Another week and another chart. Let's see what's happening:
The Rolling Stones is still at #1 for the 7th week in a row with "Living in a Ghost Town". The song is so reflective of this times of restrictive movement and quarantines due to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic.
Movers on the chart include Lady Gaga's "Rain on Me" up from #8 to #3.... and Benee's "Supalonely" up from #15 to #12. Watch this one. I anticipate stronger moves soon.
Debuts: At #19 Saint Motel with "A Good Song Never Dies" and Dagney with "Somebody". Do I smell a chart refresh soon?
Rank - Song Title - Artist - P.R. 1. Spirits - The Strumbellas - 1 2. Send My Love (To Your New Lover) - Adele - 4 3. Handclap - Fitz & the Tantrums - 2 4. Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes - 5 5. Me Too - Meghan Trainor - 6 6. All We Ever Knew - The Head And The Heart - 7 7. Can't Stop The Feeling - Justin Timberlake - 3 8. Must Be Summertime - Kate Voegele - 10 9. Brazil - Declan McKenna - 9 10. You Bring the Summer - The Monkees - 8 11. Gentleman - Will Jay - 11 12. Radar - AudioDamn! - 12 13. Work From Home - Fifth Harmony - 14 14. So Alive - Goo Goo Dolls - 16 15. Good Girls - Elle King - 17 16. Shell (Find a Better Way) - Gregory Darling - 19 17. Lemonade (featuring Mike Posner) - Adam Friedman - 20 18. Ophelia - The Lumineers - 13 19. Rise - Katy Perry - new 20. Anyone Who Knows Me - Eric Hutchinson - new Mel's Weekly Top 20 Webpage http://macpro.freeshell.org/music/WTop20.html Mel's Internet Universe Music Blog http://macprohawaii-music.blogspot.com/ Radio M.I.U. - Whatever Goes! https://8tracks.com/macpro
1. Handclap - Fitz & the Tantrums - 1 2. Spirits - The Strumbellas - 2 3. Can't Stop The Feeling - Justin Timberlake - 3 4. Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes - 8 5. Send My Love (To Your New Lover) - Adele - 9 6. Brazil - Declan McKenna - 4 7. Ophelia - The Lumineers - 6 8. Unsteady - X Ambassadors - 5 9. All We Ever Knew - The Head And The Heart - 19 10. You Bring the Summer - The Monkees - 10 11. Me Too - Meghan Trainor - 18 12. Must Be Summertime - Kate Voegele - 17 13. Gentleman - Will Jay - 13 14. Born to the Stars - Marina V - 12 15. Radar - AudioDamn! - 14 16. Fire and the Flood - Vance Joy - 7 17. Work From Home - Fifth Harmony - 20 18. You & Me - The Hunna - 11 19. So Alive - Goo Goo Dolls - new 20. Good Girls - Elle King - new
1. Handclap - Fitz & the Tantrums - 1
2. Spirits - The Strumbellas - 2
3. Can't Stop The Feeling - Justin Timberlake - 4
4. Brazil - Declan McKenna - 3
5. Unsteady - X Ambassadors - 6
6. Ophelia - The Lumineers - 5
7. Fire and the Flood - Vance Joy - 9
8. Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes - 19
9. Send My Love (To Your New Lover) - Adele - 18
10. You Bring the Summer - The Monkees - 12
11. You & Me - The Hunna - 11
12. Born to the Stars - Marina V - 10
13. Gentleman - Will Jay - 15
14. Radar - AudioDamn! - 16
15. Better Place - Rachel Platten - 7
16. Piece by Piece - Kelly Clarkson - 8
17. Must Be Summertime - Kate Voegele - 20
18. Me Too - Meghan Trainor - new
19. All We Ever Knew - The Head And The Heart - new
20. Work From Home - Fifth Harmony - new
1. Handclap - Fitz & the Tantrums - 1
2. Spirits - The Strumbellas - 3
3. Brazil - Declan McKenna - 4
4. Can't Stop The Feeling - Justin Timberlake - 5
5. Ophelia - The Lumineers - 4
