January 3, 20205 yr Author Recap 51-100: 51 Blanks - Let's Get Lost 52 Walking on Cars - When We Were Kids 53 Elderbrook - Old Friend 54 Avicii - SOS (ft. Aloe Blacc) 55 Ina Wroldsen & Dynoro - Obsessed 56 Desert Star - Carissa 57 Walking on Cars - Coldest Water 58 Cerrone - The Impact 59 CLiQ - Anything I Do (ft. Ms. Banks & Alika) 60 Keane - The Way I Feel 61 Alle Farben - Walk Away (ft. James Blunt) 62 jens - Any Other Way 63 X Lovers - Play Your Game 64 Wallows - Are You Bored Yet? (ft. Clairo) 65 Feeder - Fear of Flying 66 Lost Frequencies & Love Harder - Beat of My Heart 67 Electric Guest - Play With Me 68 WE ARE MESSENGERS - Maybe It's Okay 69 Metronomy - Salted Caramel Ice Cream 70 Queen Zee - Loner 71 Cassper Nyovest & Los Unidades - Timbuktu (ft. Stormzy & Jess Kent) 72 Orla Gartland - Why Am I Like This? 73 Peter Bjorn & John - Wrapped Around the Axle 74 Drab Majesty - Ellipsis 75 Victor Crone - Storm 76 The Sherlocks - NYC (Sing It Loud) 77 Rat City - Kind of Love (ft. Isak Heim) 78 ROMANS - Oxygen 79 Ofenbach - Rock It 80 Blossoms - Your Girlfriend 81 HAYES - Where I Belong (ft. Nico & Vinz) 82 Alec Benjamin - Must Have Been the Wind 83 Walking on Cars - Waiting on the Corner 84 Vulfpeck - Darwin Derby 85 Stefanie Heinzmann - Mother's Heart 86 AURORA - The River 87 Marshmello - Here With Me (ft. CHVRCHES) 88 Youngr - Superman 89 Walk Off the Earth - I'll Be There 90 Shallou - All Your Days (ft. Emmit Fenn) 91 Bilal Hassani - Roi 92 James Blunt - Cold 93 Mans Zelmerlow - Walk With Me (ft. Dotter) 94 M-22 & Kiara Nelson - After Hours 95 Empire of the Sun - Chrysalis 96 DJ Bitman - Para Ti (ft. Caesee) 97 The Strumbellas - I'll Wait 98 The Interrupters - Gave You Everything 99 LVNDSCAPE - What I'd Give 100 Hot Chip - Hungry Child
January 3, 20205 yr Author #50 (1113pts) Built By Titan Ghost (ft. Joe Kirk) - Chart Statistics NE (17/08/2019) | 84-78-56-47-40-28-21-18-16-19-27-29-31-35-39-44-52-57-63-62-... Video l7Tao4Dzq40 Commentary Oh I do long for the days when I finished Top 10 in every other contest in BJSC. Anyway, here is my pride and joy Built By Titan with their highest peaking track this year. 'Is ta bit of a step down from finishing in the EOY Top 10 last year but to make it into the Top 50 is still an achievement especially when last year's #1 failed to get a song into the Top 100. This is such a powerful song about loss, mixed together with Built By Titan's wonderful beats to create a brilliant piece. Top 100 Chart History Built By Titan 2018 04 Broken Love (Built By Titan ft. Starxs) 2019 33 Into the Mist (Built By Titan ft. Future Rivals) 2019 98 Run With the Giants (Sam Tinnesz ft. Built By Titan) 2019 16 Ghost (Built By Titan ft. Joe Kirk) Joe Kirk 2019 16 Ghost (Built By Titan ft. Joe Kirk)
January 3, 20205 yr Author #49 (1117pts) Cavetown Things That Make It Warm - Chart Statistics NE (09/11/2019) | 78-14-9-8-4-5-6-6-... Video gcT0lUoNY4E Commentary The first of four Cavetown entries in my Top 50, as well as the most recent, he's certainly my discovery of the year as his music is consistently wonderful. This is a really lovely guitar-y piece of music, and whilst some of the lyrics make me think it's about animals rather than people (such as the one about filling his house with grass) it still feels very relatable. Top 100 Chart History 2019 01 Green 2019 01 Home 2019 20 Feb 14 2019 01 Telescope 2019 04 Things That Make It Warm
January 4, 20205 yr Recap 51-100: 54 Avicii - SOS (ft. Aloe Blacc) 58 Cerrone - The Impact 60 Keane - The Way I Feel 61 Alle Farben - Walk Away (ft. James Blunt) 71 Cassper Nyovest & Los Unidades - Timbuktu (ft. Stormzy & Jess Kent) 75 Victor Crone - Storm 77 Rat City - Kind of Love (ft. Isak Heim) :cheer: 80 Blossoms - Your Girlfriend 86 AURORA - The River 87 Marshmello - Here With Me (ft. CHVRCHES) 89 Walk Off the Earth - I'll Be There 90 Shallou - All Your Days (ft. Emmit Fenn) 91 Bilal Hassani - Roi 92 James Blunt - Cold 95 Empire of the Sun - Chrysalis :cheer: 100 Hot Chip - Hungry Child Hi Pete, my faves so far, with much more to come I'm sure! Top 50 should be fab!
