Album of the Year: Gareth Emery – The Lasers

 

 

As I suspected would be the case last year when Gareth Emery announced he'd have a new album, it is 'The Lasers' which is this year's Album of the Year. I really am that predictable! Following last year's collaborative effort with Ashley Wallbridge, he went in a less trancey, more song-focused direction for this album. It is also quite unique for a dance album for guesting the same vocalist throughout its entirety, namely Annabel. The lyrics were also written by Gareth and many of them are very personal which really makes this quite a special album. Gareth even sings himself a little on the song 'Welcome To Your Life'. The songs 'End of Days', 'Gunshots' and 'You'll Be OK' feel like they were written for the year that is 2020 for various reasons, and to top it off we have 'Elise' - a beautiful song written about Gareth's daughter, also with the best of the pandemic-themed music videos that came out this year.

 

Charting songs from the album:

01 Elise

02 Gunshots

03 You'll Be OK

04 End of Days

05 Welcome To Your Life

06 I Saw Your Face

07 St. Mary's

11 Way To You

13 Little Celebrity

 

Favourite single: Elise

Favourite album track: I Saw Your Face

Not surprised about your Album of the Year.

But I really liked some of your contenders: "Dark Matter", "Energy", "Future Nostalgia" (A AOTY contender for my Year-End list), "Golden Hour" and "Chromatica"!

Can't wait to see the rest of your lists!

Really like it so far!

Energy, Future Nostalgia and Chromatica are all great albums.

The CamelPhat, Duke Dumont and Kygo ones may be worth checking out.

Not surprised about your Album of the Year.

But I really liked some of your contenders: "Dark Matter", "Energy", "Future Nostalgia" (A AOTY contender for my Year-End list), "Golden Hour" and "Chromatica"!

Can't wait to see the rest of your lists!

Really like it so far!

yes it was a rather predictable #1 album for anyone who'd been following my chart. :P

glad you like half of my album contenders anyhow.

 

Energy, Future Nostalgia and Chromatica are all great albums.

The CamelPhat, Duke Dumont and Kygo ones may be worth checking out.

yes, I'd recommend CamelPhat in particular.

 

thanks both for commenting ~

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | THE FORMAT

Here is how my EOY chart works. As per the last few years, the top 250 best 'selling' songs of the year (as determined by my points system) will be counted down, though more attention to detail will be paid for the top 100.

The tracking year for 2020 takes into account points accumulated from chart #484 to the most recent #535. The points are baed on two factors; playcount taken from December 2019 to November 2020 inclusive, as well as weekly chart positions. Any plays from tomorrow onwards will count towards next year's chart. The chart points will be expressed as 'sales' totals for the tracking year.

To keep it fair, any song that charted during the tracking year is eligible, including tracks that did not peak during the tracking year, which means there will be quite a few 'leftovers' from the previous year. The countdown is as big as a top 250, to make sure that plenty of newer songs get a look in.

However this year there will be a new rule that holiday songs will not be permitted in the chart, otherwise there'd be too many of them (and I want to leave my EOY playlist as is come January). I'll do a quick rundown of the top holiday songs shortly, alongside some 'nearly made it's.

Anyway here's some teasers:

Most appearances:
12x - Gareth Emery
10x - Avicii
8x - Armin van Buuren
7x - Annabel [all through (uncredited) Gareth Emery features]
6x - Nora En Pure
5x - Becky Hill
5x - Disclosure
5x - Love Regenerator

Number of Personal #1 singles -> 25
Number of Personal Top 3 hit singles -> 44
Number of Personal Top 5 hit singles -> 60
Number of Personal Top 10 hit singles -> 113
Number of Personal Top 20 hit singles -> 163
Number of Personal Top 40 hit singles -> 228
Number of Personal Top 50 hit singles -> 238
Number of Personal Top 75 hit singles -> 249
Number of Personal Top 100 hit singles -> 250

