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#9 • May 2016

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TRAVELLING MAN Nigel Thomas on ghost hunters, going three-sixty and going east for a break!

Plus: The Manor Bare Knuckle Parade Will Joseph Cook Clare Teal • Mavrick • Malin Matthew Logan Varquez Alistair on Eurovision Rob’s Top Forty

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WELCOME TO KBPS! Hello and welcome to the ninth edition of KBPS! It’s been a long road in putting this issue together and we’ve managed to pull together a whopping 52-pages of content for you this time including eight interviews, two columns, our songs that you must check out on this month’s playlist and reviews of the music we’ve been sent through. We’ve also expanded on our web presence, including lots of the content in this issue in our blog which you can read with daily updates at kbps.blogspot.co.uk!

There’s been lots of interesting new things in the music world this month, including the return of Busted after over a decade away (their new song is different but surprisingly great); a corker of a new track from Tom Odell (the beautiful Magnetised) and much more, and you can find out all about it in the blog.

FANTASY FESTIVAL KBPS doesn’t do a festival but as the festival season approaches if we did it would probably look something like below! Why not have a go at your own using createlineup.com and share it with us @KBPSmag?

Now you’ll have to excuse me as I need to go out and get some popcorn so I can enjoy Eurovision, and we’ll have a full report on that, plus more on football and music as the Euro’s approach, in the next edition out on Saturday 11th June! We hope you enjoy this packed issue and see you again next month for more music from the world of KBPS! Philip Lickley Editor, KBPS

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MUSIC NEWS

Go For A Coffee With Callaghan Singer-songwriter Callaghan is set to release an acoustic EP called ‘Callaghan’s Coffee House’ which you can pre-order now in download or physical formats from her website.

The 12-track CD, the first ten tracks of which was recorded in Nashville, officially comes out on June 17th and then on iTunes the following month.

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Janet Devlin Releases Video Poem Singer Janet Devlin has uploaded a poem called ‘Walk With Me’ online. Set to a gentle acoustic guitar and featuring visuals of Devlin walking around a summery environment, you can watch it online now. youtube.com/watch?v=d134gMiuUw8

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Go Back to the Eighties with the Lancashire Hotpots You can now pre-order the latest album from the Lancashire Hotpots via their website! The band’s tenth album is currently being supported by a tour in June and July, and the pre-order packages including the CD, instrumental CD, live album, t-shirt and even a cassette version of ‘Nowt Like the 80s’.

The album includes track ‘Dibnah’, which was released on the 1st April this year and was a tribute record to the late steeplejack Fred Dibnah, alongside songs called ‘Do the Dad Dance’, ‘Fussy Eater’ and ‘Egg, Sausage, Chips and Beans’ which is previewed in the trailer, plus ‘Lancashire’s For Me’ and ‘Black Friday’, which have previously been released on YouTube. The album cover parodies the old ‘Now That’s What I Call Music 3’ design. thelancashirehotpots.net

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Elena Ramona Returns With Gravity Greek singer-songwriter Elena Ramona has uploaded a brand new track to her Soundcloud page. Entitled ‘Gravity’ it adds an uptempo dubstep feel to her usual sound. facebook.com/ElenaRamona-323928237668916

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The Manic Street Prteachers have released the official song for Wales in the Euro 2016’s. Entitled ‘Together Stronger (C’mon Wales)’ it’s a familiar mix of rock, football references, commentary samples and enthusiasm for success. It even samples Andy William’s ‘Can’t Take My Eyes Off You’ The Stone Roses have released their first new track in 21 years, called ‘All For One’ Rumours are circulating that the Spice Girls are reuniting and recording new material twenty years on from their debut single, or at least three of them are with Mel C and Victoria Beckham missing from sightings. Azealie Banks has got into trouble on Twitter for comments made towards Zayn Malik. Slipknot’s Corey Taylor will appear on an episode of QI’s new series Blondie have announced a new album is in the works and will feature Charlie XCX, Sia and Johnny Marr Robbie Williams has signed a new record deal with Sony Radiohead have released their new album ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ to critical and chart success

Chrvches Release New Song For Video Game

Scottish trio Chrvrches have released a new song called ‘Warning Call’ featured in new game ‘Mirror’s Edge Catalyst’. youtube.com/watch?v=hSRheLrB1uA

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TRAVELLING MAN Nigel Thomas on his new album, ghost hunting, remote parts of Russia and going three-sixty

Nigel Thomas is a London-based musician who has released his debut album ‘Travelling Man’ this year featuring track ‘Fever’ which we have previously talked about. As well as being a solo musician Nigel Thomas has also previously been part of band The Foxes as well as being involved with television work including shows on the Discovery Channel, National Geographic and KBNE-UK. He also appeared in the music video for Rizzle Kicks’ signature tune ‘Skip to the Good Bit’. In a chat to us about the album Nigel told us about ‘Travelling Man’, which he described as an eclectic mix of styles and subject matters, spanning from your traditional love songs to tracks about mental health to even ‘Ghosthunter’ which talks about false mediums and clairvoyants. One track ‘Destiny’, covers thoughts on whether we control our own destiny.

“There is a mixture of styles in the music as well. There’s heavier guitar tracks on there like ‘Ghosthunter’ for example but there’s a track called ‘Drift’, with gentle guitars and a whole wash of a string quarter in there. ‘Dancing’ starts with just a harp and vocals so there’s a whole range of stuff.” ‘Travelling Man’, thematically, is based on the most recent few years of Thomas’ life and things he’s been through. “There’s happiness, there’s joy. I don’t know if I’ve started thinking of broader subject matters, which maybe you do as you get older and stop being obsessed with love in your writing. I think it definitely shows and it’s a good thing to broaden your song writing horizon.

“It’s great writing a three-minute pop song on love as it’s something everyone can

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relate to but then you start branching out and writing on other topics.” The album was launched on the 12th March at a special party in the Barfly at Camden, an event Nigel Thomas really enjoyed, joining with band the Lazlo Device.

Delving into ‘Ghosthunter’, inspiration for that track came from Thomas’ reading of Derren Brown books and late nights watching clairvoyant shows on television. “They use the excuse that they’re giving people hope when they’re distraught, that your loved one is still thinking of you, and I think that’s a bit of a weak excuse that the Ghosthunter gives in the song. It is false hope in the end and it is misleading people and taking advantage of their grief. In the end it’s just about taking money from people by manipulating them.” On the subject of the artwork for the album, taken in a ‘Record Your Own Voice Box’, Nigel revealed it was never intended to be the album cover. “I was with my friend Chris PresswelL [director of some of Thomas’ videos] and he let me know it was one of only two working ‘Record Your Own Voice’ boxes left in the world; one is in Memphis, and the other has just been repaired and is doing a little tour of places. That was outside Phoenix Records on Poland Street, just off Oxford Circus, and it was sponsored by a whiskey company who asked me to have a whiskey and go in and record two minutes of something to vinyl. “I did that and I was just getting ready to play and he snapped that photo. It just ended up being the best one for the cover, like that was the one!” Having completed a version of ‘Fever’ in

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the booth, which was rendered out in an old-fashioned 1920s lo-fi style according to Thomas, he suggested it may resurface at some point as a future bonus track. On the other end of the modern scale, Nigel has also been involved in a very futuristic style of music video creation, with his track ‘Que Sera’ having an accompanying 360-degree video, basically a promotional video you can control and watch from any angle. Though a few artists have done this it’s the first from an independent artist, directed by Chris Presswell. You can watch the video now on YouTube. “It’s going to be something that will get more popular so I thought I’d get in early!” With the album under his belt, Nigel Thomas is preparing for some more live dates including a music festival in Liverpool and more festivals in the summer, but with one eye on future material.

“I’ve been constantly writing, I’ve got a huge batch of songs, and I want to go into the studio again this year and hopefully have a follow-up about the same time next year.”

Before Nigel Thomas headed off we asked him about the title and where he’d travel if he could. “I’d quite like to go to one of the most isolated places in Northern Russia just because I’ve been looking at the maps recently and it’s such a vast country and isolated, and to speak to people there. Especially after living in London it would be great to speak to them about their lives and living in such a remote, cold and distant place and learn something more about their culture.”

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ALISTAIR PROUDMAN One (Euro)vision Record Store Day. What a washout. I had intended to write this month’s piece on it. Well, I queued for 2 hours to get into the store and found that the pieces I had intended to buy (Christopher Lee’s albums) weren’t even due to arrive until the following week – surely defeating the point of Record Store Day! Still, there’s one big topic to talk about this month; the grand final comes too late but the palaver around it and the semi-finals are still entertainment enough, and ripe ground for mockery. It is of course the national joke that is Eurovision; the place where I got to know the late Sir Terry Wogan through his merciless barbs, a trend that Graham Norton has thankfully continued.

And really, how can you not mock something that this year has had Australia continuing to enter, and getting into a dispute with the rules over whether “facetime” is an acceptable song lyric (it is as it turns out) and saw the British entry fight tooth and nail to be able to fly the Welsh flag (one half of them being from Wales) as the red dragon was seen as being a political statement and featured alongside the ISIS flag on the banned list. So, onto the first semi-final. It opened up with last year’s winner supported by a band of oompa-loompas throwing dance moves right out of 2005; no more really needs be said about how ridiculous it looked, and that’s not even the actual show underway. That began with Sweden welcoming Europe, for the intro of Final Countdown to start playing (and how we all wish it was the final countdown

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already on the songs with enough cheese in them to keep Wallace busy for the next few years).

As for the first semi-final, Finland were supposed to have a suede moose costume. I didn’t notice it first time, but the fact that I went back to watch again says a lot about how ridiculous they were. Greece sang about a rising sun and a utopian land, which just sounds like the Golden Dawn have abandoned running for parliament on a neo-Nazi ticket to just pen some sort of catchy tunes. Moldova were only notable for their failed Daft Punk hopeful – it’s robots not astronauts! Read the memo next time.

Hungary and Holland put in professional performances with little spectacle; do they not know what this is about? At least Croatia understood, dressing their act in what appeared to be tinfoil and some feather rugs under a curtain while San Marino entered a background character from the Godfather and some leftovers from Star Trek to take the can’t be arsed award. Cyprus, a decent song aside, seemed confused as to where they are: Eurovision isn’t a place for serious rock bands, and the amount of cages seemed more suited to an S&M dungeon than on a stage – somewhere Estonia’s entry seemed to want to take you judging by their appearance. There’s a line where come hither eyes become the stare of a creep with a windowless van and burlap sack outside. They crossed it and then some. And the yearly surprise early elimination – that goes to Iceland. Possibly because of

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the Lovecraftian nightmare of ghostly hands, shadow monsters, Slenderman and Alfred Hitchcock’s Birds shadow play going on behind her. I wouldn’t vote to see that again. The second semi-final topped the first for the ridiculousness of the intro; a forced, hackneyed series of references that just made me think of an old radio show: And Be Done With It (Just the intro tune before the ed. changes anything) (ABDWI was a consistently quality-filled radio show... Ed) There were more interesting costumes to come – Switzerland’s flaming arm-pits and blind for a skirt (still the best thing about their act) and Poland’s Seargent Pepper knock-off with the supply teacher goatee. For such a brightly coloured jacket it shocks me that the colour of his life was a very grey beige judging by the tedium of the song.

Worse still was the Israeli act – glittery fingerless gloves and a haircut that made it look like A Flock of Seagulls had been chucked through the American shop Hot Topic, with a complete misunderstanding of how the Vitruvian Man works. It made the Belarussian CGI wolf guitarist, and the brief duet between Benjen Stark and Dr Manhattan look normal, and that’s not something I ever expected to say (although given he was supposed to be naked with real wolves, I

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think we still dodged a bullet).

It’s easy to poke fun at the rubbish acts, but Ireland definitely deserve it – like they tried to convince Westlife to come back but couldn’t, so just threw together some lookalikes from down the pub, as opposed to the Macedonia act, who had clearly just come from the pub, screaming as she was for a doner, doner, doner (kebab).

While I could ask why Australia are taking part (it’s genuinely baffling), what is even more baffling is why she was wearing a strip of diamond encrusted wallpaper as a sash across her shoulder; there was proper Kanye West level of dress sense going on there. It wasn’t even the worst costume though – that goes to Bulgaria, who dressed herself in strips of reflective vest, creating shoulder armour, leg braces and a single ear-ring out of it – presumably to make the haircut the least stupid thing about her.

The final thing to note was the over use of lighting, particularly by the soviet bloc – Ukraine payed 20 grand for their lighting, while Georgia decided that raves were just too non-eventful and blinded everyone. That was possibly to disguise the fact that their entry was Josh Widdicombe in a hat stolen from Pharrell Williams.

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MIND YOUR MANORS We speak to Johnny from the Manor and talk about energy drinks, London grime, sell out shows and heading to France for the Euros.

