This is the latest Country 20 chart. Starting this week, my charts will be posted to this blog weekly or on a regular basis. The charts posted here will include the following:
Mel’s Current Top 20
Mel’s Country 20
Mel’s AI Music 20
Occasionally special charts and other music content will also be posted here.
MEL’S COUNTRY 20 CHART
TW
Title
Artist
LW
1
She Hates Me
Dierks Bentley
1
2
Big Sky
Parker McCollum
2
3
Backup Plan
Bailey Zimmerman & Luke Combs
4
4
Trailblazer (with Miranda Lambert / Lainey Wilson)
Welcome to the periodic Mel's Current Top 20 Chart. This chart is updated on a weekly basis. The music can be streamed from the YouTube video link below. All charted music show up on the Spotify link at the posting. The songs may play through on some browsers but not all. Spotify works best with a paid subscription.
Mel’s Current Top 20
This is the Most Current Chart of This Week
Note: Some of the embedded videos may not play on this site due to copyright restrictions.
The chart is updated on a weekly basis. The date of the last update to the chart appears on the chart.
SPOTIFY - Be sure to check our Spotify playlist to listen to all 20 hits.
"Now And Then", the song recorded by The Beatles was released on November 2. The song written by John Lennon was given to Paul McCartney by Yoko Ono, John's widow in 1994 along with the songs "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love".
In 1994 George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney worked on the three songs releasing two of them on the Anthology I and Anthology II albums that came out in 1995 and 1996. "Now And Then" laid on the back burner for more than 25 years due to technical reasons. You can learn more about "Now And Then" by watching the short video documentary below:
"Now And Then" made its debut on my Current Top 20 chart at #3 on November 3. By the next week it jumped to #1, replacing "Angry" by The Rolling Stones at that position. "Now And Then" has been the #1 song on my Current Top 20 for the four weeks now. The latest chart as of December 1 is shown below.
"Now And Then" is one of my favorite songs of 2023 and we'll see where it ends up in my end of the year Top 100 for 2023.
I became a paid Spotify subscriber after using the service off and on in the free ad supported tier since 2011. What prompted me to subscribe to Spotify is the fact that they have a very deep and up to date library of more than 90 million songs, many of which I will never listen to.
I love the fact that I can create as many custom playlists as I want to on Spotify and share them with anyone with the link or an embed to a website. I have more than 250 playlists that cover many music genres and eras. Check them out at my Spotify Profile page.
Like last year, Spotify issued their annual "Spotify Wrap" which is a compilation of the most played tracks from their library to my username macprohawaii. For 2023 my top 5 artists were 1. The Beatles 2. Ed Sheeran 3. Lewis Capaldi 4. The Rolling Stones and 5. Taylor Swift. "Angry" by The Rolling Stones was my most played song on Spotify.
Here for your listening pleasure is my Spotify Wrap playlist and brief stats.
Unlike the Billboard Top 100 Hits of 1968, my chart differs in that a lot of songs listed there are not listed here. As a long time Beatles fan, this chart contains several Beatles tracks that are acknowledged as part of their greatest hits ever. The Billboard year end chart lists only three songs. This chart expands on that, and features several other rock tracks that The Beatles recorded that did not make the official year end chart for various reasons. On this chart, The Beatles have placed seven tracks.
1968 was also a big year for instrumentals, with 5 of them listed on the chart.
The Rolling Stones managed to put two tracks on this chart, as did The Doors. Aretha Franklin bested them with three as did The Rascals. One of their tracks, "My Hawaii" is an album only track that was a huge hit in the 50th state in 1968. The song has endured over the decades, especially for "Baby Boomers".
The entire Top 100 list appears below and you can listen to the whole thing on my new Spotify Playlist "Top 100 Hits of 1968." Subscribe and enjoy!
TOP 100 HITS OF 1968
Rank
Title
Artist
1
Hey Jude / Revolution
The Beatles
2
Jumpin' Jack Flash
The Rolling Stones
3
Revolution
The Beatles
4
Born to Be Wild
Steppenwolf
5
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Donovan
6
People Got to Be Free
The Rascals
7
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
The Beatles
8
(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay
Otis Redding
9
Hello, I Love You / Love Street
The Doors
10
Love Child
The Supremes
11
Magic Carpet Ride
Steppenwolf
12
Lady Madonna
The Beatles
13
I Love You
People
14
Back in the U.S.S.R.