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | TOP CHRISTMAS SONGS

Unfiltered EOY position // Christmas songs ranking // Performer ~ Title // Sales

126 01 Leona Lewis ~ One More Sleep 371,600
145 02 Ellie Goulding ~ River 346,800
169 03 Hurts ~ All I Want For Christmas Is New Year's Day 309,500
192 04 Wham! ~ Last Christmas 287,200
202 05 Kiesza and Chris Malinchak ~ I Only Love You At Christmas 271,600
207 06 The Waitresses ~ Christmas Wrapping 266,100
211 07 The Pogues ~ Fairytale Of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl) 264,400
232 08 Mariah Carey ~ All I Want For Christmas Is You 249,100
242 09 Darlene Love ~ Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) 242,700
244 10 Cascada ~ Last Christmas 239,800
246 11 Pretenders ~ 2000 Miles 238,700
249 12 Chris Rea ~ Driving Home For Christmas 233,500
251 13 Andy Williams ~ Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season 230,500
260 14 Shakin' Stevens ~ Merry Christmas Everyone 225,400
264 15 Chris de Burgh ~ A Spaceman Came Travelling 222,100
275 16 Boney M. ~ Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord 213,300
278 17 Sarah McLachlan ~ Wintersong 212,100
286 18 Gwen Stefani ~ You Make It Feel Like Christmas (feat. Blake Shelton) 209,300
297 19 Becky Hill ~ Only You 202,900
304 20 Elton John ~ Step Into Christmas 196,800

It was a great year for Leona Lewis once again who claimed the post-Christmas number one with 'One More Sleep', getting her 3rd total week at #1 having got 2 weeks at #1 the previous year. The song has already returned to the chart at #26 too, the highest it has got in November thus far. Meanwhile a new fave has come along, well less new and more of a new version replacing the old with Ellie Goulding's take on 'River' which meant original Joni Mitchell version didn't do so well. Other former #1s from Hurts and Kiesza are in the top five with another big festive favourite from Wham! getting a new yearly sales high.

Mariah Carey finally cracked my top 10 last Christmas reaching #10, however she has the 8th highest song here on sales ranking, just behind her old chart rival The Pogues. Amongst other old favourites Sarah McLachlan's 'Wintersong' (randomly) grew on me big last Christmas and charted for the first time, it ends up at #17 here. Gwen's record continued to grow too and Becky Hill's festive effort (although arguably not really a Christmas song, it was certainly made for the occasion with all the chimes in the production) getting a good first showing just passing 200k points. Just outside the top 20 are Band Aid, who would've been top three or even #1 here once upon a time but it's not one of my ultimate faves anymore.

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | NEARLY THERE

The following tracks passed 200k sales in the year but it just wasn't quite enough for the all-important Top 250 which means they'll go completely and utterly commentless! Poor Headie One, you were so close with two songs but we won't be seeing you again.

251 Headie One ~ Ain't It Different (feat. AJ Tracey and Stormzy) 220,100
252 Ben Gold and Omnia present FUTURECODE and Roxanne Emery ~ Dancing In The Rain 219,700 [2019 EOY #17]
253 Drake ~ Laugh Now Cry Later (feat. Lil Durk) 218,400
254 DaBaby ~ Bop 218,100
255 Ferreck Dawn, Robosonic and Nikki Ambers ~ In My Arms 218,100 [2019 EOY #30]
256 Ferry Corsten and Ciaran McAuley ~ Mo Chara 217,100
257 Madeon ~ The Prince 216,400
258 Little Mix ~ Break Up Song 215,900
259 Nash ~ Sometimes 213,500
260 Meduza ~ Piece Of Your Heart (feat. Goodboys) 212,800 [2019 EOY #8]
261 R3hab ~ Smells Like Teen Spirit (feat. Amba Shepherd) 212,800
262 MK and Sonny Fodera ~ One Night (feat. Raphaella) 211,600
263 Kygo ~ Beautiful (feat. Sandro Cavazza) 211,400
264 Joker Bra and Vize ~ Baby 210,900
265 Headie One and Drake ~ Only You Freestyle 210,800
266 Lady Gaga ~ Free Woman 210,300
267 Dua Lipa ~ Levitating 209,700
268 CamelPhat ~ Rabbit Hole (feat. Jem Cooke) 209,300
270 Marty Guilfoyle ~ 1, 2 Step (feat. John Gibbons) 208,800
271 Giuseppe Ottaviani and Lucid Blue ~ I Believe 208,400
272 Kygo ~ Follow (feat. Joe Janiak) 208,200
273 DJ Khaled ~ Greece (feat. Drake) 207,000
274 Crazy Cousinz ~ Outline (feat. Julie Bergan) 206,700
275 Clean Bandit and Mabel ~ Tick Tock (feat. 24kGoldn) 205,900
276 Dynoro and Outwork ~ Elektro (feat. Mr. Gee) 205,200
277 Giuseppe Ottaviani ~ Tranceland 204,500
278 Crazy Cousinz and Alex Mills ~ Amnesia 204,200 [2019 EOY #86]
279 Lika Morgan ~ In Motion 203,600 [2019 EOY #9]
280 Bicep ~ Apricots 202,000
281 Enamour ~ Love Syndrome 201,800
282 Gryffin ~ Body Back (feat. Maia Wright) 201,000
283 Gareth Emery and Emma Hewitt ~ Take Everything 200,900 [2019 EOY #12]
284 Riot ~ Jackknife 200,100

