jimwatts

Very happy to see Herbilore and Conoria back in a final!

Looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Hope any points I've sent the SF1 non-voters haven't gone to waste just because of that!

Don't recall Son Of Dork going down that badly in the #3 sessions, but certainly not a great song with little of the charm of Busted. I actually voted for S Club 8 first, the whole rebrand as the replacement for S Club 7 while they were still so young just didn't seem right.

Switching to Fergie (shouldn't it be Tower Bridge anyway 😆)

Also switching to Bob Sinclar now

The OCC splits the 72 weeks from its digital era run and the 17 weeks from its original run in the 1980s, so 89 weeks Top 40 altogether.

Here's my stab at a top 10, I may have missed some others above 400 points. Wham! will surely only add to their lead as time goes on: 890 Last Christmas 686 Shape Of You 675 One Dance 650 As It Was 648 I Believe 624 Bad Habits 572 Dance Monkey 560 Blinding Lights 483 Someone You Loved 406 Stick Season

For a while I thought 'The Chain' would become the first non-Top 75 hit to make an EOY top 100, until 'I Wanna Be Yours' got there first in 2023. Eight weeks into the year and still there are no 2025 releases in the top 40 (although Doechii's didn't chart until this year), but that should change next week.

'Angel Of Harlem' is my favourite single from Rattle And Hum, happy to see that enter. 'Good Life' is great too.

+25 R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts +24 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit +23 U2 - One +22 Green Day - Basket Case +21 Kygo and Selena Gomez – It Ain't Me +20 The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love +19 Crowded House - Weather With You +18 Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling +17 The Cure - The Love Cats +16 Oasis - Cigarettes And Alcohol +15 Uniting Nations – Out of Touch +14 Suede - Animal Nitrate +13 Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control +12 The Doors - Light My Fire +11 Alan Walker - Faded +10 Amy Winehouse - Rehab +9 Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime +8 Robert Miles - Fable +7 Pulp - Disco 2000 +6 Madness - One Step Beyond +5 The Bravery - An Honest Mistake +4 Evanescence - My Immortal +3 Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You +2 Bloc Party - Two More Years +1 The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind

Thanks for this Gezza, interesting to see how everything's selling! Adele no longer even in the top 10 studio albums :o

Still like 'Especially For You' and 'Suddenly' (and didn't watch Neighbours at the time). 'Stop!' is another good one from Erasure too.

Mumford & Sons' and Sam's were OK, but I hope there's better on the respective albums (when I get round to hearing it in full in Sam's case). Suki's I quite liked, but it has to be Fontaines this week!

Voted for MARINA. Decent spread of votes this week!

Voted for Mochakk this week

Green Day - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone Linkin Park - In The End

I see Robin Webb has returned :kink: that to go anyway, doubt it would have made Round 2 in most of these survivors, let alone Round 3 as well.

Switching to Mya

Avril to win from these two.

+5 Lady Gaga - Abracadabra +4 Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All The Stars +3 Lola Young - Messy +2 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please +1 Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us -1 Chappell Roan - Pink Pony Club -2 Kendrick Lamar & SZA - luther -3 Chrystal - The Days -4 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things -5 Sabrina Carpenter - Busy Woman

