PeteFromLeeds

A goal in the 119th minute puts Algeria through ahead of DR Congo!

Very late to this but just noticed hat Laurie Taylor finished fourth in the first Slalom of the season back in November - a career best for him! Bodes well for the Winter Olympics next month.

Yeah it's really interesting to see how teams are doing in this tournament compared to how they did in the World Cup Qualifying - as you say, Nigeria and Cameroon into the Final 8 (same for Mali) whilst Tunisia and South Africa are out (and, of course, a couple of World Cup teams not even qualifying for this!) It felt like any number of teams could have made the World Cup during teh qualifying, but even more so looking at the results here.

Right, let's get into the Top 100! Youtube links are there for all the songs so feel free to give them a listen. 100: Land of Color & Sarah Kroger - Again And AgainWhich songs are just inside or outside the Top 100 is always an odd one, and I have made some interesting choices to keep this one in (especially now I realise Caleb Hearn missed out!) but it felt right to keep this one in. It's a lovely, fairly light song about God's patience, and it showcases Land of Color at their finest. At least it absolved them of one-hit-wonder status in my chart - their last big appearance was their #1 in 2021! 99: David Kushner - Breathe In, Breathe OutI should probaby check if David Kushner has had any more songs out this year, but this is the only one I was actively aware of and it's a great song, combining his fantastically deep vocals together with a brilliant melody and some great instruments. Not quite sure what the music video with him sat in a massive egg-timer has to do with it though! It reached #5 in my chart just before Lent and is his second-highest charting hit to date (behind his Christmassy 'Empty Bench') 98: Circa Waves - Let's Leave TogetherAnother song which hit the higher end of my chart just before Lent, Circa Waves are experts at bringing out cheery indie-pop tracks and this one is no different. It's their third Top 10 hit in my chart, but the first one since 2020! So back with quite a bang. 97: Saint Etienne - Take Me To The PilotThe last time Saint Etienne made my Personal Chart was 2018, but just like buses they've managed two songs in my EOY Top 100 this year! Take Me To The Pilot blends the unique vocals of Sarah Cracknell with a more house/dance production, creating something somewhat unique. 96: Cut Copy - SolidIt's also been a long time since Australian indie-pop outfit Cut Copy have made my charts, but just like Saint Etienne they've got two in this year! Solid was the first one that caught my attention and is quite stripped-back, but I think that works really well. 95: Alex Warren & Jelly Roll - BloodlineBloodline is the only Top 10 hit to make it into my EOY this year! It's Alex Warren at his best, focussing on the fact that you're not the sum of your parents and that generational trauma doesn't need to keep being passed down - something I think is very important to hear. Songs like this cut through the usual topics of chart music and really stand out, and having Jelly Roll on there helps as well. 94: Maali - SomedayNow of course you will have guessed that Maali is from... Croatia I don't know enough about him to know where the name comes from! But this is quite different to anything else inside my Top 100, it's quite a jazzy song without too much of a defined melody that does make it an acquired taste, but it's worth giving a few listens. A debut appearance in my Top 100 for this guy. 93: Steve Queralt & Emma Anderson - Lonely TownI can't quite remember where I heard this - in my head it was from a channel like bellaunion but thinking more it may well have just popped up in my YouTube recommendations. Either way it's a fantastic indie track that's full of guitars and synths, and the almost mysterious vocals work really well on it. I thought this would be the sort of thing that would be right up Buzzjack's street so decided to give it a search on the forum a month or so ago - and lo and behold, it's been sent to Nuggets! How it only finished 19th is beyond me though 92: Benjamin William Hastings - if it wasn't for JesusAnother Top 10 hit for Mr. Hastings - this is a lovely quiet song with just the guitar and his vocals for most of the track. The title basically says it all - it's a song talking about how grateful he is that Jesus is in his life and that he's not falling apart on his own. 91: James Bakian - At The CrossJames Bakian is another new name for this year - he seems to do both Christian and non-Christian music, but this one caught my eye as it's most certainly not run-of-the-mill Christian music, there seems to be some dark undertones in there and, whilst the song is unequivocally praising God, it's also touching a genre that Christian music doesn't often touch.

