Posted January 14, 20214 yr Arriving somewhat fashionably late, it's time for me to attempt a top 200 of the year countdown again after I stalled last year due to being unable to commit to doing commentary for every song. I'll be presenting it in a more concise format this time to give myself a better chance of actually finishing it. x I didn't really feel like making a fully curated and 'accurate' list this time like I did last year so I've just had the order of the songs determined for me by the science of a points system instead - I think it's turned out looking pretty accurate for the most part but I'll mention along the way if there are any songs that feel notably too high or too low (particularly in reference to other songs by the same artist). The vast majority of songs have <10 weeks in my personal charts anyway so nearly everything bar releases in late November/December have their full chart runs accounted for here. I borrowed (a slightly modified version of) the formula Dan used for the UK charts 2020 points-based EOY, normalising it so that a week at #1 is worth 100,000 'sales' (the maths works out to a week at #2 being worth ~83,600, a week at #3 worth ~73,000 and descending down to a week at #40 being worth ~1,600). Why this? I don't know, it's a little arbitrary, but I tested what the list looked like just using a simple '40 points for #1, 39 for #2' etc. system as well and I like the look of the more sophisticated version more. It's also satisfyingly worked out to have a total sales distribution that looks like it could be an actual normal UK chart EOY - there's one song that's over 1 million 'sales' (and indeed over 1.2 million so consider it 2x platinum in Persephonia), 6 songs over 600k, 22 over 400k, 99 over 200k and 217 over 100k. So let's roll with that. I rounded the 'sales' of each song to the nearest hundred but they are ranked down to the decimal. With that waffle out of the way, here's my full top 200 of 2019, partly recap but mostly being revealed for the first time since I never got around to posting anything above #141. Maybe at some point I'll go back and run the points system calculation on my 2019 charts as well to have a comparable list (and some more 'sales' totals) to the one I'll be posting this year. 1 CHVRCHES - Death Stranding 2 Burial - Claustro 3 J.I.D, Bas, J. Cole, EARTHGANG and Young Nudy - Down Bad 4 ROSALÍA and J Balvin - Con Altura (feat. El Guincho) 5 Post Malone - Circles 6 BROCKHAMPTON - NO HALO 7 Hot Chip - Hungry Child 8 Coldplay - Daddy 9 Vampire Weekend - Harmony Hall 10 James Blake - Lullaby For My Insomniac 11 JPEGMAFIA - Free The Frail (feat. Helena Deland) 12 Tyler, The Creator - EARFQUAKE 13 BROCKHAMPTON - I BEEN BORN AGAIN 14 TR/ST - Unbleached 15 ROSALÍA - A Palé 16 The National - You Had Your Soul With You 17 Dusky - L.I. 18 Grimes and i_o - Violence 19 Drab Majesty - Ellipsis 20 zalagasper - Sebi 21 Jenny Hval - High Alice 22 James Blake - Mile High (feat. Travis Scott and Metro Boomin) 23 FKA twigs - holy terrain (feat. Future) 24 Bring Me The Horizon - nihilist blues (feat. Grimes) 25 James Blake - Barefoot In The Park (feat. ROSALÍA) 26 AJ Tracey - Ladbroke Grove 27 Rico Nasty - Time Flies 28 TR/ST - Colossal 29 Charli XCX and Christine And The Queens - Gone 30 Kælan Mikla - Draumadís 31 Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown 32 Stormzy - Audacity (feat. Headie One) 33 Red Hearse - Half Love 34 Glass Animals and Denzel Curry - Tokyo Drifting 35 Bon Iver - Hey, Ma 36 LUNA - Zolotyye Lepestki 37 Georgia - Never Let You Go 38 JPEGMAFIA and Kenny Beats - Puff Daddy 39 SOFI TUKKER - Swing 40 Halsey - Nightmare 41 Christine And The Queens - Comme Si 42 ROSALÍA - Aute Cuture 43 Billie Eilish - everything