jimwatts

Starting with 'Love At First Sight'

Delighted to see Jeff Buckley as high as second :wub: it's one of the first songs I downloaded when I got an iPod which just happened to coincide with its Top 75 debut at #65 that week - I think his greatest hits compilation had just come out, but I knew his version of the song had already gained a fair amount of acclaim over the previous 10 years since his death. It was quite surreal to witness it then ending up a Christmas #2 the following year, but it's fantastic to see it so well-regarded still - and with The Pogues & Kirsty's song being the only one to beat it here, the ending to this rate could hardly have panned out better! Thanks Julian for running this!

Well that's just silly (the award) - album and single in the top 10 selling last year plus another top 40 and other hits too - seems to indicate how far behind the curve Radio 1 have become these days.

Was out watching Wicked and just saw this :o confirmed!

My top 2 have ended up as the top 2! But in which order... quite appropriate that they're songs which peaked at #2 as well.

Celeste, maybe her favourite from her so far.

Unfortunately I can't edit the #7s list myself. Gabrielle – Don't Need the Sun to Shine (To Make Me Smile) should also be taken out as mentioned above and added to the #9s list instead.

'Heaven Is A Place On Earth' is I think the last #1 of the 80s that's one of my huge favourites.

In a couple of landmarks today in the overall top posters, Joseph moves up to second place, while at the top, Padamic_Tension becomes the first at Buzzjack to pass 131,072, i.e. 2 to the power of 17 posts! (and this is my 13,000th post!)

Well that explains it :lol: you never see them in the same room together :kink: Thanks Dan ^_^

An absolute classic there from Bruuuce getting a viral moment last year! The Oasis songs are legendary too.

C2JlV5mEBVQ Monthly #8s #96 Allie X - Weird World [#8, Mar] #95 JJ Wilde - Arizona [#8, Apr] #94 Alok, Ely Oaks - Tsunami [#8, Feb] #93 Lankum - Newcastle [#8, Jan] #92 Swiss Portrait - Paralyzed [#8, Nov] #91 Shygirl, Danny L Harle, Club Shy - encore [#8, Jun] #90 Marlon Hoffstadt, DJ Daddy Trance - Move Your Feet [#8, Oct] #89 Pictureplane - Velvet Lies (Metallic Garden) [#8, Aug] #88 Dua Lipa - Falling Forever [#8, May] #87 Fazerdaze - Cherry Pie [#8, Sep] #86 Tove Lo - No One Dies From Love [#8, Dec] #85 The Beaches - Blame Brett [#8, Jul] Allie X made #98 in my more robustly compiled 2023 EOY with 'Black Eye', and goes a nominal two places better here - I'm not convinced it's a better song, but it isn't out of place here either and showcases more of her synth pop sensibilities and feelings of alienation. JJ Wilde is actually from Canada, but in this widescreen rock ballad she sings so passionately of her sense of freedom in the Grand Canyon State that she could have fooled me - she has another song to come. The Alok and Ely Oaks collab is an EDM guilty pleasure as it's not the most elegant, but the sped up vocals and everything else combine to unleash some hidden energy. I was introduced to Lankum with a couple of song contest entries in 2023 from which I particularly liked the storytelling of 'The New York Trader', but this has supplanted it as my favourite with the folk harmonies contemplating a love interest. The next song is one of the very few in this countdown I discovered before 2024 - the dreamy guitar and vocals (which I originally thought were female) of Scotland's Swiss Portrait came up in a playlist before the 2023 Nuggets song contest, but since I was on holiday when that took place, I saved it to make my debut in the 2024 edition, where it finished 23rd - still, that was a place higher than my Unknown Pleasures debut and three higher than mine in BJSC and PFSC. Shygirl and her Club Shy project had been much anticipated and the initial EP produced a few hits around Buzzjack, but this collab with Danny L Harle that followed it went largely under the radar, despite the banging production and formidable lyrical presence in my favourite of hers since 'Firefly'. OK, moving into the second quarter of the countdown, OK, with Marlon Hoffstadt and DJ Daddy Trance in collaboration as usual, OK, with an infectious techno bop that isn't the Junior Senior classic, OK, though the sound has a hint of throwback to that early millennium era, OK, punctuated by a vocal sample of "OK". I discovered Pictureplane through an Electronic Track Of The Week in 2023, but I enjoyed this darkwave / post punk-ish swerve from them even more. Radical Optimism arrived for Dua Lipa in May, and as my top takeaway from the newly released tracks, the euphoric chorus of "How looOOooOOoong" evidently wasn't everyone's, but honestly I think a few more tunes as memorable as this would have done wonders for the album. Fazerdaze were a new find for me in 2024 and revisiting this dreamy slice of synthwave in late November had me wish I'd done so a little earlier in time for BJSC 170, as I sensed (correctly as it turned out) that my chosen entry was about to DNQ. Tove Lo appears with another song I knew prior to 2024, but I gave this anthem of heartbreak a belated chart spot for completeness' sake after it missed my 100 most played in 2022 yet has held up as well as anything of hers I've charted since. As with both the lower monthly positions, top spot of the #8s goes to July and in this case The Beaches as the all-female band have a second song in this countdown, this one coming to my attention in BJSC - classic punk pop with an unforgettable chorus.

