Frag's Top 200 of 2007 *complete!*

[frag]

Starting slightly later than most, but I wanted to wait until I'd compiled the last chart of the year...

First, some stats:

• 332 songs charted during the 52 weeks of 2007, averaging just under 6 new songs per week.
  
• Of these, 13 don't qualify for Year-End Chart consideration due to being in last year's top 100, and not being re-released during '07. This includes a #1 from 2007 that wasn't #1 during 2006 (Snow Patrol's "Set The Fire To The Third Bar")
  
• Eight songs achieved platinum status (250 pts) during 2007, with a further 34 getting gold status (160 pts) and 84 getting silver status (80 pts).
  
• 31 songs got to #1 spot, bringing the all-time total to 236 from 402 weeks.
  
• The longest time spent at #1 by a single song was 4 weeks, this was achieved by just one song.
  
• The same song also managed 15 weeks on the chart, more than any other, and amassed the most points, 373.
  

Right, that's enough stats for now, let's get cracking with the top 200 (in the next post)...

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This is really a top 202, since we have a three-way tie for #200 (the lower 2/3rds of the chart is done statistically, although a few wildcards are considered for the top 100, mainly songs coming out late in the year.)

200 - 151
200= You And I Are A Gang Of Losers Dears
200= Leni GoodBooks
200= Hustler Simian Mobile Disco
199 Back When You Were Good Hours
197= Waterloo Sunset Kinks
197= She's So Lovely Scouting For Girls
196 Baby Fratelli Fratellis
195 We'll Live And Die In These Towns Enemy
194 Don't You Wanna Be Relevant Cribs
193 Land Of A Thousand Words Scissor Sisters
192 You Can't Have It All Ash
191 Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division

190 Don't Shoot Me Santa Killers
189 Bright Lights Tom McRae
188 Time Of The Season Zombies
187 The Photos On My Wall Good Shoes
186 You Are The One Shiny Toy Guns
185 Go For Blue Pepe Deluxe
184 Ageing Had Never Been His Friend Love Is All
183 Take It Like A Man Dragonettes
182 Whistle For The Choir Fratellis
181 Tarantula Smashing Pumpkins

180 Rootless Tree Damien Rice
179 Four Winds Bright Eyes
178 Lord Don't Slow Me Down Oasis
177 Setting Sun Aliens
176 Stone Is A Bullet Dogs
175 Icky Thump White Stripes
174 Glorious Natalie Imbruglia
173 Jacqueline Coral
172 The Take Over, The Break's Over Fall Out Boy
171 Off The Hook CSS

170 Let's Get Our Hands Dirty We Start Fires
169 Indian Summer Manic Street Preachers
168 You! Me! Dancing! Los Campesinos
167 Never Before Have I Seen A Man Alive Who Looks So Exactly Like A Skeleton Ghost Frequency
166 Teddy Picker Arctic Monkeys
165 Fireworks Animal Collective
164 Mistaken For Strangers National
163 No I In Threesome Interpol
162 I'm A Rat Towers Of London
161 Shooting Star Air Traffic

160 Surrendered Bluetones
159 The Don View
158 Sister Rose Ian Brown
157 Fallen Leaves Billy Talent
156 International Tweexcore Underground Los Campesinos
155 Hot Knives Bright Eyes
154 Lovers Who Uncover Little Ones
153 Christmas Number One Black Arts (Art Brut / Black Box Recorder)
152 Karaoke Plays Maxïmo Park
151 Appropriate Ending Electric Soft Parade

That Ghost Frequency song at #167 hasn't been given a wildcard, because I think it'll be strong enough next year to reach my top 100...

[o]

Those Bright Eyes songs were highly underrated, surprised the Manics are so low Air Traffic as well!

[Earl Purple]

Surprised you consider Whistle For The Choir to be eligible. Because it was split over two years it won't get its proper "chart of the year" position but I'll probably state where it would have been. It's the only single within the last two years to spend 6 weeks at NM #1 though. "Baby Fratelli" reached NM #3 and will be in my top 100 of the year.

About Pepe Deluxe, if you read in the book on 1000 hit singles you will find them mentioned under "Inside" by Stiltskin where it labels them as one hit wonders but actually "Before You Leave" never even reached my chart but they had 3 hits in my chart this year, although it was their 2nd one that was by far their biggest...

[Milliways]

There's a lot I haven't heard here! Of the ones I know, I like both #197s (though one is old), #196, #159 and #153.

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andy said:

Those Bright Eyes songs were highly underrated, surprised the Manics are so low Air Traffic as well!

Some of the Manic songs I found a bit too formulaic; they do have a couple of entries in the top 100, mind.

