:cry: Missed the top 100 this year? :cry:

 

Ayra Starr

Rush

 

 

2nd single from 19 & Dangerous

Released: 16th September 2022

Label: Marvin Global Holdings

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (02/02/2023) | 92-77-58-44-36-29-28-24-26-28-24-27-35-33-32-37-40-41-43-46-49-52-54-54-x

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

 

44 Sales

45 Audio Streaming

15 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Ayra Starr is impossible to ignore. Born in Benin Republic, the 20-year-old was raised between its beach city, Cotonou and the cultural hub of Lagos, Nigeria. This mix of cultures inspires her global approach to music, art and life. She's inspired by the regal earthiness of Angelique Kidjo, Rihanna's feisty confidence, as well as 90s fashion icons. Ayra describes her sound as Afrosoul, told in an intoxicating voice that evokes a Gen Z queen-in-waiting. Drawing from influences like classic Yoruba and Beninese music & artists like 2Face and Wande Coal, her music speaks for a generation of girls around the world who are finding themselves, united by angst and emojis. She announced herself to the world on January 22 with an eponymous 5-track EP, which produced the No. 1 single, “Away” and spurred viral moments in the UK as well. But Ayra Starr’s moment will come month’s after after releasing her debut studio album- 19 & Dangerous which had multiple number 1s, unprecedented cosigns, and organic virality. ‘Rush’ is one of 2022’s biggest summer hit. Collaborating with multiple artists across the continent and featuring on two bestsellers with her label mates, Ayra continues on her upward trajectory. Already, Ayra Starr is the second most nominated artist at the Headies- Africa’s premier music awards, and has a BET nomination under her belt. With a strong opening statement and millions of fans waiting for her next move, Ayra Starr is giving black girls a new voice. - Spotify

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2022 70 2 Sugar (Wizkid feat. Ayra Starr)

2023 24 Rush -1-

2023 28 My Love (Leigh-Anne feat. Ayra Starr)

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 0 x Top 20 | 2 x Top 40 | 3 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Ayra Starr

 

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'Relax My Eyes' was very bland for me but the production is nice enough at least!

Can't say I ever cared much for Relax My Eyes, though it's not bad. Rush is an earworm, I didn't pay it much attention but I do like it! My Love deserved more too.

Ayra starr was robbed this year! This deserved to be as big as people, and my love with Leigh Anne deserved so much more, both such great songs from her!

'Rush' is quite nice, fits right in with 'People' and 'Calm Down' so seemed odd it never took off further than mid-20s.

'Rush' was a slow grower for me. Was giving it a few plays after it left the top 40 lol.

:cry: Missed the top 100 this year? :cry:

 

Bakar

Hell N Back

 

 

1st single from Will You Be My Yellow?

Released: 17th August 2019

Label: Bakar

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (30/03/2023) | 41-35-28-20-27-29-22-24-25-30-32-34-39-39-x

RE (05/10/2023) | 49-53-66-65-x

 

Sales: 600k+

Certification: Platinum

 

00 Sales

33 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Abubakar Baker Shariff-Farr (born 12 February 1994), better known as Bakar, is a British singer. Known for his experimental indie rock style, he made his professional solo debut with the mixtape Badkid in May 2018, subsequently releasing the extended play Will You Be My Yellow? in September 2019. He released his debut album Nobody's Home in February 2022. - Wikipedia

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

2023 20 Hell N Back -1-

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 0 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 1 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Bakar

 

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I did not like this when it charted but it’s a bit of a bop now oop

Hell N Back is another I expected to take off a bit further, I love the retro soul vibe of it, although it had already gone Silver before it even hit the chart I think.

:cry: Missed the top 100 this year? :cry:

 

Bugzy Malone and TeeDee

Out Of Nowhere

 

 

Non-album single

Released: 10th November 2022

Label: B-Somebody

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (24/11/2022) | [18-13-13-27-26-27-38]-9-10-14-16-16-55-61-68-77-88-97-x

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

 

