Panda's Top 100 of 2022 (THE TOP 10)

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PART 10 (10-1):




10. TEAM ME - Song For A Drummer

Panda Pop positions: 8-2

2nd appearance in chart.

Previous appearance:
2015: F Is For Faker (#18)


9. LOOSE FIT - Stupid Drama

Panda Pop positions: 12-1

2nd appearance in chart.

Previous appearance:
2020: Pull The Lever (#25)


8. FRANCIS LUNG - 2p Machine

Panda Pop positions: 2-

Chart debut.


7. ALVVAYS - Easy On Your Own?

Panda Pop positions: 2-2

Chart debut.


6. KID KAPICHI - 5 Days On (2 Days Off)

Panda Pop positions: 1-1

2nd appearance in chart.


5. ALVVAYS - After The Earthquake

Panda Pop positions: 4-

2nd appearance in chart.


4. PARAMORE - This Is Why

Panda Pop positions: 1-

2nd appearance in chart.

Previous appearance:
2009: Ignorance (#11)


3. MELODY'S ECHO CHAMBER - Where The Water Clears The Illusion

Panda Pop positions: 3-1

Chart debut.


2. HORSEGIRL - Anti-glory

Panda Pop positions: 1-2

2nd appearance in chart.


1. BLUSHING - The Fires

Panda Pop positions: 1-1

2nd appearance in chart.

[Panda]

Analysis:

Blushing top this year's chart. They are a dreampop/shoegaze band from Texas, consisting of two married couples. The no.1 track "The Fires" was taken from their second album "Possessions", released in February. They are the first American act ever to top my end of year chart.

Past #1's: (1993-1997 were retrospective charts compiled in later years)
1993: Duran Duran - Ordinary World
1994: Stone Roses - Love Spreads
1995: Chemical Brothers - Leave Home
1996: Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life
1997: Radiohead - Paranoid Android
1998: Ultrasound - Stay Young
1999: The Living End - Prisoner Of Society
2000: Llama Farmers - Snow White
2001: Elbow - Any Day Now
2002: Cooper Temple Clause - Film-Maker
2003: Radiohead - There There
2004: Mansun - Slipping Away
2005: Subways - Rock & Roll Queen
2006: Pipettes - Your Kisses Are Wasted On Me
2007: Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse
2008: Son Of Dave - Hellhound
2009: Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute
2014: Boy & Bear - Southern Sun
2015: Lanterns On The Lake - Faultlines
2016: Emma Pollock - Dark Skies
2019: Bill Ryder-Jones - Don't Be Scared, I Love You
2020: Fontaines DC - Televised Mind
2021: Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard


Alvvays have two songs in the top 10. This has happened in 13 previous years:

1994: Manic Street Preachers - Faster/Revol
1995: Radiohead - Just/Fake Plastic Trees, Massive Attack - Karmacoma/Protection
1996: Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life/Everything Must Go/Australia, Prodigy - Breathe/Firestarter
1997: Blur - Song 2/MOR
1998: Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should Be A Holiday/Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth
1999: Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl/Let Forever Be
2000: Doves - The Cedar Room/The Man Who Told Everything
2001: Elbow - Any Day Now/Powder Blue
2002: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever Happened To My Rock & Roll?/Spread Your Love
2003: Blur - Out Of Time/Crazy Beat
2005: Subways - Rock & Roll Queen/With You
2014: Honeyblood - Choker/Biro
2020: Fontaines DC - Televised Mind/A Hero's Death


Acts with more than one song in this year's chart:
Blushing
Horsegirl
Alvvays
Kid Kapichi
Wunderhorse
The Big Moon
July Talk
Belle And Sebastian
The Bug Club
Coach Party
Honeyglaze
Wet Leg
Pit Pony


Acts that also appeared last year:
Yumi & The Weather
Jawny
The Bug Club
Wet Leg
Fontaines DC (3rd year in a row)
The Golden Age Of TV
Veps

Acts returning after a long absence:
2004: Belle And Sebastian
2005: LCD Soundsystem
2009: Paramore
2014: Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian
2015: Beck, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, Team Me
2016: Manic Street Preachers, Sunflower Bean, Unloved


Different nationalities in this year's chart:
England 47
USA 22
Canada 6
Wales 5
Ireland 4
Scotland 4
Australia 3
Norway 3
France 2
New Zealand 2
Northern Ireland 2
Sweden 2
Germany 1
Iceland 1
Italy 1
Netherlands 1
Nigeria 1
Spain 1


County Championship (which counties the English tracks are from):
1. Greater London 11
2. Greater Manchester 6
3. Isle of Wight 4
3. Tyne & Wear 4
5. East Sussex 3
6. Bristol 2
6. Cornwall 2
6. Kent 2
6. Leicestershire 2
6. South Yorkshire 2
6. West Yorkshire 2
12. Cambridgeshire 1
12. Cheshire 1
12. Devon 1
12. Hampshire 1
12. Merseyside 1
12. Surrey 1

Longest tracks:
LCD Soundsystem - New Body Rhumba (7:24) *
Francis Lung - 2p Machine (6:17)
Lewsberg - Six Hills (5:45)

(* - We'd Feel Sadder At Twilight is actually part of a unique release by The Bug Club, which saw them release an EP as several songs recorded as one continuous track in a single take. The overall track length is 10:43 but that particular song is less than 3 minutes.)

Shortest tracks:
Pit Pony - Just That (1:38)
Linda Lindas - Nino (1:50)
Dan Ward - Round Ere (2:10)


Most all-time appearances:
1. Manic Street Preachers (28)
2. Radiohead (23)
3. Blur (22)
4. Super Furry Animals (18)
5. Elbow (17)
6. Ash (16)
7. Chemical Brothers (14)
7. Supergrass (14)
9. Beck (13)
9. Oasis (13)

[TheThorne]

4 in your top 10 I don’t know or remember, need to check out your number one will watch the videos later.

I slept on Horsegirl I really should have chartedi it but I’m there for the Alvvays love but unlike critics I preferred their last album but then I have to play the new one more.

ok just played your top 40 so many songs there that I really like that passed me by including your number one, another New Year’s resolution is to check your charts out more often.