Mel's Top 20 Hits So Far of 2023.

 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 

Mel's Current Top 20 - May 28, 2021

 #1 SAVE YOUR TEARS - The Weeknd & Ariana Grande

As of May 28, 2021

TW - Song Title - Artist - LW

1. Save Your Tears (remix & single) - The Weeknd & Ariana Grande - 1
2. Chosen Family - Rina Sawayama & Elton John - 2
3. Mr. Perfectly Fine (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift - 3
4. Leave The Door Open - Silk Sonic - 4
5. Bad Girl - Daya - 6
6. All I Know So Far - Pink - 9
7. Follow You - Imagine Dragons - 7
8. Deja Vu - Olivia Rodrigo - 10
9. Second Element - Blackmore's Night - 5
10. Electricity - Katy Perry - 17
11. Medicine at Midnight - Foo Fighters - 12
12. Higher Power - Coldplay - 15
13. Better Now - Serena Ryder - 14
14. Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) - Elle King & Miranda Lambert - 8
15. Can't Look Back - Mat Kearney - 11
16. Run - OneRepublic - NEW
17. Heaven Down Here - Mickey Guyton - 13
18. Good 4 U - Olivia Rodrigo - NEW
19. Kiss - IMY2 - NEW
20. Racist, Sexist Boy - The Linda Lindas - NEW

CHART NOTES

Four songs make their debut this week. They include the latest by OneRepublic, "Run" and Olivia Rodrigo's third single, "Good 4 U." "Run" is the high debut of the week starting at #16 and "Good 4 U" lists at #18. Bringing up positions #19 and #20 are two indie songs, both from YouTube.

Olivia Rodrigo has the #1 Billboard Hot 100 song "Good 4 U" @ #18 here.



The first at #19 is by IMY2, who have made a name for themselves by covering a whole variety of cover songs on the video streaming service for the past few years. They've also released about a dozen original songs. "Kiss" is IMY2's second single to chart on Mel's Current Top 20, the first being "Breakfast in Bed" which peaked at #8 earlier this year. "Kiss" has a good pop/reggae vibe to it and could become IMY2's breakout success.

IMY2 - "Kiss" @ #19



The last of the debut songs at #20 is by a kid's rock band who have tackled a sensitive topic with their original composition. "Racist, Sexist Boy" is a raw punk rock song filmed at a library by the kid group The Linda Lindas. All I can say about this one is that it's a scorcher! Wow!

The Linda Lindas "Racist, Sexist Boy" @ #20



Elsewhere on the chart, the top 4 records stay the same as they were last week with The Weeknd sticking at #1 for a 4th week with "Save Your Tears" (remix version with Ariana Grande), compiling a 6 week run at #1 if you count the original version of the song that topped this chart earlier in the year.

It looks like Rina Sawayama's "Chosen Family", a duet with Elton John, is stalled at #2. Taylor Swift's "Mr. Perfectly Fine" is mired at #3 for another week, while Silk Sonic holds on to #4 again with their former #1 song "Leave the Door Open."

Katy Perry has the biggest mover with "Electricity" as that song leaps into the Top 10 at #10 from last week's #17 debut.

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - Waves, Get Lucky, more.

Blondfire - Waves



Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of June 9, 2013.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Get Lucky (5th Week @ #1!)	Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams	1
2	Blurred Lines [feat. T.I., Pharrell]	Robin Thicke	2
3	Wagon Wheel	Darius Rucker	4
4	Waves	Blondfire	6
5	Let Her Go	Passenger	5
6	22	Taylor Swift	3
7	Tangled Up	Caro Emerald	7
8	Sad Angel	Fleetwood Mac	11
9	Come & Get It	Selena Gomez	19
10	Get To Me	Lady Antebellum	14
11	State Of Grace	Taylor Swift	12
12	Gentleman	Psy	13
13	Boomerang	Barenaked Ladies	15
14	Hero	Family of the Year	20
15	What About Now	Bon Jovi	17
16	Why Am I the One	Fun	8
17	Just Give Me A Reason	P!nk featuring Nate Ruess	9
18	When I Was Your Man	Bruno Mars	10
19	Wasting All These Tears	Cassadee Pope	--
20	Pompeii	Bastille	--

CHART NOTES

Daft Punk gets another lucky week at #1 as his hit "Get Lucky" featuring Pharrell Williams holds at #1 for the 5th consecutive week, thereby keeping Robin Thicke's hit "Blurred Lines" out of the top and stuck at #2 for a second week in a row. What will happen next week between these two uptempo, rather danceable hits?

Or could country music's Darius Rucker pull a surprise and move "Wagon Wheel" to the top spot? This week that song edges up another notch from #4 to #3. Rucker is followed by Blondfire and their hit "Waves" at #4, up from last week's #6. It's the best alternative rock song this year since Churchill's "Change" which this week fell off the chart.

