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 13th February 2023, 09:50 PM
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 Ash Points: 1021 Date first charted: 03/05/2004 Number of entries: 21 Total weeks on chart: 155 Most Successful Year: 2010, 1st Despite Ash's heyday being before I started recording a personal chart, they perhaps surprisingly end here just outside the top 20, having racked up over 1,000 points. This was largely down to their unique A-Z series in 2009-10, where they released a new single every fortnight for a year, giving each one both a title and letter of the alphabet, each one made the UK chart (between 65 & 176) and 14 of the 26 made my personal chart after I'd bought each one on iTunes. Only five other acts have managed to chart with at least 20 different songs, and the rest are all comfortably inside this top 10. Before A-Z they did have an excellent run in 2004 with their 4th album Meltdown, hitting the top 2 spots with the excellent rocky Orpheus and more mellow Starcrossed, which is still an underrated gem, reaching #2 & #1. Had I been recording as far back as their Free All Angels album, they'd be following up some similar sized hits. Onto the A-Z songs, they were preceded by Return of White Rabbit which was a huge return to form after their 2007 album disappointed, and it makes for a good collection of varied songs (well the 14 here anyway) which show off all sides of Ash. Arcadia, The Dead Disciples and Dionysian Urge are brilliantly anthemic, Pripyat and Insects are beautifully understated gems, Spheres is a more experimental track which builds up superbly, and then Sky Burial the surprise of the lot - a 10 minute instrumental which doesn't really fit into anything else of theirs. In the past decade they have released another couple of albums which have produced three further top 40 hits, Machinery being the pick of the bunch but the other two being closer to their early rockier sound. Arcadia may be my favourite of this period but their best are from their earlier work - 1) Girl From Mars 2) Burn Baby Burn 3) Walking Barefoot. Chart History: 03/05/2004 Orpheus 02-03-04-07-08-08-12-15-17-19-25-31-34-39 (14 weeks) 19/07/2004 Starcrossed 01-01-01-03-04-05-11-11-18-22-24-28-27-35 (14 weeks) 06/12/2004 Renegade Calvacade 16-21-23-27-34 (5 weeks) 25/05/2009 Return Of White Rabbit 32-18-11-09-17-38 (6 weeks) 26/10/2009 Joy Kicks Darkness (B) 36-25-21-18-15-18-23-31-38 (9 weeks) 16/11/2009 Arcadia [C] 32-18-08-02-02-02-05-05-10-15-27-36-40 (13 weeks) 07/12/2009 The Dead Disciples [D] 35-29-21-15-21-35 (6 weeks) 21/12/2009 Pripyat [E] 39-35-26-30 (4 weeks) 04/01/2010 Ichiban [G] 28-18-32-39 (4 weeks) 18/01/2010 Space Shot [H] 25-19-24-35-37 (5 weeks) 22/03/2010 Dionysian Urge [L] 36-27-25-34-37 (5 weeks) 10/05/2010 Insects [P] 31-27-17-12-10-12-17-21-32-40 (10 weeks) 24/05/2010 Binary [Q] 36-27-20-23-31-36-40 (7 weeks) 21/06/2010 Spheres [S] 35-30-26-24-22-18-13-16-17-25-35 (11 weeks) 02/08/2010 Carnal Love [V] 39-37 (2 weeks) 16/08/2010 Embers [W] 35-30-29-29-23-23-31-38 (8 weeks) 13/09/2010 Sky Burial [Y] 22-13-11-10-12-20-35 (7 weeks) 27/09/2010 There Is Hope Again [Z] 33-31-36 (3 weeks) 07/04/2015 Cocoon 23-17-15-17-33 (5 weeks) 05/10/2015 Machinery 35-27-16-12-06-05-06-07-12-18-31-36-40 (13 weeks) 26/02/2018 Buzzkill 38-36-30-33 (4 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Arcadia 02 Orpheus 03 Starcrossed 04 Spheres 05 Sky Burial |
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25th February 2023, 08:18 PM
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From the last page, I'd actually first listened to Hatchie's last album just before she came up here, and I was really impressed after only knowing Nosedive from her, which I also like. For many artists since, my favourites are fairly obvious ones - Maps, Not Nineteen Forever, Let It Happen, Take Me Out... although I think Dizzee's finest moment is Fix Up Look Sharp - great rhymes, flow, and those drums! That's an epic chart run for Shuffle - I also enjoyed it and thought it stood out at the time. I can hear a lot of future The 1975 in it now, with those variations around one chord - not sure how good a thing that is!
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4th March 2023, 08:17 PM
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Should probably get back to posting this... Got a bit behind with listening/writing. 3 weeks posting one a day to finish hopefully.
#21  Röyksopp Points: 1023 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Number of entries: 16 Total weeks on chart: 175 Most Successful Year: 2014, 7th Röyksopp are an act who I've never been massively into, I've never been overly taken by any of their albums, but have generally always released some decent singles along the way, which has given them reasonable success, and with four absolutely incredible number ones on top of that, each of those being collaborations with Scandinavian female vocalists. Their career started in the first week I compiled my chart, as the tail end of Poor Leno's chart run appears, likely would've entered either in or towards the top 5, before Eple did get there, it feels under-charted but 10 weeks in the top 10 is significant for a great instrumental track. The lead single to their next album, Only This Moment, went higher but it doesn't rank quite that highly for me now, unlike What Else Is There? which ended the year at the top, featuring vocals from The Knife's Karin Dreijer, the original is a thing of beauty and the Thin White Duke remix of it turns it into a dancefloor stomper, both versions are exceptional. 2009s Junior was the album I've listened to most, and its three singles all did relatively well, Happy Up Here was fun and chilled before The Girl & The Robot became a second number one for both them and Robyn, simply a stunning pop song which still sounds superb today. Their next chart entry was also a massive number one, this time with Susanne Sundfør, who's vocals really shine on Running To The Sea. Their fourth single that hit the top followed 18 months later, as their partnership with Robyn grew with another stomper in Do It Again, I wasn't overly fussed on the EP they made together but that and Monument were both great. I thought last years big Profound Mysteries project was going to end without a hit as most of it disappointed me, but they did eventually return with The Night alongside Alison Goldfrapp, which climbed to give them a 9th top 10. Chart History: 06/01/2003 Poor Leno 16-20-24-27-28-31-33-38 (8 weeks) 24/02/2003 Eple 05-05-06-07-07-07-07-08-09-10-15-18-20-22-27-30-35-40 (18 weeks) 27/06/2005 Only This Moment 02-04-05-10-11-11-14-17-21-30-32-34-34 (13 weeks) 26/09/2005 49 Percent 27-37 (2 weeks) 05/12/2005 What Else Is There? 01-01-01-02-02-04-04-05-07-06-07-09-14-20-20-17-18-17-20-24-26-32-39-35-38 (25 weeks) 26/06/2006 Beautiful Day Without You 29 (1 week) 26/01/2009 Happy Up Here 24-13-08-05-07-18-28-38 (8 weeks) 08/06/2009 The Girl And The Robot (feat. Robyn) 21-10-04-02-02-01-01-01-02-06-09-13-18-21-22-28-31-34-34-36-39 (21 weeks) 02/11/2009 This Must Be It 29-18-13-14-21-29-34-37 (8 weeks) 10/12/2012 Running To The Sea (feat. Susanne Sundfør) 20-13-07-03-03-02-01-01-01-01-04-07-11-13-19-22-26-34-40 (19 weeks) 09/12/2013 Something In My Heart (feat. Jamie Irrepressible) 36-33-36 (3 weeks) 05/05/2014 Do It Again (w/ Robyn) 23-11-02-01-01-01-01-01-02-02-05-08-12-15-21-31-36 (17 weeks) 15/09/2014 Monument (w/ Robyn) 33-24-18-11-09-08-12-21-36 (9 weeks) 10/11/2014 Sordid Affair 31-21-16-17-27-27-30 (7 weeks) 18/05/2015 I Had This Thing (feat. Jamie Irrepressible) 26-17-14-15-27-40 (6 weeks) 29/10/2022 The Night (feat. Alison Goldfrapp) 31-25-22-16-12-09-12-17-22-31* / -37 (10 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 What Else Is There? 02 The Girl & The Robot 03 Running To The Sea 04 Do It Again 05 Eple |
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4th March 2023, 08:19 PM
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QUOTE(jimwatts @ Feb 25 2023, 08:18 PM)  From the last page, I'd actually first listened to Hatchie's last album just before she came up here, and I was really impressed after only knowing Nosedive from her, which I also like. For many artists since, my favourites are fairly obvious ones - Maps, Not Nineteen Forever, Let It Happen, Take Me Out... although I think Dizzee's finest moment is Fix Up Look Sharp - great rhymes, flow, and those drums! That's an epic chart run for Shuffle - I also enjoyed it and thought it stood out at the time. I can hear a lot of future The 1975 in it now, with those variations around one chord - not sure how good a thing that is! Thanks for continuing to comment Jim, glad you're liking some of them, pleased you're getting into Hatchie, she is great! 
