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Week 13: 1 1 Olivia Dean Man I Need 731,000 1,830,000 2 3 Sam Fender and Olivia Dean Rein Me In 549,000 1,230,000 3 2 Dave featuring Tems Raindance 529,000 770,000 4 4 Raye Where Is My Husband! 505,000 1,110,000 5 5 Taylor Swift The Fate Of Ophelia 448,000 1,190,000 6 7 Huntr/x, Ejae, Audrey Nuna, Rei Ami & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Golden 444,000 1,770,000 7 8 Alex Warren Ordinary 440,000 2,620,000 8 6 Djo End Of Beginning 438,000 1,620,000 9 9 Olivia Dean So Easy (To Fall In Love) 435,000 810,000 10 10 Zara Larsson Lush Life 378,000 3,420,000 11 12 PinkPantheress Stateside 340,000 470,000 12 11 Olivia Dean Nice To Each Other 339,000 1,110,000 13 13 Bruno Mars I Just Might 328,000 14 14 Sienna Spiro Die On This Hill 318,000 490,000 15 15 Sombr 12 To 12 305,000 830,000 16 17 Harry Styles Aperture 299,000 17 16 Taylor Swift Opalite 295,000 710,000 18 20 Bella Kay Iloveitiloveitiloveit 289,000 290,000 19 18 Sombr Back To Friends 260,000 1,170,000 20 19 Disco Lines and Tinashe No Broke Boys 255,000 980,000 21 21 Haven featuring Kaitlin Aragon I Run 234,000 330,000 22 22 Sabrina Carpenter Manchild 216,000 1,020,000 23 23 Olivia Dean A Couple Minutes 209,000 390,000 24 25 Olivia Dean The Hardest Part 207,000 930,000 25 24 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 207,000 2,020,000 26 32 Sombr Homewrecker 207,000 27 27 The Killers Mr Brightside 206,000 7,010,000 28 26 Ravyn Lenae Love Me Not 204,000 1,340,000 29 28 Goo Goo Dolls Iris 194,000 4,760,000 30 30 Sombr Undressed 194,000 1,070,000 31 29 Olivia Dean Dive 194,000 860,000 32 31 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 192,000 3,120,000 33 33 Fleetwood Mac Dreams 184,000 4,120,000 34 36 Olivia Dean OK Love You Bye 182,000 680,000 35 34 Saja Boys, Andrew Choi Neckwav, Danny Chung, Kevin Woo, samUIL Lee & KPop Demon Hunters Cast Soda Pop 180,000 900,000 36 35 Olivia Dean Baby Steps 180,000 360,000 37 39 Zara Larsson Midnight Sun 177,000 280,000 38 48 Dominic Fike Babydoll 175,000 730,000 39 38 Bad Bunny DtMF 172,000 360,000 40 37 Sonny Fodera, D.O.D. and Poppy Baskcomb Think About Us 172,000 270,000 41 40 Teddy Swims Lose Control 171,000 2,980,000 42 51 Tame Impala Dracula 170,000 300,000 43 50 Milky Just The Way You Are 169,000 280,000 44 42 The Police Every Breath You Take 169,000 2,960,000 45 41 Olivia Dean Let Alone The One You Love 168,000 350,000 46 44 Lola Young Messy 167,000 1,770,000 47 43 Prince & The Revolution Purple Rain 166,000 1,950,000 48 45 Fleetwood Mac Everywhere 164,000 4,330,000 49 46 Gracie Abrams That's So True 163,000 1,770,000 50 47 Alex Warren Eternity 160,000 530,000 52 54 Noah Kahan The Great Divide 150,000 53 59 Noah Kahan Stick Season 149,000 3,400,000 57 93 Harry Styles American Girls 147,000 58 53 Olivia Dean I've Seen It 147,000 300,000 61 57 Esdeekid and Rico Ace Phantom 144,000 350,000 62 58 Tyla Chanel 144,000 220,000 64 61 Kehlani Folded 142,000 400,000 67 68 Myles Smith Stargazing 141,000 1,950,000 69 65 Fleetwood Mac Landslide 139,000 1,740,000 72 - Alex Warren Fever Dream 137,000 74 77 Alex Warren Carry You Home 134,000 1,180,000 78 71 Esdeekid 4 Raws 132,000 260,000 79 73 Esdeekid Century 131,000 260,000 80 76 Sabrina Carpenter Tears 131,000 530,000 81 81 Gunna & Burna Boy WGFT 127,000 86 - Dominic Fike White Keys 125,000 87 83 Olivia Dean Lady Lady 125,000 350,000 88 84 Fleetwood Mac Silver Springs 124,000 840,000 93 87 Katseye Gabriela 121,000 340,000 94 90 The Cure Boys Don't Cry 121,000 1,220,000 96 - Ella Langley Choosin' Texas 119,000 - 92 Tate McRae Tit For Tat 118,000 340,000 - 98 Florence And The Machine Dog Days Are Over 117,000 3,480,000 - 100 Ed Sheeran Sapphire 114,000 680,000

