Panda Pop Chart Top 50 (MARCH 2024)

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MAY 2020
1. Miss June - Orchid
2. Sorry - As The Sun Sets
3. bdrmm - Be Happy
4. Sorry - Perfect
5. Beths - Dying To Believe
6. Fontaines DC - A Hero's Death
7. Lanterns On The Lake - Swimming Lessons
8. Doves - Ship Of Fools
9. Nobro - Don't Die
10. I Like Trains - The Truth
11. Miro Shot - Heaven's Gate
12. I Break Horses - The Prophet
13. Lovely Eggs - Long Stem Carnations
14. Lottery Winners - Love Will Keep Us Together
15. Ajimal - Above All Else, Be Kind
16. Idles - Mr. Motivator
17. Jamie Lenman - The Future Is Dead
18. Ghostpoet - Nowhere To Hide Now
19. Happy Accidents - Grow
20. Badly Drawn Boy - You And Me Against The World
21. Everything Everything - In Birdsong
22. Alison Mosshart - Rise
23. Fews - Heaven
24. Twisted Wheel - I Am Immune
25. CLT DRP - Like Father
26. Sports Team - Going Soft
27. Soccer Mommy - Bloodstream
28. Mint - Turbulence
29. Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
30. Doves - Brazil
31. Luke Sital-Singh - Skin Of A Fool
32. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - She's There
33. Shader - Be My Saviour
34. Penfriend - Everything Looks Normal In The Sunlight
35. Trampolene & Pete Doherty - Uncle Brian's Abbatoir
36. Babii - Beast
37. Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto
38. We Are Parkas - Friday Night
39. Biffy Clyro - Tiny Indoor Fireworks
40. Cabbage - You've Made An Art Form (From Falling To Pieces)



An incredibly strong month with great songs running really deep in the top 40. I had 89 songs on my shortlist to whittle it down. Miss June top the chart having previously reached #7 twice last year. Sorry have two songs in the top 4, having reached #3 with 'More' in March. Lanterns On The Lake, Sports Team, Soccer Mommy and Biffy Clyro also make their third appearance of the year, with Porridge Radio narrowly missing out on joining them. The two Doves tracks are from newly-released EPs called 'Remnants' featuring old tracks that were previously unavailable on streaming platforms.

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Nationalities that have topped my monthly chart: (first instance in brackets)

England (January 2002)
USA (May 2002)
Australia (June 2002)
Northern Ireland (August 2002)
Scotland (February 2003)
Ireland (June 2003)
Canada (August 2005)
Austria (December 2005)
Norway (June 2006)
Japan (May 2007)
Sweden (October 2007)
Denmark (July 2014)
Belgium (January 2020)
New Zealand (May 2020)
Wales (January 2021)
Netherlands (February 2022)
France (May 2022 v2)
South Africa (May 2023)

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JUNE 2020

So I tried something a bit different for this month's chart...

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MARCH 2020 (RE-VISITED)

11(24) Avalanches & Blood Orange - We Will Always Love You
12(8) Scrounge - Starve
13(9) Oscar Lang - Flowers
14(20) Slow Readers Club - All I Hear
15(27) Spyres - Fake ID
16(11) Another Sky - Brave Face
17(15) Ultraista - Tin King
18(21) Avalanche Party - Bugzy
19(23) Jockstrap - Acid
20(40) Pottery - Texas Drums Pt. 1
21(14) Hinds - Good Bad Times
22(22) Tim Burgess - Empathy For The Devil
23(19) Nuala Honan - Slow Down
24(17) Yves Tumor - Gospel For A New Century
25(16) Happyness - Vegetable
26(25) Metronomy - Whitsand Bay
27(30) Mysterines - Love's Not Enough
28(29) Bessie Turner - Donkey
29(32) Hazel English - Off My Mind
30(18) Nova Twins - Taxi
31(31) Denzel Curry & Kenny Beats - Cosmic
32(39) MarthaGunn - We Don't Need Each Other
33(36) Dirty Projectors - Overlord
34(26) DMAs - Life Is A Game Of Changing
35(28) Blinders - Forty Days And Forty Nights
36(33) Melt Yourself Down - Crocodile
37(38) Zuzu - Skin And Bone
38(34) Strokes - Bad Decisions
39(37) Bowling For Soup - Alexa Bliss
40(NE) Willie J Healey - Why You Gotta Do It

Out:
--(35) Lauran Hibberd - Bang Bang Bang



The top 10's been compiled but I'm not posting it quite yet. Working on a little something...

