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Last week, 'Family Matters' and 'undressed' finished 2k ahead, but both appear to be losing ground - would be most annoying if just one of them overtook and Calvin ended up at #6! 'Now It's Gone' could be about to lose its record runs without going Top 75 & at a #76 peak too.

Sabrina needs one more week to equal the 44 weeks of Elvis Presley's G.I. Blues [OST] as the longest run in the Top 5 for any (not just studio) solo artist album.

Julian has also prepared the accompanying Spotify playlist (which is being added to in advance of future sessions) - all songs in today's session appear there except: Keith Michell - Captain Beaky/Wilfred The Weasel and Dave Edmunds - Singing The Blues.

Thanks for the votes so far. Thanks also to @Julian_ for the Polyhex chart runs I'm using as each song comes up on the Synctube sessions. These will appear in his reviews thread whose link (also added to the opening post) is: https://www.buzzjack.com/forums/topic/280473-julian-rates-every-top-40-hit-the-1980s-edition

Well done Louise and CHVRCHES - particularly pleased the latter made it through! Commiserations to SASAMI's fellow exitees. So did I! Many other 70s Elton songs would have made my top 3, 'Tiny Dancer' is my favourite of his.

'The Real Slim Shady' is the song I referred to that I was pleased to have made the top 12 - understandably it was next out, but it was an important #1 as the one where Eminem truly arrived in the social conscience and threw off any remnants of the novelty tag. A few other good ones have dropped out, but the remaining two I bought in the opening week are still here. Love the Mel C anecdote, quite a claim to fame there! Wonder if the glass of water will make an appearance regarding one of the songs left 😃

Thanks all who joined today's first session! Here's the 44 hits covered today: Madness - My Girl Dr Hook - Better Love Next Time Positive Force - We Got The Funk The Inmates - The Walk Styx - Babe Bee Gees - Spirits (Having Flown) Jon And Vangelis - I Hear You Now Joe Jackson - It's Different For Girls Azymuth - Jazz Carnival The Regents - 7 Teen UFO - Young Blood Fleetwood Mac - Sara Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song) The Specials - Too Much Too Young (The Special AKA Live! EP) New Musik - Living By Numbers Kool And The Gang - Too Hot Matchbox - Buzz Buzz A Diddle It Kenny Rogers - Coward Of The County Sister Sledge - Got To Love Somebody Sad Cafe - Strange Little Girl Amii Stewart - Paradise Bird/The Letter Commodores - Wonderland The Boomtown Rats - Someone's Looking At You The Selecter - Three Minute Hero Queen - Save Me Jefferson Starship - Jane Suzi Quatro - Mama's Boy The Buggles - The Plastic Age Ramones - Baby I Love You The Whispers - And The Beat Goes On Keith Michell - Captain Beaky/Wilfred The Weasel The Shadows - Riders In The Sky Cliff Richard - Carrie John Foxx - Underpass Michael Jackson - Rock With You Brass Construction - Music Makes You Feel Like Dancing Dexy's Midnight Runners - Dance Stance Elvis Costello - I Can't Stand Up (For Falling Down) The Tourists - So Good To Be Back Home Again AC/DC - Touch Too Much Rainbow - All Night Long Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers Dave Edmunds - Singing The Blues The Chords - Maybe Tomorrow Votes welcome for up to five of your favourites, with the song with the most votes played at the start of next week's session! My votes: The Specials - Too Much Too Young New Musik - Living By Numbers Amii Stewart - Paradise Bird The Buggles - The Plastic Age John Foxx - Underpass

I have planned to catch up on #1 album tracks tonight, and RIPs next week.

Starting at 4pm today! https://sync-tube.de/room/2gHBerpI

Modjo's is one of those I bought - I had hoped it to be higher, but it is of a similar template to Stardust's #2 of 1998, while the best French house song of the year for me is the Daft Punk one that was held off #1 by LeAnn Rimes! 'Rise' and 'Music' I'd also take over some of the 12 which are left - the latter is probably my favourite post-1980s Madonna #1, though that's pretty much sacrilege on this site (as is my general indifference to the song which may or may not top this list, but we'll see...) though there is one left I'm particularly pleased is still here.

Most Days at #1 on UK Spotify #1 Wham! - Last Christmas - 108 Days #2 Drake feat. Wizkid & Kyla - One Dance - 101 Days #3 Alex Warren - Ordinary - 88 Days #4 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter - 87 Days #5 Tones and I - Dance Monkey - 81 Days

Only Ed's second ever multichart #1 Calvin narrowly missing out on his 10th, for now! Happy to see another new peak for 'Treat Mode' via that 4-way tiebreak *.*

My favourites on this page are the two rated 7/10 in the first batch - 'If You're Not The One' is a mature ballad, and 'Lonesome Day' a great post-9/11 thematic opener to the album The Rising, although the title track (which made #94 the following year) is the album's best and up there with many of Bruce's greatest songs. Here was my top 10 of the year in full (decade positions in brackets): 1 Idlewild - American English (#15) 2 The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl (#21) 3 Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke (#43) [entered the Top 75 on import in the last week of 2002] 4 The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize? (#44) 5 U2 - Electrical Storm (#46) 6 Lasgo - Something (#74) 7 Doves - There Goes The Fear (#82) 8 Idlewild - You Held The World In Your Arms (#84) 9 Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising (#87) 10 The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (#93)

I had been wondering when 'The Masses Against The Classes' would come up in this, and 24th isn't bad - it came and went very quickly at the time, but I returned to it a few years ago, it was rare to hear The Manics sound so urgent. That and 'Beautiful Day' are my favourites so far - I liked the latter more at the time, though it's the album's 4th single 'Walk On' that's my favourite from it these days. Some great songs still to come, including three I bought on the week they went to #1!

SHM out of these