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1 Cheetah 2 Sebastian Ingrosso 3 Clean Bandit I was surprised that I quite liked the Clean Bandit track and didn’t enjoy the Faithless track.

Poor “Ordinary” could hit ACR and plummet all the way to #2.

Some of these I like more than when I listened for the weekly polls. “Blade Bird” for example didn’t really click first time round. Going for: Dog’s Dinner Blade Bird Emergence But there are half a dozen more I really enjoy - good list.

I went for Pete Tong as the more enjoyable listening experience, but I do take the point that Rita did more with it.

Went for Ellie though it’s far from great

At the time “Underneath Your Clothes” was my favourite by miles. I still do love it - I rarely enjoy soppy ballads but there’s something about Shakira’s touch that makes it special. But these days I’m falling slightly more for the manic charm of “Rockstar” with the hard hitting rap and some early Pharrell sung vocals. Sorry Viper - not feeling “My Friends Over You” at all. 9 N*E*R*D Rock Star I prefer the high octane Jason Nevins remix of this but the original is great too: a bracing and powerful rock hip hop track 8 Shakira Underneath Your Clothes I love this ballad: the endearing 2nd language lyrics, the way her voice breaks up in places and gentle instrumental touches 8 Dirty Vegas Ghosts They won't have any more Top 40s apart from a re-release of "Days Go By": this is another gorgeous atmospheric track 8 Linkin Park H! Vltg3/Pts.Of.Athrty Impressive that this 5th single reached the Top 10: like all of "Hybrid Theory" both these are marvellous rap metal songs 7 Vanessa Carlton A Thousand Miles Only Top 40 for this US singer songwriter: it may not be remarkable musically but this is a classic with an iconic piano riff 7 Darius Colourblind 931st#1: all the "Pop Idol" medalists now have #1s and this is the best of them: a soulful and lyrically imaginative number 7 Narcotic Thrust Safe From Harm 1st hit for this duo whose name is an anagram of one of theirs: I really enjoy the atmosphere and driving energy of this 6 Will Smith Featuring Tra-Knox Black Suits Comin' (Nod Ya Head) From the "Men In Black II" soundtrack: I prefer this to most of Will's hits with its slick rap and the way it builds to a frenzy 6 Doves Pounding The instruments definitely are pounding here: it's really good but doesn't have the magic of "There Goes The Fear" for me 6 McAlmont And Butler Falling 1st hit in 5 years for the duo, but their sound hasn't changed much: nothing amazing but lovely vocals and orchestration 5 Natalie Imbruglia Beauty On The Fire Her 7th hit but 1st to miss the Top 20: this has lovely warm production and lyrics but it somehow lacks a bit of oomph 5 Primal Scream Miss Lucifer Their 1st hit for a while with a very stark and intense, slightly demonic sounding electronic sound: I don't entirely love it 5 Michelle Branch All You Wanted This doesn't quite have the soaring chorus of "Everywhere" but it's another enjoyable bit of proto-Avril style rock pop 4 The Streets Weak Become Heroes Another Streets song that nails the urban poetry side and has a nice chilled atmosphere but otherwise doesn't grab me 4 P Diddy Featuring Usher And Loon I Need A Girl (Part One)/U Don't Have To Call I like the shimmering production on "I Need A Girl", but it is a little repetitive and "U Don't Have To Call" is quite boring 3 George Michael Shoot The Dog A song mocking the Blair-Bush relationship and sampling The Human League's "Love Action": it's sorely in need of a hook 3 S Club Juniors Automatic High Like the debut it has some nice retro pop production but melodically it's less strong and again they sound too young for it 2 Britney Spears Featuring Pharrell Williams Boys A 2nd vastly inferior appearance from Pharrell in this group: this has the bare production of "I'm A Slave 4 U" but it's dull 2 New Found Glory My Friends Over You They'll have 6 Top 75s but this is the only Top 40 for this US rock band: this seems and big standard example of its genre 2 Natural Put Your Arms Around Me Only hit for this US boyband: this seems like a Backstreet Boys imitation and pop has already moved on from that sound 2002 Week 33: #1426 17/08/2002 Coldplay In My Place 2 {2}-13-24-31-39-45-45-52-71-71->10 #1427 17/08/2002 Mad'house Like A Prayer 3 {3}-5-7-8-11-15-30-33-41-52-54->11 #1428 17/08/2002 Bowling For Soup Girl All The Bad Guys Want 8 {8}-19-22-28-30-42-63-70->8 #1429 17/08/2002 Cam'ron Featuring Juelz Santana Oh Boy 13 {13}-21-30-33-40-46-71->7 #1430 17/08/2002 ATC Around The World (La La La La La) 15 {15}-23-34-47->4 #1431 17/08/2002 Status Quo Jam Side Down 17 {17}-25-44->3 #1432 17/08/2002 Toploader Time Of My Life 18 {18}-33-51-71-74-66-72->7 #1433 17/08/2002 Royksopp Remind Me/So Easy 21 {21}-38-54->3 #1434 17/08/2002 Intenso Project Luv Da Sunshine 22 {22}-47->2 #1435 17/08/2002 Def Leppard Now 23 {23}-53->2 #1436 17/08/2002 Raven Maize Fascinated 37 {37}-59->2

Quite like all the second half. Went for Worakls - it’s subtle but very nice. Second Purple Disco Machine and third Sigma.

