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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 5, 2018 0:16:40 GMT 1
I'm publishing just my top 120 this year although I have of course a full chart.
As usual I will use * to indicate a song that was in the chart in 2016 and ** to indicate one that is in the chart in 2018. The first chart of 2018 has not yet been compiled at the time I start this.
The song currently at #4, Christmas Eve by Shadow Seekers, finished at #129. Although that's likely to make a very fast fall, being a Christmas song, it will still accumulate enough points such that it would have been in this top 120.
120 Silhouettes Of You - Isaac Gracie
119 Red Hot Mama - Rack Doll
**118 My Indigo - My Indigo
117 Look Up! - Go Royal
*116 27 Dollars - Frontier Ruckus
115 When The Wolves Cry Out - Miracle Of Sound
114 Drink To That - Monroes
113 Hello Hello - Fickle Friends
112 No Roots - Alice Merton
111 Move It - Sunset Sweatshop
110 Wedding Band - Lisa Crawley
109 Spent The Day In Bed - Morrissey
108 Congrats - Stork
107 Unpredictable - Olly Murs & Louisa Johnson
106 Single Life - Nicoletta
* one more week in 2016 which would move it up to #100.
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 5, 2018 8:03:51 GMT 1
Nice start I only know 4 of these of the top of my head. Fickle Friends will be in my top 10, it was my 2nd most played song of the year according to Spotify. Did you check out your list?
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 5, 2018 10:21:17 GMT 1
Yes I got the "Your Top songs" list too. It had :PM first and Ellie Rose second. Both were huge hits in my chart. So we'll see how high they finish. Of course as is usual they made this list far too early on, so Paloma Faith doesn't feature high on it.
Portugal The Man had their hit Feel It Still in my chart at #128 of the year. I'm sure you'd know that but it didn't quite make the cut here.
Next 14 positions:
105 Got Me Like - Spencer Ludwig
104 Should've Been You - Imelda May
103 Avoiding Glances - Manatees
102 Ghosts - Luke Yeoward
101 Uncle John - Clockwork Flowers
100 Love Drugs - Incarnations
99 Wishing Girl - Lola Marsh
98 Monday Sunshine - Mrs X
97 20/20 Vision - Jana Josephina
96 Force Of Nature - Miracle Of Sound
95 Democracy - Blurred Vision
94 Losing Touch - Codename Colin
93 Leavin' - Wildling
92 More To You - As December Falls
Jana Josephina's single only reached #11 but featured on 2 video playlists due to the fact it had a slower chart run and was a non-mover at #11 on its 4th week when it got to be on the playlist again. I was going to enter it into non-hit single of the month but then she withdrew the video from youtube. It's still on her facebook page and I left a comment asking why it was taken off youtube but didn't get a reply. Mrs X above her was entered instead and peaked 4 places higher at #7 but finishes slightly lower in the chart of the year.
Gavin Dunne's Miracle Of Sound continues to get consistent hits. They (or he) have appeared on more of my video playlists than any other artist.
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Post by Milliways on Jan 5, 2018 19:29:39 GMT 1
Will you be putting together a Spotify playlist of your countdown?
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 6, 2018 20:27:54 GMT 1
I already have one and it goes down to #128.
If I post the link though it will spoil the topic.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 6, 2018 20:39:56 GMT 1
A lot of crossovers on this one:
91 Heart's Harmony - Simply Three
90 The Finish Line - Embrace
89 An Epic Story - Peter Perrett
**88 Candy Cane Lane - Sia
87 The Capital - James Bell
86 Cathy Come Home - Flyte
85 She Wants Me - Louis Berry
*84 Weird Year - Eversons
83 Unofficial - Dolly And The Dinosaur
*82 Happy - Seagulls
**81 Tiffany - Ina Reni
**80 Over You - Brazilionaires
79 Young - Eivibonny
** Sia at #3 on the final chart of the year. She released a whole album of Christmas songs and videos for this one and Santa's Coming For Us and I preferred this more "classic" style pop to the weird dance-reggae of the latter but the latter I guess is more contemporary and seemed more popular. In my chart "Candy Cane Lane" is her biggest hit to date.
