Last year, in this piece (“Repertoire: A Summary for 2024”), I listed all the songs that I added to my repertoire in 2024. Here are the songs added to my repertoire in 2025. As with last year’s list, it “only includes songs that I have committed to memory and played in front of other people in a public space”.

In 2024 my repertoire doubled. As noted in that earlier piece, “At the start of the year I had played 159 different songs in public. By New Year’s Eve that had risen to over 320”. In 2025 my repertoire increased by  over 100, from 326 to 437.

Below is a list of all the new songs I played in 2025, divided into the following three repertoires:

• Songs that reached #1 in the UK.
• Songs that reached #1 somewhere else.
• Songs that have not reached #1 anywhere.

The column headed Count indicates the number of songs that I have played in each repertoire to date. For example, “Back Home” was the 191st song that I added to my UK #1 repertoire, “White Rabbit” was the 102nd song that I added to my repertoire of songs that have reached #1 somewhere else.

Songs that reached #1 in the UK
First	Year	Song	#1 Act	Count
Sun 5-Jan-25	2007	(I’m Gonna Be) 500 Miles	Proclaimers featuring Brian Potter & Andy Pipkin	189
Sun 19-Jan-25	1975	Whispering Grass	Windsor Davies & Don Estelle	190
Sat 25-Jan-25	1970	Back Home	England World Cup Squad	191
Sun 2-Feb-25	2013	Teenage Kicks	One Direction	192
Sun 16-Feb-25	1968	Hey Jude	Beatles	193
Sun 16-Feb-25	1975	Stand by your man	Tammy Wynette	194
Sun 23-Feb-25	1997	The Drugs Don’t Work	Verve	195
Sun 2-Mar-25	1969	The Israelites	Desmond Dekker	196
Sun 23-Mar-25	1954	This Ole House	Rosemary Clooney	197
Sun 13-Apr-25	1999	Maria	Blondie	198
Sun 20-Apr-25	1969	Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da	Marmalade	199
Sun 20-Apr-25	1961	Michael	Highwaymen	200
Sun 18-May-25	1958	It’s All in the Game	Tommy Edwards	201
Sun 18-May-25	1969	Ballad of John and Yoko	Beatles	202
Fri 23-May-25	1995	Some Might Say	Oasis	203
Sun 1-Jun-25	1955	Rock Around the Clock	Bill Haley & The Comets	204
Sun 22-Jun-25	1965	Help!	Beatles	205
Sun 6-Jul-25	1963	I want to hold your hand	Beatles	206
Sun 13-Jul-25	1982	I’ve Never Been to Me	Charlene	207
Sun 10-Aug-25	1962	Return to Sender	Elvis Presley	208
Sun 10-Aug-25	1967	Whiter Shade of Pale	Procol Harum	209
Sun 7-Sep-25	1986	A Different Corner	George Michael	210
Sun 5-Oct-25	1978	You’re the one that I want	John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John	211
Sun 12-Oct-25	2005	Don’t Cha	Pussycat Dolls	212
Sun 26-Oct-25	1981	Tainted Love	Soft Cell	213
Sun 2-Nov-25	2002	Long and Winding Road	Will Young	214
Sun 16-Nov-25	1977	First Cut is the Deepest	Rod Stewart	215
Sun 23-Nov-25	2025	Pink Pony Club	Chappell Roan	216
Sun 23-Nov-25	1972	Telegram Sam	T Rex	217
Sun 7-Dec-25	1956	Just Walkin’ in the Rain	Johnny Ray	218
Sun 14-Dec-25	1958	It’s Only Make Believe	Conway Twitty	219
Songs that reached #1 somewhere else
First	Year	Song	#1 Act	Count
Sun 5-Jan-25	1978	Rare Auld Times	Danny Doyle	n69
Sun 19-Jan-25	1964	I Love You Because	Jim Reeves	n70
Sun 2-Feb-25	1971	I did what I did for Maria	Tony Christie	n71
Sun 9-Feb-25	1966	As Tears Go By	Rolling Stones	n72
Sun 23-Feb-25	1975	Streets of London	Ralph McTell	n73
Sun 2-Mar-25	1969	Come Together	Beatles	n74
Sun 9-Mar-25	1991	I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight	Robert Palmer & UB40	n75
Sun 30-Mar-25	1964	This Boy	Beatles	n76
Sun 13-Apr-25	1958	Hard Headed Woman	Elvis Presley	n77
Sun 20-Apr-25	1963	Be My Baby	Ronettes	n78
Sun 11-May-25	1970	War	Edwin Starr	n79
Sun 1-Jun-25	1967	Ode to Billy Joe	Bobbie Gentry	n80
Sun 15-Jun-25	1981	How Great Thou Art	Howard Morrison	n81
