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Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 2nd December 2018, 02:53 PM

• This year I moved back to the points format of calculating my chart, with #1 being worth 100 points and #100 being worth 1 point. Any songs still in the chart had the remainder of their chart run estimated based on their current trajectory.
• As I expected, this system produced some rubbish results, so I've allowed myself to give or take away up to 300 points for each song to make the charts actually reflect my music taste.
• As with last year, any songs that appeared in last year's EOY are ineligible for this year's.
• I'll be posting a 2017 Recap soon, before a short Worst Songs Chart, a Mainstream Song of the Year and an Album of the Year, before my actual chart which should commence within the next few days to get it over with.

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 2nd December 2018, 03:09 PM

Posted by: dancember 2nd December 2018, 04:05 PM

Excitement! I get the feeling 'These Days' is the one you regret putting at #1 but hopefully I'm wrong. Also enjoy 'Ginger', 'Sweat' and 'Favela' from your #1s so hopefully they're nice and high.

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 3rd December 2018, 10:54 AM

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 3rd December 2018, 05:24 PM

Worst Songs of 2018:
I feel like I need a disclaimer this year. I want to put songs in this based on the quality (or lack of) of the song, not based on the artist themselves. Therefore, any songs by XXXTENTACION and 6ix9ine have been omitted this year - think of it as a cyclist getting disqualified for taking performance enhancing drugs. Trust me, if I included them they'd take up more than the Top 5 between them.

#5: Drake - In My Feelings


Quack quack. After not having any songs memorable enough to be worthy of a Top 5 last year, Drake's annual appearance in this re-commences. His first single, God's Plan, stayed at the top of the charts for an annoyingly long time but was actually pretty catchy. His second single, Nice For What, was just him wailing over someone else's song and was top of this list at the time of release. What got this there, however, was the fact that it's basically a carbon copy of his last two #1 singles morphed together with some different lyrics. Think 'Television Romance' by Pale Waves but the song it copied wasn't good in the first place. To be fair to Drake I am aware that this wasn't the song he had in mind for his third single, but to even put something like this on the ALBUM is a lazy move. And by the way this was #1 on this chart when it was released which really shows how horrendous the second half of the year has been.

#4: Stay Flee Get Lizzy - Ay Caramba (ft. Fredo, Young T & Bugsey)


Honestly, what a ridiculous artist name. Especially since Stay Flee Get Lizzy is a clothes brand and not an artist. It's like if 'Tesco feat. The Neales' had been a surprise new entry back in 2016. (what sort of name for a brand is Stay Flee Get Lizzy anyway? What is their partner's not called Lizzy?) Anyway, I'm going a bit off topic. This is the first entirely non-North American track to enter my Worst Songs chart since at least 2015 (and maybe 2014, I've not got the 2015 list on me atm). Unfortunately the 'Bugsey' in this track isn't the rapper Bugzy Malone who I actually quite like, but someone else who's fairly unrecognisable in the song. When this first entered the chart, it was a bit of light relief since without it the chart would have been stuck with one new entry that week. Of course that was before I watched the music video, which seemed to show lots of women shaking body parts around, some of which weren't even really recognisable as backsides. Of course it then began to fall, a little slowly, and we all thought 'fair enough, another random dull song with a short shelf life'. But then it, erm... re-entered. And stuck around the same three or four positions for absolutely AGES before it got a mini-boost and spent four weeks as a non-mover at #32. Oh well, ACR's finally got it to bugger out of the Top 100 now.

#3: Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B - Girls Like You


It's nice to know that girls like me (thanks Adam) but I don't need this drivel to tell me that. I didn't have an issue with this song when it entered, nor when it reached the Top 10. The issue came when it seemingly stuck around in the Top 10 for absolutely ages (12 weeks to be exact) whilst only peaking at #7. Probably the dullest amazing feat ever. The fact that this is a pop song and not an urban one and STILL managed to get to #3 on here shows how much of a chore it was to have to sit through this at roughly 5:13pm every Friday. And Maroon 5 have even had a Top 10 hit here way back in the past. Please release something decent next time.

#2: Kanye West ft. Lil Pump - I Love It

In the north the word 'pump' is slang for fart, and to be frank I'd rather listen to three minutes of farts than have to put up with this obscene mess. I was hoping that Lil Pump wouldn't be relevant enough to get #2 on here two years in a row but his done it, with his friend Mr. West. An odd combination I have to say, one wonders how Kanye met - and felt the need to collaborate with - someone young enough to be his son. The fact that they could only play seven seconds of this before someone magicked up a censored version says everything else that needs to be said.

#1: Tyga ft. Offset - Taste


So, this year's #1 (and the lyric behind the thing that's been my tagline for long enough to forger I hadn't changed it) is Tyga's Taste. Or lack of, to be more accurate. I wonder why on earth girls gleefully dance to this in clubs when it is completely degrading to women, and has absolutely no tune that is dance-able to. Other than someone going 'ohh ohh ohhh' and then someone else going 'doo doo doo doo' a bit quieter in the background. That sounds like something my granddad would say and he's certainly not the target audience for this mess. In the video there's a lot of naked women sat behind Tyga and Offset, rubbing their hands quite firmly on their backsides as if they're plumping them up like pillows. Maybe the reason they're all so big is that they've been stuffed with feathers. Sorry, but it's not my thing at all.

Let's add our winner to the Hall of Fame:

Hall of Fame
2014: Bars & Melody - Hopeful
2015: Drake - Hotline Bling
2016: Drake - Controlla
2017: Post Malone ft. Quavo - Congratulations
2018: Tyga ft. Offset - Taste

Posted by: DalekTurret32 3rd December 2018, 10:35 PM

I really like Girls Like You
The other songs, they're okay. (Though I Love It [mainly the music video] is a guilty pleasure)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 4th December 2018, 03:22 PM

QUOTE(dancember @ Dec 2 2018, 04:05 PM)

QUOTE(DalekTurret32 @ Dec 3 2018, 10:35 PM)

Posted by: DexTheHalls 4th December 2018, 03:31 PM

No idea what your 2014 Worst Single is but I love 2015-2017 Taste is alright but I got over it pretty quickly (I prefer Dip)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 4th December 2018, 03:45 PM

Mainstream Song of the Year: Dean Lewis - Be Alright



So, the winner of the best Top 20 hit of the year goes to Australia's Dean Lewis, and a song which so annoyingly peaked at #11 I won't say too much about this now since it's going to make an appearance later but this gets a LOT of undeserved stick on Buzzjack, probably down to the fact that it's a slow song and it's not by one of the pop princesses that Buzzjack is known for loving (). Oh well, I love it and I encourage you to love it too. It doesn't matter but the PHOOOOOOOONE awayy

Mainstream Song of the Year: Hall of Fame
1999: Fatboy Slim - Praise You
2000: Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby
2001: Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out Of My Head
2002: DJ Sammy & Yanou ft. Do - Heaven
2003: Room 5 - Make Luv
2004: Eric Prydz - Call On Me
2005: Arctic Monkeys - I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor
2006: Scissor Sisters - I Don't Feel Like Dancin'
2007: MIKA - Grace Kelly
2008: Basshunter ft. DJ Mental Theo's Bassheadz - Now You're Gone
2009: Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
2010: Taio Cruz - Dynamite
2011: LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem (ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock)
2012: PSY - Gangnam Style
2013: Ylvis - The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)
2014: DJ Fresh & Jay Fay ft. Ms. Dynamite - Dibby Dibby Sound
2015: Jess Glynne - Don't Be So Hard On Yourself
2016: Lukas Graham - 7 Years
2017: JP Cooper - September Song
2018: Dean Lewis - Be Alright

Posted by: DalekTurret32 4th December 2018, 04:14 PM

Be Alright is a good one.

Posted by: coi 4th December 2018, 04:39 PM

Be Alright is a really good choice for best mainstream song of the year! Surprisingly so considering that your choices over the last few years have been songs I dislike!

As for your worst songs of the year, I agree with a few of them - Taste and Ay Caramba were dreadful!

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 4th December 2018, 05:24 PM

QUOTE(DexTheHalls @ Dec 4 2018, 03:31 PM)

No idea what your 2014 Worst Single is but I love 2015-2017 Taste is alright but I got over it pretty quickly (I prefer Dip)

QUOTE(DalekTurret32 @ Dec 4 2018, 04:14 PM)

QUOTE(coi @ Dec 4 2018, 04:39 PM)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 4th December 2018, 05:36 PM

Album of the Year: Amy Shark - Love Monster

Posted by: dancember 4th December 2018, 05:42 PM

Well, I enjoy most of your Bottom 5. 'Taste' particularly, that'll be making my Top 100. 'In My Feelings' is still to come in my EOY too.

'Girls Like You' I can agree with, 'I Love It' I enjoyed but fell off my chart very quickly and 'Ay Caramba' while not bad is very non-essential.

Posted by: dobbo 4th December 2018, 07:45 PM

Well you definitely picked the worst rap song of the year as your #1, even I think that song is garbage.

Didn't care much for I Love It & Girls Like You was terrible as well so good pick there too!

However Be Alright is one of the worst things I've heard all year... interestingly though that's the only song on your entire song of the year list I dislike, some amazing picks from previous years!

Posted by: DexTheHalls 5th December 2018, 02:19 PM

Amy Shark definitely has one of the best albums this year! I adore every song on the album and she really deserves more success than what she's manages over here. Apparently I Said Hi is the 19th most streamed song on Apply Music Australia in the last year

The albums tracks have basically become the soundtrack for Home & Away in the fast few months too tbh, I don't watch it but it's always on and I swear at least once a week there's something from her on Actually a lot of her songs are used in promotional stuff over here too

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 5th December 2018, 04:57 PM

QUOTE(dancember @ Dec 4 2018, 05:42 PM)

Well, I enjoy most of your Bottom 5. 'Taste' particularly, that'll be making my Top 100. 'In My Feelings' is still to come in my EOY too.

'Girls Like You' I can agree with, 'I Love It' I enjoyed but fell off my chart very quickly and 'Ay Caramba' while not bad is very non-essential.

QUOTE(dobbo @ Dec 4 2018, 07:45 PM)

QUOTE(DexTheHalls @ Dec 5 2018, 02:19 PM)

Amy Shark definitely has one of the best albums this year! I adore every song on the album and she really deserves more success than what she's manages over here. Apparently I Said Hi is the 19th most streamed song on Apply Music Australia in the last year

The albums tracks have basically become the soundtrack for Home & Away in the fast few months too tbh, I don't watch it but it's always on and I swear at least once a week there's something from her on Actually a lot of her songs are used in promotional stuff over here too

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 5th December 2018, 05:53 PM

#133 (600pts)

Rudimental
These Days (ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)
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NE (27/01/2018) | 9-3-1-5-14-33-66-77-xx

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So all the way down in #133 we have our lowest #1 single. And this is only with me counting songs with a decent chance of making the EOY, if I included all the songs that had charted for me this year it would be comfortably out of the Top 200. Another songs called 'These Days' is much higher up this list for me, but it most certainly didn't feature any of these artists. It was the start of Jess' comeback which I was initially really excited for, and the song actually sounded quite good when it first came out. Seven weeks a non-mover at #2 and I thought differently. This song marked the start of the end for Jess' chart career for me as the artist who grabbed my Mainstream Song of the Year in 2015 resorted to bland pop, Macklemore continued to fade into obscurity and Dan Caplen never really had a career in the first place. It amazes me that Rudimental managed to turn it around with the amazing 'Toast to our Differences', but it was too much of them to ask to actually push it and they instead pushed flop single Let Me Live. Oops.


Top 100 Chart History

Rudimental
2017 28 Sun Comes Up (Rudimental ft. James Arthur)
2018 01 These Days (Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)
2018 01 Toast to Our Differences (Rudimental ft. Shungudzo, Protoje & Hak Baker)
2018 14 Walk Alone (Rudimental ft. Tom Walker)

Jess Glynne
2016 02 Ain't Got Far to Go
2018 01 These Days (Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)
2018 16 I'll Be There
2018 89 All I Am
2018 16 So Real (Warriors) (Too Many Zooz & KDA ft. Jess Glynne)
2018 94 Thursday

Macklemore
2018 93 Glorious (Macklemore ft. Skylar Grey)
2018 90 Good Old Days (Macklemore ft. Kesha)
2018 01 These Days (Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)

Dan Caplen
2018 01 These Days (Rudimental ft. Jess Glynne, Macklemore & Dan Caplen)


(Can't post any more now because I'm about to leave oops, I'm not intentionally posting one at a time!)

Posted by: DalekTurret32 5th December 2018, 06:18 PM

These Days is pretty good.

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 6th December 2018, 09:18 AM

#113 (730pts)

Stormzy
Blinded By Your Grace Pt. 2 (ft. MNEK)
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NE (04/11/2017) | 41-23-12-10-14-33-64-86-76-66-68-89-xx

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It's been over a year since this was released and I still can't believe how such an amazing song managed to go Top 10 in the UK. A lot of Stormzy's songs are things I don't really agree with but this song is such an honest and humble song about how God changed his life, and I really respect Stormzy for pushing this as the second single from his album. It also spent too short a period of time on my personal chart - the chart runs have lengthened as the year's gone on so if this song was released this december it would be a completely different story. MNEK's more recent single 'Tongue' reached #104 on my EOY so unfortunately this is the only mention that gets, and whilst Stormzy is yet to have another hit he probably will get one with his feature on Timbuktu which I'm really enjoying atm.

Top 100 Chart History

Stormzy
2017 32 Big For Your Boots
2017 15 Momma's Prayers (JP Cooper ft. Stormzy)
2017 10 Blinded By Your Grace Pt. 2 (Stormzy ft. MNEK)

MNEK
2016 03 House Work (Jax Jones ft. Mike Dunn & MNEK)
2017 15 Deeper (Riton ft. MNEK & House Gospel Choir)
2017 10 Blinded By Your Grace Pt. 2 (Stormzy ft. MNEK)
2018 09 Tongue

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 6th December 2018, 09:28 AM

#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

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 6th December 2018, 09:34 AM

#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)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 6th December 2018, 09:45 AM

#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)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 7th December 2018, 10:37 AM

#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)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 7th December 2018, 10:47 AM

#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

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 7th December 2018, 10:57 AM

#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)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 7th December 2018, 11:07 AM

#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

Posted by: sergejdordij98 8th December 2018, 07:59 AM

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!

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 8th December 2018, 12:42 PM

#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

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 8th December 2018, 12:49 PM

#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

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 8th December 2018, 01:00 PM

#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)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 8th December 2018, 01:07 PM

#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)

Posted by: dobbo 8th December 2018, 01:23 PM

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

Posted by: dancember 8th December 2018, 03:39 PM

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.

Posted by: LewisGT 8th December 2018, 10:31 PM

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.

Posted by: SantaDalek32 9th December 2018, 12:25 AM

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.

Posted by: Liаm 9th December 2018, 05:51 PM

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.