36 Sales

11 Audio Streaming

01 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Liberating grime from its London domicile in the mid-2010s, Bugzy Malone firmly implanted Manchester on the UK rap map with confessional storytelling in an unmistakable Mancunian gruff. Born Aaron Davis in Greater Manchester in 1990 to a single-parent mother, a young Bugzy Malone followed in his uncle’s criminal footsteps. After being expelled from school and enduring homelessess as a teen, Malone finally escaped Manchester street life after a prison sentence at the age of 16 served as a catalyst. Turning his life around as an amateur boxer before deciding upon a full-time career in rap, Malone released his introspective debut EP, Walk With Me, in 2015, a territorial reworking of grime whose title track installed his area’s calling code (0161) as a regional rap mantra. Its follow-up, 2016’s Facing Time, found Malone wrestling with the rigors of fame and unbosoming himself of traumatic stress, themes he would expand upon in 2017’s resolute declaration of provincial sovereignty, King of the North. Malone’s independent success was ratified in 2018 with his first full-length album, B. Inspired, a proper fusion of grime, Afro-swing, speed garage, and hip-hop, typified by “Die By the Gun,” a reflective third-person tale of the turbulent Manchester street life he fortuitously left behind to become a trailblazer for Northern hip-hop. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Bugzy Malone

2017 99 Bruce Wayne -IG-

2017 65 Memory Lane (feat. Tom Grennan) -2-

2017 92 Through The Night (feat. DJ Luck & MC Neat) -1-

2018 97 Warning -1-

2018 69 Who Am I (Kojo Funds feat. Bugzy Malone)

2018 55 Run (Bugzy Malone & Rag'n'Bone Man) -2-

2019 34 M.E.N II -NAS-

2019 20 Kilos (feat. Aitch) -NAS-

2019 66 December -NAS-

2020 89 Cause A Commotion (feat. Skip Marley) -NAS-

2020 18 M.E.N III -1-

2020 77 Don't Cry (Bugzy Malone & Dermot Kennedy) -2-

2021 30 Notorious (Bugzy Malone & Chip) -3-

2021 63 Grown Flex (Chip feat. Bugzy Malone)

2021 88 Welcome To The Hood (Bugzy Malone & Emeli Sandé) -3-

2021 89 Salvador -4-

2021 80 Skeletons -5-

2021 68 Ride Out -6-

2021 76 Payslips (Swarmz feat. Bugzy Malone & M24)

2021 55 War Mode -NAS-

2022 55 Daily Duppy -NAS-

2022 39 Energy (Bugzy Malone & MIST) -NAS-

2022 09 Out Of Nowhere (Bugzy Malone & TeeDee) -NAS-

2023 58 One Direction (ArrDee & Bugzy Malone)

2023 99 Mrs Lonely -NAS-

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 3 x Top 20 | 6 x Top 40 | 25 x Top 100

 

TeeDee

2022 84 Mad At Me (Silky feat. TeeDee)

2022 09 Out Of Nowhere (Bugzy Malone & TeeDee)

 

0 x #1 | 0 x Top 5 | 1 x Top 10 | 1 x Top 20 | 1 x Top 40 | 2 x Top 100

 

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Bugzy Malone

 

TeeDee

 

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Absolute BANGER *.* was glad this managed to get its deserved top 10 placement in January, as much as I was starting to get over it by then :lol:

shame this fell off rather quickly, it's one of the better rap hits we've had in recent times!! we need more dance-rap crossover bbops like this although a lot of those do fall flat too (see BBCC)

I thought this would be much bigger in Jan than it was, shame as it’s such a bop

Never was fussed on 'Hell N Back' nor 'Out Of Nowhere' for that matter but it doesn't sound too bad right now tbh.

:cry: Missed the top 100 this year? :cry:

 

Calvin Harris and Sam Smith

Desire

 

 

Non-album single

Released: 28th July 2023

Label: Sony Music Entertainment UK

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (10/08/2023) | 18-12-9-8-7-6-8-11-11-32-38-47-44-48-53-59-74-x

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

 

01 Sales

09 Audio Streaming

12 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Calvin Harris

Talk about an unexpected career trajectory. In 2007, 23-year-old Calvin Harris released I Created Disco, a cheeky shot across dance music’s bow that presented him as Scotland’s brow-arched answer to LCD Soundsystem. Fast-forward a few years, and the scruffy fellow playing house-party host in the “Merrymaking at My Place” video is suddenly baring oil-slicked abs on Emporio Armani billboards. What happened, of course, is that Harris (born Adam Richard Wiles in 1984) traded up from the Amiga computer of his teens, developed some of the best studio chops in the business with deep-house rollers like 2013's “Thinking About You”, and helped spark EDM’s pop crossover with hits for Rihanna, Florence Welch, Ellie Goulding and others. Along the way, he became one of the 2010s’ first DJ/producer/songwriter polymaths to earn top billing even on the songs in which he didn’t sing. No stranger to pyro-lit main stages—his percussive, synth-strafed 2014 single “C.U.B.A.” is big-room house at its most gargantuan—Harris has resisted getting boxed into any one sound. On 2017’s Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, he lays down a set of slinky R&B jams for Frank Ocean, Migos and Young Thug, while the 2018 singles “Promises”, with Sam Smith, and “One Kiss”, with Dua Lipa, proved just how versatile his vision of pop can be. - Apple Music

