CZB's Chart, Month 405 (May) - 8 new breakers, 4 new hits !

[irishguy28]

The link for Aurora's Sleeping Satellite is incorrect - here's a correct one - it points to Studio B's "I See Girls" instead

[CZB]

( Now moved from the end of the previous page with that error corrected - thanks, irishguy28! )

Katie Melua’s first success in my top forty was “The Closest Thing To Crazy”, from her 2003 album “Call Off The Search”.

And there's the randomly-chosen year for this month's second journey back in time - as today I spent five and a half hours revisiting my hits, breakers and other CD purchases (!) of seven years ago.

Back in 2003, the weekly UK top 40 programme on Radio One began to decline, with the arrival of "Wes" - and, although a few UK hits still made it into my monthly chart, they were very much in the minority. However, I was also regularly following the German Top 100 - on VIVA television, and other channels - and enjoying rather more of the hit music from that country, receiving a big box of CDs and 12" vinyls from Fun Records every few weeks! Towards the end of the year, broadband internet reached this part of the UK - and I began to rediscover the charts of other countries that I hadn't heard for a few years. These have perhaps influenced my chart of 2003 a little, but not much.....

For perhaps the first time in any of these retro charts, I must admit that, listening again to ninety-six of these tracks today (unfortunately, four are nowhere to be found on YouTube!) there were occasions on which I was thinking "how did this manage to get so high?". In particular, there are quite a few (inferior) cover versions of fairly well-known old hits. Maybe it just wasn't an especially good year for music..... although six of my monthly Chartbusters went on to be among my top ten favourites of 2003, in another month the best new release was Madonna's "Love Profusion", which became my least successful Chartbuster ever, unable to climb from its top forty entry position of number 36!

Anyway, I hope others find something to enjoy here. Where else could you find a year-end chart that includes tracks in English, German, French, Spanish, Norwegian.......and Latin?! Here it comes now!






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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CZB'S TOP FORTY OF 2003 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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01 01 12 J'EN AI MARRE Alizee
02 11 15 THE CLOSEST THING TO CRAZY Katie Melua ##
03 01 14 SILENCE Gigi D'Agostino
04 01 13 ANTHEM 2003 Sensation ##
05 02 10 WHITE FLAG Dido ##
06 02 11 THE MAGIC KEY One-T and Cool-T
07 01 13 NOTHING BUT YOU Paul Van Dyk, Hemstock / Jennings, Jan Johnston ##
08 03 12 OBSESION Aventura
09 02 11 NO NO NO Ann Lee ##
10 01 13 CLOSE YOUR EYES Circ ##

11 04 11 ONLY IF I Kate Ryan
12 11 11 I CAN'T LET YOU GO Ian Van Dahl
13 02 16 LOOK AT US Northern Heightz ##
14 04 11 ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST Mario Piu
15 05 11 THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV Milk Inc.
16 03 10 IN-TANGO In-Grid
17 11 11 LIBERATIO Krypteria ##
18 10 11 DANCING Lexy and K-Paul
19 04 07 WHY WORRY Sylver
20 06 10 SUMMER NIGHTS Hi-Skool

21 30 22 PARADISE Novaspace
22 12 11 SURRENDER Lasgo
23 11 10 ENDLESS FANTASY Starsplash
24 08 09 FOREVER AND FOR ALWAYS Shania Twain
25 03 06 LIVIN' MY LIFE Sylver
26 13 11 IT'S OVER NOW Natasha Thomas ##
27 10 07 KOKOMO Adam Green
28 16 10 DEPEND ON YOU Ayu
29 10 07 I BEGIN TO WONDER Dannii Minogue
30 06 09 SPIRIT OF YESTERDAY DJ Volume

31 06 09 SHALLOW WATER Sylver
32 14 09 FEELIN' FINE Ultrabeat
33 14 10 1, 2, 3 (KEEP THE SPIRIT ALIVE) Jan Wayne Meets Danielle
34 13 08 HOLLYWOOD Madonna
35 11 05 THESE ARE THE THINGS Black Box Recorder ##
36 10 05 LIBERTINE Kate Ryan
37 16 08 HOW OLD R U Master Blaster
38 24 08 SO MUCH LOVE TO GIVE Freeloaders
39 24 09 YOU'RE MY HEART, YOU'RE MY SOUL Bolenski Beat
40 21 08 MY FIRST LOVE Lovestern Galaktica Project

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Just fifteen other tracks from 2003 reached my monthly top forty:
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41 19 06 GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN Glamarama
42 23 08 I DON'T WANNA STOP ATB
43 30 13 WHY (DOES YOUR HEART HURT SO MUCH) Natasha Thomas ##
44 27 08 NOTHING FAILS Madonna
45 31 07 KINGSTON TOWN 89ers
46 26 04 THE END Groove Coverage
47 21 04 DON'T SPEAK Sonic Solutions
48 24 04 AT THE END Iio
49 15 03 TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF Cheeky Girls ##
50 31 04 SURRENDER Laura Pausini
51 31 04 LONG WAY HOME ATB
52 32 03 SOUNDS LIKE A MELODY Lichtenfels
53 36 04 JESSICA Adam Green
54 36 03 LOVE PROFUSION Madonna ##
55 40 03 GALAXY Pulsedriver

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Thirty-six further tracks reached the breakers, but didn't make it into the chart:
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56 57 ---- BEAUTIFUL Christina Aguilera
57 60 ---- AROUND MY DREAM Double U Boys
58 61 ---- SLEEPING SATELLITE Aurora featuring Naimee Coleman
59 66 ---- I SEE GIRLS Studio B
60 67 ---- LISTEN TO YOUR HEART DHT featuring Edmee
61 71 ---- JULIET Flipsyde
62 71 ---- POISON Groove Coverage
63 72 ---- HOME ALONE Special D
64 78 ---- PASSION Steve Murano
65 80 ---- AMERICAN LIFE Madonna
66 81 ---- LET'S GET HAPPY Lou
67 86 ---- CLUB FILES ONE (EQUINOXE IV) DJ Quicksilver

68 89 ---- RUN TO YOU Novaspace
69 90 ---- MAN IN THE MOON Fragma
70 92 ---- LOVE IS A SOLDIER Jan Wayne
71 99 ---- HOLD ME TONIGHT Angel_One
72 99 ---- TIME Milk Inc.
73 100 -- BREATHE WITHOUT YOU Milk Inc.
74 105 -- HOLE IN THE HEAD Sugababes
75 107 -- THE VOICE WITHIN Christina Aguilera
76 109 -- NEW LIFE DJ Quicksilver
77 110 -- HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A CHEEKY HOLIDAY Cheeky Girls
78 110 -- I LIKE CHOPIN DJK
79 113 -- PAST WAS YESTERDAY DJs @ Work

80 114 -- MOONSHINE Project Medusa vs Exor
81 115 -- NO LIMIT ON THE BEACH Klubbingman
82 116 -- ALL THE THINGS SHE SAID DJ Sputnik
83 117 -- I BELIEVE Sash featuring TJ Davis
84 118 -- I LEAVE THE WORLD TODAY Baracuda
85 120 -- CHIHUAHUA DJ Bobo
86 120 -- THE SCHOOL SONG Black Box Recorder
87 121 -- I'LL SEE HER AGAIN JCA
88 122 -- BALLET DANCER Master Blaster
89 123 -- ANGEL OF DARKNESS Alex C featuring Yasmin K
90 124 -- I'M NOT TWENTY / J'AI PAS VINGT ANS Alizee
91 125 -- THIS TIME I KNOW IT'S FOR REAL Kelly Llorenna

