Another quarter of the year has passed which means this feature of the Thermo Hot 50 will return, that is of course the quarterly Hot 50 :cheer: And this time we have it for quarter 2!

 

There will also be a short update on how the overall YTD is looking, with points from quarters 1 and 2 combined.

 

It will start with numbers 50 to 41 shortly.

 

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41 149 Ferreck Dawn & Redondo ~ Something Else ...29-26-40-27-16-30-40-x • 7 weeks

42 140 My Digital Enemy ~ On A Ragga Tip 16-14-19-22-44-x • 5 weeks

43 138 Kygo ~ ID (Ultra Music Festival Anthem) ...38-28-33-31-23-28-38-x • 7 weeks

44 136 Rihanna ~ Bitch Better Have My Money ...10-18-23-32-44-43-x • 6 weeks

45 132 Countess Luann ~ Chic, C'est La Vie 26-14-17-20-46-x • 5 weeks

46 130 Martin Garrix feat. Usher ~ Don't Look Down ...12-11-22-39-43-49-x • 6 weeks

47 128 A WA ~ Habib Galbi 29-13-19-28-38-x • 5 weeks

48 125 Armin van Buuren ~ Together (In A State Of Trance) ...26-20-24-38-32-41-x • 6 weeks

49 122 Armin van Buuren & Mark Sixma ~ Panta Rhei ...32-24-25-12-40-x • 5 weeks

50 120 Natalie La Rose feat. Jeremih ~ Somebody ...23-34-x-39-49-49-x-28-33-36-48-... • 9 weeks

 

For the second quarter in a row 'Somebody' appears in the 41-50 section, it was #44 in the first quarter, showing some great stability here, but it will very likely not appear in quarter 3 as it's just about to drop out the hot 50.

 

The first 2 Armin van Buuren entries of 3 appear together, with 'Together' falling from last quarter's #5 down to #48, just a place above the follow up 'Panta Rhei' which was quite good but didn't match the quality of the former.

 

BJSC winner A-WA and plug dj fave Countess Luann make splashes in the top 50 also with their respective ikonik songs, with Martin Garrix slotted between them. It is his only appearance in the top 50, although he does have a 2nd song in the top 100, 'The Only Way Is Up' with Tiesto which is at #90.

 

Kygo has 3 entries in the top 50 of which 'ID' is the first of them. He nearly had 4 however 'Stole the Show' only makes it to #51. My Digital Enemy is a place ahead and leading the section is 'Something Else' which was #11 last quarter.

 

31 175 Marvin Gaye ~ Sexual Healing (Kygo Remix) 18-14-13-15-20-x • 5 weeks

32 174 Michael Calfan ~ Treasured Soul ...41-39-29-11-12-19-32-x • 7 weeks

33 170 King Arthur feat. Michael Meaco ~ Belong to the Rhythm 39-5-9-14-27-42-... • 6 weeks

34 169 Diviners feat. Contracreast ~ Tropic Love 21-6-7-18-34-x • 5 weeks

35 161 Matoma & The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Ja Rule & Ralph Tresvant ~ Old Thing Back 5-6-13-33-37-x • 5 weeks

36 157 Alesso feat. Sirena ~ Sweet Escape 16-13-9-9... • 4 weeks

37 157 Mr. Belt & Wezol ~ Finally 10-11-13-19-45-x • 5 weeks

38 154 Loreen ~ Paper Light (Higher) ...5-16-19-29-41-42-x • 6 weeks

39 152 CamelPhat feat. A*M*E ~ Paradigm 17-9-19-32-32-45-x • 6 weeks

40 150 Calvin Harris feat. Haim ~ Pray to God (Calvin Harris vs. Mike Pickering Hacienda Remix) ...17-22-38-26-22-32-x-50-x • 7 weeks

 

'Pray to God' had already peaked off the back of the album but Calvin Harris' new remix of it brought it back in the chart for many weeks and so it enters the top 40 this quarter after having missed the top 50 last quarter.

 

A place above is CamelPhat with the lush 'Paradigm' which spent a single week in the top 10, helped of course by being a BJSC entry. Another BJSC entry appears in this section at #34, from Diviners which I discovered from Spinning Adam.

 

Loreen made her comeback and got her third top 5 Thermo hit, which is 3 more than every other Eurovision winner ever so well done to her. She still knows how to make a great dance-pop song. A place above is the Ce Ce Peniston sampling 'Finally' and Alesso's latest single 'Sweet Escape'. Alesso will be making another appearance much later on with 'Cool', which could be a #1 contender.