The Manor are a 3-piece hip-hop act from South London who have recently released their new single ‘Don’t Like Going Places’ and we got to speak to Johnny from the trio, who had been up for thirty-six hours at the time ahead of the single’s release working and in the studio. Johnny and the rest of the Manor had been working at Relentless Studios for the three days prior to the interview, with things going well for them. “We’re getting together our new album. We’ve got about twenty-five half-finished tracks at the moment and we’re just trying to work out which ones we’re going to put out on the album, which will be out later this year. “We’ve got so much new production. We’ve been back in the studio with Yanaku, who

produced a lot of the songs on the last album and we’re just trying to tidy things up, and luckily Relentless, the energy drink, have given us a fair bit of studio time to get things done, so it’s been very productive!”

With the energy drink helping keep the band awake for their recording sessions and other commitments, I was keen to chat to him about their new single. “It sums up exactly what we’re about. Dan and I, after University, since we started the Manor, haven’t had the money to leave the country but everyone else has been going on holidays. It’s about how to enjoy staying in your local area, with the home comforts. It’s basically celebrating being normal.

“Not everyone’s got money and you almost learn how to accept staying indoors and enjoying the things that don’t cost that much and that represents exactly what our brand is about, which is enjoying the normal things and the less extravagant things in life.” Reaction to the single has been incredibly positive, with support coming from BBC Radio 1 and 1xtra, including from Toddla T, Huw Stephens, Charlie Sloth and Mistajam. “Since the video has come out it’s given the song a bit of an identity and it’s had a lot of views. We’ve had lots of interest from people who’ve heard the song.” Creating the video, which sees the camera slowly tracking through the flat of the band, was a fun experience and a change of direction.

“Normally all of our videos are at house parties and we’re very drunk. [The director Elliot Simpson] has directed all our videos and for this one had a full team and it was planned days ahead. It was done in a day, and it was a lot easier than our normal shoots.” The Manor had their biggest show yet at the start of April, a sold out gig in London, which had to be moved to the larger room at the O2 Islington Academy as the initial capacity sold out within nine minutes, with the rest selling out within two days.

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“We were really overwhelmed with that. We were recording at the time and for the whole day we didn’t get anything done thinking ‘how have we done this?’.” Challenges in planning the event was choosing the songs from their five years of being together and also sorting out special guests for the gig. “We’ve got so many songs that we love but we picked a set that we all finally agreed on!”

With the London urban and grime scene becoming increasingly popular across the country I was keen to find out Johnny’s thoughts on the genre’s popularity. “I think it’s now the time that Britain [is making itself known]. We’ve spent so much time looking over to America. We’ve got to the stage that we can accept the good stuff that we produce. With artists like Stormzy, it’s not just the music but it’s the character and people are starting to relate to the grime scene a bit more, it’s more palatable whereas before it was ‘that’s what the poor kids do, this is what we do’.

“Now it’s being a lot of more accessible. It’s just us accepting our national identity and being proud of what we do, and hopefully this will last for a long time and do what they

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did in America twenty years ago where rap and urban became the pop music and I think we’re ready for it over here now.” So where are the Manor heading now? “We’ve got a few things planned. We’ve got a lot of videos from the last album we did that we need to release. We’ve got ‘Creps in the Rave’ which was played on Soccer AM and that’s the upbeat hype song of the album. We’ve got a song that we’ve done in collaboration with Relentless called ‘No Half Measures’ which is like old school Dizzee Rascal-style grime.

“On the album we had a French singer from Nice [so] we’re going to go over [to France] before the Euros start and shoot [videos] two of the French-sounding songs that we had on the album. “Then we’re going to start thinking about the new album and getting some of the songs

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and visuals done. We’ve got some festivals coming up including ‘The Great Escape’ and more gigs coming up in late summer.”

With a headline gig planned for the autumn, things are looking incredibly positive for the Manor. “We’ve always put our foot on the pedal and then eased off, looked around and given ourselves a pat on the back. This time we’re going to go full throttle with it. We’ve got so much material to come out, and it is all getting received well, so let’s just crack on!”

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KNUCKLING DOWN Bare Knuckle Parade on their new single, poor map drawing skills, Christmas number ones and making noise

Jamie Beale, Tom Cory, Callum Moloney, Ben Lythe and Huey Smith make up Bath-based indie folk-rock quarter ‘Bare Knuckle Parade’ who describe themselves online as specialising in ‘Sweat drenched, beer soaked pandemonium.’

We spoke to lead vocalist Jamie, keyboardist Ben and guitarist Tom around the release of their latest single ‘Diamond Eyes’, which was proceeded by a debut live stream on Facebook. “That was a great way of reaching a bunch of people,” they told us. “We’re definitely planning on doing it again from the back of a van at some point. It’ll be horrible but we’ll love it!” Diamond Eyes is a single packed with harmonies, loud choruses, massive guitars and hard-hitting drums. “These are the kind of things we do best. It’s our first single in quite a while. We recorded that single and an entire album over a 24-hour period in a studio in Devon. That song made the album recording possible so it’s a special one for us.” The band said that recording the album in such a short time period was surprisingly funny. “To be honest it’s a bit of a blur. We were up all night, so when we got to 5am we were pretty much just fuelled by coffee! The conversations went really weird and deteriorate, and went more mental as we did take after take after take. There’s actually some recordings of us abruptly finishing a conversation, doing a take, and picking up the conversation where we left off!” Single ‘Diamond Eyes’ is pretty reflective of the band’s sound, and the track was chosen as the lead single for this reason. “It’s got the pop style, the instrumentation, the walls of guitars, the raspiness and the

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energy we like to give every time we play. “The whole album was recorded live so it kind of represents what you’ll hear from us when you see us live. What you hear on the album is what you get live, it’s all kind of natural.”

The promotional video, which was recorded in the same studio as the music, and is available to watch online now. “The studio has nice looking rooms so it seemed the obvious place to record it.”

Hailing from Bath, I was keen to find out what the city is like to live in as a band. “It’s a very creative city; there’s lots of art stuff going on with film and music, so there’s a good community of small venues. It’s great for interacting with people, and we get lots of tourists so we go out and busk on the streets for a couple of hours and play to people from pretty much every country.” The band use busking as a way of building their fan base. “Us making as much noise as we possibly can attracts people. From that some pay to go to our actual gigs. We’ve made quite a lot of fans through doing that. We haven’t done it for a while but I’m sure we’ll go back to it.” We spoke to the band ahead of their April tour and rehearsals were going well, and we were also intrigued by their graphic design skills with the map they’d created to help them get around.

“I think it was worth it. The sat nav needed to go, as other things needed to be purchased. We used to have a sat nav that we called Eugene and he always led us in quite horrible directions and one day decided not to work altogether, so since then we’ve been designing our own maps from vague memories of what the UK looks

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like. It works really well until we have to cut through a couple of lakes or something on the way to a gig, but we usually dry off with a couple of towels! “Someone actually commented that Cornwall is finally bigger than Devon [on our map] so we might have started some arguments about the borders of certain counties!”

So where is it now for the Black Knuckle Parade? What’s their big ambition for the year?

“Seven Christmas number ones! Different songs for Christmas number ones! It’d be about the joys of Christmas, and touring around Christmas, basically things that aren’t very Christmas related, but we’d give it a good shot either way.

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“[Seriously though] our real goal will be tour around the country as much as possible, keep playing, keep on writing. Always writing, always playing, always making noise! The Christmas number ones can wait a little longer!” Bare Knuckle Parade are due to play the Camden Rocks Festival in June.

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WHERE THERE’S A WILL WE CHAT TO WILL JOSEPH COOK ON HIS NEW SINGLE ‘GIRLS LIKE ME’ AND PERFORMING AT LEEDS

Will Joseph Cook is an incredible new singersongwriter from Tunbridge Wells who has followed up his ‘Proof Enough’ EP with the incredibly catchy song ‘Girls Like Me’, and we were lucky enough to get him to answer a few of our questions, such as whether the song was inspired by his own experience.

“Yeah, it’s about the mandatory turbulence nearly all young relationships go through. It’s something I experienced but fortunately it isn’t unique to me so it makes for a good pop song.” ‘Girls Like Me’ has just been playlisted on Radio 1, something that Cook told us is “great”.

“Being embraced by any platform that gets the music out to that amount of people is amazing.”

Alongside the catchy song there is a bright, funky video to go with it that sees the singer take on a rather intriguing split role in the speed-dating themed promo. “At first I was taken aback by the reality of people working on and bringing my dumb idea into fruition. It was my first video and first time doing any degree of acting on camera. I enjoyed it a lot, essentially my job for a weekend was to dance and wear girl’s clothes so no complaints.”

With the single now getting plenty of air-play Will Joseph Cook is preparing for a series of live dates. Cook describes his show as “very energetic”. “There’s four of us and we like dancers at our shows. This summer is gonna be a gas, we’re bringing our A game.” His new live dates come on the back of a

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set down the road from KBPS HQ at ‘Live At Leeds’.

“Leeds was great, compared to playing similar festivals last year it was weird to see a crowd that hadn’t walked in by chance and knew the words. It was a shame that we didn’t have more time to see the city as I had never been before. That said, we came pretty close to staying another night as our tour van died!” Cook has also been performing further afield such as the famous SXSW festival. “It’s definitely been the highlight of the year so far. SXSW is on another level though. There’s more going on there than I thought was possible, literally a live band in every building.” Looking ahead to the rest of the year, Cook told us that he’s just finished recording his debut album though there isn’t a set release date yet. “It’s looking like the end of the summer. Another single and video is up next so that’s what I’m working on putting together at the moment.”

And what about any big ambitions for 2016?

“Play more shows around the world. I would love to do more European and American dates. I also desperately want to play in Japan so I’m gonna try and make that happen. Also, to make a really great collaborative track/ project but we shall see.”

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Singles Reviewed

Here are our picks of the songs we’re sent each month

Basheba - Don’t Go Soulful, smooth number from promising female singer Basheba; emotional lyrics given an emotive styling, and a strong retro production feel. TTT facebook.com/BashebaOfficial/ Dead Love Fear Wave - Don’t Exist An eerie, atmospheric, swaying number that creeps into your consciousness with its multi-layered undulating production style. TT facebook.com/deadlovefearwave/ Eddie Prové - Never Cared Prové’s smooth and crooning vocals are an easy rival to Sam Smith on this gentle, evolving track with plenty of heart. T facebook.com/eddieprovemusic/ Electric Pyramid - 1989 A dark yet memorable indie-rock number with the lead vocals lending an almost Oasislike vibe to the single with the vocal effects adding a slight poppiness to proceedings T facebook.com/ElectricPyramidMusic/ The Filthy Tongues - Jacob’s Ladder A dark foreboding single with a gritty indie feel and strong production values, that all work together to form a satisfyingly distopian sound. T twitter.com/tongues Frisco - Them Man There Gritty yet catchy urban and grim track that mixes up a fast flow with a catchy vocal hook. TT Fusion - No Though references to his mother make this

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sound a little more quaint and home-grown than he probably intends, he certainly has the flow, as he references in the song. A fun and memorable piece of urban grime with promise. T

Glitter Wasteland - Cold War With a few shades of Chrvches in their style this is a smooth, electropop number that is well worth a listen and the production shines through. TT facebook.com/GlitterWasteland/ Haze - You Don’t Know Me Perhaps a little repetitive in its title mentioning chorus and packed with a few urban cliches, this song from Haze is actually well assembled and will stick in your head regardless. T Imogen Tonder - Show Me Love A smooth, electro-dance track that might be a little generic in its music until the Clean Bandit influences begin but the light, angelic vocals of Tonder hold it together. TT

Jazz Mino - Suffocate Singer-songwriter Jazz Mino is back with her follow-up to ‘Superwoman’ and this is even better: catchy, poppy and a little clubby in parts, if this doesn’t give her the exposure she deserves then there’s something wrong with the music world! TTT Kid Cupid - Siren Out on 3rd June this poppy Chvrchesstyle number is catchy, well produced and atmospheric. Quickly becoming one of our favourites! TTT twitter.com/KIDCUPIDMUSIC

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Kolumbus - Leave the Light On Initially quite a sombre and plodding track after a couple of listens the appeal of the song will show; beautifully sung. TT facebook.com/Kolumbus.Ireland/

Nina - Beyond Memory Catchy, electronic, throbbing retro synth pop hit captured by the sparky vocals of Londonbased Nina. TTT facebook.com/NinaSoundUK

Kyle Lettman - One Dance Speeding up and adding a reggae flavour to Drake's current chart topper, this summery take is far superior. Listen today! TTT facebook.com/KyleLettmanUK/

Nzilani - Never Be A fun pop, synth number with surprisingly dark elements in its production mixed in with a fun name-check to current popstars, and bringing it back to the message of being yourself, this is well worth a listen. TTT facebook.com/nzilani.singing/

Lady Chann - They Could Be A fast-paced, reggae, rap, rnb mixing song that will get your energy racing and heart pumping. Great summer number! TTT facebook.com/ladychannofficial/ Mannequin Death Squad - Sick Once the lead female vocals kick in this turns into a pop-rock number that boasts a catchy chorus, but could do with more of that than the growly vocals in between, but in the most part it works as a surprisingly rockier number than the metal the band name would suggest. TT facebook.com/mannequindeathsquad/ Michele Stodart - Ain’t No Woman Taken from her upcoming album ‘Pieces’ out in July, this smooth stripped back number allows Stodart’s vocals to shine through, and that they do, highlighting both her sound and the lovely, swaying nature of the actual song. TT facebook.com/MicheleStodart/

Prince Rapid - What’s Good One of the new faces on the grime circuit, this is possibly at the catchier end of the urban genre, and that should allow him to bridge the gap between grime’s big fans and a more commercial crowd; it’s certainly one of the hookier numbers around. T facebook.com/PrinceRapid/ Sticky Blood feat. Ldizz - Hop In The Place It can’t help wrestling with hip-hop cliches at the start but soon slips into a catchy, well produced single with enough attitude to keep it on the tracks. T facebook.com/StickyBlooduk/ Wild Palms - A is for Apple This ethereal number floats past in a pleasant, gentle way, offering a gentle distraction for almost four minutes. T facebook.com/wearewildpalms/

Middlemist Red - Evermore A dark, foreboding piece that takes a little bit to get going and then doesn’t really deliver a memorable moment, but as a darkly themed soundscape it works. T

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Magical Music Clare Teal on her upcoming live show, her love of Ella Fitzgerald and how radio has shaped her listening

As her Facebook page declares, Yorkshire born Clare Teal is one of the most successful Female British jazz singers in decades with a string of albums behind her, including the UK National Top 20 hit “Don’t Talk”. As well as being an incredible singer she’s also an acclaimed radio DJ and in May is performing with her trio at a variety of dates including Victoria Hall in Settle, her third visit to the area musically, in support of her latest album ‘Twelve o’clock Tales’. I spoke to her ahead of this show about it and she confessed her love for the theatre, and especially when it’s local as she hails originally from Skipton. “I’m very fond of Settle. It’s a lovely place with some nice pubs and places to eat and that beautiful hall which has been renovated and looked after by such a great team.”

