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    Is it wrong to be rooting for I Wanna Be Yours to make the year end top 100 already? Would be great if Tears For Fears made it this time too, as well as lots of new songs obviously.

    Not too optimistic about I Wanna Be Yours’ chances of making the YE Top 100 as the legacy Arctics tracks seem to be fading slightly as the new material hype wears off.

     

    Everybody Wants To Rule The World is looking very stable though.

    50 Laura Branigan - Self Control

    49 Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies

    48 David Gray - Babylon

    47 Blur - The Universal

    46 Will Young - Jealousy

    45 Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone

    44 Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky

    43 Katy B - Crying For No Reason

    42 Dua Lipa - Levitating

    41 Panjabi MC - Mundian To Bach Ke

    40 Warren G & Nate Dogg - Regulate

    39 Arctic Monkeys – Fluorescent Adolescent

    38 Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)

    37 The Monkees - Daydream Believer

    36 The Saturdays - Up

    35 Pink - Who Knew

    34 Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams

    33 En Vogue - Don't Let Go (Love)

    32 The Prodigy - Out Of Space

    31 Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love

    30 Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box

    29 Avril Lavigne - My Happy Ending

    28 Metallica - Enter Sandman

    27 Chase and Status featuring Liam Bailey - Blind Faith

    26 Jennifer Lopez - Waiting For Tonight

    25 Snow Patrol - Run

    24 Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf

    23 Madonna - You’ll See

    22 Kate Bush - Babooshka

    21 September - Cry For You

    20 The Bucketheads – The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind)

    19 Aaliyah – Try Again

    18 Blur - Girls & Boys

    17 Katy B - Katy On A Mission

    16 Cher - Strong Enough

    15 Nelly Furtado – I'm Like a Bird

    14 Blondie - Rapture

    13 Kelis - A Capella

    12 Daft Punk - Around The World

    11 Moby - Porcelain

    10 Girls Aloud - Sexy! No No No...

    9 Texas - Summer Son

    8 Britney Spears - (You Drive Me) Crazy

    7 The Kooks - Naive

    6 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

    5 New Radicals - You Get What You Give

    4 Tina Turner - The Best

    3 Lily Allen - Not Fair

    2 Whitney Houston - How Will I Know

    1 Kylie Minogue - Wow

    It's TEQUILA time! Also a double 9 today because Connie Francis' stonking rubbing her ex's face in it ballad also deserves. When you think of a female power ballad you might think of Mariah-esque vocal acrobatics, but Connie shows that you don't need any of that to get all the emotion across.

     

    9 The Champs Tequila TEQUILA!! - what a classic instrumental with its squawking sax over jingly percussion; somehow only made #5

    9 Connie Francis Who's Sorry Now 71st #1 and debut hit for Connie - what a fabulous voice which she lets rip on this fiercely bitter heartbreak ballad

    8 Jimmie Rodgers Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again He only had a few modest hits but really liking them all; this is catchy and heartfelt (interesting chart run incidentally)

    7 Buddy Holly Listen To Me A much smaller hit than the Crickets song here but prefer it - a really good tune that sounds quite Beatles-esque

    7 Moe Koffman Quartette Swingin' Shepherd Blues A really lovely instrumental with a wistful flute melody over a simple bass and percussion

    6 The Crickets Maybe Baby Lyrically quite basic but the track makes up for it with the percussive backing vocals and strumming

    6 Jackie Wilson To Be Loved Wow very different from "Reet Petite" - a romantic, slightly slushy ballad with a very impressive vocal performance

    5 Ted Heath And His Music Swingin' Shepherd Blues This version has the melody done on the oboe instead of the flute, and it's also nice but not as enchanting as the other

    5 Fats Domino The Big Beat A nice jolly little rock number, sung very nicely but all in all nothing to write home about

    4 Michael Holliday In Love "In lu-hu-huv" - another of those whistly mid tempo late 50s songs, but it's fairly pleasant

    4 Pat Boone A Wonderful Time Up There Oh gosh it's a very explicitly Christian rock song - it is a catchy melody and hence a big hit, and at least it's lively for Pat

    3 Malcolm Vaughan With The Michael Sammes Singers To Be Loved The usual stuff from Malcolm - what would be quite a gentle song done by most other artists given the crash bang wallop treatment

    2 Jackie Dennis La Dee Dah A very Scottish sounding 15 year old singing a repetitive melody and various nonsense lyrics; yep fairly irritating

    2 Pat Boone It's Too Soon To Know Normal service resumes with this Pat Boone hit - very nondescript dreary and non hummable ballad

     

     

     

    Next:

     

