HiyaLuv!

I have just spent an hour or two compiling a load of 2010s songs that didn't quite make my Alternative Now volumes 75 - 104 either because I couldn't quite fit them in and/or the artist had a better song out in that Now 'era', or I didn't realise how good it was when I complied the originals. It's split into five discs with a big old bomb blast sound effect between each 'CD' and may be subject to change if new ideas come into my head over coming months/years/decades. But for now, here is 'ALTERNATIVE NOW 2010s'.

If you want loads of new entries, come back next week as there's a tonne of things bubbling under. In the meantime, please check out my new YouTube channel How Did They Get So Big? if you haven't already. It's my last-ditch attempt at returning to my old income after AI took a massive 5hit on my 15-year content writing career. I was getting more and more views every day until I added the Harry Styles and Taylor Swift ones, then they weirdly dried up. Thought those would make it better if anything! Way in the lead is How Did Ed Sheeran Get So Big? That was just going up, up, up until Styles and Swift weirdly cooked my progress! And don't forget I recently interviewed the man who may well be the next Radio 2 breakfast host if he actually wants the job - click here. Plus I just made this after realising I had loads of great 2010s tunes missing from my Alternative Nows. THIS WEEK'S TOP 40 01 (02) Rosalía ft. Björk & Yves Tumor: Berghain (37-23-33-30-xx-10-3-2-1) 02 (01) Fisher: Rain (40-10-7-2-1-1-1-2) 03 (04) ANOTR ft. 54 Ultra: Talk To You (10-4-3) 04 (03) Sonny Fodera ft. Chrystal: My Loving (17-5-3-4) 05 (06) Turnstile: DREAMING (31-8-6-5) 06 (05) Dominic Fike: White Keys (23-6-5-6) 07 (08) Harry Styles: American Girls (34-9-8-7) 08 (10) Taylor Swift: Elizabeth Taylor (28-xx-21-10-8) 09 (12) Ella Langley: Choosin' Texas (21-15-12-9) 10 (18) Chris Stussy and Tom Did It: Wide Awake (18-10) 11 (07) Bella Kay: iloveitiloveitiloveit (21-12-4-2-7-11) 12 (09) Alex Warren: Fever Dream (27-11-7-9-12) 13 (25) LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER: Eins, Zwei, Drei (36-25-13) 14 (11) Gorillaz ft. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar: Orange County (38-xx-19-11-14) 15 (15) Feng: Cali Crazy (22-15-15) 16 (14) Ewan McVIcar: Share The House (32-13-11-14-4-14-16) 17 (13) Milky x Mall Grab: Just The Way You Are (27-4-2-1-3-3-11-13-17) 18 (28) Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta: Save Me Tonight (28-28-18) 19 (16) Calvin Harris x Kasabian: Release The Pressure (17-2-1-2-1-2-14-16-19) 20 (20) Lana Del Rey: White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter (38-22-23-20-20) 21 (26) Olivia Rodrigo: The Book of Love (20-26-21) 22 (NE) Muse: Be With You (22) 23 (24) Robyn: Blow My Mind (24-23) 24 (NE) FLO: Leak It (24) 25 (37) Zara Larsson: Lush Life (37-25) 26 (17) MUNA: Dancing On The Wall (37-18-17-26) 27 (22) twenty one pilots: Drag Path (26-22-27) 28 (30) U2: Song Of The Future (35-30-28) 29 (32) Thundercat ft. Mac Miller: She Knows Too Much (32-29) 30 (21) Fcukers: L.U.C.K.Y. (15-6-7-17-30-25-x-33-21-30) 31 (35) Jessie Ware: Automatic (35-31) 32 (39) Holly Humberstone: Cruel World (39-32) 33 (29) sombr: Homewrecker (23-8-6-8-5-13-29-33) 34 (19) Charlotte Day Wilson & Saya Gray: Lean (37-18-8-16-19-34) 35 (NE) Alok & Khalid: Dive Into Me (35) 36 (NE) Jungle: Carry On (36) 37 (23) Madonna: Into The Groove (18-12-23-37) 38 (27) James Blake: Death of Love (29-21-18-13-7-17-27-38) 39 (36) Arlo Parks: Get Go (36-39) 40 (RE) Fatboy Slim & The Rolling Stones: Satisfaction Skank (40-13-xx-40) OUT 31 (NE) kwn: hopeless romantic (31) 33 (NE) Shakira: Zoo (33) 34 (30) MK & Illyus Barrientos: Never Let You Go (27-39-29-36-30-34) 38 (NE) Odeal & Wizkid: Nights In The Sun (38) 40 (24) Robyn: Talk To Me (26-23-5-5-4-5-6-9-6-12-24-40)

Welcome to Hadjiworld. Anyway, you have done a great job and I wish these were real companion volumes! Would be great if you could do the 80s and remaining 90s ones but I understand if you've run out of steam!

