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 31st December 2022, 04:30 PM
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01 - Sugababes
Points: 687 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Entries: 12 If I didn't combine acts to make forums Sugababes would still be top of this list, ending at #113, but the total by adding Mutya's solo work too means they smash this countdown and gives them a total that would elevate them to #73. Like both Girls Aloud and Robbie Williams, they were present on my first ever chart as 2002 Stronger was just about holding on, and they racked up double figures in 5 years, the highlights being In The Middle, Push The Button and About You Now, though the latter was a long runner rather than a high peaker, and had a bit of a bizarre chart run, aided by it being pretty much the biggest song around during my first year of uni. The real highlight of this section though is Song 4 Mutya, an absolute stomper of a dance-pop anthem that rose all the way to the top. Chart History: 06/01/2003 Stronger 27 (1 week) 10/03/2003 Shape 30-40 (2 weeks) 13/10/2003 Hole In The Head 14-17-19-24-31-39 (6 weeks) 15/12/2003 Too Lost In You 07-05-04-06-08-11-15-17-19-22-25-27-33-40 (14 weeks) 22/03/2004 In The Middle 03-04-05-10-11-13-18-23-26-28-33-38 (12 weeks) 23/08/2004 Caught In A Moment 11-20-25-34-40 (5 weeks) 26/09/2005 Push The Button 06-07-11-14-20-19-22-26-31-39 (10 weeks) 05/12/2005 Ugly 23-28-34-38-40 (5 weeks) 06/03/2006 Red Dress 13-12-08-12-19-24-35 (7 weeks) 19/03/2007 Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control) (Mutya Buena w/ Groove Armada) 27-18-09-06-03-02-02-01-01-05-05-10-11-12-15-19-22-23-26 (19 weeks) 14/05/2007 Real Girl (Mutya Buena solo) 24-15-08-12-20 (5 weeks) 24/09/2007 About You Now 29-20-21-30-X-30-21-15-19-26-29-28-20-21-24-31-36 (16 weeks) |
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31st December 2022, 08:10 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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So I will begin counting this down properly tomorrow. In the meantime, here are some stats:
Male led: 71 Female led: 29 Band/Duo: 74 Solo: 26 I have seen live: 43 Haven't: 57 Country of Origin: 51 England 23 USA 6 Scotland 4 Wales 4 Canada 3 Australia 3 Northern Ireland 2 Sweden 1 France 1 Ireland 1 New Zealand 1 Norway Year first charted: 19 2003 8 2004 9 2005 5 2006 7 2007 8 2008 7 2009 7 2010 6 2011 9 2012 2 2013 2 2014 5 2015 1 2016 1 2017 1 2018 1 2019 2 2020 I said initially I would post two a day. I've done the full write-ups for 56 so far including 28 of the first 30, so will be fine hitting that for a while but I might have to slow down for the top 20-30 if I don't get into gear! This post has been edited by RabbitFurCoat: 31st December 2022, 08:11 PM |
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1st January 2023, 10:35 AM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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#100
 Fontaines D.C. Points: 558 Date first charted: 08/06/2019 Number of entries: 7 Total weeks on chart: 97 Most Successful Year: 2020, 2nd Kicking off the main countdown are Ireland's sole entrant, Fontaines D.C. I was somewhat late to the party with them, with their debut album already a few weeks old before I liked anything I heard by them. I heard Lauren Laverne play Boys In The Better Land on 6 Music and was instantly hooked, it shot to the top in just three weeks and spent 7 weeks there, as I became utterly obsessed with their album Dogrel over the summer, helped by catching one of their four(!) sets at that years Glastonbury. The song and album would both end 2019 at the top of my end-of-year lists, and the re-release of Liberty Belle in the new year gave them a second top 3 hit. There was barely a year between their first two albums, with A Hero's Death becoming my first vinyl pre-order album, which felt like a big commitment given it had been such a long while since I paid for an album prior to hearing it. Whilst not hitting the same heights as Dogrel, it was another excellent album and gave them another #1 and top 3 single, A Lucid Dream being a comfortable second best song of theirs, whilst Televised Mind was also something I grew to love and showed some progression from the more raw sounding punk of their debut. A third album came almost three years exactly since the first, whilst I've not been able to get into it much, its title track Skinty Fia became a 5th top 3 hit and gives them enough points to finish in the top 100. Chart History: 08/06/2019 Boys In The Better Land 23-09-01-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-04-05-08-12-16-23-27-34-37 (19 weeks) 11/01/2020 Liberty Belle 29-16-06-04-03-04-03-04-07-11-17-22-28-37-40 (15 weeks) 23/05/2020 A Hero's Death 27-20-14-15-15-17-21-32-33-36-40 (11 weeks) 18/07/2020 Televised Mind 26-17-12-08-05-03-02-02-05-09-13-20-28-36 (14 weeks) 17/10/2020 A Lucid Dream 32-22-20-16-10-06-05-02-01-01-02-04-05-07-11-17-23-34 (18 weeks) 22/01/2022 Jackie Down The Line 26-18-13-11-11-13-19-31 (8 weeks) 02/04/2022 Skinty Fia 27-17-09-03-04-04-04-08-11-19-33-40 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Boys In The Better Land 02 A Lucid Dream 03 Liberty Belle 04 Hurricane Laughter 05 Skinty Fia |
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1st January 2023, 07:39 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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#99
