Post by Panda on Dec 25, 2020 1:26:06 GMT 1
Analysis:
Fontaines DC top the chart in their first year of appearing. "Boys In The Better Land" made the top 40 of my monthly chart last year but didn't reach my end of year chart. They are the first Irish (Irish/Spanish to be precise) act to top the chart and only the 4th non-UK act.
Past #1's: (1994-1997 were retrospective charts compiled in later years)
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
Fontaines DC had two songs in the top 10 - something that was common in the early years of my chart but has become rarer more recently.
1994: Manic Street Preachers - Faster, Revol (2 & 7)
1995: Radiohead - Just, Fake Plastic Trees (2 & 9); Massive Attack - Karmacoma, Protection (8 & 10)
1996: Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life, Everything Must Go, Australia (1, 5 & 10); Prodigy - Breathe, Firestarter (3 & 6)
1997: Blur - Song 2 & MOR (2 & 9)
1998: Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should Be A Holiday, Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth (4 & 7)
1999: Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl, Let Forever Be (6 & 7)
2000: Doves - The Cedar Room, The Man Who Told Everything (2 & 7)
2001: Elbow - Any Day Now, Powder Blue (1 & 2)
2002: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever Happened To My Rock & Roll, Spread Your Love (9 & 10)
2003: Blur - Out Of Time, Crazy Beat (5 & 10)
2005: Subways - Rock & Roll Queen, With You (1 & 9)
2014: Honeyblood - Choker, Biro (2 & 8)
2020: Fontaines DC - Televised Mind, A Hero's Death (1 & 8)
Fontaines DC and Sorry have the most songs in this year's chart with 4 each. They are the first acts to have 4 songs in my end of year chart since Arcade Fire in 2005. No acts had 3 songs in this year's chart. The following acts had 2: This Is The Kit, Bad Nerves, bdrmm, Lanterns On The Lake, Chappaqua Wrestling, Asylums, Columbia Mills, Blackaby
Different nationalities in this year's chart:
Ireland
Spain
England
Scotland
New Zealand
Belgium
USA
Australia
Austria
Latvia
Sweden
Canada
Switzerland
Northern Ireland
Philippines
Argentina
France
Netherlands
Venezuela
Wales
Acts that featured in last year's chart:
Sorry
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Chappaqua Wrestling
False Advertising
Sophie Hunger
October Drift
Calva Louise
Beths
Porridge Radio
Acts returning after a long absence:
2001: Avalanches
2004: Pixies
2005: Doves, Willy Mason, Stereophonics
2008: I Like Trains
2014: I Break Horses, Tune-Yards, Real Estate
2015: Lanterns On The Lake
2016: This Is The Kit, Hinds, DMA's
Acts with the most all-time appearances:
1. Manic Street Preachers (24)
2= Blur, Radiohead (20)
4. Super Furry Animals (18)
5= Ash, Elbow (16)
7= Chemical Brothers, Supergrass (14)
9= Beck, Charlatans (12)
Inviduals with the most all-time appearances (only people who have appeared in more than one guise are included):
Damon Albarn (26 - 20 with Blur, 4 with Gorillaz, 1 with The Good The Bad & The Queen, 1 solo)
Thom Yorke (24 - 20 with Radiohead, 3 solo, 1 guest appearance with Drugstore)
Graham Coxon (23 - 17 with Blur, 1 with Jaded Hearts Club, 5 solo)
Ed O'Brien (21 - 20 with Radiohead, 1 solo)
Philip Selway (21 - 20 with Radiohead, 1 solo)
Gruff Rhys (20 - 18 with Super Furry Animals, 2 solo)
Guy Garvey (17 - 16 with Elbow, 1 solo)
Gaz Coombes (17 - 14 with Supergrass, 3 solo)
Noel Gallagher (17 - 13 with Oasis, 2 solo, 2 guest appearances with Chemical Brothers)
Danny Goffey (15 - 14 with Supergrass, 1 solo)
Jack White (14 - 9 with White Stripes, 2 with Dead Weather, 2 with Raconteurs, 1 solo)
Beck (13 - 12 solo, 1 guest appearance with Chemical Brothers)
Tim Burgess (13 - 12 with Charlatans, 1 guest appearance with Chemical Brothers)
Charlotte Hatherley (13 - 8 with Ash, 5 solo)
Josh Homme (12 - 8 with Queens Of The Stone Age, 3 with Eagles Of Death Metal, 1 with Them Crooked Vultures)
Allison Mosshart (11 - 9 with Kills, 2 with Dead Weather)
Matt Bellamy (11 - 10 with Muse, 1 with Jaded Hearts Club)
Fontaines DC top the chart in their first year of appearing. "Boys In The Better Land" made the top 40 of my monthly chart last year but didn't reach my end of year chart. They are the first Irish (Irish/Spanish to be precise) act to top the chart and only the 4th non-UK act.
