RabbitFurCoat

I'm going to start with the dozen most successful songs by acts who didn't reach the top 100. 12 Tokyo Police Club - Argentina (Parts I, II, III) Date Charted: 13/01/2014 Chart Run: 24-11-04-01-01-01-01-01-01-01-01-01-03-04-06-08-12-17-24-29-37 (21 weeks) There have been 373 songs reach number one in this almost 20 years, of which just eight of those have spent more than 6 weeks at the top, all but one of them getting just a 7th week, but in February and March of 2014 one song went two weeks further, with Tokyo Police Club spending 9 weeks at the summit with their 8 minute epic Argentina (Parts I, II, III), the lead single from their 5th album. They were a band who I had a bit of familiarity with previous work, this was their fourth chart entry and their previous peak was Tessellate reaching #9 in 2008, but never been that into. As the title suggests, the song is split into three distinct parts which are roughly 4:30, 1:30 and 2:30 in length. The first part is a classic upbeat sing-a-long indie anthem that on its own would almost certainly have been a multi-week number one, the second slows it right down before the third picks it up again. I've always enjoyed a good long song, but they have to keep you entertained for the full length and many don't, but Argentina really does and never feels like it's that long. A complete triumph of a song. At the end of 2014 I ranked this as my number one single of the year, and looking at the list I'd say it's still my favourite of it, and definitely a contender towards the top songs of the last decade. At 8:32 in length, it's the third longest song to hit the top. Tokyo Police Club Overall Rank: 306th 4MG6rKuCfyo

Complete List (with links to posts) 100 - Fontaines DC 99 - The Coral 98 - HEALTH 97 - The Mysterines 96 - How To Dress Well 95 - Santigold 94 - Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs 93 - Phoebe Bridgers 92 - Lily Allen 91 - Snow Patrol 90 - Animal Collective 89 - Guillemots 88 - Mystery Jets 87 - Beyoncé 86 - Jamie xx 85 - Little Boots 84 - Belle and Sebastian 83 - Alpines 82 - Bicep 81 - The Vaccines 80 - The Shins 79 - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 78 - Editors 77 - Bloc Party 76 - CHVRCHES 75 - The Naked and Famous 74 - Jamie T 73 - Feeder 72 - alt-J 71 - London Grammar 70 - Sleigh Bells 69 - Christine and the Queens 68 - Noah and the Whale 67 - M.I.A. 66 - George FitzGerald 65 - Basement Jaxx 64 - The Fratellis 63 - Poliça 62 - Public Service Broadcasting 61 - Grimes 60 - The Maccabees 59 - Crystal Castles 58 - Goldfrapp 57 - Calvin Harris 56 - Slaves 55 - iamamiwhoami / ionalee 54 - The Horrors 53 - The Go! Team 52 - The Joy Formidable 51 - Vampire Weekend 50 - Blood Red Shoes 49 - Caribou / Daphni 48 - The Streets 47 - White Lies 46 - LCD Soundsystem 45 - School of Seven Bells 44 - Jessie Ware 43 - Jay-Z 42 - Hatchie 41 - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart 40 - Everything Everything 39 - Yeah Yeah Yeahs 38 - Courteeners 37 - Dizzee Rascal 36 - Metronomy 35 - Stereophonics 34 - Tame Impala 33 - Bon Iver 32 - Foo Fighters 31 - Real Lies 30 - Los Campesinos! 29 - Gorillaz 28 - The National 27 - Franz Ferdinand 26 - Biffy Clyro 25 - Kings of Leon 24 - Death Cab for Cutie 23 - Bombay Bicycle Club 22 - Ash 21 - Röyksopp 20 - Muse 19 - Purity Ring 18 - The Drums 17 - Hot Chip 16 - DMA's 15 - Ben Howard 14 - Bat For Lashes 13 - Maximo Park 12 - Foals 11 - Coldplay 10 - James Blake 09 - Wolf Alice 08 - Kasabian 07 - The Futureheads