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #246-250

#250. Midnight Kids ~ Run It (feat. Annika Wells)
Date entered: 07/02/2020
Chart sales: 221,900
Chart run: 40-26-33-54-74-100-x [6 weeks]

#249. Lucas & Steve ~ Letters (feat. Haris)
Date entered: 05/06/2020
Chart sales: 223,600
Chart run: 12-13-23-45-92-x-63-93-x [7 weeks]

#248. Denis Kenzo and Kate Miles ~ Guide [2019 EOY #14]
Date entered: 14/09/2018
Chart sales: 224,300
Chart run: [38-35-24-27-25-30-12-7-10-11-12-12-18-30-62-69-29-24-25-27-27-27-31-32-36-38-51-46-43-41-32-37-57-62-x-46-32-35-41-51-75-x]-50-49-x [2 weeks (42 weeks total)]

#247. Becky Hill ~ Space
Date entered: 11/10/2020
Chart sales: 224,900
Chart run: 25-22-38-51-65-55-72-x [7 weeks]

#246. Kygo ~ Broken Glass (feat. Kim Petras)
Date entered: 05/06/2020
Chart sales: 228,300
Chart run: 18-17-22-44-71-x [5 weeks]

Commentary

We start the countdown this year with Midnight Kids, the first of a fair few BJSC discoveries of the year that will be making the chart - alongside of course the vast majority of what I sent this year too. Rich sent the song early in the year and finished 3rd with it thanks to its synth pop production and big chorus. A song I think would sound very good in the car after dark, not that I've had the opportunity to really do that considering there's nowhere to go. Lucas & Steve have two appearances in the rundown, just about. Their current hit 'Another Life' will potentially feature in the top 100 but for now 'Letters' places at #249. The song may as well be a love letter to Avicii considering how similar the production is to many of his country inspired hits, although it isn't quite as good obviously it's still worth a listen if that's the sort of thing you like. Hanging over from last year is Denis Kenzo whose progressive trance track 'Guide' reached 14th last year, it also made the EOY list the year before so it's had some stunning longevity. Unfortunately for Denis his more recent material hasn't been all that great and this will remain his only appearance. The song was also you may remember an unfortunate DNQ for me in BJSC. Becky Hill is up next with the first of five appearances for her, with her most recent proper single 'Space'. The song was unfortunately a big chart flop officially but still managed to be a minor hit for me. She's got such an impressive vocal so it's a shame it seems to be underappreciated when she's not doing uptempo dancepop. Kygo's promo single 'Broken Glass' is the first of 3 year-end appearances for him at #246, and also marked the first chart appearance for Kim Petras. The song is what you'd expect from Kygo but helped by a great vocal performance.

Personal recommendation

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #241-245

#245. Lil Mosey ~ Blueberry Faygo
Date entered: 10/04/2020
Chart sales: 228,500
Chart run: 47-49-68-84-76-87-x [6 weeks]

#244. Dubdogz and Bhaskar ~ Infinity
Date entered: 07/02/2020
Chart sales: 229,400
Chart run: 56-69-80-84-92-x [5 weeks]

#243. Vassy and OneDuo ~ Blink
Date entered: 20/03/2020
Chart sales: 229,500
Chart run: 100-97-x-58-50-50-55-71-72-x [8 weeks]

#242. DJ Paul Elstak and Klubbheads ~ Memories
Date entered: 07/02/2020
Chart sales: 230,000
Chart run: 39-25-32-53-76-x [5 weeks]

#241. Eric Prydz ~ Nopus
Date entered: 25/10/2020
Chart sales: 230,000
Chart run: 21-2-3-3-3-4-... [6 weeks]

