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Ascension for The XX this week as On Hold hits the top spot, pushing BlackPink down one place. It's The XX's first charter in several years, and probably their second #1 after Islands from back in the day - before I formally recorded charts. Apologies for not getting links up from last week, regular readers, some issues came up on my end that left me not really in the frame of mind to get it done. Getting back on track for this week though. Peking Duk and Elliphant elevate again this week, with the latter now doubling up in the top 10 – a surprise, as at the start of the year I was going off her in a big way. The Tapes, a new band, also zoom into the top 5, while just beyond it, Girl Blue continues her unlikely rise, reaching a new peak on her 8th week in the chart. I’ll be keeping an eye on her in 2017, for autumn maybe.
Elsewhere in the chart, Sabrina Carpenter drops right out from #5 after spending all of her first 5 weeks in the top 5. There’s a few new entries at the far end, notably from Lana Del Rey’s West Coast which tends to hover within my top tracks outside the top 40 a fair chunk of the time. It’s probably heading for its 3rd year running in my year-end top 100. I live on the west coast, what can I say?! How Does It Feel, Sticks and Horses and Alicia Keys’ wonderful Blended Family also re-enter this week.

There’ll be more on this lot and other chart moves in the next post – even if it’s just some links -, but for now, here for your viewing and inspirational pleasure is this week’s chart in full, covering up to the last week:



01 The XX - On Hold [29-7-1]
02 Blackpink - Playing with Fire [12-1-2]
03 Peking Duk ft. Elliphant - Stranger [14-6-4-3]
04 The Midnight - The Comeback Kid [29-4-3-4]
05 The Tapes - You Know It's Real [13-8-14-5]
06 Girl Blue - Fire Under Water [40-29-16-18-36-32-10-6]
07 Goodluck - Find Me in the Forest [34-14-8-7]
08 Yogi ft. AlunaGeorge + Less is Moore - Blow You Up [21-9-8]
09 Sleigh Bells - Baptism by Fire [13-9]
10 Elliphant ft. Skrillex - Only Getting Younger [26-12-10]
11 Inna - Say it with Your Body [21-13-3-3-6-11]
12 Clean Bandit, Anne-Marie, Sean Paul - Rockabye [9-2-1-1-2-12]
13 Sia, Miguel, Queen Latifah - Satisfied [38-18-13]
14 Keke Palmer - Hands Free [26-14]
15 Empire of the Sun - Friends [33-17-15]
16 George Maple ft. GoldLink - Sticks and Horses [9-6-2-14-33-X11-16]
17 Joan as Police Woman - Overloaded [21-22-16-17]
18 The Weeknd - Starboy [12-4-6-27-X3-40-18]
19 Dragonette - Body 2 Body [12-9-15-19]
20 J Sutta - Distortion [N]
21 Warpaint - Dre [N]
22 Strobe ft. Nyla - Good Vibe [30-22]
23 Kideko, George Kwali, Nadia Rose + Sweetie Irie - Crank It (Woah) [25-23]
24 Calvin Harris - My Way [39-31-24]
25 Patty Crash ft. Kronic - Pictures [N]
26 Gypsy and the Cat - Paris [N]
27 Bearcubs ft. Secaina Hudson - So Long [37-X1-27]
28 Fergie - Life Goes On [31-27-28]
29 Bright Light Bright Light - How Does it Feel [23-19-X5-35-24-X7-29]
30 Lana Del Rey - West Coast [R]
31 Wide Awake ft. Lovelle - Young God [32-24-37-40-X1-29-31]
32 Alicia Keys ft. A$AP Rocky - Blended Family [24-20-15-20-X3-32]
33 Frenship ft. Emily Warren - Capsize [33-x4-26-7-7-11-33]
34 Annabel Jones ft. Nebbra - Asking for a Friend [N]
35 Rae Sremmurd ft. Gucci Mane - Black Beatles [37-35]
36 Lady Gaga - Diamond Heart [36-36]
37 Quiet Luke - Escapist [N]
38 Giorgio Moroder ft. Karen Harding - Good for Me [N]
39 Vaults - Hurricane [N]
40 Kate Bush - Never Be Mine (Live 2014) [N]

#1s this year:
AlunaGeorge - Mean What I Mean (1)
Britney Spears - Make Me (1)
Tove Lo - Cool Girl (2)
Clean Bandit ft. Louisa Johnson - Tears (1)
Dev ft. Nef the Pharaoh - #1 (1)
Empire Of The Sun - High And Low (1)
YoungR - Out Of My System (2)
Noonie Bao - Reminds Me (1)
Empire Of The Sun - To Her Door (1)
Sabrina Carpenter – Run and Hide (2)
Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul + Anne-Marie - Rockabye(2)
BLACKPINK – Playing With Fire (1)
The XX – On Hold (~)


Spotify Link to the playlist in full this week: click right here

This post has been edited by 360Jupiter: 11th December 2016, 06:55 PM