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Ejected in 3rd with a not so natural 48.38709677% of the vote are S Club 7. This was a cover of a French song: “Tous Les Maux D’amour” by Norma Ray. Both tracks sample the classical piece “Pavane” by Gabriel Fauré. This reached #3 in September 2000, incredibly making it the 2nd lowest peaking of S Club’s 11 hits. 3rd: S Club 7 - Natural 15/31 votes (48%) 4th: Kanye West - Heartless 14/27 votes (52%) 5th: The White Stripes - Icky Thump 9/31 votes (29%) 6th: Paris Hilton - Stars Are Blind 10/31 votes (32%) 7th: Ian Van Dahl - Reason 8/30 votes (27%) 8th: Friday Hill - Baby Goodbye 14/31 votes (45%) 9th: Stuntmasterz - The Ladyboy Is Mine 14/30 votes (47%) 10th: Ronan Keating & LeAnn Rimes - Last Thing On My Mind 13/35 votes (37%)

Going for Gorillaz: it’s fab but not quite at the very top of their discography.

6th: Blink 182 - I Miss You 10/31 votes (32%) 7th: Sugababes - Stronger / Angels With Dirty Faces 10/31 votes (32%) 8th: Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People 8/34 votes (24%) 9th: Robbie Williams - Supreme 14/33 votes (42%) 10th: Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit 14/32 votes (44%)

That’s a very Buzzjack position for such a huge classic of its genre as “21 Seconds”: should be Top 10 in my view. “Too Close” is a meh cover as others have said.

The competition isn’t that weak this week - “Golden” did 42k chart sales last week and will likely be increasing into the high 40s. So the 42k opening for “The Giver” probably wouldn’t be enough. However the 2nd Spotify day for “The Subway” is nearly 30% higher than that for “The Giver”. To me that isn’t similar.

I think that’s a sort of positive? “The Subway” dropped less than “The Giver” despite starting from a higher point. Anyway Day 1 was bound to be a bit of an outlier: it’s all about how it holds from now.

We’re back here after 9 months! We’ll see how 1972 pans out but this is in fact an excellent 1st group where most of the top half with quite a lot of songs that are classics of their genre. 9 Don McLean American Pie 1st hit for this US artist and a fabulous 8 minute folk crossover hit with wonderful storytelling and captivating lyrics 9 Al Green Let's Stay Together His 1st hit was oddly bigger than this follow up here, but this was a US #1 and it's a magical, beautifully delivered soul song 8 T.Rex Telegram Sam 309th #1: their 5th straight Top 2, very much in the "Get It On" style but also excellent with its own intriguing poetic story 8 Sly And The Family Stone Family Affair A US #1 and a pioneering funk soul record with electronica gently bubbling alongside Sly's deep and rich mournful vocals 8 Shirley Bassey Diamonds Are Forever From the Bond film of the same name, this is great and Shirley excels with this kind of high drama show tune style track 7 Chicory Tip Son Of My Father 310th#1: 1st hit for this UK band with a track originally in German; the 1st #1 to use a synthesiser and a lovely vibrant song 7 The Chi-Lites Have You Seen Her 1st big hit for them and a soul classic: the sung parts and harmonies are gorgeous and the hopeless spoken part works well 6 Barry Ryan Can't Let You Go His last hit: a bouncy piano led number with a strong tune very well delivered, and an enjoyable saxophone interlude 6 Stevie Wonder If You Really Love Me An interesting track with a slowed down verse and upbeat chorus: not his best but Stevie brings a lot of character to it 6 Sonny And Cher All I Ever Need Is You Their last hit as a duo with a Ray Charles song: a very sweet version of this ballad though it's clear who has the star quality 5 Greyhound Moon River A nice cover here that I much prefer to "Black And White": a more upbeat soul style take on the song with sweet harmonies 5 Bread Baby I'm A-Want You Another hit in their easy listening style with a falsetto heavy chorus: it's fine but sounds rather like a Bee Gees throwaway 4 Donnie Elbert Where Did Our Love Go 1st hit for this US soul singer: it's a fairly inessential cover although I do like the performance and his falsetto is strong 3 Martha Reeves And The Vandellas Bless You Last hit for Martha and group in a Jackson 5 style: they give it a soulful performance but the song isn't strong enough 3 The Pioneers Give And Take Their last Top 40: there's nothing unpleasant about this happy go lucky song about compromise but it's pretty forgettable 1972 Group 2: #3889 29/01/1972 The Fortunes Storm In A Teacup 7 35-23-16-9-{7}-8-11-14-22-30-44->11 #3890 29/01/1972 Bee Gees My World 16 38-26-20-17-{16}-16-20-29-38->9 #3891 29/01/1972 Badfinger Day After Day 10 45-28-17-13-{10}-10-13-16-23-49-50->11 #3892 05/02/1972 Slade Look Wot You Dun 4 25-9-{4}-4-4-8-13-18-28-38->10 #3893 05/02/1972 The Sweet Poppa Joe 11 46-30-26-14-{11}-12-12-17-22-28-38-41->12 #3894 05/02/1972 The Temptations Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are) 32 47-36-{32}-38-46->5 #3895 05/02/1972 Holly Sherwood Day By Day (Godspell Medley) 29 48-31-{29}-29-30-34-39->7 #3896 05/02/1972 Jonathan King Flirt 22 49-37-34-30-26-{22}-23-27-46->9 #3897 05/02/1972 Nilsson Without You 1 50-27-16-5-3-{1}-1-1-1-1-2-2-3-10-15-26-30-36-49-41->20 #3898 12/02/1972 Michael Jackson Got To Be There 5 39-22-8-{5}-6-7-8-10-22-27-33->11 #3899 12/02/1972 Colin Blunstone Say You Don't Mind 15 47-31-28-17-17-{15}-30-36-46->9 #3900 12/02/1972 Jimi Hendrix Johnny B. Goode 35 50-39-{35}-42-45->5 #3901 19/02/1972 Paul Simon Mother And Child Reunion 5 28-17-7-7-{5}-6-8-14-22-30-48-46->12 #3902 19/02/1972 Peter Straker And The Hands Of Dr Teleny The Spirit Is Willing 40 41-43-{40}-48->4 #3903 19/02/1972 Les Crane Desiderata 7 49-50-37-23-20-9-{7}-9-9-12-19-30-37-44->14

