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It seems fitting to bring this up to date with Scott's last chart show this week. 8th January 2021 Scott Mills 15th January 2021 Scott Mills 22nd January 2021 Scott Mills 29th January 2021 Scott Mills 5th February 2021 Scott Mills 12th February 2021 Scott Mills 19th February 2021 Scott Mills 26th February 2021 Scott Mills 5th March 2021 Scott Mills 12th March 2021 Vick Hope and Kate Thistleton 19th March 2021 Scott Mills 26th March 2021 Scott Mills 2nd April 2021 Scott Mills 9th April 2021 ? 16th April 2021 Scott Mills 23rd April 2021 Scott Mills 30th April 2021 Scott Mills 7th May 2021 Scott Mills 14th May 2021 Scott Mills 21st May 2021 Scott Mills 28th May 2021 Scott Mills 4th June 2021 Kate Thistleton and Vick Hope 11th June 2021 Scott Mills 18th June 2021 Scott Mills 25th June 2021 Scott Mills 2nd July 2021 Scott Mills 9th July 2021 Scott Mills 16th July 2021 Scott Mills 23rd July 2021 Scott Mills 30th July 2021 Scott Mills 6th August 2021 Scott Mills 13th August 2021 Yasser 20th August 2021 Scott Mills 27th August 2021 Scott Mills 3rd September 2021 Scott Mills 10th September 2021 Yasser 17th September 2021 Kate Thistleton 24th September 2021 Scott Mills 1st October 2021 Scott Mills 8th October 2021 Scott Mills 15th October 2021 Scott Mills 22nd October 2021 Scott Mills 29th October 2021 Scott Mills 5th November 2021 Scott Mills 12th November 2021 Kate Thistleton 19th November 2021 Scott Mills 26th November 2021 Scott Mills 3rd December 2021 Scott Mills 10th December 2021 Scott Mills 17th December 2021 Scott Mills 24th December 2021 Scott Mills 31st December 2021 Liam Daly & Chess Warren 7th January 2022 Scott Mills 14th January 2022 Scott Mills 21st January 2022 Scott Mills 28th January 2022 Scott Mills 4th February 2022 Scott Mills 11th February 2022 Scott Mills 18th February 2022 Scott Mills 25th February 2022 Kate Thistleon and Vick Hope 4th March 2022 Scott Mills 11th March 2022 Scott Mills 18th March 2022 Scott Mills 25th March 2022 Scott Mills 1st April 2022 Scott Mills 8th April 2022 Scott Mills 15th April 2022 Scott Mills 22nd April 2022 Scott Mills 29th April 2022 Kate Thistleton 6th May 2022 Scott Mills 13th May 2022 Jack Saunders 20th May 2022 Scott Mills 27th May 2022 Scott Mills 3rd June 2022 Jack Saunders 10th June 2022 Scott Mills 17th June 2022 Scott Mills 24th June 2022 Scott Mills 1st July 2022 Jack Saunders 8th July 2022 Scott Mills 15th July 2022 Scott Mills 22nd July 2022 Jack Saunders 29th July 2022 Scott Mills 5th August 2022 Scott Mills 12th August 2022 Scott Mills 19th August 2022 Scott Mills 1. Mark Goodier 470 1988-2002 2. Bruno Brookes 358 1986-1990 & 1992-1995 3. Tom Browne 278 1972-1978 4. Scott Mills 272 1999-2022 5. Alan Freeman 258 1967-1972 6. Reggie Yates 237 2007-2012 7. Simon Bates 130 1976-1977, 1982-1985, 1987 & 1992 8. Tony Blackburn 123 1979-1982 9. Joel 122 (121 with JK, 1 solo) 2005-2007 10. JK 121 (121 with Joel) 2005-2007 11. Greg James 114 2010-2012, 2015-2018 12. Tommy Vance 103 1982-1987 & 1991-1992 13. Wes Butters 102 2003-2005 14. Jameela Jamil (1 with Clara Amfo) 97 2013-2015 15. Fearne Cotton (75 with Reggie Yates, 3 solo) 78 2007-2009 16. Richard Skinner 71 1984-1986 17. Dev 28 2009-2010, 2015-2018 18. Clara Amfo (1 with Jameela Jamil, 17 solo) 18 2015 19. Mista Jam 16 2017-2018 20. Clive Warren 12 1995-1998 21. Jordan North 11 2017-2020 22. Katie Thistleton 10 2019-2022+ (3 with Vick hope, 2 with Cel Spellman, 5 solo) 23=. Andy Peebles 4 1979 & 1983 23=. Jack Saunders 4 2022+ 25=. Cel Spellman 3 2019-2020 (2 with Katie Thistleton, 1 solo) 25=. Vick Hope 3 2021-2022+ (3 with Kate Thistleton) 26=. Pete Murray 2 1968 26=. Neale James 2 1994 26=. Dave Pearce 2 1995 26=. Jo Wiley 2 2002 & 2005 26=. Nemone 2 (1 with Scott Mills, 1 solo) 2002 & 2005 26=. Yasser 2 2021 32=. (20 other DJs with one guest presenting appearance