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 10th December 2018, 10:04 AM

QUOTE(sergejdordij98 @ Dec 8 2018, 07:59 AM)

QUOTE(dobbo @ Dec 8 2018, 01:23 PM)

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

QUOTE(dancember @ Dec 8 2018, 03:39 PM)

QUOTE(LewisGT @ Dec 8 2018, 10:31 PM)

QUOTE(SantaDalek32 @ Dec 9 2018, 12:25 AM)

QUOTE(Liаm @ Dec 9 2018, 05:51 PM)

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.

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 10th December 2018, 10:27 AM

#92 (827pts)

Saara Aalto
Monsters
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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

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 10th December 2018, 10:36 AM

#91 (833pts)

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

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 10th December 2018, 10:45 AM

#90 (833pts)

Dennis Lloyd
Nevermind
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NE (10/02/2018) | 28-15-11-6-14-19-24-32-37-56-72-76-90-xx

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Another song who's chart run was distoreted by the Eurovision takeover, at least this one managed to crack the Top 10 before everything was cruelly pushed out. Unlike many artists where I've known the song for months before it cracks the chart, I didn't even know this existed until it began making tracks on Spotify. On first listen I thought this sounded amazing and just WANTED it to be a hit, and thankfully it was. I was hoping that Israel could get two Top 40 hits in one week with Dennis and Netta but unfortunately neither were Top 40 when it came to Eurovision week. Both weer Top 100 though so yay.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 06 Nevermind

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 10th December 2018, 10:58 AM

#89 (842pts)

My Indigo
My Indigo
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I honestly don't think I can watch that video again, it's so emotional But the song remains amazing, the vibes remind me of a song from maybe the late 90s and the melody is just beautiful. Takes me back to December when I was first listening to it, nostalgia really takes up too much of my life Anyway, its repeak came when it was sent to BJSC by you-know-who, hence the massive drop-off the week after (I'm glad things like that don't happen as much in my chart nowadays!). I hope she releases something else decent soon.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 08 My Indigo

Posted by: MÿrtleSnow 10th December 2018, 11:33 AM

It's not the end of the year yet tho!

Smart starting it early tho tbh as I never ebded up finishing mine last year oops. Idk what I will do this year.

So much work gone into this, its looking fab! Great read. Some heavy hitters dropping out already too like Shotgun and Fuego! As for My Indigo, that will chart for me too if I do one :') a real find

Posted by: SantaDalek32 10th December 2018, 11:45 AM

Yay at Nevermind making it to your countdown.

Posted by: Riser 11th December 2018, 05:53 AM

'Nevermind' is such an earworm Will be much higher in my EOY!

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 11th December 2018, 10:16 AM

QUOTE(MÿrtleSnow @ Dec 10 2018, 11:33 AM)

It's not the end of the year yet tho!

Smart starting it early tho tbh as I never ebded up finishing mine last year oops. Idk what I will do this year.

So much work gone into this, its looking fab! Great read. Some heavy hitters dropping out already too like Shotgun and Fuego! As for My Indigo, that will chart for me too if I do one :') a real find

QUOTE(SantaDalek32 @ Dec 10 2018, 11:45 AM)

QUOTE(Riser @ Dec 11 2018, 05:53 AM)

'Nevermind' is such an earworm Will be much higher in my EOY!

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 11th December 2018, 10:35 AM

#88 (843pts)

Deepend
To Rome (ft. Janieck)
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Blimey, what a clunky video. Anyway, here's Janieck's sole entry in the Top 100 this year (his collaborator on one of the best songs ever, Lost Frequencies, manages somehow to get more songs in even though Janieck really made Reality what it is). This is a collaboration with Deepend, who I honestly didn't realise had had that many songs in my chart. This is once again another showcase of Janieck's voice, and Deepend's additions with the creation of that beautiful melody just make the song what it is. GIVE IT A LISTEN!

Top 100 Chart History

Deepend
2016 10 Catch and Release (Matt Simons - Deepend Remix)
2017 06 Runaway (Sam Feldt & Deepend ft. Teemu)
2017 45 Every Little Thing (Deepend ft. Deb's Daughter)
2018 04 To Rome (Deepend ft. Janieck)

Janieck
2017 05 Just Wanna Be With You
2017 01 Little Hollywood (Alle Farben ft. Janieck)
2018 28 Does It Matter
2018 04 To Rome (Deepend ft. Janieck)
2018 38 You Don't Have To Like It (Lucas & Steve ft. Janieck)
2018 23 Maybe (Janieck & BUNT.)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 11th December 2018, 10:41 AM

#87 (845pts)

SAINT PHNX
ONE
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So this indie-pop duo was a new one on me this year, and it's probably a new one on you as well. Which means that this song had to have been amazing to crack my chart - and it was. All the lyrics are incredibly catchy, and the song itself sounds so uplifting (even if it's maybe not meant to oops). It's just the sort of song you want to hear midway through the year when you're sick of all the experimental stuff and you just want a good indie track. I'll certainly be keeping my eyes out for these guys over the next year, and their new single Deadmen could crack my Top 40 in the coming weeks!

(I still don't really understand why he says he'll be the one 'like a shot from a loaded gun' though, are gunshots considered to be 'the one'? )

Top 100 Chart History

2018 10 ONE
2018 48 Deadmen

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 11th December 2018, 04:30 PM

#86 (846pts)

Boston Bun
Spread Love (Paddington) (ft. DVNO)
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Aaand there goes another #1. This funky summer dance smash by French outfit Boston Bun featuring DVNO (who I've called DNVO in all of my charts oops) was amazing for... well, the summer holidays. Unfortunately my summer holidays tend to only be two weeks long, and it very quickly turned from an amazingly quirky dance hit that was always in my head to an odd gimmick. It was the only other summer dance track to get to #1 so that's an achievement at least. His new track 'Better Together' sounds a bit generic after what we've had so unfortunately looks like it won't make an appearance here.

Top 100 Chart History

Boston Bun
2018 01 Spread Love (Paddington) (Boston Bun ft. DVNO)

DVNO
2018 01 Spread Love (Paddington) (Boston Bun ft. DVNO)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 11th December 2018, 04:41 PM

#85 (853pts)

Sigrid
High Five
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Not going to lie, I wasn't a massive Sigrid fan when her debut single came out (the one that kept going up and down iTunes that people were going crazy about and I've forgotten the name of ). I first found an interest when she won the BBC Music Award at the same time Strangers was out, and she soared up the charts. Strangers was a great song, but I think that this song is the unsung hero - it's amazing, and I don't think it would have spent more than a week in the Top 100 if it wasn't. Of course Strangers would become a hit, she'd just won the award and it was accessible enough. But the fact that this managed a decent run in the Top 100, even if it never made the Top 40, is an indicator of how good the song itself is. Shame Sucker Punch was horrendous

Top 100 Chart History

2018 21 Strangers
2018 07 High Five
2018 76 Sucker Punch

Posted by: MÿrtleSnow 11th December 2018, 05:43 PM

As it happens I actually do know Saint PHNX and nearly charted them earlier in the year too! Or maybe last year. I feel like I might have worked at an event with them or someone I knew did, the name rings a bell.

As for High Five I'm only just getting into that now, the name put me off before Strangers is my hit from her so far, Don't Kill My Vibe was I think the one that everyone liked but I preferred her earlier song Plot Twist!

Posted by: sergejdordij98 11th December 2018, 07:22 PM

Really like "Nevermind", "To Rome" and "High Five" being there!
"Nevermind" has been a really huge hit where I live, "To Rome" was a really overlooked song for me and "High Five" is great, just like Sigrid herself!

Posted by: SantaDalek32 12th December 2018, 12:22 PM

I like Spread Love and High Five too

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 12th December 2018, 04:45 PM

QUOTE(MÿrtleSnow @ Dec 11 2018, 05:43 PM)

As it happens I actually do know Saint PHNX and nearly charted them earlier in the year too! Or maybe last year. I feel like I might have worked at an event with them or someone I knew did, the name rings a bell.

As for High Five I'm only just getting into that now, the name put me off before Strangers is my hit from her so far, Don't Kill My Vibe was I think the one that everyone liked but I preferred her earlier song Plot Twist!

QUOTE(sergejdordij98 @ Dec 11 2018, 07:22 PM)

QUOTE(SantaDalek32 @ Dec 12 2018, 12:22 PM)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 12th December 2018, 05:18 PM

#84 (858pts)

Lukas Graham
Lullaby
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So this is the first Lukas Graham track in the Top 100 (there'll be quite a few more, get used to seeing their name) and also the first song to appear that's still in my Personal Chart. After he tried to cram the fact his dad was dead into pretty much every song in his first album, this album is definitely more about moving on from his dad and focusing on his family (although there's still quite a few references to his dad in there). This one in particular is a song to his daughter, hence the name 'lullaby', and how he will always love her no matter what comes in the way. The lyrics are great but for this song it's the way he sings them that really gets it for me, another amazing slow song that I just love.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 01 7 Years
2016 09 Golden (Brandon Beal ft. Lukas Graham)
2016 01 You're Not There
2016 02 What Happened to Perfect
2016 03 Funeral
2016 10 Don't You Worry 'Bout Me
2016 04 Take the World By Storm
2017 10 Drunk in the Morning
2017 01 Off to See the World
2018 01 Love Someone
2018 01 Not a Damn Thing Changed
2018 02 Say Yes (Church Ballad)
2018 03 Everything That Isn't Me
2018 04 Stick Around
2018 07 Lullaby
2018 28 Unhappy
2018 23 You're Not the Only One (Redemption Song)
2018 40 Promise

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 12th December 2018, 05:28 PM

#83 (863pts)

lovelytheband
these are my friends
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So this was the follow-up to magahit 'broken' which everyone except me discovered a year after its release and assumed it would smash over here, which unfortunately it hasn't (yet - I wouldn't put it past the UK public looking at how late we've taken up other tracks). This is probably on a similar level to broken, however managed the interesting feat of balancing exactly three weeks at #10 (although looking at how stagnant my charts were that summer it's not that amazing). I think the chorus, particularly the way it's sung so lazily, is a big plus for me, it's something that I can sing whenever in a sort-of weird voice and still manage to capture the essence of the song in my head. Still waiting for another single though.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 11 broken
2018 10 these are my friends

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 12th December 2018, 05:35 PM

#82 (864pts)

Krishane
Roses (ft. Barrington Levy)
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So here's the return of squeaky-voiced Krishane, this time collaborating with his dad Barrington Levy who's voice is pretty much exactly the opposite. Not really got much else to say about this one other than it's a bop and squiddly doddly diddly daddly etc.

Top 100 Chart History

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

Barrington Levy
2018 06 Roses (Krishane ft. Barrington Levy)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 12th December 2018, 05:43 PM

#81 (868pts)

KT Tunstall
The River
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This is where I begin to think that my estimations were a little out as this had over 1000 point before I told myself to get real. It's had an impressive Top 40 run nonetheless. KT Tunstall is one of those artists I was brought up listening to (Black Horse and the Cherry Tree ) and who sort-of forgot to retire, meaning that we still get to hear her output in 2018. This is classic Tunstall and is really helped by the fact that I spontaneously start singing it whenever I'm near a river. I don't want to jump into the river though because that might hurt. Her new track Human Being will enter my chart this Saturday but unfortunately I can't really justify sticking in on her chart history now.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 25 Evil Eye
2016 25 Maybe It's a Good Thing
2016 01 You Can't Always Get What You Want (Friends of Jo Cox ft. MP4, Steve Harley, Ricky Wilson, KT Tunstall & David Gray)
2018 14 The River

Posted by: Calum 12th December 2018, 05:57 PM

Shotgun is probably my favourite of what's been announced so far Nice to see Saara in there too as well as KT. WAX isn't her best album, but an enjoyable listen!

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 14th December 2018, 02:24 PM

QUOTE(Calum @ Dec 12 2018, 05:57 PM)

Shotgun is probably my favourite of what's been announced so far Nice to see Saara in there too as well as KT. WAX isn't her best album, but an enjoyable listen!

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 14th December 2018, 02:28 PM

81 - 100 recap:

81 KT Tunstall The River
82 Krishane Roses (ft. Barrington Levy)
83 lovelytheband these are my friends
84 Lukas Graham Lullaby
85 Sigrid High Five
86 Boston Bun Spread Love (Paddington) (ft. DNVO)
87 SAINT PHNX ONE
88 Deepend To Rome (ft. Janieck)
89 My Indigo My Indigo
90 Dennis Lloyd Nevermind
91 Rea Garvey Is It Love? (ft. Kool Savas)
92 Saara Aalto Monsters
93 One Bit My Way (ft. Noah Cyrus)
94 Redlight Zum Zum (ft. Sweetie Irie)
95 Crystal Fighters Yellow Sun
96 George Ezra Shotgun
97 Eleni Foureira Fuego
98 Galantis Spaceship (ft. Uffie)
99 Alex Cameron Runnin' Outta Luck
100 Michael Farren Oh Praise (The Only One)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 14th December 2018, 02:36 PM

#80 (874pts)

Hooverphonic
Romantic
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This is the one of the few songs I heard and very quickly decided 'BJSC NEEDS to hear this'. Hooverphonic have had probably most of the women of Belgium as their lead singer but they've now started afresh with Luka, and I love her voice so much! It's one of those things where she sounds 'bored' but in a way that makes the song incredibly easy to sing along to. I love all the 'don't take me to xyz, just take me back home' - it's just so carefree and wonderful in its own way. It was beginning to stabilise a bit in my chart when of course it finished Top 10 in BJSC, hence the one week in the Top 10 here, but it went on to be a classic for me.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 09 Romantic
2018 65 Uptight

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 14th December 2018, 02:45 PM

#79 (879pts)

COIN
Simple Romance
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From a song about a woman saying she's not romantic to a band who quite clearly are. This one didn't take very long at all to grow, the chorus is insanely catchy and the way he says things as if he's always breathing out makes the song stick out in my head. Not sure how long this will last on my chart but I've veered on the edge of caution here because I can't see it having that much longevity. watch this be the new Chromeo - Juice now

Top 100 Chart History

2018 03 Simple Romance

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 14th December 2018, 02:54 PM

#78 (880pts)

The Knocks
Ride Or Die (ft. Foster the People)
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Okay maybe this is a little (or maybe a LOT) too low. I've just seen where Brazilian Soul is in my Top 100 atm and it shouldn't be that high so let's deduct 100 or so points from it Anyway, I refused to chart Best Friend because Mr and Mrs Sofi Tukker felt the need to throw expletives all around it, but I was certainly looking for new Knocks music as I was impressed, and this was exactly what I was looking for. Foster the People have released loads of new music and somehow none of it bar this has cracked my charts, but their contribution to this is amazing!

