Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 04/10/2019

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PART 1 (#1-25)

#1: Taylor Swift - Love Story
#2: Oasis - Don’t Look Back In Anger
#3: Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
#4: Take That - The Greatest Day
#5: The Chainsmokers ft Halsey - Closer
#6: Celine Dion - My Heart Will Go On
#7: The Killers - Mr Brightside
#8: Whitney Houston - I Have Nothing
#9: Aerosmith - I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing
#10: Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

#11: Mark Ronson ft Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
#12: Oasis - Wonderwall
#13: Justin Timberlake - Can’t Stop The Feeling
#14: Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
#15: Westlife - What About Now
#16: Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You
#17: Bridgit Mendler - Ready Or Not
#18: Weslife - Uptown Girl
#19: Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
#20: Daniel Powter - Bad Day

#21: Take That - Patience
#22: Take That - The Flood
#23: David Baddiel, Frank Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions [Football’s Coming Home]
#24: Ed Sheeran - Castle On The Hill
#25: James Blunt - You’re Beautiful

PART 2 (#26-50)

#26: Rihanna ft Calvin Harris - We Found Love
#27: Rihanna ft Jay-Z - Umbrella
#28: Beyonce ft Jay-Z - Crazy In Love
#29: Robin Schulz ft David Guetta & Cheat Codes - Shed A Light
#30: Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

#31: Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks
#32: ABBA - Mamma Mia
#33: Taylor Swift - You Belong With Me
#34: Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
#35: Britney Spears - … Baby One More Time
#36: Spice Girls - Wannabe
#37: Eminem - Without Me
#38: Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe
#39: Christina Perri - A Thousand Years
#40: Coldplay - Viva La Vida

#41: Kings Of Leon - $ex On Fire
#42: Coldplay - Paradise
#43: Coldplay - Charlie Brown
#44: Ed Sheeran - The A Team
#45: Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence
#46: Adele - Someone Like You
#47: Queen - Don’t Stop Me Now
#48: Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble
#49: Ellie Goulding - Love Me Like You Do
#50: Pitbull ft Afrojack, Ne-Yo & Nayer - Give Me Everything

PART 3 (#51-75)

#51: David Guetta ft Usher - Without You
#52: Take That - Let It Shine
#53: Avicii - Wake Me Up
#54: Mr Probz - Waves [Robin Schulz Remix]
#55: Taylor Swift - Should’ve Said No
#56: Katy Perry - Firework
#57: Lady Gaga - The Edge Of Glory
#58: Lady Gaga - Born This Way
#59: Robert Miles - Children
#60: Gala - Free From Desire

#61: Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud
#62: Faithless - Insomnia
#63: Avicii vs Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One
#64: Avicii ft Sandro Cavazza - Without You
#65: The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
#66: will.i.am ft Eva Simons - This Is Love
#67: Kungs vs Cookin’ On 3 Burners - This Girl
#68: Taylor Swift - Style
#69: Next - Too Close
#70: Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper - Shallow

#71: Ed Sheeran - Perfect
#72: Mariah Carey - All I Want For Christmas You
#73: Zedd ft Jon Bellion - Beautiful Now
#74: The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
#75: Band Aid - Do They Know It’s Christmas?

PART 4 (#76-100)

#76: WHAM! - Last Christmas
#77: Ed Sheeran - Lego House
#78: Taylor Swift - We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together
#79: Kygo & Selena Gomez - It Ain’t Me
#80: Emmelie De Forest - Only Teardrops

#81: Kanye West ft Jamie Foxx - Gold Digger
#82: Eminem - The Real Slim Shady
#83: Westlife - What Makes A Man
#84: Toto - Africa
#85: Robbie Williams & Gary Barlow - Shame
#86: Eli & Nikki - Running Scared
#87: Robbie Williams - Angels
#88: Loreen - Euphoria
#89: Adele - Rolling In The Deep
#90: James Blunt - Beautiful Dawn