1 Lana 2 Artemas 3 Fontaines

That would be a good challenge - to find a rolling chart where “Mr Brightside” isn’t in the Top 40. I suspect you’d have to go back a few years.

Basshunter 1st for me - just utterly naff.

My Top 3 gone now. 😪 Seriously I love Robyn but “Be Mine” is not a classic.

5th: The Killers - Read My Mind 10/32 votes (31%) 6th: Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor 9/32 votes (28%) 7th: Andreas Johnson - Glorious 7/30 votes (23%) 8th: Bob Sinclar featuring Gary ‘Nesta’ Pine - Love Generation 10/29 votes (34%) 9th: Jamelia - See It In A Boy’s Eyes 11/33 votes (33%) 10th: Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You 8/32 votes (25%)

Jamieson’s time in the competition is complete. This became the second consecutive #4 hit for the garage producer in August 2003. The track features a vocalist called Xara, and does feel forgotten for a hit of its size with only around 0.5 million Spotify streams. 8th: Jaimeson - Complete 10/31 votes (32%) 9th: ATB - Killer 9/30 votes (30%) 10th: P Diddy featuring Christina Aguilera - Tell Me 19/28 votes (68%)

Including one of Bon Jovi’s best songs it was a stellar all new dance / pop / rock Top 3.

“Reach” is great in its way but “It Feels So Good” is a masterpiece!

Quarterly sounds great. I’d guess 80k for “Fortnight” in Q1. Yes! I was obviously overestimating it in the weeks straight after it left the chart. It’s at least above “Slow It Down” which I have on 192.5k so helpfully that places it quite narrowly this week.

Week 16: 1 1 Lola Young Messy 702,000 880,000 2 2 Rosé and Bruno Mars APT. 666,000 1,020,000 3 3 Gracie Abrams That's So True 600,000 1,030,000 4 4 Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Die With A Smile 553,000 1,190,000 5 8 Alex Warren Ordinary 468,000 6 6 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 455,000 900,000 7 5 Chrystal The Days 450,000 620,000 8 7 Billie Eilish Birds Of A Feather 423,000 1,640,000 9 9 Chappell Roan Good Luck, Babe! 415,000 1,620,000 10 10 Gigi Perez Sailor Song 407,000 1,000,000 11 11 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 405,000 2,190,000 12 12 Sabrina Carpenter Espresso 378,000 2,130,000 13 13 Sabrina Carpenter Taste 374,000 1,170,000 14 14 Teddy Swims Lose Control 370,000 2,200,000 15 15 Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us 342,000 960,000 16 16 Teddy Swims Bad Dreams 332,000 570,000 17 17 Teddy Swims The Door 328,000 1,000,000 18 18 Myles Smith Nice To Meet You 311,000 420,000 19 19 Shaboozey A Bar Song (Tipsy) 307,000 1,640,000 20 23 Tate McRae Sports Car 299,000 21 20 Hozier Too Sweet 297,000 1,770,000 22 22 Myles Smith Stargazing 296,000 1,310,000 23 21 Sabrina Carpenter Please Please Please 296,000 1,440,000 24 25 Lady Gaga Abracadabra 284,000 25 24 Noah Kahan Stick Season 283,000 2,800,000 26 26 Sabrina Carpenter Bed Chem 278,000 670,000 27 27 Kendrick Lamar & Sza Luther 266,000 360,000 28 28 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. Somedays 266,000 740,000 29 29 Gracie Abrams I Love You, I'm Sorry 260,000 740,000 30 30 Chappell Roan Hot To Go! 251,000 910,000 31 31 The Weeknd and Playboi Carti Timeless 248,000 470,000 32 34 Alex Warren Carry You Home 246,000 550,000 33 32 Sam Fender People Watching 239,000 340,000 34 33 Doechii Denial Is A River 239,000 240,000 35 35 Kendrick Lamar & Sza All The Stars 235,000 2,150,000 36 36 Billie Eilish Wildflower 232,000 750,000 37 37 The Killers Mr Brightside 228,000 6,290,000 38 38 Bl3ss & CamrinWatsin featuring BbyClose Kisses 221,000 880,000 39 43 Sabrina Carpenter Busy Woman 221,000 40 39 Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen I Had Some Help 220,000 1,130,000 46 55 Doechii Anxiety 194,000 59 65 Drake Nokia 168,000 62 73 Ravyn Lenae Love Me Not 162,000 71 82 Tate McRae Revolving Door 150,000 88 - Chappell Roan The Giver 137,000 Entered this week: The Giver The Scientist Left this week: Close To You Wonderwall

^ Yes I reckon “Fortnight” must have done roughly 100-110k so far this year.