 

Michael Calfan drops 10 places since the last quarter countdown with 'Treasured Soul' which is a place behind Kygo's 2nd entry, a remix of classic r&b anthem 'Sexual Healing'. It is not the only tropical house song in the section however, as the formerly mentioned Diviners track as well as Matoma's 'Old Thing Back', a remix of dead rapper The Notorious B.I.G are also here.

 

21 230 Dr. Kucho! & Gregor Salto ~ Can't Stop Playing (Oliver Heldens & Gregor Salto Remix) ...-27-8-6-7-11-22-46-x • 7 weeks

22 223 Disclosure feat. Gregory Porter ~ Holding On 17-4-2-3-6-... • 5 weeks

23 215 TCTS feat. Leo Kalyan ~ Thinking About You 38-22-15-9-12-15-31-x • 7 weeks

24 209 Usher feat. Juicy J ~ I Don't Mind ...20-12-15-24-26-33-34-48-49-40-x • 10 weeks

25 207 FINEART ~ Ruffnek 48-42-24-15-12-12-18-30-x • 8 weeks

26 205 Years & Years ~ King ...8-3-9-22-34-37-39-x • 7 weeks

27 191 Oliver Nelson feat. Heir ~ Found Your Love 8-6-11-19-20-... • 5 weeks

28 187 Armin van Buuren feat. Mr. Probz ~ Another You 8-9-8-21-35-40-49-x • 7 weeks

29 186 Helena & Vassy ~ Boss 16-35-45-x-37-24-24-21-33-42-47-x • 10 weeks

30 182 Duke Dumont ~ The Giver (Reprise) 45-7-7-10-4-... • 5 weeks

 

Duke Dumont came back with a revised version of 'The Giver', which I much prefer to the original version and returns him to the quality level of 'Need U'/'I Got U' rather than 'Won't Look Back'. It should be in for another quarterly chart appearance as it is currently at #4 in the hot 50.

 

Three Danaelandan BJSC entries appear as well, 'Boss', 'Found Your Love' and the BJFest entry 'Thinking About You', which is the highest of the three although will probably end up the lowest in the actual end of year chart.

 

At #28 is Armin's highest entry, his first single from his next album which I initially loved but I grew off it quickly as the chart run shows. Hopefully he has better songs on the album.

 

Years & Years climb to #26 from last quarter's #36 with 'King', which finally peaked at #3 towards the start of the quarter. A place above is 'Ruffnek' which most of you probably haven't heard but it's a good housey tune.

 

Usher brings the swag to the countdown at #24 and Disclosure's comeback single enters at #22 helped by 4 weeks top 10. Topping the section however is 'Can't Stop Playing' which re-peaked this quarter thanks to the UK release and vocal remix.

Can't Stop Playing is #22 on mine, very close :lol: It really is a tune, the instrumental just excites me every time because of how loud and BAM it is, I'm a fan of the vocal edit to because Ane's vocals are so unusual and endearing.

 

Feel like I'm going off BBHMM more now, I adored it when it first came out but I definitely burned it out quickly and now I'm not massive on the odd video either :( Visually impressive just not what I want from a music video :P

Some great tracks in here so far Dan! Especially approving of King and Somebody :heart: BBHMM is the best thing this era from RiRi for me although I'm not feeling it a huge amount still :(

Can't Stop Playing is #22 on mine, very close :lol: It really is a tune, the instrumental just excites me every time because of how loud and BAM it is, I'm a fan of the vocal edit to because Ane's vocals are so unusual and endearing.

 

Feel like I'm going off BBHMM more now, I adored it when it first came out but I definitely burned it out quickly and now I'm not massive on the odd video either :( Visually impressive just not what I want from a music video :P

I really love both versions of Can't Stop Playing, even though the vocal took a while to get used to it's great. BBHMM is great but I went off it weeks ago, was kinda hoping we'd get a video for it back when it was actually popular rather than months later, will have to give it a watch sometime though. I hear it's v. naughty :whip:

 

Some great tracks in here so far Dan! Especially approving of King and Somebody :heart: BBHMM is the best thing this era from RiRi for me although I'm not feeling it a huge amount still :(

both of those are great! I have a feeling you'll deffo approve of something else that's in the top 20~

 

FourFiveSeconds says hello :hi: That is actually my fave of the era so far although it's not her best song ever, the era isn't her best really.

