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19/2: 1 1 Man I need (1) 2 21 Opalite (2) 3 2 Raindance (2) 4 3 Where is my husband! (3) 5 - DtMF (5) 6 10 Rein me in (6) 7 8 Ordinary (1) 8 6 The fate of Ophelia (1) 9 4 End of beginning (2) 10 7 So easy (6) 11 12 Lush life (3) 12 9 Golden (1) 13 15 Nice to each other (5) 14 11 I just might (7) 15 16 Stateside (15) 16 14 Die on this hill (12) 17 5 Aperture (1) 18 17 12 to 12 (8) 19 13 The great divide (13) 20 - Homewrecker (20) 21 - NUEVAYoL (21) 22 24 Manchild (1) 23 19 Back to friends (7) 24 20 No broke boys (3) 25 18 I run (14) 26 22 A couple minutes (20) 27 - BAILE INoLVIDABLE (27) 28 25 Pink pony club (2) 29 23 The hardest part (23) 30 26 Love me not (2) 31 28 Dive (28) 32 27 Mr Brightside (10) 33 31 OK love you bye (31) 34 38 Midnight sun (34) 35 30 Iris (3) 36 36 Beautiful things (1) 37 34 Baby steps (34) 38 37 Undressed (4) 39 33 Dreams (22) 40 32 Messy (1) 41 - Etrrnity (5) 42 - Just the way you are (8) 43 29 Think about us (26) 44 35 Let alone the one you love (24) 45 - Dracula (45) 46 41 Lose control (2) 47 38 Every breath you take (1) 48 46 Soda pop (4) 49 43 The chain (43) 50 - Everywhere (4)

Week 7: 1 1 Olivia Dean Man I Need 384,000 1,480,000 2 2 Dave featuring Tems Raindance 298,000 540,000 3 4 Raye Where Is My Husband! 289,000 900,000 4 3 Djo End Of Beginning 286,000 1,470,000 5 5 Taylor Swift The Fate Of Ophelia 279,000 1,030,000 6 6 Huntr/x, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Golden 263,000 1,590,000 7 7 Alex Warren Ordinary 235,000 2,410,000 8 8 Olivia Dean So Easy (To Fall In Love) 220,000 600,000 9 9 Sam Fender and Olivia Dean Rein Me In 213,000 900,000 10 10 Zara Larsson Lush Life 198,000 3,240,000 11 11 Olivia Dean Nice To Each Other 178,000 950,000 12 12 Sienna Spiro Die On This Hill 172,000 340,000 13 14 Bruno Mars I Just Might 159,000 14 13 Sombr 12 To 12 159,000 680,000 15 18 Taylor Swift Opalite 156,000 570,000 16 15 Disco Lines and Tinashe No Broke Boys 146,000 870,000 17 16 Haven featuring Kaitlin Aragon I Run 145,000 240,000 18 17 Sombr Back To Friends 138,000 1,050,000 19 19 Harry Styles Aperture 132,000 20 20 PinkPantheress Stateside 129,000 260,000 21 22 Sabrina Carpenter Manchild 116,000 920,000 22 21 Ravyn Lenae Love Me Not 112,000 1,250,000 23 24 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 111,000 1,920,000 24 25 Olivia Dean A Couple Minutes 111,000 290,000 25 23 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Soda Pop 107,000 820,000 26 26 The Killers Mr Brightside 106,000 6,910,000 27 27 Olivia Dean The Hardest Part 105,000 830,000 28 28 Goo Goo Dolls Iris 102,000 4,660,000 29 30 Olivia Dean Dive 102,000 770,000 30 32 Sombr Undressed 100,000 980,000 31 36 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 99,000 3,030,000 32 29 The Police Every Breath You Take 99,000 2,890,000 33 33 Fleetwood Mac Dreams 99,000 4,030,000 34 31 Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain 99,000 1,880,000 35 35 Olivia Dean Let Alone The One You Love 98,000 280,000 36 36 Sonny Fodera, D.O.D. and Poppy Baskcomb Think About Us 97,000 37 39 Lola Young Messy 95,000 1,700,000 38 34 Kate Bush Running Up That Hill 95,000 2,960,000 39 41 Olivia Dean Baby Steps 95,000 270,000 40 37 Esdeekid and Rico Ace Phantom 95,000 41 42 Teddy Swims Lose Control 92,000 2,900,000 42 40 Tyla Chanel 91,000 43 45 Gracie Abrams That's So True 90,000 1,700,000 44 49 Olivia Dean OK Love You Bye 88,000 45 43 Esdeekid 4 Raws 88,000 210,000 46 48 Alex Warren Eternity 87,000 460,000 47 44 Esdeekid Century 87,000 210,000 48 46 Kehlani Folded 85,000 340,000 49 47 Tears For Fears Everybody Wants To Rule The World 85,000 3,580,000 50 50 Fleetwood Mac The Chain 85,000 3,420,000 53 53 Olivia Dean I've Seen It 81,000 230,000 55 58 Lady GaGa & Bruno Mars Die With A Smile 80,000 1,810,000 59 59 Sabrina Carpenter Tears 78,000 480,000 60 61 Radiohead Creep 78,000 2,670,000 61 64 Noah Kahan Stick Season 78,000 3,330,000 62 63 Sienna Spiro You Stole The Show 78,000 63 62 Fleetwood Mac Landslide 78,000 1,680,000 65 74 Zara Larsson Midnight Sun 76,000 71 72 Myles Smith Stargazing 72,000 1,880,000 72 73 Gunna & Burna Boy WGFT 71,000 74 71 Tate McRae Tit For Tat 71,000 290,000 76 75 Katseye Gabriela 70,000 290,000 77 78 Fleetwood Mac Silver Springs 69,000 790,000 79 77 Fred Again…, Sammy Virji and Reggie Talk Of The Town 68,000 80 82 The Cure Boys Don't Cry 68,000 1,170,000 81 83 Teddy Swims The Door 67,000 1,560,000 82 81 Olivia Dean Lady Lady 67,000 300,000 84 86 Alex Warren Carry You Home 67,000 1,110,000 86 90 Myles Smith Nice To Meet You 65,000 4,810,000 88 92 Tate McRae Just Keep Watching 64,000 530,000 89 98 Lil Uzi Vert What You Saying 64,000 90 94 Drake featuring Wizkid & Kyla One Dance 63,000 4,950,000 91 93 Vance Joy Riptide 63,000 4,810,000 93 89 She & Him I Thought I Saw Your Face Today 63,000 95 88 Kato featuring Jon Turn The Lights Off 63,000 97 99 Kings Of Leon Sex On Fire 62,000 4,490,000