Her new album, Twelve o’clock Tales, is a collaboration with the Hallé orchestra, with their impressive 93 musicians appearing on the record. “Obviously,” Clare told us, “I won’t be bringing all of those to Settle but generally when I’m not working with orchestras or big bands I work with my trio.” What was working with the Hallé orchestra like? In one word from Clare it was ‘Amazing’.

“I get to work with orchestras up and down the land but the Hallé are a very wonderful bunch of people. It was last June and we’d done a couple of concerts together and I was having a beer in the bar with the conductor Stephen Bell and happened to mention about recording with them. It’s taken about ten months and I never thought it would happen but we made it a reality. “You take it for granted that orchestras are going to be amazing musicians but you don’t always take it for granted that they’ll be thoroughly nice people but these lot are!

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They were so accommodating and lovely.”

Clare has been working with the trio for around a decade and said it was always fun to work with them, both on and off stage.

“We cover as many bases as is earthly possible. We have fantastic musicians. It’s a mixture of all sorts of jazz, it’s just that I’m interested in the record centred around really great songs that were originally made famous by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and Doris Day, but we also do more contemporary material such as Sting and Van Morrison, and a few originals as well. “It’s probably because I’ve got the attention span of a goldfish that we keep changing what we’re doing.”

The album ‘Twelve o’clock Tales’ takes its name from a track called ‘Lush Life’, originally by Billy Strayhorn, which appears on the album. “Guy Barker, a good friend who is behind a lot of the arrangements on the album as well as being a world class trumpeter in his own right, is [like me] a big Strayhorn fan.”

Though not a hugely well-known name now, Strayhorn was the right-hand man of famous musician Duke Ellington. “He wrote a lot of Ellington’s greatest works and no one really knew who wrote because Billy could write in the style of Ellington effortlessly but he wrote ‘Lush Life’ when he was sixteen years old and it’s probably on every jazz singer’s list as it’s very difficult to sing. “It seemed a good nod to his genius to call the album that.”

Clare talked passionately about her love for Doris Day and the eagerness for her and her trio to take requests for the audience and see

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if they can play them. “That’s the great thing about working with jazz musicians is that they can generally do whatever you want in whatever key you want so it doesn’t take too long to get it off and running!” In terms of her musical hero, Clare Teal confirmed it would be Ella Fitzgerald. “Of all the singers I listen to I always come back to her as she has this extraordinary tone of voice, this wonderful instrument, of many octaves. She could sing absolutely anything. But it is the joy that she puts in her music that we get out of it and that’s what I try to do in every single song we perform, to make people feel good.”

We asked Clare about how her work on radio has influenced her music taste. “I’ve been working for Radio 2 for about twelve years or so now, and my Big Band Show was always pre-recorded and scripted, so when it was extended by an hour and went live three years ago I finally had the ability to choose what I wanted to play, and this was music I really feel passionate about and I like to play the best music that I can so people realise how exciting this stuff is, and how talented these musicians were and are.

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“By having that radio show I have to listen to music every week and sometimes when you’re on the rod you’re so focussed on what you’re doing yourself you don’t have time to listen to what other people are doing, and you forget how important music is for your general well-being. You need it in your life, it helps you feel good, and express your emotions. It can lock down your memories; it’s pretty magical stuff! “Taking time out to listen to music can only make you a more fun person to live with!” Get your tickets for the event on Thursday 26th May at http://www.settlevictoriahall. org.uk/prog/2016/may_teal.html

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then you’ll be at home here. If you want something to listen to and chill out to then ditto. (6.5/10)

Ummagna - Frequency Taking the baton of light, airy, background music from Royksopp and running with it, Unmagna’s Frequency is a gentle and relaxing listen perfect for a quiet night in. Starting with ‘Orion’ with its echoeing instrumental hook to the words ‘Every Moments’ to the David Guetta, Royksopp and Talk Talk themed ‘Lama’, ‘Frequency’ moves along at a gentle pace thanks to the freeflowing soundscapes of the music and the quiet, hushed tones of the main vocals. ‘Winter Tale’ is not quite as remarkable as the opening two tracks as the style wears a little thin, whilst ‘Galacticon’ offers a spacethemed instrumental that is much better. ‘Ocean Girl’, in effect the closer, even throws in a different vocalist over the more sparky music, shifting things up again in a short, melancholic way. The EP concludes with three remixed versions of the second track which do a few things with it but nothing ground-breaking. If you enjoy Royksopp’s earlier music

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Travis - Everything At Once My relationship with the music of Travis has been an unusual one. I’ve been a long time fan since ‘Why Does It Always Rain On Me?’ and lover of practically all their singles and owner of their singles collection from 2009, but I’ve never actually heard any of their albums.

Recently having rediscovered their singles collection after hearing the early singles from this LP, I realised that all the songs of that collection are actually big favourites of mine so was keen to discover their album tracks and have, over the last few weeks, been catching up with all their LPs. And with that research under my belt I have to say that the singles from ‘Everything At Once’ certainly stand up compared to their ‘classic’ era of ‘Sing’, ‘Driftwood’, ‘Side’, ‘Beautiful Occupation’ etc etc and that the album may just be their best yet. Opener ‘What Will Come’ is a bouncy, uplifting introduction to the album and after a couple of spins becomes pretty catchy and dispels Travis as the Scottish

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Coldplay; there’s certainly very little gloom and downbeat attitudes on this album. ‘Magnificent Time’, possibly the poppiest number in the band’s entire canon, is up there with one of my favourite songs of the year so far: catchy, poppy, uplifting, singable, stadium-friendly - there are few words available to express what is a pretty perfect three minutes of pop.

Even ‘Radio Song’ turns a track starting with talk of nuclear fallout into something indie and foot-tapping, though the chorus isn’t quite as good as the production. ‘Paralysed’ is a little darker in tone but its drum-pounding chorus drives the track forward and delivers the production and lyrical hooks you’d hope for, and even name checks the Kardashians. The album then delivers three solid gold numbers in a row. ‘Animals’ builds throughout its verses to a very catchy chorus that sounds like it could be a live favourite; the album’s title track is a fast-delivered pop hit with a great instrumental lilt; and ‘3 Miles High’ rivals ‘Magnificent Time’ as the standout track of the album, refusing to outstay its welcome at sub-3-minutes but doing everything it needs to in creating a classic sounding Travis track with a very hooky chorus.

‘All of the Places’ is a less memorable track and smacks of filler, but its slower vibe at least offers a breather before ‘Idlewild’ which begs to be the album’s next single. Balancing Fran Healy’s vocals with those of guest artist Josephine Oniyama, this is a beautiful, more subtle number with Oniyama’s delightful vocals draping lots of emotion over the chorus, the battling vocals building into a great number. Closer ‘Strangers on a Train’ cannot quite compete after the penultimate track ascending to such heights, but is a gentle closer with a lighters-out ending that

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certainly feels like the album wrapping itself up nicely.

For those who treat themselves to the deluxe edition also get a DVD including the majority of the tracks in a short movie, that takes the concept of Healy having his drink spiked in the opening number and experiencing a series of drug trips that make up each music video. Disjointed and filmed on a budget, the videos are certainly fun to watch, especially when it comes to ‘Magnificent Time’, ‘3 Miles High’ and ‘Idlewild’, but it’s more of a collection of ideas than necessarily a full film, but it’s certainly a solid watch. ‘Everything At Once’ and its ten tracks clock in at just over half-an-hour but what you get is definitely quality over quantity, with some of the best songs in Travis’ discography and arguably their best album yet. (8.5/10)

TRAVIS TOP TEN

In celebration of Travis’ new album, here are our top ten favourite Travis songs of all time, which was a surprisingly tricky process and one that I’m sure you will argue with... 10. Writing to Reach You 9. Turn 8. The Beautiful Occupation 7. Driftwood 6. Side 5. Magnificent Time 4. Walking in the Sun 3. Flowers in the Window 2. Sing 1. Love Will Come Through

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This Month’s Music Picks

Seramic - Waiting

Joe and Jake You’re Not Alone

Causes - Teach Me How To Dance With You

AlunaGeorge feat. Popcaan - I’m In Control

Kaleo - Way Down We Go

Pink - Just Like Fire

Turin Breaks - Save You

Lauren Aquilina Kicks

Richard Ashcroft Hold On

Kyko - Native

Tom Odell - Magnetised

Haylsey - Castle

Foy Vance Upbeat Feelgood

Little Mix feat. Sean Paul Hair

We Are Scientists Classic Love

Taylor Swift New Romantics

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Victoria - Distant Nights

The Temper Trap Fall Together

Naomi Pilgrim Sink Like A Stone

Didrick feat. Amanda Fondell - Smoke

Blonde and Craig David Nothing Like This

The Feeling Wicked Heart

Alex Newell, Jess Glynne & DJ Cassidy with Nile Rodgers - Kill The Lights

April Towers Silent Fever

I Am Kode - Flood

Elle King America’s Sweetheart

Rod Stewart Walking in the Sunshine

Lola Coca - GQ

Nina - Beyond Memory

Basheba - Don’t Go

Nathan Sykes feat. G-Eazy Give It Up

Loyle Carner - Stars & Shards

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The Monkees She Makes Me Laugh

The Monkees You Bring The Summer

ABC - Viva Love

Foxes - Scar Foxes - Cruel

Rick Astley Keep Singing

Zedd and Kesha True Colours

Busted - Coming Home

Axwell Λ Ingrosso feat. Pharrell Williams Dream Bigger

KSI feat Mista Silva Goes Off

Izzy Bizu - Sweat (A La La La La Long)

Florida Georgia Line H.O.L.Y.

Lowla - Reckless

Corinne Bailey Rae Stop Where You Are

Justin Timberlake Can’t Stop The Feeling

OneRepublic Wherever I Go

Dua Lipa Hotter Than Hell

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This Month’s Music Picks The best new music we’ve discovered this month!

Lemar and Joss Stone - Someday We’ll Be Together

Gilbert O`Sullivan & Ayala - I Guess I`ll Always Love You

Bebe Rexha feat. Nicki Minaj - No Broken Hearts

Youngr Out Of My System

Alicia Keys In Common

Alesha Dixon feat. Wretch 32 - Stop

Meghan Trainor - Me Too

Jennifer Lopez Ain’t Your Mama

Andy Black We Don’t Have To Dance

Sigala feat. John Newman and Nile RodgersGive Me Your Love

Muna - Loudspeaker

Nicky Byrne Sunlight

Michael Calfan Nobody Does It Better

Fifth Harmony Write On Me

Jake Bugg Love, Hope and Misery

Bernhoft Stop/Shutup

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Brosephine - It Doesn’t Matter According to the Facebook page of the band, “a brosephine is a woman who is treated like one of the guys. A person who is fully comfortable with both their masculinity and femininity. A person who isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty.” On their debut EP, their grunge sound is all present and correct from the raw and free opener track ‘Clean’, which allows time for dark notes and a free-flowing drum solo. ‘Melatonin’ is a quieter piece but one with darker lyrical undertones. ‘Koni’ kicks the pace back up with a determined drum riff keeping up with the crunching guitars. The EP wraps up with the slower ‘Dirty’, my personal favourite track on the collection with the lead vocalist injecting more personal feelings into the piece and the ‘Say something dirty to me’ lyrics providing the poppiest hook on the record.