Top 100 Chart History

The Knocks
2017 10 What Happened to Love (Wyclef Jean ft. Lunchmoney Lewis & The Knocks)
2017 01 House Party (The Knocks & Captain Cuts)
2018 05 Ride Or Die (The Knocks ft. Foster the People)
2018 07 Brazilian Soul (The Knocks ft. Sofi Tukker)

Foster The People
2018 05 Ride Or Die (The Knocks ft. Foster the People)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 14th December 2018, 03:02 PM

#77 (880pts)

Alexander Rybak
That's How You Write A Song
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Goodness knows why the guy decided to try his hand at Eurovision again when he'd already won the thing, but it meant I had to wait an extra two months to get my hands on this. It was worth the wait though, and whilst there are tons of people labelling it as 'cheesy' and 'uninspiring', I think it's a really fun piece of music and just captures what Rybak does so well. I actually disliked him quite a bit when he won Eurovision but even Fairytale's grown on me now and he's one of my favourite pop singers of this generation.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 36 I Came To Love You
2017 03 Looking My Way (Philip Cecil & Alexander Rybak)
2018 04 That's How You Write a Song

Posted by: dancember 14th December 2018, 03:16 PM

Nevermind has to be my fave from this chart so far.

Make sure the Eurovision forum regulars don't ever find out about this EOY too Found it hilarious how much Alexander Rybak wound everyone up this year, though to be fair it isn't that great of a song.

Posted by: JosephCarey 14th December 2018, 09:34 PM

Hi Pete!! Catching up at last. Blinded By Your Grace, Shotgun, Nevermind and Monsters are my favourites so far

Posted by: UltraReputation 14th December 2018, 11:36 PM

Hey Pete <3 So much to catch up here haha!!

Agree with 4 out of 5 of your hatechart, I lowkey stan Girls Like You Yasss at your top 2 tho, both utterly vile songs *.*
I hate Be Alright oops, tho the last song I love from your mainstream award winners is I Gotta Feeling oops!! On the other hand, Love Monster is easily my fave of your top albums of each years; such a good album & I Said Hi is utterly fab <3

Poor These Days x Lowkey a bop.
YASSSSSS FUEGO *.* My bop, it still goes off so badly <3 So agree with you this year was such a comeback for Eurovision! Last year was weak af (I think one song made my top 100 last year and that was in the 91-100 section but like 5 songs are contending for my top 50 this year!)
My Way is also a bop and by far the best thing the inferior Cyrus sister has put her name to *.*
Monsters is also incredible & my other Eurovision fave of 2018 <3 <3 I still bop to it so much and it's such a strong single from Saara <3
High Five is also a bop, even if it's not up there with Sigrid's best haha

Though we also have Lukas Graham and that utter HORROR of the Norway 2018 Eurovision entry here so countdown cancelled x

Posted by: SantaDalek32 15th December 2018, 12:35 AM

Guess who has an HMV Exclusive CD of KT Tunstall's Kin?

Posted by: MÿrtleSnow 15th December 2018, 06:45 PM

Yaay Hooverphonic! and Foster the People! You'll have to check out some of their other songs Pete I feel like they'd be up your street

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 15th December 2018, 06:58 PM

QUOTE(dancember @ Dec 14 2018, 03:16 PM)

Nevermind has to be my fave from this chart so far.

Make sure the Eurovision forum regulars don't ever find out about this EOY too Found it hilarious how much Alexander Rybak wound everyone up this year, though to be fair it isn't that great of a song.

QUOTE(JosephCarey @ Dec 14 2018, 09:34 PM)

Hi Pete!! Catching up at last. Blinded By Your Grace, Shotgun, Nevermind and Monsters are my favourites so far

QUOTE(UltraReputation @ Dec 14 2018, 11:36 PM)

Hey Pete <3 So much to catch up here haha!!

Agree with 4 out of 5 of your hatechart, I lowkey stan Girls Like You Yasss at your top 2 tho, both utterly vile songs *.*
I hate Be Alright oops, tho the last song I love from your mainstream award winners is I Gotta Feeling oops!! On the other hand, Love Monster is easily my fave of your top albums of each years; such a good album & I Said Hi is utterly fab <3

Poor These Days x Lowkey a bop.
YASSSSSS FUEGO *.* My bop, it still goes off so badly <3 So agree with you this year was such a comeback for Eurovision! Last year was weak af (I think one song made my top 100 last year and that was in the 91-100 section but like 5 songs are contending for my top 50 this year!)
My Way is also a bop and by far the best thing the inferior Cyrus sister has put her name to *.*
Monsters is also incredible & my other Eurovision fave of 2018 <3 <3 I still bop to it so much and it's such a strong single from Saara <3
High Five is also a bop, even if it's not up there with Sigrid's best haha

Though we also have Lukas Graham and that utter HORROR of the Norway 2018 Eurovision entry here so countdown cancelled x

QUOTE(SantaDalek32 @ Dec 15 2018, 12:35 AM)

QUOTE(MÿrtleSnow @ Dec 15 2018, 06:45 PM)

Yaay Hooverphonic! and Foster the People! You'll have to check out some of their other songs Pete I feel like they'd be up your street

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 15th December 2018, 07:25 PM

#76 (881pts)

Claudia Leitte
Carnaval (ft. Pitbull)
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I don't think I'll be able to churn another three of these out now but here's another #1 dropping out to give you something interesting to look at, containing two of the performers who led the 2014 World Cup (gosh, that was four years ago ) This reached #1 after I didn't fancy These Days staying there for two weeks, and I heard this again on the bus to Center Parcs and thought 'well this sounds like a pretty decent #1'. It headed up an all-new Top 3 consisting of Owl City and One Bit, and whilst initially fell pretty harshly, it actually had a decent amount of longevity and stuck around for another 9 weeks.

Top 100 Chart History

Claudia Leitte
2018 01 Carnaval (Claudia Leitte ft. Pitbull)

Pitbull
2018 01 Carnaval (Claudia Leitte ft. Pitbull)

Posted by: SantaDalek32 16th December 2018, 02:22 PM

QUOTE(PeteLeftLeeds @ Dec 15 2018, 06:58 PM)

Posted by: DexTheHalls 17th December 2018, 07:48 AM

I don't know most of these songs

My Indigo, Nevermind, and Shotgun are the only ones I think All great songs though especially Shotgun!

Hype to Amy Shark, Vance Joy, & Lukas Graham

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 17th December 2018, 10:47 AM

#75 (890pts)

Kideko
Dum Dum (ft. Tinie Tempah & Becky G)
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Whilst one contributing artist to mega-smash Crank It had a song called Zum Zum, another had a song called Dum Dum Although this sort-of highlights the issue with my counting scheme as this actually only spent two weeks in the Top 100 in 2018 - the rest of its run was in 2017. But it deserves its glory so here we go. What I love most about this song is its absolutely horrendous approach to rhyming where ijt feels like Tinie is just sticking any word that sort-of rhymes into the verse despite it not making any sense. Heartbreaker, heartbreak / The way you while so nahh-tey / faster than my Ferrari / Come and take a safari / Espanyol et la Francais / Vodka switch to Bacardi / all she do is get mahh-ney / ALL SHE DO IS GET MAHH-NEY!. I mean, that verse means absolutely nothing does it?

Top 100 Chart History

Kideko
2016 01 Crank It (Kideko & Goeerge Kwali ft. Nadia Rose & Sweetie Irie)
2017 09 Dum Dum (Kideko ft. Tinie Tempah & Becky G)

Tinie Tempah
2016 04 Girls Like (Tinie Tempah ft. Zara Larsson)
2017 09 Dum Dum (Kideko ft. Tinie Tempah & Becky G)

Becky G
2017 09 Dum Dum (Kideko ft. Tinie Tempah & Becky G)
2018 62 Mad Love (David Guetta ft. Sean Paul & Becky G)

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 17th December 2018, 10:53 AM

#74 (899pts)

Lost Tiger
Believe In Me
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So we go from a song which only touched my chart in 2018 to one that's still in my chart now. I first came across identical twin indie duo Lost Tiger when they performed at York Fresher's Festival. We got there just as they were finishing but oh well, I had their name down and went to see what they'd put out. Everything except this was a cover (well this might be as well, but it would be a cover of a VERY obscure song which would be a bit weird ) This might by my most non-mainstream pick, with less than 1000 YouTube views and the only comment saying 'Boys message me please it's important'. I wonder if they did.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 11 Believe In Me

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 17th December 2018, 11:05 AM

#73 (901pts)

Boy Azooga
Jerry
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So here's the lowest peaking song to get into my Top 100. The definition of a slow burner if you were ever to see one in my chart, and if you were to listen to the song now it might not grab you initially. But I was lucky enough to give it time (thanks to wanting to follow up the amazing Face Behind Her Cigarette from UP) and the smooth guitar beat is one of those which can really just mould into your memories and get stuck in your head during some amazing experiences, and that's what that song reminds me of now as well as being an exceptionally amazing song.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 94 Face Behind Her Cigarette
2018 28 Jerry
2018 47 Do The Standing Still

Posted by: PeteLeftLeeds 17th December 2018, 11:06 AM

QUOTE(SantaDalek32 @ Dec 16 2018, 02:22 PM)

QUOTE(DexTheHalls @ Dec 17 2018, 07:48 AM)

I don't know most of these songs

My Indigo, Nevermind, and Shotgun are the only ones I think All great songs though especially Shotgun!

Hype to Amy Shark, Vance Joy, & Lukas Graham

Posted by: SantaDalek32 17th December 2018, 12:22 PM

I like Jerry. Though my absolute favourite from Azooga has to be Loner Boogie.

Posted by: Petivity 17th December 2018, 07:57 PM

#72 (904pts)

Loud Luxury
Love No More (ft. anders)
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Now Body was pretty catchy, but... a bit too much for me really This follow-up however, as follow-ups often do for me, was a perfect track to dance along to. A very similar beat to Body, however with less graphic lyrics (although not an amazing music video). It only managed one week in the Top 10 thanks to the album release of a certain fave of mine, but stuck around for quite a bit longer. And unlike brando, I can actually find out some info about anders online.

Top 100 Chart History

Loud Luxury
2018 68 Body (Loud Luxury ft. brando)
2018 10 Love No More (Loud Luxury ft. anders)

anders
2018 10 Love No More (Loud Luxury ft. anders)

Posted by: dancember 18th December 2018, 07:53 AM

good to see Loud Luxury appear here. must say I prefer 'Body' (it'll be high in my EOY) but this is great too, shame it underperformed.

Posted by: Petivity 18th December 2018, 05:04 PM

#71 (906pts)

Gorgon City
Motorola
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Gorgon City put out way too much music all the time for me to keep track of it and remember to listen (I mean, I'd forgotten half of the songs that charted for me existed) but this was one I'm glad I didn't miss. Pretty simple by itself, this song is such an earworm and is perfect for the summer sunny months. Shame it was released in March. They've had a decent number of bangers since this but this was both the best and the longest running! (10 weeks for a #10 peaker was a LONG time back in March )

Top 100 Chart History

2016 30 Zoom Zoom (Gorgon City ft. Wyclef Jean)
2016 06 Smile (Gorgon City ft. Elderbrook)
2017 46 Know My Ting (Ghetts & Shakka - Gorgon City Remix)
2017 44 Real Life (Duke Dumont & Gorgon City ft. NAATIONS)
2018 10 Motorola
2018 22 Go Deep (Gorgon City ft. Kamille & Ghosted)
2018 33 One Last Song (Gorgon City ft. JP Cooper & Yungen)

Posted by: Petivity 18th December 2018, 05:41 PM

#70 (933pts)

Kodaline
Head Held High
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Three songs that peaked at #10 in a row, what a coincidence Or maybe not that much since I've just tweaked my ordering once again as this was a little too high for my likings. This came after a few fairly mediocre singles from Kodaline, but I was still hanging onto how amazing Brother was, and this was a cheerful and uplifting enough song to grab my radar. I think the video is definitely one of my favourite things about the song and certainly boosted it up my chart, but I don't think the number of weeks it spent in the 11-20 section before hitting the Top 10 should gift it a higher chart position when it's nowhere near as good as some of the songs which would have been below it. Still fairly enjoyable though!

Top 100 Chart History

2017 01 Brother
2017 09 Ready to Change
2018 03 Follow Your Fire
2018 55 Shed A Tear
2018 22 Worth It
2018 10 Head Held High
2018 15 All For Love (Sigala ft. Kodaline)

Posted by: Petivity 18th December 2018, 06:07 PM

#69 (937pts)

The Knocks
Brazilian Soul (ft. Sofi Tukker)
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I've pushed this down a few more places since I mentioned it last as well. This didn't do much for me at first but it really grew on me during my first few weeks at Uni - I would say it was one of the first songs I was listening to a lot that I hadn't found before I went. This grew fairly quickly into a Top 10 hit, but also faded away pretty quickly as well - quick enough to fall down my EOY even after I had finalised my Top 100. Still love the smooth vibes though.

Top 100 Chart History

The Knocks
2017 10 What Happened to Love (Wyclef Jean ft. Lunchmoney Lewis & The Knocks)
2017 01 House Party (The Knocks & Captain Cuts)
2018 05 Ride Or Die (The Knocks ft. Foster the People)
2018 06 Brazilian Soul (The Knocks ft. Sofi Tukker)

Sofi Tukker
2017 52 Energia
2018 18 Everybody Needs a Kiss (Benny Benassi & Sofi Tukker)
2018 06 Brazilian Soul (The Knocks ft. Sofi Tukker)

Posted by: dobbo 18th December 2018, 07:34 PM

LOVE Motorola one of their best ever tracks!

Posted by: Petivity 19th December 2018, 08:29 PM

QUOTE(dancember @ Dec 18 2018, 07:53 AM)

good to see Loud Luxury appear here. must say I prefer 'Body' (it'll be high in my EOY) but this is great too, shame it underperformed.

QUOTE(dobbo @ Dec 18 2018, 07:34 PM)

LOVE Motorola one of their best ever tracks!

Posted by: Petivity 19th December 2018, 08:39 PM

#68 (938pts)

Billy Lockett
My Only Soul
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Another song about souls, but this one doesn't have anything to do with Brazil. A Billy Lockett song ('Old Man') was entered to BJSC last year, and it was a song I actually really enjoyed. Unfortunately he decided to delete that and all his other previous work from every possible channel, which was a shame as I would certainly have followed him further. As it happened, I re-discovered Billy by complete co-incidence as I was looking for a way of salvaging anything from Alle Farben's year and saw that he had done a remix of Feels So Good - turns out I preferred (and charted) the original. This was the follow-up to that, and whilst it's a song that I really like I don't have much else to say about it so I'm glad I wrote that big long paragraph. Not sure why it's this high though oops.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 17 Feels So Good
2018 15 My Only Soul

Posted by: Petivity 19th December 2018, 08:47 PM

#67 (938pts)

Creye
Christina
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I've left the three dots there but let's face it, a song which has fallen to #100 the week before the Christmas takeover isn't going to be spending another week in the chart. My second charting BJSC entry this year (either La Louze charted last year or I forgot to include it oops but it's still amazing), I entered this the week it entered as the highest non-American song which was obscure enough to be a contender. They've yet to have another hit but I've seen that they've actually released a follow-up so I should probably check that out.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 07 Christina

Posted by: SantaDalek32 20th December 2018, 12:58 AM

I forgot about Motorola. I remember bopping to it around the time it came out.

