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    I think 2024 has been great so far? So many big artists releasing singles/albums and other artists having a surge of success. Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Billie Eillish, Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Hozier, Zach Bryan, Tyla, Benson Boone, Teddy Swims, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX, Sabrina Carpenter, Linkin Park etc.

    I agree - 2024 has been as exciting a year as we’re likely to get in the current era of the charts.

    And there have been the fun resurgences like Sophie, Mason, Natasha and Nsync too.

    I will be shocked if “Hot To Go” isn’t in when I get this week’s chart on Tuesday. “Red Wine Supernova” went silver only a week after “Hot To Go” so could appear before long if it keeps streaming well. “Pink Pony Club” only went silver this week so is a long way off at the moment.

     

    Also looking set to have at least 3 in the year end chart are Sabrina, Taylor, Billie, Dua and… Chase & Status!

     

    I think “Guess” might eventually make it now that it’s stopped freefalling.

     

     

    30 Billie Eilish - Everything I Wanted

    29 Ghost - Mary On A Cross

    28 Post Malone - Circles

    27 Bring Me The Horizon (feat. Grimes) - Nihilist Blues

    26 Luca Hänni - She Got Me

    25 Tones and I - Dance Monkey

    24 Agnes - I Trance

    23 Foals - The Runner

    22 Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall

    21 BROCKHAMPTON - NO HALO

    20 Billie Eilish - Bury a Friend

    19 Lizzo – Truth Hurts

    18 Stormzy - Vossi Bop

    17 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now

    16 Harry Styles - Adore You

    15 Billie Eilish - Bad Guy

    14 ROSALÍA & J Balvin (feat. El Guincho) - Con Altura

    13 Avicii (feat. Noonie Bao or Mishcatt) - Fades Away

    12 Selena Gomez - Lose You To Love Me

    11 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights

    10 Jax Jones (feat. Ella Henderson) - This Is Real

    9 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove

    8 CamelPhat & Cristoph (feat. Jem Cooke) - Breathe 

    7 FKA Twigs - Cellophane

    6 Ed Sheeran (feat. Chance the Rapper & PnB Rock) - Cross Me

    5 Mabel - Don't Call Me Up

    4 Fisher - Losing It

    3 Calvin Harris & Rag'n'Bone Man - Giant

    2 Burial - Claustro

    1 Meduza & Goodboys - Piece of Your Heart

    I work in the office quite a lot as I prefer it but I the majority of my colleagues basically work from home full time. If anything my company discourages office working as it loves the idea of saving money anywhere it can.

     

    I really disagree with it though, mainly for my junior colleagues. I think they’re missing out massively by not having an office community and not learning by overhearing conversations and so on. They haven’t known anything different so they don’t know what they’re missing, but they are in my view. It would need more senior colleagues to come in for it to be worthwhile for them though. Even 50/50 would be fine. It upsets me actually.

    so the 3 excluded from the 40 hurt (6, 10, though daydream in Blue grabbed an under-rated 83). So we overlap on 6, or 15%. I think it's fair to say my tastes are more pop oriented and US biased in 2001 for the top end but another 7 made my top 100, incl Blue and Cosmic Rough Riders just missing the 40. :)

    If I’d done this at the time it would have been much more pop orientated. Still I like or love almost all of your Top 40. And your #9 hasn’t even come yet. :)

    What would happen as a "best practice" rule if somehow, in the unlikely event, the figures were identical for two (or more) songs in the chart? In other words, how are tiebreakers decided and has there ever been a notable occasion where there was a tiebreaker in UK Chart history?

    Quite unlikely these days as although the sales are quoted to us in whole numbers they’re worked out to 2 decimal places. So sales for “Taste” last week might have really been 57,988.23 or something like that. If the whole number sales are the same they look at the decimals.

     

    Although on the physical sales chart where you need about 8 sales to chart I’m sure they have ties all the time. :)

    My average score in 2001 was 5.50, up from 5.45 in 2000.

     

    My highlights have been added to Post 2.

     

    Like in 2000 I gave 3 10s and 40 9s, and here’s my Top 40 of the year:

     

    1 Rui Da Silva Featuring Cassandra - Touch Me

    2 Linkin Park - In The End

    3 Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

    4 Radiohead - Pyramid Song

    5 Ian Brown - F.E.A.R.

    6 System Of A Down - Chop Suey!

    7 Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake

    8 Dr Dre Featuring Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode

    9 Mary J. Blige - Family Affair

    10 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Road Trippin’

     

    11 S Club 7 - Don’t Stop Movin’

    12 Daft Punk - Harder Better Faster Stronger

    13 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

    14 Zero 7 - Destiny

    15 The Divine Comedy - Love What You Do

    16 Linkin Park - Crawling

    17 The Beta Band - Broke / Won

    18 Crazy Town - Butterfly

    19 Ash - Shining Light

    20 PPK - ResuRection

     