* Eversons - Weird Year was #4 on the first chart of the year. More about all the events of 2016 including David Bowie's death and later Brexit and Donald Trump being elected as President. Would be all the way up at #47 with its 2 weeks from 2016 thrown in.
* Seagulls had just one extra week which would push it up to #70.
** Ina Reni peaked at #4 and fell to #17 on the last chart of the year. As it isn't a Christmas song that may halt its descent. In fact had there not been a flurry of Christmas songs near the end of the year this would have peaked at #2.
** Over You by Brazilionaires also peaked at #4 but has fallen back now to #45. It may also have a relatively slow descent but won't stay that much longer.
Also a return for Embrace, another big hit for Flyte who I know are popular with some on here, and I think I entered Louis Berry for non-hit single of the month.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 7, 2018 19:54:02 GMT 1
78 Egomaniac - Sarah Sharp
77 Video Games - Dylan Diamond
76 Teen Angel - Dirty Fences
75 Pull The Cord - High Dive Heart
74 Another Year - Traumahelikopter
73 Don't Push Me Away - Ivana Raymonda Van Der Veen
72 December - Mighty Mongo
71 Smoke - Yasmin Coe
70 All The Things - Janoskians
69 Party Dates - Resignators
68 This Kiss - Sarah Ragsdale
67 Parents' House - Talay
Like Eivibonny, Dylan Diamond's song was withdrawn from Spotify. Eivibonny was withdrawn from youtube as well, so you won't be able to check that one out. Fortunately I still have it due to the precautions I take.
A couple of names on there who have been big in the past. High Dive Heart made their first appearance in 2015 but it was in 2016 that they really shone with 2 huge hits, one of them a #1 and another a #2 that was very high in the chart of the year. Janoskians have been around a while with their fun Aussie pop-rock.
Ivana Raymonda Van Der Veen won me over with her cuteness but limited musical quality, but I liked the one above.
Incidentally these songs were peaking around #5-#6 in the chart.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 11, 2018 23:55:12 GMT 1
66 Young And Free - D'ambrosio Twins
65 Fragile 17 - Hot Pink Hangover
* 64 All Worthwhile - Ham Sandwich
63 Electric Love - Serena Ryder
62 All Good Men - Eskies
61 Same Old Story - Baboon Show
60 I'll Trust The Wind - Primitives
59 Yesterday's News - Skaciety
58 Fly Now - Maureen
57 Turn The Music Loud - Sapphire
56 Bad Citizen - Hey Geronimo
* This is a real crossover, being #1 on the last chart of 2016 and the first of 2017. It fhinished at #32 of the year in 2016. With its points added together in it would be #9 of the year in 2016, #10 of the year in 2017.
Among the others, these are mostly peaking around #4-#5, but Sapphire only peaked at #8 with a very long chart run. She and D'ambrosio Twins are among the teenage girls in this list, she was 14, D'ambrosio Twins 12 at the time of their hits. Compare that to the rather mature Primitives, but it's really a list of female singers: Maureen, Baboon Show, Serena Ryder too..
Hey Geronimo had a #1 in 2013 with "Lazer Gun Show", while Eskies had a #1 in 2014 with "Jesus Don't Save Me". Baboon Show have had a lot of top 10 hits in this chart.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2018 6:36:27 GMT 1
73 Don't Push Me Away - Ivana Raymonda Van Der Veen She was my best discovery from your chart. Great and charming singer with good voice, "Magic Night" will be in my top of 2016. |
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 12, 2018 9:36:03 GMT 1
Ivana Raymonda Van Der Veen started off the year with a Russian team of songwriters behind her but later on the songwriting team changed and I didn't like the songs as much.
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Post by Milliways on Jan 12, 2018 21:27:12 GMT 1
Listened to these up to 67. One definite highlight but several others that I’ve enjoyed a lot :-)
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 13, 2018 19:59:01 GMT 1
55 Last Goodbye - Exit 22
54 I Need Time - State Lights
**53 Christmas Calls - Skinny Lister
52 Seven Seas - Gion Stump & The Lighthouse Project
51 Escape! - Kai Fish
50 Big Fish - Gift
49 I Want My Country Back - She Makes War
48 Live Outside - Enter Shikari
47 Marry Me - Kai Fish
**46 Hit Me Up - Slapback Johnny
Skinny Lister totally ruled the chart in 2015 with their run actually starting a month earlier when they had the Christmas #1 of 2014 with a non-Christmas song, and subsequently achieved the feat in 2015 with a Christmas song and #2 in 2017. In the first chart of 2018 this song dropped from #2 to #5.
