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A strong Top 5. I’m now going for Good Charlotte: it’s catchy but the lyrics are a little silly.

A 6th place for Jordin has been tattooed into the archives. This was the 1st hit for the “American Idol” star and originally charted in April 2008. However it did not peak until much later in the year when it reached #24 following the success of “No Air”. 6th: Jordin Sparks - Tattoo 18/30 votes (60%) 7th: Pussycat Dolls - Hush Hush: Hush Hush 10/31 votes (32%) 8th: Ja Rule featuring Case - Livin’ It Up 13/33 votes (39%) 9th: Destiny’s Child featuring T.I. and Lil Wayne - Soldier 12/30 votes (40%) 10th: Sergio Mendes featuring The Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada 12/32 votes (32%)

The Killers for me: one of my very favourite songs from that period.

Don’t tell her, but Madonna has been resoundingly beaten, leaving the final we probably all expected. The 2nd single from “Music” reached #4 in December 2000. The country-dance style of the track drew comparisons with Sheryl Crow. 3rd: Madonna - Don’t Tell Me 20/31 votes (65%) 4th: Flip & Fill - Shooting Star 18/32 votes (56%) 5th: Alesha Dixon - The Boy Does Nothing 13/33 votes (39%) 6th: Sean Paul - Temperature 14/31 votes (45%) 7th: Feist - 1234 10/32 votes (31%) 8th: Cascada - What Hurts The Most 12/34 votes (35%) 9th: Nickelback - Someday 10/30 votes (33%) 10th: Westlife - What Makes A Man 21/33 votes (64%)

9th: Jamelia - See It In A Boy’s Eyes 11/33 votes (33%) 10th: Kelly Clarkson - Because Of You 8/32 votes (25%)

“Without Me” isn’t a big Eminem favourite for me, so again I’m looking further down the chart for the top highlights. 9 DJ Shadow You Can't Go Home Again Only his 2nd Top 40 and the 1st was in 1997: this is a really beautiful, calming and mesmerising instrumental dance track 8 Korn Here To Stay Their biggest hit to date and a reminder of how emotionally powerful this style of music can be when it isn't too shouty 8 The Electric Soft Parade Empty At The End The OCC have this as a double A side with "This Given Line": it's their last Top 40 and both great tracks in their usual style 7 Eminem Without Me 927th #1: the very strong lead single from "The Eminem Show" with the "guess who's back" riff that will become iconic 7 Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Spread Your Love Their 4th single and biggest so far: this has a really strong baseline and swirling guitars and could easily be from the '90s 6 Rhianna Oh Baby Only Top 40 for this English singer and it's a really pretty track: shame a Barbadian artist with a similar name will come along 6 Atomic Kitten It's OK! A 3rd Too 3 hit since they really became superstars: nothing groundbreaking but an enjoyable song and I like the violin lines 5 Ian Van Dahl Reason Their 3rd hit as each one peaks lower than the last: the usual high emotion dance that works well but has a limited shelf life 5 Westlife Bop Bop Baby This entering at #5 was a shock after 10 #1s and a #2: it's a decent upbeat track in a similar style to "World Of Our Own" 4 A Starbucks Quite a surprise that they followed up the heavy but great "Nothing" with this very poppy number: it's fine but not special 4 Ms Dynamite It Takes More 1st solo hit for this UK artist: really strong production but the melody isn't that interesting and the lyrics are a little tedious 3 Lauren Waterworth Baby, Now That I've Found You Only hit for this "Pop Idol" contestant signed by Pete Waterman: this '60s cover doesn't do much with the song but is sweet 2 The Saw Doctors This Is Me Only Top 40 this century for this Irish folk rock band: it's a very happy go lucky track that I don't really think goes anywhere 1 Billy Bragg And The Blokes Take Down The Union Jack Last Top 40 as lead for the protest singer and it's horrid: just a bunch of political tropes strung together over a guitar line 2002 Week 23: #1324 08/06/2002 Will Young Light My Fire 1 {1}-1-6-14-17-24-32-32-38-40-48-42-50-57-69-71-61R(2)-44-47-44->20 #1325 08/06/2002 Ant And Dec We're On The Ball 3 {3}-4-9-16-26-41-51-54-50-36-70->11 #1326 08/06/2002 DJ Otzi Hey Baby (Unofficial World Cup Remix) 10 {10}-19-27-42-73R(2)-67R(2)-75->7 08/06/2002 The Sex Pistols God Save The Queen {2002} 15 {15}-30-44->3 #1327 08/06/2002 Busta Rhymes/P Diddy/Pharrell Pass The Courvoisier - Part II 16 {16}-23-34-48-60-61-63-71R(95)->8 #1328 08/06/2002 Ozzy Osbourne Dreamer/Gets Me Through 18 {18}-20-29-40-45-59->6 #1329 08/06/2002 Bell And Spurling Goldenballs (Mr Beckham To You) 25 {25}-32-36-56->4 #1330 08/06/2002 The England Boys Go England 26 {26}-46-52->3 #1331 08/06/2002 Ferry Corsten Punk 29 {29}-51-66->3 #1332 08/06/2002 Reel You Take Me Away 31 {31}-55->2 #1333 08/06/2002 Orbital Rest And Play EP 33 {33}-59-74->3 #1334 08/06/2002 Dario G Carnaval 2002 34 {34}-50-71->3

