Panda Pop Chart Top 50 (MAY 2024)

[Panda]

It's back!  After an absence of several years due to having better things to do with my time, Hamster Hits returns!

The premise is the same as before - a monthly chart featuring 20 different songs every month. The key difference is it's no longer limited to singles and doesn't stick rigidly to release dates. It's simply based on the songs I've heard during that month, whether they were out months ago or haven't yet been released.

So without further ado, here are the first four Hamster Hits charts of 2014:

JANUARY 2014
1. Boy & Bear - Southern Sun 
2. Mogwai - Remurdered 
3. Franz Ferdinand - Bullet 
4. Bitter Ruin - Diggers 
5. Wild Beasts - Wanderlust
6. Bombay Bicycle Club - Luna
7. Courtney Barnett - History Eraser
8. Phoenix - SOS In Bel Air
9. Bombay Bicycle Club - Carry Me
10. Temples - Mesmerise
11. Joanna Gruesome - Madison
12. Bohicas - XXX
13. Lizzo - Batches & Cookies
14. Warpaint - Love Is To Die
15. Exit Calm - Promise
16. New Desert Blues - Zachary
17. James Vincent McMorrow - Cavalier
18. Maximo Park - Leave This Island
19. Half Moon Run - Full Circle
20. The Horn The Hunt - Black Fire


FEBRUARY 2014
1. Skaters - Miss Teen Massachusetts
2. Cate Le Bon - I Can't Help You
3. Jon Hopkins - Collider
4. Elbow - New York Morning
5. Elbow - Fly Boy Blue/Lunette
6. East India Youth - Dripping Down
7. Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots
8. Rae Morris - Skin
9. Arctic Monkeys - Arabella
10. St. Vincent - Digital Witness
11. Joan As Police Woman - Holy City
12. Joan As Police Woman - The Classic
13. Menace Beach - Fortune Teller
14. We Are Scientists - Make It Easy
15. War On Drugs - Red Eyes
16. Young Fathers - Get Up
17. Algiers - Mother
18. Jagwar Ma - Uncertainty
19. Cheatahs - Get Tight
20. September Girls - Green Eyed


MARCH 2014
1. Editors - Sugar
2. Brody Dalle - Meet The Foetus/Oh The Joy
3. London Grammar - Hey Now
4. Tom Williams & The Boat - Hurricane
5. Band Of Skulls - Nightmares
6. Agnes Obel - Aventine
7. Annie Eve - Shuffle
8. Dan Croll - From Nowhere
9. Klaxons - Children Of The Sun
10. Speedy Ortiz - American Horror
11. Balthazar - Leipzig
12. Cage The Elephant - Come A Little Closer
13. Little Dragon - Klapp Klapp
14. Neneh Cherry & Robyn - Out Of The Black
15. Kill Van Kulls - Wishing
16. Big Deal - In Your Car
17. Warpaint - Disco//Very
18. Arcade Fire - Afterlife
19. Superfood - TV
20. Kaiser Chiefs - Coming Home


APRIL 2014
1. Max Jury - Christian Eyes
2. Gruff Rhys - American Interior
3. Southern - Where The Wild Are
4. Howling Bells - Slowburn
5. Brody Dalle - Don't Mess With Me
6. Asgeir - Going Home
7. Amazing Snakeheads - Here It Comes Again
8. Family Rain - Don't Waste Your Time
9. I Break Horses - Disclosure
10. Queens Of The Stone Age - If I Had A Tail
11. Elbow - My Sad Captains
12. Joanna Gruesome - Anti-Parent Cowboys Killers
13. Quilt - Tired & Buttered
14. Bombay Bicycle Club - Feel
15. St. Vincent - Prince Johnny
16. Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile
17. Pixies - Greens And Blues
18. Little Matador - Stitch Yourself Up
19. Cate Le Bon - Sisters
20. Tune-Yards - Water Fountain


Youtube playlist featuring all 80 tracks is here: 

[o]

Excellent!
I'm going to nab the Top 20 and use it in the Haven Singles Combi Chart if that is okay Misterh? I'll freeze it for the 3 weeks til the new chart appears each time

[Panda]

Go for it.