The Beatles
15
Those Were the Days
Mary Hopkin
16
Tuesday Afternoon
The Moody Blues
17
Birthday
The Beatles
18
Mrs. Robinson
Simon & Garfunkel
19
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Hugo Montenegro
20
My Hawaii
The Rascals
21
Young Girl
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
22
A Beautiful Morning
The Rascals
23
Angel of the Morning
Merrilee Rush
24
I've Gotta Get a Message to You
The Bee Gees
25
I Wish It Would Rain
The Temptations
26
Midnight Confessions
The Grass Roots
27
Tighten Up
Archie Bell & the Drells
28
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
29
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
The Beatles
30
Do It Again
The Beach Boys
31
A Hazy Shade of Winter
Simon & Garfunkel
32
Sky Pilot
The Animals
33
Time Has Come Today
The Chambers Brothers
34
Mony Mony
Tommy James and the Shondells
35
Cry Like a Baby
The Box Tops
36
Street Fighting Man
The Rolling Stones
37
White Room
Cream
38
Harper Valley PTA
Jeannie C. Riley
39
Spooky
Classics IV
40
MacArthur Park
Richard Harris
41
Jennifer Eccles
The Hollies
42
Dance to the Music
Sly and the Family Stone
43
All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix
44
Grazing in the Grass
Hugh Masekela
45
Do You Know the Way to San Jose
Dionne Warwick
46
Judy in Disguise (With Glasses)
John Fred & His Playboy Band
47
Lady Willpower
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
48
Think
Aretha Franklin
49
Piece of My Heart
Big Brother and the Holding Company
50
Valleri
The Monkees
51
Fire
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
52
The Mighty Quinn
Manfred Mann
53
Woman, Woman
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap
54
You're All I Need to Get By
Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell
55
La-La (Means I Love You)
The Delfonics
56
For Once in My Life
Stevie Wonder
57
I Say a Little Prayer
Aretha Franklin
58
The Horse
Cliff Nobles
59
Simon Says
1910 Fruitgum Company
60
Reach Out of the Darkness
Friend & Lover
61
Elenore
The Turtles
62
Bend Me, Shape Me
The American Breed
63
This Guy's in Love with You
Herb Alpert
64
Green Tambourine
The Lemon Pipers
65
Sunshine of Your Love
Cream
66
I Thank You
Sam & Dave
67
Girl Watcher
The O'Kaysions
68
It's Wonderful
The Rascals
69
Pictures of Matchstick Men
Status Quo
70
Suzie Q.
Creedence Clearwater Revival
71
Love is Blue
Paul Mauriat
72
Jennifer Juniper
Donovan
73
Hold Me Tight
Johnny Nash
74
Master Jack
Four Jacks & A Jill
75
Honey
Bobby Goldsboro
76
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Vanilla Fudge
77
Love Is All Around
The Troggs
78
I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight
Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
79
The Fool on the Hill
Sérgio Mendes
80
Classical Gas
Mason Williams
81
Sweet Inspiration
The Sweet Inspirations
82
Send Me A Postcard
The Shocking Blue
83
Stoned Soul Picnic
The 5th Dimension
84
Light My Fire
José Feliciano
85
Yummy Yummy Yummy
Ohio Express
86
Indian Lake
The Cowsills
87
Little Green Apples
O. C. Smith
88
(Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You've Been Gone
Aretha Franklin
89
If I Were A Carpenter
The Four Tops
90
Slip Away
Clarence Carter
91
Nobody but Me
The Human Beinz
92
The Look of Love
Sérgio Mendes
93
The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde
Georgie Fame
94
Sealed with a Kiss
Gary Lewis & the Playboys
95
The Unicorn
The Irish Rovers
96
Bottle of Wine
The Fireballs
97
Delilah
Tom Jones
98
The Unknown Soldier
The Doors
99
Summertime Blues
Blue Cheer
100
In A Gadda Da Vida
Iron Butterfly
* "Revolution" by The Beatles is listed twice, once as a double sided single with "Hey Jude" and again as a standalone. Same song, two different rankings. It's my chart.
