This is us!! Well said, Steven (himself from the excellent Nothing Is Real podcast!) Thanks to everybody who supports us.

Happy Christmas all! Even in what is Juliet’s dream Christmas present, THERE IS NO ESCAPE #whataboutElephants

NEW EPISODE! He’s been, he’s been!! The chart as it was on 24th December 1995! What’s Christmas Number 1?! Join Juliet and Ed to find out, wherever you get your podcasts!

Thanks all! If you’re enjoyed our work here and love 90s bangers and indeed clangers, do check out our podcast! linktr.ee/ChartLife #totp

AND NOW A BALLAD FROM B*WITCHED, OF ALL PEOPLE, WHO REALLY SHOULD KNOW BETTER #totp

Not even Mase getting a shout this time!! #totp

They really had to scrape singles off Up, didn’t they? That said, this is better than it felt at the time. This bass is MADLY loud, Stipe is having to SHOUT OVER IT #totp

Ah now THIS was ace! Billeeeeeeee #totp

Can cope with boring OR not especially in tune, struggling to cope with both at once #totp

Never a good sign when the song title has so many words theyreallyhavetosquashthemallin #totp

If Facebook sold tea towels they would say this #TOTP

AM 180 by Grandaddy probably not going to be on, is it. #totp

Ace of Base doing Motown is as bewilderingly brilliant now as it was! This is a cracker, sounds like a vintage era Eurovision winner too #TOTP

I remember at the time me and my 2 ladyfriends used to get off taxi fares by pretending we were the Honeyz It's to the tremendous credit of Dublin taxi drivers that they fell for it #TOTP

Oh great, another mid pacer ballad by people standing up…#totp

Emma is always so bad at being sad during the weepy ones! Bless her, grinning away just happy at being a pop star #totp

To my immense distress, Middlemiss just introduced #totp like it was an episode of Top Gear.

Jamie Theakston tries SO HARD to do the withering sarcasm that Mark Lamarr was bringing to Never Mind The Buzzcocks at around the time this era of #TOTP was airing, but he just doesn't have the timing, wit, personality or credibility to pull it off.

This was a good, interesting era of Beautiful South - they were better for being a bit off beam #totp

So it IS strong enough then, eh, she was wrong

Never thought I'd say this but I wish they'd played the Savage Garden track. #TotP

I’m so saaaaaaaaad this show is over etc etc (Juliet played this when DJing her works do last week. Still fills the floor, 27 years on) #totp

Can’t believe poor Blinky Blink didn’t get a shout out!! #totp

God this song is such a dirgey yawn. Not even the monkey film could make this good #totp

Like it or not, what a shout by cynical music execs to have a punt at the Xmas market with this. It’s a bit “Ace of Base attend a funeral” though #totp

“One of Pop’s pensioners” LEANN RIMES, AGED 16 HERE (honestly don’t remember Jamie Theakston being this aggravatingly smart Alec at the time) #totp

Bless Brandy, she has always seemed lovely and Moesha was a great programme that showed her early on to be the star she clearly is but this is a bit… #totp

youtu.be/IRr4l2RM8iQ?... We weren't big cassingle buyers but my brother made an exception for The Everlasting because there was a duet with Sophie Ellis Bextor on it. #TotP

MOR heaven, this. Fun fact - should have been Sheryl Crow but she never got back to Bri, who then bumped into Mel C in a lift… #totp

“I’ve been thinking, right?” Probably best if you don’t, Jamie-La #totp

Now this is actually lovely - and real Muppet Babies vibes off James Manics, bless him #totp

Jay-Z branded bucket, anybody?! #failedmerch #totp

Why are those kids doing press ups?! That IS hard knocks indeed #totp

“And possibly a couple of fairies” JAMIE, FFS #totp

we can’t help falling in love with you

We live to serve…!!

It’s #FIKmas! Nothing says December like watching a bunch of gorgeous Albanian women belt out songs in dresses that are doing THE ABSOLUTE MOST to maximize cleavage

If you are a Eurovision fan, may we point you towards our pal @dudepoints.fun for all your live reporting needs!

NEW EPISODE! Tat’s Entertainment! The chart as it was on 17 December 1995! Join Juliet and Ed and find out what is soundtracking the Diva House Christmas Party and whose good name is being besmirched by a clear imposter making a dreadful record… available wherever you get your podcasts!

We are changing the world, one quiz at a time…

More festive moments from 1995 as discussed on the pod! This time, nothing says CHRISTMAS like… Suggs designing a machine populated with child labour, soundtracked by a jaunty ska tune that sounds like a summer pub knees up! youtu.be/il0oZo2TcO8?...

Chartlifers! Please tune in to hear our friend Justin @whenisbirths.bsky.social talking about his excellent book (which we think you’ll enjoy!)

@chartlifepod.bsky.social Just opened a message about the Christmas chats from the Official Chats mailing list. First line: "Probably the most unexpected content is Denise Welch...". Judging by the recent reaction to her last chat hit in November 1995, I can understand why she'd be unexpected.

You can't put a foot wrong with charity, they say, and yet here we are, using the wrong foot

This, this is why it’s good! (This is Juliet writing, perhaps obviously)

Today’s “Bewildering 1995 Christmas themed video as discussed on the podcast” moment: The implication that Jesus was born in an Eddie Stobbart lorry, to the soundtrack of a Wet Wet Wet song so dreary it doesn’t even have a wiki page… youtu.be/DRHztErHrXo?...

I know everyone knows this, but it's a long way from the original context of the song that was so shocking people earnestly called for it be banned.

Proof that humans are perfectly capable of coming up with really weird shit that doesn't come with the baggage of relying on a computer that is destroying the environment, a product of theft and looking like janky uncanny CGI shit.

As featured on this week’s podcast - because nothing says Christmas like… *checks notes* a house nearly burning down, a satanic reindeer with no eyes, people doing the conga and an old man who can’t sing… Has to be seen to be believed! youtu.be/N4TdeZULiQ4?...