Commentary

I hope this chart doesn't lose much credibility from the inclusion of Lil Mosey here, admittedly with a song that could almost be considered novelty in 'Blueberry Faygo', but it is rather catchy and easily the best I've heard from him. I've yet to like anything else he's done. It's very much helped by the laidback summery production and the hook. One of the better US rap crossovers of the year for me. Dubdogz and Bhaskar took on the Infinity Ink club classic 'Infinity' giving it the slap house treatment and it proved itself to be a bigger hit than the original.. in the real world. It didn't quite do that on my chart but still got a respectable sales total, I have to give them some credit for modernising the track and making it still sound great. It was also sent into BJSC, although I'd knew the song beforehand. Sassy Vassy will be featuring a lot later on with a certain BJSC flop of mine, but for now she is here with 'Blink', which almost did have a blink-and-you'll-miss-it run - making it no higher than #50 whilst 'Trouble' was still riding high. It's got a rather generic EDM drop the kind of which I'm not as fond of these days but I do enjoy Vassy's vocal on it. Another BJSC song next from DJ Paul Elstak and Klubbheads courtesy of Lewis and it's only the first of his entires here. 'Memories' is a great 90s hardcore rave throwback tune making its title and lyrics rather appropriate. With it being a genre I never cared that much for it certainly did its job of making its way into my affection doing it better than many actual 90s tracks. Finally we have the comeback of progressive house legend Eric Prydz, who released his first track in years (excluding those done under his aliases) 'Nopus'. The track was named as such by his fans when he started playing it in his live sets in place of 'Opus' for being 'Not Opus'. Unfortunately with it only having a month of tracking it could only get this high up but I'm sure we'll see it a fair bit higher next year. It is so great to hear another tune like this of his again, he's truly excellent at these. Let's hope more is on the way.

Personal recommendation

Infinity is probably my favourite of those posted so far, a great discovery from BJSC. Giving Nopus a listen now, quite enjoying it! One of the best instrumentals I've heard in quite a while.

'Run It' and 'Infinity' are two fab BJSC entries here. Pointed both and both will be in my EOY! Also liking 'Free Woman', 'Levitating' (although on first listen I didn't think anything of it and was baffled as to why people were thinking it sounded like a hit but now I see why and don't get why I thought that lol), 'Ain't It Different' and 'Laugh Now, Cry Later' is one of Drake's better songs this year as well.

Edited December 1, 20204 yr by Rob S Claus

Infinity is probably my favourite of those posted so far, a great discovery from BJSC. Giving Nopus a listen now, quite enjoying it! One of the best instrumentals I've heard in quite a while.

Eric really knows how to do a big instrumental tune, glad you like it.

thanks for commenting ~

 

'Run It' and 'Infinity' are two fab BJSC entries here. Pointed both and both will be in my EOY! Also liking 'Free Woman', 'Levitating' (although on first listen I didn't think anything of it and was baffled as to why people were thinking it sounded like a hit but now I see why and don't get why I thought that lol), 'Ain't It Different' and 'Laugh Now, Cry Later' is one of Drake's better songs this year as well.

I had a feeling Levitating would be a smash hit, it's done very well for her but I don't massively love it.

thanks for commenting ~

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #236-240

#240. Sigala and Becky Hill ~ Wish You Well [2019 EOY #24]
Date entered: 31/05/2019
Chart sales: 230,100
Chart run: [4-4-15-10-8-6-8-8-8-7-8-6-6-6-5-8-11-20-28-44-62-x]-69-72-x [2 weeks (23 weeks total)]

#239. Robin Schulz and Wes ~ Alane
Date entered: 26/06/2020
Chart sales: 230,200
Chart run: 30-37-37-40-42-51-63-96-x [8 weeks]

#238. Becky Hill and Sigala ~ Heaven On My Mind
Date entered: 03/07/2020
Chart sales: 233,300
Chart run: 33-63-67-67-76-68-54-75-72-92-x [10 weeks]

#237. Gareth Emery ~ St Mary's (feat. Annabel)
Date entered: 17/07/2020
Chart sales: 238,400
Chart run: 7-11-13-21-21-32-58-x [7 weeks]

#236. Christina Novelli ~ It'll End In Tears
Date entered: 15/11/2019
Chart sales: 238,600
Chart run: [40-53-46]-78-x-57-52-52-34-34-45-55-96-x [9 weeks (12 weeks total)]

