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A changing of the guard at the top of the singles chart as Gayle's nine week patience is finally rewarded. Can you imagine how angry she would have been if it hadn't made it? She would probably have said f**k loudly and repeatedly. It's kind of her gimmick after all.
Yes Adele is back! Deal with it, at least for a week, as the wildest craziest chart of 2022 so far more than delivers its share of stories.
The annual Perenium chart, where even though it isn't Christmas anymore perhaps inevitably Christmas songs still dominate. But at least we have a contemporary one to the fore this time.
Britain. What have you done?