Daphne & Celeste are definitely in there somewhere.

2/4: 1 1 Rein me in (1) 2 - Swim (2) 3 3 Man I need (1) 4 2 Iloveitiloveitiloveit (2) 5 5 Raindance (2) 6 4 American girls (1) 7 6 Stateside (5) 8 7 So easy (5) 9 8 Ordinary (1) 10 9 Where is my husband! (3) 11 14 Fever dream (4) 12 11 Homewrecker (11) 13 12 Golden (1) 14 13 Lush life (3) 15 19 Babydoll (15) 16 22 Dracula (16) 17 16 Nice to each other (5) 18 18 The fate of Ophelia (1) 19 10 Aperture (1) 20 17 I just might (7) 21 15 The visitor (15) 22 21 12 to 12 (8) 23 26 Just the way you are (8) 24 28 White keys (24) 25 20 Die on this hill (12) 26 24 End of beginning (2) 27 - Click clack symphony (27) 28 27 Opalite (2) 29 29 Back to friends (7) 30 31 Midnight sun (30) 31 23 Ready, steady, go! (6) 32 35 Mr Brightside (10) 33 36 No broke boys (3) 34 35 The hardest part (23) 35 43 Manchild (1) 36 41 Iris (3) 37 46 Pink pony club (2) 38 40 Undressed (4) 39 48 Love me not (2) 40 25 Taste back (9) 41 44 OK love you bye (29) 42 47 Beautiful things (1) 43 42 A couple minutes (29) 44 30 Porch light (30) 45 - Body to body (45) 46 34 Into the groove (1) 47 49 Dive (28) 48 - Dreams (22) 49 32 Coming up roses (12) 50 - DtMF (5)

Bowie quite possibly and I think Haim are struggling after their triumph last week unfortunately. A tricky theme for them as they’re all about the mid tempo chugging rhythms.

Reminds me of what happened to my A Level music teacher. He had a consensual fling with a pupil around 2001 who decided some 15 years later that it had traumatised him, and it ruined the teacher’s career. I couldn’t help feeling sorry for the teacher in that scenario while still acknowledging that what he did was wrong.

Will “Murder On The Dancefloor” win 2 rates in one day? Thanks Nina for this… sorry I didn’t vote. Sophie does have a finer discography than I’d realised.

Think it’s the one about the daaarncefloor darling.

“Complicated” and “Genie In A Bottle” are both brilliant debuts, though both artists went on to have hits that reflected their individual styles more. “Scandalous” as high as 3 is a surprise but I’m here for it. I do think Mis-Teeq were good even if their career wasn’t long - they brought something different and this was by far their best song.

It does happen occasionally and of course only some of them will still be there come Friday.