[Panda]

MAY 2014
1. Blood Red Shoes - Speech Coma
2. Real Estate - Crime
3. Angel Olsen - High And Wild
4. Bat And Ball - Stops My Mouth
5. Jack White - Lazaretto
6. Arctic Monkeys - Snap Out Of It
7. Manic Street Preachers - Walk Me To The Bridge
8. La Roux - Let Me Down Gently
9. Black Keys - Bullet In The Brain
10. Royal Blood - Come On Over
11. Birds Of Satan - Nothing At All
12. Chvrches - We Sink
13. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Chartjunk
14. John J Presley - Left
15. Lana Del Rey - West Coast
16. Teleman - 23 Floors Up
17. Kings Of Leon - Don't Matter
18. Kins - Mockasins
19. Lonely The Brave - Victory Line
20. Morrissey - World Peace Is None Of Your Business

[Panda]

JUNE 2014
1. Alt-J - Hunger Of The Pine
2. Big Deal - Always Boys
3. Magic Numbers - Shot In The Dark
4. Chris T-T - A Beaten Drum
5. Yuck - Another One
6. Damien Jurado - Metallic Cloud
7. Boy & Bear - Bridges
8. DZ Deathrays - Reflective Skull
9. Pixies - Magdalena
10. Amazing Snakeheads - Nighttime
11. Little Matador - Reasons
12. Darlia - Dear Diary
13. Foster The People - Best Friend
14. Morrissey - Istanbul
15. Nick Mulvey - Fever To The Form
16. Jimi Goodwin - Live Like A River
17. Gruff Rhys - Liberty (Is Where We'll Be)
18. Phantogram - Fall In Love
19. Temples - Shelter Song
20. La Roux - Uptight Downtown

[o]

Excellent #1, didn't realise you were a fan.

[Panda]

Complete Hamster Hits/Panda Pop #1s history:

#1s on the revisited version of the chart (from 2020 onwards) are shown in italics if different from the original #1.

2002
Jan: Cooper Temple Clause - Film-Maker
Feb: Clinic - Walking With Thee
Mar: Easyworld - Try Not To Think
Apr: Haven - Til The End
May: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Spread Your Love
Jun: Vines - Get Free
Jul: MASS - Hey Gravity
Aug: Ash - Envy
Sep: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever Happened To My Rock & Roll?
Oct: Nada Surf - The Way You Wear Your Head
Nov: Smother - Square Wheels

2003
Jan: Easyworld - Junkies
Feb: Delgados - All You Need Is Hate
Mar: Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
Apr: Delays - Nearer Than Heaven
May: Radiohead - There There
Jun: Thrills - Big Sur
Jul: Blur - Crazy Beat
Aug: McKay - Take Me Over
Sep: Longwave - Wake Me When It's Over
Oct: Sleepy Jackson - Good Dancers
Nov: Belle And Sebastian - Step Into My Office Baby

2004
Jan: Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Feb: Von Bondies - C'mon C'mon
Mar: Thirteen Senses - Thru The Glass
Apr: Ordinary Boys - Week In Week Out
May: Hope Of The States - The Red The White The Black The Blue
Jun: Joy Zipper - Out Of The Sun
Jul: Snow Patrol - Spitting Games
Aug: Cathy Davey - Clean And Neat
Sep: Interpol - Slow Hands
Oct: Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out
Nov: Maximo Park - The Coast Is Always Changing

2005
Jan: Thirteen Senses - Thru The Glass
Feb: Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Mar: Viva Voce - Alive With Pleasure
Apr: Viva Voce - The Center Of The Universe
May: Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
Jun: Interpol - Slow Hands
Jul: Queens Of The Stone Age - In My Head
Aug: Arcade Fire - Cold Wind
Sep: Subways - With You
Oct: Maximo Park - Apply Some Pressure
Nov: Kaiser Chiefs - Modern Way
Dec: Ladyfuzz - Monster

2006
Jan: Test Icicles - What's Your Damage?
Feb: Magic Numbers - Which Way To Happy
Mar: Foo Fighters - No Way Back
Apr: Nada Surf - Always Love
May: The Like - What I Say And What I Mean
Jun: Serena Maneesh - Drain Cosmetics
Jul: Raconteurs - Hands
Aug: Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
Sep: Howling Bells - Setting Sun
Oct: Cooper Temple Clause - Homo Sapiens
Nov: Oasis - Acquiesce

2007
Jan: Shins - Phantom Limb
Feb: The Gossip - Standing In The Way Of Control
Mar: Biffy Clyro - Saturday Superhouse
Apr: Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
May: Cornelius - Gum
Jun: Tegan & Sara - Walking With A Ghost
Jul: Smashing Pumpkins - Tarantula
Aug: Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
Sep: Go! Team - Doing It Right
Oct: Hives - Tick Tick Boom
Nov: Asobi Seksu - Strawberries