 The Coral Points: 568 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Number of entries: 10 Total weeks on chart: 77 Most Successful Year: 2003, 4th Just about clinging on to a place in the top 100 are The Coral, with 50% of their ten entries (and 53% of their points) coming from the first year of recording, in 2003. Dreaming of You kicked them off here, it's their most well known song by some distance and really launched them properly, it perfectly showcased their sound of short jangly pop songs, they managed to sound like they belonged in that era but also unique to it. It had already been released three months by the beginning of '03 so only ends up as one of their smaller hits here but it's always been amongst their best. Their second album came soon after and gave them a UK number one, and produced a string of hits of varying sizes, Pass It On being a song classic to their sound and Bill McCai going right to the top - it's a song I've always loved and still adore, would definitely still put it in my top 5 from that year, their brilliance at making such an upbeat and joyous sounding song but actually singing about a depressed man killing himself. In 2005, In The Morning was a highly anticipated lead single, but I always found it slightly dull and not near their best, and a couple of smaller singles soon followed and that was almost it for them. They continued to release music fairly regularly, but I didn't pay any attention to them until the end of 2015, by which time they were about to release their 8th album. There were a couple of decent singles which I listened to but didn't quite chart, however Miss Fortune was the one that really grabbed me and became another massive hit for them, a song that really took me back over a decade, superbly catchy and brilliant. It wasn't a one off return either as they got another top 5 two years later with Sweet Release, not quite as good and more of a grower, but still a cut above other songs they were putting out. Chart History: 06/01/2003 Dreaming of You 26-30 (2 weeks) 03/03/2003 Don't Think You're The First 07-11-13-15-16-18-21-24-27-34-37 (11 weeks) 14/07/2003 Pass It On 02-03-04-05-06-09-13-20-23-29-33-36-39 (13 weeks) 06/10/2003 Secret Kiss 28-38 (2 weeks) 24/11/2003 Bill McCai 01-02-02-05-06-08-10-09-13-14-15-21-27-31-36 (15 weeks) 09/05/2005 In The Morning 14-23-36 (3 weeks) 22/08/2005 Something Inside Of Me 16-31 (2 weeks) 23/07/2007 Who's Gonna Find Me 37-37-36-37 (4 weeks) 08/02/2016 Miss Fortune 31-21-14-06-02-02-02-04-08-10-16-27-37 (13 weeks) 14/05/2018 Sweet Release 36-30-23-16-14-08-05-05-07-14-20-31 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Bill McCai 02 Dreaming Of You 03 Miss Fortune 04 Pass It On 05 Sweet Release |
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2nd January 2023, 11:43 AM
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#98
 HEALTH Points: 574 Date first charted: 11/05/2015 Number of entries: 10 Total weeks on chart: 106 Most Successful Year: 2015, 14th HEALTH are the first of I think four acts to appear who I first discovered through being entered to the Unknown Pleasures song contest on BuzzJack when USA Boys was entered by the US industrial band. But it was a few years before they released any more music, with their chart debut coming in 2015 with the release of their third album, with New Coke soon followed by Stonefist, which remain their only two top 5 singles. 2018s Slaves of Fear produced another couple of sizable hits, with Feel Nothing hanging around the bottom half of the chart for 3 months, no song has ever spent longer on the chart without reaching the top 20. Their chart history is split 50/50 between solo singles and ones where they’ve collaborated with similar acts, all coming from other styles of experimental rock, on recent remix albums Disco 4 parts 1 & 2. Delicious Ape with Xiu Xiu is a song which builds incredibly throughout to a great climax before slowing right down, and the two Perturbator tracks manage to be both similar but very different, with Excess now being my preferred of them. It was no real surprise that they worked with industrial Godfathers Nine Inch Nails for Isn’t Everyone, Health + Trent Reznor’s vocals are a winning combination and I’m amazed I didn’t chart this in the top 10. Chart History: 11/05/2015 New Coke 25-14-10-07-06-05-07-12-18-27-33-40 (12 weeks) 06/07/2015 Stonefist 34-24-17-10-05-04-05-05-06-08-12-16-21-34 (14 weeks) 27/03/2017 Euphoria 34-32-29-32-38 (5 weeks) 29/10/2018 Body/Prison (w/ Perturbator) 30-23-15-09-06-07-10-14-19-27-35 (11 weeks) 05/01/2019 Slaves of Fear 31-21-14-09-08-07-06-09-15-22-32-37 (12 weeks) 09/03/2019 Feel Nothing 25-22-22-21-23-28-29-28-30-34-37-39 (12 weeks) 04/01/2020 Delicious Ape (feat. Xiu Xiu) 34-27-23-20-16-16-14-18-25-32-40 (11 weeks) 29/05/2021 Isn't Everyone (feat. Nine Inch Nails) 29-20-14-11-11-13-17-21-23-26-30-35-38 (13 weeks) 25/09/2021 Excess (w/ Perturbator) 34-32-25-18-14-16-28-36 (8 weeks) 20/11/2021 Dead Flowers (feat. Poppy) 29-23-20-17-18-20-31-38 (8 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Isn’t Everyone 02 Stonefist 03 Fear Nothing 04 Delicious Ape 05 Excess |
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2nd January 2023, 12:57 PM
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HEALTH are my favourite so far, really grown to like them over the years and I think they're pretty consistent with the quality of their output. I struggle with the likes of The Coral now, I just find them and other similar bands from the time really irritating and I'd never listen through choice sadly.