    21 David Gray - This Year’s Love

    22 Blue - All Rise

    23 Faithless - We Come 1

    24 Daft Punk - Digital Love

    25 Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This

    26 Gabrielle - Out Of Reach

    27 Neil Finn - Wherever You Are

    28 The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

    29 Dido - Here With Me

    30 Dirty Vegas - Days Go By

     

    31 The Dandy Warhols - Bohemian Like You

    32 The Ones - Flawless

    33 The Strokes - Last Nite

    34 New Order - Crystal

    35 Outkast - Ms Jackson

    36 Cosmic Rough Riders - Revolution (In The Summertime)

    37 Eels - Souljacker Part 1

    38 Riva Featuring Dannii Minogue - Who Do You Love Now? (Stringer)

    39 Atomic Kitten - Whole Again

    40 Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance

     

    Commiserations to the following that scored 9 but just missed the Top 40:

    R.E.M. - Imitation Of Life

    The Supermen Lovers Featuring Mani Hoffman - Starlight

    I Monster - Daydream In Blue

     

    I gave 11 1s in 2001, down from 20 in 2000 and I do think there wasn’t much that was truly horrific.

    Worst hit of the year: DJ Otzi - Do Wah Diddy

    Thanks Rob for helping me dust off this thread!

     

    Average score for 1970 was 5.49 which isn’t bad.

     

    Gold medal for the year: The Tears Of A Clown - Smokey Robinson And The Miracles

     

    Silver medal: Rainbow - The Marmalade

     

    Bronze medal: Both Sides Now - Judy Collins

     

    I gave a surprisingly large number of 9s given the number of hits in the year was pretty small. Here are the rest in order of preference:

    Let It Be - The Beatles

    Sympathy - Rare Bird

    I Hear You Knocking - Dave Edmunds

    Venus - Shocking Blue

    Pranoid - Black Sabbath

    Get Up I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine (Part I And Part II) - James Brown

    Question - The Moody Blues

    Woodstock - Matthews’ Southern Comfort

    Indian Reservation - Don Fardon

    Freda Payne - Band Of Gold

    Spirit In The Sky - Norman Greenbaum

    Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell

    Lola - The Kinks

    Ride A White Swan - T.Rex

    Leaving On A Jet Plane - Peter, Paul And Mary

    All Right Now - Free

    Gimme Dat Ding - The Pipkins

     

    Worst hit of the year: Cry - Gerry Monroe

     

    1971 Group 1:

     

    #3661 09/01/1971 Elvis Presley You Don't Have To Say You Love Me 9 23-17-{9}-14-14-18-18-35R(2)-39-36->10

    #3662 09/01/1971 Badfinger No Matter What 5 35-34-16-13-{5}-6-6-10-16-19-35-38->12

    #3663 09/01/1971 Carpenters We've Only Just Begun 28 45-37-36-29-{28}-28-39->7

    #3664 09/01/1971 Bobby Bloom Heavy Makes You Happy 31 46-{31}-39-33-33->5

    #3665 09/01/1971 Tony Christie Las Vegas 21 50-38-33-23-26-{21}-27-27-37->9

    #3666 16/01/1971 The Mixtures Pushbike Song 2 24-13-3-{2}-2-2-2-3-6-7-11-15-16-19-33-35-35-41-43-49-48->21

    #3667 16/01/1971 Melanie What Have They Done To My Song Ma 39 {39}->1

    #3668 16/01/1971 Dawn Candida 9 40-22-20-12-10-10-{9}-20-21-30-42->11

    #3669 16/01/1971 Tom Jones She's A Lady 13 42-21-16-17-15-{13}-16-25-30-47R(2)->10

    #3670 16/01/1971 Weathermen It's The Same Old Song 19 43-27-26-21-{19}-29-21-28-26->9

    #3671 16/01/1971 Ashton, Gardner And Dyke The Resurrection Shuffle 3 45-26-15-9-4-{3}-3-6-11-10-16-29-33-43->14

    #3672 16/01/1971 The Supremes Stoned Love 3 48-24-19-{3}-3-4-5-8-10-17-21-27-39->13

    #3673 23/01/1971 George Harrison My Sweet Lord 1 7-{1}-1-1-1-1-2-3-6-7-14-14-25-26-36-43-48->17

    #3674 23/01/1971 Cliff Richard Sunny Honey Girl 19 30-31-23-22-{19}-25-30-33->8

    #3675 23/01/1971 Elton John Your Song 7 37-30-13-{7}-8-8-13-20-26-26-42-45->12