June 26, 2022 - New From Beyonce and Demi Lovato

 Mel’s Current Top 20

June 26, 2022: CHART NOTES

Two big movers leap 10 points in their second week. The first is "Catalonia" by Vance Joy, up from #19 to #9. Right behind him is the revival track of "Running Up That Hill," from Kate Bush, also up ten from #20 last week to #10 this week.

Right behind them is Envy of None with "Never Say I Love You" which was #18 last week and now #11 this week.

Two debut songs: "Break My Soul," the latest from Beyoncé is at #19. The lyric video for that is below. The showcase video this week is from Demi Lovato. It's her rock track "Skin of My Teeth, " first week on at #20.

THE CURRENT TOP 20 CHART

TW	Song Title	Artist	LW
1	Hurricane	Cannons	1
2	Heat Waves	Glass Animals	3
3	My Love	Florence + The Machine	4
4	Hold My Hand	Lady Gaga	2
5	Bones	Imagine Dragons	5
6	Out of Time	The Weeknd	7
7	This Hell	Rina Sawayama	10
8	Enemy	Imagine Dragons x J.I.D.	6
9	Catalonia	Vance Joy	19
10	Running Up That Hill	Kate Bush	20
11	Never Say I Love You	Envy of None	18
12	2Step	Ed Sheeran	8
13	No One Dies From Love	Tove Lo	15
14	Jiggle Jiggle	Duke & Jones &	12
15	One Life	Ed Sheeran	17
16	About Damn Time	Lizzo	9
17	When You're Gone	Shawn Mendes	11
18	Western Wind	Carly Rae Jepsen	13
19	Break My Soul	Beyonce	new
20	Skin of My Teeth	Demi Lovato	new

For Beyoncé, we only have the lyric video for her chart debut.

Mel's Current Top 20 | June 16, 2022 | June 9, 2022.

Mel’s Current Top 20

Significant Songs You Don't Care About

As of June 16, 2022.

TW	Song Title	Artist	LW
1	Hurricane	Cannons	1
2	Hold My Hand	Lady Gaga	2
3	Heat Waves	Glass Animals	4
4	My Love	Florence + The Machine	6
5	Bones	Imagine Dragons	5
6	Enemy	Imagine Dragons x J.I.D.	3
7	Out of Time	The Weeknd	8
8	2Step	Ed Sheeran	9
9	About Damn Time	Lizzo	7
10	This Hell	Rina Sawayama	13
11	When You're Gone	Shawn Mendes	11
12	Jiggle Jiggle	Duke & Jones & Louis Theroux	14
13	Western Wind	Carly Rae Jepsen	12
14	Strange	Miranda Lambert	15
15	No One Dies From Love	Tove Lo	16
16	As It Was	Harry Styles	10
17	One Life	Ed Sheeran	19
18	Never Say I Love You	Envy of None	20
19	Catalonia	Vance Joy	new
20	Running Up That Hill	Kate Bush	new

CHART NOTES

Cannons hold at #1 for a second week with "Hurricane," a track from their album Fever Dream. Lady Gaga's former #1 hit "Hold My Hand" from the Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack album holds at #2 this week.

As stated at the top of this post Rina Sawayama released a new video to her current hit "This Hell, " which moves up this chart from #13 to #10.

One of my favorite new songs this week is "Catalonia" by Vance Joy making its debut at #19.

Our second debut song is more than 30 years old. The Netflix TV series Stranger Things which I have never watched is responsible for the revival of this great oldie from Kate Bush... "Running Up That Hill" makes a very late debut to this chart just like the revival of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams" back in 2020. "Running Up That Hill" originally came out in 1985. Wow!

I am all for old songs making a chart comeback when new audiences discover them.

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Mel’s Current Top 20

Significant Songs You Don't Care About

This is last week's chart....

As of June 9, 2022.

TW	Song Title	Artist	LW
1	Hurricane	Cannons	3
2	Hold My Hand	Lady Gaga	1
3	Enemy	Imagine Dragons x J.I.D.	2
4	Heat Waves	Glass Animals	5
5	Bones	Imagine Dragons	4
6	My Love	Florence + The Machine	7
7	About Damn Time	Lizzo	6
8	Out of Time	The Weeknd	9
9	2Step	Ed Sheeran	10
10	As It Was	Harry Styles	8
11	When You're Gone	Shawn Mendes	13
12	Western Wind	Carly Rae Jepsen	12
13	This Hell	Rina Sawayama	15
14	Jiggle Jiggle	Duke & Jones & Louis Theroux	16
15	Strange	Miranda Lambert	17
16	No One Dies From Love	Tove Lo	19
17	Zick Zack	Rammstein	11
18	Bloodrush	The Amazons	18
19	One Life	Ed Sheeran	new
20	Never Say I Love You	Envy of None	new

Radio Free Hawaii Rewind - June 1, 1991.

 

The Hawaii Island Music Report #1 - June 1, 1991.

Radio Free Hawaii was a Honolulu/ Oahu based radio station broadcasting on KDEO 102.7FM through a time brokerage agreement with then station owner Robert Loew and operated by "Sheriff" Norm Winter who also owned Jelly's Books and Music at the time. The station was in operation from 1991 to 1997 with a brief hiatus and format change for a few months in late 1994.