Goddammit, rein Rein Me In in! Songs that were released as singles in the summer shouldn't be peaking nearly a year later (and it's not like this has been 're-issued' or whatever the modern equivalent of that is). ACR is making absolutely no difference now, these charts are just as stale as those of 2016 before it was introduced. Made a video about it and the slow as heck chart in general as you may have seen, sorry about using AI for the artwork, it's a temporary thing whilst I work out what the bloody hell I'm doing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvKUbQL4C4E&feature=youtu.be

I wonder if there's a hope in hell that R1 will playlist the new Muse single, eight years after they were last on the playlist. If that was by a younger band they would be all over it, it sounds fine for R1. Fits R1 more than R2, who actually have playlisted it. They let that Gorillaz* whistling thing on for a few weeks and Damon is pushing 60! *And that was a 15.5 year gap!

THIS WEEK'S TOP 40 01 (01) Fisher: Rain (40-10-7-2-1-1-1) 02 (03) Rosalía ft. Björk & Yves Tumor: Berghain (37-23-33-30-xx-10-3-2) 03 (05) Sonny Fodera ft. Chrystal: My Loving (17-5-3) 04 (10) ANOTR ft. 54 Ultra: Talk To You (10-4) 05 (06) Dominic Fike: White Keys (23-6-5) 06 (08) Turnstile: DREAMING (31-8-6) 07 (02) Bella Kay: iloveitiloveitiloveit (21-12-4-2-7) 08 (09) Harry Styles: American Girls (34-9-8) 09 (07) Alex Warren: Fever Dream (27-11-7-9) 10 (21) Taylor Swift: Elizabeth Taylor (28-xx-21-10) 11 (19) Gorillaz ft. Bizarrap, Kara Jackson & Anoushka Shankar: Orange County (38-xx-19-11) 12 (15) Ella Langley: Choosin' Texas (21-15-12) 13 (11) Milky x Mall Grab: Just The Way You Are (27-4-2-1-3-3-11-13) 14 (04) Ewan McVIcar: Share The House (32-13-11-14-4-14) 15 (22) Feng: Cali Crazy (22-15) 16 (14) Calvin Harris x Kasabian: Release The Pressure (17-2-1-2-1-2-14-16) 17 (18) MUNA: Dancing On The Wall (37-18-17) 18 (NE) Chris Stussy and Tom Did It: Wide Awake (18) 19 (16) Charlotte Day Wilson & Saya Gray: Lean (37-18-8-16-19) 20 (23) Lana Del Rey: White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter (38-22-23-20) 21 (33) Fcukers: L.U.C.K.Y. (15-6-7-17-30-25-x-33-21) 22 (26) twenty one pilots: Drag Path (26-22) 23 (12) Madonna: Into The Groove (18-12-23) 24 (NE) Robyn: Blow My Mind (24) 25 (36) LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER: Eins, Zwei, Drei (36-25) 26 (20) Olivia Rodrigo: The Book of Love (20-26) 27 (17) James Blake: Death of Love (29-21-18-13-7-17-27) 28 (28) Jennifer Lopez & David Guetta: Save Me Tonight (28-28) 29 (13) sombr: Homewrecker (23-8-6-8-5-13-29) 30 (35) U2: Song Of The Future (35-30) 31 (NE) kwn: hopeless romantic (31) 32 (NE) Thundercat ft. Mac Miller: She Knows Too Much (32) 33 (NE) Shakira: Zoo (33) 34 (30) MK & Illyus Barrientos: Never Let You Go (27-39-29-36-30-34) 35 (NE) Jessie Ware: Automatic (35) 36 (NE) Arlo Parks: Get Go (36) 37 (NE) Zara Larsson: Lush Life (37) 38 (NE) Odeal & Wizkid: Nights In The Sun (38) 39 (NE) Holly Humberstone: Cruel World (39) 40 (24) Robyn: Talk To Me (26-23-5-5-4-5-6-9-6-12-24-40) OUT 25 (09) Mitski: WHERE'S MY PHONE? (20-8-5-5-7-9-25) 27 (13) Danny L Harle & Dua Lipa: Two Hearts (34-14-9-13-27) 29 (27) Holly Humberstone: To Love Somebody (38-16-20-27-29) 31 (06) Josh Baker, Silva Bumpa & Paige Cavell: Feel This Way (31-11-3-4-4-6-31) 32 (15) Fred again.. & Jamie T: LightsBurnDimmer (21-7-3-5-15-32) 34 (32) Ladytron: A Death in London (38-x-32-34) 37 (NE) 1-800 GIRLS ft. Council: eye contact (37) 38 (NE) Caleb Laurenson: Beautiful Thing (38) 39 (16) J. Cole: Two Six (30-9-8-10-16-39) 40 (NE) Because of Art & Stephen Weston: To The Heart (40)