Thanks both! RÓA was indeed very catchy, one of the ones that certainly stuck in my head - definitely should have placed higher!

Giving dance 2 a listen given you linked it - it's a nice song! I've not heard anything else from Oklou (not sure if I've been living under a rock as the name does seem familiar ) but this one is very funky, very dance-able to and the vocals go well with it.

Giving Better Days a listen now - I've enjoyed Home and Anthem from Glockenbach this year but not heard anything else by them, Better Days is sounding like a very solid dance track with a great piano riff! All My Love is a great song as well.

You always have some interesting retro entries in your EOY! Nice to see a couple of Oasis songs pop up. And also some good Christmas songs missing out - I wonder if any have made it in?

My vote goes to Seafret!

Apologies if there's already a thread for this - feel free to merge in if so! We're in the middle of the Round of 16 for the Africa Cup of Nations - most of the small teams are out now (although Benin must have scared Egypt earlier today!) Nigeria vs Mozambique on at the moment with Nigeria already leading by two goals.

Congrats to Littler - that looks like a very impressive run of matches to get the win.

Nice to see Eternity pop up here - enjoyed that song a lot, very emotional and the melody is great. Hold On Me was in my chart earlier in the year as well. Lots of songs that I need to give a listen to as well!

Ooh nice to see Tavo Akys here! Certainly something a bit different for Eurovision, glad the UK pointed it well. It's been quite the run of good Lithuanian Eurovision entries for me - this one will be appearing in my EOY at some point as well!

And the final set before we get to my Top 100! We'll hopefully begin that on Monday. 101: CalledOut Music - Onyeoma 102: Sheppard - Beautiful Nothing 103: Josh Gauton - Starlight 104: Tom Speight - Buzzing 105: Caleb Hearn - Get There When I Get There 106: Jonathan Ogden - Be My Peace 107: SAINT PHNX - Best of Me 108: Walk Off The Earth & Ryan Mack - Where Would I Be 109: Kingfishr - Gloria 110: Alex Warren - Eternity 111: Elle Limebear & Zo Ross-Waddell - Every Good Thing 112: Colony House - OK OK OK OK 113: Nation of Language - I'm Not Ready For The Change 114: Blessing Offor - Lift Me Up 115: Darren Kiely - Late Texts 116: Circa Waves - Old Balloons 117: Desparate Journalist - 7 118: Sons of Sunday - GOD DID! 119: Rend Collective - Fight Of My Life 120: Faith Child & Joe L Barnes - Holy Place 121: Glockenbach & Tom Walker - Home 122: Sam Fender - Tyrants 123: Son Mieux - Morning 124: Olafur Arnalds, Talos & Sandrayati - Bedrock 125: Rea Garvey - Happy Christmas

Delta must be a great artist to see live - a very consistent artist over a long period of time! Glad it was everything you hoped it would be, there are always albums that resonate and to hear it live from start to finish must be special.