Yes I think “Ordinary” is now looking hot favourite to be Year End #1.

Entered this week: Anxiety Nokia Revolving Door Love Me Not Greedy Left this week: La La La Popular I Remember Everything Labour Feel Good Inc

Week 14: 1 1 Lola Young Messy 632,000 810,000 2 2 Rosé and Bruno Mars APT. 595,000 950,000 3 3 Gracie Abrams That's So True 542,000 970,000 4 4 Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Die With A Smile 499,000 1,130,000 5 5 Chrystal The Days 399,000 560,000 6 9 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 378,000 820,000 7 6 Billie Eilish Birds Of A Feather 373,000 1,590,000 8 7 Chappell Roan Good Luck, Babe! 371,000 1,570,000 9 8 Gigi Perez Sailor Song 366,000 960,000 10 10 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 350,000 2,140,000 11 11 Sabrina Carpenter Espresso 334,000 2,090,000 12 13 Teddy Swims Lose Control 329,000 2,160,000 13 12 Sabrina Carpenter Taste 328,000 1,120,000 14 17 Alex Warren Ordinary 324,000 320,000 15 14 Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us 310,000 930,000 16 16 Teddy Swims Bad Dreams 287,000 530,000 17 15 Teddy Swims The Door 287,000 950,000 18 19 Myles Smith Nice To Meet You 270,000 380,000 19 18 Shaboozey A Bar Song (Tipsy) 270,000 1,610,000 20 20 Sabrina Carpenter Please Please Please 263,000 1,410,000 21 21 Hozier Too Sweet 262,000 1,730,000 22 22 Myles Smith Stargazing 259,000 1,270,000 23 23 Noah Kahan Stick Season 251,000 2,770,000 24 24 Sabrina Carpenter Bed Chem 246,000 640,000 25 28 Tate McRae Sports Car 243,000 240,000 26 27 Lady Gaga Abracadabra 242,000 240,000 27 25 Kendrick Lamar & Sza Luther 239,000 330,000 28 26 Gracie Abrams I Love You, I'm Sorry 236,000 720,000 29 29 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. Somedays 232,000 700,000 30 30 The Weeknd and Playboi Carti Timeless 225,000 450,000 31 31 Chappell Roan Hot To Go! 223,000 880,000 32 32 Doechii Denial Is A River 215,000 210,000 33 33 Sam Fender People Watching 214,000 320,000 34 35 Kendrick Lamar & Sza All The Stars 209,000 2,130,000 35 34 Billie Eilish Wildflower 209,000 720,000 36 39 Alex Warren Carry You Home 202,000 500,000 37 37 The Killers Mr Brightside 197,000 6,260,000 38 40 Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen I Had Some Help 192,000 1,100,000 39 38 Bl3ss & CamrinWatsin featuring BbyClose Kisses 192,000 850,000 40 36 Jimin Who 191,000 460,000 49 54 Sabrina Carpenter Busy Woman 167,000 55 56 Alex Warren Burning Down 153,000 57 58 Sabrina Carpenter Juno 149,000 390,000 68 - Doechii Anxiety 132,000 80 - Drake Nokia 126,000 94 - Tate McRae Revolving Door 117,000 95 - Ravyn Lenae Love Me Not 116,000