Air Traffic still have a song to come too, and it won't appear for a while

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As for 'Whistle For The Choir', it wasn't disqualified because it failed to make my top 100 last year, and this part of the chart is statistical anyway. One song from 2006 did make it into 2007's top 100, again because it had most of its chart life in 2007.

[Earl Purple]

KingB is back! Hope he'll be interested in mine when I count it down. And as I'm only counting down the top 100 on REP, I might start the rest of the chart now.

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150 - 101
150 Fairytale Of New York Pogues & Kirsty Macoll
149 Typical Mute Math
148 Teardrop José González
147 Save Myself Willy Mason
146 Long Road To Ruin Foo Fighters
145 Vital Signs Frank Turner
144 Wanderlust King Gogol Bordello
143 Small Town Girl Good Shoes
142 How Far We've Come Matchbox 20
141 Giddy Stratospheres Long Blondes
A few recent songs at in here statistically, having being denied wildcards... only Foo Fighters had reached the top 10 (from those recent songs).

140 Destroy Everything You Touch Ladytron
139 Isis Yeah Yeah Yeahs
138 Whole Wide World Proclaimers
137 Your Love Alone Is Not Enough Manic Street Preachers
136 The Magic Position Patrick Wolf
135 Who Are You James
134 Wide Awake Twang
133 I'm On My Own Vincent Vincent And The Villains
132 Pieces Of The People We Love Rapture
131 A House Is Not A Home Field Music
More from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Procialmers to come...

130 Marble House Knife
129 The Count Of Monte Christo Noisettes
128 An End Has A Start Editors
127 High School Never Ends Bowling For Soup
126 Let's Dance To Joy Division Wombats
125 The Bomb New Young Pony Club
124 Hurricane Athlete
123 Siberia Charlotte Hatherley
122 Extreme Ways Moby
121 Scratch Your Name Noisettes
All these songs achieved Silver rating (80+ points) in the chart, mostly peaking between #6 and #12.

120 Our Bovine Public Cribs
119 Sister Rosetta (Capture The Spirit) Noisettes
118 Mammoth Interpol
117 Heinrich Maneuver Interpol
116 The Wrath Of Marcie Go! Team
115 Motorcycle Rumble Strips
114 We Danced Together Rakes
113 If That's The Case Then I Don't Know Electric Soft Parade
112 Turn On Me Shins
111 Ali In The Jungle Hours
From this group, the songs are ordered by merit, not statistically. Interpol fail to reach the top 100. The Go! Team song would probably be higher if I compiled this a few weeks ago, but I've started to get a bit tired of it recently.

110 Hey There Delilah Plain White T's
109 Australia Shins
108 Tears For Affairs Camera Obscura
107 Painted By Numbers Sounds
106 You're Not Alone Enemy
105 Grace Kelly Mika
104 3's And 7's Queens Of The Stone Age
103 Matador Arctic Monkeys
102 Misunderstanding Electric Soft Parade
101 Ole Black 'N' Blue Eyes Fratellis
These songs just not quite having what it takes to reach the top 100. This set includes a FragChart #1 - Mika in January with 'Grace Kelly'.

[Earl Purple]

Some good stuff in there, several of those in my top 100 of the year. Nice to see you chart Gogol Bordello, with all the promotion I've been giving them on here.

High School Never Ends was a #1 in my chart. Really funny lyrics, I think. Actually just what I felt...

Also good to see you chart Field Music and Vincent Vincent & The Villans (both in my top 100). There are a few in there I have in different years, Extreme Ways I have as 2002 I think.

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earlpurple said:

Some good stuff in there, several of those in my top 100 of the year. Nice to see you chart Gogol Bordello, with all the promotion I've been giving them on here.

Yeah, I'll definitely look out for Gogol Bordello. It's the combination of being mental and Scottish... don't they have a song called "Start Wearing Purple"?

High School Never Ends was a #1 in my chart. Really funny lyrics, I think. Actually just what I felt...

Maybe I'll see what you mean in a few years Only reached #2 for me

There are a few in there I have in different years, Extreme Ways I have as 2002 I think.

Extreme Ways was indeed also released in 2002 - it reached #94 in my year-end chart, the only time Moby have done so (the chart started too late for the 'Play' material. I remember liking the James bond Theme a lot when it was out)


I'm a little busy at the moment, but might post some more songs tonight, or if not, then tomorrow.

[Earl Purple]

Gogol Bordello are not Scottish, they are originally from Romania and are Gypsies but now live in the USA. And yes they have a song called Start Wearing Purple, and perhaps not surprisingly it reached NM #1. And was actually the first song of theirs I heard.

I didn't like Moby at all until Porcelain, that was hit first NM hit and reached #3. He recently had a hit single with Debbie Harry called New York New York (not the Frank Sinatra song).