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4th March 2023, 08:23 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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A reminder of 100-21 before I post the top 20...
100 - Fontaines DC 99 - The Coral 98 - HEALTH 97 - The Mysterines 96 - How To Dress Well 95 - Santigold 94 - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 93 - Phoebe Bridgers 92 - Lily Allen 91 - Snow Patrol 90 - Animal Collective 89 - Guillemots 88 - Mystery Jets 87 - Beyoncé 86 - Jamie xx 85 - Little Boots 84 - Belle and Sebastian 83 - Alpines 82 - Bicep 81 - The Vaccines 80 - The Shins 79 - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 78 - Editors 77 - Bloc Party 76 - CHVRCHES 75 - The Naked and Famous 74 - Jamie T 73 - Feeder 72 - alt-J 71 - London Grammar 70 - Sleigh Bells 69 - Christine and the Queens 68 - Noah and the Whale 67 - M.I.A. 66 - George FitzGerald 65 - Basement Jaxx 64 - The Fratellis 63 - Poliça 62 - Public Service Broadcasting 61 - Grimes 60 - The Maccabees 59 - Crystal Castles 58 - Goldfrapp 57 - Calvin Harris 56 - Slaves 55 - iamamiwhoami / ionalee 54 - The Horrors 53 - The Go! Team 52 - The Joy Formidable 51 - Vampire Weekend 50 - Blood Red Shoes 49 - Caribou / Daphni 48 - The Streets 47 - White Lies 46 - LCD Soundsystem 45 - School of Seven Bells 44 - Jessie Ware 43 - Jay-Z 42 - Hatchie 41 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 40 - Everything Everything 39 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 38 - Courteeners 37 - Dizzee Rascal 36 - Metronomy 35 - Stereophonics 34 - Tame Impala 33 - Bon Iver 32 - Foo Fighters 31 - Real Lies 30 - Los Campesinos! 29 - Gorillaz 28 - The National 27 - Franz Ferdinand 26 - Biffy Clyro 25 - Kings of Leon 24 - Death Cab for Cutie 23 - Bombay Bicycle Club 22 - Ash 21 - Röyksopp |
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5th March 2023, 08:50 PM
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 Muse Points: 1028 Date first charted: 15/01/2007 Number of entries: 18 Total weeks on chart: 145 Most Successful Year: 2006, 11th Muse are a slightly odd case where I've generally liked a lot of what they've put out but really they're mainly a singles band. Origin of Symmetry is their only album I've really got into enough to say I thought was great, and The Resistance the only other that I've ever listened to much. It's also quite odd looking back at the chart history I'd given them compared to what I think of them. For a long time I've had a clear Muse top 3 of New Born, Butterflies and Hurricanes, Map of the Problematique, so to see the latter two with peaks of 8 & 23 with only five weeks each is quite disappointing, though Map... can be explained by the fact I'd been listening almost a year by the time it became a single, there are no excuses for Butterflies... They kicked off here with the first singles from their third album in 2003, both songs were once I loved at the time and heard them on Radio 1 a lot, Time Is Running Out was an instant hit whereas Hysteria was a slower burn I did love it by the time it was released and it became their first, and only, number one hit. All 5 of their singles from their 4th album charted but they were a real mixed back of success, starting with two more big hits of which I'd say Starlight is the pick of now, a real impressive change of sound for them. Knights of Cydonia always seemed to be popular but I never really took to it, it was way too overblown and not something I've listened to for a long time. Uprising was a hugely impressive lead for their 5th album and one I got into a lot more than their previous two. That and Resistance have remained two of my favourites of theirs and songs I still listen to a fair amount, the 80s influence on the latter was always one of my favourites of theirs and I was delighted they picked it for a single release. Madness was comfortably the pick of the bunch from their next album and of their more recent work, they did get a three further top 20 singles, Psycho is something I've gone on to like and listen to more than its #15 peak would suggest, but their most recent singles don't usually get more than a couple of listens. Chart History: 08/09/2003 Time Is Running Out 02-03-06-06-09-10-12-14-16-23-24-30-31-37 (14 weeks) 01/12/2003 Hysteria 01-01-04-03-02-05-06-10-13-16-18-21-23-24-26-28-33-37-40 (19 weeks) 17/05/2004 Sing For Absolution 07-15-20-29-39 (5 weeks) 20/09/2004 Butterflies And Hurricanes 08-11-16-20-34 (5 weeks) 19/06/2006 Supermassive Black Hole 02-03-07-12-14-16-19-21-24-27-29-37 (12 weeks) 04/09/2006 Starlight 04-08-14-22-24-33-39 (7 weeks) 27/11/2006 Knights Of Cydonia 25-40 (2 weeks) 02/04/2007 Invincible 33-40 (2 weeks) 18/06/2007 Map Of The Problematique 36-27-23-26-27 (5 weeks) 10/08/2009 Uprising 37-24-14-09-02-02-02-02-08-12-17-23-30-38 (14 weeks) 16/11/2009 Undisclosed Desires 39-33-32-27-37 (5 weeks) 25/01/2010 Resistance 23-13-07-03-05-10-14-18-22-28-36 (11 weeks) 24/09/2012 Madness 30-24-21-15-08-08-08-12-15-20-34 (11 weeks) 03/12/2012 Follow Me 33 (1 week) 25/02/2013 Supremacy 29-30-38 (3 weeks) 31/03/2015 Psycho 39-36-35-36-29-22-19-15-22-31 (10 weeks) 02/04/2018 Thought Contagion 23-16-12-09-05-04-04-06-09-17-25-35 (12 weeks) 13/08/2018 Something Human 27-24-21-19-20-27-33 (7 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Butterflies and Hurricanes 02 Map of the Problematique 03 Uprising 04 Hysteria 05 Resistance |
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6th March 2023, 08:39 PM
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 Purity Ring Points: 1031 Date first charted: 18/06/2012 Number of entries: 15 Total weeks on chart: 173 Most Successful Year: 2015, 1st omg a woman!  Purity Ring came at a good time in that I was fully into more electronic music when they first came to attention, their debut album Shrines was one I listened to a lot and had some great songs on it, with Fineshrines being the best and spending four weeks at #1, Belispeak and Crawlersout being the other main standouts from it. I was a bit surprised to realise that remained their only song to reach the top, but they've just been a bit unlucky in what they've been out at the same time as, with them spending 16 weeks in total at #2. Four of those were with their next hit, and one of my favourite collaborations ever released, Breathe This Air with Jon Hopkins. The original is great, and appeared on his album Immunity, which I'd probably consider to be my favourite instrumental album of all time, and the single release adding Megan James vocals on to it was excellent. The next collaboration was significantly different, but almost as good, as they worked with US rapper Danny Brown on 25 Bucks, which also became a long running #2, each of its six weeks being behind Tokyo Police Club's Argentina. I rated their second album Another Eternity higher than the first, and feel it's more consistent throughout and has a bit more variation to the style of song. Push Pull was a a good lead but the three that followed all went into the top 10 where that hadn't quite managed to, the wonderful Begin Again again reaching #2 and Heartsigh #3. Their third album was a step down in quality but still had a couple of good singles, with Stardew being a great return, as was Graves last year as they put out another EP. Chart History: 18/06/2012 Obedear 30-19-13-18-30 (5 weeks) 27/08/2012 Fineshrine 30-17-08-04-02-01-01-01-01-02-03-05-10-11-17-24-30-36-40 (19 weeks) 12/11/2012 Lofticries 33-30-25-20-14-14-18-26-37 (9 weeks) 09/09/2013 Breathe This Air (w/ Jon Hopkins) 22-10-04-02-03-03-02-02-02-04-06-09-12-14-19-20-23-24-28-34-38 (21 weeks) 03/02/2014 25 Bucks (w/ Danny Brown) 27-16-05-02-02-02-02-02-02-05-07-10-11-16-21-30-36-40 (18 weeks) 22/12/2014 Push Pull 24-17-16-14-12-12-12-20-31-40 (10 weeks) 16/02/2015 Begin Again 27-19-10-03-02-02-04-06-10-17-20-27-32-39 (14 weeks) 23/03/2015 Bodyache 32-20-11-09-07-10-21-38 (8 weeks) 29/06/2015 Heartsigh 21-12-06-03-05-07-11-20-33 (9 weeks) 07/08/2017 Asido 34-24-17-12-10-11-24-36 (8 weeks) 08/03/2020 Stardew 33-22-12-10-08-04-03-04-06-10-14-21-31-38 (14 weeks) 11/04/2020 Peacefall 32-26-18-14-13-12-13-18-26-36 (10 weeks) 28/08/2021 Soshy 35-28-27-27-24-26-32-39 (8 weeks) 07/05/2022 Graves 35-26-13-06-02-02-04-06-10-14-18-22-31-38 (14 weeks) 17/06/2022 Neverend 27-21-17-24-33-40 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Breathe This Air 02 25 Bucks 03 Fineshrine 04 Begin Again 05 Crawlersout |
