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Posted March 17, 20241 yr

Group winners and anything else scoring a 9:

2000:

Dark Star - Graceadelica (8)

Sting Featuring Cheb Mami - Desert Rose (9)

Andreas Johnson - Glorious (9)

R.E.M. - The Great Beyond (9)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside (9)

All Saints - Pure Shores (10) 1st for year

Fiona Apple - Fast As You Can (9)

Jean-Michel Jarre Featuring Natacha Atlas - C’est La Vie (9)

Flickman - The Sound Of Bamboo (9)

Colour Girl - Can’t Get Used To Losing You (8)

Moby - Natural Blues (9)

Dr Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg - Still D.R.E. (9)

Moloko - The Time Is Now (9)

Destiny’s Child - Say My Name (8)

The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch (9)

Sweet Female Attitude - Flowers (9)

Black Box Recorder - The Facts Of Life (10) 2nd for year

Fragma - Toca’s Miracle (9)

Cypress Hill - Rap Superstar/Rock Superstar (8)

Britney Spears - Oops!… I Did It Again (9)

Conductor And The Cowboy - Feeling This Way (8)

A-Ha - Summer Moved On (9)

Bon Jovi - It’s My Life (9)

Mary Mary - Shackles (Praise You) (9)

Dr Dre Featuring Eminem - Forgot About Dre (9)

Muse - Unintended (9)

David Gray - Babylon (10) 3rd for year

Moby - Porcelain (9)

Darude - Sandstorm (9)

Coldplay - Yellow (9)

Eminem - The Real Slim Shady (9)

Matt Darey’s Mash Up Presents Marcella Woods - Beautiful (9)

Aaliyah - Try Again (9)

Bomfunk MC’s - Freestyler (9)

Wookie Featuring Lain - Battle (9)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (9)

Spiller - Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love) (9)

Melanie C - I Turn To You (9)

Underworld - Cowgirl (8)

Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun 2000 (8)

Finley Quayle - Spiritualized (8)

Zombie Nation - Kernkraft 400 (9)

Roni Size And Reprazent - Who Told You (8)

Delirium Featuring Sarah McLachlan - Silence (9)

All Saints - Black Coffee (9)

Muse - Muscle Museum (9)

Coldplay - Trouble (9)

David Gray - Please Forgive Me (9)

Laurent Garnier - Greed/The Man With The Red Face (8)

Sade - By Your Side (9)

Daft Punk - One More Time (9)

Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit (9)

Public Domain - Operation Blade (Bass In The Place) (8)

Eminem - Stan (9)

Robbie Williams - Supreme (8)

2001:

Rui Da Silva Featuring Cassandra - Touch Me (10) 1st for year

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin’ (9)

Spooks - Things I’ve Seen (8)

Dr Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode (9)

Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake (9)

Ash - Shining Light (9)

Atomic Kitten - Whole Again (9)

Dido - Here With Me (9)

The Divine Conedy - Love What You Do (9)

Outkast - Ms Jackson (9)

Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood (10) 3rd for year

David Gray - This Year’s Love (9)

Muse - Plug In Baby (8)

Stereophonics - Mr Writer (8)

Crazy Town - Butterfly (9)

Neil Finn - Wherever You Are (9)

Linkin Park - Crawling (9)

Gabrielle - Out Of Reach (9)

Orbital - Funny Break (One Is Enough) (8)

S Club 7 - Don’t Stop Movin’ (9)

R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life (9)

Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (9)

Radiohead - Pyramid Song (9)

Blue - All Rise (9)

Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance (9)

Faithless - We Come 1 (9)

I Monster - Daydream In Blue (9)

Daft Punk - Digital Love (9)

Belle And Sebastian - Jonathan David (8)

James - Getting Away With It (All Messed Up) (8)

The Beta Band - Broke / Won (9)

The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist (9)

Da Hool - Meet Her At The Love Parade 2001 (8)

Cosmic Rough Riders - Revolution (In The Summertime) (9)

Zero 7 - Destiny (9)

New Order - Crystal (9)

The Charlatans - Love Is The Key (8)

Eels - Souljacker Part 1 (9)

The Supermen Lovers Featuring Mani Hoffman - Starlight (9)

Ian Brown - F.E.A.R. (9)

Mary J. Blige - Family Affair (9)

Ash - Candy (8)

Linkin Park - In The End (10) 2nd for year

The Ones - Flawless (9)

Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.) (8)