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2nd January 2023, 07:07 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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 The Mysterines Points: 578 Date first charted: 04/01/2020 Number of entries: 8 Total weeks on chart: 102 Most Successful Year: 2020, 6th Sneaking in by 20 points are quite comfortably the newest act to make the top 100, The Mysterines. I had heard a couple of their early singles without getting into them but that changed when I heard Who's Ur Girl?, a short and punchy indie anthem which spent 6 weeks in the lower half of the top 10. Singles were being released at short intervals, and both Love's Not Enough and I Win Every Time made the top 3 and ended 2020 in the top 10 of my EOY countdown, the latter was like being taken back 20 years with a pure garage rock sound, and the former showed off the varied songwriting talents of Lia Metcalfe, a song that defied her teenage years. Their 2019 EP was on full rotation for me now, with Take Control being another top 3 worthy song. They seemed to be going places pretty quickly with a sold out tour and 6 Music A-listings before the pandemic, but the lack of ability to tour and their drummer leaving meant it was over a year before anything was released from the campaign for their debut album, Reeling. Both In My Head and Hung Up were more great efforts, reminiscent of their early EP and stalled just outside the top 10, before they released the first track of theirs I never fully got into, Dangerous, swiftly followed by the one which became my favourite of theirs, The Bad Thing which went further than previous and right to the top at the beginning of last year. As an album, Reeling is ok but I felt a tad disappointed, but half of it is excellent and most of those tracks have been released as singles, all of them peaking at at least #13. Chart History: 04/01/2020 Who's Ur Girl? 25-18-08-07-06-07-07-08-14-18-24-32-38 (13 weeks) 22/02/2020 Love's Not Enough 28-19-14-10-06-04-03-03-04-06-07-11-19-29-38-40 (16 weeks) 30/05/2020 I Win Every Time 33-22-14-07-02-04-03-03-05-06-09-13-18-26-35-39-40 (17 weeks) 24/07/2021 In My Head 32-24-16-13-11-13-19-29-38 (9 weeks) 23/10/2021 Hung Up 28-21-15-13-18-21-28-36-39-38 (10 weeks) 18/12/2021 The Bad Thing 25-14-06-01-01-01-01-02-03-04-06-09-12-15-19-25-35-39 (18 weeks) 23/04/2022 Life's A Bitch (But I Like It So Much) 25-17-11-08-07-09-11-15-23-35 (10 weeks) 24/09/2022 All These Things 31-23-17-13-12-15-22-33-39 (9 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 The Bad Thing 02 I Win Every Time 03 Take Control 04 Love's Not Enough 05 Hung Up |
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3rd January 2023, 05:30 PM
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 How To Dress Well Points: 579 Date first charted: 31/03/2014 Number of entries: 7 Total weeks on chart: 103 Most Successful Year: 2014, 2nd The second of two acts making it in with just 7 chart entries is US musician Tom Krell AKA How To Dress Well. The first I heard of HTDW was as a small feature on an Active Child album, then someone on here (10 years ago so I forget who) posted about Ocean Floor For Everything as being one of the best songs of 2012, I enjoyed it a lot but didn't investigate further. A year later he returned with his third album and the lead single Words I Don't Remember was stunning, a beautiful piece of music bringing together so many genres into something incredible and so chilled. What Is this Heart? was comfortably my album of the year and he was a staple in my chart that year, adding a pair of #2s to the debut #1. Reminder was the final one of those, as a he provided vocals for producer RL Grime, although it wasn't much of a departure from his usual sound. Two more albums have since followed, the first was again excellent although lead single Lost Youth / Lost You was the only hit off it, my favourites not necessarily being singles, Anxious in particular is a wonderfully uplifting anthem. The most recent album was more experimental and I didn't really get into it, but it did produce a couple of excellent singles, Hunger in particular. Chart History: 31/03/2014 Words I Don't Remember 34-24-11-04-01-01-01-01-02-04-07-09-12-15-21-29-37 (17 weeks) 12/05/2014 Repeat Pleasure 27-18-15-14-19-29-40 (7 weeks) 28/07/2014 Face Again 28-21-13-06-04-02-03-05-07-14-19-30-39 (13 weeks) 06/10/2014 Reminder (w/ RL Grime) 25-16-12-06-04-03-02-02-02-05-04-03-04-05-08-11-18-24-33-39 (20 weeks) 15/08/2016 Lost Youth / Lost You 33-22-13-10-08-07-04-05-06-08-11-13-19-24-33-40 (16 weeks) 16/07/2018 The Anteroom 38-28-21-16-10-05-07-11-14-20-27-32-38 (13 weeks) 08/10/2018 Hunger 28-20-15-10-07-04-04-02-02-04-07-08-13-20-26-34-39 (17 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Words I Don't Remember 02 Lost Youth / Lost You 03 Anxious 04 Face Again 05 Hunger |
