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Here we go, time to show off my stan status! Christine - #1 (July/August 2015, November 2015, November/December 2018) Saint Claude - #3 (July/August 2015, November 2018) Nuit 17 à 52 (#1) (August 2015, November 2018) Jonathan (ft. Perfume Genius (#1) (October/November 2015) Intranquilité (#1) (Nov. 2015, Nov. 2018) iT (#2) (Nov. 2015, Nov/Dec 2016, Nov. 2018) Science Fiction (#3) (Nov 2015, Nov./Dec. 2016, Nov. 2018) No Harm Is Done (ft. Tunji Ige) (#1) (Jan. 2016) Safe and Holy (#1) (Feb./Mar. 2016) The Loving Cup (#1) (April 2016) Here (Remix) (ft. Booba) (#2) (Apr. 2016, Nov. 2018) Tilted (Paradis Remix) (#1) (June 2016) Paradis Perdus (#5) (July 2016) Amazoniaque (#8) (July 2016) Photos Souvenirs (#11) (Aug. 2018) Sorry (Beyoncé Cover) (#3) (Sept. 2016) Chaleur Humaine (#1) (Dec. 2016) Ugly-Pretty (#17 WEEKLY, #8 DAILY) (July 2017) Wandering Lovers (#5 WEEKLY) (Nov/Dec. 2017) Distance (The Name ft. Christine and the Queens) (#8) (Apr. / May 2018) Damn, dis-moi (ft. Dâm-Funk) (#1) (May/June 2018, Sept. 2018, Nov. 2018) Doesn't matter (voleur de soleil) (#3) (June 2018 to Dec. 2018) What Lovers Do (Maroon 5 Cover) (July/August 2018) 5 dollars (#3) (August 2018, Sept. 2018, Nov. 2018) La marcheuse (#12) (Sept. 2018, Nov. 2018) Goya ! Soda ! (#6) (Sept. to Nov. 2018) Machin-chose (#13) (Sept. to Nov. 2018) Le G (#15) (Sept. 2018, Nov. 2018) Follarse (#17) (Sept/Oct. 2018, Nov. 2018) Comme si on s'aimait (#10) (Sept/Oct. 2018, Nov. 2018) L'étranger (voleur d'eau) (#11) (Sept 2018, Nov 2018) Feel So Good (#4) (Oct. to Dec. 2018) Les yeux mouillés (#36) (Oct. 2018) For those confused about all the songs that appear in November 2018, there was a "concert bomb" where 20 songs of hers charted in my Top 25, or every single song from that concert setlist. I expect a bunch of the less successful Chris songs will end up getting a chance to chart on their own right sometime this year, so that should be fun. :P

WEEKLIES: 2018: -Taylor Swift: 3 (Clean, Dear John, Getaway Car) -Lena Raine: 3 (First Steps, Reach for the Summit, Reflections) 2017: -Taylor Swift: 5 (State of Grace, Come Back... Be Here, You Are In Love, Call It What You Want, Style) DAILIES: 2017 (January to July) -Coldplay: 3 (Hymn for the Weekend, A Head Full Of Dreams, Something Just Like This) -Lifehouse 3 (By Your Side, Hourglass, Central Park) -Illenium: 3 (Only One, Feel Good (with Gryffin), Sound of Walking Away) -Lorde: 3 (Green Light, A World Alone, Perfect Places) 2016: -Christine and the Queens: 5 (No Harm Is Done, Safe and Holy, The Loving Cup, Tilted (Paradis Remix), Chaleur Humaine) -Kanye West: 4 (POWER, All of the Lights, I Wonder, Real Friends) -Kesha: 4 (Last Goodbye, Past Lives, C'mon, The Harold Song) -Lifehouse: 3 (Everything, Somewhere In Between, How Long) -David Bowie: 3 (Memory of a Free Festival, Blackstar, Subterraneans) -The Chainsmokers: 3 (Roses, Don't Let Me Down, Closer) -SHIROCK: 3 (Everything Burns, Say It Out, Calm Inside The Storm) 2015 (January to November): Christine and the Queens: 4 (Christine, Nuit 17 à 52, Jonathan, Intranquilité) -Marc Enfroy: 4 (Goodbye Summer, Admiration, Finding Elysium, Peacefulness) -Nine Inch Nails: 4 (Only, Dead Souls, Discipline, Closer) -Tim Janis: 3 (A Midnight Full Of Stars, Wind Song, The Journey Home) -Muse: 3 (Dead Inside, Apocalypse Please, Resistance) 2014: -The Naked and Famous: 4 (Young Blood, Hearts Like Ours, The Mess, Girls Like You) -Keane: 4 (Somewhere Only We Know, Won't Be Broken, Silenced By The Night, Pretend That You're Alone) -Nine Inch Nails: 3 (Hurt, The Hand That Feeds, Came Back Haunted) -Kodaline: 3 (High Hopes, All Comes Down, Way Back When) 2013: Appears to be none whatsoever. Guess August to December isn't long enough for an artist to get 3 #1s :P