So is 7m just pure sales (which the '1 in 4 households now own a copy' bit implies) or is it 7m from sales + stream-equivelant-sales (which the other quote about approx 1.26m s-e-s's since it passed 6m seems to imply)?

Don't get me wrong, I am glad that Kate Bush has another number one to her name, but for me the mid-chart-week reset has made everything annoyingly inconsistent and has rather clouded the achievement. Either ACR is not valid and should have never existed in the first place (or at least shouldn't automatically exist for songs older than 3 years), in which case Running Up That Hill should be celebrating it's second week at number one now, OR else there is a valid reason for ACR to exist and the OCC should maintain faith in their own rules and should have kept it on ACR in line with the rules. As it stands it will just be remembered as the number one that only made it eventually because the OCC bent the rules for it after it stalled at number two the previous week when the rules were followed. Had ACR never existed it would have instead be remembered as a true number one. My final observation is that looking at the sales figures, it actually did better raw figures last week, when ACR was then applied, than it did this week when the figures stood, so the chart now takes a song that somewhat dropped in consumption week on week and shows it as having climbed from 2 to 1, when on consistent ACR it would have dropped from 2 to 3 and on consistent SCR it would have been 1 both weeks but with a decline in consumption this week, so the one thing an accurate and meaningful chart for this week shouldn't have it do in this week is climb.

Jane Wyman sang on the #10 hit Zing A Little Zong, and won an Oscar.

There are still 'rights' of some sort to it though aren't there? Or at least there used to be. BMRB had the rights or contract from 1969-1982, and Gallup from 1983-Feb 1994, with the current incumbent (originally under the name Chart Information Network, and with actual data compilation handled by a third party, Millward Brown) having been in place since then.

I bought new physical singles a lot in the noughties, and often bought things from the new entries stand out of pure curiousity, with the discounted week 1 price making me more likely to do so, and whilst they sometimes turned out to be good singles that I continued to play it wasn't uncommon for me to buy something in week 1 then play it once and file it away in my collection and not play it again, so I do think that week 1 curiousity cionsumption was already a factor in the physical charts, at least once front loading of releases with a heavily discounted week 1 price was an established marketing practice. It's also worth remembering that entering high and then plummeting in week 2 was a very familiar chart behaviour back in the late nineties and early noughties due to the frontloading, which itself was probably stimulating at least some amount of curiousity purchases.

Following the link, and counting the ones highlighted in blue, I make it 24 times up to 10/02/2022, unless I am misunderstanding something.

Look out for the 'We Don't Talk About Sheeran' version coming out soon.....

I'm trying to remember if any of the original Disney songs in the past (before streaming happened) were ever even released as singles in the first place. The only Disney single from the physical era that I can think of is the Elton John version of Circle of Life which I think went top 10 in about 1994 or 95. Edit: I just checked and it got to #11, and his version of Can You Feel The Love Tonight? reached #14.

Totally agree. I'm miffed at how it is the least popular of the three tracks from Encanto.

