January 20, 20232 yr I must admit I’m not familiar with a lot of these songs but I’ve just given “Smiling All The Way Back Home” a listen and it’s stunning! I really like the sound of “The Weatherman" too :wub:
January 21, 20232 yr Author #6 (1990pts) The Head And The Heart Virginia (Wind In The Night) - Chart Statistics NE (25/6/2022) 40-1-1-2-3-3-3-5-5-4-8-10-12-15-20-25-25-27-31-37-41-49-50-49-54-62-66-65-66-55-... Video 6LS4oKobHp0 Commentary I had absolutely no intention of a song about an American state by an artist I'd never heard of before this being so high in my EOY, but this track just hasn't grown old for me at all since I first heard it in May/June. Again, there's nothing massively unique about it, but the way the song comes together is just so brilliant, the preciseness of the melody along with the emotion in the vocals all make this a rerally fantastic song. Top 100 Chart History The Head And The Heart 2022 01 Virginia (Wind In The Night)
January 21, 20232 yr Author #5 (2192pts) Vance Joy Clarity - Chart Statistics NE (23/4/2022) 66-19-9-6-9-9-7-5-4-2-3-5-5-6-6-5-7-9-11-14-16-19-25-36-44-55-62-66-66-78-78-84-88-98-xx Video 7RREsx9lnNI Commentary This Top 5 is so hard to rank! On points alone, this song would have topped my EOY despite not topping my chart in any particular week. It's an absolutely fantastic comeback from Vance Joy, quite different to anything he'd done before but it had real staying power in my chart, outlasting the Eurovision onslaught to eventually get a #2 peak and a very healthy run inside my Top 10. I can't get enough of this one! Top 100 Chart History Vance Joy 2017 01 Like Gold 2018 01 We're Going Home 2018 02 Saturday Sun 2018 15 Bonnie & Clyde 2018 19 Little Boy 2018 19 One Of These Days 2018 39 Crashing Into You 2018 87 Call If You Need Me 2018 07 I'm With You 2021 24 Missing Piece 2022 02 Clarity 2022 50 Every Side of You 2022 09 Catalonia
January 21, 20232 yr Author #4 (2194pts) Rend Collective Hallelujah Anyway - Chart Statistics NE (27/8/2022) 24-1-1-2-2-2-2-2-2-3-4-5-6-8-11-16-23-37-39-35-31-... Video acM0WeAycBI Commentary Again, I would have been perfectly happy to let this top my EOY (and actually thought it might when I first heard it!) - God really spoke to me through this song as it focusses on the fact that even if I don't have the experience of God (or indeed any other experiences) I might hope to have, I can still 'fight to sing His praise'. A really gutsy song to put out there and it really sold Rend Collective to me as a band after having enjoyed their last few songs. Hallelujah anyway! Top 100 Chart History Rend Collective 2021 27 Coming Out Fighting 2022 51 As For Me 2022 17 Plans 2022 19 Let It Roll 2022 01 Hallelujah Anyway 2022 23 We Need The Love Of God 2022 19 True In The Light 2022 30 Joy To The World (You Are My Joy)
January 21, 20232 yr Author I must admit I’m not familiar with a lot of these songs but I’ve just given “Smiling All The Way Back Home” a listen and it’s stunning! I really like the sound of “The Weatherman" too :wub: Thanks for giving some of them a listen! Glad you're into those two, both very quiet songs but put across what they aim to put across so well with just their vocals. Thanks Lunar!