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3rd January 2023, 05:30 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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QUOTE(dandy* @ Jan 2 2023, 12:57 PM)  HEALTH are my favourite so far, really grown to like them over the years and I think they're pretty consistent with the quality of their output. I struggle with the likes of The Coral now, I just find them and other similar bands from the time really irritating and I'd never listen through choice sadly. I don't find any of this comment surprising  I get why people would think that about The Coral, but do think at their best have a certain charm.
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3rd January 2023, 08:51 PM
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 Santigold Points: 587 Date first charted: 28/04/2008 Number of entries: 11 Total weeks on chart: 91 Most Successful Year: 2012, 22nd Arriving in most people's consciousness in 2008, I enjoyed Santigold right from the off with her blend of genres being a huge hit and her debut album being an excellent collection of songs deservingly highly rated among many end of year lists. The three singles all just stalled outside the top 10, L.E.S. Artistes is the pick of them, but the more pop influenced Lights Out not too far behind. The likes of Creator and You'll Find A Way are huge favourites too. I actually preferred her second album to her debut, although I took a while to come round to lead single Big Mouth, and I'm not quite sure what I was thinking with Disparate Youth, I thought I'd always loved it but it only reached a peak of #22, and listening to these again now is her best and deserving of it being her biggest and most well known song, The Keepers got the run it deserved as it became her biggest shortly after. The Karen O collab Go! is also (unsurprisingly) incredible. Since then, hits have been more sporadic but each campaign seems to produce at least one song which hits the spot, with her two other top 10 hits both coming more recently in the form of Chasing Shadows and Coo Coo Coo, and a string of decent singles released last year with High Priestess being the pick of them. Chart History: 28/04/2008 L.E.S. Artistes 37-28-19-12-17-18-21-24-29-34-37-35-40-36-40 (15 weeks) 28/07/2008 Lights Out 33-25-17-12-12-12-15-17-23-24-30 (11 weeks) 01/12/2008 Say Aha 21-15-11-17-28-34 (6 weeks) 01/08/2011 Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win (w/ Beastie Boys) 36-31-17-12-20-26-34 (7 weeks) 30/01/2012 Big Mouth 38-33-36-35 (4 weeks) 16/04/2012 Disparate Youth 33-28-22-23-34 (5 weeks) 11/06/2012 The Keepers 39-35-34-29-15-06-02-03-08-13-21-29-37 (13 weeks) 23/11/2015 Can't Get Enough of Myself (feat. BC Unidos) 32-20-14-19-39 (5 weeks) 01/02/2016 Chasing Shadows 24-16-08-03-08-18-25-32-38 (9 weeks) 26/01/2019 Coo Coo Coo 26-21-15-09-08-10-18-26-34-38 (10 weeks) 18/06/2022 High Priestess 36-29-23-20-20-32 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Disparate Youth 02 L.E.S. Artistes 03 The Keepers 04 GO! 05 Chasing Shadows |
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3rd January 2023, 09:27 PM
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Sant(o/i)gold is great, I became so obsessed in '08 that I bought every single from that first era, even the flop ones that I wasn't as in to (well they were all flops I guess) like “Say Aha” and “Lights Out”.. this was in the golden era of ChCMedia ofc where I was a member of the Roulette Dares!! Great that she's still going even today, I heard a new track of hers on 6Music today which sounded fairly decent. From the self-titled debut away from the singles I really liked “I'm A Lady”, think that would have made a great fourth single.
