This top 100 was kind of a joke, the majority of the actual hits of 2023 being out of the top 100 lol

Haha Christ, just read the list of the year end chart. Glad I didn’t waste hours of my life listening to that. So many ancient things. I wonder why they even bothered broadcasting that? Easy schedule filling I suppose but not worth anyone’s time really.

 

Does anyone have a top 100 of songs that were actually released this year?

To be fair, the overwhelming majority of songs they actually played were from 2023 or 2022. There were a few questionable choices of what to play/skip, but not as many as I was expecting.

 

If I counted right, only 48 of the top 100 are songs that actually peaked in 2023. That's frustrating!

I do think at this point the OCC really need to be having a separate catalogue chart and publish two separate year-end lists, one completely unadjusted with all the old crap in then one that counts as the 'official' year-end list that is more representative of songs of the year (with songs from the previous year allowed in too plus any special cases like Sure Thing/Die For You) - this would take out 36 titles

67 Brenda Lee - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree 60s

57 Fleetwood Mac - Dreams 70s

91 Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way 70s

18 Wham! - Last Christmas 80s

44 Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere 80s

53 Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World 80s

73 The Pogues feat. Kirsty MacColl - Fairytale of New York 80s

97 Elton John - I'm Still Standing 80s

98 Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 80s

29 Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You 90s

64 The Goo Goo Dolls - Iris 90s

78 Oasis - Wonderwall 90s

46 Coldplay - Viva La Vida 00s

70 Florence + the Machine - Dog Days Are Over 00s

81 Coldplay - Yellow 00s

82 Arctic Monkeys - 505 00s

100 Kings of Leon - Sex on Fire 00s

21 Tom Odell - Another Love 10s

22 The Killers - Mr. Brightside 10s

27 Lewis Capaldi - Someone You Loved 10s

40 Vance Joy - Riptide 10s

68 Hozier - Take Me to Church 10s

72 Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know? 10s

77 Ed Sheeran - Perfect 10s

85 The Neighbourhood - Sweater Weather 10s

86 Arctic Monkeys - I Wanna Be Yours 10s

87 Adele - Someone Like You 10s

95 The Weeknd feat. Daft Punk - Starboy 10s

96 Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness 10s

50 Glass Animals - Heat Waves 2020

65 The Weeknd - Blinding Lights 2020

30 Ed Sheeran - Bad Habits 2021

38 Ed Sheeran - Shivers 2021

55 The Weeknd - Save Your Tears 2021

63 Sam Fender - Seventeen Going Under 2021

75 Elton John & Dua Lipa - Cold Heart 2021

I think exceptions should also be made if a song has never made a year end before, such as I Wanna Be Yours

Or just post a Top 200 or Top 250 like they used to - then at least we’d have a reasonable representation of 2023 hits. The data must be easily available.

Or just post a Top 200 or Top 250 like they used to - then at least we’d have a reasonable representation of 2023 hits. The data must be easily available.

Dan's spreadsheet coming to the ready in a new thread very shortly...

Mute time, evil evil song idk

 

:unsure: Evil??

It's so odd from this album that every single either went top 10 or peaked between #50-#60.

 

Yeh love this FM era!

I do think at this point the OCC really need to be having a separate catalogue chart and publish two separate year-end lists, one completely unadjusted with all the old crap in then one that counts as the 'official' year-end list that is more representative of songs of the year (with songs from the previous year allowed in too plus any special cases like Sure Thing/Die For You) - this would take out 36 titles

 

I think a system that would work is to only include songs where the majority of the sales come from 2023. That would allow songs like Sure Thing and Die For You, and songs that became hits late in 2022, but the mega hits like Bad Habits, Someone You Loved, etc, that just hang around for years as well as Christmas songs and classics like Wonderwall would get removed.

 

But I would prefer that to be an alternative chart (for people like us to look at and it's better for stations like Radio 1 to use if they want to do a year-end show), but I think the actual official year-end chart should be the one with everything included equally like it is now. And I would like to see retroactive ones for the past few years too because it's been getting like this for a while now.

 

And they need to think of an alternative for the decade-end chart. I'm a bit worried that Last Christmas will get the decade-end #1 it after seeing how high it was this year. Not that it doesn't deserve it, and again it is more accurate so fine, but it would be a shame if most of the 100 decade-end chart positions will be songs from before, so an alternative one with old songs excluded would be nice.

:unsure: Evil??

Yes, evil :)

Minor point: listening to the chart I’m sure I heard him say there were 3 songs from ‘Rumours’ in the chart - so I assumed I’d missed ‘The Chain’ - but I don’t see it in the chart, so I imagine he was just assuming that ‘Everywhere’ was on Rumours when it was actually from ‘Tango In The Night’ in the late 80s.

Creative universe not in the top 100

Is that a surprise? :lol:

I haven’t seen BPI certifications for the past two weeks, but I think I’m right in saying that every 2023 release that went gold was in the top 100, and no release that didn’t go gold made the top 100.