Hit Me Up fell from #43 to #74 on the first chart of 2018. That extra week would push it up only one place in the chart of the year to #45.
Kai Fish this year had a string of hits releasing songs with videos in quick succession to promote his EP. He was previously a member of the band Mystery Jets, who had a few UK top 40 hits in the mid-00s when real bands still got those. I just looked up how they did in my chart and whilst they had loads of hits, they only managed my top 10 once with "Two Doors Down" which peaked at #6 in 2008.
Of this lot I think Milliways would particularly like She Makes War, and I know Enter Shikari's single was a big hit on Thorney's chart and was non-hit single of the month, although why it had to be in that contest I don't know. I'm sure they used to get chart hits.
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 14, 2018 13:00:11 GMT 1
peaked at #6 in 2008. Of this lot I think Milliways would particularly like She Makes War, and I know Enter Shikari's single was a big hit on Thorney's chart and was non-hit single of the month, although why it had to be in that contest I don't know. I'm sure they used to get chart hits. Because a fan base is no longer enough to get you a top 40 hit unless you are someone like Ed Sheeran,Adele or Taylor Swift. I think this is one of the things that record companies are learning now is going to give them big problems in future. Without fanbase hits you will never get the next U2, Smiths, Oasis or even Arctic Monkeys. Also it was a big change of sound for Enter Shikari where I think they may have alienated a lot of their original fans by basically doing a Chumbawamba. Problem is we don't get cross over hits anymore and a rather dismal 2 million streams on Spotify album version +single combined just wont do it. You need 10x that number. A song that deserved to be a top 20 chart hit failed to grab Radio 1 listeners enough and hardcore Shikari fans. Me I loved it. |
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 14, 2018 16:39:22 GMT 1
45 My Boyfriend - Samantha Clayton
44 Be Who You Are - Kooks
*43 Last Night Bus - Vanessa Peters
42 When A Girl Likes A Boy - Haschak Sisters
41 Animal Instinct - Lovepools
40 Birthday Suit - Escape The Future
**39 This Dog's Just For Christmas (Not For Life) - Prosecco Socialist
38 Bali - Paper Box
37 Castle On The Hill - Ed Sheeran
* Had 2 weeks in the chart in 2016, and would move up to #29. This is a rare hit that's a cover version, the original was done by Hello Saferide, a Swedish band.
** This was the final #1 of the year. In spite of being a Christmas song it managed another week at #1 in 2018.
Ed Sheeran's biggest NM hit so far finishes #37 of the year. Haschak Sisters are 4 teenage sisters and got another top 5 hit. Samantha Clayton is a Canadian singer and actress and her song included some French as well as English. Kooks lead singer has a girlfriend who has a single higher placed in the chart than theirs.
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Post by Milliways on Jan 14, 2018 20:03:30 GMT 1
As is now my usual way of scoring songs from others' charts:
Songs charting between #120 and #67 in your year-end chart which score 8 or more from me are as follows:
117 Look Up! - Go Royal
115 When The Wolves Cry Out - Miracle Of Sound
114 Drink To That - Monroes
108 Congrats - STORK
102 Ghosts - Luke Yeoward
100 Love Drugs - Incarnations
99 Wishing Girl - Lola Nash
92 More To You - As December Falls
88 Candy Cane Lane - Sia
85 She Wants Me - Louis Berry
83 Unofficial - Dolly And The Dinosaur
82 Happy - Seagulls
76 Teen Angel - Dirty Fences
74 Another Year - traumahelikopter
72 December - Mighty Mongo
71 Smoke - Yasmin Coe
69 Party Dates - The Resignators
Dirty Fences was my definite highlight from the selection in the first half of this year-end chart. What a great fun two-and-a-half minute song. They sound like a spiky, punky US Fratellis and I'll definitely be checking out more of their stuff. Incarnations was my second favourite, upbeat indie rock with handclaps and a great stomping catchy chorus. Reminds me a little bit of Astrid, from way back in '99! STORK's song reminds me a lot of IDLES - if you liked "Well Done" (which appeared in a recent Hidden Indie Treasures) then 'Congrats' is worth a listen.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 16, 2018 21:52:16 GMT 1
36 Wouldn't Even Know - Amber Arcades
35 Won't You Ever Come Home - Hunter And The Bear
34 Due West - Real Mckenzies
33 Rockstar City - Alex The Astronaut
32 I Can't Shut Up (About You) - Hupp
31 Feel It Again - Hudson Taylor
30 Sunny Afternoon - Shruggs
**29 Moshi Moshi - Poppy
Most of the songs on this list peaked at #3, two of them (Hudson Taylor and Poppy) peaked at #2. Poppy had 2 more weeks in the chart in 2018 (66 and 92) but they fail to move her up any more places.
