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Agreed - it'll only be a success because of the pathetic references to getting drunk and getting a girl naked at a party - musically it's a complete no-brainer.

I don't know any of your all-time favourites :lol: Well, I did just turn 2 at the end of 1974. From the list you've included there, I like; Queen - Killer Queen Abba - Waterloo Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Theme Bachman Turner Overdrive - You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet Mud - Tiger Feet I can't believe you've included Sylvia's Y Viva Espana - loved it way back when on family holidays to Spain...but could I listen to it now? I don't think so! Also, I couldn't stand Sparks, more of an assault on the ears than music.

1 (1) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 2 (2) Great Expectations - Gaslight Anthem 3 (5) Farewell To The Fairground - White Lies 4 (12) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 5 (7) I'm A Rope - Tommy Sparks 6 (3) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 7 (8) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 8 (NE) Wrong - Depeche Mode 9 (4) Spaceman - Killers 10 (9) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 11 (NE) Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 12 (6) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 13 (10) Falling Down - Oasis 14 (18) Tell Me It's Not Over - Starsailor 15 (11) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 16 (13) Edith - Hot Melts 17 (14) Too Fake - Hockey 18 (22) Skinny Love - Bon Iver 19 (15) If There's A Rocket, Tie Me To It - Snow Patrol 20 (25) Better Than This - Keane 21 (21) Omen - Prodigy 22 (17) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 23 (16) Tomorrow - Ladytron 24 (19) Gives You Hell - All American Rejects 25 (23) Get On Your Boots - U2 26 (32) Skeleton Boy - Friendly Fires 27 (NE) My Girls - Animal Collective 28 (NE) No You Girls - Franz Ferdinand 29 (20) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 30 (24) Arts And Crafts - Red Light Company 31 (NE) Mercury Summer - Fightstar 32 (34) Magnificent - U2 33 (33) Daniel - Bat For Lashes 34 (27) Save It For The Bedroom - You Me At Six 35 (28) Oblivion - Wintersleep 36 (NE) Undead - Hollywood Undead 37 (29) Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand 38 (30) We Walk - Ting Tings 39 (31) Audience Of One - Rise Against 40 (26) If I Had A Heart - Fever Ray

1 (NE) No Line On The Horizon - U2 2 (1) It's Not Me, It's You - Lily Allen 3 (2) Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon 4 (3) Invaders Must Die - Prodigy 5 (4) Day And Age - Killers 6 (6) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 7 (12) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 8 (16) To Lose My Life - White Lies 9 (NE) Platinum Collection - Tina Turner 10 (5) Years Of Refusal - Morrissey 11 (7) The Circus - Take That 12 (15) Chasing Lights - Saturdays 13 (8) The Fray - The Fray 14 (10) Total Pop! First 40 Hits - Erasure 15 (9) When The World Comes Down - All American Rejects 16 (13) The Fame - Lady GaGa 17 (11) London Conversations, Best Of - St Etienne 18 (NE) Fine Fascination - Red Light Company 19 (22) Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis 20 (18) Viva La Vida - Coldplay

1 (2) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 2 (1) The Fear - Lily Allen 3 (6) Love Etc - Pet Shop Boys 4 (4) Great Expectations - Gaslight Anthem 5 (3) Can't Get Over - September 6 (11) Farewell To The Fairground - White Lies 7 (23) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 8 (5) Everybody - Rudenko 9 (15) I'm A Rope - Tommy Sparks 10 (9) Up All Night - Take That 11 (7) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 12 (10) Crack A Bottle - Eminem 13 (16) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 14 (NE) Wrong - Depeche Mode 15 (22) Just Can't Get Enough - Saturdays 16 (8) Spaceman - Killers 17 (13) I'm Yours - Jason Mraz 18 (17) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 19 (NE) Zero - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 20 (29) I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris 21 (12) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 22 (14) Change - Daniel Merriweather 23 (18) So Human - Lady Sovereign 24 (27) Dead And Gone - TI 25 (19) Falling Down - Oasis 26 (NE) Everybody Knows - Lunik 27 (35) Tell Me It's Not Over - Starsailor 28 (20) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 29 (37) Embers - Just Jack 30 (NE) Talk You Down - The Script 31 (33) Beautiful - Akon 32 (24) Edith - Hot Melts 33 (25) Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolf 34 (21) Johnny Got A Boom Boom - Imelda May 35 (40) Let It Go - Will Young 36 (28) Too Fake - Hockey 37 (44) Skinny Love - Bon Iver 38 (31) If There's A Rocket, Tie Me To It - Snow Patrol 39 (48) Better Than This - Keane 40 (26) It's Amazing - Jem