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Here's the Top 10 for the revisited version of the March 2020 chart. If you're old enough to remember the early days of The Chart Show on Channel 4, you might like this...

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I've done a video countdown for the top 10 of February's re-visited chart. I had to remove the audio of Stereophonics for copyright reasons.

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JULY 2020

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APRIL 2020 (REVISITED)



11(17) Pearl Jam - Superblood Wolfmoon
12(14) Kid Kapichi - Thugs
13(12) Haarm - Tell Me What You Want
14(11) Mystery Jets - A Billion Heartbeats
15(19) Black Pumas - Fire
16(26) Wesley Gonzalez - Change
17(13) Bright Eyes - Persona Non Grata
18(15) NZCA Lines - Pure Luxury
19(16) Aimee Steven - Hell Is A Teenage Girl
20(18) Phoebe Bridgers - Garden Song
21(22) Calva Louise - Camino
22(20) Howlers - Badlands
23(21) Public Practice - Compromised
24(24) Biffy Clyro - End Of
25(23) False Heads - Steady On Your Knees
26(25) Nothing But Thieves - Is Everybody Going Crazy?
27(27) Peach Fuzz - Softie
28(28) Becca Mancari - Hunter
29(31) Dream Nails - Kiss My Fist
30(35) Squid - Sludge
31(36) Bishop Nehru - Too Lost
32(38) Alanis Morissette - Diagnosis
33(30) Day Wave - Starting Again
34(29) Thrillhouse - Lesser
35(33) Car Seat Headrest - Martin
36(--) Death Cult Electric - Deleter
37(--) Haim - The Steps
38(34) TTRRUUCES - Sensations Of Cool
39(39) Cornershop - Highly Amplified
40(32) Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Rubbernecker

Out:
--(37) Jaded Hearts Club - Nobody But Me
--(40) BC Camplight - Shortly After Takeoff

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AUGUST 2020

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MAY 2020 (RE-VISITED)



11(13) Lovely Eggs - Long Stem Carnations
12(19) Happy Accidents - Grow
13(20) Badly Drawn Boy - You And Me Against The World
14(5) Beths - Dying To Believe
15(8) Doves - Ship Of Fools
16(15) Ajimal - Above All Else Be Kind
17(16) Idles - Mr Motivator
18(21) Everything Everything - In Birdsong
19(14) Lottery Winners - Love Will Keep Us Together
20(17) Jamie Lenman - The Future Is Dead
21(23) Fews - Heaven
22(18) Ghostpoet - Nowhere To Hide Now
23(26) Sports Team - Going Soft
24(--) Fiona Apple - Shameika
25(22) Alison Mosshart - Rise
26(36) Babii - Beast
27(27) Soccer Mommy - Bloodstream
28(25) CLT DRP - Like Father
29(29) Nadine Shah - Kitchen Sink
30(34) Penfriend - Everything Looks Normal In The Sunshine
31(35) Trampolene & Pete Doherty - Uncle Brian's Abbatoir
32(24) Twisted Wheel - I Am Immune
33(30) Doves - Brazil
34(28) Mint - Turbulence
35(33) Shader - Be My Saviour
36(31) Luke Sital-Singh - Skin Of A Fool
37(37) Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto
38(32) Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - She's There
39(40) Cabbage - You've Made An Art Form From Falling To Pieces
40(--) Mysterines - I Win Every Time