Official Chart Update 01 Sam Fender & Olivia Dean - Rein Me In (19,554) 02 Bella Kay - iloveitiloveitiloveit (16,142) 03 Harry Styles - American Girls (9,867) 04 Zara Larsson - Lush Life 05 Alex Warren - FEVER DREAM 06 Olivia Dean - Man I Need 07 Dominic Fike - Babydoll 08 Tame Impala - Dracula 10 RAYE feat. Hans Zimmer - Click Clack Symphony. 12 Dominic Fike - White Keys 13 Milky - Just the Way You Are 15 RAYE - WHERE IS MY HUSBAND! 16 Alex Warren - Ordinary 22 RAYE - I Know You're Hurting. (5,148) 23 HUNTR/X, EJAE, AUDREY NUNA, REI AMI & KPop Demon Hunters Cast - Golden 24 Madonna - Into the Groove 25 Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia 26 Ella Langley - Choosin’ Texas 28 Sean Paul feat. Keyshia Cole - (When You Gonna) Give It Up to Me 29 Olivia Dean - Nice to Each Other 30 Central Cee - WAGWAN (3,994) 32 sombr - 12 to 12 34 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die with a Smile 35 SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill 38 Bebe Rexha & Faithless - New Religion 39 Miley Cyrus - Younger You 40 Fleetwood Mac - Landslide ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Albums (Top 100) 01 RAYE - THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. (31,322) 02 Melanie Martinez - HADES (9,242) 03 Don Broco - Nightmare Tripping (7,478) 04 Robyn - Sexistential (6,373) 05 Tom Misch - Full Circle (6,058) 07 Queen - Queen II (5,559) 09 Scouting For Girls - These Are the Good Days (4,719) 11 Kanye West - BULLY (3,918) 12 Courtney Barnett - Creature of Habit 14 Twilight Sad - IT'S THE LONG GOODBYE 17 Slayyyter - WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA 21 Massive Wagons - Live at The Great Hall 22 Black Label Society - Engines of Demolition 26 Gorillaz - The Mountain 30 Fcukers - Ö 34 Elmiene - sounds for someone 35 Central Cee - ALL ROADS LEAD HOME 36 Pet Needs - ELBOWS OUT! THIS IS CAPITALISM 38 Flea - Honora

Can you do that again but plug my entry instead this time? 😃

Given his “GET THE OLD MAN OUT!” comment in the judging we can probably guess which way up it is. 😝

Stereophonics - slightly irritating track.

To me a ballad is all about the kind of instruments and production a song uses - not so much how quiet or slow it is.

Finally got round to doing this - I really like all the Top 12 but then there’s a big gap before #13 and down! 1 Coldplay - Viva La Vida 2 The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name 3 Duffy - Mercy 4 Estelle ft Kanye West - American Boy 5 Kings of Leon - Sex On Fire 6 Girls Aloud - The Promise 7 Dizzee Rascal, Calvin Harris & Chrome - Dance Wiv Me 8 Mint Royale - Singin' In The Rain 9 Ne-Yo - Closer 10 Madonna ft Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes 11 Leona Lewis - Run 12 Pink - So What 13 Take That - Greatest Day 14 Rihanna - Take A Bow 15 Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl 16 Basshunter - Now You're Gone 17 Beyoncé - If I Were A Boy 18 Kid Rock - All Summer Long 19 Alexandra Burke - Hallelujah 20 Leon Jackson - When You Believe 21 X Factor Finalists - Hero

Commiserations @danG and @Paddington James ! Sorry I wasn’t able to show The Corrs too much love here. I did really like them when I was young but my taste has become spicier over time. You’ve been a great presence in the competition though. Sorry to lose Nelly when she had so many great hits to come. Well done Dan for choosing someone who people wouldn’t normally associate with you!

Pleased to see David rising from the ashes!

Rob about to re-tie it

“Just Can’t Get Enough” has been a bit tainted in popular culture over the decades for me and I prefer the darker style that Depeche Mode went on to develop. “Here Comes The Rain Again” is stunning - one of The Eurythmics’ very best for sure.

“Sweet Dreams My LA Ex” is great, and Rachel had a really solid run of singles - more solid dare I say it than her original band’s.

“Swim” is quite nice - having heard it I’m now sorry it didn’t cause an upset!

This will be the 30th consecutive week of sales over 50k for “Man I Need”. Previous record was 22 I think.

I’d love both “Dracula” and “Babydoll” to make the Top 10, especially over some of the deadwood that is there.

“Click Clack Symphony” is the first thing I’ve heard from Raye since “Escapsim” that’s properly excited me, though I’ve enjoyed most of her stuff in between.

I’m enjoying these BTS songs more than I expected - good that they’re trying something different at least.