Official Singles Chart Top 40 on 01/12/2023

We should all get 'Palestine Will Never Die' by Lowkey and Mai Khalil.  Let's get the Palestinian issue to the top of the charts.  Bring awareness to the 15000 people being killed in Gaza including over 8000 children by the Israel Armed Forces (IDF).

My top 5 this week

1. is it over now?- taylor swift

2. dance the night- dua lipa

3. on my love- zara larrson

4.cruel summer- taylor swift

5. houdini- dua lipa

Checking the Top 40, I notice it is simply a copy/paste of the 40 first songs from the Top 100.

Example for this week: #38, Jorja Smith - Stay Another Day shows in for the second week.

Last week (it's first appearance) was at #75... that is correct for the Top 100.

However, in the Top 40 it is its very first appearance, thus should be marked as [NEW], exactly like it was in the old chart.

If this continues like this, why then having 2 lists? Sorry to say but IMHO this should be changed.

top 20 (3.12. 2023.)​

1. (11) GUS GUS – unfinished symphony

2. (1) SUEDE – the sadness in you, the sadness in me (1week at No.1)

3. (16) THE NATIONAL ft PHOEBE BRIDGERS – laugh track

4. (3) UNDERWORLD – Denver luna (3weeks at No.1)

5. (17) ANTONY SZMIEREK – dance better

6. (4) THE ROLLING STONES – mess it up

7. (2) DUKE DUMONT ft NATHAN NICHOLSON – losing control

8. (9) DIPLO & WALKER & ROYCE ft CHANNEL TRES – diamond therapy

9. (5) BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB ft CHAKA KHAN – tekken 2

10. (13) JORDAN RAKEI – the flowers

11. (8) STARSAILOR – where the wild things grow

12. (7) THE BEATLES – now and then

13. (34) TYCHO – small sanctuary

14. (15) MAYER HAWTHORNE – deeper vibration

15. (23) BARRY CAN'T SWIM ft SOMEDEADBEAT – deadbeat gospel

16. (14) POOLSIDE ft BEN BROWNING – sea of dreams

17. (12) FUTURE ISLANDS – the tower

18. (35) BLEACHERS ft LANA DEL REY – alma mater

19. (6) THE LIBERTINES – run run run

20. (24) JESSIE WARE – hello love

.............new songs at chart (top 45)................

33. NEW – TOM ODELL – answer phone

34. NEW – ICONA POP – tears on the dancefloor

35. NEW – MAFRO ft QHAIRO – try

36. NEW – THE VACCINES – lunar eclipse

37.NEW – BEYONCE – my house

38. NEW – ELIZA ROSE x CALVIN HARRIS – body moving

40. NEW – THE STREETS – each day gives

41. NEW – CONFIDENCE MAN – firebreak

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Shakin Stevens should be higher 

I never understood the reason why the brilliant DARLENE LOVE never made the Top 20 or even top 10 with the beautiful BABY PLEASE COME HOME!!!

Such an underrated Xmas song!!

Always so happy to see LEONA LEWIS back in the chart for Xmas but really hope to see her with a brand new song and album soon!! Long overdue!!

With so many great Xmas songs taking over the chart this week, i am extremely happy to see the brilliant LOSE CONTROL by TEDDY SWIMS still climbing 7 places this week!!

Really hope to see SIA finally making the Top 20 this year with her brilliant SNOWMAN!!

Surprised not to see MIMI WEBB's brand new Xmas song making the Top 100 this week!!

Nor ELLIE GOULDING or JESS GLYNNE!!

BRENDA LEE already in the Top 15 so early this year!!

So happy to see that..love that song and she just as well released a new video with 2 of the biggest US country music singers!!

So happy to see so many Xmas songs back in the Top 40 this week with my 2 favorite tracks in the Top 10!! i am surprised to see LAST XMAS ahead this year of ALL I WANT...

And so over the moon to see THE POGUES making the Top 20 so early this year and fingers crossed their beautiful FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK can finally claim the number 1 spot this Xmas or even before!!

I would have loved to see either PRADA or STICK SEASON claiming the number 1 spot this Friday!! LOVIN ON ME is nearly as bad as SPRINTER !!

Merry Christmas Everyone has got to be the worst Christmas song of all time lol

My Top 20:

