'Wetlands' is beautiful and definitely would be a deserved winner if so.

 

I'm a fan of Ella and Doja's songs too and both should be in mine as well or be outside at least!

Wetlands is definitely one of the best BJSC entries this contest and possibly the best I've heard from Nora as well. Never Let Me Down was a brilliant tune and *checks spreadsheet* be appearing in my EOY as well.

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #126-130

#130. The Subs vs. Tsar B ~ Flesh & Bones
Date entered: 13/12/2019
Chart sales: 363,400
Chart run: 26-45-x-27-29-38-45-54-61-81-90-x [10 weeks]

#129. Armin van Buuren vs. Inner City ~ It Could Be [2019 EOY #97]
Date entered: 27/09/2019
Chart sales: 364,700
Chart run: [16-22-19-26-28-3-3-3-2-5]-5-12-25-45-16-21-30-43-55-x [9 weeks (19 weeks total)]

#128. Josement ~ All Night Alone (Chris Lake Edit)
Date entered: 13/09/2020
Chart sales: 367,300
Chart run: 60-40-12-6-6-13-16-21-28-34-42-61-... [12+ weeks]

#127. Roddy Ricch ~ The Box
Date entered: 03/01/2020
Chart sales: 368,400
Chart run: 62-69-40-46-56-70-83-84-x-90-96-x [10 weeks]

#126. Duke Dumont ~ Nightcrawler (Original/Tensnake Remix) (feat. Say Lou Lou)
Date entered: 24/04/2020
Chart sales: 368,500
Chart run: 76-90-95-56-86-99-x-68-66-72-73-71-77-89-x [13 weeks]

Commentary

The section starts off with another BJSC discovery, this time from The Subs vs. Tsar B. 'Flesh & Blood' has a great pounding techno beat and ravetastic synth drop lead giving it big energy, securing it 18 Danævii points. We say hello to Sir Armin van Buuren again too, he actually still has three songs left to go but for now we have a leftover from last year in 'It Could Be', which just about made the top 100 despite a late September release last year, if only it were timed better it could've contended for Top 40. It's a great dance pop bop which heavily samples Inner City's 'Good Life', so much that they even get an official credit on the song. A complete unknown DJ in Josement managed to get a big hit in DJ land and also in my chart with 'All Night Alone', helped muchly by Chris Lake who beefed up the production. The song has to win the award for most drunk sounding vocals but it works with the vibe of the song, a great melodic tech house track. One of the earliest big hits of 2020 sits at #127, and is the first of two appearances for Roddy Ricch. 'The Box' very much stood out in its field, a difficult feat considering the large number of trap songs around at the moment. It has to be one of the best produced rap hits of the year, with its orchestral textures, hi-hats and reverse 808s all helping it in that department. However Roddy proves his worth as a rapper on the track showing off his flow and giving us some catchy melodic hooks that helped it take off so much on TikTok before it officially became a single. Duke Dumont has two appearances in the rundown and the highest of these is 'Nightcrawler', which is also the highest track in the countdown that missed the weekly top 50. It proved itself as a big sleeper hit, helped by it having a great remix from Tensnake alongside the original version. Both versions were even attempted to BJSC but ultimately given the Veto. The original track is in a similar style to 'Ocean Drive' which works very well for him, it seems very much made for a late night drive, whilst Tensnake houses it up a bit. Worth checking out if it passed you by from him being no longer able to score chart hits.

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'Wetlands' is beautiful and definitely would be a deserved winner if so.

 

I'm a fan of Ella and Doja's songs too and both should be in mine as well or be outside at least!

It's such a good song, I'm a big fan of Nora En Pure's output but 'Wetlands' really is special for her.

I hope to see them in your chart then :P

 

Wetlands is definitely one of the best BJSC entries this contest and possibly the best I've heard from Nora as well. Never Let Me Down was a brilliant tune and *checks spreadsheet* be appearing in my EOY as well.

I'm not quite sure if it's my absolute favourite of hers, we'll have to see in time. 'Trailblazer' which I sent to BJSC I really adore and has over 100 plays. It's certainly already a big highlight in her discography however.