Songs listed with a / indicate a double sided single with the B side listed after the slash.
Much has been written about "The King of Rock n Roll", ELVIS PRESLEY. This little post on my music corner of nowhere is just another cog to add to that huge, growing wheel, more than 46 years ago today.
Elvis Presley passed away on August 16, 1977. He left a long musical legacy of hundreds of memorable singles and record albums, all of which have been brought up to date in the digital age when you can stream just about anything online.
One of the very first records I was exposed to in the rock n roll genre came very early in my life, probably before I was five years old. My Dad used to have a friend who ran a vending machine business. Among his many vending machines were jukeboxes that he loaned out to restaurants and other eating places. Periodically he would have to change out the records contained in the jukeboxes. Since he was a friend of my Dad, we would end up with dozens of old 45s that Dad brought home. How cool was that?
One of the first records I remember getting was Elvis Presley's single "Are You Lonesome Tonight" with "I Gotta Know" on the B-side. I think my Mom first played the record when we got it. She fell in love with the broken hearted ballad that was the featured A-side of the record. The song was one of several Elvis singles that went to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.
As a kid I found the other side of the record to be much better. "I Gotta Know" was an upbeat song, more to my early rock n roll liking of faster tunes. So I played that side of the record more than the A-side which my Mom loved.
That all said, both "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and "I Gotta Know" both became radio hits, with "Lonesome" as previously stated peaking at #1 and "I Gotta Know" peaking at #20 on the Hot 100.
I love 45 rpm records, especially in the old days when both sides of a 45 could become hits. DJs had more flexibility in those days to flip a record over and figure that hey, the other side is just as good as the A-side being pushed by the record company.
The original 45 was on the black RCA label featuring Nipper the dog looking into the old gramophone record player. What a classic label and symbol. Sadly I no longer have that original 45.
Today "Are You Lonesome Tonight" and "I Gotta Know" exist on CD or a digital playlist like I have at. Spotify.
"Rich Men North of Richmond" is a rootsy, blue-collar song that came out of nowhere to become a huge viral video hit for its author and singer Oliver Anthony. Apparently this guy just does some home made recordings and this one has resonated a lot... so much that it debut at #1 on my country music chart. The song is available for streaming on various platforms as well as digital purchase on Amazon and iTunes.
"Rich Men North of Richmond" also tops the iTunes Top 100 and the iTunes Country Charts. Oliver Anthony's other songs are also charting on iTunes including "Ain't Gotta Dollar" which chimes in at #10 on my country chart. Check that out below:
The Country 5 + 5 Chart
As of August 15, 2023.
TW
Title
Artist
LR
1
Rich Men North of Richmond
Oliver Anthony Music
new
2
Try That In A Small Town
Jason Aldean
1
3
Need A Favor
Jelly Roll
2
4
When I Die
Fanny Lumsden
4
5
Fast Car
Luke Combs
5
6
Bury Me In Georgia
Kane Brown
7
7
White Horse
Chris Stapleton
9
8
Save Me The Trouble
Dan + Shay
3
9
Save Me (featuring Lainey Wilson)
Jelly Roll
6
10
Ain't Gotta Dollar
Oliver Anthony Music
new
You can listen to all ten of the Country 5 + 5 hits on Spotify.
Jason Aldean Tops the Current Top 20, Country 5 + 5, Billboard's Hot 100 and More
Jason Aldean tops Mel's Current Top 20with his high profile hit, "Try That in a Small Town." The track has been the #1 best seller on iTunes for the past few weeks, and topped the Billboard Hot 100 onTuesday for the week of August 1. I would be thrilled to see if "Try That in a Small Town" can hold on to #1 for a few more weeks, especially on the Hot 100 chart.
Here are this week's Current Top 20 hits as posted on August 4, 2023.
