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[PeteFromLeeds]

#107 (776pts)

New Politics
Color Green
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NE (06/01/2018) | 55-41-24-12-10-22-34-59-77-100-xx

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Yeah, so here's an example of another song which I was playing and loving WAY after it left my chart, I just seemed to forget that every Saturday when I was compiling it. New Politics are yet to beat One of Us for me but this was a very decent attempt, with a chorus that was very sing-along-able to (even if they spelt the word 'colour' wrong ) They definiely deserve a mention in here and I feel quite bad not giving them a Top 100 position but with a chart run like that I couldn't quite bring myself to do it.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 02 One of Us
2017 37 CIA
2018 10 Color Green

[PeteFromLeeds]

#105 (778pts)

Vigiland
Be Your Friend (ft. Alexander Tidebrink)
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NE (24/03/2018) | 16-9-3-2-3-8-14-25-44-67-92-xx

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This song was VERY lucky to reach #2 in my chart climate right now. It was originally in my Top 100 but I threw it out when I realised I'd forgotten yet ANOTHER hit from the year (my method of only counting songs when they dropped out wasn't the best then oops). Listening back again it actually sounds better than I thought it did - I'd kind of forgotten the verses and they're the best part of it but with a chorus like the one it has it was destined to be forgotten really. There was definitely some aspect of riding off the back of Friday Night, which is in a completely different league to this.

Top 100 Chart History

Vigiland
2017 01 Friday Night
2018 02 Be Your Friend (Vigiland ft. Alexander Tidebrink)

Alexander Tidebrink
2018 02 Be Your Friend (Vigiland ft. Alexander Tidebrink)

[PeteFromLeeds]

#101 (783pts)

Klingande
Rebel Yell (ft. Krishane)
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NE (17/03/2018) | 11-5-5-6-11-14-20-32-48-77-98-xx

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So the song we have to say a sad goodbye to at #101 (although it's not that sad as we'll be seeing both artists again later) is Rebel Yell by Klingande and baby-voiced Krishane. This song sounded like a dream collaboration on paper - the summery tropical house vibes of Klingande and the Krishane that made Drunk and Incapable one of my favourite songs of this decade - and it certainly delivered in real life. Giving a listen now, it certainly fits the warming winter vibes a lot more than it would fit the March/April season which might explain why it's so low here. But it is sad to see this be the song to just miss out.

Top 100 Chart History

Klingande
2016 04 Losing U (Klingande ft. Daylight)
2016 02 Somewhere New (Klingande ft. M-22)
2018 05 Rebel Yell (Klingande ft. Krishane)
2018 02 Wonders (Klingande & Broken Back)

Krishane
2016 12 Inconsiderate (Krishane ft. Patoranking)
2018 05 Rebel Yell (Klingande ft. Krishane)
2018 06 Roses (Krishane ft. Barrington Levy)

[PeteFromLeeds]

#100 (785pts)

Michael Farren
Oh Praise (The Only One)
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NE (01/09/2018) | 13-7-7-6-7-9-17-31-51-79-99-xx

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So this is the first of only two worship songs to actually make the Top 100 this year. Whilst there's been no lack of Christian songs in my chart this year, there hasn't been as many 'hits' so to speak. I don't know what it is about this song that gets me - loads of other songs sound similar - I guess it might just be the combination of the lyrics and the melody that get this stuck in my head and my heart. It's a beautiful song.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 06 Oh Praise (The Only One)

[PeteFromLeeds]

#99 (792pts)

Alex Cameron
Runnin' Outta Luck
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NE (07/10/2017) | 86-55-26-17-16-12-9-25-41-54-68-76-79-75-84-xx

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Yeah, this should probably have been in last year's EOY considering it was already out of the Top 40 by the start of 2018, but it wasn't so here it is. This funky piece was a BJSC entry, back when BJSC entries could go on to be massive hits in my chart (I mean, there are a few coming up later... just not many). I don't tend to pay much attention to videos so whenever I watch it I'm just reminded of how weird this one is. Anyway, it's all about the song, and the song's amazing. I don't actually think I've heard much like it since which is a shame. Alex went on to have another hit, 'Politics of Love', however that was short lived and falls out at #142 here.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 09 Runnin' Outta Luck
2018 06 Politics of Love

[PeteFromLeeds]

#98 (793pts)

Galantis
Spaceship (ft. Uffie)
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NE (02/06/2018) | 25-12-12-9-12-12-17-27-52-66-84-91-xx

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This is the first of two Galantis singles to make the Top 100 (gosh, they're building up quite a discography here aren't they) and the first single to let me know that they were firmly back on track after a few dodgy singles. Tell Me You Loved Me managed the Top 100 last year, but probably ended too low as it was quite a way before I realised it would become a #1 hit, although really it's no better than this - it's just that January always has a lack of great songs Some people are going off Galantis now but I don't really understand why - they're sticking to the same sound they've always had whilst finding new ways to keep it catchy and attention-grabbing. Oh well, they'll always be my Galantis. until they inevitably switch to future bass like every other once-decent dance artist has

