It's Matt's/my 41st birthday! To close out the weekly run, long-time friend of the show Colin Jackson-Brown takes over the host's chair to count down the UK number one single on 13 October for every year of Matt's/my life, from Jennifer Rush in 1985 to Taylor Swift in 2025!
In this episode:
- How a number one took 15 weeks to climb in 1985, and minutes in 2025
- Bryan Adams' 16 weeks at the top, and Colin's Robin Hood bow-and-arrow summer
- Why Sleeping Satellite is really about the end of the space race
- Take That, Robbie Williams and the songwriters behind the curtain
- Colin finally having to talk about Simply Red
- Candle in the Wind 97 and the end of Cool Britannia
- Billie Piper versus Britney Spears
- The Sugababes, Cathy Dennis and some of the best pop singles the UK has produced
- The wilderness years: siloed algorithms and how you can miss a decade of number ones
- Sabrina Carpenter, Taylor Swift and more!
Host: Colin Jackson-Brown
Guest: Matt Latham
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Logo designed by: Dan Owen
What is Pick A Disc?
They pick 'em, then talk about 'em!
Join Matt Latham as he sits down with a guest to chat about an album they want to talk about. Be it an all-time favourite or an album that the guest just can't stop listening to: guaranteed positive talk about the music people love.
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