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I think there are a couple more with 9 of the 10 that haven't been mentioned

"Pretend" by Nat King Cole

"Wonderwall" by Oasis

Both just missing a number one.

Jason Derulo - Want To Want Me - (46 Weeks) 06/06/2015 -{1}-1-1-1-3-8-15-12-16-13-16-15-14-18-22-28-32-31-33-36-37-41-44-42-54-67-76-81-65-78-79-63-65-86-91-76-78-72-82-91-96-91-88-97-94-x(2)-86

I don't think it fell very quickly at all. Seventeen weeks Top 40 after dropping down from Number One.

And the number twos...

1962 - Chubby Checker "Let's Twist Again"

1967 - Tom Jones "I'll Never Fall In Love Again"

1973 - Gary Glitter "Hello Hello I'm Back Again"

1980 - Billy Preston & Syreeta "With You I'm Born Again"

1994 - Toni Braxton "Breathe Again"

2012 - Alyssa Reid featuring Jump Smokers "Alone Again"

And no, "Against All Odds" and "Me Against The Music" don't count!

I said above I'd next update his when "Blinding Lights" climbed into to the top ten, well I underestimated "Dance Monkey"'s longevity, for it is the Australian challanger rather than the Canadian one which has overtaken "Sex On Fire"

1 Lewis Capaldi Someone You Loved 85.7274

2 Ed Sheeran Perfect 84.6373

3 Frank Sinatra My Way 83.4962

4 Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl Fairytale Of New York 78.8711

5 Mariah Carey All I Want For Christmas Is You 77.7519

6 Ed Sheeran Thinking Out Loud 69.2845

7 George Ezra Shotgun 68.8735

8 Ed Sheeran Shape Of You 66.4549

9 Snow Patrol Chasing Cars 65.3433

10 Tones & I Dance Monkey 64.4578

11 Kings Of Leon Sex On Fire 64.1237

12 The Weeknd Blinding Lights 62.9895

Others in this weeks top 100 (with more than 20 points)

~46 Killers Mr Brightside 44.4467

~49 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper Shallow 43.8276

~66 Lewis Capaldi Before You Go 39.8712

~67 Dua Lipa Don't Start Now 39.8711

~91 Saint Jhn Roses 36.1011

~96 Harry Styles Watermelon Sugar 35.7435

~110 Joel Corry featuring MNEK Head & Heart 34.7219

~158 Dababy featuring Roddy Ricch Rockstar 31.4903

~264 24KGoldn featuring Iann Dior Mood 27.1977

~342 Tate McRae You Broke Me First 25.3992

~482 Internet Money featuring Gunna & Don Toliver Lemonade 22.9528

~669 Paul Woolford & Diplo featuring Kareen Lomax Looking For Me 20.4926

~698 Dua Lipa Levitating 20.1701

~703 Little Mix Sweet Melody 20.1371

"Drivers License" is now on 15.2892 and in about 1473rd position, "Wellerman" has just over 10 points and ranks in the 3700s.

At the other end of the scale, "Follow You" by Imagine Dragons may be the first 0.01 scorer of 2021 if it doesn't make another appearance in the chart.

'Martin & Gina' still not even going to DCL-1 despite falling 5 places this week - I doubt it'll be dropping out of the top 100 until it eventually hits ACR at this rate so it's probably coming to get to 22 weeks top 100 minimum with a peak of #54, that has to be approaching some sort of record if it's not one already!

Peak outside Top 50 and more than 20 weeks top 100

"Jumpman" by Drake & Future, peak 58, 29 weeks

"Lollipop" by Mika, peak 59, 22 weeks

"Butterfly Effect" by Travis Scott, peak 57, 22 weeks

"A-Punk" by Vampire Weekend, peak 55, 21 weeks

Well the expected change in leadership happened, and "My Way" dropped from No. 1 to No.3 in one fell swoop. Also as a bonus "Thinking Out Loud" consolidates its No. 6 spot by picking up a little fraction of a point.

