So, it might look like a weird scenario at the top end of the chart. 2 re-entries right into the top 2 after an unspectacular set of results prior. Well, the main reason Jess Glynne and Zedd have suddenly appeared where they have is due to the stellar remix packages that have started to be released over the last 2 weeks. The Zedd remixes are particularly amazing: fast, ferocious, all with enough supersonic whooshes and vocal fudgery to wow any listener with a pulse.

“No One” has suddenly plonked itself at number 1. It musically sounds similar to her beaut of a UK number 1 smash “Hold My Hand” but, my main reservation with this song was the lyrics to be honest. I’m unsure how healthy it is for a song in the mainstream to effectively be telling listeners you need someone else’s approval to validate you. Maybe I’ve misinterpreted the lyrics or, not been listening to them properly. If you have made an alternative interpretation I’d be intrigued to know what it is.

Midweek, it looked like Will Young was going to earn his first number 1 on my chart since, well, probably as far back as “Leave Right Now” on an earlier incarnation of TT20, 16 years ago! It wasn’t meant to be and the shock WTF reaction at how great Louise’s first single in 18 years is, didn’t help either. The is-she-isnt-she-footballer’s-wife-ex-Eternal member’s “Stretch” is the highest new entry of the week, at #3, with Will Young, ahem, right behind her…

I don’t know what happened for it to take until a Missy collaboration, to be sleeping on the recent releases from the Meghan Trainor-esque Lizzo, but rap-product placement often works, as in this case. The sassy “Tempo” is surely not going to be a one-off song to be appearing soon in this chart.

Little Mix, once again, hog 20% of the chart, with tracks from their latest album “LM5” and hold the longest-running entry of the week with “Woman Like Me”.

Westlife are teetering on the borderline with “Hello My Love” but, it’s not all lost as they are likely to enter very highly next week with their new single “Better Man” which, I hate to say, was co-written by Ed Sheeran, as was the former hit.

COMING SOON:

I’m launching aseries of blog posts, highlighting the new song releases Dorothy’s mates and I would probably be most interested in….tentatively-titled “New Music FriGay”. Read first listen reviews of the tracks of the week, in anticipation of their arrival on future editions of Tim’s Top 20.