    12/04/1958 Jerry Lee Lewis Breathless 8 22-12-9-{8}-11-17-30->7

    12/04/1958 Ted Heath And His Music Tequila 21 29-28-{21}-22-28-21->6

    12/04/1958 Lonnie Donegan The Grand Coolie Dam 6 30-22-18-16-8-7-7-{6}-6-10-14-22-22-22-21->15

    19/04/1958 The Chordettes Lollipop 6 23-12-7-{6}-9-8-21-21->8

    19/04/1958 Ronnie Hilton With The Michael Sammes Singers I May Never Pass This Way Again 27 30-30R(2)-{27}R(5)->3

    26/04/1958 Tommy Steele Happy Guitar 20 {20}-25-22-22-26->5

    26/04/1958 Robert Earl I May Never Pass This Way Again 14 23-17-17-15-{14}-15-24-17-20-16-20-24-27->13

    26/04/1958 Chuck Berry Sweet Little Sixteen 16 28-26-{16}-18-20->5

    26/04/1958 Elias And His Zig-Zag Jive Flutes Tom Hark 2 30-12-7-6-{2}-2-2-2-3-6-9-11-20-30->14

    03/05/1958 The Mudlarks Lollipop 2 11-10-4-4-{2}-5-8-10-20->9

    03/05/1958 Elvis Presley Wear My Ring Around Your Neck 3 13-4-5-{3}-4-11-13-21-23-28->10

    03/05/1958 Max Bygraves Tulips From Amsterdam/You Need Hands 3 28-29-13-11-10-7-6-5-8-{3}-4-3-3-4-6-5-6-5-14-13-13-16-19-26-27->25

    10/05/1958 Perry Como Kewpie Doll 9 25-16-10-{9}-13-14-23->7

    10/05/1958 Frankie Vaughan Kewpie Doll 10 26-19-12-13-{10}-10-11-13-14-16-22-26->12

     

    Pre 2021 releases in the 41-100 zone:

     

    Someone you loved

    Die for you

    Go

    Save your tears

    Heat waves

    Running up that hill

    Seventeen going under

    Sweater weather

    Viva la vida

    Mockingbird

    Blinding lights

    The colour violet

    Bloody Mary

    Cold heart

    Riptide

    Remember

    Easy on me

    Perfect

    Everybody wants to rule the world

    Shut up my moms calling

    Iris

    Starboy

    Do I wanna know?

    Everywhere

    Shallow

    505

    Stay

    Baby shark

    I wanna be yours

    Wonderwall

    When I was your man

    Yellow

     

    Left the Top 100 during February:

    About you

    Ferrari

    Romantic homicide

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    Edited by JulianT

    YTD singles for first 9 weeks of the year (haven’t seen an albums update yet):

     

    1 1 595,000 Miley Cyrus - Flowers

    2 2 451,000 Raye featuring 070 Shake - Escapism (680k)

    3 3 361,000 SZA - Kill Bill (440k)

    4 4 290,000 Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (770k)

    5 5 248,000 Venbee & Goddard - Messy In Heaven (580k)

    6 6 246,000 Sam Smith featuring Kim Petras - Unholy (870k)

    7 9 239,000 Miguel - Sure Thing (710k)

    8 7 238,000 Rema - Calm Down (590k)

    9 8 230,000 David Guetta & Bebe Rexha - I’m Good (Blue) (900k)

    10 16 223,000 PinkPantheress - Boy’s A Liar

     

    11 11 212,000 Metro Boomin’, The Weeknd & 21 Savage - Creepin’ (300k)

    12 10 212,000 Central Cee - Let Go (270k)

    13 15 203,000 Harry Styles - As It Was (1.77m)

    14 13 202,000 Meghan Trainor - Made You Look (470k)

    15 14 201,000 Oliver Tree & Robin Schulz - Miss You (540k)

    16 12 200,000 Lewis Capaldi - Pointless (270k)

    17 17 176,000 Lewis Capaldi - Forget Me (730k)

    18 19 174,000 Tiesto & Tate McRae - 10:35

    19 18 170,000 Tom Odell - Another Love (2.34m)

    20 20 160,000 OneRepublic - I Ain’t Worried (890k)

     

    21 21 156,000 Bugzy Malone & TeeDee - Out Of Nowhere (280k)

    22 23 152,000 Beyoncé - Cuff It (560k)

    23 22 150,000 Eliza Rose & Interplanetary Criminal - B.O.T.A. (Baddest Of Them All) (840k)

    24 24 143,000 Anne Marie & Aitch - Psycho (510k)