 

Sam Smith

It’s hard to think of many artists in 21st-century pop who could match the vulnerability of Sam Smith. “I’ve never shied away from telling the truth in my music,” the singer told Apple Music in 2020. “Music is literally my best friend; it’s a release, a form of diary and therapy.” Born in London in 1992 and raised in Cambridge, Smith first began gaining significant traction in 2012 with a pair of dance hits—Disclosure’s “Latch,” and Naughty Boy’s “La La La” the following year. They revealed that elastic falsetto, but didn’t quite hint at the sadness that would define the outrageous success to come. That arrived with 2014’s Grammy-winning In the Midnight Hour, an exquisite meditation on unrequited love, and its followup, the heartbreak-inspired The Thrill of It All. This second album saw Smith—by then an Oscar winner for 2015’s Bond theme “Writing’s on the Wall”—open up about instant fame and embrace their status as a gay role model, against a backdrop of stirring, gospel-infused balladry. It has always been clear that Smith’s power lies as much in that voice as in an unwavering bravery to put their innermost feelings—loneliness, confusion, desperation, desire—on full public view.

 

By the run-up to album three, however, Smith was also ready to have a little more fun. The aching melancholy of love, loss, and yearning for someone to spend their days with was still present, but this time, it was all being mined for invigorating music to help dance the blues away. That third LP should have arrived in early 2020 in the form of To Die For, but, amid the global pandemic, it was delayed, reworked, and renamed with the more sensitive title Love Goes. The album, Smith said ahead of its release, allowed them to heal after their first true breakup. But it also heralded freedom. “I felt at one point that I was going to be trapped onstage wearing a suit and singing ballads for the rest of my life,” said Smith. “When I look back at Love Goes, it reminds of the courage it took. A lot of my life, probably because of a lot of internalized queerphobia, and queerphobia around me, I felt ashamed of myself and not being able to fully be myself through my music. Each time I make an album, I learn to like myself a little more. The more I make music, the closer to myself I feel.” - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Calvin Harris

2007 10 Acceptable In The 80s -1-

2007 03 The Girls -2-

2007 43 Merrymaking At My Place -3-

2008 01 Dance Wiv Me (Dizzee Rascal feat. Calvin Harris & Chrome) MILLIONAIRE

2009 01 I'm Not Alone -1-

2009 03 Ready For The Weekend -2-

2009 18 Flashback -3-

2010 27 You Used To Hold Me -4-

2011 02 Bounce (feat. Kelis) -1-

2011 02 Feel So Close -2- MILLIONAIRE

2011 01 We Found Love (Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris) MILLION SELLER

2011 24 Off The Record (Tinchy Stryder feat. Calvin Harris & BURNS)

2012 02 Let's Go (feat. Ne-Yo) -3-

2012 02 We'll Be Coming Back (feat. Example) -4-

2012 01 Sweet Nothing (feat. Florence Welch) -5-

2012 05 Drinking From The Bottle (feat. Tinie Tempah) -6-

2013 04 I Need Your Love (feat. Ellie Goulding) -7-

2013 08 Thinking About You (feat. Ayah Marar) -8-

2013 01 Under Control (Calvin Harris & Alesso feat. Hurts) -1-

2014 01 Summer -2- MILLIONAIRE

2014 01 Blame (feat. John Newman) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2014 89 C.U.B.A -B-SIDE-

2014 86 Slow Acid -IG-

2014 23 Open Wide (feat. Big Sean) -IG-

2014 06 Outside (feat. Ellie Goulding) -4- MILLIONAIRE

2015 35 Pray To God (feat. HAIM) -5-

2015 02 How Deep Is Your Love (Calvin Harris & Disciples) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2016 02 This Is What You Came For (feat. Rihanna) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2016 34 Hype (Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris)

2016 04 My Way -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2017 10 Slide (feat. Frank Ocean & Migos) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 25 Heatstroke (feat. Young Thug, Pharrell Williams & Ariana Grande) -2-

