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    Average score for 1968 is 5.44 which is down on the last few years. I think psychedelia really gave music a shot in the arm and now it’s gradually getting slightly staler until the next big thing comes.

     

    Gold medal for year: I Close My Eyes And Count To Ten - Dusty Springfield

     

    Silver medal: I Say A Little Prayer For You - Aretha Franklin

     

    Bronze medal: (Sitting On )The Dock Of The Bay - Otis Redding

     

    Also receiving 9s:

     

    All Along The Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix Experience

    Hey Jude - The Beatles

    Hold Me Tight - Johnny Nash

    Rainbow Valley - Love Affair

    Mrs Robinson - Simon And Garfunkel

    Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan

    Days - The Kinks

    Son Of A Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

    If I Only Had Time - John Rowles

    Blackberry Way - The Move

    Captain Of Your Ship - Reparata And The Delrons

    MacArthur Park - Richard Harris

    Jumpin’ Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones

    Albatross - Fleetwood Mac

     

    Worst hit of the year: Tribute To A King - William Bell

     

    1969 Group 1:

     

    #3234 04/01/1969 Jethro Tull Love Story 29 43-40-32-35-{29}-33-44-47->8

    #3235 04/01/1969 Canned Heat Going Up The Country 19 45-30-24-22-25-26-{19}-27-31-46->10

    #3236 11/01/1969 Simon And Garfunkel Mrs Robinson EP 9 31-29-30-27-{9}->5

    #3237 11/01/1969 Johnny Nash You Got Soul 6 39-23-15-9-{6}-7-8-12-28-28-45-40->12

    #3238 11/01/1969 Wilson Pickett Hey Jude 16 46-31-29-23-21-{16}-32-45-37->9

    18/01/1969 Martha Reeves And The Vandellas Dancing In The Street 4 35-21-12-{4}-5-7-6-14-17-33-49-46->12

    #3239 18/01/1969 Nina Simone To Love Somebody 5 38-25-14-{5}-10-12-16-42-49->9

    #3240 18/01/1969 Nina Simone I Put A Spell On You {1969} 28 44-38-40-{28}->4

    #3241 18/01/1969 The Isley Brothers I Guess I'll Always Love You {1969} 11 45-27-17-12-{11}-15-14-25-48->9

    #3242 18/01/1969 Eric Burdon And The Animals Ring Of Fire 35 46-39-36-{35}-42->5

    #3243 18/01/1969 The Tymes People 16 47-31-24-{16}-21-18-29-24-25-40->10

    #3244 18/01/1969 Cream White Room 28 48-37-30-31-30-{28}-34-46->8

    #3245 25/01/1969 Marv Johnson I'll Pick A Rose For My Rose 10 47-28-17-16-13-{10}-12-16-23-27-40->11

    #3246 25/01/1969 Marvin Gaye And Tammi Terrell You Ain't Livin' Till You're Lovin' 21 48-38-22-29-{21}-22-29-32->8

    #3247 01/02/1969 Amen Corner (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice 1 33-19-{1}-1-2-2-11-15-28-38-46->11

    #3248 01/02/1969 Diana Ross And The Supremes And The Temptations I'm Gonna Make You Love Me 3 37-7-8-{3}-3-6-9-19-31-30-34-49R(2)->12

     

    A lovely top 3 to round off the year.

     

    9 Dusty Springfield Son Of A Preacher Man Her last solo Top 10 and another huge classic brilliantly performed, which feels like it has more of a nod to her folky origins

    9 The Move Blackberry Way 265th #1: what a tune this is; also a bleak song with quite harsh vocals, an ominous stompy rhythm and ghostly violin backing

    8 Stevie Wonder For Once In My Life An upbeat version of a Motown song from a few years prior that works excellently and really shows him off as a great artist

    7 Booker T And The MG's Soul Limbo Debut instrumental hit for this US group, later used for BBC cricket coverage; a stonking foot tapper that still sounds great

    7 Manfred Mann Fox On The Run Interesting quite poetic lyrics here and a strong record all round with a good tune and guitar riff, and performed with gusto

    6 The Tremeloes I Shall Be Released A Dylan song here with really sweet lyrics and this a nice warm version with harmonies that bring across the wistful feel of it

    6 Donovan Atlantis A bit of an epic that takes a while to get going with a long spoken introduction, but once it gets to the chorus it's very effective

    5 Danny La Rue On Mother Kelly's Doorstep Only hit for this drag performer and a 20s music hall song: not usually my thing but there's something irresistably charming here

    5 The Beach Boys Bluebirds Over The Mountain A 50s song originally and a nice track that works pretty well done in their style, but something about it feels slightly perfunctory

    4 Herman's Hermits Something's Happening A translation from Italian and I feel like the English version comes over a little basic, but a nice song and I enjoy the xylophone

    3 Bedrocks Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Only hit for this Leeds based ska group and it's far from an essential Beatles cover but an interesting take on the song at least

    2 The Marmalade Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 263rd #1: I can certainly think of some aspects of this that are worse than the original but not a single thing that's better

    2 Donald Peers Please Don't Go Only big hit for this Welshman: tune is from a classical piece, "Barcarolle" by Offenbach, turned into a very old sounding ballad

     

     

    Blinding Lights and Bad Habits both quite far out ahead in the decade totals then. Do both sell similar amounts these days or does one seem more likely to grow quicker than the other now?