Well I hope Never Let Me Down manages to make your top 100 then. :P

 

thanks both ~

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #121-125

#125. Fatum and Jaren ~ Wait For The World
Date entered: 17/01/2020
Chart sales: 371,700
Chart run: 17-13-18-18-19-23-40-49-83-85-75-85-x [12 weeks]

#124. Todd Terry, Tobtok and Richard Judge ~ All of Me (feat. Oliver Nelson)
Date entered: 14/02/2020
Chart sales: 373,100
Chart run: 90-x-75-51-38-37-48-60-79-85-96-x [10 weeks]

#123. Martin Garrix ~ Used To Love (feat. Dean Lewis)
Date entered: 08/11/2019
Chart sales: 378,800
Chart run: [20-14-14-10]-12-23-38-51-21-26-31-40-47-62-72-x [11 weeks (15 weeks total)]

#122. Icarus ~ Dreams Of You (feat. Rae Morris)
Date entered: 18/10/2019
Chart sales: 379,200
Chart run: [91-62-84-57-47-28-19]-26-54-84-x-34-32-27-33-43-57-67-72-71-x [12 weeks (19 weeks total)]

#121. Robin Schulz ~ In Your Eyes (feat. Alida)
Date entered: 17/01/2020
Chart sales: 383,500
Chart run: 59-32-34-44-53-61-69-85-86-83-87-94-x [12 weeks]

Commentary

Trance group Fatum make their 2nd appearance at #125 with 'Wait For The World', which was their first hit of the year in my chart. It is a big melodic trance effort which was a return to form for them, having not had any songs enter the top 40 in 2019. At #124 we have an unlikely appearance from Todd Terry. The veteran DJ is best known for his 90s work but as it turns out he's still active now and teamed up with Tobtok, Richard Judge & Oliver Nelson for 'All Of Me', a rather nice and groovy house track. Martin Garrix is up next, with his highest track in the rundown 'Used To Love'. It was a big surprise to me that a collab with Dean Lewis (whose one big world hit I disliked) would turn out to be his best track of the year, but here we are. It's a well written and sung dancepop track. Icarus had sat the last two years of the year-end chart out after getting two songs in the 2017 top 40. They're now back with 'Dreams Of You', a great electronica track which features a lovely vocal from Rae Morris (who hadn't seen my personal chart since 2014 beforehand, so it was a bit of a surprise to see her back). 2020 was also a good year for songs titled 'In Your Eyes', with three of them making my weekly top 50. The biggest of those comes from Robin Schulz at #121. This is 120 positions lower than his peak in a year-end chart, having topped it with his 'Waves' remix in 2014. However, this track was somewhat of a return to form for him being his biggest hit in quite a few years. It is helped by a strong melody and vocal from Alida (who we'll see again in the top 100) and the production having a bit more life to it than many of his other recent tracks.

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Robin Schulz :sick: I honestly can't. His music just hasn't appealed to be at all this whole.time he's been releasing stuff. I can see why people like it but eh.

In Your Eyes and Used to Love were both great dance tracks from the start of the year! Both hung around in my Top 40 for quite a while. Giving the Icarus/Rae song a listen now, another song I'm quite enjoying and I think would be a grower for me.

Just catching up with this so far...

 

Good to see Play hanging on from last year as well as Nopus, In Your Eyes (The Weeknd's one) and Therapy making it into the top 250. Not surprised to see Gareth Emery doing well in your chart this year once again, glad to see St Mary's in particular though, love the connection to Southampton in those lyrics!

 

Trevor Daniel's Falling was pretty good but it already feels a bit forgotten, agreed about it sounding like a Post Malone/Juice WRLD track and that's not a bad comparison to have at all! The Business is also decent, glad it's finally making an impact and hopefully it does climb further in the UK chart.

 

Never Let Me Down is one that I only discovered a few months ago and it's one I've been playing regularly ever since! :wub: Agreed about that having potential to be a crossover hit in a parallel universe where that song got a proper UK push.

 

In Your Eyes (Robin Schulz this time!) is great too, I listened to that a lot for the first few months of the year! Used To Love was good but surprised that it's your highest Martin Garrix track in the rundown this year though, Higher Ground is one of my favourite songs of the year!

 

Plenty of other good songs in there too, looking forward to seeing the top 120.