Totals fixed hopefully

10/4: My guess is that “Messy” just held off “Pink Pony Club” - however it was very close and PPC may in fact have climbed to #2 for the first time. 1 1 Ordinary (1) 2 2 Messy (1) 3 4 Pink pony club (3) 4 3 APT (2) 5 5 Anxiety (4) 6 6 That’s so true (1) 7 7 Die with a smile (3) 8 8 Beautiful things (1) 9 - Twilight zone (9) 10 11 Sports car (8) 11 10 The days (5) 12 12 Birds of a feather (3) 13 13 Busy woman (11) 14 9 The giver (2) 15 15 Lose control (2) 16 14 Good luck, babe! (2) 17 22 Carry you home (17) 18 18 Sailor song (2) 19 16 Espresso (1) 20 17 Taste (1) 21 25 Nokia (21) 22 21 Bad dreams (13) 23 19 Abracadabra (4) 24 24 The door (13) 25 20 Not like us (1) 26 23 Nice to meet you (12) 27 26 Show me love (26) 28 27 A bar song (2) 29 34 Love me not (29) 30 28 Stargazing (6) 31 31 Too sweet (1) 32 29 Please please please (1) 33 33 Stick season (1) 34 37 Somedays (10) 35 - Dandelion (35) 36 32 Revolving door (17) 37 30 Bed chem (13) 38 49 Mutt (38) 39 40 Burning down (39) 40 35 Dark thoughts (35) 41 - Intro (41) 42 43 Mr Brightside (10) 43 37 People watching (11) 44 45 Austin (8) 45 36 Luther (7) 46 41 Sorry I’m here for someone else (41) 47 42 Iris (3) 48 39 All the stars (5) 49 46 I had some help (2) 50 - Dreams (22)

