January 19Jan 19 Author Forget About Us was the best of the Little Mix solo songs in my books so nice to see that appear here! Giving Blue a listen now, that's sounding quite nice, two very different voices but they go together quite well. Glad you like both the songs Pete! Totally agree on BLUE, their voices go surprisingly well together :heart:
January 19Jan 19 Author Songs: Top 300  18 Lady Gaga - Disease | 1-3-3-6-10-11-16-18-… It's crazy to think that Lady Gaga's Chromatica album is approaching five years old. It feels more recent somehow, and perhaps that's the effect of the pandemic, but the experiences it brought with it being so long ago now feels strange! Gaga albums feel like an event, and Disease has kicked that into gear already. Though it's now confirmed Die With a Smile will be on LG7, Disease was officially the launch of the era, and it felt like a huge moment in my circle. I remember being blown away on first play, especially the second half where the production really kicks into gear, layering the adlibs over the top of the production at its loudest is a euphoric moment! Spending the release weekend with Haus, Bré, Jade and Iz made it even more of an event, especially with how big a Gaga fan R Haus is. Disease of course debuted at #1 in my chart, marking Gaga's second #1 after Rain On Me, and it gives her her second best EOY placement ever! End of Year History 2013 | 059 | Applause 2013 | 161 | Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly) 2014 | 154 | G.U.Y 2014 | 177 | Do What U Want (feat. R. Kelly) 2016 | 119 | Perfect Illusion 2017 | 052 | The Cure 2018 | 254 | Shallow (Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper) 2020 | 007 | Rain On Me (Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande) 2020 | 107 | Stupid Love 2020 | 129 | Sour Candy (Lady Gaga & BLACKPINK) 2020 | 173 | Sine from Above (Lady Gaga & Elton John) 2023 | 236 | Bloody Mary 2024 | 018 | Disease 2024 | 117 | Die With a Smile (Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars) 2024 | 267 | The Joker fmC6b6_ovZY  17 Charli xcx & Lorde - Girl, so confusing | 2-4-5-10-17-20-24-38-x One of the biggest pop moments of the year came from a song that became bigger than the sum of its parts for me. I always really enjoyed Girl, so confusing on Charli xcx's BRAT album, but hadn't really paid attention to what the lyrics were about, so when a remix featuring Lorde dropped that resulted in the two pop queens putting their differences aside, my interest was sky high! Lorde's had a patchy chart history for me with only one prior top 10 hit (Green Light), but her verse on Girl, so confusing quickly became essential. The honesty in her verse adds to the sincerity of the track and I admire how the end result is them both lifting each other up ("I ride for you Charli", "you know I ride for you too"). It's an empowering song and it found itself debuting at #2 in my chart, giving Charli the first top 10 hit from the BRAT era, Lorde her highest peaking song to date, and it was only blocked from #1 by The Kid LAROI's NIGHTS LIKE THIS (still to come). End of Year History Charli xcx 2013 | 131 | I Love It (Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX) 2014 | 001 | Fancy (Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX) 2014 | 136 | Boom Clap 2014 | 139 | Break the Rules 2015 | 013 | Doing It (feat. Rita Ora) 2015 | 163 | Famous 2015 | 226 | Need Ur Love 2016 | 124 | After the Afterparty (feat. Lil Yachty) 2017 | 107 | Boys 2018 | 007 | Moonlight (Lil Xan & Charli XCX) 2018 | 011 | Girls (Rita Ora feat. Cardi B, Bebe Rexha & Charli XCX) 2018 | 032 | 1999 (Charli XCX & Troye Sivan) 2018 | 164 | Out of My Head (feat. Tove Lo & ALMA) 2019 | 077 | Blame It On Your Love (feat. Lizzo) 2019 | 113 | Dream Glow (BTS & Charli XCX) 2021 | 053 | OUT OUT (Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie) 2021 | 074 | Good Ones 2022 | 034 | Beg for You (feat. Rina Sawayama) 2022 | 086 | Hot In It (Tiësto & Charli XCX) 2022 | 104 | Used to Know Me 2022 | 136 | Baby 2023 | 080 | Speed Drive 2023 | 265 | In the City (Charli XCX & Sam Smith) 2024 | 000 | Talk talk (Charli xcx & Troye Sivan) 2024 | 017 | Girl, so confusing (Charli xcx & Lorde) 2024 | 048 | Guess (Charli xcx & Billie Eilish) 2024 | 120 | Sympathy is a knife (Charli xcx & Ariana Grande) 2024 | 137 | Apple 2024 | 191 | Von dutch 2024 | 208 | 360 Lorde 2017 | 099 | Green Light 2024 | 017 | Girl, so confusing (Charli xcx & Lorde) 0q3K6FPzY18