 

The lowest ranked 2023 tracks were ‘Baby Don’t Hurt Me’, ‘Little Things’ and ‘Chemical’. The most recent songs to go gold were ‘Greedy’ and ‘Baddadan’. All five of these went gold AND made the top 100.

 

Unless there are tracks to have been certified gold in the past 2 weeks.

 

 

You’re correct as it stands but I’d expect Whistle and 0800 Heaven to have gone gold in the last week and Trustfall to be very close.

This is a very late comment, but I don't think it's depressing at all to see older songs in the list, I think it's fascinating and exciting to see what's popular.

 

This is the chart that radio 1 and the official singles company have decided to broadcast, what we might call the 'consumed' or 'listened to' chart. That's a choice, they could well have just done a countdown of the top songs released in 2023, or done one as well as.

Finally finished catching up with this thread! I did tune in for a bit while I was driving home on Friday but I was a little distracted by the sat nav going a little haywire so wasn't really paying much attention (although the section I tuned in for - 'Creepin'' up to 'Cruel Summer' - was mostly playing songs I don't like / don't really care for so no loss x) and then didn't bother tuning in for the last bit when I got home in the end oops.

 

Really happy that 'Escapism.' hung onto the end of year top 3, a really special song that I think may go down as an all time great #1 hit (not sure I would say the same about 'Flowers' and 'Sprinter', obviously both deserved positions on this EOY as they were clearly the 2 biggest chart dominators of the year but they're fairly pedestrian for their respective genres), such a singular and unique hit and with such a great backstory behind its success.

 

I know the point has been argued to death about the EOY list not really being fit for purpose any more but just noting a couple of specific instances that feel especially jarring that I've not seen anyone pointing out - it feels so weird to see 'Take Me To Church' being just above 'Dog Days Are Over', they're both songs of basically equivalent vintage and classic status I'd think and the latter definitely felt like it was far bigger and more relevant during the year! But I suppose that's just the distortionary effect of it happening to have spent some time on SCR during the year while 'Take Me To Church' didn't (and tbf the Guardians Of The Galaxy boost has largely fallen off by this point). And then lower down it feels so odd that the likes of 'golden hour' and 'Red Flags' made the list fairly comfortably while so many of the songs in the pre-countdown list missed out despite feeling like they were pretty much the same level of mid tier hit if not bigger, and it's not even like that only includes songs that were released in Q4, even just a couple of extra months makes such a huge difference it seems! (Not saying that JVKE and Mimi don't feel like they should be on here, just that so many of the other songs that missed out feel like they should be too).

 

And this was pointed out already but I do have to laugh at 'I Wanna Be Yours' being a 2023 EOY hit when it has spent a grand total of one week in the weekly top 100... at #99 and not even this year :lol:

 

Also surprised to see 'Pointless' managing to remain narrowly ahead of 'Wish You The Best' in the end, I guess either the latter didn't really have the legs I expected it to or the former had slightly more than I expected - I've been annoyed all year that Heart have continued to spam 'Pointless' while ignoring 'Wish You The Best' despite that being a much better song and feeling like a bigger hit but I guess the actual numbers ultimately back their decision up! (albeit maybe WYTB would have been slightly ahead if not for the one week of massive pure sales for 'Pointless' :P)

 

Thanks Joseph for all the efforts in preparing this thread anyways and sorry I wasn't around to contribute to it live!

 

Also as for this week's chart, hooray for 'Santa Tell Me' finally being top 10 after all (before the midweek update I'd resigned myself to just waiting for another chance next year) and yay for the new peaks for Dean Martin, The Ronettes (finally top 20) and Nat King Cole too, shame no new peak this time for José Feliciano in the end though, hopefully in the mix again for top 20 next year! Not massively keen on the Burl Ives track but well done to him scraping a first top 40 hit for 61 years x Just short of the top 40 also great to see a solid new peak for The Beach Boys, hope that they and Pretenders can make the top 40 one of these years. And also not a new peak ofc but hooray for 'Christmas Lights' making another top 40 appearance, it's odd looking back at its chart run that it's been consistent in making the top 40 for 4 of the past 5 festive seasons but randomly in the middle couldn't get any higher than #53 in 2021!

Also surprised to see 'Pointless' managing to remain narrowly ahead of 'Wish You The Best' in the end, I guess either the latter didn't really have the legs I expected it to or the former had slightly more than I expected - I've been annoyed all year that Heart have continued to spam 'Pointless' while ignoring 'Wish You The Best' despite that being a much better song and feeling like a bigger hit but I guess the actual numbers ultimately back their decision up! (albeit maybe WYTB would have been slightly ahead if not for the one week of massive pure sales for 'Pointless' :P)

WYTB was catching Pointless and would have passed it with a couple more weeks I think, though Pointless had nearly 70k at the end of 2022 so remains comfortably ahead in total. None of the 3 #1s from this campaign have held up very well though - Someone You Loved is already doing nearly double any of them in weekly streams.

I’m hoping for the biggest albums of 2023 to be revealed to see if the Highlights can go down in history as the biggest album of the year without reaching #1