Yet Another Year In Pop: 8

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Lily holds on to the top spot once more, while best pals Miley and Taylor get some chart action to share between them.

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Lower reaches watch: some Brits-related re-entry shenanigans going on, with high climbs from Kanye, Take That, Duffy and the Ting Tings. Lovely.

Comments

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U2 - I think this is better than U2 normally manage! That's still a nontick, but a marginal one. Unedified by Bono rapping, but the music's OK and interestingly constructed by their standards.

Miley - GRRRR! Tick.

Taylor Swift - I am bored of romeo and juliet references. Use other lover pls. Good chorus, good voice, snoozy verses. Happy to give it more tries but this isn't getting a tick just yet.

Rudenko - Yes, am enjoying this, in the same kind of "won't pay too much mind to it" way as Kid Cudi. Tick, don't like the guy's breathy voice though.

Gary "In the name of God," Go - Heard this with the wife on the radio last week and we both tried to work out which of the post-Blunt crop it was: whoever it is, we thought, they must be desperate for material. But - trick question! - it was someone NEW! Well, "new".

Honey Ryder - I think Honey Ryder are the first band whose press releases I've been spammed with at my pitchfork mailbox to have made it into the UK Top 40. Well done them. The story is that the guy is a former Credit Suisse banker who realised that the gravy train was about to derail he was unfulfilled and wanted to live his dream of making pop music which sounds a bit like Sixpence None The Richer meet the Lighthouse Family. No tick.

Take That - I see the Epic Gary/Jaunty Mark release schedule is being wheeled out again. This is not anywhere near as good as "Shine", especially not when it remembers that's what it's meant to be. No tick.