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7th March 2023, 09:56 PM
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 The Drums Points: 1039 Date first charted: 28/09/2009 Number of entries: 16 Total weeks on chart: 166 Most Successful Year: 2010, 4th Continuing in the top 20 now with The Drums, with two #1s and five #2s to their name. They emerged at the end of the 00s with their Summertime EP, 5 songs of incredible catchy indie pop I soon fell in love with, I Felt Stupid going right the way to the top at the beginning of 2010. Their debut album soon followed and it was more of the same, indie pop that I was a huge fan of and listened to a lot, Forever and Ever Amen being the pick of the singles from it and I got some full appreciation for Let's Go Surfing correcting its lowly #20 peak and 4 week run. The following year their first appearance came alongside Edwyn Collins, his one big hit A Girl Like You from the 90s being my only knowledge of him, their two styles fitted together really well and sent them back into the top 5. Album 2 Portamento came within 18 months of the first, in terms of sound it was more of the same and was just as impressive, I liked it as much as I did the first. Money wasn't a favourite of mine but the other singles had them on top form. Though How It Ended seems woefully under-charted, Days went into the top 5 again. Album 3 was another decent effort and produced two more decent sized singles, but nothing quite as good as previous. By 2017 they were essentially a solo project for singer Jonny Pierce as every other original member had departed, but was still releasing albums under The Drums moniker, and by 2020 were going by the name The Drums & Jonny Pierce. Despite looking like the best days were behind The Drums, they've still notched a further 3 top 2 hits since 2017, with Blood Under My Belt and Body Chemistry being classic Drums sound, whilst Ambulance providing a significant change of direction, returning them to the top spot and becoming my favourite Drums song. At almost 8 minutes long, it's comfortably their longest song and sounds almost nothing like anything that had gone previous. It's a song in two halves, the first one building throughout with a somewhat depressing outlook to the lyrics, before the synths kick in and the tempo is upped, with the self-reflective and more positive lyrics. It’s ok to cry, Jonny... Chart History: 28/09/2009 Let's Go Surfing 34-20-23-39 (4 weeks) 07/12/2009 I Felt Stupid 28-22-06-02-01-01-01-01-01-03-06-10-12-17-22-27-37 (17 weeks) 29/03/2010 Best Friend 30-20-09-07-04-09-19-37 (8 weeks) 31/05/2010 Forever And Ever Amen 25-15-04-02-02-02-04-05-08-11-14-21-28-34 (14 weeks) 16/08/2010 Let's Go Surfing (Re-issue) 22-16-08-02-03-08-14-24-33-39 (10 weeks) 13/12/2010 Me And The Moon 27-19-15-15-28-37 (6 weeks) 28/02/2011 In Your Eyes (w/ Edwyn Collins) 18-08-05-05-05-02-03-07-12-16-22-26-28-38 (14 weeks) 22/08/2011 Money 29-27-25-21-20-20-31 (7 weeks) 17/10/2011 How It Ended 36-29-21-17-16-15-21-28-34-32-31-34-38 (13 weeks) 06/02/2012 Days 27-20-16-15-10-07-05-07-13-17-24-34-40 (13 weeks) 18/08/2014 Magic Mountain 38-29-24-19-16-25-37 (7 weeks) 24/11/2014 I Can't Pretend 38-29-22-15-15-19-28-40 (8 weeks) 21/03/2017 Blood Under My Belt 34-21-11-05-02-02-04-07-11-16-24-31 (12 weeks) 05/03/2018 Meet Me In Mexico 34-27-25-25-31-39 (6 weeks) 02/02/2019 Body Chemistry 30-22-15-10-07-02-04-06-10-16-25-36 (12 weeks) 02/01/2021 Ambulance 30-23-12-03-03-01-02-02-02-06-08-12-19-25-38 (15 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Ambulance 02 Forever And Ever Amen 03 I Felt Stupid 04 Body Chemistry 05 How It Ended |
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8th March 2023, 01:26 PM
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 Hot Chip Points: 1042 Date first charted: 27/02/2006 Number of entries: 17 Total weeks on chart: 161 Most Successful Year: 2019, 1st Hot Chip are a band who have released two albums that I absolutely love, and many others I've never really been able to get into but have usually always put out some decent singles along the way. Like many, my first exposure to them was with their 2006 album The Warning, with its three singles all having similar top 20 success before the Over and Over re-release, as the indie-disco staple went two places higher to peak in the top 10. Those three, plus Careful and the title track were all great but I wasn't that into them as a band, and that continued with their next few releases, with only their big commercial success Ready For The Floor got close to the top end of the chart, although they did also get a decent hit with their cover of Vampire Weekend's Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa, alongside the man it namechecks, Peter Gabriel. In Our Heads was their fifth album, but the first one that really hit me all the way through. Lead single proper Night & Day is probably the song on it I find weakest, but the follow-ups became their two biggest hits as they reached the top 5 for the first time. The standouts though are the opener Motion Sickness and the 7-minute Flutes. The album is varied throughout but is a triumph of indie/electronica. They followed it up with decent standalone in Dark & Stormy, but their next album seemed like a huge step down and the best song Huarache Lights didn't quite manage to chart. Since then though they have only got stronger, and have become a mainstay towards the top of the chart. Next lead single Hungry Child had a quick climb to become their first number one, begins slowly but turns into another danceable song, and it remains the song of theirs I rate best, with Positive also making it as they became my top act of 2019. Spell made it a great trio of singles, and the Superorganism remix of that is great fun too. Last year came another album and three more big hits, with the upbeat Eleanor being the pick of the bunch. Chart History: 27/02/2006 Over And Over 12-14-19-24-30-39 (6 weeks) 08/05/2006 Boy From School 31-26-28-38-19-28-35 (7 weeks) 14/08/2006 Colours 16-16-24-36-40 (5 weeks) 09/10/2006 Over And Over [Re-issue] 11-10-11-25-38 (5 weeks) 21/01/2008 Ready For The Floor 35-20-09-15-22-29 (6 weeks) 12/05/2008 One Pure Thought 40-36-30-32-35 (5 weeks) 29/12/2008 Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (feat. Peter Gabriel) 25-15-12-12-12-21-33 (7 weeks) 25/01/2010 One Life Stand 35-34 (2 weeks) 10/09/2012 How Do You Do? 25-17-11-05-04-06-10-15-24-35 (10 weeks) 10/12/2012 Don't Deny Your Heart 22-16-10-07-05-04-07-12-22-32 (10 weeks) 17/06/2013 Dark and Stormy 36-33-22-19-18-15-21-37 (8 weeks) 20/04/2019 Hungry Child 31-20-09-01-01-01-02-03-05-08-09-11-13-17-21-28-32-37 (18 weeks) 15/06/2019 Melody of Love 36-30-22-19-18-14-15-16-18-24-29-35 (12 weeks) 07/09/2019 Spell 29-22-13-09-07-10-17-20-30-35-40 (11 weeks) 14/12/2019 Positive 33-22-13-06-05-01-01-03-06-08-13-18-24-32-37-40 (16 weeks) 28/05/2022 Down 30-21-13-08-05-05-07-10-16-24-34 (11 weeks) 23/07/2022 Eleanor 28-16-09-04-03-02-04-07-14-20-29-38 (12 weeks) 29/10/2022 Broken 34-23-12-09-06-07-11-18-26-33-40 (11 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Hungry Child 02 Flutes 03 Over and Over 04 Positive 05 Motion Sickness |