Posted by: JosephCarey 20th December 2018, 04:25 PM

omg I'd never heard of the Claudia Leitte and Pitbull song before but what an ANTHEM *.*

Posted by: Petivity 21st December 2018, 11:06 AM

QUOTE(SantaDalek32 @ Dec 20 2018, 12:58 AM)

QUOTE(JosephCarey @ Dec 20 2018, 04:25 PM)

Posted by: Petivity 21st December 2018, 11:13 AM

#66 (942pts)

Lucy Spraggan
Stick the Kettle On (ft. Scouting For Girls)
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I first heard about this when it was climbing somewhat high in the iTunes chart and everyone got really excited and thought that it might do something officially. Of course it didn't because the charts are hideously stagnant but it was enough to get me to listen to it. This was a real grower and an incredibly uplifting piece as well, talking about not judging yourself for what happens in your life. It's something we all need to hear I think, and yay for seeing both of these artists back.

Top 100 Chart History

Lucy Spraggan
2018 10 Stick the Kettle On (Lucy Spraggan ft. Scouting For Girls)

Scouting For Girls
2017 48 Dancing In the Daylight
2018 10 Stick the Kettle On (Lucy Spraggan ft. Scouting For Girls)

Posted by: Petivity 21st December 2018, 11:21 AM

#65 (943pts)

Editors
Magazine
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This was the first time I had heard any Editors in quite a long time, and whilst it didn't grab me initially, I was intrigued. Of course then it grew to finally end up in the Top 5. The chorus is definitely the best part of the song and to some extent the only part that I really remember - when the blurry wavey verse starts it still takes me a while to actually remember what song I'm listening to. Editors still have another tune to come though!

Top 100 Chart History

2018 05 Magazine
2018 38 Darkness at the Door
2018 06 Cold

Posted by: Petivity 21st December 2018, 02:48 PM

#64 (945pts)

Nicky Romero & Deniz Koyu
Paradise (ft. Walk Off the Earth)
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Nicky Romero is one of those artists who releases a load of stuff and I just ignore most of it, but when I do listen I love it. The incentive behind me listening to this one was obviously the ingenious Canadian group Walk Off The Earth, who will have a few Christmassy tracks to add to their already impressive chart history tomorrow. After waiting for ages to finally get my hands on Fifth Avenue, the second bus came at the same time so to speak with this dance track. I don't really know where the other four members of Walk Off the Earth feature on this song but it's a tune in its own right and deserves its place here!

Top 100 Chart History

Nicky Romero
2016 05 Take Me (Nicky Romero ft. Colton Avery)
2017 87 Champion Sound (Nicky Romero & Teamworx)
2018 06 Paradise (Nicky Romero & Deniz Koyu ft. Walk Off the Earth)

Deniz Koyu
2018 06 Paradise (Nicky Romero & Deniz Koyu ft. Walk Off the Earth)

Walk Off the Earth
2016 02 Hold On (The Break)
2016 04 I'll Be Waiting
2017 20 Fire In My Soul
2017 03 Taekwondo
2017 89 NOMAD
2018 03 Fifth Avenue
2018 06 Paradise (Nicky Romero & Deniz Koyu ft. Walk Off the Earth)

Posted by: Petivity 21st December 2018, 02:54 PM

#63 (949pts)

Lukas Graham
Stick Around
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The second of five Lukas Graham tracks to grace the Top 100, this is the real emotional one on the album. It's another song to his daughter, but this time he's talking about the fact that he will die before she does, and that the memories he makes with her will one day make her sad as he will no longer be there. This one made me really upset when I first heard it because I was still feeling somewhat homesick at Uni and all the memories I had of going out with family made me a little sad. But I wanted to keep listening, and it's that poignancy that shot it so high up my chart.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 01 7 Years
2016 09 Golden (Brandon Beal ft. Lukas Graham)
2016 01 You're Not There
2016 02 What Happened to Perfect
2016 03 Funeral
2016 10 Don't You Worry 'Bout Me
2016 04 Take the World By Storm
2017 10 Drunk in the Morning
2017 01 Off to See the World
2018 01 Love Someone
2018 01 Not a Damn Thing Changed
2018 02 Say Yes (Church Ballad)
2018 03 Everything That Isn't Me
2018 04 Stick Around
2018 07 Lullaby
2018 28 Unhappy
2018 23 You're Not the Only One (Redemption Song)
2018 40 Promise

Posted by: Petivity 21st December 2018, 03:07 PM

#62 (954pts)

Tessa Violet
Crush
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So here's the only dose of cheese you're getting this EOY. And I've spent the last 10 songs pushing it up so be happy. This is one of those sorts of songs that I can 'decide' whether to get on board with so to speak, and I'd decided to pretty much ignore Peg Whatserface from the last BJSC with a similar song, but this one grabbed my attention a bit more. Not on first listen particularly, but on my second listen it flew into my votes. The video, what with all the reverse effects and stuff grabbed my attention as well, and whilst I thought I was going off it when it peaked at #9 I'm still thoroughly on board, hence the lengthy stay in the lower realms of my chart.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 09 Crush

Posted by: Petivity 21st December 2018, 03:21 PM

#61 (956pts)

Ryan O'Shaughnessy
Together
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We were driftin' like two oicebergs... Anyway, here's our next Eurovision entry and another which peaked at #2. Britain's Got Talent reject who was brought back and subsequently made the final Ryan O'Shaughnessy actually came into Eurovision with a really smooth track which didn't grab me on first listen but really got me in the recap. It's an amazing song and the instrumentation is really good. Oh and I'm probably supposed to mention something about the video/dancing being about two men in a relationship as well.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 02 Together

Posted by: dancember 21st December 2018, 03:33 PM

Quite like 'Paradise', though it wasn't quite memorable enough to make my weekly chart it's better than most of what Nicky Romero does these days.

Posted by: 🎄Cqmerqn🎄 21st December 2018, 06:24 PM

Eurovision slaying!

Posted by: sergejdordij98 21st December 2018, 10:42 PM

Hello Pete!
Nice to see "Romantic" and "Love No More"!

Posted by: SantaDalek32 22nd December 2018, 01:41 PM

QUOTE(Petivity @ Dec 21 2018, 11:06 AM)

It is a real earworm isn't it

Posted by: Petivity 26th December 2018, 11:48 AM

QUOTE(dancember @ Dec 21 2018, 03:33 PM)

QUOTE(🎄Cqmerqn🎄 @ Dec 21 2018, 06:24 PM)

QUOTE(sergejdordij98 @ Dec 21 2018, 10:42 PM)

QUOTE(SantaDalek32 @ Dec 22 2018, 01:41 PM)

Posted by: Petivity 26th December 2018, 05:27 PM

#60 (957pts)

The Wombats
Lemon to a Knife Fight
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The comeback of another nostalgic Brit-indie outfit, this didn't really do much for me initially but it really blew up for me in the new year. Yes, the video is a bit (well, a lot) creepy but the chorus is incredibly catchy and I love the notion of bringing a lemon to a knife fight. I wholeheartedly prefer this to the much more acclaimed Cheetah Tongue, and whilst not as good as Turn it's still one of the songs of the year and certainly one I'll go back to.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 02 Lemon to a Knife Fight
2018 28 Cheetah Tongue
2018 06 Turn
2018 12 Bee Sting
2018 60 Oceans

Posted by: Petivity 26th December 2018, 05:40 PM

#59 | (960pts)

Lost Frequencies
Like I Love You (ft. The NGHBRS)
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Another funky bop from Lost Frequencies, he's still not lived up to the amazingness of Reality (how many times can I fit that song into my EOY? ) but it's a good shot. Here he is with The NGHBRS, who I've never heard of and will probably never hear of again, but they add decent vocals to this. It's not an in-your-face type of track and it took a while for me to actually remember how the chorus went but I knew I liked it and that's all that mattered. Nice touring music video as well.

Top 100 Chart History

Lost Frequencies
2016 04 Beautiful Life (Lost Frequencies ft. Sandro Cavazza)
2016 20 All Or Nothing (Lost Frequencies ft. Axel Ehnstrom)
2017 24 Here With You (Lost Frequencies & Netsky)
2017 01 Crazy (Lost Frequencies ft. Zonderling)
2018 01 Melody (Lost Frequencies ft. James Blunt)
2018 06 Like I Love You (Lost Frequencies ft. The NGHBRS)

The NGHBRS
2018 06 Like I Love You (Lost Frequencies ft. The NGHBRS)

Posted by: Petivity 26th December 2018, 05:53 PM

#58 | (960pts)

SeeB
Cruel World (ft. Skip Marley)
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Tropical house really did go downhill quickly didn't it. The first #1 of the new year, at the time it sort of felt like a non-#1 hence the ridiculously quick drop out of the charts but now I can see that this isn't the case. This is classic SeeB, the beats sounding amazing as usual and Skip's vocals work perfectly on it. This may possibly be the last time we saw decent SeeB though and I can now quite easily talk about the HORROR that is Grip ft. Bastille. I mean the song isn't horrendous but it's definitely not the artist I know on the track, and it's just an example of another once-decent artist tuning in to the horrendous future bass trend that is just nothing-y. Bye Bye SeeB until you release something different.

Top 100 Chart History

SeeB
2016 01 I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Mike Posner - SeeB Remix)
2016 01 What Do You Love (SeeB ft. Jacob Banks)
2017 70 Under Your Skin (SeeB ft. R. City)
2017 51 Boys in the Street (SeeB ft. Greg Holden)
2017 06 Rich Love (OneRepublic & SeeB)
2017 01 Cruel World (SeeB ft. Skip Marley)
2018 41 Lost Boys (Ocean Park Standoff ft. SeeB)

Skip Marley
2017 20 Chained to the Rhythm (Katy Perry ft. Skip Marley)
2017 01 Cruel World (SeeB ft. Skip Marley)

Posted by: Petivity 26th December 2018, 06:05 PM

#57 | (972pts)

Gromee
Without You (ft. Lukas Meijer)
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This replaced SeeB at the top and even spent two weeks there but when I think about my #1s this year I very often forget it even existed. It's a decent dance piece but due to it being instant I can't really see many memorable features present now. Since this Gromee released a Eurovision flop and seemingly went back into his hidey-hole for the rest of the year (although apparently he released a new song 4 months ago so I should probably check that out). Also as a side note, what was that chart run? Did my first taste of alcohol really ruin my senses that much?

Top 100 Chart History

Gromee
2016 01 Fearless (Gromee ft. May-Britt Scheffer)
2016 07 Spirit (Gromee ft. Mahan Moin)
2017 01 Without You (Gromee ft. Lukas Meijer)
2018 67 Light Me Up (Gromee ft. Lukas Meijer)

Lukas Meijer
2017 01 Without You (Gromee ft. Lukas Meijer)
2018 67 Light Me Up (Gromee ft. Lukas Meijer)

Posted by: SantaDalek32 27th December 2018, 02:17 PM

Lemon To A Knife Fight is a great song. Love the irony established in the title, since bringing a lemon would most likely result in failing miserably.
This year, I managed to get a copy of Beautiful People Will Ruin Your Life from my local Oxfam for just £3.99

Posted by: Petivity 27th December 2018, 06:05 PM

QUOTE(SantaDalek32 @ Dec 27 2018, 02:17 PM)

Posted by: Petivity 27th December 2018, 06:17 PM

#56 | (976pts)

Riton & Kah-Lo
Ginger
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Who has the ginger? I have no idea who does, or what the ginger is, and let's face it I probably don't want to know. What I do know is that this song was at #1 the week I released my video Top 100 (and probably the last one as YouTube continues to convince me that it's not a good thing by blocking every YouTube downloader in the UK.) This is another banger from the dynamic duo, and makes me wonder even more how a 40 year-old English DJ and a clearly much younger Nigerian solo singer came to be such good friends. (apparently they met in an American bar, which makes the story even more weird.) Anyway, it's another one to add to their almost-identical chart histories. And let's be honest - Fasta has as much of Riton on as all the others, regardless of whether he is credited.

Top 100 Chart History

Riton
2016 02 Rinse & Repeat (Riton ft. Kah-Lo)
2017 05 Money (Riton ft. Kah-Lo, Mr. Eazi & Davido)
2017 15 Deeper (Riton ft. MNEK & House Gospel Choir)
2018 44 Fake ID (Riton ft. Kah-Lo)
2018 01 Ginger (Riton ft. Kah-Lo)
2018 37 Dangerous (Kid Enigma & Riton)
2018 54 Immigration (Riton & Kah-Lo ft. Mr. Eazi)

Kah-Lo
2016 02 Rinse & Repeat (Riton ft. Kah-Lo)
2017 05 Money (Riton ft. Kah-Lo, Mr. Eazi & Davido)
2017 01 Fasta
2018 44 Fake ID (Riton ft. Kah-Lo)
2018 01 Ginger (Riton ft. Kah-Lo)
2018 54 Immigration (Riton & Kah-Lo ft. Mr. Eazi)

Posted by: Petivity 27th December 2018, 06:27 PM

#55 | (979pts)

Kiesza & Chris Malinchak
Mother
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Next up we have everyone's favourite slightly-quirky-world-music-influenced-nursery rhyme, featuring Kiesza (famous for Hideaway) and Chris Malinchak (famous for a song I've completely forgotten). Of course it's weird but that's what I love about it - it's a song that very easily gets stuck in your head and that you can really enjoy. I expected both of them to add a Christmas song to their chart history this winter, but they deleted the song I was hoping to hear and replaced it with a song which sounded pretty dull and had a euphemism as a title which is a real no-no for Pete.

Top 100 Chart History

Kiesza
2017 10 Don't Want You Back (Bakermat ft. Kiesza)
2017 08 Hello Shadow (Kiesza ft. SKYGGE)
2018 04 Mother (Kiesza ft. Chris Malinchak)

Chris Malinchak
2018 04 Mother (Kiesza ft. Chris Malinchak)

Posted by: Petivity 28th December 2018, 06:46 PM

#54 | (1022pts)

Belle & Sebastian
Poor Boy
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The first of two Belle and Sebastian tracks to grace the Top 100, and yet another example of a song peaking low but spending absolutely ages in the Top 100. This funky piece didn't do much for me initially, but its main line 'poor boy, I could never live up to your imagination' was just so grabbing, it was always in my head and was a favourite from just after Easter, all the way through the Summer holidays and beyond. I really recommend you give this one a listen!

Top 100 Chart History


2017 04 We Were Beautiful
2018 16 I'll Be Your Pilot
2018 20 Poor Boy

Posted by: Petivity 28th December 2018, 07:09 PM

#53 | (1030pts)

Sigala
Lullaby (ft. Paloma Faith)
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Well writing up Sigala's chart history took longer than expected. That's probably because he released a lot of songs in the period in which it was easier to get a Top 10 in my chart than it was for me to send a Facebook message. The new format has clearly taken its toll though, as this is the only song from him to make the EOY Top 100 this year (whilst Feels Like Home has the same peak I grew tired of it almost immediately and I think it spent about 5 weeks Top 40). I remember deliberately keeping this off the top spot in favour of Owl City's Lucid Dreams as I knew airplay would make me sick of it and I didn't want another These Days scenario. As it was I did grow tired of it hence the very quick drop-off but a lengthy Top 10 run gave it this high position!

