Lots of oldies always top my charts, so I like to add them to the original year stats. So ignoring them, these are the new(ish) tracks to top my charts in 2016. Note: no Drake....

 

Crazy For You Zonderling featuring Bishop 1

Faded Alan Walker featuring Iselin Solheim 4

The Pop Kids Pet Shop Boys 1

One Last Night Vaults 3

Nirvana Squeeze 1

Say It To Me Pet Shop Boys 1

Can’t Stop The Feeling Justin Timberlake 2

Burn Pet Shop Boys 2

Swipe To The Right Jean-Michel Jarre featuring Cyndi Lauper 1

Save It Salt Ashes 3

Otra Era Javiera Mena 1

The Flames Of Desire ABC 2

Hotter Than Hell Dua Lipa 1

First Time He Kissed A Boy Kadie Elder 4

Hurts Emeli Sande 1

House Of Cards Red Sky July 3

When You Know Robbie Williams 7

Looking forward to this! My favourites of your #1s are Faded & The Pop Kids :D

Looking forward to this! My favourites of your #1s are Faded & The Pop Kids :D

 

Thanks Pete :)

First block of 10 up include 3 veteran acts, Nile Rodgers, The Monkees and Paul McCartney. I've excluded all actual oldies (more than a year or 2 old) so this is all new stuff to get a good overview of the new music that excited me in 2016. As always in my charts, it's pos/highest pos/wks on chart/song/act/sales...

 

91 12 14 TOOTHBRUSH DNCE 220450

92 7 10 HOW LOVE BEGINS DJ Fresh & High Contrast featuring Dizzee Rascal 219800

93 8 10 OVERCOME Laura Mvula featuring Nile Rodgers 215150

94 10 13 SAY IT AGAIN Frances 214750

95 14 13 YOU BRING THE SUMMER The Monkees 209050

96 10 10 KEEPING YOUR HEAD UP Birdy 207450

97 10 11 MAKE ME LIKE YOU Gwen Stefani 206700

98 9 9 CHAMELEON QUEEN Cat’s Eyes 204950

99 9 10 NINETEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-FIVE/ ORIGINAL VERSION Paul McCartney & Wings v Timo Maas & James Teej 203050

100 10 11 24K MAGIC Bruno Mars 199100

 

DNCE's biggest hit is at 102, Cake By The Ocean, so I marginally preferred the other Jonas hit at 91. The Macca track is a dance remix of the 1974 album track, but it has been re-imagined proper, as opposed to a half-arsed update. Bruno usually turns up in my my year-end when he releases stuff, and has just scraped in with his retro bit of fun. Cat's Eyes is more a Radio 6 track, but it's 60's-indie and gorgeous, Gwen Stefani returned with some good stuff after years away, and Make Me Like You is the first of 2 top 10's to feature in my chart.

 

Birdy came back in a dance groove which I approved of, and The Monkees came back with good new stuff after a gap of 30 years, all of the tracks either revamped oldies (which is how the late Davy Jones features) or they were gifted new songs by fellow younger artists a full 50 years since they debuted and had my full love. You Bring The Summer was written by Andy Partridge of 70's/80's act XTC and is joyful tuneful nostalgia for me. First of 2 on the list. Frances had another good year, this time a lovely ballad, and Laura Mvula got her second year-end Top 100 track a few years after the first, helped by the ever-present Niles over the last few years.That leaves a good dance track featuring Dizzee Rascal which somehow didn't cross-over big enough.

 

My pick that you need to hear:

 

First of 3 for Robbie, first of 5 for 80's veterans ABC, a couple from adverts (Bo and Lemaitre), Gwen's second and final track of the year, a 90's rock return as the Red Hot's get a year-end top 100 for the first time this decade, the gorgeous Kwamie Liv track joins newies offaiah and Gallant, both deserved UK chart action and just missed out for the most part due to streaming.