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And, to bring the total up to 100, the best other singles that I also bought!
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92 ---- ---- CHIPZ IN BLACK (WHO YOU GONNA CALL?) Chipz
93 ---- ---- COWBOY Chipz
94 ---- ---- UNSPEAKABLE Ace of Base
95 ---- ---- LIEBST DU MICH (ODER LIEBST MICH NICHT) Hella
96 ---- ---- MAY WE NEVER HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE Ronan Tynan / Rita Connolly
97 ---- ---- IN DEN HIMMEL FALLEN Dogma
98 ---- ---- SAY CHEESE (SMILE PLEASE) Fast Food Rockers
99 ---- ---- OPEN YOUR HEART Birgitta Haukdal
100 --- --- COMME CI COMME CA French Affair

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( As always, if anyone spots anything that ought to be moved to an earlier year, do please let me know! )

[irishguy28]

11 04 11 ONLY IF I Kate Ryan
12 11 11 I CAN'T LET YOU GO Ian Van Dahl
15 05 11 THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV Milk Inc.
24 08 09 FOREVER AND FOR ALWAYS Shania Twain
29 10 07 I BEGIN TO WONDER Dannii Minogue
32 14 09 FEELIN' FINE Ultrabeat
36 10 05 LIBERTINE Kate Ryan
42 23 08 I DON'T WANNA STOP ATB
44 27 08 NOTHING FAILS Madonna
48 24 04 AT THE END Iio
54 36 03 LOVE PROFUSION Madonna ##
56 57 ---- BEAUTIFUL Christina Aguilera
59 66 ---- I SEE GIRLS Studio B
68 89 ---- RUN TO YOU Novaspace
74 105 -- HOLE IN THE HEAD Sugababes
75 107 -- THE VOICE WITHIN Christina Aguilera
96 ---- ---- MAY WE NEVER HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE Ronan Tynan / Rita Connolly

Those are my favourites! Funny that you list "May We Never Have To Say Goodbye" - it was played in Croke Park after the All-Ireland Football Semi-Final yesterday, and that was the first time I'd heard it in years!

It was only the second track of Rita's to ever register with me - Ripples In The Rockpools from Shaun Davey's Granuaile suite was a radio hit back in 1985.

[Blondini]

That Alizee song is fantastic! I bought an import CD with I'm Fed Up - the English version on it.

[irishguy28]

How do you actually "score" these charts, CZB?

If I understand your columns correctly, your Number 2 for the year peaked at a relatively lowly #11, and spent 15 months on the chart. Conversely, your Number 3 peaked at #1, spending 14 months on the chart. It seems highly unlikely, therefore, that Katie should trump Gigi! Unless Katie camped out at #11 for the duration of her chart stay, while Gigi zipped up to Number 1 for a single month, spending the rest of his chart career in the nether regions!

[CZB]

As you have probably realised, my scoring system is not linear - I think I recall you mentioning on another thread some time ago, probably quite rightly, something along the lines that in producing a year-end chart, most people's instinct would be to allocate 40 points to each number one, 39 points to each number two and so on - but this doesn't really reflect "relative" popularity, as there may be occasions on which an excellent number two unluckily missed out on being number one, while at another time something might have been "luckier" to reach number one because there was far less competition. (You probably made the point more clearly than this!). So my points allocations are more variable - while the maximum is 40 (in the early years, it used to be 50) very high scores went only to something really superb. Usually, the number one scores much less than this, with many hits occupying adjacent positions scoring the same amount. The number forty always gets one point - but (usually) so do a few others just above that. To limit wild fluctuations, tracks with the same score are listed in the same relative order as in the previous month.

I was hoping that I might have my handwritten lists of the months in which these two tracks charted - they entered in the same month, March 2004 - in my "current" file - so that the points totals could be proved / checked (just in case I had added one or both up incorrectly). But this only goes back as far as January 2006. (By way of illustration, just flicking through those now reveals that the lowest-scoring number one was in the first month of that period - Ilona Mitrecey held on at the top with "Un Monde Parfait" scoring just twelve points, the same as the five hits just below it! - while the highest-scoring number one since then is.....the current one! Lady GaGa's "Alejandro" has twenty points this month. (Further down, Stromae at 17 has twelve points - as does Amatorski at 18 - so it could be said that, in a really uncompetitive month, "Alors On Danse" might have been number one!!!) I'll try to locate the earlier physical file later on today, or in the next few days - as my computer files only record the grand totals of points, not individual months' - and the chart runs. However, these show that the margin was very close - Katie Melua has a total of 126 points, Gigi D'Agostino has 125!! This is partly because the former actually did have quite a similar chart-run to what you suggested:

THE CLOSEST THING TO CRAZY - KATIE MELUA
12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 14 16 19 24 34 37


SILENCE - GIGI D'AGOSTINO
06 01 01 01 01 07 12 16 17 18 26 34 37 39


In fact, if the points system had been the linear approach mentioned above, her lead would have been greater! "Closest...." would have had 371 points, "Silence" 358.

[Tiger]

01 01 12 J'EN AI MARRE Alizee
05 02 10 WHITE FLAG Dido ##

11 04 11 ONLY IF I Kate Ryan
13 02 16 LOOK AT US Northern Heightz ##
15 05 11 THE SUN ALWAYS SHINES ON TV Milk Inc.

24 08 09 FOREVER AND FOR ALWAYS Shania Twain
29 10 07 I BEGIN TO WONDER Dannii Minogue

32 14 09 FEELIN' FINE Ultrabeat
34 13 08 HOLLYWOOD Madonna
36 10 05 LIBERTINE Kate Ryan

44 27 08 NOTHING FAILS Madonna
48 24 04 AT THE END Iio
50 31 04 SURRENDER Laura Pausini
54 36 03 LOVE PROFUSION Madonna ##

58 61 ---- SLEEPING SATELLITE Aurora featuring Naimee Coleman
60 67 ---- LISTEN TO YOUR HEART DHT featuring Edmee
62 71 ---- POISON Groove Coverage
65 80 ---- AMERICAN LIFE Madonna
66 81 ---- LET'S GET HAPPY Lou

74 105 -- HOLE IN THE HEAD Sugababes
75 107 -- THE VOICE WITHIN Christina Aguilera
77 110 -- HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A CHEEKY HOLIDAY Cheeky Girls

90 124 -- I'M NOT TWENTY / J'AI PAS VINGT ANS Alizee

92 ---- ---- CHIPZ IN BLACK (WHO YOU GONNA CALL?) Chipz
93 ---- ---- COWBOY Chipz
98 ---- ---- SAY CHEESE (SMILE PLEASE) Fast Food Rockers
99 ---- ---- OPEN YOUR HEART Birgitta Haukdal

WOO Alizee rocks in that era. And Ch!pz

[irishguy28]

Very interesting!

Yes indeed...I have had one of my trademark rants against points-based systems several times on these boards - but that is quite a novel adaptation - to fix the points for the Number 40, but to allow the upper positions to vary like that! But it is a very good way of doing it - sometimes my Number 1 remains Number 1 purely by default because nothing better has come along, even if it has run out of steam. Other times, records fail to reach the top merely because the competition at that time is too hot.

When I do my year-end charts, I don't explicitly reference the positions in my weekly chart - I don't use a points-based system, though of course, the songs that did well on my weekly charts will naturally tend to do well in the year-end rundown too.

To limit wild fluctuations, tracks with the same score are listed in the same relative order as in the previous month.

I've often wondered if that would be a fairer way of splitting ties in our Chart of Charts - though I realise that probably involves more work!

[CZB]

I have now checked the monthly points for those two top hits of 2003 - this is how they stacked up:


THE CLOSEST THING TO CRAZY - KATIE MELUA
12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 14 16 19 24 34 37
11 11 11 10 10 08 12 10 09 09 08 06 06 03 02 = 126 points

SILENCE - GIGI D'AGOSTINO
06 01 01 01 01 07 12 16 17 18 26 34 37 39
14 17 14 14 14 09 11 08 07 08 04 02 02 01 = 125 points


Despite the much more impressive start for "Silence", "Closest..." was at least slightly above it from the seventh to the fourteenth month - and the two points scored in that extra fifteenth month made all the difference to the final result!