A big jump this week for Selena Gomez. Her latest single "Come & Get It" leaps from last week's #19 debut position to #9 this week. That is a fast moving 10 point climb. She is headed for top 5 territory soon.

New on the chart this week is "Wasting All These Tears" by new country singer Cassadee Pope at #19 and "Pompeii" by Bastille at #20.

The rest of the chart contains the usual suspects that are either going up or down. This chart is also published at M4B Charts Central.

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - December 16, 2012.

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of December 16, 2012.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Locked Out Of Heaven	Bruno Mars	2
2	Diamonds	Rihanna	1
3	Ho Hey	The Lumineers	3
4	Anything Could Happen	Ellie Goulding	4
5	Carry On	Fun	7
6	Daylight	Maroon 5	6
7	Christmas In The Sand	Colbie Caillat	11
8	Now Is the Start	A Fine Frenzy	10
9	One More Night	Maroon 5	5
10	Mermaid	Train	14
11	Little Talks	Of Monsters And Men	15
12	I Could Be A King	The Dunwells	13
13	We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together	Taylor Swift	9
14	Skyfall	Adele	8
15	Madness	Muse	16
16	Rock & Roll Love Affair	Prince	19
17	Tornado	Little Big Town	17
18	Gangnam Style	Psy	12
19	I Knew You Were Trouble	Taylor Swift	--
20	Clouds	Zach Sobiech	--

CHART NOTES:

Looks like 2012 is ending about the same way it started with Bruno Mars back on top of the charts. Early this year Mr. Mars was at #1 with "It Will Rain" which held the top spot for 2 weeks in January. Now Bruno is on top again with his latest single "Locked Out of Heaven" a track off his latest album Unorthodox Jukebox.

This means Rihanna's "Diamonds", last week's #1 song fell to #2 after a three week run on top. Holding at #3 are The Lumineers with "Ho Hey". Also holding at #4 is Ellie Goulding and "Anything Could Happen". Fun breaks into the top 5 with their latest single "Carry On". That record moves up 2 from #7 to #5. It is the latest single off their album Some Nights, which saw the title song go to #1 earlier this year.

Colbie Caillat has the best new Christmas song of the season. I think her single track "Christmas in the Sand" certainly captures the feel of the spirit for those of us who live in areas with no snow... like Hawaii... where Christmas can be spent in the sand of Waikiki, Kailua, Ala Moana, Hapuna or many other beaches throughout the islands. "Christmas in the Sand" moves up from #11 to #7 this week. Good song... definitely.

Two songs make their debut into the top 20 this week.

At #19 we find Taylor Swift charting with her latest single off the album Red. Fact is several singles have already been released from her Red album. On this chart so far, the only one to make it until this week is "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" which held the #1 spot for several weeks this past fall. The second single to be listed now is "I Knew You Were Trouble," at #19 which is another pop flavored country track that is certain to be a big seller as we move into the new year.

Finally at #20 I have the record that almost came out of nowhere to make its debut on this chart. A week ago while I was listening to the "Coast to Coast AM" radio talk show with Ian Punnett, one of the bumper songs he played caught my attention. It is "Clouds" by 17 year old Zach Sobiech, a dying cancer patient of Lakeland, Minnesota, who is turning to music - writing and performing songs as a way to say goodbye to his friends and family before his time comes. Zach's music was heard by a radio station executive who knew enough people in the local music community to help Zach professionally record his music. The result is the "Clouds" music video, single and a new album. Read more about it at Zach's YouTube video link. "Clouds" is one of the most touching and heartfelt songs to come out this year. God will bless Zach for the gift of music he is leaving behind.

Links: Zach Sobiech | Children's Cancer Research Fund

Songs That Went to #1 in 2012

Locked Out of Heaven - Bruno Mars
Diamonds - Rihanna
One More Night - Maroon 5
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift
Gangnam Style - PSY
We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together - Taylor Swift
One More Night - Maroon 5
Good Time - Owl City featuring Carly Rae Jepsen
Some Nights - Fun
She's So Mean - Matchbox Twenty
Set Fire to the Rain - Adele
Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
Payphone - Maroon 5
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Glad You Came - The Wanted
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Drive By - Train
The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
Red Solo Cup - Toby Keith
Someone Like You - Adele
It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
Run For Your Life - Matt Cardle

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - July 22, 2012.