System Of A Down - Chop Suey! (9)

The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You (9)

Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger (9)

The Strokes - Last Nite (9)

Riva Featuring Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now? (Stringer) (9)

PPK - ResuRection (9)

Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This (9)

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (9)

Feeder - Just A Day EP (7)

2002:

Puretone - Addicted To Bass (9)

Aaliyah - More Than A Woman (9)

Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising (10) 2nd for year

The Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar (9)

Garbage - Cherry Lips (9)

Jimmy Eat World - The Middle (9)

Alizée - Moi…Lolita (9)

Shakira - Whenever, Wherever (10) 1st for year

The White Stripes - Fell In Love With A Girl (9)

Nickelback - How You Remind Me (9)

The Electric Soft Parade - Silent To The Dark II (9)

Bjork - Cocoon (8)

Way Out West featuring Tricia Lee - Mindcircus (8)

Badly Drawn Boy - Silent Sigh (9)

DJ Tiesto - Lethal Indistry (8)

Faithless featuring Dido - One Step Too Far (8)

Doves - There Goes The Fear (9)

The Chemical Brothers - Come With Us / The Test (9)

Timo Maas featuring MC Chickaboo - Shifter (8)

The Cooper Temple Clause - Who Needs Enemies? (9)

Liberty X - Just A Little (9)

DJ Shadow - You Can’t Go Home Again (9)

Orbital - Rest And Play EP (8)

Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun / Ready Steady Go (9)

No Doubt - Hella Good (9)

Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out (9)

Nelly - Hot In Herre (9)

Rob Dougan - Clubbed To Death (9)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way (9)

Fischerspooner - Emerge (9)

Angie Stone - Wish I Didn’t Miss You Anymore (9)

N*E*R*D - Rockstar (9)

Royksopp - Remind Me / So Easy (9)

Amillionsons - Misty Blu (8)

The Music - Take The Long Road And Walk It (9)

Ms Dynamite - Dy-Na-Mi-Tee (8)

Paul Weller - It’s Written In The Stars (8)

Death In Vegas - Hands Around My Throat (8)

Pink - Just Like A Pill (9)

Aqualung - Strange And Beautiful (I’ll Put A Spell On You) (9)

Felix Da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene (9)

JJ72 - Formulae (8)

The Coral - Dreaming Of You (9)

Las Ketchup - The Ketchup Song (Asereje) (9)

Justin Timberlake - Like I Love You (9)

Pearl Jam - I Am Mine (8)

Queens Of The Stone Age (9)

Coldplay - The Scientist (10) 3rd for year

Christina Aguilera featuring Redman - Dirrrty (9)

The Music - Getaway (8)

Eminem - Lose Yourself (9)

Robbie Williams - Feel (9)

Girls Aloud - Sound Of The Undeground (9)

Julian rates every 21st century Top 40 hit

in 21st Century Throwback

You may be aware that I've spent more than a year so far working on this in the 20th Century Retro forum, where I've so far reviewed every single that entered the Top 40 from the birth of the charts in 1952 to the end of 1970:

http://www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=259820

It's been hard work getting through the 60s and into the 70s, and I feel like if I solely focus on the 70s at this stage I may become burned out with the project, so I need to mix it up.

Therefore I am now going to start my 21st century edition of this, and the plan is to alternate between this and the 20th century thread covering a year at a time.

Of course the early 2000s was one of the busiest periods in the chart's history, with somewhere in the region of 550-600 Top 40 hits in each year, so I'm fully expecting each year to take at least a couple of months even if I can manage 4 reviews each week or so.

The format for my 20th Century reviews so far has been to divide each year into batches of 14 or 15 singles. I plan to do it differently here and do the reviews chart week by chart week, but with a minimum of 10 songs per week, so combining weeks where there were fewer than 10 new entries in the Top 40.

I will score each hit and give a very brief commentary. I will aim to keep the average score in the 5-6 region and use the full range so:

7-10 great

4-6 decent

1-3 not for me

Each day I’ll post a video of my track of the day plus any runners up that I give a 9. Only my very favourite hits of the year (3 maximum) will score a 10.

I will review double or multiple A sides and EPs as 1, so effectively giving an average score. I also plan to review each song only once meaning that a remix of a previous hit won't be reviewed unless it's a completely different song.

I plan to listen to any songs I'm not familiar with half a dozen times or so, though where a single has multiple versions I only plan to listen to 1 (probably the radio or main single version if it's clear what that is).