24/4: 1 1 Ordinary (1) 2 2 Pink pony club (2) 3 5 Messy (1) 4 4 APT (2) 5 3 Azizam (3) 6 6 Anxiety (4) 7 7 That’s so true (1) 8 10 Sports car (8) 9 13 Show me love (9) 10 9 Beautiful things (1) 11 11 Busy woman (11) 12 8 Die with a smile (3) 13 12 The days (5) 14 14 Birds of a feather (3) 15 21 Taste (1) 16 19 Bad dreams (13) 17 20 Love me not (17) 18 23 Good luck, babe! (2) 19 24 Espresso (1) 20 28 Abracadabra (4) 21 15 The giver (2) 22 27 The door (13) 23 29 Nice to meet you (12) 24 17 Carry you home (17) 25 25 Lose control (2) 26 26 Sailor song (2) 27 18 Nokia (18) 28 30 A bar song (2) 29 31 Stargazing (6) 30 35 Mutt (30) 31 22 Twilight zone (9) 32 - Undressed (32) 33 33 Too sweet (1) 34 36 Please please please (1) 35 - Guess (1) 36 39 Bed chem (13) 37 38 Revolving door (17) 38 32 Somedays (10) 39 - Fortnight (1) 40 36 Stick season (1) 41 41 Mr Brightside (10) 42 - Steve’s lava chicken (42) 43 40 Sorry I’m here for someone else (40) 44 - Back to friends (44) 45 34 Not like us (1) 46 44 Austin (8) 47 42 Kisses (9) 48 46 I had some help (2) 49 47 Hot to go! (10) 50 - Say my name (50)

Week 16: 1 1 Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet 242,000 620,000 2 2 Sam Fender People Watching 154,000 3 3 Ed Sheeran +-=÷x (Tour Collection) 130,000 230,000 4 4 SZA SOS 113,000 600,000 5 5 Chappell Roan The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess 113,000 410,000 6 6 The Weeknd The Highlights 109,000 1,340,000 7 7 Central Cee Can't Rush Greatness 104,000 8 8 Elton John Diamonds 103,000 1,760,000 9 9 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop 101,000 1,570,000 10 10 Lady Gaga Mayhem 97,000 11 11 Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft 92,000 440,000 12 12 Charli XCX Brat 90,000 380,000 13 13 Tate McRae So Close To What 85,000 14 15 Noah Kahan Stick Season 85,000 560,000 15 14 Gracie Abrams The Secret Of Us 84,000 220,000 16 16 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits 78,000 5,980,000 17 23 Oasis Time Flies... 1994-2009 78,000 2,110,000 18 17 Michael Jackson The Essential 78,000 1,920,000 19 19 Arctic Monkeys AM 77,000 2,180,000 20 18 The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow 75,000 21 20 Kendrick Lamar GNX 75,000 130,000 22 21 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits 75,000 3,390,000 23 22 Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department 73,000 860,000 24 24 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 69,000 2,610,000 25 25 Olivia Rodrigo Guts 65,000 560,000 26 26 Linkin Park Papercuts 63,000 230,000 27 28 Olivia Rodrigo Sour 63,000 1,110,000 28 27 PartyNextDoor & Drake $ome $exy $ongs 4 U 62,000 29 29 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 2 60,000 30 31 Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine 59,000 240,000 31 30 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory 58,000 5,360,000 32 34 Calvin Harris 96 Months 54,000 130,000 33 33 Queen Greatest Hits 54,000 3,100,000 34 35 Benson Boone Fireworks & Rollerblades 54,000 180,000 35 32 Robbie Williams Better Man (OST) 53,000 36 36 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 1 52,000 210,000 37 37 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 51,000 380,000 38 39 Pitbull Greatest Hits 50,000 520,000 39 40 Fontaines D.C. Romance 49,000 170,000 40 41 Maroon 5 Singles 48,000 890,000 41 49 Alex Warren You'll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1) 47,000 70,000 97 - Elton John & Brandi Carlile Who Believes In Angels? 29,000 Elton & Brandi entered this week and “Harry’s House” re-entered. “Critical Thinking” by The Manics and “Seventeen Going Under” dropped out.

A tie 👔

I love the rolling chart idea - I used to try and do it in the download age but it took too much time. If you want to estimate it every month or quarter I’ll definitely read it! Interesting to see “Espresso” getting that #1 peak.

It was “All Of Me” for a while but “Wonderwall” overtook around 2021 so that Wiki is quite out of date oops.

In UK chart sales there’s a fair way to go: “Bad Guy” 3 million and “Birds Of A Feather” 1.6 million. But that’s after 6 years for the former and less than 1 for the latter.