2008
Jan: Sons & Daughters - Darling
Feb: Tegan & Sara - The Con
Mar: Hercules & Love Affair - Blind
Apr: Goldfrapp - Happiness
May: Young Knives - Turn Tail
Jun: Kills - Last Day Of Magic
Jul: Portishead - The Rip
Aug: Midnight Juggernauts - Into The Galaxy
Sep: Son Of Dave - Hellhound
Oct: MIA - Paper Planes
Nov: Iliketrains - The Christmas Tree Ship

2009
Feb: Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight
Mar: Kills - Black Balloon
Apr: Camera Obscura - French Navy
May: Cass McCombs - Dreams Come True Girl
Jun: Rose Elinor Dougall - Stop/Start/Synchro
Jul: Spinnerette - Baptized By Fire
Aug: Twilight Sad - I Became A Prostitute
Sep: Paramore - Ignorance
Oct: Twilight Sad - Seven Years Of Letters
Nov: Them Crooked Vultures - Mind Eraser No Chaser

2010
Jan: Liam Frost & Martha Wainwright - Your Hand In Mine
Feb: And So I Watch You From Afar - S Is For Salamander
Mar: Bombay Bicycle Club - Evening/Morning
Apr: Twilight Sad - The Room
May: Ellie Goulding - Guns And Horses

2013
Jan: Family Rain - Trust Me I'm A Genius
Feb: Staves - Winter Trees

2014
Jan: Boy & Bear - Southern Sun
Feb: Skaters - Miss Teen Massachusetts
Mar: Editors - Sugar
Apr: Max Jury - Christian Eyes
May: Blood Red Shoes - Speech Coma
Jun: Alt-J - Hunger Of The Pine
Jul: Agnes Obel - Words Are Dead
Aug: Queens Of The Stone Age - Smooth Sailing
Sep: Honeyblood - Choker
Oct: Mogwai - Teenage Exorcists
Nov: Twilight Sad - Last January

2015
Jan: Nadine Shah - Stealing Cars
Feb: Courtney Barnett - Pedestrian At Best
Mar: Nothing But Thieves - Ban All The Music
Apr: Public Service Broadcasting - Go!
May: DMA's - Feels Like 37
Jun: Django Django - Shake And Tremble
Jul: Eaves - Dove In Your Mouth
Aug: Gardens & Villa - Fixations
Sep: Steve - Two Point Nearly Zero
Oct: Duke Spirit - Blue And Yellow Light
Nov: FEWS - The Zoo

2016
Jan: Radiohead - Spectre
Feb: Little Green Cars - Easier Day
Mar: Floating Points - Peroration Six
Apr: Hannah Lou Clark - It's Your Love
May: Emma Pollock - Dark Skies

2019
Jan: Twilight Sad - VTr
Feb: Bill Ryder-Jones - Don't Be Scared, I Love You
Mar: She Drew The Gun - Paradise
Apr: These New Puritans - Anti-Gravity
May: Lucia - Blueheart
Jun: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - Kitty Sucker
Jul: Idles - Never Fight A Man With A Perm
Aug: Anna Calvi - Indies Or Paradise
Sep: False Advertising - Influenza
Oct: Ninth Wave - Imitation
Nov: Ride - Jump Jet

2020
Jan: Tamino - Every Pore
Jan: Lanterns On The Lake - Baddies
Feb: Keeley Forsyth - Start Again
Mar: Asylums - Catalogue Kids
Mar: Eliza Shaddad - Same As You
Apr: Coach Party - Breakdown
Apr: Tom Lumley & The Brave Liaison - Shrink
May: Miss June - Orchid
May: Sorry - Perfect
Jun: bdrmm - A Reason To Celebrate
Jul: Fontaines DC - Televised Mind
Aug: Chappaqua Wrestling - The Rift
Aug: Dead Pony - Sharp Tongues
Sep: This Is The Kit - Coming To Get You Nowhere
Oct: Bad Nerves - Palace