 

81 9 12 THE GIRL IS MINE 99 Souls featuring Destiny’s Child and Brandy 242400

82 10 12 DARK NECESSITIES Red Hot Chili Peppers 239100

83 8 10 SHE’S ON FIRE Bo Saris 237750

84 19 17 TEN BELOW ZERO ABC 237450

85 10 12 BOURBON Gallant 235350

86 10 13 CLOSER Lemaitre featuring Jennie A 227600

87 12 13 TROUBLE Offaiah 226600

88 9 14 WHERE WOULD I BE? Gwen Stefani 224150

89 6 13 HIGHER Kwamie Liv 224000

90 6 11 PARTY LIKE A RUSSIAN Robbie Williams 221600

My favourite song so far is Trouble what a great dance song :heart:

 

I also love 24k Magic, How Love Begins, Keeping Your Head Up, Say It Again, Bourbon and The Girl Is Mine too!

 

Great chart so far John!

I'm kind of hoping to see some Medhelnia action in here, maybe I'm being a bit optimistic though :heehee:

 

My favourite #1's of yours are also The Pop Kids and Faded, the former especially is such a strong comeback after a few years out of the spotlight. It's nice to see The Girl Is Mine and Closer appear in your top 100, they're both great dance tracks.

I'm kind of hoping to see some Medhelnia action in here, maybe I'm being a bit optimistic though :heehee:

 

My favourite #1's of yours are also The Pop Kids and Faded, the former especially is such a strong comeback after a few years out of the spotlight. It's nice to see The Girl Is Mine and Closer appear in your top 100, they're both great dance tracks.

Hi John!

 

Some good tracks appearing so far, The Girl Is Mine was a surprising hit was glad that took off eventually.

 

Trouble is a great reworking of an otherwise bland song, another track I'm surpised made the top 40.

 

Closer is really good too, hear that a lot on adverts! :lol:

My favourite song so far is Trouble what a great dance song :heart:

 

I also love 24k Magic, How Love Begins, Keeping Your Head Up, Say It Again, Bourbon and The Girl Is Mine too!

 

Great chart so far John!

 

awww thanks "Santa" (been busy last few days :lol: ) Trouble was under-rated! :heart:

I'm kind of hoping to see some Medhelnia action in here, maybe I'm being a bit optimistic though :heehee:

 

My favourite #1's of yours are also The Pop Kids and Faded, the former especially is such a strong comeback after a few years out of the spotlight. It's nice to see The Girl Is Mine and Closer appear in your top 100, they're both great dance tracks.

 

thanks mdh, expect a few Pet Shop Boys tracks :lol:

Hi John!

 

Some good tracks appearing so far, The Girl Is Mine was a surprising hit was glad that took off eventually.

 

Trouble is a great reworking of an otherwise bland song, another track I'm surpised made the top 40.

 

Closer is really good too, hear that a lot on adverts! :lol:

 

Hi Dobbo,

 

I dont always go for remixes, but Girl Is Mine done good!

 

Closer I noticed in at advert at the cinema, and went and googled it, and bought it. Fab record. :cheer:

Next batch, the very under-rated Max Jury has a gorgeous ballad at 71, and a country dance crossover for Audien and Lady Antebellum is at 72. FKA Twigs should have had a crossover hit by now, and I thought Good To Love was the one to do it, just lovely. The first track off the new PSB album was a dance banger, largely instrumental, and I bought the 12 inch vinyl at the Royal Opera House when they played live - first of 7 PSB's in the list. I'm a fan!

 

Still in my chart, and climbing up this list now it's a bonafide European smash, it's Human at 75 - I bought it the minute I heard it the day it was released onto itunes, too good to hang about on! Eurovision at 76, hooray, and the likeable Amir for France, a great pop song. The Weeknd has 3 on the list, I Feel It Coming is the first, but also still high in my charts and climbing this list fast, bound to go top 50 in the end. Daft Punk help, for the first of 2 times. A great Buzzjack SC track at 78, from Willa, and a fab comeback single from the ever-varied and fab Primal Scream, who first made my year-end in 1990. Finally, the annoyingly stroppy Frank (with Beyonce) failed to make tracks available to download or youtube, you had to buy the whole album. My policy is not to be forced to buy albums for one track (it's been in operation since I was 14) so this gorgeous ballad is one I still don't have to play and enjoy whenever I want. Your loss Frank! Get over yourself :P

 

 

