Sort products on Popularity and Custom combined (some custom products on top)

Hi!

I have my products ordered on popularity: See here.
I like to do this automatically since I have thousands of products and sorting on popularity is the best.
But I have a few items I would like to stand out on the rest, even though they are not the most popular. So I want those products on top while the rest is sorted on popularity.

I thought I can do this by setting the ordering to ‘Order by Popularity’ and then on product level go to ‘Advanced > Menu Order’ and set a lower number to the products I want to highligt.
But there is no change when I look at the front.

Does anybody have a suggestion?

Thank you.

Gerjan

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