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #116-120

#120. BT ~ Windows (feat. April Bender)
Date entered: 21/08/2020
Chart sales: 383,500
Chart run: 45-56-93-78-76-39-25-19-11-12-16-15-15-14-16-... [15+ weeks]

#119. Gareth Emery ~ Gunshots (feat. Annabel)
Date entered: 26/06/2020
Chart sales: 384,600
Chart run: 2-3-3-2-7-18-22-43-80-84-x [10 weeks]

#118. David Guetta and Sia ~ Let's Love
Date entered: 13/09/2020
Chart sales: 384,600
Chart run: 19-6-6-8-13-24-29-37-40-33-34-47-... [12+ weeks]

#117. Brunelle ~ Cheat On Me
Date entered: 13/03/2020
Chart sales: 385,400
Chart run: 77-66-64-53-54-55-36-26-28-36-62-78-94-x [13 weeks]

#116. Porter Robinson ~ Something Comforting
Date entered: 20/03/2020
Chart sales: 385,600
Chart run: 9-10-14-18-21-27-40-56-68-x [9 weeks]

Commentary

Veteran electronic and trance producer BT is here with two songs; one of them yet to come that you may recognise from BJSC but not this one - 'Windows' is an album track that was an instant stand-out from giving the whole thing a listen, one of the more pop-friendly tracks on the record. It has a banging drop and great hook to it. The most familiar face of my chart this year in Gareth Emery is back again at #119, but don't worry because he still has a whopping seven entries in the Top 100! 'Gunshots' is one of the more mid tempo tracks on his latest record, and quite a sad track having been inspired by the many incidents of shootings in America (and it also coincidentally came out around the time of the Riots). David Guetta is at #118 with 'Let's Love', which perhaps could've been Top 100 if it came out a little bit earlier. The song is yet another collaboration with Sia but unfortunately that wasn't enough to make the song a proper hit single, for shame! It is a great track inspired by the recent 80s synth pop trend, with it sounding a lot like 'Love Is A Battlefield' in particular. It's an upbeat track melodically and lyrically with much needed hope. A place higher we have faceless dance act Brunelle featuring an unknown female. 'Cheat On Me' is admittedly a very generic dance track but it is very uptempo and catchy which is sometimes all you need. I like the subversion of expectations here that the song turned out to be the opposite of a cheating/breakup song. Whilst we still wait for the much anticipated second album of Porter Robinson's (the first one came out in 2014!) he released a handful of singles. Sadly the comeback release 'Get Your Wish' didn't live up to my expectations but the two follow-ups were great and both appear in this here chart. Firstly we have 'Something Comforting', a track that would fit very well on the first album actually but Porter is very unique and outstanding as a producer so that is absolutely fine with me.

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Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #111-115

#115. Porter Robinson ~ Mirror
Date entered: 06/09/2020
Chart sales: 386,400
Chart run: 35-33-35-25-14-9-14-17-25-31-37-41-53-... [13+ weeks]

#114. David Guetta and Morten ~ Make It To Heaven (Original/Rework) (feat. Raye)
Date entered: 29/11/2019
Chart sales: 389,200
Chart run: [13]-17-47-87-x-87-92-93-15-22-31-45-56-78-x [12 weeks (13 weeks total)]

#113. Regard ~ Ride It [2019 EOY #107]
Date entered: 30/08/2019
Chart sales: 391,700
Chart run: [72-40-30-36-46-48-38-45-54-79-85-83-66-58-x]-47-55-69-70-65-x-38-55-62-x [8 weeks (22 weeks total)]

#112. Marshall Jefferson and Solardo ~ Move Your Body
Date entered: 25/10/2019
Chart sales: 392,200
Chart run: [20-46-56-76-x-77-x]-48-46-51-49-50-53-44-52-74-x [9 weeks (14 weeks total)]

#111. London Grammar ~ Baby It's You
Date entered: 28/08/2020
Chart sales: 393,000
Chart run: 51-79-81-96-71-53-24-10-11-14-17-20-23-24-... [14+ weeks]

Commentary

Porter Robinson has his 2nd and last appearance already as 'Mirror' ends up just one place ahead of 'Something Comforting'. It is my favourite track he has released from the forthcoming album so far which is promising for the record. It's a great electronic pop track with a lot going on in the production. David Guetta is also here with 'Make It To Heaven', the highest track he has in the rundown this year. It is helped by having two great versions, the festival ready banger of the original and the more mellow radio friendly rework (which I slightly prefer). Raye does another great vocal here proving herself as one of the best dance vocalists, indeed we'll be seeing more of her much further up the chart. Including a collab with Regard, who is next up with 'Ride It'. It's got a great groove to it and Regard deserves the credit for turning such a dull Jay Sean song into something enjoyable. I didn't enjoy it quite as much as you may've expected, considering it being one of the biggest dance songs of last year, but I do like the vibe the song's going for and it ended up having some strong staying power in my chart. The song had some very unfortunate timing to end up just missing out on a Top 100 position twice, with the song having a lot of recurrence plays into the new year and getting a new lease of life following 'Secrets'. Marshall Jefferson is at #112 with a reworking of his 80s house classic 'Move Your Body' from Solardo. They set the track right into 2020 keeping the arrangement faithful to the original but adding a more modern drum groove. It's just what the song needed really making it a right banger. A place above we have London Grammar with their comeback single. I wasn't particularly anticipating their return having not enjoyed their last singles run but they brought along some more electronic production courtesy of George Fitzgerald and it eventually grew on me a fair bit providing them their first top 10 hit that wasn't a remix. Her lush voice really works well with this type of production and it is something I hope we hear more of on the album.