71 9 12 LOVE THAT GROWS OLD Max Jury 267100

72 8 12 SOMETHING BETTER Audien featuring Lady Antebellum 267000

73 5 11 GOOD TO LOVE FKA Twigs 265250

74 8 13 INNER SANCTUM/12 INCH MIXES Pet Shop Boys 265050

75 9 13 HUMAN Rag’n’Bone Man 263000

76 7 14 J’AI CHERCHE Amir 250050

77 3 5 I FEEL IT COMING The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk 249400

78 10 14 HEY Willa 247050

79 9 13 WHERE THE LIGHT GETS IN Primal Scream featuring Sky Ferreira 246750

80 8 14 PINK + WHITE Frank Ocean featuring Beyonce 244800

It's the Aussie Eurovision track that wuz robbed of a win by the new stupid voting system at 61, fab Dami. It's the best DNQ of the BJSC at 62 (apart from my own of course! :lol: ) and a gorgeous hangover sorta-xmas track from winter late 2015 from Kim Wilde at 63, just lovely. That huge chart-topper from Clean Bandit is at 64 and still climbing, cos it still sounds great, and another Eurovision entry from Barei at 65 gave Spain a rare contender. The huge, albeit low-key cool, Ibiza is at 66, expecting it in the top 2 year-end for the UK thanks to year-long streaming (and the reason why Clean Bandit won't be, even though it's bigger and better).

 

ABC's second track in the chart at 67, a very orchestral, cinematic non-single off the fab Lexicon Of Love II, and Florence's only entry this year is good, but not as giant as her Number One top 100 ranked track of 2015 (Queen Of Peace). Banks' Gemini Feed at 69 is a goodie, and Betsy's Lost & Found likewise a non-charting goodie, the former a Radio One target audience, the latter a Radio Two target audience. Fortunately I refuse to fit into target audience categories :P

 

61 3 9 SOUND OF SILENCE Dami Im 306450

62 6 11 RIVER RUNS DRY Scavenger Hunt 306250

63 7 14 ISOBEL’S DREAM Kim Wilde 304300

64 6 8 ROCKABYE Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul & Anne-Marie 281450

65 6 10 SAY YAY! Barei 279950

66 7 13 I TOOK A PILL IN IBIZA (SEEB REMIX) Mike Posner 275100

67 8 9 THE LOVE INSIDE THE LOVE ABC 274050

68 7 12 DELILAH Florence + The Machine 269900

69 7 13 GEMINI FEED Banks 269200

70 9 12 LOST & FOUND BETSY 267800

Completing the lower-half of my chart, this batch is led by Jeff Lynne, ELO legend returning with some cracking tracks after decades away, and 45 years since he first troubled my charts as part of The Move along with Roy Wood (Chinatown was the track). Most of the singles were listed in 2015's Top 100, but he had one tucked away for 2016, When The Night Comes. The massive UK chart-topper from the Chainsmokers is at 52 (and still climbing fast) so safe to say in total sales it will be top 30 eventually, at least.

 

A Robbie album track, sounding very like ELO's Don't Bring Me Down, is appropriately slightly-lower down at 53, name-checking 70's kung-fu movie star Bruce Lee, who died very young, and suddenly, to become a major cult star posthumously. The second of 3 for the Robster. That other Daft Punk collaboration from The Weeknd is at 54, and like Robbie and Closer and Redbone, at 55, all gaining sales fast and heading for the top 50. Starboy is fab, and a fab title (a Legion Of Super-Heroes name), Redbone was the name of a Native American band who sang about the Witch Queen Of New Orleans, and now a song title for the fab Prince-sounding Childish Gambino.

 

Cobi, a James goodie BJSC entry, a sort of semi-reggae Gospel Hozier, is at 56, while The Monkees second and final song on the list is a great song written by Paul Weller and Noel Gallagher at 57, but in a Monkees-60's-stylee, and you can tell which parts were written by Noel and which by Paul fairly easily I think (yet to be confirmed of course, but sounds obvious to me). All Saints flop comeback, commercially, was pretty decent for me, giving them a first listing in a decade with One Strike at 58. Flume just missed the 100 (at 112) with the Tove Lo combo, but make the grade with Kai, and the fab Never Be Like You. I'm still waiting for them to make that chart breakthrough! Finally, another band big on here in 2015, Hurts, still criminally ignored in the UK, saved a final single to peak into 2016 and qualify for this year's chart. Wish they would sell loads!

