Beyond Radio is the place where music discovery and music nostalgia collide. It is your one-stop source for playlists, music charts, remembrances and recommendations. Our Podcast and music therapy playlists combine elements of nostalgia and discovery, while my blog entries reflect on our musical past through the lens of my personal charts from decades past. I weave a story that includes the connection between artists, chart facts and personal anecdotes that hopefully conjure a connection to the soundtrack of your own life. The current charts and playlists are updated monthly or bi-monthly (bi-weekly for the BR250) and are curated based on a passionate audience that produce their own personal charts weekly.
Supposedly this sparse acoustic ballad is not the first single from his next album, just a one off for his fans. That didn’t stop it from going to #2 in the UK and in the top 20 on pop radio in the U.S.
2 JUSTIN BIEBER Anyone 25 1833.7
Bieber is pulling a Grande with 3 songs in the U.S. Pop top 20, 2 of those in the top 5 this week. This latest track is one I can give some time to. A far cry from the atrociousness of “Yummy”. This one has a light retro groove.
3 KYLIE MINOGUE & DUA LIPA Real Groove 12 1585.35
Dua Lipa’s vocal on this is really only a slight enhancement to the song, an unassuming disco nugget.
4 HARRY STYLES Treat People With Kindness 41 1512.3
I’m in love with the video to this song and feel it should be the motto for 2021. Last winter the peaked at #141 on te BR250 and this week jumps in at #41, giving Styles a 6th top 50 on the chart from the album “Fine Line”. The album ended up as the #4 album of the year on the Billboard 200.
5 FOO FIGHTERS No Son Of Mine 42 1495.7
After the left field “Shame Shame”, Dave Grohl treats his audience to a solid rocker that stampedes through it’s 3 and half minutes. The background vocals provide a certain eeriness. For a nearly 30 year old band, they hardly ever disappoint.
6 TAYLOR SWIFT f/ HAIM No Body, No Crime 16 1224.7
A murder ballad from Taylor Swift. After her trail of ex-boyfriends, it doesn’t surprise me. Nor does the fact that she has 5 songs in the Trending 100 this month.
7 KINGS OF LEON The Bandit 66 1105.4
It’s been more than 4 years since the last Kings Of Leon album. Sounds like just where they left off. A rootsy alt-rocker with that distinctive voice.
8 THE WEEKND Save Your Tears 2 1050.05
This song has me going ho hum. This seems like a song that will stall out quickly.
9 SZA Good Days 105 856.9
This trance-y song features Jacob Collier who is up for album of the year at the Grammys. He has already won 4 Grammys for arranging including a whacked-out version of the “Flintstones” theme in 2017.
10 GWEN STEFANI Let Me Reintroduce Myself 14 843.15
Kind of an adorable, tongue in cheek song, especially the video.
11 TAYLOR SWIFT Willow 6 777.95
12 COLDPLAY Flags 89 769.1
The latest non-energetic single from Coldplay is said to be, according to Wikipedia, a bonus track on the Japanese version of the album.
13 PAUL MCCARTNEY Find My Way 53 735.2
McCartney’s album McCartney III, on which he played all the instruments, was a UK #1 and Stateside #2 album. His fellow Beatles band-mate, Ringo Starr, is also on the trending chart this month at #26.
14 TEENAGE WRIST Taste Of Gasoline 49 721.8
Tis L.A. alt-rock duo has had a good run on the BR250 in the last 18 months. This is their 4th song to reach the top 100 and second to reach the top 50. They just released another single “Yellowbelly”. ‘Gasoline’, while still featuring a shoegaze gauze, is the most pop-oriented song by them that I have heard.
15 CHEVELLE Self Destructor 170 592.8
This Illinois band has amassed 24 Rock top 40 songs since 1999 with 5 #1’s and 14 top 10’s.