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Robin Schulz :sick: I honestly can't. His music just hasn't appealed to be at all this whole.time he's been releasing stuff. I can see why people like it but eh.

Didn't realise you were that much of a Robin Schulz hater, or that his music was offensive to anyone. :o Oh well. At least we're not in 2014 where he was #1 by quite some way, I guess. :P (and Waves is still in my all time Top 10)

 

In Your Eyes and Used to Love were both great dance tracks from the start of the year! Both hung around in my Top 40 for quite a while. Giving the Icarus/Rae song a listen now, another song I'm quite enjoying and I think would be a grower for me.

Hope to see both make your year end list then! Glad you quite enjoy that Icarus song I recommended too.

 

Just catching up with this so far...

 

Good to see Play hanging on from last year as well as Nopus, In Your Eyes (The Weeknd's one) and Therapy making it into the top 250. Not surprised to see Gareth Emery doing well in your chart this year once again, glad to see St Mary's in particular though, love the connection to Southampton in those lyrics!

 

Trevor Daniel's Falling was pretty good but it already feels a bit forgotten, agreed about it sounding like a Post Malone/Juice WRLD track and that's not a bad comparison to have at all! The Business is also decent, glad it's finally making an impact and hopefully it does climb further in the UK chart.

 

Never Let Me Down is one that I only discovered a few months ago and it's one I've been playing regularly ever since! :wub: Agreed about that having potential to be a crossover hit in a parallel universe where that song got a proper UK push.

 

In Your Eyes (Robin Schulz this time!) is great too, I listened to that a lot for the first few months of the year! Used To Love was good but surprised that it's your highest Martin Garrix track in the rundown this year though, Higher Ground is one of my favourite songs of the year!

 

Plenty of other good songs in there too, looking forward to seeing the top 120.

Nopus should end up a lot higher for me next year as it's already proving itself to have great longevity in my chart.

It doesn't take a lot of reading my personal charts to figure out I may be a bit of a Gareth Emery fan haha. I'm not from Southampton but I do quite like how personal the lyrics are to him.

You may think Falling feels forgotten but it is well on its way to a billion Spotify streams! It's not a song I'll be going back to often most likely however.

I think The Business could end up being a UK top 10 hit, I'm glad it is getting a push.

Unfortunately I couldn't really get into Higher Ground, it just didn't do it for me. Used To Love is great though.

 

thanks for commenting y'all ~

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #106-110

#110. Karen Harding and Digital Farm Animals ~ Undo My Heart
Date entered: 03/07/2020
Chart sales: 394,300
Chart run: 44-49-61-70-62-47-23-29-41-49-54-56-65-x [13 weeks]

#109. Markus Schulz and Adina Butar ~ Indestructable
Date entered: 14/02/2020
Chart sales: 394,700
Chart run: 66-74-77-72-55-40-41-54-67-80-86-80-94-x [13 weeks]

#108. Andrew Rayel and Roxanne Emery ~ Never Going Down
Date entered: 29/05/2020
Chart sales: 394,800
Chart run: 7-16-16-17-19-29-34-49-59-77-90-x-91-x [12 weeks]

#107. DaBaby ~ Rockstar (feat. Roddy Ricch)
Date entered: 08/05/2020
Chart sales: 407,400
Chart run: 42-14-18-19-25-20-18-21-26-32-48-61-85-x [13 weeks]

#106. Bicep ~ Atlas
Date entered: 08/05/2020
Chart sales: 415,000
Chart run: 89-92-32-28-40-28-44-65-x-84-45-54-58-74-x [13 weeks]