Hello and welcome to this countdown. As my Personal Chart is now 20 years old, I thought I’d count down my top 100 acts of this period based on chart success, which is why this somewhat random two-decade period of 2003-2022 has been chosen. Some geeky historical context first… As a kid in the mid-late 90s I became obsessed with the chart and would write down the top 40 each week, hopefully when listening to it but if not, getting it from Ceefax on Monday morning. After a while I started to re-order the top 40 in order of how much I liked the songs, an early version of what was a Personal Chart. This then morphed into my own chart in about 2001 where I only added the songs I liked and recorded them in stolen school textbooks. I'd only kept from 2003 onwards though so my database starts on January 6th 2003. For the first few years my new entries matched the release schedule and, just like the actual chart, the majority of songs peaked in week 1 as I’d been hearing them for a while already. I changed this in 2007 when I started charting songs once I begun to like them. I’ve always only tried to only chart singles but trying to determine what is or isn’t a single has become more difficult in recent years. In total there have been 5,166 charting songs which have featured around 2,185 different acts. Each song that’s ever charted is detailed in this thread. For this countdown a number of points have been given to each song, ranging from 80 (for reaching #1) to 11 (for a #40), as well as a point for each week spent on the chart. The minimum number of points an act can therefore have is 12, an ‘accolade’ shared by three; Ben Folds, Maria Haukaas Storeng and 65daysofstatic. For songs which have more than one featured artist, I have awarded equal full points to each act involved. I have combined some acts totals together where I’ve felt that has made sense (e.g. Kieran Hebden releasing music as Four Tet & KH), although they’re not all quite that clear cut. This will begin properly after I compile my last chart of the year (Saturday December 31st) where I shall post two acts per day, lasting until the middle of February. This target should be feasible a significant chunk is already written, I decided I wanted to do this some time ago so have been prepping since the summer. In the meantime, I will spend December warming up by posting something each day from acts outside the top 100. I hope you enjoy, all contributions welcome so I’m not just talking to myself!

I have no real affinity for the Killers or this song, however this is correct so it's one of the easiest finals I'll vote in.

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Ecuador v Senegal, Group A, 15:00 1-1 Netherlands v Qatar, Group A, 15:00 3-0 Iran v United States, Group B, 19:00 1-1 Wales v England, Group B, 19:00 1-2

Cameroon 1-2 Serbia, Group G, 10:00 South Korea 1-1 Ghana, Group H, 13:00 Brazil 2-1 Switzerland, Group G, 16:00 Portugal 2-1 Uruguay, Group H, 19:00

CONCACAF get 6 automatic places + playoffs in the new system, so there'd be very little chance of any of the three hosts not qualifying if they needed to.

I don't really find it particularly surprising that Alice Deejay is top 5, probably more surprised that Manics are there if anything. Unsure what points I've given to these, I know one is my 30 pointer and another I'll have given big points to, the other three are all good but not sure what and how much I gave.

Thanks to the 28 of you who joined me in taking part in this 15th edition of the Nuggets contest. Below are the 29 songs which make up the contest, it's now down to you to listen to them and vote for your favourites. Please PM myself, RabbitFurCoat, with your top 10 songs allocating Eurovision style points 12, 10, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Do not vote for your own entry Failure to vote will result in a 12 point deduction for your own song Posters who did not submit a song are also free to vote The deadline is Sunday 11th December @ 23:59 GMT giving you two weeks to vote. Results will follow within the couple of days afterwards. 01 ★ Tides From Nebula - 02 ★ Jadu Heart - 03 ★ zzzahara - 04 ★ GIYA - 05 ★ Heartworms - 06 ★ Camp Cope - 07 ★ Russian Circles - 08 ★ Sun's Signature - 09 ★ Christian Meier - 10 ★ Boys and Ivy - 11 ★ NYTT Land - 12 ★ Slowdive - 13 ★ ARXX - 14 ★ Ron Gallo - 15 ★ Darkside - 16 ★ Miranda Sex Garden - 17 ★ The Gathering - 18 ★ Great Grandpa - 19 ★ Fabienne Delsol - 20 ★ Deerhunter - 21 ★ Nouns - 22 ★ Ted Poley & Tony Harnell - 23 ★ Knife Bride - 24 ★ Armenia - 25 ★ The Heart Throbs - 26 ★ Ekkstacy - 27 ★ Pain of Salvation - 28 ★ La Rappresentante di Lista - 29 ★ Soft Blade - Spotify Playlist Participants Voted: Addy! All★bySmashMouth Ansel awardinary Bjork blacksquare Bré Chez Wombat Cody dandy* dhwe Doctor Blind gooddelta Harve Iz �� J00p Jade Juan Carlos kath King Rollo lewistgreen RabbitFurCoat Riser Roba seven. Severin uhsting WhoOdyssey Y'all Starlight Participants to Vote:

