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Week 15:

 

1 1 952,000 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (1.48m)

2 2 600,000 Teddy Swims - Lose Control (700k)

3 4 520,000 Benson Boone - Beautiful Things

4 3 511,000 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (1.51m)

5 5 472,000 Beyoncé - Texas Hold ‘Em

6 6 427,000 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me (750k)

7 7 421,000 Cassö with Raye & D Block Europe - Prada (1.03m)

8 8 401,000 Tate McRae - Greedy (860k)

9 9 390,000 Ariana Grande - Yes, And?

10 10 375,000 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer (1.56m)

 

11 13 308,000 Djo - End Of Beginning

12 12 297,000 Dua Lipa - Houdini (450k)

13 11 296,000 Kenya Grace - Strangers (810k)

14 15 278,000 Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten (1.46m)

15 14 276,000 YG Marley - Praise Jah In The Moonlight

16 16 274,000 Tyler - Water (630k)

17 17 271,000 Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire (1.03m)

18 18 255,000 Ella Henderson featuring Rudimental - Alibi

19 20 233,000 Billy Gillies featuring Hannah Boleyn - DNA (480k)

20 19 231,000 The Weeknd featuring Playboi Carti & Madonna - Popular (620k)

 

21 23 230,000 The Killers - Mr Brightside (5.52m)

22 21 230,000 Zach Bryan featuring Kacy Musgraves - I Remember Everything (420k)

23 22 228,000 Fred Again… and Baby Keem - Leavemealone (270k)

24 24 217,000 Noah Kahan and Sam Fender - Homesick (310k)

25 44 215,000 Ariana Grande - We Can’t Be Friends (Wait For Your Love)

26 26 215,000 Sonny Fodera and MK featuring Clementine Douglas - Asking (570k)

27 34 215,000 Michael Marcagi - Scared To Start

28 25 214,000 Drake featuring Sexy Redd & Sza - Rich Baby Daddy (370k)

29 27 212,000 Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? (750k)

30 29 211,000 Kanye West & Ty Dolla Sign - Carnival

 

31 28 209,000 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (1.86m)

32 38 208,000 Dua Lipa - Training Season

33 31 207,000 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (1.80m)

34 30 205,000 Flo Milli - Never Lose Me

35 32 204,000 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine (420k)

36 33 203,000 Dave & Central Cee - Sprinter (1.42m)

37 37 200,000 Dua Lipa - Dance The Night (900k)

38 35 199,000 21 Savage - Redrum

39 41 199,000 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (5.47m)

40 36 198,000 Tate McRae - Exes (270k)

 

70 140,000 Richy Mitch & The Coal Miners - Evergreen (360k)

72 137,000 Good Neighbours - Home

79 135,000 Becky Hill & Sonny Fodera - Never Be Alone

 

86 132,000 Calvin Harris & Rag ‘n’ Bone Man - Lovers In A Past Life

87 130,000 NewEra - Birds In The Sky

88 129,000 Jungle - Back on 74 (260k)

92 128,000 Hozier - Too Sweet

18/4:

 

1 5 Too sweet (1)

2 2 Beautiful things (1)

3 3 Stick season (1)

4 1 Texas hold ‘em (1)

5 4 Lose control (3)

6 7 I like the way you kiss me (6)

7 8 End of beginning (5)

8 6 We can’t be friends (3)

9 18 Austin (9)

10 15 Scared to start (10)

11 12 Prada (2)

12 13 Greedy (3)

13 14 Cruel summer (3)

14 11 Like that (7)

15 17 Alibi (14)

16 16 Training season (5)

17 36 Belong together (17)

18 21 Unwritten (6)

19 9 Jolene (9)

20 10 II most wanted (10)

21 29 Birds in the sky (21)

22 20 Murder on the dancefloor (2)

23 40 Back on ‘74 (23)

24 33 Whatever (23)

25 41 Happier (25)

26 23 Yes, and? (2)

27 24 Carnival (6)

28 31 Houdini (2)

29 34 Water (5)

30 45 Slow it down (30)

31 27 Praise jah in the moonlight (6)

32 30 Lovin on me (1)

33 38 Whatever she wants (23)