I hope to avoid too much genre bias - I do tend to pivot a bit more towards indie than pop these days when it comes to 21st century songs, but I plan to give everything a fair hearing. Note that I'm not a music journalist or critic or historian on any level, but just a chart geek with a slightly bonkers compulsion to do this!

I’ll be reviewing everything solely on musical merit, so there could be some cases where rather unsavoury artists receive good scores, and of course that won’t indicate support for any of their non musical actions.

Comments will always be welcome, even if you strongly disagree with my ratings. And don't worry if you dip in and dip out of following the thread - occasional comments are good too!

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Number 3 Listening Sessions - Week 8 Poll

Went for:

Queen

Bronski

Cyndi

Tina

Giorgio & Phil

Nik

Nothing too terrible but chose Ashford And Simpson for worst

Number 3 Listening Sessions - Week 8 Poll

Posted March 17, 20241 yr

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Tears For Fears - Mad World sneaked a win in the Week 7 best poll thanks to a last minute vote, ahead of Yazoo and Toto with 10 votes.

The Kids From 'Fame' - Starmaker eased to victory in the worst poll.

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

The UK #3 singles listening sessions

Link in the opening post. I’ve been stuck in a tube station for 20 minutes now so who knows whether I’ll be still here or in a tunnel at 4, but I’ve managed to start setting up the session on my phone.

The UK #3 singles listening sessions

Currently sitting on a severely delayed District Line train but hopefully can make it home to start on time. :unsure:

The UK #3 singles listening sessions - Week 7 poll

A last minute tie :drama:

The Official Singles Chart - what should its future be?

I do think people forget what the chart was like in 2016 and early 2017 and why these rules were introduced. Of course there are arguments for and against the rules as they stand, and possible alternatives to ACR and the 3 track rule, but it is curious to see statements like “everyone agrees we should get rid of ACR”.

Julian rates every 20th century Top 40 hit

March 16, 20241 yr ·

Edited March 17, 20241 yr by JulianT

On paper it should probably be T Rex or Edwin winning today, but it’s “Indian Reservation” that I keep going back to because it’s so hypnotic. The song was written by John D Loudermilk who was known as a prankster and hence the lyrics are utterly baffling, but I love it anyway.

9 Don Fardon Indian Reservation The song had existed for a decade but only this version was big: I love the mesmerising beat and the deep and intense vocals

9 T.Rex Ride A White Swan Their 1st hit with the shortened name: poppy enough to have been their breakthrough song and also wonderfully captivating

8 Edwin Starr War His biggest hit and a classic with a timeless theme: it's a very punchy track which is and stark track which fits the message well

8 Anne Murray Snowbird Debut hit for this Canadian country singer with beautiful lyrics and melody and the backing violins give it a light, gliding feel

7 C.C.S. Whole Lotta Love A (mostly) instrumental cover of the Led Zeppelin song and their 1st hit: a great track that will be the Top Of The Pops theme

6 Roger Whittaker New World In The Morning For a MOR singer his hits are surprisingly good: this is another soulful and well written one, if not exciting or groundbreaking

6 Mary Hopkin Think About Your Children Her period of big hits has ended but this is good: her voice is effortlessly pretty as ever and the song is sweet and flows well

5 Jimi Hendrix Experience Voodoo Chile 293rd #1 improvised around his original 15 minute "Voodoo Child": brilliant playing but doesn't quite come together for me

5 Richard Barnes Go North His 2nd and final hit and quite a serious and laboured ballad: nowhere near as good as "Take To The Mountains" but decent

4 Julie Felix Heaven Is Here Also a 2nd and last hit, and a sweet and joyful folk ballad, but without that much to it and the "uh-huh" becomes repetitive

4 Christie San Bernadino Yet another 2nd and final hit: very ordinary compared to "Yellow River" but a pleasant listen with sweet lyrics and harmonies

3 Jimmy Ruffin It's Wonderful Multiple Top 10s including this so he must be doing something right, but his songs are quite similar, and this washes over me

2 Bobby Sherman Julie Do Ya Love Me? Only hit for him and not much to choose between the two versions but this is at least the original: quite a dull and trite song

2 White Plains Julie Do Ya Love Me? The more polished version but lacks the authenticity of Bobby's while remaining just as dreary, but quite a bit hit for them

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1970 Group 13:

#3633 07/11/1970 The Dave Clark Five More Good Old Rock 'N' Roll 34 35-{34}-40-40-43-48->6