i wanted 44 Tkay Maidza - Awake (feat. JPEGMAFIA) 45 Floating Points - Bias 46 GoldLink - Zulu Screams (feat. Maleek Berry and Bibi Bourelly) 47 Coldplay - Arabesque 48 LUNA - Sila Stona 49 slowthai and Denzel Curry - Psycho 50 Floating Points - Last Bloom 51 BURNS, A$AP Rocky and Sabrina Claudio - Energy 52 KH - Only Human 53 James Blake - Can't Believe The Way We Flow 54 BROCKHAMPTON - ST. PERCY 55 slowthai - Inglorious (feat. Skepta) 56 JPEGMAFIA - Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot 57 Taylor Swift - Lover 58 Joji - Sanctuary 59 Dominic Fike - 3 Nights 60 Dave - Streatham 61 Octavian - Move Faster 62 Grimes - My Name Is Dark 63 slowthai - Peace Of Mind 64 Sam Fender - Play God 65 Bon Iver - Naeem 66 The Chemical Brothers - MAH 67 Sidhu Moose Wala, MIST and Steel Banglez - 47 (feat. Stefflon Don) 68 Billie Eilish - WHEN I WAS OLDER 69 Headie One - Back To Basics (feat. Skepta) 70 Coldplay - Everyday Life 71 Denzel Curry - RICKY 72 DaBaby - INTRO 73 Tyler, The Creator - A BOY IS A GUN* 74 Tierra Whack - Unemployed 75 ScHoolboy Q - Numb Numb Juice 76 Dave - Black 77 Kevin Abstract - Joyride 78 Tierra Whack, Beyoncé, Moonchild Sanelly, Nija, Busiswa, DJ Lag and Yemi Alade - MY POWER 79 Don Toliver - No Idea 80 Ariana Grande - break up with your girlfriend, i'm bored 81 HAIM - Now I'm In It 82 Dave - Lesley (feat. Ruelle) 83 Lana Del Rey - Fuck It I Love You 84 Travis Scott - CAN'T SAY 85 ROSALÍA - Me Traicionaste (feat. A.CHAL) 86 21 Savage - a lot 87 Juice WRLD and YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Bandit 88 FKA twigs - sad day 89 Kishi Bashi - Summer Of '42 90 Metro Boomin - 10 Freaky Girls (feat. 21 Savage) 91 Trippie Redd - Under Enemy Arms 92 Cage The Elephant - House Of Glass 93 James Blake - I'll Come Too 94 Four Tet - Teenage Birdsong 95 Baiuca - Olvídame (feat. Aliboria) 96 Heilung - Othan 97 Lizzo - Tempo (feat. Missy Elliott) 98 J.I.D - Off Da Zoinkys 99 Frank Ocean - In My Room 100 CamelPhat and Jake Bugg - Be Someone 101 k?d - Creator's Flower 102 Erika Lundmoen - Yad 103 NSG - Options (feat. Tion Wayne) 104 Post Malone - Goodbyes (feat. Young Thug) 105 Flume and HWLS - High Beams (feat. slowthai) 106 The Weeknd - Heartless 107 Caroline Polachek - So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings 108 Juice WRLD - Robbery 109 Post Malone - Wow. 110 BROCKHAMPTON - IF YOU PRAY RIGHT 111 Moses Sumney - Virile 112 BROCKHAMPTON - DEARLY DEPARTED 113 Charli XCX - 2099 (feat. Troye Sivan) 114 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 115 Post Malone - Hollywood's Bleeding 116 Molchat Doma - Tancevat 117 Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now 118 Floating Points - Anasickmodular 119 Skepta - Greaze Mode (feat. Nafe Smallz) 120 Ed Sheeran - Cross Me (feat. Chance The Rapper and PnB Rock) 121 Thom Yorke - Not The News 122 The Amazons - Doubt It 123 Låpsley - My Love Was Like The Rain 124 100 gecs - money machine 125 zalagasper - Come To Me 126 Carly Rae Jepsen - Now That I Found You 127 Kanye West - Follow God 128 Coldplay - Orphans 129 Amon Tobin - One Shy Morning 130 Trippie Redd - Death (feat. DaBaby) 131 The Chemical Brothers - Got To Keep On 132 Daniel Avery - Whilst We've Got Metal In Our Blood 133 Blood Orange - Take It Back (feat. Arca, JOBA and Justine Skye) 134 EARTHGANG - UP 135 HAIM - Summer Girl 136 Underworld - S T A R 137 BROCKHAMPTON - BOY BYE 138 In The Loop - Tu Sì 'Na Cosa Grande 139 Bonobo - Ibrik 140 Vegyn - Debold 141 MoStack - Wild 142 Stormzy - Sounds Of The Skeng 143 ionnalee - OPEN SEA 144 Lil Tecca - Ransom 145 Tyler, The Creator - WHAT'S GOOD 146 Ed Sheeran and Travis Scott - Antisocial 147 BROCKHAMPTON - GINGER 148 Boogie - Soho (feat. J.I.D) 149 slowthai - Nothing