I've heard this a couple of times on daytime Radio 1 and it really didn't catch my attention. If Radio 1 continue to back it, it may just scrape a top 75 placing, but I don't rate it at all :(

I listened to the lyrics of Katy Perry's Thinking Of You today...absolutely awful, I hope it doesn't make the official top 40 :puke2:

1 (1) It's Not Me, It's You - Lily Allen 2 (4) Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon 3 (NE) Invaders Must Die - Prodigy 4 (3) Day And Age - Killers 5 (2) Years Of Refusal - Morrissey 6 (9) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 7 (7) The Circus - Take That 8 (5) The Fray - The Fray 9 (6) When The World Comes Down - All American Rejects 10 (10) Total Pop! 40 Hits - Erasure 11 (8) London Conversations - St Etienne 12 (32) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes 13 (12) The Fame - Lady GaGa 14 (11) We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things - Jason Mraz 15 (23) Chasing Lights - Saturdays 16 (19) To Lose My Life - White Lies 17 (15) Love, Ire & Song - Frank Turner 18 (17) Viva La Vida - Coldplay 19 (13) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 20 (22) A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol

1 (1) The Fear - Lily Allen 2 (21) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 3 (5) Can't Get Over - September 4 (10) Great Expectations - Gaslight Anthem 5 (2) Everybody - Rudenko 6 (19) Love Etc - Pet Shop Boys 7 (4) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 8 (3) Spaceman - Killers 9 (8) Up All Night - Take That 10 (12) Crack A Bottle - Eminem 11 (NE) Farewell To The Fairground - White Lies 12 (6) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 13 (9) I'm Yours - Jason Mraz 14 (7) Change - Daniel Merriweather 15 (38) I'm A Rope - Tommy Sparks 16 (18) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 17 (20) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 18 (16) So Human - Lady Sovereign 19 (17) Falling Down - Oasis 20 (24) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 21 (11) Johnny Got A Boom Boom - Imelda May 22 (32) Just Can't Get Enough - Saturdays 23 (34) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 24 (23) Edith - Hot Melts 25 (14) Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolf 26 (13) It's Amazing - Jem 27 (29) Dead And Gone - TI 28 (31) Too Fake - Hockey 29 (61) I'm Not Alone - Calvin Harris 30 (15) Love Live On! - Laura & The Tears 31 (41) If There's A Rocket, Tie Me To It - Snow Patrol 32 (22) Tomorrow - Ladytron 33 (36) Beautiful - Akon 34 (26) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 35 (NE) Tell Me It's Not Over - Starsailor 36 (25) Single Ladies - Beyonce 37 (56) Embers - Just Jack 38 (30) Just Dance - Lady GaGa 39 (37) It's Alright - Seal 40 (NE) Let It Go - Will Young

