Julian_

July 22, 20241 yr

I think Jade should stay Top 5 officially - I can see her dropping behind Billie and Chappell and maybe Myles Smith. There isn’t much else doing really big numbers with the ACR clear out.

Julian rates every 21st century Top 40 hit

I did say I’d give all genres a chance here and I’m doing my bit for country this time. I think it was actually a club remix of “I Hope You Dance” I heard first, but the lyrics really hit me hard and stayed with me. I don’t see it having a religious connection particularly, but I think when you look back most of the best life experiences happen when you decide to throw yourself into something instead of sitting it out. While the track is fairly standard musically I think that helps the words to speak for themselves.

There are also a couple of really fun risqué rap numbers in this group.

9 Lee Ann Womack I Hope You Dance Only hit for this US country star and it's a simple well sung mid tempo ballad but with the most incredible life affirming lyrics

8 Ludacris Featuring Shawnna What's Your Fantasy 1st hit for this US rapper and 1st of a couple of collaborations with Shawna: the rhythm and prodiction here are very infectious

8 N*E*R*D Featuring Lee Harvey And Vita Lapdance 1st hit for Pharrell's rap rock band, also featuring a female rapper Vita, and an excellent and vigorous track satirising politicians

7 Travis Sing The lead single from "The Invisible Band" and their highest peaking: I love the banjos here and it's lovely but not extraordinary

6 Eddy Grant Electric Avenue (Ringbang Remix) Only hit this century for him with a remix of his 1983 #2: not essential but a good uptempo version that does add to the song

5 Outkast So Fresh So Clean Like "Ms Jackson" this has excellent production and a good atmosphere: I just find the main thrust of the song rather lacking

4 Free This is well performed but it's quite a bland pop RnB song and lacks the striking quality and dynamism of "Case Of The Ex"

3 Lisa Roxanne No Flow Only Top 40 for this UK RnB artist: she obviously has talent but the song doesn't do it for me and the hook isn't strong enough

3 Shaggy Featuring Rayvon Angel 899th #1 interpolating "Angel In The Morning" and using the baseline of "The Joker": it does work but it's very unoriginal

2 Eye To Eye Featuring Taka Boom Just Can't Get Enough (No No No No) A mash-up of "Can't Get Enough" by Soulsearcher from 1998 and an Apollo 440 track: can't see the point and don't enjoy it

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2001 Week 24:

#769 16/06/2001 Faithless We Come 1 3 {3}-8-11-19-25-35-47-59-62-66->10

#770 16/06/2001 Steps Here And Now/You'll Be Sorry 4 {4}-13-17-26-34-43-54-60-49-63->10

#771 16/06/2001 Brandy And Ray J Another Day In Paradise 5 {5}-7-5-8-15-25-33-40-46-68->10

#772 16/06/2001 Basement Jaxx Romeo 6 {6}-11-13-17-24-32-35-44-52-60->10

#773 16/06/2001 Marti Pellow Close To You 9 {9}-18-21-37-51-60->6

#774 16/06/2001 Muse New Born 12 {12}-28-47-62->4

#775 16/06/2001 Melanie B Lullaby 13 {13}-27-41-75->4

#776 16/06/2001 Manic Street Preachers Ocean Spray 15 {15}-41-56-69->4

#777 16/06/2001 Boris Dlugosch Featuring Roisin Murphy Never Enough 16 {16}-30-40-48->4

#778 16/06/2001 I Monster Daydream In Blue 20 {20}-26-29-40-46-65->6

#779 16/06/2001 Delirious? Waiting For The Summer 26 {26}-72->2

#780 16/06/2001 Dina Carroll Someone Like You 38 {38}-65->2

#781 16/06/2001 Bran Van 3000 Featuring Curtis Mayfield Astounded 40 {40}-59->2

The UK #3 singles listening sessions

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As is customary in the final session next week everyone can choose a track. It could be your favourite #3 if that helps to narrow it down, or could be a bonus you wanted that didn’t make it, something you’re enjoying right now or just something totally random! Please PM me with your choice. :D

Number 3 Listening Sessions - Week 21 Poll

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Best:

Faded

The Hills

Passionfruit

Feel It Still

Circles

Everything I Wanted

Worst:

Bump N Grind

LA Love

When Christmas Comes Around

Rise

Number 3 Listening Sessions - Week 21 Poll

Posted July 21, 20241 yr

Welcome to Week 21! :wave:

Results of Week 20

Loreen - Euphoria came through after a tight race for most of the week to win with 12 votes, ahead of Klankarussell and Faul & Wad with 10.