Interesting experiment! Let's see: Week 01: Swans - Stay Here (#2) Week 02: Swans - Stay Here (#2) Week 03: Bryson Tiller - Exchange (#2) Week 04: Taylor Swift - Starlight (#2) Week 05: Death Cab For Cutie - No Room In Frame (#2) Week 06: Death Cab For Cutie - No Room In Frame (#3) Week 07: Erik Hermansen - Glad You Came (#2) Week 08: Daft Punk ft. Julian Casablancas - Instant Crush (#2) Week 09: Linkin Park - Numb (#2) Week 10: Ariane Moffatt - Debout (#2) Week 11: Rachel Portman - We Had Today (#2) Week 12: C. SHIROCK ft. Erin McCarley - Any Minute Now (#2) Week 13: Murray Gold - Where There's Tears There's Hope (Unreleased) (#2) Week 14: Erasure - Reason (#2) Week 15: The Living Tombstone ft. Hayley Nelson - Jump Up, Super Star! (#2) Week 16: Travelogue - Today Is A New Day (#2) Week 17: Sigur Ros - All Alright (#2) Week 18: ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me (#2) Week 19: Yutaka Minobe & CHAMI.Ishi - Yoshi's Island DS (#2) Week 20: Orden Ogan - Gunman (#2) Week 21: Carrie Underwood - Blown Away (#2) Week 22: Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall (#3, technically a #1 back in 2016 dailies) Week 22 (ALTERNATE): Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? (#5) Week 23: Ween - Ocean Man Week 24: First Aid Kit - A Long Time Ago Week 25: The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane (#2, technically a #1 from 2016) Week 25 (ALTERNATE): The Velvet Underground - New Age (#3) Week 26: Glass Tiger - Someday (#3) Week 27: Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (#2) Week 28: Zach Callison, Deedee Magno-Hall, Uzo Aduba, Michaela Dietz, Shelby Rabara & Tom Scharpling - For Just One Day Let's Only Think About (Love) (#2) Week 29: Demon Hunter - The Heart of a Graveyard (#3) Week 30: The Chainsmokers ft. Emily Warren - Side Effects (#2) Week 31: Gareth Coker ft. Aeralie Brighton - Light of Nibel (#2) Week 32: Ben Campbell - King K. Rool's Finest Hour (#2) Week 33: Lucas King - The Gateway (#2) Week 34: A R I Z O N A - Electric Touch (Midnight Kids Remix) (#2) Week 35: John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads (#2) Week 36: Meat Loaf ft. Lorraine Crosby - I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) (#2) Week 37: Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone (#2) Week 38: Deedee Magno-Hall & Susan Egan - The Rose (#2) Week 39: Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light (#3) Week 40: Mario Freaks Orchestra - Fight (In The Presence of the Enemy ~ Enemy Transformation BGM) (#2) Week 41: John Swihart - You're All Alone (#3) Week 42: John Swihart - You're All Alone (#3) Week 43: Meredith Stepien & Dylan Saunders - A Thousand And One Nights (#3) Week 44: The Bangles - Eternal Flame (#3) Week 45: Andrea Bocelli ft. Dua Lipa - If Only (#2) Week 46: Snuffy - Love Unspoken (#2) Week 47: Lena Raine - Exhale (#2) Week 48: Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour (#2) Week 49: Keywest - All My Mistakes (#2) Week 50: Lena Raine - Exhale (#2) Week 51: Yasutaka Nakata ft. Charli XCX & Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Crazy Crazy (#2) Week 52: Sting - Shape Of My Heart (#3) Most of these are songs that vanished really quickly after their initial appearance at #2. Only a handful went on to become longer-lasting hits. Interesting!

Going off my statistics for my Weekly Top 50s in 2018: #1: 46? Top 5: 180 Top 10: 300 Top 25: 565 Top 50: 733 It seems as though my own charts have a pretty small turnover period. :P

(Dailies) 2014: Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (1/5/2014) 2015: Jack White - Lazaretto (1/1/2015) 2016: CHVRCHES - Leave a Trace (1/1/2016) 2017: S - Tell Me (1/1/2017) (Weeklies) 2017: SHIROCK - Still Young (1/7/2017) 2018: Steven Wilson ft. Ninet Tayeb - Pariah (1/6/2018) 2019: Twenty One Pilots - The Hype (1/5/2018) These same songs are all technically new number ones, so no need to list that out. :P