Rank Artist Title Points Peak Weeks on chart First Week Last Week

Lewis Capaldi "Someone You Loved" 83.7474 1 108 22/11/2018 25/02/2021

Ed Sheeran "Perfect" 83.6573 1 160 16/03/2017 25/02/2021

Frank Sinatra "My Way" 83.4962 5 133 05/04/1969 08/08/1998

Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" 78.8711 2 109 05/12/1987 07/01/2021

Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You" 77.7519 1 101 10/12/1994 07/01/2021

Ed Sheeran "Thinking Out Loud" 69.2845 1 119 05/07/2014 25/02/2021

George Ezra "Shotgun" 68.8735 1 121 05/04/2018 10/09/2020

Ed Sheeran "Shape Of You" 66.4549 1 97 19/01/2017 23/05/2019

Snow Patrol "Chasing Cars" 65.3433 6 166 29/07/2006 25/10/2014

Kings Of Leon "Sex On Fire" 64.1237 1 124 20/09/2008 26/01/2013

Red=in current chart, Green=charted since 1/1/21, Blue=charted in last 12 months.

"Dance Monkey" and "Blinding Lights" are still racking up points while another random re-entry, "All of Me" by John Legend is at No. 16

~11 Tones & I "Dance Monkey" 62.5178

~13 The Weeknd "Blinding Lights" 60.0795

~16 John Legend "All Of Me" 56.8595

~51 Killers "Mr Brightside" 43.2967

~53 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper "Shallow" 42.9476

~68 Dua Lipa "Don't Start Now" 39.7611

~70 Lewis Capaldi "Before You Go" 39.2112

~108 Saint Jhn "Roses" 34.6611

~117 Harry Styles "Watermelon Sugar" 34.1935

~136 James Arthur "Say You Won't Let Go" 32.4252

~147 Joel Corry featuring MNEK "Head & Heart" 31.9319

~248 Pinkfong "Baby Shark" 27.7109

~361 24KGoldn featuring Iann Dior "Mood" 24.9977

~362 Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo "Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)" 24.9781

~434 Tate McRae "You Broke Me First" 23.6092

For reference, "Drivers License" is at about No. 4572 so it has got a long way to go yet to make this list.

I'm not going to update this every week, but will do so as and when somehing notable happens, probably "Blinding Lights" making the top ten.

I've been following this for a little while since seeing one or two of Dan's threads relating to ranking chart runs in accordance with the modified version of Polyhex's points system and thought it deserved a thread of its own rather than piggy-backing on an existing thread.

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As a reminder, the points system works like this:

((101-Position)/100)+(2.718^(-Position/2))

An explanation of the formula (Polyhex):

( 100 +1 - Position ) / 100 )

This reverses the chart position and divides it by 100 so we don't end up with large points when they're all added together.

Therefore a #1 position in the top 40 get 1 point and a #100 position will get 0.01 points.

( 2.718 ^ ( -Position / 2) )

This adds an extra few points to the top positions so they are weighted more.

--- Therefore a #1 position gets an extra 0.61 points, a #2 gets 0.37, a #10 gets 0.007. After #10 these values become miniscule.

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For ever and a day, "My Way" by Frank Sinatra has been number one. But not for long. After this week's chart (i.e. that for w/e 18/2/21), I have the top of the table looking like this

Rank Artist Title Points Peak Weeks on chart First Week Last Week

1 Frank Sinatra "My Way" 83.4962 5 133 05/04/1969 08/08/1998

2 Ed Sheeran "Perfect" 83.2173 1 159 16/03/2017 18/02/2021

3 Lewis Capaldi "Someone You Loved" 83.1574 1 107 22/11/2018 18/02/2021

4 Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" 78.8711 2 109 05/12/1987 07/01/2021

5 Mariah Carey "All I Want For Christmas Is You" 77.7519 1 101 10/12/1994 07/01/2021

6 Ed Sheeran "Thinking Out Loud" 69.2345 1 118 05/07/2014 06/07/2017

7 George Ezra "Shotgun" 68.8735 1 121 05/04/2018 10/09/2020

8 Ed Sheeran "Shape Of You" 66.4549 1 97 19/01/2017 23/05/2019

9 Snow Patrol "Chasing Cars" 65.3433 6 166 29/07/2006 25/10/2014

10 Kings Of Leon "Sex On Fire" 64.1237 1 124 20/09/2008 26/01/2013

Red=in current chart, Green=charted since 1/1/21, Blue=charted in last 12 months.