To limit wild fluctuations, tracks with the same score are listed in the same relative order as in the previous month.

I've often wondered if that would be a fairer way of splitting ties in our Chart of Charts - though I realise that probably involves more work!

The Europarade originally adopted that approach, before switching to the alphabetical order method. It would indeed add extra work, but I don't think it would make very much difference.

[CZB]

It's time for a new chart.....





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CZB'S TOP FORTY ------------- Month 373 ------------ SEPTEMBER 2010
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01 03 06 A NIGHT LIKE THIS Caro Emerald ##
02 02 03 BUBBLE BATH The Swiss
03 05 02 WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO Yolanda Be Cool featuring D-Cup
04 04 03 ALL THE LOVERS Kylie Minogue ##
05 01 03 ALEJANDRO (DON'T CALL MY NAME) Lady GaGa
06 22 02 AURORA Nova [Rapid Riser]
07 08 05 VANILLA TWILIGHT Owl City
08 06 05 GYPSY Shakira ##
09 07 04 BITTERSWEET Sophie Ellis-Bextor ##
10 17 04 ALORS ON DANSE Stromae

11 09 04 I AM NOT A ROBOT Marina and the Diamonds
12 16 04 THE RAIN Peter Luts
13 10 08 AZURE Paul Kalkbrenner
14 11 06 TELEPHONE Lady GaGa featuring Beyonce
15 18 02 COME HOME Amatorski ##
16 25 04 TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART Alicia Keys
17 ---- 01 ROCKET TO URANUS Vengaboys / Perez Hilton [Highest New Entry] ##
18 12 07 WAITING Dash Berlin featuring Emma Hewitt ##
19 ---- 01 A HAPPY PLACE Katie Melua
20 21 04 HAVEN'T MET YOU YET Michael Buble

21 15 06 HOLLYWOOD Marina and the Diamonds
22 30 02 THAT MAN Caro Emerald
23 14 05 LOVE DON'T LIVE HERE Bananarama
24 27 03 THE RIDDLE Prezioso and Marvin
25 28 07 FOIRFE / PERFECT Eddi Reader / Fairground Attraction
26 32 02 NEVER CRY AGAIN Dash Berlin
27 26 09 I THINK I LIKE IT Fake Blood
28 19 06 BETTER RUN Tocadisco featuring Nadia Ali
29 13 09 ON AND ON / ON SE DONNE Agnes [Fastest Faller] ##
30 40 02 I NEED YOU NOW Agnes

31 ---- 01 FIRE WITH FIRE Scissor Sisters
32 20 08 FIREFLIES Owl City
33 35 03 SWEET DISPOSITION Temper Trap
34 23 10 STEREO LOVE Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina [Longest Laster] ##
35 34 02 THIS IS MY LIFE Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina
36 37 05 SOMETHING'S JUMPING IN YOUR SHIRT Malcolm McLaren and Lisa Marie
37 24 06 STARRY EYED Ellie Goulding
38 29 09 BAD ROMANCE Lady GaGa
39 31 07 HELLO Jan Wayne
40 ---- 01 ONE Swedish House Mafia
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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01 [ 00 ] OVERRATED Jacqueline (Govaert) [Chartbuster] ##
02 [ 02 ] VOYAGE VOYAGE Bananarama
03 [ 03 ] WHO'D HAVE KNOWN Lily Allen
04 [ 06 ] YOUR LOVE IS MY DRUG Ke$ha
05 [ 07 ] NATURALLY Selena Gomez and the Scene
06 [ 14 ] EVIDENT UTENSIL Chairlift
07 [ 10 ] HOT Inna
08 [ 09 ] DON'T TELL ME THAT IT'S OVER Amy MacDonald
09 [ 12 ] IF YOU TOLERATE THIS Eric Chase
10 [ 11 ] FEVER Cascada

11 [ 15 ] TURN THE TIDE Sylver
12 [ 00 ] FULL FOCUS Armin Van Buuren
13 [ 29 ] A MOMENT OF MADNESS Katie Melua
14 [ 00 ] BROMANCE Tim Berg
15 [ 16 ] LOVESONG Jes
16 [ 17 ] OUTTA HERE Esmee Denters
17 [ 18 ] RUSSIAN ROULETTE Rihanna
18 [ 19 ] WINGS Das Pop
19 [ 20 ] TOCHAILT UAIGHE GO RóLUATH Duke Special
20 [ 21 ] NEED YOU NOW Lady Antebellum

21 [ 22 ] MISSING Jessy
22 [ 23 ] I WANNA Bob Sinclar and Sahara featuring Shaggy
23 [ 24 ] LOVE Inna
24 [ 00 ] OH NO Marina and the Diamonds
25 [ 38 ] THE POPE OF DOPE Party Harders vs The Subs
26 [ 26 ] SPARK Amy MacDonald
27 [ 27 ] CALL ME Samantha Fox and Sabrina Salerno
28 [ 30 ] THIS PRETTY FACE Amy MacDonald
29 [ 33 ] AMAZING Inna
30 [ 35 ] BACK IT UP Caro Emerald

31 [ 32 ] JANEIRO Dash Berlin featuring Solid Sessions
32 [ 00 ] PYROMANIA Cascada
33 [ 00 ] GOOD TIMES Roll Deep featuring Jodie Connor
34 [ 34 ] NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN Wiley featuring Emeli Sande
35 [ 36 ] BAD BOYS Alexandra Burke featuring Flo Rida
36 [ 37 ] SPREAD Right Face
37 [ 39 ] KICKSTARTS Example
38 [ 00 ] BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants
39 [ 40 ] THE FLOOD Katie Melua
40 [ 00 ] ALL IS LOVE Sash featuring Jessy
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Number one nine years ago: MY HEART IT FEELS LIKE...DUB DUB It Girls
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Number one nineteen years ago: YOU AND YOUR SISTER This Mortal Coil
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Number one twenty-nine years ago: ....DOWN THE CHIP SHOP..... Kirstry MacColl
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Towards the beginning of the month, it seemed likely that an Australian act would be my new number one for September - but the three contenders finish as the closest runners-up. The Swiss and Kylie Minogue are the only two non-movers in the top forty, remaining at number two and number four respectively, while Yolanda Be Cool featuring D-Cup land between them, climbing two places from their number five entry in August. Instead, the new number one is from the Netherlands - and it’s someone who has been rewriting the record books in that country. Caro Emerald’s “Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor” has spent even more weeks as Holland’s biggest selling album than Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” - twenty-eight so far! From it, the single “A Night Like This” is up two places in its sixth month in the top forty, becoming my 180th chart-topper. Having fallen back one place from 11 to 12 in July, it is only the fifteenth track in over thirty years to move downwards before reaching number one. Achieving this first were the Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur, who were at number six in my very first chart in August 1979 with “The Green Fields Of France” - this dropped down four times, getting as low as number 28, before rising again and eventually reaching number one exactly a year later - while the most recent occurrence was in 2005, when Jam and Spoon featuring Plavka moved 13-08-05-06-01 with “Butterfly Sign”.

Completing the top five is last month’s number one, as Lady GaGa’s “Alejandro” falls four places - while the fastest of seventeen other fallers is “On And On”, diving sixteen places to number 29 for Agnes. Her follow-up, “I Need You Now” is now just below that at number 30, climbing ten places in its second month. Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina also have two hits side by side, as longest laster “Stereo Love” falls twelve places to 34 - but “This Is My Life” looks unlikely to match its success, entering at that position last time but already dropping one place to 35. Meanwhile, sixteen climbers include all of last month’s other new entries, and the Rapid Riser is Nova with “Aurora”, racing up sixteen places to number six. Among four new entries. Swedish House Mafia make their debut at number 40 with “One”; the Scissor Sisters have their second hit, as “Fire With Fire” arrives at 31; while Katie Melua has her sixth success, with “A Happy Place” entering at 19. And last month’s Chartbuster is this month’s highest new entry, as the Vengaboys reappear at number 17 after a long absence. Four of their seven previous hits reached my top five.....could “Rocket To Uranus” be the fifth?