Sorry I’m one of the ones who really dislikes that - find the lyrics particularly terrible. I was pleasantly surprised by some of the other Walk The Moon songs you sent though!

I did it in 2023 and abjectly flopped with something people said already sounded a decade out of date when it came out in 2009. So I thought at that point maybe I’ll stick to the retro contests. But I will probably venture back this year. 😃

Speaking of daddy issues think this is the last of the regular non BJSC contests I’ll be losing my virginity in.

Cheeky cheeky!

Akon - horribly basic

It’s a difficult situation to handle - huge respect to Calum for responding to these curveballs so quickly and generally hosting so impeccably. I’d have probably instead continued with the elimination as planned with the girls reducing to 10, and found a way to balance the fleets up later. But it seems too late to change the format for this round again now.

Going for TI now - not a terribly enjoyable track.

Congratulations both!

“Rein Me In” did 10% more chart sales than “So Easy” last week - that’s a lot when they’re both stable streaming hits. I can’t see why the latter would suddenly overtake officially.

10 Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle 4 Sugababes - In The Middle 6 Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around 8 Rachel Stevens - Sweet Dreams My LA Ex 9 Avril Lavigne - Complicated 2 Atomic Kitten - Ladies Night 7 Destiny's Child - Survivor 5 Girls Aloud - Jump 8 P!nk - Get The Party Started 9 Mis-Teeq - Scandalous 5 Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From The Block 6 Holly Valance - Kiss Kiss 7 Lumidee - Never Leave You (Uh Oooh!) 6 Christina Milian - AM To PM 8 Anastacia - I'm Outta Love 3 Delta Goodrem - Born To Try 3 Hilary Duff - So Yesterday 4 Kelly Clarkson - Miss Independent 10 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor 6 Amy Studt - Misfit 9 Emma Bunton - Maybe 7 Stacie Orrico - (There's Gotta Be) More To Life 11 t.A.T.u. - All The Things She Said

Yeah neither #12 nor #13 should be above “Walking On The Moon” - especially not impressed that Anita only beat The Police because you were offered a scam prize on Youtube or something! They’re both catchy numbers though and “YMCA” especially is indeed a guilty pleasure.

Truly madly deeply awful

Sublime final. “Starlight” is a huge all time favourite of mine so going with that!

Agree with the comments regarding “4 Minutes” - it’s pretty good but think the placing is fair. I’ve never really liked anything by Basshunter: slightly trashy dance music. “Now You’re Gone” is OK but I’d put it below the previous 3.

Gah well at least “Opalite” isn’t blocking anything that hasn’t been #1 already and I’m generally behind faster turnover at the top. And it’s not another Capaldi “Pointless” situation as it has been a long running #2 on merit. But it’s a pretty weak and throwaway song for me. At least it will be gone for sure next week!

Well this is certainly a Myles Smith song…

I won’t know quite a lot of these but love what I do know from her!