January 19Jan 19 Hi there Joseph! Here are some of the songs that I liked from your Year-End list since the last comment of mine: 17 Charli xcx & Lorde - Girl, so confusing | 2-4-5-10-17-20-24-38-x 18 Lady Gaga - Disease | 1-3-3-6-10-11-16-18-… 20 Perrie - Forget About Us | 1-3-2-4-15-17-30-34-34-26-38-x 21 Benson Boone - Pretty Slowly | 1-2-5-3-8-13-15-16-23-30-27-35-34-19-24-30-33-30-… 24 ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT. | 2-3-8-9-14-12-16-15-16-… 27 Ariana Grande - yes, and? | 1-5-10-11-21-24-29-39-26-30-39-x 31 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday Girls | 12-11-1-1-3-6-11-21-30-x 35 Artemas - i like the way you kiss me | 18-7-15-15-14-13-18-35-32-x-32-x-19-x 41 ROSÉ - toxic till the end | 1-2-… 43 Sabrina Carpenter - Espresso | 13-12-8-5-17-20-37-x-23-37-x 45 Sabrina Carpenter - Taste | 1-4-4-9-15-20-29-36-x 47 Rita Ora - Ask & You Shall Receive | 1-2-3-8-17-22-29-x 48 Charli xcx & Billie Eilish - Guess | 3-11-12-13-21-23-26-29-32-x 49 Dasha - Austin (Boots Stop Workin') | 18-22-18-19-18-11-7-9-24-27-x 56 Kygo & Ava Max - Whatever | 4-7-9-20-22-26-38-x 59 JADE - Angel of My Dreams | 4-4-9-21-23-23-27-29-35-x 61 Mark Ambor - Belong Together | 4-11-23-22-25-x 65 Kesha - JOYRIDE | 3-4-10-14-20-34-x 67 Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love) | 7-5-11-12-26-30-37-39-39-x 75 Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy) | 7-4-7-23-25-x-27-x 78 Shawn Mendes - Why Why Why | 4-10-12-20-21-30-36-x 84 Taylor Swift - I Can Do It With a Broken Heart | 25-32-26-8-8-15-19-25-34-x 85 Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please | 8-4-9-18-27-37-x 86 Conan Gray - Lonely Dancers | 3-6-15-25-35-39-x 90 Griff - last night's mascara | 4-11-17-24-25-25-… 94 Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! | 15-9-13-32-37-x 95 Rita Ora feat. Keith Urban - Shape of Me | 8-6-14-21-31-x 96 Nemo - The Code | 4-5-19-30-x 97 Madison Beer - Make You Mine | 12-10-26-31-x 103 Griff - Anything | 21-24-8-5-12-18-26-x 106 Ariana Grande, Brandy & Monica - the boy is mine | 35-10-5-12-18-26-39-x 109 Dasha - Didn't I? | 7-8-15-24-32-36-x 115 Dasha - Bye Bye Bye | 4-6-18-31-35-x 117 Lady Gaga & Bruno Mars - Die With a Smile | 4-7-14-18-27-28-x 120 Charli xcx & Ariana Grande - Sympathy is a knife | 24-7-10-18-24-37-x 121 Lost Frequencies & Tom Odell - Black Friday (pretty like the sun) | 9-11-16-28-33-34-x 125 Tate McRae - It's ok I'm ok | 5-6-10-17-32-x 134 Sabrina Carpenter - Bed Chem | 24-23-29-27-19-10-9-11-… 137 Charli xcx - Apple | 35-10-7-19-26-27-35-x 147 Mimi Webb - Mistake | 7-18-24-29-x 148 Olivia Rodrigo - obsessed | 16-9-22-34-x 150 Clean Bandit, Anne-Marie & David Guetta - Cry Baby | 9-14-19-25-30-39-x 151 Perrie - You Go Your Way | 4-12-26-29-x 158 JENNIE - Mantra | 25-12-8-20-27-x 161 Tate McRae - 2 hands | 7-13-22-26-31-… 162 Kesha - DELUSIONAL | 5-12-17-… 168 Michael Schulte & Norma Jean Martine - If you love me | 7-14-32-39-x 169 Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Freedom of the Night | 9-16-33-x 171 Kaleen - We Will Rave | 7-12-x 177 Taylor Swift feat. Post Malone - Fortnight | 8-14-26-x 178 ROSÉ - number one girl | 8-18-22-33-… 183 Angelina Mango - la noia | 8-13-x 186 David Guetta & OneRepublic - I Don't Wanna Wait | 8-20-26-x 190 Jennifer Lopez feat. Latto - Can't Get Enough | 22-40-13-13-24-28-37-x 191 Charli xcx - Von dutch | 18-20-25-36-35-x 192 Kylie Minogue, Bebe Rexha & Tove Lo - My Oh My | 6-14-30-37-x 194 Purple Disco Machine & Benjamin Ingrosso feat. Nile Rodgers & Shenseea - Honey Boy | 14-x 195 Perrie - Christmas Magic | 9-20-35-x 198 Sigala, Trevor Daniel & 24kGoldn - It's a Feeling | 7-14-x 200 Ariana Grande & Troye Sivan - supernatural | 24-15-24-29-x 202 Jax Jones, Zoe Wees & Cascada - Never Be Lonely | 14-13-29-x 203 Zara Larsson - You Love Who You Love | 10-20-24-32-33-x 205 Benjamin Ingrosso - Kite | 15-14-25-35-x-40-x 207 Selena Gomez - Love On | 8-29-39-x 208 Charli xcx - 360 | 36-x-28-31-x-12-17-27-30-37-x 213 Dua Lipa - Illusion | 10-27-28-33-x 219 Ava Max - Spot a Fake | 10-19-38-x 224 Addison Rae - Diet Pepsi | 39-22-19-15-23-26-31-x 235 Ella Henderson feat. Rudimental - Alibi | 16-15-28-37-x 246 Galantis, David Guetta & 5 Seconds of Summer - Lighter | 16-23-24-37-x 249 Felix Jaehn feat. Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Ready for Your Love | 12-33-x 252 Benjamin Ingrosso - Look Who's Laughing Now | 20-x 254 Olly Alexander - Dizzy | 28-25-27-x-23-14-30-x 260 Griff - Miss Me Too | 20-29-35-x 261 BL3SS & CamrinWatsin feat. bbyclose - Kisses | 21-17-23-x 263 Silvester Belt - Luktelk | 13-21-x 265 Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen - I Had Some Help | 19-16-x 266 Lola Young - Messy | 18-27-18-12-… 270 Hozier - Too Sweet | 26-16-21-27-38-x 271 Paul Russell - Lil Boo Thang | 15-27-x 276 Declan McKenna - Mulholland's Dinner and Wine | 36-x-23-27-x 279 Tinashe - Nasty | 16-35-x 284 Slimane - Mon amour | 20-x 286 The Blessed Madonna & Kylie Minogue - Edge of Saturday Night | 13-32-x 289 Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry | 33-15-18-x 290 Dasha - Heartbreaker from Tennessee | 20-x 297 Alok & Bebe Rexha - Deep in Your Love | 13-21-x I will return to finishing my Year-End list as well as commenting on all of your Year-end charts!
January 19Jan 19 Hi Joseph, some fab highlights since I last commented!  Having a song like ‘i like the way you kiss me’ break through to the top tier of the charts was really cool, love the darkwave style production.  Agreed that ‘yes, and?’ was well-timed after a long gap and the change in sound only added to my intrigue. The HausMeet impact in the ‘Disease’ write-up *.* that song will always remind me of you guys too 🖤 The ‘Girl, so confusing’ remix really was a triumph! Lorde is such a great writer.
