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Also “Father And Son” - I do really like the storytellling in the Cat Stevens original, but why Ronan had to butcher it twice I’m not sure.

“When You Believe” was the “X Factor” winner’s single for Leon Jackson in 2007. Although its sales were much lower than Leona’s the previous year, it did enough to be the 2007 year end #4 and the 2007 year end #108. I think it might be the first song to finish 10th in 2 survivors! 10th: Leon Jackson - When You Believe 12/35 votes (34%)

As I said in another thread there’s now a chance “Apt.” could next week become the first ever song to be denied #1 entirely by ACR. (I realise that was the case for Mariah temporarily.)

25 Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit 24 R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts 23 Roy Orbison - I Drove All Night 22 The Doors - Light My Fire 21 Elton John - Your Song 20 The Cure - The Love Cats 19 Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) 18 Yello - The Race 17 Klaxons - Golden Skans 16 Tori Amos - Pretty Good Year 15 Ram Jam - Black Betty 14 The Bravery - An Honest Mistake 13 U2 - One 12 Green Day - Basket Case 11 Suede - Animal Nitrate 10 Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control 9 The Supremes - Stop! In The Name Of Love 8 Pulp - Disco 2000 7 Bloc Party - Two More Years 6 Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better 5 Dolly Parton - Jolene 4 Garbage - Why Do You Love Me 3 The Ones - Flawless 2 Siouxsie and The Banshees - Hong Kong Garden 1 Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling

#62, so must already have been just outside last week as we thought.

Entered this week: Kendrick Lamar & Sza - All The Stars Tate McRae - Sports Car Lady Gaga - Abracadabra Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way Left this week: Artemas - I Like The Way You Kiss Me KSI featuring Triple Redd - Thick Of It Djo - End Of Beginning Florence And The Machine - You’ve Got The Love

Entered this week: Taylor Swift - Lover (Live From Paris) Inhaler - Open Wide Left this week: Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under Franz Ferdinand - The Human Fear

Week 7: 1 1 Lola Young Messy 343,000 520,000 2 2 Rosé and Bruno Mars APT. 322,000 680,000 3 3 Gracie Abrams That's So True 312,000 750,000 4 4 Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars Die With A Smile 272,000 900,000 5 6 Chrystal The Days 211,000 380,000 6 5 Gigi Perez Sailor Song 211,000 810,000 7 7 Billie Eilish Birds Of A Feather 198,000 1,420,000 8 8 Chappell Roan Good Luck, Babe! 195,000 1,400,000 9 9 Sabrina Carpenter Espresso 171,000 1,920,000 10 10 Sabrina Carpenter Taste 168,000 960,000 11 11 Teddy Swims Lose Control 167,000 2,000,000 12 12 Benson Boone Beautiful Things 159,000 1,950,000 13 13 Teddy Swims The Door 147,000 820,000 14 14 Hozier Too Sweet 143,000 1,610,000 15 15 Teddy Swims Bad Dreams 142,000 380,000 16 16 Shaboozey A Bar Song (Tipsy) 139,000 1,470,000 17 17 Noah Kahan Stick Season 136,000 2,660,000 18 18 Myles Smith Stargazing 135,000 1,150,000 19 21 The Weeknd and Playboi Carti Timeless 132,000 360,000 20 19 Gracie Abrams I Love You, I'm Sorry 131,000 610,000 21 22 Jimin Who 130,000 400,000 22 20 Myles Smith Nice To Meet You 130,000 250,000 23 31 Chappell Roan Pink Pony Club 121,000 550,000 24 23 Sonny Fodera, Jazzy & D.O.D. Somedays 121,000 590,000 25 26 Sabrina Carpenter Please Please Please 119,000 1,260,000 26 27 Chappell Roan Hot To Go! 119,000 780,000 27 25 Sabrina Carpenter Bed Chem 119,000 510,000 28 24 Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande Defying Gravity 118,000 240,000 29 28 Billie Eilish Wildflower 112,000 630,000 30 29 Bl3ss & CamrinWatsin featuring BbyClose Kisses 103,000 760,000 31 33 Pawsa and The Adventures Of Stevie V Dirty Cash (Money Talks) 100,000 32 74 Kendrick Lamar Not Like Us 100,000 720,000 33 30 Post Malone featuring Morgan Wallen I Had Some Help 99,000 1,010,000 34 32 The Killers Mr Brightside 98,000 6,160,000 35 34 Sam Fender People Watching 96,000 36 40 Kendrick Lamar & Sza Luther 95,000 37 35 Dasha Austin 94,000 1,240,000 38 44 Doechii Denial Is A River 94,000 39 38 Benson Boone Slow It Down 88,000 770,000 40 37 Alex Warren Carry You Home 88,000 370,000 49 62 Kendrick Lamar TV Off 78,000 58 60 Imogen Heap Headlock 72,000 64 - Tate McRae Sports Car 69,000 70 - Lady Gaga Abracadabra 66,000 72 96 Central Cee & Dave CRG 65,000 73 78 Alex Warren Burning Down 65,000 75 79 Chappell Roan Red Wine Supernova 65,000 490,000

