August 4, 20195 yr The Troye/Ariana track is the biggest mystery to me, having Ariana on board and still totally flopping and it's a great song, best in the top 10 so far
August 4, 20195 yr Author 04. FISHER ~ Losing It pedgIfGqHcw Year charted: 2019 Official chart peak: #60 Sales chart peak: #33 Points scored in final: 186 Group position: 1st Points scored in group: 114 Fisher's breakthrough single became one of the biggest dance songs of recent times, being a huge club hit in 2018 and eventually crossing over to the lower reaches of the chart as well as getting R1 playlisted, though unfortunately that wasn't enough for it to go top 40. 03. The Chemical Brothers ~ Go LO2RPDZkY88 Year charted: 2015 Official chart peak: #46 Sales chart peak: #32 Points scored in final: 197 Group position: 1st Points scored in group: 127 'Go' saw The Chemical Brothers and Q-Tip back together after the brilliant 'Galvanize' from 10 years earlier, giving them their first chart hit in many years (and probably their last ever given how uncommercial their new material is) but just missing the top 40. It's between Arcade Fire and Duke Dumont for the #1 spot then, all will be revealed just before 6pm as we soon head over to the First Look chart.
August 4, 20195 yr the Christine & The Queens track is ok-ish, not a patch on Tilted or the better tracks of her debut the Rihanna track is nice enough
August 4, 20195 yr Author 02. Arcade Fire ~ Everything Now zC30BYR3CUk Year charted: 2017 Official chart peak: #50 Sales chart peak: #24 Points scored in final: 214 Group position: 1st Points scored in group: 131 'Everything Now' saw Arcade Fire get an unlikely hit in the streaming era, doing very well to reach #50 but it really deserved even better, being their best song by some distance for me anyway. 01. Duke Dumont ~ Ocean Drive KDxJlW6cxRk Year charted: 2015 Official chart peak: #42 Sales chart peak: #27 Points scored in final: 245 Group position: 1st Points scored in group: 134 Which leaves 'Ocean Drive' as your favourite 'casualty of streaming'! The song gave Duke Dumont his biggest hit across Europe but was very unlucky to underperform in his home country. Not my fave song of his actually but it definitely deserved a bigger peak, a great winner anyhow!
August 4, 20195 yr Thank God the top 2 is amazing. :dance: Also liked Losing It in the top 10, but I could change all the rest of the top 10 tbh. :blink: Edited August 4, 20195 yr by Jason
August 4, 20195 yr Author Full results: 1 245 Duke Dumont ~ Ocean Drive 2 214 Arcade Fire ~ Everything Now 3 197 The Chemical Brothers ~ Go 4 186 FISHER ~ Losing It 5 173 The 1975 ~ Somebody Else 6 149 The Avener & Phoebe Killdeer ~ Fade Out Lines 7 141 Troye Sivan feat. Ariana Grande ~ Dance To This 8 138 Carly Rae Jepsen ~ Run Away With Me 9 136 Rihanna ~ Kiss It Better 10 132 Christine and the Queens ~ Girlfriend (feat. Dâm-Funk) 11 129 Vampire Weekend ~ This Life 12 129 Twenty One Pilots ~ Jumpsuit 13 127 Anton Powers & Pixie Lott ~ Baby 14 126 Oasis ~ Half the World Away 15 125 Jamie xx feat. Romy ~ Loud Places 16 124 Ellie Goulding ~ Something In The Way You Move 17 123 CHVRCHES ~ Get Away 18 122 Eleni Foureira ~ Fuego 19 121 Sub Focus & Dimension ~ Desire 20 121 Martin Solveig feat. Sam White ~ « +1 » 21 121 CLiQ feat. Alika ~ Wavey 22 120 Henry Krinkle ~ Stay 23 120 Antony & The Johnsons ~ Hope There's Someone 24 119 Alice Merton ~ No Roots 25 119 KEiiNO ~ Spirit in the Sky 26 115 LP ~ Lost On You 27 114 Axwell /\ Ingrosso ~ Sun Is Shining 28 111 Royal Blood ~ Figure It Out 29 109 Kiiara ~ Gold 30 108 Andy C & Fiora ~ Heartbeat Loud 31 107 Disclosure feat. Gregory Porter ~ Holding On 32 106 George Ezra ~ Listen To The Man 33 103 Years & Years ~ All For You 34 100 DJ Fresh feat. Ellie Goulding ~ Flashlight 35 100 Just Us ~ Cloudbusting 36 100 Louisa Johnson ~ Best Behaviour 37 99 Ferreck Dawn & Redondo ~ Love Too Deep 38 99 Clean Bandit feat. Stylo G ~ Come Over 39 92 Ariana Grande feat. Mac Miller ~ The Way 40 91 Flume feat. Tove Lo ~ Say It --- 41 91 Purple Disco Machine ~ Dished (Male Stripper) 42 88 Rudimental feat. Anne-Marie & Will Heard ~ Rumour Mill 43 88 John Gibbons & Franklin feat. Nina Nesbitt ~ A Spaceman Came Travelling 44 87 HAIM ~ Want You Back 45 87 John Gibbons ~ P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing) 46 86 Kylie Minogue ~ Stop Me From Falling 47 86 The Chainsmokers feat. Emily Warren ~ Side Effects 48 83 Alessia Cara ~ Scars To Your Beautiful 49 83 Aretha Franklin ~ (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman 50 81 Seinabo Sey ~ Younger 51 81 David Bowie ~ Changes 52 81 Disclosure ~ Bang That 53 81 Luca Hänni ~ She Got Me 