Sorry I'm late with this, the OCC finished all the other votes at midday, but this one for some reason ended at 3pm, which as a nighshifter was too late for me to stay up to. December 16th results THE FINAL - 8296 votes cast 1996 Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 - 48.7% (4040 votes) 2009 Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name - 51.3% (4256 votes)

December 14th results Semi-Final 1 - 2933 votes cast 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - 43.1% (1264 votes) 2009 - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name - 56.9% (1669 votes) Semi-Final 2 - 3243 votes cast 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 - 52.7% (1709 votes) 2002 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground - 47.3% (1534 votes) December 15th results THE FINAL 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 2009 - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name

13th December results Quarter-Final 4 - 906 votes cast 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 - 60.4% (547 votes) 1997 - Spice Girls - Too Much - 14.9% (135 votes) 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye - 24.7 (224 votes) 14th December voting open Semi-Final 1 - 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 2009 - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name Semi-Final 2 - 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 2002 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground

12th December results Quarter-final 3 - 2281 votes cast 2008 - Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah - 26% (593 votes) 2009 - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name - 74% (1688 votes) So Alexandra gains 296 votes on Round 2, but it isn't enough against rage who gain nearly 500 votes on their already very high vote total from the last round. 13th December voting now open Quarter-final 4 - 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 1997 - Spice Girls - Too Much 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye

Yes Fearne turned 40 this year, and says she chose to step down as part of making major changes in her life, which I hope is the truth of the situation, but I think the BBC did used to have a rule that presenters of youth and childrens' programming had to be under 40, so I hope she wasn't pressure to leave due to her age. I just checked and Clara is 37, so potentially she isn't into most of the music on the show either. Even totp new boy Jordan is 31 apparently, so maybe he is a bit more likely to like the music featured, and at least he'll probably have some memory of the weekly show and thereby have some level of affection for the TOTP brand I guess.

10th December results Quarter-final 1 - 815 votes cast 1981 - Human League - Don't You Want Me - 40.4% (329 votes) 2002 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground - 59.6% (486 votes) 11th December results Quarter-final 2 - 507 votes cast 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - 59.6% (302 votes) 2006 - Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This - 40.4% (205 votes) So only Girls Aloud gained straight votes compared to Round 2, and in fact have been gaining every round, whilst Human League lost votes from Round 2, though still have a few more than Round 1. Queen lose straight votes compared to Round 2, and in fact registers their lowest vote total so far, but still gets through in a battle against Leona who also registers her lowest vote total so far. 12th December voting still open Quarter-final 3 - 2008 - Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 2009 - Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name So the last Quarter-Final will be a Spice Girls vs Spice Girls vs Spice Girls vote!

10th December voting open for a few more hours - Quarter-final 1 - 1981 - Human League - Don't You Want Me 2002 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground The Human League had more straight votes and a higher percentage in Round 2, though Girls Aloud were ahead of them on both measures in Round 1. Girls Aloud are currently ahead in this quarter-final as I write this, but there are a few more hours left to vote, so it could conceivably change.

Round 2 contenders ranked by both straight votes and percentage By straight votes 1188 - 2009- Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name (Up 229 votes on round 1) 606 - 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 (Down 126 votes on round 1) 592 - 1981 - Human League - Don't You Want Me (Up 362 votes on round 1) 528 - 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye (Up 93 votes on round 1) 514 - 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Up 68 votes on round 1) 461 - 2002 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground (Up 39 votes on round 1) 440 - 1989 - Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas (Up 52 votes on round 1) 435 - 1985 - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone (Up 110 votes on round 1) 386 - 1997 - Spice Girls - Too Much (Down 35 votes on round 1) 371 - 2006 - Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This (Up 31 votes on round 1) 366 - 1984 - Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (Down 16 votes on round 1) 354 - 1987 - Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind (Down 57 votes on round 1) 328 - 1974 - Mud - Lonely This Christmas (Down 76 votes on round 1) 297 - 2008 - Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah (Down 309 votes on round 1) 262 - 2016 - Clean Bandit - Rockabye (Up 100 votes on round 1) 260 - 1995 - Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Down 520 votes on round 1) 224 - 2001 - Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid (Down 91 votes on round 1) 122 - 1986 - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite (Down 125 votes on round 1) By perecentage 80.8% - 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 73% - 2009- Rage Against The Machine - Killing In The Name 69.3% - 1981 - Human League - Don't You Want Me 59.8% - 1997 - Spice Girls - Too Much 59.1% - 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye 58.2% - 1996 - Spice Girls - 2 Become 1 57% - 2008 - Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 56.6% - 2002 - Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground 53.1% - 2006 - Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This 46.9% - 1974 - Mud - Lonely This Christmas 43.4% - 1987 - Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind 43% - 2001 - Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid 41.8% - 1985 - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 40.9% - 1984 - Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas 40.2% - 1995 - Michael Jackson - Earth Song 30.7% - 2016 - Clean Bandit - Rockabye 27% - 1989 - Band Aid II - Do They Know It's Christmas 19.2% - 1986 - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite So of those eliminated in Round 2, Band Aid II had the most straight votes, very closely followed by Shaky, whilst Mud had the highest percentage of their vote of any eliminated contender in the round. We've lost the last bastion of the 2010s now, with the elimation of Clean Bandit, leaving us with the 70s, 80s, 90s and 00s, and even then Queen is the sole representative of the 70s and Human League are the only 80s contenders remaining. Aside from the second coming of Bo Rhap, the 90s are now soley a Spice Girls zone, but they do at least have three fingers still in the pie so to speak, as all 3 of their yuletide toppers are through.