I hope you will check out the links to the songs in my chart of the year because you'll see how much good music there is about.

[Milliways]

I reckon the best way to catch up with what's going on in music, at least on the indie/rock side of things, at the moment is to listen to (as far as possible) every track here.

I've been away for a while, but to give you something from the past year from my point of view, here are 10 songs on MySpace or YouTube that I've enjoyed. This is my only Year-end 'chart' I'm going to do, and the songs are in no particular order.

Note that my favourites tend to be more poppy and punky than Frag's:

TAT - 'Peace, Sex and Tea' (Link)
The Unlovables - 'Everything's Overrated' (Link)
Ozma - 'Lunchbreak' (Link)
Les Fatals Picards - 'L'amour a la Francaise' (Link)
Maggie Holland - 'Locks, Bolts & Hinges' (Link)
Groove Coverage - '21st Century Digital Girl' (Link)
Robb Johnson - 'Anarchy In Hackney' (Link)
Ali Love - 'K-Hole' (Link)
The Go-Sheilas - 'I Can Make It' (Link)
The Go-Sheilas - 'True' (Link)

[Milliways]

Colours (quick reference): RED = 0-3; BLACK = 4-6; TEAL = 7-8; GREEN = 9-10

=200 (Dears): 3; =200 (GoodBooks):6; =200 (SMD):5; 199:(Hours):6; =197 (Kinks):7; =197(SfG):9; 196 (Fratellis):9; 195 (Enemy):4; 194 (Cribs):7; 193 (SS):1; 192 (Ash):7; 191 (JD):6; 190 (Killers):8; 189 (TomMcRae):7; 188 (Zombies):6; 187 (GoodShoes):7; 186 (STG):8; 185 (PepeDeluxe):6*; 184 (LoveIsAll):7*; 183 (Dragonette):9; 182 (Fratellis):4; 181 (SPs):8; 180 (DamienRice):7 179 (BrightEyes):9; 178 (Oasis):6; 177 (Aliens):5; 176 (Dogs):8; 175 (WStripes):3; 174 (NatalieI):7; 173 (Coral):6; 172 (FOB):7; 171 (CSS):4; 170 (WSF):6; 169 (MSP):8; 168 (LosCs):4; 167 (GhostF):3; 166 (ArcticMs):4; 165 (AnimalC):3; 164 (National):2; 163 (Interpol):2; 162 (ToL):6; 161 (AirTraffic):5; 160 (Bluetones):N/A; 159 (TheView):9; 158 (IanBrown):5; 157 (BillyTalent):9; 156 (LosCs):7; 155 (BrightEyes):6; 154 (LittleOnes):5; 153 (BlackArts):8; 152 (MaximoPark):7; 151 (ESP):4.

150 (Pogues&KM):8; 149 (MuteMath):5; 148 (JoseG):3; 147 (WillyM):4; 146 (FooFs):7; 145 (FrankT):5; 144 (GogolB):9; 143 (GoodShoes):6; 142 (Mb20):7; 141 (LongBs):7; 140 (Ladytron):6; 139 (YYYs):1; 138 (Procs):3**; 137 (MSP):8; 136 (PatWolf):8; 135 (James):6; 134 (Twang):5; 133 (VV&V):6; 132 (Rapture):5; 131 (FieldMusic):4; 130 (Knife):3; 129 (Noisettes):5; 128 (Editors):7; 127 (BfS):10; 126 (Wombats):8; 125 (NYPC):4; 124 (Athlete):2; 123 (CharlotteH):7; 122 (Moby):3; 121 (Noisettes):6; 120 (Cribs):5; 119 (Noisettes):8; 118 (Interpol):1***; 117 (Interpol):4; 116 (Go!Team):6; 115 (RumbleS):7; 114 (Rakes):4; 113 (ESP):8; 112 (Shins):8; 111 (Hours):5; 110 (PWTs):6; 109 (Shins):7; 108 (CameraO):4; 107 (Sounds):9; 106 (Enemy):8; 105 (Mika):9; 104 (QOTSA):8; 103 (ArcticMs):4; 102 (ESP):5; 101 (Fratellis):10.


* Neither of these songs are all that, but both the videos are awesome!
** I like the original (Wreckless Eric) a lot (9). This cover stinks.
*** I'm very pleased to read that there is no Interpol in the top 100!

[frag]

The links don't work

[Milliways]

Try now

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Into the top 100 we plod... numbers after the songs show their weeks on chart, and peak position.