Week 7: 1 1 Sabrina Carpenter Short n' Sweet 71,000 440,000 2 2 Central Cee Can't Rush Greatness 65,000 3 3 Ed Sheeran +-=÷x (Tour Collection) 60,000 160,000 4 5 Sza SOS 57,000 540,000 5 7 Chappell Roan The Rise And Fall Of A Midwest Princess 53,000 350,000 6 6 Elton John Diamonds 52,000 1,710,000 7 8 The Weeknd The Highlights 50,000 1,280,000 8 4 Robbie Williams Better Man (OST) 49,000 9 - Taylor Swift Lover (Live From Paris) 47,000 10 9 Billie Eilish Hit Me Hard And Soft 44,000 390,000 11 10 The Weeknd Hurry Up Tomorrow 44,000 12 11 Charli XCX Brat 41,000 330,000 13 12 Fleetwood Mac 50 Years: Don't Stop 41,000 1,510,000 14 13 Gracie Abrams The Secret Of Us 40,000 180,000 15 14 Noah Kahan Stick Season 38,000 510,000 16 15 Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department 37,000 820,000 17 27 Kendrick Lamar GNX 37,000 90,000 18 16 Arctic Monkeys AM 35,000 2,130,000 19 17 Eminem Curtain Call: The Hits 34,000 3,350,000 20 18 ABBA Gold: Greatest Hits 32,000 6,910,000 21 19 Michael Jackson The Essential 32,000 1,870,000 22 20 Oasis Time Flies... 1994-2009 30,000 2,060,000 23 21 Fleetwood Mac Rumours 29,000 2,570,000 24 22 Olivia Rodrigo Guts 29,000 520,000 25 23 Olivia Rodrigo Sour 28,000 26 24 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 2 28,000 27 25 Linkin Park Papercuts 27,000 200,000 28 28 Oasis (What's The Story) Morning Glory 26,000 5,330,000 29 26 Fontaines D.C. Romance 26,000 140,000 30 29 Queen Greatest Hits (Queen) 24,000 3,070,000 31 30 Teddy Swims I've Tried Everything But Therapy, Part 1 23,000 180,000 32 32 Calvin Harris 96 Months 23,000 90,000 33 31 Taylor Swift Folklore 23,000 860,000 34 38 Benson Boone Fireworks & Rollerblades 22,000 140,000 35 34 CoCoMelon Nursery Rhymes By CoComelon 22,000 250,000 36 35 Eminem Curtain Call 2 22,000 400,000 37 33 George Michael Twenty Five 22,000 1,770,000 38 37 Post Malone The Diamond Collection 21,000 350,000 39 36 Taylor Swift Lover 21,000 900,000 40 39 Maroon 5 Singles 21,000 860,000 48 - Inhaler Open Wide 20,000

