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Think Ed’s “Remember The Name” would have made #5 here before I was doing it and never charted.

Week 41: 1 1 Alex Warren Ordinary 1,791,000 2 2 Lola Young Messy 1,295,000 1,470,000 3 3 Rosé and Bruno Mars APT. 1,206,000 1,560,000 4 4 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 1,202,000 1,650,000 5 5 Gracie Abrams That's So True 1,048,000 1,480,000 6 6 Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Die With A Smile 981,000 1,610,000 7 7 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 970,000 2,760,000 8 8 Ravyn Lenae Love Me Not 948,000 960,000 9 9 Chrystal The Days 891,000 1,060,000 10 10 Billie Eilish Birds Of A Feather 877,000 2,100,000 11 11 Chappell Roan Good Luck, Babe! 861,000 2,060,000 12 12 Teddy Swims Lose Control 813,000 2,650,000 13 18 Huntr/x, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Golden 765,000 14 13 Sabrina Carpenter Espresso 763,000 2,510,000 15 14 Gigi Perez Sailor Song 753,000 1,350,000 16 15 Sabrina Carpenter Taste 743,000 1,540,000 17 16 Teddy Swims Bad Dreams 738,000 980,000 18 17 Teddy Swims The Door 712,000 1,380,000 19 19 Myles Smith Nice To Meet You 704,000 810,000 20 20 Tate McRae Sports Car 703,000 21 22 Sombr Undressed 691,000 22 21 Myles Smith Stargazing 687,000 1,700,000 23 23 Sombr Back To Friends 685,000 24 24 Shaboozey A Bar Song (Tipsy) 668,000 2,000,000 25 25 WizTheMc & Bees & Honey Show Me Love 662,000 26 26 Hozier Too Sweet 637,000 2,090,000 27 27 Alex Warren Carry You Home 633,000 930,000 28 29 Sabrina Carpenter Manchild 618,000 29 28 Noah Kahan Stick Season 615,000 3,140,000 30 30 Ed Sheeran Azizam 595,000 31 32 Goo Goo Dolls Iris 585,000 4,390,000 32 31 The Killers Mr Brightside 581,000 6,650,000 33 33 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. Somedays 576,000 1,050,000 34 34 Fleetwood Mac Dreams 570,000 3,790,000 35 35 Sabrina Carpenter Please Please Please 553,000 1,700,000 36 36 Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us 550,000 1,170,000 37 37 Lady Gaga Abracadabra 539,000 38 38 MK featuring Chrystal Dior 537,000 39 40 Calvin Harris And Clementine Douglas Blessings 530,000 40 39 Sabrina Carpenter Busy Woman 525,000 49 55 Olivia Dean Nice To Each Other 482,000 54 72 Olivia Dean Man I Need 471,000 55 59 Disco Lines & Tinashe No Broke Boys 467,000 61 70 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Soda Pop 438,000 66 69 Ed Sheeran Sapphire 422,000 74 86 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Your Idol 407,000 95 98 Justin Bieber Daisies 363,000 99 - Fred Again…, Skepta and PlaqueBoyMax Victory Lap 358,000 100 - Gorillaz Feel Good Inc 355,000 2,670,000 - 100 Tears For Fears Everybody Wants To Rule The World 353,000 3,380,000 - 99 Pawsa and The Adventures Of Stevie V Dirty Cash (Money Talks) 349,000 410,000

