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.
Typical Summer delays, but it’s Good 4 Olivia Rodrigo
As is typical the summer season spreads me thinner than the rest of the year, so it is harder to keep up with Beyond Radio. This year is especially challenging as I started a new job that is taking up a good amount of my time, while I also am leading up to my 60th birthday at the end of July. With that and the coming out of COVID, there has been more travel, and that will continue through the summer. Also, my annual music party will be back after a detour last year. That will happen on July 31, a few days after my birthday.
The podcast and my writings have taken a temporary back seat in all of this. I’m hoping to have another episode out in the next few weeks.
“Good 4 U” unsurprisingly vaults into the #1 position on the BR250 and #1 Trending on the strength of 44 adds. Olivia Rodrigo places a second song in the Trending top 10 with “Brutal” at #5, while “Déjà Vu” sits at #11 and “Traitor” at #22. Galantis and Maneskin, in the Trending silver and bronze positions, follow “Good 4 U” into the BR250 top 15 on strong early June action. “Heartbreak Anthem” has a great summer song vibe, I’d be shocked if they don’t push this in the States. “Zitti E Bouni” will not see the same action though I love that it won Eurovision.
At #4 Trending, Chvrches collaboration with the Cure’s Robert Smith “How Not To Drown” has had strong out of the box success, landing at #43 on the BR250 this week. This is by far my favorite Chvrches track, none of their songs have cracked my top 25 and this could possibly go to #1 on my list.
Another ‘80s era band, Duran Duran, return at #8 Trending with “Invisible” while ‘70s artist Nile Rodgers of Chic, appears at #19 Trending on the Keith Urban track “Out The Cage”, possibly his least Country song ever. Not that that is unusual for him. He has been a stellar performer on my personal chart since 2002 when “Somebody Like You” went to #1 on my chart. At the time I felt that was a Pop hit waiting to happen. Since then, he has had 17 songs reach #1 on my personal chart and another 13 reach my top 10.
The return of Lorde, 2013’s Olivia Rodrigo or Billie Eilish (you pick), lands her at #25 Trending. “Solar Power” seems like a bright song even though it starts out a bit sluggish. I would expect it to move towards the upper reaches of the BR250 on the June 30 chart.
Trending June 2021
1 OLIVIA RODRIGO Good 4 U
2 GALANTIS f/ DAVID GUETTA & LITTLE MIX Heartbreak Anthem
3 MANESKIN Zitti E Bouni
4 CHVRCHES f/ ROBERT SMITH How Not To Drown
5 OLIVIA RODRIGO Brutal
6 COLDPLAY Higher Power
7 BTS Butter
8 DURAN DURAN Invisible
9 GO_A Shum
10 MARSHMELLO f/ JONAS BROTHERS Leave Before You Love Me
11 OLIVIA RODRIGO Deja Vu
12 ANNE-MARIE & NIALL HORAN Our Song
13 CALVIN HARRIS f/ TOM GRENNAN By Your Side
14 DUA LIPA Love Again
15 KATY PERRY Electric
16 JESSIE WARE Hot N Heavy
17 REGARD f/ TROYE SIVAN & TATE MCRAE You
18 BLEACHERS Stop Making This Hurt
19 KEITH URBAN f/ BRELAND & NILE RODGERS Out The Cage
20 SIGRID Mirror
21 THE VACCINES Headphones Baby
22 OLIVIA RODRIGO Traitor
23 VANCE JOY Missing Piece
24 THE WEEKND f/ ARIANA GRANDE Save Your Tears
25 LORDE Solar Power
26 SHARON VAN ETTEN f/ ANGEL OLSEN Like I Used To
27 JOHN MAYER Last Train Home
28 MANESKIN I Wanna Be Your Slave
29 YEARS & YEARS Starstruck
30 CREEPER Midnight
31 ELLE KING & MIRANDA LAMBERT Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home)
32 WILLOW f/ TRAVIS BARKER Transparant Soul
33 PINK All I Know So Far
34 MO Live To Survive
35 GARBAGE Wolves
36 ELTON JOHN f/ YEARS & YEARS It’s A Sin
37 DADI FREYR 10 Years
38 LITTLE MIX Confetti
39 DOJA CAT f/ SZA Kiss Me More
40 MANIC STREET PREACHERS Orwellian
41 OLIVIA RODRIGO Jealousy, Jealousy
42 BLANKENBERGE No Sense
43 OMNIA Beautiful
44 BILLIE EILISH Lost Cause
45 GREEN DAY Pollyanna
46 NCT DREAM Hot Sauce
47 JAKE BUGG Lost
48 DUA LIPA Levitating
49 WOLF ALICE How Can I Make It Okay
50 MADDIE & TAE Woman Got You
51 MARINA Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
52 JESSIE WARE Please
53 BILLIE EILISH Your Power
54 POPPY Fear Of Dying (Jack off Jill)
55 BROTHERS OSBORNE I’m Not For Everyone
56 LAURA MVULA Got Me
57 OLIVIA RODRIGO Favorite Crime
58 MARINA Venus Fly Trap
59 LONDON GRAMMAR Lord It’s A Feeling
60 OLIVIA RODRIGO Enough For You
61 LIL NAS X Sun Goes Down
62 ANGELS & AIRWAVES Euphoria
63 ONEREPUBLIC Run
64 BELLA PAORCH Build A Bitch
65 RINA SAWAYAMA f/ ELTON JOHN Chosen Family
66 HIGHLIGHT Not The End
67 JOYWAVE Every Window Is A Mirror
68 MK Chemical
69 TWENTY ONE PILOTS Saturday.
70 AESPA Next Level
71 PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING People, Let’s Dance
72 ST. VINCENT Down
73 TINASHE Pasadena
74 NOTHING BUT THIEVES Futureproof
75 SLEATER KINNEY Worry With You
76 SELF ESTEEM I Do This All The Time
77 ASHLIE AMBER Open
78 MARTIN GARRIX f/ BONO & THE EDGE We Are The People
79 BREEZER Alive
80 JORJA SMITH Bussdown
81 OLIVIA RODRIGO 1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back
82 MITCHELL TENPENNY To Us It Did
83 RYAN HURD & MAREN MORRIS Chasing After You
84 SAM FELDT f/ SAM FISCHER Pick me Up
85 CHRIS STAPLETON Cold
86 KENNYHOOPLA f/ TRAVIS BARKER Hollywood Sucks
87 RAMKOT Am I Alright Now
88 CHRIS MALINCHAK Closer Every Day
89 LEON BRIDGES Motorbike
90 ARIANA GRANDE POV
91 COLISION Hell Will Wait
92 EVERGLOW First
93 GRIFF One Foot In Front Of The Other
94 GARBAGE No Gods No Masters
95 AGNES 24 Hours
96 CHRIS MORENO Shot At Your Heart
97 MAHMOOD Klan
98 TA TOY BOY Dark Fantasy
99 OLIVIA RODRIGO Happier
100 TIX Fallen Angel
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