#3634 07/11/1970 Status Quo In My Chair 21 39-33-24-{21}-23-27-43-43-35-27-27-29-48-35->14

#3635 07/11/1970 Neil Diamond Cracklin' Rosie 3 40-29-10-5-{3}-3-3-3-6-6-7-14-10-18-20-23-40->17

#3636 07/11/1970 Pickettywitch Baby I Won't Let You Down 27 50-32-{27}-27-38-33-39-39-37-47->10

#3637 14/11/1970 Elvis Presley I've Lost You 9 26-23-{9}-9-10-14-14-15-17-20-46-50->12

#3638 14/11/1970 The Motown Spinners It's A Shame 20 37-25-32-26-26-{20}-20-27-24-25-42->11

#3639 14/11/1970 Chairmen Of The Board You've Got Me Dangling On A String 5 40-19-16-{5}-8-10-10-12-11-12-19-25-37->13

#3640 14/11/1970 Mick Jagger Memo From Turner 32 46-{32}-37-41-50->5

#3641 14/11/1970 Peter Noone And Herman's Hermits Lady Barbara 13 48-44-34-24-16-17-17-{13}-13-14-32-37->12

#3642 14/11/1970 Gerry Monroe My Prayer 9 50-33-23-12-12-{9}-9-9-14-18-34-36->12

#3643 21/11/1970 Dave Edmunds I Hear You Knocking 1 16-{1}-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-6-7-19-23-32->14

#3644 21/11/1970 The Jackson Five I'll Be There 4 36-26-15-13-5-5-5-5-5-{4}-6-10-11-21-30-34->16

#3645 21/11/1970 Glen Campbell It's Only Make Believe 4 38-18-18-{4}-4-4-4-9-6-12-18-22-25-20->14

#3646 21/11/1970 Stevie Wonder Heaven Help Us All 29 41-50-40-36-30-30-39-{29}-35-48-45->11

BuzzJack's Favourite Top 100 Hit of 2024 / Weeks 9 & 10

Week9:

Sza

Pozer

Catfish

Yeat

Week 10:

Charli

21 Pilots

Fred Again etc.

The Official Singles Chart - what should its future be?

^ The Beatles have recently had a #1 single and Kylie a Top 10 so it isn’t totally impossible for legacy acts to have hits.

I don’t like the idea of only official singles counting to the chart - anything that takes power away from the public and gives it to record companies I’d oppose.

A lot of this just makes me think the current rules aren’t so bad really - the majority of the suggestions in the article and the discussion threads here and on Haven would make things worse in my view.

Good Delta Hit Parade: No.1s of the 2000s

in 21st Century Throwback

Oh good timing as I’m about to start a thread. This was great! And Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart is a beautiful finish. :heart:

My record of the week 60 years ago

Many of Peter & Gordon’s covers weren’t up to much but A World Without Love is gorgeous.

Julian rates every 20th century Top 40 hit

March 15, 20241 yr ·

Edited March 17, 20241 yr by JulianT

We have another in the peaked much lower than you think category here, and despite several later re-releases “Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine” has only ever reached as high as #32.

“Woodstock” is probably my preferred track of the top 2 to listen to, a cover that brings out the song’s beauty brilliantly, but I have to recognise the sheer genius and genre defining quality of the James Brown song.

9 James Brown Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (Part I And Part II) His 1st solo hit and 5 minutes of brilliance: love the piano breaks but otherwise it's a bare track with a masterful restless feel

9 Matthews' Southern Comfort Woodstock 292nd #1: only hit for this UK band turning a Joni Mitchell acoustic ballad into a wonderfully atmospheric folk rock song

8 The Temptations Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) A wonderfully psychedelic and apocalyptic track with a relentless, rumbling beat and chaotic instrumental and vocal bursts

8 Clarence Carter Patches Part spoken tracks often don't work but here the spoken and sung sections together tell the story in a very heartwarming way

7 The Rattles The Witch Only hit for this German band with a great dynamic and catchy rocky track, and some effective witchlike instrumental parts

7 Gene Pitney Shady Lady The usual drama, big production and emotion laden performance from Gene, but a good song and I really like the storytelling

6 Melanie Ruby Tuesday Debut hit for this US singer: a really strong Stones cover with a very convincing performance and plenty of individual character

6 The Four Tops Still Water A subtle but smooth and classy song that indeed conveys still water with the instruments gently rippling in the background