“Song 4 Mutya (Out Of Control)” is another banger from that time which I bought on CD single too. Only peaked at 3 for me. It got stuck behind “With Every Heartbeat” and “Fluorescent Adolescent” which were two of the biggest songs for me in 2007 so I guess it got hammered by very bad timing.. it actually was #20 in my EOY for '07 (CR: 39-22-07-03-03-03-05-07-09-18-24-28-33-42-49 (15 weeks)) Will enjoy following this as a trip down memory lane : ) |
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5th January 2023, 11:59 AM
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 Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Points: 597 Date first charted: 17/10/2011 Number of entries: 12 Total weeks on chart: 108 Most Successful Year: 2020, 8th A bit of a surprising inclusion now, with the only act in the top 100 who's never reached the top 5, Orlando Higginbottom AKA Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, who makes it having racked up a significant number of decent sized hits in recent years. Garden was a solid electronic indie dance single over a decade ago, and its follow up Tapes & Money was ok, but TEED went pretty quiet after that and what he did release or appear on wasn't anything on my radar, until 2018 when a trio of singles appeared which I enjoyed, with Body Move being the one which returned him to the chart. The beginning of 2020 saw a 18 month run of prolific features and remixes alongside similar sounding artists, with Amtrac, Bonobo and Porter Robinson all calling upon him and reaching the top 20, as each single had a similar run and peak. The standout of that batch though, is Dawn with Bronson, 7 minutes of superb chilled out dance music. Since then he's put out a lot of solo work, with three of those charting in the last 15 months, A Dream I Have returning him to the top 10 for a third time and being his standout solo work. Much of what he's put out has been a bit less dancey, but plenty of decent singles. His position in the top 100 was cemented recently with the standout remix on Confidence Man's remix EP, Re-Tilt. Chart History: 17/10/2011 Garden 32-23-14-09-08-06-12-23-38 (9 weeks) 02/04/2012 Tapes & Money 26-22-18-24-35 (5 weeks) 17/09/2018 Body Move 32-28-23-22-18-18-16-15-17-24-27-33-37 (13 weeks) 25/01/2020 Radical (w/ Amtrac) 24-15-10-09-12-17-22-30-36 (9 weeks) 25/07/2020 Dawn (w/ Bronson) 32-27-18-14-13-12-15-22-28-33-39 (11 weeks) 03/10/2020 Beginning (Remix of LA Priest) 35-27-19-14-15-21-30-36 (8 weeks) 31/10/2020 Heartbreak (w/ Bonobo) 30-24-19-14-13-16-28-31-36-38-39 (11 weeks) 15/05/2021 Unfold (w/ Porter Robinson) 28-22-16-17-21-31-40 (7 weeks) 30/10/2021 A Dream I Have 26-23-24-20-16-10-12-16-19-30-37-39 (12 weeks) 30/04/2022 Blood In The Snow 39-33-29-34 (4 weeks) 21/05/2022 Crosswalk 38-31-29-26-28-33-32-38 (8 weeks) 22/10/2022 Luvin U Is Easy (Remix of Confidence Man) 35-29-28-25-21-18-16-18-22-31-39* (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Dawn 02 Heartbreak 03 A Dream I Have 04 Garden 05 Unfold |
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5th January 2023, 12:02 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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 Phoebe Bridgers Points: 698 Date first charted: 09/05/2020 Number of entries: 8 Total weeks on chart: 106 Most Successful Year: 2020, 1st Phoebe Bridgers is the most recent debutant in the top 100, although she has been making music for considerably longer than that, and it was in 2019 when she first properly came to my attention when it was revealed her song Motion Sickness was about her former boyfriend, singer Ryan Adams, after multiple women came out with allegations against him. A year later she began the campaign for her second album Punisher with lead single Garden Song which is a nice enough song but not something that was going to turn me into a fan. That came with the next release Kyoto, more like Motion Sickness in sound and something which continued to grow and eventually climbed to spend 3 weeks at number 2 after the album's release. The standout song on the album, I Know The End, got the single treatment later in the year and went right to the top where it stayed for 6 weeks. An anthem that builds to a great crescendo, as a live performance the scream is incredible, it ended the year as my #1 ahead of Exile and Kyoto. A bunch of appearances on other people's records continued her 100% top 10 run, with Bright Eyes first charting single in 13 years, Kid Cudi's first in 11 and Muna's debut, with Silk Chiffon being one of the great pop singles of recent times giving her a second number one. Last years Christmas charity cover (of a non-Christmassy song, Tom Wait's Day After Tomorrow) eventually charted, as did Sidelines, both of which took a while to grow but became reasonable sized hits. I would be very surprised if Phoebe doesn't make considerable climbs on this list in future, Chart History: 09/05/2020 Kyoto 37-31-24-17-13-13-11-05-02-02-02-04-04-07-10-14-19-23-30-35-40 (21 weeks) 04/07/2020 ICU 28-17-10-08-07-05-06-10-16-25-35 (11 weeks) 03/10/2020 I Know the End 32-18-10-03-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-03-05-07-07-09-12-15-20-25-31-38 (22 weeks) 28/11/2020 Miracle of Life (w/ Bright Eyes) 30-22-13-11-08-08-12-17-24-30-40 (11 weeks) 16/01/2021 Lovin' Me (w/ Kid Cudi) 32-19-10-06-04-03-05-08-12-16-23-28-33-36-39-40 (16 weeks) 25/09/2021 Silk Chiffon (w/ MUNA) 31-18-09-06-02-02-01-03-08-14-22-34 (12 weeks) 15/01/2022 Day After Tomorrow 28-23-21-21-28-38 (6 weeks) 25/06/2022 Sidelines 23-16-15-16-19-30-39 (7 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 I Know The End 02 Kyoto 03 Silk Chiffon 04 Lovin' Me 05 Motion Sickness |
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5th January 2023, 04:46 PM
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'Dogrel' is definitely somewhere on the list of older albums I should listen to one day - I know the two singles you charted from it and liked both of them but 'Televised Mind' was the song that turned me into a fan, loved both their second and third albums ('Skinty Fia' was even better than 'A Hero's Death' for me so a bit of a disagreement there whoops, I am surprised 'I Love You' didn't chart for you at all!)
