Moth 09

Here is my year end chart for 2013 counting down from 100 to 1. This year sees the usual international mix, this year featuring acts from 28 countries. 27 from the USA (20 in 2012), 16 from the UK (22 in 2012), 6 Canadian, 5 French and 4 each from Brazil, Holland and Korea. Romania is represented just 3 times – 5 in 2012 and 17 in 2011. For the first time acts from Lithuania, Morocco and Pakistan feature. 12 songs are in Spanish (17 in 2012) with 4 in Portuguese and French and 3 in Korean. 7 are in other languages including Lithuanian, Arabic, Urdu and one sung partly in a South African language I’m not able to identify. One song “Habibi I love you” has 5 languages in its various versions. Many genres are represented on the chart including dance, hip hop, reggae, dancehall, bachata, cumbia,tango, reggaeton, jazz, rap, electro-pop and Bollywood. Romeo Santos featues 4 times in the chart, Avicci, Bruno Mars and Pharrell 3 times and John Legend, Christina Aguilera, Stromae, Prince Royce, Luan Santana, Capital Cities, Major Lazer, Caro Emerald, Maitre Gims and Anitta twice. There are several songs which are remakes or rereleases the oldest of which go back to 1977 and one song is based on a country song over 80 years old. Three songs were high up on my 2012 year end chart and which had most of their commercial success in 2013 namely :

When I was your man (Bruno Mars) at 5

Let her go (Passenger) at 7

Just give me a reason (Pink) 17

so here we go starting with .....

100 One more sleep (Leona Lewis)

Leona’s Christmas song creeps into the Top 100 with her 5th appearance on my chart following “Bleeding Love” in 2007 and “Better in time”, “Forgive me” and “Run” in 2008.

99. Nhari Dayez (Black Jaguar)

First of two Moroccan acts in this run down with this reggae tinged Arabic hip hop track … nice video too.

98. Crooked (G Dragon)

K Pop band Big Bang knocked Psy off the top of my chart in 2012 with “Monster” which was 12 on my 2012 year end chart. In 2013 G Dragon from that band made my chart and was top of the Korean chart with “Crooked”, the video for which was clearly filmed in London. G Dragon also featured on my 2012 year end chart as a solo singer with “Missing you” at 76.

97. Moonshine (Bruno Mars)

Unreleased track from “Unorthodox Jukebox” and the 1st of 3 on my chart by Bruno Mars.

96. Liquid lunch (Caro Emerald)

First of two tracks on my Top 100 by the Dutch singer whose album “The Shocking Miss Emerald” went number one in the UK as well as Holland.

95. Summertime (DJ Tira)

This dance track is the only South African track on my Top 100 but has a good African vibe.

94. Dye Dye (Macka Diamond)

This track was number one in Jamaica and popular throughout the Carribean in 2013.

93. Mporei na vgo (Antonis Remos)

From Jamaica to Greece. This song has a typically Greek sound and has had a successful career in his homeland since 1996.

92. Budapest (George Ezra)

From Greece to Budapest but actually the singer is from London and the track was in a minor UK.

91. Get free (Major Lazer)

Reggae fusion and the 1st of 2 tracks by Major Lazer who gained considerable commercial success in 2013.

90. Nao para (Anitta)

This song was number one in Brazil and was the follow up to the biggest song of the year in Brazil which will appear much higher up this chart.

89. Lyja (Sel & Electronic 1)

First Lithuanian song to enter my chart and was later followed by another which comes in higher up this Top 100. Both tracks were top in Lithuania. “Lyja” has youtube views of 1.5 million not bad for a song sung in Lithuanian and from a country with a population of 3 million.

88. Solo (AB Quintanilla)

Catchy cumbia song from the Mexican American songwriter who has been on the music scener for some 20 years.

87. Te Esparando (Luan Santana)

First of 2 songs on this rundown for the most consistently successful singer in Brazil. He was number two in the 2012 year end rundown with “Te vivo” and at 31 with “Nega” and appeared twice in my 2011 year end countdown with "Quimica do amor" at 6 and "Amor nao e pecado" at 38.

86. Cups (Anna Kendrick)

Copy of a song by Lulu and the Lampshades from 2009 which was in turn based on an over 80 year old country song. “Cups” was Top 10 in the US in 2013.

85. Stompa (Serena Ryder)

Big hit in Canada but failed to break into the US market something that never happens the other way round !

84. Habibi I love you (Ahmed Chawki ft Pitbull)

This was a pan Arabic hit in 2012 and became a European hit in 2013 having been released with Spanish, French and Dutch versions featuring Pitbull.

83. Human (Christina Perri)

“Jar of Hearts” was number one in my chart in 2010. “Human” has been her first appearance in my chart since then.

82. A & E (Clean Bandit)

This track was released in 2012 but this UK act had a bigger hit in 2013 with a track recorded in 2010 “Mozarts House” which was popular on this forum.

81. Loved me back to life (Celine Dion)

Charted with me in 2012 with “Parler a mon pere” but hadn’t charted with me with any English material since “I’m your angel” with R Kelly in 1998. “Loved me back to life” had some commercial success.

Edited January 3, 201412 yr by moth09