Commentary

Karen Harding had her biggest hit in years in 2020 with 'Undo My Heart', which starts off this section. It was surprisingly good for me considering production was by Digital Farm Animals who is usually not to my taste, but he puts in a great dance beat here. It looked like at one point it would get some sort of chart push but that was never to happen sadly. Markus Schulz is next with what was his biggest hit of the year in 'Indestructible', a collab with none other than his actual wife on vocals! The track is fairly standard pop-trance but done well. Another trance track is next from Andrew Rayel, doing his signature big room trance on 'Never Going Down' with a great vocal from Roxanne Emery. He has another track yet to appear a lot higher up in the countdown with this acting as its follow-up. This section's token one actual hit single is from DaBaby, a rapper who was very much due a proper big hit and finally had it with 'Rockstar' being not only that but the biggest song of the summer. It is very much one of the best rap hits of the year with both rappers on the track showing off their fast flow accompanied by a nice acoustic guitar loop. I think this is the highest rap song that doesn't feature Drake actually which is impressive for two rappers with not much of a history. Lastly we have Bicep. The electronica the duo produce isn't typically my preferred style of dance and admittedly their first album passed me by (including 'Glue' which somehow has over 50m Spotify streams) but they came back with 'Atlas' and managed to score their biggest hit yet in the process. It helps that this track is a bit more dancey from them and I love all the synths they're using in it. They certainly stand out in their genre with songs like this and 'Apricots' and I'm hopeful for their 2nd album to be great.

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Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #101-105

#105. Craig Connelly ~ Time Machine (feat. Tara Louise)
Date entered: 24/04/2020
Chart sales: 415,400
Chart run: 69-51-35-39-7-9-20-22-43-64-77-x-76-87-x [13 weeks]

#104. Love Regenerator ~ Peace Love Happiness
Date entered: 06/12/2019
Chart sales: 420,100
Chart run: 16-69-x-20-25-29-37-44-54-64-x [9 weeks]

#103. Miley Cyrus ~ Midnight Sky
Date entered: 21/08/2020
Chart sales: 427,900
Chart run: 54-47-54-35-36-27-36-39-39-45-55-67-32-27-33-... [15+ weeks]

#102. Future ~ Life Is Good (feat. Drake)
Date entered: 17/01/2020
Chart sales: 429,400
Chart run: 14-11-19-30-42-45-46-50-62-67-x [10 weeks]

#101. Avicii ~ Lord (feat. Sandro Cavazza)
Date entered: 28/02/2020
Chart sales: 430,400
Chart run: 3-3-4-5-7-15-24-29-44-58-78-88-x [12 weeks]

Commentary

Starting off the final section before the top 100 we have Craig Connelly with the first of two appearances just outside the top 100 with 'Time Machine'. It is a great uplifting trance track inspired by classic trance records. This type of trance is sadly quite underrated these days but at least we have some people like Craig keeping it alive. Love Regenerator is next with 'Peace Love Happiness'. The song was actually the first song from the project that I heard as it got leaked and shared by a Facebook page I follow, however this was before Calvin Harris unveiled the alias. It did eventually get an official release thankfully under his 3rd EP. It's a great mostly instrumental track inspired by classic house. Miley Cyrus is unlucky enough to fall at #103, just a week away from getting enough points to reach the top 100. However her even getting this high with a solo record is unprecedented. She did of course have her Mark Ronson collab reach #1 in my chart but 'Midnight Sky' was still surprisingly great for me considering some of the shockers she has released in her career. It is a great 80s inspired record with Miley using her vocal to the best of her ability too, unsurprisingly a song massively adored by Buzzjack and also a big proper hit. At #102 we have perhaps the only instance of two songs taking up the same chart position in the rundown in 'Life Is Good', the Future & Drake "Collaboration". I joke but it is a bit of a tune, it's one of the best produced rap hits of the year and has one of the best music videos of the year too (no surprise that it's well past a billion views). Finally just missing out on a top 100 placement is Avicii, oh well, he does have plenty of year-end top 100s to his name anyway and he'll have a few more this year. 'Lord' is another unreleased track from him that had been one of the most anticipated by the fanbase ever since snippets of it came out years ago and it was amongst this year's leaks. It is another Sandro Cavazza collab albeit with his vocal being heavily processed again, and is a bit more mid tempo for Avicii but with the energy of an Avicii track that you'd expect anyhow. It is a shame this track probably won't ever have a proper release as it is easily one of his best unreleased songs.

