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How something that might or might not get to the Top Ten is "slaying" anything is beyond me.

The best selling album should be Number One regardless of what tracks are on it.

The UK.

We come to the end of the J's and as per the first two, we have a legend included in this batch. Sir Tom Jones is the legend in question. Still a major name after 50 years in the business, and a 40-year spread of Number Ones puts him in a very small club indeed. It's a big drop off then to 80s man Howard Jones, the 70s king of double entendres Judge Dread and the group who've got "Glee" to thank for most of their UK sales, Journey. If you're keeping up with the Joneses, we have a number one from Jimmy, the bizarre-ness ofo Grace, the schoolboy chorister Aled and producer extraordinaire Quincy. Three other acts from this group topped the charts and they can't be much more different - The Johnston Brothers, The Justice Collective and Junkie XL.

Why are X-Factor allowed to rig the charts by declaring the performances ineligible anyway? They seem to want their cake and eat it by getting people to buy them but not letting them appear in the charts

"All About That Bass" and "Outside" swapping 10 and 11 amongst themselves

To me Sam Smith is the very definition of DULL.

So Ella Henderson can sing. A vast improvement on the other two tracks.

Two actually. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galway_Bay_%28song%29

Another of "Stranger On The Shore"'s longevity records may be under threat very soon. In the last couple of months, it has already lost the most consecutive weeks top 40 to "Happy" and most consecutive weeks top 30 is now shared with "All Of Me". Now it's 37 total weeks top 20 is looking precarious as "Fairytale Of New York" picks up its 35th today. (Acker's was all consecutive so he will still hold that honour) Oh, and Dev, it's The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl. Why does poor Kirsty keep getting overlooked?

The vocals on "Bang Bang just show how good Idina's are.

Surely that would be considered remarkable in any era?

"Fairytale Of New York" but mostly for Kirsty MacColl, rather than the Pogues

Pharrell Williams' "Happy" breaking the record for most weeks Top 40 was noted in here and elsewhere a few weeks ago, but what has not been mentioned is that John Legend's "All Of Me" equalled the longest consecutive Top 30 run before dropping out this week. The record it tied with? The same one that Pharrell beat - Acker Bilk's "Stranger On The Shore" The all-time top 30 (non-consecutive) weeks list may get shaken up a little bit more in the next few weeks 47 - "Rock Around The Clock" - Bill Haley & His Comets 41 - "All Of Me" - John Legend "Stranger On The Shore" - Mr Acker Bilk with the Leon Young String Chorale 40 - "Relax" - Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Sex On Fire" - Kings Of Leon "Fairytale Of New York" - Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl 39 - "Happy" - Pharrell Williams 36 - "My Way" - Frank Sinatra "I Believe" - Frankie Laine 34 - "I Love You Because" - Jim Reeves "All I Want For Christmas Is You" - Mariah Carey 33 - "Ho Hey" - Lumineers 32 - "Rather Be" - Clean Bandit featuring Jess Glynne 31 - "Let It Go" - Idina Menzel "Sexy And I Know It" - LMFAO "Counting Stars" - OneRepublic .... 28 "Stay With Me" - Sam Smith

After last week's batch featured Michael Jackson, two more of the mega-big names from UK Singles chart history appear in this little lot. Reg Dwight, or Elton John has racked up over 600 weeks on the chart, while Shawn Carter, or Jay-Z is now over the 500 mark. Elton was famously one of the most successful singles acts without a solo number one for some time, but has since put that right and counting time with various collaborations has 23 weeks at the summit. Jay-Z has 15 weeks at the top split across 4 records, but the bulk of them come of course from "Umbrella" Who else is here? Billy Joel has next most weeks on chart, followed by Johnny & The Hurricanes whose last hit was before I was born, let alone most of you readers! Carly Rae Jepsen shone for a few months, Jive Bunny irritated most of us for a couple of years, Jethro Tull have been around forever and the Jesus & Mary Chain's innovative early singles led them to develop a fan base which kept them going for over a decade The only other Number One act here is Holly Johnson, whose solo work never got anywhere the brilliance of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, while Jeremih's presence in this batch brings the group bang up to date

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Intentional, see Note 7 All done, thanks for picking these up.

I also credit the Shadows with a bunch of Number 1 weeks when credited alongside Cliff Richard

Agree with this.

Maybe, maybe not, but when one of your alter-egos has a thread where you highlight her explanations that she says time and time again, I thought perhaps her lack of an explanation was worth a mention

OK, so she redeemed herself by back-announcing it. Fair enough.

So when she has a chance to explain that this is from the film, and who is actually singing, she just announces the credit and plays the record...

"Night Changes" sounds like a really decent song, spoilt by the sub-par vocals.

Quite like "Desire" on first listen.

Another 30-second idea extended to a 3-minute pop song by filler