Friday, December 27, 2013

The Top 100 Hits of 2013

TOP VIDEO HITS OF 2013



FLASHBACK FRIDAY: THE TOP 100 HITS OF 2013

We take a last look at 2013 with this mega chart of 100 top hits as compiled from the performance from the last 52 weeks of Mel's Weekly Top 20 music charts.

RankTitleArtistPeak PosTAPTotal Weeks
1 Get Lucky (Radio Edit) Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams 1 8 26
2 Change Churchill 1 7 21
3 Roar Katy Perry 1 4 18
4 Royals Lorde 1 4 12
5 Carry On Fun 1 3 20
6 Tangled Up Caro Emerald 1 3 17
7 Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell] Robin Thicke 1 3 16
8 Treasure Bruno Mars 1 3 11
9 The Walker Fitz & The Tantrums 1 3 10
10 Daylight Maroon 5 1 2 23
11 Wake Me Up Avicii 1 2 19
12 Waves Blondfire 1 2 19
13 When I Was Your Man Bruno Mars 1 2 17
14 Safe and Sound Capital Cities 1 2 16
15 Anything Could Happen Ellie Goulding 1 2 15
16 The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) Ylvis 1 2 11
17 Little Talks Of Monsters And Men 2 4 25
18 Unconditionally Katy Perry 2 3 7
19 Burn Ellie Goulding 2 2 12
20 Summertime Sadness (Alternative Radio Mix) Lana Del Rey 2 2 12
21 Best Song Ever One Direction 2 2 9
22 I Knew You Were Trouble Taylor Swift 2 2 8
23 I Will Wait Mumford & Sons 2 1 12
24 Running for Cover Ivan & Alyosha 3 4 13
25 Just Give Me A Reason P!nk featuring Nate Ruess 3 3 10
26 22 Taylor Swift 3 2 11
27 Sweeter Than Fiction Taylor Swift 3 2 9
28 Now Is the Start A Fine Frenzy 3 1 18
29 Home Again Elton John 3 1 14
30 Locked Out Of Heaven Bruno Mars 3 1 13
31 Between The Raindrops Lifehouse 3 1 11
32 Wagon Wheel Darius Rucker 3 1 11
33 Come & Get It Selena Gomez 4 2 13
34 Pompeii Bastille 4 2 12
35 Devil's Got a Gun Whitehorse 4 2 9
36 Mermaid Train 4 1 16
37 Sad Angel Fleetwood Mac 4 1 12
38 Wasting All These Tears Cassadee Pope 4 1 12
39 Almost Home Mariah Carey 4 1 11
40 Because We Can Bon Jovi 4 1 10
41 Love Me Again John Newman 4 1 9
42 Let Her Go Passenger 5 2 14
43 Things We Lost In the Fire Bastille 5 2 14
44 Brave Sara Bareilles 5 2 10
45 Applause Lady Gaga 5 1 11
46 Liquid Lunch Caro Emerald 5 1 10
47 Hero Family of the Year 6 2 14
48 There Will Come A Time Noah & The Whale 6 1 10
49 Boomerang Barenaked Ladies 6 1 9
50 Underneath the Tree Kelly Clarkson 6 1 2
51 Out Of My League Fitz and The Tantrums 7 3 15
52 Tornado Little Big Town 7 2 10
53 Clouds Zach Sobiech 7 2 8
54 Sail AWOLNATION 7 1 10
55 Get To Me Lady Antebellum 7 1 9
56 Everything Has Changed Taylor Swift Feat. Ed Sheeran 7 1 7
57 Rock & Roll Love Affair Prince 7 1 6
58 That's My Kind Of Night Luke Bryan 7 1 4
59 Little Games The Colourist 8 2 12
60 Put the Gun Down ZZ Ward 8 2 8
61 Why Am I the One Fun 8 2 8
62 Downtown Lady Antebellum 8 2 7
63 Diamonds Rihanna 8 1 13
64 See You Again Carrie Underwood 8 1 9
65 Stubborn Love The Lumineers 8 1 7
66 Ho Hey The Lumineers 9 2 28
67 The Wire HAIM 9 2 9
68 New Paul McCartney 9 2 8
69 One Day (Radio Edit) Caro Emerald 9 2 7
70 Heart Attack Demi Lovato 9 1 8
71 That's My Jam (feat. Owl City) Relient K 9 1 8
72 Callin' Me When I'm Lonely Sheryl Crow 9 1 7
73 Two Black Cadillacs Carrie Underwood 9 1 7
74 Just Another Girl The Killers 9 1 6
75 Atlas Coldplay 10 2 7
76 Heartbeat Jjamz 10 1 11
77 State Of Grace Taylor Swift 10 1 9
78 The Clock (Radio Edit) The View 10 1 8
79 The War Within Churchill 10 1 8
80 Bad Blood Bastille 10 1 7
81 Big Blue Wave Hey Ocean! 10 1 6
82 Lose Yourself To Dance Daft Punk Feat. Pharrell Williams 10 1 6
83 Light of Christmas (feat. tobyMac) Owl City 10 1 5
84 Ready or Not Bridgit Mendler 11 2 5
85 Ark In A Flood Churchill 11 1 11
86 Love Somebody Maroon 5 11 1 11
87 There's No Going Back Sick Puppies 11 1 7
88 What About Now Bon Jovi 11 1 7
89 Christmas In The Sand Colbie Caillat 11 1 6
90 Closer Tegan and Sara 11 1 6
91 Easy Sheryl Crow 12 2 6
92 Gentleman Psy 12 1 6
93 Compass Lady Antebellum 13 2 6
94 The Mother We Share Chvrches 13 1 8
95 I Got You Jack Johnson 13 1 6
96 Mr. Mellow Anuhea 13 1 6
97 We Both Know Colbie Caillat 13 1 6
98 Cups (Pitch Perfect's "When I'm Gone") Anna Kendrick 13 1 4
99 We Can't Stop Scott Bradlee & Postmodern Jukebox 14 2 5
100 The Monster (feat. Rihanna) Eminem 14 1 5