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Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #101-150 RECAP

150 Armin van Buuren and Avira ~ Mask (feat. Sam Martin)
149 Anna ~ Bando
148 Christina Novelli ~ Beautiful Life
147 Robbie Seed ~ My Remedy (feat. That Girl)
146 Ella Henderson ~ Take Care of You
145 Karen Harding, Future Kings and L'Tric ~ Rely
144 PartyNextDoor ~ Believe It (feat. Rihanna)
143 Dynoro and Fumaratto ~ Me Provocas
142 Nora En Pure ~ Wetlands
141 Love Regenerator ~ Hypnagogic (I Can't Wait)
140 Vintage Culture and Fancy Inc ~ In The Dark
139 Vize ~ Never Let Me Down (feat. Tom Gregory)
138 Super8 & Tab ~ Rooftops (feat. Christina Novelli)
137 Ytram and Elderbrook ~ Fire
136 Armin van Buuren and Avira ~ Illusion
135 Jorn van Deynhoven ~ I Need Your Lovin' (Like The Sunshine) (feat. Sue McLaren)
134 Gamper & Dadoni ~ Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
133 Sam Feldt ~ Hold Me Close (feat. Ella Henderson)
132 Gareth Emery ~ I Saw Your Face (feat. Annabel)
131 Doja Cat ~ Say So
130 The Subs vs. Tsar B ~ Flesh & Bones
129 Armin van Buuren vs. Inner City ~ It Could Be
128 Josement ~ All Night Alone (Chris Lake Edit)
127 Roddy Ricch ~ The Box
126 Duke Dumont ~ Nightcrawler (Original/Tensnake Remix) (feat. Say Lou Lou)
125 Fatum and Jaren ~ Wait For The World
124 Todd Terry, Tobtok and Richard Judge ~ All of Me (feat. Oliver Nelson)
123 Martin Garrix ~ Used To Love (feat. Dean Lewis)
122 Icarus ~ Dreams Of You (feat. Rae Morris)
121 Robin Schulz ~ In Your Eyes (feat. Alida)
120 BT ~ Windows (feat. April Bender)
119 Gareth Emery ~ Gunshots (feat. Annabel)
118 David Guetta and Sia ~ Let's Love
117 Brunelle ~ Cheat On Me
116 Porter Robinson ~ Something Comforting
115 Porter Robinson ~ Mirror
114 David Guetta and Morten ~ Make It To Heaven (Original/Rework) (feat. Raye)
113 Regard ~ Ride It
112 Marshall Jefferson and Solardo ~ Move Your Body
111 London Grammar ~ Baby It's You
110 Karen Harding and Digital Farm Animals ~ Undo My Heart
109 Markus Schulz and Adina Butar ~ Indestructable
108 Andrew Rayel and Roxanne Emery ~ Never Going Down
107 DaBaby ~ Rockstar (feat. Roddy Ricch)
106 Bicep ~ Atlas
105 Craig Connelly ~ Time Machine (feat. Tara Louise)
104 Love Regenerator ~ Peace Love Happiness
103 Miley Cyrus ~ Midnight Sky
102 Future ~ Life Is Good (feat. Drake)
101 Avicii ~ Lord (feat. Sandro Cavazza)

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | HOTTEST 100 TEASERS

It's that time of the year now where we've got up to the Hottest 100 reveal, the 100 songs that defined the year in Thermo's hot hits. Before then let's take a little look at what we'll be seeing.

Most appearances
7x - Gareth Emery
6x - Avicii
4x - Armin van Buuren
3x - Disclosure, Lane 8, Laura Brehm

Last year Avicii & Gareth Emery had the joint-most appearances with 9. This year Gareth takes that record outright having 7 appearances with Avicii having 6. For obvious reasons, it may well be the last time we see Avicii in this list. :(

Number of UK Top 40 hit singles in the Top 40 -> 14 [12]
Number of UK Top 100 hit singles in the Top 40 -> 15 [14]

Number of UK Top 40 hit singles in the Top 100 -> 26 [25]
Number of UK Top 100 hit singles in the Top 100 -> 32 [33]

Once again about a quarter of the Hot 100 are UK top 40 hit singles, which I think is rather good going in this current chart climate. It's a shame it couldn't be higher but oh well, at least I'm not completely out of touch with reality yet. It is even slightly up year-on-year in that department.

Number of Personal Number One singles -> 23 [15]
Number of Personal Top 3 hit singles -> 35 [32]
Number of Personal Top 5 hit singles -> 40 [46]
Number of Personal Top 10 hit singles -> 65 [70]
Number of Personal Top 20 hit singles -> 87 [89]
Number of Personal Top 40 hit singles -> 98 [100]
Number of Personal Top 50 hit singles -> 100 [100]

This year had a fair few more number one singles, mostly due to the lack one one massively long running #1 single this year like 'Heaven' was last year with its 15 weeks at #1. We're slightly down on the number of top 5s through to top 40s however, and we're now back to having non-top 40 hits making the year-end top 100 again, but what will they be?