‘It Doesn’t Matter’ is a raw, gritty, unpolished EP that you’d expect from its grunge label and is a promising start for the quartet. T facebook.com/Brosephineofficial

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Rex Domino - God’s Teeth EP 'God's Teeth EP’ is a three track EP starting with the best of the three ‘Sam’s Spoon’, a song built around its ‘seek no solace’ hook which adds a catchy vibe to an otherwise lyrical heavy track. An EP of things to say, second and third tracks ‘Haitian Landmass’ and ‘Days Are Too Confusing’ are not as hooky or memorable and feel a little over produced but otherwise round out a good EP from Rex Domino. T facebook.com/RexDominoRap/

Meter Bridge - Filter / Kite With a Blondie-esque vocal, Meter Bridge’s two-song EP is an ear-pleasing mix of electronic and soft-rock. 'Kite' adds a Bowiestyle male vocal to the mix, both tracks solid electro-rock tunes that hold their own. T facebook.com/meterbridgeband/

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feels much more more distinctive and brings back its own hook, and there’s a welcome ‘Hudson Taylor’ feel to the number. ‘The Weekend’ and ‘Goodbye’ keep the album going thanks to the strong harmonies, and it’s tied up nicely by ‘Thinking About You’, the romantic ‘I’d Go Back’ and the thumping ‘Give It Away’ which begins with narration about the Grand Canyon and evolves into a catchy, indie-rock number that offers something a little different amongst its country roots.

John and Jacob - John and Jacob Though this came out last June and I saw them as supports late last year I’ve only just thrust my hand into my pocket to buy this album.

John and Jacob’s self-titled debut is definitely front-loaded with the more memorable tracks but it’s still a self-assured and confident country crossover. (7/10)

And I’m glad I did, as their debut album is a tour de force of singable, uptempo, radiofriendly country music with more hooks than should be legally possible.

Opener ‘Ride With Me’ with its added harmonica is a bouncy, summer number built around the fast-paced chorus that shouts out summer driving. ‘Breaking the Law’ is slower but no less memorable, its sixties influences and building verses addictive. Continuing the theme ‘Guilty Face’ is perhaps not as great as the openers but is by no means filler thanks to its chugging guitars and vocal call-outs. ‘Be My Girl’ is a delightfully warm number with a strong retro feel and heart-warming chorus.

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Rosie Nimmo - Scrapbook Edinburgh-based folk / jazz / pop singer Rosie Nimmo releases her latest album ‘Scrapbook’, which delivers almost forty minutes of relaxed, beautifully song jazz numbers, beginning with the catchy ‘Stop, Take A Minute’ which boasts a catchy chorus and a memorable brush-drum production style. ‘Dry Your Tears’ is also a great showcase for Nimmo’s melting vocals, which are never less than gorgeous to hear.

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‘Other People’ flicks the tempo up a little and makes a catchy hook out of the short title whilst also offering some wise advice on tolerance. ‘No Money’ continues the calming jazz feel with a neat brass and string feel woven in whilst its lyrics referencing the banking crisis are a nice juxtaposition, and the remix of ‘Girl On A Bicycle’ is an even more calming, stripped back number. ‘It’s So Good To Be Your Friend’ continues the warm style of the album, ‘Hold Up’ is a gentle ballad and ‘Call On Me’ is summery. ‘Scratch the Surface’ and ‘Clouds Colliding’ are more subdued numbers as the album heads to its gentle climax, with the live recording of ‘There Was A Man (Soldier Song)’ a sombre ending but a fitting conclusion to a well put together, beautifully sung, gentle jazz album. (7/10)

Grant-Lee Phillips - The Narrows American singer-songwriter Grant-Lee Phillips releases his eighth album, an hour-long collection of thirteen soft-country-rock songs.

Beginning with the rockier ‘Tennessee Rain’ the album delivers a range of tempo-shifting country songs though few for me that really lift themselves above the parapet of being distinctive or hooky enough to have their own identity. ‘Holy Irons’ is one of my favourites on the album, mixing in thought-provoking lyrics with the strong country feel, whilst ‘Loaded Gun’ stands more on its own thanks to its faster pace and fun, stronger country vibe, and is my favourite song on the album, though ‘Rolling Pin’ which follows with its more radio-friendly hook and guitar solo is strong competition. ‘Taking On Weight In Hot Springs’ returns to more gentle fare and ‘Just Another River Town’ continues things on nicely, with‘No Mercy In July’ my next stand out track as something with a stronger focus on a hook.

Reaching the final two tracks ‘San Andreas Fault’ is a gentle, swaying song that builds a song around the metaphor of the titular fault that works well, whilst closer ‘Find My Way’ is a pleasing enough ending.

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‘The Narrows’ isn’t the most dynamic of albums. It’s difficult not admire Phillips’ talent both in vocals and music but the material is not as interesting as I’d have hoped, very few songs lifting it up above a generic country sound. (5.5/10)

Mavrick

We speak to Mavrick on mixing gospel with Rage Against the Machine, taking over the world and Spotify.

Mavrick is an exciting new musician from Stockholm in Sweden and we spoke to him around the release of his new single ‘Funeral’ which he describes as a “chaotic, pop-song.”

“I think the melody is very poppy to me, and then I tried to mix it into a landscape of heavy bass and drums that are not as poppy.” As well as making the music Mavrick also works on the production side of things, hoping to make something that has not been done before. “I like to mix different influences and not make it boring. I hate boring stuff! “I want the listener to think it’s interesting and something new.”

Taking inspiration from gospel and one of his favourite bands ‘Rage Against the Machine’, Mavrick is also a big fan of Prince and he told me about his love of the artist in the interview, which was conducted before the sad death of the singer last month. “I’m trying to stay away from Prince when it comes to making music as he’s a God and I’m not. I’m never going to be able to be as good. “I listen to almost anything and mix in what feels good at that moment.”

Mavrick is currently working on his debut album, which is due to be released in August or September with one more single before then in May, and the process is going well and has almost been completed aside from a couple of finishing touches. “I have to let go at some point. It’s never going to be 100% finished according to me but I have to release it so I have to let it go, but it’s 98% done. “I’m eager to release it!”

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Mavrick has also been gigging live recently including a performance in Oslo at a showcase-style festival called By:Larm. “That’s been one of my goals this year because it’s one of the festivals in the Nordic countries that I like the most. There were a lot of people there, more than I expected. It was really fun!”

Further live dates are planned for Mavrick in the summer.

Mavrick has also enjoyed success recently with Spotify highlighting him as an act as part of their ‘Spotlight’ pieces, and that service is something Mavrick enjoys when he’s not playing off vinyl, something he’s passionate about. With Mavrick’s big ambition for the year to release his album things are looking great for the artist. “I’d also like to get on the road and win people over. At the moment I’ve only released two songs so it’s not that easy for people to see the whole picture of my sound, but I have big ambitions to take over the world! “Maybe I have to be a little more patient for that, but my ambition is always high. When I’m making music I think it’s the best music in the world, Kanye West style, thinking I’m the best! I’m more low key though when I’m in the studio but I have high ambitions for everything!”

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ROB BEEZLEY

The Top Forty Column Hello all! Hope you’re having a good day and welcome to my monthly column here at KBPS!

I’m Rob, an avid lover of all genres of music. However my forte is the Top 40 and new releases and I’ll be bringing to you the best in upcoming music... so let’s get started:

Mike Posner - Ibiza... With this being a combined article of sorts we had to include Ibiza which has been everywhere since April, It’s still getting a lot of airplay and it’s a very dancy number.. If you haven’t heard it yet where have you been?!!! Little Mix - Hair... It seems the girls can do no wrong and following up from Black Magic this number is bound to have you singing into your hairbrushes as well! Sean Paul also works for this certain track and I’m not even a massive fan of his!

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Drake - One Dance... Started in May at number one and is very catchy. I’ve played this a few times at my gig and it always gets a cheer! In my opinion it’s much better than Hotline Bling and I’ve had this on my playlist for a few weeks now! Justin Timberlake - Can’t Stop This Feeling... This year’s version of “Uptown Funk”. You really won’t be able to escape this song at all over the summer and it’s destined to be number one in the coming weeks probably lasting till about August haha! Already on repeat on my playlist!

Rihanna and Calvin Harris - This Is What You Came For... These two obviously combined for the 2011 hit “We Found Love” and hopefully that is what they’ll be remembered for because this is shocking, Still high in the chart but not one that is to my taste at all.

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I’m going to end with a little teaser of next month’s article. We need to look out for songs from Sigala feat John Newman and Nile Rodgers with “Give Me Your Love”. Though it’s not out until June 17th this is already getting absolutely tons of airplay, It’s bound to be one we’re singing till the sun hides again!

There’s also The 1975 with “A Change of Heart” and this follow up to “Chocolate” and “The Sound” certainly doesn’t have “A Change of Heart” as this is just as good and the boys are rapidly becoming one of my favourite bands! Finally there’s Fifth Harmony have gone down a different route following “Work from Home” and released a summer chill out tune with “Write on Me” Also if anybody would like to meet the face behind these words I now have a regular gig down at Queen’s Court In Leeds every Saturday from 11pm-4am so why not come down and say hello! I’m also on Beverley FM every Sunday 3pm to 5pm and the same station every Mon- Fri 10pm till Midnight!

Any feedback is welcome.. I’m on Twitter @robbbeezley so why not let me know what you think? So that’s it for this month, Thank you for reading and supporting KBPS, we really do appreciate it and I appreciate you taking the time to read my article! See you next month Rob

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ABOUT MALIN Malin on the shipping forecast, photobombing dogs and recording in Nashville.

Originally from Northern Ireland, Malin headed over to live in America to live the dream in Nashville and one of the results of this time was single ‘Not About You’. I spoke to Malin as he was recording in a studio in America with some friends on a new project to ask him about the single. “It’s going great. We’ve finished basic tracking and we’re adding the overdubs and harmonies and all the good stuff.” ‘Not About You’ is a rock-pop based track based primarily around the electric guitar, riff and drum beat.

“[With] the main hook, I thought I’d heard it somewhere before. It was one of those paranoia checks. It’s ‘Not all these songs are about you, only the best ones are’ and I kept playing on that and I was convinced I’d heard it somewhere before but after Googling it I realised I hadn’t so I ended up finishing it up.”

The accompanying video, which sees Malin performing in a band stand in Battersea Park whilst an unconventional love story takes place around him, is a favourite here at KBPS. It also features an unscripted appearance by some dogs from the local dog’s home!

“The director of the video put out some ideas along with a few others competing for the job, and we liked the way the story overlapped with the busking in the park.” The basic tracking for the song was done in Wisconsin, before Malin flew to Nashville to finish the mix, a time he describes as “phenomenal”. “You’re soaking up the history and all the experience and talent in that town; it’s just amazing.”

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Malin has also been recording more music, and his latest work has been mixed and mastered. “We’re adding a few UK mixes and then we’ll put that together as an EP. We’ve got more stuff in reverse for a second EP or to combine them into a record in the fall. Hopefully we’ll be touring for that in the summer!” A fan of Crowded House and Squeeze, Malin describes them as the band’s who release songs you’d wish you’d written. “Once you start digging inside them and learning them, whether it’s the melody, the vocal delivery of Neil Finn (of Crowded House) or certainly with Squeeze I’m amazed how within one verse they can squeeze in some sneaky chord changes for the second verse, adding a little more depth to the music, and the writing is always inspiring to me!” Malin takes his stage name from the area of water near Northern Ireland used in the shipping forecast. “I always find myself separated from Ireland and the UK by the sea and it’s always there and certainly growing up that was a word that was always floating around.

“When I began writing more original music I was always looking for twists and hooks, not just musically of course, in the lyrics as well. One of the things is that Malin Head itself is the most northerly part of Ireland, but it’s technically in the South but it’s more North than Northern Ireland and it’s west of where I grew up so it’s got most of the parts of the compass in there. “If there was a perfect lyric to capture that, I haven’t found it yet, but it’s a perfect analogy for what I’m looking for!”

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Alongside his recording Malin has also been planning some unplugged sets. Malin told us his live set changes depending on who he’s gigging with, sometimes with the full band, sometimes just acoustic. “I wouldn’t quite say Simon and Garfunkel but we interpreted some of the songs as a duo. For the summer I’d like to do it with the whole band.” And what’s Malin’s big ambition for the rest of the year? “Just getting out there and getting [my music] known and increasing the reach. It’s nice that people who haven’t actually seen me first hand and asking me when I’m coming and when they can see me play live. I guess a goal for this year would be to have four or five significant shows, perhaps opening for larger acts alongside shows of my own.”

Malin fb.com/ListenToMalin twitter: @listentomalin malin-music.com

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BETTING ON VASQUEZ Matthew Logan Vasquez on touring, world peace and virgins

Matthew Logan Vasquez is a rock and roll artist from Texas and we caught up with him as he finished the sound check at his latest gig in the UK to talk to him about his new single ‘I Bet It All’. A solo track that is influenced by various artists including the Beatles, Vasquez has also worked as part of groups Delta Spirit and Middle Brother, and we asked him what it was like going solo. “The comparison would be that now I get to call all the shots and have all the fun!” On his new EP, which is out now, Vasquez recorded all the music, a process he described as a “blast”.