Completely forgot HEALTH were in Unknown Pleasures and looking back at my rankings I surprisingly didn't vote for their song there at all, have independently rediscovered them recently though and they've had some really good singles of late, particularly the Nine Inch Nails and Poppy collabs as well as 'HATE YOU' with JPEGMAFIA. Btw there are two versions of it on Spotify so I'm not 100% sure about this but I think 'Excess' is just a cover of the Perturbator song of the same name rather than a proper collab - I absolutely love the original version of that, wasn't quite as keen on the HEALTH version. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs' best song for me is still the first one I heard from him which was 'Household Goods', again a little surprised to see that didn't chart for you at all (I think I had it as a BJSC potential back in the day) - 'Garden' was good too though and I was also a big fan of his more recent collabs with Amtrac and Bonobo and his new album had a few good songs on it too though nothing quite as great as the aforementioned. I'm still waiting to hear something from Phoebe Bridgers as lead artist that I can really get into, she's one of the biggest examples of artists I feel like I should love but just can't get into for some reason (I've enjoyed more stuff from both of the other members of Boygenius). However I am at least a fan of a few of her recent features, the MUNA song as you've mentioned plus her songs with The Killers and *hides* Marcus Mumford. |
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6th January 2023, 05:34 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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 Lily Allen Points: 599 Date first charted: 03/07/2006 Number of entries: 12 Total weeks on chart: 82 Most Successful Year: 2018, 3rd A slight surprise that Lily features this highly, as I forget she released a 2018 album I enjoyed and was the third most successful act in my chart that year. But she should probably have been higher if anything, given how low some of those earlier singles charted, Alfie and The Fear are both worthy of a top 5 position and charting for 3 months and are the songs of hers I'd most choose to listen to now, and Drivin' Me Wild is still a decent rap song which I still listen to and she adds brilliantly to. I had certainly been caught up in the post-Arctic Monkeys MySpace era of discovering music, and LDN was what I enjoyed of hers first. When she officially launched with Smile I always thought it was fine but not as good, however was worthy of topping the UK chart, but an official release of LDN was what I was waiting for, but not something I go back to as much as others now. I'd lost interest in her music and what she had to say, but thought Trigger Bang was a massive grower which made me get into her new stuff, with the singles that followed it making an excellent trio from a decent album, Higher in particular as it gave her an eventual second top 5 hit, and just missed out at the beginning of the next year as she added her voice to some Drum & Bass on the excellent Shy FX track. The chart history isn't all perfect though, Not Fair is probably the worst song that will feature in this whole 100, but charting just one week at #36 I will forgive myself the lapse in taste. Chart History: 03/07/2006 Smile 06-11-18-20-26-28-36 (7 weeks) 25/09/2006 LDN 01-01-02-02-02-11-23-28-32-34 (10 weeks) 11/12/2006 Littlest Things 30-29-27-31-34 (5 weeks) 19/02/2007 Alfie 36-26-12-22-35 (5 weeks) 10/12/2007 Drivin' Me Wild (w/ Common) 33-32 (2 weeks) 19/01/2009 The Fear 26-20-14-24-29-35-37 (7 weeks) 27/04/2009 Not Fair 36 (1 week) 25/11/2013 Hard Out Here 35-31-27-29-37 (5 weeks) 29/01/2018 Trigger Bang (feat. Giggs) 35-27-23-19-17-16-17-22-27-38 (10 weeks) 02/04/2018 Higher 30-18-11-07-06-05-07-16-25-37-40 (11 weeks) 30/07/2018 Lost My Mind 25-19-14-11-10-16-31-38 (8 weeks) 17/12/2018 Roll The Dice (w/ Shy FX & Stamina MC) 24-16-10-06-09-11-12-17-27-35-40 (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Alfie 02 The Fear 03 LDN 04 Higher 05 Trigger Bang |
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6th January 2023, 09:41 PM