    They’re doing similar numbers (Bad Habits still slightly more in a typical week at the moment but not enough to bridge the gap). I think Blinding Lights is looking very good to be the biggest 2020s hit of the decade, but the actual #1 of the decade is now looking to be between Mr Brightside and Last Christmas!

    Entered the YTD Top 100 this week:

     

    Perfect (Exceeder)

    Unwritten

    Body moving

    Angel numbers / Ten toes

    FTCU

    Toxic

    Heartless

    One dance

     

    Left:

     

    Last Christmas

    Dancing queen

    Perfect (Sheeran) :o

    Padam padam

    Entrapeneur

    You’re losing me

    Sex on fire

    Livin’ on a prayer

     

    Think that’s the first time Perfect has been out of the YTD Top 100 since whenever it entered in 2017.

    Week 2:

     

    1 1 114,000 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (650k)

    2 2 79,000 Jack Harlow - Lovin On Me (400k)

    3 10 62,000 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor (1.06m)

    4 3 60,000 Cassö with Raye & D Block Europe - Prada (660k)

    5 4 56,000 Tate McRae - Greedy (510k)

    6 5 49,000 Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer (1.24m)

    7 7 46,000 Kenya Grace - Strangers (570k)

    8 8 43,000 Tyler - Water (390k)

    9 6 42,000 Dua Lipa - Houdini

    10 9 40,000 Olivia Rodrigo - Vampire (820k)

     

    11 25 39,000 Teddy Sims - Lose Control

    12 11 35,000 Doja Cat - Paint The Town Red (680k)

    13 12 35,000 Dave and Central Cee - Sprinter (1.25m)

    14 16 34,000 Billy Gillies featuring Hannah Boleyn - DNA (290k)

    15 13 34,000 The Killers - Mr Brightside (5.33m)

    16 14 33,000 Taylor Swift - Is it over now? (Taylor’s version) (250k)

    17 20 32,000 Fred Again… and Baby Keem - Leavemealone

    18 19 32,000 Drake featuring Sexy Redd & Sza - Rich Baby Daddy

    19 24 32,000 The Weeknd featuring Playboi Carti & Madonna - Popular (420k)

    20 15 32,000 Dua Lipa - Dance the night (740k)

     

    21 18 31,000 Chase & Status and Bou featuring Irah, Flowdan, Trigga and Takura - Baddadan (470k)

    22 22 30,000 Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine (260k)

    23 17 29,000 Miley Cyrus - Flowers (1.68m)

    24 23 29,000 Sonny Fodera and MK featuring Clementine Douglas - Asking (400k)

    25 21 29,000 Becky Hill and Chase & Status - Disconnect (500k)

    26 29 28,000 Zach Bryan featuring Kacy Musgraves - I Remember Everything

    27 28 28,000 Zara Larsson & David Quetta - On My Love

    28 30 28,000 Billie Eilish - What Was I Made For? (570k)

    29 26 27,000 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (1.62m)

    30 32 27,000 Olivia Rodrigo - Can’t Catch Me Now

     

    31 41 26,000 Vance Joy - Riptide (3.61m)

    32 27 26,000 Rema - Calm Down (1.50m)

    33 35 25,000 Tate McRae - Exes

    34 31 25,000 Fred Again… and Obongjayar - Adore U (400k)

    35 40 24,000 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved (5.30m)

    36 38 24,000 David Kushner - Daylight (780k)

    37 60 23,000 Sabrina Carpenter - Feather

    38 33 23,000 Raye featuring 070 Shake - Escapism (1.41m)

    39 34 23,000 Harry Styles - As It Was (2.55m)

    40 39 23,000 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere

     

    43 22,000 Noah Kahan - Dial Drunk

    54 19,000 Noah Kahan - Northern Attitude

    55 19,000 Lord Huron - The Night We Met

    61 19,000 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Girls

    62 19,000 Mason vs Princess Superstar - Perfect (Exceeder)

    71 18,000 Zach Bryan - Something In The Orange

     

