also serve to open a poll for the best Top 40 hit from the timeframe covered! The winner of each poll will be played at the start of the following session, and may eventually go into a poll of polls. I’m not planning to include a poll of worst songs, but by all means post your least favourites as well as your favourites if you so wish. (The other difference to previous series is there won’t be a poll for bonus choices – generally these were songs which peaked lower than the series covered over the same timeframe, e.g. #4-10 singles for the #2 & #3 series, #2 album tracks for the #1 album series – however at some point I’ll collate all new songs in all these previous bonus categories since the last series ended, so that they can have their chance to shine too!) Hope you enjoy the series!

I'm sure Tim would have appreciated another 18, though I think yours was well spent Despite some varying results, I've had exactly one 18 in each of the last 4 contests (Bøtanikkä, Oslol, Jupiterdonia, Cheiron) which is quite neat!

Voted

Those mentioned are the only ones to be at #1 on ACR so far. 'Despacito' actually dropped to #2 the week it went to ACR, but then returned to #1 on ACR for 2 weeks. 'Blinding Lights' was a non-mover at #2 in the week it first went to ACR as it had a boost from the album release, but it was then reset to SCR (this is when automatic resets had a week's delay) and returned to #1 the following week. On whether ACR is doing what it is supposed to, I would say removing the most consumed song from #1 prematurely is not what it should be for - it should be for songs which have already peaked to speed up their descent and give space to fresher hits. Unfortunately, it's often songs doing big numbers at the top that are more prone to falling to ACR early, as their numbers are so high they have to come down, whereas the songs which have been around so long their rates of attrition have become minimal are the ones that end up avoiding with every bank holiday or show of warm weather that affects the whole market.

Its Tuesday streams are down, but every other day this week was up on last week - in total it is 28k (1.1%) ahead over Fri-Tue. Last Wednesday's streams were 504k so it could still be in deficit if today's aren't close to that.

Great choices for the youtubes again there - 'Head Over Heels' and 'Raspberry Beret' are often underrated among the respective artists' bigger hits.

Could we see a spreadsheet of everyone's scores in the final pls? 🙏

How many weeks would 'Umbrella' have had at #1 if it hadn't been such a rainy few months in the UK in 2007? I'd still guess at least 9 weeks, maybe the one where Kate Nash was super close would have swung, but it still would have been massive.

I am pleased the Pet Shop Boys made it through, even at the expense of my own artist. I don't know if we'll see the scores, but I think there's only one pairing SASAMI might have won, and even there the late votes may have swung it against her. It matters not... she has beaten the odds to get as far as Round 4, the only artist to do so without a charting album and the only one without a hit single (albeit as part of Måneskin in Damiano's case), and she doesn't have a thread in this forum either, so it's very nice to see many of you say enjoyed her songs or they were a good discovery. I'd certainly recommend her album Blood On The Silver Screen mainly for how consistent it is, there were maybe 8 or more tracks which could have been the singles, not the most groundbreaking music perhaps, just well-written pop songs, and although 'Just Be Friends' is one of my personal favourites I didn't think it would have the appeal here, but as a pre-album release it felt wrong to leave it out. She clearly won't be taking this golden Wagbo, and I've sent a song which will be aptly titled (yep, that one), but good luck to whoever does come through and the eight already there, I'll keep voting of course! Don't know who I'd have entered as an artist who could actually have a chance of winning this - The Weeknd perhaps? Not sure, maybe next time.

The only "madness" is that the song never charted in the first place (For what it's worth, I do think the 100:1 ratio for most, i.e. paid, streams to a sale is overgenerous for an all-time total, and had the OCC chosen 300:1 that might have kept some parity with the sales-only era for a while longer, but we're way past that now.)

'Treat Mode' back at a new peak Only two other songs in this top 75 are still in my chart (two weeks after it) and one of them is about to drop out, leaving only 'Love Me Not' which has surely peaked (looks like Lorde's best chance of #1 has also passed now oops). 'Blessings' vs. 'Baller' would be an interesting battle for the next #1 though!

Dua one week away from a year and a half at #1! Calvin the only male artist of the 11 with 7 or more #1s, wonder if 'Blessings' could give him a 10th... I alluded to this in the EOY multichart thread, but 2024 was strange in that the top spot was dominated by a small number of artists, while Billie, Charli and Chappell weren't among them but dominated the EOY chart instead due to having many of the longest running multichart hits of the year between them! Something that has continued for Chappell this year with 'Pink Pony Club' peaking at #4 and 'The Giver' stalling at #2. Happy 1000 multicharts - thanks Jordan for presenting this!

'Gravel Pit' for the win, easily the best of the bunch in this round!

The moment of Puth?

Congratulations Dan another great song from Alphaville (where were all these votes for 'Forever Young' etc. etc.... yeah I know it doesn't work like that). Pleased with that top 3 - in fact I voted for 8 of the top 10 with my top score from Mr Oizo falling just short. 16th for Young MC is fine all things considered, though it's my first repeat position here, and now my most popular position in any song contest on Buzzjack with this being my fifth entry to land there *_* Maybe I should have tested the veto with 'Blitzkrieg Bop', or one of the Joy Division songs I half-considered - I also thought of something else which might have been up more voters' streets after the voting opened, maybe I'll save it another contest here if it fits again in future. Blobby interventions notwithstanding, thanks Bré for the hosting!

Didn't expect a gold and completing a medal set at that thank you Cow!