These are the top 100 songs that are making gains at mid-month
Beyond Radio’s Trending 100, January 2021
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POS/ARTIST/SONG
1 ROYAL BLOOD Typhoons
While “Trouble’s Coming” sits atop the Rock airplay chart in the States, this second groovy single by the band makes a nice move from 172-11 on the BR250. Hungary seems to like the song, it made the top 10 there at #8. They also made the Trending 100 at #84 collaborating with Run The Jewels on “The Ground Below”.
2 FOO FIGHTERS Waiting On A War
The third single from “Medicine At Midnight” reached the Rock airplay top 10 this week while the album debuts at #3 on the Billboard 200. The blistering “No Son of Mine” lands at #13 Trending while both songs move into the BR250 top 10 at #6 and #8. A third song, “Making A Fire” sneaks in at #87 this week.
3 CLEAN BANDIT f/ IANN DIOR Higher
This song debuts on the BR250 at #40 this week. Dior just came off a #1 song with 24KGoldn’s “Mood” and Clean Bandit’s previous “Tick Tock” went to #30 on the BR250 and #2 on the airplay chart in the UK. This song was co-written by Dan Smith, the lead singer of Bastille.
4 OLIVIA RODRIGO Driver’s License
This juggernaut moved up to #1 on the BR250 this week. Part of the bedroom pop movement spearheaded by Billie Eilish, the song references her true-life circumstances, of which Sabrina Carpenter (at #30 trending with “Skin”) is a part of.
5 JESSIE WARE Remember Where You Are
The seventh single from Ware’s album “What’s Your Pleasure” returns to the BR250 at #44. The sultry tune is one of nine from the album that have appeared on the BR250, 5 of those making the top 50. The album appeared on a myriad of best of 2020 lists including Rolling Stone (#9 of the year) and USA Today (#3).
6 NATHAN EVANS, 220 KID & BILLEN TED Wellerman
A year ago, I doubt anyone would think a 19th century sea shanty song would reach #2 in the UK (well in the UK anything is possible). Evans started posting his versions of these songs on TikTok and a movement was born.
7 KINGS OF LEON The Bandit
Well, this month rock is not dead with 3 songs in the Trending top 10. The song is on the cusp on entering the Alternative airplay top 10 with Weezer’s “All My Favorite Songs” (#18) right on its heels.
8 ARLO PARKS Hope
This British singer-songwriter’s retro Soul has brought 5 titles to the BR250 over the last year, including AAA charting “Hurt” which peaked at #46 on the BR250. “Hope” bows at #84 this week on that list, with the song “Caroline” five places ahead at #79. Wiki also attributes bedroom pop to her genre list.
9 LONDON GRAMMAR Lose Your Head
Fitting into a similar lane, the ethereal dream pop of this trio, brings a third song to the BR250 top 30 in the last six months. Their album “Californian Soil’ is scheduled for release in early April.
10 SZA Good Day
More dreaminess here. The R&B songstress just made the Billboard Hot 100 top 10 for the third time (and first solo single) last week with this song. She had previously reached #7 collaborating with Kendrick Lamar on with “All The Stars” in 2018 and in 2017 with Maroon Five on “What Lovers Do”.
11 SILK CITY f/ ELLIE GOULDING New Love
Silk City is the superstar DJ duo of Diplo and Mark Ronson. In late 2018 they reached #3 on the BR250 with the Dua Lipa sung “Electricity”.
12 YEARS & YEARS It’s A Sin
This week’s trending songs are heavy on the chill (and rock). This is a stripped down version of the Pet Shop Boys hit. Lead singer Olly Alexander is the lead character the TV series of the same name, depicting ‘80s era gay life.
13 FOO FIGHTERS No Son Of Mine
14 SAM FELDT f/ KESHA Stronger
15 RAG ‘N’ BONE MAN All You Ever Wanted
16 STEPS To The Beat Of My Heart
17 CELESTE Love Is Back
18 WEEZER All My Favorite Songs
19 PALE WAVES Easy
20 JASON DERULO f/ ADAM LEVINE Lifestyle
21 CARDI B Up
22 FKA TWIGS f/ HEADIE ONE & FRED AGAIN Don’t Judge Me
23 LANA DEL REY Chemtrails Over The Country Club
24 CHEVELLE Self Destructor
25 BILLIE EILISH & ROSALIA Lo Vas A Olvidar
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This week I introduce the Retro 100 which I started tracking in December. It will be a year to date chart and will also show the current week’s position to the left. Below that is the top 25 this week. You can find the charts on their own page as well.
There are a handful of charts that track old songs and old titles show up occasionally on other charts, especially after an artist has passed. Also my chart has become increasingly influenced by older songs because of the podcasts and blog posts as I discover or re-discover them. Hopefully you’ll dive into some of these older songs as well.
Retro Top 100 (Old songs showing up on current personal charts)
TW/ 2021 YTD
14 1 THIRD DAY What Good
44 2 THE STRUTS The Ol’ Switcheroo
9 3 ALL STAR UNITED Take Me Away
27 4 THE STRUTS Who Am I?