54 80 Kasabian ~ You're In Love With A Psycho 55 79 David Guetta feat. Raye ~ Stay (Don't Go Away) 56 78 Sigrid ~ Don't Kill My Vibe 57 77 Kygo feat. Kodaline ~ Raging 58 76 Lana Del Rey ~ High By The Beach 59 74 Netta ~ Toy 60 74 Calvin Harris ~ I'm Not Alone 2019 61 74 Elton John ~ Tiny Dancer 62 71 Blanche ~ City Lights 63 70 Lana Del Rey ~ Love 64 65 José Feliciano ~ Feliz Navidad 65 63 George Ezra ~ Don't Matter Now 66 60 Sia ~ Move Your Body 67 58 Chase & Status feat. Tom Grennan ~ All Goes Wrong 68 57 Luis Fonsi & Demi Lovato ~ Echame La Culpa 69 53 Florence + The Machine ~ Hunger 70 50 Kanye West feat. Post Malone & Ty Dolla $ign ~ Fade 71 50 David Bowie ~ Lazarus 72 49 Viola Beach ~ Boys That Sing 73 44 Coldplay ~ Up&Up 74 42 Calvin Harris feat. Future & Khalid ~ Rollin 75 42 Kygo & Imagine Dragons ~ Born To Be Yours
August 4, 20195 yr Aww at Kygo 'winning' that shameful position. :( Also gutted to see Purple Disco Machine just missing out on top 40 thanks to break-tie criteria. :( Thanks for doing this Dan, much apprecisted! :D Edited August 4, 20195 yr by Jason
August 4, 20195 yr haha until the very end I thought Lana - Love was gonna be #1 :D :D :D not crazy about the results tbh quite disappointing only really like Troye/Ariana in that top 10
August 4, 20195 yr Yeah the way the votes were going I thought Ocean Drive was going to take this. It had one of the longer runs in the top 100 of the songs here so it's a worthy winner.
August 4, 20195 yr Fun Fact: The old man in the Listen To The Man music video was played by Ian McKellen (who also played the role of a vampire in the music video to the Pet Shop Boys' Heart)
August 5, 20195 yr I love the idea of the top 40! A solid top 5 (pleased/somewhat surprised to see Losing It so high here) but I love all of #6-#10 (omg Carly not winning with a ROTD winner track :o ). Happy to see high placings for Baby (I'd never realised how stark the sales peak vs. official peak was, deserved better tbh), Half the World Away, Loud Places, +1, Stay, Hope There's Someone, Lost on You (! that this never officially charted), Gold, Heartbeat Loud, All for You, Best Behaviour and The Way among others :wub: Didn't expect Lana to miss top 40 with both songs & poor Rollin placing last :P Thanks Dan for this game, a fantastic idea (particularly love seeing the sales peaks which I'd never looked into myself)
August 5, 20195 yr 40. Flume feat. Tove Lo ~ Say It Flume briefly made the sales chart with 'Say It' thanks to the release of a Clean Bandit remix, although the original sold better in the long-term. It still remains his highest charting song to date as both it and 'Never Be Like You' were truly robbed of being hit singles despite R1 support.Ah that's why! I always remember its international success for the massively long time it spent in the 50s on global Spotify, never managing to get across the line back when the top 50 effect was very significant: 101-100-101-121-121-71-58-55-56-53-55-52-52-52-54-55-55-55-56-55-56-57-57-58-60-64-64-67-82-134-155-193-196. Yep, the dramatic fall was when it was removed from Today's Top Hits (on which track 1 was, that day, "Barack Obama - Today's Top Hits Intro From The President"), killing it in pretty much every country except Australia & NZ. Coincidentally, that's right around when it got its week in the UK chart. 37. Ferreck Dawn & Redondo ~ Love Too Deep Year charted: 2014I totally forgot this was from 2014! I think it was one of those songs I heard of but never heard at the time, and when listening to it for this game, Spotify said it was from 2016 and I believed it. 35. Just Us ~ Cloudbusting 30. Andy C & Fiora ~ Heartbeat Loud 29. Kiiara ~ GoldGreat to see these make the top 40 :heart: 23. Antony & The Johnsons ~ Hope There's Someone This song, which was also covered on Avicii's debut album 'True', was briefly brought back to the chart following a performance by The Voice contestants, having peaked at #44 upon its original release.Thank you! I had no idea what this was doing having charted since 2014. Didn't know it charted originally either, I think I'd only heard of it from being one of Pitchfork's year-end #1s. 22. Henry Krinkle ~ StayI always remember that, the one time #41 was worth playing, I missed it :( Finally an interesting #41 and I was too late :lol: But yay Henry Krinkle, such a great song.Glad it finally made the top 40 in something :cheer: 20. Martin Solveig feat. Sam White ~ « +1 »Their bid to get votes paid off :basil: 17. CHVRCHES ~ Get Away Serving as the comeback for CHVRCHES for their second era, streaming wasn't kind to them especially for the time (29-52 being one of the biggest drops