January 19Jan 19 Author Songs: Top 300  16 Daniel Seavey - The Older You Get | 1-1-7-6-10-15-23-28-35-x With 15 #1s to their name, American boyband Why Don't We are the most successful pop group in my chart's history. In addition to being the only boyband with an EOY #1 hit (Hooked in 2018), they surpassed The Vamps (14) and One Direction (11) in terms of #1 hits before they took an extended hiatus in 2022 due to ongoing legal issues with the management of the band. Four of the five members have released solo music since (with Jack Avery hopefully following this year!), and whilst all four of those have achieved at least one top 10 hit each, only Daniel Seavey as made it all the way to the top. After only just missing out at the very start of 2023 with two week #2 hit Runaway, Daniel kicked off his debut full-length album era with #1 hit The Older You Get last year. Released in the middle of the year, The Older You Get is one of the most poignant songs of the year, touching on the many different downsides to growing up and getting old, including friends moving on, bands splitting up (how apt), your old house being sold, and parents getting old and ill. It's something everyone can relate to, but elements of it have spoken to my personal situation a lot this year. The Older You Get spent two weeks at #1 in the middle of the year (just before the Girls Aloud Show takeover), fuelled by hearing it live when Daniel supported Benson live. It's by far the biggest hit from any of the members so far, and gives Daniel his best EOY position since Why Don't We's Love Back, #13 in 2021. End of Year History 2022 | 074 | Runaway 2024 | 016 | The Older You Get 2024 | 107 | Gateway Drug 2024 | 110 | Other People 2024 | 174 | If I Ever Get to Heaven MLnl7KSiJQY  15 Charli xcx & Troye Sivan - Talk talk | 1-1-3-3-10-18-19-25-30-31-37-38-38-35-… Achieving her best EOY position as primary artist since 2015's Doing It, it's no secret to say Charli xcx had an incredible 2024. Whilst the original BRAT album is a fantastic listen, some of the remixes elevated the original tracks, and others reinvented them completely. Talk talk fell into the latter category; it wasn't just the addition of a new verse, it felt like it had been dismantled and rebuilt with extra parts and new hooks added in. Troye Sivan was the perfect choice of collaborator, too. He and Charli have already established a fantastic camaraderie with each other, which comes through on Talk talk just as it did on the still-fantastic 1999. It became the sixth #1 hit in my chart for both Charli and Troye, and the latter's first in over four years! It finishes as the highest track for both artists this year. Shoutout to Dua Lipa's iconic intro and outro in French and Spanish too x End of Year History Charli xcx 2013 | 131 | I Love It (Icona Pop feat. Charli XCX) 2014 | 001 | Fancy (Iggy Azalea feat. Charli XCX) 2014 | 136 | Boom Clap 2014 | 139 | Break the Rules 2015 | 013 | Doing It (feat. Rita Ora) 2015 | 163 | Famous 2015 | 226 | Need Ur Love 2016 | 124 | After the Afterparty (feat. Lil Yachty) 2017 | 107 | Boys 2018 | 007 | Moonlight (Lil Xan & Charli XCX) 2018 | 011 | Girls (Rita Ora feat. Cardi B, Bebe Rexha & Charli XCX) 2018 | 032 | 1999 (Charli XCX & Troye Sivan) 2018 | 164 | Out of My Head (feat. Tove Lo & ALMA) 2019 | 077 | Blame It On Your Love (feat. Lizzo) 2019 | 113 | Dream Glow (BTS & Charli XCX) 2021 | 053 | OUT OUT (Joel Corry & Jax Jones feat. Charli XCX & Saweetie) 2021 | 074 | Good Ones 2022 | 034 | Beg for You (feat. Rina Sawayama) 2022 | 086 | Hot In It (Tiësto & Charli XCX) 2022 | 104 | Used to Know Me 2022 | 136 | Baby 2023 | 080 | Speed Drive 2023 | 265 | In the City (Charli XCX & Sam Smith) 2024 | 015 | Talk talk (Charli xcx & Troye Sivan) 2024 | 017 | Girl, so confusing (Charli xcx & Lorde) 2024 | 048 | Guess (Charli xcx & Billie Eilish) 2024 | 120 | Sympathy is a knife (Charli xcx & Ariana Grande) 2024 | 137 | Apple 2024 | 191 | Von dutch 2024 | 208 | 360 Troye Sivan 2015 | 008 | WILD 2015 | 029 | TALK ME DOWN 2015 | 038 | FOOLS 2015 | 067 | BITE 2015 | 068 | Papercut (Zedd feat. Troye Sivan) 2015 | 171 | YOUTH 2015 | 211 | Touch 2015 | 236 | DKLA (feat. Tkay Maidza) 2016 | 023 | YOUTH 2016 | 040 | HEAVEN (feat. Betty Who) 2017 | 012 | There For You (Martin Garrix & Troye Sivan) 2018 | 008 | My My My! 2018 | 031 | Lucky Strike 2018 | 032 | 1999 (Charli XCX & Troye Sivan) 2018 | 048 | Bloom 2018 | 065 | Dance to This (feat. Ariana Grande) 2018 | 140 | Strawberries & Cigarettes 2018 | 237 | The Good Side 2018 | 272 | Revelation (Troye Sivan & Jónsi) 2019 | 118 | i'm so tired... (Lauv & Troye Sivan) 2020 | 050 | Take Yourself Home 2020 | 072 | Rager teenager! 2020 | 085 | Easy 2021 | 040 | You (Regard, Troye Sivan & Tate McRae) 2021 | 049 | could cry just thinkin about you 2021 | 119 | Angel Baby 2022 | 154 | You Know What I Need (PNAU & Troye Sivan) 2022 | 221 | Trouble (Troye Sivan & Jay Som) 2022 | 291 | Wait (Troye Sivan & Gordi) 2023 | 034 | One of Your Girls 2023 | 040 | Rush 2023 | 132 | Got Me Started 2024 | 015 | Talk talk (Charli xcx & Troye Sivan) 2024 | 040 | Honey 2024 | 200 | supernatural (Ariana Grande & Troye Sivan) K5jyIoPbu4M