I was only 12 back in 1969. The biggest event of that year was the manned landing on the moon by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Music wise 1969 was another year of great rock and pop music that wrapped the decade of the 1960s up. We had some great big classic hits by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Creedence Clearwater Revival and many others.
In retrospect my favorite songs from 1969 are those by The Beatles. My #1 song of the year is "Get Back" and I list it with its 45 rpm B-side "Don't Let Me Down". My #2 song of the year is another Beatles song that was never released as a single. It is George Harrison's greatest song of all time... "Here Comes The Sun" from the Abbey Road album. He also showed up with The Beatles at #12 with "Something". John Lennon had Beatles tracks on my top 100 with "The Ballad of John & Yoko" at #9, "Come Together" at #21 and his first solo track, "Give Peace a Chance" at #58, which is shown on the record's label at John Lennon / The Plastic Ono Band.
The Rolling Stones had a couple of big hits in 1969, with my favorite being "Honky Tonk Woman" at #3 for the year.
Several songs in my Top 100 of 1969 were not in the Billboard Top 100 of 1969. They include It's a Beautiful Day's "White Bird" at #4, The Youngbloods' "Get Together" at #11 (originally released in 1967), and "The Boxer" and "Baby Driver" 45 from Simon & Garfunkel. Several other songs that did not score high enough on the year end Billboard Chart of 1969 made this chart.
Fanny Lumsden, contemporary country star from Australia tops The Current Top 20 chart this week with her single "When I Die". The song is from her forthcoming album New Dawn that is slated for release this coming Friday, August 4. Two other singles have also been previously issued prior to the album's release. They include "Millionaire" and "Ugly Flowers".
She first hit the top 20 back in 2021 with her #4 hit "Dig". All of her videos are filmed in Australia.
Ms. Lumsden is currently on tour in the land down under. You can find more about her by visiting her website.
Jason Aldean Burn Up The Charts With Latest Single Release
I LOVE this new Jason Aldean song. It's called "Try That in a Small Town" and addresses serious social issues regarding respect, crime, law and order and honoring the American flag (by not burning it).
On my personal Country 5 + 5 chart "Try That in a Small Town" debuts at #2, just behind Fanny Lumsden's #1 hit, "When I Die". The song also debut this weekend at #15 on my Current Top 20 weekly chart of pop and rock hits.
Composer John Williams is well known for his many film scores and title themes. "Jaws" was his major film score breakout hit, as it became the signature song that totally identifies with the shark in the film. The "Jaws Main Title" theme evokes a feeling of fear, looming doom... that something awful is going to happen to you. The music was effectively used in the opening of the film where you see a young lady swimming in the night time ocean, and suddenly becomes prey and a meal for yet unseen shark. The theme carries throughout the movie.
"Jaws" is popular musical piece for orchestras to perform on stage. The video above is from the Film Symphony Orchestra and the one below is from the Boston Pops orchestra, conducted by John Williams himself. Sit back and enjoy the Themes from Jaws.
You won't want to get into the water and will definitely need a bigger boat if you do.
Starting in the 1980s, I grew more and more aware of alternative rock music. MTV’s 120 Minutes showcased many neat alternative rock tracks in the mid to late 1980s and onward to the 1990s.
One of the bands that were part of the scene in 1990 was Concrete Blonde. I became aware of them when their third album Bloodletting became a hit on one of our local alt rock radio stations. The song leading the charge of hits from Bloodletting was “Joey”.
“Joey” was Concrete Blonde’s biggest hit and their only record to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 singles list. It peaked at #19 on that chart in 1990, and spent four separate weeks on Billboard’s Alternative Rock chart, where it peaked at #1. “Joey” is an angst ridden song about the writer’s ex-boyfriend.
As for the album Bloodletting, it is an album that I have liked through the years. Best tracks are “Joey”, “Caroline” “Darkening of the Night” and the long and brooding “Tomorrow Wendy”.
OK... Posting of the weekly Current Top 20 charts are not happening here.... at least on this blog's main pages. I tried, but am utterly a failure here.
That said, both Mel's Current Top 20 Chart and The Country 5 + 5 Chart are regularly posted on their own pages within the confines of this blog site. You can find links to the latest charts by accessing them at the right hand column on this and every blog page here.