6. Unsteady - X Ambassadors - 8
7. Better Place - Rachel Platten - 9
8. Piece by Piece - Kelly Clarkson - 6
9. Fire and the Flood - Vance Joy - 12
10. Born to the Stars - Marina V - 15
11. You & Me - The Hunna - 14
12. You Bring the Summer - The Monkees - 16
13. Rule the World - Walk Off The Earth - 10
14. New Romantics - Taylor Swift - 7
15. Gentleman - Will Jay - 19
16. Radar - AudioDamn! - 20
17. No - Meghan Trainor - 11
18. Send My Love (To Your New Lover) - Adele - new
19. Treat You Better - Shawn Mendes - new
20. Must Be Summertime - Kate Voegele - new
1. Handclap - Fitz & the Tantrums - 1
2. Spirits - The Strumbellas - 3
3. Brazil - Declan McKenna - 4
4. Ophelia - The Lumineers - 2
5. Can't Stop The Feeling - Justin Timberlake - 7
6. Piece by Piece - Kelly Clarkson - 6
7. New Romantics - Taylor Swift - 8
8. Unsteady - X Ambassadors - 11
9. Better Place - Rachel Platten - 14
10. Rule the World - Walk Off The Earth - 5
11. No - Meghan Trainor - 10
12. Fire and the Flood - Vance Joy - 16
13. Electric Love - B√òRNS - 9
14. You & Me - The Hunna - 17
15. Born to the Stars - Marina V - 18
16. You Bring the Summer - The Monkees - 20
17. New Americana - Halsey - 12
18. Hello - Adele - 13
19. Gentlemen - Will Jay - new
20. Radar - AudioDamn! - new
1. Handclap - Fitz & the Tantrums - 1
2. Ophelia - The Lumineers - 3
3. Spirits - The Strumbellas - 4
4. Brazil - Declan McKenna - 5
5. Rule the World - Walk Off The Earth - 2
6. Piece by Piece - Kelly Clarkson - 6
7. Can't Stop The Feeling - Justin Timberlake - 11
8. New Romantics - Taylor Swift - 9
9. Electric Love - BØRNS - 7
10. No - Meghan Trainor - 12
11. Unsteady - X Ambassadors - 13
12. New Americana - Halsey - 8
13. Hello - Adele - 10
14. Better Place - Rachel Platten - 16
15. Looking Up (Radio Edit) - Elton John - 15
16. Fire and the Flood - Vance Joy - 19
17. You & Me - The Hunna - 20
18. Born to the Stars - Marina V - new
19. Adventure of a Lifetime - Coldplay - 14
20. You Bring the Summer - The Monkees - new
"Itch" is the name singer Jonny "Itch" Fox goes by these days. He is a British music artist who was once the lead singer in a ukelele punk band called The King Blues. He went solo in 2012 and released his first album in 2014 called The Deep End. His most well known song is "Another Man" featuring Megan Joy on vocals. The track has yet to chart in America and was featured as a free iTunes track in April 2015. "Another Man" did chart twice in Australia in 2014.
The song is a throwback to the late 50s/early 60s do-wop style. The video is a features a brilliant use of color and black and white computer generation to illustrate the song's point. Megan Joy's vocals are a little overpowering but definitely delivers the charm to this song.
The song is the current #1 track on Mel's Weekly Top 20 Chart which makes a comeback to this blog page as of this posting.
The Weekly Top 20 Chart now shows up on its own page within this blog (with a later update planned for the original chart page) using Google Docs as the database back end. The chart has not been regularly published since September 2014 as other obligations by the publisher was more pressing.
However chart data has been kept in an offline database on a weekly basis.
First Aid's "My Silver Lining" is #1 for a second week.
First Aid Kit Holds @ #1; Train Close Behind Mel's Weekly To 20 - Week of July 20, 2014.
