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01 - 01 Charli xcx - Brat (and it's completely different but also still brat) 02 - 03 Jamie xx - In Waves 03 - 02 Nilüfer Yanya - My Method Actor 04 - 04 Floating Points - Cascade 05 - 07 TR/ST - Performance 06 - 08 Fontaines D.C. - Romance 07 - 05 Caribou - Honey 08 - 06 Rahim C Redcar - HOPECORE 09 - 12 Kiasmos - II 10 - 13 Magdalena Bay - Imaginal Disk 11 - 14 Katy J Pearson - Someday, Now 12 - 10 Charly Bliss - Forever 13 - 09 Public Service Broadcasting - The Last Flight 14 - 16 Billie Eilish - HIT ME HARD AND SOFT 15 - 17 Fat Dog - WOOF. 16 - 11 Sampha - Lahai (Deluxe) 17 - 19 Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us 18 - 18 London Grammar - The Greatest Love 19 - 15 Lady Blackbird - Slang Spirituals 20 - 20 No Mana - I Contain Flashing Images

Both of those are wonderful. Chorus was the first Erasure single I bought and it was a huge favourite of mine in 1991. I still listen to it very regularly now and it has held up really well. There's something really brilliant about the production of a lot of the tracks from that album, I assume they were going for a sort of Moroder sound because they seemed to strip out any bass and rely solely on the analogue sounding synths to layer up the album. It's my joint favourite of theirs and I was obsessed with the whole album, my parents must have got so sick of hearing it. Ship of Fools is lovely. In retrospect it was possibly an odd choice of lead single given some of the more obvious choices available but I do still think it is a 10/10 track.

Pretty much agree. Hungry Like the Wolf is by far my favourite. Adam Ant and Abracadabra are both decent enough for me but the other seven are pretty bad. 1982 has been very mediocre so far imo

It’s very classic Gaga, would believe it was a reworked idea from the BTW era. Liking it on first couple of plays. Will be interesting to see what this does on Spotify. I have no idea what to expect but I’m not sure I see solo Gaga as being a huge draw to a Spotify audience and I’m not sure how much the general public want this sort of thing back. I’d love for my gut to be wrong though as it would be great to see this smash.

I’ll side with Snake on this one, Happy Talk really isn’t it.

Drama! was the first Erasure single I really loved so it was always going to do well with me. Glad it managed top 10 here, even if the individual scores are still very mixed at this stage. I love the lyrics to it, it's so appropriately overdramatic in its content and the way the production builds and builds is equally apt. Oh L'amour is fine but not an absolute favourite. It should have charted though, definitely didn't deserve such a low peak.

25 Grimes - Kill V. Maim 24 Grimes - Flesh Without Blood 23 Christine And The Queens - Tilted / Christine 22 Let's Eat Grandma - Happy New Year 21 Taylor Swift & Bon Iver – Exile 20 Years & Years - Shine 19 Röyksopp (feat. Susanne Sundfør) - Never Ever 18 Wolf Alice - Don't Delete The Kisses 17 Hozier - Take Me To Church 16 Arcade Fire - Everything Now 15 Charli XCX & Christine And The Queens - Gone 14 Taylor Swift - Out of The Woods 13 Lana Del Rey - West Coast 12 Adele – Easy On Me 11 Tones and I - Dance Monkey 10 Lil Nas X & Jack Harlow - Industry Baby 09 Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom 08 Clean Bandit (feat. Jess Glynne) - Rather Be 07 Kygo & Whitney Houston - Higher Love 06 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under 05 Harry Styles - As It Was 04 Kylie Minogue - Tension 03 Harry Styles - Adore You 02 Beyoncé - Break My Soul 01 Calvin Harris (feat. HAIM) - Pray To God The top lot in this semi are killer

25 Mark Ronson (feat. Lykke Li) - Late Night Feelings 24 Lizzo - Juice 23 FKA Twigs - Two Weeks 22 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) 21 Metric - Doomscroller 20 Adele – Water Under The Bridge 19 Weeknd - In Your Eyes 18 Janelle Monáe - Make Me Feel 17 Chemical Brothers (feat. Q-Tip) - Go 16 xx – On Hold 15 Beyoncé - Alien Superstar 14 Sia - Cheap Thrills 13 Caroline Polachek - Welcome to My Island 12 Lorde - Team 11 Rina Sawayama - XS 10 Mark Ronson (feat. Bruno Mars) - Uptown Funk 09 Harry Styles - Sign of the Times 08 Ten Walls - Walking With Elephants 07 Lilly Wood and The Prick - Prayer In C (Robin Schulz Remix) 06 Go_A - Shum 05 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper – Shallow 04 Weeknd - Less Than Zero 03 Ella Henderson - Ghost 02 Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? 01 Miley Cyrus - Flowers

I think the difficulty level is comparable to the first one tbh. I think I've got an answer for them all now, although there's two in particular I'm not 100% sure on.

I like that Stevie Wonder track, although it is incredibly long on the album! I’m surprised to read that Original Musiquarium did so poorly, it’s a great compilation

Sad that she missed out in the US but delighted she managed #1 here in the UK. This really has been such a strong year for Charli, it’s pretty much beyond any possible expectations and is such a success story

I’d be happy to try and make Tuesday

There are a couple there that are too high for my liking, but on the whole that’s a pretty representative list of their biggest singles

I’m similar to Ally that I think I find it a little irritating, I feel like maybe it’s got a bit too much going on. When I hear it I do like it more than I anticipate I’m going to though

Forgot to comment on E-Bow the Letter… it’s one of my favourites from REM, such a great song and from one of my favourite albums of theirs too

Much improved since my last comment in here… Adam Ant’s track is fun, whilst Soft Cell, Yazoo, ABC, Duran Duran and Junior all had great songs

I’m away at the moment so I haven’t had chance to find anything… so you have the last song I listened to on my headphones!

You Surround Me is wonderful, I particularly love the way it builds and the breakdown in the middle

Virtual Insanity Spinning the Wheel is one of the George tracks I like more, another good new entry. Space and Kula Shaker were both great fun tracks… and One to Another is peak Charlatans, they were definitely inspired by Tim’s work with the Chemical Brothers imo

Breath of Life is another fave, nice choice of top pointer ^_^ Surprised that Stay With Me made it this high. I like it but I assumed that most people didn’t as it performed pretty badly in the charts and doesn’t seem well remembered

Honestly who gives a shit whether the new manager is English or not

I am not happy. My vinyl was due to be delivered today and I’m in Seville so I asked for it to be delayed until I’m back home next week. They accepted and said they would deliver next Friday… and then promptly ‘delivered’ it today by sending me a photo of it on my doorstep FFS

I’m totally raging at Colm for not voting :lol:

OMG that is NOT an acceptable result! Fingers & Thumbs is absolutely glorious

Oh yay! I didn’t get to check the final results yesterday but I thought that my useless guessing for bonus points could scupper my chances, glad it didn’t ^_^ Thanks for hosting again Mango. It was definitely a nice twist on the usual format and some of them took some figuring out