Jessie J - It’s My Party sneaked home for worst with 14 votes to One Direction’s 13.

Best poll winners

week 1: Danny And The Juniors - At The Hop

week 2: Dusty Springfield - I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself

week 3: Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

week 4: David Bowie - Life On Mars?

week 5: David Bowie - Sound And Vision

week 6: ABBA - Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (A Man After Midnight)

week 7: Tears For Fears - Mad World

week 8: Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

week 9: New Order - Blue Monday [1988]

week 10: Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

week 11: Enigma - Return To Innocence

week 12: Faithless - Insomnia

week 13: Radiohead - Paranoid Android

week 14: The Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl

week 15: Darude - Sandstorm

week 16: Junior Senior - Move Your Feet

week 17: Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

week 18: Girls Aloud - Call The Shots

week 19: The Killers - Human

week 20: Loreen - Euphoria

The UK #3 singles listening sessions

https://sync-tube.de/room/e-t8AXpb

Kicking off at 16:00 at the usual link in the OP:

Streaming Services Chart Discussion

I’m far from an expert on Little Mix members but I thought Perrie was regarded as vocally the strongest by some distance. That doesn’t necessarily translate into solo success of course.

Anyway the Jade track is head and shoulders above anything the others have come out with: I’ve already given it a 2nd play and it was because I wanted to hear it again rather than because I felt I shouldn’t dismiss it immediately.

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Ah well thanks for trying and hopefully some people will find this!

2024 Singles Year To Date Estimates

What position is Dog Days Are Over? I’m surprised it’s still on the list

#91 and still streaming pretty strongly.

Streaming Services Chart Discussion

July 20, 20241 yr

Would be great if Billie’s team could mobilise like they did with “What Was I Made For?” I don’t think “Birds Of A Feather” has enough of a lead over “Please Please Please” as it stands but a modest push could do it.

2024 BPI Certifications

Oh yay I’d almost given up hope of “Don’t Shut Me Down” ever getting there! :cheer:

Julian rates every 21st century Top 40 hit

Radiohead, sorry never really got them bar half a dozen singles, 2/10

I think in all the 18 months we’ve been doing this, this is my least favourite take from you. :o

Number ones if ACR existed since the chart began

What we would see if the 3 track rule was removed is the occasional weird chart where an album bomb decimates everything briefly. But they rarely last long and given how slow the chart is they would rarely significantly affect the peak for any other songs.

2024 BPI Certifications

Called it on “Sunflower” hitting 3m this week based on the latest OCC list. :cheer:

Number ones if ACR existed since the chart began

Yay thanks for that brilliant analysis Yorkie3!

A few huge #2s that were “robbed” looking at it that way then!

2024 Singles Year To Date Estimates

Not sure if anyone will have the answer, but does anybody know what Perrie’s sales for Forget About Us are like? Had a good debut and floated around the Top 100 for a few months.

Was wondering if it’s likely near a silver certification?

I’d estimate somewhere in the 130k region.

Julian rates every 21st century Top 40 hit

2 very contrasting highlights here. After they didn’t release any singles from “Kid A” it was great to get this hauntingly beautiful one from Radiohead which is very close to a 10, alongside the pop classic that paved the way for a long string of hits for Blue.