Back in the top forty breakers this month is a song now being used in a shoes commercial in the UK, which originally entered my chart at number one twenty years ago - “Birdhouse In Your Soul” by They Might Be Giants. And there are seven new potential future hits - Sash and Jessy could be on their way back into my chart, but together for the first time, with “All Is Love”, Cascada could have a seventh hit with “Pyromania”, Marina and the Diamonds a third with “Oh No”, and recent UK chart-toppers Roll Deep might be on their way into my top forty for the first time with “Good Times”. But two instrumentals look more likely to chart in October. 20-year-old Swedish DJ, remixer and producer Tim Berg’s release “Bromance” is beginning to travel around Europe, although 33-year-old Dutchman Armin Van Buuren’s “Full Focus” doesn’t seem to have spread beyond the Netherlands as yet. He has previously had three top five hits in my chart - “Serenity”, “Sail”, and most recently “In And Out Of Love” - but three other tracks ground to a halt in the breakers. And one of those - “Never Say Never” - was sung by a 28-year-old who has been writing songs for sixteen years. Also an accomplished pianist, she has had hits (mainly) in her homeland for a decade as the lead singer and main songwriter of six-piece pop/rock band Krezip - none of which, I must confess, impressed me at all! However, she is now setting out on a solo career, with a first album, “Good Life”, including a single that has already reached number 12 in the Dutch Top 40 - and, as the new Chartbuster, is guaranteed to enter my chart too. My Record of the Month for September 2010 is Jacqueline Govaert, with “Overrated”.

[Tiger]

03 05 02 WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO Yolanda Be Cool featuring D-Cup
05 01 03 ALEJANDRO (DON'T CALL MY NAME) Lady GaGa
07 08 05 VANILLA TWILIGHT Owl City
08 06 05 GYPSY Shakira ##
10 17 04 ALORS ON DANSE Stromae

14 11 06 TELEPHONE Lady GaGa featuring Beyonce
15 18 02 COME HOME Amatorski ##
16 25 04 TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART Alicia Keys
20 21 04 HAVEN'T MET YOU YET Michael Buble

21 15 06 HOLLYWOOD Marina and the Diamonds
29 13 09 ON AND ON / ON SE DONNE Agnes [Fastest Faller] ##

31 ---- 01 FIRE WITH FIRE Scissor Sisters
32 20 08 FIREFLIES Owl City
33 35 03 SWEET DISPOSITION Temper Trap
38 29 09 BAD ROMANCE Lady GaGa
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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03 [ 03 ] WHO'D HAVE KNOWN Lily Allen
04 [ 06 ] YOUR LOVE IS MY DRUG Ke$ha
05 [ 07 ] NATURALLY Selena Gomez and the Scene
08 [ 09 ] DON'T TELL ME THAT IT'S OVER Amy MacDonald

16 [ 17 ] OUTTA HERE Esmee Denters
17 [ 18 ] RUSSIAN ROULETTE Rihanna
20 [ 21 ] NEED YOU NOW Lady Antebellum

24 [ 00 ] OH NO Marina and the Diamonds
26 [ 26 ] SPARK Amy MacDonald
28 [ 30 ] THIS PRETTY FACE Amy MacDonald

32 [ 00 ] PYROMANIA Cascada
33 [ 00 ] GOOD TIMES Roll Deep featuring Jodie Connor
35 [ 36 ] BAD BOYS Alexandra Burke featuring Flo Rida
38 [ 00 ] BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants

Your chart still baffles me with all the REALLY old entries hanging around the bottom I'm pleased to see Scissor Sisters end and my favourite Breaker this week is actually Ke$ha.

[Blondini]

It's funny seeing you chart Marina's songs late - when other people are on to her next ones!

[irishguy28]

So Caro Emerald conquers another territory! I was somewhat surprised when her record-breaking feats were reported here 2 weeks ago.

[CZB]

...it is only the fifteenth track in over thirty years to move downwards before reaching number one. Achieving this first were the Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur, who were at number six in my very first chart in August 1979 with “The Green Fields Of France”

So, for this month's first trip back in time, I have spent five hours today going back further than ever before - more than three decades ago, to the end of the 'seventies!

I had first taken an interest in pop music - and especially, the UK charts counted down on Sunday evenings by Simon Bates - when I was 13 years old. I was then given a record player on my 14th birthday, and began to (occasionally) buy records - mainly former hits at rock-bottom prices from the bargain bins! But, by the beginning of 1979, the UK chart show had expanded to a top 40, and I had also started to listen to Ireland's chart show earlier on Sunday afternoons - although it was more difficult for me to obtain the singles I wanted from that chart, except on holidays to (Northern) Ireland, or if they were released in the UK. However, in August 1979 I compiled my own monthly chart for the first time - continuing to do so ever since!

My top hundred of 1979 therefore mainly consists of chart hits from the UK and Ireland - but there are also several continental tracks that I discovered, and charted, later on (in some cases, many years later.....). Three tracks that entered Ireland's chart in 1979 and went on to spent many, many weeks there take the top three places - as they all remained in my chart even longer! Although there are YouTube links below for all of those, unfortunately the same can't be said for nine others from further down the list, mostly by Irish acts. However, there are also a few I seriously doubted that I would ever be able to find on YouTube, but which actually are there!

So, here is the complete countdown.....




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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CZB'S TOP FORTY OF 1979 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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01 01 33 DO YOU WANT YOUR OLD LOBBY WASHED DOWN Brendan Shine
02 01 42 THE GREEN FIELDS OF FRANCE The Fureys and Davey Arthur
03 01 18 A BUNCH OF THYME Foster and Allen ##
04 03 17 OLIVER'S ARMY Elvis Costello and the Attractions
05 02 15 DAY TRIP TO BANGOR Fiddlers' Dram ##
06 03 14 FEELS LIKE I'M IN LOVE Kelly Marie
07 04 14 IF I SAID YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL BODY... The Bellamy Brothers ##
08 01 12 ON THE INSIDE Lynne Hamilton ##
09 09 17 HALLELUJAH Gali Atari and Milk and Honey
10 04 09 THE BALLAD OF LUCY JORDAN Marianne Faithfull

11 08 14 COWARD OF THE COUNTY Kenny Rogers
12 06 12 BANG BANG B. A. Robertson ##
13 07 08 UP THE JUNCTION Squeeze
14 05 07 HER FATHER DIDN'T LIKE ME ANYWAY Jim McCann
15 01 06 OOH YES I DO Luv' ##
16 06 07 SUN OF JAMAICA Goombay Dance Band
17 07 06 (NEVER LISTEN TO A) BOUZOUKI PLAYER Babe
18 05 07 LUTON AIRPORT Cats UK
19 06 09 THE PRINCE Madness
20 08 09 LEAVING NANCY The Fureys and Davey Arthur

21 05 06 HOT LOVE Kelly Marie ##
22 03 08 PADRAIG PEARSE Wolfe Tones
23 18 08 VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR Buggles
24 27 08 IN THE NAVY Village People
25 07 06 HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A HOLI-HOLIDAY Boney M
26 21 05 I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash
27 10 09 NIGHT BOAT TO CAIRO Madness
28 23 06 LOVE THEME FROM "PRISONER CELL BLOCK H" William Motzing
29 14 04 THEY DON'T KNOW Kirsty MacColl
30 11 08 THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA Charlie Daniels Band