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 Snow Patrol Points: 608 Date first charted: 26/01/2004 Number of entries: 9 Total weeks on chart: 95 Most Successful Year: 2004, 3rd Still clinging on to a top 100 spot almost entirely from singles off a couple of albums nearly two decades ago are Snow Patrol. Like most people I'd never heard anything of their early career before their big 2004 breakthrough, when they were able to capitalise on being the 'in' sound with a string of big hits including three top 3 hits for me. Run still sounds as fantastic today as it did then, and Spitting Games is perhaps a surprising song to be their only number one but still sounds great. Set The Fire To The Third Bar with Martha Wainwright is undoubtedly my favourite song of theirs, it was something I loved from the moment I first heard it and continue to do so, the voices of Martha Wainwright and Gary Lightbody compliment each other perfectly, and now that I don't hear it so often, Chasing Cars is a genuinely excellent song. After Eyes Open there hasn't been much I've enjoyed, but Called Out The Dark is a very harsh omission looking back. Chart History: 26/01/2004 Run 03-03-04-04-04-04-08-08-10-11-15-23-25-33 (14 weeks) 12/04/2004 Chocolate 09-07-08-13-18-22-27-29-31-36 (10 weeks) 12/07/2004 Spitting Games 01-02-02-02-04-05-08-13-15-21-23-26-31-30-37 (15 weeks) 25/10/2004 How To Be Dead 03-02-04-07-07-11-12-12-14-15-19-25-29-30-33-36-38 (17 weeks) 24/04/2006 You're All I Have 12-13-23-24-36-39 (6 weeks) 24/07/2006 Chasing Cars 03-04-07-09-04-06-09-15-23-29-34 (11 weeks) 13/11/2006 Set The Fire To The Third Bar (feat. Martha Wainwright) 02-05-05-07-05-06-05-06-12-13-19-35 (12 weeks) 02/11/2009 Just Say Yes 37-35-33-39 (4 weeks) 10/12/2018 What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get? 32-29-28-29-32-38 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Set The Fire To The Third Bar 02 Run 03 Spitting Games 04 Wow 05 Called Out In The Dark |
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7th January 2023, 09:46 AM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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 Animal Collective Points: 609 Date first charted: 26/01/2009 Number of entries: 8 Total weeks on chart: 106 Most Successful Year: 2009, 2nd Despite Merriweather Post Pavilion being Animal Collective's 8th album, its release in January 2009 was my introduction to them. My Girls wasn't really like anything I'd heard before and I soon grew to love it. The dreamy psychedelia of the album soon became a huge favourite and remains one of my all time best, with a sound I couldn't get enough of and was so strong throughout, its crowning glory being the absolute stomper that is Summertime Clothes, a song that's got to be in my 10 favourites from this last two decades. Brother Sport couldn't quite make it a hat-trick of number ones, and the 'offcuts' EP a year later contained 5 more excellent tracks including lead What Would I Want? Sky. I went backwards in their discography but wasn't overly impressed, Merriweather... certainly seemed like their most commercial sound as even I thought most of what I heard was just a wall of annoying noise, and that's often been the case with what came after too, although 2016s Painting With was also a strong effort of a similar sound and spawned two more great singles in Floridada and Golden Gal, the latter becoming their third number one. Chart History: 26/01/2009 My Girls 36-18-12-07-03-01-01-01-01-01-04-05-07-08-11-11-15-18-22-25-24-32 (22 weeks) 01/06/2009 Summertime Clothes 27-07-01-01-01-01-02-03-03-04-05-06-08-11-11-12-14-17-21-24-27-24-27-31-37-40 (26 weeks) 02/11/2009 Brother Sport 23-16-07-02-02-04-06-16-17-24-29 (11 weeks) 04/01/2010 Fall Be Kind EP 19-12-06-06-07-10-16-23-37 (9 weeks) 25/06/2012 Honeycomb 36-34-32 (3 weeks) 14/12/2015 FloriDada 21-12-08-05-04-03-07-16-23-34-40 (11 weeks) 28/03/2016 Golden Gal 31-24-20-13-01-01-02-03-05-06-07-07-11-16-21-34 (16 weeks) 07/03/2017 Kinda Bonkers 31-27-24-18-15-18-23-34 (8 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Summertime Clothes 02 My Girls 03 Brother Sport 04 Bluish 05 What Would I Want? Sky |
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7th January 2023, 01:51 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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 Guillemots Points: 610 Date first charted: 26/09/2005 Number of entries: 9 Total weeks on chart: 100 Most Successful Year: 2006, 7th Guillemots were a breath of fresh air in the mid noughties indie scene, they were a part of it but essentially sounded nothing like any other band around at the time. Their use of different sounds and instruments was so refreshing at the time, aided by the band hailing from all corners of the world but meeting in London. They were very much a 2005 Zane Lowe favourite which is how I first got into them, Made Up Love Song #43 was lovely