(last year's numbers in square brackets)

These are this year's #1 singles that will be making an appearance (including songs that reached #1 pre-2020). Will it be one of these at #1 this year or could we get a non-#1 doing it? (this has happened before!)

Adriatique and Marino Canal ~ Home (feat. Delhia De France)
Aly & Fila and Plumb ~ Somebody Loves You
Avicii ~ Heaven (feat. Chris Martin)
Avicii ~ We Burn (Faster Than Light) (feat. Sandro Cavazza)
Avicii ~ Fades Away (feat. Noonie Bao)
Avicii ~ Levels (feat. Etta James)
Ben Gold ~ The City Sleeps Tonight
Boris Brejcha ~ Gravity (feat. Laura Korinth)
BT ~ No Warning Lights (feat. Emma Hewitt)
Bunt. ~ Unbreakable (feat. Clarence Coffee Jr.)
Cam and Avicii ~ The Otherside
CloudNone and Laura Brehm ~ Changed
F.O.O.L and The Forgotten ~ Dystopia 2077
Gareth Emery ~ Elise (feat. Annabel)
Gareth Emery and Nash ~ Yesterday (feat. Linney)
Grum ~ Afterglow (feat. Natalie Shay)
Jax Jones and Martin Solveig presents Europa ~ Tequila (feat. Raye)
Kygo, Avicii and Sandro Cavazza ~ Forever Yours
Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande ~ Rain on Me
Paul Woolford and Diplo ~ Looking For Me (feat. Kareen Lomax)
Regard and Raye ~ Secrets
Richard Durand and Christina Novelli ~ Save You
TheFatRat and Laura Brehm ~ We'll Meet Again

Aw Miley falling short at the last hurdle. 'Midnight Sky' will be among many contenders for my #1. Even without Buzzjack loving it, it would be her best ever song for me now!

Edited December 21, 20204 yr by Rob S Claus

Move Your Body was one of the dance tracks that did grab me after a few listens! Very catchy. Peace Love Happintess also charted for me but unfortunately not as memorable.

 

Giving Mirror a listen now, quite enjoying this one as well! Could definitely see it growing quite a bit.

Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #96-100

#100. DJ D-Sol ~ Electric (feat. Hayley May)
Date entered: 28/02/2020
Chart sales: 432,600
Chart run: 87-73-73-54-39-41-44-51-70-70-93-x [11 weeks]

#99. Love Regenerator ~ CP-1
Date entered: 31/01/2020
Chart sales: 435,500
Chart run: 3-6-7-11-30-38-69-95-x-95-x [9 weeks]

#98. John Summit ~ Deep End
Date entered: 31/07/2020
Chart sales: 437,200
Chart run: 27-11-12-13-23-28-36-61-74-x-67-58-58-61-83-x [14 weeks]

#97. Solardo and Eli Brown ~ My Life
Date entered: 20/03/2020
Chart sales: 437,400
Chart run: 10-13-17-25-26-28-34-45-65-90-94-x [11 weeks]

#96. Tinlicker ~ Lost (feat. Run Rivers)
Date entered: 04/10/2019
Chart sales: 438,700
Chart run: [89-99-90-70-99-x-78-51-36]-50-61-77-x-33-25-16-19-28-41-52-58-65-x [12 weeks (20 weeks total)]

Commentary

Starting off the Hottest 100 of the year we have DJ D-Sol with the 2nd of his two appearances. 'Electric' also features Hayley May who you may remember from featuring on Joel Corry hit 'Sorry'. The track is a great commercial house tune which is in a similar style to the UK house producers getting current hits, complete with the piano chord stabs. Love Regenerator makes an appearance next with the first of two tracks of his this year to make the top 100. 'CP-1' was the 2nd track officially unveiled from the new project premiering shortly after 'Hypnogogic'. However it is this track that I prefer. It saw him unexpectedly go down the techno route which he of course did very well. At #98 we have John Summit who was introduced to the world with one of the biggest DJ-land hits of the year in 'Deep End'. It became one of the biggest tech house songs of the year in my chart too, helped by the great vocal sample that seemed to be on a lot of producers radars this year. A fair bit seems to be going on in the production too which you don't always get for these types of songs, keeping it interesting for its repetitiveness. Solardo & Eli Brown just about make the top 100 as a collaboration for a 2nd year too, having followed up 'XTC' with 'My Life'. The track is a reworking of the 90s hit that I wasn't too familiar with so it was good as new for me, whilst not quite as good as 'XTC' it is in a similar style with it being a big house tune. Tinlicker are at #96 with their highest entry here. 'Lost' became their first big hit in my chart and only recently just got outdone by their Robert Miles reworking that appeared earlier in the chart. It is a great progressive house track with a slow build that I strongly considered as a BJSC potential but ultimately it is very similar to a track I did end up sending that'll appear a lot higher in the countdown. It's got some lush synths and even a strings breakdown section making it a great listen every time, it's a song I think really should've appeared a bit higher in this list but numbers don't lie.

