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Impressive debut for Sabrina and big numbers for “Man I Need”. But if I’m not mistaken that’s also the biggest day by far for “Golden”. If 447k last Friday on Spotify led to 65k chart sales how many will over 500k this time mean? Will surely be the biggest selling Top 3 of the year anyway.

“Parachutes” re-entered the Top 200 at #170 last week and will have presumably climbed a fair bit. Note that while Top 10 sales are very low by historical standards, 1.8k for #100 isn’t.

Think I’ll name the incorrect assumption that the Spotify #1 is an official #1 contender The Dean Fallacy from now on.

We asked some of this week’s new entrants what they make of the Coldplay resets:

Also “Sparks” could have been Top 20 - did Coldplay even sign up to blocking themseves?

You’ve got to be kidding me with “Viva La Vida” - no justification for this needing a re-set whatsoever. 😝

Aww “Back To Friends” just missing a 6th successive climb - guess there’s some sort of surprise reset still coming?

Quite like “Dive” - very jazzy

Nice “re-entry” haha. I used to enjoy the “good girl gone bad” album in my more poppy days.

Boo I’d hoped we were rid of the awful “Manchild”, though I’m not confident that the new material will be much better.

Another strong group here: 1972 is definitely exceeding expectations so far. Elton started his hit-making career pretty flawlessly with “Your Song” and “Rocket Man” and I like this Sly And The Family Stone song even more than “Family Affair”. 9 Elton John Rocket Man (I Think It's Going To Be A Long, Long Time) Inspired by Bowie and a story about an astronaut, it's a 2nd outstanding hit for him and more successful than "Your Song" 9 Sly And The Family Stone Runnin' Away Last of their 5 hits: this has dark lyrics juxtaposed with a happy sounding track and the sardonic "ha ha"; I think it's brilliant 8 The Rolling Stones Tumbling Dice The main single from "Exile On Main Street", this feels joyous with great lyrics and combines a blues style with rock and roll 8 Johnny Cash And The Evangel Temple Choir A Thing Called Love His biggest hit: the song is originally from 1968 and has many versions but it suits Johnny very well and he does it brilliantly 7 Johnny Nash Stir It Up A cover of a song by Bob Marley who won't have a hit here for a while: this is beautifully done with expressive falsetto 7 Paul Simon Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard A folky 2nd solo hit for him with intrguing lyrics: this style is more to my taste than that of "Mother And Child Reunion" 7 The Temptations Take A Look Around I love the harpsichord bassline running through this: it's a lovely and soulful track with beautiful lead and backing vocals 6 David Cassidy Could It Be Forever/Cherish 1st hit for this US star: "Cherish" is an Association cover but both sides are sincerely performed and rousing pop ballads 6 Ramsey Lewis Wade In The Water Only hit for this US pianist and composer: this is a lovely jazz instrumental but more something you'd want to hear live 6 Mungo Jerry Open Up It has that bouncy guitar bassline you might find in T.Rex or other Mungo Jerry songs: a good but not remarkable track 5 The Marmalade Radancer I think their more soulful songs have been some of the folkier ones: this is a standard pulsing rock number but it's decent 5 Daniel Boone Beautiful Sunday His 2nd and last solo hit and this was a big international success: it's a jolly record but feels very slightly formulaic to me 4 Vicky Leandros Come What May The English version of "Après Toi" that won Eurovision for Luxembourg: it's not bad but a somewhat overblown ballad 4 Leeds United FC Leeds United The 1st of 2 #10 hits that they'll have: the B side of this is the better known one but this isn't a bad tune for what it is 3 Dave Newman The Lion Sleeps Tonight (Wimoweh) Only hit for this artist about which I can find no information: it's very similar to The Tokens version from a decade before 1972 Group 6: #3950 29/04/1972 Hurricane Smith Oh, Babe, What Would You Say? 4 38-27-18-15-6-{4}-4-8-12-20-27-27-33-37-41-49->16 #3951 29/04/1972 Donnie Elbert A Little Piece Of Leather 27 39-36-30-31-{27}-27-30-34-47->9 #3952 29/04/1972 Bread Everything I Own 32 43-35-35-{32}-40-49->6 #3953 06/05/1972 The Moody Blues Isn't Life Strange 13 34-39-24-19-{13}-15-15-22-37-47->10 #3954 06/05/1972 Jerry Lee Lewis Chantilly Lace 33 44-{33}-33-34-39->5 #3955 13/05/1972 T.Rex Metal Guru 1 9-{1}-1-1-1-2-4-15-22-28-34-42-44-46->14 #3956 13/05/1972 Lindisfarne Lady Eleanor 3 29-19-12-6-{3}-6-10-23-33-46-49->11 #3957 13/05/1972 New World Sister Jane 9 31-27-16-16-{9}-9-11-17-24-26-36-39-45->13 #3958 13/05/1972 Don McLean Vincent 1 36-29-11-5-2-{1}-1-2-5-8-19-26-29-40-49->15 #3959 13/05/1972 Diana Ross Doobedood'ndoobe Doobedood'ndoobe Doobedood'ndoobe 12 42-30-22-18-18-{12}-26-34-41->9 #3960 13/05/1972 The Angelettes Don't Let Him Touch You 35 44-40-{35}-38-41->5 #3961 13/05/1972 Neil Diamond Song Sung Blue 14 45-38-31-31-23-16-15-{14}-17-24-29-34-43->13 #3962 13/05/1972 The Move California Man 7 46-34-20-11-8-{7}-7-7-10-14-24-25-32-41->14 #3963 20/05/1972 Chicory Tip What's Your Name 13 39-26-23-21-{13}-27-31-42->8 #3964 20/05/1972 Michael Jackson Rockin' Robin 3 43-33-22-10-5-{3}-6-7-10-15-22-25-34-48->14

We received some extra positions for starred out Demon Hunters tracks. How It’s Done - between #9 and #10 What It Sounds Like - between #12 and #13 Takedown - between #12 and #13 Free - between #13 and #14 Those who want “12 To 12” to peak at #12 will be delighted to hear that it will probably fall behind “Ordinary”. 🤨

Again the assumption that either Olivia or Sabrina will be #1 next week seems premature. It looks like “Golden” will sell more this week than the 62k “Manchild” did on its first week, with no signs of it slowing down yet and no signs yet of “Man I Need” approaching that level either.

Akon now - pretty rubbish.

It’s ggooooodddbbbbyyyyyyeeeeeeeeee to Ronan. This reached #3 in May 2003 and isn’t in fact the original as American country duo Brooks & Dunn had released a version before, though Ronan did co-write it. He had 7 straight solo Top 10s before this one, and 6 more after it. 10th: Ronan Keating - The Long Goodbye 18/28 votes (64%