1 (8) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 2 (4) Great Expectations - Gaslight Anthem 3 (2) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 4 (1) Spaceman - Killers 5 (NE) Farewell To The Fairground - White Lies 6 (3) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 7 (18) I'm A Rope - Tommy Sparks 8 (6) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 9 (7) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 10 (5) Falling Down - Oasis 11 (11) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 12 (16) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 13 (10) Edith - Hot Melts 14 (14) Too Fake - Hockey 15 (21) If There's A Rocket, Tie Me To It - Snow Patrol 16 (9) Tomorrow - Ladytron 17 (12) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 18 (NE) Tell Me It's Not Over - Starsailor 19 (17) Gives You Hell - All American Rejects 20 (13) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 21 (23) Omen - Prodigy 22 (NE) Skinny Love - Bon Iver 23 (20) Get On Your Boots - U2 24 (19) Arts And Crafts - Red Light Company 25 (NE) Better This Time - Keane 26 (15) If I Had A Heart - Fever Ray 27 (22) Save It For The Bedroom - You Me At Six 28 (27) Oblivion - Wintersleep 29 (25) Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand 30 (24) We Walk - Ting Tings 31 (26) Audience Of One - Rise Against 32 (28) Skeleton Boy - Friendly Fires 33 (NE) Daniel - Bat For Lashes 34 (NE) Magnificent - U2 35 (30) Last Of The English Roses - Peter Doherty 36 (31) Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon 37 (29) Part Of Me - Chris Cornell 38 (32) Shock Horror - The View 39 (34) Human - Killers 40 (33) Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event

Not really in much of a hating mood this week, so I'll just give... 5pts to Shontelle - T-Shirt

1. The Kooks - She moves in her own way 8/10 2. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy 9/10 3. Killers - When you were young 7/10 4. Nelly Furtado - All good things 7/10 5. Snow Patrol Martha Wainwright - Set fire to the third bar 6/10 6. HIM - Killing lonliness ?/10 Don't remember it 7. Chicane ft Tom Jones - Stoned in love 5/10 8. Infernal - Paris to berlin 6/10 9. Zutons - Valerie 9/10 10. Automatic - Monster 9/10 11. Razorlight - Before i fall to pieces 7/10 12. Justin Timberlake - My love 7/10 13. Gnarles Barkley - Smiley faces 2/10 14. Zutons - Why dont you give me your love 9/10 15. Kooks - Naive 8/10 16. Hard Fi - Cash machine 8/10 17. Razorlight - In the morning 6/10 18. Lily Allen - Smile 3/10 19. Rogue Traders - Voodoo child 6/10 20. Kooks - Ooh la 7/10 21. Snow Patrol - Chasing cars 9/10 22. Arctic Monkeys - When the sun goes down 8/10 23. Editors - Munich 7/10 24. Lily Allen - LDN 2/10 25. David Guetta vs the Egg - Love dont let me go 9/10 26. Girls Aloud - Something kinda ooh 6/10 27. Orson - No tomorrow 8/10 28. Goldfrapp - Ride a white horse 7/10 29. Pink - Stupid girls 5/10 Yes, not a very inspiring year based on that list :( Some favourites of mine not on your list are: SOS - Rihanna Raconteurs - Steady As She Goes Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger Kasabian - Empire

1. Robyn ft Kleerup - With every heartbeat 8/10 2. The Gossip - Standing in the way of control 8/10 3. Pidgeon Detectives - Take her back 6/10 One of their worst, I thought 4. Alex Gaudino ft Crystal Waters - Destination Calabria 9/10 Not generally a fan of dance music, but this was a very welcome exception to the rule 5. Booty Luv - Shine 3/10 6. Klaxons - Not over yet 4/10 Preferred the original 7. Fall Out Boy - This aint a scene its an arms race 9/10 Love screaming this one out! 8. Amy Winehouse - You know im no good 9/10 From an almost faultless album 9. Samim - Heater 2/10 10. Justin Timberlake - What goes around comes around 7/10 11. Girls Aloud - Call the shots 2/10 Overplayed, overhyped and dull 12. Arctic Monkeys - Teddy picker 9/10 13. Amy Winehouse - Back to black 9/10 14. Artic Monkeys - Brainstorm 6/10 15. Klaxons - Golden skans 9/10 16. Booty Luv - Dont mess with my man 1/10 17. Freemasons ft Bailey Tzuke - Uninvited 9/10 Loved the original and this cover did it justice :wub: 18. Amy Winehouse - Tears dry on there own 9/10 19. Hoosiers - Worried about ray 5/10 The best of the Hoosiers tracks, but not overwhelmed by it 20. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby 7/10 21. Kate Nash - Foundations 0/10 :puke2: Awful, Pumpkin Soup was the only passable track from the album 22. Girls Aloud - Sexy no no no 3/10 23. Amy McDonald - This is the life 9/10 :wub: 24. Kaiser Chiefs - The angry mob 5/10 25. Paul McCartney - Dance tonight 4/10 26. Camile Jones ft Feddie le Grand - The creeps 4/10 27. Lily Alen - Alfie 6/10 The best, and in fact the only track that I liked from her first album - loving the new stuff though :D 28. Kylie Minogue - Wow 3/10