January 19Jan 19 Author Songs: Top 300  14 Jacqline - Effortless | 3-2-3-7-10-20-25-34-36-37-x Typically, every Melodifestivalen line-up contains at least a handful of artists who have taken part before. They usually pique my interest in advance, but there's always a significant number of new artists too. Excitingly, one of those newcomers delivered one of the best songs not just of Melfest 2024, but of the whole year. I hadn't heard of Jacqline before her performance in the third heat of Melfest 2024. All it took was one performance for me to be won over, though. With heaps of star quality and a slick performance, Effortless was elevated in its performance, but the song itself is one of the best examples of a pop song in 2024. It's a track packed full of sex appeal and Jacqline sells it perfectly, with an irresistible chorus. The track won the third heat and placed tenth in the final, peaking at #2 in my chart behind only Marcus & Martinus' Unforgettable after all finalist entries were released on streaming platforms. End of Year History 2024 | 014 | Effortless aLgh-XRFDag  13 The Kid LAROI - HEAVEN | 1-2-2-4-7-17-22-23-28-31-40-21-31-32-34-x-18-x One of the earliest #1s of the year, The Kid LAROI kickstarted another mammoth year in my chart with HEAVEN, which arrived just a couple of months after the release of his debut studio album THE FIRST TIME. HEAVEN was said to be taken from the deluxe album, and is one of the most vulnerable, raw tracks from the era. Laroi's vocals shine over the top of the piano instrumental, which nicely builds as the song goes on. It managed to break the #1 run of Benson Boone's Beautiful Things for a week to debut at the top itself, and it was the first of eight #1s Laroi achieved in 2024. I later heard it live at Laroi's THE FIRST TIME Tour, where he performed it both at the soundcheck experience and during the main show, and it re-entered my top 20 after the deluxe album finally arrived in August. End of Year History 2020 | 001 | NEED YOU MOST (So Sick) 2020 | 008 | WITHOUT YOU 2020 | 009 | SO DONE 2020 | 014 | SELFISH 2020 | 026 | ALWAYS DO 2020 | 028 | GO (The Kid LAROI & Juice WRLD) 2020 | 033 | WRONG (feat. Lil Mosey) 2020 | 035 | TELL ME WHY 2020 | 047 | Reminds Me of You (Juice WRLD & The Kid LAROI) 2020 | 092 | FEEL SOMETHING (feat. Marshmello) 2020 | 094 | F*CK YOU, GOODBYE (feat. Machine Gun Kelly) 2020 | 113 | I WISH 2020 | 154 | SAME THING 2020 | 190 | TRAGIC (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again & Internet Money) 2020 | 207 | Speak (Internet Money feat. The Kid LAROI) 2020 | 212 | MAYBE 2020 | 231 | RUNNING 2020 | 232 | PIKACHU 2020 | 264 | ERASE U 2020 | 267 | NOT FAIR (feat. Corbin) 2021 | 001 | STAY (The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber) 2021 | 007 | STILL CHOSE YOU (feat. Mustard) 2021 | 014 | SAME ENERGY 2021 | 046 | BAD NEWS 2021 | 048 | I DON'T KNOW 2021 | 050 | OVER YOU 2021 | 052 | Unstable (Justin Bieber feat. The Kid LAROI) 2021 | 100 | NOT SOBER (feat. Polo G & Stunna Gambino) 2021 | 143 | LONELY AND F*CKED UP 2021 | 187 | BEST FOR ME 2021 | 224 | ABOUT YOU 2021 | 234 | ATTENTION 2021 | 235 | SITUATION 2021 | 259 | No Return (Polo G feat. The Kid LAROI & Lil Durk) 2021 | 299 | DON'T LEAVE ME (feat. G Herbo & Lil Durk) 2022 | 004 | Thousand Miles 2022 | 222 | Wasting Angels (Post Malone feat. The Kid LAROI) 2023 | 003 | LOVE AGAIN 2023 | 009 | WHAT JUST HAPPENED 2023 | 011 | Forever & Again 2023 | 023 | BLEED 2023 | 041 | WHAT'S THE MOVE? (The Kid LAROI, Future & BabyDrill) 2023 | 044 | TOO MUCH (The Kid LAROI, Jung Kook & Central Cee) 2023 | 066 | I GUESS IT'S LOVE? 2023 | 092 | I THOUGHT THAT I NEEDED YOU 2023 | 096 | KIDS ARE GROWING UP 2023 | 101 | I Can't Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro) 2023 | 186 | WHERE DOES YOUR SPIRIT GO? 2023 | 197 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS 2023 | 206 | WHAT WENT WRONG??? 2023 | 207 | TEAR ME APART 2023 | 267 | YOU 2023 | 275 | THE LINE (The Kid LAROI & d4vd) 2024 | 000 | APEROL SPRITZ 2024 | 000 | BABY I'M BACK 2024 | 000 | GIRLS 2024 | 000 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS 2024 | 013 | HEAVEN 2024 | 019 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS PT 2 2024 | 022 | Still Yours 2024 | 025 | SLOW IT DOWN (The Kid LAROI & Quavo) 2024 | 077 | Goodbye 2024 | 152 | PICK SIDES 2024 | 154 | STICK WITH ME 2024 | 206 | HATRED (The Kid LAROI & Lil Yachty) Songs yet to appear are displayed in alphabetical order. MsiqejoIhRo
January 20Jan 20 Wow at Lorde appearing higher in your EOY than mine! :o let me reorder some things real quick x 'Girl, so confusing' is stunning! My first thought was actually "this is the most futuristic-sounding song I've ever heard" but after that the lyrics really shone through.
January 20Jan 20 Just catching up with this, Joseph. Expect 'APT' to feature very highly up in my End of Year countdown, I was disappointed that this didn't reach #1.