2017 43 Rollin (feat. Future & Khalid) -IG-

2017 01 Feels (feat. Pharrell Williams, Katy Perry & Big Sean) -3- MILLIONAIRE

2017 75 Don't Quit (DJ Khaled & Calvin Harris feat. Travis Scott & Jeremih)

2017 97 Faking It (feat. Kehlani & Lil Yachty) -4-

2018 55 The Weekend (SZA & Calvin Harris)

2018 48 Nuh Ready Nuh Ready (feat. PARTYNEXTDOOR) -NAS-

2018 01 One Kiss (Calvin Harris & Dua Lipa) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2018 01 Promises (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2018 98 Checklist (Normani & Calvin Harris feat. Wizkid)

2018 29 I Found You (benny blanco & Calvin Harris)

2019 02 Giant (Calvin Harris & Rag'n'Bone Man) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2019 66 I'm Not Alone 2019 -NAS-

2020 75 Live Without Your Love (Love Regenerator & Steve Lacy) -NAS-

2020 33 Over Now (Calvin Harris & The Weeknd) -NAS-

2021 09 By Your Side (feat. Tom Grennan) -NAS-

2022 16 Potion (Calvin Harris, Dua Lipa & Young Thug) -1-

2022 10 Stay With Me (Calvin Harris, Justin Timberlake, Halsey & Pharrell Williams) -2-

2022 71 Obsessed (Calvin Harris, Charlie Puth & Shenseea) -3-

2023 01 Miracle (Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding) -NAS- MILLIONAIRE

2023 06 Desire (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) -NAS-

 

11 x #1 | 23 x Top 5 | 29 x Top 10 | 32 x Top 20 | 40 x Top 40 | 52 x Top 100

 

Sam Smith

2012 11 Latch (Disclosure feat. Sam Smith) MILLIONAIRE

2013 01 La La La (Naughty Boy feat. Sam Smith) MILLION SELLER

2013 86 Safe With Me -EP-

2013 82 Nirvana -EP-

2014 01 Money On My Mind -2- MILLIONAIRE

2014 15 Lay Me Down -1/6-

2014 01 Stay With Me -3- MILLIONAIRE

2014 03 I'm Not The Only One -4- MILLIONAIRE

2014 09 Like I Can -5- MILLIONAIRE

2014 53 Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas -NAS-

2015 01 Lay Me Down (feat. John Legend) -7-

2015 13 Omen (Disclosure feat. Sam Smith)

2015 01 Writing's On The Wall -OST-

2017 01 Too Good At Goodbyes -1- MILLIONAIRE

2017 26 Pray (feat. Logic) -3-

2017 63 Burning -IG-

2017 27 One Last Song -2-

2018 01 Promises (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith) MILLIONAIRE

2019 63 Fire On Fire -NAS-

2019 03 Dancing With A Stranger (Sam Smith & Normani) -1- MILLIONAIRE

2019 07 How Do You Sleep? -2-

2019 76 I Feel Love -PS-

2020 18 To Die For -3-

2020 20 I'm Ready (Sam Smith & Demi Lovato) -4-

2020 43 My Oasis (feat. Burna Boy) -5-

2020 11 Diamonds -6-

2020 89 Kids Again -AT-

2020 72 The Lighthouse Keeper -NAS-

2022 52 Love Me More -1-

2022 01 Unholy (Sam Smith & Kim Petras) -2- MILLIONAIRE

2023 60 Gimme (Sam Smith, Koffee & Jessie Reyez) -PS-

2023 23 I'm Not Here To Make Friends -3-

2023 85 Who We Love (Sam Smith & Ed Sheeran) -AT-

2023 69 VULGAR (Sam Smith & Madonna) -NAS-

2023 59 Man I Am -OST-

2023 06 Desire (Calvin Harris & Sam Smith)

2023 41 In The City (Charli XCX & Sam Smith)

 

8 x #1 | 10 x Top 5 | 13 x Top 10 | 19 x Top 20 | 22 x Top 40 | 37 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Calvin Harris

 

Sam Smith

 

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I like Miracle too but I actually prefer this one of the two!