Great About Britain 150 Rico Nasty - Roof 151 21 Savage - Immortal 152 Tame Impala - Posthumous Forgiveness 153 Injury Reserve - Jailbreak The Tesla (feat. Aminé) 154 Billie Eilish - bad guy 155 IDLES - Never Fight A Man With A Perm 156 MIRÈLE - Yesli By Lyubov' 157 Two Door Cinema Club - Satellite 158 Rex Orange County - Pluto Projector 159 MJ Cole and Freya Ridings - Waking Up 160 DJ Shadow - Kings & Queens (feat. Run The Jewels) 161 Solange - Almeda 162 J.I.D - 151 Rum 163 LUNA - Sirenevyy Ray 164 Hawa Boussim - Koregore 165 Trippie Redd - TIME TO DIE (feat. FreeMoney800) 166 slowthai and Mura Masa - Doorman 167 Squarepusher - Vortrack 168 Ross From Friends - Epiphany 169 100 gecs - gec 2 Ü 170 J Balvin - Blanco 171 The Chemical Brothers - We've Got To Try 172 A$AP Rocky - Babushka Boi 173 Sho Madjozi - Huku 174 Shygirl - BB 175 DaBaby - Suge 176 TR/ST - Gone 177 Floating Points - LesAlpx 178 Gleb - Gauč N Bass 179 Buddy - Link Up (feat. Kent Jamz, Bas, Guapdad 4000, J.I.D and Ari Lennox) 180 070 Shake - Nice To Have 181 clipping. - Blood Of The Fang 182 Travis Scott - HIGHEST IN THE ROOM 183 Ariana Grande - bad idea 184 Altın Gün - Gelin Halayı 185 Trentemøller - Sleeper 186 Marshmello - Here With Me (feat. CHVRCHES) 187 Bladee - Trash Star 188 Juice WRLD - Fast 189 Declan McKenna - British Bombs 190 Coldplay - Church 191 Weyes Blood - Movies 192 Hatari - Klámstrákur 193 Tyler, The Creator - IGOR'S THEME 194 ROSALÍA and Ozuna - Yo X Ti, Tu X Mi 195 Billie Eilish - bury a friend 196 Grimes - 4ÆM 197 Jon Hopkins and Kelly Lee Owens - Luminous Spaces 198 Friendly Fires - Silhouettes 199 Prospa - Prayer 200 Flame 2 - Dive
January 14, 20214 yr Author Will get into the top 200 proper tomorrow but I'll actually make this a top 217 countdown since that's the 100,000 'sales' cutoff. Here are the songs just missing out: 201 107,800 (#7, 3 weeks) The Killers - Caution 202 107,400 (#6, 3 weeks) Taylor Swift - epiphany 203 107,100 (#8, 3 weeks) Juice WRLD - Conversations 204 106,300 (#10, 3 weeks) Robin Schulz and Wes - Alane (Don Diablo Remix) 205 106,200 (#10, 3 weeks) No Rome - 1:45AM (feat. Bearface) 206 106,000 (#12, 3 weeks) Mall Grab - Switchblade 207 104,700 (#10, 3 weeks) Taylor Swift - exile (feat. Bon Iver) 208 104,300 (#6, 3 weeks) Hot Chip - Straight To The Morning (feat. Jarvis Cocker) 209 103,400 (#9, 4 weeks) Another Sky - All Ends 210 103,200 (#10, 3 weeks) Disclosure and Kelis - Watch Your Step 211 103,000 (#11, 3 weeks) Abra Cadabra - On Deck (Remix) (feat. RV, Kush, Double Lz, Bandokay, Lowkey and Dezzie) 212 102,700 (#16, 4 weeks) Ricky Eat Acid - playing god with my hands on fire 213 102,700 (#17, 4 weeks) Kllo - Somehow 214 101,100 (#6, 3 weeks) Hayley Williams - Leave It Alone 215 100,700 (#8, 3 weeks) Negative Gemini - Rollercoaster 216 100,000 (#10, 3 weeks) Bonobo and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - 6000 Ft. 217 100,000 (#7, 3 weeks) Jorja Smith - Rose Rouge Some of these artists do have at least one song in the top 200 as well - we'll be seeing quite a few from Disclosure, Juice WRLD and Taylor Swift in particular - but it's a bit of a shame that The Killers have fallen just short of that arbitrary mark with their highest song, I really enjoyed their album this year (a return to form after starting to lose interest in them a little) but none of its songs had huge longevity in my chart. It would be in the top 200 if I had decided to exclude a couple of straggling 2019 hits that made it in with the tail end of their chart runs in January but I decided it's more accurate to leave them in. Other artists who won't have any further songs appearing are: - Robin Schulz/Wes/Don Diablo (Robin is lucky to have got a hit to his name with this at