1 [3] Cut Copy & Kate Bollinger - Belong To You 2 [14] Indochine - No Name 3 [1] Together For Palestine - Lullaby (ft. Nai Barghouti, Neneh Cherry & Leigh-Anne) 4 [4] Of Monsters and Men - Dream Team 5 [5] John Allan - Resurrection Power 6 [9] St. Basil's & Lucy Grimble - Our Promised Saviour 7 [6] Rend Collective - The Reason 8 [2] Rea Garvey - Happy Christmas 9 [10] The Maccabees - Koya 10 [13] Matoma & Nico & Vinz - Love To The Universe 11 [12] Pat Barrett - All This In A Name 12 [8] Chinese American Bear - Forever Lover 13 [11] Strings And Heart - oasis for my soul 14 [NEW] Tom Speight & Lydia Clowes - Perfect Strangers 15 [16] Sheppard - Beautiful Nothing 16 [18] Walk Off The Earth & Ryan Mack - Where Would I Be 17 [21] Tom Speight - Buzzing 18 [17] JVKE & Forrest Frank - SHINE YOUR LIGHT 19 [7] Muyiwa & Riversongz - Dancing Around The Manger 20 [31] John Allan - On & On 21 [25] Jonathan Ogden - Be My Peace 22 [20] SERA - Firestone 23 [26] fieldlily - Grow 24 [19] Limoblaze & Joe L Barnes - Do It Now (Agbanilagbatan) 25 [22] We Are Messengers - We Three Kings 26 [24] Kinnship - Zeal 27 [35] Kensington - Stay 28 [42] LUNA & Russo - Voorbestemd 29 [27] Oscar Nash & Jemimah Paine - Peace on Earth 30 [30] Cephas Azariah & Elle Limebear - you're gonna be ok 31 [32] Project of Love - Luke 2 - Glory 32 [34] One Hope Project & Thomas Aston - Joy To The World 33 [38] Sarah Kroger - Creator Of The Stars Of Night 34 [39] Marizu - King Of Glory 35 [NEW] Alok & Zeeba - Dive Into The Ocean (ft. Portugal. The Man) 36 [36] Quiet Man - Treading Water 37 [33] St. Lundi - Mercury 38 [15] JVKE & Forrest Frank - CHRISTmas 39 [28] Sigrid - Jellyfish 40 [50] Tom Speight - Higher 41 [40] Ryan Stevenson - All Falls Away 42 [60] Megi Gogitidze - Sulis Saxli 43 [23] Rosa Linn - Hot Chocolate (Warmer With You) 44 [47] Nation of Language - I'm Not Ready For The Change 45 [44] Cut Copy - Solid 46 [46] Chance Pena - Collapse 47 [NEW] Josh Gauton - Quiet Joy 48 [48] Colony House - OK OK OK OK 49 [NEW] TAEYEON - Panorama 50 [53] Caamp - Mistakes 51 [52] Circa Waves - Old Balloons 52 [56] White Lies - Juice 53 [NEW] Mgzavrebi - Chveni Ambavi 54 [49] Son Mieux - Morning 55 [67] Caleb Hearn & Jenna Raine - BITE THE BULLET 56 [55] The Head And The Heart - Beg, Steal, Borrow 57 [63] Steve Queralt & Emma Anderson - Lonely Town 58 [NEW] Josh Gauton - Fly Back Quickly, My Love 59 [57] Kate Flanders - Satisfier 60 [51] Inhaler - Billy (Yeah Yeah Yeah) 61 [37] Maraaya - Pismo 62 [62] Joshu - holding on 63 [71] Seafret & KT Tunstall - Five More Seconds 64 [64] Curtis Harding - The Power 65 [97] Seafret - Wait 66 [70] Steph Macleod & Nathan Jess - Prepare The Way 67 [66] Steph Macleod - Serenity 68 [29] Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas 69 [68] Elle Limebear & Zo Ross-Waddell - Every Good Thing 70 [79] Ax and the Hatchetmen - Blurry Lights (with Albert Hammond Jr) 71 [41] Project of Love - Luke 2 - Good News and Great Joy! 72 [45] Skillet - O Come, O Come Emmanuel 73 [96] almost monday - lost 74 [99] ILLENIUM & Norma Jean Martine - Refuge 75 [43] Project of Love - Luke 1 - Goodmorning (His Name is Jesus) 76 [54] Project of Love Luke 1 - Luke 1 - And You, My Child 77 [RE] Jonathan Ogden & Praise Lubangu - Safe 78 [91] Land of Color & Sarah Kroger - Again And Again 79 [RE] Saint Etienne - Take Me To The Pilot 80 [RE] Stephen Stanley - idols 81 [98] Warehouse Worship - Love Song 82 [65] Ilan Eshkeri & Andy Burrows - Light The Night 83 [RE] Praise Lubangu - fair weather! 84 [RE] Reverend And The Makers - UFO 85 [RE] James Bakian - HOLY 86 [RE] Unheilig - Wunderschon 87 [69] Rev21 & Day Three Music - O Come O Come Emmanuel 88 [RE] Strings And Heart - kerosene 89 [RE] Ibibio Sound Machine & Village Cuts - Anyone Like You 90 [RE] Mumford & Sons & Hozier - Rubber Band Man