You can also visit the official TOP 100 OF 2013 hits page.

CHART NOTES

Rank - The numercial rank on this chart.
Peak Position = Highest position song held on Top 20
TAP = Length of stay at peak position = "total weeks at peak"
TW = Total weeks spent on Mel's Weekly Top 20

Some songs are listed in both the 2012 chart as well as the 2013 chart since their chart runs ran from the end of one year and into the next.

SONGS THAT WENT TO #1 IN 2013

The Walker - Fitz & the Tantrums (3)
The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) - Ylvis (2)
Royals - Lorde (4)
Wake Me Up - Avicii (2)
Safe and Sound - Capital Cities (2)
Roar - Katy Perry (4)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (2)
Treasure - Bruno Mars (3)
Waves - Blondfire (2)
Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell] - Robin Thicke (3)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (6)
Tangled Up - Caro Emerald (3)
When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (2)
Change - Churchill (7)
Daylight - Maroon 5 (2)
Carry On - Fun (3)
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding (2)

(x) = Total weeks @ #1

Saturday, December 21, 2013

The Last Mel's Weekly Top 20 of 2013

Kelly Clarkson - Underneath the Tree



Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of December 22, 2013.

This WeekTitleArtistLast Week
1 The Walker (3rd Week @ #1!) Fitz & The Tantrums 1
2 Unconditionally Katy Perry 2
3 Sweeter Than Fiction Taylor Swift 3
4 Royals Lorde 4
5 The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) Ylvis 5
6 Underneath the Tree Kelly Clarkson 12
7 That's My Kind Of Night Luke Bryan 10
8 Roar Katy Perry 6
9 Wake Me Up Avicii 8
10 Light of Christmas (feat. tobyMac) Owl City 11
11 Sail AWOLNATION 7
12 Just Another Girl The Killers 9
13 Compass Lady Antebellum 13
14 Slow Down Selena Gomez 15
15 Harlem New Politics 18
16 Hold On Colbie Caillat 19
17 I Love You Said the Whale 20
18 The Monster (feat. Rihanna) Eminem 14
19 Who You Love (feat. Katy Perry) John Mayer new
20 Shake The Head And The Heart new


CHART NOTES

Fitz & the Tantrums hold on to #1 for a third week with "The Walker" off their latest album More Than A Dream. Katy Perry continues for a 3rd week at #2 with "Unconditionally".

Kelly Clarkson makes a big 6 point jump from #12 to #6 with her latest track, the new yuletide standard "Underneath the Tree". In celebration of the holiday, her music video for this song is at the top of this page.