all as I didn't like his production on the original version of the song, Don Diablo essentially entirely redid it with his remix) - No Rome (although Bearface will have multiple appearances as part of BROCKHAMPTON) - Bon Iver (it was mostly an off year for them after all, their only other chart appearance being a single week at #40 for 'PDLIF') - Hot Chip/Jarvis Cocker (this song didn't really stick with me near as much as I originally thought it would, still a pretty strong lead single but it's no 'Hungry Child') - Kelis (plenty of Disclosure though as mentioned earlier) - everyone involved with the 'On Deck' remix (Bandokay and Double Lz collectively as OFB do have another song not far off the above list, their feature on iLL BLU's 'Magic' at #223) - Ricky Eat Acid (his one hit is one that I was hoping would make the main list here, it's a really manic (in the best way possible) and enthralling instrumental, definitely my recommendation from this lot of songs that people probably don't know but should check out, particularly if you like my more out-there BJSC/Unknown Pleasures electronic entries x) - Kllo (another one I'll highly recommend and this time a little more conventional/pop friendly, a really gorgeous emotive synthpop track) - Negative Gemini (one of my BJSC entries which suffered a bit from not being a new song to me any more by the time I sent it - BROCKHAMPTON's 'WEIGHT' is also falling short of the top 200 for the same reason despite actually being at least my 2nd favourite song I sent during the year, but my other eight BJSC entries of the year as well as one spinoff entry will all be appearing) - Jorja Smith (another one that feels like it should have made the list proper) I54nkbEgjw4 MZCedazUFww
January 14, 20214 yr I'm sure this is going to be an adventure of a thread :P Nice to see exile make it at least into your commiserations, my favourite song to go Top 10 this year. Giving the Don Diablo remix of Alane a listen now - I can't say I prefer it to the Robin Schulz version although I did think Robin could have done more with it himself!
January 15, 20214 yr Hi there Bré! My favourites from your missing out section are: "Caution", "Alane", "Exile" and "Watch Your Step" (The former 2 will have a high place in my Year-End list). Good so far!
February 17, 20214 yr aww 'exile', 'epiphany', 'caution' and 'rollercoaster' missing out :(. I wonder if any of my entries made it in :thinking: Edited February 17, 20214 yr by Rob S
March 20, 20214 yr will I actually complete this this year? Will you even start it?! :o Edited March 20, 20214 yr by RabbitFurCoat
March 21, 20214 yr Thanks for the bump, reminded me to actually comment on this! From the 17 that missed out on the top 200 (that I've heard), exile is of course my favourite! Easily the highlight from the two Taylor albums in 2020 for me. Caution and Alane (Don Diablo Remix) are great too. I'm also very surprised to see some rare On Deck appreciation, even more interestingly the OFB remix - it's pretty good but also quite different to the original which I'm more familiar with, swapping the start of the first verse with the chorus! The production on it is still the same at least which is great, I found that and the delivery on both versions much better than most of the other drill hits we had over the past year or so.
March 21, 20214 yr Author Will you even start it?! :o Well I can't stall 60 songs in if I never even begin it... :lol: I should probably get around to finally doing this after how much time it took me to actually put the list together.
March 22, 20214 yr :jump: Posting at 00:40 - gave himself 2 days TBF Edited March 22, 20214 yr by RabbitFurCoat
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