Top 100 Chart History

Galantis
2016 03 No Money
2016 19 Make Me Feel (Galantis & East & Young)
2016 02 Love On Me (Galantis & Hook N Sling)
2016 23 Pillow Fight
2017 01 Rich Boy
2017 24 Hunter
2017 74 True Feeling
2017 49 Girls On Boys (Galantis & ROZES)
2017 01 Tell Me You Love Me (ft. Throttle)
2017 47 Hello
2017 53 Salvage (Up All Night) (Galantis & Poo Bear)
2018 09 Spaceship (Galantis ft. Uffie)
2018 32 Mama Look At Me Now
2018 08 Satisfied (Galantis ft. MAX)
2018 10 Emoji

Uffie
2018 09 Spaceship (Galantis ft. Uffie)

[PeteFromLeeds]

#97 (798pts)

Eleni Foureira
Fuego
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NE (19/05/2018) | 6-3-2-3-6-12-21-38-49-76-97-xx

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So after the rather disappointing Eurovision of 2017, this year seemed to make up for it, jam-packed with the usual collection of Eurovision bops. In fact, another four of them will be making an appearance here. As soon I heard Eleni was performing at Eurovision (for the wrong country but oh well) I was somewhat excited as To Kati was really catchy and exactly what I was looking for in a Eurovision hit. I have to say when the song began I was quite disappointed as the drop seemed REALLY dull and future bass. But thankfully that wasn't the full drop and all the ethnic-y dance stuff came in to make it sound great. Keep going average cypriot greek singer

Top 100 Chart History

2018 33 To Kati Pou Exeis
2018 02 Fuego

[Sergej]

Hey Pete!
Haven't commented on your chart yet, might do it now!
Really agreed on your worst list, "Be Alright" is a great song and I heard Amy Shark's album, it's good, but not something I would remember.
From your top 100 I like "Fuego" and "Spaceship" is nice too, but the other 2 songs I haven't heard yet!
Great start so far!

[PeteFromLeeds]

#96 (798pts)

George Ezra
Shotgun
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NE (05/05/2018) | 61-53-69-52-31-21-15-10-14-22-35-53-84-85-98-xx

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Starting off as a well-performing album track, it soon became clear that this would become the biggest hit of Mr. Ezra's career. This pushed through the barrage of Eurovision tracks to become George's second Top 10 hit here - his first, Pretty Shining People, missed out on a Top 100 position by around 25 points, which makes me wonder whether I actually calculated everything correctly as that spent four weeks in the Top 10 as opposed to the one Shotgun spent. This is, however, undeniably the better song, and I need to remember to actually chart Hold My Girl as I forget every week

Top 100 Chart History

2017 77 Don't Matter Now
2018 29 Paradise
2018 08 Pretty Shining People
2018 10 Shotgun

[PeteFromLeeds]

#95 (799pts)

Crystal Fighters
Yellow Sun
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NE (03/02/2018) | 41-27-18-11-8-10-17-33-52-78-97-xx

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Now we come to what was the last Top 10 hit of British-Spanish band Crystal Fighters (well I say last, they could quite easily get another one, its just that their more recent material hasn't been as up to scratch). After the amazing Good Girls, I pretty much forgot about these, which explains why a song released in October 2017 didn't chart until February 2018, but it is certainly worth it. Chilled indie vibes with a bit of Spanish influence as well, with a soothing music video and that infectious 'dancing on the yellow yellow' by the guy with the deep voice just makes this song amazing - well, amazing enough to bump it up by 80 points into the Top 100.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 09 All Night
2017 02 Good Girls
2018 08 Yellow Sun
2018 36 Boomin' In Your Jeep
2018 37 Another Level

[PeteFromLeeds]

#94 (810pts)

Redlight
Zum Zum (ft. Sweetie Irie)
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NE (17/12/2017) | 52-38-13-5-3-2-3-11-40-61-73-xx

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I was really interested to hear what else Sweetie Irie had in his locker after his amazing feature on Crank It. Therefore I jumped straight on board with this dance collab with Redlight, and thus it became a real winter dance smash and the one song that will really remind me of my 18th birthday. Unfortunately winter is only a limited period, and after its #2 peak it suffered two ACR-style drops in a row to take it out of the top 40. Still a bop though!

Top 100 Chart History

Redlight
2017 02 Zum Zum (Redlight ft. Sweetie Irie)

Sweetie Irie
2016 01 Crank It (Kideko & Goeerge Kwali ft. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie)
2017 02 Zum Zum (Redlight ft. Sweetie Irie)

[PeteFromLeeds]

#93 (813pts)

One Bit
My Way (ft. Noah Cyrus)
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NE (10/02/2018) | 19-3-2-2-3-6-22-41-60-89-xx

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I feel like if this were on a compilation album, it would be one of those short-but-sweet songs you'd instantly declare your favourite. This song charted purely on merit as I don't really care for either artist (I'd forgotten Noah even featured on All Falls Down until I searched it just now) but this song is really good, something you can dance along to for just the right amount of time. Unfortunately I clearly got bored of it too quickly as it fell from 6 to 22

Top 100 Chart History

One Bit
2018 02 My Way (One Bit ft. Noah Cyrus)

Noah Cyrus
2017 18 All Falls Down (Alan Walker ft. Noah Cyrus & Digital Farm Animals)
2018 02 My Way (One Bit ft. Noah Cyrus)

[Dobbo]

Blinded By Your Grace is incred amazing collab

Wow at the impressive chart history here for Galantis, I've not really felt any of their stuff since Love On Me but Tell Me You Love Me was very catchy

Omg forgot all about My Way, really should have been a top 40 hit that

[danG]

Out of those My Way is the standout, sure to be in my EOY top 100.

