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Spotify playlists when btw 🥺 (read: I am too lazy to just make a playlist of 14 songs myself)

I will join the small but vocal group of 'Heater' fans x ('Prayer In C' is ok, I always preferred 'Waves' out of the big Robin Schulz hits though. Also boo at Robin Schulz. x)

Great to see 'Skinty Fia' making another re-appearance in the albums chart - after its initial ungraceful 1-24-76-x chart run it's now doubled its total number of top 100 weeks (having re-entered briefly twice last year as well). Guessing 'Dopamine Chamber' will have a chart run that's a lot better than that but probably not as great as that of 'Romance'.

Oh a classic

I think A would be fair - that's what it was last time, and if the popularity of the solo women category justifies it then why not have 7 of them in the live shows x (not necessarily a given, I don't think many would have predicted Conan Gray being one of the top 3 Wagners last time around). Wouldn't complain about C. Would complain about B. x (I think having 24 artists, many of whom will be sending heavy hitters, all duking it out for just one extra spot in the live shows is actually worse than just not having a Wagner at all personally)

Not tonight x (I'd be happy to do the usual either Monday or Wednesday next week - probably Monday I guess since Wednesday would be a bit close to the deadline) Oh my at me opening the show here *.* scaring the hoes from the first note. Lots of very promising artist names here as well, cool to see MF DOOM here especially, may he do better than when I sent him to Bop Idol x

I did think the physicals for Olivia were unlikely to secure her the #1 but shame they weren't even enough to stay in the top 2 - ah well, still a 4th top 3 from the album, I'll take it. (Still not heard the Chappell remix oop, I was tuned in from #33 up to #7, coincidentally bookended by Zach Bryan x). 'Babydoll' crashes in as my 2nd least favourite #1 of the year so far, breaking up the previously all-Taylor bottom 2 ('I Knew It, I Knew You' escapes my bottom 2 but 'Opalite' remains firmly last). 'Housewife' looking clearly poised to take over next week so it might end up being a 1 week #1 although still wouldn't be surprised if it has longer legs and just ends up back at #1 in January. Really enjoyed both of the Zach songs (pleasantly surprised 'Lodi When' wasn't skipped), consistent from him as ever, must make sure to check out the rest of the EP. It's great that he has a top 10 single to his name now and that his name power seems to still be on the rise ('Lies' obviously being helped by the Lana feature, but it's the first time any of his projects has landed more than just the one big single in the top 40). A bit of a shame the EP itself ended up just missing the top 10 especially with it being held out by the somewhat farcical Katy Perry greatest hits but #11 is still pretty good for an 8 track EP with no physical release - still a higher chart position than all of his full length albums bar the most recent one! Also aw at Fontaines D.C. not getting that first top 10 single when it looked promising at the start of the week but nonetheless, all three of their entries this week being higher than any of their previous singles chart positions is nothing to sniff at! 'Demolition' was sounding fantastic on the chart show today, still sitting pretty as my favourite album track and probably overall 2nd favourite on the album after 'Where Is Gone?' - although I won't mind if 'Mimesis' knocks it out next week now it has a chart position locked in. 'Japan' is growing on me as well, I do get why it's the song being pushed even though it's far from my favourite on the album (was actually my least favourite on my first listen but I might put it ahead of 'One Man' now), it along with 'Marianne' are the two songs that sound the most like conventional mainstream hits I suppose. First time hearing the KETTAMA song today too, agreed it's not as good as 'Comes And Goes' but I did like it more than both of Prospa's other top 40 hits! Also hooray for Justice holding onto their Wednesday position (I was still never worrying about it dropping out entirely x), utterly mad it's taken them 20 years to get a second top 40 hit, 'D.A.N.C.E.' at the very least should definitely have got there for them. Also ofc surreal to hear King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard being discussed on the chart show them and KETTAMA both joining the fairly long list of artists getting first top 40 hits from the last few weeks! (Along with Rohan Pinnock-Hamilton going by Spotify's credits on 'Think Of You'). 'Thriller' already re-entering is pretty ikonik too. Is this the first time the chart show has played Michael Jackson outside of the top 10 this year? A bit sad for the state of the charts that the activity this week would have been quite commonplace in the not too distant past but stands out as being particularly exciting for 2026. But we'll take what we can get I guess.

This sounded exactly like I expected it to sound - which is not a bad thing, you know what you're getting with Zach Bryan but I am yet to get tired of his sound. I thought when I saw that they had a collab that they would sound good together and indeed they do. Brilliant to see it finally giving Zach a first UK top 10 ❤️

Addy voting for a dictatorship

The bar is definitely lower than the top 40, there have been plenty of automatic resets landing at 41-50.

If D is the same as one of the first 3 options anyway I see literally no reason why this is even a question If you wanted to be a dictator you could just do it xx

o well ABC obviously then

We need to find out what they are first

I choose option E that it is automatically given to the oldest man x

Impakt!

Well this is now in the rotation on the radio at work for me and I can already tell it will be the bane of my existence for a while (alongside 'Boston' whose bane-of-existence-ness is still ongoing). I really, really don't like his voice oop. The song would be inoffensive/ok otherwise.

I've had it exclusively leaked to me that the "Gamu round" will be renamed to the Golden Wagner due to public demand

Just heard the Anderson/Cordae song this morning for the first time and it is a tune - good to see that, GENER8ION and Tinashe moving up. ?? at Victony just being added now - a blink and you'll miss it low top 100 hit from 3 months ago!

Just remembered the music video for 'Angel Of My Dreams' is in the same universe as Fontaines D.C.'s 'Starburster' so fitting that it gets a revival the same week as Fontaines drop a new album x

Ok let's not manifest such a thing x (I'd be surprised if they dropped from Wednesday #31 to out of the top 40 while still being stable on streaming though)

'Dancing On My Own' has randomly spiked up 81 places to a big new peak of #40 today (previous peak #67)! Wow at how much of a boost JADE has got from this Victoria's Secret thing. Will it be another song that returns and gets more top 40 weeks than its original run lol ~

I went out in round 1 tho x

also lowkey idk about Callum but I've not really put much effort into checking if the songs actually fit the spooky theme anyway (I trust you all, most of them pass the vibe check from the song titles alone anyway x) so we'll see if anyone snuck a Chet Faker type entry through again xo

Definitely! Spookiness doesn't have to just be lyrics x (I have no clue what the lyrics on my song even are as they're barely audible and not online anywhere lol)

Btw for transparency I did veto one song (don't usually like to step in and veto spinoff entries but this one felt like it was pushing it a bit too much as it's quite a highly regarded UK top 5 hit x)