    73 18,000 Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

    75 18,000 JID featuring 21 Savage and Baby Tate - Surround Sound

    76 17,000 Eliza Rose & Calvin Harris - Body Moving

    83 17,000 Chris Brown - Angel Numbers / Ten Toes

    86 17,000 Nicki Minaj - FTCU

    92 16,000 Songer - Toxic

    Week 2:

     

    1 1 19,000 Lewis Capaldi - Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent (230k)

    2 - 18,000 Shed Seven - A Matter Of Time

    3 2 15,000 Taylor Swift - 1989 (Taylor’s Version) (310k)

    4 3 15,000 The Weeknd - The Highlights (850k)

    5 5 13,000 Noah Kahan - Stick Season (140k)

    6 4 12,000 ABBA - Gold: Greatest Hits (5.67m)

    7 6 12,000 Olivia Rodrigo - Guts (220k)

    8 7 12,000 Elton John - Diamonds (1.39m)

    9 10 11,000 Eminem - Curtain Call: The Hits (3.06m)

    10 8 11,000 Taylor Swift - Midnights (770k)

     

    11 9 11,000 Taylor Swift - Folklore (630k)

    12 11 11,000 Fleetwood Mac - 50 Years: Don’t Stop (1.19m)

    13 12 10,000 Taylor Swift - Reputation (770k)

    14 13 10,000 Taylor Swift - Lover (670k)

    15 14 9,000 Olivia Rodrigo - Sour (840k)

    16 15 9,000 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday 2

    17 16 9,000 Arctic Monkeys - AM (1.90m)

    18 19 8,000 Post Malone - The Diamond Collection (150k)

    19 18 8,000 Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (2.35m)

    20 17 8,000 Queen - Greatest Hits (2.85m)

     

    21 21 7,000 Drake - For All The Dogs (100k)

    22 20 7,000 Michael Jackson - The Essential Michael Jackson (1.61m)

    23 23 7,000 Sza - SOS (290k)

    24 26 7,000 Oasis - Time Flies: 1904-2009 (1.76m)

    25 28 7,000 Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent (1.63m)

    26 27 7,000 Lana Del Ray - Born To Die (1.54m)

    27 24 7,000 Taylor Swift - Evermore (390k)

    28 29 6,000 Ed Sheeran - Divide (4.19m)

    29 32 6,000 Eminem - Curtain Call 2 (230k)

    30 22 6,000 George Michael - Twenty Five (1.61m)

     

    31 30 6,000 Harry Styles - Harry’s House (740k)

    32 31 6,000 The Beatles - 1967-1970 (1.10m)

    33 33 6,000 Joel Corry - Another Friday Night (90k)

    34 37 6,000 Travis Scott - Utopia (120k)

    35 35 6,000 The Killers - Rebel Diamonds

    36 38 6,000 Kanye West - Graduation (830k)

    37 36 6,000 Nirvana - Nirvana (1.35m)

    38 39 50 Cent - Best Of 50 Cent (480k)

    39 34 6,000 Tate McRae - Think Later

    40 25 6,000 Rolling Stones - Hackney Diamonds (170k)

     

    57 5,000 Busted - Greatest Hits 2.0

    67 4,000 Teddy Swims - I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy - Part 1

    70 4,000 Sprints - Letter To Self

    18/1:

     

    1 1 Stick season (1)

    2 10 Murder on the dancefloor (2)

    3 2 Lovin on me (1)

    4 3 Prada (2)

    5 4 Greedy (3)

    6 25 Lose control (6)

    7 5 Cruel summer (3)

    8 7 Strangers (1)

    9 8 Water (5)

    10 9 Vampire (1)

    11 6 Houdini (2)

    12 16 DNA (12)

    13 24 Popular (13)

    14 12 Sprinter (1)

    15 13 Mr Brightside (10)

    16 20 Leavemealone (16)

    17 19 Rich baby daddy (17)

    18 11 Paint the town red (1)

    19 14 Is it over now? (TV) (1)

    20 18 Baddadan (9)

    21 29 I remember everything (21)

    22 41 Riptide (10)

    23 28 On my love (23)

    24 30 What was I made for? (2)

    25 - Just another rainbow (25)

    26 15 Dance the night (2)

    27 22 My love mine all mine (12)

    28 23 Asking (11)

    29 - Feather (29)

    30 21 Disconnect (8)

    31 32 Can’t catch me now (20)

    32 26 Anti-hero (1)

    33 - Kool-aid (33)

    34 35 Exes (19)

    35 17 Flowers (1)

    36 27 Calm down (4)

    37 40 Someone you loved (1)

    38 38 Daylight (2)

    39 47 Dial drunk (39)

    40 31 Adore u (5)

    41 - Unwritten (6)

    42 39 Everywhere (4)

    43 46 One of the girls (43)

    44 - Dog days are over (21)

    45 - Perfect (3)

    46 - Practice (46)

    47 33 Escapism (1)

    48 43 Lil boo thang (43)

    49 34 As it was (1)

    50 - Another love (10)

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    Edited by JulianT

    It is hard not to think of M&S now unfortunately when hearing “Albatross”, but it remains a great piece of music and of course still their only chart topper. It’s amazing that it’s the same group who produced the likes of “Go Your Own Way” though!

