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I did feel that too. I think things were sketchy after Ribbon Around the Bomb. However, Gary seems to have put them back on the straight and narrow.

+5: Choosin' Texas +4: American Girls +3: Rein Me In +2: stupid song +1: the cure -1: drop dead -2: I Knew It, I Knew You -3: Billie Jean -4: Free Your Mind -5: hate that i made you love me

It's all just label politics. Anita Ward hasn't released music in years so they're probably not bothered.

Each week, 10 new releases are selected to go head to head, with one weekly winner which will then go up against future weekly winners later in the year at the end of each quarter of the year, and then again at the end of the year to determine the ultimate winner of 2026. Last week's results: Muse (feat. Ellie Goulding) - Hush [5] sombr - My Body Isn't Ready [4] Charli xcx - Wink Wink [2] Phoebe Bridgers - Lost Boys [2] beabadoobee - Sun Has Set [1] Brandon Flowers - Plans [1] Kasabian - SUPERPOWERS [1] Bring Me The Horizon - Dehumanized [0] The Rolling Stones - Jealous Lover [0] Yard Act - New Beginnings [0] Total votes: 16 Here are this week's contenders: Against The Current - Always You & I The Big Moon - Gravity Bloc Party - Love Bombs DMA'S - Killing Time Fat Dog - Cancel Me (I'm Tired) Marmozets - Closer To You Shed Seven - Stand Together Snow Patrol & Kylie Minogue - These Alarms Westside Cowboy - Pin Up Boys Wolf Alice - Gospel Oak 2026 Indie/Rock/Alt Track of the Week Winners Week 1: Ladytron - Caught in the Blink of an Eye Week 2: Mandy, Indiana - Cursive Week 3: Gorillaz (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar) - Orange County Week 4: James Blake - Death of Love Week 5: Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Minneapolis Week 6: sombr - Homewrecker Week 7: Charli xcx - Always Everywhere Week 8: Lana Del Rey - White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter Week 9: Gorillaz (feat. Asha Puthli, Bobby Womack, Dave Jolicoeur, Jalen Ngonda & Black Thought) - The Moon Cave Week 10: Cameron Winter - Warning Week 11: beabadoobee (feat. The Marías) - All I Did Was Dream of You Week 12: Muse - Be With You Week 13: Jungle - Carry On Week 14: U2 - Song For Hal Week 15: The Strokes - Going Shopping Week 16: Lana Del Rey - First Light Week 17: Blossoms - Joke About Divorce Week 18: DMA'S - Heatin Park Week 19: Lykke Li - Happy Now Week 20: Mystery Jets - Black Sage Week 21: Lola Young - From Down Here Week 22: Jungle - The Wave Week 23: Evanescence - Tell Me When You've Had Enough Week 24: Olivia Rodrigo & Robert Smith - what's wrong with me Week 25: FKA twigs (feat. Lil Yachts) - On Your Mind Week 26: Muse (feat. Ellie Goulding) - Hush

I'll be surprised if they're both not on the new album.

The Big Moon are back! New album 'Forever' is out on 30th October, 'Gravity' is out now:

Final call!

A 2026 remastered version is out on streaming now!

It seems like it, but the cover art is reminiscent of their most recent album.

Some other thoughts: When was Paul McCartney's last appearance as a lead artist on a Now album? 4 country songs must be the most for quite some time?

How many rap hits are there to miss these days though? I don't think it's much of a surprise the main genres missing are ones that don't typically sell loads of physical albums though.

She should be so lucky ;)

Last day to vote! And it's a close one...

You’ve got the band too I suppose, and Kylie isn’t credited as a writer. I imagine it was something cut from their last album.