I will eventually create bigger graphics with links going to those pages on the blog's right hand columns.
Stay tuned.
Resuming our blog, it is time to kind of re-cap the top 20 songs so far that have made it on Mel's Current Top 20 chart. Not surprisingly Tom MacDonald and his long running hit "Ghost" tops the half-way chart so far this year at #1.
Rank
Title
Artist
Peak
WAP
Total Weeks
1
Ghost
Tom MacDonald
1
7
21
2
Anti-Hero
Taylor Swift
1
5
23
3
Love Again
The Kid LAROI
1
2
10
4
End of the World
Tom MacDonald featuring John Rich
1
2
10
5
Wish You The Best
Lewis Capaldi
1
2
11
6
Flowers
Miley Cyrus
1
2
13
7
I Feel Like Dancing
Jason Mraz
1
2
13
8
Pointless
Lewis Capaldi
1
2
16
9
Karma / Karma (featuring Ice Spice)
Taylor Swift
1
2
8
10
Lux Æterna
Metallica
1
2
9
11
Eyes Closed
Ed Sheeran
1
1
12
12
Lost
Linkin Park
1
1
14
13
Get Her Back
Michael Ray
1
1
9
14
Blind For Love
American Authors
2
3
14
15
I'll Be Seeing You
Iam Tongi
2
1
6
16
Evangeline
Stephen Sanchez
3
2
13
17
Lavendar Haze
Taylor Swift
3
1
11
18
I'm Feelin' Good (Steve Miller Band)
King Calaway
3
1
11
19
Trustfall
P!nk
3
1
11
20
Bejeweled
Taylor Swift
3
1
12
Key - Rank | Peak Position | Weeks at Peak (WAP) | Total Weeks on Top 20
Lewis Capaldi tops the chart at #1 with his single "Wish You the Best." The track is taken from his recently released album Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent. This is one of two songs Capaldi has on the chart, the other being "Heavenly Kind of State of Mind" also from the same album, and moving up to #10 this week. Check out the acoustic video to "Wish You The Best" above.
TW
Title
Artist
LW
1
Wish You The Best
Lewis Capaldi
2
2
I Feel Like Dancing
Jason Mraz
1
3
I'll Be Seeing You
Iam Tongi
5
4
Karma / Karma (featuring Ice Spice)
Taylor Swift
6
5
Eyes Closed
Ed Sheeran.
4
6
Dirty Money
Tom MacDonald
7
7
Seasons
Bebe Rexha & Dolly Parton
3
8
Curtains
Ed Sheeran
10
9
Thunder Rumbles
The Cat Empire
11
10
Heavenly Kind of State of Mind
Lewis Capaldi
14
11
Get Her Back
Michael Ray
9
12
Fast Car
Luke Combs
19
13
Until I Found You (Em Beihold Version)
Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold
16
14
Too Many Things
The Linda Lindas
8
15
Loving You
Cannons
17
16
Worth It
Colbie Caillat
20
17
That Girl Don't Live Here
Courtney Hadwin
12
18
Hey Girl / I Touch Myself
The Dollyrots
13
19
Life Goes On (featuring Luke Combs)
Ed Sheeran
new
20
World on Fire
Dolly Parton
new
Two songs debut on the Top 20 this week. At #19 we have "Life Goes On," an Ed Sheeran song that also features country singer Luke Combs on this single. This is one of three songs Ed Sheeran has on the top 20. The other two are "Eyes Closed," a former #1 song now at #5, and "Curtains" at #8. All are from Sheeran's latest album Subtract. The video below with Luke Combs is taken from the recent Academy of Country Music awards show.
Luke Combs also has the #12 song of the week with his cover of Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car". The song moved up from last week's #19 position.
Dolly Parton is back with her latest track "World on Fire," which is a pop/rock single with a slight country tinge. The song debuts at #20. Dolly is also featured on Bebe Rexha's single "Seasons" which peaked last week at #3 but down to #7 this week. The "World on Fire" video is at the top of this post.
The Country 5 + 5 | As of June 13, 2023.