Here are the #11 peaks for my weekly charts! 2017 Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes [29 - 11 - 16 - 11 - X] Kanye West ft. Raekwon & Kid Cudi [11 - 12 - 12 - 36 - X] Harmonium - Chanson Noire [20 - 11 - 24 - X]* M83 - Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun [30 - 13 - 42 - 45 - 11 - 49 - X] Over The Rhine - All Over Ohio [22 - 16 - 11 - 42 - X] Stefanie Joonsten - Quiet's Theme [13 - 11 - 17 - X] Generic CAW ft. raocow - Learning And Teaching [11 - 13 - 21 - X - 50 - X] The Basics - Tunaomba Saidia [23 - 13 - 11 - X] The Basics - Roundabout [27 - 11 - 18 - X] Richard Séguin - Journée D'Amérique [11 - 24 - 34 - 49] U2 - Walk On [11 - 17 - 48 - 43 - 41 - X] Lady Gaga - Dancin' In Circles [33 - 11 - 14 - X] The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio [43 - 18 - 11 - 39 - X] Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Llif3 [19 - 11 - 34 - X] Rag'n'bone Man - Human [23 - 11 - 33 - X] Korpiklaani - Vodka [15 - 11 - X] Clean Bandit ft. Nikki Cislyn & Javeon - Cologne [11 - 37 - 45 - 48 - X] Alice Gray - Pink Cadillac [11 - 35 - X] Kanye West - Stronger [50 - 11 - 37 - X] Bruno Mars - Versace On The Floor [11 - X - 38 - X] MOB CHOIR - 99 [11 - 46 - X]* Zaz - Si Jamais J'Oublie [11 - X] *These songs charted in 2016, so their peak might be different once I go over the 2016 weeklies and further back. 2018 (As of 6/17/2018) Yanni - Before I Go [11 - 21 - 17 - 21 - X] Lenny Kravitz - Where Are We Runnin'? [28 - 11 - 34 - 31 - X - 26 - X] Alice Merton - No Roots [11 - 19 - 18 - X] Bjork - It's Not Up To You [14 - 11 - X - 31 - X] Avicii VS Nicky Romero - I Could Be The One [11 - 24 - 43 - 31 - X]* La Chicane - Calvaire [11 - 20 - X - 27 - X] Where The Good Way Lies - Hope Unfolds [36 - X - 11 - X] The Weeknd - Real Life [49 - 40 - X - 11 - X] Glass Tiger - My Town [11 - X]* *These songs charted before the weeklies did, so their peaks may not be correct.

#90: Sherri Youngward - Where This Love Goes VuUdVp43g1o 152 pts / Peak: #1 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 5 / Weeks in Top 25: 4 / Weeks in Top 10: 1 Chart Run: 1 - 21 - 16 - 25 - 40 This was one of the several Roswell songs that made an impact on my charts. Though to my knowledge, only two made it and they are schmaltzy romantic songs. And this is one of those two songs! I think I gravitated to this one because the chorus has almost an ethereal vibe to it, which makes it much more enticing for me. This is one of those cases where I wish I had someone to sing this song to. Though I guess some of the lyrics are a bit obsessive? But whatever :P

#91: Imperial Mammoth - Little Earthquakes 152 pts / Peak: #1 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 4 / Weeks in Top 25: 3 / Weeks in Top 10: 1 Chart Run: 1 - 4 - 15 - 32 This is a really pretty song which I first heard in Bojack Horseman. Upon my rewatch of the show in May 2017, this song clicked with me and kind of stuck around afterwards. It's a really cute tune with a beautiful vibe to it. Good song!

#92: Michael Whalen - The Big Sleep 152 pts / Peak: #2 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 4 / Weeks in Top 25: 3 / Weeks in Top 10: 1 Chart Run: 4 - 2 - 13 - 33 I still can't believe this song was a smash in March 2017. It's a literal relaxation track! But I guess it did its job well, and thus it managed to stick around for a long time. I just wish another song of his had taken its place. Like "I Have Loved You For A Thousand Lifetimes" or "Swimming In A Lovely Sea Of You" which while having odd titles, have some really beautiful and mesmerizing vibes which definitely deserve more attention from people. Do yourself a favor and look those two songs up. You won't regret it. As for The Big Sleep... well if you really need to sleep it's a good song to listen to I guess!

#93: Ed Sheeran - Castle on the Hill K0ibBPhiaG0 151 pts / Peak: #6 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 5 / Weeks in Top 25: 3 / Weeks in Top 10: 1 Chart Run: 22 - 6 - 22 - 26 - X - 28 This song wasn't even going to make the year end top 100 until it recharted last week thanks to Spectrum Pulse's video :P But I'm glad it did! It might be my favourite Ed Sheeran song, with its focus on nostalgia and an amazing dramatic instrumentation to back the song. It's got a great U2-esque vibe to it too, and I tend to really like that in my music. I mean, it's not like you'll get that from U2 these days :P

#94: Kesha ft. The Dap-Kings Horns - Woman lXyA4MXKIKo 150 pts / Peak: #4 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 5 / Weeks in Top 25: 2 / Weeks in Top 10: 1 Chart Run: 28 - 4 - 27 - 12 - 34 I'm kind of surprised this managed to make it in the Year End, because this was one of the songs that didn't feel like it stuck around for very long. I can't complain too much though, it's a really catchy song with a catchy chorus and a nice empowering message. And it seems like Kesha is having fun with this song too, which is really heartwarming to see after all she's been through!