 

my last.fm stats for the era;

 

70 - FourFiveSeconds

30 - Bitch Better Have My Money

8 - American Oxygen :lol:

 

11 315 Redondo & Bolier feat. She Keeps Bees ~ Every Single Piece 18-9-10-10-11-17-21-21-27-x • 9 weeks

12 313 Felix Jaehn feat. Jasmine Thompson ~ Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better) 1-2-7-10-8-8-8-... • 7 weeks

13 300 Avicii feat. Simon Aldred ~ Waiting For Love 1-1-1-1-1-1-... • 6 weeks

14 278 Kygo feat. Conrad ~ Firestone ...6-9-11-17-20-26-30-41-36-39-48-x • 11 weeks

15 265 Philip George ~ Afraid To Love 5-4-5-5-6-16-... • 6 weeks

16 251 Arty feat. Ray Dalton ~ Stronger 7-10-13-9-11-5-... • 6 weeks

17 247 Alex Adair ~ Make Me Feel Better ...1-7-10-18-21-31-33-47-44-x • 9 weeks

18 242 Fetty Wap ~ Trap Queen 48-22-23-8-6-5-3-... • 7 weeks

19 242 Blonde feat. Alex Newell ~ All Cried Out 36-13-9-10-16-25-31-38-39-x • 9 weeks

20 240 Omarion feat. Chris Brown & Jhené Aiko ~ Post To Be 27-18-22-19-10-7-14-... • 7 weeks

 

Omarion starts off the top 20, yeah I never expected to see him back as I thought he just disappeared after 2007's 'Ice Box' but this one is even better. Such a tune as to be expected from a DJ Mustard production these days. Another urban song 2 places ahead for Fetty Wap whose 'Trap Queen' has proven to be a real grower in the UK chart and on Thermo's Hot 50 also. Sandwiched between is Blonde who make a far better song than 'I Loved You' with 'All Cried Out'.

 

Last quarter's #1 'Make Me Feel Better' falls to #17 and 'Firestone' falls from #2 to #14. One place ahead is Avicii 'Waiting For Love', which has the most points possible for a song with only 6 weeks on the chart as all of those weeks were spent at #1. Even by Avicii's usual standards this has spent a very long time at #1 and it could even break the record for total and/or consecutive weeks at #1 (previously set by Mr. Probz 'Waves' which spent 9 weeks at #1 last year).

 

Last quarter Philip George was #15 with 'Wish You Were Mine'. His new effort 'Afraid To Love' continues the trend of Philip George being #15, and Arty enters a place below with latest effort 'Stronger', which is unrelated to the Clean Bandit song of the same name which is #84 in this countdown.

 

Felix Jaehn's reworking of 'Ain't Nobody' entered the chart at #1 and has stuck around well, but that's not enough for it to finish in the top 10. It is at #12, and one place ahead is Redondo & Bolier with their deep house smashaa (in my chart only) 'Every Single Piece'.

 

6 367 Galantis ~ Runaway (U & I) 37-14-7-15-19-25-28-26-27-26-21-20-31-... • 13 weeks

7 339 Oliver Heldens ~ Melody ...3-8-12-23-15-14-23-25-30-33-36-x • 11 weeks

8 332 Jess Glynne ~ Hold My Hand ...9-4-4-5-8-12-18-34-47-37-x • 10 weeks

9 331 Pep & Rash ~ Red Roses 8-4-3-3-4-2-2-... • 7 weeks

10 322 Shift K3Y ~ Name & Number 4-3-4-8-9-11-16-31-x • 8 weeks

 

Shift K3Y managed to get another big Thermo hit even if it nothing officially (well I am less of a chart hoe these days). Really disappointed about that anyway as this is a better version of 'Touch' imo.

 

At #9 is the first of two Pep & Rash entries, and this is the follow-up to the massive 'Rumors', a hard song to follow-up but I think they did it really well. Also it became the first song to chart before the artist identity was revealed, so they are now firmly in the Thermo's Hot 50 history books *.

 

Queen of Music Jess Glynne got herself another big UK chart hit with 'Hold My Hand' which predictably also hit it big on Thermo's Hot 50. A place above is Oliver Heldens, whose 'Melody' was #39 last quarter but with the advantage of more charting weeks this time it climbs to #7.

 

Galantis fall just short of the top 5, although it is the first of five songs to have spent all 13 weeks of the quarter inside the hot 50, having entered on week 1 and being currently #31. It only peaked at #7 on the weekly so it's done well for itself to get as far as #6 here. The top 5 however are made up of only #1 and #2 peaking songs.