Out:
--(38) We Are Parkas - Friday Night
--(39) Biffy Clyro - Tiny Indoor Fireworks

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SEPTEMBER 2020

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JUNE 2020 (RE-VISITED)




11(15) EOB - Olympik
12(17) Blackaby - What's On The TV?
13(19) Asylums - Platitudes
14(21) Billy Nomates - FNP
15(11) Coach Party - Bleach
16(9) Katie Malco - Animal
17(14) Broken Hands - Can You Feel It?
18(8) Sprints - The Cheek
19(20) Lumer - By Her Teeth
20(18) Bryde - Paper Cups
21(25) Pillow Queens - Handsome Wife
22(24) LA Witch - I Wanna Lose
23(27) Katy J Pearson - Take Back The Radio
24(30) Doves - Carousels
25(16) Cloth - Felt
26(23) Laura Marling - Strange Girl
27(29) Nuala Honan - Day To Day
28(36) Wargasm - Spit
29(22) Babeheaven - Human Nature
30(34) Gang Of Four - Forever Starts Now
31(40) Bob Mould - American Crisis
32(26) Courting - David Byrne's Badside
33(31) Sports Team - Lander
34(28) Sunflower Thieves - Hide And Seek
35(32) Song Sung - Telling Tales
36(33) Indian Queens - Wanderlust
37(--) Liam Mour - Douro
38(37) Idles - Grounds
39(35) Bugeye - Blue Fire
40(38) Jockstrap - The City


Out:
--(39) Jamie Lenman - The Road To Right

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OCTOBER 2020 (text version below)



















1. Bad Nerves - Palace
2. A Certain Ratio - Berlin
3. Beabadoobee - How Was Your Day?
4. Friedberg - Pass Me On
5. Deftones - Ohms
6. Tune-Yards - Nowhere, Man
7. Pixies - Hear Me Out
8. Calva Louise - Trial
9. Jodie Nicholson - Move
10. DMAs - Round & Around
11. Traams - Intercontinental Radio Waves
12. DJ Counselling - Wide Awake In An Open Space
13. Molly Payton - How To Have Fun
14. USA Nails - Character Stop
15. Skunk Anansie - This Means War
16. TV Priest - Slideshow
17. This Is The Kit - Was Magician
18. Porridge Radio - 7 Seconds
19. New Pagans - Yellow Room
20. Guy Garvey - My Angel
21. Juanita Stein - LOTF
22. Kids In America - La-La
23. Avalon Emerson - Poodle Power
24. The Dawdler - Crocodile
25. Lost Horizons - I Woke Up With An Open Heart
26. AK/DK - Feeds
27. Skegss - Fantasising
28. Lisasinson - Volverte A Enamorar
29. Coach Party - Can't Talk, Won't
30. Stone - Stay Silent
31. Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy
32. Nothing But Thieves - Impossible
33. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Tally-Ho
34. Theatre Royal - TV Blind
35. The Voyd - Be There
36. Bad Nerves - Electric 88
37. Inhaler - When It Breaks
38. Electrobuddah - Keep Dreamin'
39. Ailbhe Reddy - Looking Happy
40. Slow Pulp - At It Again


Bad Nerves become the second act this year to reach no.1 after being at no.2 with their previous entry. This Is The Kit also managed the feat. Age is no barrier to success in this chart with A Certain Ratio, the Deftones, the Pixies and Skunk Anansie all featuring, all of whom released their first music before some of the other acts were even born.