'Desire'! now this is a proper banger! even if a slight downgrade from 'Miracle' obviously - would love to hear more trance inspired music from Calvin next year

:cry: Missed the top 100 this year? :cry:

 

Charli XCX

Speed Drive

 

 

Soundtrack single from Barbie

Released: 29th June 2023

Label: Atlantic Recording Corporation

 

Chart Statistics

 

NE (13/07/2023) | 61-94-x

RE (03/08/2023) | 19-9-11-14-15-17-16-18-19-23-72-83-100-x

 

Sales: 200k+

Certification: Silver

 

50 Sales

09 Audio Streaming

00 Video Streaming

 

Video

 

 

Biography

 

Whether she’s penning defiantly joyous singles like “I Love It” or exploring her darker side, Charli XCX is proof that you don’t need to stay in one lane to become a massive success. Born Charlotte Aitchison in 1992 in Cambridge, England, to Scottish and Gujarati Indian parents, Charli took up songwriting at 14, lifting her stage name from her instant messenger handle. On the strength of her MySpace uploads and performances at London raves, she landed a record deal at 18, released the modestly successful darkwave cuts “Stay Away” and “Nuclear Seasons”, then hit the big time with 2012’s kiss-off anthem “I Love It”. Originally scrapped from her own album for being too poppy, the beat-pounding re-recording by Swedish duo Icona Pop quickly became a worldwide dance-floor favourite. Her goth-tinged debut album, 2013’s True Romance, and tracks like the psychedelic, Gold Panda-sampling "You (Ha Ha Ha)” soon positioned Charli as the missing link between Grimes’ freak scene, Lorde’s dark melodies, and Carly Rae Jepsen’s sweetness. Never one to repeat herself, she’s built a track record as a prolific songwriter and collaborator, penning hits for Iggy Azalea (“Fancy”) and Selena Gomez (“Same Old Love”) and working with the likes of Lil Yachty, David Guetta and BTS. She even followed up the 2019 eclectic, star-studded Charli with 2020’s intimate how i'm feeling now, an album written with fan input during her six-week pandemic quarantine. One thing is clear: Charli XCX’s creative drive and willingness to take risks has made her one of the most unique, enthralling artists of her era. - Apple Music

 

Top 100 Chart History

 

Charli XCX

2013 01 I Love It (Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX) MILLIONAIRE

2013 62 SuperLove -NAS-

2014 05 Fancy (Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX) MILLIONAIRE

2014 06 Boom Clap -1-

2014 35 Break The Rules -2-

2015 08 Doing It (feat. Rita Ora) -3-

2016 29 After The Afterparty (feat. Lil Yachty) -NAS-

2017 31 Boys -NAS-

2017 35 Dirty Sexy Money (David Guetta & Afrojack feat. Charli XCX & French Montana)

2018 22 Girls (Rita Ora feat. Cardi B, Bebe Rexha & Charli XCX)

2018 13 1999 (Charli XCX & Troye Sivan) -1-

2019 70 Blame It On Your Love (feat. Lizzo) -2-

2019 61 Dream Glow (BTS & Charli XCX)

2019 58 Gone (Charli XCX & Christine and the Queens) -3-

2021 94 Spinning (No Rome, Charli XCX & The 1975)

2021 06 OUT OUT (Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie)

2021 44 Good Ones -1-

2022 24 Beg For You (feat. Rina Sawayama) -2-

2022 70 Used To Know Me -3-

2022 24 Hot In It (Tiësto & Charli XCX)

2023 09 Speed Drive -OST-

2023 41 In The City (Charli XCX & Sam Smith) -NAS-

 

1 x #1 | 2 x Top 5 | 6 x Top 10 | 7 x Top 20 | 14 x Top 40 | 22 x Top 100

 

Barbie The Album

2023 01 Dance The Night (Dua Lipa)

2023 04 Barbie World (Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice with Aqua)

2023 09 Speed Drive (Charli XCX)

2023 01 What Was I Made For? (Billie Eilish)

2023 13 I'm Just Ken (Ryan Gosling)

2023 27 Pink (Lizzo)

2023 58 Man I Am (Sam Smith)

2023 90 Choose Your Fighter (Ava Max)

2023 92 Forever & Again (The Kid LAROI)

 

2 x #1 | 3 x Top 5 | 4 x Top 10 | 5 x Top 20 | 6 x Top 40 | 9 x Top 100

 

Social Media

 

Charli XCX

 

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Desire was good till the drop. Still don’t get why it’s there it doesn’t fit imo. Speed drive is a major bop and I’m so happy Charli got a hit out of it! This should’ve been as big as Barbie world or dance the night

Speed Drive really clicked with me after seeing it in the Barbie movie *.*