January 6, 20205 yr I remember taking part in the BJSC edition with that Rat City song in it. 'Twas a good opportunity
January 6, 20205 yr Author #48 (1121pts) Gemini Rising, Tensnake & Fiora Speed of Sound - Chart Statistics NE (12/10/2019) | 38-15-11-10-10-13-14-15-18-26-30-28-28-... Video -SbvjNYd1I4 Commentary Another song still hanging around in my Top 40 thanks to the January lull, I discovered this thanks to BJSC (like quite a few of the other songs in here) and it grew on me a lot after the contest had ended. It blends modern dance with a very disco-ey feel and some fab vocals from whoever it is doing the vocals. (I'm actually quite surprised this is Tensnake's debut chart his but I guess his other songs were before I began compiling my chart) Top 100 Chart History Gemini Rising 2019 10 Speed of Sound (Gemini Rising, Tensnake & Fiora) Tensnake 2019 10 Speed of Sound (Gemini Rising, Tensnake & Fiora) Fiora 2019 10 Speed of Sound (Gemini Rising, Tensnake & Fiora)
January 6, 20205 yr Author #47 (1129pts) The Makemakes The Beach - Chart Statistics NE (20/07/2019) | 18-7-5-5-4-4-4-6-7-9-16-29-42-65-85-xx Video iowXHcoYDh4 Commentary From well-performing BJSC hit to badly-performing Eurovision act (and badly performing BJSC hit for that matter), this guitar-y indie-pop bop is a song I didn't expect to like at all following the awful piano-on-fire thingy but it is incredibly earworm-y and became one of my favourites (and a favourite of some bots on iTunes :kink: ). Sadly it did drop off quite quickly after its prime and the follow-up wasn't great. Top 100 Chart History 2019 04 The Beach 2019 87 Heyo
January 6, 20205 yr Author #46 (1133pts) Skillet Anchor - Chart Statistics NE (20/07/2019) | 24-13-13-12-12-10-11-14-14-16-15-19-24-29-47-60-xx Video 7TzB4FaPODc Commentary The highest worship song in my EOY this year, this is an incredibly powerful song from an amazing band and one I really encourage you all to listen to. Skillet have grown on me a lot since I first heard about them and this is their best yet. Top 100 Chart History 2018 78 Breaking Free 2018 11 Brave 2019 30 Legendary 2019 10 Anchor
January 6, 20205 yr Author #45 (1133pts) MIKA Sound of an Orchestra - Chart Statistics NE (12/01/2019) | 18-9-6-5-6-1-1-3-3-6-12-28-52-69-xx Video 201kDUdQFqU Commentary A seemingly random release from MIKA (it didn't even make the album did it?), this took advantage of a few dead weeks at the start of the year to grab a #1 which it probably wouldn't have got later on in the year. It's a lovely multi-instrumental piece anyway, and was considerably better than his actual lead single ('Ice Cream') which was gross and didn't even reach my Top 100. Thankfully he redeemed himself with some of the other singles from the album. Top 100 Chart History 2016 03 Hurts (Remix) 2017 02 It's My House 2019 01 Sound of an Orchestra 2019 04 Youth & Love (Jack Savoretti & MIKA) 2019 33 Tiny Love 2019 38 Dear Jealousy 2019 19 Sanremo
January 6, 20205 yr Author #44 (1140pts) Whethan & The Knocks Summer Luv (ft. Crystal Fighters) - Chart Statistics NE (31/08/2019) | 34-9-6-6-10-14-20-23-37-31-40-40-50-53-67-75-95-78-74-... Video NGlRzEzVSe0 Commentary As we're getting closer to the Top 40 I'm starting to see songs drop out that I think should be in it, one of which is this one. A collaboration between three great artists, with The Knocks and Crystal Fighters on the track I was bound to like it. It's a fabulous summer track, a real earworm and a song I encourage you all to listen to. Top 100 Chart History Whethan 2018 52 Superlove (Whethan ft. Oh Wonder) 2019 06 Summer Luv (Whethan & The Knocks ft. Crystal Fighters) The Knocks 2017 10 What Happened to Love (Wyclef Jean ft. Lunchmoney Lewis & The Knocks) 2017 01 House Party (The Knocks & Captain Cuts) 2018 05 Ride Or Die (The Knocks ft. Foster the People) 2018 07 Brazilian Soul (The Knocks ft. Sofi Tukker) 2019 15 Awa Ni (The Knocks ft. Kah-Lo) 2019 06 Summer Luv (Whethan & The Knocks ft. Crystal Fighters) 2019 02 Lucky Me (The Knocks ft. Great Good Fine OK) Crystal Fighters 2016 09 All Night 2017 02 Good Girls 2018 08 Yellow Sun 2018 36 Boomin' In Your Jeep 2018 37 Another Level 2019 02 All My Love 2019 21 Wild Ones 2019 06 Summer Luv (Whethan & The Knocks ft. Crystal Fighters) 2019 42 By Your Side (Crystal Fighters ft. Dagny)
January 6, 20205 yr I enjoyed Old Friend a fair bit – it is my fave solo Elderbrook song so far. Speed Of Sound from BJSC was rather good too, got a few points from me - the vocalist is Fiora and she's great on this (she also sang one of my very early BJSC entries)
January 6, 20205 yr Author #43 (1153pts) Passion Pit & Galantis I Found U - Chart Statistics NE (25/05/2019) | 33-29-18-14-10-6-9-14-23-36-48-62-74-90-79-83-78-88-95-98-xx Video ASNBFzNHCAs Commentary Another song I wish had made it into the Top 40, this song provided me with even more good stuff from Galantis and reminded me that Passion Pit existed. I didn't really expect the two to go together at all but they match absolutely perfectly, making a song I even look forward to hearing now. Top 100 Chart History Passion Pit 2019 06 I Found You (Passion Pit & Galantis) Galantis 2016 03 No Money 2016 19 Make Me Feel (Galantis & East & Young) 2016 02 Love On Me (Galantis & Hook N Sling) 2016 23 Pillow Fight 2017 01 Rich Boy 2017 24 Hunter 2017 74 True Feeling 2017 49 Girls On Boys (Galantis & ROZES) 2017 01 Tell Me You Love Me (ft. Throttle) 2017 47 Hello 2017 53 Salvage (Up All Night) (Galantis & Poo Bear) 2018 09 Spaceship (Galantis ft. Uffie) 2018 32 Mama Look At Me Now 2018 08 Satisfied (Galantis ft. MAX) 2018 10 Emoji 2018 09 San Francisco (Galantis ft. Sofia Carson) 2019 84 Bones (Galantis & OneRepublic) 2019 06 I Found You (Passion Pit & Galantis) 2019 95 We Can Get High (Galantis & Yellow Claw) 2019 16 Faith (Galantis & Dolly Parton ft. Mr. Probz)
January 6, 20205 yr Author #42 (1209pts) Keuning Boat Accident - Chart Statistics NE (19/01/2019) | 15-12-7-7-8-11-13-19-27-29-41-57-60-70-72-80-92-xx RE (01/06/2019) | 96-97-99-xx Video hEYzCrSmEiw Commentary No idea how you pronounce his name, but former (or current? who knows) Killers guitarist Keuning has started releasing his own music, and this fabulous 80s-inspired indie track was a great way for me to hear about it. Another one of those songs which hasn't gotten old at all! Top 100 Chart History 2019 07 Boat Accident 2019 34 Ruptured 2019 35 The Night
January 6, 20205 yr Author #41 (1213pts) Mando Diao One Last Fire - Chart Statistics NE (05/10/2019) | 55-51-37-15-8-7-5-6-7-11-19-32-35-39-... Video V-u4X0t7wZw Commentary And just missing out on my Top 40 (literally just moved it down a few places at the last minute) are Swedish band Mando Diao (don't ask how you pronounce it) with their first hit in my chart. It is pretty much good old-fashioned rock, one of those songs that could easily have been released 10 or more years ago and that's what I love about it! Top 100 Chart History 2019 05 One Last Fire 2019 68 Long Long Way
January 6, 20205 yr Author Recap 41-100: 41 Mando Diao - One Last Fire 42 Keuning - Boat Accident 43 Passion Pit & Galantis - I Found U 44 Whethan & The Knocks - Summer Luv (ft. Crystal Fighters) 45 MIKA - Sound of an Orchestra 46 Skillet - Anchor 47 The Makemakes - The Beach 48 Gemini Rising, Tensnake & Fiora - Speed of Sound 49 Cavetown - Things That Make It Warm 50 Built By Titan - Ghost (ft. Joe Kirk) 51 Blanks - Let's Get Lost 52 Walking on Cars - When We Were Kids 53 Elderbrook - Old Friend 54 Avicii - SOS (ft. Aloe Blacc) 55 Ina Wroldsen & Dynoro - Obsessed 56 Desert Star - Carissa 57 Walking on Cars - Coldest Water 58 Cerrone - The Impact 59 CLiQ - Anything I Do (ft. Ms. Banks & Alika) 60 Keane - The Way I Feel 61 Alle Farben - Walk Away (ft. James Blunt) 62 jens - Any Other Way 63 X Lovers - Play Your Game 64 Wallows - Are You Bored Yet? (ft. Clairo) 65 Feeder - Fear of Flying 66 Lost Frequencies & Love Harder - Beat of My Heart 67 Electric Guest - Play With Me 68 WE ARE MESSENGERS - Maybe It's Okay 69 Metronomy - Salted Caramel Ice Cream 70 Queen Zee - Loner 71 Cassper Nyovest & Los Unidades - Timbuktu (ft. Stormzy & Jess Kent) 72 Orla Gartland - Why Am I Like This? 73 Peter Bjorn & John - Wrapped Around the Axle 74 Drab Majesty - Ellipsis 75 Victor Crone - Storm 76 The Sherlocks - NYC (Sing It Loud) 77 Rat City - Kind of Love (ft. Isak Heim) 78 ROMANS - Oxygen 79 Ofenbach - Rock It 80 Blossoms - Your Girlfriend 81 HAYES - Where I Belong (ft. Nico & Vinz) 82 Alec Benjamin - Must Have Been the Wind 83 Walking on Cars - Waiting on the Corner 84 Vulfpeck - Darwin Derby 85 Stefanie Heinzmann - Mother's Heart 86 AURORA - The River 87 Marshmello - Here With Me (ft. CHVRCHES) 88 Youngr - Superman 89 Walk Off the Earth - I'll Be There 90 Shallou - All Your Days (ft. Emmit Fenn) 91 Bilal Hassani - Roi 92 James Blunt - Cold 93 Mans Zelmerlow - Walk With Me (ft. Dotter) 94 M-22 & Kiara Nelson - After Hours 95 Empire of the Sun - Chrysalis 96 DJ Bitman - Para Ti (ft. Caesee) 97 The Strumbellas - I'll Wait 98 The Interrupters - Gave You Everything 99 LVNDSCAPE - What I'd Give 100 Hot Chip - Hungry Child
January 6, 20205 yr Author Hi Pete, my faves so far, with much more to come I'm sure! Top 50 should be fab! Glad you're a fan! Looking at your EOY there should be some more songs you like still to come - thanks John! I remember taking part in the BJSC edition with that Rat City song in it. 'Twas a good opportunity BJSC is always good fun to be in - thanks Dalek! I enjoyed Old Friend a fair bit – it is my fave solo Elderbrook song so far. Speed Of Sound from BJSC was rather good too, got a few points from me - the vocalist is Fiora and she's great on this (she also sang one of my very early BJSC entries) Glad you've enjoyed Old Friend, I'd probably agree with you about it being his best solo work as well. I've done a bit of searching and now I'm even more confused about Speed of Sound - so Gemini Rising are a band fronted by a woman called Fiora but that's a different Fiora to the person singing on the song? It's all very confusing. Thanks Dan!
January 6, 20205 yr Gemini Rising are literally Tensnake and Fiora - they seem to have credited themselves as solo artists as well so it appears on their own Spotify artist pages. edit: it seems someone else called Lester Mendez is also in the group but clearly he's not big enough to warrant getting his own solo credit.
January 8, 20205 yr Author #40 (1216pts) The Knocks Lucky Me (ft. Great Good Fine OK) - Chart Statistics NE (02/11/2019) | 11-8-3-2-3-3-6-14-19-17-... Video Hs15WUM7u4c Commentary And into the Top 40 we go! 'Great Good Fine Ok' is generally the projection of my opinion of a song from when I first listen to it to when it's been on my playlist for 3 months. Regardless, this is the highest Knocks track in my chart this year and I've just pushed it into the Top 40 as a song which peaked at #2 probably deserves it, even if is was one of the weaker parts of the year. It's the robotic vocals that make this one for me (which could be by any of the four people collaborating on the song). Top 100 Chart History The Knocks 2017 10 What Happened to Love (Wyclef Jean ft. Lunchmoney Lewis & The Knocks) 2017 01 House Party (The Knocks & Captain Cuts) 2018 05 Ride Or Die (The Knocks ft. Foster the People) 2018 07 Brazilian Soul (The Knocks ft. Sofi Tukker) 2019 15 Awa Ni (The Knocks ft. Kah-Lo) 2019 06 Summer Luv (Whethan & The Knocks ft. Crystal Fighters) 2019 02 Lucky Me (The Knocks ft. Great Good Fine OK) Great Good Fine Ok 2019 02 Lucky Me (The Knocks ft. Great Good Fine OK)
January 8, 20205 yr Author #39 (1217pts) Bantu & Jonas Blue Roll With Me (ft. Shungudzo & ZieZie) - Chart Statistics NE (12/01/2019) | 11-10-1-2-1-1-3-5-9-18-30-55-78-93-xx Video UL8W6nclzRg Commentary Well typing up Jonas Blue's chart history took longer than expected! This was one of my early #1s of the year, an incredibly catchy tropical-Afro-dance fusion that really works. This was a collaboration with Bantu, who at this point I thought were a South African dance group but it turns out he's a rapper from London, but he's actually quite a good one. Poor ZieZie being the only person on this song to not have another hit. Top 100 Chart History Bantu 2019 01 Roll With Me (Bantu & Jonas Blue ft. Shungudzo & ZieZie) 2019 24 Which One (Bantu ft. Alicai Harley) 2019 74 DiCaprio (Bantu & Dr. Chali ft. Bipolar Sunshine) Jonas Blue 2016 05 Perfect Strangers (Jonas Blue ft. JP Cooper) 2016 33 By Your Side (Jonas Blue ft. RAYE) 2017 21 Mama (Jonas Blue ft. William Singe) 2017 09 We Could Go Back (Jonas Blue ft. Moelogo) 2018 57 Hearts Ain't Gonna Lie (Arlissa with Jonas Blue) 2018 64 Alien (Sabrina Carpenter ft. Jonas Blue) 2018 77 Rise (Jonas Blue ft. Jack & Jack) 2018 93 Back & Forth (MK & Jonas Blue ft. Becky Hill) 2019 01 Roll With Me (Bantu & Jonas Blue ft. Shungudzo & ZieZie) 2019 51 What I Like About You (Jonas Blue ft. Theresa Rex) 2019 28 All Night Long (Jonas Blue & RetroVision) Shungudzo 2018 01 Toast to Our Differences (Rudimental ft. Shungudzo, Protoje & Hak Baker) 2018 59 Paper 2018 63 Fire In My Soul (Oliver Heldens ft. Shungudzo) 2019 01 Roll With Me (Bantu & Jonas Blue ft. Shungudzo & ZieZie) ZieZie 2019 01 Roll With Me (Bantu & Jonas Blue ft. Shungudzo & ZieZie)
January 8, 20205 yr Author #38 (1217pts) Justin Jesso Bigger Than (with SeeB) - Chart Statistics NE (23/12/2019) | 4-1-1-2-4-3-3-... Video 6gy3IL-ocuQ Commentary The most recent #1 to make the list, I think I loved this so much because it marked a massive return to form for SeeB after some really mediocre tracks. It's back to their older stuff and I think I might pay Justin Jesso a bit more attention as well now. Top 100 Chart History Justin Jesso 2017 23 Stargazing (Kygo ft. Justin Jesso) 2019 57 As Far As Feelings Go (Alle Farben ft. Justin Jesso) 2019 01 Bigger Than (Justin Jesso with SeeB) SeeB 2016 01 I Took a Pill in Ibiza (Mike Posner - SeeB Remix) 2016 01 What Do You Love (ft. Jacob Banks) 2017 70 Under Your Skin (SeeB ft. R. City) 2017 51 Boys in the Street (SeeB ft. Greg Holden) 2017 06 Rich Love (OneRepublic & SeeB) 2017 01 Cruel World (SeeB ft. Skip Marley) 2018 41 Lost Boys (Ocean Park Standoff ft. SeeB) 2019 01 Bigger Than (Justin Jesso with SeeB)
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