16 MILEY CYRUS f/ DUA LIPA Prisoner 1 588.95
17 CELESTE Love Is Back 174 574.6
18 THE AVALANCHES f/ MGMT & JOHNNY MARR The Divine Chord 32 558.7
6 6 HOT CHIP f/ JARVIS COCKER Straight To The Morning
143 7 THE AVALANCHES f/ MGMT & JOHNNY MARR The Divine Chord
17 8 THE BLEACHERS f/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Chinatown
18 9 THE KNOCKS f/ FOSTER THE PEOPLE All About You
38 10 ALL TIME LOW f/ BLACKBEAR & DEMI LOVATO Monsters
Retro Soul (R&B, Soul Pop, Jazz Pop, Disco, Throwback Hip Hop)
8 1 KYLIE MINOGUE & DUA LIPA Real Groove
1 2 KYLIE MINOGUE Magic
7 3 CELESTE A Little Love
new 4 SZA Good Days
3 5 SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR Crying At The Discotheque
27 6 ARLO PARKS Caroline
4 7 KYLIE MINOGUE Say Something
2 8 BECKY HILL Space
6 9 LONDON GRAMMAR Californian Soil
new 10 CELESTE Love Is Back
Adult Leaning Alternative
1 1 OF MONSTERS AND MEN Visitor
10 2 THE BLEACHERS f/ BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Chinatown
15 3 JADE BIRD Headstart
16 4 GORILLAZ f/ BECK The Valley Of The Pagans
6 5 JAKE BUGG All I Need
11 6 FLEET FOXES Can I Believe You
7 7 PHOEBE BRIDGERS I Know The End
new 8 SAM FENDER Winter Song
21 9 THE STROKES The Adults Are Talking
3 10 ROMY Lifetime
Alternative Hip Hop
68 1 THE AVALANCHES f/ MGMT & JOHNNY MARR The Divine Chord
21 2 RUN THE JEWELS Out Of Sight
5 3 ACTRESS f/ SAMPHA Walking Flames
43 4 RUN THE JEWELS The Ground Below
new 5 JENNY LEWIS & SERENGETI Unblu
new 6 SZA Good Days
2 7 EMOTIONAL ORANGES All That
12 8 TERRACE MARTIN, ROBERT GLASPER, 9TH WONDER & KAMASI WASHINGTON Freeze Tag
14 9 ARIES Fool’s Gold
new 10 YVES TUMOR Kerosene
Alt Rock
1 1 ROYAL BLOOD Trouble’s Coming
5 2 I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME Leave Me Alone
104 3 TEENAGE WRIST Taste Of Gasoline
3 4 OF MONSTERS AND MEN Visitor
2 5 FOO FIGHTERS Shame Shame
10 6 MACHINE GUN KELLY f/ HALSEY Forget Me Too
6 7 TEENAGE WRIST Earth Is A Black Hole
new 8 KINGS OF LEON The Bandit
15 9 SMASHING PUMPKINS Cyr
4 10 BRING ME THE HORIZON Teardrops
Underground
1 1 BICEP Apricots
5 2 BICEP Saku
new 3 THOM YORKE, BURIAL & FOUR TET Her Revolution
new 4 BOOTCHY TEMPLE Lost Future
6 5 BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD Science Fair
178 6 NOTHING Catch A Fade
35 7 SPORTS TEAM Here’s The Thing
new 8 THE KUNTS Boris Johnson…
new 9 BIIG PIIG Feels Right
21 10 SHAME Water In The Well
Roots AAA (Roots Rock, Americana, Folk, Heritage Pop)
22 1 TAYLOR SWIFT Willow
new 2 TAYLOR SWIFT f/ HAIM No Body, No Crime
4 3 LIAM GALLAGHER All You’re Dreaming Of
6 4 JADE BIRD Headstart
new 5 PAUL MCCARTNEY Find My Way
5 6 FLEET FOXES Can I Believe You
new 7 COLDPLAY Flags
new 8 CHRIS CORNELL Watching The Wheels
27 9 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Ghosts
10 10 CHRIS STAPLETON Cold
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