Luke Bryan is also pushing up to #7 this week with the country rocker "That's My Kind of Night" up 3 from #10.

Two songs make their chart debut: "Who You Love" featuring Katy Perry by John Mayer debuts at #19. "Shake" an alternative indie track comes in at #20 from The Head and The Heart. Looks like some good songs leading us into 2014.

Speaking of which... this will be the last posted weekly chart of 2013. The next chart will be posted on January 1, 2014 as we begin a new year. Hope you all have a Happy Holiday Season. Be kind to each other. Aloha! Mel

Songs That Went to #1 in 2013

Which one of these songs went to #1 for 2013? Click here to find out.

The Walker - Fitz & the Tantrums (3)
The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) - Ylvis (2)
Royals - Lorde (4)
Wake Me Up - Avicii (2)
Safe and Sound - Capital Cities (2)
Roar - Katy Perry (4)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (2)
Treasure - Bruno Mars (3)
Waves - Blondfire (2)
Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell] - Robin Thicke (3)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (6)
Tangled Up - Caro Emerald (3)
When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (2)
Change - Churchill (7)
Daylight - Maroon 5 (2)
Carry On - Fun (3)
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding (2)

(x) = Total weeks @ #1

This week's video showcase tracks:

Fitz & the Tantrums - The Walker



Katy Perry - Unconditionally



Luke Bryan - That's My Kind of Night



Owl City featuring tobyMac - Light of Christmas



Friday, December 20, 2013

Flashback Friday: Top 20 Classic Christmas Tracks



FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Top 20 Classic Christmas Tracks

This week's Friday Flashback I offer a chart of my current favorite Classic Christmas tracks. There are a few videos with this. Enjoy.

RankTitleArtistYear
1 Happy Xmas (War is Over) John Lennon 1971
2 Merry Christmas Darling The Carpenters 1977
3 The Christmas Song Nat King Cole 1961
4 Winter Wonderland Eurythmics 1987
5 Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) U2 1987
6 Jingle Bell Rock Daryl Hall & John Oates 1983
7 Christmas In The Sand Colbie Caillat 2012
8 You're All I Want For Christmas Caro Emerald & Brook Benton 2011
9 A Holly Jolly Christmas Burl Ives 1965
10 Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree Brenda Lee 1959
11 All I Want For Christmas Is You Mariah Carey 1993
12 Feliz Navidad José Feliciano 1970
13 Santa Baby Madonna 1987
14 Please Come Home for Christmas The Eagles 1978
15 Dominick the Donkey Lou Monte 1960
16 Last Christmas (Single Version) Wham! 1984
17 Step Into Christmas Elton John 1973
18 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Rebecca St. James 2005
19 Oíche Chiún (Silent Night) Enya 2001
20 Christmas Canon Trans-Siberian Orchestra 1998


MORE CLASSIC CHRISTMAS TRACKS

Please note that all tracks are subject to unannounced removal at a future date. Some tracks require direct viewing at YouTube.com.







Sunday, December 15, 2013

Mel's Weekly Top 20: Christmas Coming Soon.



Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of December 15, 2013.

This WeekTitleArtistLast Week
1 The Walker (2nd Week @ #1!) Fitz & The Tantrums 1
2 Unconditionally Katy Perry 2
3 "Sweeter Than Fiction (From ""One Chance"" Soundtrack)" Taylor Swift 5
4 Royals Lorde 4
5 The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) Ylvis 3
6 Roar Katy Perry 6
7 Sail AWOLNATION 8
8 Wake Me Up Avicii 7
9 Just Another Girl The Killers 11
10 That's My Kind Of Night Luke Bryan 12
11 Light of Christmas (feat. tobyMac) Owl City 14
12 Underneath the Tree Kelly Clarkson --
13 Compass Lady Antebellum 13
14 The Monster (feat. Rihanna) Eminem 15
15 Slow Down Selena Gomez 17
16 Callin' Me When I'm Lonely Sheryl Crow 9
17 Bad Blood Bastille 10
18 Harlem New Politics 18
19 Hold On Colbie Caillat 20
20 I Love You Said the Whale --

CHART NOTES

Fitz & the Tantrums hold on to #1 for a second week with "The Walker" off their latest album More Than A Dream.