#95: Maren Morris - 80s Mercedes m9md97nN_SQ 150 pts / Peak: #3 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 4 / Weeks in Top 25: 3 / Weeks in Top 10: 1 Chart Run: 27 - 12 - 3 - 12 This was a fairly typical upbeat pop song, but I have to admit I really enjoy this song! It's got a nice groove to it, and it's very catchy! I wish it had done better in popularity, but this song did decently in my own charts so I can't complain too much!

#96: Christine and the Queens - Wandering Lovers VNvEO-0HRUU 149 pts / Peak: #5 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 5 / Weeks in Top 25: 4 / Weeks in Top 10: 2 Chart Run: 7 - 5 - 20 - X - 50 - X - 24 This song was one of the biggest surprises for me this year. Especially since 2017 was a fairly bad year for the artist, who first impacted my charts in 2015 with "Christine", and went on to become a staple as 2016 progressed along. However, this year saw her with very few songs left in her discography to discover, and this was the biggest of the few that did chart. And it deserves it personally, what with the kind of gloomy but still pounding beat that drives this song. It was a surprise when it actually managed to perform semi-decently, and I'm glad that Christine was able to send at least one song into the Year End this year, even if only so low.

#97: Zaz - Sous le ciel de Paris ydtryV65UGk 149 pts / Peak: #4 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 4 / Weeks in Top 25: 3 / Weeks in Top 10: 1 Chart Run: 35 - 4 - 10 - 17 This was my introduction to Zaz, who would become a defining artist of my charts in 2017. While I may have found this sound by sheer luck while autoplaying songs that happened to have Paris in their name, this one, along with two other songs which didn't make the cut, stood out as my favourite. The song seems to build up to a beautiful musical interlude in its bridge, which is a beautiful musical moment. A great song to introduce one of my favourite artists, and one of the most remarkable discoveries this year!

#98: Texada - All My Life SQCxa2Nxm4o 149 pts / Peak: #6 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 4 / Weeks in Top 25: 4 / Weeks in Top 10: 1 Chart Run: 14 - 6 - 21 - 14 This is the follow up to the smash that was Close Your Eyes For This. And while it didn't do as well as its predecessor, All My Life still managed to be fairly interesting, with its kind of dark and almost gothic feeling vibe. A good song!

#99: Serena Ryder - Firewater W4AUbjnsgE0 147 pts / Peak: #8 (2 weeks) / Weeks In Top 50: 6 / Weeks in Top 25: 2 / Weeks in Top 10: 2 Chart Run: 30 - 8 - 8 - 35 - 42 - 36 This was an unexpected song to smash from Serena's album. It seemed to be overshadowed by songs I liked more like Utopia, Ice Age and especially Electric Love. But this song's Stompa-like vibe managed to click with me, and it's a nice song that tackles alcoholism too, to boot!

#100: SHIROCK - Still Young usc5bipa5GA 146 pts / Peak: #1 (1 week) / Weeks In Top 50: 4 / Weeks in Top 25: 2 / Weeks in Top 10: 2 Chart Run: 1 - 8 - 23 - 24 This was the first smash of 2017. While Tell Me by S was technically the very first hit, if we go by my now defunct daily charts, this was the very first song that truly struck a chord with me this year. I kind of wish this had been a bigger hit, especially since I really love SHIROCK's album "Everything Burns", but unfortunately this song didn't quite have the legs to make it very far in 2017. Still, a very good follow-up for one of 2016's biggest artists!

Here's the 25 songs that just missed the Top 100! 101) Miley Cyrus - Malibu 102) Gorillaz ft. Popcaan - Saturnz Barz 103) Snakehips ft. Tinashe & Chance the Rapper - All My Friends 104) Kanye West ft. Bon Iver - Lost In The World 105) S - Tell Me 106) M83 - Let Men Burn Stars 107) Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels / Broken 108) Kanye West - Street Lights 109) Evanescence - A New Way To Bleed 110) Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Ballad of the Mighty I 111) Zaz - Prends garde à ta langue 112) Dirty Heads - That's All I Need 113) The Afghan Whigs - Arabian Heights 114) The Weeknd ft. Daft Punk - I Feel It Coming 115) Sims - Spinning Away 116) Lifehouse - Everything 117) Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry 118) On Planets - Brief Pause 119) Linkin Park - Faint 120) FRENSHIP - Morrison 121) Coldplay - Hymn For The Weekend 122) Lord Huron - The Night We Met 123) Bastille - Blame 124) Taylor Swift - Style 125) Kendrick Lamar - HUMBLE. The #1 song from last year, Everything, just barely missed the tally for this year! Some of the songs that I wished had made the Top 100 in this tally: Blacker the Berry, Arabian Heights, Blame, Style, Street Lights, Lost In The World, Let Men Burn Stars. The latter song is actually one half of a duo of songs that pretty much only work together. However, they got split up in the mess that is my charts. How sad. :(