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 DMA's Points: 1077 Date first charted: 25/01/2016 Number of entries: 17 Total weeks on chart: 197 Most Successful Year: 2018, 1st The top 20 is largely taken up by acts who've been around since the early years of my chart, but DMA's are a huge outlier at #16. Since they first debuted in 2016, they're #1 above Hatchie by a massive margin of 268 points, having amassed 17 hits during that time, all but three hitting at least the top 20. Their debut album Hills End produced three hit singles, and I listened to the album a couple of times, but I considered them just a typical decent indie band, my love for them didn't begin properly until the day their second album was released. Lead single Dawning had become their biggest hit, and In The Air was a grower of a beautiful slower song before they released For Now which I begun to like more. In the week leading up to the album's release I saw they were playing my home city on the Friday it came out, so bought myself a ticket and spent most of that day listening to it and them. I had no idea they were popular enough to sell out a 2500 capacity venue, and they were incredible, without doubt one of the best live bands I had ever seen and I saw them a further three times in the next 15 months. I was hooked after that, and got much more into their older stuff, Feels Like 37 is a superb indie anthem and Delete deservedly their most popular song, without a doubt a top 5 all time live song. Following that, For Now climbed to number one and spent 5 weeks there. Do I Need You Now? was in a similar vein to In The Air, but Emily Whyte is their standout slow song. The lead from their third album, Silver, also climbed to the top, with it too producing another couple of top 10s, title track The Glow being my favourite of them. Life Is a Game of Changing was a decent change of sound for them, nicely accessible away from their standard sound, but still being great but it took be a while to properly get into. They had two further hits with their 2021 EP, before their fourth album campaign started last year with I Don't Need To Hide, which is typically and brilliantly anthemic. Since the end of the year, current single Fading Like a Picture gave them a chart entry for an 8th year in a row, and its points would put them up to #13 on a to-date chart. Looking at just how much they've dominated my listening since getting into them, from the beginning of 2018 they're the top act on my last.fm with about 50% more listens than second place. Chart History: 25/01/2016 Delete 25-15-17-26-39 (5 weeks) 25/04/2016 In The Moment 36-32-23-18-14-09-11-17-28-38 (10 weeks) 11/07/2016 Too Soon 31-26-25-30-40 (5 weeks) 30/10/2017 Dawning 34-30-28-23-15-13-10-07-06-06-08-09-13-23-30 (15 weeks) 05/03/2018 In The Air 37-32-28-22-21-17-14-13-14-19-30-37-33-31-37 (15 weeks) 16/04/2018 For Now 33-18-03-01-01-01-01-01-02-04-06-09-10-12-16-20-22-26-31-33-35-39 (22 weeks) 25/06/2018 Do I Need You Now? 37-30-21-15-09-07-06-08-13-26-37 (11 weeks) 30/07/2018 Are You Here? (w/ The Presets) 30-21-18-16-14-12-13-19-24-27-34-40 (12 weeks) 22/10/2018 The End (Channel Tres Remix) 29-25-24-22-26-31-40 (7 weeks) 09/11/2019 Silver 36-24-12-05-03-03-02-02-01-01-05-08-12-18-23-30-39 (17 weeks) 22/02/2020 Life Is a Game of Changing 35-28-26-26-23-20-16-14-13-15-21-30-37 (13 weeks) 18/07/2020 Criminals 38-30-24-17-12-08-08-14-23-30-39 (11 weeks) 02/05/2020 The Glow 31-22-10-06-02-02-02-02-04-07-10-11-13-18-25-31-36-40 (18 weeks) 04/09/2021 We Are Midnight 26-17-11-08-07-12-16-26-39-40 (10 weeks) 08/01/2022 Junk Truck Head Fuck (feat. MAY-A) 29-22-16-19-24-33 (6 weeks) 27/08/2022 I Don't Need To Hide 33-24-15-04-02-02-03-05-08-13-19-28-35-40 (14 weeks) 26/11/2022 Everybody's Saying Thursday's The Weekend 36-29-25-25-30-32* -35-36-40 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 For Now 02 Feels Like 37 03 Delete 04 Emily Whyte 05 Silver |
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10th March 2023, 05:39 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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 Ben Howard Points: 1080 Date first charted: 26/09/2011 Number of entries: 15 Total weeks on chart: 182 Most Successful Year: 2012, 1st Although I was never that into any the wave of singer-songwriters to emerge from the mid 2000s onwards, Jack Johnson's In-Between Dreams being comfortably my favourite album of that type, that changed when Ben Howard came onto the scene in 2011. I loved Keep Your Head Up straight away, so uplifting and anthemic, and it became a big number one hit for me, with parent album Every Kingdom being truly brilliant and something I was excited to purchase on its day or release. A string of excellent singles, with a nice variety in style, all reached the top 10, and it was my favourite album of the year, something I ranked in my top 10 of the decade and still love now. The tracks on the extended version and the Burgh Island EP didn't disappoint a year later. It was brilliant to see him get such mainstream success, watching it build to a pair of BRIT Awards I couldn't have been more delighted about. The first release of 2014s follow-up was something a little different, End of the Affair going with a bit of a darker sound and at almost 8 minutes long was a surprise but an excellent one, a brilliant single that builds to a stunning crescendo, an easy second number one and I couldn't wait to hear the rest. It was another accomplished album, taking the sound of Every Kingdom and tweaking it a bit, it was every bit as good as I'd hoped and in the title track and Conrad helped him hit 9 consecutive top 10 hits. Later albums have been a bit more hit and miss, but those hits have been excellent, again coming back with a long lead single in A Boat To An Island on The Wall, and following it up with Nica Libres at Dusk, which went on to become a third number one. What a Day was reminiscent of earlier work and was something I grew to love, and Sorry Kid feels very under-charted. His other project A Blaze of Feather has produced a few decent singles too, with Six Years being another top 5 hit in 2017. Chart History: 26/09/2011 Keep Your Head Up 33-23-15-05-01-01-01-01-01-01-03-06-09-10-14-18-23-30-34 (19 weeks) 28/11/2011 The Fear 33-25-18-08-05-02-02-03-04-06-11-14-19-25-34 (15 weeks) 13/02/2012 The Wolves 29-20-12-03-03-02-02-03-05-07-13-23-34 (13 weeks) 07/05/2012 Only Love 35-22-12-06-04-04-07-10-20-28-37 (11 weeks) 13/08/2012 Old Pine 30-20-09-08-11-13-23-34 (8 weeks) 05/11/2012 Burgh Island EP 15-09-06-04-02-04-05-06-05-04-06-09-10-14-18-26-34-40 (18 weeks) 25/08/2014 End of the Affair 16-05-01-01-02-02-02-05-07-10-13-16-15-22-30-36 (16 weeks) 08/09/2014 I Forget Where We Were 25-14-12-07-09-08-11-14-20-18-24-30-38 (13 weeks) 01/12/2014 Conrad 24-17-10-09-10-15-20-28-40 (9 weeks) 02/03/2015 Rivers in Your Mouth 33-26-25-34-40 (5 weeks) 08/06/2015 Small Things 35-29-24-26-31-37 (6 weeks) 23/04/2018 A Boat to an Island on the Wall 29-21-15-10-10-07-12-13-15-19-22-30-37-40 (14 weeks) 21/05/2018 Nica Libres at Dusk 36-27-19-10-02-01-01-02-03-04-05-09-16-26-36-40 (16 weeks) 13/02/2021 What a Day 35-30-22-17-18-17-15-11-06-05-06-11-20-33 (14 weeks) 24/04/2021 Sorry Kid 28-23-22-24-36 (5 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Keep Your Head Up 02 End of the Affair 03 I Forget Where We Were 04 The Wolves 05 Nica Libres at Dusk |
