Inevitable, really.

Yes, I'm still here. Chartsengrafs should be with you within a couple of days at the longest, in short Nelly Furtado was number one last week and will be again, same for Keane.

Anyway... the BBC are finally giving up on Top Of The Pops. Tony Blackburn's verdict: It went wrong because of their choice of presenters: "for some reason, they started introducing small little blondes from children's programmes. And you thought 'they're not really music people". Er, I see.

Personally I lost track of it somewhat once it got moved to Sunday and switched around every other week. Before then, though, the point where it really stopped being essential viewing was when they stopped booking acts on the basis of chart positions and started having the same old predictable faces nearly every week. That's even before we get onto the ridiculously pointless time consuming interviews - yes, cd:uk had them but it had nearly twice the time and didn't attract as many viewers.
Anyway, with choices just based on who was expected to do well and with risk thoroughly avoided, no longer could an appearance feel like some kind of triumph to cap a chart success - the same thing happened to Radio 1's chart show at much the same time.

Of course, a lot of people will say that this is because the charts don't matter any more and no one's buying singles. They may well have a point, and we might be seeing the end of TOTP now regardless. But it would have been nice to have seen them give it a go.