The core of the radio station's programming came in from weekly votes sent in by the listeners. The votes were compiled and a playlist was presented every Saturday morning during the station's run through most of the 1990s. It assured that the station would present a very eclectic mix of music ranging from rock, pop, alternative, metal to hip hop, oldies, reggae, country, Hawaiian, and even classical.

During the countdown show, the "Song Discovery of the Week" would be recognized. The most hated song of the week would also be "sledgehammered off the air forever" by Sheriff Norm Winter.

If you like this, I will occasionally be posting some of the Radio Free Hawaii charts as well as a corresponding Spotify playlist.

The following chart, video and Spotify link is the first of several that we will be presenting on this blog. Enjoy!

1.	I Wanna Sex You Up	Color Me Badd
2.	Never Gonna Let You Down	Surface
3.	Unbelievable	E.M.F.
4.	Fuck the Police	N.W.A.
5.	Iesha	Another Bad Creation
6.	Do You Want Me	Salt N Pepa
7.	More Than Words	Extreme
8.	Hard To Find	Star Williams
9.	Masese	Kapena
10.	Right Here Right Now	Jesus Jones
11.	One	Metallica
12.	Talkin' Blues	Bob Marley & The Wailers
13.	Baby Baby	Amy Grant
14.	Lover's Moon	Butch Helemano
15.	Burn Baby Burn	2 Black 2 Strong
16.	I'll Be Waiting	The Tamlins
17.	Kailua Kona	Ho'Aikane
18.	Stop	Jane's Addiction
19.	Jane Says	Jane's Addiction
20.	Fade To Black	Metallica
21.	Strange Love (live)	Depeche Mode
22.	Close To Me (remix)	The Cure
23.	Been Caught Stealing	Jane's Addiction
24.	Promise Me	Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra
25.	Losing My Religion	R.E.M.
26.	Dead Skin Mask	Slayer
27.	I Like The Way	Hi Five
28.	Hanger 18	Megadeath
29.	Thieves	Ministry
30.	Written All Over Your Face	Rude Boys
31.	Bad Boys	Inner Circle
32.	Man In The Box	Alice in Chains
33.	Ready to Go	Broken Silence
34.	Playground	Another Bad Creation
35.	Crushed	Cocteau Twins
36.	There She Goes	The La's

Sledgehammered off the Air (by "Sheriff" Norm Winter)

Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice

Song Discovery of the Week

I Don't Know Why I Love You - House of Love

Spotify Playlist - Radio Free Hawaii Rewind: June 1, 1991.

Here are Some of the Songs Not on the Spotify Playlist

Promise Me - Reggae Philharmonic Orchestra

Kailua Kona - Ho'Aikane

Additional Links

Radio Free Hawaii Chart Archive (old website) - Melvin Ah Ching

Radio Free Rewind YouTube Playlist - Mel / The Hawaii Files Channel

Remembering Radio Free Hawaii -  Ryan Ozawa

I Love Radio Free Hawaii - Facebook Group

The first printed copy of the Hawaii Island Music Report

Issue #1 - June 1991.

End of post.

Mel's Current Top 20 | June 3, 2022

Lady Gaga Holds At #1 With 

Top Gun Maverick Ballad

I haven't done one of these in a while. There is a page with a weekly rolling chart, but for the record I just want to start resuming (again) the weekly chart posting. A lot of the older charts that I have posted are archived at the M4B Personal Chart site under my username macprohawaii. I have been posting personal charts off and on for quite a lot of years, first on paper and then later online. The old paper charts were long ago tossed, before the internet became a thing.

Here is the chart for this week.

TW	Song Title	Artist	LW
1	Hold My Hand	Lady Gaga	1
2	Enemy	Imagine Dragons x J.I.D.	3
3	Hurricane	Cannons	5
4	Bones	Imagine Dragons	2
5	Heat Waves	Glass Animals	6
6	About Damn Time	Lizzo	7
7	My Love	Florence + The Machine	8
8	As It Was	Harry Styles	4
9	Out of Time	The Weeknd	10
10	2Step	Ed Sheeran	12
11	Zick Zack	Rammstein	13
12	Western Wind	Carly Rae Jepsen	14
13	When You're Gone	Shawn Mendes	15
14	X	Miss Li	9
15	This Hell	Rina Sawayama	17
16	Jiggle Jiggle	Duke & Jones & Louis Theroux	18
17	Strange	Miranda Lambert	19
18	Bloodrush	The Amazons	20
19	No One Dies From Love	Tove Lo	new
20	I Can't Get Enough	Cazzi Opeia	11

Since my last report, the #1 song has changed several times in the past few months. The current #1 song is from the Top Gun Maverick soundtrack. It has been #1 on this chart for three weeks in a row. That song s "Hold My Hand" from Lady Gaga.

The video for the song appears at the top of this posting.

The only debut song to the chart is "No One Dies From Love" by Tove Lo at #19. The video for that is below.

Be sure to also visit our Spotify page.