January 23, 20232 yr Author #3 (2199pts) Blessing Offor Believe - Chart Statistics NE (5/3/2022) 42-44-45-46-48-49-50-1-2-2-2-8-10-13-14-19-25-32-37-38-48-52-62-71-81-89-100-xx RE (17/9/2022) 99-xx Video 7SFT4ZWpZ20 Commentary The highest worship song in my chart this year - this wasn't even in my Top 10 to start but this song has been one of the core soundtracks to my year that I couldn't leave it there. I didn't grab onto this song initially, but it really hit me when I needed to, when things were happening that were out of my control and just made me angry about the world. The words 'what if you will something I won't'? and 'if you don't give me what I want but you give me what I want, is that enough to believe' have really comforted me and reassured me throughout the year, and the fact it relies so heavily on the piano makes it a beautiful song as well. A real blessing, pun intended. Top 100 Chart History Blessing Offor 2020 22 Tin Roof (Chris Tomlin ft. Blessing Offor) 2021 08 Brighter Days 2022 84 How Much You Mean To Me 2022 01 Believe 2022 07 The Goodness (TobyMac ft. Blessing Offor) 2022 02 Look Up To The Sky (Lathan Warlick ft. Blessing Offor) 2022 66 My Tribe 2022 28 Your Love 2022 22 Feel Good
January 23, 20232 yr Author #2 (2302pts) John Dhali Taste - Chart Statistics NE (14/5/2022) 32-5-1-2-2-1-1-2-2-4-5-5-4-6-8-10-12-15-18-22-30-34-48-58-61-65-77-79-85-85-83-92-xx RE (7/1/2023) 94-88-... Video MbsypWc7vHw Commentary This song definitely had a music video, no idea what happened to it! Anyway at #2 we have John Dhali, an artist I had never heard of until I found this song in uhsting's chart early in the year. There's really something about this song, starting of very quiet and guitar-strummy before bursting out into an absolutely stomping chorus that I could never get enough of. I'm listening to it now and I genuinely can't stop myself abolsutely moving all my body to that chorus, one of the best I've heard in years. Top 100 Chart History John Dhali 2022 01 Taste 2022 12 Plain Sight
January 23, 20232 yr Author #1 (2530pts) The Killers boy - Chart Statistics NE (3/9/2022) 13-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-2-2-3-4-5-6-7-9-16-15-16-14-... Video p-nYliG8MRs Commentary And for the second year in a row, my #1 song is one that is still relatively high in my chart at the time of posting! I'm not the biggest Killers fan - as you can see by their chart history of three low-Top 100 songs prior to this one (and the last one of those all the way back in 2018!) - but there's no way I could ignore this absolutely stomping song, mixing synth and guitar perfectly and with the subject of growing up there really is a depth of meaning to these lyrics that can't be overlooked and really add to how great this song is. All I ask is that it be a little bit longer! Top 100 Chart History The Killers 2017 73 The Man 2017 100 Run For Cover 2018 61 Rut 2022 01 boy
January 23, 20232 yr Spaceman, Candyfloss and How 2 Dance will all make my year-end top 100, so those are my faves! Spaceman is top 10 I reckon (if I get round to listing them in a few weeks) :)
January 23, 20232 yr Author And so we're done! Thanks for everyone for commenting and following along, it's certainly helped me get it done before the end of January (remember the year I finished it in March?), really appreciate you all. Hall Of Fame 2016: Lukas Graham - 7 Years 2017: Alessia Cara - Seventeen 2018: Amy Shark - I Said Hi 2019: Foals - Exits 2020: Declan McKenna - The Key To Life On Earth 2021: Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under 2022: The Killers - boy Full Recap 1 The Killers - boy 2 John Dhali - Taste 3 Blessing Offor - Believe 4 Rend Collective - Hallelujah Anyway 5 Vance Joy - Clarity 6 The Head And The Heart - Virginia (Wind In The Night) 7 Bear's Den - Shadows 8 Tom Odell - Smiling All The Way Back Home 9 Village Lights - Promised Land (ft. Ike Ndolo) 10 Tina Boonstra - Martha 11 White Lies - Am I Really Going To Die? 12 Ben Fuller - Who I Am 13 White Lies - I Don’t Want To