For ages it looks like "Perfect" was going to be the song to dethrone Ol' Blue Eyes, but since it hit ACR, the North of the Border challenge from Lewis Capaldi has got stronger and stronger and now there's virtually nothing in it.

My database is still incomplete for the 76-100 positions before Feb 98 but I don't think anything else will affect the Top 10, although some of the Oasis tracks stuck around the lower reaches of the charts seemingly forever.

"Dance Monkey" and "Blinding Lights" are 11 and 13 in my listing, but with quite a gap to No. 10

"Last Christmas" would be No. 6 with 71.3588 points if you include the time spent as a Double A-Side with "Everything She Wants"

Others currently in the top 100

~11 Tones & I "Dance Monkey" 61.9778

~13 The Weeknd "Blinding Lights" 59.3094

~52 Killers "Mr Brightside" 43.0267

~55 Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper "Shallow" 42.5776

~68 Dua Lipa "Don't Start No" 39.6011

~70 Lewis Capaldi "Before You Go" 38.9512

~86 Post Malone "Sunflower" 36.4897

~114 Saint Jhn "Roses" 34.3211

~123 Harry Styles "Watermelon Sugar" 33.8035

~163 Joel Corry featuring MNEK "Head and Heart" 31.2019

~252 Pinkfong "Baby Shark" 27.5009

~359 Jawsh 685 & Jason Derulo "Savage Love (Laxed Beat) 24.9181

~391 24k Goldn feauring Iann Dior "Mood" 24.3477

~476 Tate McRae "You Broke Me First" 23.0092

The lower you go down the more inaccurate the overall positions will be due to the missing data mentioned earlier

As an aside, is there a better way of displaying data in tables?

Round 4

1 Cheltenham Town v Manchester City

2 AFC Bournemouth v Crawley Town

3 Swansea City v Nottingham Forest

4 Manchester United v Liverpool

5 Southampton or Shrewsbury Town v Arsenal

6 Barnsley v Norwich City

7 Chorley v Wolverhampton Wanderers

8 Millwall v Bristol City

9 Brighton & Hove Albion v Blackpool

10 Wycombe Wanderers v Tottenham Hotspur

11 Fulham v Burnley

12 Sheffield United v Plymouth Argyle

13 Chelsea v Luton Town

14 Stockport County or West Ham United v Doncaster Rovers

15 Brentford v Leicester City

16 Everton v Sheffield Wednesday

Round 5

1 Fulham/Burnley v AFC Bournmouth/Crawley Town

2 Man United/Liverpool v Stockport/West Ham/Doncaster

3 Sheff Utd/Plymouth v Millwall/Bristol City

4 Chorley/Wolves v Southampton/Shrewsbury Town/Arsenal

5 Barnsley/Norwich City v Chelsea/Luton Town

6 Everton/Sheffield Wednesday v Wycombe W/Tottenham Hotspur

7 Swansea City/Nottingham Forest v Cheltenham T/Manchester City

8 Brentford/Leicester City v Brighton/Blackpool

First Round Proper Draw

1 Huddersfield Town v Plymouth Argyle

2 Southampton v Shrewsbury Town

3 Chorley v Derby County

4 Marine v Tottenham Hotspur

5 Wolverhampton Wanderers v Crystal Palace

6 Stockport County v West Ham United

7 Oldham Athletic v AFC Bournemouth

8 Manchester United v Watford

9 Stevenage v Swansea City

10 Everton v Rotherham United

11 Nottingham Forest v Cardiff City

12 Arsenal v Newcastle United

13 Barnsley v Tranmere Rovers

14 Bristol Rovers v Sheffield United

15 Canvey Island or Boreham Wood v Millwall

16 Blackburn Rovers v Doncaster Rovers

17 Stoke City v Leicester City

18 Wycombe Wanderers v Preston North End

19 Crawley Town v Leeds United

20 Burnley v Milton Keynes Dons

21 Bristol City v Portsmouth

22 Queens Park Rangers v Fulham

23 Aston Villa v Liverpool

24 Brentford v Middlesbrough

25 Manchester City v Birmingham City

26 Luton Town v Reading

27 Chelsea v Morecambe

28 Exeter City v Sheffield Wednesday

29 Norwich City v Coventry City

30 Blackpool v West Bromwich Albion

31 Newport County v Brighton & Hove Albion

32 Cheltenham Town v Mansfield Town

To mark the re-appearance of two festive oldies in the Top 50 and the continuing presence of "Blinding Lights", here's an update of records by most weeks in the top 50

123 - "My Way" Frank Sinatra

80 - "Someone You Loved" Lewis Capaldi

79 - "Perfect" Ed Sheeran

76 - "Fairytale of New York" Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl

72 - "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU" Mariah Carey

68 - "Shotgun" George Ezra

66 - "Amazing Grace" Judy Collins

65 - "Thinking Out Loud" Ed Sheeran

61 - "Dance Monkey" Tones & I

60 - "Rather Be" Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne

58 - "All Of Me" John Legend

"Shape Of You" Ed Sheeran

57 - "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" Wizzard

"Rock Around The Clock" Bill Haley & His Comets

56 - "Release Me" Engelbert Humperdinck

55 - "LAST CHRISTMAS" Wham! *

"Stranger On The Shore" Mr Acker Bilk

54 - "Sex On Fire" Kings of Leon

"Take Me To Church" Hozier

53 - "Chandelier" Sia

"Happy" Pharrell Williams

"Someone Like You" Adele

"This Is Me" Keala Settle

51 - "BLINDING LIGHTS" The Weeknd

50 - "Let It Go" Idina Menzel

"Merry Xmas Everybody" Slade #

* - "Last Christmas" has 11 extra weeks as a Double A-side with "Everything She Wants"

# - "Merry Xmas Everybody" has 2 extra weeks in a version credited to Slade vs Flush

AGGRO SANTOS

Brazilian male rapper, born Yuri Santos, 12/10/89

15 May 10 Candy (Aggro Santos featuring Kimberly Wyatt) 5 18 wks

04 Sep 10 Saint Or Sinner 19 4 wks

29 Jan 11 Like U Like (Aggro Santos featuring Kimberley Walsh) 8 5 wks

Total Hits : 3 Total Weeks : 27

A rare Brazilian entry into the UK charts although he had been long resident in London.

He must have had a thing for Kim W's, as the featured artists on his two biggest hits are Kims Wyatt (Pussycat Dolls) and Walsh (Girls Aloud)

As the current series of "I'm A Celebrity..." is just starting, I had forgotten that Santos had appeared on the 2010 series, finishing 6th (the top two were fellow chart stars Stacey Solomon and ex-Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder)

"Pump Up The Volume" was technically a double A-side with "Anitina (The First Time I See She Dance)".

I suspect not many sales were for the latter.

"China In Your Hand" was recognised at the time as the 600th UK Number One.

It is in my Top 50 of all time.

LADY ANTEBELLUM

American male/female vocal/instrumental group - Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott. They have won 7 Grammy awards out of 13 nominations

08 May 10 Need You Now 15 46 wks

27 Aug 11 Just A Kiss 78 2 wks

Total Hits : 2 Total Weeks : 48

It's never been easy for American country artists to have a sustained UK chart career, but plenty have had the odd hit here or there and Lady Antebellum are one of those acts.

It took over two years after the chart debut for "Need You Now" to reach it's UK peak, and even that was nearly a year after the original US release. The song made No. 2 in the Billboard Top 100 and topped their genre charts for Adult Contemporary, Adult Top 40 and Hot Country Songs, and fininshed 2nd in the Billboard 2010 year-end chart.

They changed their name to "Lady A" in June 2020 due to the association of "Antebellum" with the slavery era of the Southern United States.