31 07 08 VIVA IL PAPA Caitriona Walsh
32 07 06 SUMMER TIME BLUES Daddy Cool and the Lollipops ##
33 17 06 THE SPARROW Ramblers ##
34 10 04 HAPPY MAN Cathal Dunne
35 17 04 I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS Boomtown Rats ##
36 11 06 A MERRY JINGLE Greedies [Thin Lizzy / Sex Pistols] ##
37 13 05 LADY LYNDA Beach Boys
38 13 07 SHE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU Suzi Quatro
39 16 04 IF I HAD YOU Korgis
40 17 05 ROCKABILLY REBEL Matchbox

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These were all the other tracks from 1979 that reached my monthly charts:
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41 14 07 WHO DO YOU WANNA BE? Gina, Dale Haze and the Champions
42 16 07 GOOD EVENING HENRY Margo
43 10 05 FOOD FOR THOUGHT Barron Knights ##
44 16 04 IN THE BROWNIES Billy Connolly
45 12 04 IF I DREAM Brendan Shine
46 31 03 FUNKY TOWN Lipps Inc
47 19 04 DREAMING Blondie
48 31 03 IT'S A REAL GOOD FEELING Peter Kent

49 33 03 SAVE ME Clout
50 36 03 AY-AY-SAILOR Baccara
51 22 01 LORD OF THE DANCE Brighouse and Rastrick Band
52 23 02 NICE LEGS, SHAME ABOUT HER FACE Monks
53 23 01 YOU'RE THE GREATEST LOVER Gina, Dale Haze and the Champions
54 24 01 I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND Dollar
55 26 03 WIE DU [Bright Eyes] Paola
56 37 02 OH ME OH MY BZN
57 21 02 YOU NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE IT Freshmen

58 22 03 D.I.S.C.O. Ottawan
59 21 05 JUST WHEN I NEEDED YOU MOST Randy Vanwarmer
60 24 03 CHOSEN FEW Dooleys
61 35 03 POP MUZIK M
62 21 04 I HAVE A DREAM Abba
63 22 04 THE TOPICAL SONG [The Logical Song] Barron Knights
64 25 01 BLUE PETER Mike Oldfield
65 31 03 DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW Abba
66 35 03 BORN TO BE ALIVE Patrick Hernandez

67 24 02 MAYBE Thom Pace
68 22 02 GOTTA GO HOME Boney M
69 23 01 EL LUTE Boney M
70 28 01 VOULEZ-VOUS Abba
71 29 01 YOU'RE THE GREATEST LOVER Jonathan King
72 34 03 LIMERICK YOU'RE A LADY Dennis Allen
73 48 01 MARCHING ON BZN
74 30 01 ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN Elvis Costello
75 30 01 I'M BORN AGAIN Boney M

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And, to bring the total up to 100, the best breakers and other singles I bought:
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76 --- --- A WALK IN THE PARK Nick Straker Band
77 --- --- I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Tourists
78 --- --- WEEKEND Earth and Fire
79 --- --- ESCAPE (PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes
80 --- --- QUE SERA MI VIDA (IF YOU SHOULD GO) Gibson Brothers
81 --- --- GO WEST Village People
82 --- --- TELL IT ALL ABOUT BOYS Dolly Dots
83 --- --- BRASS IN POCKET Pretenders

84 --- --- DO THAT TO ME ONE MORE TIME Captain and Tennille
85 --- --- PLEASE ME PLEASE DO Babe
86 --- --- THEME FROM "THE DEER HUNTER" Shadows
87 --- --- MORNING DANCE Spiro Gyra
88 --- --- I HEAR YOU NOW Jon and Vangelis
89 --- --- SO GOOD TO BE BACK HOME AGAIN Tourists
90 --- --- LIVING BY NUMBERS New Muzik
91 --- --- TOGETHER WE ARE BEAUTIFUL Fern Kinney

92 --- --- WHO WERE YOU WITH IN THE MOONLIGHT Dollar
93 --- --- GONNA GET ALONG WITHOUT YOU NOW Viola Wills
94 --- --- I COULD BE SO GOOD FOR YOU Dennis Waterman
95 --- --- ICH BIN FüR DICH DA [I'll Put You Together Again] Vicky Leandros
96 --- --- MONEY Flying Lizards
97 --- --- ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK Telex
98 --- --- THE GREAT EGG RACE Richard Denton and Martin Cook
99 --- --- RüCKFLUG-TICKET AUF DEN MOND [One Way Ticket] Nina and Mike
100 -- -- STAY WITH ME TILL DAWN Judie Tzuke

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.....and, as usual, if anyone spots anything that should be moved to an earlier year, do please let me know. Only when preparing this today, I discovered four tracks that were erroneously included, and needed to go into 1978, or an earlier year - including Village People's "YMCA" !

[Blondini]

Big WOO's for Marianne Faithfull, Blondie and Squeeze.

You charted a theme from Cell Block H even before it was broadcast in UK? Or are you retro-charting that according to date of release in Australia?

[irishguy28]

You charted a theme from Cell Block H even before it was broadcast in UK? Or are you retro-charting that according to date of release in Australia?

It's the latter - CZB ranks all songs by the year of original release.

Some great tracks there and I'll comment at more length in the next few days/weeks when I have the chance!

[Tiger]

04 03 17 OLIVER'S ARMY Elvis Costello and the Attractions

23 18 08 VIDEO KILLED THE RADIO STAR Buggles
24 27 08 IN THE NAVY Village People
25 07 06 HOORAY HOORAY IT'S A HOLI-HOLIDAY Boney M
26 21 05 I FOUGHT THE LAW The Clash

35 17 04 I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS Boomtown Rats ##

58 22 03 D.I.S.C.O. Ottawan
62 21 04 I HAVE A DREAM Abba
65 31 03 DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW Abba

VOULEZ-VOUS Abba

77 --- --- I ONLY WANT TO BE WITH YOU Tourists
79 --- --- ESCAPE (PINA COLADA SONG) Rupert Holmes
81 --- --- GO WEST Village People

Hoorah!! I love Village People

[CZB]

You charted a theme from Cell Block H even before it was broadcast in UK? Or are you retro-charting that according to date of release in Australia?

It's the latter - CZB ranks all songs by the year of original release.

Yes indeed...

there are also several continental tracks that I discovered, and charted, later on (in some cases, many years later.....).

While not exactly "continental", Lynne Hamilton's song was first released in Australia in 1979. I bought a copy of the original Australian 7" single (with William Motzing's instrumental version, also included above, on the B-side) on ebay a couple of years ago, and have seen other copies listed from time to time since then - but not as many as of the 1989 UK re-release!

That was almost another of those very rare occasions when I was ahead of the UK - "On The Inside" entered my chart at number one in November 1988, several months before the single was released here, and peaked at number three, behind Natalie Cole's "Miss You Like Crazy" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (although I remember it got to number two in the Network Chart!). It was one of just twenty-one tracks that have entered my chart at number one in the last thirty-one years - and it did so at that point mainly because it was then, after a long search, that I finally managed to obtain it on vinyl (on an imported compilation LP). I'll aim to post a full list of all those "new entries at number one" in the next few days..... there are several others there that also did so a long time after they were originally released, for the very same reason!

[CZB]

Here, then, is that further brief feature listing (with links) the 21 hits that have been new entries in my chart at number one in the last 31 years. There were a couple that I doubted I would be able to find on YouTube - but, as it turned out, they're all there!