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11th March 2023, 10:16 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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#14
 Bat For Lashes Points: 1081 Date first charted: 13/04/2009 Number of entries: 17 Total weeks on chart: 182 Most Successful Year: 2012, 4th The first half of this countdown was quite varied, but the top 40 has turned to largely male fronted indie of some sort, so at #14 Natasha Khan AKA Bat For Lashes is the 3rd highest act with predominantly female vocals. I got into the latter singles from her first album, probably through beginning to listen to 6 Music, as she climbed into the top 10 with her first charting single Prescilla, and when Fur and Gold was nominated for the Mercury Prize it made me buy it, I've always quite liked it but never hugely, earlier single Horse & I very much being the best thing on it. When she returned 18 months later with Daniel I was hooked fairly quickly, and was absolutely delighted she made the UK Top 40, as it went all the way to the top for me. It was a more accessible song than she'd released before, much more synthy, and still her most perfect song. The whole of the Two Suns album is magnificent, Pearl's Dream also made the top 5 and both Glass and Two Planets are amongst her very best. A third album came in 2012 and once again returned with a #1 single that was just a Christian name, Laura. Much more stripped back and typical 'singer-songwriter' song, it's hauntingly beautiful and still stops me in my tracks, a fully deserving pair of number one singles. She followed it up with another couple of top 10s, but Lilies and Horse of the Sun are my other standouts from The Haunted Man. A couple of collaborations followed as she featured on songs with electronic musician Jon Hopkins and indie band Toy, before releasing an EP with the latter as Sexwitch, their take on old songs of Iranian and Moroccan heritage, the lead single Helylos reaching the top 10 again. Both her fourth and fifth album also produced a pair of top 10 hits, The Bride's story of a woman who's fiance dies in a car crash on the way to their wedding, an interesting concept, it's another great album and Joe's Dream is the pick from it. Kids In The Dark gave her a third number one single in 2019, reminded me of her earlier work and is just beautiful, with Jasmine becoming just her second top 5 hit that didn't go all the way to the top. Her cover of the Carpenters We've Only Just Begun, used to advertise Lloyds Bank, snuck a few weeks as her last entry. Chart History: 19/03/2007 Prescilla 33-15-13-10-18-25-35 (7 weeks) 18/06/2007 What's A Girl To Do? 39-32-17-14-15-23-38-38-39 (9 weeks) 02/03/2009 Daniel 39-25-17-08-03-02-01-01-03-03-07-09-13-15-16-19-23-31 (18 weeks) 22/06/2009 Pearl's Dream 25-14-10-08-06-04-05-04-07-11-17-28-35 (13 weeks) 07/09/2009 Sleep Alone / Moon And Moon 32-28-31-40 (4 weeks) 23/07/2012 Laura 31-10-03-02-01-01-01-04-05-07-10-17-23-27-29-36-39 (17 weeks) 01/10/2012 All Your Gold 26-23-13-09-10-09-08-08-12-12-16-22-25-32-38 (15 weeks) 31/12/2012 A Wall 33-26-17-12-07-07-13-21-31 (9 weeks) 22/07/2013 The Bride (w/ Toy) 26-24-16-12-13-16-21-31 (8 weeks) 30/09/2013 Garden's Heart (w/ Jon Hopkins) 34-29-24-16-14-17-30 (7 weeks) 12/10/2015 Helelyos (w/ Toy as SEXWITCH) 25-17-14-08-07-09-15-28-39 (9 weeks) 11/07/2016 Sunday Love 35-28-20-15-12-10-09-11-15-23-36 (11 weeks) 10/10/2016 Joe's Dream 25-15-07-07-09-13-17-20-26-36 (10 weeks) 19/12/2016 If I Knew 36-31-28-24-19-21-28-39 (8 weeks) 29/06/2019 Kids in the Dark 36-28-19-10-04-02-01-02-03-05-08-10-12-17-21-26-32-36-40 (19 weeks) 07/09/2019 Jasmine 36-29-22-15-13-09-07-05-06-09-15-26-34 (13 weeks) 17/10/2020 We've Only Just Begun 35-33-32-36 (4 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Daniel 02 Laura 03 Kids In The Dark 04 Horse & I 05 Glass |
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13th March 2023, 09:17 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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#13
 Maxïmo Park Points: 1096 Date first charted: 01/11/2004 Number of entries: 19 Total weeks on chart: 184 Most Successful Year: 2005, 3rd My teenage obsession with Maxïmo Park was so high that on most music forums I posted on, I signed up with the username Maxïmo Mark. In a world that was awash with British indie bands, it was a pair of middling ones (in terms of UK chart impact) from North East England that I really fell for in 2005. Paul Smith is a superb frontman with a great voice and knack for writing indie-disco bangers including some local colloquialisms. I'd heard Zane Lowe playing their earlier single at the end of 2004 but it was Apply Some Pressure that I loved straight away, one of the greatest songs of its type from that era which was unfortunately released on the same week as another of those, so it wasn't until it was re-released that it became a #1 for me. The string of singles from the album was excellent and they'd have all been in my final 10-ish purchases on CD single, Graffiti a superb follow-up in similar vein and Going Missing much more chilled and heartfelt. A Certain Trigger remains one of the albums from that period that I remain fondest of, full of great songs - Once, A Glimpse, Signal and Sign and the beautiful Acrobat the pick of the non-singles. To me, they were definitely a sufferer of the sophomore slump as I didn't care for their second album much, but it did possess a trio of superb singles, Our Velocity giving them a third number one and a UK top 10 which I was delighted by, a single close to matching the quality of Apply Some Pressure and just as anthemic and easy to sing along to. Girls Who Play Guitars is of a similar style and also remained high in my affections. All seven of their albums have had a charting single, though a couple of them only just, by album #3 I'd pretty much stopped caring which made me very sad, but The Kids Are Sick Again managed a couple of weeks towards the bottom. With much lower expectations I was more impressed by their work on The National Health and they returned to the top 10 twice, Hips and Lips is up there with their best and The Undercurrents is a long-lost twin of Going Missing. Leave This Island would return them to the top 10 once more a couple of years later, but the album following their debut I've got into most was 2017s Risk To Exist, with its two main singles falling just short. Last year they released Great Art which took me back to their early work, it felt like a real throwback, and gave them a first top 5 in 15 years. It was to promote a Singles tour which was well worth attending, they're a great live act and it was good to finally see them outside of a festival, and showed a collection well worthy of their #13 position. Chart History: 01/11/2004 The Coast Is Always Changing 33-39 (2 weeks) 21/02/2005 Apply Some Pressure 02-05-04-07-10-14-17-23-29-34-40 (11 weeks) 02/05/2005 Graffiti 02-04-06-11-13-15-13-14-17-19-23-29-31-32-36 (15 weeks) 18/07/2005 Going Missing 01-01-01-01-02-04-10-15-20-22-31-33-32-34-38-39 (16 weeks) 24/10/2005 Apply Some Pressure [Re-issue] 02-01-01-02-03-02-05-11-15-16-17-21-26-29-29-25-28-33 (18 weeks) 20/02/2006 I Want You To Stay 05-08-11-15-19-24-32-40 (8 weeks) 26/02/2007 Our Velocity 13-04-02-01-01-05-05-08-13-22-30-39 (12 weeks) 21/05/2007 Books From Boxes 33-20-13-10-08-11-14-16-22-31-40 (11 weeks) 20/08/2007 Girls Who Play Guitars 30-09-07-07-18-27-34 (7 weeks) 03/12/2007 Karaoke Plays 34-31-30-33 (4 weeks) 04/05/2009 The Kids Are Sick Again 39-37 (2 weeks) 11/06/2012 Hips And Lips 35-23-15-08-07-07-07-07-12-18-23-32-39 (13 weeks) 27/08/2012 The Undercurrents 39-34-28-21-19-17-15-09-12-16-19-23-33 (13 weeks) 26/11/2012 The National Health 36-31-33 (3 weeks) 06/01/2014 Leave This Island 27-23-18-11-07-08-12-19-24-37 (10 weeks) 01/12/2014 Give, Get, Take 37-38 (2 weeks) 21/02/2017 Risk to Exist 38-33-29-26-25-20-18-13-20-30-39-40 (12 weeks) 29/05/2017 What Equals Love? 32-24-18-16-13-13-18-33 (8 weeks) 07/11/2020 Baby, Sleep 39-36-35-34-38 (5 weeks) 09/04/2022 Great Art 33-25-21-14-10-11-06-05-08-14-27-37 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Apply Some Pressure 02 Our Velocity 03 Graffiti 04 Girls Who Play Guitars 05 Hips and Lips |