“Eternal Flame” does nothing for me and might be my 2nd bottom ahead of “Queen Of My Heart”: they’d also be near the top though…

Yes “If You Come Back” is not a patch on “All Rise” but very nice: would be a fair bit higher for me and above their other one.

I can see it opening lower than “The Giver” but being much more stable. I’m not sure Day 1 will even matter much.

I’d put “The Way To Your Love” above their other to come but they’re both pretty basic.

5 Blessings 4 Your Idol 3 Which One 2 Golden 1 Daisies -1 Dior -2 Ordinary -3 No broke boys -4 Manchild -5 Sapphire “Blessings” is very much a default +5 - hopefully there’ll be something I love here again soon!

I guess there’s a chance a couple of these could have declined by less than the market. “Don’t Look Back In Anger” for example must have had similar sales to last week.

“Which One” is pretty good really.

Maybe its 18th and last week as the Old Rules #1? With a run disturbingly similar to “I Believe” from 1953.

I think the #1s have almost been a perfect downhill trend except that “Wish You The Best” is better than “Pointless”.

There’s strong competition in “Pointless”, but I actually think “Survive” is Lewis’s worst hit yet. Nails on a chalkboard.

Nice that “Paranoid” held a Top 20 place.

Great result for “Crazy Train”! 🚂

“12 to 12” is great. Good that it’s giving “Back To Friends” a bit of a bounce too. “d3alar” doesn’t sound as good as “Messy or “One Thing” to me but maybe it will grow.

“Jump” is a banger - shame it’s on its way out quite quickly.

Great to see the 3 best songs here all winning by miles - “Don’t Look Back In Anger”, “Satisfaction” and “Paint It, Black”. Agree Group 3 is quite meh all round - interesting to see such an even 4 way split.

“Mambo No 5” is the best out so far - it’s only about a 4/10 for me but it had a charm to it and was different from the original. “Queen Of My Heart” is just dreadful. “Something’ Stupid” is pretty poor really - the original has the slight creepiness of being a father daughter duet but otherwise has a vibrancy that this lacks.

Pleased that Chappell has come back with something actually good.

7th: Sugababes - Stronger / Angels With Dirty Faces 10/31 votes (32%) 8th: Empire Of The Sun - We Are The People 8/34 votes (24%) 9th: Robbie Williams - Supreme 14/33 votes (42%) 10th: Wu-Tang Clan - Gravel Pit 14/32 votes (44%)