Glad to hear, contrasting types of song but great entries both! Nice to see a long list, and I'm pleased you've taken to 'No One Noticed' in the week or so since my December chart, hopefully it can become a proper UK hit! Hi Mack, glad you like a lot of these too, I'm particularly happy to see Wings Of Desire as one of your faves! Thanks all ^_^

The Sam Quealy album was an unexpected find and 'Cluedo' was one of the standouts for me too. Other favourites (new this year) for me in the last couple of sections: 'Green Breaking', 'Jacked', 'Dark Day' - don't think I charted that one but it was close, I've liked all I've heard from TR/ST this year - and of course 'Weird Boy' :cheer: very pleased you were such a fan, I did think it may be one you'd like, and I'm glad you got to see the video too as I remember you weren't at that listenthrough! I'm very impressed that TEMMIS got you a runner-up spot, I gave it a few points but thought that was a pleasant surprise! Also on the subject of BJSC, on the back of the song here I did also check out Eartheater's 'Scripture' which was entered before my time and liked that a lot too.

Favourites from 601-700 excluding Top 5s (although 'Katy On A Mission' also deserves a shoutout as probably my favourite #5 in the whole list) - 'Never Forget You', 'Two Fingers', 'Grounds for Divorce', 'Hard to Explain', 'Fascination', 'D.A.N.C.E.', 'Video Games', 'Open Arms'.

Even though I'd have liked to hear more in the vein of 'Your Side Of Town' from the year before, 'Bright Lights' was a fine return to a classic rock sound for The Killers. 'Lovers' Leap' is good from Elbow although I couldn't get into much else from the album, and 'Rim Tim Tagi Dim' was my favourite from last year's Eurovision!

Happy to see two of my song contest entries in the last couple of sections (Alphaville were my entry to the first retro contest) - I'm delighted with how well Calva Louise did in Unknown Pleasures, its blend of genres seemed to fit there and I'm not sure if it would have fared so well in BJSC which I originally had in mind.

'i always kinda knew you’d be the death of me' is great, the best I heard from Artemas since his big hit (almost like a slowed down version of it). I also like 'Make You Mine' a lot, shame it never made the official Top 40 but it was a decent sized hit anyway!

Looks like the Ultimate Christmas Classic poll will need to be redone - a certain song which was left out of that is getting its justice here for sure! Mariah outdid The Darkness by more than 3:2 in that poll too.