Go To Mars 14 Joshua Micah & Owl City - Let The Light In 15 Sam Hibbard - Rebel Heart 16 Philip Jonathan - Chokehold 17 Marizu - Abba 18 Bad Sounds - Angie 19 Kaiser Chiefs - How 2 Dance 20 Beach Chapel - Stream 21 Andrew Ripp - In Good Hands 22 Jon Reddick - God, Turn It Around 23 Lathan Warlick - Look Up To The Sky (ft. Blessing Offor) 24 Alfie Templeman - Candyfloss 25 ANTYTILA - And you start 26 Bear's Den - Spiders 27 Rachael Lampa - Perfectly Loved (ft. TobyMac) 28 The Sherlocks - World I Understand 29 Colorvault - So Sure (ft. Young Oceans & Alex Taylor) 30 Tall Heights - The Weatherman 31 First Aid Kit - Angel 32 CoCo and the Butterfields - Together Again 33 Son Mieux - Multicolor 34 Tina Boonstra - City of Doubt 35 Rea Garvey, YouNotUs & Kush Kush - Love Makes You Shine 36 Manor Collective - Thank You, Sorry, Please (ft. Becca Folkes, Charlotte Kiwanuka & Elle Limebear) 37 Milow - How Love Works 38 Casting Crowns - Healer 39 Hippo Campus - Ride or Die 40 Matt Redman - Son of Suffering 41 The Sherlocks - City Lights 42 Walk Off The Earth & Tenille Townes - Tomorrow Can Wait 43 TobyMac - The Goodness (ft. Blessing Offor) 44 Sam Ryder - SPACE MAN 45 Built By Titan - Wild World (ft. Skybourne) 46 Editors - Heart Attack 47 Martin Smith - Our Eyes Are On You (ft. Elle Limebear) 48 The Knocks - Slow Song (ft. Dragonette) 49 Tom Chaplin - Midpoint 50 Emissary - I'll Be Your Guide 51 METRUTH - It'll Be Okay (ft. Christian Singleton & Kumiko Bankson) 52 KALUSH - Stefania 53 Klingande & Pool Blue - Eye of the Storm 54 Colorvault - Dwell In Your House (ft. Young Oceans) 55 AR/CO - Call Me By My Name 56 Malik Harris - Rockstars 57 Sheldon Riley - Not The Same 58 Lion of Judah - Kingdom Disposition 59 Mando Diao - Fire in the Hall 60 Regen - California 61 NEEDTOBREATHE - Talk of the Town 62 Katy Nicole - In Jesus Name (God Of Possible) 63 Imagine Dragons - Love Of Mine - Night Vision Demo 64 Seafret - Running Out of Love 65 Rend Collective - Let It Roll 66 Sea Girls - Paracetamol Blues 67 George Ezra - Anyone For You 68 Jeangu Macrooy & Pete Philly - A Little Greener 69 Bear's Den - All The Wrong Places 70 Abi Gledhill - Sunflowers (Through the Night) 71 The Slow Show - Breathe 72 Sam Fender - Getting Started 73 The Isomers - From The Chaos 74 Dubdogz & Ofenbach - On My Shoulders 75 The Vaccines - Thunder Fever 76 Nico & Vinz - Peace 77 Stephen Stanley - Note To Self (ft. Riley Clemmons) 78 George Ezra - Green Green Grass 79 Wyldest - Tin Foil Girl 80 Valley of the Moon - Lead Me Up the Mountain 81 LZ7 - Energy 82 lovelytheband - sail away 83 Regard & Kwabs - Signals 84 Systur - Með hækkandi sól 85 Fatherson - Love For Air 86 Nothing But Funk - So Good 87 Ochman - River 88 MARO - saudade, saudade 89 Sam Ryder - Somebody 90 TobyMac - Cornerstone (ft. Zach Williams) 91 TAYA - For All My Life 92 Brother Leo - Living In A Zoo 93 Naffymar & Marizu - Power 94 Teleman - Simple Like Us 95 Pyramid Park - You Got Me 96 John Dhali - Plain Sight 97 Oz or O & ZAA_MUSIC - Dance Like David 98 Sigala, David Guetta & Sam Ryder - Living Without You 99 Olu Meduoye - Higher Ways 100 Red Rum Club - Vibrate 101 Sam Hibbard - Come Away 102 Vance Joy - Catalonia 103 Ian Yates - Back To You 104 Pa Sheehy - Through The Fields 105 Mutemath - Love Light A Way 106 Philip Jonathan - In The Garden 107 Foals - 2am 108 Stephen Stanley - Rest In The Father 109 Casting Crowns - Desert Road 110 Cade Thompson - Arms of Jesus 111 Rend Collective - We Need The Love Of God 112 Amongst Wolves - Fall Down 113 flor - Gotta Do Something 114 SHEAFS - Millennial 115 Tom Grennan - Remind Me 116 for KING & COUNTRY - Love Me Like I Am 117 Daphne Richardson - Heavy 118 Little Boots - Landline 119 Said The Sky, ILLENIUM & Chelsea Cutler - Walk Me Home 120 DVBBS & Galantis - When The Lights Go Down (ft. Cody Simpson) 121 Gas Street Music - All I Want (Let You Love Me) (ft. Millie Ferguson) 122 Amber Run - I Miss You 123 Silbermond - AUF AUF 124 Pa Sheehy & Sinead White - Surrender 125 Manor Collective - Shelter (ft. Becca