“It shows what I can do in the studio and kind of finish the material where the band would usually take over, but now I have the ability and the desire to finish the ideas. I’m really happy with the result.”

Working with The Night Sweats at live gigs, Vasquez described his live sound “like one thousand naked virgins coming together for one magical moment for the first time.

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Everybody’s been waiting for it, and it has finally happened and it’s insane to watch. The people in the crowd weren’t expecting that many naked people in the positions they find themselves in!” Matthew Logan Vasquez is now touring in the USA. “All my fans back in the US are really excited to have me back and I’m excited to get back and kick them in their teeth!”

Looking ahead for the rest of the year, what is Vasquez’s key ambition for 2016? “I’m going to tackle world peace this year. It’s not easy finding a thousand virgins every night but I think we’re going to beat ISIS. Tonight might be the night. World peace is in hand!”

Matthew Logan Vasquez fb.com/matthewloganvasquez/ instagram.com/matthewloganvasquez/

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DISC-OGRAPHY

Every song on these pages has been listened to, liked and rated so you can take our assurance that every song on here is worth buying. Each song gets a three-note rating, with the cream of the crop given three notes. It also shows the date of release, chart position and a YouTube link. ‘DNC’ means ‘Did Not Chart’ and may mean that the data doesn’t exist or it’s not yet been released

June

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Florence + The Machine - Queen of Peace & Long and Lost (1st, DNC, TT) HOLYCHILD - Money All Around (1st, DNC, TT) John Newman - Come And Get It (1st, #5, TTT) Sam Hunt - House Party (1st, DNC, T) Simply Red - The Ghost Of Love (1st, DNC, TT) Callaghan - We Don’t Have to Change the World (2nd, DNC, TT,) Clean Cut Kid - Vitamin C (2nd, DNC, T) Frankie Davies – Shivers (2nd, DNC, TTT) Lucy May – Whirlwind (2nd, DNC, TTT) MKTO - Bad Girls (2nd, DNC, TT) Parade of Lights - Feeling Electric (2nd, DNC, Pop Evil – Footsteps (2nd, DNC, T) Sundara Karma – Flame (4th, DNC, T) Hermitage Green – Jenny (5th, DNC, TT) Leona Lewis - Fire Under My Feet (7th, #51, TTT) Misty Miller – Happy (7th, DNC, TT) Robin Schulz feat. Jasmine Thompson - Sun Goes Down (7th, #94, T) Thousand Horses - First time (8th, DNC, T) The Weeknd - Feel My Face (8th, #1, TTT) Young Guns – Daylight (8th, DNC, TTT) Young Guns - Rising Up (8th, DNC, TT) BØRNS - 10,000 Emerald Pools (9th, DNC, TT) Waka Flocka Flame feat Good Charlotte - Game On (9th, DNC, TTT) Axwell and Ingrosso - Sun Is Shining (12th, DNC, TTT) Of Monsters and Men - Human (12th, DNC, TT) Olly Murs - Beautiful to Me (14th, DNC, TT) Sinead Harnett - She Aint Me (14th, DNC, TT) Laura Bell Bundy - I Am What I Am (15th, DNC, TTT) Taylor-Ann – Collide (15th, DNC, TT) Beck – Dreams (17th, DNC, TTT) Nothing but Thieves - Trip Switch (18th, DNC, TTT) Alesha Dixon - The Way We Are (19th, DNC, TT) Sia - Fire Meet Gasoline (19th, #193, TTT)

KBPS

Tinie Tempah feat. Jess Glynne - Not Letting Go (19th, #1, TT) Don Broco – Automatic (21st, DNC, T) Stereo Kicks - Love Me So (21st, #31, T) Compny - Gently Let You Down (22nd, DNC, T) Everything Everything - Spring Sun Winter Dread (22nd, DNC, TTT) Hilary Duff – Tattoo (22nd, DNC, T) Mika - All She Wants (22nd, DNC, TTT) Mika - Talk About You (22nd, DNC, TTT) Selena Gomez - Good For You [feat. A$AP Rocky] (22nd, #23, T) Christian Burghardt & Cady Groves - Whiskey and Wine (23rd, DNC, T) Kacey Musgraves - High Time (23rd, DNC, TTT) Kacey Musgraves - This Town (23rd, DNC, T) Rod Stewart - Love Is (23rd, DNC, TT) The Heydaze – Dumb (23rd, DNC, TTT) Sugar & The Hi Lows - High Roller (23rd, DNC, T) Nickelback – Satellite (25, DNC, TTT,) Bleachers - I Wanna Get Better (28th, DNC, TTT) The Chainsmokers - Roses (29th, #75, T) Lauren Housley - Ghost Town Blues (29th, DNC, TT) Natalie Imbruglia - Instant Crush (Radio Edit) (29th, DNC, TTT) Nicky Romero - Lighthouse (29th, DNC, T) Zella Day – Hypnotic (29th, DNC, T) Bonnie McKee – Bombastic (30th, DNC, TTT) George Ezra - Barcelona (30th, DNC, T) Pharrell Williams – Freedom (30th, #36, T) Seafret - Be There (30th, DNC, TT)

July Watch all the videos: http://bit.ly/1Fu011I Austin Mahone - Dirty Work (1st, DNC, T) Kwabs - Fight For Love (2nd, DNC, TT) 77 Bombay Street - Seven_Mountains (3rd, DNC, TTT) Years & Years – Shine (3rd, #2, TT)

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Nathan Sykes - Kiss Me Quick (5th, DNC, T) Netsky feat. Digital Farm Animals – Rio (5th, DNC, T) Petite Meller - Baby Love (5th, DNC, TTT) Rhodes - Close Your Eyes (5th, DNC, T) Saint Raymond - Young Blood (5th, DNC, TT) Bleachers - Rollercoaster (6th, DNC, TTT) Lucy Rose - Like an Arrow (6th, DNC, TTT) Lucy Rose - Our Eyes (6th, DNC, TTT) The Strypes - A Good Nights Sleep And A Cab Fare Home (6th, DNC, T) Rixton - We All Want The Same Thing (7th, #21, TTT) Walk The Moon - Shut Up and Dance (7th, #4, TTT) Jessica Ridley - One Of Those Days (8th, DNC, T) Conor Maynard – Royalty (10th, DNC, TT) Fuse ODG – Only (10th, DNC, TT) Halsey - New Americana (10th, DNC, TTT) Ill Blu - Lonely People [feat James Morrison] (10th, DNC, TT) Jim Adkins - I Will Go (10th, DNC, T) Kerri Watt - Long Way Home (10th, DNC, TTT) Little Mix - Black Magic (10th, #1, TTT) Mikky Ekko - Watch Me Rise (10th, DNC, T) Owl City feat. Hanson - Unbelievable (10th, DNC, T) The Prides - Little Danger (10th, DNC, T) SAFIA - Embracing Me (10th, DNC, TT) Sam Feldt - Show Me Love [feat. Kimberly Anne] (10th, DNC, TT) Eminem feat. Gwen Stefani - Kings Never Die (11th, #82, T) Andy Grammer - Honey, I’m Good (13th, DNC, TTT) Duran Duran feat. Janelle Monáe and Nile Rodgers Pressure Off (14th, DNC, TTT) Jungle – Julia (14th, DNC, T) Chvrches - Leave A Trace (16th, DNC, TTT) Lethal Bizzle - Playground ft. Shakka (16th, DNC, T) Vitamin - Giving It Up (16th, DNC, T) Will Joseph Cook - A Minute of Your Time (16th, DNC,T) Eliot Sumner - Firewood (17th, DNC, T) 5 Seconds of Summer - Shes Kinda Hot (17th, #18, TT) Carly Rae Jepen - Run Away With Me (17th, DNC, T) Don Henley - Take A Picture Of This (17th, DNC, T) Emma Stevens - Never Gonna Change (17th, DNC, TT)

KBPS

Gin Wigmore - Written In The Water (17th, DNC, TT) Hey Violet - I Can Feel It (17th, DNC, TT) Hometown - Where I Belong (17th, DNC, TT) Kelvin Jones - Call You Home (17th, DNC, TT) Magic! - #SundayFunday (17th, DNC, TT) Maverick Sabre - Walk Into The Sun (Radio Edit) (17th, DNC) Samantha Jade feat. Pitbull - Shake That (17th, DNC, TT) Ward Thomas – Guest List (17th, DNC, TTT) Stereophonics - I Wanna Get Lost With You (20th, DNC, TT) Foals - Mountain At My Gates (21st, DNC, T) The View - Under the Rug (21st, DNC, T) Raleigh Ritchie - Bloodsport ‘15 (23rd, DNC, TT) Sunset Sons - She Wants (23rd, DNC, TT) Avril Lavigne – Fly (24th, DNC, T) The Chemical Brothers feat. Beck - Wide Open (24th, DNC, TT) Delta Goodrem - Wings (24th, DNC, T) Hurts - Some Kind of Heaven (24th, DNC, TTT) Izzy Bizu - Give Me Love (24th, DNC, T) Jax Jones - Yeah Yeah Yeah (24th, DNC, T) Leona Lewis - I Am (24th, DNC, TTT) Mendoza - Love Druggie (Addict) (24th, DNC, TT) Foxes - Body Talk (24th, #25, TTT) R. City - Locked Away ft. Adam Levine (24th, DNC, TT) Sigma feat. Ella Henderson - Glitterball (24th, #4, TT) Zac Brown Band - Holiday Road (24th, DNC, TTT) Stornoway - The Only Way Is Up (27th, DNC, TT) Ten Fé - Make Me Better (27th, DNC, T) Nerina Pallot – Rousseau (29th, DNC, TTT) New Order – Restless (29th, DNC, T) The Blossoms - Blown Rose (31st, DNC, T) Bon Jovi - Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning (31st, DNC, TTT) Duke Dumont - Ocean Drive (31st, #42, T) The Honey Ants - The Sound of You (31st, DNC, T) Level 3 feat. Martika LA - Feeling Your Love (LaaDeeDaa) (31st, DNC, T) The Maccabees - Something Like Happiness (31st, DNC, T)

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August

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Jupe - Rocket (3rd, DNC, TT) Luke Sital-Singh - Still (3rd, DNC, T) Lion Babe – Impossible (4th, DNC, T) Magic! - No Way No (4th, DNC, TT) Reverend and the Makers - Black Widow (5th, DNC, T) David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock (6th, DNC, TT) Alex Adair - Heaven (7th, DNC, T) Biters - 1975 (7th, DNC, TT) Charlie Puth - Marvin Gaye (feat Meghan Trainor) (7th, #1, TTT) Dan Owen – Fall Like A Feather (7th, DNC, TT) Frank Turner - Josephine (7th, DNC, T) Gabrielle Aplin - Sweet Nothing (7th, DNC, TTT) Kaleo - Way Down We Go (7th, DNC, TT) Kimberly Anne - Bury It There (7th, DNC, T) Kylie Minogue - Absolutely Anything and Anything At All (7th, DNC, TT) Lianne La Havas - What You Dont Do (7th, DNC, TTT) Only The Young - I Do (7th, DNC, TTT) Rita Ora feat. Chris Brown - Body on Me (7th, #23, T) Sarah Harding – Threads (7th, DNC, T) SoulCircuit feat. Maverick Sabre - Rolling With Me (I Got Love) (7th, DNC, T) Becky Hill and TAI and Watermät - All My Love (10th, DNC, T) Bryan Adams - You Belong To Me (10th, DNC, TTT) Leona Lewis - Thunder (13th, DNC, TTT) Abi Alton – Souvenirs (14th, DNC, T) Blonde - Feel Good (It’s Alright) [feat. Karen Harding] (14th, #76, T) Jess Glynne - Dont Be So Hard On Yourself (14th, #1, TTT) Ludovico Einaudi - Night (14th, DNC, T) Maroon 5 - This Summer (14th, #40, TT) Nelly feat. Jeremih - The Fix (14th, DNC, TT) Vintage Trouble - Doin’ What You Were Doin’ (14th, DNC, T) Young Empires - Uncover Your Eyes (14th, DNC, T) Brian McFadden - Call On Me Brother (16th, DNC, T) Cliff Richard - Golden (16th, DNC, T) Laura Mvula - You Work for Me (17th, DNC, TT) a-ha - Under The Makeup (21st, DNC, TTT)