January-June Artists 01 Luke Combs 02 Sabrina Carpenter 03 The Cure 04 Post Malone 05 Taylor Swift 06 mgk 07 Zach Bryan 08 Paul McCartney 09 Train 10 Foo Fighters 11 The 1975 12 Dominic Fike 13 Harry Styles 14 Morgan Wallen 15 Wet Leg 16 Noah Kahan 17 Gorillaz 18 Marshmello 19 Charli xcx 20 The Beatles 21 Two Door Cinema Club 22 The Cribs 23 Calvin Harris 24 Weezer 25 Royel Otis 26 Ariana Grande 27 Ella Langley 28 Less Than Jake 29 The Beach Boys 30 blink-182 31 John Mayer 32 Fall Out Boy 33 Megan Thee Stallion 34 Graham Barham 35 Lil Yachty 36 Lewis Capaldi 37 Blossoms 38 YUNGBLUD 39 Keith Urban 40 Juice WRLD 41 Good Neighbours 42 Paramore 43 The Aquabats! 44 The Kooks 45 Blues Traveler 46 The Chainsmokers 47 Maximo Park 48 Olivia Rodrigo 49 G Flip 50 All Time Low Songs 01 Gorillaz (feat. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar) - Orange County 02 Harry Styles - Aperture 03 Blossoms - Joke About Divorce 04 Marshmello & Portugal. The Man - Phoenix 05 sombr - Homewrecker 06 Zach Bryan - Rivers and Creeks 07 Dominic Fike - White Keys 08 Weezer & Best Coast - Go Away 09 Royel Otis - who's your boyfriend 10 MJ Cole & PinkPantheress - Still Sincere 11 Blues Traveler - Big City Girls 12 Noah Kahan - The Great Divide 13 Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas 14 Calvin Harris & Kasabian - Release The Pressure 15 Fastball - Out of My Head 16 Harry Styles - American Girls 17 Sugarland (feat. Taylor Swift) - Babe 18 Ella Langley - Be Her 19 Bruno Mars - I Just Might 20 Temper City - Self Aware 21 YUNGBLUD - Zombie 22 TWINSICK & Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home (TWINSICK Remix) 23 mgk (feat. Fred Durst) - FIX UR FACE 24 Dexter and The Moonrocks - Freakin' Out 25 The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979 26 Luke Combs - My Kinda Saturday Night 27 Wilco - Outtasite (Outta Mind) 28 Alesso & Pendulum - FADE 29 Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark 30 Geese - Taxes 31 Post Malone (feat. Morgan Wallen) - I Had Some Help 32 Alok & Portugal The Man - Dive Into The Ocean 33 The Paradox (feat. Travis Barker) - Bender 34 Royel Otis - car 35 Cody Johnson - Travelin' Soldier 36 Post Malone (feat. Blake Shelton) - Pour Me A Drink 37 Dominic Fike - Sick 38 The Cribs - Mirror Kissers 39 Sugarland - Something More 40 The Chainsmokers (feat. ROZES) - Roses 41 Nothing But Thieves - Evolution 42 Alabama Shakes - Always Alright (Live at KCRW) 43 The Cure - Close to Me 44 NEIKED (feat. Arden Jones) - Looking For Something 45 Tame Impala - Dracula 46 The Molotovs - Today's Gonna Be Our Day 47 Arctic Monkeys - Opening Night 48 Zach Bryan - Bad News 49 Bodyjar - Not The Same 50 Treaty Oak Revival - Stay A While

'Killing Time' is out today:

Very well timed with the World Cup too ;)

‘Someday, Somewhere’ is out on 8th July.

To be fair, the MAFS UK relaunch in 2021 was essentially an entirely new show. The original was more of a documentary series than a reality show with a different target audience. There's been a few big new dating shows not on the terrestrials in the last few years too - Love is Blind & The Ultimatum come to mind.

It's all the TV shows that killed my interest, it just felt like homework.

+5: Choosin' Texas +4: Rein Me In +3: American Girls +2: stupid song +1: the cure -1: drop dead -2: I Knew It, I Knew You -3: Beat It -4: Billie Jean -5: hate that i made you love me

For a band that only formed this decade, they seem to have lineup changes every 6 months. They started out with a frontwoman! Their Wiki lists 12 members past and present which is pretty wild.

Alesha Dixon - Drummer Boy I still find it annoying now.

New music out on 17th July! Presumably the lead single from their fourth album. They've had 3 in a fairly similar style now, so hoping they change it up a bit with this one.

New single ‘Gospel Oak’ is out on Thursday - presumably a deluxe is coming.