Top 100 Chart History

Sigala
2016 01 Give Me Your Love (Sigala ft. John Newman & Nile Rodgers)
2016 01 Don't Need No Money (Imani ft. Sigala & Blonde)
2016 09 Ain't Giving Up (Craig David & Sigala)
2016 08 Only One (Sigala x Digital Farm Animals)
2017 08 Came Here For Love (Sigala ft. Ella Eyre)
2018 02 Lullaby (Sigala ft. Paloma Faith)
2018 02 Feels Like Home (Sigala ft. Fuse ODG, Sean Paul & Kendrick Lamar)
2018 63 Just Got Paid (Sigala ft. Ella Eyre, Meghan Trainor & French Montana)
2018 15 All For Love (Sigala ft. Kodaline)
2018 18 Brighter Days (Sigala ft. Paul Janeway)
2018 42 What You Waiting For (Sigala ft. Kylie Minogue)

Paloma Faith
2017 34 Crybaby
2017 69 Guilty
2018 02 Lullaby (Sigala ft. Paloma Faith)
2018 28 Til I'm Done
2018 96 Make Your Own Kind Of Music

Posted by: dancember 29th December 2018, 11:03 AM

a lot of ACR esque drops in those runs!

loving Lullaby (this will be even higher in my EOY) and Mother from that section, Ginger is great too (one of their best).

(I can send you the deleted Malinkiesza Xmas song if you want, though it's probably a bit late for that now!)

Don't recall that Gromee song, I quite liked 'Light Me Up' but moreso for being a rare dance entry to Eurovision, I wasn't too keen on it after Eurovision ended (and I see you weren't that keen on it either).

Seeb and Lost Frequencies have lost their spark for me, shame but tropical house has really got stale and whatever they're doing now isn't that great for me.

Posted by: dobbo 29th December 2018, 05:18 PM

Wow @ The Wombats still making music, there's a throwback indeed.

Cruel World was quite good for its genre, I like Marley's vocals in it.

Ginger is a banger much prefer that to Fake ID which whilst also good is a bit much with the weird production.

Mother was absolutely terrible though, WHAT on earth was that sample?!

Lullaby is a really good track once again from Sigala!

Posted by: JosephCarey 30th December 2018, 04:06 PM

Absolutely adore Lullaby, my favourite Sigala song to date! Paloma's voice really elevates the track for me.

Posted by: Liаm 31st December 2018, 01:45 PM

Haven't known or liked much so far oops, sorry for the lack of comments compared to you on mine Lullaby is a bop though, I wasn't sure Paloma would fit a Sigala song but I'd like to hear more from her like that actually!

Posted by: Petivity 1st January 2019, 06:08 PM

QUOTE(dancember @ Dec 29 2018, 11:03 AM)

QUOTE(dobbo @ Dec 29 2018, 05:18 PM)

Wow @ The Wombats still making music, there's a throwback indeed.

Cruel World was quite good for its genre, I like Marley's vocals in it.

Ginger is a banger much prefer that to Fake ID which whilst also good is a bit much with the weird production.

Mother was absolutely terrible though, WHAT on earth was that sample?!

Lullaby is a really good track once again from Sigala!

QUOTE(JosephCarey @ Dec 30 2018, 04:06 PM)

QUOTE(Liаm @ Dec 31 2018, 01:45 PM)

Haven't known or liked much so far oops, sorry for the lack of comments compared to you on mine Lullaby is a bop though, I wasn't sure Paloma would fit a Sigala song but I'd like to hear more from her like that actually!

Posted by: Petivity 1st January 2019, 06:12 PM

#52 | (1031pts)

Klingande
Wonders (ft. Broken Back)
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NE (17/11/2018) | 15-4-2-2-2-4-11-12-...

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So here's our offering from Klingande which *did* make the Top 100, and it's just outside the Top 50, and it's a collaboration with French singer Broken Back, who is interestingly enough named due to a vertebral displacement he has. Whilst the start of this song sounds a bit like an introduction to Madagascar, it goes on to be a really smooth song with a great melody and vocals. The drop from 4-11 is down to the Christmas influx, and only one Christmas song left the top 10 this week explaining why it hasn't climbed back in, although it's unlikely now with the New Year tracks.

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)

Broken Back
2018 02 Wonders (Klingande & Broken Back)

Posted by: Petivity 1st January 2019, 07:00 PM

#51 | (1034pts)

AS IT IS
The Stigma (Boys Don't Cry)
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NE (21/07/2018) | 15-11-9-13-10-3-2-3-5-12-21-39-68-92-xx

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As well as Boy Azooga (who we've already heard from) and Only Sun (who we're yet to see), this episode of Unknown Pleasures also delivered this beauty. It's a really powerful song and tackles something that is a very big issue nowadays - because of course, boys do cry (especially us ones on the autism spectrum). Whilst I was certain this lot were American, I was surprised to find out that this was in fact a British band But upon further research, I did find out that the lead singer was American. He looks a bit like a fish on that thumbnail as well.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 02 The Stigma (Boys Don't Cry)
2018 57 The Fire, The Dark

Posted by: Petivity 1st January 2019, 07:06 PM

#50 | (1034pts)

Derrival
Found Out
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NE (20/01/2018) | 49-36-22-12-7-4-6-8-16-32-61-91-93-xx

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And we land at yet ANOTHER Niceland BJSC bop. Before I begin, I must make it clear that I do NOT agree with the music video and that demons cannot be forced out of people by getting a Canadian band to sing in front of them them. Nor do they look like an ugly moving black liquid-y thing. Disclaimer over, this is an incredibly catchy indie piece which was not only an instant hit but also had an earworm-y chorus that was in my head for months. Hence I've bumped it into a prestigious Top 50 spot. Oh, and they had a more popular song with Sarah Jeffery later in the year but it was bland so let's ignore it.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 04 Found Out
2018 67 Ghosts of Our Past (Derrival ft. Sarah Jeffery)

Posted by: LewisGT 1st January 2019, 07:14 PM

Hi Pete

I've been following this but I've hardly heard of any of the songs

I have heard the Wombats song though and it's pretty nice. Nowhere near they're 'Moving To New York' peak though.

Posted by: Petivity 1st January 2019, 07:22 PM

#49 | (1035pts)

Galantis
Satisfied (ft. MAX)
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NE (21/07/2018) | 52-35-15-11-8-11-15-17-22-33-45-56-75-82-97-xx

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After having a Galantis song at #98, we not have one at exactly half the number! If you knew me after I'd heard both this and Mama Look at Me Now, you would have known that I had much preferred the latter, even vocally stating how I disliked this. However it soon became clear that MLAMN wore off very quickly whilst this continued to grow and became their highest peaking track this year for me. MAX's vocals in this are quite a step away from what was reminiscent of an agitated 13 year-old in Matoma's Lonely, but great nonetheless. Although if that's him in the music video he looks mad.

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
2018 35 San Francisco (Galantis ft. Sofia Carson)

MAX
2018 07 Lonely (Matoma ft. MAX)
2018 08 Satisfied (Galantis ft. MAX)

Posted by: Petivity 2nd January 2019, 08:20 PM

#48 | (1037pts)

The Fleeting Ends
20 Something
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NE (31/03/2018) | 89-44-21-12-12-10-12-33-36-44-40-42-57-57-67-68-75-88-91-94-xx

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Next up we have obscure American band The Fleeting Ends with another UP entry (mine, in fact ). I stumbled across this completely accidentally - I was trying to find a song to send to UP called 'Something Fleeting' that I had got off a free music site in about 2013. Typing 'Something Fleeting' didn't find me that, but it did find me this earworm. It finished around mid-table, but it was certainly a discovery for me and was on my playlist for months on end, the guitar sections being some of the best I've heard. Bring on more Fleeting Ends!

Top 100 Chart History

2018 10 20 Something
2018 32 Juniper

Posted by: Riser 3rd January 2019, 05:19 AM

'Found Out' was a pleasant, slightly underrated Niceland treat

Posted by: DexTheHalls 3rd January 2019, 05:24 AM

I’m glad Satisfied managed to become a hit for you Nothing since Love On Me has really hit me though aside from the odd alright song (ie Satisfied) which is a shame as I’d consider LON my favourite from them I think That or Runaway anyway

Posted by: sergejdordij98 3rd January 2019, 12:56 PM

Nice to see "Lemon To A Knife Fight", "Like I Love You" and "Lullaby" being here!
Also I'm happy that one of these songs (Like I Love You) is currently doing big in my chart!

Posted by: Petivity 3rd January 2019, 03:39 PM

QUOTE(LewisGT @ Jan 1 2019, 07:14 PM)

Hi Pete

I've been following this but I've hardly heard of any of the songs

I have heard the Wombats song though and it's pretty nice. Nowhere near they're 'Moving To New York' peak though.

QUOTE(Riser @ Jan 3 2019, 05:19 AM)

'Found Out' was a pleasant, slightly underrated Niceland treat

QUOTE(DexTheHalls @ Jan 3 2019, 05:24 AM)

I’m glad Satisfied managed to become a hit for you Nothing since Love On Me has really hit me though aside from the odd alright song (ie Satisfied) which is a shame as I’d consider LON my favourite from them I think That or Runaway anyway

QUOTE(sergejdordij98 @ Jan 3 2019, 12:56 PM)

Posted by: Petivity 3rd January 2019, 03:46 PM

#47 | (1038pts)

Vargas & Lagola
Roads
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NE (24/02/2018) | 13-10-7-4-6-10-22-35-54-83-81-82-xx

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After reaching #1 with their amazing Avicii collab, I was certainly up for new Vargas & Lagola music, and this didn't disappoint. A simple but really effective guitar piece with a few dance-y vibes, this was a suitable song for them to come out with with their new-found fame. Much better than their previous single 'Rolling Stone', so they should be glad Avicii (RIP ) brought them back to my attention. Unfgortunately, as with most of the artists I've posted about recently., their follow up was too bland.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 01 Friend of Mine (Avicii ft. Vargas & Lagola)
2018 04 Roads
2018 79 Selfish

Posted by: Petivity 3rd January 2019, 03:52 PM

#46 | (1040pts)

Chicane
Gorecki
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NE (09/12/2017) | 35-24-19-9-6-7-4-7-24-43-50-61-93-78-74-99-xx

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Ew, look at that early-year chart run Anyway, as you've guessed, this entered my chart towards the end of 2017 on recommendation from Dan. I hadn't hear anything from Chicane since that song he did in the 00s that was famous and I've forgotten about, but it's the vocals on this piece that really drew me in, reminding me of Saint Etienne at their peak. Of course the beat adds further to it, but it's definitely secondary to 'Lamb' who apparently this was taken from. Since this I think he released an album but I haven't heard anythiing from it except for that slightly unnecessary re-working of Nirvana.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 04 Gorecki

Posted by: Petivity 3rd January 2019, 03:59 PM

#45 | (1040pts)

C-BooL
Wonderland
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NE (24/03/2018) | 55-42-38-25-15-5-1-3-10-21-26-34-40-64-94-xx

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#1 alert! Since I've been following C-BooL, this is the first song he's put out with a male vocal, and so initially I was quite wary - the song didn't even debut Top 40. But I think this is a bit of a theme with C-BooL's stuff - I felt the same about DJ Is Your Second Name, and I'm beginning to feel it about his new one Fire In My Head as well. Needless to say, it ended up at #1 (after spending three weeks at a number ending with 5), and whilst only being a 1-weeker, is still pretty memorable. It's fall from #3 to #10 was down to Eurovision by the way, not just me getting very bored very quickly.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 02 Never Go Away
2016 06 Magic Symphony (C-BooL ft. Giang Pham)
2017 01 DJ Is Your Second Name (C-BooL ft. Giang Pham)
2018 01 Wonderland
2018 47 Fire In My Head (C-BooL ft. Cadence XYZ)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 4th January 2019, 06:36 PM

#44 | (1051pts)

The Kooks
All The Time
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NE (02/06/2018) | 45-20-13-8-8-10-18-24-34-57-64-77-90-95-61-87-100-xx

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So this track marked the (proper) return of 00s legends The Kooks, and like Galantis a few songs ago I actually preferred their other track No Pressure to begin with, but this very quickly took its place and became the biggest hit of this era. It's quite a step away from their older stuff (look to Four Leaf Clover if you want some of that) but it's great in its own way, and like I've said about loads of songs in this list, it's just so catchy. It had a decent run as well, getting a mini-boost from the album release.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 05 Be Who You Are
2017 12 Broken Vow
2017 72 Bad Habit (Blossoms Remix)
2018 08 All The Time
2018 25 No Pressure
2018 25 Fractured and Dazed
2018 14 Four Leaf Clover
2018 13 Chicken Bone
2018 15 Pamela
2018 38 Believe
2018 49 Weight of the World
2018 59 Honey Bee
2018 53 Tesco Disco

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 4th January 2019, 06:43 PM

#43 | (1052pts)

Lost Frequencies
Melody (ft. James Blunt)
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NE (05/05/2018) | 3-1-2-4-5-9-14-20-35-41-55-89-xx
RE (11/08/2018) | 93-xx

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Another #1 now, and the highest entry for everyone's favourite Belgian Lost Frequencies, alongside James Blunt who has somehow managed to salvage his career by featuring on European hit dance tracks. When I first heard this I was memorised, and was ready for this to be a very long-running #1. Then Eurovision happened, cutting it's run sadly short. It's still a great tropical house piece though, and the Clement Bcx sample at the end is cheeky but makes it even better.

Top 100 Chart History

Lost Frequencies
2016 04 Beautiful Life (Lost Frequencies ft. Sandro Cavazza)
2016 20 All Or Nothing (Lost Frequencies ft. Axel Ehnstrom)
2017 24 Here With You (Lost Frequencies & Netsky)
2017 01 Crazy (Lost Frequencies ft. Zonderling)
2018 01 Melody (Lost Frequencies ft. James Blunt)
2018 06 Like I Love You (Lost Frequencies ft. The NGHBRS)

James Blunt
2017 02 OK (Robin Schulz ft. James Blunt)
2018 01 Melody (Lost Frequencies ft. James Blunt)

Posted by: danuary 5th January 2019, 02:04 PM

ooh yay a song that I charted pops up! 'Gorecki' is brilliant and will be appearing very high in my EOY.

which of his 00s songs do you mean then? quite a few were famous. I hope it's the wonderful 'Poppiholla' which is my favourite of his.

'Melody' was one of Lost Frequencies' better songs of recent though I didn't quite like it enough to chart it.

Posted by: sergejdordij98 5th January 2019, 02:40 PM

Yay! "Melody" reached the top 50! Really like this song more than "Crazy" in my opinion.

Posted by: MÿrtleSnow 6th January 2019, 05:20 PM

Okayyy, catching up!

Wombats return, that one passed me by but Oceans charted for me, that was a good one.

I've grabbed to watch later some of those pop punkier ones as I'm kinda getting back into that sound - you might want to check out The Maine, e.g. Sound of Reverie for a similar vibe.