1 (1) The Fear - Lily Allen 2 (2) Everybody - Rudenko 3 (3) Spaceman - Killers 4 (11) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 5 (12) Can't Get Over - September 6 (4) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 7 (5) Change - Daniel Merriweather 8 (9) Up All Night - Take That 9 (6) I'm Yours - Jason Mraz 10 (NE) Great Expectations - Gaslight Anthem 11 (7) Johnny Got A Boom Boom - Imelda May 12 (40) Crack A Bottle - Eminem 13 (8) It's Amazing - Jem 14 (10) Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolf 15 (13) Love Live On! - Laura & The Tears 16 (16) So Human - Lady Sovereign 17 (19) Falling Down - Oasis 18 (24) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 19 (NE) Love Etc - Pet Shop Boys 20 (25) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 21 (NE) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 22 (21) Tomorrow - Ladytron 23 (20) Edith - Hot Melts 24 (36) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 25 (17) Single Ladies - Beyonce Knowles 26 (22) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 27 (15) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 28 (14) My! My! Time Flies! - Enya 29 (38) Dead And Gone - TI feat. Justin Timberlake 30 (18) Just Dance - Lady GaGa 31 (29) Too Fake - Hockey 32 (NE) Just Can't Get Enough - Saturdays 33 (26) If I Had A Heart - Fever Ray 34 (34) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 35 (23) Gives You Hell - All American Rejects 36 (55) Beautiful - Akon 37 (NE) It's Alright - Seal 38 (65) I'm A Rope - Tommy Sparks 39 (33) Arts And Crafts - Red Light Company 40 (28) Get On Your Boots - U2

1 (1) Spaceman - Killers 2 (3) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 3 (2) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 4 (NE) Great Expectations - Gaslight Anthem 5 (5) Falling Down - Oasis 6 (10) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 7 (11) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 8 (NE) No Time For Tears - The Enemy 9 (7) Tomorrow - Ladytron 10 (6) Edith - Hot Melts 11 (18) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 12 (8) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 13 (4) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 14 (14) Too Fake - Hockey 15 (12) If I Had A Heart - Fever Ray 16 (17) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 17 (9) Gives You Hell - All American Rejects 18 (30) I'm A Rope - Tommy Sparks 19 (16) Arts And Crafts - Red Light Company 20 (13) Get On Your Boots - U2 21 (25) If There's A Rocket, Tie Me To It - Snow Patrol 22 (23) Save It For The Bedroom - You Me At Six 23 (21) Omen - Prodigy 24 (20) We Walk - Ting Tings 25 (15) Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand 26 (22) Audience Of One - Rise Against 27 (26) Oblivion - Wintersleep 28 (NE) Skeleton Boy - Friendly Fires 29 (19) Part Of Me - Chris Cornell 30 (RE) Last Of The English Roses - Peter Doherty

I bet a lot of Americans thought that at one time! :P

I don't think it should become a downloads-only chart, though as someone else mentioned, it's looking as though it will become something like 99% downloads. My major concern is that it could become an iTunes chart, as they seem to almost have a monopoly on downloads.