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of July 22, 2012.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Set Fire To The Rain (2nd Week @ #1)	Adele	1
2	She's So Mean	Matchbox Twenty	3
3	Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen	2
4	Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye	5
5	Brokenhearted	Karmin	4
6	Wide Awake	Katy Perry	7
7	Watching You Watch Him	Eric Hutchinson	6
8	Payphone	Maroon 5	8
9	That's Why God Made The Radio	The Beach Boys	10
10	Hold On	Alabama Shakes	11
11	50 Ways To Say Goodbye	Train	13
12	I Feel Love	Shannon Hurley	14
13	Some Nights	Fun	19
14	Give Your Heart A Break	Demi Lovato	9
15	Pontoon	Little Big Town	16
16	Run	Matt Nathanson featuring Sugarland	17
17	Higher Than The Clouds	Anuhea	20
18	Touched by the Hand of God	Roxette	15
19	Oh Love	Green Day	--
20	Good Time (Feat. Carly Rae Jepsen)	Owl City	--

CHART NOTES:

Adele holds at #1 for a second week with "Set Fire to the Rain".

Songs That Went to #1 in 2012

Call Me Maybe - Carly Rae Jepsen
Payphone - Maroon 5
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Glad You Came - The Wanted
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Drive By - Train
The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
Red Solo Cup - Toby Keith
Someone Like You - Adele
It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
Run For Your Life - Matt Cardle

Mel's Weekly top 20 - May 20, 2012.

Looks like this video was made in Hawaii. Cool

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of May 20, 2012.

This Week	Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Somebody That I Used To Know	Gotye featuring Kimbra	2
2	Payphone	Maroon 5	5
3	Call Me Maybe	Carly Rae Jepsen	3
4	Watching You Watch Him	Eric Hutchinson	9
5	Glad You Came	The Wanted	1
6	Rumour Has It	Adele	6
7	Starships	Nicki Minaj	7
8	Drive By	Train	4
9	Happy Pills	Norah Jones	10
10	Only the Horses	Scissor Sisters	12
11	Part of Me	Katy Perry	8
12	Love Will Set You Free	Engelbert Humperdinck	16
13	Free	Haley Reinhart	17
14	I Make My Own Sunshine	Alyssa Bonagura	19
15	Love Bites (So Do I)	Halestorm	15
16	Dancin' Away With My Heart	Lady Antebellum	11
17	What Makes You Beautiful	One Direction	--
18	One Life	James Morrison	13
19	Tonight Is The Night	Outasight	14
20	Brokenhearted	Karmin	--

CHART NOTES

Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" nudges itself back to #1 after falling to #2 last week. This is the song's 5th week at #1 but not consecutively. Dropping out and back up to the top is a chart rarity here.

Meanwhile The Wanted's "Glad You Came" is definitely on a fall... after peaking at #1 last week, we find the single track at #5 with other songs moving into the top 5 or going higher. Most notable are "Payphone" by Maroon 5 at the #2 spot up from #5, and "Watchin You Watch Him" by Eric Hutchinson at #4 up from #9 of last week. Any of those 2 songs could be at the top soon.

Debuts include "What Makes You Beautiful" by One Direction at #17 and Karmin's "Brokenhearted" at #20.

Songs That Went to #1 in 2012

Glad You Came - The Wanted
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye featuring Kimbra
Drive By - Train
The One That Got Away - Katy Perry
Red Solo Cup - Toby Keith
Someone Like You - Adele
It Will Rain - Bruno Mars
Run For Your Life - Matt Cardle

VIDEO EXTRA

Wonderful classic vocals from longtime crooner, Englebert Humperdinck. Nice song too!

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - October 10, 2010

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of October 10, 2010

This Week	Song Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Teenage Dream (2nd week @ #1!)	Katy Perry	1
2	Just The Way You Are	Bruno Mars	3
3	Mine	Taylor Swift	2
4	Rhythm Of Love	Plain White T's	6
5	Stuck Like Glue	Sugarland	8
6	Dynamite	Taio Cruz	4
7	Misery	Maroon 5	5
8	Please Don't Go	Mike Posner	9
9	MoneyGrabber	Fitz and the Tantrums	11
10	Only Girl (In The World)	Rihanna	18
11	A Year Without Rain	Selena Gomez & The Scene	20
12	Good To Be Me (Feat. Kid Rock)	Uncle Kracker	14
13	2012 (It Ain't The End)	Jay Sean	13
14	Brand New Day	Lindsey Ray	12
15	Like We Used to	A Rocket to the Moon	7
16	Nobody	The Doobie Brothers	19
17	I Saw the Rain	Lovers and Poets	10
18	Release Me	The Like	15
19	I Don't Wanna Dance	Hey Monday	--
20	Hey You	Heart	--

CHART NOTES:

Katy Perry holds on to the #1 spot for the 2nd week in a row with "Teenage Dream'". The song is off her album of the same title and is the latest in a string of top 10 hits for the young songstress.

Moving up from #3 to #2 is Bruno Mars, a former student here in Hawaii and child Elvis impersonator with "Just the Way You Are". The song has topped the Billboard charts and may be headed in the same direction here.

Plain White T's break into the top 5 with "Rhythm of Love" up 2 from #6 to #4. It is the latest in a successful string of softer AC rock.