Week 14: 1 1 Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet 211,000 580,000 2 2 Sam Fender People Watching 147,000 3 3 Ed Sheeran +-=÷x (Tour Collection) 113,000 220,000 4 4 SZA SOS 103,000 590,000 5 5 Chappell Roan The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess 102,000 400,000 6 6 Central Cee Can't Rush Greatness 98,000 7 7 The Weeknd The Highlights 97,000 1,330,000 8 8 Elton John Diamonds 92,000 1,750,000 9 9 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop 88,000 1,560,000 10 10 Lady Gaga Mayhem 85,000 11 11 Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft 83,000 430,000 12 12 Charli XCX Brat 80,000 370,000 13 13 Gracie Abrams The Secret Of Us 76,000 210,000 14 14 Noah Kahan Stick Season 75,000 550,000 15 15 Tate McRae So Close To What 75,000 16 16 The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow 71,000 17 17 Kendrick Lamar GNX 70,000 130,000 18 18 Michael Jackson The Essential 68,000 1,910,000 19 19 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits 68,000 5,970,000 20 20 Arctic Monkeys AM 67,000 2,170,000 21 21 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits 65,000 3,380,000 22 22 Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department 64,000 850,000 23 23 Oasis Time Flies... 1994-2009 63,000 2,100,000 24 24 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 60,000 2,600,000 25 25 Olivia Rodrigo Guts 57,000 550,000 26 26 Linkin Park Papercuts 55,000 230,000 27 27 PartyNextDoor & Drake $ome $exy $ongs 4 U 55,000 28 28 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 2 55,000 29 29 Olivia Rodrigo Sour 55,000 30 30 Robbie Williams Better Man (OST) 53,000 31 31 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory 51,000 5,360,000 32 32 Queen Greatest Hits 48,000 3,090,000 33 33 Taylor Swift Lover (Live From Paris) 48,000 50,000 34 34 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 1 47,000 200,000 35 35 Calvin Harris 96 Months 47,000 120,000 36 36 Benson Boone Fireworks & Rollerblades 47,000 170,000 37 37 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 44,000 380,000 38 38 Ariana Grande Eternal Sunshine 44,000 230,000 39 39 Fontaines D.C. Romance 44,000 160,000 40 40 Pitbull Greatest Hits 42,000 510,000 58 68 Alex Warren You'll Be Alright Kid (Chapter 1) 36,000 61 - Mumford & Sons Rushmere 36,000 65 74 Playboi Carti I Am Music 34,000 91 - The Darkness Dreams On Toast 28,000 Entered this week: Rushmere Dreams On Toast Left this week: Alligator Bites Never Heal Don’t Smile At Me

Alanis though it’s not her finest work.

I went for Pepsi & Shirley, maybe because I’m less familiar with the original.

Christina for this one!

5 new entries this week 😮

I think it has a good chance of holding.

I had a terrible start to the series and wasn’t even on the leaderboard at all until edition 5, so I’m chuffed to have turned it around and climbed into the Top 10. Also I like that my 2 best results have both been ‘60s tracks, The Electric Prunes and Nina Simone. They couldn’t be more different from each other and I think they’re the only ‘60s tracks that have been entered by anyone in the whole series, so hopefully that shows that old stuff can be varied and can do well!

I seem to be out of step with everyone else this week. 1 Tiësto (really like this a lot) 2 Skrillex 3 Tinlicker

Bicep DJ Heartstring Eats Everything

“Azizam” having fewer plays on its 3rd day than 2018 song “All The Stars” (2 months after the Super Bowl boost) is pretty wild. That doesn’t mean it won’t recover or be a big hit; it’s more a reflection of how things are in 2025.

It’s gotta be the Natasha-Killers showdown really.

Quite tough but I went for Robyn. Even though I did vote for it to win first time it was in quite a weak group and isn’t one of her best.

Shooting across the sky into oblivion are Flip & Fill. This was a cover of a 1998 happy hardcore song and their biggest hit, reaching #3 in July 2002. They had another 6 hits afterwards but none of them graced the Top 10. 4th: Flip & Fill - Shooting Star 18/32 votes (56%) 5th: Alesha Dixon - The Boy Does Nothing 13/33 votes (39%) 6th: Sean Paul - Temperature 14/31 votes (45%) 7th: Feist - 1234 10/32 votes (31%) 8th: Cascada - What Hurts The Most 12/34 votes (35%) 9th: Nickelback - Someday 10/30 votes (33%) 10th: Westlife - What Makes A Man 21/33 votes (64%)

Next to be silenced are the Pussycat Dolls with their last hit before their long hiatus until 2019. The single was remixed to have a more dance-like style and included an interpolation of Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive”. It had a 15 week download era Top 75 run, peaking at #17 in July 2009. 7th: Pussycat Dolls - Hush Hush: Hush Hush 10/31 votes (32%) 8th: Ja Rule featuring Case - Livin’ It Up 13/33 votes (39%) 9th: Destiny’s Child featuring T.I. and Lil Wayne - Soldier 12/30 votes (40%) 10th: Sergio Mendes featuring The Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada 12/32 votes (32%)