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I think you did choose the same ones, I had a quick check. But definitely don’t worry about it!

Not with singles, no… although I was more just making a list of people that I was expecting may get submitted, rather than inferring that people should have tried them

But whilst we’re on the subject, I was also expecting to see some of these potentially crop up: David Bowie Joni Mitchell Sheryl Crow Bob Dylan Neil Young David Gray Carly Simon Nick Cave Tracey Chapman Van Morrison Paul Simon Sting Shawn Colvin Stevie Wonder Elton John Patti Smith Cat Stevens Emmylou Harris George Michael Annie Lennox Nick Drake Phil Collins (shudder) Paul Weller Bruce Springsteen Joan Armatrading Sinead O’Connor Prince Billy Joel Carole King I mean there were soooo many possibilities but most of the biggest names weren’t even mentioned

…and frankly unacceptable

Tightrope by Janelle Monae deserved to absolutely smash, how that wasn't a hit is beyond me

I think I’ve now realised the two still to come and they’re both very strong so I’ll be content with whichever wins out. I think I’d guess at the male vocal one winning but we’ll see

Btw the one that was vetoed was ‘As I Lay Me Down’ which was almost the opposite to the Gabrielle situation as it had a lot more streams than I’d have expected for it

Right Beside You is absolutely wonderful so I can’t fault the taste… but yes I think we’d have been chatting long enough to be official pen pals if you’d tried it 😂

Ah to be fair that’s really nice of her and it’s good to see her use her name to support Phoebe

Thank you @Jaz13music - can I just check that the versions are the same as the Spotify list please as this is a forum largely populated by men who love charts and spreadsheets and the correct version will be important to them 🤭

Were in luck!

No idea what you mean

I find the Slade track incredibly annoying. I've mentioned my fear of the Pink Floyd track several times now so I won't do so again... and the Boney M track is decent enough, the production is undeniably catchy

May as well do. Here's mine.

Another solution is they could just reinstate the real and needed jobs that people used to have doing those things before local councils cut them.

Oh I missed Rudimental... that's one that I liked much more at the time than I do now. I agree with DaTilt that it is quite formulaic in its use of drum & bass and that it works well in some circumstances, but not one I'd choose to listen to now very often. At the time it stood out a lot more though and it was a decent enough #1. I suspect it would still make my top 10 somewhere as I'm not that fussed about many of the #1s really.

I remember reading at the time that 70% of those attending the gigs only went to see Taylor because Phoebe was also playing, most were heard saying their favourite era in the tour was ‘Punisher’

Yeah her last album Punisher sold almost 200K here I think so a #1 follow up was always potentially likely. Especially as the subsequent Boygenius album hit #1 here.

I believe so!

Phoebe definitely has quite a lot of varients. The dinked edition vinyl sold out very quickly and that was a 7K run, and that’s before any of the others are added

It took me several years before I realised what Janelle Monae actually sang on We Are Young

Will await the sales figures but it’s brilliant to see Phoebe at #1 at this point 😍

That’s not exactly a bad cover as it does change it to their style, but my goodness it pails in comparison to the original with all the strings and drama

If anyone is thinking about buying this, I would recommend the HMV exclusive version as the record colour is perfect for the artwork <3 (Excuse weird reflection of ceiling lamp shade!)

I don’t know the finer details (in the probably misguided thought that the practicalities have been considered) but I don’t object in principle to the 20 hours of work part - as long as they paid for the hours and not treated like slave labour