This Week
Title
Artist
Last Week
1
My Silver Lining (2nd week @ #1!)
First Aid Kit
1
2
Angel in Blue Jeans
Train
3
3
Riptide
Vance Joy
4
4
Night Like This
LP
5
5
Love Runs Out
OneRepublic
2
6
Fever
The Black Keys
6
7
Try
Colbie Caillat
9
8
Maps
Maroon 5
14
9
A Sky Full of Stars
Coldplay
8
10
Paris
Magic Man
10
11
Cool Kids
Echosmith
20
12
I Love You (But I Hate Your Friends)
Neon Trees
15
13
Happy (From "Despicable Me 2")
Pharrell Williams
7
14
Dangerous (feat. Joywave)
Big Data
16
15
Best Friend
Foster the People
17
16
Back To the Earth
Jason Mraz
11
17
Girls Chase Boys
Ingrid Michaelson
12
18
Raging Fire
Phillip Phillips
13
19
Stolen Dance
Milky Chance
--
20
Tongues (feat. Kopps)
Joywave
--
CHART NOTES
First Aid Kit holds on to the #1 position for a 2nd week with "My Silver Lining". They are a duo consisting of Sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg who come from a suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. Their latest album Stay Gold was released on June 10 in the U.S. and features the hit single along with 9 other tracks.
Train could soon have a #1 song as "Angel in Blue Jeans" moves up a spot from #3 last week to #2 this week. It's a great song and to me compliments our #1 song with a similar sound. Following Train we see Vance Joy also moving up 1 from #4 last week to #3 with his breakout hit "Riptide". Again another good song that could go to #1.
Rounding out the top 5 we find newcomer LP moving up 1 from #5 to #4 with "Night Like This" and OneRepublic slipping 3 with their former #1 track "Love Runs Out" losing 2 dipping to #5 from last week's #3.
We see that Maroon 5 is back with their latest single "Maps" breaking into the top 10 at #8. That song is up six points from last week's #14 position.
Still the fastest charting track belongs Echosmith as their single "Cool Kids" jumps up 9 points from last week's #20 debut position to hold on to #11 this week. Only 2 weeks on the chart this song is destined to go higher!
Songs That Went to #1 in 2014
My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit (2)
Love Runs Out - OneRepublic (1)
Fever - The Black Keys (3)
Happy - Pharrell Williams (8)
All of Me - John Legend (3)
Says She Loves Me - Aer (2)
Sleeping With a Friend - Neon Trees (4)
Timber - Pitull featuring Kesha (4)
Unconditionally - Katy Perry (3)
First Aid Kit and "My Silver Lining" acoustic version.
First Aid Kit Captures the #1 Spot Mel's Weekly Top 20 - July 13, 2014.
This Week
Title
Artist
Last Week
1
My Silver Lining
First Aid Kit
2
2
Love Runs Out
OneRepublic
1
3
Angel in Blue Jeans
Train
4
4
Riptide
Vance Joy
5
5
Night Like This
LP
9
6
Fever
The Black Keys
3
7
Happy (From "Despicable Me 2")
Pharrell Williams
6
8
A Sky Full of Stars
Coldplay
10
9
Try
Colbie Caillat
11
10
Paris
Magic Man
12
11
Back To the Earth
Jason Mraz
15
12
Girls Chase Boys
Ingrid Michaelson
7
13
Raging Fire
Phillip Phillips
8
14
Maps
Maroon 5
19
15
I Love You (But I Hate Your Friends)
Neon Trees
18
16
Dangerous (feat. Joywave)
Big Data
17
17
Best Friend
Foster the People
20
18
Me and My Broken Heart
Rixton
13
19
All Of Me
John Legend
14
20
Cool Kids
Echosmith
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CHART NOTES
First Aid Kit gets the #1 song this week at "My Silver Lining" moves up 1 from last week's #2 to the top spot. First Aid Kit is a duo consisting of Sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg from a suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. Their latest album Stay Gold was released on June 10 in the U.S. and features the hit single along with 9 other tracks. "Silver Lining" took only 4 weeks to get to #1. The track debut at #19 on June 15 and has steadily risen, going up to #9, #3, #2 and finally #1.