Katy Perry reamins at #2 with "Unconditionally". The track is from the album Prism. Can this be her next #1 song? I thought so last week. But so far, not. Perry also holds at #6 with her last #1 hit, "Roar" which is still hot today.

The Killers move into the top 10 at #9 this week with their latest "Just Another Girl" jumping up from last week's #11 spot. Also moving into the top 10 is the latest country hit by Luke Bryan called "That's My Kind of Night" up to #10 from last week's #12.

Two songs make their chart debut. Bulleting into the #12 spot from out of nowhere we find Kelly Clarkson and just released yuletide single "Underneath the Tree". It's the highest debut for any Christmas song ever on this chart. Will she crack the top 10 in time for the holidays?

The second chart debut song is "I Love You", an alternative rock track by a band called Said the Whale which enters the chart at #20. This song has been simmering on my iTunes ever since I found it back in October. Now it is in the top 20.

Coming soon... the Top 100 Hits of 2013.

Songs That Went to #1 in 2013

The Walker - Fitz & the Tantrums (2)
The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) - Ylvis (2)
Royals - Lorde (4)
Wake Me Up - Avicii (2)
Safe and Sound - Capital Cities (2)
Roar - Katy Perry (4)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (2)
Treasure - Bruno Mars (3)
Waves - Blondfire (2)
Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell] - Robin Thicke (3)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (6)
Tangled Up - Caro Emerald (3)
When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (2)
Change - Churchill (7)
Daylight - Maroon 5 (2)
Carry On - Fun (3)
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding (2)

(x) = Total weeks @ #1

Friday, December 13, 2013

Flashback Friday: All I Want For Christmas....



FLASHBACK FRIDAY on Mel's Internet Universe Music Blog

You've heard it many times during the holiday season for almost 20 years. "All I Want For Christmas is You" was released on Mariah Carey's 4th studio album in 1994. Since then the song has become a perennial holiday classic. It has been covered by many artists over the years with the original by Mariah remaining the best. Click on the music video.  Enjoy!

Saturday, December 7, 2013

The Walker Makes It to #1



Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of December 8, 2013.

This WeekTitleArtistLast Week
1 The Walker Fitz & The Tantrums 2
2 Unconditionally Katy Perry 4
3 The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) Ylvis 1
4 Royals Lorde 3
5 Sweeter Than Fiction (From "One Chance" Soundtrack) Taylor Swift 7
6 Roar Katy Perry 6
7 Wake Me Up Avicii 5
8 Sail AWOLNATION 9
9 Callin' Me When I'm Lonely Sheryl Crow 10
10 Bad Blood Bastille 11
11 Just Another Girl The Killers 13
12 That's My Kind Of Night Luke Bryan 19
13 Compass Lady Antebellum 15
14 Light of Christmas (feat. tobyMac) Owl City 16
15 The Monster (feat. Rihanna) Eminem 17
16 Little Games The Colourist 8
17 Slow Down Selena Gomez 18
18 Harlem New Politics 20
19 Things We Lost In the Fire Bastille 12
20 Hold On Colbie Caillat new

CHART NOTES

Fitz & the Tantrums top the chart this week with their track "The Walker" from the album More Than A Dream. I've been playing this track on my iPods and iTunes ever since it was released this past May. It's great to see it top the chart this week (moving up from #2). This song should be getting wider airplay on Top 40 / AC / Alternative Rock radio the world over... unfortunately, so far as I know, it's not. Perhaps next year.

Katy Perry inches closer to #1 with her latest single "Unconditionally". From the album Prism, the track moves from #4 to #2 this week. Could she push to number one next week. Come back and find out.

Only one new song makes a debut on the Weekly Top 20. That is "Hold On" by Colbie Caillat coming in at #20.

Coming soon... the Top 100 Hits of 2013.

Songs That Went to #1 in 2013

The Walker - Fitz & the Tantrums (1)
The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) - Ylvis (2)
Royals - Lorde (4)
Wake Me Up - Avicii (2)
Safe and Sound - Capital Cities (2)
Roar - Katy Perry (4)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (2)
Treasure - Bruno Mars (3)
Waves - Blondfire (2)
Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell] - Robin Thicke (3)
Get Lucky - Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams (6)
Tangled Up - Caro Emerald (3)
When I Was Your Man - Bruno Mars (2)
Change - Churchill (7)
Daylight - Maroon 5 (2)
Carry On - Fun (3)
Anything Could Happen - Ellie Goulding (2)

(x) = Total weeks @ #1

CHRISTMAS VIDEO SHOWCASE
Some of Today's Top Holiday Tracks









Friday, December 6, 2013

Flashback Friday: ¿Dónde Está Santa Claus?



