A belated chart from me this week sees Christina's Accelerate moving up to claim the top spot. It's the most excited I've been about something she's put out for years, although it was always going to be divisive, moving away from the pure pop she's best known for and has seen the biggest musical success with. This is already being pushed down in favour of the safer Demi Lovato collab, but I'm so much more on board with this one. Good to have you back, Xtine. Fuego is the only new entrant into the top 5 this week, blasting up from #18. HOUSE OF SAY, G-Eazy and the late Avicii are new entrants into the top ten.

 

This week's highest brand new start comes from Becky G with Sin Pijama, which I expect to eventually become a forum hit, if not a chart hit in its own right in the UK. New entries are a little thin on the ground this week; additionals come from Bastille, J Balvin and Nicky Jam, Paramore, Plan B, Lion Babe, Little Giants, Kiiara and Saara Aalto. That's a lot of consecutive letters in a row!

I'll link the videos to those a bit later in the week to save you having to imagine what they sound like :D

 

If you can't wait of course, feel free to check out my (linked) spotify playlists at the bottom of this post where you'll find them and a bunch of other great tracks ;)

 

Here's the whole top 40 list for this last week of May:

 

 

01 Christina Aguilera ft. 2 Chainz + Ty Dolla $ign - Accelerate [26-4-1]

02 EZI - Dancing in a Room [8-2-2]

03 Sean Paul ft. Major Lazer - Tip Pon It [17-3-3]

04 Vic Mensa - Coffee & Cigarettes [34-5-4]

05 Eleni Foureira - Fuego [18-5]

06 Ariana Grande - No Tears Left to Cry [13-5-1-6]

07 HOUSE OF SAY - Money [31-12-7]

08 G-Eazy ft. Sam Martin - Leviathan [19-8]

09 King Princess - Talia [15-6-9]

10 Avicii ft. AlunaGeorge - What Would I Change It To [18-14-14-10]

11 BoTalks ft. Sarah Hyland - Know U Anymore [25-19-13-11]

12 Grace Carter - Saving Grace [20-12]

13 Becky G ft. Natti Natasha - Sin Pijama [N]

14 Tinashe ft. Future - Faded Love [21-24-14]

15 Charlie Puth - The Way I Am [15-15]

16 Frances ft. Ritual - When It Comes to Us [35-17-16]

17 Calvin Harris ft. Dua Lipa - One Kiss [12-8-8-12-25-17]

18 Rita Ora ft. Bebe Rexha, Cardi B + Charli XCX - Girls [37-18]

19 HAIM - Found it in Silence [27-19]

20 Chvrches - Miracle [26-20]

21 Nicki Minaj - Chun-Li [31-13-4-1-7-21]

22 Inna ft. The Motans - Pentru Ca [23-28-22]

23 King Henry ft. Maejor - Déjà vu [39-23-23]

24 Cardi B ft. Migos - Drip [19-22-10-24]

25 Young Thug ft. Nicki Minaj - Anybody [39-13-16-25]

26 Bastille - Quarter Past Midnight [N]

27 Nicky Jam ft. J Balvin - X [N]

28 GoldFish ft. Dimmi - Just Me Now [14-10-11-28]

29 Florence + the Machine - Hunger [36-29]

30 Ghost Loft - End of the Light [35-30]

31 Lykke Li - Deep End [24-18-22-31]

32 Post Malone ft. Nicki Minaj - Ball for Me [27-33-32]

33 Joel Baker ft. Mahalia - CMWIF [28-34-33]

34 Plan B - Guess Again [N]

35 Paramore - Rose-Colored Boy [N]

36 Saara Aalto - Monsters [N]

37 Lion Babe ft. Leikeli47 - The Wave [N]

38 Little Giants x Monsieur Adi - Lately (Love, Love, Love) [N]

39 Kiiara - Messy [N]

40 Lily Allen - Higher [17-3-2-9-40]

 

#1s this year:

Inna – Nirvana (1)

Eminem ft. Ed Sheeran – River (1)

Femme En Fourrure ft. Pykari – Ride (2)

Simian Ghost – Eat The Rich (1)

MGMT – When You Die (1)

Chvrches – Get Out (1)

M.O ft. Lotto Boyzz + Mr Eazi – Bad Vibe (1)

Jhene Aiko ft. Rae Sremmurd – Sativa (1)

Paloma Faith – Til I'm Done (1)

HAIM – You Never Knew (1)

Rae Sremmurd ft. Juicy J – Powerglide (1)

Tinashe ft. Offset – No Drama (1)

Inna – Tropical (1)

Kylie Minogue – Stop Me From Falling (2)

Azealia Banks – Anna Wintour (2)

Nicki Minaj – Chun-Li (1)

Ariana Grande No – Tears Left To Cry (1)

Christina Aguilera ft. 2 Chainz + Ty Dolla $ign – Accelerate (~)

 

 

My spotify picks {A-List} {B-List} {C-List}

Edited June 7, 20187 yr by Jüpiter

Hey Jupiter :hi:

 

I've only listened to 'Accelerate' once and didn't quite know what to make of it as it seemed like such a switch-up for Christina. Very left-field. May have to check it out again at some point to see if it'll click more. Elsewhere, yay for the new entries for 'Monsters' and 'Guess Again'! It's a shame that the latter isn't blowing up more, I heard it on radio 1 the other day and it sounded great.

 

Good stuff ^_^

Accelerate is such an amazing track, it is nice to see it take the top spot here! It's definitely the best Liberation track she has put out so far!

 

I like your Saara Aalto entry, although nothing else I heard from the album is really clicking with me.

 

Great chart this week :cheer:

Thanks for the comments, folks! Accelerate is definitely different but I'm a sucker for something unorthodox :D

 

As for the new entries this week, here they are...

 

 

Starting off, two Spanish bops, a subgenre I've been getting more into this year. Becky G comes in fresh off the back of top 5 Sean Paul collab Mad Love, while this the first in several years for J Balvin whose only previous entry is 2014 chart topper Cola Song, with Inna. If either release any other songs of this calibre this year, they should be back up here again though!

 

 

Bastille and Paramore debut new tunes on the indie rock spectrum too. Rose Colored Boy is Paramore's sixth charter from After Laughter and follows-up two top tens; while Quarter Past Midnight becomes Bastille, a band I came to late's fourth charter total. Their previous peaker is last year's Send Them Off! reached #7.

 

 

Plan B and Saara Aalto debut their first entries to my personals this week. The former's released a lot of tunes with a different sound this last year before Guess Again, but unlike it, none of them really caught me. Aalto's Monsters is a little cheesy, but was a fun Eurovision entry.

 

 

And then there's a mix of tracks that don't really fit together; Leikeli47 and Lion Babe's random collab, A monsieur Adi track that's been floating around the lower reaches of my personals for months (that unfortunately seems to be a spotify-exclusive - I've linked the original), and one by Kiiara that I'm kinda lukewarm on all squeak in this week as some older tracks fall away. All fun tracks though that maybe some of you will end up liking too.

 

And that's the lot! Any other comments or thoughts are, as ever, welcome :)

Hello Jupiter!

I like the top 10 gain for "Fuego" and the top 20 gain for "Girls"!

And I like the debuts for "Quarter Past Midnight", "X" and "Rose-Colored Boy"!

Great chart as always!

And one more thing, I wanted to do just like you, to link the videos of all the new entries. But I don't know how to do it, can you please help me with it?

Edited June 7, 20187 yr by sergejdordij98