 

1 552 Alesso feat. Roy English ~ Cool ...-2-1-1-1-1-2-3-6-6-12-26-21-29-... • 13 weeks

2 531 Pep & Rash ~ Rumors ...-7-2-3-3-3-5-5-10-11-14-19-25-25-... • 13 weeks

3 497 Omi ~ Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) ...-22-5-2-4-6-7-7-11-16-18-20-24-24-... • 13 weeks

4 455 Major Lazer feat. MO & DJ Snake ~ Lean On 35-6-5-2-2-4-6-15-20-23-28-30-32-... • 13 weeks

5 384 Avicii feat. Joakim Berg ~ On My Own 1-2-3-2-2-3-4-7-... • 8 weeks

 

Just weeks before 'Waiting For Love' came out we got teased with new Avicii in the form of 'On My Own' which instantly went to #1 before making way for Felix Jaehn and later reclaiming #2 behind WFL.

 

Major Lazer smash their way to #4, becoming the highest new entry in the countdown with 'Lean On'. 'Cheerleader' climbs from #8 to #3 after the UK release which did finally happen.

 

'Rumors' is top 5 for a second quarter in a row, climbing from #4 to #2. Its top 10 longevity wasn't enough to beat Alesso however, who climbs from #13 to #1 with 'Cool' which spent a month at #1 earlier this quarter. Definitely one of my faves of the year and a deserved #1.

 

That was just based on the last quarter though, in the next post we see how things are going based on the first half of the year.

Thermo's hot 50 • first half

 

 

It is Pep & Rash then who are currently leading the YTD, but with Avicii on six weeks and counting at #1, maybe they won't be for long?

 

1 955 Pep & Rash ~ Rumors 1

2 880 Omi ~ Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) 2

3 844 Alesso feat. Roy English ~ Cool 1

4 808 Alex Adair ~ Make Me Feel Better 1

5 769 Kygo feat. Conrad ~ Firestone 3

6 519 Armin van Buuren ~ Together (In A State Of Trance) 4

7 485 Oliver Heldens ~ Melody 1

8 484 Ferreck Dawn & Redondo ~ Something Else 2

9 466 Sandy Rivera feat. April ~ BANG! 1

10 455 Major Lazer feat. MO & DJ Snake ~ Lean On 2

11 422 Rihanna feat. Kanye West & Paul McCartney ~ FourFiveSeconds 3

12 419 Michael Calfan ~ Treasured Soul 3

13 415 Jess Glynne ~ Hold My Hand 4

14 390 Alesso feat. Tove Lo ~ Heroes (We Could Be) 8

15 388 Axwell^Ingrosso ~ Something New 9

16 384 Avicii feat. Joakim Berg ~ On My Own 1

17 384 Dr. Kucho! & Gregor Salto ~ Can't Stop Playing (Oliver Heldens & Gregor Salto Remix) 6

18 373 Tchami feat. Kaleem Taylor ~ Promesses 2

19 367 Galantis ~ Runaway (U & I) 7

20 365 Years & Years ~ King 3

21 331 Pep & Rash ~ Red Roses 2

22 322 Shift K3Y ~ Name & Number 3

23 315 Redondo & Bolier feat. She Keeps Bees ~ Every Single Piece 9

24 313 Felix Jaehn feat. Jasmine Thompson ~ Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better) 1