1) Dave, Central Cee - 'Sprinter' (=) [6th non-consecutive week at #1]
2) Dave, Tiakola - 'Special' (=) [5-week #1]
3) Leonell Cassio ft. Lily Hain - 'Sick & Tired' (Debut)
4) Travis Scott - 'I KNOW ?' (=) [3-week #1]
5) Tyla ft. Travis Scott - 'Water (Remix)' (+13)
6) Dua Lipa - 'Houdini' (-3) [1-week #1]
7) PinkPantheress ft. Central Cee - 'Nice to meet you' (-2)
8) Drake ft. Sexyy Red, SZA - 'Rich Baby Daddy' (-2)
9) Dave, Central Cee - 'UK Rap' (-2)
10) Dave, Central Cee - 'Trojan Horse' (-1)
11) Aitch ft. Nafe Smallz - 'Landslide' (-3)
12) Travis Scott ft. James Blake, 21 Savage - 'TIL FURTHER NOTICE' (-1) [2-week #1]
13) Aitch, PLK - 'Heist' (-3)
14) Leonell Cassio ft. Lily Hain - 'Woho, I Thought It Be Me & You' (Debut)
15) Aitch - 'FTA Freestyle' (-2)
16) Dave, Tiakola - 'Meridian' (-4) [1-week #1]
17) Dave, Central Cee ft. Kamal. - 'Our 25th Birthday' (-3)
18) Leonell Cassio ft. Lily Hain - 'Out of Time' (Debut)
19) Drake, Central Cee - 'On The Radar Freestyle' (-3) [1-week #1]
20) Jack Harlow - 'Lovin On Me' (+11)

Albums:

1) Travis Scott - 'UTOPIA' (+1) [14th non-consecutive week at #1]
2) Aitch - 'Lost Files' (-1) [1-week #1]
3) Dave - 'We're All Alone In This Together' (=) [65-week #1]
4) Dave - 'PSYCHODRAMA' (=) [8-week #1]
5) Jorja Smith - 'falling or flying' (=) [2-week #1]

https://www.crownnote.com/charts/foxes/24th-november-2023-30th-november-2023

My Top 10 Songs Of The Week:

#1: Sigrid – Wanted It To Be You (=)   [2nd consecutive week at No.1!] 🇳🇴

#2: Maisie Peters – The Last One (=) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#3: Dua Lipa – Houdini (=) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿) 🇦🇱

#4: Lena – Straightjacket (debut) 🇩🇪

#5: Sody – Missing Me (debut) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#6: Bea Miller – Hot N Cold (-2) 🇺🇸

#7: Maisie Peters – Yoko (-1) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

#8: Tyla – Water (-3) 🇿🇦

#9: Olivia Rodrigo – Stick Season (Noah Kahan Cover) (+7) 🇺🇸

#10: Piri & Tommy – Bluetooth (-1) 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

Outside of the Top 10, we have debuts from Noah Kahan, Switch Disco, John Summit, Nu Aspect, Dray, Piri & Tommy and Maisi. :)

Favourite songs and albums of the year out next weekend!

Full chart on Crown Note: https://www.crownnote.com/charts/piran/pirans-top-50-198

Full chart on BuzzJack: www.buzzjack.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=267660

Fantastic to see ‘Can’t Catch Me Now’ with a new peak and that it would’ve entered in the Top 10 without Christmas. Hopefully this can stick around into 2024! ❤️

my rankings: 🥰

great:

1: rich baby daddy

2: runaway

3: my love all mine

4: dna (loving you)

5: fairytale of new york

6: baddadan

good:

7: stay another day (can’t bring myself to put an amazon song in great)

8: now and then

9: i remember everything

10: liquor & cigarettes

11: houdini

12: asking

decent:

13: water

14: strangers

15: all i want for christmas is you

16: let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

17: rockin around the christmas tree

18: agora hills

19: it’s beginning to look a lot like christmas

mid:

20: merry christmas

21: greedy

22: can’t catch me now

23: jingle bell rock

24: murdaside

25: santa tell me

26: snowman

27: underneath the tree

bad:

28: it’s the most wonderful time of the year

29: now that we don’t talk

30: lovin on me

31: last christmas

32: do they know it’s christmas?

33: is it over now?

awful:

34: prada

35: cruel summer

36: stick season

37: you’re christmas to me

38: exes

39: on my love

40: merry christmas everyone

I really don’t mind most of holiday music here, but it does make the charts relatively uninteresting to follow throughout the next month, especially in this capacity.

Literally, nearly half of the songs in the Top 40 are Christmas ones already and this is still based on tracking for late November… 😐

Top 40 Rankings: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9cb87382b25de2d0f7d3871473092e9931d41638f0976efc4dd15d4b7fb2a43c.png

Man, I love ‘Houdini’ but the timing of its release and promotion was really bad for a lead single. Any momentum it has over the next few weeks is effectively going to be cancelled out by the huge festive takeover.

Hope it can at the very least recover and challenge for #1 again in the New Year!

‘Stick Season’ in the runner-up position is fine, but I really wish ‘Dial Drunk’ or ‘She Calls Me Back’ could’ve seen this level of success for Noah Kahan! 😩

Rest in peace, Shane MacGowan of The Pogues. I knew he was unwell, but him passing at only 65 still comes as a real shock to me, especially when he was released from hospital only last week.

Hopefully we can finally get ‘Fairytale Of New York’ to #1 this month (maybe even Christmas Number One?) as a tribute to him. My thoughts are with his family and friends at this difficult time! 🙏