Rihanna makes a leap from #18 to #10 with her latest "Only Girl in the World". She is closely followed by Selena Gomez & the Scene's "A Year Without Rain" moving up from #20 to #11. Both songs made their chart debuts last week.

Two new songs enter the chart. They are "Hey You"by Heart @ #20 and "I Don't Wanna Dance" by Hey Monday at #19.

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - August 22, 2010

The Like sing an acoustic version of their single, "Release Me".

Mel's Weekly Top 20

Week of August 22, 2010

This Week	Song Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Misery	Maroon 5	3
2	Bulletproof	La Roux	2
3	Heavy Feeling	Justine Bennett	4
4	Fire With Fire	Scissor Sisters	6
5	Cool My Heels	Nikki Yanofsky	5
6	My First Kiss (Feat. Ke$ha)	3OH!3	1
7	Dynamite	Taio Cruz	11
8	Like We Used to	A Rocket to the Moon	8
9	A Night Like This	Caro Emerald	7
10	Jar of Hearts	Christina Perri	10
11	Undo It	Carrie Underwood	12
12	Come Over Love	Anuhea	13
13	Animal	Neon Trees	15
14	California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg)	Katy Perry	9
15	Please Don't Go	Mike Posner	17
16	Release Me	The Like	18
17	Uh Oh (Radio Edit)	Kyrah	16
18	Wake Up	Pepper	19
19	Be My Thrill	The Weepies	20
20	I Saw the Rain	Lovers and Poets	--

CHART NOTES

Maroon 5 breaks into the #1 spot with their lates single, "Misery". The track moved up 2 points from #3 to #1. La Roux holds at #2 for a 3rd week with "Bulletproof". Justine Bennett moves up 1 from #4 to #3 with "Heavy Feeling". It's one of the most underrated tracks on the top 20 this week. More charts should list it and it would be a great add to AC radio.

Breaking into the Top 5 for the first time are the Scissor Sisters with their single "Fire With Fire" up 2 from #6 to #4. Holding at #5 for another week is Nikki Yanofsky and her former #1 hit "Cool My Heels". And making the big drop this week from #1 to #6 is 3OH!3 and "My First Kiss".

The only song to make a debut on the chart is "I Saw the Rain" by Lovers & Poets at #20.

Mel's Weekly Top 20 - May 16, 2010

Mel's Weekly Top 20
Week of May 16, 2010 | Website

This Week	Song Title	Artist	Last Week
1	Alejandro (3rd week @ #1!)	Lady GaGa	1
2	Break Your Heart	Taio Cruz	3
3	I Never Told You	Colbie Caillat	4
4	Back It Up	Caro Emerald	2
5	Pray For You	Jaron and The Long Road to Love	6
6	A Stitch In Time	Smashing Pumpkins	10
7	American Honey	Lady Antebellum	5
8	Rude Boy	Rihanna	9
9	Stole My Heart	Little & Ashley	11
10	Every Subway Car	Barenaked Ladies	13
11	Telephone	Lady GaGa Feat. Beyonce	8
12	You and Your Heart	Jack Johnson	12
13	Blow Away (Radio Edit)	A Fine Frenzy	7
14	You Run Away	Barenaked Ladies	19
15	Colors	April Smith and the Great Picture Show	18
16	Heart Heart Heartbreak	Boys Like Girls	17
17	Fortunate Family Tree	AM	20
18	We Are a Lighthouse	The Rocketboys	--
19	Naturally	Selena Gomez and The Scene	--
20	Animal	Neon Trees	--

CHART NOTES:

Lady Ga Ga holds the #1 spot for the 3rd week in a row with "Alejandro".

Jaron and The Long Road to Love move into the top 5 with "Pray For You". The track enters at #5 moving up 1 point. The song is not about religion! The song is also being played on country radio. I consider it more of a mainstream pop tune suitable for top 40 and AC radio.

Smashing Pumpkins continue their steady climb moving up 4 from #10 to #6 this week. "A Stitch in Time" is beginning to sound more and more like a top 5 and possibly even a #1 hit to me.

Three songs fell off the chart this week. Two of them were former #1's. Gone are "Hey Soul Sister" by Train and "Need You Now" by Lady Antebellum. "Need You Now" topped the charts for 8 weeks this year and was on the top 20 since last November. A very long chart run for this huge, country crossover pop hit. Lady Antebellum is still on the chat with "American Honey" which peaked at #5 last week and is down 2 to #7 this week.

The third song that fell off was "Breakeven" by The Script. That song got as high as #2 and held that spot for a few weeks.

Replacing those songs are the following debuts: "We Are a Lighthouse" by The Rocketboys at #18, "Naturally" by Selena Gomez and The Scene at #19, and "Animal" by Neon Trees at #20. Neon Trees also have our new video showcase track which you can listen to and view right here.