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Week 24: Olivia, probably the pick of the 3 singles from her album for me Week 25: Angèle

Switching to James Morrison

Also 'Just The Way You Are' certainly would have been, so its 20 week run on SCR is definitely over.

(I meant Taylor's last week...)

'stupid song' now the 'SPACE MAN' of 2026, denied by a dubious physicals dump

'Rein Me In' set to be the first song to have 4 visits to #1 in the same chart run!

'drop dead' ahead of this now?

Taylor dropping out of the top 5 from #1? I'm getting deja vu from last week

'Dreams' would probably have been top 20 if it had avoided, so I think that's gone back to ACR.

Ooh, look what escaped ACR! Top 20 very possible now.

'Ordinary' back up as a result of the ACR clearout, be careful what you wish for!

Also voting for FKA twigs this week

Best of Week 28 poll results 9 The Smiths - This Charming Man 8 Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart 6 The Pretenders - 2000 Miles 5 Michael Jackson - Thriller 5 Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now 3 The Assembly - Never Never 3 The Flying Pickets - Only You 2 Aztec Camera - Oblivious 2 Culture Club - Victims 2 Genesis - That's All 2 Howard Jones - What Is Love? 1 Abba - Thank You For The Music 1 ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now 1 Blancmange - That's Love, That It Is 1 Kenny Rogers And Dolly Parton - Islands In The Stream 1 Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The Moon 1 Simple Minds - Waterfront 1 Slade - My Oh My 1 Status Quo - Marguerita Time 1 Tears For Fears - The Way You Are 1 The Police - Synchronicity II 1 Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together 1 Tom Robinson - Listen To The Radio - Atmospherics 1 UB40 - Many Rivers To Cross Wall of fame Week 1: John Foxx - Underpass Week 2: Blondie - Atomic Week 3: The Cure - A Forest Week 4: Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart Week 5: David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes Week 6: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Enola Gay Week 7: Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry Week 8: Visage - Fade To Grey Week 9: The Teardrop Explodes - Reward Week 10: Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes Week 11: The Specials - Ghost Town Week 12: Soft Cell - Tainted Love Week 13: Laurie Anderson - O Superman Week 14: Ultravox - The Voice Week 15: The Stranglers - Golden Brown Week 16: Associates - Party Fears Two Week 17: Yazoo - Only You Week 18: Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra Week 19: Duran Duran - Save A Prayer Week 20: Tears For Fears - Mad World Week 21: A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You) Week 22: Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Week 23: New Order - Blue Monday Week 24: Heaven 17 - Temptation Week 25: Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow Week 26: Depeche Mode - Everything Counts Week 27: Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance Week 28: The Smiths - This Charming Man

I'm another of those who'd put that Jason Derulo song lower - if anything the interpolation and sample usage is even tackier than 'Savage Love' a few years later. 'Loca People' is an appropriately wtf #1, but quite fun in its way. It wouldn't be my least favourite of the one-week #1s to hold 'Moves Like Jagger' to #2 - that would probably go to by far the best known of the 5.

Votes sent, all 12 groups covered within the 15!

Closing the poll at 4pm tomorrow - 24 hours left to vote!

'Rein Me In' back up to #2 and 26k behind 'stupid song' at #1

Gorgon City this week

+5 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean +4 Ariana Grande - hate that i made you love me +3 Tame Impala - Dracula +2 Olivia Rodrigo - stupid song +1 Olivia Rodrigo - the cure -1 Olivia Rodrigo - drop dead -2 Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun -3 Michael Jackson - Beat It -4 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In -5 Taylor Swift - I Knew It, I Knew You

This week's new peaks on the Audio Streaming chart for songs either on ACR or starred out (all are new entries): 8 Olivia Rodrigo - honeybee 9 Olivia Rodrigo - my way 10 Olivia Rodrigo - maggots for brains 11 Olivia Rodrigo / Robert Smith - what's wrong with me 13 Olivia Rodrigo - u + me = <3 14 Olivia Rodrigo - expectations 16 Olivia Rodrigo - begged 20 Olivia Rodrigo - less 26 Olivia Rodrigo - purple 35 Olivia Rodrigo - cigarette smoke

No (MW confirmed singles are down 0.05% this week) Also Taylor's physicals won't have affected streaming numbers which are all that counts Also when total weekly sales consistently exceed 30 million, equating to at least 3 billion streams, and frequently vary week to week by a few percent (where 1% > 30 million streams) anyway, a few million from someone's album won't shift the dial one way or another.

My purchase on its opening week in 1997 being one of that 600k total

In the interest of balance, it should be mentioned that Olivia Rodrigo's 'vampire' only reached #1 because of a physical release, that denied what would have been Doja Cat's first week at #1 with 'Paint The Town Red'... ...but still, 42k CDs being nominally counted at a week of the record company's choosing is a new high for chart manipulating audacity.

Have people who received the TS single actually played it?