The most impactful albums on my charts this year: Serena Ryder - Utopia (2017) This album was easily one of the biggest this year in terms of sheer quality. Only a handful of songs from this album were uninteresting enough to miss the mark for me. This album produced the largest volume of charting songs in one week, at 9 songs in one week! Now, I used to be a big fan of Serena back in 2013 and 2014, and I even considered her my favourite female artist at the time. However, acts like Christine and the Queens, Kesha, Carly Rae Jepsen, Zaz and Taylor Swift kind of shoved her on the back burner. But one night, as I was feeling horrible, I stumbled upon a song I didn't recognize from her, and from there I found out she had a new album. I immediately listened to it, and I think this is the first time I was legitimately shaken by an album. I loved practically every song on it on my first listen! I have since cooled off a bit on it, but it remains a very important album for me. It certainly put Serena Ryder back on the map after a few years of being somewhat less relevant on my charts! Highlights: Electric Love, Ice Age, Utopia, Firewater, Fire Escape, Got Your Number M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us (2005) Now, 2016 had already sold me on M83, with smashes like Un Nouveau Soleil, Midnight City and even more minor hits like "My Tears Are Becoming The Sea". Their blend of dramatic synthpop just resonated really deeply with me. But this album, one of their earlier works, was the one that confirmed what I already suspected to be true: M83 might damn well be my favourite band of all time. This album was a bit more on the melodramatic and angsty side, but it damn well delivered on many parts I liked from the band. There were many amazing tracks with beautiful vibes! This album for the most part is an experience I highly recommend, but if you haven't, LISTEN TO HURRY UP, WE'RE DREAMING!! IT MIGHT BE MY FAVOURITE POP ALBUM OF ALL TIME! Highlights: Safe / Let Men Burn Stars (LISTEN ONE AFTER THE OTHER! These tracks kind of NEED to be played in sequence), Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun, Teen Angst, I Guess I'm Floating, A Guitar And A Heart Kesha - Rainbow (2017) 2016 was the formal introduction to Kesha's discography. Sure, I had heard a few songs from her before, but I always dismissed her as just a pop party girl. Which I guess many people have. But then I heard Last Goodbye and Past Lives from the bonus tracks of Warrior, and I knew she definitely had more talent to her than I had first imagined. Which made hearing about the struggles of her court case that much more disheartening. I was worried she might not ever be able to return to making music, and more importantly, making the music she wanted to make rather than the pop stuff that had been forced upon her by Dr. Luke. Anyway, she was finally able to make a comeback in 2017, and while Praying didn't quite click with me at first, it was definitely a step in the right direction. And when I heard Rainbow, I was so happy to see more of the pop rock/country influences that I had been DYING to hear more of in her work. I had LOVED songs like Last Goodbye, Gold Trans Am and Past Lives, and I'm so happy this is the direction she decided to take. While the album didn't fully resonate with me, I was really happy to see her making the kind of music she wanted to make! Highlights: Rainbow, Let 'Em Talk, Praying, Woman Taylor Swift - Red/1989 (2012/2014) These were the two albums that in one night changed the course of my charts for the 2nd half of the year. I had rated Red for a rate that pitted Red, Kiss and My Everything together. Beforehand, my knowledge of Taylor Swift was VERY limited, and she didn't even have a single scrobble to her name on my Last.FM! BUT after listening to these two albums, it made me into a fan. It's difficult to pick out which album of the two was more impactful, because while 1989 had more pop-sounding songs, it was the country and almost rock at times sound of Red that pulled me in, with songs like State of Grace and Starlight. Ironically, the popular singles from Red (I Knew You Were Trouble, We Are Never Getting Back Together, 22) were the ones that resonated with me the least of the whole album. 1989 definitely followed through on making me love her stuff though, in spite of a more pop oriented approach. For reference, Taylor Swift has managed to pretty much become my most listened to artist on Last.FM in less than 6 months. Quite a feat I must say! (My thoughts on reputation are a bit unformed at the moment, given that I haven't really listened to it much since my initial listen, but it's not too bad by any means.) Highlights: State of Grace, This Love, You Are In Love, Come Back... Be Here, Style, I Almost Do, The Last Time, Clean And some albums I heard this year that I didn't like: Miley Cyrus - Younger Now (2017): It saddens me that this is here, because I actually enjoy Malibu and Younger Now, but this album was just a chore to listen to... Anything outside of these two songs strikes me as an attempt to make 60s music without any of the gravitas that the music of that era actually carries. It just comes across as insufferably carefree, even on songs that are supposed to be about a break up! And musically, the album just feels like a flat tone to me. There are very few if any melodies on there that strike me as even remotely interesting, outside of the aforementioned two songs, and maybe one and two other tunes. I don't necessarily mind Miley making more acoustic, country-inspired music, but she needs to give it a pulse if she wants it to work. Better luck next time, I guess... Lifehouse - Lifehouse (2005): As someone who actually likes this band, listening to this album was just a big disappointment. The album dips into a really boring sound around the middle and it never really recovers from it. It was really disheartening to see that the band who made one of my favourite songs I heard last year, make such tepid and uninteresting music... No Name Face and even their most recent effort, Out Of The Wasteland, had music with more of a pulse than some of the songs here. And the fact that this album produced some of their most well-known songs (which happen to be some of their least interesting too :/ ) is honestly a real shame. They deserve a better legacy than this album. The Rolling Stones - Aftermath (1966): I wanted to listen to a Rolling Stones album after I had done a rating of a Beatles album (Revolver), and I went with this one since it came out the same year. And while it seemed alright at first, then I was hit with songs like Stupid Girl, and Under My Thumb which honestly really rubbed me the wrong way. The lyrics to those songs were a bit insulting to listen to. But then I hit High and Dry, and it was one of the most pulseless songs I had heard all year. That song was a complete chore to listen to, and it dragged down the album even further down for me. By the time the 11 minute finisher rolled around, I was just bored and sick of this album. It might just have been my personal experience, but this was NOT a good album. The Rolling Stones are a legendary band and I know they can do better than this album. Paint It Black is a good song at least, and so is Lady Jane I'd say. Qw4rtz - A capella 101 (2016): This album angers me. It's not technically bad, but it features some REALLY dull acapella covers of Quebec/Francophone songs that range from not too bad (they actually do a decent Papaoutai cover) to infuriating (the intro of Comme d'habitude makes me want to tear my hair out). If you want to be bored by a Quebec off-brand version of Pentatonix, listen to this album I guess? :P XXXTentacion - 17 (2017): I might be more forgiving to this album than most are, but the album as a whole is just boring at best, and offensive at worst. Solely focusing on the sound, it's a fairly dull attempt at depressing acoustic music which doesn't really try anything too interesting. It did grab my interest once or twice though. But lyrically... it addresses controversies he's involved in with such fury that it makes it hard to imagine he's innocent, for starters. Many others will probably offer up a better takedown of this album, but for me it's really just not worth going back to. brokeNCYDE - I'm Not A Fan But The Kids Like It (2009): I was introduced to two of these guys' songs through some random Youtube channel's list of worst songs of all time. This is an occurence I regret, because it led me to give this mess of an album a shot to see how bad it can get. And trust me, this is horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE. Here's a summary of how this album sounds: take the most stereotypical rap topics, have the whitest guys SCREECH AND GROWL every lyric in the most ear splitting voice possible, and give them the maturity level of a 12 year old who just watched his first erotic video. What you get is an album that annoys you more and more with every verse, with every disgustingly corny line, and then has the audacity to try to pass this off as a social experiment right at the end, in the pretense that the authors are Smarter Than You. Well, they're not, because they had to dip to a level of sheer idiocy to even create this utter dreck of an album, so I don't think they have the intelligence to make a satire of what kids like. And even if we assume it's not just a last-minute move to not come across as complete brain-dead blithering morons, it strikes of a disgusting sense of superiority that you would find in people who claim "all pop music these days is garbage". Screw this band, and screw this album. This is the biggest mistake I've ever listened to. And that's that for the albums retrospective! :P I think I'll start the proper countdown next!