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JULY 2020 (Revisited)




11(11) C33s - Harpurhey Hostility
12(12) Polly Scattergood - Red
13(13) Streets & Idles - None Of Us Are Getting Out Of This Life Alive
14(10) Pastels - She Waits For Me
15(17) Bugeye - Sunday Monday
16(18) Beths - Out Of Sight
17(19) Jamie Lenman - I Don't Wanna Be Your Friend
18(21) EOB - Mass
19(23) Magic Gang - Make Time For Change
20(16) Illuminati Hotties - Freequent Letdown
21(20) Jonsi - Swill
22(22) bdrmm - Push/Pull
23(25) Samantha Crain - Pastime
24(27) I Like Trains - Dig In
25(29) Juanita Stein - Snapshot
26(--) Elvis Costello - Hetty O'Hara Confidential
27(24) Tokky Horror - Girlracer
28(26) Marsicans - These Days
29(28) Rah's - The Time Is Now
30(31) Dolls - Eggshells
31(32) Declan Welsh & The Decadant West - Ghosted
32(30) Becca Mancari - First Time
33(36) MarthaGunn - Caught Up And Confused
34(40) Marlowe - Future Power Sources
35(37) Cat SFX - Doom Generation
36(35) We Are Wood - Leave
37(--) Deep Throat Choir - Camille
38(38) Benefits - S*** Britain
39(34) Dal - Those Days
40(--) Dreuw - Give Me Your Hand


Out:
--(14) Deep Throat Choir - Like A Mountain
--(33) Declan McKenna - Daniel You're Still A Child
--(39) Genevieve Artadi - I Hate When I Can't Feel My Heart


The Deep Throat Choir track dropped out from no.14 because it simply disappeared off the face of the earth a few days after I compiled the original chart. A shame because it would've had a chance of making my end of year top 100.

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There won't be a new chart this month as I've been going through some health-related stuff and haven't been using my laptop much. I'm still hoping to compile August's revisited chart ahead of beginning my end of year chart next month.

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AUGUST 2020 (Revisited)



11(15) Beabadoobee - Care
12(12) Normal Average People - Lemo Memo
13(10) Everything Everything - Violent Sun
14(11) Molly Payton - Warm Body
15(13) Billy Nomates - Call In Sick
16(22) Bully - Every Tradition
17(25) TV Face - Work Hard Have Fun
18(28) Jackie Hayes - Headache
19(17) Ghostpoet - I Grow Tired But Dare Not Fall Asleep
20(14) Rews - Today We're Warriors
21(16) JW Francis - New York
22(23) Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Mr Prism
23(19) Sports Team - Camel Crew
24(18) Honeyblood - Gibberish
25(21) Lumer - The Sheets
26(26) Cribs - Running Into You
27(32) Glasvegas - Keep Me A Space
28(--) Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler - Sabotage (Looks So Easy)
29(24) Sufjan Stevens - Video Game
30(29) Porridge Radio - Born Confused
31(34) Sultans Court - Sublime
32(38) Working Men's Club - Valleys
33(27) Hannah Moule & The Moulettes - Attention
34(31) Biffy Clyro - Space
35(30) Spaven & Sandunes - Tree Of Life
36(40) Goa Express - Be My Friend
37(33) Lathums - All My Life
38(37) Go! Team - Cookie Scene
39(35) Joe Russell-Brown - Nausea/Fatigue
40(36) A Certain Ratio - Yo Yo Gi

Out:
--(39) LA Salami - The Talis-man On The Age Of Glass

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SEPTEMBER 2020 (Revisited)




11(11) The Dawdler - Lava Lamps
12(16) Cat Ryan - Blessed Through The TV
13(6) The Howl & The Hum - Hostages
14(7) Keaton Henson - Prayer
15(14) Low Hummer - Sometimes I Wish (I Was A Different Person)
16(17) Pit Pony - Opportunity Went
17(18) Wicketkeeper - The Side
18(25) Teenanger - Trillium Song
19(5) Arlo Parks - Hurt
20(19) Smashing Pumpkins - The Colour Of Love
21(21) Ninth Wave - Come Down Forever
22(15) Juanita Stein - The Mavericks
23(20) Samana - Passing Me By
24(31) All Things Blue - White Lady Dogs
25(26) Bloxx - Off My Mind
26(40) Travis & Susanna Hoffs - The Only Thing
27(22) NewDad - Blue
28(30) Don't Worry - Deep End
29(24) Caro - Cat's Pyjamas
30(29) Certain Animals - Truth
31(39) Metz - Hail Taxi
32(33) Ozzy - Gaan
33(38) Black Honey - Beaches
34(36) Atari - Forget Me
35(28) Toots & The Maytals - Warning Warning
36(32) Nova Twins - Play Fair
37(34) Django Django - Spirals
38(--) Declan Welsh & The Decadant West - Shame
39(27) Tommy - Darkmoon Border
40(37) Thom Southern - Shivers


