I grew up on prog and then got very into Coldplay, this tracks

Ill see if I can get something set up!

Indeed! From the extract it does look like they may have written around that issue by just not mentioning that The Night Agent and Ginny & Georgia were closely followed by 더 글로리 / The Glory

I can't access the article so it might be in there, but I think I found the spreadsheet and the numbers are global. Reckoning with fitting worldwide viewing figures and national discourse has been a persistent issue with YouTube as well

It was the Milk Marketing Board! I remember learning about them when finding out why the British equivalent of the Tour de France was for a time called the Milk Race. www.superchartisland.com/milk-race

Milk Race

Mastertronic, Spectrum, 1987

Got it, I may be over-sensitive on this having seen so many people post a 'joke' 'parody' Liz Truss quote as real recently

@norock.bsky.social various responses have pointed out that this isn't real

That sounds very satisfying! Like when I found a Tamsyn Muir interview where she talked about the Zero Escape series, and it confirmed for me that her book Gideon the Ninth didn't have so much in common with the first game by coincidence

I'm surprised at the surprise! I think the last time a new FIFA/EA Sports FC game didn't enter the UK charts at #1 was FIFA 2003, and that was only because they brought forward the PS2 version alone to go against Pro Evolution Soccer 2

Some of it may be better but "Somewhere Else" (the next biggest hit) is much worse