1 [3] Cut Copy & Kate Bollinger - Belong To You 2 [14] Indochine - No Name 3 [1] Together For Palestine - Lullaby (ft. Nai Barghouti, Neneh Cherry & Leigh-Anne) 4 [4] Of Monsters and Men - Dream Team 5 [5] John Allan - Resurrection Power 6 [9] St. Basil's & Lucy Grimble - Our Promised Saviour 7 [6] Rend Collective - The Reason 8 [2] Rea Garvey - Happy Christmas 9 [10] The Maccabees - Koya 10 [13] Matoma & Nico & Vinz - Love To The Universe 11 [12] Pat Barrett - All This In A Name 12 [8] Chinese American Bear - Forever Lover 13 [11] Strings And Heart - oasis for my soul 14 [NEW] Tom Speight & Lydia Clowes - Perfect Strangers 15 [16] Sheppard - Beautiful Nothing 16 [18] Walk Off The Earth & Ryan Mack - Where Would I Be 17 [21] Tom Speight - Buzzing 18 [17] JVKE & Forrest Frank - SHINE YOUR LIGHT 19 [7] Muyiwa & Riversongz - Dancing Around The Manger 20 [31] John Allan - On & On 21 [25] Jonathan Ogden - Be My Peace 22 [20] SERA - Firestone 23 [26] fieldlily - Grow 24 [19] Limoblaze & Joe L Barnes - Do It Now (Agbanilagbatan) 25 [22] We Are Messengers - We Three Kings 26 [24] Kinnship - Zeal 27 [35] Kensington - Stay 28 [42] LUNA & Russo - Voorbestemd 29 [27] Oscar Nash & Jemimah Paine - Peace on Earth 30 [30] Cephas Azariah & Elle Limebear - you're gonna be ok 31 [32] Project of Love - Luke 2 - Glory 32 [34] One Hope Project & Thomas Aston - Joy To The World 33 [38] Sarah Kroger - Creator Of The Stars Of Night 34 [39] Marizu - King Of Glory 35 [NEW] Alok & Zeeba - Dive Into The Ocean (ft. Portugal. The Man) 36 [36] Quiet Man - Treading Water 37 [33] St. Lundi - Mercury 38 [15] JVKE & Forrest Frank - CHRISTmas 39 [28] Sigrid - Jellyfish 40 [50] Tom Speight - Higher

Here's the next set! 126: WILD - Sitting On Top of the World 127: Lucy Grimble, Beth Key & Meg Loney - First Love 128: Tide Lines - By The Quayside 129: Sam Fender - Little Bit Closer 130: Elle Limebear & Samm Henshaw - Vulnerable 131: SOFYKA - Again Again 132: VÆB - RÓA 133: Ben Bohmer - The Sun (ft. Oh Wonder) 134: Son Mieux - Free For Another Day 135: WILD - Anything For You 136: Kygo & Sandro Cavazza - Hold On Me 137: Bjorn Holmgren - Radda mig 138: Curtis Harding - The Power 139: Forrest Frank - YOUR WAY'S BETTER 140: Josh Gauton - Desert Rose 141: James and the Cold Gun - Above The Lake 142: Wole Awolola - Beautiful Thing 143: Obongjayar - Just My Luck 144: DC3 - BEG 145: Zach Williams - Jesus Loves 146: Of Monsters and Men - Ordinary Creature 147: Ryan Stevenson - All Falls Away 148: Ray Dalton - Tears To Stay 149: Limoblaze & Krisirie - Sunshine & Laughter 150: DC3 - Seek Again a complete mix of songs from all genres here - Kygo, Of Monsters and Men, Sam Fender and VAEB probably being some of the more recognisable names in this section.

Glad you're a fan of these! I got 'Wunderschon' from an alternative chart I do with @Chrizly and a few others and quite liked it so it made it into my charts - thanks Sergej! Glad you're a fan! It is a nice song, a lot more toned-down than a lot of his music but still sounds great. Thanks Joseph!

