Some decent songs from Dermot Kennedy and Ed Sheeran as well, Kiss Me has been sounding nice over the past few months.

Some decent songs from Dermot Kennedy and Ed Sheeran as well, Kiss Me has been sounding nice over the past few months.

 

Hi Pete! its nice to see another fan of kiss me here! hopefully it can continue its run officially in january as its run was defo cut short by christmas

I'm going to speed along the albums a bit faster now because there are songs that have missed out on charting due to my chart rules which imo deserve a mention!

#11: Only Honest On The Weekend - Becky Hill [Deluxe Version]

 

Only Honest On The Weekend was one of the biggest albums of 2021, claiming several huge hits including a #1 with My Heart Goes. This year, Becky swiftly kicked off the year with #9 peaking single Run, as well as dance collabs with Wilkinson, David Guetta and Joel Corry, most of which featured on the deluxe edition of the album. She got another #1 with 'Crazy What Love Can Do' plus deluxe album track 'Personally' became a big hit peaking at #4 pushing the albums points upwards! Deluxe additions will be highlighted.

 

Personal Charts History

 

#1 Album's Chart Peak

 

Singles Chart:

21.05.21 | 8 Last Time

25.06.21 | 4 Remember (w/ David Guetta)

13.08.21 | 12 Business (w/ Ella Eyre)

20.08.21 | 2 Space

27.08.21 | 1 My Heart Goes (La Di Da) (ft. Topic)

27.08.21 | 15 Better Off Without You (ft. Shift K3Y)

27.08.21 | 19 Kiss My (Uh Oh) (Anne-Marie & Little Mix ft. RAYE, Becky Hill & Stefflon Don) [Girl Power Remix]

03.09.21 | 7 Lessons (ft. Banx & Ranx)

03.09.21 | 9 Through The Night (ft. 220 KID)

03.09.21 | 17 Is Anybody There

03.09.21 | 24 I Got You

03.09.21 | 35 Make It Hard To Love You

03.09.21 | 37 Perfect People

03.09.21 | 46 Distance

04.03.22 | 9 Run (w/ Galantis)

11.03.22 | 48 Here For You (w/ Wilkinson)

25.03.22 | 4 Personally

15.04.22 | 1 Crazy What Love Can Do (w/ David Guetta & Ella Henderson)

12.08.22 | 4 HISTORY (w/ Joel Corry)

02.09.22 | 32 Could Be My Somebody (ft. S1mba)

 

Conor's Top 20 Albums of 2022: #20-#11 RECAP

 

#20: Planet Zero - Shinedown

#19: SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo

#18: The Whole Story - Kate Bush

#17: You Signed Up For This - Maisie Peters

#16: HOLY FVCK - Demi Lovato

#15: Everything I Didn't Say - Ella Henderson

#14: = - Ed Sheeran

#13: The Greatest Thing I'll Never Learn - Dylan

#12: Sonder - Dermot Kennedy

#11: Only Honest On The Weekend [Deluxe] - Becky Hill

contenders for album of the year!

 

Midnights - Taylor Swift

i used to think i could fly - Tate McRae

Love Sux - Avril Lavigne

Red (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

emails i can't send - Sabrina Carpenter

Familia - Camila Cabello

the top 10 albums will be counted down over the next few days, then I'll do the songs that missed out due to rules but deserved places in the eoy chart, and then we'll kick off! My aim is to get the final chart of the year done by tuesday and posted on wednesday morning (earlier than my usual wednesday evening posts) and the top 200 will kick off that evening! not sure yet but i think i'll do them in lots of 10s, i won't put youtube videos for each of the 200 songs as it'll never load for you guys :lol: but yeah looking forward to sharing, as well as following along with yours! thanks to all of you who have commented and viewed already, it means a lot! <3

#10: CRASH - Charli XCX

 

Charli's first UK #1 album also had a good impact over on my chart. Lead Single good ones came out last summer, and despite its #4 peak it was overshadowed by Charli's collab with Joel Corry, Jax Jones & Saweetie. She had better success with early 2022 Rina Sawayama collab Beg For You, which peaked at #8. It also kick-started Rina Sawayama's successful year on the chart as well! The album had moderate single chart success with a further 7 songs charting from it, including a decent sized hit in deluxe track What You Think About Me and post-album top 10 Used To Know Me propelling it into the EOY top 10! Looking forward to more from Charli next year, and spoiler alert, Rina's album is still to come!