Lykke Li in 2026! Did shock me when they played her the other afternoon. Didn't have that on my bingo card, not complaining though.

Been discussing this on another thread, was gonna just do two videos about how both artists became so popular but I'm increasingly tempted to do a 'How Did Rein Me In Get So Big?' clip and kill two birds with one stone. My God, the charts are fcuked. As much as I like Sam Fender, this very mid song by his earlier standards wouldn't have been anywhere near as successful in the physical or download days! It's been a slow year so far for big songs that people have really latched onto so it's just there by default. Hypersonic Missiles got to #48 (which seems insane now) and that's a thousand times better! #reinreinmeinin https://www.youtube.com/@howdidtheygetsobig

This will definitely be on the playlist officially in the run-up to the Big Weekend. They need something new from him to play to build momentum and what else is there? He's hardly put anything new out in the past 20 years. It might as well be there already considering how many spins it's getting! Mad that someone who played bass in an 1980s indie-pop band is headlining Radio 1's Big Weekend 2026 when you think about it, isn't it. I love it though! Satisfaction Skank might have the most spot plays for anything ever aside from Running Up That Hill (2022, I'm sure it was playlisted in 1985), which never officially appeared on their list of heavily-rotated songs on you could look at on the internet but was on a LOT!

Guessing Lizzo has been banished to Radio 2-only land forevermore now? Rather liking Don't Make Me Love U. "Don't you bullshit me, baby!"

Cheers, this is a pretty desperate situation, the latest tax year has just ended and I will be reporting about a third of what I was on before the bots came along to ruin my life. But I genuinely reckon this has legs if I commit to it! How Did Sam Fender Get So Big? definitely coming, as is an Olivia Dean episode!

Hi fellow Buzzjackers, HiyaLuv here. Hope you're well. Since 2023, my income and livelihood have crashed to the ground due to AI, because obviously most companies would rather feed a chatbot a prompt and get a blog or article for free rather than pay me even a modest bit of cash to do it. It's not been a fun three years to say the least...but there may be light at the end of the tunnel. People have been telling me that 'faceless YouTube channels' might be the way forward, and this does look like a good opportunity for me to blend my writing experience with my pop culture knowledge and hopefully make a few quid from it once momentum starts to build. So, working under the pseudonym Don Huddersfield, I finally launched my YouTube channel, How Did They Get So Big? in the early hours of this morning. Yes, I had to use AI for the visuals but that's because my knowledge of video production is limited to say the least but I am happy to team up with anyone who does have the skills for that sort of thing so we can make stuff that's much better to look at in future and will hopefully benefit both of our bank balances. It would be amazing if you could watch the first two videos (Ed Sheeran and Wetherspoons) and even better if you could subscribe, as I am really running out of ideas when it comes to making a living over coming years. I would also appreciate your suggestions for future videos. If something got really popular and you want Don Huddersfield to deep dive into why it happened, give me a shout! Ideas I have in the pipeline include McDonalds, Netflix, Adele, Oasis, EastEnders, Strictly etc etc etc.

Listening to Now 123 now and it's not a very satisfying experience. Way too many flops/album tracks that barely touched the airwaves if at all! Can't see too many people forking out for a physical version of this. Two December 10 songs FFS! If anyone's not going to be a thing, it's them.

Starting to wonder if anything will #reinmeininin over the coming months. Big Fender fan but FFS!