Haven't cared for any of Galantis' material this year they've lost it for me.

I'm one of the few who didn't get into Shotgun either.

[LewisGT]

Great to see Blinded By Your Grace here. It was nice for one of his non-rap songs to be released as a single and actually become a massive hit.

I absolutely love Fuego. It was the only Eurovision track to make any sort of impact on me this year. I can't believe that the Israeli song won over it, I found that one horrific.

[DalekTurret32]

Blinded By Your Grace is probably my fave from Stormzy.
Fuego was a great Eurovision song.
Shotgun still holds up today.
My Way is a good dance tune.

[Liаm]

My Way is fab, such a bop and I wish it was big compared to a lot of other uninspiring dance hits Fuego is obv an absolute banger too and Shotgun is one of the best hits of the year for sure.

[PeteFromLeeds]

Hey Pete!
Haven't commented on your chart yet, might do it now!
Really agreed on your worst list, "Be Alright" is a great song and I heard Amy Shark's album, it's good, but not something I would remember.
From your top 100 I like "Fuego" and "Spaceship" is nice too, but the other 2 songs I haven't heard yet!
Great start so far!

Make sure you give them a listen - it's what the YouTube links are there for! Thanks Sergej

Blinded By Your Grace is incred amazing collab

Wow at the impressive chart history here for Galantis, I've not really felt any of their stuff since Love On Me but Tell Me You Love Me was very catchy

Omg forgot all about My Way, really should have been a top 40 hit that

I'd sort-of forgotten My Way had charted officially, glad it did but it really should have gone Top 40 I'm surprised so many people haven't been feeling Galantis, I'm usually the first to go off an artist Thanks Dobbo

Out of those My Way is the standout, sure to be in my EOY top 100.

Haven't cared for any of Galantis' material this year they've lost it for me.

I'm one of the few who didn't get into Shotgun either.

My Way is incredibly catchy and something that really got me at the time. I can see why people don't get into Shotgun but for me it is incredibly catchy, even if it took ages to grow on me. Thanks Dan!

Great to see Blinded By Your Grace here. It was nice for one of his non-rap songs to be released as a single and actually become a massive hit.

I absolutely love Fuego. It was the only Eurovision track to make any sort of impact on me this year. I can't believe that the Israeli song won over it, I found that one horrific.

I quite liked Toy actually It's not in my Top 100 but did reach #3 in my chart, I thought this was a bit too 'generic' to win but it was incredibly catchy hence why it did so well in my chart. Thanks Lewis!

Blinded By Your Grace is probably my fave from Stormzy.
Fuego was a great Eurovision song.
Shotgun still holds up today.
My Way is a good dance tune.

Glad you like them all - agree about BBYG. Thanks Dalek

My Way is fab, such a bop and I wish it was big compared to a lot of other uninspiring dance hits Fuego is obv an absolute banger too and Shotgun is one of the best hits of the year for sure.

At least My Way went Top 100 but yeah, with the stuff Zedd and Garrix are putting out now this really deserved to be higher than them Thanks Liam!

[PeteFromLeeds]

#92 (827pts)

Saara Aalto
Monsters
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NE (19/05/2018) | 1-2-12-22-30-51-80-92-92-xx

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The first song to debut at #1 since I switched from a Top 15 to a Top 40, if I hadn't given this 300 bonus points it would have finished lower than Rudimental oops. I honestly thought the UK were really going to get on board with this, with Saara finishing second and all. I was even hoping that she might end up getting a chart hit higher than Matt Terry's debut got. Sadly none of that happened and she ended up second-last in the final. This was a very instant hit but the drop is fairly dull and that's probably what caused such a rapid drop-off for her in my charts.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 01 Monsters

[PeteFromLeeds]

#91 (833pts)

Rea Garvey
Is It Love? (ft. Kool Savas)
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NE (05/05/2018) | 26-13-12-18-27-30-33-37-31-42-51-67-93-xx

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So we get to our first track in the Top 100 to have missed the weekly Top 10 (although its peak of 12 was achieved on Eurovision week when there were about six new entries in the Top 10). It's certainly not the lowest-peaking track to crack the Top 100 either. What I have to say about this song is that Rea's voice is brilliant and makes the song for me, and the way he sings the verses had me singing them for months after I first heard them. I don't have a clue what the random German rap adds to the song or why he felt the need to include it but it's there and I've got used to it.

Top 100 Chart History

Rea Garvey
2018 12 Is It Love? (Rea Garvey ft. Kool Savas)

Kool Savas
2018 12 Is It Love? (Rea Garvey ft. Kool Savas)