5 Dusty Springfield How Can I Be Sure My main complaint is that there isn't a strong melody here for the listener to latch onto, but it's a nice track excellently sung

5 Glen Campbell Everything A Man Could Ever Need This is firmly in the easy listening rather than the great country pop category, but it's a lovely melody and sincere performance

4 Blue Mink Our World Quite a charming number in their usual bright and breezy style, but I find the lyrics about saving the planet slightly gimmicky

3 The Hollies Gasoline Alley Bred Standard Hollies fare with its close harmonies, its build and its slow and deliberate melody: feels like it's all been done before

2 Des O'Connor The Tip Of My Fingers His last solo hit with another slow ballad: could be worse and he gives the louder sections some welly, but remains fairly limp

1 Gerry Monroe Cry A 50s cover that sounds dated anyway but is quite unpleasant in his style, particularly with the way he bashes the top notes

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1970 Group 12:

#3619 10/10/1970 Roger Whittaker New World In The Morning 17 44-28-24-20-21-{17}-21-20-22-25-24-24-22-33->14

#3620 10/10/1970 Christie San Bernadino 7 49-44R(2)-24-18-{7}-7-11-14-15-23-23-33-32-44->14

#3621 10/10/1970 Don Fardon Indian Reservation 3 50-44-32-19-12-4-{3}-3-4-9-13-13-14-16-26-40-39->17

#3622 17/10/1970 Jimmy Ruffin It's Wonderful 6 38-27-18-16-12-{6}-12-10-19-19-19-34-40-49->14

#3623 17/10/1970 Julie Felix Heaven Is Here 22 40-34-25-{22}-22-28-38-50->8

#3624 24/10/1970 Edwin Starr War 3 16-15-5-{3}-5-6-13-20-27-27-26-36->12

#3625 24/10/1970 White Plains Julie Do Ya Love Me? 8 39-26-24-16-13-10-{8}-14-16-16-16-19-32-44->14

#3626 24/10/1970 T.Rex Ride A White Swan 2 47-37-31-30-15-7-7-6-12-12-10-4-4-{2}-4-7-14-12-26-38->20

#3627 24/10/1970 Anne Murray Snowbird 23 48-27-27-31-31-31-39-28-29-29-{23}-28-23-28-32-38-39->17

#3628 24/10/1970 Richard Barnes Go North 38 49-41R(2)-{38}-49->4

#3629 31/10/1970 C.C.S. Whole Lotta Love 13 35-32-18-20-{13}-19-18-22-22-24-22-28-41->13

#3630 31/10/1970 Mary Hopkin Think About Your Children 19 41-25-{19}-22-19-36-38-46R(3)-48->9

#3631 31/10/1970 Bobby Sherman Julie Do Ya Love Me? 28 46-42-{28}-34->4

#3632 07/11/1970 Jimi Hendrix Experience Voodoo Chile 1 15-5-{1}-2-2-5-11-11-19-20-22-38-47->13

Buzzjack Reshuffle Chart #763 + #764

in 21st Century Throwback Archive

March 15, 20241 yr

+5 MOTD

+4 Stick season

+3 Prada

+2 Popular

+1 Cruel summer

-1 Homesick

-2 Lovin on me

-3 Lose control

-4 Yes, and?

-5 Greedy

+5 MOTD

+4 Stick season

+3 Prada

+2 Beautiful things

+1 Cruel summer

-1 Lovin on me

-2 Lose control

-3 Yes, and?

-4 Praise jah in the moonlight

-5 Greedy

Round 3 - Year End Survivor No.83

March 15, 20241 yr

Happy - well at least the other survivor is going better :drama:

Round 6 - Year End Survivor No.82

in 21st Century Throwback Archive

March 15, 20241 yr

Yay this is the Top 5 I identified from the start!

Voting for The Verve now - I do really like the song but it doesn’t touch their 90s stuff and I think the others here stand out more.

The UK #3 singles listening sessions

March 14, 20241 yr

This week’s selections :)

#6s

Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

The Rock Steady Crew - (Hey You) The Rock Steady Crew

Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance

Tina Turner - Let's Stay Together

Snowy White - Bird Of Paradise

John Lennon - Nobody Told Me

Fiction Factory - (Feels Like) Heaven

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

Sade - Your Love Is King

Captain Sensible - Glad It's All Over / Damned On 45

Kenny Loggins - Footloose

Hazell Dean - Searchin' (I Gotta Find A Man)

The Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)

Queen - It's A Hard Life

Miami Sound Machine - Dr Beat

David Bowie - Blue Jean

Bronski Beat - Why?

Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)

Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better

David Cassidy - The Last Kiss

Jermaine Jackson - Do What You Do

The RAH Band - Clouds Across The Moon

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

The Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down!

Scritti Politti - The Word Girl

Denise LaSalle - My Toot Toot

Opus - Live Is Life

Billy Idol - White Wedding

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

John Parr - St Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)

Level 42 - Something About You

Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere

#7s

Modern Romance – Walking in the Rain

George Benson – In Your Eyes

The Cure – The Love Cats

Cliff Richard – Please Don't Fall in Love

Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton – Islands in the Stream

Slade – Run Runaway

Van Halen – Jump

Kool & the Gang – (When You Say You Love Somebody) In the Heart

The Flying Pickets – When You're Young and in Love

Alvin Stardust – I Feel Like Buddy Holly

Howard Jones – Pearl in the Shell

Elton John – Sad Songs (Say So Much)

Michael Jackson – Farewell My Summer Love

Grandmaster Melle Mel – White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)

The Style Council – Shout to the Top!

Status Quo – The Wanderer

Alvin Stardust – I Won't Run Away

Gary Glitter – Another Rock and Roll Christmas

Russ Abbot – Atmosphere

Kirsty MacColl – A New England

Prince & The Revolution – Let's Go Crazy/Take Me With U

Simple Minds – Don't You (Forget About Me)

Princess – Say I'm Your Number One

Amii Stewart – Knock on Wood/Light My Fire(Remix)

Simple Minds – Alive and Kicking

Arcadia – Election Day

Queen – One Vision

Doug E. Fresh & The Get Fresh Crew – The Show

#8s

Herbie Hancock – Rockit

Kajagoogoo – Big Apple

David Essex – Tahiti

Tracey Ullman – Move Over Darling

Big Country – Wonderland

Eurythmics – Here Comes the Rain Again

Billy Joel – An Innocent Man

Rufus & Chaka Khan – Ain't Nobody

Blancmange – Don't Tell Me

Alphaville – Big in Japan

Alison Moyet – All Cried Out

Chicago – Hard Habit to Break

Grandmaster Melle Mel and the Furious Five – Step Off (Part 1)

Art of Noise – Close (to the Edit)

Katrina and the Waves – Walking on Sunshine

Mai Tai – History

Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home

King – Alone Without You

Far Corporation – Stairway to Heaven

Lionel Richie – Say You, Say Me

#9s

Status Quo – Ol' Rag Blues

Big Country – Chance

Black Lace – Superman

Lionel Richie – Running with the Night

China Crisis – Wishful Thinking

Echo & the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon

Duran Duran – New Moon on Monday

Richard Hartley & The Michael Reed Orchestra – The Music of Torvill and Dean (EP)

The Special AKA – Nelson Mandela

Break Machine – Break Dance Party

Shakatak – Down on the Street

Trevor Walters – Stuck on You

Spandau Ballet – I'll Fly for You

Depeche Mode – Master and Servant

UB40 – If It Happens Again

Paul Young – I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down

John Waite – Missing You

Paul Young – Everything Must Change

Nik Kershaw – Wide Boy

Jaki Graham – Round and Around

Trans-X – Living on Video

Mai Tai – Body and Soul

Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin – Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves

Bruce Springsteen – Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town/My Hometown

#10s

David Grant – Watching You, Watching Me

Level 42 – The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)

UB40 – Please Don't Make Me Cry

Michael Jackson – Thriller

Eurythmics – Right by Your Side

Juan Martín – Love Theme From The Thorn Birds

Scritti Politti – Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)

The Smiths – Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

Alison Moyet – Love Resurrection

Phil Fearon & Galaxy – Everybody's Laughing

Shakin' Stevens – A Letter to You

Freddie Mercury – Love Kills

ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin'

Black Lace – Do the Conga

David Grant – Watching You, Watching Me

Level 42 – The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)

UB40 – Please Don't Make Me Cry

Michael Jackson – Thriller

Eurythmics – Right by Your Side

Howard Jones – Look Mama

Manchester United Football Team – We All Follow Man United

Bryan Ferry – Slave to Love

Nik Kershaw – Don Quixote

Who will dethrone Beyoncé at #1?

March 14, 20241 yr

For some reason I feel like Ariana’s destined to have 2 #2s this year, so I went for Djo.