2021
Jan: Hen Ogledd - Space Golf
Jan: Dry Cleaning - Scratchcard Lanyard
Feb: Mogwai - Here We, Here We, Here We Go Forever
Feb: A Festival, A Parade - Area Man
Mar: Friedberg - Yeah
Mar: Wolf Alice - The Last Man On Earth
Apr: Everything Everything - Supernormal
May: Squirrel Flower - I'll Go Running
Jun: Institutes - I Just Can't Keep Myself From Loving You
Jun: Wildhearts - Remember These Days
Jul: Wynona Bleach - Drag
Aug: Eera - Ladder
Aug: The Bug Club - The Fixer
Sep: Radiohead - If You Say The Word
Oct: Mysterines - Hung Up
Nov: The Golden Age Of TV - What I've Been Through

2022
Jan: Blushing - The Fires
Feb: Lewsberg - Six Hills
Feb: Nilufer Yanya - Midnight Sun
Mar: Horsegirl - Anti-glory
Mar: Arcade Fire - The Lightning
Apr: Yumi & The Weather - It's All In My Head
Apr: Loose Fit - Stupid Drama
May: Wunderhorse - Butterflies
May: Melody's Echo Chamber - Where The Water Clears The Illusion
Jun: Jawny ft Beck - Take It Back
Jun: Kasabian - Chemicals
Jul: Belle And Sebastian - Talk To Me, Talk To Me
Aug: Kid Kapichi - 5 Days On (2 Days Off)
Sep: Paramore - This Is Why
Oct: Adwaith - Sudd
Oct: Alvvays - After The Earthquake
Nov: July Talk - After This
Nov: The Big Moon - Daydreaming

2023
Jan: Special Interest - Cherry Blue Intention
Feb: Steve Mason - The People Say
Feb: Bobby Saffron - Oceana (ft Eliza Shaddad)
Mar: Eaves Wilder - Are You Diagnosed?
Apr: Alanis Morissette - No Reason
Apr: Declan Welsh & The Decadent West - I Don't Know Why
May: Honeymoan - Sorry Like You Mean It
May: The Last Dinner Party - Nothing Matters
Jun: Declan Welsh & The Decadent West - First To Know
Jun: Picture Parlour - Norwegian Wood
Jul: Squirrel Flower - Full Time Job
Jul: Mother Mother - Normalize
Aug: Orla Gartland - Kiss Ur Face Forever
Aug: 86TVs - Worn Out Buildings
Sep: Bad Nerves - USA
Oct: Rachel Chinouriri - The Hills
Nov: Sun Mahshene - Reverie

2024
Jan: Junodream - Kitchen Sink Drama
Feb: Tnl Vzn - Scratch
Mar: Lozenge - Precious
Apr: Fink - What Would You Call Yourself?
May: Sea Driver - Arkless

[Razzle Dazzle]

A rough guesstimate I reckon I have 47 of the songs on my mp3 player. Really wanna listen to that delgados track now

[Panda]

Jul 19, 2014 0:38:42 GMT 1 Razzle Dazzle said:

A rough guesstimate I reckon I have 47 of the songs on my mp3 player. Really wanna listen to that delgados track now

47 of the #1s? That's a good return - just under 50%. 47 of the 120 from this year's charts is less good but still not bad.

[Razzle Dazzle]

Yeah 47 of the number ones. Think I have all the ones from 2004 but none from 2008!

[TheThorne]

Some great stuff here, like the monthly chart, I do that for albums but might be tempted to do same for singles as a weekly chart especially a top 100 is getting a lot of effort.

[musicfan09]

Best Friend!

[Panda]

JULY 2014
1. Agnes Obel - Words Are Dead
2. Oliver Wilde - Say Yes To Ewans
3. Interpol - All The Rage Back Home
4. Anna Calvi & David Byrne - Strange Weather
5. Annie Eve - Basement
6. Haley Bonar - Kill The Fun
7. Elbow - Real Life (Angel)
8. Kasabian - Bumblebeee
9. Marmozets - Captivate You
10. Family Rain - You Should Be Glad You've Got A Man
11. Broken Bells - Control
12. Death From Above 1979 - Trainwreck 1979
13. Lucius - Tempest
14. Lykke Li - Gunshot
15. Philip Selway - Coming Up For Air
16. Gaslight Anthem - Rollin' And Tumblin'
17. Jamie T - Don't You Find
18. Melanie De Biasio - I'm Gonna Leave You
19. Smoke Fairies - Shadow Inversions
20. Band Of Skulls - Hoochie Coochie

[o]

Pleased to see Kasabian, Broken Bells and Jamie T in there, quite a few I dont know.
And Thorney, scale your excellent chart down to a Top 50, rather than make it monthly

[Panda]

