Do you know what the UK no 1 song is this week?

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Why don’t people talk about chart songs any more ?

That was No 1 when DS was born. I hated it so much but then mine was YMCA 😂.

I don't think I've known what was No 1 since Atlantic 252 went off.

on Sunday past there it was Calvin Harris new one, I listen to capital chart

Yes, they are their real names. Dua Lipa is one of several modern pop stars of Albanian heritage.

This is why I love my phone so much. I can check out of 2025 and go to one of my happy years it’s like a Time Machine to better mental health and I really value that and feel grateful it’s available to me .

I remember that time exactly!!

excellent time and song

Because its mainly rubbish in my opinion......most modern stuff is incomprehensible to me. But I grew up in the 80's so perhaps I'm spoilt music wise.....

Radio 1 is still fairly good for new music. Future sounds from 6pm every day. I force myself to listen in the early evenings to see who's up and coming. I don't want to waste time dwelling on music from the 80s and 90s.

My teen dc's don't listen to the radio though. DS recently "discovered" Fontaines DC. They've been on the radio since the pandemic.

No 1 for me when born was Imagine by John Lennon as he was shot dead 6 weeks before

No I don’t. It’s sad what’s happened to the music industry for the public. Seems a far less social experience. I check Spotify, listen to various radio stations to hear new music. I absolutely hate the drill/weird rap/drug dealer style music at the moment. I have very wide tastes - classical to dance music and lots in between - and some of the stuff now is abysmal. No tune/melody. I hate saying that as it makes me sound old 😆

Isn't Lorde a one hit wonder from about a decade ago? 😅

I don't think I've liked any music since about 2000 and I'm not even that old!

I’M CURRENTLY LISTENING TO THE CHART COUNTDOWN ON RADIO 1 GUYS

CHARLI XCX 🙌

The song that was number 1 in the uk when I was born was Stevie Wonder, I just called to say I love you. In the US it was Tina Turner, what's love got to do with it.

Thankfully I just missed out on Jocelyn Brown, somebody else's guy. As that is literally my birth name (no I wasn't named after her, her hit was about a month after I was born 😅)

No she's made loads of music since Royals 😄

Her latest song 'baby what was that' you've probably heard but didnt know with was her

I had to look up ‘ ordinary ‘ and who Alex Warren was , but I realized I have heard this song on the radio and he sounds a bit like most other breathy male singers around just now!
I used to love hearing the charts , but I admit I haven’t for a long time and no idea who is number one these days !

Listening to the Top 40 now and they don’t play the Top 20 in its entirety- they skip certain tracks

If you listen to pick of the pops in radio 2 any chart from the late 90s on (I believe) they have to explain that records were issued, spent a week in the charts then vanished

I became very suspicious about the charts when the BBC were playing records that weren't going to be available for 2 months. The BBC itself was/is very suspect when it comes to the charts. Remember when Mathew Banister decided to axe all the old djs, he also stopped radio one playing any older bands or classic songs....he lost 5 million listeners and basically opened the door to commercial radio which is now 30 years later destroying the BBC bit by bit.

In the 1980s in one week in the charts picked at random, this week 1984, Duran Duran, Bob Marley, Phil Collins, Queen and Wham were all in the chart. I was at school with mods, punks, skinheads, I was(am) a teddy boy, we had people onto the indi scene, Reggie, pop, new wave and heavy rock

I learnt the "Apple" dance last year. I'm not getting old without a fight.

Ed Sheeran ‘Azizam’ is utterly glorious - listening to it now 🙌

I’ve not even heard of that 😭

@Jabberwok "If you listen to pick of the pops in radio 2 any chart from the late 90s on (I believe) they have to explain that records were issued, spent a week in the charts then vanished"

Ah, that makes me sad. It was my era and it felt satisfying that my indie bands had cracked it and were now able to have hits, but it was paper thin, most of it. I feel almost personally ashamed to learn e.g. how a record I loved like 'Beetlebum' was in fact statistically the least successful no.1 of all time.

A lesson for us all there about what happens when you 'solve' a system that people loved in its natural state. You imagine you've made it and for a while it looks like you have, but there's no resonance in the culture at all – a bit like what football has turned into now.

ALEX WARREN ‘ORDINARY’ IS NO.1 FOR YET ANOTHER WEEK GUYS !! 🙌

JUST ANNOUNCED!

Likewise. Chart show etc completely replaced by Mark Radcliffe's radio 2 Folk Show and radio 4's Music Planet. Always have 5 of each downloaded on BBC Sounds app for work.

I'd still watch Top of the Pops if it was on though.

I listened in because of this thread

I prefer pink pony club to that song tbh

I think they’re both good to be fair - Pink Pony is good

my fav has to be Ed Sheeran ‘Azizam’ - it’s fab 🙌

Oo did you see Ed sheeran at the big weekend? We caught it on the iplayer, love him 🙌