01 (01) Sprints - Literary Mind (01) (07) (2 weeks) 02 (03) Bicep feat. Clara La San - Water (02) (06) 03 (04) Young Fathers - I Saw (03) (05) 04 (02) Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Wolf (01) (07) (2 weeks) 05 (07) Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero (05) (04) 06 (09) Hot Chip - Broken (06) (05) 07 (05) LCD Soundsystem - New Body Rhumba (05) (08) 08 (06) White Lies - Trouble In America (03) (09) 09 (14) Rina Sawayama - Frankenstein (09) (03) 10 (15) The Comet Is Coming - CODE (10) (04) 11 (08) The Orielles - Beam/s (01) (11) (3 weeks) 12 (16) Royksopp feat. Alison Goldfrapp - The Night (12) (05) 13 (13) Real Lies - Ultraviolet (13) (06) 14 (10) The Big Moon - This Love (10) (07) 15 (26) Hatchie - Nosedive (15) (02) 16 (19) Antony Szmierek feat. Yemi Bolatiwa - Working Classic (16) (04) 17 (11) The Orielles - The Room (03) (10) 18 (21) Confidence Man - Luvin U Is Easy (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs Remix) (18) (06) 19 (12) Death Cab for Cutie - Foxglove Through The Clearcut (02) (11) 20 (25) Florence + The Machine - Heaven Is Here (IDLES Remix) (20) (03) 21 (23) Adwaith - Sudd (21) (04) 22 (27) The Wombats - I Think My Mind Has Made Its Mind Up (22) (03) 23 (33) Kevin de Vries - Dance With Me (23) (02) 24 (29) Arctic Monkeys - I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am (24) (02) 25 (42) PVA - Hero Man (25) (01) 26 (17) Working Men's Club - Cut (01) (15) (4 weeks) 27 (30) Everything Everything - Jennifer (27) (03) 28 (18) Haarm - Lovin' On Borrowed Time (17) (06) 29 (41) Self Esteem - The 345 (Choose You Edit) (29) (01) 30 (22) Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be a Mirrorball (04) (11) 31 (**) Leftfield feat. Grian Chatten - Full Way Round (31) (01) 32 (37) As December Falls - Mayday (32) (02) 33 (**) Confidence Man - Heaven (Triple J Like a Version) (33) (01) 34 (20) Daniel Avery feat. HAAi - Wall of Sleep (07) (09) 35 (24) Loyle Carner - Nobody Knows (Ladas Road) (15) (08) 36 (45) DMA's - Everybody's Saying Thursday's The Weekend (36) (01) 37 (31) Sunnbrella - Wrong (31) (05) 38 (43) Elder Island - Additions Attachments (38) (01) 39 (28) Self Esteem - f***ing Wizardry (Block Them Edit) (03) (14) 40 (35) DMA's - I Don't Need To Hide (02) (14)

You always get a lot of overreaction to games like this but it's ultimately fine, a fair result and a dull game, that's ok. We're about 97% through after two games, great stuff. I thought England were better and the game less boring than the 0-0 with Scotland last year. England have made the semi final of a tournament five times, only one of those in 2018 (vs. Tunisia and Honduras) have they won both of their opening games. It's been 20 years since the World Cup winners got 9 points in their group.

There was one. Everything has been approved, but probably tomorrow morning I'll get the chance to get the thread up.

Netherlands 1-0 Ecuador, Group A England 2-0 United States, Group B Tunisia 2-1 Australia, Group D Poland 2-0 Saudi Arabia, Group C France 2-0 Denmark, Group D Argentina 2-1 Mexico, Group C

A deserved win. Wales persisting with their stars despite being way below par. Taking Ampadu off and not Ramsey a terrible decision.

I saw them last night, they are an absolutely incredible live band, certainly won't be the last time I see them. They ended the encore with the cover of Heaven, crowd went off as much as it did for Holiday.

+12 Noisettes – Never Forget You 10 MGMT – Kids 8 Florence & The Machine – Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) 7 Girls Aloud – Untouchable 6 Jamie T – Sticks 'N' Stones 5 Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc. 4 All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell 3 Little Boots – New In Town 2 Example – Watch The Sun Come Up 1 Deadmau5 & Kaskade – I Remember - 2 Britney Spears – Circus Without seeing the list, I think 12 of the 13 I voted for must have qualified. We Are The People and Rubber Lover deserved a point too.

A few thousand pissed off N-Dubz fans in Nottingham, thank God I was at home last night. I saw this story this morning as it had made local news and was looking at the comments, sounds like there were plenty of photos on social media of Dappy the night before having lots of fun, and they were quick to confirm tonight would go ahead which seemed odd to be so sure given he had 'flu' and 'lost his voice'. Couldn't quite recover from a massive comedown more like.

Oooh this is a poor list. I'd rank Same Jeans as one of the worst songs of the landfill indie period and it's still in the top half of this selection.

I've been voting for DJ Sammy every round so nice to finally move on. Got to be Hollaback Girl next, it's barely any better. Always thought it was terrible and the weak link in that run of singles she had.

Last day for confirmations. Up to 24 entrants now

I quite liked seeing Qatar be so bad. I was expecting them to be at least ok given the preparations and recent history of the team, but Ecuador looked relatively comfortable all the time at 2-0 up and they let it turn into a borefest of a second half.

Didn't see any of today's race, and looking at the result it doesn't seem like one to bother catching up with, the only moves in the top 8 due to a retirement

Both great songs, back-to-back in my own votes too Please Stardust out tomorrow! Ideally Wonderwall too, but I can't see that one.

Up to 17 entries now. The rules might have changed to be more harsh than they once were to be honest, I sent The Joy Formidable last year who'd had albums reach 31 & 41, which isn't against these but discouraged. There's at least one entry so far that technically goes against those rules, but I wouldn't veto it. As Iz said, any kind of genre is fine as long as the guitar features prominently, so acoustic type songs are absolutely fine.