9 Radiohead Pyramid Song Their 1st hit of the century: the wailing vocal over the piano chords with the irregular rhythm is heartbreakingly beautiful

9 Blue All Rise Debut single for this UK boyband: a fabulous pop song that takes a theme and delivers it in a unique musical and lyrical way

8 Air Radio #1 Their last Top 40: I really like the futuristic feel to this and the sense of a crowd of people all singing marching in unison

7 Dido Thank You Her whole career is thanks to this as it was used for "Stan": I love it within the context of the album but slightly less on its own

6 3LW No More (Baby I'ma Do Right) 1st hit for this US girl group: nothing exceptional but quite a compelling piece of pop RnB that bounces along rather nicely

5 Sunshine Anderson Heard It All Before Only Top 40 for this US RnB singer: it's a solid and well performed track but I feel like it never quite escapes from 3rd gear

4 DJ Pied Piper And The Masters Of Ceremonies Do You Really Like It? 898th #1 for this UK garage group: some random parts and terrible lyrics but a one off track and I like the summery guitar

3 Musique Vs U2 New Years Dub Can't find any info about the act but their only hit: a dance track based on the U2 instrumental and it's OK but not essential

2 Aaron Soul Ring Ring Ring Only hit for this UK garage DJ featured in "Bridget Jones's Diary": the lyrics are quite banal and it's a fairly mundane tune

2 Anastacia Cowboys And Kisses A very pedestrian 3rd hit from her: she does retro style soulful pop well but this is just bland and doesn't show her off vocally

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2001 Week 23:

#759 09/06/2001 Shaggy Featuring Rayvon Angel 1 {1}-1-1-2-4-7-10-13-16-22-26-31-35-45-57-71->16

#760 09/06/2001 Travis Sing 3 {3}-10-17-23-33-41-50-56-57-50-51-65-60-75->14

#761 09/06/2001 Eddy Grant Electric Avenue (Ringbang Remix) 5 {5}-11-15-19-28-33-37-46-55-70-71R(2)-72->12

#762 09/06/2001 Mya Free 11 {11}-24-33-39-46-71->6

#763 09/06/2001 Outkast So Fresh So Clean 16 {16}-33-53-65-70-69-75-67->8

#764 09/06/2001 Lisa Roxanne No Flow 18 {18}-42->2

#765 09/06/2001 Ludacris Featuring Shawnna What's Your Fantasy 19 {19}-28-36-44-71->5

#766 09/06/2001 N*E*R*D Featuring Lee Harvey And Vita Lapdance 33 {33}-50->2

#767 09/06/2001 Eye To Eye Featuring Taka Boom Just Can't Get Enough (No No No No) 36 {36}-57->2

#768 09/06/2001 Lee Ann Womack I Hope You Dance 40 {40}-53->2

The 100 Most Watched TV Moments in the UK

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This does make me feel nostalgic for old fashioned telly - when most of the country used to sit down and watch the same thing at the same time and then talk about it at school / work the next day.

Round 2 : Year End Survivor No.91

“Homecoming” is great - written about his late mum. :(

The U2 Rate

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U2 are absolutely very hit and miss for me, but I do genuinely like all the 25 tracks I voted for, only 1 of which has been revealed so far I believe.

Number ones if ACR existed since the chart began

ACR specifically only applies to streaming sales and not paid for sales. Until mid 2014 there were no streaming sales counted in the charts. Therefore ACR would have had no impact prior to mid 2014.

There is a 3 year window from mid 2014 to mid 2017 where ACR could have been in force but wasn’t. Note even then a high proportion of chart sales were still paid for so the impact would have been less anyway.

To know when songs would have gone to ACR back then you would need to look at the split between pure sales and streaming sales for each week which, was usually provided for the #1, and work out when the 3 week decline rule would probably have hit. It’s not a task I think I’m going to get round to anytime soon! :lol:

Thinking about it this probably would only have affected a few really long running or slow climbing #1s like “One Dance” and “Shape Of You”.

Mack's #ThrowbackThursday 00s Edition

3 good picks there: “Laura” > “Forever” > “Chocolate” but they’re all strong.

Top 100 songs of streaming 10 year anniversary

“Beautiful Trauma” went 2x platinum a couple of years ago. I guess it might be around 650k now at #100.

Top 100 songs of streaming 10 year anniversary