Chart #70 22/02/2025 01 01 Lady Gaga - Abracadabra [06-01-01] 02 02 Sharon Van Etten - Trouble [03-03-02-02] 03 03 Blanck Mass - You [04-03-03] 04 04 The Marías - No One Noticed [09-01-01-04-04] 05 05 KOMPROMAT, Rebeka Warrior, Vitalic - LIFT ME UP [05-05-05-05] 06 07 FKA twigs - Striptease [09-08-07-06] 07 09 jasmine.4.t - Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation [07-09-09-07] 08 08 The Weeknd - Cry For Me [12-08-08] 09 20 Sharon Van Etten - Idiot Box [20-09] 10 06 The Lathums - Heartbreaker [02-02-06-10] 11 NE Ailith - Drought [11] 12 15 The Weeknd - Open Hearts [15-12] 13 11 Nao - Wildflowers [11-13-11-13] 14 10 Lane 8 - Walk The Plank [04-07-10-14] 15 12 Ruthlss - Ascension [06-10-12-15] 16 13 Eli Mich - I Told You [08-11-13-16] 17 14 Crowded House - Some Greater Plan (for Claire) [14-17-14-17] 18 18 Mumford & Sons - Rushmere [12-15-18-18] 19 17 Tamino, Mitski - Sanctuary [23-17-19] 20 16 Special Interest - Follow Me [10-14-16-20] 21 19 Belinda Carlisle - Sanity [20-19-21] 22 27 Tors - Scared [30-28-27-22] 23 NE Shura - Recognise [23] 24 21 They/Live - For The Pleasure [22-21-24] 25 22 Ela Minus - ONWARDS [13-18-22-25] 26 33 Sleigh Bells - Wanna Start A Band? [33-26] 27 28 Shlømo, Zorza - I WANNA FEEL [28-27] 28 24 Heartworms - Extraordinary Wings [21-25-24-28] 29 31 David Strasser - Fast Forward [31-29] 30 NE Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke - Back In The Game [30] 31 23 Obongjayar - Just My Luck [23-19-23-31] 32 NE Sharon Van Etten - I Can't Imagine (Why You Feel This Way) [32] 33 NE Sharon Van Etten - Indio [33] 34 NE Sharon Van Etten - Something Ain't Right [34] 35 25 CLARA - NERO GOTICO [26-25-35] 36 37 David Jackson - Mega Murphy's [37-36] 37 NE Echoberyl - I Am My Own Mother [37] 38 NE Echoberyl - Doll Heart [38] 39 NE Echoberyl - Through The Chaos [39] 40 40 Sonny Fodera, Clementine Douglas - Tell Me [40-40] Dropping out XX 26 Leony, G-Eazy - Rock n Roll [16-16-26-XX] XX 29 moistbreezy - Vice [19-24-29-XX] XX 30 DJ HEARTSTRING - Last Time Under Purple Skies [33-30-XX] XX 32 SZA - BMF [15-21-32-XX] XX 34 Spacey Jane - All The Noise [24-31-34-XX] XX 35 Nessa Barrett - DOES GOD CRY? [17-27-35-XX] XX 36 Nessa Barrett - LOVE LOOKS PRETTY ON YOU [36-36-XX] XX 38 Heartworms - Mad Catch [38-XX] XX 39 FKA twigs - Room Of Fools [39-XX]

01 Lady Gaga - Abracadabra [06-01-01] 02 Sharon Van Etten - Trouble [03-03-02-02] 03 Blanck Mass - You [04-03-03] 04 The Marías - No One Noticed [09-01-01-04-04] 05 KOMPROMAT, Rebeka Warrior, Vitalic - LIFT ME UP [05-05-05-05] 06 FKA twigs - Striptease [09-08-07-06] 07 jasmine.4.t - Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation [07-09-09-07] 08 The Weeknd - Cry For Me [12-08-08] 09 Sharon Van Etten - Idiot Box [20-09] 10 The Lathums - Heartbreaker [02-02-06-10] 11 Ailith - Drought [11] 12 The Weeknd - Open Hearts [15-12] 13 Nao - Wildflowers [11-13-11-13] 14 Lane 8 - Walk The Plank [04-07-10-14] 15 Ruthlss - Ascension [06-10-12-15] 16 Eli Mich - I Told You [08-11-13-16] 17 Crowded House - Some Greater Plan (for Claire) [14-17-14-17] 18 Mumford & Sons - Rushmere [12-15-18-18] 19 Tamino, Mitski - Sanctuary [23-17-19] 20 Special Interest - Follow Me [10-14-16-20] 21 Belinda Carlisle - Sanity [20-19-21] 22 Tors - Scared [30-28-27-22] 23 Shura - Recognise [23] 24 They/Live - For The Pleasure [22-21-24] 25 Ela Minus - ONWARDS [13-18-22-25] 26 Sleigh Bells - Wanna Start A Band? [33-26] 27 Shlømo, Zorza - I WANNA FEEL [28-27] 28 Heartworms - Extraordinary Wings [21-25-24-28] 29 David Strasser - Fast Forward [31-29] 30 Mark Pritchard, Thom Yorke - Back In The Game [30] 31 Obongjayar - Just My Luck [23-19-23-31] 32 Sharon Van Etten - I Can't Imagine (Why You Feel This Way) [32] 33 Sharon Van Etten - Indio [33] 34 Sharon Van Etten - Something Ain't Right [34] 35 CLARA - NERO GOTICO [26-25-35] 36 David Jackson - Mega Murphy's [37-36] 37 Echoberyl - I Am My Own Mother [37] 38 Echoberyl - Doll Heart [38] 39 Echoberyl - Through The Chaos [39] 40 Sonny Fodera, Clementine Douglas - Tell Me [40-40]

'Like That' and 'King's Dead' are both gold as per yesterday's certifications - expect OCC have left them out due to their truncated crediting. 'Alright' is platinum and 'luther' is silver now too.

Several Kendrick certifications in a week (and a couple for Drake too). 'Mykonos' gold :wub:

I did think the 'GUTS' total looked a little high - according to the Album sales by year for the 2020s thread, it did 208,600 in 2023 and 284,000 in 2024, so around 490k to the end of 2024. The 2023 post also quotes "371,400" in total, but as a 2023 release I think that may be a slight mix up.