Time for the next section! 151: Strings And Heart - kerosene 152: Tonio Geugelin - Your Ways 153: Tom Speight - Higher 154: Cephas Azariah & Elle Limebear - you're gonna be ok 155: Rend Collective - Burn 156: bodie - smile 157: Barbara Pravi - La Pieva (Chez moi) 158: Jacob Smith - Set Our Sights 159: CalledOut Music - Adore You 160: Lukas Graham - You You You 161: Son Mieux - Have A Little Faith 162: Biffy Clyro - A Little Love 163: Elle Limebear - Bloodline 164: Louane - maman 165: John Allan - On & On 166: bodie - SETTLE 167: Twenty One Pilots - Tally 168: Of Monsters and Men - Television Love 169: Tautumeitas - Bur man laimi 170: Warehouse Worship - Love Song 171: Good Neighbours - Ripple 172: The Lottery Winners - Turn Around 173: Tom Odell - Don't Cry, Put Your Head on My Shoulder 174: Unheilig - Wunderschon 175: Quiet Man - Treading Water Again, quite a few great Christian songs in this section, but also the likes of The Lottery Winners, Of Monsters and Men, Tom Odell and a couple of Eurovision entries make it in. Also Lukas Graham's only charting song lands here - quite the world away from their numerous #1s back in the day!

I've not listened to many (if any) albums this year so I'll probably comment more on the singles, but I know Tom Odell had a few good songs out this year, and Sombr has certainly made a splash in the charts!

Glad you're a fan of these! Hallucination was a great BJSC entry and Sapphire was my favourite of Ed's songs this year, loving the Indian theme. Thanks Sergej! Ah nice! I found this one on the Radio 6 playlist and thought it sounded quite nice so decided to add it to my own. Thanks Jade!

3 Saint Etienne - Glad 1,609,300 - love this song, a great comeback from Saint Etienne! 10 Sam Fender - People Watching 1,093,100 - another great song from Sam, my favourite from this new album and really glad it gave him a second big chart hit 52 Kaj - Bara Bada Bastu 505,900 - one of the best Eurovision tracks this year - super catchy! 78 Kylie Minogue - Xmas 369,000 - a fairly standard Christmas song but it's cheery enough and really glad it stopped Wham from hogging the Christmas #1 for the third year in a row 138 Sam Fender - Little Bit Closer 221.400 - another one of the better Sam Fender songs from the new album, including Owen Cooper in the music video was a nice touch as well. 149 Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas 204,600 - will always be a brilliant song Some names here I didn't realise had released this year and should probably give a listen to - Georgia, Cerrone and Petite Meller in particular!

I've been out of BJSC this year so missed o(type), so just giving it a listen given you provided the link - not surprised that this is something coming from uhsting, seems very much the sort of thing that would be up their street! The vocals are really nice amidst everything else going on with the instrumentation in the song.

Right I'm not daft enough to think you're allgoing to gush over my choice there so here's my first set of songs! 176: JT Suavé & Sam0 - By The Grace 177: Faith Child & Marizu - Oluwa is Involved 178: Toby Lee - House On Fire 179: Jack Robson - Run Miles 180: Sissal - Hallucination 181: The Head & The Heart - After The Setting Sun 182: Elis Floreen - Avalanches 183: Johnossi - Gemini 184: Caamp - Mistakes 185: Praise Lubangu - fair weather! 186: Muyiwa & Riversongz - Dancing Around The Manger 187: Moses Brothers - Sailing 188: JERUB - Kumbaya 189: Lucy Grimble & Jonny Riggs - Thanks And Praise 190: Michael Kiwanuka - The Rest of Me 191: MEAU - Een Nacht Als Deze 192: Tom Speight & The Mayries - Kind To You 193: Eugy Official - Pray 194: Michael Kiwanuka - One and Only 195: Rend Collective - The Reason 196: White Lies - Juice 197: HAAi, Jon Hopkins, Obi Franky, ILA & Trans Voices - Satellite 198: Sam Hibbard - Oasis 199: Ten Fé - All Night 200: Ed Sheeran - Sapphire Very little commentary here as we've got 200 of them to get through! But hopefully at least a few of the names look familiar (Ed Sheeran certainly should ) and doing my chart a little later than usual has meant a couple of Christmas songs have snuck in as well.