Julian rates every 20th century Top 40 hit

March 14, 20241 yr ·

Edited March 17, 20241 yr by JulianT

It’s harder to hear Ozzy Osbourne’s voice these days without thinking of the TV series or the collaboration with his daughter, but “Paranoid” remains brilliant, and “Band Of Gold” not far behind. I do love The Carpenters’ cover too but they’ll have even better to come.

9 Black Sabbath Paranoid A hard rock masterpiece that comes at you like a steam train with long yet punchy vocal lines and a marvellous guitar break

9 Freda Payne Band Of Gold 291st #1: the only big hit for this US singer and a huge pop classic with a soaring melody and a twangy sitar accompaniment

8 Carpenters (They Long To Be) Close To You Their debut hit with a Bacharach song from the 60s: Karen's voice is utterly beautiful here and creates the definitive version

8 Diana Ross Ain't No Mountain High Enough This cover very boldly turns the song into an epic and powerful gospel anthem, and I admire that even if I prefer the original

7 Desmond Dekker You Can Get It If You Really Want A reggae song by Jimmy Cliff that's become engrained in popular culture: it's great but I prefer some of Desmond's others

7 The Tremeloes Me And My Life Their 20th and last big hit and a really good one, and good one: quite mature lyrically but still with a rousing pop chorus

6 Aretha Franklin Don't Play That Song Her 1st hit since her most famous one a couple of years ago: this is a Ben E King cover and she makes a powerful ballad of it

6 Cliff Richard I Ain't Got Time Any More Cliff's hits really do vary a lot, in style, level of success and standard of song; this was a small hit but has a really nice flow

5 Creedence Clearwater Revival Long As I Can See The Light A slower blues style ballad from them: it's not that distinctive a track overall but I do really enjoy the raspy heartfelt vocal

4 Horace Faith Black Pearl Only hit for this Jamaican with a jolly and well produced but unremarkable cover of a song by the US group Checkmates Ltd.

3 Bobby Bloom Montego Bay Only big hit for this US singer about the Jamaican city: not keen on the "Morning Has Broken" part at the end but it's alright

2 Al Martino Spanish Eyes His last Top 40 but 1st since 1955 incredibly, based on an instrumental called "Moon Over Naples", and dull easy listening

2 Engelbert Humperdinck Sweetheart His 2nd hit of the year but both have been very low peaking as his star wanes; this is a terribly saccharine and droopy ballad

1 Jim Reeves Angels Don't Lie I really don't like this, but we're reaching the end of the Jim barrel scraping with only a Treble A of mostly re-releases to go

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1970 Group 11:

#3605 19/09/1970 Blue Mink Our World 17 35-29-24-19-24-{17}-33-26-49->9

#3606 19/09/1970 The Temptations Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today) 7 40-30-26-16-10-9-{7}-7-14-14-36-45-48R(2)-48-49->15

#3607 19/09/1970 Gerry Monroe Cry 38 41-{38}-43-48-49->5

#3608 19/09/1970 Dusty Springfield How Can I Be Sure 36 46-37-45-{36}->4

#3609 26/09/1970 Glen Campbell Everything A Man Could Ever Need 32 41-36-{32}-34-42->5

#3610 26/09/1970 Des O'Connor The Tip Of My Fingers 15 42-35-33-{15}-19-17-20-21-30-29-34-37-37-37-38->15

#3611 26/09/1970 Melanie Ruby Tuesday 9 44-37-29-21-18-13-{9}-9-9-14-20-35-40-40-43R(2)->15

#3612 26/09/1970 Matthews' Southern Comfort Woodstock 1 45-39-24-11-10-{1}-1-1-2-4-11-21-21-21-32-26-36-45->18

#3613 03/10/1970 The Hollies Gasoline Alley Bred 14 29-23-19-{14}-16-17-27->7

#3614 03/10/1970 Gene Pitney Shady Lady 29 48-38-39-33-34-{29}-36-42->8

#3615 03/10/1970 The Rattles The Witch 8 49-41-25-22-14-{8}-8-8-15-21-31-41-41-50-44->15

#3616 03/10/1970 The Four Tops Still Water 10 50-27-20-13-{10}-11-15-18-43-46-44R(2)-44->12

#3617 10/10/1970 Clarence Carter Patches 2 39-14-3-{2}-2-2-4-8-16-23-28-28-29->13

#3618 10/10/1970 James Brown Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (Part I And Part II) 32 43-41-45-{32}-37-39-50->7