FLASHBACK FRIDAY on Mel's Internet Universe Music Blog

We zoom back to 1959 and this Christmas novelty song sung by 12-year old Augie Rios. My only memory of this song was when it was performed in a holiday skit with my sister Esther being the "Mamasita" during an elementary school presentation when she was in about the 2nd or 3rd grade. She was cute and memorable.

About the record itself, from the Wikipedia it reads:

Dnde Est Santa Claus? (Spanish for Where is Santa Claus?) is a novelty Christmas song. 12-year-old Augie Rios had a hit with the song in 1959 which featured the Mark Jeffrey Orchestra.[1] The 45 record single was backed with the song "Ol' Fatso (I Don't Care Who You Are Old Fatso, Get Those Reindeer Off My Roof)."

Written by George Scheck, Rod Parker, and Al Greiner, and copyrighted in 1958, the copyright was renewed and is owned by Ragtime Music. The song "Dnde Est Santa Claus?" has now been immortalized in a toy called "Animated & Musical Singing Puppy", made in Hong Kong, China, and distributed in the U.S. in 2011. The song was originally released on MGM Records' Metro label. It can now be found on various YouTube videos.

Below is one of the most touching YouTube videos made with this song. Read the caption below the video screen for more information:



"On April 21st 2007 my son Jason and My wife Elizabeth lost their lives in a car fire. Although she was able to free herself she was unable to free my unconscious son. As a result they both perished that day. Thank you to all of you who have enjoyed this video of our little boy who even after death continues to make me so very proud. Thank you for making my little Christmas miracle part of your lives. God Bless You All."

The video has been online for a number of years now.

Monday, December 2, 2013

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - The Fox Holds @ #1!



Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of December 1, 2013.

This WeekTitleArtistLast Week
1 The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) Ylvis 1
2 The Walker Fitz & The Tantrums 2
3 Royals Lorde 3
4 Unconditionally Katy Perry 6
5 Wake Me Up Avicii 4
6 Roar Katy Perry 5
7 Sweeter Than Fiction Taylor Swift 8
8 Little Games The Colourist 10
9 Sail AWOLNATION 11
10 Callin' Me When I'm Lonely Sheryl Crow 12
11 Bad Blood Bastille 13
12 Things We Lost In the Fire Bastille 7
13 Just Another Girl The Killers 16
14 One Day (Radio Edit) Caro Emerald 9
15 Compass Lady Antebellum 17
16 Light of Christmas (feat. tobyMac) Owl City 19
17 The Monster (feat. Rihanna) Eminem 20
18 Slow Down Selena Gomez new
19 That's My Kind Of Night Luke Bryan new
20 Harlem New Politics new


CHART NOTES

Ylvis holds on to the #1 spot for the 2nd week with "The Fox (What Does the Fox Say)". It's the biggest non-sensical song of the year. The top 3 stays the same as last week with "The Walker" by Fitz and the Tantrums holding at #2 and Lorde holding at #3 with "Royals". Katy Perry moves into the top 5 at #4 with "Unconditionally" up from #6 of last week. Her #1 hit "Roar" moves down to #6 from #5 of last week.

The Colourist' "Little Games" moves up 2 to #8 from #10. The song was at #8 about 3 weeks ago. Now it is back in its previously peaked position. Will it go any higher?

Awolnation is a late comer to this chart and their hit "Sail" finally makes it to the top 10 moving up 2 from last week's #11 to #9 this week. Sheryl Crow also moves into the top 10 at #10 with her latest, "Callin' Me When I'm Lonely" up from #12.

Three tracks make their chart debut: Selena Gomez is another late arrival to the chart as her hit "Slow Down" debuts at #18. Country star Luke Bryan debuts with his first WT20 track at #19 - " That's My Kind of Night" which has topped iTunes chart in recent days.... Finally at #20 we find New Politics and their track "Harlem". We'll see how high these debut tracks go in the coming weeks and most likely into the new year.

Which reminds me... I am now compiling the Top 100 Hits of 2013 and that will be posted before year's end.