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Thermo's hot hits | EOY 2020 | #91-95

#95. Aly & Fila and Plumb ~ Somebody Loves You
Date entered: 04/10/2020
Chart sales: 439,700
Chart run: 23-18-4-1-1-2-1-1-1-... [9+ weeks]

#94. MK ~ 2AM (feat. Carla Monroe)
Date entered: 31/07/2020
Chart sales: 445,900
Chart run: 10-13-19-26-37-40-40-46-63-89-79-x [11 weeks]

#93. F.O.O.L and The Forgotten ~ Dystopia 2077
Date entered: 20/09/2020
Chart sales: 448,800
Chart run: 32-2-2-1-2-6-8-8-10-10-12-... [11+ weeks]

#92. Rising Star ~ The Voice (feat. Cari)
Date entered: 06/09/2020
Chart sales: 449,800
Chart run: 26-16-14-13-7-7-9-10-15-20-22-24-42-... [13+ weeks]

#91. Sonny Fodera and King Henry ~ Before U (feat. AlunaGeorge)
Date entered: 06/03/2020
Chart sales: 450,100
Chart run: 21-24-32-32-38-42-47-63-77-84-90-x [11 weeks]

Commentary

One of my most recent BJSC entries, and my most successful of the year in 'Somebody Loves You' from Aly & Fila and Plumb is next to appear. The song managed 5 weeks at #1 in the tracking period and has since gone on to spend another 3 weeks at the top including being the Christmas number one! It's a big shame that the points system here means it has to settle for #95 this year but I'm sure it'll be a lot higher in 2021. It's a truly excellent and beautiful song with some lyrics that I really needed to hear in the year that was 2020. Not to mention the production here is outstanding, the best I've heard from Aly & Fila. The track may be as long as 6 minutes but not a second is wasted, the first half being focused on Plumb's vocal before going into a strings breakdown and finally a whole minute of energetic and full tranceyness. It may just be perfection in a song!! A place above we have MK with '2AM'. The track saw him reunite with '17' vocalist Carla and she actually got an official credit for her efforts this time. The song isn't half as good (with '17' currently being in my top 20 of all time) but undeniably a fun piano house bop the kind of which MK seems to effortlessly be able to do and still better than many others trying to imitate. Another BJSC entry of mine is next at #93 coming from F.O.O.L and The Forgotten. Neither of them had had a hit before in my chart but I thought the song title seemed interesting so I checked it out and needless to say I was wowed! 'Dystopia 2077', unlike the similarly named game it was inspired by didn't disappoint anyone and no points refunds were asked for. It is a great bit of electro house with grandiose and synth wave inspired production plus some robotic vocals adding to the song's theme. Who doesn't love a good countdown into a drop too? At #92 we have Sir Armin van Buuren under his uplifting trance alias Rising Star, the first of 4 entries for him in the hottest 100. The track like many a good trance song has a fair chunk of it being a lovely vocal section in anticipation of the drop, it is a beautiful love song here. The drop whilst not absolutely huge sounding works well for the track and has the feel of a classic trance song. It is always great to hear Armin doing a song in this style even if only rarely whilst he's still chasing commercial hits half the time. Whilst MK & Sonny Fodera's collab didn't manage to make the rundown, they do both appear in this section with 'Before U' for Sonny making it to #91. It's another well made house track from him which features a lovely vocal from Aluna. It's fairly laidback which suits her vocal with nothing more in the production than what needs to be there.

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Interesting to see 'Somebody Loves You' in this section as it's appeared in my top 100 too and a few places higher. I'm sure your eoy next year it'll be way higher though :P fantastic trance track anyway even if it initially did go past me but I think that's because my mind was trying to get through my first semi listen through and I was probably looking at other things at the same time lol. Glad it gave you a big bjsc smash anyhow.