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The Cure 81 streams away from the top 50! Guess there's little hope of a reset now but we'll see. Good to see the new peaks for the Sienna songs (and ofc there's another for Olivia as 'The Hardest Part' climbs to #27). 'Locked Out Of Heaven' and 'That's What I Like' may have done enough for resets, also 'Die With A Smile' is up by 41% for the week, so could be back in the Top 40.

'Live Forever' was a multi-week #1 in my personal chart so whoever tried it has taste too

Was leaning slightly towards Taio next but basically equal with Steps for me

Love 'Fell In Love With A Girl' and 'Eleanor Rigby' ❤️ I remembered there being a UK Charts thread about short songs recently, around the time of 'Steve's Lava Chicken' *_* and I mentioned a few of my favourites there: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/279369-sub-2-minute-hits-of-the-21st-century-poll/page/2/#findComment-7737592 My favourite Beatles song is exactly 2:00 on Spotify

I know Guetta's been using ghost producers for years, hadn't realised he was quite that far back though. Another two losses from my votes on 15 with 'Talk Of The Town' and 'Dooms Night', glad they both had other voters.

'Bad Day' is the second loss from my votes (my bottom two out). I first heard it when I saw R.E.M. at Glastonbury in 2003, and couldn't believe how similar it sounded to 'It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)', but was pleased when it gave them another Top 10 hit.

^ or that (haven't used it for ages) I'd say more than likely 'One Dance' had 15 weeks anyway.

As it stands after two weeks of 2026: Wham! - Last Christmas (136 days) Alex Warren - Ordinary (128) Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance (101) Olivia Dean - Man I Need (94) Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter (87) Tones and I - Dance Monkey (81) Noah Kahan - Stick Season (78) Post Malone & 21 Savage - rockstar (77) Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas Is You (76) Drake - God's Plan (75) Not sure about most weeks - could maybe work them all out from the Spotify site except 'One Dance' as it's before 2017.

Reset incoming for 'Locked Out Of Heaven'? Just the one new peak for Olivia today: 'Ok Love You Bye' up to #30.

Added my votes to the mix

There are lots of UK artists most of us will never have heard of, or heard anything by. This got me thinking though - as it happens, my 10 best performing entries (the top 20 finishers) were all by artists from outside the UK. My highest placed UK artist was Picture Parlour who came 21st, and three of my five DNQs were by UK artists

and thanks for hosting these Julian! 👏

doo-doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo-doo OI! OI! OI!

Looks like a neat 5 songs on 5+ votes progressing! (Albeit only one I voted for)

Also voted for Mandy, Indiana who are now in the lead!

Perched to see how it ends when the curtain falls on this week!

Olivia's new peaks today: #22 Let Alone The One You Love #28 The Hardest Part #33 Ok Love You Bye Feels like I'm repeating myself but I genuinely can't remember a precedent for this, where an artist's songs have continued to grow for pretty much the last 5 months, Christmas aside, with the album release 3.5 months ago. As an aside, Billboard doesn't have a 3-track rule, so 'Baby Steps' and 'I've Seen It' have now entered the US Hot 100 before they've been able to chart here.

+20 Danny L Harle x PinkPantheress - Starlight +19 Danny L Harle x Caroline Polachek - Azimuth +18 Jax Jones x Ado - Stay Gold +17 Rose Gray - Lotus +16 Max Dean x Lucas Dean x Locky - Can't Decide +15 Jorja Smith - The Way I Love You +14 DJ HEARTSTRING - Last Time Under Purple Skies +13 Calvin Harris x Clementine Douglas - Blessings +12 Confidence Man x JADE - gossip +11 Sonny Fodera x Clementine Douglas - Tell Me +10 James Hype - Don't Wake Me Up +9 Rose Gray - April +8 MK x Chrystal - Dior +7 Calvin Harris x Jessie Reyez - Ocean +6 PinkPantheress - Tonight +5 Danny L Harle x Oklou x MNEK - Crystallise My Tears +4 Confidence Man x Eliza Rose - I Heart You +3 Anyma x Ellie Goulding - Hypnotized +2 MK x Clementine Douglas - Come Find Me +1 D.O.D x NORTH - Wrap Yourself Around Me +0 Armin van Buuren x Rob Swire - Sound of You

That is some jump in points to 1st, but not surprising really - 'Stan' is a one of a kind hit, and in the context of being a Christmas #3, it's amazing that it was able to pull such strong sales in that market. Thanks Julian and gasman for running this!

Just voted for Bruno this week

'Dreams' still above 'Landslide' despite the latter now having a higher peak officially.

Another weekday means more new peaks for Olivia: #26 A Couple Minutes #34 Ok Love You Bye

Thought it would be interesting to track new entries / peaks on the Audio Streaming chart for songs either on ACR or starred out. Last week the only ones were 'Every Breath You Take' and 'Upside Down', both of which were reset this week (as well as peaking again). This week (new entries in red): 32 Olivia Dean - Let Alone The One You Love [re-peak] 34 Olivia Dean - The Hardest Part 40 Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World 52 Olivia Dean - I've Seen It 60 Olivia Dean - Ok Love You Bye 66 She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today 69 KATSEYE - Gabriela 75 Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs 95 Billy Joel - Piano Man 96 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry

Voted for A.G. Cook, sim0ne and Tourist in the main poll, and gave Overmono their first in the tiebreak. Thanks Doctor B and Kath for running these polls throughout 2025!

Voted for the song I'd playlisted before seeing this poll, from DJ Seinfeld