5pts Shontelle - T-Shirt 4 Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me 3 Take That - Greatest Day 2 Take That - Rule The World 1 Pussycat Dolls - Whatcha Think About That

1 (1) Spaceman - Killers 2 (2) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 3 (9) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 4 (3) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 5 (7) Falling Down - Oasis 6 (11) Edith - Hot Melts 7 (NE) Tomorrow - Ladytron 8 (5) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 9 (4) Gives You Hell - All American Rejects 10 (NE) Tonight's Today - Jack Penate 11 (15) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 12 (NE) If I Had A Heart - Fever Ray 13 (10) Get On Your Boots - U2 14 (13) Too Fake - Hockey 15 (6) Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand 16 (17) Arts And Crafts - Red Light Company 17 (14) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 18 (NE) My Circuitboard City - Wombats 19 (8) Part Of Me - Chris Cornell 20 (12) We Walk - Ting Tings

The thing that gets me about the Shontelle track isn't just the blandness of it, but the juvenile lyrics - don't people listen to the words of songs anymore? :(

I'd rather have any of those tracks hang around for a year, if it meant Prom Queen not making it!

1 (1) Day And Age - The Killers 2 (2) Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon 3 (7) We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things - Jason Mraz 4 (4) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 5 (3) Tonight - Franz Ferdinand 6 (5) The Fame - Lady GaGa 7 (NE) Very Best Of - Buddy Holly & The Crickets 8 (9) The Circus - Take That 9 (6) To Lose My Life - White Lies 10 (NE) Covers - James Taylor

1 (1) The Fear - Lily Allen 2 (2) Everybody - Rudenko 3 (3) I'm Yours - Jason Mraz 4 (4) Change - Daniel Merriweather 5 (6) Spaceman - The Killers 6 (5) Let It Rock - Kevin Rudolf 7 (16) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 8 (12) It's Amazing - Jem 9 (10) Up All Night - Take That 10 (7) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 11 (21) My! My! Time Flies! - Enya 12 (9) Single Ladies - Beyonce 13 (8) Just Dance - Lady GaGa 14 (11) Gives You Hell - American Rejects 15 (38) Johnny Got A Boom Boom - Imelda May 16 (15) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 17 (32) Sober - Pink 18 (13) Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand 19 (NE) Falling Down - Oasis 20 (14) Run - Leona Lewis 21 (17) Part Of Me - Chris Cornell 22 (20) Weight Of The World - Lemar 23 (NE) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 24 (27) Get On Your Boots - U2 25 (NE) Edith - Hot Melts 26 (26) My Life Would Suck Without You - Kelly Clarkson 27 (19) We Walk - Ting Tings 28 (NE) Love Live On - Laura & The Tears 29 (24) Save The World, Get The Girl - The King Blues 30 (NE) Too Fake - Hockey 31 (NE) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 32 (18) Hallelujah - Alexandra Burke 33 (NE) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 34 (22) Crack The Shutters - Snow Patrol 35 (NE) So Human - Lady Sovereign 36 (NE) Arts And Crafts - Red Light Company 37 (28) Omen - Prodigy 38 (NE) Wonderful - Gary Go 39 (NE) Dead And Gone - TI 40 (23) Broken Strings - James Morrison & Nelly Furtado

1 (1) Spaceman - The Killers 2 (6) Life In Technicolour II - Coldplay 3 (2) Working On A Dream - Bruce Springsteen 4 (3) Gives You Hell - All American Rejects 5 (5) Mykonos - Fleet Foxes 6 (4) Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand 7 (NE) Falling Down - Oasis 8 (7) Part Of Me - Chris Cornell 9 (NE) Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun 10 (11) Get On Your Boots - U2 11 (NE) Edith - Hot Melts 12 (8) We Walk - Ting Tings 13 (NE) Too Fake - Hockey 14 (NE) Revelry - Kings Of Leon 15 (NE) Kingdom Of Rust - Doves 16 (9) Crack The Shutters - Snow Patrol 17 (NE) Arts And Crafts - Red Light Company 18 (12) Omen - Prodigy 19 (NE) Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event 20 (NE) Shock Horror - The View

One of my all-time favourites :D My first was Fade To Grey by Visage Edit: However, it wasn't the first single I owned, that was one purchased by my parents in the early 70's...a double A side of The Owl And The Pussycat and Run Rabbit Run by goodness knows who! :P