#91: Keala Settle & The Greatest Showman Ensemble - This Is Me
#92: Shania Twain - You’re Still The One
#93: Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello - Senorita
#94: Taylor Swift - Cruel Summer
#95: Prince - Purple Rain
#96: Scissor Sisters - Only The Horses
#97: Florida Georgia Line - Dirt
#98: Florida Georgia Line ft Nelly - Cruise
#99: Rachel Platten - Fight Song
#100: Flo Rida ft T-Pain - Low

hey piran nice list we have same taste of music 95% of your list agreement with it

Dear Piran, I've been looking forward to reading your chart comments every week - they are well-written, knowledgable, and tasteful. I am considerably older than you and my own list would contain mostly 20th century songs. Having said that, your list doesn't disappoint. It's well-curated and eclectic. Well done.

Love Story would easily make my top 10 if I compiled my all time favorite songs.

Very nice!

This is a really good list! Of course I already knew that 'Love Story' would be the #1 track, but it's really cool to see 'Don't Look Back In Anger' and 'Man In The Mirror' at #2 and #3, as both are really good late 20th century tracks! I also really love that 'Closer' makes the Top 5, and that 'Mr. Brightside' and 'Bohemian Rhapsody' make your Top 10! I really like 'Uptown Funk', 'Wonderwall', 'Chasing Cars', 'Castle On The Hill', 'Shed A Light', 'Without Me', 'The A Team' and 'Don't Stop Me Now' (my favourite Queen track) all make the upper half of your list, but some of my favourites on your entire list come in the bottom half. My favourite track on this entire list is 'Waves (Robin Schulz Remix)', closely followed by 'Señorita'. I also really like 'Wake Me Up', 'Without You', 'I Gotta Feeling', 'Lego House', 'It Ain't Me', 'The Real Slim Shady' and 'Africa' in the bottom half!
As you already know, my Favourite Songs of All Time list is on CrownNote, and I just recently updated it, so I'd love if you could check that out when you get the chance! https://crownnote.com/charts/gameskiller01/my-favourite-songs-of-all-time

Hey Gameskiller! Glad you like it as much as you do. :)

I know your list consists of a lot more recent pop & rap (particularly grime in the latter case), so I wasn't sure how you'd feel about the 80s & 90s classics here, but I'm really pleased you're positive on them too!

Yeah. 'Love Story' is #1 by a considerable margin as you know, but at the same time, I don't see my Top 3 moving for a good while yet! 'Closer' being as high as it is surprised a lot of people when I posted this over on Billboard a couple of weeks back, but it's got all the factors a song needs to qualify for this list; brings back good memories, massive replay factor & just a song that makes me happy straight away! I know 'Mr Brightside' being an all-time favourite songs list might be a bit cliched, but when the whole vibe of the song is as nostalgic as it is, no wonder it's still appearing in the OCC charts to this day! :D

Outside of the Top 10, I think we agree that 'Uptown Funk' feels like it could've been as big as it was even back in the 1970s, despite being released in 2014! Even the harshest critics can't get enough of this. ;)

Something else I should mention is that 'Body' & 'SOS' are looking likely to enter the all-time list before the end of the year (when I'll probably next update this). I'm planning to post my current Top 100 over on Crown Note so that our fellow chart-followers who don't have Disqus can also see it.

I'll comment on how your list currently stands a bit later! Just getting back to everyone's messages over the past few days, haha.

That's amazing! :D

So that's your favourite Taylor Swift song too, right?

Hi Yianang! :)

Thank you very much for your kind remarks regarding my list & my reviews!

I'm glad you like the diversity across my choices, since I always try to embrace as much music as possible, no matter what era.