Poppy's real name is Moriah Rose Pereira, she comes from the USA and she sings twee style whilst dressing barbie-style.
Amber Arcades is a Dutch female singer. That song also featured a male vocalist called Bill Ryder-Jones. Alex The Astronaut is also female, and so is Hupp.
Sunny Afternoon is not a cover of the Kinks. Shruggs are male as are Hudson Taylor and Hunter And The Bear all playing guitar softish rock.
Real McKenzies are male and that is uptempo celtic style.
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Post by beyondradio on Jan 17, 2018 23:44:51 GMT 1
Two songs here that id well for me, Hunter and the Bear and Hudson Taylor (still ascending my chart).
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 18, 2018 0:33:09 GMT 1
28 Summer Will Come - Double Moon Mirage
27 Gravity - Amelia Curran
26 Behind Closed Doors - Strypes
25 Man Didn't Walk On The Moon - Nerina Pallot
24 I Will Never Let You Down - Fastball
23 I Know A Place - Muna
22 Better Life - Glow
Double Moon Mirage: soft male-female duo, peaked at #3. Amelia Curran peaked at #2.
Strypes: This was a very slow climber up to #3, and was doing so the same time Sapphire was making her slow climb with "Turn The Music Loud". It's the highest placed single that peaked outside the top 2.
Nerina Pallot: Her previous big hits "Patience" #1 in 2001 and "Everybody's Gone To War" #3 in 2006. This song got to #2. Sounds a bit like Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" in part.
Fastball: also previously had a #1, in 1998 with "The Way". This one sounds a bit like Elvis Costello and peaked at #2.
Muna: Female group, made popular on here when it won last year's non-hit single of the year but the official video only came out in February which made it a hit in my chart then.
Glow: Jangly male pop-rock.
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Post by TheThorne on Jan 18, 2018 8:34:38 GMT 1
yeh for Muna, that one is in my best of 2016 but they will have two songs in my top 50. They had a top 10 album of the year for me.
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Post by Earl Purple on Jan 19, 2018 15:53:22 GMT 1
21 Old Friends - Loyal Wife
20 Afterlife - Daggerplay
19 The Game Is On - Hans On The Bass
18 Paying My Way - Dropkick Murphys
17 The Alien - Manchester Orchestra
16 Everything Now - Arcade Fire
These are mostly #2s but Arcade Fire is the first #1 to appear that had its whole run inside the chart, making it the lowest placed #1 of the year.
Loyal Wife, in spite of the name, are male, and the song is intended to be anti-drugs, and is slightly grungy.
Daggerplay and Hans On The Bass are both from Finland. Daggerplay are more jangly rock and male fronted.
Hans On The Bass had a huge #1 hit in 2015, and have a female lead singer, the only one in this section to do so. This song was their attempt to write a Bond theme, and it is very good.
Dropkick Murphys released a rock anthem here. Generally slightly celtic in nature, they come from Boston Massachussets and have been around for ages. I saw them live in Brixton Academy in 2015 and they sold it out even though they can't get hits here. They've had one NM #1, a Christmas song in fact with "The Season's Upon Us".
In spite of their name, Manchester Orchestra are also from the USA - Atlanta, Georgia in fact, the same place REM are from. This song doesn't sound like REM though.
Arcade Fire have also been around a lot, and they come from Canada.
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