16/10: 1 - The fate of Ophelia (1) 2 - Opalite (2) 3 - Elizabeth Taylor (3) 4 - Father figure (4) 5 - The life of a showgirl (5) 6 1 Man I need (1) 7 - Actually romantic (7) 8 - Eldest daughter (8) 9 - Wood (9) 10 - Cancelled! (10) 11 - Wi$h li$t (11) 12 2 Golden (1) 13 - Ruin the friendship (13) 14 - Honey (14) 15 3 Where is my husband! (4) 16 4 Ordinary (1) 17 6 Soda pop (4) 18 5 Nice to each other (5) 19 9 No broke boys (3) 20 10 Your idol (7) 21 8 12 to 12 (8) 22 7 Tit for tat (7) 23 11 So easy (11) 24 13 Back to friends (7) 25 12 Tears (3) 26 16 Love me not (2) 27 14 Manchild (1) 28 18 How it’s done (13) 29 17 Undressed (4) 30 20 Pink pony club (2) 31 19 Rein me in (7) 32 21 What it sounds like (18) 33 15 When did you get hot? (9) 34 23 Beautiful things (1) 35 30 Takedown (22) 36 36 Lose control (2) 37 26 Daisies (2) 38 38 Baby steps (38) 39 31 Let alone the one you love (31) 40 33 Iris (3) 41 22 Something in the heavens (3) 42 27 Sapphire (8) 43 24 Eternity (5) 44 34 Messy (1) 45 37 Victory lap (5) 46 29 Dior (2) 47 35 House tour (11) 48 32 Dive (32) 49 41 Free (28) 50 - Dreams (22)

Well I can pretty much get behind the whole Top 8 now! “All This Time“ is fine I guess - better than many others of its kind but I wouldn’t go as far as to call it good. “Real To Me” is dire to me. It’s the lyrics and the Jenny from the block style presenting himself as a down to earth family guy, and the general air of thinking he was doing something really credible and superior to where he’d come from. I remember him saying on radio that the 3rd single “Demons” was a sure-fire #1 before it limped to #28.

“Thunderbirds” starts off well but bores by the chorus. “I’ll Stand By You” is a dull effort - I thought they must be running out of ideas by that point but thankfully they went on to have some more. I like 7 of the Top 10 plus another is at least pretty iconic, and another is iconic on Buzzjack I suppose. 😆

I think that’s quite a fair placing for both “Dry Your Eyes” and “Cha Cha Slide”. I wouldn’t seek them out but they’re both very good examples of their style.

Sorry I didn’t get chance to enter this but enjoying following the results!

Sam & Mark were indeed the second of my trio of doom. It just feels such a lazy song choice and while I actually agree the jolly production isn’t bad I don’t think they had anything. Joe Cocker’s version is good but for me it will always be a Ringo track that only makes sense when played straight after “Sergeant Pepper’s…”. They introduce their star act and then it just turns out to be Ringo warbling haplessly, but that’s where the song’s charm lies. “Wonderful” is the ultimate non #1 - only did just over 20k to get there and vanished pretty quickly. If Ja Rule had to have a #1 it should have been “Always On Time” or “Livin’ It Up”. “These Words” on the other hand is my favourite out so far. I think the lyrics are very sweet and unusual and the whole thing is a really tender and heartwarming expression of love. And it helps that I haven’t had to listen to it about 75 times in the last couple of years like the follow-up.

Apologies I didn’t have time for this round!

Sorry for giving you this year John - it really is pretty poor haha. But I agree poor “5 Colours In Her Hair” should be trouncing most of these. “Call On Me” I probably would have had higher just because it’s an icon of its genre in a weak year, but it is pretty basic and I don’t disagree with the comments. “My Place” I really find quite a lazy and dull record, and it has such lyrical garbage as “Won’t you sit yourself down and take a seat”. And “Just Lose It” is the first of my trio of horror. I think Rich said before that Eminem is the ultimate hit and miss artist and I agree. Sometimes you get genius and other times something worthy of a 10 year old like this. It’s pretty puerile lyrically and the only catchy musical features grate very fast. I don’t find it has any of the charm or boundary pushing quality of his previous #1s. Absolutely horrid and only someone who’d had 4 classic chart toppers could have taken it to #1. “Ass Like That” is worse - that’s the only thing I can say in its favour. It might have still beaten Frankee and Eamon in my version, and my other two horrors that are still standing.