25 300 Avicii feat. Simon Aldred ~ Waiting For Love 1

26 299 4 Strings & Katty Heath ~ Hold In Silence 2

27 299 Martin Solveig & GTA ~ Intoxicated 7

28 290 99 Souls feat. Beyoncé vs. Brandy & Monica ~ The Girl Is Mine 9

29 283 Philip George ~ Wish You Were Mine 4

30 282 Sam Feldt ~ Show Me Love 6

31 279 Whitney Houston ~ How Will I Know (Oliver Nelson Remix) 2

32 279 Usher feat. Juicy J ~ I Don't Mind 12

33 273 SRTW ~ We Were Young (Sascha Kloeber Remix) 7

34 268 Mark Ronson feat. Bruno Mars ~ Uptown Funk 4

35 265 Philip George ~ Afraid To Love 4

36 265 Avicii feat. Ras ~ The Nights (Avicii By Avicii) 3

37 262 Tough Love ~ Dreams 4

38 261 Mediate ~ What You Do 2

39 253 Helena & Vassy ~ Boss 10

40 252 Pep & Rash ~ Fatality (Quintino Edit) 7

41 251 Arty feat. Ray Dalton ~ Stronger 5

42 242 Fetty Wap ~ Trap Queen 3

43 242 Hannah Wants & Chris Lorenzo ~ Rhymes 5

44 242 Blonde feat. Alex Newell ~ All Cried Out 9

45 240 Eric Prydz vs. CHVRCHES ~ Tether 2

46 240 Omarion feat. Chris Brown & Jhené Aiko ~ Post To Be 7

47 240 Calvin Harris feat. Haim ~ Pray to God 14

48 238 Showtek feat. MC Ambush ~ 90s By Nature 18

49 237 Sia feat. Diplo ~ Elastic Heart 11

50 236 Natalie La Rose feat. Jeremih ~ Somebody 14

 

and here's a recap of quarter 2

 

Thermo's hot 50 • quarter 2

 

1 552 Alesso feat. Roy English ~ Cool 1

2 531 Pep & Rash ~ Rumors 2

3 497 Omi ~ Cheerleader (Felix Jaehn Remix) 2

4 455 Major Lazer feat. MO & DJ Snake ~ Lean On 2

5 384 Avicii feat. Joakim Berg ~ On My Own 1

6 367 Galantis ~ Runaway (U & I) 7

7 339 Oliver Heldens ~ Melody 3

8 332 Jess Glynne ~ Hold My Hand 4

9 331 Pep & Rash ~ Red Roses 2

10 322 Shift K3Y ~ Name & Number 3

11 315 Redondo & Bolier feat. She Keeps Bees ~ Every Single Piece 9

12 313 Felix Jaehn feat. Jasmine Thompson ~ Ain't Nobody (Loves Me Better) 1

13 300 Avicii feat. Simon Aldred ~ Waiting For Love 1

14 278 Kygo feat. Conrad ~ Firestone 6

15 265 Philip George ~ Afraid To Love 4

16 251 Arty feat. Ray Dalton ~ Stronger 5

17 247 Alex Adair ~ Make Me Feel Better 1

18 242 Fetty Wap ~ Trap Queen 3

19 242 Blonde feat. Alex Newell ~ All Cried Out 9

20 240 Omarion feat. Chris Brown & Jhené Aiko ~ Post To Be 7

21 230 Dr. Kucho! & Gregor Salto ~ Can't Stop Playing (Oliver Heldens & Gregor Salto Remix) 6

22 223 Disclosure feat. Gregory Porter ~ Holding On 2

23 215 TCTS feat. Leo Kalyan ~ Thinking About You 9

24 209 Usher feat. Juicy J ~ I Don't Mind 12

25 207 FINEART ~ Ruffnek 12

26 205 Years & Years ~ King 3

27 191 Oliver Nelson feat. Heir ~ Found Your Love 6

28 187 Armin van Buuren feat. Mr. Probz ~ Another You 8

29 186 Helena & Vassy ~ Boss 16

30 182 Duke Dumont ~ The Giver (Reprise) 4

31 175 Marvin Gaye ~ Sexual Healing (Kygo Remix) 13

32 174 Michael Calfan ~ Treasured Soul 11

33 170 King Arthur feat. Michael Meaco ~ Belong to the Rhythm 5

34 169 Diviners feat. Contracreast ~ Tropic Love 6

35 161 Matoma & The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Ja Rule & Ralph Tresvant ~ Old Thing Back 5

36 157 Alesso feat. Sirena ~ Sweet Escape 9

37 157 Mr. Belt & Wezol ~ Finally 10

38 154 Loreen ~ Paper Light (Higher) 5

39 152 CamelPhat feat. A*M*E ~ Paradigm 9

40 150 Calvin Harris feat. Haim ~ Pray to God 17

41 149 Ferreck Dawn & Redondo ~ Something Else 16

42 140 My Digital Enemy ~ On A Ragga Tip 14

43 138 Kygo ~ ID (Ultra Music Festival Anthem) 23

44 136 Rihanna ~ Bitch Better Have My Money 10

45 132 Countess Luann ~ Chic, C'est La Vie 14

46 130 Martin Garrix feat. Usher ~ Don't Look Down 11

47 128 A WA ~ Habib Galbi 13

48 125 Armin van Buuren ~ Together (In A State Of Trance) 20

49 122 Armin van Buuren & Mark Sixma ~ Panta Rhei 12

50 120 Natalie La Rose feat. Jeremih ~ Somebody 23

Well that's just the perfect #1 for this quarter! :cheer: