Since we're halfway through the year, here's a list of the songs which have reached the Final so far this year:

 

220 KID & GRACEY - Don't Need Love

AJ Tracey - Dinner Guest (ft. MoStack)

Aitch - 30

Aitch x AJ Tracey ft. Tay Keith - Rain

Anne-Marie - Birthday

Ashe - Moral of the Story

Ava Max - Kings & Queens

BENEE ft. Gus Dapperton - Supalonely

Becky Hill - Better Off Without You (with Shift K3y)

Beth Porch - You Taught Me What Love Is

Billie Eilish - No Time To Die

Camila Cabello ft. DaBaby - My Oh My

D-Block Europe - Free 22

Daði Freyr - Think About Things

Demi Lovato - I Love Me

Dermot Kennedy - Power Over Me

Doja Cat - Say So

Don Toliver - No Idea

Drake - Toosie Slide

Dua Lipa - Break My Heart

Eminem - Godzilla (ft. Juice WRLD)

GRM Daily ft. M Huncho & Dutchavelli - Burning

Gerry Cinnamon - Where We're Going

HOSH & 1979 ft. Jalja - Midnight (The Hanging Tree)

Halsey - You Should Be Sad

J Hus - Repeat (ft. Koffee)

JP Saxe ft. Julia Michaels - If The World Was Ending

Jawsh 675 & Jason Derulo - Savage Love (Laxed - Silent Beat)

Jax Jones & Martin Solveig ft. RAYE - Tequila

Joel Corry - Lonely

Jonas Brothers - What A Man Gotta Do

KSI ft. Trippie Redd - Wake Up Call

Khalid & Disclosure - Know Your Worth

Lady GaGa - Stupid Love

Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande - Rain On Me

Lady Gaga & BLACKPINK - Sour Candy

Lady Gaga - Alice

Live Lounge Allstars - Times Like These

MIST - Savage

Mabel - Boyfriend

Marshmello & Halsey - Be Kind

Matt Lucas - Thank You Baked Potato

Nathan Dawe - Flowers (ft. Jaykae)

Niall Horan - No Judgement

Powfu ft. beabadoobee - death bed

Regard & RAYE - Secrets

SAINt JHN - Roses (Imanbek Remix)

Sam Fischer - This City

Sam Smith & Demi Lovato - I'm Ready

Selena Gomez - Rare

Simba ft. DTG - Rover

Surf Mesa - ily (ft. Emilee)

The 1975 - If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)

The 1975 - Me & You Together Song

The Weeknd - After Hours

The Weeknd - In Your Eyes

Tion Wayne ft. Dutchavelli & Stormzy - I Dunno

Topic - Breaking Me (ft. A7S)

Really good idea, I've been following this but never got around to commenting oops. Firstly, very glad to see After Hours made it in here! :wub:

 

Pretty awkward at the June situation though, I was wondering if those two songs that ultimately got banned from the list would have to be included by default! :lol: Still, D-Block Europe getting a qualifier here is unusual enough as it is.

 

Does that mean you're going to add a couple of your favourite 11th places as wildcards at the end of the year to complete the top 120?

 

15: Juice WRLD - Righteous

This isn't a bad song, but it is a very sad song, since it's all about death and he did indeed die. A fitting tribute though and I'm confused as to why Radio 1 didn't play it as it's not awful or anything. RIP Juice World :(

I think you nailed the reason why they didn't play it right there, it's all about death and we know what they did to songs like City of Angels! :lol: A shame because, like most of Juice WRLD's material, it's not bad at all, and if it had been released before lockdown it probably would have got the chart show play it deserved.

I think it is more the drug references in 'Righteous' that prevented them from playing it - I found their complete dismissal and ignoring of it a bit :/ though, they could have at least acknowledged the song and the fact it was a posthumous release even if they couldn't play it, but both weeks it was in the chart they literally just very quickly mentioned its title and moved on, as if it was a 6ix9ine song. Lol ~

 

(it's quite possibly my favourite song that's made the top 40 so far this year)

 

Interesting thread concept here by the way! I'm sure it's little shock that my opinions on these songs are quite different from yours in a lot of cases :lol:

Really good idea, I've been following this but never got around to commenting oops. Firstly, very glad to see After Hours made it in here! :wub:

 

Pretty awkward at the June situation though, I was wondering if those two songs that ultimately got banned from the list would have to be included by default! :lol: Still, D-Block Europe getting a qualifier here is unusual enough as it is.

 

Does that mean you're going to add a couple of your favourite 11th places as wildcards at the end of the year to complete the top 120?

I think you nailed the reason why they didn't play it right there, it's all about death and we know what they did to songs like City of Angels! :lol: A shame because, like most of Juice WRLD's material, it's not bad at all, and if it had been released before lockdown it probably would have got the chart show play it deserved.

Well June's mess means that none of the other songs have to worry about being in last place :lol: I've been toying with the ideas of wildcards and I'm not sure what to do yet, my thoughts at the moment are maybe to add two songs which charted right at the end of last year and had most of their chart runs in 2020, or if there is a song that misses out and then really grows on me I might add that as well.

 

Thanks coi! :D

 

I think it is more the drug references in 'Righteous' that prevented them from playing it - I found their complete dismissal and ignoring of it a bit :/ though, they could have at least acknowledged the song and the fact it was a posthumous release even if they couldn't play it, but both weeks it was in the chart they literally just very quickly mentioned its title and moved on, as if it was a 6ix9ine song. Lol ~

 

(it's quite possibly my favourite song that's made the top 40 so far this year)

 

Interesting thread concept here by the way! I'm sure it's little shock that my opinions on these songs are quite different from yours in a lot of cases :lol:

Yeah either of those could have been the reason they skipped it! They could have at least just dubbed those words out like they have done for so many songs before and since. It was a nice tribute though and in some other months it could have made my Top 10 - May was the most difficult to rank so far! (June was obviously the least difficult :P) But that's partly the reason I've used this concept - it makes it a bit more exciting than just ranking my favourites as songs I wouldn't give as much time to sneak in.

 

Thanks Bré! :D

July

 

After the month with the least new entries of the year so far, we now get the one with the most - a massive 29 new songs entered the Top 40 in the month, leading to what would have been a bloodbath of so many of them weren't awful.

 

29: Digga D - Woi

Okay what on earth is this. The sound of someone going 'weee wee weee wee weee' repeadedly is incredibly disconcerting (and before you say 'isn't it woi woi woi?' show me one place in that wong where he makes the 'oy' sound. And the lyrics don't help either, as we're graced with poetic lines such as 'As long as she don't switch sides like Chyna and freeze up the vagina'. Also apparently he needs permission from the police to actually release music, so the line 'Jump out, try put him in a coffin / Pray cameras don't see' is also a tad weird.

 

28: Pop Smoke - The Woo (ft. 50 Cent & Roddy Ricch)

At #28 is the highest charting of Pop Smoke's three posthumous ditties. The song and melody of this one admittedly aren't that bad at all, it's all the swearing that gets me and makes the whole song incredibly uncomfortable. Also, if I was a 45 year-old man and I happened to enter a room full of almost naked girls who could easily be my daughter I'd get out of there as quickly as possible, so why 50 Cent seems to be completely in his zone with it all flummoxes me.

 

27: D-Block Europe - Plain Jane

D-Block Europe being THIRD from last? Looks like they're going up in the world. This is as equally grim as everything else they've released this year but it does have a tune that I can actually remember which is probably why it's not dead last.

 

26: Jack Harlow - WHATS POPPIN

I genuinely don't know what to think about this song. The piano riff is quite nice but the lyrics are terrible, and the sight of a overly cocky-looking American lad rapping non-stop for three minutes with confused and weird camera pans all the way through just isn't my thing. Not heard the remix and I'm not really in any rush to.

 

25: Abra Cadabra - On Deck

The chorus to this one is a bit catchier than the last few hencce why it's a bit higher, but I can't get past the lyric 'Nah, I ain't never send d*** pics, you can come get this d** in person'. Actually looking at the rest of that verse I should probably have docked it a few places.

 

24: Pop Smoke - Mood Swings (ft. Lil Tjay)

This was my favourite Pop Smoke song when I heard them on the chart show, but the chart show does the lovely job of censoring all the songs so we don't have to hear how awful they sound uncensored. So my comment for this one is pretty much the same as my comment for the last one, except the language is a bit less foul.

 

23: DJ Khaled - GREECE (ft. Drake)

Drake song number one. There's nothing technically wrong with this song, but there's nothing right about it either, plus it's Drake. So there you go.

 

22: Headie One - Only You Freestyle (ft. Drake)

Drake song number two. I was hoping I might like this one a bit more because of homegrown talent Headie One, but it turns out his bit is just him saying the word 'Headie' and lots of other words that rhyme with 'Headie' over and over again like a baby or a puppy dog. And Drake's bit in this is probably the worst of the three.

 

21: Deno - Circles (ft. OFB)

I have a bit of a soft spot for Deno because I quite liked Advice, and this isn't dreadful either - the chorus sticks in my head, particularly the bit where he says 'Tott-en-haaam' really weirdly. Not much else to say about this one, so onto the next song in this mammoth essay.

 

20: DJ Khaled - POPSTAR (ft. Drake)

Apparently Drake is a popstar, not a doctor. If I'd chopped my leg off the last person I'd want to see is Drake so that can only be good news. This is definitely the most commercial-sounding of Drake's three songs, which makes it even more odd that it's the one which is going to fall off the charts the quickest. Although we all thought we'd gotten rid of Chicago Freestyle when it had a similar drop in its second week and now we've been laboured with it for months so I'm not getting my hopes up.

 

19: Becky Hill & Sigala - Heaven On My Mind

You might be surprised to see a generic dance song lumped in with all the rap as they usually soar into the Top 10, but this song uses a lot of Christian symbolism for non-Christian things and I'm not really here for it. Plus it's a very lazy song.

 

18: Pop Smoke - For the Night (ft. Lil Baby & DaBaby)

The third and highest of the Pop Smoke tracks, this once again has a decent melody but too much swearing. Just stop swearing you silly rappers!

 

17: Juice WRLD - Wishing Well

Interesting that this Juice WRLD song seems to be the one with the most longevity after being the third highest to chart. This song's all about death, which confuses me a bit as to why they released it on his posthumous album. Maybe people like songs about death by dead people? Who knows.

 

16: BLACKPINK - How You Like That

Are we nearly there yet?? No? Oh well. Next up is K-Pop group BLACKPINK with their song 'How You Like That', which isn't very good English. Apparently one of them is from New Zealand, so you'd have thought she'd have taught the other three how to speak English. The song itself is 'alright' but not really inspiring, the majority of the chorus being the repeated line 'look at you, now look at me'. As I wasn't sat next to a mirror at the time of listening, I was unable to do this.

 

15: Little Mix - Holiday

Admittedly this is better than the last few Little Mix songs, but it's still Little Mix and I can't say I'm their biggest fan. Nothing in this song has convinced me either.

 

14: Juice WRLD - Life's A Mess (ft. Halsey)

This one isn't bad either from Juice WRLD, although I don't really see the point of Halsey in this, except to make the song peak a bit higher. The vizualiser is really good though.

 

13: M1llionz - B1llionz

This got universal hate in the chart thread but I actually ironically stan this. Admittedly the lyrics aren't great, but I'm absolutely living for the butchering of 'Do Not Disturb' by Mahalia, a song whih M1llionz most certainly disturbed.

 

12: Taylor Swift - the 1

Going to be honest, I'm not a Taylor fan at all so I wasn't expecting her third highest song to be at #12 here at all, but all of her three entries have been pretty good. This one is just missing the Top 10 because of her less-than-perfect language but it's still pretty catchy.

 

11: PS1 - Fake Friends (ft. Alex Hosking)

Sorry Jupiter. Can't say I was a massive fan of this in BJSC as dance songs don't lend themselves to foul language at all, plus the song itself isn't brilliant. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy having it in the chart, but it didn't feel right to put it in the Top 10 this month.

 

Which leaves my Top 10, in alphabetical order, as...

 

AJ Tracey & Mabel - West Ten

Bring Me the Horizon - Parasite Eve

Joel Corry & MNEK - Head & Heart

Jubel ft. NEIMY - Dancing In the Moonlight

Juice WRLD & Marshmello - Come & Go

Kygo & Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It

Nathan Dawe x KSI - Lighter

Taylor Swift - cardigan

Taylor Swift - exile (ft. Bon Iver)

Ty Dolla $ign - Ego Death (ft. Kanye West, FKA Twigs & Skrillex)

 

so close for PS1! ;( liking most of that top 10 tho. out of the rest of that 11-29 section I only enjoy Heaven On My Mind and the 3 Drake songs.

Very pleased that 'West Ten', 'Head & Heart', 'cardigan', 'exile' and 'Ego Death' have made the top 10 - all varying shades of brilliant!

so close for PS1! ;( liking most of that top 10 tho. out of the rest of that 11-29 section I only enjoy Heaven On My Mind and the 3 Drake songs.

PS1 are very unlucky although because it is a decent dance song but I do have to remember how close to the bottom of my BJSC ranking it was sadly :( Thanks Dan!

 

Very pleased that 'West Ten', 'Head & Heart', 'cardigan', 'exile' and 'Ego Death' have made the top 10 - all varying shades of brilliant!

Five great songs you've listed! All varying shades of good for me as well. Thanks Jade! :D

Hi Pete :)

 

well of The Excluded so far, the losses have been Dua Lipa's, Katy Perry's, Pussycat Dolls, Ariana & Justin, and the latest Little Mix (the only one theirs I've bought in a while), though the only one that's a "must" is Dua Lipa.

 

Pretty much everything else is a case of "Next!" for me :lol:

 

Since we're halfway through the year, I think I should get my rankings of the month out of the way

 

 

 

 

MAY

GOLDEN BROWN!Rain On Me

 

EXCELLENT

Think About ThingsIf You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)Secrets

 

REALLY GOOD STUFF

HoudiniBe KindDinner GuestWho's That What's ThatTHE SCOTTSDaisiesKings And Queens

 

THIS IS SOLID/DECENT

Don't Need LoveRighteousPain 1993Breaking Meily (i love you baby)Chicago FreestyleKilla Killa

 

OKAY

Stuck With U

 

DON'T REALLY LIKE THIS

GOOBAParty GirlCap

 

 

 

 

JUNE

1. EXCELLENT
2. Sour Candy
3. Alice

    

   REALLY GOOD STUFF

4. 30
5. Midnight (The Hanging Tree)
6. I Dunno
7. Burning

    

   THIS IS SOLID/DECENT

8. Go Crazy

    

   OKAY

9. TROLLZ
10. Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)

     

    DON'T REALLY LIKE THIS

11. Free 22

 

 

 

 

JULY

GOLDEN BROWN!exile

 

EXCELLENT

Parasite EveWest TenHead & HeartHeaven On My Mind

 

REALLY GOOD STUFF

Come & GoLighterWHAT'S POPPINFake FriendsLife's A MessWhat's Love Got To Do With ItcardiganEgo Death

 

THIS IS SOLID/DECENT

How You Like Thatthe 1HolidayDancing In The MoonlightPOPSTAROnly You FreestyleWishing WellFor The NightCircles

 

OKAY

On DeckB1llionzThe WooPlain JaneGREECE

 

DON'T REALLY LIKE THIS

Mood Swings

Mostly agreed with your July choices there! Surprised at The Woo being below Mood Swings for Pop Smoke as I found the latter much much worse, and GREECE was a bit disappointingly low here but at least it's for being meh rather than being bad, probably my favourite of the songs that missed the cut.

 

Six of your top ten are songs I'm really enjoying at the moment and would certainly feature in mine if I did this list myself (West Ten, Parasite Eve, Head & Heart, Come & Go, What's Love Got To Do With It and Exile), very impressed by Bring Me The Horizon in particular making it through in such a busy month! :o :wub: :wub:

August

 

18 songs made the Top 40 for the first time this month. Replacing all the rap from last month is a good dose of mediocre pop making for a slightly more difficult decision-making process.

 

18: Cardi B - WAP (ft. Meghan Thee Stallion)

Surprise!!! The song which has been causing massive rows throughout the Chart Forum is last by quite a way. WAP (or Wet and Gushy, as Mrs. B affectionately calls the song in the official video) contains a load of awful language, is all about sex and to top itself of the sound of the song itself is excrutiating. I do respect that Cardi and Meghan have every right to record and release this song, but I also have every right not to like it, which I don't. So PLEASE can Adele surprise release tomorrow to stop this getting the top spot.

 

17: Headie One ft. AJ Tracey & Stormzy - Ain't It Different

From a bunch of rapping ladies to a bunch of rapping gentlemen. This is Headies fourth Top 10 single now - each of them has featured a name bigger than himself, which should be sending a message to Mr. One about his own name power. The song itself is very average, and the fact he says 'Ain't It Different' in the same way he says '18 Hunna' isn't winning any bonus points either.

 

16: D-Block Europe - We Won

The best I can say about this is that it at least sounds a bit more like a song, but the dreadful lyrics (Exotic weed got us conversating, anyone?) and music video containing naked girls with artificial bottoms isn't doing it for me.

 

15: Drake ft. Lil Durk - Laugh Now Cry Later

Drake decided to burp out another song this month, and it plopped right into the Top 5 despite sounding as equally mediocre as all the others and featuring an artist who's name sounds like an insult. This doesn't do anything for me, but at least I can remember what it sounds like)

 

14: Vera Lynn - Land of Hope & Glory

It's been seven months since a really old song got back into the charts because of some politically charged protest, although unfortunately this time the protesters happened to be wrong. Where were all these people at VE Day, or when Vera died? Anyway, the song itself is very average and if it wasn't such an iconic British song everyone would have forgotten it.

 

13: Conan Grey - Heather

Having only heard this one yesterday makes ranking it very difficult, as it did absolutely nothing for me but is the type of song that could easily grow. I have to go with my instinct and say that it won't, although I was a fan of Maniac and hope his next single is a little more inspiring.

 

12: Tate McRae - You Broke Me First

Tate McRae is younger than my sister, which scares me. Anyway this is another on the 'fairly uninspiring pop' train, this could also grow on me as I'm sure I'll hear lots of it in the coming months (actually already seems to be) but right now it's not grabbing me as much as the ones above it.

 

11: Juice WRLD & The Weeknd - Smile

This song just missed out in a spot in the Top 10 (although in reality it didn't as it was quite a way off #10), and I do quite like the whole premise of the song (he wants her to be happy etc). Unfortunately, The Weeknd's verse lets it down a bit as he decides to make what is quite a wholesome song into one about drugs and sex. And the beat isn't too memorable either sadly.

 

Which leaves my Top 10, in alphabetical order, as...

 

24kGoldn - Mood (ft. Iann Dior)

Billie Eilish - my future

BTS - Dynamite

Bugzy Malone - M.E.N III

Clean Bandit & Mabel - Tick Tock (ft. 24kGoldn)

Dua Lipa - Hallucinate

Dua Lipa - Levitating

Jason Derulo - Take You Dancing

Miley Cyrus - Midnight Sky

Paul Woolford & Diplo - Looking For Me (ft. Kareen Lomax)

Hi Pete :)

 

well of The Excluded so far, the losses have been Dua Lipa's, Katy Perry's, Pussycat Dolls, Ariana & Justin, and the latest Little Mix (the only one theirs I've bought in a while), though the only one that's a "must" is Dua Lipa.

 

Pretty much everything else is a case of "Next!" for me :lol:

Sadly Physical didn't (and still doesn't) do anything for me - it feels inferior compared to the rest of her singles. I do feel like maybe Holiday could have sneaked in on a good day though - thanks John!

 

Since we're halfway through the year, I think I should get my rankings of the month out of the way

MAY

GOLDEN BROWN!Rain On Me

 

EXCELLENT

Think About ThingsIf You're Too Shy (Let Me Know)Secrets

 

REALLY GOOD STUFF

HoudiniBe KindDinner GuestWho's That What's ThatTHE SCOTTSDaisiesKings And Queens

 

THIS IS SOLID/DECENT

Don't Need LoveRighteousPain 1993Breaking Meily (i love you baby)Chicago FreestyleKilla Killa

 

OKAY

Stuck With U

 

DON'T REALLY LIKE THIS

GOOBAParty GirlCapJUNE

1. EXCELLENT
2. Sour Candy
3. Alice

    

   REALLY GOOD STUFF

4. 30
5. Midnight (The Hanging Tree)
6. I Dunno
7. Burning

    

   THIS IS SOLID/DECENT

8. Go Crazy

    

   OKAY

9. TROLLZ
10. Savage Love (Laxed - Siren Beat)

     

    DON'T REALLY LIKE THIS

11. Free 22

JULYGOLDEN BROWN!exile

 

EXCELLENT

Parasite EveWest TenHead & HeartHeaven On My Mind

 

REALLY GOOD STUFF

Come & GoLighterWHAT'S POPPINFake FriendsLife's A MessWhat's Love Got To Do With ItcardiganEgo Death

 

THIS IS SOLID/DECENT

How You Like Thatthe 1HolidayDancing In The MoonlightPOPSTAROnly You FreestyleWishing WellFor The NightCircles

 

OKAY

On DeckB1llionzThe WooPlain JaneGREECE

 

DON'T REALLY LIKE THIS

Mood Swings

Thanks Dalek! Surprised you like so many songs in the chart :o

 

Mostly agreed with your July choices there! Surprised at The Woo being below Mood Swings for Pop Smoke as I found the latter much much worse, and GREECE was a bit disappointingly low here but at least it's for being meh rather than being bad, probably my favourite of the songs that missed the cut.

 

Six of your top ten are songs I'm really enjoying at the moment and would certainly feature in mine if I did this list myself (West Ten, Parasite Eve, Head & Heart, Come & Go, What's Love Got To Do With It and Exile), very impressed by Bring Me The Horizon in particular making it through in such a busy month! :o :wub: :wub:

GREECE has grown on me a LOT since doing this, much better than POPSTAR for me now! Thanks coi :D

September

 

September provided us with a measly 14 new entries, the second lowest of the year so far, and the first month in which none of the entries have made my Personal Chart (yet, at least). Let's go:

 

14: M Huncho x Nafe Smallz - 5AM

Thankfully the lack of any songs meant that there were no dreadful ones, although I did this ranking yesterday and I can't even remember what this one sounds like. I sort-of remember the music video, there were some people in a tank and then the usual rap-video antics, but that's about it.

 

13: Saweetie - Tap In

This feels like a slightly less outrageous and more catchy version of WAP. Whilst I will quite happily dance to the lean version of this when they play it on Radio 1, it isn't really family listening.

 

12: Calvin Harris & The Weeknd - Over Now

If you had shown me this ranking before any of the songs were released, I would have said that you were mad as I'd never rank Calvin this low. But there doesn't seem to be much Calvin kicking about here, it's more of just a very mediocre Weeknd song. It's even more disappointing that STARBOY was and that says something. And the charts seem to agree, as it's down and out now. Hopefully Calvin can come up with something better next time!

 

11: Nines - Airplane Mode (ft. NSG)

Aaand just missing out on a spot in the Top 10 is Nines with his track Airplane Mode, which got into the Top 40 thanks to an album boost. Unfortunately once again it's just not very memorable, which is a shame as NSG are one of the few UK rap acts I quite liked (controversial but Options and OT Bop were both tunes). This ain't grabbing me though sadly.

 

Which leaves my Top 10, in alphabetical order, as...

 

BLACKPINK - Ice Cream (ft. Selena Gomez)

Bring Me the Horizon & YUNGBLUD - Obey

Dermot Kennedy - Giants

Internet Money - Lemonade (ft. Gunna, Don Toliver & NAV)

Justin Bieber - Holy (ft. Chance the Rapper)

Pop Smoke - What You Know Bout Love

Rudimental - Come Over (ft. Anne-Marie & Tion Wayne)

S1mba ft. KSI - Loose

Sam Smith - Diamonds

Sigala & James Arthur - Lasting Lover

This a great idea buddy, Keep going on.

I'm not missing any of your Aug/Sept excommunications except Calvin & The Weeknd, which I rather like - I agree it's not a Calvin track, it's pure Weeknd, and a low-key Weeknd at that, but Abel T could fart into a microphone and it would still be better than half the spotify playlist drivel blocking decent records from having success. You know the ones, the ones that nobody even bothers to spend 59p on on itunes yet somehow they get instant "singles" success :teresa: :lol:

October

 

Aaand as things like to swing, we managed 30 new entries last month, the most of the year so far. It also means only a third of the songs that entered make the Final and that I have to do a load of write-ups, so fasten your seatbelts...

 

30: D Block Europe x Aitch - UFO

D-Block Europe claim the wooden spoon again with their lacklustre collab with Aitch, both of whom are equally vulgar/dreary in this song. Another one about sex and wanting loads of women to have sex with them, blah blah blah, last place.

 

29: 21 Savage x Metro Boomin ft Drake - Mr. Right Now

Basically the same as the above except it's a bit catchier and they all have American accents.

 

28: Digga D - Chingy (It's Whatever)

I was expecting to listen to this and for it just to be a string of expletives and drug references to warrant it not being played on the Chart Show despite it being the hgihest new entry. To my surprise I found that that wasn't the case - it's just that the song itself is really naff. (and if my memory serves me right he's one of the lot who's ended up in prison at some point).

 

27: Da Beatfreakz x DigDat x Dutchavelli x B Young - 808

Another lacklustre drill-rap song which does absolutely nothing for me, this one does at least amuse by rhyming the words 'acne' and 'Hackney' which is probably a first. B Young's bit is alright as well, but the other bits aren't.

 

26: Bryson Tiller - Outta Time ft. Drake

Again, nothing massively wrong with this song lyrically, it's just REALLY dull. It sounds like something a 6 year-old with no idea what a song should have in it cobbled together, it has no bass and no melody and is just Drake (and maybe Bryson? If he's in it he just sounds like Drake) singing over what sounds like a warped baby cry.

 

25: D-Block Europe - Destiny

D-Block Europe somehow manage to reach the dizzying heights of #25, which is the furthest away from last place any of their songs have got this year. In a bizarre twist of fate, this one isn't about what they want to do to women but is about how much money they have. (at least I think, I didn't really follow the lyrics and the music video is a mix of them throwing money around and being arrested). It's *alright* anyway for their low low standards.

 

24: Headie One - Parlez-Vous Anglais ft. Aitch

Aitch really enjoyed being the featured artist on album bombs this month anyway. I can't remember anything of this song except for Aitch telling everyone that his watch isn't French, it's Swiss. If you're into your watches that probably means something but for me it just feels like a really random fact to drag out. And I've forgotten the rest which says a lot really.

 

23: Dutchavelli - Bando Diaries

This song got into the Top 40 thanks to a remix, featuring artists from 4 different countries which would have bolstered my Nationalities list up nicely had that actually been the version that was pushed in the first place. As it is, we just get him rapping, and granted I remember more of it than most of the songs below him but his raspy voice isn't really my thing.

 

22: Ritt Momney - Put Your Records On

We Leodensians are proud of our exports, and we get very annoyed when Americans with weird stage names absolutely butcher them and then somehow get in the charts. Fair enough that he's linked the original on all his platforms, but it doesn't make it any less awful.

 

21: Central Cee - Loading

Very formulaic drill rap, but I did get a bit of a soft spot for this one because the wordplay is a bit better than the others ('the boys in blue tryna find them clues' in particular stays in my head). Evidently with the mask he's trying to be an M Huncho lookalike, which is a shame as all M Huncho's song are considerably worse than this.

 

20: MoStack - Miss Me ft. AJ Tracey

A bit of a let down given the more recent output from these two, the off-beat piano is a nice touch and I do quite like the throwback-style music video, at least until they try and mimic that horrendous Kanye/Lil Pump song which deserves to be permanently erased from history.

 

19: Ashnikko – Daisy

From hearing this in the chart show, I was toying with whether or not to have this in the Top 10 as a bit of a curveball as it is quite catchy. However listening to the uncensored version very much made my mind up for me as it’s laden with more expletives that I could ever have imagined. Mind your language, love!

 

18: Miley Cyrus - Heart Of Glass (Live from the iHeart Festival)

We now go into the songs which are actually decent but missed the cut thanks to everyone deciding to release in October. This one had to be the first to be culled as it’s a live cover, and whilst it’s a good live cover it is basically Miley singing someone else’s song.

 

17: Ariana Grande – positions

‘I’m switching my positions for you’ sings Ariana, going on to explain that those positions are the kitchen and the bedroom. Isn’t that stereotyping women a bit? She should be going to the pub and rock-climbing or something like that. The part of her music video where she’s ‘in the kitchen’ is also very reminiscent of a Polish milkmaid at Eurovision. The song itself is catchy enough but nothing to write home about.

 

16: Little Mix - Sweet Melody

Ironically enough this is probably the best of Little Mix’s output this year but as things go they miss out on the Top 10 once again. I don’t really have much else to say about this song so I’ll have to drag it out by saying lots of things that don’t mean much, and saying hi to Leigh-Anne, Perrie, …Jessie? And the other one.

 

15: Justin Bieber & benny blanco – Lonely

This is actually a really nice ballad and a beautiful song which I’ve had in my head a lot this week. Of course until he decides to throw an unnecessary swear word right in the middle of the chorus. Next!

 

14: Travis Scott feat. Young Thug & M.I.A. – FRANCHISE

Another catchy song from Mr. Scott, being up there with the pop songs is no mean feat but he’s managed it. And of course getting ‘turkey on my knee’ M.I.A another his is always a good thing.

 

13: Keith Urban & P!nk - One Too Many

Aaargh this month is so hard to rank! I was really glad this made the Top 40, and a bit of country in the charts never hurt anyone. But it lacks just that little compared to the songs above it.

 

12: Chunkz X Yung Filly – Hold

Afro-beats have been missing from the Top 40 somewhat recently, and this filled that void nicely. A lovely little track (whatever the rest of Buzzjack says), I’m really annoyed this misses my Top 10 but to be fair the upsets are part of the reason I made the format like this.

 

11: Bring Me The Horizon – Teardrops

Another song which could easily have made my Top 10 any other month, BMTH just miss out. My reasoning behind this one is that I wanted to add a bit more variety to the songs I put through, and these guys already have two songs in the Final, meaning this one just misses out. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still delighted this went Top 40 and any rock in the charts can only be a good thing.

 

Which leaves my Top 10, in alphabetical order, as...

 

BLACKPINK – Lovesick Girls

Headie One - Princess Cuts ft. Young T & Bugsey

James Arthur - Train Wreck

Jax Jones & Au/Ra - i miss u

Jorja Smith - Come Over (feat. Popcaan)

KSI – Really Love (feat. Craig David & Digital Farm Animals)

Machine Gun Kelly ft. Halsey - forget me too

Machine Gun Kelly ft. blackbear - my ex's best friend

Shawn Mendes - Wonder

Wes Nelson - See Nobody (Ft. Hardy Caprio)

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I'm not missing any of your Aug/Sept excommunications except Calvin & The Weeknd, which I rather like - I agree it's not a Calvin track, it's pure Weeknd, and a low-key Weeknd at that, but Abel T could fart into a microphone and it would still be better than half the spotify playlist drivel blocking decent records from having success. You know the ones, the ones that nobody even bothers to spend 59p on on itunes yet somehow they get instant "singles" success :teresa: :lol:

Yeah it isn't a *bad* track, I guess I just expected a bit more from Calvin so the disappointment probably fuelled my decision a bit! Thanks John :D

24: Headie One - Parlez-Vous Anglais ft. Aitch

Aitch really enjoyed being the featured artist on album bombs this month anyway. I can't remember anything of this song except for Aitch telling everyone that his watch isn't French, it's Swiss. If you're into your watches that probably means something but for me it just feels like a really random fact to drag out. And I've forgotten the rest which says a lot really.

I think that's just another 'look how much money I have' brag, Swiss watches are known for being ridiculously expensive.

 

Glad Franchise at least managed to make the top half of the list here as one of the few rap hits actually worth my time at the moment.

November

 

November was a very averge month for chart music, both in the number of songs making it into the Top 40 and the quality of the music itself. 17 songs entered in total before the Christmas onslaught began in December.

 

 

17: Ariana Grande - 34+35

Thought I'd change it up a bit by putting a pop song in last place for once! This is truly horrendous however, basically being a song about how she's been preparing herself for having continuous sex throughout the night with (presumably) her boyfriend. The lyrics aren't even cryptic either, she basically gives us all the crudeness on a plate. I'm sure there's a market for that sort of music but I'm not it.

 

16: CJ - Whoopty

As much as I'm not a fan of UK drill music, when an American copies it and then does considerably better charts-wise than all the British ones it annoys me. Particularly when this guy doesn't seem to even know anything about the UK (judging by his interview which I ended up skipping to the end of he seemed to think Thanksgiving was a thing in the UK, and the only UK musician he could name was, bizarrely, Fredo). Sincerely hoping the Christmas songs put pay to any chance this has of getting higher.

 

15: Tion Wayne - Deluded (feat. MIST)

Speaking of UK drill... :magic: I find it very hard to tell any of these songs apart, particularly the ones which feature Tion Wayne as they're all equally rubbish. He mentions sticking your bum in the air in the lyrics but other than that I've forgotten it already.

 

14: Fumez the Engineer ft. A92 & Offica - Plugged in Freestyle

So A92 is a quartet consisting of Offica, Ksav, Dbo & BT (who knew that internet broadband was able to rap?) although bizarrely the OCC have decided only to credit Offica on the track itself. Maybe it's a Pussycat Dolls & Nicole Scherzinger (or D-Block Europe & Young Adz) moment. Anyway this is very standard song, although half of A92 seem to have showed up to the music video in fancy dress and the other half not, which seems very bizarre.

 

13: Ariana Grande & Doja Cat - motive

This isn't as awful as 34+35 but is a very bland song, I listened to it 20 minutes ago and I've forgotton it already. Evidently the UK thought the same as they had moved on to a different album track by the next week, knocking this one out.

 

12: Giggs & Dave - Straight Murder (Giggs & David)

We've heard loads from Dave over the past few years but Giggs seems to have vanished from the charts entirely, which is a bit weird as he was one of the trailblazers for UK rap in the charts. Anyway, this song doesn't have much to write home about either, except for the George & Lenny reference and the use of the term 'holy moley'.

 

11: Ariana Grande - pov

Aaaand Ariana's final track also misses out in the Top 10, meaning that out of five songs where Ariana is the first credited artist, none of them have made the Final. Given that D-Block Europe have a song in there that is saying something. that my rankings are bizarre but hey ho. 'pov' stands for 'point of view' and is unfortunately not a social justice track about poverty, which is a shame but judging by her other singles Ariana isn't really one for social justice in songs. This is also the most Winter-y sounding of her singles, which is also a bit of a shame given that it's been kicked out of the chart by her Christmas song.

 

Which leaves my Top 10, in alphabetical order, as...

 

BBC Radio 2 Allstars - Stop Crying Your Heart Out

BTS - Life Goes On

Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am

Harry Styles - Golden

Little Mix - Confetti

MEDUZA - Paradise (ft. Dermot Kennedy)

Miley Cyrus - Prisoner (ft. Dua Lipa)

Paul Harvey & BBC Philharmonic - Four Notes - Paul's Tune

Shane Codd - Get Out My Head

Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber - Monster