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- - - - - - - - CZB'S CHART - NEW ENTRIES AT NUMBER ONE - - - - - - - -
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01 01 33 [#01 of 1976] DO IT, DO IT AGAIN Raffaella Carra [September 1980]
02 01 10 [#14 of 1981] CAN CAN Bad Manners [June 1981]
03 01 18 [#03 of 1979] A BUNCH OF THYME Foster and Allen [February 1982]
04 01 09 [#01 of 1978] RED IS THE ROSE Tommy Makem / Liam Clancy [June 1983]
05 01 06 [#07 of 1985] I WON'T LET YOU GO Agnetha Faltskog [March 1985]
06 01 07 [#01 of 1981] MAMMA TOLD ME Fantastique [February 1987]
07 01 12 [#08 of 1979] ON THE INSIDE Lynne Hamilton [November 1988]

08 01 07 [#42 of 1986] DECK THE HALLS (WITH...) Berdien Stenberg [December 1989]
09 01 07 [#14 of 1990] BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants [March 1990]
10 01 08 [#18 of 1991] EIN LEISES LIED Nicole [October 1991]
11 01 09 [#01 of 1989] HELLO Twinkle [June 1992]
12 01 15 [#02 of 2000] JUST AROUND THE HILL Sash / Tina Cousins [May 2000]
13 01 12 [#02 of 2002] SOMEDAY 4 Clubbers [April 2003]
14 01 11 [#01 of 2002] DESTROY SHE SAID Circ [May 2003]

15 01 13 [#07 of 2003] NOTHING BUT YOU Paul Van Dyk, H / J, Jan J [August 2003]
16 01 13 [#10 of 2003] CLOSE YOUR EYES Circ [January 2004]
17 01 13 [#06 of 2006] STARS ARE BLIND Paris Hilton [September 2006]
18 01 08 [#12 of 2006] WHEN LOVE BECOMES A LIE Liz Kay [May 2007]
19 01 09 [#24 of 1990] GOODBYE BZN [June 2007]
20 01 11 [#02 of 2007] A-A-A-ANTHEM Regi and Bart Peeters [January 2008]
21 01 09 [#04 of 2009] REMEDY Little Boots [October 2009]
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I've never been very sure whether the very first number one should be regarded as a new entry at number one - but, for completeness, here it is:




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00 01 33 [#01 of 1977] ONE DAY AT A TIME Gloria [August 1979]
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[Tiger]

09 01 07 [#14 of 1990] BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants [March 1990]
17 01 13 [#06 of 2006] STARS ARE BLIND Paris Hilton [September 2006]
21 01 09 [#04 of 2009] REMEDY Little Boots [October 2009]

Best is Paris Hilton!

[CZB]

“A Night Like This” is up two places...becoming my 180th chart-topper. Having fallen back one place from 11 to 12 in July, it is only the fifteenth track in over thirty years to move downwards before reaching number one.....the most recent occurrence was in 2005, when Jam and Spoon featuring Plavka moved 13-08-05-06-01 with “Butterfly Sign”. "

So, for this month's second trip back in time, it's only a few short steps back to five years ago - as today I spent six hours listening to ninety-eight of my top hundred tracks of 2005. Unfortunately, the breakers by Gemma Hayes and Dizzee Deejays are nowhere to be found on YouTube - but everything else can be heard on the links below.

More tracks will probably be well-known to most readers - many are by acts who have reached my chart more recently with other singles - but anything unfamiliar, I probably heard in the weekly chart shows of the UK, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands or Germany, that I was tuning to every week back then (and, along with several further additional chart shows, I'm still listening to all of those in 2010!)

There are quite a few cover versions of hits from previous years - indeed, at least twenty of the top hundred of the year fall into this category! - and it perhaps wasn't exactly a "vintage" year, with one of the lowest-ever totals of hits. Which, in turn. meant that the average length of time a hit was spending in my top forty was perhaps at its peak - with none lasting less than four months, and quite a few remaining much, much lomger.....

Here, then, is the complete countdown for 2005:






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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CZB'S TOP FORTY OF 2005 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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01 01 14 GOMENASAI T.a.t.u.
02 01 13 UN MONDE PARFAIT Ilona Mitrecey
03 02 13 SERENITY Armin van Buuren
04 10 17 NINE MILLION BICYCLES Katie Melua ##
05 15 22 EVERY TIME WE TOUCH Cascada
06 03 08 AUTOMATIC Elize
07 02 10 SPREAD MY WINGS Leki ##
08 02 12 WISH I Jem ##
09 03 08 NARCOTIC Potatoheadz featuring Lizzy Pattinson
10 11 11 SHIVER Natalie Imbruglia ##

11 03 09 MAMMA MIA In-Grid
12 02 09 WONDERFUL LIFE Tina Cousins
13 07 10 BOYS WILL BE BOYS Ordinary Boys
14 15 13 MESMERISED Faith Evans
15 06 08 SORRY Madonna
16 05 10 MADE OF STONE Dario G
17 12 09 FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE Bright Eyes
18 04 08 I MAY BE SMALL, I MAY BE SWEET Chicken Charlie
19 06 08 HUNG UP Madonna
20 11 10 FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE Melanie C ##

21 15 11 HOLY VIRGIN Groove Coverage
22 05 08 ALLO ALLO Ilona Mitrecey
23 07 07 COOL Gwen Stefani
24 07 08 KEEP ON MOVING Starstylers featuring Michy ##
25 25 17 WINTER DT8 Project featuring Andrea Britton
26 07 07 FLYING HIGH Dana Rayne
27 04 06 LE BATEAU BLANC Karol
28 04 06 C'EST LES VACANCES Ilona Mitrecey
29 15 08 Y ASI Global Kryner ##
30 08 07 DIE EINE Die Firma

31 13 08 MOVIN' ON Ian Van Dahl
32 11 06 BRIZGELNA BRIZGA / TURBO POLKA Atomik Harmonik ##
33 13 08 DUBI-DAM-DAM Banaroo ##
34 16 09 JUMP Madonna
35 17 09 I CRIED FOR YOU Katie Melua
36 09 06 GET TOGETHER Madonna
37 23 08 YOU AND ME Uniting Nations
38 13 05 WHY DJ Sammy
39 17 07 SPACE COWBOY Banaroo
40 14 05 LIVING YOUR LIFE Lash ##

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Just NINE other tracks from 2005 reached my monthly top forty:
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41 24 09 BECAUSE OF YOU Kelly Clarkson
42 21 04 RIGHT IN THE NIGHT Onyx
43 24 05 SATURDAY LOVE AFFAIR Northern Heightz
44 26 05 PUSH THE BUTTON Sugababes
45 28 04 LIVING ON VIDEO Pakito
46 33 06 KYLIE Akcent
47 37 08 ONE WORD Kelly Osbourne
48 34 04 A DAY IN THE SUN Rimini Project
49 38 04 MAD WORLD Jan Wayne

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Thirty-two further tracks reached the breakers, but didn't make it into the chart:
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50 55 --- COME RAIN COME SHINE Jenn Cuneta
51 57 --- WAITING FOR YOU Narcotic Thrust
52 59 --- ALL NIGHT LONG Lasgo
53 65 --- SEXY EYES Eyeopener
54 69 --- MOVE IN MY DIRECTION Bananarama
55 70 --- LYING Lasgo
56 71 --- LOVE GENERATION Bob Sinclar
57 80 --- I WON'T LET YOU DOWN Angel City
58 84 --- SHIVERS Armin van Buuren
59 91 --- STARS ON 45 Global Deejays
60 92 --- WORDS 89ers

61 93 --- BLIND Milk Inc.
62 95 --- IN YOUR ARMS Mylo
63 96 --- GROW Kubb
64 97 --- POPCORN Crazy Frog
65 98 --- THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN' Jessica Simpson
66 98 --- UNDERCOVER Gemma Hayes
67 99 --- ASS UP Baracuda
68 100 -- ALL ABOUT US T.a.t.u.
69 101 -- LITTLE BY LITTLE Laura and the Lovers
70 103 -- ANGEL Chiara
71 103 -- GO TO HELL Milk Inc.