 

51 3 10 WHEN THE NIGHT COMES Jeff Lynne’s ELO 332600

52 4 10 CLOSER The Chainsmokers featuring Halsey 327350

53 5 7 BRUCE LEE Robbie Williams 323000

54 6 12 STARBOY The Weeknd featuring Daft Punk 322800

55 3 6 REDBONE Childish Gambino 321400

56 5 9 DON’T YOU CRY FOR ME Cobi 319450

57 7 11 BIRTH OF AN ACCIDENTAL HIPSTER The Monkees 316400

58 6 10 ONE STRIKE All Saints 313100

59 5 12 NEVER BE LIKE YOU Flume featuring Kai 308400

60 6 12 WISH Hurts 308000

Hey John! <3 My faves so far!

 

58 6 10 ONE STRIKE All Saints 313100 One of the shock surprises of 2016 for me! This really was an incredible comeback! <3

61 3 9 SOUND OF SILENCE Dami Im 306450 DAMI <3 <3 One of my favourites of the year & just an utterly fabulous ballad which Dami slays with her stunning vocals *.*

64 6 8 ROCKABYE Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul & Anne-Marie 281450 :heart:

65 6 10 SAY YAY! Barei 279950 :heart:

68 7 12 DELILAH Florence + The Machine 269900

69 7 13 GEMINI FEED Banks 269200

70 9 12 LOST & FOUND BETSY 267800 Love Betsy & this song was what made me take notice of her! Hope she can get a hit next year <3

78 10 14 HEY Willa 247050 One of my faves from BJSC this year definitely, this just slays & smashes! :wub:

81 9 12 THE GIRL IS MINE 99 Souls featuring Destiny’s Child and Brandy 242400

86 10 13 CLOSER Lemaitre featuring Jennie A 227600

87 12 13 TROUBLE Offaiah 226600

93 8 10 OVERCOME Laura Mvula featuring Nile Rodgers 215150 Really like this!

94 10 13 SAY IT AGAIN Frances 214750

96 10 10 KEEPING YOUR HEAD UP Birdy 207450 Loved Birdy this year & this is probably my favourite track from her album!

97 10 11 MAKE ME LIKE YOU Gwen Stefani 206700

Hey John! <3 My faves so far!

 

58 6 10 ONE STRIKE All Saints 313100 One of the shock surprises of 2016 for me! This really was an incredible comeback! <3

61 3 9 SOUND OF SILENCE Dami Im 306450 DAMI <3 <3 One of my favourites of the year & just an utterly fabulous ballad which Dami slays with her stunning vocals *.*

64 6 8 ROCKABYE Clean Bandit featuring Sean Paul & Anne-Marie 281450 :heart:

65 6 10 SAY YAY! Barei 279950 :heart:

68 7 12 DELILAH Florence + The Machine 269900

69 7 13 GEMINI FEED Banks 269200

70 9 12 LOST & FOUND BETSY 267800 Love Betsy & this song was what made me take notice of her! Hope she can get a hit next year <3

78 10 14 HEY Willa 247050 One of my faves from BJSC this year definitely, this just slays & smashes! :wub:

81 9 12 THE GIRL IS MINE 99 Souls featuring Destiny’s Child and Brandy 242400

86 10 13 CLOSER Lemaitre featuring Jennie A 227600

87 12 13 TROUBLE Offaiah 226600

93 8 10 OVERCOME Laura Mvula featuring Nile Rodgers 215150 Really like this!

94 10 13 SAY IT AGAIN Frances 214750

96 10 10 KEEPING YOUR HEAD UP Birdy 207450 Loved Birdy this year & this is probably my favourite track from her album!

97 10 11 MAKE ME LIKE YOU Gwen Stefani 206700

 

Hey UV thanks for the choices and comments! I got tingles when I saw Dami do her song for the first time, that's always a good sign (unless I've been sitting on my foot too long, thats just pins n needles :lol: ) Such a shame All saints didn't get the success they deserved :(

 

cheers!

john

Into the top 50 we go with a Pet Shop Boys fest, the official single the cool Twenty-Something at 50, and the singalonga dance anthem Happiness at 46, which has still not been gifted a single release, pure madness! At 47 they did a classy retro-synth, yet contemporary, collaboration with 70's EDM legend Jean-Michel Jarre. Not only does he make my year-end 100 for the first time since 1977's Oxygene Part IV (brilliant record), but he has another track higher up! Pet Shop Boys still have another 3 to come, yay!

