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Hardly "the norm", just those 3 cases in the entire 90s and they were the first for over 35 years. I'd love to see a real long running Number 1, just imagine how some on here would get more and more angry about it as the weeks ticked on, some were even getting bored by Jess Glynne getting 3 weeks

What's that got to do with the thread?

But you also have to look at the other side of the coin, how many of her number ones were, under the same criteria, "lucky"

More personal taste than double standards. I find the rap monotonous and without emotion, and the sung vocals of a sub-Sam Smith quality, I do think they work well together (a rarity for a rap/sung combination for me), but just find the quality very low.

Perhaps the worst thing about the vinyl revival is the coining of the word "vinyls"!

While I can see some demand for Albums in this format, a vinyl singles chart, particularly one of 40 places, seems like overkill. What sort of numbers would the Number 40 vinyl single sell in a week? Single figures?

For some reason, the OCC have credited "Ride Out" to YG/WALE/TYGA/RICH HOMIE QUAN, omitting the real lead artist (Kid Ink) completely and changing around the order of the others. I know they sometimes abbreviate for reasons of space, but this seems completely bizzare. I normally follow OCC credits in my database, but in this case I think I will ignore them.

Good!

What's the difference? As far as I can tell, those two words are virtual synonyms

The OCC aren't giving them a credit.

With all its yo-yoing around 4 & 5, it was inevitable that its path down should include a stop-off at 4+5

No, 11 weeks is 4 less than "Thinking Out Loud" and "Take Me To Church" hung around in the top 40 before making the Top 10. In more than one run, Toploader's "Dancing In The Moonlight" extends the record by one more week.

Yeah, we heard you the first time (and the second, and the third....)

"Thinking Out Loud" notches up its 36th week in the Top 20, 2 more to go to equal the record...

The singing and rapping parts do go together on this (which I find is a rare occurence). Shame neither of them are very good. The rap is monotonous and the singing could easily be a track from Sam Smith's "tedium..." album

And Helping Haiti ({1}-1-9-26-42) Ah - seen this has already been pointed out while I ran my query.

It's probably not in their powers to get Apple to pull the cover version

Because they like it?

They should be obligated to play it, but past evidence has shown that they will play the "original" instead.

I heard "Jealous" for the first time yesterday and really can't see what all the fuss is about - it's a fairly average song, the production has nothing to recommend it and the vocals, while there is probably a reason that most of the time his singing needs to be multi-tracked and have tons of effect applied to it. Definitely would prefer a third week for Jess Glynne.

I wasn't expecting him to read it out to be honest, I don't think I would in his position unless he knew that "Buzzjack" was kosher. He certainly wouldn't have read it out if I'd abbreviated it to BJ!!!!

Was it even ever properly released?

Bit of an anti-climax for the last song to be honest. Yes, it's OK and would have felt at home say 20 minutes ago, but they should have had something really dramatic to finish with. Perhaps swapping it with "Glorious" would have been better, or even had "Let It Go" for the finale!

My memory must be playing tricks with me, I thought "In This City" was considerably more upbeat than this.

Just got back in, sent Dev a text and got Buzzjack a mention!