Sun 6-Jul-25	1973	Love Train	O’Jays	n82
Sun 13-Jul-25	1971	Gypsies Tramps and Thieves	Cher	n83
Sun 20-Jul-25	1960	Save the Last Dance for Me	Drifters	n84
Sun 10-Aug-25	1968	Honey	Bobby Goldsboro	n85
Sun 10-Aug-25	1968	Itchycoo Park	Small Faces	n86
Sun 17-Aug-25	1971	Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)	Temptations	n87
Sun 7-Sep-25	1972	Horse with no name	America	n88
Sun 7-Sep-25	1969	Everybody’s Talking	Nilsson	n89
Sun 14-Sep-25	1964	All My Loving	Beatles	n90
Sun 14-Sep-25	1969	Goodbye	Mary Hopkin	n91
Sun 14-Sep-25	1971	If Not For You	Olivia Newton-John	n92
Sun 21-Sep-25	1978	Substitute	Clout	n93
Sun 21-Sep-25	1974	Sorrow	David Bowie	n94
Sun 28-Sep-25	1969	Games People Play	Joe South	n95
Sun 5-Oct-25	1973	You’re So Vain	Carly Simon	n96
Sun 12-Oct-25	1987	Irish Rover	Pogues & Dubliners	n97
Sun 12-Oct-25	1967	Ruby Tuesday	Rolling Stones	n98
Sun 12-Oct-25	1972	Whiskey in the Jar	Thin Lizzy	n99
Sun 12-Oct-25	1968	This Guy’s In Love With You	Herb Alpert	n100
Sun 9-Nov-25	1975	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	Elton John	n101
Sun 9-Nov-25	1967	White Rabbit	Jefferson Airplane	n102
Sun 9-Nov-25	1967	Dock of the Bay	Otis Redding	n103
Sun 16-Nov-25	1973	Angie	Rolling Stones	n104
Sun 7-Dec-25	1961	Will You Love Me Tomorrow	Shirelles	n105
Sun 14-Dec-25	1970	Paranoid	Black Sabbath	n106
Songs that have not reached #1 anywhere (Years are approximate in some cases)
First	Year	Song	#1 Act	Count
Sun 12-Jan-25	1977	Janie Jones	Clash	72
Sun 19-Jan-25	1977	Police and Thieves	Clash	73
Sun 2-Feb-25	1971	Could it be magic	Barry Manilow	74
Sun 9-Feb-25	1984	Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want	Smiths	75
Sun 23-Feb-25	1979	When You’re Young	Jam	76
Sun 23-Feb-25	1979	London Calling	Clash	77
Sun 2-Mar-25	1978	(White Man in ) Hammersmith Palais	Clash	78
Sun 16-Mar-25	2011	Make You Feel Me Love	Adele	79
Sun 13-Apr-25	1973	Jolene	Dolly Parton	80
Sun 13-Apr-25	1974	Sweet Home Alabama	Lynyrd Skynyrd	81
Sun 20-Apr-25	1966	Going Back	Dusty Springfield	82
Sun 11-May-25	1944	Run Rabbit Run	Flanagan & Allen	83
Sun 11-May-25	1939	I’d Rather Leave While I’m in Love	Rita Coolidge	84
Sun 11-May-25	1965	Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues	Bob Dylan	85
Sun 15-Jun-25	1971	Mind Games	John Lennon	86
Sun 15-Jun-25	1972	You Gave Me a Mountain	Elvis Presley	87
Sun 15-Jun-25	1975	Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain	Willie Nelson	88
Sun 29-Jun-25	1969	Handbags and Gladrags	Rod Stewart	89
Sun 29-Jun-25	1966	Drive My Car	Beatles	90
Sun 6-Jul-25	1973	Dolphins	Tim Buckley	91
Sun 13-Jul-25	1969	Snowbird	Anne Murray	92
Sun 13-Jul-25	1971	Until it’s time for you to go	Elvis Presley	93
Sun 20-Jul-25	1974	My Boy	Elvis Presley	94
Sun 20-Jul-25	1956	That’s All Right	Elvis Presley	95
Sun 20-Jul-25	1978	Down in the Tube Station at Midnight	Jam	96
Sun 20-Jul-25	1961	Suspicion	Elvis Presley	97
Sun 10-Aug-25	1969	A Boy Named Sue	Johny Cash	98
Sun 17-Aug-25	1967	I Second That Emotion	Smokey Robinson and the Miracles	99
Sun 31-Aug-25	1968	Back in the USSR	Beatles	100
Sun 7-Sep-25	1971	Life’s a Gas	T Rex	101
Sun 21-Sep-25	1956	Love Me	Elvis Presley	102
Sun 5-Oct-25	1965	The Times They Are A-Changin’	Bob Dylan	103
Sun 5-Oct-25	1979	I Fought the Law	Clash	104
Sun 26-Oct-25	1969	You can’t always get what you want	Rolling Stones	105
Sun 2-Nov-25	1969	Lay Lady Lay	Bob Dylan	106
Sun 9-Nov-25	1980	Beautiful Boy	John Lennon	107
Sun 16-Nov-25	1970	Only Love Can Break Your Heart	Neil Young	108
Sun 23-Nov-25	1977	Three Little Birds	Bob Marley & The Wailers	109
Sun 23-Nov-25	1997	Into My Arms	Nick Cave	110
Thu 4-Dec-25	1970	After The Gold Rush	Neil Young	111
Wed 17-Dec-25	2015	Some Christmas	Me	112