AUGUST 2014
1. Queens Of The Stone Age - Smooth Sailing
2. Angus & Julia Stone - A Heartbreak
3. Beck - Heart Is A Drum
4. Alt-J - Every Other Freckle
5. Catfish & The Bottlemen - Cocoon
6. Mazes - Salford
7. Pale Seas - Wicked Dreams
8. Dry The River - Everlasting Light
9. Courteeners - How Good It Was
10. Hozier - Take Me To Church
11. Jamie T - Zombie
12. Manic Street Preachers - Futurology
13. Mastodon - The Motherload
14. Weezer - Back To The Shack
15. Morrissey - Kiss Me A Lot
16. Rubblebucket - Carousel Ride
17. Young Buffalo - Sykia
18. Ty Segall - The Faker
19. Lily & Madeleine - The Wolf Is Free
20. Black Rivers - The Ship

[o]

QOTSA at #1, nice, I do like that as well, and it's in an ad on the telly or something as well I think I prefer the Dont you find track by Jamie T, but Zombie is good as well, shame it's nowhere near the Top 40

[Panda]

SEPTEMBER 2014
1. Honeyblood - Choker
2. Aphex Twin - Minipops 67
3. Billie Marten - Ribbon
4. Holy Esque - Sovereign
5. Ben Watt - Nathaniel
6. Billy The Kid - Phone Bills
7. Fauns - 4AM
8. Eugene McGuinness - The Crueler Kind
9. Kate Tempest - Circles
10. Staves - Blood I Bled
11. Circa Waves - So Long
12. Haley Bonar - Last War
13. Karen O - Rapt
14. Scary People - Guided By The Blind
15. Kele - Doubt
16. TV On The Radio - Happy Idiot
17. Julian Casablancas & The Voidz - Where No Eagles Fly
18. Coves - Wake Up
19. Thurston Moore - The Best Day
20. Johnny Marr - Easy Money

[Panda]

OCTOBER 2014
1. Mogwai - Teenage Exorcists
2. Hookworms - On Leaving
3. Lamb - We Fall In Love
4. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - In The Heat Of The Moment
5. Alt-J - Left Hand Free
6. Childhood - Blue Velvet
7. Heyrocco - Mom Jeans
8. Interpol - My Desire
9. Etches - Ice Cream Dream Machine
10. Elbow - Charge
11. Slug - Cockeyed Rabbit Wrapped In Plastic
12. Kasabian - Stevie
13. Royal Blood - Ten Tonne Skeleton
14. Blossoms - Blow
15. St. Vincent - Rattlesnake
16. Anna Calvi - Cry
17. Charlatans - Talking In Tones
18. Damon Albarn - Hostiles
19. Catfish & The Bottlemen - Pacifier
20. Real Estate - Had To Hear

[Panda]

NOVEMBER 2014
1. Twilight Sad - Last January
2. Honeyblood - Biro
3. Pink Floyd - Louder Than Words
4. Ryan Adams - Am I Safe?
5. Smashing Pumpkins - One And All
6. Twilight Sad - There's A Girl In The Corner
7. John J Presley - Honeybee
8. Growlers - Not The Man
9. Little Dragon - Underbart
10. Smashing Pumpkins - Being Beige
11. Tim Wheeler - Vigil
12. New Pornographers - Dancehall Domine
13. Johnny Marr - Dynamo
14. Broncho - What
15. Darlia - Stars Are Aligned
16. Bonobo - Flashlight
17. Ex Hex - Don't Wanna Lose
18. Shy Nature - Birthday Club
19. Songhoy Blues - Al Hassidi Terei
20. Howling Bells - Original Sin

[Panda]

JANUARY 2015
1. Nadine Shah - Stealing Cars
2. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Ballad Of The Mighty I
3. Decemberists - Make You Better
4. Team Me - F Is For Faker
5. Dead Weather - Buzzkill(er)
6. Colleen Green - Pay Attention
7. Django Django - First Light
8. Gaz Coombes - 20/20
9. C Duncan - Say
10. Bosco Rogers - The Middle
11. Hooton Tennis Club - Jasper
12. Francisco The Man - Big Ideas
13. Little May - Dust
14. Laura Marling - Short Movie
15. Pinkshinyultrablast - Holy Forest
16. Slaves - The Hunter
17. Sleater-Kinney - Bury Our Friends
18. Sundowners - If Wishes Were Horses
19. Unthanks - Flutter
20. Kate Tempest - Bad Place For A Good Time