Out:
--(35) Flaming Lips - Will You Return/When You Come Down

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January top 40 coming soon, with a new look and sound to the countdown!!

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JANUARY 2021 (text version below)















1. Hen Ogledd - Space Golf
2. Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard
3. Fontaines DC - You Said
4. Middle Kids - Questions
5. Fat Trout Trailer Park - Backseat
6. Pom Poko - Like A Lady
7. Mogwai - Dry Fantasy
8. Josh Thorpe - Manhattan
9. Sleaford Mods & Billy Nomates - Mork N Mindy
10. Friedberg - Lizzy
11. EUT - Party Time
12. Foo Fighters - Waiting On A War
13. Flyte - I've Got A Girl
14. Tijuana Bibles - Stateless
15. Babeheaven - Craziest Things
16. Phoebe Bridgers - Savior Complex
17. National Service - Caving
18. Landshapes - Drama
19. Shame - Water In The Well
20. Black Country, New Road - Track X
21. Spunsugar - Happier Happyless
22. Beach Riot - Blush
23. Clara Mann - I Didn't Know You Were Leaving Today
24. Cleopatrick - Good Grief
25. Run The Jewels & Royal Blood - The Ground Below
26. Valley Maker - No One Is Missing
27. Stars And Rabbit - Naked King
28. Lost Horizons & Porridge Radio - One For Regret
29. Lizzie Reid - Always Lovely
30. Mogwai - Ritchie Sacramento
31. Bee Bee Sea - Daily Jobs
32. Venus Grrrls - Goth Girl
33. Kings Of Leon - The Bandit
34. This Is The Kit - No Such Thing
35. NewDad - I Don't Recognise You
36. Liam Gallagher - All You're Dreaming Of
37. Dream Wife - Temporary
38. Nilufer Yanya - Same Damn Luck
39. Staves - Satisfied
40. Genesis Owusu - The Other Black Dog

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OCTOBER 2020 (revisited)




11(10) DMAs - Round & Around
12(11) Traams - Intercontinental Radio Waves
13(32) Nothing But Thieves - Impossible
14(14) USA Nails - Character Stop
15(9) Jodie Nicholson - Move
16(15) Skunk Anansie - This Means War
17(12) DJ Counselling - Wide Awake In An Open Space
18(28) Lisasinson - Volverte A Enamorar
19(25) Lost Horizons - I Woke Up With An Open Heart
20(17) This Is The Kit - Was Magician
21(23) Avalon Emerson - Poodle Power
22(18) Porridge Radio - 7 Seconds
23(19) New Pagans - Yellow Room
24(24) The Dawdler - Crocodile
25(20) Guy Garvey - My Angel
26(22) Kids In America - La-La
27(27) Skeggs - Fantasising
28(26) AK/DK - Feeds
29(30) Stone - Stay Silent
30(31) Goat Girl - Sad Cowboy
31(21) Juanita Stein - LOTF
32(34) Theatre Royal - TV Blind
33(29) Coach Party - Can't Talk, Won't
34(36) Bad Nerves - Electric 88
35(33) Psychedelic Porn Crumpets - Tally-Ho
36(40) Slow Pulp - At It Again
37(--) Bitch Falcon - Martyr
38(--) Michael Kiwanuka - Light
39(37) Inhaler - When It Breaks
40(--) Songhoy Blues - Barre


Out:
--(35) The Voyd - Be There
--(38) Electrobuddah - Keep Dreamin'
--(39) Ailbhe Reddy - Looking Happy