Past #1's: (1994-1997 were retrospective charts compiled in later years)
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
Fontaines DC had two songs in the top 10 - something that was common in the early years of my chart but has become rarer more recently.
1994: Manic Street Preachers - Faster, Revol (2 & 7)
1995: Radiohead - Just, Fake Plastic Trees (2 & 9); Massive Attack - Karmacoma, Protection (8 & 10)
1996: Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life, Everything Must Go, Australia (1, 5 & 10); Prodigy - Breathe, Firestarter (3 & 6)
1997: Blur - Song 2 & MOR (2 & 9)
1998: Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should Be A Holiday, Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth (4 & 7)
1999: Chemical Brothers - Hey Boy Hey Girl, Let Forever Be (6 & 7)
2000: Doves - The Cedar Room, The Man Who Told Everything (2 & 7)
2001: Elbow - Any Day Now, Powder Blue (1 & 2)
2002: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever Happened To My Rock & Roll, Spread Your Love (9 & 10)
2003: Blur - Out Of Time, Crazy Beat (5 & 10)
2005: Subways - Rock & Roll Queen, With You (1 & 9)
2014: Honeyblood - Choker, Biro (2 & 8)
2020: Fontaines DC - Televised Mind, A Hero's Death (1 & 8)
Fontaines DC and Sorry have the most songs in this year's chart with 4 each. They are the first acts to have 4 songs in my end of year chart since Arcade Fire in 2005. No acts had 3 songs in this year's chart. The following acts had 2: This Is The Kit, Bad Nerves, bdrmm, Lanterns On The Lake, Chappaqua Wrestling, Asylums, Columbia Mills, Blackaby
Different nationalities in this year's chart:
Ireland
Spain
England
Scotland
New Zealand
Belgium
USA
Australia
Austria
Latvia
Sweden
Canada
Switzerland
Northern Ireland
Philippines
Argentina
France
Netherlands
Venezuela
Wales
Acts that featured in last year's chart:
Sorry
Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
Chappaqua Wrestling
False Advertising
Sophie Hunger
October Drift
Calva Louise
Beths
Porridge Radio
Acts returning after a long absence:
2001: Avalanches
2004: Pixies
2005: Doves, Willy Mason, Stereophonics
2008: I Like Trains
2014: I Break Horses, Tune-Yards, Real Estate
2015: Lanterns On The Lake
2016: This Is The Kit, Hinds, DMA's
Acts with the most all-time appearances:
1. Manic Street Preachers (24)
2= Blur, Radiohead (20)
4. Super Furry Animals (18)
5= Ash, Elbow (16)
7= Chemical Brothers, Supergrass (14)
9= Beck, Charlatans (12)
Inviduals with the most all-time appearances (only people who have appeared in more than one guise are included):
Damon Albarn (26 - 20 with Blur, 4 with Gorillaz, 1 with The Good The Bad & The Queen, 1 solo)
Thom Yorke (24 - 20 with Radiohead, 3 solo, 1 guest appearance with Drugstore)
Graham Coxon (23 - 17 with Blur, 1 with Jaded Hearts Club, 5 solo)
Ed O'Brien (21 - 20 with Radiohead, 1 solo)
Philip Selway (21 - 20 with Radiohead, 1 solo)
Gruff Rhys (20 - 18 with Super Furry Animals, 2 solo)
Guy Garvey (17 - 16 with Elbow, 1 solo)
Gaz Coombes (17 - 14 with Supergrass, 3 solo)
Noel Gallagher (17 - 13 with Oasis, 2 solo, 2 guest appearances with Chemical Brothers)
Danny Goffey (15 - 14 with Supergrass, 1 solo)
Jack White (14 - 9 with White Stripes, 2 with Dead Weather, 2 with Raconteurs, 1 solo)
Beck (13 - 12 solo, 1 guest appearance with Chemical Brothers)
Tim Burgess (13 - 12 with Charlatans, 1 guest appearance with Chemical Brothers)
Charlotte Hatherley (13 - 8 with Ash, 5 solo)
Josh Homme (12 - 8 with Queens Of The Stone Age, 3 with Eagles Of Death Metal, 1 with Them Crooked Vultures)
Allison Mosshart (11 - 9 with Kills, 2 with Dead Weather)
Matt Bellamy (11 - 10 with Muse, 1 with Jaded Hearts Club)