I think Elton has 5 - 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s and 20s.

Xmas songs aren’t exempt - they’re on permanent ACR. The fresh Christmas songs struggle to compete in spite of having a big advantage but that’s down to the public.

Feeling more out of step with John’s taste than usual here. No recollection of the Sam & Mark thing but it’s pretty poor. At least it doesn’t have the turgid getting up from stools Westlife factor I guess. “Flap Your Wings” is a tune! OK it’s no “Hot In Herre” but I’d have it a fair bit higher than his other one. “3am” is rather nice - again I’d put it above the other one. “Take Me To The Clouds Above” is a decent reworking - I’d put that in the Top 20. And my trio of horrors is STILL in!

You mean because of the Taylor songs falling away? They’re no more than 3% of the market anyway so if they drop by 1/3rd say it only contributes a 1% decline, and most declining songs will generally drop by more than that.

Agree “Burn” is very dull. “Obviously” is just average pop - much prefer “5 Colours…”. My trio of doom are all still in though!

“Spaceman” is great and I’ve come to appreciate the fusion of styles more recently. “3 Lions” is one of the first singles I ever bought and I’m still pretty fond of it - would definitely be in my Top 10.

Maybe it’s because I’ve heard it less and it’s fresher but “Reward” just pips the better known “Kids In America” for me here, though they’re both brilliant. 9 The Teardrop Explodes Reward 1st and biggest hit for this UK band: a wonderfully frenetic and bolshy track with a driving rhythm and brass accompaniment 9 Kim Wilde Kids In America Written by her brother who was inspired by OMD and Gary Numan, her 1st and biggest hit and a very powerful synth pop track 8 Yoko Ono Walking On Thin Ice Recorded just a few hours before John's death and her only solo hit, it's a unique and fragile sounding song and very artistic 8 Duran Duran Planet Earth 1st single for the UK new wave band and it's a bold sounding and dramatic statement of intent from their eponymous debut 8 The Jacksons Can You Feel It The most dynamic hit from them for a while with a great riff that has been sampled and used in adverts: it's a very strong track 7 Toyah Four From Toyah EP 1st hit for the Toyah Wilcox fronted band: the vocals are unusual but it's a strong and very interesting collection of 4 tracks 7 Visage Mind Of A Toy This was banned by "Top Of The Pops" for being frightening for children and it is slightly sinister, but a good 2nd hit for them 6 Kiki Dee Star Her last solo Top 40 though she'll be back with Elton: this will be the theme show for "Opportunity Knocks" and it's a strong track 5 Kool And The Gang Jones Vs Jones/Summer Madness/Funky Stuff "Summer Madness" is a fabulous instrumental that would get an 8 alone, but the other 2 tracks are quite forgettable bits of RnB 5 Stevie Wonder Lately A big emotive ballad from Stevie well performed, but it doesn't quite have enough happening musically to maintain my interest 4 The Who You Better You Bet Impressive that they managed another Top 10 so late in their career: it's a well composed track but I find the lyrics a little silly 4 Phil Collins I Missed Again It's extraordinary that such a light and matter of fact track came after the brooding "In The Air Tonight", although it's not too bad 3 Shakin' Stevens This Ole House 477th #1:the 2nd time the song topped the charts, and while this isn't terrible I think Rosemary's version has more character 2 Status Quo Something 'Bout You Baby I Like This is very similar to their other cheery upbeat hits like "Rockin' All Over The World", and feels quite throwaway in any case 2 Sharon Redd Can You Handle It 1st hit for this US singer with a disco song with quite a memorable melody but unfortunately I find it rather repetitive and grating 1981 Group 5: #388 28/02/1981 Landscape Einstein A-Go-Go 5 70-56-38-21-11-8-{5}-5-6-9-20-34-48->13 #389 14/03/1981 New Order Ceremony 34 39-{34}-39-46-65->5 #390 07/03/1981 Linx Intuition 7 65-41-25-13-10-{7}-10-11-19-40-52->11 #391 14/03/1981 The Whispers It's A Love Thing 9 43-26-20-11-{9}-9-9-11-14-36-47->11 #392 14/03/1981 Dave Stewart With Colin Blunstone What Becomes Of The Broken Hearted 13 57-30-19-17-{13}-13-19-21-46-64->10 #393 14/03/1981 Iron Maiden Twilight Zone/Wrathchild 31 55-{31}-32-43-66->5 #394 14/03/1981 The Nolans Attention To Me 9 64-35-29-21-15-14-10-12-{9}-12-20-41-47->13 #395 07/03/1981 The Polecats John I'm Only Dancing/Big Green Car 35 69-45-39-36-36-{35}-50-57->8 #396 21/03/1981 Tony Capstick And The Carlton Main/Frickley Colliery Band Capstick Comes Home/The Sheffield Grinder 3 54-10-{3}-6-17-24-45-57->8 #397 21/03/1981 Hazel O'Connor D-Days 10 42-23-12-{10}-12-16-20-33-61->9 #398 28/03/1981 Bucks Fizz Making Your Mind Up 1 24-5-2-{1}-1-1-4-6-16-26-37-53->12 #399 21/03/1981 Heatwave Jitterbuggin' 34 72-{34}-35-34-49-56-69->7 #400 28/03/1981 Ultravox Slow Motion 33 35-{33}-40-61->4 #401 21/03/1981 Gillan New Orleans 17 44-37-25-24-20-18-{17}-23-33-45->10 #402 21/03/1981 Elton John Band Featuring John Lennon And The Muscle Shoals Horns I Saw Her Standing There 40 47-{40}-40-58->4