The #1s of 2017! 07-Jan: SHIROCK - Still Young (26) 14-Jan: Alessia Cara - Stars (42) 21-Jan: Imagine Dragons - Bleeding Out (18) 28-Jan: Willy William ft. Cris Cab - Paris (21) 04-Feb: OneRepublic - Kids (52) 11-Feb: Two Steps From Hell - Remembrance (26) 18-Feb: Zaz - La Complainte De La Butte (26) 25-Feb: Evanescence - A New Way To Bleed (12) 04-Mar: The Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This (47) 11-Mar: Lorde - Green Light (23) 18-Mar: Lowercase Noises - Working And Paying And Living And Dying (43) 25-Mar: Big Country - In A Big Country (31) 01-Apr: The Cure - Inbetween Days (80) 08-Apr: Texada - Close Your Eyes For This (52) 15-Apr: Gryffin & Illenium ft. Daya - Feel Good (87) 22-Apr: Lin-Manuel Miranda & Opetaia Foa'i - We Know The Way (60) 29-Apr: Illenium ft. Kerli - Sound Of Walking Away (20) 06-May: Martin Garrix & Dua Lipa - Scared To Be Lonely (13) 13-May: Imperial Mammoth - Little Earthquakes (20) 20-May: Auli'i Cravalho - How Far I'll Go (25) 27-May: The Chainsmokers - Young (16) 03-Jun: Cheap Trick - The Flame (62) 10-Jun: Cheap Trick - The Flame (18) 17-Jun: Tei Shi - Keep Running (16) 24-Jun: Zaz - Si (24) 01-Jul: The Killers - The Man (13) 08-Jul: Justin Timberlake & Mitchell Owen - One Of Those Stories (31) 15-Jul: Lorde - Perfect Places (25) 22-Jul: Lorde - Perfect Places (8) 29-Jul: Sherri Youngward - Where This Love Goes (15) 05-Aug: Kesha - Animal (42) 12-Aug: Taylor Swift - State of Grace (43) 19-Aug: Taylor Swift - State of Grace (14) 26-Aug: Patrick Conway - Brave Goodbye (27) 02-Sep: Drake - Madiba Riddim (6) 09-Sep: Jenny Owen Youngs - Wake Up (35) 16-Sep: Jenny Owen Youngs - Wake Up (110) !!! 23-Sep: Jenny Owen Youngs - Wake Up (18) 30-Sep: Madonna - Crazy For You (17) 07-Oct: Taylor Swift - Come Back... Be Here (14) 14-Oct: Taylor Swift - You Are In Love (59) 21-Oct: Coldplay - In My Place (65) 28-Oct: MisterWives - Drummer Boy (33) 04-Nov: Kesha - Rainbow (25) 11-Nov: Taylor Swift - Call It What You Want (25) 18-Nov: Marshmello ft. Khalid - Silence (70) 25-Nov: Taylor Swift - Style (18) 02-Dec: Björk - All Is Full Of Love (20) 09-Dec: Euge Groove - Euge One-Oh-One (8) 16-Dec: Generic CAW ft. raocow - A Heart (12) 23-Dec: Sky Ferreira - You're Not The One (8) 30-Dec: Zaz - On ira (8) Parantheses indicate how many plays the #1 song got according to Last.FM. For reference, points on this chart are distributed as such: 50 points for #1, 49 for #2, and so on until 1 point for #50! This will have the side effect of advantaging songs that have had more lasting power over songs that burned out quickly. :P