34 26 Obsessed (12)

35 - Hell n back (34)

36 43 Asking (11)

37 39 Mr Brightside (10)

38 49 Home (38)

39 37 Lovers in a past life (18)

40 42 Anti-hero (1)

41 - HYB (41)

42 - I remember everything (19)

43 - Saturn (21)

44 47 Vampire (1)

45 - What was I made for? (2)

46 - DNA (12)

47 - Another love (10)

48 - Someone you loved (1)

49 46 Everywhere (4)

50 - Green and gold (46)

I think this just about qualifies as a subject:

 

Tomorrow there’ll only be 2 results but they’ll both be UK #1 hits! Can you guess which ones?

58th: 158 points

Within You Without You

 

 

Voters:

 

Chez Wombat 36

JulianT 32

Jade 31

King Rollo 26

Brer 24

dandy* 9

 

This was included on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band”, and was the second song by George fully written in the Indian classical style after “Love You To” on “Revolver”. George recorded the song without the rest of the band using various traditional instruments including the sitar and the tabla. On the 2006 “Love” album of remixes this was mashed up quite successfully with John’s Indian inspired song “Tomorrow Never Knows”.

 

Despite some big supporters this only received points from 6 voters, and becomes the first song to exit from Disc 1 of the blue album.

 

Westlife - just a cheap and soulless cover

59th: 156 points

Free As A Bird

 

 

16/12/1995 The Beatles Free As A Bird {2}-3-8-15-25-48-60-75->8

 

Voters:

 

steve201 31

King Rollo 27

popchartfreak 22

gooddelta 22

JulianT 16

Notorious D.O.T. 12

WhoOdyssey 12

Jade 7

danG 6

Bjork 1

 

This was originally recorded as a home demo by John in 1977, and in 1995 the other 3 got together to record a studio version and the track was co-produced by Jeff Lynne. It was done as part of the “Anthology” project, which included a documentary and a compilation album. The single reached #2 in the UK and #6 in the US.

 

This received points from 10 voters but mostly fairly low scores. There’s certainly a big difference in the quality of John’s vocals on the final track on this and “Now And Then”, reflecting the advances in technology over the intervening 28 years. Despite that I find it a very beautiful and wistful track.

 

 

 

Moving to Busted now - it was good fun at the time but it’s hardly a classic

Well as it’s fresh in my mind having just appeared in my 2000s thread I’ll go with this stunning #20 hit about the challenges of adolescence. I’m sure there are some TV shows that could use this very effectively!

 

60th: 153 points

Octopus’s Garden

 

 

Voters:

 

jimwatts 35

WhoOdyssey 32

Brer 23

Chez Wombat 20

gooddelta 16

steve201 10

JulianT 9

ben08 6

…ready for it 2

 

This is the only song in the rate that was written by Ringo, though there are a couple of others fronted by him. He only wrote 2 songs for The Beatles in total in fact, the other being “Don’t Pass Me By” from the “White Album”. This was included on “Abbey Road” and released as a single in a few countries.

 

Aww it may not be one of the greatest pieces of music we’ll be encountering here but I do think it’s such a sweet and joyous little number, delivered in Ringo’s slightly unrefined but endearing and carefree way.

In a way “Rock Superstar” feels like a precursor to Eminem’s “Lose Yourself”, with the punchy rhythmic rap and the mounting tension provided by the rock style accompaniment.

 

8 Cypress Hill Rap Superstar/Rock Superstar The 2 sides are similar but "Rock Superstar" has more oomph in the production: a great dramatic rap / rock crossover hit

8 Eagle-Eye Cherry Are You Still Having Fun? His last Top 40 and it's in a very similar style to "Save Tonight" but also a great tune and he gets the character across clearly

7 Oasis Who Feels Love? For me this works much better than "Go Let It Out": a lovely psychedelic instrumental and the lyrics have a serenity to them

6 Toni Braxton He Wasn't Man Enough Her last big hit and I like that it's something more upbeat from her: a relentless and sassy piece of RnB very well performed

5 True Steppers Featuring Dane Bowers Buggin' Their huge hit will be later in the year but this is decent: the "buggin'" hook is slightly irritating but I guess that's intentional