Commentary

Sigala & Becky Hill had a huge hit last year with 'Wish You Well', a song which managed to do well enough on residual streaming throughout the year to chart once again on the year-end list at #240. It also says a lot that their collaborative follow-up 'Heaven On My Mind' manages to only outpace it by two positions! The song was somewhat of a disappointment even if trying to replicate the magic of their first joint effort would be too difficult. It did however have some rather good stability at the bottom end of my chart for a good few weeks, and does its job reasonably well of being a light house bop. Becky's vocal is impressive as ever too, although I feel the full extent of her vocal talent isn't shown as much on this track as many others she has done. Sigala can certainly make a better song too, but he also has done worse. It's a fair position for the track really, and fortunately for Becky it'll be a good while yet before we get to her final two appearances in the rundown, even if she does have three tracks in the first fifteen to fall out. Sandwiched between the two tracks are Robin Schulz & Wes with 'Alane', a reworking by the German DJ of Wes' hit from the late 90s. I knew of the original through it getting a play on plug.dj a good few years ago, but hadn't thought about the song for a while so this version was as good as new for me. It certainly does its job at modernising the song giving it a house beat and drop section. The vocal here certainly makes it stand out, being sung in the African language of Bantu-Kana - with the title translating to 'Love Song'. Gareth Emery has the most appearances out of anyone here with 12. 7 of these come from his album 'The Lasers' and the first of these is 'St. Mary's' at #237. The song is one of the most personal on the album with lyrics about Gareth's hometown and reminiscing on the old times. It doesn't have much of a drop to it or a beat made for dancing to but it is a great track regardless showing his songwriting ability. A place above we have Christina Novelli with a song originally released as part of her acoustic album, then later given a single mix (although I'm not sure who by) with trance production. Christina has one of my favourite voices in trance music and whilst this one isn't amongst her absolute best it still deserves its place in the rundown. She will be making 4 more appearances, and it seems I didn't even realise she was here 5 times as 3 of those are as features.

Personal recommendation

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #231-235

#235. K-391, Alan Walker and Tungevaag ~ Play (feat. Mangoo) [2019 EOY #85]
Date entered: 06/09/2019
Chart sales: 239,700
Chart run: [7-7-4-6-9-8-9-9-18-25-31-36-39]-56-75-x-41-45-50-62-x [6 weeks (19 weeks total)]

#234. CamelPhat ~ Freak (feat. Cari Golden)
Date entered: 03/04/2020
Chart sales: 241,400
Chart run: 28-36-42-45-54-62-76-x [7 weeks]

#233. The Weeknd ~ In Your Eyes
Date entered: 27/03/2020
Chart sales: 244,400
Chart run: 44-65-75-89-97-95-98-x [7 weeks]

#232. Duke Dumont ~ Therapy
Date entered: 24/01/2020
Chart sales: 245,500
Chart run: 14-21-21-30-49-76-x [6 weeks]

#231. Gryffin ~ If I Left The World (feat. Marina and Model Child)
Date entered: 01/11/2019
Chart sales: 245,800
Chart run: [53-28-5-6-15]-20-56-89-x-71-66-65-65-78-x [8 weeks (13 weeks total)]

Commentary

K-391 and friends manage to hang on from residual streaming of 'Play' which made last year's top 100 at #235. The song samples the 00s track 'Eurodancer' from Mangoo which was also a former BJSC entry of mine, and does with it what you'd expect with Alan Walker being on the list of performers. CamelPhat may've had one of the albums of the year but they only make two appearances in the singles list, mostly due to their set of new hits being a bit too new for the countdown. And in fact, this first one isn't even taken from the album with it being a club-oriented loosie. It's not the style of CamelPhat's I usually get with being more tech and less melodic, but that bassline is hard to resist alongside the chilling vocal. The Weeknd had a great 2020 having the biggest hit single of the year. That is still yet to appear but for now we have its follow-up 'In Your Eyes' at #233 - which had a similar synthtastic 80s vibe, alongside a sax which we don't get enough of in pop music these days. Duke Dumont started the year off with 'Therapy', a 90s rave inspired track with some (sadly uncredited) power vocals. It's not the sort of sound I was expecting from him and I don't enjoy it as much as his earlier hits but it's a rather good tune nonetheless. At #231 is Gryffin with an unlikely collaboration with Marina, alongside the lesser known Model Child. It did what Clean Bandit couldn't do and give Marina a hit in my chart, helped by her great vocal performance and the song's big sounding drop. The song unfortunately got caught between years which makes it lose out on a top 200 spot.