January 20Jan 20 Author Songs: Top 300  12 Djo - End of Beginning | 9-1-2-8-13-12-14-17-29-37-x Stranger Things is one of my favourite TV shows, and my favourite character for much of the show's run has been Steve Harrington, played by Joe Keery. Initially a high school bully, Steve becomes something of a surrogate father figure to the younger cast on the show, and Joe's acting sells this transition so well. I've been aware of Joe's music side project Djo for a while too, and I checked out a small handful of songs a few years back, not really caring much for them at the time. To see a Djo song blowing up from TikTok was a pleasant surprise, not just as someone who's a fan of Joe as an actor, but this particular song really grabbed me. End of Beginning feels quite 80s in itself, and as great as the production is, it's the melody and the vocal harmonies that really make this song feel so special. It became a #1 hit in my chart in its second week post-discovery, and of course, was a huge UK hit too, peaking at #4. Djo's releasing a new single this Friday and I'm hoping it'll finally give him a second hit in my chart! End of Year History 2024 | 012 | End of Beginning oXSw8DGjf5E  11 The Kid LAROI - APEROL SPRITZ | 1-1-2-7-8-12-15-15-14-15-… With three songs in my top 10, The Kid LAROI narrowly misses out on becoming the first artist to ever place four songs in my EOY top 10 in the same year. Nevertheless, he is by far the artist with the most EOY top 10s, so APEROL SPRITZ settling for #11 is no bad thing. The first release since THE FIRST TIME era officially wrapped up, APEROL SPRITZ is one of Laroi's most fun tracks, clearly made for listening whilst on holiday in a hot country, sat next to the pool drinking, well, an aperol spritz I guess...! Its October release didn't really lend itself to that but it was still an easy #1 in my chart, spending two weeks at #1, and it's yet to leave my top 20. The video is a little unusual though, with a lot of intense staring...! End of Year History 2020 | 001 | NEED YOU MOST (So Sick) 2020 | 008 | WITHOUT YOU 2020 | 009 | SO DONE 2020 | 014 | SELFISH 2020 | 026 | ALWAYS DO 2020 | 028 | GO (The Kid LAROI & Juice WRLD) 2020 | 033 | WRONG (feat. Lil Mosey) 2020 | 035 | TELL ME WHY 2020 | 047 | Reminds Me of You (Juice WRLD & The Kid LAROI) 2020 | 092 | FEEL SOMETHING (feat. Marshmello) 2020 | 094 | F*CK YOU, GOODBYE (feat. Machine Gun Kelly) 2020 | 113 | I WISH 2020 | 154 | SAME THING 2020 | 190 | TRAGIC (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again & Internet Money) 2020 | 207 | Speak (Internet Money feat. The Kid LAROI) 2020 | 212 | MAYBE 2020 | 231 | RUNNING 2020 | 232 | PIKACHU 2020 | 264 | ERASE U 2020 | 267 | NOT FAIR (feat. Corbin) 2021 | 001 | STAY (The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber) 2021 | 007 | STILL CHOSE YOU (feat. Mustard) 2021 | 014 | SAME ENERGY 2021 | 046 | BAD NEWS 2021 | 048 | I DON'T KNOW 2021 | 050 | OVER YOU 2021 | 052 | Unstable (Justin Bieber feat. The Kid LAROI) 2021 | 100 | NOT SOBER (feat. Polo G & Stunna Gambino) 2021 | 143 | LONELY AND F*CKED UP 2021 | 187 | BEST FOR ME 2021 | 224 | ABOUT YOU 2021 | 234 | ATTENTION 2021 | 235 | SITUATION 2021 | 259 | No Return (Polo G feat. The Kid LAROI & Lil Durk) 2021 | 299 | DON'T LEAVE ME (feat. G Herbo & Lil Durk) 2022 | 004 | Thousand Miles 2022 | 222 | Wasting Angels (Post Malone feat. The Kid LAROI) 2023 | 003 | LOVE AGAIN 2023 | 009 | WHAT JUST HAPPENED 2023 | 011 | Forever & Again 2023 | 023 | BLEED 2023 | 041 | WHAT'S THE MOVE? (The Kid LAROI, Future & BabyDrill) 2023 | 044 | TOO MUCH (The Kid LAROI, Jung Kook & Central Cee) 2023 | 066 | I GUESS IT'S LOVE? 2023 | 092 | I THOUGHT THAT I NEEDED YOU 2023 | 096 | KIDS ARE GROWING UP 2023 | 101 | I Can't Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro) 2023 | 186 | WHERE DOES YOUR SPIRIT GO? 2023 | 197 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS 2023 | 206 | WHAT WENT WRONG??? 2023 | 207 | TEAR ME APART 2023 | 267 | YOU 2023 | 275 | THE LINE (The Kid LAROI & d4vd) 2024 | 000 | BABY I'M BACK 2024 | 000 | GIRLS 2024 | 000 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS 2024 | 011 | APEROL SPRITZ 2024 | 013 | HEAVEN 2024 | 019 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS PT 2 2024 | 022 | Still Yours 2024 | 025 | SLOW IT DOWN (The Kid LAROI & Quavo) 2024 | 077 | Goodbye 2024 | 152 | PICK SIDES 2024 | 154 | STICK WITH ME 2024 | 206 | HATRED (The Kid LAROI & Lil Yachty) Songs yet to appear are displayed in alphabetical order. LdugpcDBhI0
January 20Jan 20 Author Songs: Top 300  10 Bradley Simpson - Picasso | 9-6-8-4-1-1-6-13-14-18-25-28-35-x One of my favourite things about The Vamps has always been the vocals. In most songs, only lead singer Bradley "Brad" Simpson provides vocals, and it's easy to hear why. His voice is full of charisma, suiting the cheeky, energetic pop tracks The Vamps released at the start of their career, even adding an extra level of personality to the dance pop tracks they navigated towards. A huge part of The Vamps' appeal for me came from Brad's voice, not to mention his stage presence each and every time I've seen them live. Naturally, with The Vamps pursuing solo careers between albums and tours, Brad's solo music was highly anticipated by me. After a surprisingly alternative debut single in Cry at the Moon, I wasn't sure what to expect from Brad's solo career. It was less poppy than I expected it to be, not that that's a bad thing as such, but I was hoping for something just a little closer to The Vamps' music. Thankfully, second single Picasso struck the balance perfectly. Whilst not a million miles away from Cry at the Moon, Picasso is much more pop-friendly, so to see it on Capital FM's playlist didn't feel surprising ahead of his Summertime Ball performance. It reached #1 in my chart in its fifth week, just before I heard it live at the Summertime Ball, which was a great experience! Brad's the only member of The Vamps to score a solo #1, though Connor Ball came close with #2 hit Boys Will Cry, released as part of his side project LUNARS (or The Lunar Year as it was known then). The Vamps last graced my EOY top 10 in 2016 when All Night placed at #7. Brad's gearing up for the release of debut album The Panic Years this year, with latest single Carpet Burn released on the Friday just gone. It's another great track, so perhaps Brad will be at the top of my chart again soon? End of Year History 2024 | 010 | Picasso 2024 | 144 | Daisies 2024 | 228 | Always Like This 2024 | 256 | Holy Grail 2024 | 259 | Cry at the Moon QmaxQuAAJos