5 Hanson If Only Their 1st hit for a couple of years and they've grown up a lot: it's a nice folly number with harmonica but nothing remarkable

4 Mary J. Blige Give Me You The 2nd biggest hit from "Mary" after "As", this is quite a sweet and soulful number without much to really grab the liatener

4 Ricky Martin Featuring Meja Private Emotion The biggest hit for Swedish singer Meja; a nicely done duet but quite dated: I think it ends up being slightly soppy and trite

3 Hurley And Todd Sunstorm A dance remake of Elton's mostly instrumental "Song For Guy": an interesting idea but doesn't really enhance the original

3 Shola Ama Imagine Her last solo Top 40 and a serviceable RnB track with a stronger tune than the below, but still it blends into the background

2 TQ Daily Last solo hit for American Terrance Quaites: a plodding and slightly whining piece of RnB that doesn't really go anywhere

 

 

 

2000 Weeks 18 and 19:

 

#181 06/05/2000 Oxide And Neutrino Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty) 1 {1}-2-5-8-13-22-38-48-52-65-66->11

#182 06/05/2000 Mandy Moore Candy 6 {6}-13-25-32-42-44-50-61-53-67-75-64-57->13

#183 06/05/2000 MJ Cole Crazy Love 10 {10}-12-20-25-31-47-67->7

#184 06/05/2000 Lolly Per Sempre Amore (Forever In Love) 11 {11}-18-31-46-70-70-70-73-68R(2)-63->10

#185 06/05/2000 Scooch The Best Is Yet To Come 12 {12}-25-42-75-64R(6)->5

#186 06/05/2000 Precocious Brats/Kevin And Perry Big Girl 16 {16}-21-34-48->4

#187 06/05/2000 System F Cry 19 {19}-29-39-54->4

#188 06/05/2000 Death In Vegas Dirge 24 {24}-45->2

#189 06/05/2000 William Orbit Ravel's Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte 31 {31}-59->2

#190 06/05/2000 Dutch Force Deadline 35 {35}-60->2

#191 06/05/2000 Q-Tip Vivrant Thing 39 {39}-53->2

#192 13/05/2000 Britney Spears Oops!... I Did It Again 1 {1}-2-3-6-9-16-18-20-27-34-38-46-49-55->14

#193 13/05/2000 Watergate Heart Of Asia 3 {3}-6-7-12-20-32-39-42-54-73->10

#194 13/05/2000 Toploader Achilles Heel {2000} 8 {8}-15-19-22-34-47-75->7

#195 13/05/2000 Made In London Dirty Water 15 {15}-27-35-47-71->5

#196 13/05/2000 Pearl Jam Nothing As It Seems 22 {22}-56->2

#197 13/05/2000 Rhythm Of Life You Put Me In Heaven With Your Touch 24 {24}-57->2

#198 13/05/2000 Dark Star I Am The Sun 31 {31}-70->2

 

Went for:

Roy

Erasure

Roxette

EMF

OMD

Beverley

 

Worst BVSMP and Cliff

Welcome to Week 10! :w00t:

 

Results of Week 9:

It was tight, but at the last minute New Order - Blue Monday 1988 pulled ahead to take the win with 13 votes to Heart's 12.

 

The worst poll, however, was a landslide, with 17 votes for Liverpool FC - Anfield Rap.

 

Best poll winners

week 1: Danny And The Juniors - At The Hop

week 2: Dusty Springfield - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

week 3: Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

week 4: David Bowie - Life On Mars?

week 5: David Bowie - Sound And Vision

week 6: ABBA - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight)

week 7: Tears For Fears - Mad World

week 8: Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

week 9: New Order - Blue Monday (1988)

Usual OP link today as we move into another new decade!

Stuck with Steps / S Club. Might have gone for the Kittens for the first group if I’d known it was a tie between them and Eminem.