for 2014). They finally got a proper hit this year however by collabing with Marshmello.I think this was just for the 'Drive' soundtrack? Not the original one 'Nightcall' and 'A Real Hero' came from of course but some 2014 rework. Ouch at it charting 50+ spots higher than everything from their 2nd album though. Sigma still had hits in 2016 (Cry and Find Me), I think those are the last DnB hits (if Find Me even counts as DnB).that Take That collab possibly being the last D&B top 40 hit is the most cursed statistic possible (oh coi already said basically the same thing :lol:) 11. Vampire Weekend ~ This LifeWow this almost making the top 10! :o ...and I'm gonna slide into a new post because I maxed out the allowed number of quotes lmao
August 5, 20195 yr 08. Carly Rae Jepsen ~ Run Away With MeNow this not being near #1 is a surprise, maybe fatigue from winning everything? 06. The Avener & Phoebe Killdeer ~ Fade Out Lines!!!!!! I just, as I saw 'Run Away With Me', remembered 'Fade Out Lines' was still in the running and was shocked it was so high... and then realised it had probably missed out. Or not! :o My +25, a true classic for me. I remember it and 'I'm An Albatraoz' feeling like big 'lost hits' in terms of the UK at the time, in that they were big in Europe (and even both made the top 10 in Australia!) but seemed to be going nowhere and getting little to no radio support in the UK ahead of their long-delayed releases. I recall 'Fade Out Lines' having a really chopped-up UK radio edit like 'Jubel' too. Though I completely forgot 'I'm An Albatraoz' actually did eventually reach #25 until checking just now. 05. The 1975 ~ Somebody ElseIt tends to feel like this underperforms in ROTD to me, so it's great to see it top 5 here :heart: I think of it as their definitive/most popular song, whether or not that's actually the case (it does have their highest Spotify plays). My favourite of theirs, up there with 'Sex' and 'Give Yourself A Try'. 03. The Chemical Brothers ~ GoI did not see this being so high! :o 01. Duke Dumont ~ Ocean Drive!! Wow, an excellent result - my 2nd favourite behind 'Fade Out Lines', and my favourite song of his. Right after making the ROTD AQ section too! 'Ocean Drive' is coming... for something. I love how its slow-burning success, particularly in eastern Europe I think (?) as well as Australia, turned it into possibly his biggest hit overall (it's his biggest on Spotify and YouTube, approaching 500 million views on the latter). 41 91 Purple Disco Machine ~ Dished (Male Stripper) 43 88 John Gibbons & Franklin feat. Nina Nesbitt ~ A Spaceman Came TravellingPoor them just missing the top 40, but I'm very glad to see 'A Spaceman Came Travelling' narrowly beat 'P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)'. Wouldn't have expected Kylie to miss the top 40! Particularly as I recall her leading in the poll stage did we get AF Idol-inspired single-artist voters?... and 'Side Effects' too for that matter. Also thought some of the older songs ('Changes', 'Tiny Dancer') would've done better since they seemed to do very well in the earlier rounds, not that I really mind because I felt like few of the old ones in the game were ones I cared for. I like how the list was curated well enough that every song got at least 40 points. Thanks for running this, a very creative idea and I enjoyed reading the countdown.
August 5, 20195 yr PERFECT winner *.* also pleasantly surprised to see 'Go' and 'Dance To This' so high. On the contrary, I can't quite believe that Carly is only #8 with 'Run Away With Me' :o if I had to name songs that are huge BuzzJack favourites then that'd be one of them. Wow, perhaps fatigue indeed as Rush suggested. Thanks for this!
August 5, 20195 yr Even Ariana at her peak couldn't give Troye Sivan a hit with this surprisingly falling well short of the top 40, though in this contest it easily out-performs the rest of Ariana's entries. But funnily Lauv could :D Seriously though Dance to This should've been big, but was never really pushed (from what I can remember). Didn't it come not long after Bloom - which was pushed more, but didn't do anything. Still it went top 10 on i-tunes... shame it was never pushed by radio/ on Spotify.
August 5, 20195 yr Actually a very good Top 2! Buzzjack showing taste for once *.* Disappointed at Viola Beach being so low down the rankings as it's a great song but I guess it was lucky to make the final.
August 5, 20195 yr Ended up with a fine top 3 there I think, especially surprised/happy for Chem Bros/Q-Tip to get so high Thanks for running this DanG over the last few weeks!
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