JODIE CONNOR

British female singer, born 8/5/81

08 May 10 Good Times (Roll Deep featuring Jodie Connor) 1 18 wks

29 Jan 11 Now Or Never (Jodie Connor featuring Wiley) 14 4 wks

05 Mar 11 Bring It (Jodie Connor featuring Tinchy Stryder) 37 6 wks

Total Hits : 3 Total Weeks : 28

Jodie was closely associated with the 2010-1 British Rap Scene, all three of her chart appearances are joint credits with artists from that genre.

Several years before, she was a contestant in the early stages of the 2nd series of "Pop Idol", the one won by Michelle McManus but was eliminated before the final 12

After her hits, she just seemed to fade away. Wikipedia mentions a couple of singles in 2012 (including one featuring Busta Rhymes) that did nothing, and one more in 2016 but that's about it.

FYFE DANGERFIELD

British male singer/songwriter/guitarist, born Fyfe Antony Dangerfield Hutchins, 7/7/80. He is also the lead singer of the Guillemots

08 May 10 She's Always A Woman To Me 7 18 wks

Total Hits : 1 Total Weeks : 18

The Guillemots had five top 50 hits between 2006 and 2008, with the highest peaking of them being "Get Over It" making No. 20 in 2008.

Lead singer Fyfe Dangerfield beat that when his cover of a Billy Joel song made the top 10 after being used in a John Lewis advert.

Joel's version was also in the charts at the same time. For the week they both entered, Joel was No. 25 and Dangerfield was way down at No. 99, but the week after the relative positions were flipped and the Englishman's version became the better seller.

1 Stevenage 1-1 Hull City (Stevenage won 6-5 on penalties)

2 Harrogate Town 0-4 Blackpool

3 Tranmere Rovers 1-0 Brackley Town

4 AFC Wimbledon 1-2 Crawley Town

5 Stockport County 3-2 Yeovil Town

6 Plymouth Argyle 2-0 Lincoln City

7 Portsmouth 6-1 King's Lynn Town

8 Cheltenham Town 2-1 Crewe Alexandra

9 Peterborough United 1-2 Chorley

10 Morecambe 4-2 Solihull Moors

11 Shrewsbury Town 1-0 Oxford City

12 Mansfield Town 2-1 Dagenham & Redbridge

13 Newport County 3-0 Salford City

14 Marine 1-0 Havant & Waterlooville

15 Gillingham 2-3 Exeter City

16 Canvey Island 0-3 Boreham Wood

17 Carlisle United 1-2 Doncaster Rovers

18 Barnet 0-1 Milton Keynes Dons

19 Bristol Rovers 6-0 Darlington

20 Bradford City 1-2 Oldham Athletic

Draw numbers for tonights second round draw

1 Newport County

2 Havant & Waterlooville

3 Mansfield Town

4 Crewe Alexandra

5 Peterborough United

6 Exeter City

7 Bradford City

8 Bristol Rovers

9 Stockport County

10 Darlington

11 Barnet

12 Chorley

13 Tranmere Rovers

14 Oxford City or Northampton Town

15 Morecambe

16 Yeovil Town

17 Crawley Town

18 Blackpool

19 Cheltenham Town

20 Stevenage

21 Harrogate Town

22 Gillingham

23 Plymouth Argyle

24 Carlisle United

25 Doncaster Rovers

26 Salford City

27 Solihull Moors

28 Hull City

29 Marine

30 Barrow or AFC Wimbledon

31 Dagenham & Redbridge

32 Shrewsbury Town

33 Brackley Town

34 Milton Keynes Dons

35 Oldham Athletic

36 Boreham Wood

37 Portsmouth

38 King's Lynn Town

39 Lincoln City

40 Canvey Island

I'm actually very excited about this weekend as for the first time in my life my hometown team will be playing in the cup proper and it's on the telly too. Yes, I'm talking about Tonbridge

That didn't go to well for the Angels, did it?

Ouch, lots of meh songs only saved by Madonna and Berlin

Madonna is the best by millions, still love the song, genious lyrics and amazing melody

 

Always loved Take my Breathe Away too, even bought the album as a kid back in the day

The Berlin "Count Three & Play" album was very good, "Take My Breath Away" was probably the lowlight of the whole record. "Like Flames" was the best track.