     

    9 Fleetwood Mac Albatross 264th #1: a beautiful and luxurious instrumental that started their proper success, but still so different from their future output

    8 Gun Race With The Devil Debut for this UK rock trio; a fabulous whirlwind of a song with slightly hysterical vocals over frenzied guitars and a strong riff

    8 Love Sculpture Sabre Dance An 11.5 minute epic here that's a rock guitar version of a movement from Khachaturian's ballet "Gayane" - works very well

    7 The Foundations Build Me Up Buttercup This reminds me of uni discos slightly too much to take it seriously, but it is a very well written soulful song with a great beat

    7 Judy Clay And William Bell Private Number A US soul duet here: biggest hit for William and only hit for Judy with a very lovely classy ballad and they perform it beautifully

    6 The Casuals Toy Their 2nd and final hit and I actually prefer it to their big one "Jesamine": this is a very simple but infectious number well done

    5 The Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus Quick Joey Small (Run Joey Run) Only hit for this "supergroup" who were conceived to produce child friendly music: it's a catchy stompy singalong song anyway

    4 Gene Pitney Yours Until Tomorrow Gene's ability to have big hits seems to have dried up; this is in his usual high drama high emotion style but the tune isn't great

    4 Diana Ross And The Supremes Love Child Please don't force me to sleep with you as we'll make an unhappy baby is the stark message; a decent song in their usual style

    3 Des O'Connor 1-2-3 O'Leary He'll have more hits but this is the last of his trio of very big ones: apparently it's an Irish game but quite a forgettable song

    3 The Showstoppers Eeny Meeny Their 2nd and final hit: the main theme feels like something from a nursery rhyme and grates somewhat; not very enjoyable

    2 Cliff Richard And The Shadows Don't Forget To Catch Me Cliff doesn't really sound too fussed whether you forget to catch him or not on this; a bouncy and inconsequential little ballad

    2 Tom Jones A Minute Of Your Time 3 minutes of your time required for this, which is unfortunate as it's a very plodding and forgettable number that goes nowhere

    1 The Dave Clark Five Live In The Sky I think this is supposed to be an early football song with the "glory glory hallelujah" tune in it; find it very irritating anyway

     

     

    1968 Group 16 (skipping over the Edwin Starr double A as we’ve had both sides, meaning there are only 13 in this group oops):

     

    #3221 07/12/1968 Dusty Springfield Son Of A Preacher Man 9 44-24-20-20-{9}-9-11-13-21->9

    #3222 07/12/1968 The Marmalade Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 1 45-22-9-7-{1}-3-1-1-4-10-9-14-23-23-40-28-34-32-47-48->20

    #3223 07/12/1968 Donovan Atlantis 23 50-37-26-{23}-28-37-41-43->8

    14/12/1968 Edwin Starr Stop Her On Sight (S.O.S.)/Headline News 11 36-25-37-31-22-16-12-{11}-15-18-37->11

    #3224 14/12/1968 The Tremeloes I Shall Be Released 29 41-{29}-29-36-41->5

    #3225 14/12/1968 Booker T And The MG's Soul Limbo 30 49-42-47-38-38-{30}-34-34-42->9

    #3226 21/12/1968 Stevie Wonder For Once In My Life 3 32-27-12-10-5-{3}-3-3-4-10-13-20-46->13

    #3227 21/12/1968 Herman's Hermits Something's Happening 6 33-28-10-8-{6}-7-6-14-14-20-24-37-42-32-42->15

    #3228 21/12/1968 Bedrocks Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 20 34-30-{20}-24-26-32-41->7

    #3229 21/12/1968 Danny La Rue On Mother Kelly's Doorstep 33 36-41-{33}-36-36-46-49-44-45->9

    #3230 21/12/1968 Manfred Mann Fox On The Run 5 44-44-32-23-12-10-{5}-11-13-16-27-49->12

    #3231 21/12/1968 Donald Peers Please Don't Go 3 46-36-24-25-25-23-16-8-6-4-4-{3}-10-4-20-23-24-33-39R(2)-42-49->21

    #3232 28/12/1968 The Beach Boys Bluebirds Over The Mountain 33 48-41-{33}-34-42->5

    #3233 28/12/1968 The Move Blackberry Way 1 49-42-29-13-5-2-{1}-3-5-7-18-41->12