9th December results - Vote I - 1041 votes cast 1985 - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone - 41.8% (435 votes) 1996 - Spice Girl - 2 Become 1 - 58.2% (606 votes)

8th December results Vote G - 894 votes cast 1984 - Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas - 40.9% (366 votes) 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye - 59.1% (528 votes) Vote H - 636 votes cast 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody - 80.8% (514 votes) 1986 - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite - 19.2% (122 votes) 9th December voting now open Vote I - 1985 - Shakin' Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone 1996 - Spice Girl - 2 Become 1 Of the final pair the Spice Girls were comfortably ahead of Shaky in both measures in Round 1, but Shaky seems to be taking an early lead so far in Round 2.

7th December results Vote E - 646 votes cast 1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song - 40.2% (260 votes) 1997 Spice Girls - Too Much - 59.8% (386 votes) Vote F - 521 votes cast 2001 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid - 43% (224 votes) 2008 Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah - 57% (297 votes) Probably worth pointing out that all four songs got less votes in Round 2 than they did in Round 1, with Alexandra's votes more or less halving, and Michael Jackson's reduced to exactly a third of what it was before. Of the previous 8 songs in Round 2 only one of them, the Pet Shop Boys, got less votes than hey had in Round 1. 8th December voting now open Vote G - 1984 - Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas 1998 - Spice Girls - Goodbye Vote H - 1975/1991 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody 1986 - Jackie Wilson - Reet Petite In Vote G we have the song that gained the highest percentage of the vote in Round 1, Band Aid, versus Goodbye which got slightly more straight votes than it. In Vote B Queen got comfortably more straight votes in round 1 than Jackie, but Jackie got a sligthly larger perecentage of his vote.

I bought it every month for a long time. Too long a time if I'm honest. When I started buying it in 1995 it had mutliple charts and other chart and music based facts and features, then toned down a bit over time to a less chart-nerd oriented and more general celeb gossip mag but by the time I stopped buying it, maybe a decade ago, it was almost devoid of anything related to music at all, at least partly because there was no longer a show for them to use to get photographs and interviews with the pospstars.

They did say they were axing it a few years ago now, but then they had a lot of complaints and backlash and had to backtrack, so perhaps they are instead trying to wind it down over the years to a point where they think no-one will care if they axe it. I do think it will go eventually and I'll be sad when that day comes, even if I'm not so bothered by the acts appearing any more.

" BBC Radio 1’s Clara Amfo will return as host alongside fellow Radio 1 DJ Jordan North, who will be making his Top of the Pops debut." So after presenting Top Of The Pops for 17 consecutive years it appears Fearne Cotton has ended her association with the show, removing the last real connection between the annual Christmas show and the weekly show of old.

December 6th results Vote C - 699 votes cast 1974 Mud - Lonely This Christmas - 46.9% (328 votes) 2006 Leona Lewis - A Moment Like This - 53.1% (371 votes) Vote D - 815 votes cast 1987 Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind - 43.4% (354 votes) 2002 Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Underground - 56.6% (461 votes) December 7th voting open Vote E - 1995 Michael Jackson - Earth Song 1997 Spice Girls - Too Much Vote F - 2001 Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman - Something Stupid 2008 Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah In Vote E Michael Jackon gained considerably more straight votes in round 1 than the Spice Girls did, but the Spice Girls had a marginally higher percentage of their vote, whilst in Vote F Alexandra had both more staight votes in round 1 and a higher percentage of her vote than Robbie and Nicole did.