Enjoyed the Calvin and Kasabian track. The Bella Kay thing sounded pretty awful oops.

Lovely to have “Fame Is A Gun” back - one of my favourite pop songs of last year.

Went for “The Great Divide” and “White Keys”

Have found everything I’ve heard by Conan Gray pretty dull… until this one! I love the 80s vibes. 1 Conan Gray - Killing Me 2 Nik Kershaw - Gone to Pieces 3 Guitarricadelafuente & Troye Sivan - midsummer pipe dream 4 Fred again.. - Berwyn (all that i got is you) 5 The Weeknd - A Lesser Man 6 David Bowie - Young Americans 7 Troye Sivan - Strawberries & Cigarettes 8 George Michael - Freeek! 9 Eric Saade - Every Minute 10 Ruel - Not What’s Going On 11 Shawn Mendes - Lost in Japan (Zedd Remix) 12 Markus Riva - Forever

Week 6: 1 1 Olivia Dean The Art Of Loving 103,000 380,000 2 2 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop 50,000 1,880,000 3 3 Sabrina Carpenter Man's Best Friend 47,000 350,000 4 5 The Weeknd Highlights 44,000 1,630,000 5 6 Taylor Swift The Life Of A Showgirl 42,000 680,000 6 4 Robbie Williams Britpop 40,000 7 7 Ed Sheeran +-=÷x (Tour Collection) 37,000 550,000 8 9 Tate McRae So Close To What 34,000 290,000 9 11 Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet 33,000 920,000 10 13 Alex Warren You'll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1) 32,000 340,000 11 14 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 31,000 3,590,000 12 8 Michael Jackson The Essential 31,000 2,130,000 13 12 EsDeeKid Rebel 31,000 110,000 14 17 Noah Kahan Stick Season 31,000 750,000 15 10 Louis Tomlinson How Did I Get Here? 31,000 16 16 Oasis Time Flies... 1994-2009 30,000 2,440,000 17 15 ABBA Gold 30,000 6,170,000 18 18 Linkin Park Papercuts 30,000 420,000 19 19 Elton John Diamonds 28,000 1,960,000 20 20 Arctic Monkeys AM 28,000 2,350,000 21 21 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory 26,000 5,640,000 22 59 Lily Allen West End Girl 26,000 110,000 23 22 Zach Bryan With Heaven On Top 26,000 24 23 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits 24,000 3,560,000 25 24 50 Cent Best Of 50 Cent 23,000 790,000 26 25 Sombr I Barely Know Her 22,000 110,000 27 27 Olivia Rodrigo Sour 22,000 1,270,000 28 26 Sam Fender People Watching 21,000 300,000 29 29 Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft 21,000 620,000 30 28 Olivia Rodrigo Guts 21,000 720,000 31 31 Maroon 5 Singles 20,000 1,010,000 32 32 Queen Greatest Hits 19,000 3,230,000 33 33 Oasis Definitely Maybe 19,000 3,030,000 34 34 Pitbull Greatest Hits 19,000 640,000 35 36 Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans 18,000 2,450,000 36 37 Charli XCX Brat 18,000 550,000 37 35 David Bowie Legacy 18,000 1,170,000 38 41 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 17,000 510,000 39 30 Blue Reflections 17,000 40 38 George Michael Twenty Five 17,000 1,900,000 42 44 Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits 17,000 2,330,000 46 53 Harry Styles Harry's House 16,000 940,000 54 57 Harry Styles Fine Line 16,000 1,040,000 66 73 Green Day Greatest Hits: God's Favorite Band 14,000 760,000 67 70 A$AP Rocky & Tim Burton Don't Be Dumb 14,000 68 72 Britney Spears The Singles Collection 14,000 730,000 74 77 Eminem Curtain Call 2 14,000 520,000 75 87 Phil Collins The Singles 14,000 900,000 76 81 Fred Again… USB 001 EP 14,000 190,000 94 95 Linkin Park Meteora - 20th Anniversary Edition 12,000 250,000 100 - Sam Smith In The Lonely Hour 12,000 3,140,000 - 100 Benson Boone Fireworks & Rollerblades 12,000 290,000

Championing the unconventional! 1 FKA twigs - Glass & Patron 2 LiSA - Gurenge (紅蓮華) 3 Nadia Oh - Taking Over the Dancefloor 4 ROSALÍA - DIABLO 5 Nelly Furtado & Tiësto - Who Wants to Be Alone 6 Chappell Roan - Super Graphic Ultra Modern Girl 7 Delta Goodrem - Sitting On Top of the World 8 Kesha - Blow 9 Lily Allen - Who’d Have Known 10 Kelly Clarkson - Gone 11 Toni Braxton - You’re Makin’ Me High (12 Michelle Branch - You Set Me Free) Sorry matto - I really like “Everywhere” but this is a miss for me regardless.