Certifications are always about a month behind in the search library of the BPI website.

I think I’d put both McFly and Band Aid 20 a fair bit higher. “5 Colours In Her Hair” is nothing remarkable but a nice song that the likes of The Hollies could easily have done. I’m really quite fond of Dizzee’s rap on Band Aid 20 and I think it was generally a pretty good effort at bringing the song into the new century. Busted - yeah that one’s pretty meh and the lyrics are comically bad. I can think of at least 3 worse stinkers to come though.

Winans is OK enough. There is still some real pish to come that I would put below that and “Babycakes”.

C’mon Arctics - get that first win!

He can’t see no room for improvement, but actually this is a big improvement on the #12 survivor, where it came 7th. The track was the 1st chart topper for both Dizzee and Calvin, and made the 2009 year end chart on the strength of its downloads. 3rd: Dizzee Rascal featuring Calvin Harris and Chrome - Dance Wiv Me 14/30 votes (47%) 4th: Black Eyed Peas - Let’s Get It Started 12/29 votes (41%) 5th: Aqua - Cartoon Heroes 14/36 votes (39%) 6th: Snow Patrol - Take Back The City 9/30 votes (30%) 7th: Tweet - Oops (Oh My!) 14/29 votes (48%) 8th: Tweenies - I Believe In Christmas 21/30 votes (70%) 9th: Blazin’ Squad - We Just Be Dreamin’ 14/31 votes (45%) 10th: Steve Brookstein - Against All Odds 11/25 votes (44%)

Eve and Alicia but it’s not bad.

Getting outta here is Esmée Denters. This was the Dutch singer’s only solo Top 10 hit though she would appear on a collaboration with Chipmunk that reached #3 the following year. In 2015 she appeared on “The Voice Uk” and was coached by will.i.am. 6th: Esmée Denters - Outta Here 11/28 votes (39%) 7th: Five - Don’t Wanna Let You Go (12/27 votes (44%) 8th: The Script - We Cry 8/28 votes (29%) 9th: Nickelback - Rockstar 11/31 votes (35%) 10th: Orson - Bright Idea 8/27 votes (30%)

50 Cent now - bit of a lousy follow up to “In Da Club”.