Thanks! Glad you like it. :)

You're doing an absolutely great job, Piran! I've been following the UK charts since I was a child (I have complete handwritten records from 1973 and I still keep records today) and I'm not one of those who say that music was great then and is bad now. I think there are mainly two reasons that older people stick to the songs of their era: One is obvious - nostalgia - it is the recollection of these songs that bring back valuable memories of our youth. The other reason is more complicated: in the 20th century, there were only a few ways to listen: you either heard it on the radio or you bought it in physical form. Therefore, there was a limited number of songs that we were listening to: those that we could afford to buy and the ones on the radio's playlists. As a result, we really, really listened to these songs, dozens of times. Sometimes, hundreds of times. Every note, every word in the lyrics was as familiar to us as the voice of our mothers. Now, with all these options available, like streaming, etc, we can listen to any song that is out. Personally, I listen to all the pop hits, plus all the Indie and Alt. Rock new acts that I can find, plus all the new stuff by the Classic Rock & R&B acts. However, there are so many of them, I usually get to listen to them once or twice, maybe half a dozen times for the really good ones. This is not enough to really bond with a song, to make it a part of my life memories. There are maybe 20 or 30 21st centurry songs that are part of my "best of" list (Seven Nation Army, Mad World, Crazy, Crazy In Love, Stan, Lose Yourself, Mr. Brightside, All Of Me, Beneath Your Beautiful, Uptown Funk, Umbrella, Bad Romance, and a few others) - but compared to the 2000+ songs of the 20th century that would fight for a place on my list...

Thanks Ronald! :)

That's amazing to hear! :D

I feel like I'm going to be saying the exact same thing as this by the time we get to like 2040 or something, haha.

I definitely agree with you regarding the nostalgia point though! While it's a big part of determining which songs would be so high up in my list, a majority of these songs are from last decade, since that's the era where I really started getting a love for music!

Either way, I think we all know that a good majority of chart hits today were somewhat inspired by something from the 20th century.

Thanks for your kind response, Piran! Keep up the good work.

I dont think radio airplay charting is something to be proud of really, it just means more djs playing on national and local radio meaning it should be outperforming other tracks as it is getting heard by far more people than other tracks. Staying in the higher echelons of the chart is most definitely a great achievement though, especially in these times

Hey Piran! It's cool to see 'Dance Monkey' go to #1 this week, and I think it'll probably be staying there for quite some time given the dominance it has on all platforms right now! It's also cool to see 'Ride It' climbing to #2, and it's incredible to see 'Ladbroke Grove' reaching a new peak of #3 on its 12th week as a Top 10 single, and 31st as a Top 100 entry, somehow managing to evade ACR for this long! The rebound for 'Circles' to #6 is great, if unexpected, and 'Bruises' re-entering the Top 40 at a new peak of #11 2.5 years after its initial release now that it's finally been released as a proper single is extremely impressive! Seeing 'Outnumbered', 'Be Honest', 'God Is A Dancer' and 'Liar' all climb to new peaks is great as well.
As for the debuts this week, it was quite mixed for me. I agree with you that 'Playing For Keeps' is the best thing D-Block Europe have done, though that is almost entirely because of Dave's (criminally short) feature on the track. That said, it's far from Dave's best verse either, so this is probably a solid-strong 6/10 for me; very high for a D-Block Europe track, but very low for a Dave track. 'Turn Me On' is pretty similar for me, not a bad track but somewhat repetitive for me, so a solid 6/10 here, while of course 'South of the Border' is easily the best debut of the week. It was initially cut out from being the #7 track on the week of 'No.6 Collaborations Project's impact, so it's great to see it finally able to reach the Top 40! Solid 10/10 here from me!
Next week it seems like 'HIGHEST IN THE ROOM' will, surprisingly, be having a massive debut, currently #1 on Spotify and #3 on Apple Music. Despite the fact that Travis has the most weeks at #1 so far this year on my personal charts, and that he's tied for the most #1s this year, this definitely won't be Travis' 1st entry as a primary lead artist for me. It looks like it will be another quiet week for debuts other than that, though, as I can only really see 'Playing Games' and maybe '10,000 Hours' debuting lower down. At least we should see some more climbs for 'Outnumbered' and 'Liar'!