and Trans to Brazil is utterly infectious. The album came a year later and I ranked it as my top album of 2006. It sparked their two hits to be re-issued and made the top 40, and they both became even more successful for me too. Half of Through The Windowpane is utterly exceptional, Annie, Let's Not Wait was another brilliant single that gave them back-to-back number one hits, and the 12 minute closer Sao Paulo is epic. Their second and third albums were decent enough efforts but did feel like inferior versions of what had come before, but were home to some further strong singles and a couple of their lesser known gems such as Kriss Kross and Last Kiss. Chart History: 26/09/2005 Made Up Love Song #43 17-26-36-32 (4 weeks) 05/12/2005 Trains To Brazil 02-03-06-04-05-09-11-16-17-21-24-28-40 (13 weeks) 27/03/2006 We're Here 20-34 (2 weeks) 26/06/2006 Made Up Love Song #43 [Re-issue] 02-02-03-03-05-05-08-12-13-20-22-25-28-35-39 (15 weeks) 11/09/2006 Trains To Brazil [Re-issue] 01-02-05-08-07-06-07-16-22-26-33-35-38-39-35-33-33-33-35-39 (20 weeks) 15/01/2007 Annie, Let's Not Wait 01-01-01-01-04-07-11-19-26-39 (10 weeks) 10/03/2008 Get Over It 38-17-05-03-08-12-20-29-37 (9 weeks) 26/05/2008 Falling Out Of Reach 25-23-31-36 (4 weeks) 06/10/2008 Kriss Kross 25-14-05-04-04-03-06-14-23-34 (10 weeks) 14/03/2011 The Basket 26-20-15-13-21-25-39 (7 weeks) 27/06/2011 I Must Be A Lover 38-31-28-23-17-30 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Trains To Brazil 02 Sao Paulo 03 Made Up Love Song #43 04 Annie, Let's Not Wait 05 Kriss Kross |
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7th January 2023, 02:09 PM
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I came somewhat late to Animal Collective but I have much of the same thoughts on them, MPP is a fantastic album that I keep wanting to go back to every time I think about it. As you've described they also have a few later career highlights that have stood out to me here and there. Snow Patrol, same, 'Set The Fire To The Third Bar', though it seems like a track I haven't heard in forever, has been so easy to play loads of in the past, I love it.
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8th January 2023, 01:54 PM
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 Mystery Jets Points: 613 Date first charted: 10/03/2008 Number of entries: 10 Total weeks on chart: 100 Most Successful Year: 2019, 10th Of the many indie bands that emerged in the 2004-7 period, Mystery Jets were well down the list of ones I'd want to listen to, they had 2 UK top 40s and 3 songs just miss out but none of them made any positive impression one me, but at the beginning of 2008 I was loving the debut album of Laura Marling and she'd made my top 3 with Ghosts, so my eagerness to listen to Young Love was more about her part than Mystery Hets. It was something I instantly loved and remains one of my favourite songs of the era, its follow-up Two Doors Down is a superb banger and the album Twenty One was one I enjoyed even if nothing else came close to the quality of those two. From then on it was the occasional hit which usually stalled in the bottom half of my chart, until 2019 when they begun the campaign for their sixth album A Billion Heartbeats with Hospital Radio. Inspired by the state of the NHS, it set the tone for the rest of an album dominated by protest which is by far and away their best work. Screwdriver was released only a couple of weeks later and was even better, and Pretty Drone gave it a hat-trick of top 5 hits half a year later. The album is superb, and comfortably their best work and would be in my top 10 of the last few years. Chart History: 10/03/2008 Young Love (feat. Laura Marling) 08-01-01-01-02-03-05-07-11-15-20-26-37 (13 weeks) 02/06/2008 Two Doors Down 33-19-06-03-05-09-15-21-35 (9 weeks) 25/08/2008 Half in Love With Elizabeth 34-27-22-25-40 (5 weeks) 05/07/2010 Dreaming of Another World 37-28-21-21-36 (5 weeks) 09/08/2010 After Dark (w/ The Count & Sinden) 29-23-19-16-15-33 (6 weeks) 16/04/2012 Someone Purer 39-36-34-39-33-39 (6 weeks) 02/01/2017 Blood Red Balloon 30-25-22-29-39 (5 weeks) 03/08/2019 Hospital Radio 30-27-21-14-10-06-05-05-08-12-19-24-34-40 (14 weeks) 24/08/2019 Screwdriver 31-20-16-10-07-05-01-01-01-01-01-04-04-07-12-17-21-26-33-38 (20 weeks) 08/02/2020 Pretty Drone 30-20-10-05-02-02-05-06-09-13-18-22-29-36-39 (15 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Young Love 02 Screwdriver 03 Hospital Radio 04 Two Doors Down 05 Pretty Drone |
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