Hey everyone! JeffRayGun here! So last year I did a rundown of my Top 200 songs of 2016. It had moderate success, but I felt like doing another one this year again in spite of my much reduced activity on this forum. Doing retrospectives is always a fun thing to do, and hopefully some people here will be interested in this still! 2017 saw me make the switch from Daily charts to Weekly charts in August, which means that I can't quite compare the statistics of this year to previous years. Different formats, and all :P Disclaimer: These are NOT just songs that came out in 2017. These are the top songs I -LISTENED TO- this year, meaning that a song from the 50's, or even earlier, could make this chart if I listened to it enough. And now for the fun facts and statistics: -878 songs have charted in the Top 50 -22 of these songs only had 1 day at #50! -288 songs only spent one week on the charts! (Not 100% sure of this number, but that's what Excel claims!) -Only 10 songs have spent more than 10 weeks on the Top 50! -Only 1 song spent more than 10 weeks in the Top 10. -Only 5 songs have spent more than 5 weeks in the Top 10! -There have been 47 #1 songs! -Only 4 of those spent more than 1 week at the top spot! -The highest #10 and #7 peaking songs are higher than the highest #4 peaking song! -Unlike 2015's #1 song's artist in 2016, the artist with the #1 song of 2016, Lifehouse, has maintained success throughout 2017 and has a handful of hits in the Top 100! -Only 3 songs in the entire Top 10 are from already established artists. Which means 7 songs are from new artists! The artists who had a lot of songs in the Top 50 this year: -Taylor Swift (14) -Zaz (12) -Kanye West (26) -Illenium (8) -Serena Ryder (14) -The Chainsmokers (5) -Lorde (7) -Kesha (7) -Christine and the Queens (9) -M83 (12) -Coldplay (11) -Lifehouse (8) -Kendrick Lamar (6) -SHIROCK (7) -Linkin Park (8) -Carly Rae Jepsen (7) -The Knocks (7) -DRAM (6) I might be missing a bunch but yeah :P I'll be making a few more lists before starting off proper, so keep an eye out for that! :) -JeffRayGun

