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Oh I had indeed completely missed this, now there’s a lot to think about before 7pm!

Need U would be pretty high up for me I think, I did really enjoy the house revival this year. I do prefer the one that’s still to come though so glad to see that’s not out yet

Votes are in! I thought Semi One was a good one this time, definitely wanted to vote for more songs that I was allowed to.

Has it always been the case that it didn't make it in the 70s? I know that sounds like a silly comment but with things like sales being downgraded for the mid 90s etc then I wondered if the same could have happened to the 70s? I really could have sworn it used to feature on the million sellers lists before things like streaming ever got added - unless maybe it continued to sell after 79 for some reason.

OMG if the misspelling of Laurence costs me a win! I’m definitely not getting maximum points for the last lot

Maybe it's just the leaf in the O?

There's something about that poster that makes me feel like voting for Herbilore is voting for legalising drugs. I'm not sure I can shake the association from the name now.

Yeah I feel like it was excusable first time round for a poor unsighted FLJ but this time around there was form and HEN really shoulda known better 🤭

Oh I thought Heart of Glass was a million seller! 😮

Very likely true. I think my expectations were higher because 1979 is the year I’m most familiar with after doing my turn at the ranking the #1s series and I thought the best sellers that year were all good

Oh I don’t love this one, sadly. It’s too similar so ultimately it just feels like a less impactful version of the original.

Yes I now realise how I messed up, I didn’t consider Roman numerals at all and the main one I knew I had wrong is indeed a Roman numeral (and presumably Kylie)

A lot of the tracks that sold a lot in the 70s really are quite awful aren’t they? 😕

Happy enough with how those first 10 have gone, I've dropped a few points but nothing I feel too bad about. I'm quite certain I've messed something up one of the ? clues that's still to come and I'm assuming in turn that means I've likely also messed up at least one other letter

I’d have preferred The Power of Love to win but Shout is still another good choice

You’re welcome! x 😂 Don’t get me wrong, I obviously like them and do hope Vogue qualifies, but 2515 ended up with less support than I’d hoped and I think the two tracks are reasonably similar

I’m slightly nervous for you Rob given Wasia Project didn’t exactly set the scoreboard alight early this year

I got really confused for a moment there, it didn’t dawn on me that the answer may not be for the question so I was trying to figure out who it was that seemingly thought Elton John actually was Princess Diana

Can I just say I really love the images/collages you've created for each of the answers <3

It's ludicrous in retrospect that none of Linger, Zombie or Dreams made the top 10. I'm not sure I can think of a stronger set of 3 singles for an act who only ever achieved top 20.

Oh don't worry nine, I can imagine this must have been tough to mark with the scope for answers so I'm sure we're all very happy to just go with your decisions! It's just always fun to comment on them as we go along...

Oh me neither Jade! I just assumed it was the singles chart and never even vaguely considered albums... I thought I could recall people in the chart forum getting into a slight tizzy around Billie Eilish not being credited properly on Guess - but I'm not confident on that and I could well be wrong. Agree that mango has been very lucky there!!! 🍀🥭

That was one of the last ones I gave an answer for... and the one that @awardinary made me think of after his BJSC post about a shanty!

I'm not the biggest fan of Wake Me Up either Jaz... it's not awful or anything but I always found it a little novelty almost, if anything I probably like it a bit more now than I did at the time.

It sounds exactly the sort of synth goodness that I need right now on first listen - need to listen on repeat