January 20Jan 20 Author Songs: Top 300  9 Jimin - Who | 3-1-1-8-11-11-16-16-19-23-28-31-39-x Public enemy #1 in the UK Charts forum right now but I'll always be here to defend this song...! I was a fan of BTS when they were active, not a full-blown stan but they had a selection of top 10 hits in my chart, including a #1 hit in Boy With Luv, and I bought a ticket to see them at Wembley Stadium in 2019 - I thoroughly enjoyed myself! As solo members, they've had varying levels of success. Only Jung Kook and V had charted before this, the former through collaborations and the latter with #28 hit FRI(END)S. Even Jimin's previous solo material hadn't graced my chart, though I had quite enjoyed Like Crazy on the chart show. This, therefore, turned out to be a really pleasant surprise for me. I first heard Who on the First Look chart show the week it came out, and I loved it on first listen. It felt so early 00s in the best way, from the production to the melody, and it felt like a huge step-up from any other song I'd heard from Jimin. Its debut at #3 marked the highest peak for a BTS solo member as a primary artist, and later matched the #1 peak of Jung Kook's collaboration with The Kid LAROI in its second week. Who was one of five #1 singles from pop group members in 2024 (alongside Bradley Simpson, ROSÉ, Daniel Seavey and Perrie), and is the highest of them all in my EOY, even outdoing the EOY #12 position of Boy With Luv. Only one K-Pop song has ever landed higher in my EOY, with Dua Lipa and BLACKPINK's Kiss and Make Up reaching EOY #6 in 2018! End of Year History 2024 | 009 | Who Av9DvtlJ9_M
January 21Jan 21 Author Songs: Top 300  8 The Kid LAROI - BABY I'M BACK | 2-7-9-11-1-4-4-1-2-7-10-13-16-17-23-27-29-29-27-... The Kid LAROI's debut album THE FIRST TIME was promised to arrive in 2022, and ultimately came out in November 2023. The promise of a deluxe album therefore had me a little sceptical about when it would materialise, if it did at all. The lack of releases following the deluxe's lead single HEAVEN in January didn't inspire much confidence in me, either, though Laroi kept promising it would be coming, even when viral new single GIRLS was said to be the first single from a new project. Though his timescales aren't always accurate, Laroi does deliver on his promises, and I should never have doubted the arrival of the deluxe album! The deluxe tracks were added to the start of the album, making BABY I'M BACK the opener to the whole project. It's the perfect track to kickstart the new section of the album, and in some ways, it feels like a sequel to the main album opener SORRY. It gives us a little update on Laroi's life, telling us he's found love again ("I thought that shit was impossible"), though much of the song is about people switching up on him now he's famous. It's completed by a sample of Player's Baby Come Back, which pulls it together as a really great hip-hop track, with some of Laroi's best lyrics. It debuted at #2 in my chart behind Laroi's own NIGHTS LIKE THIS PT 2, but when it started going viral, it found a new lease of life in my chart and peaked at #1 on its fifth week, and returning three weeks later with a little help from the Gunna remix (though it boosted the original more than itself). It also made the UK chart, albeit in the low top 100, slightly stealing the attention of newly released APEROL SPRITZ at that time...! End of Year History 2020 | 001 | NEED YOU MOST (So Sick) 2020 | 008 | WITHOUT YOU 2020 | 009 | SO DONE 2020 | 014 | SELFISH 2020 | 026 | ALWAYS DO 2020 | 028 | GO (The Kid LAROI & Juice WRLD) 2020 | 033 | WRONG (feat. Lil Mosey) 2020 | 035 | TELL ME WHY 2020 | 047 | Reminds Me of You (Juice WRLD & The Kid LAROI) 2020 | 092 | FEEL SOMETHING (feat. Marshmello) 2020 | 094 | F*CK YOU, GOODBYE (feat. Machine Gun Kelly) 2020 | 113 | I WISH 2020 | 154 | SAME THING 2020 | 190 | TRAGIC (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again & Internet Money) 2020 | 207 | Speak (Internet Money feat. The Kid LAROI) 2020 | 212 | MAYBE 2020 | 231 | RUNNING 2020 | 232 | PIKACHU 2020 | 264 | ERASE U 2020 | 267 | NOT FAIR (feat. Corbin) 2021 | 001 | STAY (The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber) 2021 | 007 | STILL CHOSE YOU (feat. Mustard) 2021 | 014 | SAME ENERGY 2021 | 046 | BAD NEWS 2021 | 048 | I DON'T KNOW 2021 | 050 | OVER YOU 2021 | 052 | Unstable (Justin Bieber feat. The Kid LAROI) 2021 | 100 | NOT SOBER (feat. Polo G & Stunna Gambino) 2021 | 143 | LONELY AND F*CKED UP 2021 | 187 | BEST FOR ME 2021 | 224 | ABOUT YOU 2021 | 234 | ATTENTION 2021 | 235 | SITUATION 2021 | 259 | No Return (Polo G feat. The Kid LAROI & Lil Durk) 2021 | 299 | DON'T LEAVE ME (feat. G Herbo & Lil Durk) 2022 | 004 | Thousand Miles 2022 | 222 | Wasting Angels (Post Malone feat. The Kid LAROI) 2023 | 003 | LOVE AGAIN 2023 | 009 | WHAT JUST HAPPENED 2023 | 011 | Forever & Again 2023 | 023 | BLEED 2023 | 041 | WHAT'S THE MOVE? (The Kid LAROI, Future & BabyDrill) 2023 | 044 | TOO MUCH (The Kid LAROI, Jung Kook & Central Cee) 2023 | 066 | I GUESS IT'S LOVE? 2023 | 092 | I THOUGHT THAT I NEEDED YOU 2023 | 096 | KIDS ARE GROWING UP 2023 | 101 | I Can't Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro) 2023 | 186 | WHERE DOES YOUR SPIRIT GO? 2023 | 197 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS 2023 | 206 | WHAT WENT WRONG??? 2023 | 207 | TEAR ME APART 2023 | 267 | YOU 2023 | 275 | THE LINE (The Kid LAROI & d4vd) 2024 | 000 | GIRLS 2024 | 000 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS 2024 | 008 | BABY I'M BACK 2024 | 011 | APEROL SPRITZ 2024 | 013 | HEAVEN 2024 | 019 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS PT 2 2024 | 022 | Still Yours 2024 | 025 | SLOW IT DOWN (The Kid LAROI & Quavo) 2024 | 077 | Goodbye 2024 | 152 | PICK SIDES 2024 | 154 | STICK WITH ME 2024 | 206 | HATRED (The Kid LAROI & Lil Yachty) Songs yet to appear are displayed in alphabetical order. R1MSH43zUSc
January 21Jan 21 Great to see End Of Beginning so high up here! As you know it's one of my favourite mainstream songs this year, great to see something so alternative do so well.