Glad this is back for another year :cheer: Double Wham! in this first top 100, and a lot of songs which didn't appear in any of last year's YTDs, not least 'That's So True' - last year there was no change at the top, kinda hope that isn't the case this year. Will be great to follow how everything will shake up as the weeks go on!

It was doing quite big numbers, but because of the Christmas songs it didn't get to Spotify #1 until Boxing Day.

Neat that 'APT.' and DWAS have both had turns at Spotify #2 before 'Messy' took over, as had looked likely before Christmas, but 'That's So True' is so far ahead - haven't seen a song dominating quite this much before and after Christmas since 'Dance Monkey' 5 years ago (which in today's "rules" would have had a January reset and returned to #1 for another 4 weeks to add to its 11 before).

My heart's started missing a beat for this!

cUMduB5vCqM Monthly #9s #108 Moonchild Sanelly - Do My Dance [#9, Nov] #107 MINTTT - Bom Dia, Mentira [#9, Jun] #106 The Vaccines - Hometown Of Jupiter [#9, Apr] #105 Khruangbin - May Ninth [#9, Mar] #104 Fat Dog - Running [#9, May] #103 Wings Of Desire - Some Old Place I Used To Know [#9, Aug] #102 Mura Masa, Cherish - FLY [#9, Sep] #101 The Marías - No One Noticed [#9, Dec] #100 Dua Lipa - Training Season [#9, Feb] #99 Jockstrap - Concrete Over Water [#9, Jan] #98 Annie - The Sky Is Blue [#9, Oct] #97 Mindspeak - The Chase [#9, Jul] Her music described as "electro-pop-ghetto-funk", Moonchild Sanelly had a couple of minor hits on my chart earlier in the year, but this sounded like a breakthrough moment, energetic, naughty and infectiously catchy. The two BJSC entries in this section appear next - the enigmatic mixture of high bpm nocturnal soundscapes and vocals drifting from bliss to other extremes from MINTTT got my bronze in BJSC 165, while the celestially-themed ballad I hadn't previously heard from The Vaccines went one better in BJSC 163. Remaining in a chilled state, the gorgeous electric guitar of Khruangbin accompanied by a hushed unison of vocals is as relaxing as one could wish for. It's therefore quite some whiplash to move next to Fat Dog - but as with Nabihah Iqbal the previous year, their BJSC winner ('King Of The Slugs') seemed to build momentum perfectly for them around these parts, and this saxophone punctuated stream of paranoia that followed is my favourite from them to date. The male/female indie duo Wings Of Desire are a lesser recognised name, with a ballad that builds around an insistent guitar line reminiscent of The Jesus And Mary Chain. Last year I learnt that Cherish had more than one song ripe for sampling, and Mura Masa took free rein in chopping and looping the vocals around distorted bleeps and bass that suitably takes flight. At the nominal unlucky #101 position comes the burgeoning current official Top 100 hit from The Marías - a gorgeous yet mournful ballad. A song that was very much a hit in 2024 takes #100 for Dua Lipa with her momentum from 'Houdini' very much intact here, staying in the same lyrical premise with a tense production, elongated chorus and bridges that keep everything on a knife-edge yet danceably carefree. I had already heard a few songs by Jockstrap before 2024, but the shimmering electronics and vocal splendour of this one easily established it as my favourite, with the sped up summary of the song at the end a satisfying bonus. The nearest this section comes to trance is courtesy of Annie and her delightful multichart hit. However my top place in this selection goes to Mindspeak with a six-minute melodic rock song which may well have taken me into an actual trance, and made me believe that such a song could do well in BJSC 168, but more on that much later.

Thanks for the hype :cheer: I guarantee there'll have been a few you like already and more to come! It's great to hear some perspective on 'So I' as it's a counterpoint musically to most of 'BRAT' why is perhaps why it's largely gone under the radar, but it is very moving - and now I realise 'It's Okay To Cry' was a SOPHIE song title. Thanks for the ESOTSM film recommendation - I'll be sure to watch it at some point! Thanks both ^_^