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14th March 2023, 06:50 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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#12
 Foals Points: 1139 Date first charted: 20/08/2007 Number of entries: 18 Total weeks on chart: 176 Most Successful Year: 2010, 7th Onto the two just falling short of the top 10, and first up are Foals, whose career splits perfectly in half, an excellent one and a good one, with nine of their first ten entries reaching the top 10, but just two of their next eight managing the same. Mathletics was my introduction to them, a fun and quirky single which separated them from most indie bands of the time, with Balloons and Cassius being of a similar vein, and their single prior to those Hummer has gone on to be a massive favourite. Their debut album Antidotes was very much in the same style of those singles, very dance orientated with significant math-rock influences, and it's gone on to be one of my favourite albums of all time. If I made a top 10 of Foals songs, the majority would be from that era. But whilst 00s Foals might make up 6/7 of my top 10, my top 2 aren't from that era and are well clear of the rest. One of them got the chart run it deserved, but safe to say that Spanish Sahara didn't really, although 5 weeks in the top 3 and 13 weeks in total is hardly a flop. Gone was the sound of previous work, as they progressed to something so beautifully atmospheric that kept building towards a stunning crescendo. At nearly 7 minutes long it was a significant risk leading with that following a fairly successful debut era, but it absolutely worked and helped them get even bigger, as it's deservingly gone on to be one of their most popular hits and a live staple. Blue Blood feels very similar in style and the next best thing on the album, which whilst not hitting the same heights as Antidotes, is still great. Returning with something completely different but also excellent was something they soon did again, with Inhaler being their most rocky song so far, and this time it got a worthy chart run, five weeks at the top and almost half a year on the chart in total. They followed it up with another pair of top 5 hits, My Number easily their biggest and most popular song but Bad Habit the one that I continue to listen to most, really up there with their best. I'd actually rank fourth album What Went Down as my 2nd favourite of theirs, but the singles success didn't really match it, the title track I probably underappreciated at the time but I've never been that big on Mountain at My Gates, but it seems to be a comfortable 2nd of theirs for popularity so it's done something right. It did at least supply their last top 5 hit in the beautiful under-appreciated Albatross. In recent years it feels like quantity has been prioritised over quality, with three albums in the last four years, on which only Exits really stands up to previous work. Most of the singles I've enjoyed enough to playlist, but few I've properly cared for and in the case of 2am got bored of quicker than it grew on me. As much as I've enjoyed listening to them in the last 15 years, they are quite honestly the most boring live act I've ever seen. Twice at festivals I've seen them, and both times I've left before the end of their set, given how utterly uninteresting they were. At last years Glastonbury when they headlined the Other Stage on Friday, I think there were about 10 acts on at the same time I'd have gone to over them. Chart History: 20/08/2007 Mathletics 16-08-03-03-08-14-18-20-24-35 (10 weeks) 10/12/2007 Balloons 37-36-19-10-10-12-15-21-26-30 (10 weeks) 25/02/2008 Cassius 24-06-05-08-10-15-17-25-33-40 (10 weeks) 05/04/2010 Spanish Sahara 30-17-08-03-02-02-03-02-04-09-15-24-35 (13 weeks) 03/05/2010 This Orient 31-23-16-08-05-06-08-16-25-33 (10 weeks) 05/07/2010 Miami 31-31-40 (3 weeks) 08/11/2010 Blue Blood 25-18-08-04-04-04-07-12-16-29-36 (11 weeks) 12/11/2012 Inhaler 25-14-07-04-02-01-01-01-01-01-02-03-03-02-03-04-07-10-13-16-22-27-34-40 (24 weeks) 11/02/2013 My Number 31-19-12-08-05-07-12-20-32 (9 weeks) 15/07/2013 Bad Habit 26-16-13-12-07-05-06-11-16-22-29-38 (12 weeks) 13/07/2015 What Went Down 38-26-22-16-22-32 (6 weeks) 17/08/2015 Mountain at My Gates 35-31-32-38-39-40-36 (7 weeks) 18/01/2016 Birch Tree 33-24-20-14-11-15-24-36 (8 weeks) 11/07/2016 Albatross 25-15-09-05-03-05-08-12-19-28-39 (11 weeks) 09/02/2019 Exits 34-24-17-12-11-08-07-08-14-23-32-39 (12 weeks) 08/06/2019 In Degrees 36-27-22-16-13-17-28-36 (8 weeks) 31/08/2019 Black Bull 32-25-23-21-31-40 (6 weeks) 26/02/2022 2am 38-25-15-12-14-31 (6 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Spanish Sahara 02 Inhaler 03 Hummer 04 Cassius 05 Mathletics |
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15th March 2023, 08:59 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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 Coldplay Points: 1166 Date first charted: 06/01/2003 Number of entries: 16 Total weeks on chart: 187 Most Successful Year: 2008, 8th Coldplay had been in my all-time top 10 since 2008 but were kicked out at the last minute, with just a fortnight left of 2022. They are fourth and final act to appear who were present in my first ever chart. They were always a band I enjoyed, their debut was an album I got when I would've been 11 or 12 which isn't exactly the music people of that age would usually enjoy. They did have an incredible knack of picking singles, with their best songs usually getting released which for a long time meant high charting positions for me. They kicked off here with The Scientist and Clocks which would've been a pair of #1s if I'd got the formers full chart run from 2002. A Rush of Blood To The Head and Viva La Vida are the two albums I'd still listen to all the way through now, the latter probably my favourite album of theirs after X&Y which I found little too dull. Speed of Sound was hugely hyped and I was caught up in that to some extent with it charting at #3, the singles which followed each went one higher - Fix You is a superb anthem and Talk has to be up there with their most underrated tracks. X&Y showed some excellent variation and different sounds for them. Looking back, Violet Hill doesn't deserve to have charted that much lower than all of their others with its odd chart run of double #10 peak, but Viva La Vida fully deserving of its success. The end of 2008 saw some Coldplay plus rap, with Jay-Z being a welcome addition to Lost and a mashup with Lil Wayne's A Milli, something I enjoyed for about a fortnight and probably never listened to again. They continued to be a great singles band considering Mylo Xyloto is somewhat poor with some more excellent hits, before they bowed out (or so I thought) with Midnight, using an unreleased Jon Hopkins backing track to sound Bon Iver esque, it was no wonder I adored it and I'm surprised it wasn't more successful for me. As with other bands that have been in here, there comes a time when enough Coldplay exists and it's been hard to care about anything new they release when you know