KBPS

Andreya Triana - Playing With Fire (21st, DNC, TTT) Carrie Underwood - Smoke Break (21st, DNC, T) Ella Eyre - Good Times (21st, DNC, TT) The Fratellis - Impostors (Little By Little) (21st, DNC, T) Jess Glynne - Ain’t Got Far To Go (21st, DNC, TT) Longfellow – Choose (21st, DNC, T) Madcon feat. Ray Dalton - Don’t Worry (21st, #54, TTT) Nimmo - Dilute This (21st, DNC, T) Pentatonix – Cheerleader (21st, DNC, TT) Rachel Platten - Fight Song (21st, #1, TTT) Scouting For Girls - Life’s Too Short (21st, DNC, TTT) The Six - (Don’t Go) Running (21st, DNC, TTT) Carly Rae Jepsen - Boy Problems (23rd, DNC, T) Flyte - Please Eloise (24th, DNC, T) Markus Feehily – Butterfly (24th, DNC, T) Reverend and the Makers - Makin’ Babies (Radio Edit) (24th, DNC, T) John Newman - Tiring Game ft. Charlie Wilson (26th, DNC, TT) Jack Savoretti - Back Where I Belong (27th, DNC, TTT) Avicii - For A Better Day (28th, DNC, TT) Callaghan - We Don’t Have To Change The World (28th, DNC, TT) CAZZETTE – Genius (28th, DNC, T) DJ Cassidy feat. Chromeo - Future Is Mine (28th, DNC, TTT) Elle King - Ex’s & Oh’s (28th, DNC, TT) Jason Derulo - Cheyenne (28th, DNC, T) Justin Bieber - What Do You Mean? (28th, #1, T) Katie Melua - Wonderful Life (28th, DNC, TT) Rae Morris - Don’t Go (28th, DNC, TTT) Rudimental feat. Anne-Marie & Will Heard - Rumour Mill (28th, DNC, T) Viola Beach - Swings and Waterslides (28th, #11, T) Wildflowers - 100 Personalities (28th, DNC, T) Charlie Puth - One Call Away (29th, DNC, TT) Taylor Swift - Wildest Dreams (31st. #42, TTT) Will Young - Joy (31st, DNC, TTT)

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September

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Rod Stewart - Please (2nd, DNC, T) Clean Cut Kid - Runaway (3rd, DNC, T) A-HA : Objects in the Mirror (4th, DNC, TT) A-ha - The Wake (4th, DNC, TTT) Claire Richards - A Deeper Shade of Blue (4th, DNC, TTT) FIDLAR - Drone (4th, DNC, TT) FIDLAR - West Coast (4th, DNC, T) Oh Wonder - All We Do (4th, DNC, TTT) Oh Wonder - Body Gold (4th, DNC, T) Sage The Gemini - Good Thing ft. Nick Jonas (4th, Not Released, T) Sigala - Easy Love (4th, Not Released, TT) Tina Arena - I Want To Love You (4th, DNC, T) Sam Hunt - Take Your Time (9th, DNC, TTT) Angel - Leyla ft. Fuse ODG (10th, DNC, T) American Authors - Go Big Or Go Home (11th, DNC TT) BIRDY + RHODES - Let It All Go (11th, #58, TT) Bring Me The Horizon - Follow You (11th, DNC, T) Chrvches - Clearest Blue (11th, DNC, TTT) The Libertines - You’re My Waterloo (11th, DNC, T) Nero - Two Minds (11th, #27, T) Rachel Platten - Stand By You (11th, DNC, TTT) Tony Momrelle - Pick Me Up (11th, DNC, T) A-Ha - Forest Fire (15th, DNC, TTT) Causes - To The River (16th, DNC, T) Machine Gun Kelly feat. Victoria Money - A Little More (17th, DNC, T) Thomas Rhett - Die A Happy Man (17th, DNC, TT) Hayden James - Something About You (18th, DNC, TT) Hermitage Green - Quicksand (18th, DNC, T) Jack Savoretti - Catapult (18th, #89, T) Matt Simons - Catch & Release (18th, DNC, T) Melissa Steel - You Love Me? feat. Wretch 32 (18th, DNC, TT) Naughty Boy feat. Beyoncé and Arrow Benjamin Runnin’ (Lose It All) (18th, #4, TTT) Syron - Talkin’ Crazy (18th, DNC, TT) Ryan Adams - Bad Blood (21st, DNC, TTT) Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott - The Austerity Of Love (22nd, DNC, TTT) Petite Meller - Barbaric (22nd, DNC, T) ELO - When I Was A Boy (23rd, DNC, TTT) Ryan Blyth & After 6 ft Luther Soul - Special (24th, DNC, T) Team Me - June (24th, DNC, T)

KBPS

Dawin - Dessert ft. Silentó (25th, DNC, TT) Don Henley - Words Can Break Your Heart (25th, DNC, T) Emin feat. Nile Rodgers - Boomerang (25th, DNC, TT) Little Mix - Love Me Like You (25th, #13, TT) Paloma Faith - The Crazy Ones (25th, DNC, T) Robin Schulz - Sugar (feat. Francesco Yates) (25th, #28, TTT) Sam Smith - Writings On The Wall (25th, #1, TTT) Shane Filan - Me And The Moon (25th, DNC, TT) Imogen Tonder - Show Me Love (26th, DNC, TT)* Beau nyc. - C’mon Please (28th, DNC, T) The Feeling - Wicked Heart (28th, DNC, TT) Tor Miller - Carter & Cash (28th, DNC, T) Panic! At The Disco: Victorious (29th, DNC, T) Anastacia - Take This Chance (30th, DNC, T) Vant - Parking Lot (30th, DNC, T)

October

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Ciaran McMeeken - City (1st, DNC, T) Avicii - Broken Arrows (2nd, #178, T) Bxnjamin & Chanele McGuinness (2nd, DNC, T) Jamie Lawson - Cold In Ohio (2nd, DNC, TTT) Klingande feat. Broken Back – RIVA (2nd, DNC, T) KStewart - Ain’t Nobody (2nd, #86, T) Natalie La Rose feat. Fetty Wap - Around The World (2nd, 14th, TTT) Rudimental - Lay It All On Me feat. Ed Sheeran (2nd, DNC, T) Squeeze - Cradle To The Grave (2nd, DNC, TT) Squeeze - Happy Days (2nd, DNC, TTT) Tony Momrelle - This Could Be Us (2nd, DNC, TT) Blossoms - Charlemagne (5th, DNC, T) Fickle Friends - Say No More (6th, DNC, TT) Mavrick - Remedy (7th, DNC, TT) Enya - Echoes In Rain (8th, DNC, TTT) Mike Posner - I Took A Pill In Ibiza (Seeb Remix) (8th, #1, T) Alesha Dixon - Do It For Love (9th, DNC, TT) 5 Seconds of Summer - Hey Everybody! (9th, #49, TT) Hurts - Lights (9th, DNC, T) Lemar - The Letter (9th, DNC, TTT) Peter Andre - Mysterious Swing (9th, DNC, TT) R. City feat. Chloe Angelides - Make Up (9th, DNC, T)

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Tom Jones and Imelda May - Honey, Honey (9th, DNC, T) Laurence Fox - Headlong (13th, DNC, T) The Vamps - Cheater (13th, DNC, TT) Claptone feat. Nathan Nicholson (15th, DNC, T) G-Eazy X Bebe Rexha - Me, Myself & I (15th, #13, TTT) Stereophonics - Song For The Summer (15th, DNC, TTT) Tori Kelly - Should’ve Been Us (15th, DNC, TT) Alesha Dixon feat. Wretch 32 - Stop (16th, DNC, TT) Alesha Dixon - Tallest Girl (16th, DNC, TT) Ben Haenow feat. Kelly Clarkson- Second Hand Heart (Official Video) (16th, #21, TTT) Izzy Bizu - White Tiger (16th, DNC, TT) KDA feat. Tinie Tempah and Katy B- Turn The Music Louder (Rumble) (16th, #1, TTT) Marcus Marr & Chet Faker - The Trouble With Us (16th, DNC, TT) OMI feat. AronChupa - Drop In The Ocean (16th, DNC, TT) One Direction - Perfect (16th, #2, TTT) Take That - Hey Boy (16th, #56, TTT) Calvin Harris & Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love (17th, #2, TT) Hot Chip - Dancing In The Dark (19th, DNC, T) Lemar - Higher Love (19th, DNC, T) Gwen Stefani - Used To Love You (20th, #157, T) Troye Sivan - Talk Me Down (20th, #118, T) Zibra - Wasted Days (20th, DNC, TT) Danny L Harle - Forever (21st, DNC, TT) Snakehips feat. Tinashe and Chance The Rapper - All My Friends (21st, #11, TT) Lukas Graham - 7 Years (22nd, #1, TTT) Lukas Graham - Mama Said (22nd, #93, TT) Mike Mago - Deeper Love (22nd, DNC, T) Adele - Hello (23rd, #1, TTT) Carrie Underwood - Chaser (23rd, DNC, T) Lady Lykez - Chat 2 Your Man (23rd, Not Released, TT) Meghan Trainor - Better When I’m Dancin’ (23rd, DNC, TT) Rod Stewart - Way Back Home (23rd, DNC, T) Weezer - Thank God for Girls (26th, DNC, T) 5 Seconds of Summer - Jet Black Heart (28th, DNC, T) Marie Munroe - Can`t Go Back (28th, DNC, T) Cage The Elephant - Mess Around (29th, DNC, T) ELO - One Step at a Time (29th, DNC, TTT) The Blossoms - Charlemagne (30th, DNC, TTT)

KBPS

The Braxtons - Mary, Did You Know? (30th, DNC, T) David Guetta feat. Sia & Fetty Wap - Bang My Head (30th, #58, T) DEF LEPPARD - Dangerous (30th, DNC, T) Elvis Presley with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Burning Love (30th, DNC, TTT) James Morrison - Stay Like This (30th, DNC, T) Kacey Musgraves - A Spoonful of Sugar (30th, DNC, TTT) Rod Stewart - Hold The Line (30th, DNC, TT) Tom Zanetti - Darlin’ (30th, DNC, T)

November

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Maddie & Tae - Shut Up And Fish (2nd, DNC, TT) Jess Glynne - Take Me Home (3rd, #6, T) Mabel - My Boy My Town (4th, DNC, TT) Lissie - Hero (5th, DNC, TTT) Anastacia - Army of Me (6th, DNC, T) AURORA - Half The World Away (6th, #11, TTT) CeeLo Green - Music To My Soul (6th, DNC, TT) Coldplay - Adventure Of A Lifetime (6th, #9, TTT) Grimes - Kill V. Maim (6th, DNC, TT) Little Mix - Hair (6th, DNC, T) Little Mix feat. Jason Derulo - Secret Love Song (6th, #16, T) Major Lazer feat. Nyla & Fuse ODG - Light It Up (6th, DNC, T) MS MR - Criminals (6th, DNC, T) Oliver Heldens & Shaun Frank - Shades Of Grey (6th, DNC, T) Olly Murs - Kiss Me (6th, #11, T) One Direction - History (6th, DNC, TTT) Seal - Every Time I’m With You (6th, DNC, T) Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP - Soul Makossa (Money) (6th, DNC, TT) Jessie J - Man with the Bag (8th, DNC, TT) Kylie Minogue and James Corden - Only You (9th, DNC, TT) Nigel Thomas - Fever (9th, DNC, T) Coasts - You (11th, DNC, T) Jamie Lawson - Someone For Everyone (11th, DNC, TTT) Pretty Vicious - Are You Ready For Me (11th, DNC, TT) Jeff Lynne’s ELO - Aint It a Drag (12th, DNC, TT) Enya - Even In The Shadows (13th, DNC, TT) Lucia Nicole - Feels Like Love (13th, DNC, TT) Miamigo - Seeing Two (13th, DNC, TTT) Natalie McCool - Cardiac Arrest (13th, DNC, T)

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Sara Hartman - Monster Lead Me Home (13th, DNC, T) Tara Priya - Who That (13th, DNC, TT) Tigress - Future (13th, DNC, T) Train - Merry Christmas Everybody (13th, DNC, T) Troye Sivan - YOUTH (13th, DNC, TT) Sabrina Carpenter - Christmas the Whole Year Round (14th, DNC, TT) The Corrs - I Do what I Like (16th, DNC, TT) Elton John - Looking Up (16th, DNC, TTT) Courteeners - Winter Wonderland (17th, DNC, T) Justin Bieber - Sorry (17th, #1, TTT) The Weeknd - In The Night (17th, #140, T) AlunaGeorge feat. Popcaan - I’m In Control (18th, #39, TT) Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes (18th, #68, TTT) Frances - Borrowed Time (18th, DNC, TT) HomeTown - The Night We Met (19th, DNC, T) Kelly Clarkson - Piece By Piece (19th, DNC, T) Adele - When We Were Young (20th, DNC, TTT) Anne-Marie - Do It Right (20th, DNC, TT) Belle Vex - Famous (20th, DNC, T) Carly Rae Jepsen - Last Christmas (20th, DNC, TT) Dancing Years - Learn To Kiss (20th, DNC, T) Danny L Harle - Broken Flowers (20th, DNC, T) The Darkness - I Am Santa (20th, DNC, T) KLOE - Touch (20th, DNC, T) LION BABE - Where Do We Go (20th, DNC, T) Nathan Sykes - Over And Over Again (20th, #8, T) Scouting For Girls - Christmas in the Air Tonight (20th, DNC, TT) Norma Jean Martine - Animals (20th, DNC, T) Walking On Cars - Speeding Cars (23rd, DNC, T) Wolf Alice - Freazy (23rd, DNC, TTT) Xploder feat. Laura White, Manga St Hilare - Circles (25th, DNC, T) The Corrs - Bring On The Night (27th, DNC, TTT) Craig David x Big Narstie - When The Bassline Drops (27th, #43, T) Eden Royals - Close To The Sun (27th, DNC, TT)* The Killers - Dirt Sledding ft. Ryan Pardey, Richard Dreyfuss (27th, DNC, TT) The Lancashire Hotpots - Lancashire’s For Me (27th, DNC, TT) Lissie - Don’t You Give Up On Me (27th, DNC, TTT) Sandi Thom - Earthquake (27th, DNC, TTT) Sarah Cracknell - Take the Silver (27th, DNC, TT) Shakin’ Stevens - Echoes of Merry Christmas Everyone (27th, DNC, TTT)