I didn't know Malinchak and Kiesza collabed again. I charted Weird Kid by them earlier but I'm totally missing the euphemism there if that's the one you're referring to! Is there an EP or smth? I'll have a look.

Otherwise lots of dance songs as expected. Interesting to see Sigala going backwards for you over the years when he's only just rising for me - those early hits didn't top 20 for me as I wasn't in that space to enjoy them at the time.

In any case, great writeup, v enjoyable read! You should look into doing reviews professionally, aren't you at uni now? Is there a paper or something? (Just a suggestion ofc, not aiming to control your life!)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 7th January 2019, 11:19 PM

QUOTE(danuary @ Jan 5 2019, 02:04 PM)

ooh yay a song that I charted pops up! 'Gorecki' is brilliant and will be appearing very high in my EOY.

which of his 00s songs do you mean then? quite a few were famous. I hope it's the wonderful 'Poppiholla' which is my favourite of his.

'Melody' was one of Lost Frequencies' better songs of recent though I didn't quite like it enough to chart it.

QUOTE(sergejdordij98 @ Jan 5 2019, 02:40 PM)

QUOTE(MÿrtleSnow @ Jan 6 2019, 05:20 PM)

Okayyy, catching up!

Wombats return, that one passed me by but Oceans charted for me, that was a good one.

I've grabbed to watch later some of those pop punkier ones as I'm kinda getting back into that sound - you might want to check out The Maine, e.g. Sound of Reverie for a similar vibe.

I didn't know Malinchak and Kiesza collabed again. I charted Weird Kid by them earlier but I'm totally missing the euphemism there if that's the one you're referring to! Is there an EP or smth? I'll have a look.

Otherwise lots of dance songs as expected. Interesting to see Sigala going backwards for you over the years when he's only just rising for me - those early hits didn't top 20 for me as I wasn't in that space to enjoy them at the time.

In any case, great writeup, v enjoyable read! You should look into doing reviews professionally, aren't you at uni now? Is there a paper or something? (Just a suggestion ofc, not aiming to control your life!)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 7th January 2019, 11:29 PM

#42 | (1057pts)

Vance Joy
I'm With You
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The fact that this didn't enter my chart on the Vance Joy Album Takeover week means that I can't have been initially impressed with this, but when it came out as a single I immediately embraced it. It's closer to Like Gold than either of the other singles, quite a sad sounding song but in such a way that you really get into it. It's beginning to rack up the weeks in my chart now, even managing to climb on the Christmas week. Another cryptic video from Vance though as I have no idea what's going on in it.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 01 Like Gold
2018 01 We're Going Home
2018 02 Saturday Sun
2018 15 Bonnie & Clyde
2018 19 Little Boy
2018 19 One Of These Days
2018 39 Crashing Into You
2018 87 Call If You Need Me
2018 07 I'm With You

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 7th January 2019, 11:39 PM

#41 | (1079pts)

Mørland
Leo
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NE (19/05/2018) | 32-13-8-7-4-5-6-8-11-14-27-45-69-86-xx

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Norwegian singer Mørland managed to get my EOY #3 a couple of years back, and then seemingly faded into nowhere. Until we got a glimmer of hope with this one-off single about his son Leo. He says in the description of the video that initially he wanted to keep it to himself (WHY? Lukas Graham has basically written his whole album with this stuff) but decided to share it, and thankfully so as it got me another song to love. Unfortunately it wasn't as good as Skin and that is represented in its chart run, but it's a wonderful song with a wonderful message.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 01 Skin
2016 33 Driving Home For Christmas
2018 04 Leo

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 7th January 2019, 11:40 PM

Recap 41-100:

41 Morland Leo
42 Vance Joy I'm With You
43 Lost Frequencies Melody (ft. James Blunt)
44 The Kooks All The Time
45 C-BooL Wonderland
46 Chicane Gorecki
47 Vargas & Lagola Roads
48 The Fleeting Ends 20 Something
49 Galantis Satisfied (ft. MAX)
50 Derrival Found Out
51 AS IT IS The Stigma (Boys Don't Cry)
52 Klingande Wonders (ft. Broken Back)
53 Sigala Lullaby (ft. Paloma Faith)
54 Belle & Sebastian Poor Boy
55 KIESZA & Chris Malinchak Mother
56 Riton & Kah-Lo Ginger
57 Gromee Without You (ft. Lukas Meijer)
58 SeeB Cruel World (ft. Skip Marley)
59 Lost Frequencies Like I Love You (ft. The NGHBRS)
60 The Wombats Lemon to a Knife Fight
61 Ryan O'Shaugnessy Together
62 Tessa Violet Crush
63 Lukas Graham Stick Around
64 Nicky Romero & Deniz Koyu Paradise (ft. Walk Off the Earth)
65 Editors Magazine
66 Lucy Spraggan Stick the Kettle On (ft. Scouting For Girls)
67 Creye Christina
68 Billy Lockett My Only Soul
69 The Knocks Brazilian Soul (ft. Sofi Tukker)
70 Kodaline Head Held High
71 Gorgon City Motorola
72 Loud Luxury Love No More (ft. anders)
73 Boy Azooga Jerry
74 Lost Tiger Believe In Me
75 Kideko Dum Dum (ft. Tinie Tempah & Becky G)
76 Claudia Leitte Carnaval (ft. Pitbull)
77 Alexander Rybak That's How You Write a Song
78 The Knocks Ride or Die (ft. Foster the People)
79 COIN Simple Romance
80 Hooverphonic Romantic
81 KT Tunstall The River
82 Krishane Roses (ft. Barrington Levy)
83 lovelytheband these are my friends
84 Lukas Graham Lullaby
85 Sigrid High Five
86 Boston Bun Spread Love (Paddington) (ft. DNVO)
87 SAINT PHNX ONE
88 Deepend To Rome (ft. Janieck)
89 My Indigo My Indigo
90 Dennis Lloyd Nevermind
91 Rea Garvey Is It Love? (ft. Kool Savas)
92 Saara Aalto Monsters
93 One Bit My Way (ft. Noah Cyrus)
94 Redlight Zum Zum (ft. Sweetie Irie)
95 Crystal Fighters Yellow Sun
96 George Ezra Shotgun
97 Eleni Foureira Fuego
98 Galantis Spaceship (ft. Uffie)
99 Alex Cameron Runnin' Outta Luck
100 Michael Farren Oh Praise (The Only One)

Posted by: DexTheHalls 8th January 2019, 06:08 AM

Shame I'm With You didn't make Top 40 but I imagine it would have done if it's whole run was in one chart year! Another fantastic single choice from his album

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th January 2019, 09:19 PM

QUOTE(DexTheHalls @ Jan 8 2019, 06:08 AM)

Shame I'm With You didn't make Top 40 but I imagine it would have done if it's whole run was in one chart year! Another fantastic single choice from his album

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th January 2019, 09:32 PM

#40 | (1087pts)

Casting Crowns
Make Room (ft. Matt Maher)
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NE (28/10/2017) | 75-63-52-44-26-16-9-1-1-11-34-93-xx
RE (22/12/2018) | 84-xx

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Kicking off our Top 40 we have our final Christian song and last year's Christmas #1 in my personal chart. Initially I didn't really realise it was a Christmas song (hence the October entry) as I was just looking for new Christian music and came across this, a collaboration by the great band Casting Crowns alongside Matt Maher, who managed himself another Christmas track this year. Luckily the early discovery got me to warm to it enough to give it two weeks at the top in December, although as with every Christmas song it tailed off very quickly as well. It did pop up this year again though, the highest retro Christmas song to do so.

Top 100 Chart History

Casting Crowns
2016 24 The Very Next Thing
2017 02 Oh My Soul
2017 01 Make Room (Casting Crowns ft. Matt Maher)
2017 06 Gloria/Angels We Have Heard on High
2018 20 Only Jesus
2018 18 In the Hands of the Potter

Matt Maher
2017 01 Make Room (Casting Crowns ft. Matt Maher)
2018 12 Born On That Day

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th January 2019, 09:45 PM

#39 | (1112pts)

Ina Wroldsen & Alok
Favela
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NE (25/08/2017) | 16-7-1-2-3-6-6-7-13-21-37-50-70-79-91-xx

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Another #1 here, and another 1-weeker which just scrapes the Top 40, by Ina Wroldsen (not Ina Wrolsden, Ida Wrolden or whoever else you want to mis-type her name.) Ina and Alok are both artists I've had music from in the past (and have enjoyed) so was looking forward to this. My first thought was that the lyrics were almost identical to Rockabye, but I've recently found out that Ina wrote Rockabye about herself so that does fit (in fact, Strongest was about a single mother as well wasn't it). This was definitely a fluke #1 but it's a song I still enjoy, even if I was a bit tired of it by the time it appeared in BJSC.

Top 100 Chart History

Ina Wroldsen
2016 06 Places (Martin Solveig ft. Ina Wroldsen)
2017 07 Breathe (Jax Jones ft. Ina Wroldsen)
2018 19 Strongest
2018 01 Favela (Ina Wroldsen & Alok)

Alok
2016 02 Hear Me Now (Alok & Bruno Martini ft. Zeeba)
2017 04 Never Let Me Go (Alok & Bruno Martini ft. Zeeba)
2017 42 Love Is A Temple (Alok ft. IRO)
2017 11 Big Jet Plane (Alok ft. Matthieu Koss)
2018 01 Favela (Ina Wroldsen & Alok)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th January 2019, 10:00 PM

#38 | (1123pts)

Jack Savoretti
Between The Minds
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NE (14/07/2018) | 60-26-14-11-9-9-9-12-14-19-28-37-46-67-71-83-86-94-xx

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I've just changed (and almost written commentary for) the song at this position three times, just to let you know how difficult this is - and of course how fresh these results are. The unlucky one to drop out is Jack Savoretti's 'Between the Minds' (which I wrote as 'between the lines' for the first 5 weeks, oops). It's not the liveliest of the songs he's done, but it's the type of powerful heart-warming slow song that I'm loving at the moment. I also very much identify with not liking to raise my voice and liking to listen so this touched me.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 03 When We Were Lovers
2017 18 Call Me (Imelda May & Jack Savoretti)
2018 09 Between the Minds

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 8th January 2019, 10:08 PM

#37 | (1133pts)

The Rubens
Never Ever (ft. Sarah)
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NE (30/06/2018) | 92-16-10-8-8-6-10-17-21-25-31-46-65-79-98-xx

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So the next act to release a massive smash in my chart and then fall into the abyss are Australian five-piece The Rubens (although looking at the video you'd be forgiven for thinking there was only one of them). Another beautiful slow song, the only difference being that it has some fruity language in meaning that my fingers got a good workout turning the volume button down and back up again. (seriously, swearing really ruins the ambience of a song). Who is the mysterious 'Sarah' that this song features anyway? My sister's called Sarah - is it her? Moving on from that, The Rubens released a song called 'God Forgot' which clearly isn't meant for a Christian audience and so I forgot about its existence.

Top 100 Chart History

The Rubens
2018 06 Never Ever (The Rubens ft. Sarah)

Sarah
2018 06 Never Ever (The Rubens ft. Sarah)

Posted by: DexTheHalls 9th January 2019, 05:59 AM

To be fair The Rubens do have some fantastic songs to boast it's just God Forgot isn't one of them

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 9th January 2019, 09:18 PM

QUOTE(DexTheHalls @ Jan 9 2019, 05:59 AM)

To be fair The Rubens do have some fantastic songs to boast it's just God Forgot isn't one of them

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 9th January 2019, 09:33 PM

#36 | (1134pts)

Walk Off the Earth
Fifth Avenue
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QUOTE(PeteFromLeeds @ Jul 21 2018, 02:06 PM)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 9th January 2019, 09:41 PM

#35 | (1135pts)

Kodaline
Follow Your Fire
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NE (31/03/2018) | 30-17-10-4-3-4-5-16-24-36-46-58-82-96-xx

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This is the point in the EOY where you being to re-discover how great songs you haven't heard in a while are and this is one of them. The chorus has obviously remained very stuck in my head but I'd kind of relegated the song to that, when in fact when you add in the verses and pre-chorus it really becomes a masterpiece. It was the first of quite a few Kodaline songs to chart this year, none of which did better than it. I really don't see the need for a long thin video though, it makes Youtube look like it's gone mad. (and yes the ugly drop was thanks to Eurovision)

Top 100 Chart History

2017 01 Brother
2017 09 Ready to Change
2018 03 Follow Your Fire
2018 55 Shed A Tear
2018 22 Worth It
2018 10 Head Held High
2018 15 All For Love (Sigala ft. Kodaline)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 9th January 2019, 09:50 PM

#34 | (1137pts)

Axwell /\ Ingrosso
Dancing Alone (ft. ROMANS)
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NE (07/07/2018) | 34-4-3-2-2-2-4-7-11-19-31-49-66-85-99-xx

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Amid (confirmed?) rumours that Swedish House Mafia are getting back together, Axwell /\ Ingrosso released this summer smash. (I mean, when do they not release a smash? Except Dreamer which was more of a semi-smash but the others are amazing). This was perfect for driving around on the holidays, going on the beach in the sun etc. It had slightly more longevity than its sweaty counterpart but, as all summer songs do, fell pretty quickly when it started getting a bit chilly. ROMANS appear to have released a lot of songs I've not noticed but the one I'm listening to now sounds much more soul than dance.