The only debut track this week comes in at #20. Here we find Echosmith with "Cool Kids".
Songs That Went to #1 in 2014
My Silver Lining - First Aid Kit (1)
Love Runs Out - OneRepublic (1)
Fever - The Black Keys (3)
Happy - Pharrell Williams (8)
All of Me - John Legend (3)
Says She Loves Me - Aer (2)
Sleeping With a Friend - Neon Trees (4)
Timber - Pitull featuring Kesha (4)
Unconditionally - Katy Perry (3)
Two songs make their debut to the chart. They are "Best Friend" from Foster the People and "Maps", the latest single from Maroon 5. The songs come in at #20 and #19 respectively.
Coldplay finally breaks into the Top 10 with their latest single, "A Sky Full of Stars" off their latest album. Up 1 from #11 to #10. Will this go higher?
"Love Runs Out" by OneRepublic is the new #1 song this week displacing The Black Keys' "Fever" who falls 2 points from #1 to #3. "Love Runs Out" moved from #2 to #1, followed by First Aid Kit's "My Silver Lining" at #2 moving up from #3.
A shout out to Mark Anthony Perez who has been following this chart for some time: "I've been following your weekly charts religiously for years now. I gotta say I've been noticing a trend of you leaning a bit more to the indie pop rock of music. For me its a great transition. Our charts a looking more and more alike. Magic Man, Pretty Reckless, Neon Trees. All my favs right now to. keep up the good musical look out."
Thanks for the comment Mark. My charts fluctuate between alt rock/indie and some mainstream adult contemporary. I think these songs make a good mix for me.
Songs That Went to #1 in 2014
Love Runs Out - OneRepublic (1)
Fever - The Black Keys (3)
Happy - Pharrell Williams (8)
All of Me - John Legend (3)
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 Week of June 29, 2014.
This Week
Title
Artist
Last Week
1
Fever (3rd Week @ #1!)
The Black Keys
1
2
Love Runs Out
OneRepublic
4
3
My Silver Lining
First Aid Kit
9
4
Happy (From "Despicable Me 2")
Pharrell Williams
2
5
Girls Chase Boys
Ingrid Michaelson
3
6
Riptide
Vance Joy
10
7
Raging Fire
Phillip Phillips
5
8
Me and My Broken Heart
Rixton
6
9
All Of Me
John Legend
7
10
Angel in Blue Jeans
Train
19
11
A Sky Full of Stars
Coldplay
11
12
We Won't Go Home
The Colourist
8
13
Night Like This
LP
12
14
Paris
Magic Man
13
15
Heaven Knows
The Pretty Reckless
17
16
Try
Colbie Caillat
20
17
Dangerous (feat. Joywave)
Big Data
--
18
Back To the Earth
Jason Mraz
--
19
Heart's On Fire
Passenger
--
20
I Love You (But I Hate Your Friends)
Neon Trees
--
CHART NOTES:
Four songs make their chart debut this week, "Angel in Blue Jeans" by Train leaps from last week's #19 debut to #10 this week, and "Fever" by The Black Keys hold at #1 for a 3rd consecutive week. Wow! The chart is here.
The Black Keys hold at #1 with "Fever" for a second week. Biggest gainer is by First Aid Kit as their track "My Silver Lining" leaps from its #19 debut of last week to #9 this week. It's a great song. I love it.
Songs That Went to #1 in 2014
Fever - The Black Keys (2) Happy - Pharrell Williams (8) All of Me - John Legend (3) 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
The chart resumes... again, and with a new song at #1. The Black Keys top the chart for the first time ever with their track "Fever". The song is from their latest album Turn Blue. It jumps from #7 to #1 after spending 4 weeks going up several positions at a time.