 

Personal Chart History:

 

#1 Album's Chart Peak

 

Singles Chart:

10.09.21 4 Good Ones

04.02.22 8 Beg For You (ft. Rina Sawayama)

25.03.22 20 Every Rule

25.03.22 39 Lightning

25.03.22 40 New Shapes (ft. Christine and the Queens & Catherine Polachek)

25.03.22 42 Baby

25.03.22 9 Used To Know Me

01.04.22 12 What You Think About Me

01.04.22 13 Sorry If I Hurt You

#9: Humble Quest - Maren Morris

 

Maren is an artist who has been on my radar for a few years after her song The Middle was one of my top songs of all time. She kicked off the year in January with a fun country bop Circles Around This Town which became her first top 10. Promo single Background Music also charted at #30, but it was follow up single Nervous that carried. #2 peaking and several weeks in the top 5 its one of the top songs of the year and deservedly so. When the album dropped she followed it with 2 more top 10's, Tall Guys and title track Humble Quest!

 

Personal Chart's History:

 

#1 Album's Chart Peak

 

Singles Chart:

14.01.22 9 Circles Around This Town

18.02.22 30 Background Music

18.03.22 2 Nervous

01.04.22 9 Tall Guys

01.04.22 10 Humble Quest

01.04.22 19 I Can’t Love You Anymore

01.04.22 24 Hummingbird

01.04.22 31 What Would This World Do?

01.04.22 34 Good Friends

01.04.22 35 Detour

01.04.22 38 The Furthest Thing

CRASH :wub: such a good album! My favourite from Charli in fact *.*

 

Humble Quest was a good listen IIRC, it's been a while since I played it but Circles Around This Town is one of my favourite Maren tracks!

CRASH :wub: such a good album! My favourite from Charli in fact *.*

 

Humble Quest was a good listen IIRC, it's been a while since I played it but Circles Around This Town is one of my favourite Maren tracks!

thanks joseph! I agree its charli's best. and i agree, circles is one of her best! its so fun!

#8: Hold The Girl - Rina Sawayama

 

Prior to this year, Rina was an artist I had heard of less than five times and was completely off my radar. WHen she hopped on Charli XCX's Beg For You I became more aware of her and decided to keep an eye out on her new releases. And lo and behold, it worked, I fell in love! Hold The Girl was a slow burner spending several weeks in the lower regions of the charts before climbing to #7, Catch Me In The Air only made #31 and then an album bomb cut its life short, though it did improve on that peak in album release week. Title Track became Rina's biggest hit though, climbing and hovering just outside the top 10 for weeks, and then the album dropped and it climbed all the way to #2! The album spent a month at the top of my albums chart and carried a few more top 10s including the gorgeous heartbreaking Send My Love To John and has cemented Rina as a popstar in my eyes! I look forward to what she comes out with in 2023!

 

Personal Chart History:

 

#1 Album's Chart Peak

 

Singles Chart:

27.05.22 7 | This Hell

01.07.22 26 | Catch Me In The Air

05.08.22 2 | Hold The Girl

09.09.22 33 | Phantom

16.09.22 13 | Hurricanes

23.09.22 5 | Send My Love To John

23.09.22 9 | Frankenstein

23.09.22 10 | Imagining

23.09.22 15 | Holy (Til You Let Me Go)

23.09.22 16 | Your Age

23.09.22 21 | To Be Alive

23.09.22 36 | Minor Feelings

23.09.22 40 | Forgiveness

Fab to see Kate Bush album in too! I used to hear her album in the car a lot mostly from my dad.

 

I think Taylor will nab #1 album for you but I'll expect the unexpecte ;)

Fab to see Kate Bush album in too! I used to hear her album in the car a lot mostly from my dad.

 

I think Taylor will nab #1 album for you but I'll expect the unexpecte ;)

 

Hey Rob! Yeah Kate Bush's revival was definitely helped due to how much i heard her as a youngster! Its a very close battle at the top, who knows!

