Mel's Weekly Top 20 - March 23, 2014

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of March 23, 2014.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Says She Loves Me (2nd Week @ #1!)	Aer	1
2	All Of Me	John Legend	4
3	Dark Horse [feat. Juicy J]	Katy Perry	3
4	"Happy (From ""Despicable Me 2"")"	Pharrell Williams	9
5	Sleeping With a Friend	Neon Trees	2
6	Turn It Around	Lucius	6
7	Coming of Age	Foster the People	7
8	Hey Brother	Avicii	5
9	Timber (feat. Ke$ha)	Pitbull	12
10	Magic	Coldplay	15
11	Are You Listening	Kopecky Family Band	13
12	Best Day of My Life	American Authors	20
13	Taxi Dancer	Dengue Fever	14
14	Young Heart	Blondfire	17
15	Cardiac Arrest	Bad Suns	8
16	Say Something [feat. Christina Aguilera]	A Great Big World	10
17	#Selfie (Instrumental Mix)	The Chainsmokers	--
18	The Giving Tree	Plain White T's	11
19	Team	Lorde	--
20	Raging Fire	Phillip Phillips	--

CHART NOTES

Aer holds the @ number 1 for a 2nd week in a row with "Says She Loves Me". Great sounding single that is not getting much airplay. Too bad. Good song.

John Legend comes in at #2 with the year's most popular love ballad "All of Me". May be #1 by next week. We'll see.

Pharell Williams jumps from #9 to #4 this week with his song "Happy".

Three songs debut on the chart this week. They include the dance oriented track "#SELFIE" by The Chainsmokers at #17. At #19 we find Lorde and her latest "Team". In at #20 is the 2nd single to make the chart by Phillip Phillips. This one is called "Raging Fire".

Songs That Went to #1 in 2014

Says She Loves Me - Aer (2)
Sleeping With a Friend - Neon Trees (4)
Timber - Pitull featuring Kesha (4)
Unconditionally - Katy Perry (3)

(x) = Total weeks @ #1

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - March 16, 2014.

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of March 16, 2014.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Says She Loves Me	Aer	3
2	Sleeping With a Friend	Neon Trees	1
3	Dark Horse [feat. Juicy J]	Katy Perry	5
4	All Of Me	John Legend	8
5	Hey Brother	Avicii	4
6	Turn It Around	Lucius	7
7	Coming of Age	Foster the People	2
8	Cardiac Arrest	Bad Suns	6
9	"Happy (From ""Despicable Me 2"")"	Pharrell Williams	18
10	Say Something [feat. Christina Aguilera]	A Great Big World	10
11	The Giving Tree	Plain White T's	12
12	Timber (feat. Ke$ha)	Pitbull	9
13	Are You Listening	Kopecky Family Band	16
14	Taxi Dancer	Dengue Fever	17
15	Magic	Coldplay	19
16	Stay The Night	Zedd	14
17	Young Heart	Blondfire	20
18	The Walker	Fitz & The Tantrums	11
19	Story Of My Life	One Direction	13
20	Best Day of My Life	American Authors	--

CHART NOTES:

Sorry the charts haven't been published in a couple of weeks. Internally I kept them going, just never had time to web publish much of anyting lately. The missing charts will eventually be posted to my music blog.

In the meantime we have a new song at #1. Aer makes it with this hit that so far is a non-hit in most places. "Says She Loves Me" is a catchy song that should be getting more airplay and chart action. Perhaps it is a summer kind of song (along with its music video) that may still gel later this season. We aren't even into spring yet. Still I like this song enough to make it my #1 for the week.

Otherwise the usual suspects are here along with an eclectic few. Enjoy.

Flashback Friday: The Hollies

FLASHBACK FRIDAY - The Hollies
The Air That I Breathe & more

This week our Flashback Friday spotlight is on The Hollies, a British group that has entertained the public since the mid 1960s. They were part of the original British Invasion of music groups that burned up the charts in the mid 60s along with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Dave Clark Five and others.

The Hollies are well known for several chart hits, of which the top 10 I have posted here. My favorite Hollies song of all time is "The Air That I Breathe", a 4 minute long opus written by singer / songwriter Albert Hammond who had his own hits in the early 1970s (It Never Rains in Southern California).

"The Air That I Breathe" was a top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit, peaking at #6 in the summer of 1974.

My 10 top tracks by The Hollies follow:

1. The Air That I Breathe (1974)
2. Long Cool Woman [in a Black Dress] (1972)
3. Bus Stop (1966)
4. Carrie Anne (1967)
5. Jennifer Eccles (1968)
6. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother (1970)
7. Look Through Any Window (1965)
8. On a Carousel (1967)
9. Stop Stop Stop (1966)
10. Magic Woman Touch (1973)

Flashback Friday: The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)

FLASHBACK FRIDAY on Mel's Internet Universe Music Blog

One of my favorite rock n roll songs of the sixties belong to The Bobby Fuller Four. Released as a single in December 1965, "I Fought the Law" climbed to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966. The song is a cover recorded by Bobby Fuller of a song first published by The Crickets, Buddy Holly's old group, in 1958 shortly after Holly died.

"I Fought the Law" was the biggest hit the Bobby Fuller Four ever had because a few months later Bobby Fuller himself was found dead in a garage after an apparent suicide.

The song has been covered many times, most famously by The Clash in 1978.



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