    25 26 141,000 Coi Leray - Players

    26 25 141,000 George Ezra - Green Green Grass (920k)

    27 27 130,000 Chris Brown - Under The Influence (720k)

    28 32 130,000 Libianca - People

    29 29 129,000 Cian Ducrot - I’ll Be Waiting

    30 28 126,000 LF System - Afraid To Frel (1.10m)

     

    31 30 124,000 JVKE - Golden Hour (240k)

    32 31 124,000 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits (3.02m)

    33 34 121,000 Stormzy - Hide & Seek (390k)

    34 35 121,000 Ed Sheeran - Shivers (2.07m)

    35 33 121,000 Joel Corry & Tom Grennan - Lionheart (Fearless) (240k)

    36 36 119,000 Stephen Sanchez - Until I Found You

    37 39 114,000 Mimi Webb - Red Flags

    38 38 112,000 Steve Lacy - Bad Habit (590k)

    39 37 112,000 Drake & 21 Savage - Rich Flex (340k)

    40 40 109,000 The Killers - Mr Brightside (4.74m)

     

    Bonus:

    44 101,000 Lizzy McAlpine - Ceilings

    56 90,000 P!nk - Never Gonna Not Dance Again

    63 85,000 Lil Uzi Vert - Just Wanna Rock

     

    74 81,000 Strandz - Us Against The World

    77 80,000 D4VD - Here With Me

    100 73,000 SZA - Snooze

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    Edited by JulianT

    Week ending 9/3:

     

    1 1 Flowers (1)

    2 2 Boy’s a liar (2) YTD10

    3 3 Kill bill (3)

    4 4 Escapism (1)

    5 - Die for you (5) YTD42

    6 5 Sure thing (4) YTD7

    7 6 Anti-hero (1)

    8 7 Calm down (6)

    9 15 Ceilings (9) YTD44

    10 9 Messy in heaven (4)

    11 10 As it was (1)

    12 12 Players (8) YTD25

    13 8 Unholy (1)

    14 13 I’m good (1)

    15 11 Creepin’ (8)

    16 14 10:35 (12) YTD18

    17 20 People (17) YTD28

    18 18 Us against the world (18) YTD74

    19 22 Trustfall (19)

    20 17 Green green grass (4)

    21 31 Heaven (21)

    22 16 Let go (6)

    23 19 Miss you (3)

    24 23 Forget me (1)

    25 21 Made you look (3)

    26 25 Red flags (22) YTD37

    27 26 Another love (10)

    28 24 Cuff it (6)

    29 27 I’ll be waiting (25)

    30 28 I ain’t worried (4)

    31 32 Under the influence (8)

    32 34 Until I found you (25)

    33 43 If we ever broke up (33)

    34 30 BOTA (1)

    35 29 Pointless (1)

    36 33 Bad habits (1)

    37 38 Golden hour (30)

    38 35 Shivers (1)

    39 44 Someone you loved (1)

    40 49 Hide & seek (8)

    41 36 Never gonna not dance again (36) YTD56

    42 42 Mr Brightside (10)

    43 50 Save your tears (3) YTD49

    44 40 Afraid to feel (1)

    45 39 Out of nowhere (12)

    46 37 Psycho (6)

    47 47 Go (3)

    48 46 Lionheart (25)

    49 41 Lavender haze (2)

    50 48 Viva la vida (1)

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    Edited by JulianT

    First 4 singles on this are all brill - Groovejet, Take Me Home, Murder On The Dancefloor and Get Over You :heart:

     

    Pretty much all the singles I know that she released after that are meh for me oops! But I’d be happy to give the full album a listen.

    It's a battle between Elvis and Perry again today and sorry John but I'm giving the win to Mr Comatose. Apparently "Magic Moments" was originally the B side to "Catch A Falling Star" so clearly given the former became his biggest ever hit it was a good idea to separate them. "Catch A Falling Star" is actually the lovelier song though for me and just shades "Don't" which is also a great ballad.