KBPS

Tobtok ft. River - Fast Car (27th, DNC, TT) The Vamps - Rest Your Love (27th, DNC, T) Will Young - What The World Needs Now Is Love (27th, DNC, T) Louis Berry - .45 (28th, DNC, TT) J Dilla - Trucks (29th, DNC, T) Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better (29th, DNC, T) Carrie Underwood - Heartbeat (30th, DNC, TT) Michael Buble - The More You Give (The More You’ll Have) (30th, DNC, TT)

December

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Chairlift - Romeo (1st, DNC, TT) Si Cranstoun - A Christmas Twist (1st, DNC, TTT) Kylie - Every Day’s Like Christmas (2nd, DNC, TTT) LeAnn Rimes - Today Is Christmas (2nd, DNC, TT) Jodie Abacus - Hot Kitchen (3rd, DNC, TTT) Adam Lambert - Another Lonely Night (4th, DNC, TTT) Alan Walker ft. Iselin Solheim - Faded (4th, DNC, TT) Allie X - Sanctuary (4th, DNC, TTT) Bette Midler - (Talk To Me Of) Mendocino (4th, DNC, T) Breakbot - Get Lost (4th, DNC, T) Chet Faker, Marcus Marr - The Trouble With Us (4th, DNC, TT) The Clear - Love Internationale (4th, DNC, TT) Coldplay feat. Beyonce - Htymn for the Weekend (4th, #148, TTT) Delta Heavy - Punish My Life (4th, DNC, T) Eliza And The Bear - It Gets Cold (4th, DNC, TT) Elliphant - North Star (Bloody Christmas) (4th, DNC, TT) Foxes - Amazing (4th, DNC, TTT) Jessie James Decker - This Christmas (4th, DNC, TT) Kygo - Stay ft. Maty Noyes (4th, #53, TT) LunchMoney Lewis - Ain’t Too Cool (4th, DNC, TTT) Martin Solveig feat. Sam White - +1 (4th, #51, TT) Phoenix - Alone on Christmas Day (4th, DNC, T) Secret Company - Picture (4th, DNC, T) Sigala - Sweet Lovin’ (4th, #3, TT) Sparks - Christmas Without A Prayer (4th, DNC, T) Travis - Everything At Once (4th, DNC, TTT) Flo Rida - Dirty Mind ft. Sam Martin (5th, DNC, TT)

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Boy from the Crowd - Revelator (7th, DNC, T) Charles Bradley - Changes, (7th, DNC, TT) Justin Bieber - Love Yourself (7th, #1, TT)4 Disturbed - The Sound of Silence (8th, DNC, TT) The Military Wives Choir - I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Walking Home for Christmas (8th, DNC, TT) Sia - Alive (8th, #30, T) American Authors - Pride (11th, DNC, TT) Kwabs - Cheating On Me (11th, DNC, TT) Mahalia - Never Change (11th, DNC, T) Mr. Oizo feat. Charli XCX - Hand In The Fire (11th, DNC, T) The 1975 - UGH! (11th, #42, T) Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds - The Dying Of The Light (11th, DNC, TT) Olly Murs - Stevie Knows (11th, DNC, TTT) Rumer - Love Is The Answer |(11th, DNC, TT) Wretch 32 - Alright With Me (11th, DNC, TT) Elle King - Under The Influence (14th, DNC, T) Of Monsters And Men - Wolves Without Teeth (15th, DNC, TT) Blake and Dame Shirley Bassey - The Christmas Song (18th, DNC, TT) Causes - Teach Me How To Dance With You (18th, DNC, TT) Josef Salvat - Open Season (18th, DNC, TTT) Glass - Broken Bones (25th, DNC, T) The Coral - Chasing The Tail Of A Dream (26th, DNC, T)

January

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Birdy - Keeping Your Head Up (1st, #62, TTT) Florida Georgia Line - H.O.L.Y. (1st, DNC, TT) Jack Garratt - Worry (1st, DNC, T) Zedd and Kesha - True Colors (1st, #78, TT) Daya - Hide Away (3rd, DNC, TT) Blossoms - At Most A Kiss (5th, DNC, TT) Honey Ryder - What If We’ve Only Got Tonight (6th, DNC, TT) Sia - Reaper (6th, DNC, T) Cat Delphi - Fire (8th, DNC, T) The Dandy Warhols - You Are Killing Me (8th, DNC, T) Josef Salvat - Paradise (8th, DNC, TT) KSI feat. JME - Keep Up (8th, DNC, T) Nero - Into The Night (8th, DNC, TT) Shakira - Try Everything (8th, DNC, T) Teddybears feat. Gorilla Zoe - Best You Ever Had (8th, DNC, TTT)

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Turin Brakes - Keep Me Around (8th, DNC, TT) The Dø - Trustful Hands (9th, DNC, T) Ronan Keating - Let Me Love You (9th, DNC, T) Selena Gomez feat. Fetty Wap - Same Old Love (10th, DNC, TT) The Last Shadow Puppets - Bad Habits (11th, DNC, T) LewRey - Somebody (11th, DNC, TT) Nina Nesbitt - Chewing Gum, 11th, DNC, TTT) The Strumbellas - Spirits (11th, DNC, TTT) Enter Shikari - Redshift (12th, DNC, T) Rat Boy - Move (12th, DNC, TTT) Taylor Swift - Out Of The Woods (12th, DNC, TTT) Tiggs Da Author feat. Lady Leshurr - Run (12th, DNC, TTT) Rationale - Something For Nothing (13th, DNC, TT) Travis - 3 Miles High (13th, DNC, TTT) WHITE - Living Fiction (13th, DNC, TTT) Beau - Animal Kingdom (14th, DNC, TT) Ekkah - Small Talk (15th, DNC, T) Panic! At The Disco - Emperors New Clothes (15th, DNC, TTT) Stooshe - Lock Down (15th, DNC, TT) Zara Larsson - Lush Life (15th, #72, TTT) Flume feat. Kai - Never Be Like You (16th, DNC, TT) MORTEN - Beautiful Heartbeat (16th, DNC, T) Weezer - King Of The World (16th, DNC, TT) Cold Chilling Collective - Insane In the Brain (19th, DNC, TTT) Ellie Goulding - Something In The Way You Move (19th, #51. TT) Elton John - Blue Wonderful (19th, DNC, TTT) The Jezabels - Pleasure Drive (19th, DNC, T) Matthew E. White feat. Natalie Pres - Cool Out (20th, DNC, T) Sia - Unstoppable (20th, DNC, TT) AlunaGeorge feat. Popcaam - I’m In Control (21st, DNC, T) Ben Hobbs - Wishful Thinking (21st, DNC, T) Louise Aubrie - Winter Delour (21st, DNC, TT) Rosie Nimmo - Stop Take A Minute (21st, DNC, TT) Netsky - Work It Out (22nd, DNC, T) Betsy - Fair (22nd, DNC, T) Cat Delphi - Fire (22nd, DNC, TTT) NESSI - Heart of Gold (22nd, DNC, TT) The Northernettes - Let’s go (22nd, DNC, TT)

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Ron Pope - Hell Or High Water (22nd, DNC, TT) Zendaya - Neverland (24th, DNC, T) SNBRN feat. Nate Dogg - Gangsta Walk (25th, DNC, TT) Paul Carrack - Sleep On It (26th, DNC, T) Rick Wakeman - Life on Mars (26th, DNC, TT) Amy Monzon - Love Song (27th, DNC, TT) Jess Glynne - Ain’t Got Far To Go (27th, DNC, TTT) Krrum - Evil Twin (27th, DNC, TT) Rihanna - Work (27th, #2, T) Tonight Alive - Drive (27th, DNC, TTT) The Vamps - Kung Fu Fighting (27th, DNC, TT) Creeper - Black Mass (28th, DNC, T) Dan Sartain - Walk Among The Cobras (28th, DNC, T) The Feeling - Spiralling (28th, DNC, TT) Akon - Hypnotized (29th, DNC, TT) Aloe Blacc - Let The Games Begin (29th, DNC, T) Brooke Candy - Happy Days (29th, DNC, TT) Cold Chilling Collective feat. the Rooks (29th, DNC, TT) Elton John - In The Name Of You (29th, DNC, TT) Skyler feat. Snoop Dogg - Fire (29th, DNC, TTT) Nick Brewer Ft. Sinead Harnett - Never Say Never (31st, DNC, TT)

Lucy Spraggan - Home (8th, DNC, T) Dua Lipa - Last Dance (9th, DNC, T) Sundara Karma - A Young Understanding (9th, DNC, T) Area 52 - What Do You Want? (10th, DNC, T) VANT - Fly-by Alien (10th, DNC, T) Sia feat. Sean Paul - Cheap Thrills (11th, DNC, TT) Spring King - Rectifier (11th, DNC, T) Daughtry - Torches (12th, DNC, TTT) Gilbert O’Sullivan - No Way (12th, DNC, TT) Holy Fever - Find Your Fame (12th, DNC, T) Lissie - Daughters (12th, DNC, T) Nicky Byrne - Sunlight (12th, DNC, TTT) Walk the Moon - Work This Body (12th, DNC, TTT) Will Joseph Cook - Girls Like Me (12th, DNC, TTT) Gwen Stefani - Make Me Like You (13th, DNC, TTT) Kenzie May - Never Find Another (13th, DNC, TT) Bryan Adams - Do What Ya Gotta Do (17th, DNC, TTT) Fleur East - More & More (17th, DNC, TTT) Neil Foxton - Now The Time Has Come (16th, DNC, T) Connie Talbot - Shut Up (Move On) (18th, DNC, TT) Ady Suleiman - Running Away (Winta James Mix) (19th, DNC, T) As December Falls - Don’t Say a Word (19th, DNC, T) Charly Cole - February 29 (Marry Me) (19th, DNC, T) Cookin’ On 3 Burners and Kungs - This Girl (19th, Watch all the videos: http://bit.ly/1ZDjprK DNC, TT) Oh Wonder - Lose It (1st, DNC, T) First Congres - The First (19th, DNC, TTT) Transviolet - New Bohemia (1st, DNC, TT) Ciaran Lavery - Return To Form (19th, DNC, T) Allen Stone - Freedom (2nd, DNC, T) The Feeling - Spiralling (19th, DNC, TTT) Markus Feehily - Sanctuary (2nd, DNC, T) Shura - Touch (19th, DNC, T) VITAMIN - This Isn’t Love (3rd, DNC, T) Oscar - Sometimes (21st, DNC, T) Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul - Make My Love Go (4th, DNC, All Saints - One Strike (23rd, #198, TTT) TT) Ellie Goulding - Something In The Way You Move AFFAIRS - Play (5th, DNC, T) (23rd, #51, TTT) Aronchupa - A Little Swing (5th, DNC, TT) Foxes - Scar (23rd, DNC, TT) The Chainsmokers feat. Daya - Don’t Let Me Down Teddy Thompson & Kelly Jones – Never Knew You (5th, DNC, TT) Loved Me Too (23rd, DNC, T) DJ Fresh & High Contrast feat. Dizzee Rascal - How Troye Sivan - Youth (24th, #96, TTT) Love Begins (5th, DNC, TTT) Maz O’Connor - Crook of His Arm (25th, DNC, T) Florrie - Real Love (5th, DNC, TTT) The 1975 - The Sound (25th, DNC, TT) Foxes - Wicked Love (5th, DNC, TTT) NAO - Fool to Love (25th, DNC, T) Holy Ghost! - Crime Cutz (5th, DNC, T) Adelitas Way - Getaway (26th, DNC, T) James - Nothing But Love (5th, DNC, TTT) Jay Sean feat. Sean Paul - Make My Love Go (5th, DNC, Charli XCX - Vroom Vroom (26th, DNC, T) Eliza And The Bear - Friends (26th, DNC, T) TT) Flo Rida feat. Jason DeRulo - Hello Friday (26th, DNC, Laura Doggett - Part Time Friends (5th, DNC, T) TT) Show Me The Way - Penguin Prison (5th, DNC, T)

February

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Herman - Tonight The World Is Mine feat. CeeLo Green (26th, DNC, T) Jazz Mino - Superwoman (26th, DNC, TTT) Meridian Dan – Couple Killers ft. Mytus (26th, DNC, T) Nicky Romero & Nile Rodgers - Future Funk (26th, DNC, TT) Tinie Tempah feat. Zara Larsson - Girls Like (26th, #9, TT) Hailee Steinfeld feat. DNCE - Rock Bottom (27th, DNC, T) Rick Astley - Keep Singing (28th, DNC, TT) Jake Bugg - Gimme The Love (29th, DNC, T) Jess and the Bandits - Kiss You Now (29th, DNC, TT) Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - (Man Is) The Biggest Witch Of All (29th, DNC, TTT) Teleman - Düsseldorf (29th, DNC, TT)