they have 30+ better songs. That was until 2021, despite my usual lack of any expectation was blown over by Coloratura, a 10+ minute epic that's definitely amongst their best songs. A fully deserving band to kick off the top 10! Chart History: 06/01/2003 The Scientist 08-10-12-14-18-18-21-24-27-35-39 (11 weeks) 24/03/2003 Clocks 01-01-01-02-03-04-06-07-09-09-13-15-19-23-24-27-33-36-39 (19 weeks) 23/05/2005 Speed of Sound 03-04-04-06-11-15-15-21-28-32-35 (11 week) 05/09/2005 Fix You 02-03-06-10-11-13-13-16-17-21-27-25-29-38-39-40-37-39 (18 weeks) 19/12/2005 Talk 02-01-01-03-07-06-09-13-16-19-32 (11 weeks) 05/05/2008 Violet Hill 22-10-13-22-34-38-20-10-16-24-27-37 (12 weeks) 12/05/2008 Viva La Vida 20-14-13-20-10-02-02-02-03-05-07-09-14-15-16-21-29-39 (18 weeks) 10/11/2008 Lost+ (feat. Jay-Z) 38-31-24-15-10-09-09-11-12-22-31 (11 weeks) 29/12/2008 Viva La Milli (w/ Lil Wayne) 26-26 (2 weeks) 19/01/2009 Life in Technicolor ii 21-07-05-02-03-04-11-22-33 (9 weeks) 07/06/2011 Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall 33-30-20-08-02-02-02-02-05-08-13-18-28-39 (14 weeks) 12/09/2011 Paradise 36-25-18-13-13-13-09-13-19-29-38-X-21-16-13-16-21-34 (17 weeks) 06/02/2012 Charlie Brown 36-25-23-22-21-32-38 (7 weeks) 05/11/2012 Hurts Like Heaven 27-21-13-09-14-25-33-38 (8 weeks) 03/03/2014 Midnight 30-17-11-05-09-12-22-29-37 (9 weeks) 31/07/2021 Coloratura 28-18-09-04-03-05-11-15-23-33 (10 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Clocks 02 Midnight 03 Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall 04 Fix You 05 Coloratura |
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20th March 2023, 07:52 PM
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my mind is ready for fun
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I'll seek out a few of those Röyksopp songs you've charted - I enjoyed their early charting singles and the Profound Mysteries albums, but don't know much from in between, besides those other Susanne Sundfør and Robyn collabs. Time Is Running Out is the first of many Muse singles I got into, all represented here. Let's Go Surfing is a tune - I had no idea The Drums had been so prolific since 2010! Agree with Apply Some Pressure being a Maxïmo Park fave. Coldplay's best predate 2003 for me, but they've consistently had at least one great song per album - I'd certainly add in A Sky Full Of Stars and Adventure Of A Lifetime, although they've had a lot of singles I don't care for in recent eras too.
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20th March 2023, 09:17 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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 James Blake Points: 1180 Date first charted: 10/01/2011 Number of entries: 19 Total weeks on chart: 195 Most Successful Year: 2013, 5th Starting off the top 10 now with James Blake, the only act who has had a song peak in each position within the top 10, in a career which has been remarkably consistent. It kicked off with a cover of Feist's The Limit To Your Love, nice enough but I've always preferred her version, and was soon followed by a first big hit with The Wilhelm Scream, in his typical stripped back minimal sound. It was a huge grower, and his self-titled debut album went on to become one I listened to a lot. He'd hit the top 10 again before the year was out with his first collaboration with Bon Iver. A return in 2013 gave him three hits including a first number one in Overgrown, something that sounded very much like a natural progression from The Wilhelm Scream. Both Retrograde and Life Round Here feel under-charted a decade on, definitely top 10 worthy in comparison to some of the twelve that did make it. The second half of the last decade gave a string of six top 10 hits, beginning with his take on The Sound of Silence. The Colour In Anything was the first album of his I didn't fully click with, it's way too long, but a few on it are decent and I Need a Forest Fire is the better of his two hits with Bon Iver. He was back with a bang for album #4, Mile High got him back into the top 3 before Can't Believe The Way We Flow gave him a second chart topper, it had been my standout off it from my first listen, so was pleased it got a push later in the year. Since then he's released more standalone singles but they've all been decent, You're Too Precious another that perhaps didn't quite get the peak it deserved, before Are You Even Real? returned him to the top 10. Only a couple of singles from his last album charted, Famous Last Words now one of my favourites of his, and the Slowthai version of Funeral from the special edition peaking at #4 completed the top 10 set, it's hard to say his verse is necessary but I do like it. Chart History: 10/01/2011 Limit To Your Love 37-33-39 (3 weeks) 18/04/2011 The Wilhelm Scream 30-18-10-03-03-03-06-06-07-10-15-18-26-35 (14 weeks) 21/06/2011 Unluck 27-25-17-16-24-36 (6 weeks) 29/08/2011 Fall Creek Boys Choir (w/ Bon Iver) 25-19-15-11-07-10-19-30 (8 weeks) 10/10/2011 Enough Thunder 40-40 (2 weeks) 18/02/2013 Retrograde 32-27-24-20-20-14-14-14-18-21-27-38 (12 weeks) 03/06/2013 Overgrown 29-18-09-04-01-01-01-01-02-03-06-09-12-16-23-30-38 (17 weeks) 28/10/2013 Life Round Here 37-30-25-20-17-20-25-38 (8 weeks) 07/12/2015 Sound of Silence 21-12-08-10-16-20-30 (7 weeks) 30/05/2016 Radio Silence 38-29-19-08-05-05-07-08-13-23-32-39 (12 weeks) 15/08/2016 I Need a Forest Fire (feat. Bon Iver) 26-16-09-08-09-14-23-35 (8 weeks) 18/06/2018 Don't Miss It 37-30-21-14-10-08-06-08-11-17-25-36 (12 weeks) 02/02/2019 Mile High (feat. Metro Boomin & Travis Scott) 35-30-22-14-09-04-03-02-04-07-10-13-18-22-25-32-37 (17 weeks) 04/05/2019 Can't Believe The Way We Flow 25-17-09-03-01-01-01-03-05-07-11-19-26-34-39 (15 weeks) 16/05/2020 You're Too Precious 33-28-26-25-24-21-16-13-13-16-22-31 (12 weeks) 08/08/2020 Are You Even Real? 34-26-22-17-11-10-14-18-21-30-37 (11 weeks) 07/11/2020 Before 29-22-16-15-17-23-27-35-40 (9 weeks) 09/10/2021 Famous Last Words 33-23-15-09-10-18-26-34-37-40 (10 weeks) 27/11/2021 Funeral (feat. Slowthai) 25-12-07-06-04-04-05-07-14-20-27-36 (12 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 The Wilhelm Scream 02 Overgrown 03 Can't Believe The Way We Flow 04 Famous Last Words 05 Are You Even Real? |
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21st March 2023, 09:34 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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#09
 Wolf Alice Points: 1126 Date first charted: 20/05/2013 Number of entries: 15 Total weeks on chart: 197 Most Successful Year: 2021, 1st Wolf Alice are a band that so rarely miss, and as a result have racked up a huge amount of hits from their three albums. They kicked off in 2013 with the original and killer version of Bros (the reworking of it for their debut album a definite rare miss (though still decent, just a huge step down)), before their first EP was released later that year, lead song off it She getting them into the top 10 for the first time, it was a superb EP with the beautiful Blush being one of their all time standouts and Nosedive being amongst their better rockier songs. The single from their next EP Creature Songs, Moaning Lisa Smile, went even higher and became the first of six top 3 singles. As they geared up for the release of their debut album My Love Is Cool, Giant Peach went even further and hit the top spot for three weeks in 2015, another of their great rocky songs I couldn't have anticipated the album any more and it certainly didn't disappoint - latter singles You're a Germ and Lisbon were both excellent and at the more poppy end of their output, Silk wonderfully atmospheric and I'm always delighted that it remains on their live setlist. It's one of my favourite debut albums of all time, with highlights throughout - the opener The Wonderwhy and Swallowtail (as drummer Joel takes vocals for a change) are also both incredible. Their return two years later with Yuk Foo was the first time I didn't enjoy a song of theirs, and it's not something I have ever warmed to, but that didn't last long as Don't Delete The Kisses soon followed, a beautiful song about young love with Ellie Rowsell's perfect spoken vocal throughout the verses, it spent five weeks at the top and remains my favourite song of theirs. I did really enjoy the album again but I did find the latter singles weren't generally amongst my favourites from it, Space & Time Aside. 