     

    8 Perry Como Catch A Falling Star Has really grown on me - it has a gently mesmerising quality and really like the interplay with the backing chorus and harmonies

    8 Elvis Presley Don't Another very lovely stripped down emotion filled ballad that really showcases Elvis at his best

    7 Little Richard Good Golly, Miss Molly It's really good and has all the usual Little Richard ingredients but nothing that we haven't heard before

    7 Bobby Helms No Other Baby Particularly like the guitar accompanment and the bursts of violin between the lines; all in all a very sweet ballad and well sung

    7 Louis Prima Buona Sera Italian themed songs seemed to come back into fashion this year and this one from this Sicilian American is very catchy

    6 George Hamilton IV Why Don't They Understand Didn't like this at first but there's something warm and hypnotic about the guitar accompaniment and the soft vocals

    6 Marvin Rainwater Whole Lotta Woman 70th #1: can you feel the oozing masculinity on this: a bit basic in sentiment but a strong track with nice guitars and piano

    6 Ricky Nelson Stood Up #2 in America where he was a teen idol, and a catchy rock 'n' roll song with a nice clapped rhythm

    5 Frankie Vaughan Can't Get Along Without You/We Are Not Alone Both sides of this are quite jolly and fairly decent singalong style mid tempo numbers and Frankie sells them well

    5 Petula Clark Baby Lover "Oh oh oh oh oh oh" - Petula doing her best seal impression, but it's quite a nice catchy number

    4 Tommy Steele Nairobi A big hit for Tommy and it's not bad but can't help finding it slightly irritating, especially the backing vocals

    4 Ronnie Hilton Magic Moments I'm losing patience with these pointless covers that add nothing: this is broadly the same record as Perry's done with less charisma

    3 Jim Dale Sugartime I've definitely had enough doses of this sugary sweet number now, but the arrangement is quite fun

    3 Tony Brent The Clouds Will Soon Roll By Despite music having moved on a long way we still seem to have barely a day without a dirge of a ballad, and this is today's

     

     

    #734 15/03/1958 Buddy Holly Listen To Me 16 {16}-30->2

    #735 15/03/1958 Michael Holliday In Love 26 {26}-29-30->3

    #736 15/03/1958 Jackie Wilson To Be Loved 23 27-29R(2)-24-27-29-26-{23}-23R(2)->8

    #737 15/03/1958 The Crickets Maybe Baby 4 28-15-9-5-5-{4}-10-10-15-26->10

    #738 15/03/1958 Jackie Dennis La Dee Dah 4 30-21-8-7-{4}-8-11-19-18->9

    #739 15/03/1958 Ted Heath And His Music Swingin' Shepherd Blues 3 30-21-18-10-6-{3}-3-3-5-8-13-19-28-29->1

    #740 22/03/1958 Malcolm Vaughan With The Michael Sammes Singers To Be Loved 14 24-25-17-17-17-{14}-15-14-14-20-24-25->12

    #741 29/03/1958 Jimmie Rodgers Oh-Oh, I'm Falling In Love Again 18 21-20-19-{18}-19-20->6

    #742 29/03/1958 Moe Koffman Quartette Swingin' Shepherd Blues 23 {23}-29->2

    #743 29/03/1958 Fats Domino The Big Beat 20 28-25-{20}-24->4

    #744 05/04/1958 The Champs Tequila 5 10-9-6-{5}-6-9-11-25-30->9

    #745 05/04/1958 Pat Boone A Wonderful Time Up There 2 16-16-7-4-5-3-{2}-4-5-4-7-9-11-15-21-28-24->17

    #746 05/04/1958 Connie Francis Who's Sorry Now 1 22-10-9-6-2-2-{1}-1-1-1-1-1-3-4-6-7-10-10-15-12-17-22-21-21-29->25

    #747 12/04/1958 Pat Boone It's Too Soon To Know 7 13-10-{7}-13-13-10-23-20-20-26-26-26->12

     

     

    +5 Escapism

    +4 Calm down

    +3 Sure Thing

    +2 Flowers

    +1 Messy In Heaven

     

    -1 Boy's A Liar

    -2 As It Was

    -3 Anti-hero

    -4 Kill Bill

    -5 Creepin'

     

    *******

     

    +5 Escapism

    +4 Calm Down

    +3 Ceilings

    +2 Sure Thing

    +1 Flowers

     

    -1 Boy's A Liar

    -2 10:35

    -3 As It Was

    -4 Kill Bill

    -5 Players

     

    There's really nothing in either Top 10 I dislike - both very strong

    Also just my opinion but I don't think they should have set out saying it HAS to be a female artist, if indeed that's what they did. You don't get your talent search off to a good start by narrowing it from the get go. They need to find the best act and song for Eurovision in 2023, which might well be a solo female but it might not - it could be a group even.

    Do they get feedback from focus groups before they make the decision? I realise that having a selection show hasn’t always worked because the public at home will just choose someone they already know like Andy Abraham or some cute guys like Joe & Jake (who I keep calling JK & Joel by mistake :lol: ). I think having a pre contest only works if it becomes a proper cultural institution, which you can’t create overnight.

     

    However the decision definitely does need to have some proper input from the public - and not just Eurovision superfans but also casual viewers who’ll be televoting.