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[JosephBoone]

Yup, that's right. Another year is almost up, and true to tradition, my EOY will be starting a little bit earlier like usual. Why? Cause I've got a bloomin' long countdown and if I started in January, I wouldn't be done til April and nobody would care by then As always, my final EOY is decided through personal opinion as opposed to chart points, although I keep a points EOY nonetheless to aid the process (even if I disagree with it half the time). I don't know the full order yet as I'm still in the process of sorting the songs, although my albums and EPs are ready to go! (note for myself: this countdown covers up until week 310 in my weekly chart)

It's been a crazy year for my music taste, with very little proving to have longevity in my weekly chart. There's been a whopping 39 #1s, compared to 36 in last year's eligibility period, and only eight of them spent longer than a week at the top. Amongst those #1s are four from The Vamps, who broke the record for most #1s overall, raising their total to 13, ahead of One Direction's 11. There's also multiple #1s for Cheat Codes, Louis Tomlinson, Martin Garrix, FO&O and Rita Ora, plus a special two-week #1 from Ariana Grande's One Last Time, after the superb One Love Manchester concert (which, of course, I wish happened in better circumstances).

That's not even mentioning the vast array of massive #2 hits this year. Anne-Marie, Manel Navarro and Katy Perry among others scored bigger hits than the songs that respectively blocked them from #1, but will that show in my EOY? Time will tell!

A few little bits of info:

- Only one song in my top 250 failed to make my weekly top 40.
- The most tracks by a single artist is FIVE!
- Once again, every top 10 hit from my weekly chart from the past year features in my top 250 somewhere.

First, we'll be taking a look at my top 5 EPs and my top 30 albums. A quick peek at my points charts will follow, and then we'll dive into the beast that is my top 250 singles (with my top 10 artists scattered amongst them). In the meantime, take a look at my #1s from the past year, and remind yourself of last year's countdown in post 2.

161 03/12/2016 - Robin Schulz, David Guetta & Cheat Codes - Shed a Light (2 weeks)
162 17/12/2016 - Louis Tomlinson & Steve Aoki - Just Hold On (1 week)
163 24/12/2016 - Nemo Schiffman - I Don't Mind (1 week)
164 31/12/2016 - Kris Kross Amsterdam & Conor Maynard feat. Ty Dolla $ign - Are You Sure? (1 week)
165 07/01/2017 - Christopher - Free Fall (1 week)
166 14/01/2017 - Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (1 week)
167 21/01/2017 - Daniel Skye - ON (2 weeks)
168 04/02/2017 - Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - Scared to Be Lonely (2 weeks)
169 18/02/2017 - Katy Perry feat. Skip Marley - Chained To the Rhythm (1 week)
170 25/02/2017 - FO&O - Gotta Thing About You (2 weeks)
171 11/03/2017 - Benjamin - Bad Luck Love (1 week)
172 18/03/2017 - Louisa Johnson - Best Behaviour (1 week)
173 25/03/2017 - Clean Bandit feat. Zara Larsson - Symphony (1 week)
174 01/04/2017 - Cheat Codes feat. Demi Lovato - No Promises (1 week)
175 08/04/2017 - Harry Styles - Sign of the Times (3 weeks)
176 29/04/2017 - We the Kings feat. Elena Coats or Olivia Holt - Sad Song (1 week)
177 06/05/2017 - The Vamps & Martin Jensen - Middle of the Night (1 week)
178 13/05/2017 - FO&O - So So Good (1 week)
179 20/05/2017 - Kristian Kostov - Beautiful Mess (1 week)
180 27/05/2017 - Mike Perry, The Vamps & Sabrina Carpenter - Hands (1 week)
181 03/06/2017 - Martin Garrix & Troye Sivan - There For You (1 week)
182 10/06/2017 - Ariana Grande - One Last Time (2 weeks)
183 24/06/2017 - George Ezra - Don't Matter Now (1 week)
184 01/07/2017 - Marija - Dance Like Nobody's Watching (1 week)
185 08/07/2017 - HNNBL feat. Miles Wesley - Trust (1 week)
186 15/07/2017 - Kesha - Praying (1 week)
187 22/07/2017 - Ulrik Munther - Coffee in Shanghai (1 week)
188 29/07/2017 - Louis Tomlinson feat. Bebe Rexha & Digital Farm Animals - Back to You (3 weeks)
189 19/08/2017 - P!nk - What About Us (1 week)
190 26/08/2017 - Justin Bieber & BloodPop® - Friends (1 week)
191 02/09/2017 - Taylor Swift - Look What You Made Me Do (1 week)
192 09/09/2017 - Matoma & The Vamps - Staying Up (1 week)
193 16/09/2017 - Nadine - Go to Work (1 week)
194 23/09/2017 - Declan McKenna - Brazil (1 week)
195 30/09/2017 - Anne-Marie - Heavy (1 week)
196 07/10/2017 - Avicii feat. Rita Ora - Lonely Together (1 week)
197 14/10/2017 - Charlie Puth - How Long (1 week)
198 21/10/2017 - The Vamps feat. Maggie Lindemann - Personal (1 week)
199 28/10/2017 - Rita Ora - Anywhere (5 weeks so far)