Top 100 Chart History

Axwell /\ Ingrosso
2016 03 Thinking About You
2017 10 More Than You Know
2018 15 Dreamer (Axwell /\ Ingrosso ft. Trevor Guthrie)
2018 02 Dancing Alone (Axwell /\ Ingrosso ft. ROMANS)

ROMANS
2018 02 Dancing Alone (Axwell /\ Ingrosso ft. ROMANS)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 9th January 2019, 10:04 PM

#33 | (1138pts)

Good Charlotte
Actual Pain
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NE (28/07/2018) | 91-51-32-20-12-9-9-9-8-10-16-20-33-48-61-74-84-93-xx

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Yeah, sort of forgot Good Charlotte existed until this cropped up, and I didn't really think that much of it really - the ridiculously fake smile of that woman hugging the kid at the start of the music video was a bit off-putting and makes you know she's going to turn into some sort of beast by the end of the song. Anyway, Actual Pain (you know, as opposed to all that fake pain) continued to get me until I just had to chart it, and continued to feel really fresh for weeks on end. In fact, it still does now. And another song that's about something a bit more serious as well.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 05 Life Can't Get Much Better
2018 09 Actual Pain

Posted by: Riser 11th January 2019, 05:22 AM

Despite not really sounding like Kodaline, I quite liked Follow Your Fire! I don't believe I ever checked out anything else from the album though (the album did eventually get released, right? )

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 11th January 2019, 08:38 PM

QUOTE(Riser @ Jan 11 2019, 05:22 AM)

Despite not really sounding like Kodaline, I quite liked Follow Your Fire! I don't believe I ever checked out anything else from the album though (the album did eventually get released, right? )

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 11th January 2019, 08:44 PM

#32 | (1139pts)

Lukas Graham
Say Yes (Church Ballad)
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The lastg album track form their new album to crack the Top 40, this one feels a bit to this album what 'Funeral' was to the last one, maybe not as amazing but still good. This song is about his marriage to his wife, which in doing he finally lets go of the death of his father. (still spent most of the album talking about it though.) It's a really uplifting song and the organ really adds to it as well.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 01 7 Years
2016 09 Golden (Brandon Beal ft. Lukas Graham)
2016 01 You're Not There
2016 02 What Happened to Perfect
2016 03 Funeral
2016 10 Don't You Worry 'Bout Me
2016 04 Take the World By Storm
2017 10 Drunk in the Morning
2017 01 Off to See the World
2018 01 Love Someone
2018 01 Not a Damn Thing Changed
2018 02 Say Yes (Church Ballad)
2018 03 Everything That Isn't Me
2018 04 Stick Around
2018 07 Lullaby
2018 28 Unhappy
2018 23 You're Not the Only One (Redemption Song)
2018 40 Promise

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 11th January 2019, 08:50 PM

#31 | (1140pts)

Editors
Cold
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Songs that peak at the end of the year always begin the countdown much higher than they should and end up a bir lower, and I think this has fallen victim to that, purely because it's been a playlist staple for a few months now. When I first heard this I had no idea I would go on to love it so much - the #39 entrry was during one of my 'songs-enter-high-and-fall-fast' era but then it continued to grow on me and became one of the longest-running Top 10s of the year. It's also helped by the fact that I spontaneously begin singing it whenever anyone says the word 'cold'.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 05 Magazine
2018 38 Darkness at the Door
2018 06 Cold

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 11th January 2019, 08:58 PM

#30 | (1148pts)

Embrace
Never (ft. Kerri Watt)
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NE (27/01/2018) | 67-15-9-6-3-5-8-17-37-58-65-87-96-xx

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Apparently this song features Kerri Watt now. It didn't in January but she does play a pretty big part in the song so it does make sense. I'd never really been into Embrace much, although my dad is and they've got some good songs in their back catalogue (Gravity and On Top Of The World ). I came across this when looking at the New Releases thread and recognising their name, leading to me listening to it. After a few listens I loved it, so much that its chart run isn't that ugly even for a January 2018 release. Their other songs from this year have had lower peaks but still a lot of longevity.

Top 100 Chart History

Embrace
2018 03 Never (Embrace ft. Kerri Watt)
2018 22 Love is a Basic Need
2018 17 Where You Sleeping

Kerri Watt
2018 03 Never (Embrace ft. Kerri Watt)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 11th January 2019, 09:13 PM

#29 | (1169pts)

Only Sun
Song For Leila
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NE (21/07/2018) | 58-59-19-20-22-25-24-24-24-29-27-36-46-54-67-73-78-68-64-74-79-83-xx
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The first of three songs inside the Top 40 without a Top 10 peak but with a lot of longevity! Young indie band Only Sun came up with the innovative idea of releasing one single a month for the whole of 2018, complete with a wacky lyric video, and I personally think that's a great way of getting people to know your music more (as I hadn't even heard of them up until they were entered to Unknown Pleasures). This tune refuses to get old for me and is a really solid piece, complete with the fast singing and easy-to-learn chorus. It certainly paved the way for their #1 to come and I think I might even enjoy it more when I'm over both.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 98 So It Goes
2018 19 Song For Leila
2018 34 Indigo
2018 47 Youth
2018 52 Spiral
2018 01 What a State
2018 28 Happiness (All My Friends)
2018 23 NHS70

Posted by: sergejdordij98 13th January 2019, 12:55 AM

Really like seeing "Dancing Alone" in there!

Posted by: Jason 14th January 2019, 01:12 AM

Interesting chart because you definitely don't follow the UK charts. I can't say the same though.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 16th January 2019, 08:48 PM

QUOTE(sergejdordij98 @ Jan 13 2019, 12:55 AM)

QUOTE(Jason @ Jan 14 2019, 01:12 AM)

Interesting chart because you definitely don't follow the UK charts. I can't say the same though.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 16th January 2019, 09:37 PM

#28 | (1172pts)

The Wombats
Turn
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NE (21/04/2018) | 57-42-24-8-11-8-7-6-10-13-23-27-41-47-70-99-xx

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The highest Wombats song in this countdown, and boy is it a good one. It took a little while to grow on me, but when it did it really blew up and became one of my favourite songs for quite a while. Unfortunately that was just as Eurovision happened, robbing it of an even higher peak. Lots of random lines in this, such as 'you could give an Aspirin the headache of its life', but then of course that just allows it to slot into prime position whenever someone mentions aspirin or headaches. Oh and there's swearing, but we ignore that.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 02 Lemon to a Knife Fight
2018 28 Cheetah Tongue
2018 06 Turn
2018 12 Bee Sting
2018 60 Oceans

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 16th January 2019, 09:44 PM

#27 | (1172pts)

Phlake
IKEA Episodes
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NE (11/11/2017) | 30-17-15-19-17-10-12-7-9-14-22-27-39-57-71-74-xx

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Well Lukas Graham did make their return this year, but whilst they were away I had to find a substitute. And who better than a Danish band who sound exactly the same as them. Who cares that they're singing about IKEA. This stuck around for a bit in my Top 40 until it really smashed in around December/January time. As above, this popped up into my head whenever I saw anything from IKEA - which was a LOT *.* And the fact that it really does sound like a serious song even though its about IKEA is iconic. Such an earworm and it really should have got to the final of BJSC!

Top 100 Chart History

2017 07 IKEA Episodes
2018 60 Lost On You (Yellow Claw ft. Phlake)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 16th January 2019, 09:51 PM

#26 | (1219pts)

Drones Club
Raise It Up
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NE (21/07/2018) | 35-48-55-47-44-34-23-16-16-16-18-22-26-35-60-74-70-47-61-69-78-77-88-78-68-69-...

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I really didn't expect to hear much from Drones Club after their two tracks last year, let alone them get another song into the EOY and one much higher than Hurricane (which remains amazing and very underrated). It looked like this was going to be a one-week wonder as well after dropping out of the Top 40, but it of course made a re-entry and has been pretty much a permanent feature of the Top 100 since. It's that weird synth-y riff that gets it for me, making it ever fresh and refusing to grow old on me. The lyrics aren't amazing but with a tune like this, it doesn't matter.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 10 Hurricane
2017 33 This House
2018 16 Raise It Up
2018 32 All Arise

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 16th January 2019, 09:57 PM

#25 | (1219pts)

Belle and Sebastian
We Were Beautiful
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NE (17/12/2017) | 45-41-28-19-9-6-6-4-5-16-37-56-65-80-88-xx

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The highest Belle song now, and the one that got me back into them. It's a pretty odd song - I don't think anyone really falls in love with the verses, and if you just listen to a section of it you might never listen to it again. But thankfully I really gave this song a shot, and the chorus is insane and really wormed its way into my head at the start of this year. As usual, ignore the ugly chart run

Top 100 Chart History

2017 04 We Were Beautiful
2018 16 I'll Be Your Pilot
2018 20 Poor Boy

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 16th January 2019, 10:04 PM

#24 | (1235pts)

Suzi Island
Actor
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NE (25/08/2018) | 14-4-5-6-7-9-12-14-23-25-41-47-56-54-68-75-91-xx
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Indie overload in this part of the charts! This was Suzi Island's second track after the wonderful Show Me The Way and it's amazing. When I played it on Plug Buzzjack loved it a lot more as well, although it's about women in the film industry so of course they would. The reason I like it though is because it's wonderfully catchy and a proper earworm, and it's actually a follow up that's JUST AS GOOD which never happens with acts like this. It was a lot more instant that SMTW which meant it dropped off a lot quicker but it's made it this high!

Top 100 Chart History

2018 03 Show Me The Way
2018 04 Actor

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 16th January 2019, 10:11 PM

#23 | (1239pts)

AJR
Come Hang Out
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NE (24/03/2018) | 7-1-1-3-2-2-6-7-22-32-48-63-85-xx

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Whilst every other band I used to like has turned towards 'modern' music and forced me to turn away from them, AJR continue to improve, and somehow managed their first 2 #1 singles in my chart! This song is a real step away from anything else they've done, but then again no song they've done is remotely similar, and this clearly isn't an exception. It seems like they're going for the Owl-City-Fireflies vibe here, with his voice going through some sort of vocoder, but the effect really works. And just as you think the song is over, IT STARTS AGAIN, with a weird bridge that doesn't sound remotely like the rest of the song but sticks in your head itself, before going straight back into the final chorus.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 05 I'm Not Famous
2016 05 Weak
2017 03 Sober Up (AJR ft. Rivers Cuomo)
2018 01 Come Hang Out
2018 01 Burn the House Down

Posted by: Jason 17th January 2019, 12:04 AM

Come Hang Out video makes me smile. I like that nice party atmosphere on it. Catchy song too.

Posted by: JosephAvery 19th January 2019, 06:47 PM

Follow Your Fire was surprisingly good from Kodaline! I normally find them a bit uninteresting really but that one, while it was further removed from their usual stuff, was a nice surprise.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th January 2019, 08:33 PM

QUOTE(Jason @ Jan 17 2019, 12:04 AM)

Come Hang Out video makes me smile. I like that nice party atmosphere on it. Catchy song too.

QUOTE(JosephAvery @ Jan 19 2019, 06:47 PM)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th January 2019, 08:45 PM

#22 | (1279pts)

John Gibbons
Sweat (A La La La Long)
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Ahh, the 'sweaty girl' song, as my mother likes to call it. Come to think of it, the lyrics are a bit untasteful and it wasn't something I was that aware of until it was pointed out to me after it had hit #1 in my chart, but it was a cover of an Inner Circle song released in the 90s so I guess I can take some comfort in that. Or maybe he's just running a fitness class. Anyway, this was my summer dance smash this year, taking up three weeks at #1 at a time when it actually wasn't the only song contending for it and making me feel like being at the beach before I was even there.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 07 Sunglasses in the Rain (John Gibbons ft. Ai)
2018 01 Sweat (A La La La La Long)
2018 01 A Spaceman Came Travelling (John Gibbons & Franklin ft. Nina Nesbitt)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th January 2019, 08:55 PM

#21 | (1322pts)

Ikson
Paradise
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NE (10/02/2018) | 69-41-26-16-14-13-13-15-18-17-25-23-22-42-34-40-43-46-58-54-54-66-78-76-64-80-85-94-xx-

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This spent 28 weeks in my chart and I'm not entirely sure why. I heard this on my 'discover weekly' playlist and immediately really liked it, although I did think the lack of any words was a bit odd. Turns out that this Ikson guy makes dance music that people can use for free in their YouTube videos, hence it would be a bit weird to have vocals (although he did experiment with them in a future song 'Let Go'. From the start I sort-of decided that this would be my non-mainstream dance hit that would spend absolutely ages in the chart - and it did exactly that, breaking the record for most weeks in my chart (although I've got no idea whether that still stands because my charts have become rather stagnant recently). In fact this would have been #2 in this chart before I subtracted 300 points from it, and it even looks odd this high up.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 13 Paradise
2018 54 Let Go
2018 100 Last Summer

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th January 2019, 09:05 PM

#20 | (1322pts)

Only Sun
What a State
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This was the third song to debut at #1, and the first one not to do it off the back of something big (Eurovision and Lukas Graham's comeback if you were wondering). After a few singls which I did quite like but not enough for them to go Top 40, the October single for Only Sun really smashed it out the park for me. Initially I thought that it would merely be their return to the Top 40, but after a few more listens I began to realise that this did deserve #1. Despite being knocked off by three Lukas Graham tracks after just one week, it's had decent longevity and is still in my Top 40 now. I really like it as it sounds like something I heard on holiday when I was 10 or 11 but I've no idea what, and this would have just scraped into my Reshuffle, although this year I'm changing the rules so that the entire Top 100 are eligible as I think there will be a lot of chopping and changing this year.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 98 So It Goes
2018 19 Song For Leila
2018 34 Indigo
2018 47 Youth
2018 52 Spiral
2018 01 What a State
2018 28 Happiness (All My Friends)
2018 23 NHS70

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th January 2019, 09:13 PM

#19 | (1322pts)

Lukas Graham
Love Someone
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And as if by magic, we now have the highest song in the EOY to have debuted at #1! Goes to show that initial hype doesn't always define longevity. We had to wait what felt like ages for these guys to come back, the only thing to look at in 2018 being a My Little Pony soundtrack single, so of course I was excited. It is a bit of a weird choice of comeback single though, despite it being put on Hot Hits (and SO NEARLY making the official chart), it's not got the emotional impact of 7 Years and it isn't one of their more hard-hitting songs either, but I did love it for what it was, and of course the album was amazing

Top 100 Chart History

2016 01 7 Years
2016 09 Golden (Brandon Beal ft. Lukas Graham)
2016 01 You're Not There
2016 02 What Happened to Perfect
2016 03 Funeral
2016 10 Don't You Worry 'Bout Me
2016 04 Take the World By Storm
2017 10 Drunk in the Morning
2017 01 Off to See the World
2018 01 Love Someone
2018 01 Not a Damn Thing Changed
2018 02 Say Yes (Church Ballad)
2018 03 Everything That Isn't Me
2018 04 Stick Around
2018 07 Lullaby
2018 28 Unhappy
2018 23 You're Not the Only One (Redemption Song)
2018 40 Promise

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th January 2019, 09:19 PM

#18 | (1322pts)

AJR
Burn the House Down
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And the song that spent 4 weeks at #1 is out as well Don't trust anything in my chart. The truth is, whilst this song is amazing (and that trumpet riff is to die for), it wouldn't have spent four weeks at #1 if there was anything remotely in contention for the top spot. It took a big hit thanks to Christmas and never really recovered, dropping off quickly and even falling behind the song that it kept off #1 (Klingande - Wonders). Poor AJR.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 05 I'm Not Famous
2016 05 Weak
2017 03 Sober Up (AJR ft. Rivers Cuomo)
2018 01 Come Hang Out
2018 01 Burn the House Down

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 19th January 2019, 09:26 PM

#17 | (1322pts)

Dean Lewis
Be Alright
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NE (18/08/2018) | 7-1-1-2-3-2-4-4-8-14-27-48-65-69-77-87-83-71-86-86-90-100-xx

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And our last song for tonight is the song that appears to be such a marmite song here on Buzzjack. I have to be honest, when I first heard this I didn't think that much of it. It was nice enough, but the swearing in the middle pretty much put me off it (WHY do people think it's a good idea to put dirty words in the middle of lovely smooth pieces of music? it really baffles me). I gained interest again when it began to climb the Spotify charts and I remembered hearing it the first time. After hearing it again I immediately fell in love and it became one of the few mainstream songs to actually do well in my chart. His new one sounds decent as well!

Top 100 Chart History

2018 01 Be Alright

Posted by: Jason 19th January 2019, 10:52 PM

What a flop fan you are. Be Alright only at #17 here really? I thought it was a contestant for your number 1 of the year.