January 21Jan 21 Author Great to see End Of Beginning so high up here! As you know it's one of my favourite mainstream songs this year, great to see something so alternative do so well. Thanks Pete! A very pleasant surprise for sure :wub:
January 21Jan 21 Author Songs: Top 300  7 Alec Benjamin - Sacrifice Tomorrow | 1-2-2-4-3-3-5-10-15-17-20-29-29-33-40-x-40-… I'm not sure there's anyone in music I'd consider more reliable than Alec Benjamin. I've known of him for about eight and a half years now, and though he's dipped his toes into a few different styles across his four albums, his artistic identity is clear and his storytelling lyrics are as bulletproof as ever. A new Alec Benjamin track is guaranteed to be good, and a contender for my #1 spot in any given week. This era, Alec had been a little unlucky. Though second single I Sent My Therapist to Therapy went to #1 at the end of 2023, the other singles from 12 Notes came close to the top but lost out to other bigger hits in chart battles: Different Kind of Beautiful (#3), Pick Me (#4) and King Size Bed (#2). Fifth single Sacrifice Tomorrow entered a chart battle of its own, against Michael Aldag's promenade. Until late in the week, I thought promenade was going to be my #1. It started as the frontrunner, and the result would have been close if I were to give "sales" figures to my chart positions. In the end, Sacrifice Tomorrow clinched the #1 for Alec, returning him to the top spot for a thirteenth time since Let Me Down Slowly became his first chart-topper in 2018. It was a deserved winner, because Sacrifice Tomorrow has since solidified itself as an essential Alec track. Though he's no stranger to an uptempo track, Sacrifice Tomorrow has more of a beat to it than most Alec songs; it's a track made for pop radio if he were to be given the chance to score another hit. Despite this, Alec's identity runs through the song, and his distinctive vocal is given room to shine. It's his highest EOY position to date, and his first time in my EOY top 10 since 2019! End of Year History 2016 | 224 | End of the Summer 2017 | 067 | I Built a Friend 2018 | 010 | Let Me Down Slowly 2018 | 073 | 1994 2018 | 077 | Outrunning Karma 2018 | 100 | If We Have Each Other 2018 | 117 | Steve 2018 | 194 | Annabelle's Homework 2018 | 205 | Water Fountain 2019 | 008 | Must Have Been the Wind 2019 | 018 | Mind Is a Prison 2019 | 022 | Jesus in LA 2020 | 019 | Match in the Rain 2020 | 022 | Eyes Blue Like the Atlantic, Pt. 2 (Sista Prod feat. Powfu, Alec Benjamin & Rxseboy) 2020 | 056 | Six Feet Apart 2020 | 068 | Demons 2020 | 101 | Oh My God 2020 | 171 | The Book of You & I 2020 | 188 | Just Like You 2020 | 249 | Alamo 2020 | 255 | I'm Not a Cynic 2020 | 274 | I Built a Friend 2021 | 031 | Older 2021 | 051 | The Way You Felt 2021 | 077 | Change My Clothes (Dream & Alec Benjamin) 2022 | 012 | Devil Doesn't Bargain 2022 | 022 | Paper Crown 2022 | 051 | Shadow of Mine 2022 | 054 | Speakers 2022 | 132 | One Wrong Turn 2022 | 244 | Deniro 2023 | 022 | I Sent My Therapist to Therapy 2023 | 064 | Different Kind of Beautiful 2024 | 007 | Sacrifice Tomorrow 2024 | 020 | King Size Bed 2024 | 080 | Pick Me 2024 | 133 | AI 2024 | 166 | Found You First 2024 | 209 | The Plan 2024 | 243 | The Arsonist 2024 | 250 | If Shakespeare Were Here V0OqRLbUgq4
January 22Jan 22 Author Songs: Top 300  6 dearALICE - Vibes | 1-1-3-3-4-4-3-… I've definitely got a reputation on here for being a boyband fan, and it's not hard to see why. Out of the ten artists with the most #1s in my chart, three of them are boybands, with Why Don't We, The Vamps and One Direction having a combined 40 #1s between them alone. That's not to mention the numerous others that have topped my chart as well - 5 Seconds of Summer, The Tide, BTS, FO&O and CNCO all have at least one #1 each. Therefore, a new boyband arriving seemingly out of nowhere and debuting at #1 isn't totally surprising. dearALICE, however, were the first new boyband to score a #1 since BTS hit the top with Boy With Luv over five years beforehand. dearALICE came to my attention through the announcement of BBC docuseries Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience, which was to follow a newly formed British boyband as they're trained up the K-Pop way. Early on, the teasers for the show featured a song called Vibes, which was *so* effortlessly catchy that it lodged itself in my head immediately. It was the song they learned in the first episode of the series, but didn't see a release until the full EP came out at the end of October. I'd been anticipating its release impatiently! It has one of the best and biggest choruses of the year and each member gets a chance to shine on the vocals. It was an easy #1 on debut and still has yet to depart my personal chart top 10. It's the first boyband EOY top 10 in six years, since Why Don't We achieved four simultaneously in 2018 (Hooked at #1, 8 Letters at #4, Trust Fund Baby at #5 and Talk at #9). Their proper debut single Ariana is scheduled for release in a month's time, and I'm so excited. I think 2025 is going to be a very big year for dearALICE as far as my chart goes! End of Year History 2024 | 006 | Vibes 2024 | 079 | Life is a Movie 2024 | 081 | Classic 2024 | 138 | Best Day of Our Lives 2024 | 232 | Solar 2024 | 239 | Time With You 2OviLmOWxeM