Folkes, Tertia May & CalledOut Music) 126 Kingdmusic - Protect Me 127 Gang of Youths - In The Wake Of Your Leave 128 Matthew West - Me On Your Mind 129 Ynys - There's Nothing the Sea Doesn't Know 130 Mac Powell - New Creation 131 Milky Chance - Synchronize 132 Mula - Ven Vamos 133 CalledOut Music - Better Days (ft. IMRSQD & Sam Henshaw) 134 Kygo - Dancing Feet (ft. DNCE) 135 Bear's Den - Blue Hours 136 We Are Domi - Lights Off 137 Rend Collective - True In The Light 138 George Ezra - I Went Hunting 139 The Afters - Say Goodbye (Say Hello) 140 Lukas Graham - Wish You Were Here (ft. Khalid) 141 Joshua Micah & Matthew Parker - Fade 142 Dean Lewis - How Do I Say Goodbye 143 Colton Dixon - Build a Boat 144 The Kooks - Modern Days 145 Bandicoot - FUZZY 146 SAINT PHNX - Invisible 147 Our Atlantic Roots - Golden Hour 148 Sam Fender - Alright 149 John Yarde - Count Your Blessings (ft. Nathanael) 150 Ball Park Music - Manny 151 Shawn Mendes - When You're Gone 152 Sanctus Real - Won't Let Me Go 153 Esther Chungu - Healing 154 Colorvault & Alex Taylor - Power in the Name 155 Jao - Nao Te Amo 156 Still Corners - Black Lagoon 157 Arctic Monkeys - Body Paint 158 Andrew Ripp - Fill My Cup 159 Blossoms - Ribbon Around The Bomb 160 CoCo and the Butterfields - Love is Love 161 Sam Fender - Spit of You 162 Kungs - Clap Your Hands 163 Circus Mircus - Lock Me In 164 Ian Yates - Never Alone 165 Public - LDQ (Little Drama Queen) 166 BANNERS - Happier 167 Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be A Mirrorball 168 Porcupine Tree - Of The New Day 169 CalledOut Music - Thank You Lord 170 Puri & Nico & Vinz - It Ain't Over 171 TORRES - Don't Go Puttin Wishes In My Head 172 Lost Frequencies - Chemical High 173 Miloe - where u are 174 LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER - Mind Over Matter 175 Shinedown - Daylight 176 The Slow Show - Woven Blue 177 altrice - places faces 178 Blessing Offor - Your Love 179 Hook N Sling - Break My Heart (ft. Nico & Vinz) 180 Emma Grant & Ian Yates - Companion In Sorrow 181 Ryan Hylton - Reasons 182 George Ezra - Dance All Over Me 183 GRANT - Feel Love 184 R3HAB - Sway My Way (with Amy Shark) 185 David Kushner - Miserable Man 186 Rend Collective - Plans 187 Zach Williams - Heart of God 188 Bear's Den - Frightened Whispers 189 Davido - Stand Strong (ft. Sunday Service Choir) 190 Frankmusik - In Step Complicated 191 Bob Moses - Love Brand New 192 Giant Rooks - Morning Blue 193 LP Giobbi - Forever And A Day (ft. Caroline Byrne) 194 Metronomy - Right On Time 195 WALK THE MOON - Heights 196 Two Door Cinema Club - Lucky 197 Only Twin - St. Mark's Place 198 Ian Yates - Between The Joy And The Sorrow 199 Shallou - Corners 200 Seafret - Everlasting
January 24, 20232 yr Ooh I remember shouting out 'boy' as a highlight from your chart toppers throughout the year at the start of this thread. Great to see that it's come out on top of your EOY *.* Elsewhere in the top 20 I am a fan of 'I Don't Want To Go To Mars' as well ^_^ Congrats on completing this :cheer:
February 17, 20232 yr Oh I'm so happy to see 'Clarity' in your top 5! I can't quite describe what I love about the song but it just hits all the right notes for me, so I'm glad it does something similar for you! Also excited to see The Head & The Heart in your top 10 and I hope you'll check out more from them, if you haven't already :D
March 4, 20232 yr Can't remember where I got up to, think it was commenting on 'Breathe' so we'll go from 75 :P 24 Alfie Templeman - Candyfloss A great entry from Joseph! 33 Son Mieux - Multicolor this growing on loads post contest, it's a catchy tune! 44 Sam Ryder - SPACE MAN nice position here considering you don't chart much chart stuff. Looking forward to hearing our entry this year ASAP really. 52 KALUSH - Stefania 55 AR/CO - Call Me By My Name 60 Regen - California 65 Rend Collective - Let It Roll 67 George Ezra - Anyone For You 71 The Slow Show - Breathe 72 Sam Fender - Getting Started Great rest of your countdown!
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