72 105 -- FADING Discoblaster
73 106 -- SELF CONTROL Royal Gigolos
74 107 -- I WISH I WAS A PUNK ROCKER Sandi Thom
75 108 -- THINK ABOUT THE WAY Dizzee Deejays
76 110 -- SUNRISE Angel City
77 115 -- INSPIRATION Ian Van Dahl
78 117 -- BELIEVE IN ME ATB
79 122 -- FLY AWAY JCA
80 124 -- HUMANITY ATB featuring Tiff Lacey
81 125 -- CAROLINA Adam Green

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And, to bring the total up to 100, the best other singles I bought:
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82 --- --- DON'T BOTHER Shakira
83 --- --- GANGSTERTOWN Chipz
84 --- --- CALL ME Femminem
85 --- --- HELP ASIA Dance United
86 --- --- EYAHE (IK WIL MET JOU / WANNA BE WITH YOU) Djumbo
87 --- --- VICTORIAM SPERAMUS Krypteria
88 --- --- DE KLEINE KROKODIL Snappie
89 --- --- HEARTBREAKER Blue Lagoon
90 --- --- BAD DAY Daniel Powter

91 --- --- ONE, TWO, THREE Chipz
92 --- --- SCHRI-SCHRA-SCHRöDI Gerd Show
93 --- --- SHAKE YOUR BALLA (1, 2, 3, ALARMA) Hot Banditoz
94 --- --- KUMA HE K3
95 --- --- MAPOUKA Yamboo
96 --- --- DAS GROßE ERWACHEN (UND JETZT) Annett Louisan
97 --- --- LUCKY LUCKY (MY SCOOTER BOY) Ellen
98 --- --- WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME Amy Diamond
99 --- --- AMARANTINE Enya
100 -- -- ANGELS Within Temptation

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As usual, if anyone spots anything that should be moved to an earlier year, do please let me know!

[Tiger]

01 01 14 GOMENASAI T.a.t.u.
02 01 13 UN MONDE PARFAIT Ilona Mitrecey
04 10 17 NINE MILLION BICYCLES Katie Melua ##
05 15 22 EVERY TIME WE TOUCH Cascada
08 02 12 WISH I Jem ##
10 11 11 SHIVER Natalie Imbruglia ##

12 02 09 WONDERFUL LIFE Tina Cousins
13 07 10 BOYS WILL BE BOYS Ordinary Boys
14 15 13 MESMERISED Faith Evans
20 11 10 FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE Melanie C ##

23 07 07 COOL Gwen Stefani
29 15 08 Y ASI Global Kryner ##

34 16 09 JUMP Madonna
35 17 09 I CRIED FOR YOU Katie Melua
36 09 06 GET TOGETHER Madonna
38 13 05 WHY DJ Sammy

41 24 09 BECAUSE OF YOU Kelly Clarkson

50 55 --- COME RAIN COME SHINE Jenn Cuneta

65 98 --- THESE BOOTS ARE MADE FOR WALKIN' Jessica Simpson
70 103 -- ANGEL Chiara

76 110 -- SUNRISE Angel City

82 --- --- DON'T BOTHER Shakira
84 --- --- CALL ME Femminem
90 --- --- BAD DAY Daniel Powter

99 --- --- AMARANTINE Enya

Good Tina Cousins, Global Kryner and... Jenn Cuneta.

[CZB]

We're just a few seconds into a new momth - so it's time to step right back into the present. Or, in my case, as near as it gets! Here's my brand new chart.....







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CZB'S TOP FORTY --------------- Month 374 ---------------- OCTOBER 2010
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01 03 03 WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO Yolanda Be Cool featuring D-Cup
02 ---- 01 BROMANCE Tim Berg [Highest New Entry]
03 19 02 A HAPPY PLACE Katie Melua
04 10 05 ALORS ON DANSE Stromae
05 01 07 A NIGHT LIKE THIS Caro Emerald ##
06 06 03 AURORA Nova
07 02 04 BUBBLE BATH The Swiss
08 05 04 ALEJANDRO (DON'T CALL MY NAME) Lady GaGa
09 ---- 01 FULL FOCUS Armin Van Buuren
10 04 04 ALL THE LOVERS Kylie Minogue ##

11 09 05 BITTERSWEET Sophie Ellis-Bextor ##
12 15 03 COME HOME Amatorski ##
13 17 02 ROCKET TO URANUS Vengaboys featuring Perez Hilton ##
14 07 06 VANILLA TWILIGHT Owl City
15 12 05 THE RAIN Peter Luts
16 16 05 TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART Alicia Keys
17 22 03 THAT MAN Caro Emerald
18 08 06 GYPSY Shakira [Fastest Faller] ##
19 11 05 I AM NOT A ROBOT Marina and the Diamonds
20 14 07 TELEPHONE Lady GaGa featuring Beyonce

21 40 02 ONE Swedish House Mafia [Rapid Riser]
22 31 02 FIRE WITH FIRE Scissor Sisters
23 13 09 AZURE Paul Kalkbrenner [Fastest Faller]
24 24 04 THE RIDDLE Prezioso and Marvin
25 18 08 WAITING Dash Berlin featuring Emma Hewitt ##
26 26 03 NEVER CRY AGAIN Dash Berlin
27 20 05 HAVEN'T MET YOU YET Michael Buble
28 30 03 I NEED YOU NOW Agnes
29 27 10 I THINK I LIKE IT Fake Blood [Longest Laster]
30 21 07 HOLLYWOOD Marina and the Diamonds

31 23 06 LOVE DON'T LIVE HERE Bananarama
32 25 08 FOIRFE / PERFECT Eddi Reader / Fairground Attraction
33 33 04 SWEET DISPOSITION Temper Trap
34 28 07 BETTER RUN Tocadisco featuring Nadia Ali
35 ---- 01 OVERRATED Jacqueline (Govaert) ##
36 35 03 THIS IS MY LIFE Edward Maya and Vika Jigulina
37 36 06 SOMETHING'S JUMPING IN YOUR SHIRT Malcolm McLaren and Lisa Marie
38 29 10 ON AND ON / ON SE DONNE Agnes [Longest Laster] ##
39 32 09 FIREFLIES Owl City
40 39 08 HELLO Jan Wayne
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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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01 [ 00 ] ALL FOR YOU Ace Of Base [Chartbuster] ##
02 [ 04 ] YOUR LOVE IS MY DRUG Ke$ha
03 [ 03 ] WHO'D HAVE KNOWN Lily Allen
04 [ 06 ] EVIDENT UTENSIL Chairlift
05 [ 05 ] NATURALLY Selena Gomez and the Scene
06 [ 07 ] HOT Inna
07 [ 09 ] IF YOU TOLERATE THIS Eric Chase
08 [ 13 ] A MOMENT OF MADNESS Katie Melua
09 [ 00 ] NOT GIVING UP ON LOVE Armin Van Buuren vs Sophie Ellis-Bextor
10 [ 10 ] FEVER Cascada

11 [ 11 ] TURN THE TIDE Sylver
12 [ 24 ] OH NO Marina and the Diamonds
13 [ 28 ] THIS PRETTY FACE Amy MacDonald
14 [ 25 ] THE POPE OF DOPE Party Harders vs The Subs
15 [ 15 ] LOVESONG Jes
16 [ 00 ] TAKE IT OFF Regi and Kaya Jones
17 [ 30 ] BACK IT UP Caro Emerald
18 [ 18 ] WINGS Das Pop
19 [ 19 ] TOCHAILT UAIGHE GO RóLUATH Duke Special
20 [ 20 ] NEED YOU NOW Lady Antebellum

21 [ 21 ] MISSING Jessy
22 [ 22 ] I WANNA Bob Sinclar and Sahara featuring Shaggy
23 [ 23 ] LOVE Inna
24 [ 26 ] SPARK Amy MacDonald
25 [ 27 ] CALL ME Samantha Fox and Sabrina Salerno
26 [ 29 ] AMAZING Inna
27 [ 40 ] ALL IS LOVE Sash featuring Jessy
28 [ 32 ] PYROMANIA Cascada
29 [ 31 ] JANEIRO Dash Berlin featuring Solid Sessions
30 [ 33 ] GOOD TIMES Roll Deep featuring Jodie Connor