 

The quite-big-in-Europe Josef Salvat fails to gather any UK success, very annoyingly, as the fab Paradise should have charted here. ABC, being over 30, quite obviously no chance of charting but at the least the album did well, and their third entry of 5 is at 42, the lead single Viva Love, total classic ABC. The first of two for Kishi Bashi, just as last year, keeps my obscure (but very talented) fave in the 100, with another two tracks at 119 and 130. This one is my BJSC DNQ, the ambitious and sprawling EDM epic Ode To My Next Life.

 

Elton John keeps guesting on Bright Light Bright Light's tracks, to no avail, as he just can't break through big with his joyous old-fashioned classy pop, but at least that's the 2nd year in a row he made the grade. Another BJSC goodie from FMLYBND is at 48, and a club choon from Nero at 49 - how did Into The Night not hit!? That leaves the gorgeous Clare Maguire ballad Elizabeth Taylor at 44. Classy!

 

41 5 17 PARADISE Josef Salvat 386700

42 3 15 VIVA LOVE ABC 386050

43 4 14 ODE TO MY NEXT LIFE Kishi Bashi 378550

44 3 9 ELIZABETH TAYLOR Clare Maguire 375650

45 4 15 ALL IN THE NAME Bright Light Bright Light featuring Elton John 362350

46 5 11 HAPPINESS Pet Shop Boys 346950

47 8 20 BRICK ENGLAND Jean-Michel Jarre featuring Pet Shop Boys 341800

48 4 9 COME ALIVE FMLYBND 340050

49 5 10 INTO THE NIGHT Nero 338800

50 8 14 TWENTY-SOMETHING Pet Shop Boys 333050

Top 40 time, and it's a right old mix of stuff, from the terrific cool Eurovision song from Poli Genova at 31, to the fab retro 70's soulfunkrap of the very young RAT BOY at 32, who needs to break it big. Tom Chaplin has his solo debut single at 33, sounding very much like a very good Keane record (rather obviously, it would though), and Kishi Bashi's mellow, and gorgeous debut single off the new album is at 34. I prob should have entered Can't Let Go, Juno for the BJSC instead of the album track, but I didn't want to be obvious!

 

The first of 2 mighty pop smashes for Dua Lipa, Blow Your Mind (Mwah) is more of a sales hit than a streaming hit (go figure!) but it's fab (mwah) anyway (mwah) at 35, mwah! Turin Brakes have had occasional top 100 entries over the last decade and a half, so it's a welcome return at 36 with Keep Me Around, which had a pretty current sound and should have charted. No Wyld, from BJSC, keeps mdh's profile high in the year-end, and Let Me Know is pretty exciting at 37. UK smash, European smash, that marmite song 7 Years is high in my chart at any rate, 38. It captured my mood at the time...

 

Royksopp also pop into the year-end list occasionally, and back they be after a year or two off, and again with Susanne Sundfor, Never Ever - but not the All Saints song, it's a fab EDM upbeat number. Just creeping into the 40, it's another BJSC, the terrific Amanacer from Bomba Estereo, top notch latin dance grooves, love it.

 

31 4 15 IF LOVE WAS A CRIME Poli Genova 477500

32 3 14 GET OVER IT RAT BOY 462900

33 4 13 QUICKSAND Tom Chaplin 444450

34 4 14 CAN’T LET GO, JUNO Kishi Bashi 433900

35 5 14 BLOW YOUR MIND (MWAH) Dua Lipa 424450

36 5 17 KEEP ME AROUND (RADIO MIX) Turin Brakes 419950

37 3 12 LET ME KNOW No Wyld 416300

38 5 14 7 YEARS Lukas Graham 412750

39 5 16 NEVER EVER Royksopp featuring Susanne Sundfor 400000

40 4 15 AMANECER Bomba Estereo 399250

7 YEARS :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: :cheer: I don't think I need to say any more.

 

Nice to see Twenty-Something & If Love Was a Crime here as well!