2021 saw the release of their third album, with lead single The Last Man on Earth spending even longer at the top with a six week reign at number one, I was hooked from first listen and it really showed their talent and ability to take risks. Space was fine but is pretty standard fair for them, surprised I charted it so highly, before How Can I Make It OK got a deserved release, it was always the highlight from the album. They crept into the top 10 from #12 at the end of the year with a Christmas cover of In The Bleak Midwinter. Chart History: 20/05/2013 Bros 30-20-14-11-11-11-17-23-32-40 (10 weeks) 21/10/2013 She 28-20-11-08-07-07-08-17-25-32-40 (11 weeks) 28/04/2014 Moaning Lisa Smile 40-30-19-09-05-03-05-10-15-22-31-40 (12 weeks) 16/03/2015 Giant Peach 27-16-07-02-01-01-01-02-03-06-09-12-16-19-22-28-32-34-39 (19 weeks) 27/07/2015 You're a Germ 27-21-14-13-12-14-19-17-09-08-07-09-13-17-25-35 (16 weeks) 02/11/2015 Freazy 35-30-24-19-19-27-37 (7 weeks) 30/05/2016 Lisbon 25-17-08-03-02-02-02-05-07-10-14-22-31 (13 weeks) 24/07/2017 Don't Delete The Kisses 31-22-12-08-04-03-02-01-01-01-01-01-02-05-09-17-23-30-37 (19 weeks) 18/09/2017 Beautifully Unconventional 27-16-10-08-11-19-33 (7 weeks) 19/02/2018 Formidable Cool 37-32-28-25-24-23-29-37 (8 weeks) 28/05/2018 Space & Time 29-24-17-12-07-04-04-04-07-10-15-24-35-40 (14 weeks) 06/03/2021 The Last Man on Earth 30-15-03-01-01-01-01-01-01-02-03-02-03-04-06-09-12-16-21-25-29-35-40 (23 weeks) 08/05/2021 Smile 26-20-17-12-09-08-06-05-07-12-18-26-39 (13 weeks) 31/07/2021 How Can I Make It OK? 36-24-14-09-06-03-02-04-05-06-11-19-32 (13 weeks) 11/12/2021 Delicious Things 30-23-15-10-06-06-09-14-19-26-33-40 (12 weeks) 10/12/2022 In The Bleak Midwinter 24-14-08-11* -32 (4 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Don't Delete The Kisses 02 The Last Man on Earth 03 Giant Peach 04 Silk 05 Lisbon |
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22nd March 2023, 10:02 PM
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IncredibleSquirrel
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#08
 Kasabian Points: 1201 Date first charted: 10/05/2004 Number of entries: 20 Total weeks on chart: 179 Most Successful Year: 2017, 3rd Kasabian are a rarity of a 00s indie band who managed to stay decent for a long time, as I enjoyed to some extent all of their first six albums with three of them being brilliant. I did listen to and enjoy some of the singles from last years seventh album, but I've found it much harder to care about them since the departure of singer Tom Meighan, and listened to them a lot less after it came out he'd been charged for assaulting his fiancé, the way the whole band handled it left a somewhat sour taste. They are the first of three acts in the top 10 who have become much more problematic in the last couple of years. Their self-titled debut album was brilliant, L.S.F. was the song that properly got me into them as it debuted at #2 behind The Libertines, and Club Foot has gone on to become a huge favourite too, Reason Is Treason and Running Battle from the album are up there with their best too. I wasn't as into the second album, but did have a few good songs on it, Me Plus One is the one I go back to most now, undercharted somewhat at the time. It was their third album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum that was their finest work, lead single Fire was huge at the time, an anthem that brought a lot of success, but it was never one of my favourites on it. That was always Underdog and after four other top 5 hits went right to the top. Both Velociraptor and 48:13 are much better albums than the chart positions they got from the singles they released from them, largely down to poor choices, but Goodbye Kiss and Stevie are both amongst their biggest and remain in my top 5 of theirs, the former being their best example of a slower song. Let's Just Roll Like We Used To, La Vee Ferte, Treat and Glass being the better songs from those two. They nailed the singles from their next album though, as 2017 went on to be their most successful year, Bless This Acid House being the most successful and Ill Ray (The King) being the one I'd rank best now. Chart History: 10/05/2004 Club Foot 19-24-34-39 (4 weeks) 09/08/2004 L.S.F. 02-02-03-06-08-16-17-19-22-22-31-39 (12 weeks) 11/10/2004 Processed Beats 03-06-12-18-20- 27-33-38 (8 weeks) 21/03/2005 Club Foot (Re-issue) 08-11-16-20-27-30-37 (7 weeks) 03/01/2005 Cutt Off 03-05-07-07-12-15-17-26-32-39 (10 weeks) 24/07/2006 Empire 18-08-10-25-29-32 (6 weeks) 06/11/2006 Shoot The Runner 37 (1 week) 29/01/2007 Me Plus One 23-16-17-29-40 (5 weeks) 17/09/2007 Fast Fuse 37 (1 week) 01/06/2009 Fire 31-19-12-10-16-22-23-26 (8 weeks) 27/07/2009 Where Did All The Love Go? 33-27-16-12-07-04-05-07-11-16-27-40 (12 weeks) 28/09/2009 Underdog 24-14-05-01-01-01-03-06-08-16-20-28-30-36 (14 weeks) 08/02/2010 Vlad The Impaler 30-21-16-11-13-21-34 (7 weeks) 26/09/2011 Days Are Forgotten 39-35-38 (3 weeks) 14/11/2011 Re-Wired 33-28-28-26-30 (5 weeks) 23/01/2012 Goodbye Kiss 23-15-09-05-03-03-04-04-07-09-14-20-28-39 (14 weeks) 15/09/2014 Stevie 26-18-15-13-11-10-04-01-02-03-07-12-18-26-34-40 (16 weeks) 03/04/2017 You're In Love With a Psycho 26-16-12-11-19-33-39 (7 weeks) 01/05/2017 Comeback Kid 28-20-15-14-13-12-20-32-40 (9 weeks) 05/06/2017 Bless This Acid House 26-14-12-07-04-03-03-05-07-13-17-21-30-36 (14 weeks) 11/09/2017 Ill Ray (The King) 32-28-30-33-39-39-24-22-16-14-15-23-29-34-38-39 (16 weeks) 2023 Top 5 Rank: 01 Underdog 02 L.S.F. 03 Goodbye Kiss 04 Club Foot 05 Stevie |
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22nd March 2023, 10:04 PM
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#160
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IncredibleSquirrel
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QUOTE(jimwatts @ Mar 20 2023, 07:52 PM) I'll seek out a few of those Röyksopp songs you've charted - I enjoyed their early charting singles and the Profound Mysteries albums, but don't know much from in between, besides those other Susanne Sundfør and Robyn collabs. Time Is Running Out is the first of many Muse singles I got into, all represented here. Let's Go Surfing is a tune - I had no idea The Drums had been so prolific since 2010! Agree with Apply Some Pressure being a Maxïmo Park fave. Coldplay's best predate 2003 for me, but they've consistently had at least one great song per album - I'd certainly add in A Sky Full Of Stars and Adventure Of A Lifetime, although they've had a lot of singles I don't care for in recent eras too. Thanks Jim, glad you're enjoying still. I do like both of those Coldplay songs too, and surprised looking back I didn't chart A Sky Full of Stars really. There are some decent Royksopp songs in there, I've thought most of the singles from Profound Mysteries have been OK and nice to listen to, but haven't made me want to listen to the full thing. |
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