2025

Happy New Year! It's now 2025, before this year is over this blog would have reached it's 10th birthday. I started this blog for 2 reasons really, as an excuse to properly research the history of how the UK Singles Chart has evolved and the fact I like talking about music, so why not put something I want to say on a blog where people who are interested can read it. The latter inspired the name because I didn't want it to be restricted by any particular theme.

Since then I've come up with a number of things to write about. The longest running of these is my weekly look at each record that peaked at number 40 in the UK charts. This began in 2019 and is still going now with quite a few more number 40s to do.

Another significant one is the weekly Top 30 review of years in the 90s. I decided to fast track these a couple of years ago because 10 years felt too long to be doing them for. There's now just 1999 to do which will be up every Sunday throughout the year.

I've now decided to fast track the Number 40s because this feels like it's taking too long to get through now. It will now feature twice a week, every Monday and Tuesday.

My journey into when the quality of music in the charts declined continues each Thursday.

New for this year, each Friday I will be taking a look at the new entries in the Dutch Top 40 that week in 1995 that never made the UK Top 40.

As it's still a random music blog I may come up with something else to write about as the year goes on, but I'm going to make sure it's something that doesn't take several years to get through.