20/2: 1 1 Messy (1) 2 2 APT (2) 3 40 Not like us (3) 4 11 Abracadabra (4) 5 4 That’s so true (1) 6 3 Die with a smile (3) 7 21 Pink pony club (7) 8 8 Good luck, babe! (2) 9 5 The days (5) 10 6 Birds of a feather (3) 11 9 Beautiful things (1) 12 - Ordinary (12) 13 7 Sailor song (2) 14 13 Espresso (1) 15 26 Denial is a river (15) 16 - Luther (10) 17 10 Lose control (2) 18 14 Taste (1) 19 - All the stars (5) 20 16 Sports car (9) 21 - Born again (21) 22 - TV off (11) 23 18 Bad dreams (13) 24 30 Wildflower (17) 25 36 Who (6) 26 12 Timeless (8) 27 17 The door (13) 28 20 A bar song (2) 29 22 Too sweet (1) 30 34 Hot to go (10) 31 15 Cry for me (15) 32 24 Stick season (1) 33 23 Stargazing (6) 34 28 Nice to meet you (12) 35 29 I love you, I’m sorry (7) 36 34 Please please please (1) 37 48 Guess (1) 38 27 Somedays (10) 39 19 CRG (7) 40 33 Bed chem (13) 41 31 Dirty cash (31) 42 - Slow it down (19) 43 50 Carry you home (37) 44 25 GBP (8) 45 38 Kisses (9) 46 42 I had some help (2) 47 45 Iris (3) 48 41 Mr Brightside (10) 49 43 People watching (11) 50 39 Defying gravity (14)

5 Apt. 4 Not Like Us 3 Messy 2 Pink Pony Club 1 Denial Is A River -1 Abracadabra -2 Luther -3 Beautiful Things -4 Ordinary -5 The Days

1 Anyma 2 Chris Lake 3 HAAi

Actually looking back at it this is much stronger than most of the ‘90s sessions - at least some of the really dominant acts like Santana and Destiny’s Child were good. Best: Aaliyah - Try Again Christina Aguilera - Genie In A Bottle Madonna - Music OutKast - Ms. Jackson Mary J. Blige - Family Affair Commiserations: Alicia Keys - Fallin' Crazy Town - Butterfly Destiny's Child - Say My Name Nickelback - How You Remind Me TLC - No Scrubs Worst: Mariah Carey - Thank God I Found You (feat. Joe and 98°) SisQó - Incomplete Will Smith - Wild Wild West (feat. Dru Hill and Kool Moe Dee) Actually there’s much less rubbish here - the Will Smith track isn’t all that bad.

2Pac - California Love (feat. Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) Barenaked Ladies - One Week Blackstreet - No Diggity (feat. Dr. Dre and Queen Pen) Brandy and Monica - The Boy Is Mine The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize Worst: Boyz II Men - 4 Seasons Of Loneliness Céline Dion and R. Kelly - I'm Your Angel Puff Daddy - Can't Nobody Hold Me Down (feat. Mase)

Week 18: Best: Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) Ini Kamoze - Here Comes The Hotstepper Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - Stay (I Missed You) Seal - Kiss From A Rose TLC - Waterfalls Worst: Boyz II Men - On Bended Knee Mariah Carey - Hero Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You

Dream - He Loves U Not Eve - Let Me Blow Ya Mind (feat. Gwen Stefani) Pearl Jam - Last Kiss

There seem to be a few barriers to that at the moment - Kendrick, Kendrick, Sabrina, Sabrina and Kendrick. Certainly “Not Like Us” doesn’t seem to be fading fast enough for her to do it next week, and Sabrina’s songs haven’t been frontloaded in the past.

Richard Ashcroft had 9 solo Top 40 hits but only this and “A Song For The Lovers” reached the Top 10, with both peaking at #3. This was released in January 2006 as the lead from his 3rd album “Keys To The World”. 5th: Richard Ashcroft - Break The Night With Colour 14/33 votes (42%) 6th: The Pogues featuring Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale Of New York 13/37 votes (35%) 7th: Will Young - You And I / Don’t Let Me Down 12/33 votes (36%) 8th: Louise - Stuck In The Middle With You 19/35 votes (54%) 9th: Lemar - Time To Grow 14/33 votes (42%) 10th: Westlife - I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun 17/38 votes (45%)

This is a really strong field now - I’m moving to “Gossip Folks” even though I do enjoy it: Missy does have better.

“DJ” was Jamelia’s 5th and final single from the “Thank You” album, and 4th consecutive Top 10 hit. It was released as a double A side with a cover of Sam Brown’s “Stop”, and reached #9 in November 2004. The original “Stop” reached #4 in 1989. 8th: Jamelia - DJ / Stop 11/32 votes (34%) 9th: Nickelback - Photograph 13/34 votes (38%) 10th: Chuckie & LMFAO - Let The Bass Kick In Miami Girl 14/36 votes (39%)

Quite well endowed with rubbish this round, but Leon’s is the only one where I can’t think of any redeeming features.

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