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30 Bicep - Glue 29 Lorde - Green Light 28 Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love 27 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses 26 Dua Lipa - Be The One 25 Adele – Water Under The Bridge 24 Arcade Fire - Everything Now 23 Clean Bandit (feat. Zara Larsson) - Symphony 22 St. Vincent - Los Ageless 21 Harry Styles - Sign of the Times 20 War On Drugs - Strangest Thing 19 P!nk - What About Us 18 Lorde - Homemade Dynamite 17 Lana Del Rey - Love 16 LCD Soundsystem - Oh Baby 15 Lorde - Perfect Places 14 SOPHIE - Ponyboy 13 St. Vincent - Masseduction 12 London Grammar - Rooting For You 11 alt-J - 3WW 10 Disciples - On My Mind 09 Portugal. The Man - Feel It Still 08 Jax Jones (feat. RAYE) - You Don't Know Me 07 London Grammar - Big Picture 06 Dua Lipa - New Rules 05 Little Mix - Touch 04 Kendrick Lamar - Humble. 03 alt-J - Adeline 02 Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling 01 Kesha - Praying

Love Can Build a Bridge is very mid. I don't hate it but it's definitely a bit too close to charity record by numbers territory. I never liked that Outhere Brothers track, although I didn't really try to like it because my Aunt had read that it contained very inappropriate lyrics and was immediately on a quest to make sure none of the family was being subjected to it... I didn't like what I'd heard enough to rebel against that

I have a few potentials for this month, none of which I would expect to do that well and I've known them a little while now. It's one of those months where I'd like to stumble across something amazing that feels fresh to get behind

The component parts of this sentence do not compute

01 MISS LUXURY - bubbles 02 Ninajirachi - I Love My Computer 03 Nourished By Time - The Passionate Ones 04 James K - Friend 05 Blood Orange - Essex Honey 06 Haim - I Quit 07 Lady Gaga - MAYHEM 08 Wolf Alice - The Clearing 09 Lorde - Virgin 10 CMAT - EURO-COUNTRY

I love Hysteria, it's still one of my favourite Muse tracks now. There's just something really quite driving about the way it progresses and the warped guitar hook is really catchy for me.

Not me finishing in 6th place and still falling! 😆 Although admittedly it's because it is all incredibly tight from 4th down to Rontvia in 11th

As sad as the DNQ was, definitely embrace the positive side of the lack of pressure and the freedom it brings and go with something you just really love

The way that the run of UK #1s would have gone without it: Livin' Joy - Dreamer (1 extra week) Perez Prez Prado - Guaglione (1 week) Pulp - Common People (2 weeks) U2 - Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me (2 weeks) Outhere Brothers - Boom Boom Boom (1 extra week) I'd have liked all 3 of those #2 peakers to make it

Oh my bad re Des’Ree - I genuinely didn’t think that Life made the top 10, what a flop I am!

Wow at the sales for Vindaloo! Also Des'ree finally forcing enough of the public to buy You Gotta Be to make it a top 10 hit on the 46th time of trying

Although please feel free not to inflict it on us for that song

Just drag the url link into the post and it shall appear like magic!

…and there it is, the worst of the bunch. I still don’t understand how it sold so well, or even sold at all. A true 0/10 moment

Listened through earlier and, as much as I like a lot of the songs individually, it’s quite a lot to do in one sitting. Think I’m going to try a few more listens in batches of 10-15 or so. Not sure if I’ve had a bit of a mis-step with my entry. I won’t say why as I don’t want to give away which mine is.

Definitely nothing to write home about... but not bad enough to be in last spot either

There are a few here that I really love, and one that is absolutely awful to the point where it is unlistenable

Looking forward to this but Is that an AI pic? Not that it matters, I just noted it has slightly dodgy counting skills!

This round of the series is going to be a slog

I remember taking my little nephew to the cinema and beforehand we went to Woolworths(!) to get pick n mix, and he was wandering round singing it as he also had no idea what it meant... I was mortified though as everyone was laughing at us! @TheSnake I definitely don't think I'd have known what it all meant when I was 6 - you must have been very ahead of your years!

I won't rank them all but I think these would be my top 10 of the year: 01 Freak Like Me 02 Lose Yourself 03 Just A Little 04 Dirrty 05 Just Like A Pill 06 Round Round 07 The Hindu Times 08 Sound Of The Underground 09 More Than A Woman 10 Without Me (I don't really count My Sweet Lord as 2002 so I've excluded it)

I think I already know 11 of these (including my own) - it really was a theme that’s up my street!

OMG Brer at the thing I got wrong on the spreadsheet. The way my mind clearly saw the 11 for Suedeonia from Skall and I must have just default entered in the bottom row without checking who was last at that point 🫣😂

...and one final post to go full circle... Mr D* has just messaged me from bed to say that he has just seen who won on Sewing Bee. I'm quite scared to go join him now. Goodnight all!

Oh okay buzzjack, why did you do that this time gah. Even though I quite like what you did there