Personal recommendation

Heard Alane quite a few times, it's a nice song and one I would have loved to see cross over to the UK but I really wanted to like it more than I did :( It did make the lower section of my chart but didn't hang around long, still good to see it getting some love on Buzzjack.

 

In Your Eyes was my favourite of The Weeknd's charting tracks this year and a rare mainstream hit to make my Top 40.

The Weekend and Gryffin both in that section are lush.

Did you every hear Gryffins Collab with Carly? It was superb.

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #226-230

#230. StaySolidRocky ~ Party Girl
Date entered: 29/05/2019
Chart sales: 245,900
Chart run: 66-90-85-80-81-96-93-96-85-89-x [10 weeks]

#229. Above & Beyond ~ Reverie (feat. Zoë Johnston)
Date entered: 26/06/2020
Chart sales: 246,000
Chart run: 33-51-56-64-64-61-67-69-85-90-x [10 weeks]

#228. Travis Scott and Kid Cudi presents The Scotts ~ The Scotts
Date entered: 01/05/2020
Chart sales: 246,600
Chart run: 56-63-63-88-79-85-73-78-88-x [9 weeks]

#227. EDX ~ I Found You (Neptune) (feat. Jess Ball)
Date entered: 25/10/2019
Chart sales: 246,600
Chart run: [88-x]-40-37-44-51-61-78-86-95-x [8 weeks (9 weeks total)]

#226. The Morrighan ~ Remember (To The Millenium)
Date entered: 31/01/2020
Chart sales: 247,200
Chart run: 10-12-21-31-58-82-x [6 weeks]

Commentary

At #230 we have a rap hit from StaySolidRocky that got disliked by the majority of Buzzjack and I understand why, the guy doesn't exactly have the best singing voice and it's a fairly standard trap song but it was a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. It helps that the beat is built around a piano loop, I do like that. I won't complain if he does turn out to be a one hit wonder though which seems likely. Next up are trance group Above & Beyond who continued to release new music throughout the year although we're yet to have any news of a forthcoming album yet. For now we have 'Reverie' alongside regular vocalist Zoë Johnston which is another rather lovely effort from them. Another rap song is up next now from The Scotts who are named as such due to Kid Cudi's real name and Travis Scott's stage name, although neither are Scottish. It was also one of the large handful of songs that made #1 in America which perhaps didn't really deserve to do so, but it is rather good for what it is with some interesting production to go with it including a great outro, although it could've used a proper hook. EDX has long been a mainstay of my chart and he continued to rack up some minor hits this year, the biggest of which was 'I Found You', a vocal reworking of last year's 'Neptune', just more of his usual style which he does well. Finally a song which seems like an odd pick from The Morrighan, being from the year 1999. However it was allowed on my chart as it was my Club Bizarre entry to the 90s themed contest. 'Remember' is a lengthy trance track that seems to be have ironically been largely lost to time; it's not even on Spotify except in remixed form. Which is a shame really as it was a great discovery for me and stands out amongst many others of the era. At least it managed a top 10 spot in the contest anyhow.

Personal recommendation

Heard Alane quite a few times, it's a nice song and one I would have loved to see cross over to the UK but I really wanted to like it more than I did :( It did make the lower section of my chart but didn't hang around long, still good to see it getting some love on Buzzjack.

 

In Your Eyes was my favourite of The Weeknd's charting tracks this year and a rare mainstream hit to make my Top 40.

I didn't expect it would be a crossover hit, it's incredibly hard to push foreign language songs here now sadly and Robin Schulz doesn't do anything with his other tracks either.

In Your Eyes is definitely one of the better hits we've had from him in recent years.

thanks for commenting ~

 

The Weekend and Gryffin both in that section are lush.

Did you every hear Gryffins Collab with Carly? It was superb.

