# 45

Blood Diamonds

Phone Sex (feat. Grimes)

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

 

# 44

Lianne La Havas

Lost & Found

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 43

Jamie N Commons

The Preacher

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

 

# 42

How to Dress Well

And It Was U

 

Chart Peak: #3

 

 

 

 

 

# 41

Lana Del Rey

National Anthem

 

Chart Peak: #4

 

 

 

 

Three of this year's #1 hits miss out on a Top 40 place; the wonderful "Lost & Found" by Lianne La Havas, Jamie N Common's "The Preacher" and Blood Diamonds' summer hit "Phone Sex". Lana also makes a second appearance, and the progressive R&B tune from How to Dress Well (And It Was U, #42), which impressed me with its crisp finger-clicking production and excellent vocals

 

I think I may share more of my top 100 with you than anyone else :wub:

DAMN, better not hold off on this much longer!

 

 

# 40

Tom Odell

Another Love

 

Chart Peak: #2

 

 

 

 

# 39

Niki & The Dove

Tomorrow

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 38

The Other Tribe

Skirts

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 37

The Milk

Broke Up The Family

 

Chart Peak: #3

 

 

 

 

# 36

Purity Ring

Fineshrine

 

Chart Peak: #7

 

 

 

The first of the top 40 batch sees two one-week #1 hits drop out - "Tomorrow" and "Skirts", The Milk's highlight single "Broke Up The Family", the second of two Purity Ring appearances, and recent Xmas No.2 "Another Love"

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For some reason "Phone Sex" never massively clicked with me, which is weird considering how obsessed I am with Grimes. Anyway a mini-woo for that. Amazing to see "The Preacher" at #42 - I would love to hear much more from Jamie N Commons! Great also to see the amazing "Fineshrine" and "Tomorrow" finish inside the Top 40. :D

Gonna rush through 35-21 tonight;

 

 

# 35

Laura Mvula

She

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 34

Redlight

Get Out My Head

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 33

CHVRCHES

The Mother We Share

 

Chart Peak: #3

 

 

 

 

# 32

Paper Crows

Happier (feat. Major Look)

 

Chart Peak: #3

 

 

 

 

# 31

Hooray For Earth

True Loves

 

Chart Peak: #4

 

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# 30

Fiona Apple

Every Single Night

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 29

Stealing Sheep

Shut Eye

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 28

Sleigh Bells

Comeback Kid

 

Chart Peak: #5

 

 

 

 

# 27

fun.

We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monae)

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 26

Alex Clare

Too Close

 

Chart Peak: #4

 

 

 

And yes, Too Close did make my End of Year list for 2011 (albeit way too low), i listened to the song quite a lot again this year. Have to admire the fact that even after being played constantly on an advert for months, it STILL sounds great

 

 

# 25

Haim

Don't Save Me

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 24

AlunaGeorge

Your Drums, Your Love

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 23

Gorillaz

DoYaThing (feat. James Murphy & Andre 3000)

 

Chart Peak: #3

 

 

 

 

# 22

Woodkid

Run Boy Run

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 21

M.I.A.

Bad Girls

 

Chart Peak: #2

 

 

 

Top 20 starts tomorrow!

 

Nice chart, looking forward to the rest!

M.I.A :wub:

That last section!!!

 

Your Drums Your Love is so so incredible, great to see it so high on here - M.I.A and Gorillaz are great as always, Haim have a fantastic debut single and even I can't deny that Woodkid has a quality feeling to it.

# 20

Grimes

Genesis

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 19

Rustie

Surph (feat. Nightwave)

 

Chart Peak: #4

 

 

 

Starting off the top 20 is one of two (well, three technically) appearances from Grimes, and a vocal-edit of Rustie's brilliant electronic track "Surph"

 

# 18

The Neighbourhood

Sweater Weather

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 17

Django Django

WOR

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

The Neighbourhood's breezy track "Sweater Weather" was a big summer hit on my chart, the main highlight from their debut EP "I'm Sorry..." - a band to look out for next year. "WOR" was never actually released as a single, it was one that i listened to quite a lot, the main riff is pretty awesome

 

# 16

Alt-J

Tessellate

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 15

Everything Everything

Kemosabe

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

Another of my big summer hits; Alt-J's "Tessellate" grabbed three weeks at the top back in July. Everything Everything's second multi-week #1 smash of 2012, Kemosabe sees the band with a slightly more accessible sound, without losing the creativity and lyrical oddities that make them so brilliant

 

# 14

Major Lazer

Get Free (feat. Amber Coffmann)

 

Chart Peak: #3

 

 

 

 

# 13

Hooray For Earth

No Love

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

Major Lazer continue to impress with their enchanting hit "Get Free", and the amazing "No Love" which first came to my attention through it's support from Radio 1 in the spring, was one of the several 3-week #1 hits from last year.

 

# 12

The Maccabees

Pelican

 

Chart Peak: #1

 

 

 

 

# 11

fun.

Some Nights

 

Chart Peak: #3

 

 

 

Early-year #1 "Pelican", a song that still manages to sound quite fresh even now, is followed by a second appearance from fun. - with their highly energetic anthem "Some Nights"

 

Loads of great tracks in the Top 20.

 

Particularly loving "Genesis" of course, as well as "Tessellate", "Kemosabe", "No Love" and "Pelican".

 

The Top 10 is going to be all kinds of amazing. :D

Loads of great tracks in the Top 20.

 

Particularly loving "Genesis" of course, as well as "Tessellate", "Kemosabe", "No Love" and "Pelican".

 

The Top 10 is going to be all kinds of amazing. :D

Cheers DB, the top ten starts noww~

 

# 10

Rudimental

Feel the Love (feat. John Newman)

 

Chart Peak: #5

 

You know I said it's true, I can feel the love, can you feel it too?

 

 

 

One of those times when you just know a song is gonna be big. John Newman's soulful vocal leads into an explosion of euphoric drum & bass, and we also get a rather awesome trumpet solo too. I'm sure i'm not the only one who'll say this; THE SOUND OF SUMMER 2012

 

 

# 9

M83

Midnight City

 

Chart Peak: #3

 

"Waiting in a car, waiting for a ride in the dark"

 

 

 

Yes, it's a 2011 song, I KNOW. But i never fully embraced it until it's chart breakthrough at the start of the year, for whatever reason. Either way, everyone else has probably already told you how great this track is, so i won't really need to

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Genesis? Feel The Love?! MIDNIGHT CITY?! My second favourite song of all time! That saxophone solo at the end makes me want to die and go to heaven every single time...

 

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# 8

Grimes

Oblivion

 

Chart Peak: #2

 

"If someone could break your neck, coming right behind you always coming and you never have a clue"

 

 

 

Despite peaking lower than "Genesis", I felt this song stayed with me longer during the year...SHOULDA BEEN #1 :( Anyway, the catchiness of the song masks some rather twisted lyrics (e.g. the one stated just above the video), most of which are difficult to understand from purely listening. The overall feeling of the music is more than enough though, an odd pop gem if i ever heard one