March

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The Kills - Doing It To Death (1st, DNC, TT) Richard Ashcroft - This Is How It Feels (1st, DNC, TTT) James Bay - Best Fake Smile (2nd, #60, TTT) Meadowlark - Paraffin (2nd, DNC, TT) Shakira - Try Everything (3rd, DNC, TTT) Sunset Sons - Somewhere Maybe (3rd, DNC, TT) Turin Brakes - Save You (3rd, DNC, TT) Blonde and Craig David - Nothing Like This (4th, #15, TT) Campsite Dream - Jammin’ (4th, DNC, TT) Cris Cab feat. Youssoupha - Bada Bing (4th, DNC, TT) Digitalism - Battlecry (4th, DNC, T) Hotel Garuda - Smoke Signals (4th, DNC, TT) Michael Calfan - Nobody Does It Better (4th, DNC, TT) Phoebe Ryan - Chronic (4th, DNC, T) Ryan Blyth, After 6 - Trust Me (4th, DNC, T) Tonight Alive - How Does it Feel? (4th, DNC T) Years & Years - Desire ft. Tove Lo (4th, DNC, TT) Kirsten Adamson - New York Girl (5th, DNC, TTT) James Morrison - I Need You Tonight (6th, DNC, TTT) Seramic - Waiting (6th, DNC, T) Gregory Porter - Don’t Lose Your Steam (7th, DNC, T) Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP - From Me To You (7th, DNC, T) Kiko Bun - Sticky Situation (8th, DNC, T)

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Frances - Don’t Worry About Me (9th, DNC. TT) Corinne Bailey Rae - Green Aphrodisiac (10th, DNC, T) Gwen Stefani - Misery (10th, DNC, TT) Mayer Hawthorne - Love Like That (10th, DNC, TTT) Ariana Grande - Dangerous Woman (11th, #17, TT) AURORA - Conqueror (11th, DNC, TTT) Avicii vs. Conrad Sewell - Taste The Feeling (11th, DNC, TT) Birdy - Wild Horses (11th, #75, TTT) Jennifer Ann - Mad World (11th, DNC, TT) Joe and Jake - You’re Not Alone (11th, DNC, TT) Kerri Watt - The Wild (11th, DNC, TTT) KYKO - Native (11th, DNC, TT) Lany - Where The Hell Are My Friends (11th, DNC, TT) Lao Ra - Jesus Made Me Bad (11th, DNC, T) Wilkinson - Flatline (12th, DNC, T) Jamie Porter - Sound of the Summer (13th, DNC, TTT) DNCE - Cake By The Ocean (14th, #26, TTT) Mura Masa - What If I Go? (15th, DNC, TT) Bebe Rexha feat. Nicki Minaj - No Broken Hearts (16th, DNC, TT) Royksopp - Here She Comes Again (16th, DNC, T) All Saints - One Woman Man (17th, DNC, T) Fort Hope - That’s The Way The River Flows (17th, DNC, T) Blonde & Craig David - ‘Nothing Like This (18th, DNC, T) FOXTROTT - Brother (18th, DNC, T) Holly Johnson - Ascension (18th, DNC, TTT) Krishane feat. Patoranking- Inconsiderate (18th, DNC, T) Kygo - Stay ft. Maty Noyes (18th, DNC, T) Lawson - Money (18th, Not Yet Released, TT) Meilyr Jones - Featured Artist (18th, DNC, T) MIAMIGO - Everyone I Know (18th, DNC, TT) Natives - Chasing Lions (18th, DNC, T) Pet Shop Boys - The Pop Kids (18th, DNC, TTT) Scouting For Girls - Home (18th, DNC, TTT) Sigala feat. Imani and DJ Fresh- Say You Do (18th, #46, TT) Andy Black - We Don’t Have To Dance (21st, DNC, TT) Meghan Trainor - No (21st, #48, TT) Purple - Pretty Mouth (21st, DNC, T) AURORA - Winter Bird (22nd, DNC, TT) Kiiara - Intention (22nd, DNC, T) Travis - Magnificent Time (22nd, DNC, TTT)

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Ben Montague - We Start Over (23rd, DNC, TTT) Dive In - Don’t Break Yourself Apart (23rd, DNC, TTT) Billy Ocean - A Simple Game (24th, DNC, TTT) Guvna B feat. Deitrick Haddon- Nothing But The Blood (24th, DNC, TT) Cameron AG - Way Back Home (25th, DNC, TT) Chris Lorenzo and Katy B (25th, DNC, T) MAGIC! feat. Sean Paul - Lay You Down Easy (25th, DNC, TT) Peter Bjorn And John - Breakin’ Point (25th, DNC, T) The Tide - Young Love (25th, DNC, TTT) The Allergies feat. Andy Cooper - Rock Rock (25th, DNC, TTT) Kano - This Is England (26th, DNC, T) Adian Coker - No Angel (30th, DNC, T) The Amazons - Stay With Me (30th, DNC, T) Band Of Skulls - Killer (30th, DNC, T) Benny Benassi & Chris Brown - Paradise (31st, DNC, T) The Heavy - What Happened To The Love? (31st, DNC, T) Lowla - Reckless (31st, DNC, TTT) Michele Stodart - Will You Wait (31st, DNC, T) Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - I Need Never Get Old (31st, DNC, T) Rukhsana Merrise - Money (31st, DNC, T)

April

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Alesso feat. Nico and Vinz - I Wanna Know (1st, DNC, T) All Saints - This Is A War (1st, DNC, T) Corinne Bailey Rae - Stop Where You Are (1st, DNC, TT) Tough Love - Touch ft. Arlissa (1st, DNC, T) Broods - Free (1st, DNC, T) Funeral Suits - Tree of Life (1st, DNC, T) Galantis - No Money (1st, DNC, T) Jason Derulo -“If It Ain’t Love (1st, #72, T) Kelvin - Chase (1st, DNC, T) Kygo feat. Kodaline - Raging (1st, #56, T) The Lancashire Hotpots - DIBNAH (1st, Not Yet Released, TT) Ronan Keating - Breathe (1st, DNC, TTT) Sam Sure - Catching Feelings (1st, DNC, T) Sun Arcana - Nocturnal (1st, DNC, T) The Vamps - I Found A Girl (1st, #30, T) We Are Scientists - Too Late (1st, DNC, T) Zak Abel - Everybody Needs Love (1st, DNC, TT)

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Good Charlotte - 40 oz. Dream (4th, DNC, TT) Lemar & Joss Stone - Someday We’ll Be Together (4th, DNC, TTT) Rick Astley - Keep Singing (6th, #127, TTT) Tegan and Sara - Boyfriend (7th, DNC, TTT) Angels & Airwaves - Chasing Shadows (8th, DNC, T) April Towers - Silent Fever (8th, DNC, TTT) Bayku - Destiny (8th, DNC, TT) Didrick feat. Amanda Fondell - Smoke (8th, DNC, TT) Elly Oh - Real Men Cry (8th, DNC, TT) Erik Hassle - If Your Man Only Knew (8th, DNC, TT) Foy Vance - Upbeat Feelgood (8th, DNC, T) HONNE & Izzy Bizu - Someone That Loves You (8th, DNC, TT) Jennifer Lopez - Ain’t Your Mama (8th, DNC, TT) Kevin Simm - All You Good Friends (8th, #24, T) MK & Becky Hill - Piece of Me (8th, DNC, T) MUNA - Loudspeaker (8th, DNC, T) Pitbull feat. Enrique Iglesias - Messin’ Around (8th, DNC, TT) Goo Goo Dolls - So Alive (9th, DNC, T) will.i.am feat. Pia Mia - Boys & Girls (9th, #44, TT) Half Moon Run - Consider Yourself (11th, DNC, T) Jodie Abacus - She’s In Love With The Weekend (11th, DNC, T) Samaris - Wanted 2 Say (11th, DNC, TT) Bloc Party - Virtue (12th, DNC, T) Júníus Meyvant - Neon Experience (12th, DNC, T) The Temper Trap - Fall Together (12th, DNC, TT) Blossoms - Getaway (13th, DNC, T) Eric Clapton - Can’t Let You Do It (13th, DNC, T) Halsey - Castle (13th, DNC, TT) Taylor Swift - New Romantics (13th, #132, TT) Prince Rapid - What’s Good (14th, DNC, T) Skepta - Man (14th, DNC, T) VITAMIN - Waterfall (14th, DNC, TT) We Are Scientists - Classic Love (14th, DNC, TT) Adam French - Face To Face (15th, DNC, T) Alex Newell, Jess Glynne & DJ Cassidy with Nile Rodgers - Kill The Lights (15th, DNC, TT) High Contrast - Remind Me (15th, DNC, T) Lauren Aquilina - Kicks (15th, DNC, TTT) Little Mix feat. Sean Paul - Hair (15th, #19, TT) LuvBug - Best Is Yet To Come (15th, #68, TTT) Naomi Pilgrim - Sink Like A Stone (15th, DNC, TTT) Richard Ashcroft - Hold On (15th, DNC, TT) Tom Odell - Magnetised (15th, DNC, TTT) Turin Brakes - Save You (15th, DNC, TTT)

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Youngr - Out Of My System (15th, DNC, TTT) Vukovi - Animal (15th, DNC, T) Pink - Just Like Fire (16th, DNC, TTT) Travis - Radio Song (17th, DNC, T) Rod Stewart - Walking In The Sunshine (18th, DNC, TT) Doom Man - Hell Nah (Revolution) (21st, DNC, TT) Middlemist Red - Evermore (21st, DNC, T) Basheba - Don’t Go (22nd, DNC, TTT) Cash+David - When You’re Lonely (22nd, DNC, T) Elle King - America’s Sweetheart (22nd, DNC, TTT) Jake Bugg - Love, Hope and Misery (22nd, DNC, TT) Lenny Henry - New Millennium Blues (22nd, DNC, T) Lola Coca - GQ (22nd, DNC, TTT) Mahalia - Back Up Plan (22nd, DNC, T) Mumford & Sons feat. Baaba Maal - There Will Be Time (22nd, DNC, T) Florence + The Machine - Third Eye (25th, DNC, T) Loyle Carner - Stars & Shards (26th, DNC, TT) Samuel Sim - Siren (26th, DNC, TT) Fusion - No (27th, DNC, T) Haze - You Don’t Know Me (27th, DNC, T) ABC - Viva Love (28th, DNC, TTT) The Monkees - She Makes Me Laugh (28th, DNC, TT) Electric Pyramid - 1989 (29th, DNC, T) Foxes - Cruel (29th, DNC, TT) Izzy Bizu - Sweat (A La La La La Long) (29th, DNC, TT) Kolumbus - Leave the Light On (29th, DNC, TT)* The Mars Patrol - Not About You (29th, DNC, TT)* Matinee - Empty (29th, DNC, TT) Nathan Sykes feat. G-Eazy - Give It Up (29th, DNC, TT) Pretty Vicious - Cave Song (29th, DNC, T)

Axwell Λ Ingrosso feat. Pharrell Williams - Dream Bigger (6th, DNC, TTT) Bernhoft -Stop/Shutup (6th, DNC, TT) Charly Cole - Gray (6th, DNC, T) Dua Lipa - Hotter Than Hell (6th, DNC, TT) Fifth Harmony - Write On Me (6th, DNC, TT) I AM KODE - Flood (6th, DNC, TT) Justin Timberlake - Can’t Stop the Feeling (6th, DNC, TTT) Kraak & Smaak feat. Mayer Hawthorne - I Don’t Know Why (6th, DNC, T) KSI Ffeat. Mista Silva – Goes Off (6th, DNC, TT) The Lancashire Hotpots - Egg, Sausage, Chips & Beans (6th, DNC, TT) Nzilani - Never Be (6th, DNC, TTT) Fatherson - Just Past the Point of Breaking (10th, DNC, T) Meghan Trainor - Me Too (10th, DNC. TT) Eddie Prove - Never Cared (13th, DNC, T)* OneRepublic - Wherever I Go (13th, DNC, TT) Sticky Blood feat. Ldizz - Hop In The Place (13th, DNC, T)* Wild Palms - A Is For Apple (13th, DNC, T)* Careless Sons - Don’t Make Me Do This Again (27th, NYR, TT) Nina - Beyond Memory (27th, DNC, TTT) Victoria - Distant Nights (27th, NYR, TT)

June

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Mannequin Death Squad - Sick (10th, NYR, TT) Sigala feat. John Newman and Nile Rodgers - Give Me Your Love (17th, NYR, TT)

May

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The Monkees - You Bring The Summer (2nd, DNC, TTT) The Big Moon - Something Beautiful (3rd, DNC, T) Busted - Coming Home (3rd, DNC, TTT) Alicia Keys - In Common (4th, DNC, TT) Krrum - Hard On You (4th, DNC, T) Ariana Grande - Into You (6th, #44, T) Astrid S - Hurts So Good (6th, DNC, T)

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