31 [ 00 ] DANCE THE WAY I FEEL Ou Est Le Swimming Pool
32 [ 38 ] BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants
33 [ 37 ] KICKSTARTS Example
34 [ 34 ] NEVER BE YOUR WOMAN Wiley featuring Emeli Sande
35 [ 35 ] BAD BOYS Alexandra Burke featuring Flo Rida
36 [ 36 ] SPREAD Right Face
37 [ 00 ] TE QUIERO Stromae
38 [ 39 ] THE FLOOD Katie Melua
39 [ 00 ] CROSSFIRE Brandon Flowers
40 [ 00 ] GET OUTTA MY WAY Kylie Minogue
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Number one six years ago: SOLEADO Gigi and Molly
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Number one sixteen years ago: GIRLY GIRL / MaDCHEN Lucilectric
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Number one twenty-six years ago: COLOUR MY LOVE Fun Fun
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There are only nine climbers in this month’s new chart - and they include a new, 181st, number one. Sylvester Martinez, Johnson Peterson and Duncan MacLennan become the first Australian artists to reach the top, as Yolanda Be Cool featuring D-Cup rise another two places with “We No Speak Americano”. That’s only the seventh UK number one - it was there briefly at the end of July - to also reach number one in my chart, this rare feat having previously only been achieved by Blondie, Jennifer Rush, Europe, DJ Sammy and Yanou featuring Do, Coldplay and Lady GaGa. Among twenty-three hits moving down, September’s chart-topper by Caro Emerald slips to number five - and, after two months in the runners-up slot, the Swiss slide to number seven. “Bubble Bath” is now one of four instrumentals in the top ten - just above it at number six is the highest of five non-movers this time, Nova with “Aurora”, while two others make impressive debuts. Although he has missed the top forty completely with other breakers, Armin Van Buuren now has a fourth consecutive top ten hit, as “Full Focus” enters at number nine - while Tim Berg crashes straight in at number two with his current top five smash in Belgium and Holland, “Bromance”. This must be a strong contender for next month’s number one - along with the massive cross-continental hit “Alors On Danse” by Stromae, up another six places to number four, and complete and utter sales flop “A Happy Place” by Katie Melua, racing up sixteen places to number three. That isn’t quite the Rapid Riser this month - that honour goes to yet another instrumental, as Swedish House Mafia leap from 40 to 21 with “One“. And another instrumental is the joint fastest faller - Paul Kalkbrenner is down ten places to 23 with “Azure“, while Shakira’s “Gypsy” tumbles from eight to 18. Meanwhile, the joint longest lasters are Fake Blood and Agnes, as former number one “I Think I Like It” falls two places to 29, and former Chartbuster “On And On” is down nine at 38. And, on the subject of former Chartbusters, September’s mustn’t be forgotten - Jacqueline Govaert has the lowest of October’s new entries, and one of the most disappointing ever debuts for a former Record of the Month. New at number 35, perhaps “Overrated” was aptly titled.......

There are seven new potential future hits arriving in the top forty breakers this month. Only one is by an act entirely without any previous chart appearances, but with a single originally released last year. “Dance The Way I Feel” by Ou Est Le Swimming Pool recently improved considerably on its original peak in the Belgian charts following the suicide at a concert there of its lead singer, 22-year-old London-born Charles Haddon. Brandon Flowers previously reached number three in my chart as part of the Killers with “Human”, and now he has a solo single, “Crossfire” - while Regi has had ten hits with Milk Inc., and three others from his collaboration album “Registrated”, including the number one “A-A-A-Anthem”. Now, with the first single from the follow-up to that album, he has teamed up with 26-year-old Canadian Kaya Jones, formerly with the Pussycat Dolls, for “Take It Off ”. Meanwhile, although it's looking unlikely to add to her tally of UK top ten hits, Kylie Minogue’s new single “Get Outta My Way” could become her sixteenth hit on my chart in the months ahead - and two other acts currently in the top ten may also be about to add another hit. Stromae follows up “Alors On Danse” with “Te Quiero”, while Armin Van Buuren follows up “Full Focus” with “Not Giving Up On Love” - sung by Sophie Ellis-Bextor, currently at number 11 in my chart with former Record of the Month “Bittersweet”. That’s the second highest new breaker of the month - but the Chartbuster is a guaranteed fifteenth hit for the Swedish group who have already had six number ones in my top forty. The first was “Happy Nation”, in November 1993 - and that was followed by “The Sign”, “Living In Danger”, “Beautiful Life”, “Life Is A Flower / Whenever You’re Near Me” and “C’est La Vie (Always 21)”. The line-up has changed, as Malin and Jenny Berggren have left to pursue other projects - however, the distinctive sound of Ace Of Base is back! My Record of the Month for October 2010 is “All For You”.

[Tiger]

01 03 03 WE NO SPEAK AMERICANO Yolanda Be Cool featuring D-Cup
04 10 05 ALORS ON DANSE Stromae
08 05 04 ALEJANDRO (DON'T CALL MY NAME) Lady GaGa

14 07 06 VANILLA TWILIGHT Owl City
16 16 05 TRY SLEEPING WITH A BROKEN HEART Alicia Keys
18 08 06 GYPSY Shakira [Fastest Faller] ##
19 11 05 I AM NOT A ROBOT Marina and the Diamonds
20 14 07 TELEPHONE Lady GaGa featuring Beyonce

22 31 02 FIRE WITH FIRE Scissor Sisters
27 20 05 HAVEN'T MET YOU YET Michael Buble
28 30 03 I NEED YOU NOW Agnes
30 21 07 HOLLYWOOD Marina and the Diamonds

33 33 04 SWEET DISPOSITION Temper Trap
38 29 10 ON AND ON / ON SE DONNE Agnes [Longest Laster] ##
39 32 09 FIREFLIES Owl City

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TOP 40 BREAKERS:
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02 [ 04 ] YOUR LOVE IS MY DRUG Ke$ha
03 [ 03 ] WHO'D HAVE KNOWN Lily Allen
05 [ 05 ] NATURALLY Selena Gomez and the Scene
09 [ 00 ] NOT GIVING UP ON LOVE Armin Van Buuren vs Sophie Ellis-Bextor

12 [ 24 ] OH NO Marina and the Diamonds
13 [ 28 ] THIS PRETTY FACE Amy MacDonald
20 [ 20 ] NEED YOU NOW Lady Antebellum

24 [ 26 ] SPARK Amy MacDonald
26 [ 29 ] AMAZING Inna
28 [ 32 ] PYROMANIA Cascada
30 [ 33 ] GOOD TIMES Roll Deep featuring Jodie Connor

32 [ 38 ] BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL They Might Be Giants
35 [ 35 ] BAD BOYS Alexandra Burke featuring Flo Rida
39 [ 00 ] CROSSFIRE Brandon Flowers
40 [ 00 ] GET OUTTA MY WAY Kylie Minogue

Another great chart (and read). Good #1 and glad to see Kylie

[Benny]

“We No Speak Americano” is only the seventh UK number one - it was there briefly at the end of July - to also reach number one in my chart, this rare feat having previously only been achieved by Blondie, Jennifer Rush, Europe, DJ Sammy and Yanou featuring Do, Coldplay and Lady GaGa.

Only the 7th UK number 1 to reach number 1 in your chart in 31 years ??? Wow

I really enjoy reading your "trips back in time", they remind me of myself listening to the charts of other countries being broadcast on radio or searching for information about chart histories, well that was before the Internet age started of course. Now everything is just a click away...