TW
Title
Artist
LR
1
Bury Me in Georgia (Single Edit)
Kane Brown
2
2
When I Die
Fanny Lumsden
4
3
Fast Car
Luke Combs
1
4
Life Goes On
Ed Sheeran & Luke Combs
6
5
Save Me (featuring Lainey Wilson)
Jelly Roll
9
6
Get Her Back
Michael Ray
7
7
World on Fire
Dolly Parton
8
8
Now I Know
Tennessee Tears
3
9
Standing Room Only
Tim McGraw
5
10
Need A Favor
Jelly Roll
new
Kane Brown "Bury Me in Georgia" (Single Edit) #1 on the Country 5 + 5
21. Life Goes On (featuring Luke Combs) - Ed Sheeran
23. Jaded - Miley Cyrus
26. Show Me How - Foo Fighters
30. Padam Padam - Kylie Minogue
31. I Won't Back Down - Goo Goo Dols & O.A.R.
35. Save Me (featuring Lainey Wilson) - Jelly Roll
CHART NOTES
Jason Mraz holds at #1 for a second week with "I Feel Like Dancing."
Two debut songs: First one is "Fast Car" by country singer Luke Combs. The song is a cover of the old Tracy Chapman hit from 1988. It debuts at #19. It also holds the #1 spot on my Country 5 + 5 chart this week.
The second debut song is a comeback for singer Colbie Caillat with her latest track "Worth It" at #20. The video for that song is at the top of this post.
Welcome to the resumption of weekly postings of Mel's Current Top 20 Chart. I've been doing personal charts of current pop and rock music for some years now and have occasionally posted them to this blog. Since 2020, the Current Top 20 has been regularly posted to the M4B Chart Central website. Prior to that a previous incarnation of these charts were posted there starting around 2009.
I love lists. Ranking favorite songs, movies, TV shows, cars, etc... overall and by genre. On this blog's pages you can see a music chart for both pop/rock music and a separate one for country music. Through the years, special charts have been posted on favorite artists such as The Beatles and charts for the Christmas holiday season.
Now I'm bringing the weekly Current Top 20 chart back to these pages. Enjoy.
TW
Title
Artist
LW
1
I Feel Like Dancing
Jason Mraz
2
2
Eyes Closed
Ed Sheeran
1
3
Wish You The Best
Lewis Capaldi
4
4
Seasons
Bebe Rexha & Dolly Parton
6
5
Get Her Back
Michael Ray
3
6
Hey Girl / I Touch Myself
The Dollyrots
7
7
Too Many Things
The Linda Lindas
8
8
Dirty Money
Tom MacDonald
9
9
Karma / Karma (featuring Ice Spice)
Taylor Swift
12
10
End Of The World
Tom MacDonald ft. John Rich
5
11
I'll Be Seeing You
Iam Tongi
new
12
That Girl Don't Live Here
Courtney Hadwin
13
13
Thunder Rumbles
The Cat Empire
15
14
Curtains
Ed Sheeran
20
15
Dead To You
IMY2
16
16
Until I Found You (Em Beihold Version)
Stephen Sanchez & Em Beihold
18
17
Billy
The Shang Hi Los
10
18
How I'm Feeling Now
Lewis Capaldi
11
19
Heavenly Kind of State of Mind
Lewis Capaldi
new
20
Loving You
Cannons
new
BUBBLING UNDER THE TOP 20
21. Worth It - Colbie Caillat
23. Fast Car - Luke Combs
27. World on Fire - Dolly Parton
30. More - The Warning
33. Show Me How - Foo Fighters
38. Bury Me in Georgia (single version) - Kane Brown
CHART NOTES
The #1 position changes again. This week Jason Mraz tops the chart with "I Feel Like Dancing." The single nudges up from last week's #2 position after its debut way back on April 1. Been nearly 2 months.
The biggest debut song is from American Idol. Iam Tongi, an 18 year old student originally from Hawaii won the nationally televised contest last weekend, propelling his debut single "I'll Be Seeing You" to debut at the #11 spot this week. He has been a media sensation in the State of Hawaii this past few weeks.
