PLAYLIST: Hawaii's Top 40 HIts

PLAYLISTS

Hawaii’s Top 40 Hits

This will be a new feature to this blog... PLAYLISTS... Embedded here from Spotify or YouTube, I will start sharing my specialized playlists here. If you have a Spotify subscription you should be able to play all of the songs in a Spotify playlist right through. It works on some browsers but not all. Try it out or link directly the Spotify the listen to the list. Subscribe to it if you like.

First up is my 1970s (with some 1960s) era music from high school days and early college that were popular tracks on local Top 40 radio stations in Hawaii such as KPOI, KKUA and on the neighbor islands, KMVI, KPUA and KHLO. These were all AM stations back in the day and they played some great regional only hits mixed in with the familiar mainline top 40 hits. 

This first list that I recently re-created from a CD that I burned years ago features some great tracks.

The cover art was used for the burned CD that I made which actually contained several different songs from what's on this list, since Spotify did not have them. Tracks like "Me Japanese Boy" by Liz Damon, "Groovin Out on Life" by The New Beats,  "Searchin'" by Cecilio and Kapono and "Remember Mary" by The Sweet Marie which are on my burned CD had to be excluded and substituted with what was/is available on Spotify.

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Video of the Day - So Easy (To Fall in Love) by Olivia Dean

 So Easy (To Fall In Love) - Olivia Dean

Check out this video of Olivia Dean on the Graham Norton Show in the UK. This live TV performance is the latest single off her album The Art of Loving currently at #20 on Mel's Current Top 20.

Video of the Day: Ella Langley - Choosin' Texas

Starting with this post the blog is once again rebooted to feature a video of the day post from a YouTube source. The daily featured clip will come from a variety of music genres, new, old, classic, borrowed, indie, rock, country, blues and more.

First up.. ELLA LANGLEY and her current hit "Choosin' Texas" debuting this week on my Current Top 20 at #20.

Choosin’ Texas

Mel's Country 20 - July 16 and July 9

Mel’s Country 20
Country Tracks That Should Be Hits

Week of July 16, 2025. | For Chart #597

TW	Title	Artist	LW
1	Bad As I Used To Be	Chris Stapleton	3
2	Life's Been Comin' Too Fast	Blake Shelton	1
3	Backup Plan	Bailey Zimmerman & Luke Combs	2
4	She Hates Me	Dierks Bentley	4
5	If You Love Me Let Me Go	Colbie Caillat feat. Russell Dickerson	5
6	Run	Miranda Lambert	7
7	What I Want	Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae	8
8	Somewhere Over Laredo	Lainey Wilson	9
9	Big Sky	Parker McCollum	6
10	6 Months Later	Megan Moroney	11
11	2 Pair	Kane Brown	12
12	Amen	Shaboozey & Jelly Roll	10
13	Bottle Rockets (featuring Hootie & the Blowfish)	Scotty McCreery	19
14	Sheltered	The Castellows	20
15	Scornful Woman	Oliver Anthony Music	17
16	Bitter Ender	Mary Chapin Carpenter	18
17	Trailblazer (with Miranda Lambert / Lainey Wilson)	Reba McEntire	14
18	Bloodline (with Jelly Roll)	Alex Warren	NEW
19	That's My Kind of Night	Luke Bryan	13
20	Never Met Anyone Like You	Ella Langley & HARDY	NEW

Mel’s Current Top 20 | June 27, 2025.

Alex Warren teams up with Rosé with the release of this new song at #16 - "On My Mind".

Mel’s Current Top 20 |  June 27, 2025.

Hot Tracks That Should Be Hits.

TW	Title	Artist	LW
1	Ordinary	Alex Warren	1
2	undressed	sombr	5
3	Azizam	Ed Sheeran	4
4	APT.	Rosé & Bruno Mars	6
5	Messy (From F1® The Movie)	Rosé	7
6	Ripple	Good Neighbours	2
7	Mystical Magical	Benson Boone	3
8	Butterfly	Marina	13
9	More Than A Feeling	Declan J. Donovan	10
10	Old Phone	Ed Sheeran	12
11	Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride	Iam Tongi	9
12	Burning Down	Alex Warren	17
13	Sapphire	Ed Sheeran	20
14	Don't Say You Love Me	Jin	8
15	The Giver	Chappell Roan	11
16	On My Mind	Alex Warren & Rosé	NEW
17	Survive	Lewis Capaldi	NEW
18	Drive (From F1® The Movie)	Ed Sheeran	NEW
19	Somebody That I Used To Know	Fanny Lumsden	NEW
20	Zydeco Sont Pas Salés	The Rolling Stones	NEW

CHART NOTES

Alex Warren holds at #1 for a 6th straight week with "Ordinary." In addition, his latest track, a duet with BLACKPINK's Rosé, debuts on the Top 20 at #16, with a third single, "On My Own". Meanwhile, "Burning Down" moving up 5 points to #12.

"On My Own" also marks Rosé's third single in the top 20 as she is currently charting with her worldwide smash hit "APT." (@ #4) with Bruno Mars, and also on her own with "Messy" (@ #5) from the F1® The Movie soundtrack. The video for "On My Mind" appear at the top of this post.

Lewis Capaldi is back with a brand new song. "Survive" bows in at #17. An article on iHeartRadio's site states: "Following an extended hiatus from music, Lewis's new song details his urge to 'survive' after quitting the business to focus on his mental and physical health."

Ed Sheeran is an artist that now has four tracks in the Top 20. "Azizam," Sheeran's former #1 song from earlier this year moves up a spot from last week's #4 to #3. Two other tracks, "Old Phone" and "Sapphire" both move up to #10 and #13 respectively. The newest song "Drive" debuts at #18 and also comes from the soundtrack of F1® The Movie.

At #19 we find Australia's Fanny Lumsden who is covering fellow Aussie Gotye's hit "Someone That I Used to Know." The track has been percolating on the lower, unseen rungs of this Top 20 chart. Good cover.

Finally at #20, we have The Rolling Stones who are back with a new recording called "Zydeco Sont Pas Salés" which is a tribute to the Zydeco genre sung entirely in French by Mick Jagger. 

The Current Top 20 is online at Spotify - Playlist formatted in countdown mode from #20 to #1.