I did, I don't think it ever made my chart though, I wasn't that much of a fan of it sadly.

thanks for commenting ~

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #221-225

#225. Tones and I ~ Never Seen The Rain
Date entered: 03/01/2020
Chart sales: 247,700
Chart run: 45-37-47-61-76-86-75-75-90-x [9 weeks]

#224. Lil Baby ~ We Paid (feat. 42 Dugg)
Date entered: 31/07/2020
Chart sales: 249,300
Chart run: 64-60-50-60-74-x-90-83-78-97-x [9 weeks]

#223. Trevor Daniel ~ Falling
Date entered: 20/12/2019
Chart sales: 249,600
Chart run: 79-x-88-98-87-85-93-94-91-88-x [9 weeks]

#222. Mecha Maiko ~ Phones
Date entered: 26/06/2020
Chart sales: 250,000
Chart run: 56-39-24-32-51-69-96-x [7 weeks]

#221. Hrrtz ~ Paper Aeroplane (feat. Leo Stannard)
Date entered: 15/05/2020
Chart sales: 250,200
Chart run: 55-31-27-36-43-50-68-76-x [8 weeks]

Commentary

Tones and I will be making an appearance a lot later on of course with 'Dance Monkey'. Meanwhile at #225 here is her underrated follow-up single which only managed to just scrape the UK top 100. It's a lovely ballad with uplifting lyrics which remains her most recent hit for me, although new one 'Fly Away' could yet grow on me and make next year's chart. Another rap song lands at #224 this time for Lil Baby who I am usually not a fan of, but he finally got a top 50 hit for me with 'We Paid'. It's got a catchy hook and minimalist beat which I surprisingly like. Trevor Daniel at #223 has the honour of having the only entry in this countdown that failed to even reach my weekly top 75, but 'Falling' had enough lower chart longevity to make it in. The song being a year old now remains the only song of his worth caring about, and is a decent Post Malone/Juice WRLD impression. Another BJSC entry makes an appearance at #222 for Mecha Maiko, the first entry of Leww's to be seen in the countdown. 'Phones' is a rather great upbeat synthy dance tune so it unsurprisingly made a good impression with me. A place above is an anonymous dance act Hrrtz with their remake of 'Paper Aeroplane' (a song I was unfamiliar with, so quite an inspired choice of song to cover really), with production clearly inspired by CamelPhat which I can get behind.

Personal recommendation

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #216-220

#220. Love Regenerator and Eli Brown ~ Moving
Date entered: 10/04/2020
Chart sales: 250,800
Chart run: 12-14-23-30-44-67-99-x [7 weeks]

#219. Jax Jones and Martin Solveig present Europa ~ All Day And Night (feat. Madison Beer) [2019 EOY #13]
Date entered: 05/04/2019
Chart sales: 251,900
Chart run: [4-8-8-9-11-14-25-13-10-6-17-17-18-13-13-15-15-16-20-29-31-30-32-38-56-79-x]-60-63-x [2 weeks (28 total weeks)]

#218. Solardo and Paul Woolford ~ Tear It Up (feat. Pamela Fernandez)
Date entered: 21/08/2020
Chart sales: 252,000
Chart run: 33-32-36-47-50-64-85-x [7 weeks]

#217. Solis & Sean Truby and Audrey Gallagher ~ Skin Deep (Solis & Sean Truby vs. Ultimate Remix)
Date entered: 15/11/2019
Chart sales: 254,300
Chart run: [49-49-35]-54-65-86-x-86-79-63-52-60-71-x [9 weeks (12 weeks total)]

#216. Tiësto ~ The Business
Date entered: 04/10/2020
Chart sales: 254,800
Chart run: 39-37-37-33-42-60-59-36-48-... [9+ weeks]

Commentary

Calvin Harris rebranded as Love Regenerator this year and under that alias has five entries in the rundown this year (his collab with The Weeknd failed to make it). First off at #220 is 'Moving', his collab with Eli Brown who adds a great house groove to the track. Europa could potentially contend for the year-end #1 this year with 'Tequila' but for now we have 'All Day And Night' which had enough residual streaming to make the list, having been in last year's Top 20. Solardo & Paul Woolford teamed up for 'Tear It Up', and whilst overshadowed somewhat by a much bigger hit for Paul that we'll eventually get to, had a respectable run. It's another great piano house tune as you'd come to expect from him with Solardo giving it a bit of an edge. Next up is an uplifting trance anthem from Solis & Sean Truby helped by the stunning vocal of Audrey Gallagher. 'Skin Deep' starts as it means to go on with a thumping beat.. [[listen to song insert more commentary]]. Tiësto makes his first appearance at #216 with current single 'The Business', which could potentially do some business in the real chart next year as it's been starting to climb. It's a very catchy dancepop track anyhow which is one of the better examples of this current trend of having a deep pitched vocal in a dance track.

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