#7: About Last Night... - Mabel

 

Mabel kicked off her sophmore album era back in summer '21 with Let Them Know becoming her first #1, and by the time the album came out she had a string of hits from it. And when the album came out album track Defintition became her 2nd chart topper! It was a busy week as she released at the same time as Sabrina Carpenter's album which also did very well, and the two albums took turns atop both the singles & albums charts. With 6 top 10s from it it is a very successful album and generally a stronger more cohesive album than her debut, though the singles from High Expectations are all top notch, the album itself is a bit too much filler. About Last Night... is cohesive and tells a brilliant story, with some fun bops and a joyous mood!

 

Personal Charts History:

 

#1 Albums Chart Peak

 

Singles Chart History:

25.06.21 | 1 Let Them Know

05.11.21 | 7 I Wish (Joel Corry ft. Mabel)

25.03.22 | 23 Good Luck (w/ Jax Jones & Galantis)

27.05.22 | 6 Overthinking (w/ 24KGoldn)

08.07.22 | 10 Let Love Go (w/ Lil Tecca)

15.07.22 | 16 Crying On The Dancefloor

22.07.22 | 1 Definition

22.07.22 | 14 I Love Your Girl

22.07.22 | 10 LOL

22.07.22 | 24 Animal

22.07.22 | 33 Shy

 

Not really liked much of Mabel's stuff since 'Finders Keepers' oops. 'Don't Call Me Up' was ok I guess too. Some of these albums I'd like to check out but not enough single releases impressing me to want to do that with haha.

Not really liked much of Mabel's stuff since 'Finders Keepers' oops. 'Don't Call Me Up' was ok I guess too. Some of these albums I'd like to check out but not enough single releases impressing me to want to do that with haha.

 

shame about that rob, but i do prefer her older stuff too :kink: a lot of the albums have some brilliant album tracks that deserved to be singles!

And the final one until after Christmas!

#6: Familia - Camila Cabello

 

It seems like plenty of albums released this year started their eras last year, Mabel, Sabrina, Camila, Tate! Camila kicked off this era with the summery Don't Go Yet which peaked at #3. Then next single Bam Bam became the big one. featuring Ed Sheeran, It spent 3 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart during March and April and spent 18 weeks on chart! The album followed shortly giving a further 3 top 10s, and although there are a few skips on the album (cough *Lola* cough), overall, its a fun, summery album!

 

Personal Chart's History:

 

#1 Album's Chart Peak

 

Single's Chart:

30.07.21 | 3 Don’t Go Yet

11.03.22 | 1 Bam Bam (ft. Ed Sheeran)

15.04.22 | 6 Quiet

15.04.22 | 8 psychofreak (ft. WILLOW)

15.04.22 | 6 La Buena Vida

15.04.22 | 14 No Doubt

15.04.22 | 20 Celia

15.04 22 | 42 everyone at this party

15.04.22 | 44 Hasta Los Dientes (ft. Maria Becerra)

15.04.22 | 49 Boys Don’t Cry

So Only the top 5 left! I'll save them till after christmas (i celebrate tomorrow as well as 25th)

 

Conor's Top 20 Albums of 2022: #20-#6 RECAP

 

#20: Planet Zero - Shinedown

#19: SOUR - Olivia Rodrigo

#18: The Whole Story - Kate Bush

#17: You Signed Up For This - Maisie Peters

#16: HOLY FVCK - Demi Lovato

#15: Everything I Didn't Say - Ella Henderson

#14: = - Ed Sheeran

#13: The Greatest Thing I'll Never Learn - Dylan

#12: Sonder - Dermot Kennedy

#11: Only Honest On The Weekend [Deluxe] - Becky Hill

#10: CRASH - Charli XCX

#09: Humble Quest - Maren Morris

#08: Hold The Girl - Rina Sawayama

#07: About Last Night... - Mabel

#06: Familia - Camila Cabello

 

 

These are the 5 albums that make up the top 5; but in which order? Not too much longer to find out!

 

- Red (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

- i used to think i could fly - Tate McRae

- Midnights - Taylor Swift

- emails i can't send - Sabrina Carpenter

- Love Sux - Avril Lavigne

 

make your predictions, not long left to go until the top 200 singles begins!

These are my favourites from your latest list:

#10: CRASH - Charli XCX

#08: Hold The Girl - Rina Sawayama

#07: About Last Night... - Mabel

#06: Familia - Camila Cabello

 

As for your top 5 contenders, here are the albums that I Like:

- Red (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift

- i used to think i could fly - Tate McRae

- Midnights - Taylor Swift