And now the league table of whose taste is the most representative / generic and whose is the most out there :) :

 

Points left to give /1,275:

 

1 gooddelta 1,271

2 King Rollo 1,267

3 JulianT 1,259

4 Roba. 1,238

5 ben08 1,235

6 steve201 1,230

7 Severin 1,227

8 danG 1,223

9 Chez Wombat 1,210

10 Notorious D.O.T. 1,201

 

11 popchartfreak 1,200

12 Jade 1,192

13 Brer 1,188

14 dandy* 1,174

15 jimwatts 1,169

16 Bjork 1,156

17 …ready for it 1,114

18 WhoOdyssey 1,099

The state of play:

 

(1962-1966 Disc 1)

1. Love Me Do

2. Please Please Me

3. I Saw Her Standing There

4. Twist And Shout

5. From Me To You

6. She Loves You

7. I Want To Hold Your Hand

8. This Boy

9. All My Loving

10. Roll Over Beethoven

11. You Really Got A Hold On Me

12. Can’t Buy Me Love

13. You Can’t Do That

14. A Hard Day’s Night

15. And I Love Her

16. Eight Days A Week

17. I Feel Fine

18. Ticket To Ride

19. Yesterday

 

(1962-1966 Disc 2)

20. Help!

21. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away

22. We Can Work It Out

23. Day Tripper

24. Drive My Car

25. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

26. Nowhere Man

27. Michelle

28. In My Life

29. If I Needed Someone

30. Girl

31. Paperback Writer

32. Eleanor Rigby

33. Yellow Submarine

34. Taxman

35. Got To Get You Into My Life

36. I’m Only Sleeping

37. Here, There And Everywhere

38. Tomorrow Never Knows

 

(1967-1970 Disc 1)

39. Strawberry Fields Forever

40. Penny Lane

41. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

42. With A Little Help From My Friends

43. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

44. Within You Without You

45. A Day In The Life

46. All You Need Is Love

47. I Am The Walrus

48. Hello, Goodbye

49. The Fool On The Hill

50. Magical Mystery Tour

51. Lady Madonna

52. Hey Jude

53. Revolution

 

(1967-1970 Disc 2)

54. Back In The U.S.S.R.

55. Dear Prudence

56. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

57. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

58. Glass Onion

59. Blackbird

60. Hey Bulldog

61. Get Back

62. Don’t Let Me Down

63. The Ballad of John and Yoko

64. Old Brown Shoe

65. Here Comes The Sun

66. Come Together

67. Something

68. Octopus’s Garden

69. Oh! Darling

70. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

71. Let It Be

72. Across The Universe

73. I Me Mine

74. The Long And Winding Road

75. Now And Then

 

90s Top 10 hits:

76. Baby It’s You

77. Free As A Bird

78. Real Love

 

Blue album disc 1 intact :o

61st: 143 points

Don’t Let Me Down

 

 

Voters:

 

DanG 47

WhoOdyssey 42

Brer 22

…ready for it 14

dandy* 12

Severin 6

 

This was recorded in 1969 during the “Let It Be” sessions, but was left off the album and instead included as the B side to “Get Back”. Like the accompanying A side it features Billy Preston on keyboard. The lyrics are a direct plea from John to Yoko Ono.

 

The instrumental sections, which I think are the strongest feature of the track, are inspired by Fleetwood Mac’s “Albatross”. They certainly have a similar warm and luxurious feel to them.

 

Let’s go back to 1962: would have gone for Telstar if Jade hadn’t used it as an instrumental pick, so we’ll have this beauty instead.

 

62nd: 141 points

Drive My Car

 

 

Voters:

 

WhoOdyssey 28

…ready for it 20

jimwatts 17

Severin 15

Bjork 13

ben08 13

Roba. 12

Notorious D.O.T. 10

Brer 8

steve201 5

 

Another predominantly Paul song from “Rubber Soul” here, included as the album’s opening track. On hearing the original lyrics Paul had written for the tune John dismissed them as “too soft” and they came up with the quirky car themed tale. The track combines a hard rock style vocal in the verses with an otherwise quite jazzy track.

 

This is the first song to receive votes from more than half the participants, but didn’t make anyone’s top 20.

 

63rd: 136 points

Michelle

 

 

Voters:

 

Bjork 46

popchartfreak 25

ben08 21

Notorious D.O.T. 17

JulianT 13

…ready for it 7

DanG 5

King Rollo 2

 

Yet another Paul song here, although John helped with the middle 8. It was included on “Rubber Soul” in December 1965, and The Overlanders reached #1 in the UK with a cover in early 1966.