100 Show Your Hand Super Furry Animals 7, #6 (Video)
99 Waiting Game Cooper Temple Clause 6, #5 (Video)
98 Love Made Visible Delays 6, #5 (Video)
97 These Bones Dashboard Confessional 4, #9 (Song)
96 Open Your Window Reverend And The Makers 6, #2 (Video)
95 Method Acting Kubichek! 6, #3 (Video)
94 Signal Fire Snow Patrol 5, #7 (Video)
93 Bitter End Nine Black Alps 8, #8 (Video)
92 Hold On KT Tunstall 7, #7 (Video)
91 Passchendaele GoodBooks 8, #7 (Video)

More to come from many of these artists, especially Snow Patrol and Kubichek! Wasn't 'Show Your Hand' in a similar position in MrH's YEC?

Edit: Super Furry Animals were #101 in MrH's rundown, but with a different song.

Edit 2: Video links added - I'm making a playlist of them all on YouTube, will link to it when it's done

[Earl Purple]

kingb said:

I reckon the best way to catch up with what's going on in music, at least on the indie/rock side of things, at the moment is to listen to (as far as possible) every track here.

I've been away for a while, but to give you something from the past year from my point of view, here are 10 songs on MySpace or YouTube that I've enjoyed. This is my only Year-end 'chart' I'm going to do, and the songs are in no particular order.

Note that my favourites tend to be more poppy and punky than Frag's:

TAT - 'Peace, Sex and Tea' (Link)
The Unlovables - 'Everything's Overrated' (Link)
Ozma - 'Lunchbreak' (Link)
Les Fatals Picards - 'L'amour a la Francaise' (Link)
Maggie Holland - 'Locks, Bolts & Hinges' (Link)
Groove Coverage - '21st Century Digital Girl' (Link)
Robb Johnson - 'Anarchy In Hackney' (Link)
Ali Love - 'K-Hole' (Link)
The Go-Sheilas - 'I Can Make It' (Link)
The Go-Sheilas - 'True' (Link)

so are mine, so why not post on my topic. Of that list though I think only the first one was a hit in my chart, i.e. TAT.

I will check the links later but don't have time right now.

[Earl Purple]

fragolata said:

Into the top 100 we plod... numbers after the songs show their weeks on chart, and peak position.

100 Show Your Hand Super Furry Animals 7, #6 (Video)
99 Waiting Game Cooper Temple Clause 6, #5 (Video)
98 Love Made Visible Delays 6, #5 (Video)
97 These Bones Dashboard Confessional 4, #9 (Song)
96 Open Your Window Reverend And The Makers 6, #2 (Video)
95 Method Acting Kubichek! 6, #3 (Video)
94 Signal Fire Snow Patrol 5, #7 (Video)
93 Bitter End Nine Black Alps 8, #8 (Video)
92 Hold On KT Tunstall 7, #7 (Video)
91 Passchendaele GoodBooks 8, #7 (Video)

More to come from many of these artists, especially Snow Patrol and Kubichek! Wasn't 'Show Your Hand' in a similar position in MrH's YEC?

Edit: Super Furry Animals were #101 in MrH's rundown, but with a different song.

Edit 2: Video links added - I'm making a playlist of them all on YouTube, will link to it when it's done

Reverend & The Makers feature in my top 100 but not with that song.

[Panda]

fragolata said:

Into the top 100 we plod... numbers after the songs show their weeks on chart, and peak position.

100 Show Your Hand Super Furry Animals 7, #6 (Video)
99 Waiting Game Cooper Temple Clause 6, #5 (Video)
98 Love Made Visible Delays 6, #5 (Video)
97 These Bones Dashboard Confessional 4, #9 (Song)
96 Open Your Window Reverend And The Makers 6, #2 (Video)
95 Method Acting Kubichek! 6, #3 (Video)
94 Signal Fire Snow Patrol 5, #7 (Video)
93 Bitter End Nine Black Alps 8, #8 (Video)
92 Hold On KT Tunstall 7, #7 (Video)
91 Passchendaele GoodBooks 8, #7 (Video)

More to come from many of these artists, especially Snow Patrol and Kubichek! Wasn't 'Show Your Hand' in a similar position in MrH's YEC?

Edit: Super Furry Animals were #101 in MrH's rundown, but with a different song.

Edit 2: Video links added - I'm making a playlist of them all on YouTube, will link to it when it's done

2 of the disappointments of the year: Nine Black Alps's return after the promise they previously showed and the demise of Cooper Temple Clause...

[Jonny]

Hey I like these so far Frag:

100 Show Your Hand Super Furry Animals 7, #6 (Video)
96 Open Your Window Reverend And The Makers 6, #2 (Video)
94 Signal Fire Snow Patrol 5, #7 (Video)
93 Bitter End Nine Black Alps 8, #8 (Video)