4 5 ALY & AJ Potential Breakup Song (2020)
53 6 THIRD DAY Sky Falls Down
30 7 THE STRUTS These Times Are Changing
64 8 PARACHUTE Blame It On Me
3 9 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE Famous Last Words
56 10 DEXTER FREEBISH Everybody Knows Somebody
61 11 KEITH URBAN God Made Woman
8 12 ARABESQUE Love Is Just A Game
21 13 THE TEMPER TRAP Thick As Thieves
19 14 ARCADE FIRE Everything Now
31 15 SONS OF SYLVIA 50 Ways
6 16 JOHN MAYER I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You)
48 17 CAT STEVENS Lady D’Arbanville
17 18 JOHN MAYER Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
35 19 THIRD DAY Otherside
63 20 CHRIS REA Fool If You Think It’s Over
95 21 DOVES Broken Eyes
69 22 EVERCLEAR The New York Times
23 REBA MCENTIRE Rumor Has It
15 24 BERLIN A Matter Of Time
25 THE STRUTS Put Your Money On Me
60 26 CRYSTAL GAYLE You Never Miss A real Good thing
42 27 LORRAINE ELLISON Stay With Me (Baby)
67 28 STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN Dive
23 29 THE KLF f/ TAMMY WYNETTE Justified And Ancient
45 30 ALL STAR UNITED La La Land
31 GEORGE HARRISON All Things Must Pass
22 32 MIKE CURB CONGREGATION Burning Bridges
77 33 ELTON JOHN Come Down In Time
13 34 ABBA Summer Night City
35 MELISSA MANCHESTER Midnight Blue (2020)
73 36 A SILENT FILM Paralysed
86 37 GUSTER This Is How It Feels To Have A Broken Heart
7 38 JOE JACKSON Steppin’ Out
39 AC/DC Rock ‘N Roll Train
40 YVONNE ELLIMAN Love Pains
41 JOURNEY Lights
57 42 JIGSAW Sky High
71 43 TIMMY THOMAS Why Can’t We Live Together
62 44 REBA MCENTIRE Fancy (Dave Aude Remix)
45 GARY ALLAN It Would Be You
46 LEN BARRY 1-2-3
59 47 BASH & POP On The Rocks
48 ACE OF BASE Happy Nation
28 49 GIRLS ALOUD I’ll Stand By You
65 50 STEVEN TYLER (It) Feels So Good
84 51 KEITH URBAN Slow Turning
52 HEART Crazy On You
18 53 THE MONKEES Daydream Believer
54 CHARLEY PRIDE Kiss An Angel Good Mornin’
20 55 VAN HALEN I’m The One
56 MOTHER MOTHER Hayloft
1 57 SHINEDOWN Save Me
58 INSPIRAL CARPETS This Is How It Feels
81 59 LIT Night In The Life
2 60 FOO FIGHTERS Something For Nothing
61 ALPHAVILLE Big In Japan
62 KITCHENS OF DISTINCTION Drive That Fast
24 63 GENESIS In Too Deep
47 64 THE SEAHORSES Blinded By The Sun
65 MOUNTAIN Mississippi Queen
66 LONDON GRAMMAR Wasting My Young Years
52 67 DAVID BOWIE & PAT METHENY This Is Not America
70 68 BARBRA STREISAND Ordinary Miracles
68 69 GIANT Don’t Leave Me In Love
32 70 BREAD It Don’t Matter To Me
76 71 HOODOO GURUS Get Out Of Dodge
89 72 HONEYMOON SUITE Find What You’re Looking For
5 73 LED ZEPPELIN Black Dog
74 BERLIN The Metro
10 75 BRAD PAISLEY Who Needs Pictures
11 76 CARLY SIMON You’re So Vain
77 SILVERCHAIR Pins In My Needles
12 78 RICK SPRINGFIELD Love Is Gonna Come At Last
50 79 TOM JONES With These Hands
80 80 THE SEAHORSES Love Is The Law
16 81 THE RASPBERRIES Overnight Sensation
83 82 SLASH f/ FERGIE Beautiful Dangerous
83 GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS Ferry Across The Mersey
84 NEW SEEKERS Pinball Wizard
85 SKILLET The Resistance
78 86 DAVID NAIL Desiree
87 BLU CANTRELL Hit ‘Em Up Style
25 88 FERRANTE & TEICHER Midnight Cowboy
26 89 BLUE PEARL Naked In The Rain
29 90 DARYL HALL Someone Like You
33 91 ZZ TOP Tush
34 92 ALPHAVILLE Forever Young
93 IKE & TINA TURNER River Deep-Mountain High
36 94 FLEETWOOD MAC Silver Springs
37 95 BILLY JOEL Tell her About It
38 96 SUPREMES Where Did Our Love Go
97 THE KLF 3 A.M. Eternal
39 98 ELTON JOHN Skyline Pigeon
99 BONE THUGS-N HARMONY Thuggish Ruggish Bone
40 100 FOO FIGHTERS Best of You