 

I was fascinated by the French lyrics as a child, and I still think it’s a lovely wistful ballad with bursts of emotion in the “I love you…” sections.

 

I think we can say Enjoy The SuBo gets a play for winning the #6 poll, so feel free to leave it out and pick something else. :)

Truly great mashups are a rare thing but “Toca’s Miracle” is absolutely a mashup miracle and up there with the finest of all time. Despite that it isn’t today’s winner as there’s a track here that defies all description. It isn’t rock, pop, or folk - unique and captivating is what it is, and as far as I know it doesn’t sound much like any hit before or since.

 

10 Black Box Recorder The Facts Of Life The only Top 40 for this UK indie group about adolescence: it's unique, quirky, captivating, heartwarming and very beautiful

9 Fragma Toca's Miracle 856th #1: a mashup of the #11 hit "Toca Me" and the #39 "I Need A Miracle" to create an utterly sublime dance anthem

8 Matt Darey Presents DSP From Russia With Love Another trance gem that scraped in at #40: I love how Russian this sounds with the chant-like vocals and folk instrument

7 Sisqo Thong Song The lyrics are lightweight at best but I can't not enjoy it: what an incredibly infectious song with very exciting production

6 Sting After The Rain Has Fallen After the brilliant surprise of "Desert Rose" this is more typical Sting, but a soulful track and still one of his more enjoyable

5 Monie Love Slice Of Da Pie Last hit for this Grammy nominated UK rapper: can see why it didn't set the world alight but it's catchy and well produced

4 Sash! Just Around The Hill The dance version of this is much better than the straight ballad version, but still it's a rather tepid and unremarkable track

3 R. Kelly Only The Loot Can Make Me Happy Samples an 80s soul song called "Happy", and it's not a bad track as such but uninspiring and the melody isn't very engaging

2 Jessica Simpson I Wanna Love You Forever Her debut hit: a power ballad and she seems to think that the way to get the emotion out is to pummel the life out of it

2 Point Break Freakytime A shame after "Stand Tough" was really good that this is lyrically naff, and the track plods along and the melody just nags

1 Sister 2 Sister Sister Another artist similar to title situation: unsurprisingly the only Top 40 for this Australian duo and astoundingly naff and limp

 

 

 

2000 Week 17:

 

#170 29/04/2000 Oasis Who Feels Love? 4 {4}-17-28-53-63-53-73-70R(3)->8

#171 29/04/2000 Toni Braxton He Wasn't Man Enough 5 {5}-8-9-14-18-21-30-42-51-48-57->11

#172 29/04/2000 True Steppers Featuring Dane Bowers Buggin' 6 {6}-7-11-21-27-37-48-64->8

#173 29/04/2000 Ricky Martin Featuring Meja Private Emotion 9 {9}-15-16-24-24-29-40-53-72->9

#174 29/04/2000 Cypress Hill Rap Superstar/Rock Superstar 13 {13}-23-27-41-73->5

#175 29/04/2000 TQ Daily 14 {14}-25-33-51-71->5

#176 29/04/2000 Hanson If Only 15 {15}-37-49-72->4

#177 29/04/2000 Mary J. Blige Give Me You 19 {19}-29-35-49->4

#178 29/04/2000 Eagle-Eye Cherry Are You Still Having Fun? 21 {21}-32-40-48->4

#179 29/04/2000 Shola Ama Imagine 24 {24}-43-47-65->4

#180 29/04/2000 Hurley And Todd Sunstorm 38 {38}-51->2

 

64th: 125 points

Got To Get You Into My Life

 

 

Voters:

 

WhoOdyssey 44

dandy* 43

popchartfreak 34

steve201 4

 

Another Paul track here, from 1966 included on “Revolver”. It’s a homage to the Motown sound with horn accompaniment. A cover by Cliff Bennett And The Rebel Rousers reached #6 in the UK.

 

It’s certainly a very soulful song, and I like the contrast between the warm and lyrical verses and the agitated chorus. It had 3 very big fans here but very little else.