Pharrell Williams' "Happy" held the #1 spot for the past 8 weeks, and in the history of this chart, is the longest run for any song to hold on to the top spot. The track is likely to be the top song for 2014. We'll see.
Plenty of other new songs at various positions on the chart since the last update back in May. I am trying to resume regular updates to the chart, but other circumstances in my life have been more of a priority lately. Granted, I am still keeping track of popular songs in my collection internally even though a weekly chart may not be posted.
Songs That Went to #1 in 2014
Fever - The Black Keys (1) Happy - Pharrell Williams (8) All of Me - John Legend (3) Says She Loves Me - Aer (2) Sleeping With a Friend - Neon Trees (4) Timber - Pitull featuring Kesha (4) Unconditionally - Katy Perry (3)
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)
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.
Neon Trees moves from last week's #2 to #1 with "Sleeping With a Friend". This is the band's 2nd single to top the chart. They went to #1 in 2010 with their debut single "Animal". Falling from #1 to #2 is "Timber" by Pitbull. Up from #6 to #3 is Foster the People and their latest track "Coming of Age."
Aer's "Say She Love Me" moves up 5 points from last week's #11 to #6 this week. Good song.
Two songs make their chart entry. First up is Katy Perry and the latest track from her current album, Prism. This one is called "Dark Horse" featuring Juicy J. The song is #1 on many charts including iTunes and Billboard. In its first week on the track is at #19 on this week's Top 20. The second of the two debut singles is "Story of My Life", a latecomer of an established hit from One Direction. It checks in at #20. We'll see how high these tracks go in the coming weeks.
Songs That Went to #1 in 2014
Sleeping With a Friend - Neon Trees (1)
Timber - Pitull featuring Kesha (4)
Unconditionally - Katy Perry (3)
Pitbull holds on to the #1 spot for a 4th week with his hit "Timber".
Neon Trees moves from last week's #4 to #2 with "Sleeping With a Friend".
Fast movers: Foster the People leaps from #13 to #6 with "Coming of Age"; Aer's "Say She Loves Me" jumps from last week's #17 debut to #11. New on the charts are A Great Big World with "Say Something" at #19 and Plain White T's at #20 with "The Giving Tree".
Pitbull holds on to the #1 spot for a third week with his hit "Timber", in which the vocals are also shared by Kesha, who's had a few hit singles in her own right.
Lorde moves up the chart from #4 to #2 with her former #1 song "Royals". Must be a Grammy Award bump for the "Song of the Year" winner.
Neon Trees makes a big leap into the top 5 with "Sleeping With a Friend" moving up 7 points from last week's #11 to #4 this week. Could "Sleeping" become the band's next #1 hit. They hit it big in 2010 with their first single "Animal", a track that went all the way to #1 that year.
Three songs make their chart debut: Aer leads the newcomers with their debut single "Says She Loves Me" at #17. At #18 we find our second debut record by Bad Suns. Their single is "Cardiac Arrest". The third debut single is "Turn It Around" by Lucius at #19. We'll see where these tracks go in the coming weeks.
Pitbull tops the chart for a second week with "Timber" a duet in which singer Kesha shares vocals. Only 1 song makes a chart debut this week. At #20 we find Foster the People entering with "Coming of Age". Santana breaks into the top 10 at #9 with "Saideira", a latin flavored rock track that should get more airplay. Vocals on this track are by Samuel Rosa.
Pitbull reaches the top of the chart after only 2 weeks. "Timber" the hit single featuring vocals by Kesha jumps from #6 to #1 this week in only the song's 3rd week on the chart. Two weeks ago "Timber" debut at #19. Now it's #1.
Two song make their chart debut: The latest from Neon Trees is called "Sleeping With a Friend". That single enters at #19. Coming in at #20 is "Hey Brother" by Avcii, who is still on the chart with the former #1 song "Wake Me Up" now at #9 this week.