New last week was the highly anticipated new album Broken By the Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, from crooner Lewis Capaldi. Several singles including "Wish You The Best," currently #4 on this week have come and gone on this chart this past few months. The latest track from the album debuts at #19. It's called "Heavenly Kind State of Mind."
Cannons, the alternative rock music band who went to #1 last year with "Hurricane" are back this week with their latest track. It's called "Loving You." It debuts at #20 for the week.
Original Post on M4B Charts Central - Mel's Current Top 20 | As of May 27, 2023.
Cannons' "Hurricane" turned out to be my favorite song of 2022, despite ending up only at #6 for my Top 100 Hits of 2022 chart.
Songs Per Year From the Start of My Life
Once again re-visiting my list of Top Songs per year of my life. I took the opportunity to revise the list once again, adding the 2022 entry and replacing the one from 2016.
It was very hard choosing just one song, per year since the start of my life. Many classic songs from every year had to be left off. Some songs you may know and recognize as classics. Many were big Top 40 hits, with several going to #1.
Others were just #1 in my mind, but I love em to this day. So check the list out and listen to the Spotify Playlist provided at the end of the chart.
Have a great day!
Top Songs of My Lifetime
One song for each year of my life: 1957 to 2020.
Personal favorites or significant songs to pop music history.
Updated March 12, 2023.
Year - Title - Artist
1957 - Jailhouse Rock - Elvis Presley
1958 - Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran
1959 - Sweet Nothins - Brenda Lee
1960 - The Twist - Chubby Checker
1961 - Travelin' Man - Ricky Nelson
1962 - Soldier Boy - The Shirelles
1963 - Rhythm of the Rain - The Cascades
1964 - A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
1965 - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Rolling Stones
1966 - I Fought the Law - Bobby Fuller Four
1967 - Let's Live For Today - The Grass Roots
1968 - Hey Jude - The Beatles
1969 - Honky Tonk Woman - The Rolling Stones
1970 - Let It Be - The Beatles
1971 - Joy to the World - Three Dog Night
1972 - American Pie - Don McLean
1973 - Crocodile Rock - Elton John
1974 - Band On The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
1975 - Philadelphia Freedom - Elton John
1976 - Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win) - Fleetwood Mac
1977 - Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
1978 - Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees
1979 - My Sharona - The Knack
1980 - (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
1981 - The Break Up Song - Greg Kihn Band
1982 - I Love Rock n Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
1983 - Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
1984 - When Doves Cry - Prince & the Revolution
1985 - Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
1986 - Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
1987 - Just Like Heaven - The Cure
1988 - Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns And Roses
1989 - Lovesong - The Cure
1990 - Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
1991 - Valerie Loves Me - Material Issue
1992 - Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
1993 - Dreamlover - Mariah Carey
1994 - Because the Night - 10,000 Maniacs
1995 - Kiss From A Rose - Seal
1996 - Don't Speak - No Doubt
1997 - Tubthumping - Chumbawamba
1998 - The Way - Fastball
1999 - Maria - Blondie
2000 - Smooth - Santana featuring Rob Thomas
2001 - Island in the Sun - Weezer
2002 - Hella Good - No Doubt
2003 - Stacy's Mom - Fountains Of Wayne
2004 - Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day
2005 - Love In A Trashcan - The Raveonettes
2006 - Dani California - Red Hot Chili Peppers
2007 - Phantom Limb - The Shins
2008 - Pork and Beans - Weezer
2009 - I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
2010 - Need You Now - Lady Antebellum
2011 - Paradise - Coldplay
2012 - Drive By - Train
2013 - Change - Churchill
2014 - Uptown Funk - Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars
2015 - Hello - Adele
2016 - Spirits - The Strumbellas
2017 - Shape of You - Ed Sheeran
2018 - Perfect - Ed Sheeran
2019 - Someone You Loved - Lewis Capaldi
2020 - Living in a Ghost Town - The Rolling Stones
2021 - Save Your Tears (remix) - The Weeknd with Ariana Grande
2022 - Hurricane - Cannons
Whatever song emerges in 2023 as my favorite will be added to this list later.
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.