January 22Jan 22 Author Songs: Top 300  5 The Kid LAROI - NIGHTS LIKE THIS | 10-19-32-x-36-1-2-2-2-6-7-14-13-17-18-24-22-22-19-21-23-31-33-26-30-33-34-36-37-36-29-... If you'd asked me upon release which songs from The Kid LAROI's debut album THE FIRST TIME would be most likely to blow up, I don't think NIGHTS LIKE THIS would even have been in my top 10. With a runtime of less than 90 seconds and a less commercial sound than his other hits, it continues to feel like a random hit song. It was always a favourite of mine, though! NIGHTS LIKE THIS debuted at #10 in my chart in release week, ending at #197 in 2023's EOY chart. It sounded immense when I heard it live back in April, just before it went viral - the production really pops off live, despite how short the song is. Its virality and chart success led me to re-add it to my playlist, and it quickly found its way at #1 for the first time. A week later, GIRLS dethroned it, and together they locked out the top 2 for three weeks. It marginally misses out on being my shortest #1 ever to Sarcastic Sounds' say goodbye - literally by 0.234 of a second - though it's also the third shortest hit my chart's ever had. Though I'd have loved it to be longer, it accomplishes a lot in 87 seconds, with light and shade in both the production and vocals, and it was a really exciting addition to the UK top 40. It still hasn't ever been made an official single, making its success all the more remarkable, and marks the highest official non-single in my EOY since Ulrik Munther's Heroes in Defeat (Change Your Mind) topped my countdown in 2013...! Laroi of course has one further song to come, but can he claim an unprecedented third EOY #1? :o End of Year History 2020 | 001 | NEED YOU MOST (So Sick) 2020 | 008 | WITHOUT YOU 2020 | 009 | SO DONE 2020 | 014 | SELFISH 2020 | 026 | ALWAYS DO 2020 | 028 | GO (The Kid LAROI & Juice WRLD) 2020 | 033 | WRONG (feat. Lil Mosey) 2020 | 035 | TELL ME WHY 2020 | 047 | Reminds Me of You (Juice WRLD & The Kid LAROI) 2020 | 092 | FEEL SOMETHING (feat. Marshmello) 2020 | 094 | F*CK YOU, GOODBYE (feat. Machine Gun Kelly) 2020 | 113 | I WISH 2020 | 154 | SAME THING 2020 | 190 | TRAGIC (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again & Internet Money) 2020 | 207 | Speak (Internet Money feat. The Kid LAROI) 2020 | 212 | MAYBE 2020 | 231 | RUNNING 2020 | 232 | PIKACHU 2020 | 264 | ERASE U 2020 | 267 | NOT FAIR (feat. Corbin) 2021 | 001 | STAY (The Kid LAROI & Justin Bieber) 2021 | 007 | STILL CHOSE YOU (feat. Mustard) 2021 | 014 | SAME ENERGY 2021 | 046 | BAD NEWS 2021 | 048 | I DON'T KNOW 2021 | 050 | OVER YOU 2021 | 052 | Unstable (Justin Bieber feat. The Kid LAROI) 2021 | 100 | NOT SOBER (feat. Polo G & Stunna Gambino) 2021 | 143 | LONELY AND F*CKED UP 2021 | 187 | BEST FOR ME 2021 | 224 | ABOUT YOU 2021 | 234 | ATTENTION 2021 | 235 | SITUATION 2021 | 259 | No Return (Polo G feat. The Kid LAROI & Lil Durk) 2021 | 299 | DON'T LEAVE ME (feat. G Herbo & Lil Durk) 2022 | 004 | THOUSAND MILES 2022 | 222 | Wasting Angels (Post Malone feat. The Kid LAROI) 2023 | 003 | LOVE AGAIN 2023 | 009 | WHAT JUST HAPPENED 2023 | 011 | Forever & Again 2023 | 023 | BLEED 2023 | 041 | WHAT'S THE MOVE? (The Kid LAROI, Future & BabyDrill) 2023 | 044 | TOO MUCH (The Kid LAROI, Jung Kook & Central Cee) 2023 | 066 | I GUESS IT'S LOVE? 2023 | 092 | I THOUGHT THAT I NEEDED YOU 2023 | 096 | KIDS ARE GROWING UP 2023 | 101 | I Can't Go Back to the Way It Was (Intro) 2023 | 186 | WHERE DOES YOUR SPIRIT GO? 2023 | 197 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS 2023 | 206 | WHAT WENT WRONG??? 2023 | 207 | TEAR ME APART 2023 | 267 | YOU 2023 | 275 | THE LINE (The Kid LAROI & d4vd) 2024 | 000 | GIRLS 2024 | 005 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS 2024 | 008 | BABY I'M BACK 2024 | 011 | APEROL SPRITZ 2024 | 013 | HEAVEN 2024 | 019 | NIGHTS LIKE THIS PT 2 2024 | 022 | Still Yours 2024 | 025 | SLOW IT DOWN (The Kid LAROI & Quavo) 2024 | 077 | Goodbye 2024 | 152 | PICK SIDES 2024 | 154 | STICK WITH ME 2024 | 206 | HATRED (The Kid LAROI & Lil Yachty) 3sB7jvro5uc
January 23Jan 23 'NIGHTS LIKE THIS' another fantastic tune from The Kid LAROI. This was the frustrating moments of the year for me this not continuing to climber than #28, really wanted this to be an bigger hit although the longevity this had sort of made up for it.
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