Posted by: Riser 20th January 2019, 05:47 AM

Haven't cared much for any other AJR song but I love Burn The House Down, so uplifting!

Posted by: Liаm 22nd January 2019, 11:30 AM

Be Alright I don't know why I love it because it's essentially an Ed Sheeran song but it just feels much more authentic and believeable than anything he'd release and really hits me in the feels with the vocals.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 22nd January 2019, 09:58 PM

QUOTE(Jason @ Jan 19 2019, 10:52 PM)

What a flop fan you are. Be Alright only at #17 here really? I thought it was a contestant for your number 1 of the year.

QUOTE(Riser @ Jan 20 2019, 05:47 AM)

QUOTE(Liаm @ Jan 22 2019, 11:30 AM)

Be Alright I don't know why I love it because it's essentially an Ed Sheeran song but it just feels much more authentic and believeable than anything he'd release and really hits me in the feels with the vocals.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 22nd January 2019, 10:08 PM

#16 | (1322pts)

The Struts
Body Talks (ft. Kesha)
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I've just moved this down two but now I'm hearing it I feel like that was a mistake Oh well, they're just positions in an imaginary EOY. Anyway, this song did another 'first' this year, becoming the first song ever to return to #1 (ever as in ever, including my Top 15 era and everything). I knew of The Struts from 'Should Have Been Me' back in 2015 but didn't really think anything of them, other than the fact that they were British and seemingly famous but I'd never heard of them (come on, I didn't really know about non-mainstream music back then). I listened to both the original and the Kesha version before deciding on which one to use, but I think that Kesha's vocals ultimately add another dimension to the track, and it somehow feels a bit 'dirty' without her. Oh and the drop from 2-7 was due to the Lukas Graham album release if you hadn't guessed.

Top 100 Chart History

The Struts
2018 01 Body Talks (The Struts ft. Kesha)
2018 53 Bulletproof Baby

Kesha
2017 90 Good Old Days (Macklemore ft. Kesha)
2018 01 Body Talks (The Struts ft. Kesha)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 22nd January 2019, 10:15 PM

#15 | (1323pts)

Rasmussen
Higher Ground
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And here is our highest Eurovision entry, and the only real one with any longevity (in its last week in the Top 10 there were no other Eurovision songs in the Top 40). I didn't think that much of this on first play (like pretty much every slow song I've mentioned in this countdown) but on the replay this really caught my attention. It's the sort of slow melodic piece I love, but with Vikings!!! Ooh and it looks like Rasmussen released another song last week so I better check that out.

Top 100 Chart History


2018 01 Higher Ground

Posted by: danuary 22nd January 2019, 10:16 PM

didn't get much replay value out of that but it was one of the better eurovision performances for sure.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 22nd January 2019, 10:22 PM

#14 | (1324pts)

Tom Odell
If You Wanna Love Somebody
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NE (23/06/2018) | 19-9-2-2-1-3-4-7-11-13-16-20-32-45-55-78-88-91-xx

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DON'T SWEAR TOM, IT DOESN'T SUIT YOU.

Anyway, this era from Mr. Odell hasn't been as consistent as the last one but this uplifting piece was a real solid start to it, and got him his first #1 in my chart. For a while I thought it might not get there, sandwiched between Toast To Our Differences and Sweat (A La La La Long) but it did manage to sneak a week thankfully, as I'll remember this much more that I'll remember Sweat. I just love the happiness and piano-ny-ness (that's a word now) in this song!

Top 100 Chart History

2016 03 Here I Am
2016 03 Silhouette
2018 01 If You Want To Love Somebody
2018 71 Half As Good As You (Tom Odell ft. Alice Merton)
2018 28 Go Tell Her Now

Posted by: Jason 23rd January 2019, 05:08 PM

I find incredible that an Eurovision entry spent 3 weeks at number 1 on your chart. Are you ready for this year's Eurovision?
Tom Odell just needs a pop banger or work with Drake, Ed Sheeran or Ariana Grande. He is underrated.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 23rd January 2019, 07:50 PM

QUOTE(danuary @ Jan 22 2019, 10:16 PM)

QUOTE(Jason @ Jan 23 2019, 05:08 PM)

I find incredible that an Eurovision entry spent 3 weeks at number 1 on your chart. Are you ready for this year's Eurovision?
Tom Odell just needs a pop banger or work with Drake, Ed Sheeran or Ariana Grande. He is underrated.

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 23rd January 2019, 07:59 PM

#13 | (1325pts)

Ofenbach
Paradise (ft. Benjamin Ingrosso)
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One of the rare #1s to spend more than two weeks outside the Top 40 before entering, but it still didn't take very long for it to nab the top spot. I loved Ofenbach from Be Mine and Katchi, and initially really loved the instrumentals from the pair. What put me off initially though was Mr. Ingrosso - I mean he feels so smug all the time and his Eurovision performance was pretty atrocious. After a few listens though, the vocals became the highlight of the song, and is untimately what got them to #1. Still think Benjamin is smug though.

Top 100 Chart History

Ofenbach
2017 04 Katchi (Ofenbach ft. Nick Waterhouse)
2018 01 Paradise (Ofenbach ft. Benjamin Ingrosso)

Benjamin Ingrosso
2018 01 Paradise (Ofenbach ft. Benjamin Ingrosso)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 23rd January 2019, 08:09 PM

#12 | (1326pts)

The Fratellis
Starcrossed Losers
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Another of the mass of 00s indie bands who seemed to orchestrate their return in 2018 here, we have the wonderful Fratellis. What's interesting about this though is that it sounds absolutely nothing like what they used to (in fact most of the album is more reminiscent of Scissor Sisters), it's something completely new and refreshing and for that reason it took me a bit to get into it as it's not a sound I'm that used to. But after a few weeks, it was one of my favourites and ended up as one of the highest comeback artists this year.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 01 Starcrossed Losers
2018 13 I Guess... I Suppose
2018 18 Sugartown
2018 23 Stand Up Tragedy
2018 39 The Next Time We Wed
2018 27 Indestructible
2018 87 Let's Go

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 23rd January 2019, 08:14 PM

#11 | (1326pts)

Vance Joy
We're Going Home
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NE (13/01/2018) | 12-5-1-1-3-8-9-12-26-36-57-80-71-86-91-92-xx

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And just missing the top 10 we have Vance Joy. Which I'm quite sad about really, as this is a beautiful and uplifting song that hasn't left my head all year (mainly because I've gone 'home' lots of times this year ). It's chart run doesn't remotely express how much I love this song, and it makes me upset that I can't give this any more than my allocated 300 points because I'm sure it'll be up in the Top 5 when it comes to Reshuffle. But rules be rules, and here it is. If you haven't heard this song you honestly don't know what you're missing out on.

Top 100 Chart History

2017 01 Like Gold
2018 01 We're Going Home
2018 02 Saturday Sun
2018 15 Bonnie & Clyde
2018 19 Little Boy
2018 19 One Of These Days
2018 39 Crashing Into You
2018 87 Call If You Need Me
2018 07 I'm With You

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 23rd January 2019, 08:18 PM

Posted by: JosephAvery 23rd January 2019, 08:26 PM

Surprised Dean Lewis isn't a bit higher actually! Really like Be Alright anyway, and Tom Odell is always

Posted by: SevenSeize 23rd January 2019, 09:15 PM

IKEA Episodes *____* a rather bizarre bjsc song, i love when those spring up. great to see Drones Club in there too

Posted by: Jason 24th January 2019, 06:13 PM

Very unpredictable top 10, just guessing Lukas Graham could win.
Mahmut Orhan and Owl City songs are my faves from this top 10 list though.

Posted by: sergejdordij98 24th January 2019, 09:35 PM

I enjoyed "Turn", but I prefer "Cheetah Tongue" as my Wombats song of the year.
"Love Someone" has really grown on me, such a great song!
AJR... I have a hate relationship with them. I can't like either of their songs.
But I love "Body Talks", the Kesha version makes it even better!
And finally "Higher Ground" is such a powerful song! Really enjoyed it!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 25th January 2019, 08:17 PM

QUOTE(JosephAvery @ Jan 23 2019, 08:26 PM)

Surprised Dean Lewis isn't a bit higher actually! Really like Be Alright anyway, and Tom Odell is always

QUOTE(SevenSeize @ Jan 23 2019, 09:15 PM)

QUOTE(Jason @ Jan 24 2019, 06:13 PM)

Very unpredictable top 10, just guessing Lukas Graham could win.
Mahmut Orhan and Owl City songs are my faves from this top 10 list though.

QUOTE(sergejdordij98 @ Jan 24 2019, 09:35 PM)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 25th January 2019, 09:37 PM

#10 | (1380pts)

Lukas Graham
Not a Damn Thing Changed
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NE (20/10/2018) | 4-5-1-1-2-3-3-5-9-21-24-36-51-58-...

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So to the surprise of half of Buzzjack and the expectations of the other half, Lukas Graham aren't #1! After their lovey-dovey first single, this very quickly followed it up with one of Lukas' more hard-hitting tracks. I wasn't actually planning on giving this the #1 initially, more of a long-running Top 10 hit, but when the album came out it just felt right. And whilst this is still so high up, I do have to say that it doesn't compete with their last album sadly, and no song could match 7 Years. They've also released a cover of an XXXTENTACION song today, yuck.

Top 100 Chart History

2016 01 7 Years
2016 09 Golden (Brandon Beal ft. Lukas Graham)
2016 01 You're Not There
2016 02 What Happened to Perfect
2016 03 Funeral
2016 10 Don't You Worry 'Bout Me
2016 04 Take the World By Storm
2017 10 Drunk in the Morning
2017 01 Off to See the World
2018 01 Love Someone
2018 01 Not a Damn Thing Changed
2018 02 Say Yes (Church Ballad)
2018 03 Everything That Isn't Me
2018 04 Stick Around
2018 07 Lullaby
2018 28 Unhappy
2018 23 You're Not the Only One (Redemption Song)
2018 40 Promise

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 25th January 2019, 09:48 PM

#09 | (1398pts)

Built By Titan
Broken Love (ft. Starxs)
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NE (10/03/2018) | 75-50-20-19-10-8-7-6-5-4-8-15-19-27-31-39-56-62-67-100-xx
RE (11/08/2018) | 95-xx

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And next up is my BJSC winner, Broken Love. I'm still astounded this won - obviously it's a song that I love but that usually results in a complete flop in these contests - you only need to look as far as Royce Lovett or anything I've sent to Club Bizarre to confirm that It took me a while to finally decide to chart this, and I only really entered it on a whim having had no other real potentials. Of course then it won by the biggest margin we had all year, which completely took me by surprise as it doesn't feel like it has any of the ingredients of a BJSC winner. Anyway, this song is amazing and I'm sure most of you know it so you've got no excuse not to comment

(oh and the week it fell from 67 to 100 there were 21 new entries in the chart so don't think I'd introduced some crazy new rule or anything!)

Top 100 Chart History

Built By Titan
2018 04 Broken Love (Built By Titan ft. Starxs)

Starxs
2018 04 Broken Love (Built By Titan ft. Starxs)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 25th January 2019, 09:59 PM

#08 | (1436pts)

Suzi Island
Show Me The Way
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NE (21/07/2018) | 18-13-7-3-3-5-5-6-8-14-19-31-39-46-52-60-71-67-70-82-84-87-xx
RE (29/12/2018) | 88-82-78-81-...

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Speaking of those 21 new entries that week, this was one of them! You might be surprised that Built By Titan isn't the highest Niceland BJSC entry (there's actually two more artists to come that I discovered through BJSC) but this song is just amazing. On first listen I did think it was a bit odd, but by the end of the song I was absolutely loving it and couldn't wait to get it on my playlist. Sadly most of Buzzjack didn't share that love, but unlike a few of my BJSC DNQs I was completely behind this and still absolutely love it. The video is certainly strange though - I mean what's the purpose of the woman with the goldfish bowl appearing in the second verse if she just walks away again and all he has to do to get it off is to get his bandmate to pull hard enough?

Top 100 Chart History


2018 03 Show Me The Way
2018 04 Actor

Posted by: danuary 26th January 2019, 01:14 PM

Broken Love was a great find, glad it was your winner anyhow as it's your best entry yet. Not too surprised at it not being your highest BJSC entry here though, as it's often the case for me too that my most successful entry isn't my absolute fave.

Posted by: Liаm 29th January 2019, 10:16 AM

Broken Love, what a bop *.*

Paradise is great too, missed it for ages but it's a banger!

Posted by: Liаm 29th January 2019, 10:16 AM

Broken Love, what a bop *.*

Paradise is great too, missed it for ages but it's a banger!

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 29th January 2019, 10:01 PM

QUOTE(danuary @ Jan 26 2019, 01:14 PM)

QUOTE(Liаm @ Jan 29 2019, 10:16 AM)

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 29th January 2019, 10:28 PM

#07 | (1537pts)

Wallows
These Days
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NE (30/06/2018) | 19-11-8-7-6-3-4-6-6-6-8-11-15-22-34-41-53-61-77-85-xx

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And here's another band I discovered from BJSC! In theory this is the sort of act I really shouldn't be a fan of - the lead singer is apparently a famous actor in America and this obviously makes their Youtube videos popular as well as half the comments being filled with comments about said band member. In reality though, it's not about who's in the band (or how weird their music videos are), it's about the sound - and they sound absolutely amazing. I was intrigued enough after hearing Pictures of Girls to find more, and this certainly didn't disappoint, retaining the sound I loved from that but also adding a really catchy beat, making it a complete earworm which went round my head the whole weekend I was helping out on a Scout Camp, which is what the song reminds me of now.

Top 100 Chart History

2018 39 Pictures of Girls
2018 03 These Days
2018 68 1980s Horror Film

Posted by: PeteFromLeeds 29th January 2019, 10:39 PM

#06 | (1559pts)

Mahmut Orhan & Colonel Bagshot
6 Days
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NE (28/07/2018) | 28-12-5-2-2-3-4-4-4-5-5-5-8-12-18-27-37-41-48-74-78-xx
RE (29/12/2018) | 99-97-96-95-xx

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Another song about days here, and it's the highest charting... let's say full-on dance song (there's a less dance-y song by a dance artist still to come). This song uses a sample from Colonel Bagshot's 1971 track 'Six Day War'. I had a listen to it the other day, in the original the verses go through the first six days of the week, the lyrics getting more and more despairing as they go on. In this remix however they forever stay on Monday, meaning most of the sad bits never happen. They've also replaced the image of war with a music video showing lots of people looking a bit Turkish and not doing much whilst cameras move around them to make them look artsy. Nonetheless this song was a real sticker and spent absolutely ages in my Top 5, and before I made a few alterations was actually my EOY #1. Mahmut Orhan is yet to release another single, hence the current one-hit wonder status. Colonel Bagshot haven't released one in over 40 years so I can't see them making another chart appearance.

Top 100 Chart History

Mahmut Orhan
2018 02 6 Days (Mahmut Orhan & Colonel Bagshot)

Colonel Bagshot
2018 02 6 Days (Mahmut Orhan & Colonel Bagshot)