2017 WEEK 49 (December 3rd to December 9th) Euge Groove grooves on to #1, Zaz makes a comeback, and Gregorian chants?? Euge Groove smashes to #1 with "Euge One-Oh-One" off his most recent album, Groove On. This marks Euge Groove's 2nd smash on my charts; back in the days of Daily Charts, "Still Euge" was a #2 hit at the tail end of July 2016! Zaz's "La complainte de la butte" recharts at #2, tying Lorde's Perfect Places for the highest re-entry on the Weeklies. This also marks the French cover song's 10th week on the charts, having started its charting run all the way back in February of this year, but making a few re-appearances since then. The song actually tied "Euge One-Oh-One" for the #1 with 8 scrobbles, but the newer song was the one to break the tie. Dan Gibson's Solitudes smashes to #3 with "Introit", a relaxation track prominently featuring Gregorian chants. This marks Dan Gibson's Solitudes' highest peaking song on the Weeklies. The relaxation music act was able to notch several hits in the Daily charts however; "Mokupuni Lapa'au" was their biggest by far, notching 26 days in the charts across the first 3 months of 2015. Generic CAW's "A Heart" featuring Mario Hack Let's Player raocow makes a slight move 5-4, as other tracks from the raocow music playlist make a tumble lower in the charts. Taylor Swift's "...Ready For It?" surges 25-5, marking yet another Top 10 hit for the pop star. Quebec artist Marie-Mai debuts "C.O.B.R.A." at #6, marking the popular artist's first song to chart in my charts ever. Furthermore, this is the first Quebec francophone song to hit the Top 10 since Les soeurs Boulay's hit "Fais-moi un show de boucane", which peaked at #2 on Week 33 (August 13th - August 19th). And another win for francophone artists comes with Zaz's newest "single" on my charts: "Tous les cris les SOS", a cover which made a lofty debut at #7. This is the first new song from Zaz since "Eblouie par la nuit" smashed in September-October 2017. Bjork's "Joga" fell 2-8 off its debut last week, while Taylor Swift's "State of Grace" holds steady as it makes a slight move up 10-9, holding a 14th week in the Top 10 and extending the record yet more. Furthermore, the song is also tied for the longest run in the Top 50 overall with its 18th week. The other tie? Another Taylor Swift song: "This Love", which while not nearly as successful, has held strong in the lower regions of the Top 50. And to round up the Top 10, "Meant To Be" by Two Steps From Hell makes a surge off its return last week 29-10. This marks the song's 5th week in the Top 50, and its 4th in the Top 10. The song had a tragically short run in the Weekly charts in February 2017, given that I hadn't officially switched to a weekly format yet, meaning songs back then had a much shorter lifespan. However, the song's recharting is correcting the mistake. :P Here's a visual of the Top 25 songs of the Top 50. Click the link above to see the rest of the Top 50 on CrownNote, along with more statistics like # of weeks, peak and more.

Ooh, Jenny Owen Youngs!! I absolutely love Wake Up, it's one of my most listened to songs of this year! I should check out her album at some point :P Call It What You Want might be my favourite song off of Reputation. It's got such cute lyrics and a really nice chill vibe to it. Reminds me of This Love and You Are In Love in some ways, two other songs I really love from her! I'm not too big on Second 2 None... it feels a bit weak compared to other Christine songs. I'm hoping she doesn't go in that direction for her 2nd album... :/ Keep up the charts! :D

I only heard Homogenic to date, and it was about a week or two ago. But my favourite song from that album is probably All Is Full Of Love. It's a really meaningful song to me, as the message of the song resonates with me a fair amount. As someone who's always freaking out about finding love, a song that basically says "Don't worry about it, you'll find love somewhere, just maybe not from where you're looking" is really something I needed to hear. :P Joga is also a really great song. It's got that epic feel that I really love in music. The rest of Homogenic was also mostly really good though. I'll be checking out her other albums in the near future!

I'm from Quebec, although my music taste tends to veer towards fairly unknown artists too. I'm not too surprised this week has very few artists you're familar with, too, since many of the recurring names are fairly unknown. -Blue Horizon is a pop/edm duo with a friend of mine as the producer, who recently released their first album Atlas. -Generic CAW is an unknown YouTuber who made a few songs by splicing the vocals of raocow, a fairly niche Mario Let's Player from Quebec, with some instrumentals. -The Bowser, King of the Koopas song is from the soundtrack of Paper Mario. I'm a little surprised that you haven't heard Fort Knox or especially Champagne Supernova though, given that I assumed the Gallagher brothers were a fairly big deal in England. Maybe you'll find more familiar songs in the Top 50, which I linked just below the chart. I should make that link easier to notice, though. :P