2024 Albums Year To Date Estimates

in Indie, Rock and Alternative

March 13, 20241 yr

Week 10:

1 1 100,000 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (230k)

2 2 87,000 The Weeknd - The Highlights (920k)

3 3 64,000 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor’s Version (360k)

4 4 55,000 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits (3.10m)

5 7 54,000 Olivia Rodrigo - Guts (260k)

6 5 53,000 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits (5.71m)

7 6 53,000 Elton John - Diamonds (1.44m)

8 8 52,000 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don’t Stop (1.23m)

9 10 51,000 Taylor Swift - Midnights (810k)

10 9 50,000 The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy

11 11 49,000 Taylor Swift - Folklore (670k)

12 12 48,000 Taylor Swift - Lover (700k)

13 14 47,000 Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (870k)

14 15 47,000 Taylor Swift - Reputation (800k)

15 13 46,000 Lewis Capaldi - Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (260k)

16 16 43,000 Green Day - Saviors

17 17 43,000 Arctic Monkeys - AM (1.93m)

18 20 Kanye West - Vultures 1

19 18 42,000 Post Malone - The Diamond Collection (190k)

20 23 41,000 Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend (3.14m)

21 21 40,000 Queen - Greatest Hits (2.88m)

22 19 40,000 D-Block Europe - Rolling Stone

23 - 39,000 Liam Gallagher & John Squire - Liam Gallagher & John Squire

24 22 39,000 Michael Jackson - The Essential Michael Jackson (1.64m)

25 25 38,000 Sza - SOS (320k)

26 24 38,000 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (2.38m)

27 48 36,000 Rod Stewart With Jools Holland - Swing Fever

28 27 36,000 Oasis - Time Flies: 1994-2009 (1.79m)

29 26 35,000 21 Savage - American Dream

30 28 33,000 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (1.66m)

31 29 32,000 Ed Sheeran - Divide (4.22m)

32 32 31,000 Eminem - Curtain Call 2 (250k)

33 33 31,000 Lana Del Ray - Born To Die (1.56m)

34 30 31,000 Drake - For All The Dogs

35 34 31,000 Maroon 5 - Singles (710k)

36 35 30,000 Travis Scott - Utopia (150k)

37 31 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2

38 36 30,000 50 Cent - Best Of 50 Cent (500k)

39 38 29,000 Taylor Swift - Evermore (410k)

40 39 29,000 Kanye West - Graduation (850k)

45 27,000 Raye - My 21st Century Blues (80k

The Killers Singles Rate 2K24

March 13, 20241 yr

Sorry to keep everyone waiting!

Singles in Chronological Order:

9 Mr. Brightside

9.5 Somebody Told Me

10 All These Things That I've Done

8.5 Smile Like You Meant It

11 When You Were Young

8 Bones

9.5 Read My Mind

4.5 For Reasons Unknown

5 Shadowplay

6.5 Tranquilize (feat. Lou Reed)

10 Human

5 Spaceman

1 The World We Live In

1.5 A Dustland Fairytale

8.5 Runaways

2.5 Miss Atomic Bomb

2 Here With Me

3.5 Shot At The Night

2 Just Another Girl

4 Peace Of Mind

7.5 The Man

0 Run For Cover

0 Rut

5.5 Land Of The Free

9 Caution

6 Fire In Bone

4 My Own Soul’s Warning

7 Dying Breed

-1 Dustland (feat. Bruce Springsteen)

3 boy

8 Your Side Of Town

6 Spirit

Christmas Singles:

7 A Great Big Sled (feat. Toni Halliday)

10 Don't Shoot Me Santa

1 Joseph, Better You Than Me (feat. Elton John & Neil Tennant)

4 Happy Birthday Guadalupe! (feat. Wild Light and Mariachi El Bronx)

8 Boots

6 The Cowboys' Christmas Ball

5 I Feel It In My Bones

2 CV Christmas In L.A. (feat. Dawes)

3 Joel, The Lump of Coal (feat. Jimmy Kimmel)

9 Dirt Sledding (feat. Ryan Pardey and Richard Dreyfuss)

2024 Singles Year To Date Estimates

March 12, 20241 yr

Entered the Top 100 this week:

End of beginning

Carnival

Training season

Sex on fire

Shivers

Left this week:

Body moving

Practice

Surround sound

Don’t stop me now

Agora hills

2024 Singles Year To Date Estimates